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 timesd 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. Im 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 americas perspective, brent. Advisorational security at the time to president george bush 41 and Nick Kristoff whose recording from inside the less than him nothing the pulitzer prize. Full disclosure, i work for and every now and then against brent at the ti
A country that executes the second or third highest officeholder in the country within the space of free or four days. Mark, any comments . We will go right here, and then to the back. Peter humphrey, i am an intelligence analyst. Nuts andndia went of aed to kill millions class distinction, the u. N. Would not hesitate to call that genocide even though it is a class distinction. I am troubled by that inconsistency. This is very much genocide against the class, no different than slaughtering other regions. Your inclination is the same as the spring commissioners. Be thatwe think it may International Law has developed to the point that if you take religion as a reason, religion is not something born in you, a view of your place in the world and the relationship to moral forces and to god. Therefore it is much more analogous to politics. We commissioners were inclined to agree with your view, but the plain fact is when the Genocide Convention was being rented did not extend to politics. C
And we have seen the extraordinary progress since that time. A united germany. Nations in central and Eastern Europe standing tall as proud democracies. A europe that is more integrated, more prosperous and more secure. We must never forget that the spark for so much of this revolutionary change, this blossoming of hope, was lit by you, the people of poland. [applause] history was made here. The victory of 1989 was not inevitable. It was the culmination of centuries of polish struggle, at times in this very square. The generations of poles who rose up and finally won independence. The soldiers who resisted invasion, from the east and the west. The righteous among the nations among them jan karski who risked all to save the innocent from the holocaust. The heroes of the warsaw ghetto who refused to go without a fight. The free poles at normandy and the poles of the home army who even as this city was reduced to rubble waged a heroic uprising. We remember how, when an iron curtain descen
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside tamron hall who is in for natalie this morning. Well get to todays top story, the deadly mall attack in kenya where militants are Still Holding an unknown number of hostages in a twoday standoff that has already left at least 68 people dead. We go right to nbcs ron allen in nairobi with the lat est. Good morning, ron. What can you tell us . Good morning, savannah. Were behind security from the mall where you can see smoke billowing out of the building. The morning began with five or six loud explosions and sustained gun fire that went on for some time, and also firefight firefights spilling out outside of the mall, and you can see the kenyan soldiers firing at places around the mall. Unknown at this point is the fate of the hostages and the gunmen inside. And we believe
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