this is d.w. news from berlin tonight remembering the massacre on tiananmen square 30 years ago as the world calls it was to honor the victims who died fighting the democratic china is working tirelessly to try to raise all evidence of what really happened on the 2nd day of his visit in britain donald trump is a reason mate talk trade and that special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. thousands take to the streets to protest against the u.s. president reports from coal state and mid more violence sudan's military council

council's all previous agreements with the opposition and calls new elections also coming up tonight ukraine's new president asked to be european union to help bring peace to eastern ukraine a lot of resilience he says the e.u. must ramp up pressure on moscow to end the conflict with russian backed rebel. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome today is the 30th anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre in beijing a day when this image was seared into our collective memory that iconic photo of a lone man facing down a column of tanks a heroic act of define. it's it took place in the spring of 1989 when students

occupied the square demanding new reforms and freedoms from the communist government but their hopes for economic and social change greater freedom of speech and less corruption or they were rejected by the regime the chinese government declared martial law and in the early hours of june 4th $1809.00 troops moved in and crushed the pro-democracy movement their brutal actions shocked the world on sunday the chinese defense minister said that the 1989 crackdown had been the right thing to do over decades chinese authorities have tried to keep the event out of the history books and they punish those who commemorated the w.'s munty has been linger met a father and son who are trying their best to keep alive the memory of the tiananmen square massacre. the book publishing hong kong you're back in 1909 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 in time to actually walk but what he saw there changed his life students were mourning. the reform minded leader ousted 2 years prior they saw him as a victim of a corrupt party elite soon they started raising more issues who were living standards human rights corruption. for the time had an argument with my father and he already said if the students continue this might lead to bloodshed i could not agree to what his father was then a high ranking official but 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. a young was also a reform and want to dialogue with the students but the conservative prime minister

favored a hardline approach. towards it and i was not interested in my father's work and i didn't care what he was doing in the government. what the son did not know was another man was in control then shopping time a senior leader had retired from most duties. the entry 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 wanted not to simply turn on the way. 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 i don't know when i came home there was

a deeply pessimistic atmosphere of freedom being one of the. you know what you're. on may 18th then show being instructed the government to declare martial law the reformers in the party had lost jobs the young disappeared from public view he spent the rest of his life in the house. what's with us yes i prepared for an investigation but what i didn't know was they would investigate me in prison he was detained a week off the job was for another week later tanks and to this was watching from their account. when they started shooting i thought they were shot in the air you were it then people were rushing the wounded on our bikes into the hospitals that's when i understood they were really killing people i didn't assure qatar oh poor left the country shortly after he became a publisher of critical books many of them about 1909 there were life or death for

me the events of the 1989 are still like an open wound. well tom was released after 8 years in prison he remains under constant surveillance. to what i did 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. add to that story the fact that in china most people do not even know about the. square because of state since their ship our digital reporter or the doctor's year for these social media angle of the story you went online to basically use a search engine to find out what you could about them and square the anniversary what happened so any did in china and a discussion about. it censored by by the governments they have

a list of keywords that they declared sensitive if you use those words your content will not show up so a chinese speaking colleague here a dutch of ella as she did a search on way both which is the chinese equivalent of twitter and she searched for the dates 896 fourths of the 4th of june 1909 and you get no results whatsoever and this is the same if you search for other key woods to do with gentleman square massacre. it's yemen incidentally you get you get nothing well so we could pedia has recently been completely shut down in china it used to be just the chinese language the language version. was unavailable but now all language versions are blocked in china so many chinese people especially young people born after 1001 day have they. just don't know about this event because the information is just not available on the able to get around distance of ship well this is a lot of creative people out there and this is a good. this

a good instagram account with a group of researchers in hong kong have have. have these. posts and some people use code words to get around this so they don't have to use these sensitive keywords other people's use pictures play with pictures we have of course the famous tank man photo here they photoshop the tanks and replace them with rubber duckies and there's the rubber ducks. sort of does that stay well it's it's it gets a little bit more time before the census find it but eventually it will be taken down as well and then the other thing that many people do is use chinese forms of course chinese facebook and blocked in china but a lot of people use a v.p.n. which is the way to to hide your geographical location online and because of that twitter is actually become one of the most important platforms when it comes to

dissent in china it's amazing the level of censorship there and for our viewers of what to do if you can watch us in china you cannot see this report about him in square because that part is blacked out in china by the censors. 3 percent reporting thank you. are now to the u.k. where u.s. president donald trump is on the to of a controversial state visit for a 2nd straight day thousands of taking to the streets of one of the protest the visit of the u.s. president was trump labeling reports of those protests as fake news today trump met with prime minister to resign he held the extraordinary relationship between britain and the u.s. and he pledged improved trade ties with the u.s. if britain leads the european union this fall. it was a date the special relationships u.s. president donald trump and the outgoing pushed prime minister to resign me on stage

