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>> a new video released by the taliban show the moment sgt. bowe bergdahl became a free man. it comes when the obama administration receives criticism for releasing five high-level taliban detainees in exchange for bergdahl. >> there are lots of moving parts. officials from the obama administration is now conducting a closed-door briefing with the senate on the decision that freed sgt. bo derek ball. all of them wanted to know why the administration did not give the 30-day notice in the exchange of bergdahl's release. earlier on a taliban website gives us our first look at

bergdahl at his release on saturday. >> reporter: a pickup truck delivered bergdahl to the rendezvous point. he appeared frail as he talked of his final moments after five years of captivity as a prisoner of war. one taliban member told bergdahl, don't come back to afghanistan. if you do, you won't make it out alive next time. the exchange took less than a minute. three u.s. special operations soldiers approached from the helicopter, shook hands with the taliban fighter, and escorted bergdahl where he was frisked before boarding. while only one helicopter touched down, at least two dozen u.s. military took part in the operation along with aerial surveillance and intelligence. his rescue first praised by u.s. officials is now the subject of

controversy with allegations that bergdahl may have deserted his post. in brussels secretary of state john kerry said tha-- state--secretary of defense chuck hagel said. >> let's not forget sgt. bergdahl is a member of the united states armed forces. he is a sergeant in the united states army. the united states of america has and will always have the responsibility of getting its soldiers back. other issues regarding sgt. bergdahl will be dealt with at a later time. >> the release of sgt. bowe bergdahl is getting criticism

because the president did not give congress 30-day notice, and senator lindsey graham is accusing the administration for trying to score political points. >> i think the white house was looking for a twofer to end be the longest war in history, and oh by the way i secured the only captive of that war. that was thought in their mind to be a pretty good political story, but it blew up in their face. >> there is this development from his hometown. officials there have canceled plans for big welcome home celebration. now the official reason tony is that the town of 8,000 does not have the infrastructure to support a huge crowd expected for bergdahl's eventually return. >> wow, how this story changes by the hour. so with all the criticism

being weighed against the administration, is anyone suggesting that the trade should not have been made? and bergdahl should have been left i? >> however, there is a comment being made no one is saying it on the record, but we have some officials saying that perhaps the time he has served as a prisoner of war should mean he shouldn't have to serve prison time if escort marsha he is court-martialed. >> a video was smugged out of

egypt of a hunger strike. his family says his health is getting worse. >> reporter: this is the third time that mohammed sultan has reached out to president obama. first in a letter. then a tweet. now the president may have to sit up and pay attention because this video he has produced has gone viral. >> my life not worth anything to you? has the life of american citizens become worthless? or is it because my name is mohammed. >> reporter: mohammed's blunt message on video smuggled out of egyptian prison. he's been held since august for allegedly using his cell phone videoing protesters. >> i was documenting crimes against justice, against

humanity, against democracy in egypt. trying to share my american principles with young egyptians, hope to go build bridging between free generations. >> reporter: soltan was shot in the arm and now is on hunger strike and is said to be failed. he tweeted to president obama, the egyptian army put a bullet that fractured my arm that i paid for with my tax dollars #ridding me that. he also wrote an open letter to the president, now in the video soltan appeals to his fellow americans. >> i've had my freedom stripped from me why? because i've of the standards that this great nation was built on. >> would you continued silence you sir are saying there are, in fact, different variations of

american. in my type, in this period, in this time just happens to be the one that matters less or not at all. >> reporter: and tony, soltan's family say he is an outspoken critic of the muslim brotherhood and attended that rally that august because of the democratic norms instilled in him in the united states. his father is an university professor in cairo. he was also briefly arrested. he's a member of the muslim brotherhood. but spoke out about the way the brothers ran the country when they were in power p it's worth noting all of this happening at a time when the military ran egypt before the elections. >> j.t. appreciate it. john terrett for us. earlier i spoke with omar soltans. he explained the circumstances surrounding his brother's detainment. >> he participated in a protest where pro-democracy protest where he believed the democratic process should continue no

