this is the wall that chen guangcheng scaled. to make his way to freedom. s brother told us chen waited until his guards went to get water to make a run for it. guangcheng had only ten seconds to do it. it was a desperate act after years of imprisonment and abuse. now, chen has freedom and a new life in new york with his wife and children. but the rest of his family still faces an uncertain future. holly williams, sky news, for cbs news. china. >>> we'll take a quick break. up next on a thursday morning, your weather forecast. in sports, 27 came to bat and 27 failed to reach base. that's pitching perfection by matt cain. a giant accomplishment. is gone. but what about your wrinkles. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it has the fastest retinol formula available. it's clinically proven to visibly reduce wrinkles in just one week. "why wait if you don't have to." rapid wrinkle repair. neutrogena®. recommended most by dermatologists. >> hi, i'm snuggle. look, i get towels fluffy... blankets cuddly... and clothes stay fresh... [sniffs] for 14 days. and i cost les

chen guangcheng escaped house arrest in april. we went to dongshigu to find out what happened to the family he left behind. chen's older brother met with us at a secret location nearby. he told us police tortured him to discover how chen managed to escape. "they handcuffed me and tied me to a chair," he said. "then they chained my legs together and began to beat me around the head." they removed my own leather belt, looped it together and then hit me with that as well. he said they also beat his wife and when his son tried to defend himself with a knife he told us police t police arrested him and charged him with attempted murder. we waited until night fall when the guards were off duty to try again to get inside dongshigu village and meet chen's elderly mother. she's 78 years old. she told us she's been targeted for years, ever since her son spoke out about how the local government forced women to undergo abortions as part of china's one-child policy. "the men follow me wherever i go," she said. "three or four of them at a time. s

the recent media spotlight on blind activist chen guangcheng who fled house arrest last month has brought greater scrutiny of china's human rights issues. >> translator: i feel the chinese communist party is also tightening its control over the people of hong kong. we have to strongly oppose this. >> the government has been cracking down on pro democracy activists as it prepares to reshuffle the bureau standing committee this fall. >>> delegates from the international atomic energy agency will resume talks friday with representatives of iran. the head of the nuclear watchdog says he hopes to restart an investigation of the country's suspected weapons program. iaea director general yukiya amano spoke monday at the agency's board meeting in vienna. >> i wish to inform the board that a meeting between iran and the agency has been scheduled for june 8th in vienna. i invite iran to sign and implement it as soon as possible and provide early access to the site. >> the iaea suspects iran has been developing nuclear weapons at the parchin military complex. the country's leaders have refused to al

are you going to remain -- as you know, it chen guangcheng as with china. >> i am still chinese.ant to solve the problem here. >> despite the difficulties you face every day? >> yes, those difficulties sometimes are variable, but still, it gives some meaning to be here. those typical these are not only to me, but also to a lot of people here. >> ai weiwei the, and that is all for this week. >> funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. union bank. and shell. >> at shell, we believe the world needs a broader mix of energy is. that is why we're supplying cleaner-burning natural gas to generate electricity. and it is also why, with our partner in brazil, shell is producing ethanol, a by a fuel made from renewable sugar cane. led to broaden the world's energy mix. let's go. >> "bbc newsnight" was presented by kcet los angeles.

chen guangcheng urged the u.s. to try harder today on protecting human rights in china.the blind activist sparked a diplomatic confrontation when he escaped house arrest in china last month and briefly took refuge at the u.s. embassy. he was allowed to leave china two weeks ago, to study in new york, where he held a news conference today. >> ( translated ): what i'm most concerned about is also the most important question is the state of law in china. it's still very much being trampled on. and more specifically, after i left my home in shandong, the local authorities there have been retaliating against my family in a frenzied way. >> holman: chen said he hopes china's central government will keep a promise to investigate the local authorities who imprisoned him. the first privately built spacecraft to reach the international space station ended its historic mission today. the unmanned space "x" dragon capsule parachuted across the pacific ocean sky to a splashdown point-- 500 miles off mexico's baja california. it had spent nine days in space. nasa plans to rely on priv

the media spotlight on chen guangcheng has increased scrutiny. communist party officials are preparing for a change of leadership this fall and the government has been cracking down on pro-democracy activists. >> i feel the chinese communist party is also tightening its control over the people of hong kong. we have to strongly oppose this. >> about 600 young people joined a candlelight vigil in taipei. university students organized the event. they showed a film of the crackdown and participants prayed for the victims. one of the people who led the protests in beijing spoke about the importance of the democratic movement. kaishi now lives in taiwan. they hope chinese authorities understand how taiwanese see human rights. >> translator: i want many young people in taiwan to remember this incident. we want the chinese to know that we take this matter seriously. >> reporter: chinese and taiwanese officials are working to strengthen economic ties. they remain far apart on issues such as democracy and human ghts >>> obal leaders are concerned about the

. >>> human rights activist chen guangcheng says china should obey its own laws and bring the government official who imprisoned him to justice. the blind activist escaped house arrest in april. he sought protection at the u.s. embassy in beijing. then last month, chinese authorities allowed him to leave for new york. he said the treatment he and his family received was unforgivable. he said china's problem is not a lack of laws but failure to follow them. he called on the country to develop its own path to democratic rule. >> translator: china should model its own democracy on asian countries like south korea and japan. >> chen said the chinese government has never before allowed someone like him to study in the u.s. he added that he has no intention of seeking asylum. chen will study u.s. and international law while in new york. he plans to write a book about his experiences. >>> many questions remain about the 1989 military crackdown in beijing's tiananmen square. people can't agree on how many died or how many were wounded. and it's not clear who was responsible for ordering troops t

