Potential crimes against humanity in China, says UN

Amanpour

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, according to a long-awaited – and much-delayed – report from the United Nations. Beijing has denounced the report, saying it’s based on “disinformation.” Correspondent Anna Coren reports, followed by WSJ Chief China Correspondent Lingling Wei and Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Jeanne Shaheen. Also on today's show: Historian Nicole Hemmer, whose new book Partisans explores the conservatives who remade US politics in the 1990s and how that decade paved the way for Donald Trump’s presidency. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Ammonpour. Here's what's coming up. A long awaited
0:10.1	report from the UN drops what it says about Beijing's treatment of the
0:13.9	Uyghurs. Wall Street Journal China chief correspondent Ling Ling Wei joins me.
0:18.8	Plus a year on since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
0:23.6	I ask Senator Jean Shaheen about her continued fight for Afghan women and girls.
0:29.0	Then?
0:29.7	I can't watch it now.
0:31.4	I will save it to the cloud and leave it for my grandchildren and children.
0:35.0	They should know about this crime and always remember who our neighbors are.
0:39.0	Ukrainian officials say it's a war crime caught on camera,
0:42.9	how a gruesome recording may help bring some justice in Ukraine.
0:46.9	And?
0:47.5	The problem isn't just Donald Trump.
0:50.0	It is this much bigger change that has been happening on the right for a quarter of a century.
0:56.0	The rise of grievance conservatism.
0:58.0	Historian Nicole Hemmer tells our Walter Isixen how partisans reshaped the Republican Party. Welcome to the program. I'm Sarah Sidner in New York sitting in for Christian Ammanpur.
1:24.0	China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.
1:28.4	That is the conclusion of a long-awaited and much delayed report from the United Nations.
1:34.0	China's vast western region of Xinjiang is home to a large population of predominantly
1:39.6	Muslim ethnic groups, the Uyghurs, the largest among them.
1:43.8	The blistering report condemns what journalists and human rights
1:47.4	organizations have reported on for years now,
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