matter how bad a president performance, he should continue his term and another president comes in after him. he believes in the ideals of democracy that he learned here in america. when he moved to egypt because of my mother's cancer, it just so happened that the coup a happened over there. he spoke fluent arabic and english, so he spoke to a foreign media as a citizen journalist, and that's why he was arrested. >> was he at the time a member of the muslim brotherhood, an organization that the military has banned? >> no, he was not. he's not a part of the muslim brotherhood. he just believes that as long as the president comes, he should finish his term and another president should come after him. the democracy process could continue. he's against the military rule that has ruled egypt for the last 60 years, and has failed miserably. >> how long has he been in prison now, and has he had any

court proceedings, hearings? >> he has been in prison ever since august, august 27th. it's just been--they keep postponing it. today in was a hearing as there was a hearing last month. they just keep postponing it for another week or two. and the laws that they have made after the coup gives them the right to keep postponing these hearings indefinitely. there is no limit to these postponings. >> has your family spoken with the egyptian government about, gotten any clarity from the egyptian government about the charges and the court proceedings, and does your brother have access to an attorney? >> there are attorneys there, and those are the ones that communicate with the government over there, the proper cut prosecutors. he was not allowed to meet any attorneys in the beginning for the first three days when he was arrested. we didn't even know where he was. and when we did find out even the embassy was not able to

reach mohammed or talk with him. they meet lawyers only at the hearings. they don't meet them individually like after the hearings or while they're in prison. >> omar what is it that you would have the obama administration do on behalf of your brother? as they've non-2012 when the two ngos, hillary clinton herself went to egypt and applied the necessary pressure to free them. the charges were dropped and they were put on a plane and sent back to america. that's what we're asking the administration to do. all they're doing right now they're telling us be they're monitoring his health and saying we're going to make sure he's getting the necessary treatment, but it's not enough. it's not enough. he's on his 130th day of a hundred did he strike and could die any day. my dad sends us letters telling us that he can't even sit up. he prays as he's lying down.

his health is not getting any better, and he's determined he's not going to stop this hunger strike. >> omar went on to say that he believes the government of the united states does have the resources to do more to free mohammed. president obama is in belgium with leaders of nations, the top of the agenda is peace for the ukraine. russia was supposed to be a part of this meeting but president vladimir putin was not invited after russia annexed crimea earlier this year. mike viqueira is in brussels, and this meeting is a bigger plan for push for peace. what steps will the g-7 take moving forward? >> well, tony, there has been a lot of build up to this meeting but there is some question whether the g-7 will be able to stay on the same page in response to what russia is doing. you are correct, this meeting has been convened in brussels,

belgium, as opposed to sochi, russia, but many in europe are convinced that no further sanctions are needed, and president obama is trying to get the g-7 to speak with one voice to respond to what russia is doing in ukraine. and now there are seven. as the group formally known as the gen g-8 gathered in brussels. ileading ukraine's president-elect petro poroshen poroshenko, president obama vowed to keep the pressure on russia in response to its actions in ukraine. >> an unified international community is clear. violation of international law and is willing to back up those principles with consequences for russia. >> in his west point speech last week president obama declared his policy of sanctions is working. >> our ability to shape world opinion helps to isolate russia

right away. >> reporter: but putin is not frozen out completely. leaders of three america's closest allies, britain, france and germany will meet with putin one-on-one at the d-day celebration in normandy. president obama will not. analysts say tightening sanctions will be a tough sale. >> this is really hard to do. and so i think there wil there will be europeanly uncl european reluctance to move forward with more sanctions. >> reporter: president obama speaking ting unity in the fight with ukraine. >> we believe people have a right to determine their own destiny. that includes the people of ukraine. >> reporter: now in that photo op with ukraine president-elect

petro poroshenko, president obama accused the use of dark tactics. to which vladimir putin responded where is the proof. president obama has no proof. putin was asked if he would willing to meet with him, willing to meet with president obama when the two are in france together. he said he would certainly like to do that, but it's up to president obama meanwhile the white house said there are no plans for any kind of formal meeting. >> mike viqueira for news brussels, mike, appreciate it. pro russian separatists have taken control of three ukrainian posts along the russian border. two of the bases were left abandoned by ukrainian security forces. national guardsmen reportedly left the post because they wan out of ammunition to fight off separatist fighters. they set up corridors to allow women and children to escape the fighting in ukraine.

