10 is China's government holding masses of Chinese Muslims in concentration camps? 3

That's what a U. 4

S defense official recently announced to the news. 5

Tweakers are a mostly Muslim ethnic group, and millions of them live in China. 6

Historically, they have not had a great relationship with the Chinese government, and in recent years the Chinese government has detained large numbers of Uighurs. 7

The U. 8

S says as many as three million of them in massive camps. 9

Wickers, who've been released from these camps, say they're like prisons aimed at getting rid of weaker culture and religion and instilling it with propaganda from China's communist government. 10

That government has repeatedly denied holding large amounts of weaker citizens. 11

China says it has set up what it calls training centers that are necessary to prevent terrorism, And a Chinese government run newspaper says the nation's She Giang region, where many Uighurs live, has been quote shielded from the flow of international terrorism, like the attack that occurred recently in Sri Lanka. 12

A Chinese government officials suggested that the U. 13

S abandoned bias and quote stop interfering in China's domestic affairs, but an investigation by The Guardian, a British newspaper, suggested that China has destroyed dozens of mosques since 2016. 14

And while China's government officially recognizes five religions, including Islam, that government is also officially atheist and, according to the Council on Foreign Relations on American nonprofit research group, China's government exercises control over religion. 15

Christian pastors, for example, have to undergo training to make sure their sermons are adapted to Communist Party guidelines. 16

Reporting on the struggles of Uighurs has challenges all its own. 17

China doesn't have the same freedom of the press as America does So. 18

American reporters there have found plenty of obstacles in their investigations for the CNN Beijing bureau to spend a week reporting in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang. 19

And it's not an easy place to do journalism, so we wanted to show you a little bit of what we went through. 20

But I think, more importantly, tell you why that matters. 21

Xinjiang is the province where the U. 22

S says China has detained up to two million people, nearly all Muslims in camps over the last few years. 23

Activists say Beijing has done that to try and eliminate Islam within its borders and ex detainees have told CNN they were tortured inside while undergoing political indoctrination. 24

China denies that and says these camps aren't prisons but voluntary vocational training centers that are being used to not eliminate Islam on Lee Islamic extremism. 25

Now China's government says that Xin Jiang is wide open for us to freely report. 26

There may be in theory, but in reality that's just not true. 27

For example, upon landing, there are welcome Gift was a government tale. 28

We've already been followed by three or four guys, including one of them who have seen follow us from the second we got out of the baggage area. 29

That would be this man. 30

He and at least a dozen others followed us every single hour of our six day trip, nevermore than 20 feet away in the car and train station in the hotel, in the room next to mine. 31

So it's a bit of an odd feeling to be in your hotel room at one in the morning and knowing that on the other side of this connecting door, which leads to the room next door to line, there's a least three for the guys who've been following us around over the past couple days, it felt like intimidation tactics. 32

They wanted us to know that we were being followed. 33

And then, of course, there were the uniformed cops that showed up at odd hours. 34

We should check. 35

Okay. 36

It's almost Yeah. 37

Yes. 38

So what? 39

See if I know. 40

But I was sleeping. 41

It just seems unnecessary. 42

Okay, Sorry. 43

Okay, So this is what happens when you do journalism machine job. 44

I've lived here for nearly four years, and I've watched as things have gotten tougher and tougher for foreign journalists on all types of different stories. 45

She and John is probably just the most extreme example. 46

But beyond just being followed, there were the more obvious attempts to try and make sure that we saw nothing. 47

They didn't want us to. 48

For example, Ahh highway we were on was closed for hours due to an accident, nowhere to be seen. 49

Not to mention spontaneous roadblocks that specifically target foreigners and ethnic minorities. 50

Our I. 51

D s were checked nearly 50 times in six days, and the second you book a flight or a train, the government knows about it. 52

And you can tell that because well, government officials are waiting for you. 53

Upon arrival, they clearly knew we were coming. 54

They met us at the airport there, checking our visas. 55

They're telling us they want to accompany us for our own safety. 56

But really, this is just stalling tactics. 57

They know it, we know it. 58

And yet this is the game we have to play. 59

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs say they don't know anything about the harassment we faced. 60

But, said Xin, Jiang is quote open and hospitable. 61

The constant tails, the constant harassment, the constant delays. 62

They're more than just inconvenient. 63

They are specific tactics China's government has employed for a long time to prevent journalists from doing their jobs. 64

But in the last few years there is broad agreement in the foreign journalism community here that it's gotten worse, nowhere more so than she John. 65

The end result is that it's nearly impossible to freely report on the hundreds of thousands of people that are likely languishing in camps right now, and that means that the rest of the world can't really see what's going on there. 66

This is one of the biggest human rights stories on earth, and as we saw firsthand, China is actively trying to cover it up. 67

12th Trivia. 68

Which of these landmarks is the oldest Stonehenge, the Coliseum, King Tuts Tomb? 69

Or to Anita? 70

To visit the oldest monument on this list, you'd have to travel to Salisbury Plain, England, where you find Stonehenge. 71

Archaeologists believe it was built in stages starting around 3000 BC But part of Stonehenge has been missing since 1958 and it wasn't until this week that its return was an ass was constructed with Giants arson stones, sandstone blocks that are common in southern England. 72

In the 19 fifties, cracks were found in one of the Star, since so its core was drilled out and metal rods were put in it to keep it standing. 73

But what happened to that core? 74

An employee from the company that helped repair this arson held on to it. 75

He put it on the wall of his office, and the man eventually moved to America, bringing the three and 1/2 foot core with him. 76

The night before he turned 90 years old, he decided to return it to England, and the company that maintains the monument says it hopes the core will help them understand. 77

Maura about the prehistoric structure. 78

One thing archaeologists and geologists don't know exactly is where Stonehenge is. 79

Stones were mind. 80

There are at least two other course that were drilled out of Stonehenge in the 19 fifties. 81

But where those are like the monument itself remains a mystery. 82

Theo. 83

Back in the 19 twenties, there was this fad called flagpole sitting. 84

People would literally climb upon flagpoles and then just sit there, sometimes for days or weeks. 85

Well, this happened Thursday morning in Florida. 86

We're not sure exactly why the bobcat climbed to the top of an electric pole and then just sat there. 87

But it was near a stretch of road called Alligator Alley, so maybe he was a scaredy cat. 88

Anyway, there's not really a how to manual on getting a bobcat off a pole, but a utility worker came along with a pool of his own, and after coaxing the cat a few times, the animal climbed down the same way he climbed up. 89

Maybe firefighters can coax cats from trees, but it's not Kat dry when it's utilities and be futility to try to simply sees a wildcat like he's a pet Siamese. 90

It took cat like reflexes and ambition for an animal to clog up to the pole position. 91

But meal that he's down and safe as a kitten, they could say, Scat cat, you ain't no electricians off Carla Zeus and Fridays are awesome. 92

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