northern lights life within the arctic circle starts december 21st on w. . this is day to believe news live from birds in britain is set to become the 1st european country to begin vaccinating its population against kind of its 19th in a matter of hours the u.k. is due to start giving the 1st shots of the corona virus vaccine developed by by on take 5 parts of running high that this will mark the beginning of the end of the pandemic. meanwhile the threat of a no deal breaks out from the u.k.

and european union looms great have been but still no sign of a breakthrough after another day of trying talks with time running out before the final deadline. and the show must go on circus performers in belgium have come up with an innovative way to do lot's full audiences even in times of pending. american howard welcome britain is just hours away from rolling out its coronavirus vaccination program giving the 1st shots of the vaccine developed by biotech pfizer to the elderly and health care workers it's being told very day in britain at the top that the vaccine will mock the beginning of the end of the pandemic. this is a moment the whole world's been waiting for. the u.k.

is the festival out of the bio when tech finds a 1000 vaccine it's a momentous moment for a population with the highest death toll in europe and off is a window of hope for the future. very very sadly lost many residents of those care homes who died from kobe had been a hugely challenging and difficult year and all the time this promise and this hope of a vaccine has been so it's very exciting to the point where feels like that we might be able to make a really positive step or with the help of the box in. the u.k. health service is calling this the biggest immunization program in its history 1st in line for the vaccine will be people over 80 as well as care home staff and frontline health care workers but this rollout poses major logistical challenges this vaccine needs to be stored at around minus 70 degrees celsius and move carefully meaning in england it will at 1st only be administered from 50 specific

hospital hubs but. for the majority of the public here vaccinations at sites like this hospital a still away all the 1st 30 is in the u.k. the messaging surrounding the start of this rollout could not be more important after all approving the vaccine is one thing actually encouraging people to take it is quite another. is the 1st in the wall to water rise the vaccine the u.k. is dependent on public trust and enthusiasm isn't universal risk is what the long term effects break ranks i would take it. because it benefits outweigh the risks seems sensible thing to do and it's the only way we're going to get out of the pandemic i think is very very fast i was come out. and say. and survive see here. thank

you for your facebook uptake of the vaccine will be key to success and all storage fees are being advised to find creative ways to address public concern and tackle misinformation there's some speculation the queen may even reveal she's had the vaccine to be confidence it is extremely important that these people get the vaccine so we need to find a way how to communicate it to them and how to isolate them from these damaging examples of misinformation that they sing on social media and i think it is the role that it helps provide its role for the community leaders to actually go out and try to explain to them what they seeing as social media is actually not always the truth. the eyes of the world are on the u.k. this week with governments keen to see not just how it tackles the logistical challenges but how it sells this vaccine to a public being asked to keep pace with science. well time is running

out meanwhile to make a post briggs a trade deal reality and avoid a cross channel economic chaos there's still no sign of a breakthrough after another day of talks british prime minister bars johnson is now set to travel to brussels to try and strike a last minute deal the european union's schafer negotiated michel barnier however is downbeat about the chances of an agreement saying key sticking points for my. european leaders locked in disagreement with the u.k. over the final terms of a trade deal not so different from last december besides the cold would save seating arrangement chief negotiators shot me show from the e.u. side and david frost of the u.k. remain divided after a day of talks on monday. later in the day you commission president was aloof on the lions spoke at length on the phone to u.k. prime minister boris johnson but to no avail conditions were not there for an

agreement they both said they plan to meet in person in the coming days. just a few sticking points have kept the sides from striking a deal one is the so-called level playing field that is rules governing business competition. a 2nd sticking point is more visceral who gets the fish france has threatened to veto any agreement that doesn't grant e.u. fishing boats generous access to british waters. the u.k. formally left the european union in january of this year but agreed to it here to the blocks trade rules until a new deal could be forged after nearly a year of talks that hasn't happened and the deadline is less than 4 weeks away negotiators are gloomy and so are many on the streets of london but if it seems crazy i mean 2016 we. 4 years later i don't think i'd want to progress at all to be honest with you somehow this what we do we bear we that's all

