this is a report from beijing. >> at dawn, the flag was raised over tiananmen square, as it is every day. but on this anniversary, extra security forces, some with machine guns, were stationed around the square. >> why are you stopping me? >> we found citizens serving as plainclothes informants. as china revealed its authoritarian side. >> 25 years ago, tanks rolled into beijing's tiananmen square to suppress a weeklong student uprising that had spread across china. the communist government crackdown turned bloody. it is still not known how many died, estimates range from 200 to more than 1000. >> do you learn about tiananmen square in history class? >> no. not mentioned. >> these college students who we will not name acknowledged it is difficult to find information about what the government calls "the june 4 incident." >> we still don't know what happened. i think that is not cool. everyone in china -- we have a right to know the truth. so many years passed and we still don't know what happened. >> china is a very different place today than it was 25 years ago, wealthier, more powerf

you cannot type tiananmen square . you cannot type june 4.il yesterday, you cannot search the word "today tiana nmen." if you search that come it shows up all the memorial discussions. therefore, the authority has to ban the word "today." that is how sensitive this topic is 25 years later. >> does the government have reason -- are they right in believing that if they don't maintain this tight political repression, that their hold is so fragile that they will be overthrown and the party will lose control? >> that is their fear. >> is the fear well-founded? founded after the massacre. after that point, there is no to retreatieve -- from what they have done to the people. >> you just wrote a book, and we talked about it here on the program. reflect on how the government anded tiananmen square, with this economic liberalization, why aren't they more confident? >> the government is acutely self-conscious about what happened in 1989. officially what it says was that this was, in its own way, a tragic but necessary step on the path of china's econom

that's one of the roads that leads to tiananmen square about ten minutes away. e seen police up and down that road today, many more than usual. our cameramen went into the square itself earlier today to try to take pictures with a small consumer camera. he was stopped by police and asked to leave. it is certainly a sensitive anniversary. >> is anybody observing this anniversary at all? >> reporter: well, it depends on who you ask really. tonight in hong kong there's a vigil planned, upwards of 150,000 people are expected to attend, but here in mainland china, you don't hear much at all. we get cnn, we get bbc, but when a story about tiananmen square is about to come on, the censors do their thing, and the screen goes to black for the length of that report. we went to the newspaper stand and pulled up all the news. not a single mention of tiananmen square on this anniversary, anne-marie. >> very interesting. seth doane in beijing. thank you, seth. >>> straight ahead on "cbs "moneywatch,"" gm's surprising numbers despite the recall, and how newly minted billionaire

it's been 25 years since the tiananmen square crackdown. it's an anniversary chinese authorities would rather people forget. >>> the lead author of papers on an easy way to create cells that can be developed into any type of organ says she'll retract them. and business people in japan are turning to digital technology to update a time honored tradition. >>> security is tight in china's tiananmen square on the 25th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. hundreds of people were killed in the incident. chinese leaders aren't allowing any memorial events, and they're trying to muffle all criticism. nhk world has the story from beijing. >> reporter: tee rnman square is crowded with tourists, but many police officers are keeping watch over the scene. officials have installed metal detectors at all entrances to the square. the police are frisking people for weapons. these measures have been in place since at least tuesday, but on wednesday, security officials began searching everyone's bags, as well. they've also deployed mor

survivor's guilt. >> security is being stepped up in china as the country marks 25 years since the tiananmen square square protest, as many as 10,000 anti-communist demonstrators were arrested during the crack down, and who can forget the image of one protestor, standing up as tanks barrelled through the square. china never released an act of the crackdown. the numbers killed may befr be known -- never be known. some statement it could be several hundreds to thousands. correspondent adrian brown covered the event in 1989 and is back in beijing. >> reporter: this time, 25 years ago on this day, you could not enter tiananmen square as a journalist. 25 years on you can't. it's off limits to journalists. there's heavy security, armed police patrols. tourists are allowed in. they are being served. identity checked to make sure no journalists gets into the square. it's a reflection. official nervous innocence. amnesty international says more than 60 have been arrested during the past few weeks, including human rites lawyers, disdepartments, journalists, foreign reporters. a french tv team were held and i