secretary of state john kerry made a trip to lebanon. it comes just as syria's national court announced bashar al-assad's election. and kerry had tough words about the election. >> reporter: yes, he had tough words about the prescription of the election, the election itself and images that we're seeing tonight which the west and opposition calls staged managed, choreographed celebrations by syrians who are coming out. they are firing into the sky. they're waving their flags very similar to the kinds of celebrations we saw outside of polling stations in damascus yesterday. and that's what the secretary of state has to say today. that he said that this was not a real election. and not only that, that nothing

is going to change from the day before the election as the day after the election. the elections are non-elections. the elections are a great big zero. they're meaningless, and they're meaningless because you can't have an election where millions of your people don't even have an ability to vote. where they don't have an ability to contest the election and they have no choice. but the syrian regime would argue, of course, the opposite. that those scenes we saw tonight are real, that president bashar al-assad voted for himself in a real election and now begins the political transition in syria, the opposition in the west fear that bashar al-assad will use the election as an excuse or cover to continue crushing the opposition and to continue to refuse to negotiate politically. >> kind of a two-fold agenda here for secretary kerry. he is in lebanon to talk to leaders about their own

political crisis, but also he's focusing attention on the syrian refugee crisis, isn't he. >> reporter: yes, it's actually one and the same for kerry. he came here because there is a stalemate as you said earlier in the lebanese political process. there is a vacuum. he said fill the vacuum and only then will they get the assistance that they're asking for. they need the assistance because of the huge refugee crisis. every day 2500 syrians come into lebanon. by the end of the year it will be 1.5 million syrian refugees that is more than a third of the country here. what lebanon needs is a lot of help physically. it's overwhelmed. financially it's overwhelmed. kerry said if you get your house in order then the help will materialize. >> nick schifrin, thank you. north dakota's oil boom has created thousands of jobs and dangerous working conditions. why the state has seen an huge

up tick in on-the-job deaths. and you cannot write off the tea party just yet.

>> president obama is in brussels, belgium, to attend a summit of a group of seven of industrialized countries or g-7 david shuster is sitting in for ali velshi on "real money." what are these g-7 nations, these leaders, what are they looking here? >> reporter: they're looking at i don't know going european economic problems. we got data on this side of the atlantic, america's trade deficit, imports exceeds export, much of it is due to the lopsided trade with europe, america's biggest trading europe. the trade gap grew by 23% in april. while americans are able to

afford more imports good, europeans are still feeling the pain, and they're not buying what america produces. >> there are all kinds of economic issues, so what is the obama administration asking european leaders to do here? >> reporter: what president obama and his counterparts from japan and canada want britain, france, italy and germany to do is increase their public spending in order to boost their economies. european central banks may be more willing to do that because of the threat of deflation poses to europe's economy, that's when prices fall, wages shrink, people sit on their cash instead of spending it, and economy stalls. that's sends chills down the spines of economists, even here in the united states. have the government spend more to stimulate the economy.

>> it's the stimulus-austerity argument all over again. >> reporter: we're take a looking at the cost of child care that is causing financial hardship, and not just for middle class families. we'll here from families right here in new york who are making awfully tough decisions on how to make ends meet. the michigan legislature approved of an aid package to help the bankrupt city of detroit. the grand bargain of bills will give $200 million to the city. the package will prevent deep cuts in pensions for city workers and saves city-owned art work from being sold. the bill awaits rick snyder's signature. north dakota is the hottest place to find a job, and it's the deadliest. the workplace fatality rate is five times the national rate. many people who have lost their lives on the job work in the

booming gas energy industry. we go to the heart of north dakota's oil country, diane, what is the safety problem we're talking about here in north dakota. >> reporter: a lot of people who are coming out here to work in the oil fields are young men. many of them have never worked these kinds of jobs before. they're inexperienced, and some say they're getting very little in the way of training. jobs in north dakota's oil field can pay big bucks pup up to six figure as year. but some workers say the risk is not worth the reward. ty james is one. he severely injured his spine when an item fell on him. >> they told me that had the trailer went down another two inches i wouldn't have known what happened. i would just be dead. >> reporter: james was lucky. work-related deaths are on the rise in north dakota.

