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BBC OS: 2022/09/01 16:06 GMT: Uyghurs: UN says China may have committed "crimes against humanity"

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2022/09/01 16:06 GMT

2022/09/01 16:06 GMT: Uyghurs: UN says China may have committed "crimes against humanity"

Uyghurs: UN says China may have committed "crimes against humanity"

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We speak to Uyghurs after a new report accuses China of “serious human rights violations”

We hear from Uyghurs after a new report accuses China of “serious human rights violations”

A new United Nations report says China has carried out serious human rights abuses in its western region of Xinjiang, using arbitrary detention, forced labour and forced sterilisation against the mostly Muslim Uyghur people. China denies the claims, and has urged the UN not to release the report - with Beijing calling it a "farce" arranged by Western powers. We explain who the Uyghur people are and we hear a conversation amongst Uyghurs.

UN nuclear inspectors have reached the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine, after hours of delays because of shelling near the site.  Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of trying to sabotage the mission. Our reporter in Ukraine brings us the latest developments. And we also speak to families in Ukraine whose children have gone back to school today, in some cases returning to their classrooms for the first time since Russia invaded.

The south of Pakistan is braced for more floods, as a surge of water flows down the Indus river, compounding the devastation caused by extreme monsoon rains - that have already left a third of the country completely submerged. More than eleven hundred people have died, and millions have been displaced, in what the UN has called a 'climate catastrophe'. We speak to a paediatric doctor who has been helping people in a displacement camp in Sindh province.

(Photo: Ethnic Uyghur demonstrators wearing masks take part in a protest against China near the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, Turkey July 5, 2022. Credit: Reuters/Murad Sezer)

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