World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-08-20

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-08-20
Uploaded: 2025-08-20
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[0:00] Here's six

[0:04] from ABC. This is World News Tonight

[0:08] with Peter Jennings. Good evening. Tanks

[0:10] in the streets, shots in the night.

[0:12] Soviet politicians involved in the coup

[0:14] against Mr. Gorbachoff now allegedly in

[0:16] their sick beds. There isn't very much

[0:18] that is clear in the Soviet Union

[0:19] tonight except this. The most important

[0:22] politician in the country to be freely

[0:23] elected, Boris Yeltson is now the

[0:26] central symbol of resistance to those

[0:28] who still have Mikail Gorbachov under

[0:30] house arrest. And President Bush has

[0:32] told the world that he stands with

[0:34] Yeltson and Gorbachoff. Our first report

[0:36] is from Jim Lori who is in Moscow.

[0:41] Jim, go ahead.

[0:43] Peter, there was confrontation in the

[0:46] streets of Moscow tonight. A short

[0:48] distance away from the Russian

[0:50] Federation building. A column of tanks

[0:53] was making its way up Kalinan Prospect,

[0:56] roughly a mile behind me, when it was

[0:59] confronted by a small crowd of people.

[1:02] It was after curfew hour, the newly

[1:04] imposed 11 p.m. curfew. The people tried

[1:07] to talk to the tank drivers, tried to

[1:10] persuade them to turn around in their

[1:12] move towards the Russian Federation

[1:14] building and the soldiers then fired

[1:17] into the air a burst of machine gun fire

[1:20] to scare the people away. Now, one

[1:23] eyewitness told me that after that

[1:26] incident, at least one person was

[1:29] injured by the t by the tank movement

[1:32] and possibly one person was killed by

[1:35] sliding under the tank treads. That an

[1:38] eyewitness report just a short time ago.

[1:41] Generally speaking, around the Russian

[1:43] Federation building, people are defying

[1:46] the