you say feels like it's been buried in the public to know about this and what's going on it is buried among the pandemic virus that needs to come up to 70 i'm not worried about it but we need to get something she'll get out. if talks fail the u.k. would be left without a trade deal this could cost both sides hundreds of thousands of jobs and disrupt trade for years to come. both have an interest in striking in agreement they just don't have much time just feel ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. in new zealand an inquiry into last year's cross church must attack found that security services had not focused enough on the threat from right wing terror the 800 page report said spy. agencies had placed an inappropriate focused on islamic extremism before the attack but stopped short of saying authorities could have prevented

a massacre. u.s. president elect joe biden will nominate retired general lloyd austin to be his secretary of defense that according to a number of us maybe reports austin would be the 1st african-american to lead the pentagon after a 41 year career austin is now on the board of raytheon on of america's biggest weapons for. but counting in ghana has begun after the presidential and parliamentary elections with results expected by wednesday it's said to be a top race between incumbent khufu i do and his longtime rival john muhammad ghana is considered one of the most politically stable countries in africa but the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the country into economic crisis. bob dylan's entire catalogue of songs has been bought up by universal music for an undisclosed sum the deal covers the rights to 600 songs composed of a 6 decades thing clued times they are changing knockin on heaven's door and like

a rolling stone report said the deal was struck directly with dylan. in new york city where all public schools were shut down last month due to a rise in corona virus cases some prekindergarten and elementary schools reopened on monday i've 150 schools in new york allowed children back into classrooms with hand sanitizing temperature checks and other measures in place. school buses are back in the big apple some 190000 children are returning to the classroom this week as long as their parents give their ok. kids need to bring written consent allowing them to be given frequent coronavirus tests the plan is to test 20 percent of students each week city officials think this and other measures will keep the kids and their families safe despite the city's high infection rates

really don't want to come to school because of. the pandemic or whatever so yeah they just go it will just make the best situation like having a process to enter a school for everyone as a working parent it's very hard when my kids are not in school you know when he's not in school after work from home and he's home makes things very difficult so i you know i'd always err on the side of try to open school as much as possible but obviously you know considering all the safety and everything. the mayor bill de blasio had earlier announced that schools would remain closed if a threshold of 3 percent of positive coronavirus tests in the city is surpassed currently the rate is almost double that hovering above 5 percent. but the mayor scrapped this benchmark citing new research showing that few transmissions appear to occur among young children nonetheless reopening the nation's largest public

school system in the midst of a sharp spike remains a gamble. the united states just saw the deadliest week of the kovac 1000 pandemic since april with 15000 death and health officials are warning that worst weeks may lie ahead. without substantial mitigation the middle of january can be a really dark time for us. most other big city districts are sticking to online teaching for now but they are watching to see how this reopening goes to decide if they'll follow the risky path laid by new york city. i spoke earlier with correspondent carolina chinmoy in our washington bureau about how the big school districts in the u.s. for viewing new york's latest reopening. well some of the other states are waiting

to see how this testing process in new york goes but most of the states around the u.s. are teaching over google classrooms and the classes action is really has been a surprise but it is not completely new we have to remember in the summer we could already see that 1st washington d.c. announced its schools would start the year 2021 closed then los angeles and san diego the chicago and new york city it was the only big city school system in the country that said it would probably open for her some classes this fall so i am one of the states that for example is specially struggling now with more than 5 percent of the population tested positive and over $19000.00 deaths is california and to l.a. los angeles there the campuses already said that they are going to shut down completely and they are beginning the classes earliest next year.

to support now and help and i have one in the bundesliga for the 1st time in the building 31 at home it was 11 at half time but florian grille it's a school that is 2nd that the kind of classic finish on 46 minutes the game was soon as a contest when the last people struck as hoffenheim moved above into 10th place on the table. breakdancing will be included in the program for the 2024 paracel lympics breaking as many like to call it will my kids to be at the games with the international olympics committee president thomas bach keen for the games to appeal to a younger audience however some breakdancer unhappy with its designation as a sport and think that being part of the olympics will make it a valley commercial. but will leave you with some luck in the time that from belgium. the band because the pandemic some artists in the capital brussels have

found a way to organize spontaneous performances. a curtain raiser of a different kind in the belgian capital brussels circus performers are adapting to the times with restrictions making a regular circus visit impossible these artists bringing the stage to the street. that night. on the other side of the glass there is no applause no atmosphere for the g.a.o. to feed off but it's still a welcome change. in what we can really see their faces or get their reactions but while the window blocks out some of the noise there is still a bond that is created. yet at the yankee sick a. just like performers bar staff have also been starved of patrons. shouted in the book it's heartwarming just to open the café to have an activity see

