and france 24.com. >> it is 10:00 p.m. in different -- in the french capital. hong kong marks the 32nd anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre in beijing. hundreds gathered despite a ban on the vigil by authorities. easing summer travel restrictions, france will welcome vaccinated tourist from the ninth of june. a color-coded system will determine which visitors have to present a negative coping test and quarantine. quench, client -- the french telecom giant opens an

investigation to a technical failure that left millions without access to emergency services. several people died as a result. ♪ >> i am julia kim. the 32nd anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre. in 1999 tanks -- in 1989 tanks crushed pro-democracy protesters. for the first time, there were no protesters in victoria park. instead, hundreds gathered at the perimeter lighting candles and flashing their phones as gestures of remembrance. officials banned the visual --

the vigil for a second year citing covid. critics say this is another example of beijing quelling late -- let's take a listen to protesters. >>[speaking non-english language]. >> in the face of a political propaganda campaign and trying to wash off this part of memory and trying to protect their own altered reality. so, it is important that we remember this and not be illusioned by this regime. >> hong kong authorities have

arrested chow hang-tung, one of the organizers of the annual candlelight visit -- vigil. hong kong was not alone in remembering tiananmen square. protesters also held vigils in taiwan, sydney, and tokyo in a show of solidarity. >> current covid restrictions in taiwan banned gatherings of 10 or more people. members of civic groups in taipei did what they could to mark the events. they put out lights in the shape of the numbers 8964 represent the date of the massacre, the fourth of june, 1989. the activists said they were determined to mourn the victims. >> we will continue to commemate the incidents here in taiwan and call on the

communist party to take responsibility for what it did. >> there with the protest too in tokyo where people gather near the chinese embassy to say, let's defeat the chinese communist party and do not be silent, boycott beijing. a vigil was organized in sydney, one of several demonstrations in world cities. beijing has responded. it has told the united states to face up to its own human rights problems after washington said it would honor the sacrifices of those killed and continue to support chinese rights activists. >> ethnic cleansing, torture, gang rape. china is accused of atrocities against the uighur minorities. no international course that court is able to build a case

against it. a civilian yet uighur tribunal has been gathering evidence aiming at publishing a report in september that china is guilty of genocide. >> a tribunal led by lawyers and human rights experts in london to detmine wheer china is guilty of a genocide against the muslim minority. >> we have two hearings, when in june and what in september. >> while the tribunal has no state backing, participants are hoping to draw international attention. china has not held back in condemning the hearings. >>[speaking non-english language]. >> rights groups say that at

least one million weaker than other muslims have been detained in the xinjiang regi. china denies abuses have taken place and says its network of camps have offered reeducation and vocational training. the international criminal court announced in december it would not investigate, because china, as a nonmember, was outside of its jurisdiction. bean ball, the international court of justice cannot -- meanwhile, the international court of justice can only take a case approved by the un security council. the tbunal's launch mes a week ahead of the g7 summit in the u.k., to be joined by u.s. president joe biden, who has been urging western democracies to take a tougher line on china. >> the european union has banned belarus aircraft from flying over the block pulse -- the box airspace. that's the block -- a block's

airspace. roman protasevich appeared on a television station in numbers. his family says he was coerced into making a confession on tv. >> in an appearance on national television, roman protasevich praises the president of belarus and admits that trying to topple him by spearheading protests, a confession the leader of the opposition says was visibly made under duress. >> you should understand in what conditions these people are. they are for sure being tortured and violated. we should not believe any of the words of these people. >> it is the third time the dissident john list has made such an appearance since he was arrested after his flight to this weightier -- to lithuania

was forced to land. human rights campaigners say he was tortured. his parents have denounced the treatment of their son. >> he said those things because someone needed him to do it. it is obvious that the authorities needed to justify their own criminal actions. >> protests erted across belarus after president lukashenko claimed victory in the election last august. a crackdown follow, with opposition leaders and dissidents sent to prison or exile. belarus is on e agenda as g7 leaders meet friday while the eu is planning to introduce a flight bad against minsk in response to the forced plane diversion. new pushing co-claims his country acted on --ukashenko is accusing western countries of attempting to sabotage belarus. >> let's try to france where the

number of covid patients in intensive care has hit its lowest point this year with 2571 patients as the government prepares to ease border restrictions ahead of the summer. from the ninth of june, fully vaccated europeans will be able to travel to france without a covid test. how the most visited country in the world plans to welcome back tourists. >> francis introducing a system for international travel, similar to those already in place in several other countries, like u.k.. through the ninth of june -- from the ninth of june, each nation will be classified as either green, red, or orange. you member states, australia, new zealand, and japan are among those on the green list, indicating covid is not actively circulating in these country that's countries. the french government is strongly advising people not to

