Number of europeans who have died has now surpassed 30000. 00 the pandemic is piling pressure on Health Systems and economies particularly in the hardest hit countries italy and spain. A korea ship with hundreds of sick passengers on board has now docks in the u. S. State of florida after initially being turned away and got to reports from miami. The Holland AmericaCruise Line Company called the plight of its passengers a humanitarian situation but after days of uncertainty the zon dominant sister ship the rotterdam a finally docked in florida is on doms journey began in argentina in early march but after passengers began to get sick chile and several other nations refused to let them disembark almost 200. 00 people now have flu like symptoms for elderly passengers died on board at least 2 testing positive for covert 19 well good afternoon initially officials in florida cited Health Concerns the states governor saying foreign nationals were not welcome following coordination with several agencies it was finally agreed to that the ships into u. S. Waters there are also many other people on board who need our help or maybe not the americans that are human beings and they also need help returning to their country. This is what makes you know such a great country lets hold the principles that make us a great nation and be compassionate inhumane to other people healthy passengers were transferred to the rotterdam those with symptoms of the corona virus will be treated at local hospitals others are flying back to their respective countries on chartered flights in all there were around 2 and a half 1000 passengers and crew earlier this week u. S. President donald trump spoke about the stranded travelers lot of canadians a lot of british on the ship and theyre coming to take the people that are on the ship back to their homeland the carriage is coming in the u. K. Is coming and we have a lot of and we have americas we have some people that are quite sick for these people this is the end of a nightmarish journey that was supposed to last 2 weeks saw some passengers will remain on board while theyre treated others are not so lucky crew ships have now become a symbol of fear ever since the coronavirus pandemic was announced the grand princess was stranded off the coast of california for days while officials squabbled over its fate while those on daum on the rotterdam have now been allowed to disembark here in florida its estimated 9000 passengers on 10 crew ships remain at sea and gallacher aljazeera Miami Florida now israel has a lockdown a city it dominated by ultraorthodox jews after a big spike in cases there Health Officials fear some 75000 of but they brocks residents are already infected residents have been criticized for flouting restrictions on movement. Now the mayor of turkeys largest city says time is running out to help the spread of the virus there after a record at the highest amount of cases across the country istanbul has 60 percent of turkeys confirmed cases and a crime in a more low is calling for a full lockdown but president has resisted so far instead calling on businesses to stay open in an effort to protect the economy. Polands parliament is preparing for a controversial vote on whether to hold president ial elections in may entirely by postal ballot the ruling no and Justice Party says this will reduce health risks but the opposition says the vote and is undemocratic because coronavirus restrictions will prevent them from campaigning well those are the headlines do join me for more news here on aljazeera after tell the world stay with us. Youre in the on. Her northwest china whats called the scene jang autonomous region. In august 28th seen a United NationsCommittee Said it had received reports suggesting that new Government Policies were transforming the region into quote a massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy more than a 1000000 week is many of the muslims and other ethnic minorities have been rounded up there detained and forcibly indoctrinated all of us many of us will cry. When we alone. We decided to talk about it. Just. Tell the world. Everyone. What happened whats been happening its happening now. Australian wheat years have been detained while visiting china and their relatives in singeing are under constant surveillance and like other weak years have had their passports confiscated every single people rose his loss from one in their in their family. Alone in the world of the. Personal testimony satellite imagery and government documents point to what some analysts believe may be the largest imprisonment of a group of people on the basis of ethnicity since the 2nd world war. This is an act of cultural genocide of one of the worst human rights abuses of our time im quite used to uncovering dirty secrets of the Chinese Government but when i realized the magnitude and the impact the implications of what i found it was it was really something else. Chinas mass internment of its Muslim Population is directly affecting astray and we got families this film examines the Chinese Governments campaign of cultural and religious repression in seeing jang and asks what can be done to challenge it. Most members of the australian we get community im missing someone. Everyone has a Family Member detained imprisoned or trapped in singeing. Many have remained silent out of fear for their relatives in china but now in a state of desperation they are starting to come forward and make their story know. My older brother younger brothers and 2 young sisters. Taken by the Chinese Government masked police. Heavily Armed Special forces police raided their home and taken them by car and they face and shackling them in front of the kids