the smiles on the faces of people outside it's the best thing that has happened to us recently. for the most part a charity has been helping performers make ends meet although pos is by also encouraged to make donations so that circus in the city might help make that curtain call worthwhile. through watching day deviling coming up after a short break out the film portrait of you shall both and that he defied beijing rebecca british will be back with you with more news at the top of the oh. hi neal and i'm game did you know that 70000000. killed worldwide but it's not just the animals of all suffering it's the karma if you want to know how one flick of the priests and how much has changed us as anything to listen to our podcast on.

the people came from everywhere to tell us they are killing students down there and afterwards we will finish this quit was cool and don't mind beyond me. i thought i destroyed a rifle a simulation massive funds and i smashed it to bits. half

past. 2 i know that i was lucky to survive the spring events in beijing while others died in the massacre. mazes and voyager since then i feel a sense of responsibility or is here with us because not only are they dead but the government won't face up to what happened in tiananmen square for. these images of the last that we filmed of you shall bull the discreet meeting as always to avoid police surveillance an hour of conversation in a beijing suburb the same year that the city hosted the olympic games. you

shall bow in 2008 was the most eminent of the chinese dissidents one of the heroes of tiananmen square it was he who stood up to the beijing regime he who protected the students. this is the story of the man who defied beijing a few weeks after this meeting his life would be changed once more the chinese regime would make him disappear for good. for the con man with whom we shared tea was not content in the year 2008 to recount his memories of the beijing spring time in great secrecy with hundreds of intellectuals he drew up the charter 8 which demanded the democratization of china a text that was to make him once again the regime's enemy number one a text that would earn him universal recognition. 1010 when he won the nobel peace prize you shall bow was languishing in

a chinese prison. in oslo the prize was officially awarded to an empty chair. it is time to let this chair this silent nobel prize speak. we crossed several continents to find those closest to him his fellow travelers and the places that marked his journey. a journey through recent chinese history a journey of courage and trace a journey that beijing does all it can to eradicate from on memory. i it was in beijing in the middle of the 80s that you shall make his 1st public appearance. in the 1980 s.

were a period of incredible freedom for the chinese as they turned the page on maoism. the country began to open up to the world and saw what a modern world had to offer. on the campus of the prestigious normal university in the capital you shall bowl was a young chinese man doing literally research. his colleagues knew about his frank nature but for his american translator perry link it was a convention in 1906 that the young intellectual 1st became more strident. there was a conference in beijing to celebrate 10 years of the new period so called chinese literature. to show that we improved so much and smart a dog and it was

a good idea and a good conference but it was held or was one of the young participants there and that's the 1st place in which he sort of threw fire bombs or you to mine and i remember one of my colleagues was at that conference when he returned he told me a dark horse has appeared on. you and your imitating his typical stammering about a code he described shall bow tie provided critique such as both contemporary chinese literature and old culture are nothing but a pile of garbage to you later people have now seen god do new have made him quite well known to most and in 197088 don't 89 you shall be a star now if you show a true verdict when you went to speak at university they fought to attend so you couldn't get into the amphitheaters trade dollar going to.

war you hire this at the start my thinking was very simple you could hope to be capable of becoming an authentic person someone worthy over there somewhere they don't but inside a political system like the one in china if you're an intellectual you're going to have to express your own ideas you have to write essays and conflict with the government is just inevitable. by $986.00 you showboat would become a star if the chinese intellectuals seen a young man with notoriously radical opinions on afraid to challenge official doc trains and establishment. he was born in 1905 in chiang children in the cold industrial northeast of china on . the borders of russia north korea and mongolia. you show both father

was a professor of literature and an ardent communist but that didn't protect his family jaring mao's cultural revolution in 1966. the great helmsmen is now was no wanted to clean the table with his red guards and they did so often violently. teaches including you shall both father had become the enemies of the people now closed all the schools in the country. you shall bow is only 11 years old and suddenly found himself with little to do he was too young to be a red guard like his elder brothers. so he spent his time devouring books.

