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this is news coming to you live from berlin and trump tells britain that still business on the 2nd day of the state visits trump office find this a tourism made the possibility of what it calls a very substantial trade deal once britain has left the european union force a coming up on the 30th anniversary of the chinaman square massacre defiance from a victim of the punch that followed. the colonel was expelled me from the party they liberated me my brain and my mouth are free today. we talk to father and son
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who are determined to speak out as the chinese government tries to stifle the memories of the crocodile. and sudan's military councils or previous agreements with the opposition and calls for new elections that softer troops opened fire on protesters killing dozens and wounding hundreds more. we start in china today is a 30th anniversary of the 10 am and square massacre in beijing when this image was seared into our collective memory that iconic photo of a lone man facing down a column of armored tanks in a heroic act off defiance and this was in the spring of $989.00 students occupied the square demanding new. reforms and freedoms from the communist government of the
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hopes for economic and social change greater freedom of speech and less corruption were dashed by the regime the chinese government declared martial law and on the early hours of june the 4th troops and tanks moved into a tenement square to crush the pro-democracy movement their brutal actions shocked the violent for decades chinese authorities have tried to keep the event out of history books and to punish those who commemorate it but the damage is a much is building a metafile the end son who made a den mission to keep alive the memory of that in amman square massacre we hear 1st from the son. the book published in hong kong the one in 1989 i was a 4th year student in university. so i wasn't very interested in society. when everybody went to tiananmen square i just went to have a look everybody went there to watch but what he saw there changed his life
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students were mourning. the reform minded leader 2 years prior they saw him as a victim of a corrupt party elite soon they started raising more issues living standards human rights corruption. look. for the time had an argument with my father he already said if the students continue this might lead to bloodshed i do not agree to what his father was then a high ranking official. i didn't know this would end in such a tragedy but i knew it was a very difficult situation this. had been a close aide to the young the successor to. the young was a reform and want to dialogue with the students but the conservative prime minister favored a hardline approach. when
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i was not interested in my father's work i didn't care what he was doing in the government. what the son did not know was another man was in control. time a senior leader had retired from most duties. knew the students knew who had been ousted by done shopping 2 years before that. over the next few weeks the students became more and more radical they demanded negotiations with the parties some went on a hunger strike they want to not the simple. fact that we don't everybody had a feeling that we would certainly win because everybody supported us that's what i saw on the square. when i came home there was a deeply pessimistic atmosphere if we don't be one of the. you don't you're. on may 18th being instructed the government to declare martial law the reformers in the
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party had lost the young disappeared from public view he spent the rest of his life . preparing for an investigation but what i didn't know was they would investigate me in prison he was detained a week after. another week later at times and that this was watching from their account. when they started shooting i thought they would shoot in the area or it's when people were rushing the wounded on our bikes into the hospitals that's when i understood they were really killing people in the car left the country shortly after he became a publisher of critical books many of them about 1909 there were life for me the events of the 1989 are still like an open. well tom was released after 8 years in prison he remains under constant
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surveillance. you know what when they expelled me from the party they liberated me my brain and my mouth are free today. father and son can not talk often about who is allowed to visit once a year and some years not at all. such a push by dint of his much is the linga who is now in hong kong recommend the ration set and then he is being held let us tell us what's happening there to remember the timonen minsk the massacre. every year since $989.00 hong kong has this common ration event it's the only place on chinese soil that is able to do this due to its special constitution. people are arriving now there will be a commemoration event with candles and little bit later it's an important event for
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civil society and on kong it specially says hong kong zones freedoms are under threat since c. jinping took power and it's and restricted the freedoms that this city has been enjoying before so i think singh lettice beijing is not locking this song by anniversary at all. more than beijing is trying to silence any common ration even in private of this event at least some people who are for example mothers who have lost their children. who have wives who have lost their husbands and vice versa they are blocked often from even going outside and to the places where they've been loved ones were killed and remembering them beijing is afraid of remembering this event because the communist party has power relies on that they do not admitting that they committed
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a crime in 1990. the missile they moving report of the father and son who are determined to keep the memory of this massacre alive 30 years on what does this anniversary mean for the younger generation of china's. it's very hard to know at all how many. people know that this happened and want information they have about it because there is no information publicly available in this sense the chinese internet you will not find the photographs that we all know the tank man for example or the photographs. only people with access to the worldwide internet who know how to bypass the great firewall can find this information i hear however from people inside china from young people that it's some point when they are in university for example somebody tells them the story
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but in what way it is towed is often hard to say there is a lot of information in our own a lot of misinformation so we don't have a clear picture home many people know about this event and what they know. right let you spilling a thank you very much reporting from hong kong recommend the relations are being held to mark the 30th anniversary of the tenement square massacre. says he heard from mathias the chinese government is trying to do everything to raise the memory of the tournament square massacre joining me for more is cherry shine she's a social media editor and originally from hong kong welcome to you chief from what i hear that any mention of the german square massacre is bad on chinese social media so what happens when someone tries to search this chinese social media yes so as you said and the discussion of the incident and its sense of chinese social media and actually they. said being sensitive by the chinese government this
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morning i try to search for keywords on label and i typed in 6 for which is a year and the date incident happened and a way ball is shows that no results can be. and so other key was such a tenement incident or. also have the same results the chinese equivalent of. one of the most important china and such an important instance mentioned on the show is that censorship in china is very powerful and do find ways to get around the censorship is it possible yeah. trying to be really creative in that post and so there is an archive. research institute and they. pose before they were taken down. shows all these photos and sensitive was that
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a sensor. in one of the most iconic picture where we all know chinese. dogs the tank tried to get over the censorship. when this photo was widely shared. sensitive sensitive content and so it really shows. between chinese social media and the censor chinese people to what the 2 know square massacre. media platforms so even though. they are banned inside china many chinese social media users they tried together. to get access to these foreign platforms and actually one of the most important for political discussions for chinese uses but then just a few days ago to users complain that the. chinese get suspend.