that. >> china is marking the 25th anniversary of the military crackdown in canon men square -- tiananmen square" has nochina daily mention of that crackdown and they talk about domestic news, cyber security and even pandas but no coverage of tinanamen square. you have to turn to- -- tiananmen square. you have to turn to intellectual -- international press. although the youth to not know about this, this is an unhealed wound in the nation's psyche. despite the economic growth of the country, the discontent of the people cannot be sacrificed -- satisfied, and the government hasn't everything it can to erase this event from collective memory, locking up opponents and , proof thatg google the government is still very much concerned about the pro-democracy movement in china. >> let's go back to france where papers across the clinical spectrum lash out against the new territorial reform the together by president francois hollande. >> even the left-leaning paper is against this reform, calling it his house of cards, that is bound to collapse. this is a plan he raised out -- laid out yesterday, to simp

yo's husband was shot and killed near tiananmen square in 1989. she was being watched by police and could not leave her house. so we went to her. mrs. yo, it's seth no one came to the door, but five policemen showed up outside. we're just trying to interview mrs. yo? >> chinese security prevented us from speaking to a number of people for the story so we traveled to hong kong, beyond the reach of mainland police. >> no one really know how many people die. >> reporter: there we met lee, who founded a new museum about tiananmen. >> i hope one day my museum is in beijing. >> reporter: he was in beijing the night of the crackdown. he told us he thought the pro- democracy movement had momentum, but then the tanks rolled in. he remembered the gunfire and the fear when the lights went out. >> that's the darkest point of my life, when the whole tiananmen square light was switched off. >> reporter: when did you realize that there had indeed been this massacre? >> in the morning, actually, when the light come up. you can see body already being transport to

most vividly depicted by the loan student who confronted the advancing tanks in tiananmen square and the students who directed the statue of liberty in that square. these brave chinese students have demonstrated their profound respect for human rights, freedom of expression, workers and in aiscipline, nonviolent and peaceful manner. outoutrageous crime carried by a portion of the people's liberation army has disgusted and angered all decent people. accounts of the slaughter are still emerging. one particular description is that of soldiers killing young women fleeing for their lives appropriately sets forth the value that the state hater ship -- that this dictatorship places on human life. especially when political ideologues are in charge. i think it is incumbent on theress to condemn excessive and indiscriminate use of force by civil authorities and the people's republic of china against its own citizenry. our nations executive and legislative branches are united in calling for a swift resolution to the political crisis in china without any further violence. the chinese government m

. >> tonight on c-span, a discussion about china's prodem acy poe testers in tiananmen square to years ago today and then a look the obama administration deal with the taliban to secure the army sergeant bowe bergdahl.llion of the anniversary tiananmen crackdown, tens of thousands have gathered in hong candlelight vigil at the guardian newspaper reports presence haspolice prevented similar gatherings in mainland china where state censureship prohibits any the 198 protests. on monday, the council on hosted twoations discussions about the event at tiananmen square. includes theel national security advisor at the times"d "new york nicolas kristoff. h two hours and 15 minutes. >> good morning. and welcome to the council on symposium onions the 25th anniversary of tiananmen square. i'm richard haas, president of the council on foreign relations of i would like to thank all you for joining us on this glorious monday morning here in new york. we have two sessions from theperspectives u.s. and china on the events in 198.nmen square in june of first, to speak to america's perspective, brent. ad

republic of china, most vividly depicted by the lone student who confronted the advancing tanks in tiananmen square and by the students who erected the statue of liberty in that square. these brave chinese students and citizens have demonstrated their profound respect for human rights, for freedom of expression, for workers' rights in a disciplined, nonviolent, peaceful manner. the carnage carried out by a portion of the people's liberation army has disgusted and angered all decent people. accounts of the slaughter are emerging. one particular description, that of soldiers bayonetting young women who were pleading for the lives of for friends, appropriately sets forth the lue that this dictatorship places on human life. let no one doubt any more who when we arm with and trade with such a political system especially when ideologues are in charge. i think it's incumbent on the congress to focus attention on system especially when ideologues are in charge. i think it's incumbent on the and condemn the excessive, indiscriminate use of force bit civil authorities and by the military of the people's repu