while they declined nationally. >> any time we see the number of fatalities above zero it's a cause of concern by osha. >> reporter: erik brooks heads the office of osha carrying north and south dakota. with over a thousand active wells and hundreds of service companies, brooks and his eight inspectors have their work cut out for them. he thinks that inspections have helped osha correct and identify hazards at some oil drilling sites, but he said inexperienced workers and drillers are the biggest problem. >> when we have as much with a limited experience in the industry and started their own country coming up, they may not be aware of the hazards that their workers are exposed to. >> reporter: when it comes to workers' safety it all comes down to training. and here in the oil patch the kind of training rig workers get depends on the company they work for. company training runs the gamut.

nabors oil has one of the most rigorous training programs. no new recruit can start a job without first getting nine days of hands-on experience with a test rig. classroom training and finally passing a written test. >> if we have someone who is not progressing the way they should throughout the nine days, we don't hire them. >> but despite that osha has investigated two accidents at nabro's site over the past five years that resulted in two workers' deaths. meanwhile other companies offer far less training, so unions are stepping in to offer training programs for members who don't feel adequately prepared. >> we have to look out for one another. that's the main thing right now. looking out for one another. making sure that that person goes home safe. >> reporter: ty james said he watched only a training video before starting his job as he

struggles with pain every day the 24-year-old wishes he knew then what he knows now. >> i heard stories, but i guess nothing can prepare you for what you see. i couldn't believe it until i saw it. >> reporter: now the state doesn't have any kind of a requirement as far as training goes. it does have a program in place that oil companies can use, and it can offer entry level workers two weeks of training. >> diane, good to see you. lawmakers have had plenty to say about the problems at the department of veteran affairs. congress may be partially responsible for those problems. and how india will hope that new public toilet also prevent attacks on women.

>> you know the next secretary of veteran's affairs will be

responsible for fixing the va's systemic problems. decades old problems but he or she will not be alone. congress will step in, and that is raising questions whether lawmakers will be able to improve the problem. libby casey with more on this, libby? >> reporter: we've seen competing proposals coming from both sides of the aisles attempts to improve the v.a. and get veterans faster medical care. veteran groups say it's about time. plenty of congressional outrage with problems of the v.a. >> this cause ought to be one that galvanizes the nation. >> the scandal now has reached proportions where the american people are deeply angered. >> but veterans group say they heard this all before. >> fortunately it's not a new problem. >> reporter: he served in

vietnam and said this is deja vu. more than a decade ago a task force found hundreds of thousands of veteran waiting six months for healthcare. >> they found there was a mismatch between the funding and the demand, and if that mismatch wasn't addressed that we would have access problems, and that we would have quality of care problems. >> he said there was concern but no real action in washington. funding is part of the problem, said watchdogs. >> congress constantly pushes agencies to do things without giving them adequate resources or authority to do them. >> reporter: a lawyer and political scientist said pushing veterans through the system may have backfired as they took short gluts they cannot discipline their employees very effectively or quickly. >> reporter: they say the v.a. needs to change but there is a

struggle on capitol hill how. >> money is not the problem with the veteran's administration. it's management and accountability. >> reporter: but many democrats say it can't stop there. that's the federal government should invest more in veteran's care. >> what we're hear something that in many parts of this country primary care physicians are just saying we can't do it. too many people are coming in. >> reporter: some members of congress know firsthand how the va works but most do not. one in five members have served in the military down 70% in three decades. and in congress where seniority is power, the v.a. committees are not the one that is most members fight to serve on. turn over is high. of 25 lawmakers on the house v.a. panel, 17 are relatively new to congress. but they hope that they're listening and it's not what he calls politics as usual. >> using veterans to get

re-elected and then forgetting about us. hopefully somebody will do something to correct this situation and take the political atmosphere out of this situation. >> reporter: veteran's groups say this time they won't let congress forget. >> reporter: tony, it's not just congress that veteran groups are holding accountable. today the acting v.a. secretary sloane gibson had his first needing with veteran's groups and he addressed it in presentation where officials were cooking the books. 1500 people have been contacted. their appointments will be scheduled, and he plans to travel to phoenix tomorrow. >> libby casey for news washington. libby thank you. and joining us jason johnson, good to see you. >> reporter: good to see. >> you congress is rush to go pass something. it feels stop and gap and it feels politically expedient to me. am i being overly cynical? >> reporter: no, you're being honest. it's 2014, it's lex year. this is not new. this is a problem that the v.a.