it was then while i was still young i read a great many books especially french literature for example zola as. they were walking fop zola's roll is an open intellectual in france had a profound influence on intellectuals in china. he didn't just write literary works start a little so of society and its happenings. up in the 100 still today zola's influences felt among china's intellectual scene. for the. 1976 but the death of mao the cultural revolution came to an end a year later the chinese universities reopened their doors you shall bow enrolled in chiang children university eager to gain all the knowledge and learn. thing that had been denied him. 25 years old and with

a freshly urns degree he left his home for the capital. i have. now had. thank god freedom was in the air in the late eighties beijing the countryside where you shall bow had grown up looks nothing like this in the center of the capital the new international library was a magnet for us a place where they formulated their hopes and dreams for the future my you shall bow finished his doctrines thesis on the aesthetic and freedom of humankind and freedom he championed among chinese intellectuals he was 33 and eager to discover the west his literature had not reached his youth how in the summer of 1908 the

same year the 1st american fast food outlet came to beijing you shall both left china. that. he moved on to us live but this early contact with the west soon turned sour he was bored to death and angry with the sign ologists whom he called usurpers . in the autumn of 1988 he wound up in new york andrew mason the deacon of chinese studies at the prestigious university of columbia offered him a post that as visiting lecturer i don't think the university at that level or the . coach much less the u.s. government or anybody had any plans for the sky was just that somebody asked me to invite him and he was curious and wanted to come over tomorrow. many

young chinese intellectuals were living in new york in early 1989 including the young guy way way now world renowned for his contemporary art. but also the poet. who had come to new york some months earlier and agreed to put up you shall be. in my are part of every night in new york have so many chinese does that. so we always can see each other you also have the all you my ranting apartment living room. this small community of chinese intellectual ex-pats lived in the queens district of new york . you show was fascinated by the city's bookshops museums and galleries. in march he visited the metropolitan museum of art one of the most important

museums in the world situated close to central park. he himself has written about going to the metropolitan museum of new york seeing these wonderful huge paintings and starting to really feel almost in an existential sense that human life is incomplete including western life we still have to measure china against these international standards but my 2nd task is i have to have a critical attitude toward the standard itself the west is not a model it's a bag of it's own problems. where you shall bow was in new york who yaobang the former secretary general of the chinese communist party died of a heart attack in beijing on the 15th of april 989. hujan bang

had been the architect of china's re-emergence in the eighty's he had been forced to resign 2 years earlier pushed out by the more conservative elements of the regime. the universities were suddenly inundated with posters put up in homage to the father of reform. small groups of students gathered and some of them converged on tianna main square towards the end of the day. 2 days later on the evening of the 17th of april was a new assembly was organized on the square this time there were nearly $3000.00 students and they presented an initial list of demands the these range from the reinstatement of bangs vision of democracy and the fight against corruption to the end of censorship was was was was was was that was 7 that

was that was 7 was. in new york you shall both full of the events from the apartment of who paying the eldest of a small group of exiled chinese dissidents. right tyson wheatley you shall bow very soon understood that this was the start of a great movement towards democracy and so we decided on a joint publication of both open letters and declarations of our points of view my guitar at that time things were very different from today there was no internet most people in china did not even have a telephone them so we had to fax our declarations to beijing on our friends in beijing took them and posted them all over the city including the university on the famous triangle of democracy or junket we were told that our text had raised a lot of interest and then the wind with her. words. on the 22nd of april during who yelled banks official funeral the students once

more descended on tiananmen square i the party leaders gathered in the great hall of the people started to worry. so i do so the chair in the meantime you shall bow became a leader in the eyes of chinese intellectuals. he knew that if he didn't soon return to china he would exclude himself use and lose that status. so you want his political ambitions motivated this decision to vote for this and say yes and it should not oriel if you all come back maybe that time is the most him on the moment that maybe can change happen. so. only him say ok you can buy started by thinker now. me and the hopi we're both a little bit a worry if we advance which hand there may be tensions.