next a generation that grew up in the shadow of tiananmen square.ot far from where i'm standing at the u.s. capitol, 50 years ago, the first american use him dedicated to african art opened its doors. a diplomat whoby started gathering pieces to display. the collection eventually became the national museum of african art. >> the traditional art of liberia and sierra leone convey a culture rich in spirit and symbolism. ceremonial masks and carvings dating from the 15th century to modern times are part of a major exhibition at the national museum of african art. >> we have the joy of helping people to read think how they think about africa. >> this is only one aspect of african art, often mistakenly described as primitive. it is half a century after america's first dedicated african art museum opened its doors in washington, perceptions are changing. >> what i really feel excited about is that we no longer, i hope, have to go to europe or to the united states to justify the beauty, the diversity, the value of african art. we can see it in its own cont

today is the 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. tonight we mark the occasion with a look at what was happening at the time and the impact it had around the world. we begin at 8:00 eastern and we'll show a discussion with journalists who covered the event, including "new york times" reporter nick cass chris tauf who -- nicholas christophe who won a prize. this week he discussed some of the acts of courage that happened outside tiananmen square. >> i remember troops were coming in on the airport road a bus driver parked his long bus across the airport road to block the troops. the first truckload of troops arrived, demanded he moved aside his bus, he refused. an officer pulled out his pistol, pointed it at him and demand head drive the bus off and the driver had the keys in his hand, this is night, he threw them into the verge, the -- i verge there and don't -- he was not executed immediately. i don't know what happened to him but to do that, block the troops from going into tiananmen square, you know, boy. i'm incredibly admiring --

>>> today is the 25th year anniversary of the tiananmen square demonstrations.uprising that began with the sudden death of the reformer and evolved into a broader night for democracy. on june 4, 1989, the chinese government ordered a military crackdown on student protests. images from tiananmen square showed arm troops and tanks and people's liberation army suppressing the movement with a brutal efficiency, even shooting many protesters dead in the street. today in hong kong, thousand held a vigil. hong kong was not part of the mainland in 1989 and still remains a semiautonomous city state. one of the places connected to china where public demonstrations are occurring. why? that's because the government of course in beijing has spent decade suppressing even the mere existence of the tiananmen square protests. that means no discussion, news coverage and basic references to june 4th, this anniversary date, are scrubbed from the internet. activists try to subvert the restriction by referring to the event as may 35th. it may be hard to appreciate how effective that

day marks an infamous anniversary, may remember, 25 years since tanks stormed tiananmen square. if you were to ask a young chinese man or woman about the moment in history they might not know anything that you are talking about. we have a pretty extraordinary look of china's censoring. and jonah hill apologizing for using the f word, not that f word, but a different one. an apology that is rare in our culture. an apology we should look for more often. that apology and reaction, coming up to night. stay with us. i'm their mom at the playground and i'm his mom at the dog park. the kids get trail mix, and here's what you get after a full day of chasing that cute little poodle from down the street. mm hmm delicious milo's kitchen chicken meatballs. they look homemade, which he likes almost as much as making new friends yes, i'll call her. aww, ladies' man. milo's kitchen. made in the usa with chicken or beef as the number one ingredient. the best treats come from the kitchen. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if it becom

this year, on the 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown, the security apparatus is on overdriveling with police. journalists have been warned not to report from the square. it's all part of the government's campaign to silence any discussion with the protests that took place here in 1989. >> reporter: now, china is in many ways a different place. the economy is almost unrecognizable. the government pushed through reforms, opening the country to the world. today, chinese shop at foreign branded stores and drank lattes and people like jong had free to start their own businesses. protests now focus on issues such as the environment, land and ethnic rights. the government response has been tighter control over the internet, dissidents and unrest. >> now, tiananmen is another piece of baggage the party doesn't want to talk about that is still dragging behind. they're running as fast as they can to get away from it. it will catch up someday. >> reporter: until then, jong says his generation will remain haunted by the government's silence. that event in one way did end, people died, th

a search for meaning and the of the tank man. ♪ >> tiananmen square beijing.thegest public space an inhumaned on scale. buildingsntal public that line the edges and the vast in between speak of the insignificance of the individual before the might of the state. the atmosphere here is edgy. even with permits from minders our filming constantly interrupted. soldiers, police men, men in demand oures all papers. the authorities here are afraid cameras. they know their power. they have hundreds of them square.on tiananmen their cameras. cameras in other hands are dangerous and with good reason. powder keg.an be a on a june night in 1989, square was a war zone. the people's liberation army its way into beijing from four directions with orders to the square. up a armed citizens and students faced armored personnel tanks and soldiers armed with semi automatic weapons. june 4, 1989 the army's mission had been accomplished. dawn came up.he >> okay. is prologue. let's go to nick. you were there looking at your it was your junior year abroad covering that for the "new yor

