there are numerous foreign firms lining up to sell yart of the alternative xinjiang. an american snowboard pioneer is one of them. >> in the last couple of years we have seen triple digit growth, so we are excited about that. >> they have signed up a world-class chinese border and she isn't even a teenager yet. the companyplanning dozens more stores. how does its presence in xinjiang sit with an ethos that is more about being -- more than being a business? >> we have two choices. we can divorce ourselves from shin john and say we -- from xinjiang and say there is nothing, or we can understand it better. there may be, factually i don't know. i'm not a politician, i have never studied this aspect. >> have you seen the media reports? >> everyone has. but i divorce myself. what i mean by that is, i can't change that. >> some would say you can. your statement on the website, you want to affect positive change for people, ftories. maybe you can change that. >> hopefully for the better. we will focus on what we can change for the better. >> burton is one of numerous foreign

out there, or we can try to understand what's going on in xinjiang better. yes, there may be some — again, factually, i don't know. i'm not a politician, i've never studied the aspect... have you seen the media reports over the last couple years? yeah, everybody has, i believe so. but again, i divorce myself from that — what i mean by that is, i can't change that. and we focus on... but some say maybe you can, actually. let's just go back to your statement here on the website, you want to "affect positive change for our people, our factories and create ripples" — then maybe you can change things. yeah, i hope so but for the better. again, that's what i'm saying is we'll focus on what we can change for the better. burton is just one of numerous foreign firms who've decided xinjiang, the china market as a whole is irresistible. president xijinping thinks his critics are politicising his big sporting moment. his government says the olympics should rise above politics. it is a distinction some of the businesses looking to ride the olympic wave want you to

out there, or we can try to understand what's going on in xinjiang better. yes, there may be some — again, factually, i don't know. i'm not a politician, i've never studied the aspect... have you seen the media reports of the last couple years? yeah, everybody has, i believe so. but again, i divorce myself from that — what i mean by that is, i can't change that. and we focus on... but some say maybe you can, actually. let's just go back to your statement here on the website, you want to "affect positive change for our people, our factories and create ripples" — then maybe you can change things. yeah, i hope so but for the better. again, that's what i'm saying is we'll focus on what we can change for the better. burton is just one of numerous foreign firms who've decided xinjiang, the china market as a whole is irresistible. president xijinping thinks his critics are politicising his big sporting moment. his government says the olympics should rise above politics. it is a distinction some of the businesses looking to ride the olympic wave want you to ma

but this is the troubled xinjiang region where beijing is accused of human rights abuses — we have a special report. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. he was sworn in before several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. it's going to be only america first. america first. demonstrators waiting for mike gatting and his rebel cricket team were attacked with tear gas and set upon by police dogs. anti—apartheid campaigners say they would carry on the protests throughout the tour. they called him the 'butcher of lyon'. klaus altmann is being held on a fraud charge in bolivia. the west germans want to extradite him for crimes committed in wartime france. there, he was the gestapo chief klaus barbie. millions came to bathe as - close as possible to this spot. a tide of humanity that's i believed by officials to have broken all records. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines: prime minister boris johnson faces mounting pressure from his own mp�*s, over doubts about his leadership. two major us t

this is xinjiang. it's a troubled region, hoping for a major boom off the back of these olympic games. what's that going to be like in 20 years' time where you are? translation: simply _ because of president xi's one call to get 300 million chinese people skiing — that's why the ski industry has taken off. as china's second olympics approaches, these images have been part of state media reporting on xinjiang — almost as if it's part of the games. it's very different to these images from the bbc�*s reporting in xinjiang over recent years — of mass indoctrination and incarceration of chinese ethnic muslims. inside places that china used to deny even existed. china's leaders call it anti—terror re—education. the us and others say it's part of a genocide. there are numerous foreign firms lining up to sell you part of the alternative xinjiang — the american snowboard pioneers burton is one of them. we've already seen in the last couple of years — we've seen, you know, triple—digit growth.

we've certainly seen a crackdown on the muslim minority, the uyghur community in xinjiang. i just wonder whether you are prepared to defend china at all costs, or whether you have some doubts about what is happening in beijing today. i think a lot of people can say a lot of things in china — but one thing you cannot deny is the growth and the progress that the chinese government has been making through all these decades. and the result speaks for itself. you know, in a recent survey that's conducted by harvard university, they found out that chinese citizens actually have a 93% satisfaction rate of the government, as opposed to 37% of americans. now this this survey is not conducted by the state, it's not conducted by state media. this is conducted by harvard university, so they have no incentive to just kind of create other numbers, right? so it comes to tell us that what. .. china is making all these progress, you can criticise the chinese government all you want, but people are happy and there's no denying that. dominic lee, i wish we had more time, but we've run out.

