the discovery of the world around you subscribed to the w document, re on youtube the you're watching the w news. asia, hong kong government has banned the city's annual remembrance marking when chinese soldiers shot down students around china and square in 1989. residents worry this is yet another attempt to reshape and rewrite this. these traditions and history for pro democrats the state, the hi actually going to be yawns as the, remember, as cameron, as also goes to the heart of what, hong kong, where we still have the fight. i try to know whether we us. so this is where we are,

please bring them by our actions, and we take a closer look at hong kong, last opposition, media outlets and his chances of survival in a more authoritarian climate. the news i melissa chan, thanks for joining us for 30 years. the only place in china where you could commemorate the 1989 chairman square, student movement and killings was in hong kong. but this year and last officials have banned the vigil in yet another move to curtail civil liberties in the territory. for several weeks leading up to june, 4th square had become a focal point for protests against economic hardship and corruption. students also gathered to demand democratic rights and freedoms from the communist government. but as the crisis continued,

chinese leader is decided to send in troops to crush the demonstration. footage of one alone man standing in front of a line of tanks has become one of the most enduring symbols of the crack down. no one knows exactly how many people were killed, some say 100 other thousands, many of the 1400000000 people in china today, especially those under 30 years old, raised by propaganda and patriotic education, has no idea. all this happened. it has been up to hong kong to preserve the memory of the event and prevent beijing's complete me writing or rather erasure of history . but those who choose to do so now face danger. for over 3 decades, a sea of town delight in hong kong has kept the events of 989 to live the cities annual vigil, a symbol of defiance. i'm thinkable on mainland china. but now even handing out

candles is heavily policed. weeks ahead of the 32nd anniversary, the organization, hong kong alliance, headed by child hang term began promoting the annual commemoration. it will be the 1st and staging, impose the national security more here. people are even more supported our se, but the support as last expressive is actually gone beyond just the remembrance on time. and it also goes to the heart of what hong kong, where do we still have a fight? try to know whether we are still assisting. we are, we can still to serve our pre freedom by our own action. also we share, that's great. the people who are already arrest custody. but their hands a largely tied police have banned the vigils for the 2nd year in a row, citing coven safety restrictions. although other mass gatherings like concerts and football matches have presumed just 2 days before the anniversary,

the alliances june, 4th museum. i'm museum commemorating the events of 989 was closed down due to a licensing investigation by the authorities. many of the organisations leading members are in jail for protesting, including chairman lee chuck yan. we spoke to the veteran activists shortly before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. we are in the dark this. we are like in a tunnel, but if everyone still come up with a candle that this is through that we are looking for. i believe in the people who call we listen truth. make sure that the hong kong people know that we never give up. even though maybe we have to go to jail for the alliance or child hang tongue, it is not just about commemorating the protests of $989.00, but about being able to defense, to be able to call for an end to one party rule. but democracy protests and now

labeled as the version by aging, it could be a reason to outlaw the activism and the alliance itself. we are not. so i think there's no question that's the government one to replicate. it's not insisting on some slogan awesome from principle. the risk is what we are doing. sincerely fighting for the end of one talk dictatorship, there will always be that it can be why, by the right quantity. i wondered whether this happened soon or a long way away. it depends on how hot recent recess right work is that the alliance is june. 4th, museum have begun preserving the piano and square exhibits in digital format. if china continues to close down all avenues of physical protest in hong kong, moving historical evidence to an online museum may end up being one of the last remaining ways of showing resistance. joining us this glacier quang hong kong activist in exile here in germany. glacier, when you can't commemorate it,

becomes an attack on historical memory. how much do you think paging is trying not just to raise channel completely, but to rewrite hong kong recent history. i shine holes trying a great bass to actually rewrite hong kong katie of especially about what's happening in the past 2 years. for example, recently a lot of documentaries and news program made by the government funded broadcast service issues, which is known as independence and critical assessment of what happened in the movement. what is the government doing to move in general? and he's documented and neutral, comes up, being taken down from on why. and there are actually not a philosophy civic. i've been trying to rewritten what happened during a movement through issuing press statements or saying that whatever the products are claiming they're actually interact. so i do see a pattern of hong kong government replicating what aging has been doing for 32

years, trying to rescue the cover at what actually happens in the what do you think they will succeed with this? or will we see interesting ways people will try to fight back a bit? i do not think they can succeed at home. government would succeed because hong kong are known to be very creative when it comes to a kind of white terror or destructive tends to shift, for example. and hong kong are, is, are looking into the possibility of building an archive and all of this new show rooms that i just talked about, that will be taken down. and there are people trying to use technology like rock chain to actually archive what actually happens. so that it cannot be temporary or changed by the government. and even if all of these means fail, we always have a memory, like the struggle of man against power is a struggle is memory and forgetful. and i think we are so determined to remember all of the, remember what actually happened, then they and hong kong are making us obviously passing on the trees. and so going

