Today, June 4th is an anniversary China would rather forget.

Thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands would gather the de facto funeral definitely not allowed today.

We'll hear from Hong Kong on the 37th anniversary of Chenaman Square.

I'm Marco Wurman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Also,

we remember Iranian writer Marjan Satrapi. She's known for her graphic novel Persepolis.

She was a beautiful outspoken feminist artist and activist out there who was not afraid

to say the right thing. And ahead of the World Cup, we tackled the eternal question, is it soccer or is it football?

We feel like we invented the game, and it's called football.

And you guys over there are just wrong.

So does that settle it?

Definitely not.

There is all that and much more today on the world.

This is the world. I'm Marco Werman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler. We begin today in Hong Kong, where authorities have all but erased

public remembrance of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.

37 years ago today, Chinese troops opened fire on demonstrators

in the square, killing hundreds, possibly thousands of people. For three decades after that

1989 massacre, Hong Kong was the only place on Chinese soil where large public commemorations

honored those dead. Then, in 2020, Hong Kong police banned the vigil.

Today, in Hong Kong, even symbolic acts led to arrests, like sitting cross-legged in the street,

a pose taken during pro-democracy protests.

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