the images china wants you to see during the winter olympics — but this is the troubled xinjiang region where beijing is accused of human rights abuses — we have a special report. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. he was sworn in before several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. it's going to be only america first! america first! | demonstrators waiting for the rebel| cricket team were attacked with tear gas and set upon by police talk. anti—apartheid campaigners say they will carry on the protests l throughout the tour. they called him the butcher. being held fraud charge in bolivia. they west germans want to extradite him for crimes committed more wartime france. millions came to the spot believed to by officials who have broken all records. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore, our headlines. in tonga, the scale of destruction has been described as �*unprecedented' by the government — after a volcano erupted over the weekend — triggering a tsunami. at least, three people are known to have d

it was opened on new year's eve, weeks after the us banned imports from xinjiang suspected of being made using forced labour. tesla, headed by the billionaire elon musk, has not commented. you have been watching bbc news. hello, i'm jane to go with your latest sports news. romelu lukaku has apologised to his team—mates and is back in the squad for tomorrow's league cup semifinal against tottenham. the belgian, who was dropped for chelsea's match with liverpool at the weekend after saying in an interview that he was not happy under manager thomas tuchel and he would like to return to inter milan in italy in the future. tuchel said any pair had a canned meeting and it was time to move on. for me, the most important thing was to understand and clearly understand and believe it was not intentional. he did not do this intentionally to create this kind of noise in front of a big game, create this kind of noise in front ofa big game, and create this kind of noise in front of a big game, and the second one was at the very first time. there was at the very first time. there was never the slight

law and didn't represent the company's position on xinjiang. are they serious? i mean, it's all dollar signs from these companies as it relates to the ccp. >> it is all dollar signs and it's a real threat to the united states. we're seeing it in the chip shortage now. we're going to potentially see it in the military where chinese are putting over $100 billion of subsidies into getting their chips market, their processing market to be the global leaders on the planet and we have companies like intel which are lobbying for the united states to give them $50 billion in order to make them competitive with china and bring the chips market back to the united states. right now, we manufacture exactly zero percent. and the problem we're running into them with them, like the problem we're running into with multiple companies, we can give them all the money we want to try to be patriotic american companies and trying to give back to the country that made them who they are, but they make 26% of their profits in china, the biggest share of their profits are coming from chi

tesla opened a showroom in xinjiang, despite china's human rights abuses against uyghur muslims in the region. the electric car maker made the announcement friday, posting pictures of the opening ceremony, including someone holding a sign that says, get this, tesla hearts xinjiang. dagen: cheryl, on the covid number you saw the messaging starting to change before christmas out of the biden administration from joe biden himself and then you finally heard it from tony fauci that don't look at the case numbers, which we've been talking about not only for months, but probably years, don't look at the overall case numbers, look at the hospitalizations and deaths. actually, deaths if you look at the most recent numbers even -- are down, hospitalizations are up. but much less than the gain in the overall number of cases. so it's because they don't have -- it's not in their control, because it's essentially a bad cold at this point for most people. cheryl: the at home tests, how many people are taking at home tests and not reporting the results. dagen: exactly. or getting incorrect results for

this is xinjiang. it's a troubled region, hoping for a major boom off the back of these olympic games. what's that going to be like in 20 years' time where you are? translation: simply _ because of president xi's one call to get 300 million chinese people skiing — that's why the ski industry has taken off. as china's second olympics approaches, these images have been part of state media reporting on xinjiang — almost as if it's part of the games. it's very different to these images from the bbc�*s reporting in xinjiang over recent years — of mass indoctrination and incarceration of chinese ethnic muslims. inside places that china used to deny even existed. china's leaders call it anti—terror re—education. the us and others say it's part of a genocide. there are numerous foreign firms lining up to sell you part of the alternative xinjiang — the american snowboard pioneers burton is one of them. we've already seen in the last couple of years — we've seen, you know, triple—digit growth.

the opening comes just a week after president biden signed a bill aimed at imports from xinjiang. the alliance for american manufacturing calls it especially --. the poll powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am vonnie quinn. this is bloomberg. rishaad: opec and its allies are set to restore halted oil production when they meet on tuesday. we will look at the potential impact on oil prices. yvonne: and the sector's problems are centered around liquidity, not policy in china. more on that in a few minutes. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ rishaad: just having a look at the property developers. it is not looking good, is it? yvonne: well, it is looking better than yesterday. a decent recovery. we saw yesterday with evergrande they came out with a statement on this demolition order from the hainan government which was interesting. they said it had no impact on them. rishaad: the reason i say it at that it is not looking good, beijing is continuing its crackdowns on local governments. demolition order, and hainan island, that is affecting 39 buildi