they took my father and brother. And they detained them to the internment camps as a father as a husband most important thing is your wife and your kids and that theyre not with me. That. Saddam. Left singeing to study in a stray 10 years ago and became in Australian Citizen in 2013. Yes yes this is just. The end of. Saddam has never met his son who is now 2 years old and. He is trapped in sin jang with his mother saddams wife and the dealer. If. All i worked is live a normal life like australia stay with my son stay with my wife go sawant. Boy has it been so hard to bring my wife and my son here. There are around 3000 we get is in a straight theyre muslim and speak a turkish language and many sort of asylum in australia to escape government persecution in sin jam. Which. Theyre now free to practice their religion in their adopted home but in syria jang the Chinese Government has effectively all out war is like. They. Cant pray you cant fire. Need to speak chinese in the school. The government come to. That ridiculous point where actually they controlling the why we look men not allowed to have it be it and a female not allowed have scuff even long dress. The government crackdown on the week has followed decades of ethnic and religious tension this was exacerbated by the migration of millions of han chinese the dominant ethnic group of Mainland China into sin jack wiggers began to feel themselves being dispossessed of their land. Dispossessed of their way of life. In july 2009 protests broke out. Nearly 200 people were killed with reports that over a 1000 weaknesses were arrested. In response the beijing government launched what it called a Strike Hard Campaign and we get areas to suppress dissent. Would it began to do is really systematically step up its Police Presence as well its Party Infrastructure john to begin to surveil your population. And so some of them struck back in really horrific ways. There was a suicide car bombing in tiananmen in beijing. There was this attack on a train station in maine that left you know over 20 innocent train travelers massacre is quite brutally. Thats really when the rhetoric of terrorism really took off as something you could use a label we girls as a group that there are potentially terrorists and so you know using any means necessary is justified. In 2016 saddam. Went back to singeing to marry his girlfriend not deal. After their honeymoon in the United States and turkey. Felt. Positive this shes pregnant and that and the 1st helpless moment for me. And there was actually im going to read to her the im going to have like im going to have baby like. Lois and. Saddam returned to australia in early 2017 for work while nat villa waited in singeing for her spouse visa to be approved. But then beijing suddenly launched its mass reeducation campaign and xinjiang. Suddenly she called me our government start taking peoples passport. The. Singeing effectively became a large open air prison with severe limitations on freedom of movement on weekends and other minorities as well as invasive surveillance of almost every aspect of their daily lives. The 1st reports began to emerge of weak years being rounded up and detained in camps. In the community we heard stories of peoples direct messages of their Family Members were taken there one was panicking there one was 20 find out whether they Family Members was safe or not. We start to hear everyones family being detained like ordinary people average people have Family Members being detained and then i realized something is going on. We get is who visited muslim countries or had lived overseas seem to be among the 1st to suffer who are going to the turkeys old arabia or any Muslim Country they putting in the people to the jail or concentration camp. People started to leave disappearing communities were being emptied of adult men and women. Saddam wasnt able to go to singeing to be with in the deal or for the birth of their son. The chinese consulate in sydney refused him a visa i wasnt there when he. When he born. Are you imagine how hard for. Having a baby by herself i wasnt there next to her. So it was hard. Soon after law to be was born saddam received shocking news. Security forces had arrived at the deal as family home. Other than the train to the work and then i got a message from my wifes friend saying oh your wife been taking. I just. Crying in the train you know like even the people in trying to ask me whats happening whats happening and i can tell them that the Chinese Government took her and i dont know where. That that you did. That. 2 weeks passed but then saddam heard that no deal had been released but she remains trapped in synching with look to be prevented from traveling and in constant fear of rearrest. Shes scared shes always harping please let me out from here. Hes getting all the old like every day person doesnt know hes there. In adelaide saddams friend also received frightening news from singeing his wife zainab had been picked up by the police. Of ive been arrested by. Chinese police they dressing under cover up i think theres more than i dont mind Police Officers. Zainab spam only watched police put a black hood over her head and put her into a van she was 7 weeks pregnant. I cant leave her like that put to flight tickets very next day i left. So i spent 3 months time in orange and then i only can get the information she has been arrested because of the reason she did study in egypt. Is a medina spent several weeks in the capital of singeing a room she looking for his wife before being contacted by the police they asked me to come to. Police station talk to me face to face and i when i went they gave me the piece of paper so i need to get out of the country