even though the chinese regime had sharpened their toe on the 27th of april $989.00 tens of thousands of students set out from their campus to march on tiananmen square and. you shall both literally plunged into the movement which had begun 10 days earlier and continued to grow he spent several days and even nights in tiananmen square at beijing's heart close to the seat of chinese power. the literary critic embraced his role as a political activist where he was part of a huge historic change but it was a movement initiated and conducted by inexperience students and the professor felt compelled to office structure sharp criticism and guidance. it was one of the most important advisor to the night the $89.00 student movement and

we were looking for guidance we were looking for teachers and he took to the gas on tannins where the students had begun a hunger strike eclipsing the historic visit by soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. the leadership of the chinese communist party was tuned between partisans of the strong arm and those who favored negotiation. the decision fell to the aged leader dating shell thing he declared martial law and mobilized the army. the reformist leader of the party recognize the danger was near he went to the square to plead with the students were there isn't right despite the tears of the

general secretary of the party the hardliners won the square was to be emptied and divided later. you shall both saw that danger was imminent and with 3 others started a hunger strike to demands nonviolence both from the students and also from the army which was already stationed around the city. to them but they are generation really wanted to show that we were turning our backs on the communist party through the marxist leninist parties in power and especially the chinese communist party and proclaiming their power grows out of the barrel of a gun and that they backed violent struggle in marcus's nonviolence. it was for us a way of expressing a total breakdown from party ideology and switch engine. during

the evening of the 3rd of june 1909 the people's liberation army advanced to the city the massacre began at each pockets of resistance. people in the street were riddled with bullets glass. they were shot down in the universities. tiananmen square in the heart of beijing was the army's final go it was to be completely empty by morning. the students were divided into 2 camps some sort of peace the more radical members wanted to stay instead down the i'll make. it a song. i asked the students who were on the monument to come down and i collected

a few friends to help me we had to avoid violence i wanted to talk to the students about avoiding violence thought you know conflict crucial will also see you try and you take things and their. kids all responsibility he will go he will carry a white flag or walk to the soldiers or shooting. goshi that's that's who he is. he believes his own responsibility. after we negotiated with the army we returned to the middle of the squares up to ask the students to draw back. in the end the last scene that i remember just before dawn the students had all gradually lead. the square towards the southeast through the opening left by the army.

when the force of june joel and tiananmen square was a devastated battlefield which according to witnesses and even great economics he was avoided thanks to professor you and his come rates. although it went down in history as the tiana mans land mass the killing happened all over the city also in neighborhoods where students took refuge. shelves rang out for several more days on the streets of beijing. family searched for their loved ones today the figures the still impossible to know several hundreds of thousands died. the

next day the 5th of june 1809 tanks patrolled tiananmen square and a lone figure became the symbol of the chinese people's resistance to a dictatorship with blood on its hands. the regime was searching for leaders of the movement as did one today just this is my television. many viewers. i had no intention of following. i was arrested on june 6th 2 days after the

massacre. i arrested me as i arrived home on my bicycle. i was halfway there when i saw a minibus suddenly arriving several men sprang out of it. teach to my bike. they blindfolded me they ganged to me. then they threw me into their car. while he was in the reeducation camps he had lots of free time that you that you need his 1st experience of prison allowed him time to think about his past experiences and to reflect on the future of china. he also took advantage of that time to read some remarkable works. it's well known that for many political prisoners prison experience is really like a new university in the sense that was leo shabbos case for years.

but his 1st prison sentence also marked a turning point in you shall both personal life while he was still a student he had married. in 1902 the couple had a son aged 6 in 1909. after 6 months in jail his wife filed for divorce. would never again see his son who later left with his mother to live in the united states. on account of how did you go it was a reasonable choice with a child to be brought up with as for me looking back i said to myself that i wasn't up to the challenge. that you're with your the world with my personal choices made things quite difficult for them and i still think their forgiveness.

sure how they go beyond are comedian his friends noted the changes in his personality they are though they too showed the emotional scars of the 4th of june you know we all do me included he was full of remorse and seemed haunted by the ghosts of the victims of channa meant square 9 do it from a veil or it's a serious the trigger give them a call so for the dead to try to do them historical justice i thought it was best to stay here to keep the ghosts a company. that was the main reason that i stayed in china through true to. form the end you shall bow was released from prison in 1991 china was changing around him aging leader danger shouting who had had the students shows retired after having gone straight forms with the slogan to get rich is glorious. jenkins' them in and a generation of leaders from shanghai decided that china should shake up the