-- a much about a year in turkey, mirzat moved back to xinjiang province. he met a young woman visiting from australia. they fell in love, got married, lived in xinjiang for a year before they started hearing rumblings of people disappearing and the increased oppression of the uighur community by the chinese communist party and they started to make plans to leave the country. this was in 2017 when china's crackdown on uighurs and other muslim minorities was just starting to ramp up. and a program of arbitrary mass detention was beginning. as an australia citizen, his wife was able to get her husband, mirzat, a visa, and they booked a flight to melbourne. but two days before they were scheduled to leave, police knocked on their door in the middle of the night. mirzat's passport was confiscated and he was interrogated and once they learned he spent time in turkey, the officers made them accompany them to the police station. and he didn't come home that night or the next week or the next month or the next year. it would be two years before he saw his wife agai

authorities have long been unhappy about the bbc�*s coverage of detention camps for uyghur muslims in xinjiang province, but were particularly angry about reports that have led to an international outcry and won awards. we are constantly followed and turned back at makeshift barriers and roadblocks. the bbc team in beijing often face hostility. filming around the country is often difficult, with a heavy state presence never far away. when i arrived in china about four years ago. the new york times bureau chief has been doing hisjob from seoul, having been thrown out at a few days' notice. if you're covering topics that are deemed sensitive, you know, you will be met by the police or the secret service and you'll be harassed by the local authorities who will tell you you don't have permission to be in the region. which isn't true. we do have permission to be anywhere in china — except tibet, where we are forbidden to go. and that includes not just blocking our work, but also blocking the work of our chinese colleagues. china claims it only expelled american journalists after expulsions from t

games as business as usual in the face of the prc�*s egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in xinjiang. the criticism — china's treatment of its minority uygur population. the boycott has left multinational companies that have sponsored the games in the middle of a diplomatic spat between the us and china. bbc analysis of the olympics' 13 official partners�* social media feeds has found that many sponsors have barely posted about the beijing winter olympics compared with last summer's games in tokyo. french giant atos, for example, tweeted about the olympics last year dozens of times on its twitter accounts, yet has posted almost nothing in the lead—up to the games in beijing. i don't think that any of them as global brands can afford or are willing to insult the chinese government or the chinese people, they feel they're walking on a tightrope. the problem that many of these companies face that do business in both china and here in the us is actually pretty simple. they don't want to offend either side. so best not to say very much. that's what zumretay arkin from the world uygh

there are uighur is and uighur americans, i have friends whose parents are back in xinjiang. i have one friend in particular she has a daughter of her own has never met her grandmotherbecause she's held an account . there are people in hong kong who have friends who are part of the pro-democracy movement who are locked up indefinitely in china. for speaking out in defense of liberty and freedom. we're all sitting comfortably in our chairs, watching the olympics. you know, and in a relatively comfortable place. this is not an opportunity for silence as you said. this is an opportunity for being outspoken and calling on the us government to take several steps even beyond the olympics. we have to be thinking and talking about the ccp. we need to be there saying we're going to sanction every single chinese communist party official who is complicit in genocide against the uighur is. we need to target every entity that was complicit in helping hong kong be what it is today. we need to be extending safe haven through priority refugee status to people who can no longer live within ch

from xinjiang to tibet to hong kong. it's one of the final pieces of china's revolution under xi jinping. >> for years china had had an almost apologetic approach to its human rights uses. xi jinping says that's no longer how we're going to talk about it. we're not going to apologize. we're just going to do it. >> for all the criticism of the west, it's important to understand that in china, which is more than 90% han chinese, there is not much sympathy for the uighurs. populist nationalism has swept the world and china is no exception. xi jinping has used that nationalism to keep his and the communist party's iron grip on power no matter what the cost. >>> i want you to imagine for a moment what the world looks like to people living in china today. say to an average couple. their country, home to one of the greatest and ancient civilizations in the world, long on leading science and technology, was isolated from the great wave of technological advancement that began in the west in the 16th century. it was late coming to

