violence is being condemned by the international community. the secretary general says he is shocked by the death toll we have seen in recent days in iraq since the start of the demonstration took with neither side prepared to back down chaos has returned to the streets of iraq. and the german capital is marking 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on the night of november the 9th $1809.00 east germany s communist regime reopened the border came as ones allowed its citizens to safely cross to the west for the 1st time 13 years it turned the hatred and dead the border into just a war this week as well as remember the people who died trying to cross the city is also celebrating the freedoms that follow. a. day w. reporter david leavitt s is that out and about in berlin amongst the festivities welcome david where are you. i feel well i m at
only you that much if there s a little bit of freedom people will use that clip and let s talk about the economics of hong kong you know it was an economic jim in the crown back in 1997 it s not that anymore it s now also the most expensive city in the world and i read 250000 people are on a waiting list for public housing so what does that mean she. has to do if there s not going to be a military option like tiananmen square in $1809.00. well i think if you think back to me 2 years and she jumping visited hong kong and celebration the city said that was a red line across which people could not cross and we ve seen that red line crossed again and again so how does that what does that mean for the party which a lot of people have overestimated i think. sort of underestimated the importance of hong kong is actually still very very important because it s still the main
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on june 4th $1809.00 chinese troops attacked pro-democracy demonstrators on beijing s channel one square a brutal crackdown to end 7 weeks of peaceful protests. the day after the massacre thousands of demonstrators were arrested sentenced and jailed dozens were executed. but mysteriously some managed to go underground and escape. this is the story of operation yellow bird a covert effort to spirit chinese dissidents out of the country to safety and into exile abroad for years it was believed the cia was pulling strings now after years of silence the masterminds of operation got about have started to reveal the details of this. story a story in which france played
memory that iconic photo of a lone man facing down a row of armored tanks defiance against the brutal crackdown at tiananmen square when chinese soldiers shot and killed thousands of their unarmed fellow citizens in the spring of 1989 students occupied the square demanding new reforms and freedom from the communist government but their hopes of economic change social change greater freedom of speech and less corruption it hit a nerve in the regime the chinese government declared martial law and in the early hours of june 4th troops moved in and brutally ended the pro-democracy movement shocking the world now just yesterday for the 1st time a chinese government spokesman said that the crackdown in $1809.00 had been correct a stark departure from decades of policies attempting to keep the event out of history books and punishing those who commemorate the event now despite all of that