. >> tiananmen square became the focal point of the protests. uare is right in front of the great hall of the people, where the seat of chinese government is. it was mind-boggling. i was in the middle of that march. i'm 6'2". i weigh 200 pounds. i was literally swept off my feet by those demonstrators. >> photojournalist jeff widner covered it for the "associated press." >> there was this amazing, uplifting feeling in the air. >> a few weeks later in mid-may, the situation intensified when soviet premier mikhail gorbachev heads to china. >> remains a world turned upsidedown tonight. >> he was an advocate in his home country. his visit gave them an opportunity to go to the streets and express themselves in a way they had not before. >> they knew they had the world watching them. >> and this also enraged the chinese authorities who are used to stage managing every photo op. and suddenly they had no control. >> after gorbachev leaves and the protests continue, chinese authorities change their tactics. >> the chinese communist party cracked down, and

they gave me the assignment to document what was going on at tiananmen square.e interesting until it started heating up on the 3rd of june. crowds were getting pretty rowdy. there was a lot of pushing and shoving going on. i was very scared, the whole time. on the 5th, i came into the ap office with the diplomatic compound and there was a message from new york photos. and it said, we don't want anyone to take any unnecessary risk, but if someone could please photograph the occupied tiananmen square, we would appreciate it. this is not what i wanted to hear. we drew straws. i drew the short straw. i got to the beijing hotel. the sixth floor had a balcony. when you walked outside, you had a pretty good view down the avenue towards tiananmen square. right on the wall by me was a bullet hole. it was a reminder that these guys could very easily pick me off. i put the load of film in. set the automatic setting. a few minutes later, i hear the familiar sound of tanks coming down the street from tiananmen square. i jumped up, went to the balcony, looked over, i saw it l

. >> now we move to the 25th anniversary of the massacre in tiananmen square. we are joined by jonathan ferro and asia society, jamie mansell. this is a long time in the memory of many chinese people. no commemoration, no recognition. >> it is more than that, the chinese government is actively trying to squash the memory of tiananmen square. they are scouring the social media, there is all kinds of presence of the military and plainclothes police presence. they are doing everything they can to try to actively force the forgetting. >> it is like going into all of the libraries and picking out all of the books and it is like one of those science fiction novels. if you remove traces of it, it didn't happen. >> this is not just tiananmen square. up to 45 million people were killed in the great leap forward. 50 million people were killed as a result of the behavior of the party. obviously, the parties trying to squash that and replace this with the other narrative of victimization and the commonest party as the champion of nationalism. >> there is an investment impl

today marks 25 years since the massacre in tiananmen square in beijing, security was tight to prevent any commemoration. china has never released a death toll for the crackdown, but at least several hundred people stormed theps square after weeks of protest about political reform. this report on how those protests shaped the china of today. >> tonight in hong kong am aware people still have freedoms denied elsewhere in china, they gathered in the tens of thousands. 25 years on, remembering the hundreds massacred, calling for political change. in the rest of china, nothing. a mother who lost her son in the massacre cannot even leave her flat. four weeks, the police have been blocking her visitors. this footage was filmed and smuggled out. [crying] square, watchful security is everywhere. patrols circle ostentatiously. all the memories have long been erased from the flagstones, nothing now shows where the army gunned down unarmed students. repeat,e there is no china has done two things. they have unleashed the economy to make people richer, but stymied any serious prospect of political

it, itremove traces of didn't happen. >> this is not just tiananmen square.p to 45 million people were killed in the great leap forward. killed as people were a result of the behavior of the party. obviously, the parties trying to squash that and replace this with the other narrative of victimization and the commonest party as the champion of nationalism. is an investment implication. you always wait for those overnight reports. sismondi purchasing managers index, it seems to move markets. >> what is good news, no one believes it, when it is bad news, they really believe it. the other side is what has changed. economically, a lot, but politically, not much. when we look at these gdp targets coming out of china, we talk about a slowdown. it is us that excesses of that number. what they are trying to generate his jobs. you have a number that generates 10 million jobs a year, you keep the unemployed rate at four percent. richer, guys don't get what happens? this is happening on the internet. what did the chinese authorities try to do, clamp down on google, twitt

