the the news this is the w news live from berlin, remembering china's massacre as pro democracy demonstrations in tianomarsh square. chinese troops opened fire on their own people who were calling for reform 32 years ago. today. we will speak with one of the leaders of the student movement from the time on and also coming, i know we want to remember and then that's the, that's the one thing the communist party afraid the most. remember,

that interview is coming up at hundreds of thousands of volcano evacuated, meantime in the democratic republic of congo. return hope that many still face a daunting future as their homes have been wiped away. many are now asking why they weren't given more warning. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. today marks the anniversary of beijing's 1989 t enemy square massacre. commemorations are banned when social media users are even reporting that the candle emoji khan may not be used today. for several weeks leading up to the june, 4th 1989 date, the square had become a focal point for protest against economic hardship and corruption. students also gather to demand democratic rights and freedoms. from the communist government,

by june, 4th, chinese leaders sent in troop to crush demonstration. footage of a loan protest are standing in front of a line of tanks that you're seeing here has become one of the most enduring symbols of the violence. no one knows exactly how many people were killed on june. 4th, 1989. some say hundreds, others thousands. where kite she is. one of the leaders of the student pro democracy movement in china from 1989 and he joins me now from taiwan. where he currently lives, welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us. you are a survivor of the master cur that the chinese government seems to want to race from the memory of its citizens. how does that make you feel? well, i'm a well being a survivor itself. you have to carry the guilt. but then also the fact that i

cannot commemorate we cannot go back, go to hong kong. we cannot go to hong kong people, but they're holding visual for many, many years. cannot commemorate also shows the fragility of the chinese communists reaching it is a day of come admiration for the young who sacrificed their lives, preventing people from doing just this commemoration. as is an inhumane commemoration. remembrance is one of the most humble force of resistance. chinese calmness region also knows that. so there the logic for the chinese calmness region lay there. they know we want to remember and then that's them. that's the one thing the communist party afraid the most,

remember is absolutely and take us back if you will, to those moments of the days of the early summer of 1989, you were 21 back then. what kind of change did you want to see? will be a political reform was promised by tiniest region by them shopping to chinese people. we were simply demanding, they fulfilled their promises. but in china, even in 198910 years after that shocking, they were l. a. re open their reform. still, it is a very, very suppressed regina suppressed society. taking the st. aging is not an easy thing to, to, it's not the there they are very, there are dangers, but i think the students in aging across the city and then across the country have demonstrated a strong determination that we want the political reform once we were

promised. and then their response from the government at the beginning was like police, but talents and then a fake dialogue that they own. a dialogue to, to, to government organize the student, organize a organizations, members to have them. so we escalate the movement into hunger strike. we get the support from all over the country all over the world, but we could not move the emperor in who lives in the, i mean, he called himself the general secretary. so they answered us at the end with bloodshed later known to the world as june, 4th, masika. absolutely, and i mean, it was a massacre that shocked the world. indeed. and i'm wondering what, what your thinking was back that, i mean, did you suspect, you know, as you were going through the hunger strike? so you were demonstrating that the chinese government would indeed crackdown so

hard and send in tanks and literally run down the protesters. we never thought that the chinese government would actually mobilize standing troops against peaceful demonstrators, as it's part of the part time the communist parties. propaganda is that they are the peoples government and in the standing army, people's liberation army is people's army. it's a single for any chinese citizen in 1989 before the 24th before the night of june, 4th, to imagine chinese reaching open fire to its own people. this is certainly didn't occur to us. we thought ok, i've been going to suppress the movement, probably using the police baton and, and come out of the square using real. i mean, nation and then roll over people, protest or on us, on the street with, you know, tanks and military people,

movers and that is just shocked all of us. i think do you just said he shot the world? yes. we also certainly shoved a 1000000000 chinese and you had to flee china. we understand after the 989 massacre you, you haven't seen your family since reflect this commitment that you have what was worth the decades of sacrifice that followed. well, if you, if you ask me, is it worth it? i don't know how to, how to calculate it, but what i can answer you in the different angle that i don't regret what i did, we didn't do anything wrong. the price we pay was high. so high, we don't know how to really calculate it worth it. but we also know the, what we did in gentlemen inspired, people do follow around the world,