has had for years and years, and it's a massive bureaucracy. no one wants to touch it. >> talk about the size of this things. certainly the veterans know and people in congress know how big. just humongous this thing is, but i wonder if people at home realize how big this agency is, this veteran's affairs department is, and the number of responsibilities within its po portfolio. >> reporter: theft medical responsibility, psychological responsibilities they have responsibilities to the dependents of veterans. you're taking care of everyone from world war ii vets to vets up to iraq. unfortunately, real reform has not happened since vietnam. it's entirely incapable as a bureaucracy to take care of the modern day problems. >> i want to harm this home.

to what extent is congress trying to fix the problem now. part of the problem. not just in funding. i think most folks think that funding is an issue maybe in addition to management and accountability. but to what extent has congress dropped the ball on its basic oversight responsibility? >> congress keeps writing checks and soldiers have to cash them. congress send us into wars. we talk about how republicans and democrats argue with every tax increase i want a cut here. we should have policies where every increase in serge overseas there should be commiserate funding for the v.a. that has not happened. they've dropped the ball on this war and previous wars. >> is there an argument to be made, the president touched on this a few weeks ago on his saturday weekly address, is there a case to be made that the v.a. because of its size needs to be broken up. i don't know what goes and what

stays within the government purview, but that some of its functions need to be privatized? >> that is an idiotic idea by the president of the united states. >> veterans will tell that you as well. >> everyone will say it's a problem. it's never been a particularly good idea of running healthcare for profit. we're talking about veterans, soldiers, people who already subject to all sorts of experimenttation when they go into dangerous and toxic environments. you can't have that under a private entity. i think that's passing the buck. if our government is responsible for sending you to war, our government should take care of you when you come back. >> i appreciate it. in today's politics taking control of the u.s. senate just became more powerful. >> thsince neither candidate

got above 50%, an season te, and absentee ballots don't change things much. >> whether it's tomorrow or three weeks from tonight, we will stand victorious in this race. >> establishment republicans are biting their nails pledging to pour even more money in mississippi in the next three weeks to help cochrane. a mcdaniel win would give a chance at the senate seat next november. and many fear that mcdaniel's racist and inflammatory remarks could hurt republicans in other campaigns. one of those campaigns is in iowa where. joni ernst, a military

veteran who got strong support from business groups. bruce braley won unopposed. >> bruce bailey and barack obama, they've had their chance, and they failed. now right now it's our turn. >> the ernst-braley match up is expected to be one of the most hard fought and expensive campaigns of the year with control of the senate possibly demending on the outcome. reminding the political world there is a limit to anti-government extremism. a few days ago republicans tea party candidate matt rosen dale described the highway speed limit as an example of government overreach. and last month he fired a rifle at a government drone. yesterday rosen dale lost to ryan zinke, a moderate

republican who supports abortion rights and gun control. zinke will face john lewis, retiring senator max bacchus. a former treasury official got the victory over a state tea party lawmaker. in november he will take on popular democratic governor jerry brown. finally in south dakota, annette bosworth was so eagle for appear on fox news she went on the air before checking the election results. you can see where this one is going. watch her reaction to anchor megan kelly. >> breaking news from the associated press that reports you have lost your race, and that former south dakota governor has revailed in the g.o.p. primary. your thoughts on that, and we'll get to the controversy. >> well, that's news to me. i didn't know that.