the last hour in tiananmen square. i remember looking into the tanks and troops. it was amazing. didn't now how much hatred and resentment. it was a flood of love and hope. i was hoping the chinese leaders, and the soldiers would know what a better world we hope for them. and for the next generation, even though they may never know or remember us, we hope for a greater china. i call the chinese leader to go ahead, expand the political reform and the spiritual reform. only then, when we have three reforms, can it have lasting peace and prosperity. >> we are pleased you have the freedom to talk to us about this tonight. >> thank you very much. >> tank you, god bless you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, traps gender model geena rosaro talks about her life, message and mission. [ ♪ music ] >>> my conversation with kurt ellie. the performance review. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at y

the people spoke out in 1976 and '86 ten years later in tiananmen square.t's unlikely that this party will allow people to somehow examine what happened during those decades. more so, it has nothing to gain from such an examination. it knows very well that any closer scrutiny, public or otherwise of its own record, will inevitably lead to an even greater loss of credibility. >> frank dikotter, thank you very much for sharing your perspective. appreciate it. >>> 70 years after the largest seaborne invasion in history, they've come back. >> elderly world war ii veterans being awarded a special norman did i medal at a ceremony in the french town of caan. hundreds of survivors of the d-day invasion will be in france for friday's 70th anniversary. >> we'll remind you to stay with cnn for live coverage marking that fateful day. for our international audiences, special coverage begins at 9:00 a.m. for those of you in london that's on friday. cnn's christiana amanpour and max foster will be live for this historic event. >>> world war ii veterans have lost another b

they were marking the 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. some worry that fewer and fewer people know what happened. nhk world's tomoki matsuda met a man who is raising awareness, using his skill as a filmmaker. >> reporter: a small band of protesters marched in tokyo. they called for democracy in china. there was no violence. the police were not troubled. only about 50 people took part. one of its organizers was a film director from the mainland. he marched in 1989 too. on that day, 25 years ago, several thousand people protested in tokyo, including chinese students. han was studying at the time at a university in tokyo. >> translator: we had more than 100 times the people here today. there was excitement in the air. it was as if crowds of chinese people had just fallen from the sky. so today's turnout is a bit sad. >> reporter: after the incident, he decided to remain in tokyo. he works to keep alive the memory of what happened that day. he makes films and writes. >> translator: people in china are not even allowed to hold memorial ceremon

chinese forces on display in tiananmen square 25 years after the crushing of the pro democracy movement. >>> this is the scene live in west minister where the queen prepares to outline the british government's next legislative program amid it the traditional pomp and ceremony. hello. thanks for joining us on "bbc world news." president obama has met is the president elect of ukraine petro poroshenko on the second day of his trip to poland. he said they discussed a plan for reducing ukraine's energy dependence on russia and how the u.s. can help train the ukrainian security forces. this all comes ahead of a major speech that mr. obama is due to make in the next few minutes, in fact, as part of a ceremony to mark 25 years since the end of communism in poland. this is the stage setting. come rove ski, poland's president speaking now, cataloging poland's move, transition from the communist ear rat which ended precisely 25 years ago to today when it can count itself among the market democracies showing huge signs of stability over the course of the last 25 years. it is a timely moment for pr

remember that replica of the statue of liberty paraded in tiananmen square. they were tumultuous times. no one ever expected that the people's liberation arm would fire on the people using live rounds. some images remained seared in my memory. i recall two bodies fluted by tanks, the treadmill marks still visible. i remember the anger of people after the crackdown, hurling abuse at the soldiers. they couldn't believe that the army would turn on the people. they believe the army was there to protect them. for a time, it seemed back then that perhaps the communist party itself, its future was in doubt. >> adrien, what's the mood in china today? >> well, as you can imagine, around tiananmen square, the security measures have truly been draconian. there are police trucks there, firetrucks, tourists have been able to enter the square but only if they show their i.d. to filter out journalists in the square. it remains off limit to us. that is a measure, a reflection of just how nervous the government has been about this most sensitive of anniversaries. they will be

the events on tiananmen square 25 years ago. business correspondent linda yu joining us from singapore. but the calculation very clearly made there by the chinese authorities to put economic progress ahead of any sort of political reform. >>. >> yes, very much so. back in 1989, that was in the first decade when china started to open. and i think in that first decade, there was some belief that reform and opening as it was put forward would the include not just economic reform but also other types of reform, namely political but i think the massacre there on that day, those coup col of days in that square showed that the chinese government didn't intend for reform and opening to extend to all parts of society. they really meant just in terms of the economics. and i think that's a lesson that was pretty hard learned by the chinese students that day. >> but the economy now 25 years later having raged ahead is slowing down. the big question is this going to be a hard or soft landing? >> yeah, the economy is slowing down and i think

