Thousands of photos of Uyghurs and a vast cache of documents hacked from police servers in China’s Xinjiang and passed to BBC show extent of Beijing’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration John Sudworth Kathy Long bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85q…

Extraordinary that this police watchdog reports has yet to be published. But exclusive details here from Sarah McDermott bbc.co.uk/news/uk-618874…

‘But then there is a shot. It strikes somebody else. A man fights different urges in such moments. The bullet wound in his side is agonisingly painful. But crying out would be fatal. He will lie as still as his murdered comrades.’ Fergal Keane bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

The BBC understands that General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the former head of UK Special Forces, was briefed about the alleged unlawful killings but did not pass on the evidence to the Royal Military Police, BBC Panorama bbc.co.uk/news/uk-620831…

‘One of the gang had sent the receptionist’s colleague inappropriate messages on the hotel’s out-of-hours iPhone, including a “dick pic”. They saved his number as “Weirdo”’ bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nm7…

‘Sparsh cradles three grey pebbles in his palm. They are precious to him - his only physical link to the land where his ancestors once lived.’ Beautifully written by Kavita Puri bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Love the little vignettes from Quentin Sommerville - like this: ‘The idiosyncrasies of combat medics are legendary. So it should be no surprise that Yuri is wearing nothing but camouflage shorts. He has in his hand a metal detector. "He's looking for gold,"’ bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

‘if his aim was to intimidate the women into silence, he would fail’ great story by jake tacchi and Victoria Arakelyan bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Beautifully written by my colleague Jon Kelly with oversight Matt Roper bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

‘Richard Hall used to focus on theories about UFOs before starting to push claims about "fabricated terror"’ Another incisive piece by the disinformation powerhouse Marianna Spring bbc.co.uk/news/uk-634126…

The Amadea is the most ostentatious trophy claimed by the KleptoCapture, a taskforce set up to pursue Russian oligarchs' "ill-begotten gains”. The BBC was granted exclusive access behind the scenes of a superyacht seizure Billy McLennan and Alessandra Bonomolo bbc.co.uk/news/world-632…

Yet again Quentin Sommerville demonstrates his beady eye for colour detail bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

“Gangs set the clock here in Port-au-Prince. Morning rush hour - between 0600 and 0900 - is peak kidnapping time. Many are snatched from the streets on their way to work…” Orla Guerin wietske burema goktay koraltan and Andre Paultre bbc.co.uk/news/world-lat…

Another little beauty from Quentin Sommerville ‘This is a war where Ukrainian fathers and sons serve on the same frontlines. And this was how it was for 22-year-old Eugene Gromadskyi - at least at the very beginning…’ bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Really interesting read about relationship between long covid and smell/taste ‘I don’t eat for fun any more’. From my colleague Kirstie Brewer bbc.co.uk/news/uk-639728…

‘it is a stricken landscape, where trenches lie exposed to Russian observation posts and surveillance drones. Russian eyes are always watching, waiting for an opportunity .. ‘ another belter from Quentin Sommerville bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

‘During the thousands of texts and hundreds of voice notes he sent me over five months, not once did he use Martine's name’ - great reporting by Nawal Al-maghafi نوال المقحفي bbc.co.uk/news/uk-650330…

READ: “The cost of the Ukraine war for one Russian regiment”: bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur… Mark Urban’s detailed analysis of various open sources, tracing the 331st’s tour of Ukraine during the Russian invasion, commissioned by Kathryn Westcott & produced by James Percy #Newsnight

Congratulations to a great ⁦BBC News (UK)⁩ team including ⁦John Sudworth⁩ & ⁦Kathy Long⁩ and ⁦Kathryn Westcott⁩ #amnestymediaawards #Uyghur

Sgt Onistrat wears a helmet a size too small - it belonged to his son Ostap, 20, who was killed in a drone strike. The father is still in the throes of grief. Vivid front line report from Quentin Sommerville bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…