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Around 10,000 dogs will be slaughtered at the Yulin annual dog eating festival which has begun in South West China.

Earlier this month celebrities and campaigners handed in a petition, signed by 11 million people, to officials in Beijing to ban the festival.

Here is a look at how the festival began and what happens there. Some of the images in the film are graphic.