at ge. ♪ >>> beijing is on lockdown today for the 25th anniversary of the bloody massacre in tiananmen squareusands died when chinese troops used tanks to clear protesters from what started as a memorial in the square for political reformer. tom brokaw was one of the first western broadcasters to get into china and cover the crisis. tom recently explained how he and cameraman tony wasserman came up with a way to get footage despite total blackout by chinese authorities. >> he was on a bicycle and putting a soft drink box on the back, and i said, we're going to put a camera there, right? he said, absolutely. >> it may be unusual. but it's one of the few ways we can show you life in the streets of beijing without getting in trouble with the authorities. >> we took off not knowing if i was going to get shot or whether we could pull this off or not. and i rode behind tony. i was wired up, and we could sync it up later. and to our surprise, no one stopped us. only one chinese bicyclist bicycled up behind tony, reached in the box and tickled the lens and drove away. >> incredible footage. joining m

at dawn the chinese flag was raised over tiananmen square. some machine guns were stationed around.ian side. 25 years ago tanks rolled into ten men's square to suppress a week-long student uprising. the crackdown turned bloody. it's still not known how many died. estimates rose from 200 to a thousand. >> have you learned anything about it in the history books? >> not mentioned at all. >> these college students who we won't name because they took a risk talking to us they say it's difficult to talk about. they call it the june 4th incident. >> we still don't know what happened. that's not cool. >> that's not cool. >> that's not cool. everyone has a right to know. after so many years we still don't know what happened. >> try searching tiananmen square on china's heavily monitored internet or key words like june 4 or even 6-4-89 and the results are sensored. >> and these red dots are where people died. >> it's so difficult to talk openly about tiananmen square in china that we traveled to hong kong. there in a small 800-square. foot ten meant museum owner lee chok chiang talked about i

one said, looks like tiananmen square but it can't be. of 100 students, only 15 recognized the image. that shows the chinese government enforcing amnesia on so many young people. >> brown: how important is the memory for dissidents in china and how strong is that dissident movement today? >> i would even say the tiananmen generation is simply using the word dissidents. 25 years ago, that was an entire generation of chinese, even just college students alone, it's nationwide participating in the pro-democracy demonstration, and beijing, there's millions and millions of citizens, too, and nationwide. so all of these people, most of us, are alive, and have the real remembrance. but it's been brutally suppressed, and then 25 years later, this trauma and this memory, where does it exactly go? it's a question of -- to answer many questions -- it's a question that needs to be answered, but it's also the answer will tell us where china is going to go tomorrow. let's say louisa's question, many young generations don't know about tiananmen square. t

a million people protesting in tiananmen square back then, before the berlin wall fell. it was an incredible moment in modern history. the beijing government has been cracking down on dissidents in the past few months, and journalists. what are they afraid of? >> they are afraid of another teenman. it's 1.2 people in the center of beijing. and protests in the city around china. the problem is most people in china do not believe a one party system is not good for a modernized society. what keeps it together is prosperity. but they have an economy that is stumbling, the same situation in 1989. then it was inflation, now deflati deflation. it's economic mismanagement. i think they know they have a real problem. >> the power behind the scenes in china decided that they needed to give lessons in obedience to people massing in tianamen. are we seeing history repeating itself, is that what they are trying to do. sending a message of intimidation, don't mess with the communist party. >> for those people alive in 1989, and, of course, they'll never forget it, they are trying to c

. >> wednesday also marked the 25th anniversary of china's tiananmen square massacre. in hong kong, more than 100,000 people held a vigil for those killed. it was the only major commemoration allowed on chinese territory. in 1989, students took to beijing's tiananmen square to protest the democratic reforms. the chinese army responded with brutal force. no one is sure how many people were killed, but figures have been estimated in the hundreds or even thousands. these images have since been .anned in china on wednesday, 25 years later, security forces blocked the square to prevent any public assemblies. >> it was supposed to be a g-8 summit in sochi. instead, leaders from only seven of the leaders -- of the world's meting industrial nations in brussels. russia was not included. the move to suspend moscow came in march when russia annexed the crimean territory. the g7 spoke of its concern over violence in eastern ukraine. slaprs threatened to moscow with further sanctions if it does not de-escalate the conflict there between ukraine's government and pro-russian separati