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later apologized and they said this is just. routine check up but many chinese people buy this story says that if time and kind of spent and also actually just last month with b.p. there was also to china. many chinese social media says they are fearing that if foreign platforms if they cannot even find information of the incident. ok cherry chan and the social media editor thank you very much for that information on the 30th anniversary of the cinnamon square massacre. u.s. president donald trump is off of the u.k. what he calls a very substantial trade deal once britain has left the e.u. on the 2nd day of his state visit trump met prime minister to resign me they had a discussion with business leaders from both sides of the atlantic significant anti trump rallies are taking shape why pots of london are on security lockdown.
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joining me now from london is our correspondent bigot marsh she is with the protesters in a profile because square make it the prospect of closer relations of which trump a spock to watch foot as why other people so angry. well yes in trafalgar square people have been gathering that been coming in by train and now they have moved on to wards white told who have president trump and so they want to get closer to him and want to spread the message i've spoken to several of them and there is really a variety of reasons several mentioned that they think that he's a racist others his attitudes towards women and then the anger with many people about climate change that he's not recognizing that as a threat one gentleman said well those 90 percent that's bad about him there's 10 percent that's good about the state visit and this is this strong ties between the
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u.s. and the u.k. they don't historic and the common ration of this in the 2nd world war which of course will take place tomorrow in a special ceremony and this is also why president trump is officially here on a state visit and officially talking the british have given donald trump and his family very lavish hospitality and even a royal welcome why is this visit so important for britain at this point. it comes at a moment of big instability for the country tourism mase on her way out the fundamental questions on bricks. oncet and suits reason may wants to strengthen the toys with this historic strong ally and you have mentioned the trade deal of course this is something that needs to be negotiated and there are a lot of details that are going to be very very controversial but to reason my hopes to get a start and get this on the way and what can she offer him because to reserve me is
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due to step down as prime minister at the end of this week she only stayed on longer so she could be part of this visit given that what can she really offer donald trump. she called off anything concrete at this stage the u.k. is also still a member of the european. union but she can pave the way for something and there were business meetings already between u.s. and u.k. business is that that's a big hope for business in the in the u.k. but also it's the feel of the protests as they fear that in these negotiations that will follow at some point if the u.k. does leave the european union that the u.s. will be the much stronger partner in these negotiations and already we've had that the u.s. is saying everything is what the us ambassador said everything will be on the table every part of the economy now i've seen many protesters here walking around with
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signs that say hands off our n.h.s. which is the national health service which is treasured by many people here in the u.k. as a public service they don't want any involvement of u.s. companies in the n.h.s. so again also this trade deal is something that many people are protesting here are very worried about dr big it must play london covering the protests against donald trump thank you very much for that update from there. let's now bring you up to defend some other stories making news around the wild police in australia have arrested a man suspected of killing at least 4 people at a motel in darwin and witnesses say the gunman stormed through the rooms firing a shotgun before fleeing the scene police say the attack was not terrorism related . hunger and south korean divers and with the pressure of recovered a 2nd body from the wreck of a tourist boat that sank in the river danube last week after 33 people on board the
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7 unknown to have survived the accident. been kept in delhi is to offer women free public transport in an effort to improve their safety almost a 1000000 are expected to benefit crime against women has become a major political issue in delhi the city's government has said public transport was considered the safest way for them to travel. around the city. turning now to sudan where the military has canceled a power transfer agreement with protesters and court for elections the move comes a day after security forces opened fire on protesters killing at least 35 people and wounding many mall they had been ongoing demonstrations in khartoum calling on a caretaker military council to make way for a civilian government after the fall of sudan's longstanding dictator a lot of bashir. after weeks of sit ins occupations and demonstrations the military opens fire on cartoons protestors. off the
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oh heavily armed members of the paramilitary rapid support forces a unit formerly associated with massacres were deployed along the capital's main roads to disperse the protests. killing and injuring many. civilians have been conducting a huge city in central khartoum for weeks demanding that the transitional military council hand over power to the people. once news spread that the military had opened fire more protesters are out in the streets building barricades and calling for peace and more protests. after the dispersant of the sit in we went back to the streets and squares and thank god with the help of the youth we closed the streets and we will close everything again god willing. the protesters cut ties with the military council off to the bloodshed and then the generals hit back on previous
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agreements with protest leaders are off they say they'll now hold elections within 9 months but it seems very much on the military's own terms where. the bloodshed has drawn international condemnation the secretary general strongly condemns the violence and reports of the excessive force used by security personnel on civilians that have resulted in the deaths and injury of many and he is a lawyer by reports that security forces have opened fire inside medical facilities both sides a calling for peace but with lines of communication down that won't be easy. this is the stand the government is under fire from business leaders for damaging industry the president of the federation of german industries still. who was attending its annual meeting in berlin that corporate taxes are too high and that industry was having to pay the biggest electricity bills in europe he demanded
