[000:00:00;00] ah, [000:00:00;00] use this is the w news live from berlin, the police arrest the prominent hong kong activists on the anniversary of the shannon square massacre. chow hung turn is known for guessing thousands onto the street to remember the 989 of violence in beijing. we caught up with shortly before her arrest. also on the show,

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of beijing's 1989 chinaman square massacre in hong kong. authorities have banned the annual vidual for the victims for the 2nd year in a row. but several 100 people have still gathered near victoria part west. thousands usually attend the collaboration. police have warned pro democracy activists to disperse. earlier police arrested shall hang tongue, a prominent democracy activists involved in organizing the vigil. hello. a warning shot to would be protesters on the anniversary of the day. the demo hopes for democracy in china act to this gel hung, told arrested by playing clothes, police are less crime. promoting unauthorized as simply weeks ahead of the 32nd anniversary of chinaman square. the organization, hong kong alliance, led by joe, began promoting the commemoration chow at the time. eerily press kit is actually

going beyond just the remembrance on cameron and also go to the heart of what hong kong, where are we still have the fight? right. you know, hot weather, we are still missing. we are, we can still to serve our pre freedom by our own action authority seemed determined to stop people gathering police have been the vigil for the 2nd year in a row, citing toby safety restrictions. although other mass gatherings, including at amusement parks, have resumed. organize your c, hon. cons vigil as a symbol of freedom in the chinese territory. it's not just about commemorating the protest of 989 put about being able to just sit and to be able to call for an end to one party war. no question that the government wants to replicate. the risk is not insisting on some slogan awesome. from principle, the risk is what we are doing. sincerely fighting for the end of one party

dictatorships, and we will always do that with. joe was one of the few leaders, hong kong pro democracy movement. not all ready behind bars come in. her breast puts her constant battle activist under even more pressure. and we have team coverage of this story. phoebe kong is in hong kong and mathias spelling. i joined the from beijing. phoebe, you're close to where people traditionally gather for the now ban shannon square. been jewel. tell us what's happening around you right now. there's a now sending just me just the way a block right from the victoria park was traditionally hundreds of 1000 people gathered inside a path to commemorate the tenement massacre but this year with a band like by police. but like the lawyer enforcements has actually deployed several thousands offices to god every plays. recall now in hong kong,

just to salmon and kind of like commemoration. and just hours ago, police tries to disperse anyone, including a journalist and bystanders. like what the case on the top, we couldn't even say abigail off say that but now people are resorting to more innovative and more subtle ways to commemorate the anniversary that all the streets we have been people is switching on the lights, off the move out and holding those 2 more in the victims, also 10, 10 am and anniversaries and also some of them they play post outside the cock. so these are some of the ways that they want to saying the activism and also some of the churches are hold like private digital or even like commemoration service. putting the premises in some activists. they try to kind of fit food to distribute

can those to help or just to try this the same, you know, they're very challenging activism here on the ground, hong kong. but of course we have been receiving warning from the authorities throughout the day. they want people not to try to like challenge the red line. so we're seeing defiance courage. but he, the, we just saw a child hung tongue in our report that the organizer of the vigil and she was arrested earlier today. is that making people in hong kong, more fearful? what's how home? no, 37 year old lawyer has been one of the prominence activists and leave those off the child me, chinese human rights activism and also the local activism in hong kong for a long period of time. so her arrest on these very sensitive phase life which box the coast in china is actually perceives us

a warning sense by the authorities to the law christmas time. and also the general public as opposed to use are not tolerate things, tolerating any kind of like individual commemoration light even though will not allow anyone to define drawn by them but size. i haven't read it. heard every one in hong kong that a lot of people they want to all show that if i is the public to, to like simply that's how the thought is that they will not be like just because of these kind of fact. okay. mathias, if we can turn to you just paging, allow any acknowledgement at all or commemorate ition of the massacre on the mainland. no,

all. all come m ration of this day on the mainland band or public comment ration. the only thing people can do is to more privately or to remember privately, people have been trying every year. there are some people who try to do at least something. and for example, to post candles on social media. we are hearing from people that their accounts have been suspended because they have posted a candle there, there were some very direct phrases talking about the weight of history. for example, that have been censored. so social media is closely monitored and there is of course, no public whatsoever display of grief to day here in beijing, the people who are usually deal defiance, for example, the mothers of those students who have been killed. they have been on the