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god forbid we have anything that looks like tiananmen square.e are other more subtle and nuanced but deadly and effective in terms of their ability to cause dissent to be quelled. we need to send. hopefully it is always peaceful. that is what debate should be all about. the debate here in washington. this is a marketplace of ideas. host: our last calls from missouri. caller: i want about bullying. the world champions of bullying are bernanke and yellen. they have paid no interest rates to senior citizens to save the banks and wall street. what is congressmen'? -- congressman's duty? guest: i think there has been a recklessness with quantitative easing. i can understand a short burst of health -- of help. when you do it year after year and your balance of trillions that they hold, it only exacerbates the debt. be reason cbo says we would under $900 billion of interest after 2024 isear because those interest rates cannot be artificially kept low or ever. there is a degrading of the economy that happens, possibilities of other negative consequences

minute-by-minute history re-tweeted, a professor is documenting the tiananmen square protest. >> and the most colorful look at the universe ever seen. >> a look from emeryville camera at the sunny day. meteorologist mike nicco is next with the forecast. >> thousands gathered in hong kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the mass certificate in beijing in tiananmen square. hong kong is the only place in china where people can gather. tens of thousands gathered. they commemorate lives of those who died june 4 of 1989. many wore head bands with date of the protest on them and advocates for democracy led the crowd in chants. one man is using twitter to tweet the events of the day in real time tweeting "june 4, 1989, evening, mother weeps upon finding her child's body if a beijing morgue." google, yahoo and facebook and trying to shield communications from government spies and other. google and the other companies are now automatically encrypting all e-mail but that does not help sure confidentiality unless your e-mail provider adopts the technology. google says about 65 percent of the eme

back in 1989, he was a soldier deployed to tiananmen square. >> i was afraid. now that i know that the students were the weak ones. i was always wondering where were the insurgents, the so-called criminals. i did not see any back then and until today i have not found them. >> he was given the task of taking photographs for the army. he submitted 70 rolls of film but he kept three roles and spent years looking at them. the memory still plague him along with the silence and the questions he is not allowed to ask. it was not until 2004 that he began painting the images. he created a total of 60 pages but he could not put them on exhibition because no one is allowed to commemorate the dramatic events of june 4. the communist party has suppressed all mention of the bloody crackdown. this year the government has made an aggressive effort to head off any dissent. may 3 at this year, a group of journalists and lawyers met in private with victims families, security forces didn't take it lightly. a renowned civil rights lawyer and other designs have been arrested. across

a court in china has sentenced three to death for their roles october's attack in beijing's tiananmen square. five others were given jail terms. two were killed, 40 injured when a car plowed into a crowd at the northern edge of the square. >> lined up in a chinese court, the eight, now convicted of being part of a violent terror cell. not open to all media lasted one day. pictures released by state tv. as three werehed given death sentences. their names identified them as of china's muslim minority. they organized the crash last october in heart of buying a car and knives, recruited attackers and this. circles, turns on the payment, knocks down, kills two, swerves through the crowd crashes on tiananmen square. was key, ae location strike, even if crude, at the symbolic center of the chinese state. since then, there have been more in other parts of china. in march, 29 were killed when a group armed with knives went on a traine outside station. and in may, 39 died when two vehicles plowed into a busy arumchi. distinct turcic, uptral asian culture, make less than half the population. many resen

the taketh anniversary of tiananmen square comes around. it is something that the u.s. has appealed to china to release them before the anniversary is over. >> a lone man facing down a tank. this iconic representation of the tiananmen square crackdown is sensitive on mainland china. but in hong kong it is a symbol of the 25-year anniversary of the massacre. this year many mainland chinese have crossed the border for a chance to experience political protests. >> here it is written let's rehabilitate tiananmen events. this is the marching slogan. >> on mainland china these events don't exist. that is why i came here. >> most chinese people know little of the events of 1989. but a recently opened museum is trying to he had indicate some of the thousands of mainland terrorists who come to hong kong every week. most are reluctant to be filmed. >> we didn't know about this thing. it seems like it doesn't exist. so we never mentioned it, and i dare not to mention it to my parents. if i tried to, they will just say stop talking about it. >> but even here, such a museum encounte