together for probably one of the last times for the past 2 and a half years the president and i have had the privilege of being the latest guardians of this precious and profound friendship between our countries as with our previous s's when we have faced threats to the security of our citizens and our allies we have stood together and acted together that included cooperation to stop iran getting nuclear weapons and encouraging nato members to pay more into the alliance and a big part of that special relationship is trade. as the u.k. makes preparations to exit the european union the united states is committed to a phenomenal trade deal between the u.s. and the u.k. there is tremendous potential in the trade deal i say probably to at even 3 times of what we're doing right now tremendous potential. but in the streets around the british prime minister's residence there was

a less than friendly welcome for the u.s. president i. was i. was. they went in a horrible. lower standards on us in britain. and it's all because we look as if we're going to be reduced by. that's it. we're going to have to accept this. but i pray it's not going to happen. the crowds were smaller than for previous on to trump protests but it's trump's policies not his promises that caused the most upset almost every single thing is wrong has done is un-american and i'm pleasant and nasty and i think america deserves a better leader. climate change women's rights gay rights. and control he's done absolutely nothing and everyone knows that the british prime

minister is on her way out and it will be up to her successor to make sure the special relationship remains smoke ordeal. for the w.'s dear good mom has more on trump's visit and the future of that special relationship she reports one. that has been much talk about the so-called special relationship during the state visit by a u.s. president on a truck but what does this mean the u.s. is offering a substantial trade deal once the u.k. will have left the european union but the devil will be in the details critics here in the u.k. of u.s. president trump they suspect that the u.s. white exploit its position of strength for example by demanding access to public services such as healthcare they fear that the special relationship might become as on even as a dispassionate. that was bigger must reporting from london here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world authorities in peru

say they've seized over 5 tons of illegal drugs that were destined for europe president said the hole was made in a multinational operation involving police in argentina spain and italy officials say the suspects were using front companies pretending to export honey and but analysts police in australia have a rest of the man suspected of killing at least 4 people at a motel in darwin witnesses say the gunman stormed 3 rooms on tuesday firing a sold off shotgun before fleeing the scene in the save the attack was not terrorism related a group of students disrupted proceedings in the german parliament of all this talk today accusing the government of not doing enough to combat climate change they staged a die in pretending to be dead they said the stunt was designed to highlight how drastic the climate situation is. to sudan now where the opposition has rejected plans by the country's military rulers to hold elections

within 9 months the declaration of freedom and change forces alliance says it will keep a campaign of civil disobedience to try to force the army from power the country's military council scrapped existing agreements with the opposition alliance after a violent crackdown on the protest in khartoum that left dozens dead. after the slaughter khartoum holds its breath protesters barricading roads as by leaders call for a campaign of civil disobedience and the trust they have in the military council has gone their agreements torn up by the generals after the brutal crackdown on opposition leaders reject the military's plan for rapid elections they want to lodge a structural change before the boat is held with that they say elections will not be free and fair and could allow elements of former president obama the shias regime to hold on to power. the military council's leader has not learned the lessons of history it seems he is clearly repeating it in every way while we

believe that it's now in the hands of the sudanese people they have begun setting up barricades we have succeeded in their strikes they're heading towards disobedience in this this regime will fall no matter what the gloves as part of. monday's violence was the worst since the shia was ousted in april on tuesday the military council expressed regret at the deaths. in the. form is to investigate to monday's incidents and have asked the general prosecutor to handle the issue that we are calling on the people to improve our homeland and to spread the spirit of tolerance and forgiveness we remain open to all needs to be constructive suggestions for taking our country forward. but taking stock of the con it demonstrates has a skeptical. part of the hold. each will lead to

a mess in the country and will drag it down the opposition alliance will not accept it and people in general support us no matter what their political affiliation the government should abide by the people's wealth and the people support what the opposition alliance is calling for money. that's alliance and its approaches to continue that fight for full civility and. that. joined now by jason pat's again a journalist in khartoum treasonist good to have you on the show tonight you've been out and about talking to protesters in court today i mean what are they telling you well today i visited a hospital where many of the wounded from the massacre yesterday who are seeking treatment and also people on the streets and with set up barricades in their neighborhoods to prevent the red support forces which is the militia that seems to

have carried out the mess for yesterday and the crucial thing is that i didn't talk to any protester who was willing to back down basically despite this unbelievable level of violence. people are still holding holding strong least in terms of. in terms of not backing down from the know it's heard they're still commanding a civilian government they're still to mincing freedom and democracy. so in fact there is one quote that one person said they said well even though the revolution has been going from december now is when it starts and we understand protesters they've rejected the the army's about election plans calling for new elections in the next 9 months but why are they so adamant against that do they suspect a military power grab in the making. well there are really already has been

a military power grab by the military to control after all the military wasn't control under all the chair and then after pushing him out military remain in control and now they have ceased all negotiations and. you know kills the people who are trying to oppose knows very well so the power grab is the military's in control when it comes to be sorry when it comes to the elections the reason people are against an election happening so quickly is because they there have been so many sham elections over the actions in the past that people don't think that there will be enough time in 9 months to reform from the country's institutions and support terror for a truly free and fair election and certainly if if there are no civilians at all in the government is a military government people fear that the military will just hold an election that