american congressmen visited taiwan friday, china warned walmart against removing products made in xinjiang region where the u. s government accuses china of running forced labor camps in the country's northwest. home to millions of muslim minorities. in a statement, beijing said to take down all products from a region without a valid reason. hygiene ulterior motive revealed stupidity and short sightedness and will surely have its own bad consequences. in a recent interview when asked to name the biggest national security challenges facing the u. s vice president, harris said, our democracy and the climate she did not mention china. the washington post reports, china is ramping up its mining of social media, including facebook and twitter, in an effort to boost its propaganda efforts. in washington. lucas tomlinson, fox news israel's military says it launched strikes against military targets in the gaza strip. this comes a day after rockets were fired at israel from the hamas ruled territory. video shot in southern gaza showed three huge explosions. fighter jets could be heard flying overhe

separately intel has deleted references to china's xinjiang province after the company faced backlash in china. i understand it's a reality, a huge market, what are you going to do. last month in a letter to suppliers intel wrote had, in its words, been required to assure that its supply chain does not use any labor or source goods or services from this region, the xinjiang region, following restrictions imposed by multiple governments. but according to a router's review of the letter that paragraph has been deleted along with any reference to xinjiang whatsoever or china. the letter now says the company prohibits any human trafficked or involuntary labor such as forced, debt bonded, prison indentured, or slave labor throughout extended supply chains and a change to the letter brought a rebuke from rubio saying intel's cowardice is yet another predictable consequence of economic reliance on china. beijing has repeatedly denied human rights claims specifically there. and intel is saying they had to say it because of the law. nobody's got -- andrew, nobody is without some blame at this

from the backlash they suffered because of the use of shin jan cotton -- the stance on shin jan -- on xinjiang cotton. guy: multiple factors and how using about the stock. h&m now trading higher. lvmh having a bounce back as well. european stocks more broadly are lower. the close is next. we will deal with the details. this is bloomberg. ♪ as a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. so start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for small business: comcast business mobile. flexible data plans mean you can get unlimited data or pay by the gig. all on the most reliable nationwide network. with no line activation fees or term contracts... saving you up to $500 a year. and it's only available to comcast business internet customers. so boost your bottom line by switching today. - [announcer] imagine having fuller, thicker,™ more voluminous hair instantly. all it takes is just one session at hairclub. introducing xtrands. xtrands adds hundreds or even thousands of hair strands to your existing hair at the root. they're personalized to match your own natural hair col

responsibility would come into play here and point out the abuses, human rights violations taking place in the xinjiang province where the chinese commit genocide. my bill passed the house almost unanimously condemning the ccp for what is taking place that, is genocide in china, and i would hope that the networks would actually have some responsibility and call attention to that. i think the athletes may actually start talking about this. i did agree with the boycott diplomatically. i asked ioc move the olympics. that's not going to happen. i don't think we should punish the athletes but i think they're going to stand up solidarity against the human rights violations and take home the gold, too. like jesse owens showed hitler the arian nation was not superior, show the chinese that we're going to take home the gold and not them. >> thank you very much and oh, happy birthday and happy 60 there to you. >>> the biden administration has a new plan for americans to get rapid covid tests but will they come in time to combat the omicron wave? we'll talk to the surgeon general next. stay with us. some people h

china, i want to talk to you about elon musk opening a showroom in xinjiang. some say it is not far away from the facilities of reeducation of uyghurs. this ising you were the first on. "wall street journal" market crusaders believe that businesses do well with free trade and all those sort of things. when you think about something like that though, like what is happening with this, is there a point where we're putting profits over people? >> yeah absolutely. you know i think this is something that is very disturbing. you've seen the chinese government pressuring american companies to basically echo their prop granda we've seen this before on the issue of taiwan. people need to wake up there are market forces at play. if you do business in china, china controls that business. you don't own the business. you don't own the stances it takes on social justice issues. you don't own the stances it takes on issues like taiwan or slave labor of uyghurs. they can make demands and if they don't like it they can take your money. we've seen it play out in hong kong the la

tesla has criticism for opening a new showroom in china's xinjiang region, where the government has been accused of human rights violations against the uighur population. an alliance for american manufacturing says it is especially despicable. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm vonnie quinn. this is bloomberg. paul: property developer china evergrande says a government order to demolish 30 nine apartment buildings will have little impact on its sprawling complex on hainan island. the news did way on sentiment and it sank in monday trade. let's bring in stephen engle in hong kong. what is the latest? stephen: property sentiment picking up where 2021 left off. property developers sank across the board. evergrande was the main catalyst for the negative sentiment. the report you mentioned, this is about the island flower complex off the northwest coast of hainan island. ocean flower island, i should say. they have three artificial islands and they say the demolition order that came f