in 24 hours. After mass flew back to australia the chinese authorities arrested his 50 year old mother. She is a High School Class teacher shes been working for Chinese Government for 30 years. Teka from the house fave Police Officer come to the house and unlock the door and then arrest her. In april 2019 received an email from an official at the astray and department of Foreign Affairs in canberra. She told him that the Chinese Government had sentenced his wife to 7 years in jail for quote assembling a crowd to disturb social order and then they said that my wife was assembling a call she cant even go shopping by herself and shes very scared. They arrest her like she didnt assembling a craft to disturb social order thats impossible. Kill my heart. My wife my mom theyre like so important for me its my responsibility to protect them by protect. These a satellite images of suspected camps where we get so detained china initially denied these camps existed but research isnt academics around the world have identified them using internet map technology essentially looking for a large highly securitized facility where almost every aspect of. The movement inside these areas is completely restrained looking for a wall surrounding the whole facility with watchtowers on the edges of it and specifically youre looking for internal fencing barbed wire 3 major high fencing. The scale of this mass internment program is enormous the Chinese Government refers to the camps as Reeducation Centers and researchers have now identified nearly 100. 00 suspected facilities like these across in genk its basically clear that a huge percentage of the middle age range especially aged between 18 and 45 years a very large percentage of them are in some form of internment or prison. Research is like adrian zens have also accessed Chinese Government documents online to identify the full scale of what the country is doing to its muslim ethnic minorities. For example budget reports government reports work reports and also procurement bits construction bits that were also very detailed that said we need to reeducation camp built in this area and it needs to be this big and needs to have surrounding walls barbed wire towers surveillance equipment cameras and so on and so forth they were buying a Police Batons tasers. You know different instruments that could be used in torture like cattle prods. Stun guns pepper spray all these sort of things that you would find in a prison setting. This video was filmed by human rights activists and shows the inside of one of the camps cells fitted with double line daws. Keypad locks and cameras. Slogans on the wall praising chinese president xi jinping and in the socalled classrooms railings and why are separating the teachers from the students. The governments glossy videos claim that the week is a happy with their socalled reeducation. Culture. Course you are far more use of. Course and the Chinese Government has reportedly described its new campaign as quote breaking the roots of extremists and so what theyre doing when they say they want to break the roots break the lineage is they want to eliminate the basic institutions the basic elements of weaker culture Weaker Society theyre trying to transform the entire society. 37 year old melbourne plaster a high ruler my is one of 3 astray in citizens whove been jailed in singeing here he speaks out for the 1st time. Its been a bit hard to explain at that in my feeling at that time yeah no ive been happy like that before in my life. In august 2017 while travelling on his astray in passport high ruler was questioned and then detained at chengdu airport in sichuan province. When i go to that Detention Center. They are. Put. Chain are our my uncle put our. Hands on my hand so just a mish shocked because i dont know whats the reason why i should to this what does this to me. I rule or wasnt allowed to call the astray an embassy or his family. Security forces put him onto a plane and flew him to singeing. He says he was brought here. To this Detention Center near a room cheap and put in a cell with around 40 other men yet there is no in law space to you just in a lie down probably and then turn around or Something Like that you cant do that if you just sleep in 2 hours after 2 hours we wake up and then youre standing in their way car youre going to slip something. Classified as a socalled potential terrorist high rule in my and a strain citizen was forced to undergo 6 hours of indoctrination every day praising the Chinese Communist party and president xi jinping. You have to watch the brainwashing program t. V. There is t. V. In the Detention Center in there in that room did that t. V. That people is talking about. The combat communist partys rules and this is good Something Like that. 2 weeks into his detention high ruler says he received a visit from an australian official who introduced himself as mark from the embassy in beijing he tried to ask the officials chinese officials this guy asked me. Why you guys put this put him to the Detention Center and look him up about 2 weeks more than 2 weeks whats the reason and then the chinese official says. Still. To this question. A week later hi rula was released to be with his wife and stepson. But the or thora ordered him to leave singeing and banned him from visiting for 5 years. High ruelas wife was stopped from leaving with him. She just kept saying. Dont blame me alone blame me alone take me it is you. I cant i cant live. That feeling as you know. Breaking hard. I just left. You and i can turn around and see him see her again. Because. From the far right near the gate i can see. See arent just a crime crime. 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