BBCNEWS BBC News July 19, 2020
Good afternoon. Chinas ambassador to the uk has denied reports that the country is carrying out a programme of forced sterilisation of uighur women in the western part of country xingjang. The foreign secretary, dominic raab, said there were gross and egregious human rights abuses going on and that he found it deeply troubling. It comes amid a rise in diplomatic tension between the two countries over a new National Security law in hong kong, and the British Governments decision to ban the Chinese Company huawei from the uks 56 network. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has the story...