tavis: where is home for andrew ballen? >> home is china. my full humanity and certainly, i think, the flower of what i hope and believe is any intellectual potential. the welcome that i've received here, what i have seen and learned about family and the ability to make the society flourish are things that i have learned in china and i think it is fair to say this feels like home to me. tavis: faith. china. china, faith. is that oxymoronic? are there people of faith? do people in china have a faith or is it just about hard work and family? >> that's a good question. every different sector, creed, they all exist here. i think that you would be surprised. you walk into a church in china, they are jam-packed and i worship, it shocked me. it is a beautiful thing to see. don't necessarily believe the hype here. i also think that in china, there is a more pragmatic faith. it is a more tangible faith that doesn't really fit nicely in the western paradigm but the faith is in family. and i know that -- i'm not trying to say in the west we don't have

following picture instead of the usual programming every channels broadcasting tchaikovsky's famous ballen. which i turned the t.v. on to check the latest news and i was so surprised to see swan lake everywhere i was switching the t.v. channels for a long time thinking maybe there was something wrong with my t.v. set. at the same time as the ballet broadcast more than seven hundred tanks and on the personnel carriers being stationed in the streets the plotters were in the criminal. meanwhile moscow so-called white house was at the center of civil resistance at the time it housed the russian parliament where the people's deputies met in session. it was past seven in the morning when the security chief came to my place. to work when i opened the door it's old me i had better go to the white house right away. as far as i could tell there was a coup going on in the country that's how i learned about it or you would decide to take a roundabout route instead of going straight to this building. where. the coup was led by top brass and high ranking communist officials they had expected to get supp