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a change of course. we are worried we worried about the future of this country and our society and we worry about the future of our companies. the government maintains the status quo and likes to talk about how good the economy is right now but you can't move forward. you keep looking in the rearview mirror. the ruling coalition and i want to make this very clear has lost a great deal of trust and confidence that we put into the government. so that was the president the federation of german industry i spoke earlier to. business desk and asked what chance america had to see if the industry conference burkle wasn't exactly facing an easy crowd now ahead of this event she had the opportunity to prepare for the criticism that would be coming her way we heard for example of german industry says that the government afraid of the way trust and was
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able to deliver on big ticket items like digitalisation for her part merkel said. trust in government is important but so government trusts an industry and she alluded to all the time spent on the government that the all the time that the government had to spend feeding up a messes that were made by industry like the auto emissions a cheating scandal that's all plunged the german auto sector in disrepute so her message there was about the shared responsibility between government and industry now earlier i spoke to mr you walk him along he's the executive director of the beady eye that's germany's biggest industry lobby and the organizer of this event and i asked him what industry it was bringing to the table to improve the situation not just a long long list but also what also to weigh in on his views with regard to digitalisation here's what he had to say. we share this responsibility and it's our companies that
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invest billions of euros to solve technology is solve problems that we have we have seen that 50 percent of all the patrons that exist worldwide in an autonomous driving come from germany so the automotive sector is investing a lot of money to help so these issues then we have banned a lot of money successfully on the issue of industry 4.0 or. advanced manufacturing as it's called in some parts of the world this is a unique selling point of german industry and the knowledge of production combined with digitize ation and this is exactly what's happening in german industry at the moment we see this in the larger companies already very strongly but we also see it in the so-called middle stand and we need to develop it further to the small and medium sized companies now if we can just give it to another topic digitalisation also a foremost concern of yours what is your position towards while we are helping to
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build up the 5 g. network in germany given that there is this u.s. led campaign against the chinese telecoms giant. we have only a few companies were doing business and that area and we have made good base pinches was all of them we don't want to talk about single issue companies big want to talk about the whole structure and if there is. the need to look into technology that may be compromised we will do this we have an agency that is created especially for this and they are during the tour if a job and but we're screening all companies that are active in this area and there is at the moment no need to focus on one special one. and that was ja came along from the federation of german industries talking to general don my colleague from the business desk turning now to ukraine whose new president called to me is
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alinsky is making his 1st official visit abroad to brussels a move his team says underscores his commitment to close the ties with the west he's meeting leaders of the european union and nato and at the top of the lansky is agenda is bringing peace to eastern ukraine where around 13000 people have lost their lives in fighting between government troops and russian backed separatists. looking the opponent in the eye only a few 100 meters divide pro russian separatists from the ukrainian army in these trenches near low hands on hand to see it for himself ukraine's new commander in chief president followed diem is a lengthy it's a picture repeated along the 400 kilometer front line where positions have remained frozen for years to stop the political process in which both sides insist the other take the 1st step all the while the killing continues. in.
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putting an end to the fighting in donbass is our main priority. i said look for willing to do almost anything to stop our heroes dying but the caveat soon followed with more than 10000 dead and millions displaced in this conflict many people in ukraine are in no hurry to forgive and forget president's lenski freedom of action to strike a deal is far from a given. but at this checkpoint between government and separatist held territory hopes are already running high that an end to the conflict could now be in sight that's why i think we have an 80 percent chance of peace because selenski is really serious about it and only direct talks with putin are going to resolve this. with there's some hope of peace there was not with poroshenko fighting want to achieve anything. i think he'll manage to end the war he talks in
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a totally different way of course we want to be together again we want these board accused to be over. in his inauguration speech followed him as alinsky made much of wanting to win the hearts and minds of people living in separatist held territory speaking to them rather than speaking about them but as his 1st weeks in office draw to a close selenski still owes ukrainians a know what diplomatic steps to see intend to take and what concessions is he willing to make to return. control for now selenski is keeping his cards exceedingly close to his chest. here's a recap the top story that we're following feel today mom 30 years of the chinese government counted on a bloody crackdown on student protesters intent on one square security has been stepped up around the square in central beijing where the massacre took place. and
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u.s. president dollar trump has offered britain the possibility of what he called a very substantial trade deal once britain has left the european need a union meanwhile but just as against from says it had been gathering in london. that's it for me i'm to touch him on the news team and have more news for you at the top of the l. a look forward to seeing you then. fire
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