. >>> human rights activist chen guangcheng has urged china to learn from eastern democracies like japan or south korea and establish its own style of democracy. the blind activist escaped house arrest in the chinese province of shandong in april and sought protection at the u.s. embassy in beijing. he left for new york on may 19th. cheng delivered his first formal speech in the united states on thursday. >> translator: china should model its own democracy on asian countries like south korea and japan. >> chen said it is unprecedented for the chinese government to allow him to study in the u.s. he added that ion of seeking asylum. he says the treatment he received was unforgivle. while studying at new york university he plans to write a book detailing his thoughts and experiences. >>> the 1989 chinese military crackdown on tiananmen square protesters left many people dead or wounded. relatives of the victims have demanded the government review the incident before the 23rd anniversary. on june 4th 1989 the military fired on students and other democracy demonstrators who had gathered in be

we don't have that anymore with chen guangcheng. were there possibilities, he could be in china communicating to the outside world or in new york, communicating with china through the internet. this is an important point. because the media needs to understand this. we were getting calls saying when we brought chen out of the embassy saying what did you, the u.s. government, do to protect chen and the answer is, we got him to a place where the internet will protect chen. so you better stop thinking about it in the old terms. this is not about governments alone anymore. this is about public/private networks and the fact of the matter is, that we were talking to china about how their own vision of the rule of law, including granting passports, et cetera, would allow him to have a solution where his human rights was consistent with chinese rule of lawi shows that it was no longer a sub zero game. >>> you looked like you had something to say. >> i want to go back to the question of tools. >> yes. >> the traditional 1980s human rights too

today in new york, chen guangcheng did something he could never do back home-- speak freely. speaking in mandarin, chen says that he believes china will become more democratic, but he accused the communist leaders there of being lawless. chen arrived in the u.s. two weeks ago. he said he still fears for family members that he left behind. chen's new hometown was the scene today of a debate over a different kind of freedom-- it's freedom to buy giant-sized sugary drinks. new york mayor michael bloomberg is proposing a ban on the sale of soft drinks larger than 16 ounces. it was bloomberg who got cigarettes banned in all buildings, including bars and offices. the mayor explained his latest crusade to michelle miller today. >> every study shows that you will eat a very big proportion of whatever is put in front of you, and if you have to make a conscious effort to go to another cup, you're less likely to do it. >> reporter: mayor bloomberg has waged the most aggressive anti- obesity campaign in the nation, in an effort to cinch the waistlines of new yorkers. >> obesity is killing

publicly hanged on a light post most recently there was the case of the blind chinese dissident chen guangcheng he escaped house arrest in his village and sought refuge at the u.s. embassy in beijing he left after six days and was later allowed to go to new york with his wife and two children. so how long will drilling the songs remain inside the ecuador embassy and will he be given safe passage to ecuador for coverage on the ground in london or to correspondent laura smith joins us now to give us an update on the situation thanks so much for joining us laura could you give us an update on what's going on right now. well in the building behind me which is the ecuadorian embassy here in london julian assange which is in there somewhere to be fooled by the sort of luxury nature of the building i'm sure it's very nice inside but the ecuadorian embassy itself is very small so the ecuadorian ambassador's unlikely said what julian assange has to stay for any length of time having said that we haven't seen any decision made today he is in a tricky situation really as long as he remains inside the ecua

chen guangcheng. but even over there now when they're pulling up the posters, they've shortened it to cgc which looks like kfc. it looks like they're promoting fried chicken. [laughter] so anyway, i thought as, i thought i had best keep the names of the characters, you know, memorable to a western ear, and so i named the president of china president fa, and then the evil head of the secret police was minister lo. and as i added characters, it occurred to me that all of their names were variations on do re mi, fa. i think at one point i actually had a character named tofu. [laughter] so this was a bit of a challenge. a couple of riffs about sun xiu. there are a lot of sun xiu quotes, and they are included at no extra charge. [laughter] i came across a fascinating term, actually, in a book by henry kissinger who for his book on china chose a slightly less frisky title than mine. if you're henry kissinger, you can just call your book "on china." [laughter] you know, they'll buy it. i have to sort of danc

things, how china is run, the pollution, which is horrible, and local offenses -- for example, chen guangcheng protesting against, there's a broad recognition over the last 30 years things are better for most people because the growth has been so substantial and the country feels proud in that way. if that's not the case anymore, if inflation through land bubbles making it harder for urban people to rent place affection food inflation is going up-- which it is-- and people feel stuck, suddenly the whole legitimacy of the system is much more in question than it's been over the last 30 years. that's why i think more than the specific growth rate, the overall sense of making people feel the system's working for most chinese people is really important. >> rose: wage levels are going up? >> wage levels are going up, and that's a good thing, rather than a bad thing. it's a sign of people who are prospering going from $100 a month to $200 a month. >> rose: does that mean manufacturing is going to go somewhere where wage levels are lower? >> it will go inland in china as opposed to vietnam or indonear