close surveillance. so there is no public display of these as one person told me here in china ones. this state, the 4th of june, does not exist in china. all right, let's see a spending in beijing, m. c become in hong kong. thank you so much. and let's take a look back at what happened on june 4th, 1989 on chinaman's square, several weeks leading up to that day. the square had become focal point for protests against economic hardship and corruption. students also gathered to demand and democratic rights and freedoms. from the communist government, by june for the chinese leaders sent in truth to crush the demonstrations. footage of a loan protest of standing in front of the line of time has become one of the most enduring symbols of the violence. no one knows exactly how many people were killed . some say hundreds, others say 1000 fulfilled. now were case,

she was one of the leaders of the student pro democracy movement in china on chinaman square. and today he lives in taiwan. earlier we asked him if people saw them africa coming back in 1809. nowhere, nobody could have seen that coming. chinese government has conducted a long time propaganda that the government, the communist government is the peoples government. and then disbanding troops of china. people liberation army is peoples army in 1989. i think nobody can anticipate that the real standing folks will using real ammunition shoot at the people protesters along letting 10 roll over them. so it came up, came as a major surprise, a major shock to every a 1000000000 chinese not germany is no senior catholic. clara has offered his

resignation to pope francis. germany's cardinal hud. mom says he must share responsibility for what he called the contest trophy of sexual abuse by members of the catholic church. in his remarks, he admitted to personal failures, as well as institutional and systemic failure. marx has been a leading voice in the call for church reforms. his resignation comes just weeks after the pope ordered a review of several of germany, sex abuse scandals within the church. initial investigations show, decades of cover up by the clergy, and not spoke a little early at a press conference. let's take a listen now to what he had to say. the old clock on the studio of this study was also looked at. this was a systematic discussion that promoted the abuse that has happened to the church over the last decade, couldn't be justified of what a 1st aid of you in the presentation of the study. i was also, has

a bishop resigned in view of this report, at least this visual look at it. and i had to answer nose and one night. but that was his date with me until to day. besides, that's can the one this developing story with religious affairs expert, john barrick. john, thanks for joining us. why did cotton marks resign and why now? well, he suggested his letter of resignation. it's an offer of resignation that still has to be accepted by the pope. it may not be that he suggests that he is disgusted with the systemic wrong in the church. he, it's almost a despairing turn, although he tries the effect that by talking about the possibility of the necessity for reform. i suppose people who are sympathetic towards him would argue that this is a very humble and

a very moving and appropriate gesture. he has his critics who would say just a minute in 2006 he himself is bishop trio, failed to investigate allegations of child abuse. that story broke only 2 months ago in the german media. and he is really under pressure about that. so it could be interpreted and is by his detractors as a very fruit move on his part to shift the responsibility from his personal feelings or that he does mention those in his brief tucked away in the, in the, in the letter he to the systemic problems. in the church and present himself as, as, as an odd and reformer. let's take a look at a quote from the cardinal's lesser to the pope. he rose. it is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by church officials over the past decades. my impression is that we are at a dead end,

which has the potential of becoming a turning point. john, how big of the deal is this? how and how important a figure is cardinal marks in the hierarchy of the, of the catholic church. but this is a bombshell for the catholic church and it's difficult for me if i try to analyze situation to understand his logic. he's, this is a man who spent his entire adult life as part of the system. he is not correct and i, i, i, it's not for me to judge his motives, but he's correct him saying that it's really at a, as a very, very serious crisis point. but is that the time to leave when one has been part of the system? it's very difficult for me to understand that how big this is for the catholic church as a whole one. it's one should realize that marx is not only a senior bishop in germany. he is president of the european catholic bishops conference and a member of the pope's in

a circle of advisors. so his really stern critics would say that this is a very fruit korean move on his pause. he hasn't offered to resign from those other senior posts. and if he resigned from the diocese, archdiocese of munich, it could put him into a position in fact, of, of even greater power in terms of the vatican. you use the word bombshell use the word crisis. would you say that the catholic church is now at a fundamental turning point and as a major crisis in germany and around the world? i would also, i put it in even wider context. just very briefly, i think what we are facing in american and european cultures generally as it is a crisis of faith as it were, not just in religion and the church, but in institutions of the whole. and we see there is in so many movements at the moment that we see social movements the moment there is a crisis of,