>> really? >> it's been--i didn't know. i found out on national television. >> oooh! i'm david shuster and that's today's power politics. >> an update on david shuster's reporting, a little while ago the associated press called it bad cochrane. in libyan unknown gunmen fired a grenade in the latest sign of the country's growing instability. the prime minister was not in his office at the time of the attack. his press assesso assess--predecessor refuses to step aside saying that it needs to be decided by the court. in yemen, rebels have been trying to take territory from the sunni tribe. shia fighters proposed the cease-fire after the military killed more than 100 rebels. third teenage girl in india

has been found hanging from a tree. the country has been in an uproar after two other girls were found hanged after allegedly being gang raped. the girls were going to the bathroom in a field, a necessary practice for more than half of india's population. [ crying ] >> reporter: the wails of these women have filled the village for a week. they're mourning the death of two young girls who were allegedly gang raped and murdered after leaving their homes at night. the attack has shocked the nation. the families says local police had refused to act because they are are from what is considered a low caste or the so-called untouchables. >> if the authorities wanted my daughters would have been found alive. they told me to wait for an hour and a half. my daughter would return home. but then this happened.

how long can i tolerate this? >> reporter: so his 12-year-old daughter and her 14-year-old cousin were found hanging from this mango tree at dawn after walking into fields to go to the toilet. he said the neighbor heard their screams, but instead of helping him, the police abused and slapped him for making a complaint. >> there is no doubt that the incident is very unfortunate. the government has taken steps and all the five accused have been arrested. the government has started a probe in the case. it is being directed to bring justice to the victims. >> reporter: but in the village people are angry at the state government and the police for failing to protect women. these men have no fear at all. they think the government is theirs. we can catch anyone's daughter

and do anything. they can get away with even shooting someone. they think we can do anything to us. >> reporter: a steady stream of application politicians has been visiting the village, promising $8,000 in compensation, but they have refused to accept saying their daughter's dignity is not for sale. >> the families of the victims say they want the perpetrators tried and hanged. they say there is no fear of the law here and punishment is the only way to stop final crimes against their women. al jazeera, india. >> the largest round up of gang members in new york city history happened today. marie ines fere has the story. >> reporter: 100 members of three different gangs from arrested accused of two homicide and 60 shootings in harlem. the investigation stems from the murder of an 18-year-old high

school basketball star three years ago. in boston, the fbi said a suspect has sent thousands of dollars overseas. he is accused of deleting computer files and denying his friendship with the tsarnaev brothers. the fbi said he spent more than $71,000 to people in six countries between 2010 and 2013. in montana the supreme court is suspending a judge for making comments about a 14-year-old rape victory. the judge said the girl was older than her chronological age. he's suspended without pay for a month. the girl was assaulted by her teacher and later committed suicide. the judge sentenced the teach for 30 days in jail. the high court is reassessing the sentence. a mound of dirt may be responsible for a bridge's

closure. a contractor dumped dirt over a period of years. that has caused a shift in the ground. the bridge will be closed until engineers determine how to fix it. if you're going to pretend to be a cop, don't do it to the police. matthew mckhan activated emergency lights on his crown victoria. the driver in front of him was a detective. the police determined that he was never in the law enforcement to begin with. >> the best thing about some of these crooks is that they do the knuckle head thing that gets them caught: thank you. >> thank you. >> we just learned that donald sterling has agreed to sell the los angeles clippers. he agreed to drop has lawsuit against the nba asking for $1 billion in damages. sterling's estranged wife negotiated the sell to microso microsoft's steve ballmer. sterling has been banned for

life from the nba for racist remarks made in a tape reporting. 25 years after the tienanmen square massacre we hear from a chinese dissident who was there and see how people are protesting the government today.

>> all right, we want to get to maria ines ferre. you were following the social media on this 25th anniversary of te tienanmen square. the big internet search companies have essentially been blocked from using certain terms to denote this anniversary, 6-4, all that have has been blocked by a number of these internet companies. >> yes, that's right. some people are using very innovative ways to still send out messages. so take a look at this, for

example. this is something in te tienanmen square. this says 89 for 1989. 6-4 for june 4th. and this says ak-47 symbolizing the weapons use. hires another one. 25, 64, 89. and this is another one, icing this art work on their lattes. now there are some words that are blocked like may 35th because that's code that was used in the past. may 31 plus four days. that would really be june 4th. also take a look at this. so this is images that has been very popular that we've seen over and over, one artist put yellow ducks. so yellow ducks has been

censors. >> china is doing all of this. i made it sound like the internet cops are doing it themselves. they're not censoring themselves. they're essentially being blocked by the chinese government. >> that's right. they're blocking terminology so when people go to google to search these things nothing shows up. >> where is your--there she is. coming up on www.aljazeera.co al jazeera america. world war ii veterans are headed to france to pay their respects to the anniversary of d-day. some are calling it the last reunion. then david shuster on "real money." >> reporter: middle class families are getting squeezed by the cost of child care. some are sacrificing their careers. and we have the latest on tienanmen square. all that and more on real money.