economy major projects rang up everywhere in the country opened up to foreign business. you shall bow was no longer the bleeding heart intellectual of the 80s he had lost his post at the university and he no longer had the right to publish in china. with his friend the poet he oh he knew he looked for a new role among beijing's intellectuals. will me has our specialty at that time with you shall board with petitions we love petitions he why he never stopped writing political petitions which were often more or less about the tiananmen square massacre and check the time there were no computers everything had to be sent by fax you another you may get no time so there are often not all that many signatures on the petition so why vigil obviously i never knew it . jackley how many use condoms but many are not there were not enough to stop us

from being systematically arrested the following day. genes are coming. so you shall both found himself implicated in a host of disputes in the ninety's his activism won him several periods of detention or reeducation. in 1995 he was arrested while preparing a new petition to recognize the tiananmen square massacre another 6 months deprivation of freedom. in 1906 he was sent to a reeducation camp for 3 years in the north of china. it was in the canteen of the camp that he married you shot an artist in poet who shared his ideal of freedom. while he was serving his sentence the chinese regime gave him a proposition president clinton was to visit beijing you shall bow and his wife

could leave china immediately with the american president. to job it was 1998 we went to see him in prison did you actually thought the authorities told him he could leave. or replied well i'm not going to feel if you had sentenced me to 8 or 10 years in prison yeah maybe i would have chosen to leave this case and you know they only gave me 3 years that would be out next year i mean able so i choose to stay knowledgeable. past the you shall bow was released in 1909 later in 2001 the international olympic committee approved beijing's bid to host the 2000 dates a lympics games passed her china was about to belong to the w t o the big cities discovered well for this race the development strengths. and you shall both convictions. in july 2001 he created the chinese branch

of the most important international association of writers the pen club which defends freedom of speech all over the world. at that time life was much better than it had been under mounted don't you or even during the 80s. but what about social progress the overall system a man's life is not just about money and. was then a fashionable young intellectual just as you shell bored being in the 80s he made the risky decision to join the pen club. you shall bow also hope to make the pen club a platform to help us study and apply democracy to our lives it was all for example our management committee had 11 members and met on the internet once a month to debate many questions we know much more they were slipping involved with

this writer's club he also wanted to show the new literature resulting from the tiananmen square massacre and he wanted to promote a new group of writers without any chance for truth he saw them in the footsteps of soldier and it's a huge one of those x. soviet union writers under the yoke of the communist party who resisted from within the shadows. he thought it was the same thing that you had to keep fighting show the reality soley by the testimony he thought that this witness literature was fundamental because of how soon to go to see young. you shall bow paid the price for his activism government agents in plain clothes but not exactly in conspicuous now camped outside his home his telephone was tapped his internet connection was filtered. in his beijing apartment. he was now living under house arrest. the older sure i'm completely controlled my telephone my

computer etc are others in there how they follow me all the time and they're that good and nowadays it's not like it was in the ninety's in the ninety's when they followed you they hid themselves so that we didn't see them if you turned around suddenly you could catch them trying to hide. but today they do it openly. they want you to know that you're being followed your the law sometimes even if they are right beside me you could almost have a conversation with them we all got it. on the 8th of august 2008 beijing seemed stronger than ever. the city had become the center of the world was beijing and subject to the world protests

the indian pace would be the crowning glory less than those who are. was. you shall bow took what advantage he could from the olympics that he met foreign journalists and more and more regularly he organized discreet meetings on the streets of the old city university professors and even officials more or less close to the party to be found that. the usual had a new project based on the model of charter 77 drafted by votes now for the last president of czechoslovakia. or do it also of a music hall and to anybody and on the whole i remember that at that time we always met in a restaurant to talk it had to be a friend's rest. because we couldn't discuss anything on the internet or on the

phone so we always invited friends to join us and that restaurant would hobble you if i remember correctly we must have met a good dozen times to have dinner we invited different people each time one time it would be academics the next it would be writers and then lawyers do it what ya they all came to discuss charter 8 with us paul and then you might have. 2 weeks of intense and secret debates among the intellectuals they drafted the new chancellor 19 spanning from the independence of justice to freedom of speech and religion. is a professor of economy at beijing university he took part in these intense debates but felt that you shall be taxed wasn't radical enough. personally i'm not so for you agree with his points but at the time i think everybody should have some

compromise and then a query on that because this version is very peaceful that's no. very strong words when there is no measuring subversion of the government or anything like that so i don't think the people who signed this would have the very serious resolves. text received $303.00 sigma shiz officials manages of state tend to prizes university heads it was an unexpected success the charity was to be published on the 10th of december 2008 international human rights day but the old thirty's called wind of the plans you shall bow and several other signatories like you were arrested 48 hours before publication i mean you couldn't if you wrote an article by your own fireside it didn't worry them. but if several 100 people met together to sign it that terrified them. to go up when with charter

