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Data and Forensics correspondent, @SkyNews , previously in Beijing | BAFTA winner | Author, The Explorer Gene
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We went to Hotan, Xinjiang, to look for Mergube’s grandfather’s grave. We found a bulldozed cemetery and a child’s bone left out in the open. Report with
@marchofer
@leolordjones
@Guldenay007
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Fun fact: my dad went out with Eric Dier’s mum. If she hadn’t dumped him football wouldn’t be coming home. Also I wouldn’t be born. Good job everyone.
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Full statement from Dominic Grieve, chair of Intelligence and Security Committee, on GCHQ/Trump. POTUS can't ask for interception.
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This is why Facebook should be worried (and why its share price is tanking). Cambridge Analytica scandal is mainstreaming what privacy advocates have been saying for years.
Check your Facebook settings NOW – it’s likely you’re allowing third-party applications (public Wi-Fi, games, quizzes, surveys etc) to access your data:
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GCHQ/NSA is probably closest, most effective intel collab between nations. This damages it hugely.
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About to fly to North Korea (to Wonsan, not Pyongyang) to observe dismantlement of Punggye-ri nuclear test site. More to follow, connectivity willing...
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Just been detained alone for two hours by police at Beijing airport arriving from Hong Kong. No reason given apart from ‘random check’. Call to British embassy refused, belongings searched, photos looked at, questions about Hong Kong. Same for crew
@SkyGreenfield
@marchofer
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This was our cabin on the overnight train, for 12 hours, 400km north. All the windows were shut and we were ordered not to open them. In the dining car we were served a ten course banquet. Weird.
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George Osborne gets paid £650,000 a year by Blackrock, which is an investor in Uber
Second edition
@EveningStandard
: Uber loses London licence; ruled ‘not fit and proper’; 40,000 jobs at risk & 3.5m customers affected
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Here come the bangs. This is the Western tunnel - built for larger nuclear tests than September 2017. Wait for the second explosions. And good with sound.
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Latest coronavirus. 22 provinces, numbering 1.1 billion people, have declared Level 1 public health emergency. 56 million people now subject to travel ban in Hubei, epicentre of virus. 41 dead, 1200+ infected, with 237 in a critical condition.
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Here’s how the journey went. We left on Wednesday from Wonsan. This was our only glimpse of normal Korean life, from a moving bus. It was incredible.
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This is why so many in HK are deeply worried. Chinese state media describes Wong as a 'secessionist' - a label which is now a crime under the national security law
#JUSTIN
:
#HongKong
secessionist
@joshuawongcf
announces withdrawal from anti-government group Demosisto after NPC reportedly voted to pass
#NationalSecurityLaw
for
#HongKong
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This is where we had been eating lunch. Amazing how much explosive you need for a wooden building...
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The lunch banquet. Featuring fried turtle and shark fin soup, sadly.
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Example of the zero Covid uncertainty that is current Beijing life. Went to gym this morning only to find ourselves locked in because a suspected Covid case had visited building
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At Heathrow, a joy to watch old men with rolled up telegraph loudly refuse to show their boarding cards. Truly, our own Arab spring.
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Mind boggling. I’ve visited this propaganda museum. It is a complete waste of the WHO team’s time to go inside. Why on Earth did they agree to it?
Next stop for the visiting
@WHO
#coronavirus
investigation team, the exhibition in
#Wuhan
dedicated to those who fought against
#COVID19
in the city where global outbreak first began.
#China
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Loudspeaker says: “Foreign forces incite Shanghai people to protest against the pandemic prevention and control work by organizing so-called ‘hitting bowl music festival’.”
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We’re at a hotel in Wonsan now and have some internet! Here’s the press centre
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So here’s the plan for getting to Punggye-ri, about 500km from Wonsan: at 7pm local time we’re supposed to get on a train for 12 hours overnight, then a four hour bus on dirt roads, then hike for two hours to the test site.
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Another tunnel, this one unused. The colonel who opens it told us it could be used for a nuclear detonation tomorrow if they wanted. Keen to stress the tunnel was intact, contra media reports.
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Quick write up of our experience in North Korea today
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@WSJ
Many countries (including the UK, often!) have been called 'sick man of x' over the ages. Relatively neutral in West. But worth noting that it's loaded w different meaning in China, bound up with colonialism and racism of occupying powers, Europe and Japan.