for example, the uk's attitudes to hong kong or taiwan or the uighurs in xinjiang. if there is a bill or other things, that will maybe influence peddling that will maybe influence peddling that way. bud that will maybe influence peddling that wa . �* , that will maybe influence peddling thatwa . �* , ., that will maybe influence peddling that wa . �* , ., ., that way. and she was doing that throu . h that way. and she was doing that through money. _ that way. and she was doing that through money, essentially i that way. and she was doing that through money, essentially stop| through money, essentially stop using money to give two particular causes that a particular politician might be interested in?- causes that a particular politician might be interested in? well, yes, essentially they _ might be interested in? well, yes, essentially they are _ might be interested in? well, yes, essentially they are using - might be interested in? well, yes, essentially they are using what i might be interested in? well, yes, | essentially they are using what they perceive as

. >> those living overseas from the xinjiang region and wanted to get contact with their family members or relatives back in the region can do so through the do channels. >> reporter: but back in turkey. the director introduces know two of the youngest children in the orphanage. >> will you introduce me. >> how old are you 11 years old you are 11 can i ask you a difficult question when did you last see your mom and dad. >> reporter: they tell me they haven't seen their parents in more than five years. >> do you remember what they said to you? >> my mother says try your best to study hard and don't let me down every the director and volunteers work to feed the children in the cafeteria a 17 year old helping out in the kitchen tells her father went missing after going home to see relatives four years ago >> only thing we did is that we are muslim. >> reporter: he too believes was sent to a camp >> yeah it is not that easy for us without dad in our family >> reporter: and back out in the hallway, the director tells his own harrowing story. his family too has been torn apart. >> my sister,

iain duncan smith, who has been sanctioned by china for highlighting alleged human right abuses in xinjiang, has expressed concern. i rise on a point of order literally is an— i rise on a point of order literally is an e-mail_ i rise on a point of order literally is an e—mailfrom i rise on a point of order literally is an e—mail from the speaker has arrived _ is an e—mail from the speaker has arrived in — is an e—mail from the speaker has arrived in our— is an e—mail from the speaker has arrived in our offices. the key issue — arrived in our offices. the key issue here _ arrived in our offices. the key issue here is that i understand that mr speaker has been contacted by mi5 and is _ mr speaker has been contacted by mi5 and is now— mr speaker has been contacted by mi5 and is now warning members of parliament that there has been an agent— parliament that there has been an agent of— parliament that there has been an agent of the chinese government active _ agent of the chinese government active here in parliament working with a _ active here in parliament working with

meantime, speaking of electric car companies, opening a new showroom in the capital city of china's xinjiang he region, the same area where the chinese communist party members are allegedly committing human rights abuses of the uyghur muslims. several advocate groups blasting the company accusing tesla of, quote, economic support of genocide with the new showroom. joining me now hudson institute senior fellow, rebecca heinrich. your reaction and what does tesla have to say about it. >> dagen, it is so disappointing. there are so many people who are pulling for elon musk to be this great new patriotic titan of industry, takes us to mars and with spacex and tesla electric cars and instead he starts off the new year after congress passes the uyghur forced labor act, president biden signs it into law and he chooses to be a xi jinping lackey and put the tesla showroom next door to where we know the genocide camps are. it is so disappointing. he needs to suffer reputationaly. i'm hopeful he can change course. i still want him to be this example of what this titan of industry for the united states

look at the vast difference between human rights being crushed by china, enslaving a million people in xinjiang province, stripping the democratic voice of the people, the right to free speech in hong kong versus the freedom we have in our nation. our road is the right road. we have to make it work. and to make it work, we need to pass the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights act, and we need to do it now. thank you, mr. president. of mr. merkley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 3:00 p.m. on monday, january 10. that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, an

combat with indian soldiers in the himalayas, economic blockades of australia, genocide in its own xinjiang province and aggressive naval actions in the south china sea. how do such actions impact your analysis, admiral davidson, on if and when china would invade taiwan? his response to me in this hearing made news around the world. he called these recent actions by president xi, quote, alarming. and then he said i think the threat of an invasion of taiwan is manifest during this decade, in fact, in the next six years. six years, madam president. that is not a lot of time. the senate needs to focus on this issue much more. indeed, this issue is not unrelated to the actions of another dictator, vladimir putin who is right now threatening and likely to invade one of his neighbors -- ukraine. some see the defense of taiwan as a luxury we cannot afford in an age of sharp and great power competition and china's global economic strength. i reject that view. and importantly, so does american law, particularly the taiwan relations act which this body passed in 1979 by a vote of 90-6. and among othe