especially in your country in germany. a basically leads to the peaceful ending of the people's demonstration in the, at that time, east germany and then eventually lead to the renew, falling off the burning was really cation of germany. the impact of $989.00 student movement is huge to the world. unfortunately, just not to china. we're katie. we thank you so much for joining us here on d. w. news. one of the leaders of the offer see movement in china in 1989. we appreciate it. my pleasure. and on this 32nd anniversary, police in hong kong have arrested an activist who is essential to remembering the massacre. chow hung tongue you see here with the pink mask usually leads a math digital on this day for the t n. a been victims. hong kong authorities have

banned the commemoration for a 2nd year in a row. it was the last place on chinese soil where people gathered to remember the blood bath. sri lanka is struggling to contain the environmental damage from a wrecked cargo ship which has been leaking hazardous waste into the ocean. the express pearl is stuck off shore near the capital colombo, where it partially sank, following a day's long fire sri lanka, plans to see the ship's operator. though it says that the real cost may be incalculable. india has dispatched vessels to help the clean up and prepare for a possible oil spell. the ghostly rec, and still smoldering, now sunk into the sea floor, attempts to turn the vessel to deep water failed. it may have to be broken apart in its place. the ship's operator says most of the fuel and toxic cargo burnt in the blaze, but authorities are readying for another wave of waste. if there is an oil

spill, we have different methods of dealing with it. depending on the weather, conditions of one year, we are ready to face all possibility. the 1st option is we can lay a boom around the ship. i'm happy we are ready with that. if that's not possible, we can drop oil dispersed from the air, you know, even at sun beach is a long sure lank is western coastline have been coded by billions of plastic pellets. similar scenes could come to other nations shorelines, as currents carry the waste across the indian ocean. environmentalists describe the other lead substances as a chemical soup and we found the number of very hazardous chemicals more than 8 to contain. and so this chemicals that they include. sodium, metal oxide, and copper sleggs lead in gods and nitric acid,

and lot of plastics and also the books if things fishing has been banned, a long large stretches of the shoreline can coastline fishermen fear for their health and their livelihoods. normally they have told us sufficiently 15 kilometers away. we went and put out net not 25 kilometer away. even though it was that far when we went to check out. next in the morning, we didn't catch a single fish. not even a baby face, but we don't in the singapore flag to vessel was only 4 months old when it caught fire in late may the navy says the 12 day blaze was likely caused by the chemical ca, the captain and some crew members have been barred. from leaving shore lanka, i made a criminal investigation into the country, the worst maritime environmental disaster. now, nearly 2 weeks ago, africa is most active. volcano erupted in the eastern democratic republic of congo

. the city of goma was flooded with lava and thousands of locals were forced to flee the area. now people are slowly beginning to return to the area, looking for what remains of the homes and their livelihoods. she w correspondent, mary miller is in the city to meet with some of those who have been affected. the masika house was lost, everything. her house where she lived with her children, and her family business. the entire life she had carefully built up over the years, consumed by flames in a matter of seconds, was so good. we decided to flee, hoping that lava would not affect our house. but on sunday, when it came back, everything was gone and we were left with nothing. she had no time to take any belongings with her. now she's living with friends, but could only take 2 of her 10 children, the others i was neighbors. one here,

one, human one. okay, i'm going a little, it's making me very sad, but there's nothing i can do about it. like my see get over. 4000 people have lost their homes and the entire livelihood. some of them contract at friends, houses, or in nearby towns, but now the dependent humanitarian assistance in order to survive me. why was there no warning for goma? about 2000000 people live in the area. the director of the coma volcano observatory says the world bank did not renew the funding for the work with no funds they were unable to monitor the volcano properly. in october, the internet was cut off that caused problems. we have stations that 150 kilometers away, but then we didn't have enough fuel to get there. but because you know, from when the internet is working, the observatory receives data from sensors on the volcano every 4 minutes for 7

months. that was not the case that everyone knew that we didn't have the means that we worked with difficulties. but some local knowledge is say, there were a clear signs that the okay no, could erupt in the next few years. civil society activists say the nameless, squarely with the government, and the good mobile can observatory itself. no $74.00 or visit if they were corrupted. if they didn't spend money or for j founded by would bank the we could prevent the dead. my dad right now, my father who is responsible, all she cares about is trying to rebuild her life. when i 1st thing in the was there is nowhere else. i can go. there's only one goma. there's only here for me to stay with my children yet. don't know what the one like my figure, the people of coma lives under the shadow of one of the world's most dangerous

volcanoes. they can only hope the city will be better prepared by the next time it arrives. and with that, you're up to date on the news. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thanks for watching the news . ah, what people have to say to me. that's why you listen to their stories reporter every weekend on d w. i.