back to this 10 and then vigil, it becomes connected to the greater hong kong protest movement. we've seen the last few years. tell us a little bit about that glacier. i was actually personally not very involved in virgil in victoria park. i was usually part of others, are happening in different places of hong kong because when i was younger, i cannot convince myself to buy into the concept of building a democratic china because that feel but and these 2 year 2019 the june 4. if virtual is actually one of the most peaceful and most so called lawful assembly, that will have as a form of resistance. but now this very peaceful review was bad and was not allowed in the name of corona, but we all know it's being electrical. and so if we do not defend the rights for people assembly than either rooms for and the staff also tied, he would be taking away from me as well. so it's been very important and for

a few years. so i did attend the virtual last year in victoria, eventually. now this conversation about history and memory brings up the issue of the role of the media. and they say that journalism is the 1st rough draft of history. now we see opposition newspaper apple daily under attack. i want us to take a look at this report and then i want to get back to you with a follow up question. apple daily a tabloid newspaper that has taken on an efficacy role in the fight for hong kong democracy. as paging titans, it's creep on the cities, freedom, many star fear their future is now hanging by a thread. keeping up spirits a challenge for the editor in chief. lie you found a lie? i said, i feel is still here, even if our found human lie was arrested. so if i'm arrested, we should continue to do journalism. it will be a big news story. like apple daily,

already made headlines last year, when found a jimmy light was arrested from his office on challenges related to the 2900 pro democracy protests. he was sentenced to altogether 28 months of jail. he may, authorities, froze his assets under the ter, theresa national security law, and other blow to the media company. at the same time, the local government says it's working on the legislation to take what it calls this information, hatred, and life. the series of events led to widespread beliefs that the apple daily will soon face a ban. many into pro democracy camp fear they will loose home council, last opposition paper, li monument all oh gosh. you might have assumed that we will be shut down. that the government will find trouble with us. but as i discussed with my colleague as editor in chief, i cannot take these political elements or rumors into accountable apparitions. all

the toilet poles are they all locked in dot com or le. but opperation have become increasingly difficult. reporters with our borders ranks home comes press freedom at 18 out of 180, a free fall over the past decade. despite shrinking media freedom, the newsroom vows to, as it puts it, report news as usual, from business as usual. glacier, if apple daily ceased to exist, what would that mean for hong kong? in terms of that 1st rough draft of history, it would be addressed as a blow to the freedom of depression, hong kong, as a whole day to cease to exist or offer it because apple daily was known to be hong kong. so my credit tap lie is one of the most so called media that is so supportive

of democratic movement in hong kong. i'm one of the very little media that is doing his job as a journalist that are independent and not inclined to the government. and it would be definitely the test case of the test at the freedom in hong kong right now. and as a whole daily shut down to greg down on that that would be that would be very strong . that the freedom of the past hong kong has really sees that for now, there are still room for media to report on criticism on the government and poland under national has been increasingly difficult. but the blow to apple daily's operation would definitely say, know the death of glacier kwan. thank you so much for joining us. that's it for today, we leave you with another look at archive footage of the crackdown by the chinese military on june. 4th 1989. thank you for watching and goodbye.

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my young to yeah. are see the best of all starts next month and already it's a huge cause for celebration in the film industry after last year's festival was cancelled due to the pandemic. can count, wait, that was the message. as festival directs is announced this year's cinematic line up another step towards returning the film industry to its pre coven glamour acre. we've proven that cinema is not dead haul extraordinary and triumphant return of audiences to cinemas and france and around the world was the 1st good news. we hope the can festival will be the 2nd good news on seen him up before the pandemic, the vessel told in 40000 people a day this year, only about half that number is expected. the big difference this year is that you

can find a room home even so the festival is coming back with a bang and a program packed with big names. and d, w reporter mike creek. i've been following the scoops on this years. can film festival. mike, so let's talk about these big names. who are we talking about? you mentioned already if you but judy foster will be there, sean pan, will present his movie as a director home and he starts when they really when they are really coming and they all expect them to come. this will be a big party. another film of the competition is the french dispatch by with anderson and when that cost of that movie will arrive in july, you will have millions of big like friends, smith domino been murray or tilda swinton and so on and so on. here says so many stars has movies. absolutely. and the film was inspired by west end of the laugh,

to the same as magazine. the new yorker. it's a crazy story. very funny, very dramatic. and we've got a clip. the french dispatch, loud odyssey the voice of his rowdy generation from the naked cell block. how do i want to buy a house? yes, it is with us. yes. in short pitcher was a sensation. ah, so that's premier in the can film competition and a lot of people have been waiting to see that movie for over a year. now. mike, i can't wait for that, but some of the directors are really holding back that from us just to to wait and to show them in can trip out, for example, is a movie by 90 ball at drama, from italy, also the competition. and this is also very charming side of the con, some festival program, because it's always