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The other main difference is that the Hong Kong opposition are in jail
#Opinion
: Main difference between HK LegCo elections model and the Western one is: HK candidates are competing to meaningfully improve people’s lives, not to further divide their constituents for self-centered political reasons related to electoral cycles.
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Could the country being invaded please maintain restraint, asks China.
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This is the wreckage of the observatory near the northern tunnel. It’s just wood. We had our doubts about all of these wooden huts. They make spectacular explosions but seemed fairly empty.
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A different tunnel, rigged with explosives. Almost like they’ve been put front and centre for reporters...
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Beijing will maintain its "dynamic Covid zero" policy for the next 5 years, according to to Cai Qi, CCP Secretary for the City. Will "improve "regular PCR testing and "ask all public places, villages, compounds to strictly check the health kit". 5 years!
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Final explosion: the third tunnel. Takes a fair chunk of hill with it.
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Thanks for messages. We’re all ok and out, and back home in Beijing. If it’s meant as an intimidation tactic, rest assured it will have the opposite effect.
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Cheerio China, it’s been the most fascinating and fun four years of my life. Lots I’ll miss, lots I won’t. And a last glimpse of a big white boiling in PPE on the tarmac. So long and thanks for all the jiaozi
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Update: we won’t be going to Punggye-ri tonight because of the weather. Not clear if/when we will be.
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After that we had a break for lunch. Very relaxing, until we were told that the buildings around us were also rigged to blow. Indeed they were - you’ll see shortly
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Actually, though, a couple of buildings out of seven were left standing. Here’s the second attempt
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Foreign forces apparently so effective that they can lock up Shanghai residents and deprive them of enough food. Dastardly.
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The aftermath of that explosion, with ace cameraman Kevin Sheppard
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Counter protestors here in Bristol massively outnumber anyone else - small confrontation with some football supporters earlier but quiet so far
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The northern tunnel - the site of North Korea’s five other nuclear test, including the last, massive one in September 2017. This would be the first tunnel to be ‘demolished.’
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The WHO team is out of quarantine in Wuhan and so the investigation can begin. Let’s see what they find
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You seek her here, you seek her there: Kim Yo Jong!
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Beijing going into Wuhan-style lockdown?
The
#Beijing
Capital International Airport and Beijing Daxing Airport have suspended inter-provincial flight services.
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The deputy director of DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Institute. He didn’t give his name but had the rank of general. He explained what would be demolished. Three tunnels that day. The other tunnel had already been put out of action by N Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006
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And finally, woke up in Wonsan this morning. Just an incredible reporting trip.
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After that, into cars to ride through military checkpoints over dirt roads, back onto train. We got the news about Trump later
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Back to the old school with the amazing
@AnnaJonesSky
, leading Sky’s coverage with no autocue. And brilliant effort by engineers to get us back on air. A tiny 41kb of code from
@CrowdStrike
bricked thousands of machines - each of those currently being fixed manually.
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Typically charming. Netherlands changes name of its office in Taipei, Chinese state media says China could halt export of medical supplies to Netherlands
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Uber drivers are employees, according to tribunal, entitled to paid holiday and national minimum wage. Big blow for Uber.
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Beijing will shut schools from tomorrow and is advising residents not to leave the city. This off the back of 106 cases related to Xinfadi market. Very strong govt response result of excess of caution, or are the numbers higher?
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Guys if you ever wondered how they number motorways this is the map so now you know.
http://t.co/NHfzV72p57
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Very distressing scenes in Zhengzhou right now where there is severe flooding. People trapped in subway - some rescued but other videos appear to show dead bodies
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In the morning we arrived at Jaedok-ri, the closest station to the test site. Here’s our train and
@SkyGreenfield
getting in the way
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It’s easy enough for DPRK to make another test site. It’s also easy enough for us to tell if they test another weapon. Important thing was this as statement of intention - and the about face it would be if DPRK restarted testing.
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Officials held a closing ceremony after, where they talked about transparency. Afterwards I doorstopped the DPRK colonel, asking how we could really tell the tunnels had been destroyed. He said we had seen with our own eyes the sort of explosion produced.
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This was worrying - officials wouldn’t tell us what had happened to Michael. And indicative of much tighter border controls - both ways - between mainland PRC and HK
I’ve just been held for approx 1hr20m by immigration crossing from Shenzhen into Hong Kong by car. I was held on my own in an inspection room with my phones in sight but unable to touch them, for “a problem with my visa” that “needed to be researched” (1/2)
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Love this ad. Am told that Carra and Nev genuinely had no idea
@KayBurley
was coming for them. They handled it better than most....