doesn't have. you know from the outside it appeared that these protests were peaceful in the beginning of may there were negotiations between the military council and the it seemed that sudan was set for a peaceful revolution or power transition of power and then eat it changed me how do people on the street how did they explain that to you that change do they know exactly why you and what happened. well i think the princesses and i'm so it's. have been peaceful. maybe a little and it's nothing serious nothing compared to the level of violence coming from the military and i think a lot of people blamed the gulf nations saudi arabia united arab emirates as well egypt who have really been the only international players to do anything about the sudan situation and they have said and those countries have sided strong

only with the military council will the pledged $3000000.00 have deposited some of that money only. and. i think people basically are wayne for giving the military council the green light to do what it wants now whether the those countries actually did that is another thing but that's what the people on the street really believe and at the same time see the protesters have held firm they've held their their sit in outside to the ministry of defense for 2 must settle now it's gone of course after yesterday but the pressure . basically showed to the military council that people were backing down so the military in sudan has fallen back on what it's used for frankly decades ago to use the press the opposition as force just what about the unions. yes

so they you has they started out quite strong. saying that the military should hand over within i believe 2 weeks to a civilian authority but then things started to get fuzzy and the. particular presidents of the presidents you see from egypt. basically question through an extension of that you months and. so basically that given the the military council that time and space to the way things. used violence etc so. you have a you has has been a bit of a buy and it hasn't really stepped up so the plate as much as it perhaps journalist jason particularly in the with the latest on the situation there and for unfortunate developments to report to not change thank you full membership in the

european union and nato and peace with russia that's what ukraine's new president will be as alinsky would like and he took his wish list with him on his 1st official visit abroad today his destination brussels. held talks with european commission president john told you he also met with nato chief children back during his election campaigns and he pledged to bring peace to eastern ukraine but he offered no concrete plans on how to do that around $13000.00 people would be killed in fighting between government troops and russian backed separatists in eastern ukraine so when he spoke with reporters today at nato headquarters in brussels take a listen strategic course of ukraine to achieve full fledged membership in the e.u. and need to we just secure in there because to do over ukraine remains unchanged. this is their prey your e.g. of our foreign policy ukraine's progress towards high you're pm living in security

standards is the demand of the ukraine society. our let's get more now on that mr zelinsky visit to do then i'm joined by our correspondent teri schultz she is covering the story for us tonight in brussels good evening to you gerry you know when mr zelinsky was running for office he was very careful not to allow himself to be called a pro e.u. candidate or pro nato candidate and now he goes to brussels saying i need you give me this how did that go down in brussels well i think there was a lot of skepticism initially when zelinsky ran and won because as you say he wasn't your typical politician. especially not your typical ukrainian politician of the latter days where they are very pro e.u. and very pro nato but he was very tactically smart in making brussels his 1st trip abroad in the office and that was very well received and i've spoken to

a lot of people about how zelinsky is building his administration whether he can be taken seriously and everyone i've spoken with including today says he's surrounding himself with a lot of very smart people and he is really taking the job incredibly seriously people are quite impressed with him and that includes his performance today here in brussels he's made it clear that his main objective is to bring an end to the ward eastern ukraine and he needs the e.u. and nato to do that can they deliver what he needs and is there an effort heights there for them to step up their involvement. well what he really needs brant is the kremlin to decide it wants to end the war in eastern ukraine the european union has had heavy sanctions on russia now for years starting with the other station of crimea in 2014 and they've added to those constantly along with the united states nato has stepped up its help with more than 40000000 euros worth of trust funds helping ukraine reform its internal structures helping build a better military for self-defense and yet the war in ukraine goes on it's

a hot war and people seem to forget that as you mentioned 13000 people dead you can get as much pressure as you want from brussels until moscow stops funding the separatist stops putting heavy weaponry and on bus that war is not going to end so i would expect he'll get some encouraging statements from brussels but they can't stop the weapons they can't stop the shooting you would have been interesting if his 1st trip abroad had been to moscow instead of all that would have shocked a lot of people ukraine pursuing raise some eyebrows raised a lot of eyebrows i agree you know him pursuing this western path is not going to go down well in moscow or our leaders worried about blow back from russia if they encouraged forging closer ties with the. i think those are days gone by ukraine already has what's called a deep and comprehensive trade agreement with the european union they are very

close to nato they are on the path to nato membership and so i don't think there's going to be any big change in in the way moscow would react to brussels to the e.u. or nato support for kiev that that's now considered normal but what president putin did do is that right after the lenski was elected he thought he would test the new president and he announced that all residents of don bus of in eastern ukraine could get russian passports and he thought that would rattle president selenski what selenski did was say you know i think we'll offer ukrainian passports to russians because with a russian passport you can get arrested for holding demonstrations you can never have your free rights guaranteed so will one of you president putin and give those suffering russians passports and i'm told that that really upsets upset the kremlin so it is does alinsky well to have a good sense of humor and it seems so it's a bode well for his presidency president putin seems to be rattled by him right teri schultz in brussels tonight terry thank you well after

a short break i'll be back to take you through the day for now we want to leave you with a reminder of our top story remembering the massacre on tiananmen square 30 years ago although when mainland china the crackdown has been erased from history in hong kong memories are being kept alive we have images for you of the vigil in hong kong's victoria park. the.

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