a mix. they are trying to combine the really big names of the movies with the, on the dogs. so it's really a celebration of cinema. let's talk about how this is going to work in the midst of a pandemic. is this going to be a normal can, or how are they going to deal with the virus? the plan is that the audience will really see the movies in the cinema and everything is prepared for the visitors already. of course, they have to wear mosque and need to be tested negative and there will be test stations everywhere and opened the whole day. also everybody should be dressed up as usual and took seattle and go guns even in july when the sun is burning. so that's, that's one aspect that seems not to attract you about all of this. okay. one of the big controversies over the last years has been with netflix can won't show their movies or maybe netflix won't follow ken's rules. what's going on there? have they worked it out? no, no, netflix,

no netflix production and come come stick to the rule. and that films and the competitions must have a local cinema release and is not, they are not allowed for the competition despite ongoing conversations, but tween come and netflix they, i'm still not able to bridge the differences. so point, so those ethics movies are going to other festivals than i say, mainly, but the festival in can. this is what's the most trust again. and the announcement of the program is all about cinema and cinema is not that this is his message. ok? and cinema, not just streaming. thank you, mike krueger. well, reality can only be shown by constructing it. at least those are the words of german artist under the s gorski, the most expensive photographer in the world is digital manipulated photo self or millions of euros. and right now they also fill almost an entire floor at the museum of fine arts in life. take the city where he was born or

a double look back at the work of the past years and german history, angular medical and her 3 previous s as as german chancellor face a red screen. the cook, i'm merely from bonded looking at a painting by bonnet, newman, which actually hangs in the museum of modern art in new york is photographed it here. that's important. most people don't know it or know it from pictures, but he has a very sick surface that it's important that it's a real painting, not just a great warm, hey, power, water beaten. so charles for as photograph is cold reviews, as he likes to exit. mission is just a review. i look back at the world capitalist society and the artist, andrea gorski spent weeks putting together and organizing over 60 works from 35

years. each tiny detail is important in the pictures themselves and in the presentation. this time, especially because gorski was born in like sake. not too much tonight because this is called, sorry, emotional exhibiting here in leipzig for the 1st time because my father and grandfather both worked as photographers here and had the studios here. so we researched and discovered many new photos of these all my grandfathers and financially and saw them yesterday for the 1st time, my friend, his own house, these are the photos of the model. and so we come full circle because i also had to build things, design things all my life. so i had to smile when i discovered these photos. once in a photo of index. and greatest gorski was barely

a year old when his parents fled communist east germany for the west arriving and so doth, in $955.00. his father really gorski became and claimed advertising photographer. his son however, has no ambition to follow his footsteps. ah, say the 5th, would it be the last thing i would have imagined becoming a photographer? after graduating from high school, i did my civilian service. i still didn't know what to do professionally because i couldn't think of anything. in the end, i studied photographer in essence, and then at the door. so don't academy. the greatest gorski studied at the famous academy of hillary becker who became known for the photos of industrial architecture. even though people rarely appear in girls pictures, it's always about them. about the traces they leave behind in architecture

and in the landscape. mm hm. this patients must, it was night and we were talking and austin thought idle down the ground and there was a car approaching and the low beams and all of a sudden this image appeared. and although the images so abstract, you kind of still feel some think of a civilization me. gus k photograph tokyo from an express train then contains numerous photos into one st. louis treeless sea of houses, man and the reshaping of the world. buck skis, main theme. the self importance of this cruise ship monstrous and lifeless. gorski composes his pictures like a painter. he removes condenses straightens. it's not the seemingly authentic that interests him but reality. besides what is true, what is reality?

writer who writes in prose can also do pick the world, reproduce it, and you will never ask the question, what are you writing here? did you see it somewhere exactly like that? that system i could photograph right from the same position now. and it would look slightly different in the role. there is no one view the skis, overwhelming images of the traces of our existence only reveal their view of the world at 2nd glance to the bottom of the sea. now that's where british sculptor james de cares. taylor clears away trash and replaces it with art. his latest sculptures in the south of france weigh over 10 tons a piece. ah,

no cause for alarm. this museum is flooded on the underwater museum on the french riviera is now inviting visitors to dive into the collection ah, scope. jason, because tell you that spend more than 4 years creating his project, which is also intended to create new habitats for marine animals. and me tell you that has been creating thunderbolts, a scout to park around the globe for 15 years. the world's oceans already home to over a 1000 of his works, whose appearance changes over time. within a matter of hours, you can see the small changes starting to occur. you know, a week later you have

a film of green algae cover the whole piece. then you start to get sponges, you get carls forming fish will start to hide within the next and cranny and a lot of the textures and formations that that's the things that a human hand can ever produce. so detailed essays minute jason, because taylor has plans for many more underwater museums in the red sea for the polar regions. for example, the, you know, i hope working on the water is a way for us to, to look at our natural environment very, very differently. you know, it's, it's not something that we own or commodified, or resource the we can. so it's actually, you know, natural space this interconnected with everywhere on our planet and borders and, and delineations just don't matter. underwater.

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