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>> as we mentioned moments ago today is the anniversary of the tienanmen massacre. storms of police stormed the public demonstration for many of the student leaders who protested back on june 24, 1989. the scar remain fresh. where are they now? >> they are all over the world. they say today's china is very different from the china i in 1989. >> reporter: china has worked hard to replace these images with scenes of stability today. but memories of the tienanmen protest are fresh for former student leaders. in 1989 he was in college 300 miles south of beijing. when he heard that others were rallying in tienanmen. >> i still remember vividly

during the demonstration we call for anti-corruption, for more democracy, for human rights. >> reporter: fu left before the massacre on june 4th but back at college the police interrogated him and put him through what he calls political brainwashing. in 1996 he fled china. he now runs a non-profit in china promoting human rights in his homeland. >> i think 25 years later we still need to remember that spirit, that dedication if we want a peaceful china to emerge in the 21st century. >> reporter: most of fu's fellow leaders are also in exile. bang don is now an activist and teacher in taiwan. >> the government will not pursue democratization and it will become more and more controlling. there will be a day when the

people lose their patience. >> ling ran away in a lug badg luggage box. >> where are they going to go? they see materialism, their heart and soul is not in chinese. >> people have protested for more property rights and less pollution. they take to social media like wii chat to express their concerns. >> i think the essential spirit is still there. >> a lot of young people in china have not even heard of what happened 25 years ago. the subject is censored in china and hear about it when this go abroad to study. >> first lady milk promoting a

program trying to reduce homelessness among veterans. the administration wants to have all homeless vet toss have a home by 2015. recent statistics show that there are still nearly 60,000 veterans on the streets. this comes as the v.a. faces pressure over allegations of poor healthcare and cover ups at its veterans. the last of the navajo americans who helped break of codes during world war ii, they created a code based on their language that the japanese never managed to crack. the veteran's administration say more than 132,000 veterans die every day. only a million are still alive, and with that in mind some groups are calling this

anniversary at d-day a last reunion. the story of some veteran who is are heading to france to pay their respects. >> hey, good morning, bill. >> reporter: billed caldwell is 86, but the united states army thinks he's 88 or maybe even 89. >> so this is you when you enlisted? >> that's because on august 7, 1943, when he was just 15 years old, caldwell lied about his age to an army recruiter. he was hoping to be a pilot. >> he said we need paratroopers. i said, what is a paratrooper? i never heard of them. he said, well, they train you, we drop you behind the lines about 20 miles, and if you survive you getting to home after the war. that was his answer. i said, well, i'll take it. >> reporter: at 2:00 a.m. on june 6, 1944, at the tender age of 16 caldwell leaped into the darkness over normandy. the first waves of 166,000

allied troops who would land in france on d-day. 73,000 of those troops were american. many wouldn't live to see the end of the day much less than the end of the war, and time has further thinned the ranks of survivors. more than a thousand american world war ii vets die every day. combat engineer alfonso villa is 92. he was one 69 first americans to hit omaha beach. he was wounded, returned to combat and made it all the way back to the outskirts of berlin. >> elmer mcguinty has been known as lucky since the time he flew combat missions as a gunner. by the time d-day rolled around he was on the ground in england training the men who would fly that fateful day. a few days ago, elmer, alfonso

and bill met up at the international airport heading back where they helped to make history. at the ticket counter desert storm vet gina rawson was all choked up. >> it's a huge honor to meet them. they were a part of history. >> their grateful fellow travelers honored the bravery and sacrifice of the greatest generation. their calling this d-day the last reunion. while what they accomplished 70 years ago will endure forever in the history books it will soon fade from living memory as those who survived the longest day say their last good buys. >> thank yo buys--goodbyes. >> before we go, a quick check of the website. if you would like the latest of any of the news stories that we've covered this news hour, head over to www.aljazeera.co www.aljazeera.com. we continue to report on china,

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