travel to places on the red list where cases are high and were variants are circulating. the orange list is for countries, including the u.k. in the u.s., which are not classified as either green or red. the new rules mean eu citizens who are fully vaccinated will be able to travel to france without having to take a covid test. but, passengers arriving on the u.k. and the united states will still have to show a negative test and self-isolate for a week upon arrival. the system comes after eu states agreed to open up travel across the dock by the end of june. -- to open up travel across the block by the end ojune. >> we are harmonizing the rules. in relation to the u.k., we are studying the indian variant in depth. you will need a compelling motive to travel to and fm there until the ninth of june. >> the lists are based on data

available from the second of june and will be updated regularly. >> once the center of the peahen -- the pandemic, new york has hit a vexing milestone. over half its own population has received first does. -- new york has hit a vaccine milestone. over half its population has received first does and infections have it at all-time low. >> we have seen a sharp drop here in new york city in the rate of covid-19 infections. it is at its lowest since the start of the pandemic. for the first time, this week, there was at least one day when zero deaths from covid-19 were reported in new york city due to the number of people getting vaccinated. more than half of all eligible new yorkers have now had the jab. >> there is a lot of reason to be optimistic. everyone is coming back. >> we have been here since the

worst of last year. it was really dire. to think that nobody died, today is amazing. i think everyon is feeling very relieved and grateful. there is energy in the city again. >> it feels great, helpful, and optimistic. but, if we drop our guard could all come back. >> mayor bill de blasio says new york city is coming back strong for the first time in 14 months. live music has returned to the city subway stations. >> this is a beautiful thing to see. it is not been this way in a while too, in the subway and hear this. it is a beautiful relaxing thing. new york is, little by little, getting back to normal. >> you can even get the vaccine at grand central station and you do not have to be a new yorker. it is available for tourists too. this girl traveled from mexico to get it. >> i roof -- i feel relieved now

because i get to go with my grandma and hug her. i am really grateful. >> with vaccination centers like this, new york city hopes to encoage those who have not yet got the jab to get it and to also entice tourists that to the big apple. -- back to the big apple. >> france's biggest telecom operator orange launched an internal inquiry into wednesday's network outage. millions of people were prevented from reaching emergency services including ambulances, police, or firefighters. prime minister jean castex confirms that several deaths may have been linked to the failure. >> this small town is still in shock. on wednesday, a panicked mother tried desperately to reach an ambulance to no avail. she eventually found an alternative number. by the time help arrived, it was

too late. her two-year-old child succumbed to cardiac arrest. >>[speaking french]. an official investigation has been opened. >>[speaking french]. >> at least four people's deaths have been linked to the breakdown, including this 67 year old man in reunion islands. his wife spent three hours trying to contact an ambulance. >>[speaking french].

>> according to telecoms company orangea technical failure caused the malfunction. si sites with servers distribute cls to dierent emergency numbers. on wednesday afternoon, their shirts off door broke down, leaving 20% of callers unable to get through. orange has opened an internal investigation. the government ordered its own inspection to understand precisely what happened. the prime minister promised the findings will be published with total transparency. >> researchers in the u.k. say cis -- sea ice in the arctic meltingwice as fast as previously thought. some ice may melt entirely by 2040. the study took into account the last 20 years of global warming. e rapid dating -- thinning of

the ice is thought to influence floods and heat waves. we are joined by catherine bennett from a business tax. thank you for joining us, catherine. u.s. released jobs data for may on friday. what does that tell us? >> it shows a labor market that is slowly but steadily coming back to life. last month, the u.s. economy created 559,000 jobs, a respectable figure after the back of the 278,000 jobs added in april. but, it is still below expectations. the unemployment rate fell from 6.1% to 5.8 percent. that was better than what was predicted. job creation was led by the services sector as restaurants, bars, and hospitality industries open. the u.s. were economy -- the u.s. >> we can now take a look at how

wall street reacted. investigators -- investors do not appear to disappointed. -- too disappointed. stocks were in positive territory until the close friday. the dow jones ended up up by half a percent. the s&p 500 was up almost 1%. the nasdaq 500 chalked up one and a half percent. that report is renewing confidence in u.s. economic comeback. moving to the tech sector, facebook has been hit by not one but two investigations at the same time. the uk's competition and markets authority and the european commission both announced probes into the company. they want to find out if the company uses data collected from users to compete with other people and businesses in the online classified ads sector. including people advertising on the company bought -- and the company some platform, pays --the company's own platform,