Move over Carra and Nev, the Premier League is done, it’s election time now…
Get the full story, first, with Sky News.
Free, wherever you get your news.
#GeneralElection
@SkyNews
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Our Beijing news assistant made a calendar as a Christmas present and it’s just pictures of me. Truly the way to a TV correspondent’s heart.
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It's staggering that UK still not operating border controls/quarantines, when countries like Taiwan and South Korea say they have been crucial to their success so far.
In which we read 15000 people still arriving here every day at airports and there is little science justifying our open borders. It’s based on research on flu in 2014. Really?
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The roads were empty at 5.30pm, apart from occasional crammed bus. Lots of pedestrians. We stared out and they stared back.
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The techno authoritarian state in its full shonky might, haranguing individuals in one of the safest places you can be - on your own, outside, with no one else around. Stupendous video.
Walking around without a protective face mask? Well, you can't avoid these sharp-tongued drones! Many village and cities in China are using drones equipped with speakers to patrol during the
#coronavirus
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Of all the messengers...
Her Majesty The Queen sent an encouraging message to President Xi and Chinese people: At the critical time of fighting
#coronavirus
, I express my sincere sympathy for Chinese people, and pray for the speedy control and victory over the virus. It was conveyed by Duke of York.
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The ST article is brilliant reporting but the idea that the UK govt was foolish to send PPE to China when it did is wrong. They needed it badly and it was right to give. UK should have been able to make up the deficit in the meantime.
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Good morning - beautiful one here in Wonsan. We’re still waiting on our train to Punggye-ri.
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Arrived back in China and dropped off at my quarantine hotel in Shanghai - this room is home for the next 14 days
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@ayeshasitara
@nknewsorg
We're still being told the weather is too bad for travel. Here's the forecast. What might be delaying us is the arrival of South Korean journalists, who we thought had been uninvited. Name cards have just been placed for them in the press centre.
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We're back in Wonsan after 12 hour train from Punggye-ri. We saw some spectacular demolitions, full pictures to follow. About 11pm last night we got the news about Trump cancelling summit - huge surprise to everyone on board train, North Korean and foreign.
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Scene at the US embassy in Beijing, where witnesses say they heard an explosion about an hour ago. Police ordering onlookers back and stopping us filming. But no ongoing operation it seems
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SK foreign minister teaches North Koreans how to do finger hearts at top of sacred Mt Paektu. 2018 is wild.
김정은 국무위원장의 ‘손가락 하트’ 장면입니다. 지난 20일 백두산 천지에서 김 위원장 내외가 남쪽 수행원들과 기념사진을 찍었습니다. 처음에는 손을 내리고 있었으나, "남쪽에서 유행하는 손가락 하트를 해보자"는 강경화 외교부 장관의 제안에 따라 함께 했다고 합니다.
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Only 24 hours after Manchester attack and govt is putting removing encryption on agenda again
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The White House says the remains of some US soldiers killed in the Korean War have been returned by North Korea. 'We are encouraged by North Korea’s actions and the momentum for positive change.' - press secretary
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Hong Kong Bill even better than when I was reporting from North Korea border and mistaken for Dan Dong.
Didn’t have my glasses on so I couldn’t read the smaller writing, I just thought, wow, what a cool name.
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18 months away from UK, now finally heading home from an empty Beijing Capital Airport. Paris then London here we come.
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How do you do lives in solo quarantine? Behind the camera I have an amazing crew
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Here I am happily not interfering in China’s internal affairs - it’s a good drop
@billbirtles
!
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Following PM's call for internet companies to do more, here's Facebook statement - 'committed to working together'
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This is genuinely reassuring
If you want to make sense of why the UK government are making the decisions they are making with regard to coronavirus: they have prepared over the last decade for a pandemic (focusing on pandemic flu) and the strategy and evidence based is public
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Breaking: Equifax says 15.2m UK records attacked in hack, writing to 693,665 customers who had data exposed
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New: WHO has repeatedly asked China to participate in investigations into origins of COVID-19. China has so far refused. Our story
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Slightly hard to make out in this pic but bridge is bumper to bumper with trucks coming from DPRK to China
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When your cameraman really doesn’t trust you to keep to your mark
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Worth noting this isn’t how it went in Wuhan. On Jan 23, all flights, trains and roads sealed off at same time, six hours notice, with nobody allowed out. Roads out of Beijing still open here and people can leave if they have a negative Covid test from last 7 days.
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