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Chinas government has previously denied they even exist. Now, it says the state run detention camps it has built in the far Western Region of xinjiang are simply schools to combat the rise of violent islamist extremism. It is thought up to a Million People are being held there. Last year, our correspondent John Sudworth exposed how rapidly these secure facilities were being developed. Now he has returned, and even though access is tightly controlled and his itinerary was set by the government, he has found out more. You may find parts of his report disturbing. China used to deny it was Holding...

A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And we would like to hear from you about facebooks soon to be launched cryptocurrency. Will you be signing up . Do you trust facebook with your spending . Get in touch. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The United States is to deploy another 1,000 troops to the middle east, as tensions rise with iran. The us military has released what it says is further proof that iran was behind the attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman last week. The government in tehran has denied any involv...

The Man Trump Belittles as sleepy joe seemed quite fiery last night as the president tries to flip the script launching a campaign blitz, just one day after his forceful kind of political state of the Union Address. Plus Donald Trumps oneonone at maralago today, meeting with Hungarys Viktor Orban ban. The authoritarian leader, knowing, known for antiimmigration nationalist rhetoric, who often cozies up to Vladimir Putin and attempts to stop the aid. See what happened when cnn confronted israeli protesters, determined to make sure little food, if any, makes it into gaza despite the overwhelming...

close to the us border. the decision came after footage emerged that appeared to show detention centre officials doing nothing to evacuate migrants during the fire. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with sarah montague. welcome to hardtalk. i'm sarah montague. close to 50 million people around the world are close to famine, a number that is rising because of war and the effects of climate change. it's the job of the world food program to feed them. my guest today, david beasley, has been running the organisation for the past six years and, in that time, has more than doubled the money i...

he's about to move on. so, what did his time at the top of the world's largest aid agency teach him about one of the greatest problems mankind faces — how to ensure no one dies of hunger? david beasley, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, sarah. now, you have said that when you took on the job six years ago, you thought you could put the world food program out of business because you could solve world hunger. at that time, there were 80 million who you described as marching towards starvation. and yet, the figure now, who you would classify in that way, is 350 million. was it ever solv...