in the rest of china, what happened at tiananmen square has been hushed up.the early hours of june 4, 1989. tanks rolled onto the square, a final showdown meant to quash the protests sweeping beijing that spring. hundreds, possibly even thousands were killed in the massacre. images like these are banned in china. hundreds of uniformed and plainclothes police officers were out in force, backed up by military police. the mission, to prevent anyone from marking the anniversary of the crackdown. many ordinary chinese are even afraid to talk to journalists. >> no, i don't know. well,, how do i put it? sorry, i can't do this interview. >> most chinese have seen a major improvement in their living standards over the past 25 years. the economy has grown rapidly but hopes for political reform are unfulfilled. >> one of the protesters who risked his life to see the dream of real freedom fulfilled was that courageous and unknown citizen who stood up alone without any cheering crowds or armies behind him to attack. he is known around the world as tank man and has come to

just in tiananmen square that the chinese, that this problem exists. it's in otherhai, places, but they brought the troops in from outside because the beijing troops apparently demonstrated a great sensitivity to the cause of the young people. and we're disciplined though opted on theey side of democracy and change and people.g i certainly don't want to speculate on something that i don't have, i can't reach that conclusion. unitse of the soldiers burned their own trucks, and received the same type of intelligence? >> i just saw a speculation, i i don't believe the intelligence said that. but there are reports that it is for some of these military who are much more sympathetic to the openness, to demonstrators. and i again go back to the that tomquestion here asked. the change that's taken place so far, we're beyond a cultural revolution response. of the that the depth feeling towards democracy is so great that you can't put the genie back in the bottle and return to total repression. athink what we're seeing is manifestation of that in the p.l.a.ns wi

thank you, tracie. >>> china has stepped up security in light of the tiananmen square uprising anniversary. military troops are also patrolling around the square. the chinese government is cracking down on opposition voices imposing strict travel conditions on political activists and critics. now, on june 4th, 1989, chinese troops opened fire on student-led protests. and this is one powerful image of a lone protester facing a line of tanks. that came to symbolize the sign of democracy in china and today the exact zet toll remains unclear. >>> the fbi says an intense manhunt has ended with a suspect in custody. 42-year-old public relations specialist ryan kelly chamberlain ii was wanted on suspicion of having explosives. he was arrested last night after police spotted his vehicle. the fbi reportedly discovered a cash of explosives in his apartment over the weekend. >>> dan marino has joined the course of nfl players suing over concussions. they joan over 5,000 former players that claim football-related head injuries. this is the latest lawsuit since a judge blocked $765 million settlement.

>> thank you, tracie. >>> china has stepped up security ahead of the 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square uprising. police checkpoints have been set up across beijing. paramilitary troops are patrolling the streets around the square. the chinese government is also cracking down on opposition voices imposing strict travel restrictions on well known political activists and critics. on june 4th, 1989, chinese troops opened fire on student led protests. and it is this one powerful image of the lone protester facing a line of tanks that came to symbolize the struggle for democracy in china. to this day, the exact death toll of the crackdown remains unclear. >>> the fbi says an intense three-day nationwide manhunt ended with a suspect in custody. 42-year-old public relations specialist ryan kelly chamberlain ii was wanted on suspicion of possessing explosives at his san francisco apartment. he was arrested without incident near the golden gate bridge last night after police spotted his vehicle. the fbi reportedly discovered a cache of explosives in his apartment over the weekend. >>> dan marino

so students marched on tiananmen square and soon joined by intellectuals demanding freedom of speech.r that night, the liberation army opened up fire on the unarmed students, and then later in the day, the soldiers used tanks to clear the square and 10,000 people were arrested and when the people crowded the barriers, the soldiers opened up fire again. china puts the death toll at 246, but other estimates have been a as high as 2,000. and then this grabbed international attention. the lone unarmed protester whose identity has never been confirmed began known as and ta man, staging this singular act of defiance. and now 25 years later, china has banned all references to the crackdown and blocked off the square. the square is the only overt reason that it is remembered 25 years later. and joining me is lisa lim, and thank you for joining us to talk the about your book "the people's republic of tiananmen." 2,500 students were correctly able to identify the tank man, and were you surprised by that? i was stunned? >> i was actually quite prize sprooed by that. i went to four different univ