8 leo szabo showed that he was not just an intellectual dissident each show that he was also capable of organizing a movement and mustering opposition forces and including inside the heart is your system for calm the younger you go joe the abbot. arrested on the 8th of december you shall bow was arbitrarily detained for several months before his trial in december 2009 before intermediary court number one in beijing. the trial was held on camera. the dissidents friends were kept at a distance by police who had cordoned off the courthouse. i think it is just 2 days later on the 25th of december 2009 you shall bow was sentenced to 11 years in prison for subversion of state power. the date has not chosen by chance

beijing hopes that on christmas day foreign media and diplomats would be less likely to gather at the tribunals. alone in front of his judges you shall bow read along declaration freedom of expression is not a crime he said. he repeated what he had said in tiananmen square i have no enemies his principle of nonviolence. 2 weeks later in the course of oslo the letter reached the nobel price committee it was signed by a bus of harvard it suggested that the nobel prize should be awarded to the imprisoned chinese dissident. intellectuals from all over the world joined in this a paid. on the 8th of october 2010 the norwegian nobel committee announced its

choice. you shall bow didn't know that he had won the nobel prize he remained in his cell in the north of china while the foreign media crowded around the residence of his wife a new shot in beijing. many of his friends wrote and new wave of optimism. i think one party dictatorship the end it was in 10 years i'm very optimistic about the whole thing for the world i want to believe that this optimism didn't last long . the gates closes yet again in just a few hours you shah was under house arrest heard you don't want. your heart i don't any invited him over you on the day of the nobel prize presentation it was mid day in beijing to talk to you and i came knocking at my door to talk to 2 policemen rushed at me and put a black sack over my head so how many young you your family tortured me in several

ways 3 that lasted 8 or 9 hours until dark and i fell into a coma he would do. now they took me to the hospital because i think the higher ups had not given an order to kill me just to make sure i was tortured for not someone . in this video by the chinese penitentiary administration we can see visiting the. that is how she told him about the nobel prize that is how she learned that he was ill gravely ill with liver cancer the propaganda video was supposed to demonstrate that he was being well cared for he was shown being examined by several doctors even while his health deteriorated. faced with international pressure the regime allowed foreign doctors to visit his bedside but it was all a sham and it was too late. if you shall both died on the 13th of july 2017 after

9 years of prison in. your heart or soul which our lives are. the international community preferred to keep its eyes closed doors i told you all the countries are mainly concerned with maintaining good trade relations with china in 2 fronts a whole world dreamed of one things making money dealing with the chinese market it's true there is no interest in democracy or even human rights watch says you and some mandela the whole world mobilized to. censor and you shall call it was a sordid murder in front of the whole world who says yeah it was a death before the eyes of the entire world and nobody cared about changing so. the chinese regime organized a well orchestrated funeral. the whole of you shall both family was summoned by the authorities. official propaganda tried to control both the image and the legacy of

the nobel prize winner. the regime ordered that his ashes should be scattered at sea to avoid having a place to memorialize the view shall bow. in china you shall bows name is censored when internet users began referring to an empty chair the term was also a sense that. in 2008 the last time we met him you shall bow knew what lay ahead a few weeks later he would disappear imprisoned until he died he left us these last words to understand his freedom. awards. i think that i made the right. voices. of course the consequences are important for me but in any

case that's how we live in china there is a price to pay for from their feet if you don't choose my sort of life a life that most people consider to be too hard and too risky then you won't pay the price that i pay for and they all fall but if you're one who thinks you still have to pay a price a certain price and it's a call for example you'll be obliged to lie you have to follow the dominant ideology to obtain and maintain a good income a good job. were impossible then to be concerned about the deaths of the 4th of june impossible to make the slightest criticism of the government impossible in fact to express the tiniest authentic opinion on a given all that for won't save it as a very for a materially comfortable life. well i prefer to pay the high price of danger rather than become someone who lives a lie rather than become someone who disowns his own conscience. for for for their

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