facebook marketplace. >> on iday, european regulators announced that the way facebook manipulates user data gives it an unfair head start over advertising rivals. they want to level the playing field. >> we have opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether facebook has violated competition rules by using advertising data gathered from advertisers in order to compete with them in the markets where facebook is active, such as classified ads. >> the investigation will assess whether facebook gathered information from its online marketplace to target customers more effectively and outcompete rivals. with mark zuckerberg's company shifting the focus to e-commerce, any impact on the marketplace would likely be bad for business. on friday, the uk's competition and markets authority also launched a similar probe investigating whether customers using facebook to log into other

sites help the company to mine data to use targeted ads and gain a competitive advantage. while both investigators will work dependently, they say they would cooperate. -- would work independently, they say they will cooperate. facebook says they will cooperate. the investigation could sult in charges against the tech giant. but, it is not given. regulators could impose penalties of up to 10% of the company's revenue, amounting to tens of billions of dollars. >> those investigations are not the only worry for facebook. finance ministers from the group of seven masons are at a summit in that the group of seven nations in london are at the summit. countries across the world that have had their economies ravaged by the pandemic are looking to corporate tax as a way of raising revenue. the u.s. has proposed a minimum global corporate tax rate of

15%, which could see some pushback from countries with lower tax rates. negotiations are also looking at how to crack down on profit shifting. that is a practice where multinationals can report their profit somewhere else that has a lower or even no tax rate. germany's finance minister gave an update on the talks this evening. >> they were very successful talks. we are making progress. i am confident we will get agreements today and tomorrow. we will be able to have a very cleamessage on global corporate taxation that we are discussing on the proposal t united states made to hold a minimum tax rate of 50% or more. we are discussing -- a 15% or more. we are going further that i think we would have >>.

it looks like they are very close to a deal there. we should hear more the end of tomorrow evening. it is time now for focus. for the second year running, hong kong authorities have banned the annual june 4 vigil in memory of the 1989 tiananmen square master. critics of the government saying it is trying to stifle criticism of beijing. hong kong's media has been feeling the chill too. national security law imposed last year has laid down redlines that many journalists are wary to cross. >> it is like something out of a dystopian novel. for several days, alex chad has immersed -- alex chan has immersed himself in a world where history is being erased. in april, hong kong's public broadcaster began deleting all its archives dating to before

2020. >> see, i am on the youtube page for the show hong kong connection. all reports related to the 2019 protest have been wiped. >> long admired for its editorial independence, rt hk is under new managementppointed by the government, actively reversing its journalists' work. hundreds of journalists are archiving content before it is of the 2019 protests alive.ments >> i have archived a total of 20 documentaries, 10 hours of content. i think it was important to archived them because they are historical evidence. i do not think anybody should be allowed to delete the truth. >> among the content deleted is

this documentary that recounts the slow reaction of the hong kong police what an armed mob with suspected triad links attack pro-democracy protesters and bystanders in july, 2019. the producer of the report was arrested for her role in the production. she was found guilty. it was the fir conviion of its kind in hong kong. the report has won her best documentary in hong kong's press freedom awards, which rt hk declined to accept. >> i am very proud to accept this award on behalf of the ogram hong kong connection. >> she says her conviction marked a turning point for press freedom in hong kong. >> the significance of this trial is a crackdown on press

freedom in hong kong. the situation will become worse and worse. >> authorities are tightening grip on the press and a large-scale population -- operation last august at the headquarters of apple daily, popular anti-beijing newspaper. the pape's owner was march 10, in front of staff. he is now in prison convicted of multiple offenses. these pictures were filmed by apple daily. journalists. >> there were at least 200 officers in the offices. >> he has been working at apple daily for three years. he hasn't gone existence are

themselves and the papers content has changed. -- he has seen colleagues censored themselves and the paper's content has changed. >> the news ll no longer have the same meaning. a journalist will self-centered -- since her. -- a journalist with self censor. the content is completely different. >> hong kong has seen a flowering of new media outlets in recent years. many of them are pro-democracy. they are entirely funded by readers. >> we are one of the 90 hong kong. >> standard news came to prominence thanks to its coverage of the 2019 protests. it is now a respected force in hong kong media and increasingly a target for the authorities. >> we all expect our company to be bad -- banned in the future.

maybe they will freeze our account. maybe they will say we are an illegal organization. maybe i will be put into jail because of what i have done or written in the past. >> press freedom in hong kong deteriorates year on year. in 10 years, the city has god that has gone -- has gone -- >> we are taking a short break, but there is more news next. stay tuned.

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