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causing the breakup of the soviet union. ah, the harmony watching out is there a life where headquarters here in doha, also coming up? ukraine says it's destroyed key russian positions and it's offensive to take back the southern cash on region. also. com returns to rocks capital after supporters of she had leader mcdonald asada heaters call to end their protests. ah, bought into the program, mikhail gorbachev. the leader who helped and the cold war and presided over the breakup of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. born into a poor farming family. in 1931, he rose to become the most powerful man in the communist government. initiated

a massive program of political, economic and social change, and was praised in the west as eastern europe moved away from communism and soviet influence. but he was blamed in russia for unleashing forces that led to the collapse of the soviet union. in 1991 general looks back on his life. mikhail gorbachev left office in 1991 recent survivor of an attempted hard line, communist qu, but victim nonetheless, of unstoppable change. the vast soviet empire had suddenly ceased to exist. gorbachev left behind moscow reduced in stature. the capital now of a newly independent russia. of course, he was very, very disciplined in man because he was at his house. he had not only by the russian state of soviets stayed bud by the russians. i mean, he used to that very popular. he'll be remembered more warmly abroad than at home

go b. as he came to be known, one the confidence of world leaders by dismantling the structures of the cold war. he played a crucial role in the re unification of germany. joining east with west as the berlin wall fell last last and perestroika formed the new more attractive face of an old foe. he became sick right there in general like the time when the soviet economy was beginning to collapse. he realized that he had to make a very serious choice in open up to the west. and when, over the confidence of the west, after 70 kate, of very hard mutual distrust this was, the task was almost insurmountable. as the wolf fell. so the usa saw itself began to crack and crumble. many regret the loss of empire of superpower status. and they blamed gorbachev still well, right. know the present russians are the,

are both in the trying with military force, their rebuild the soviet union to reintegrate it through forceful means kind of do the gorbachev. where jesse break away from the west, though that's not the main purpose, the main purpose is to rebuild reintegrate the empire. maurier that of the young are at least kind of an older people because they feel that he gave them freedom. what he given them was democracy and his hundreds of thousands of russians protested against allegedly rigged elections. in the latter years of letting me put in the presidency, the old soviet lead lived to see democracy flipping backwards. attorney made a news, news. you can compare this selection with those of 198919191 those 2 occasions. the

voting really was fair and democratic. but every election since then has been flawed. tens of thousands of russians across the country have demonstrated the free and fair elections of the process of democratization has found new strengths. these young people, this new generation is very important to me. they have not abandoned democracy and democracy will not abandon them or she avoided the nobel peace prize in 1919 gold b and his famous crimson birthmark remained in the public eye. less consistent is his legacy valued more by some than by others out there is rob reynolds says and viewed, mikhail gorbachev. you join me now from los angeles. i mean very few of us in the media. rob, get the honor of interviewing some of the most influential figures of the 20th century. what do you remember most about mikhail gorbachev? well, so he said it was a great opportunity to speak with him. this was in moscow in the late 1990.

so mikhail gorbachev had been out of power for some years, but i remember the interview very, very clearly. we were talking about his time in office and the events leading up to the end of the soviet union. he spoke very clearly, he was very cordial. he answered questions through an interpreter, of course, directly he didn't prevaricates, he didn't go on and on in a way of trying to weigh away, store use up all the time and he didn't have talking points to score. but i remember very clearly that he pushed back strongly when i asked him about the prevailing view in the united states at that time that the u. s. under ronald reagan and his successors had won the cold war. gorbachev said, no,

that's not the case. the cold war was not a war that any party could win without in any way that it would have been a disaster for the world. and he said it was a very complex process, but the, in the end, the ending, the way that the, the cold war did come to an end. and the way that he helped to do it, he said, was beneficial not only for the, the people of the former soviet union and the united states, but the world as a whole. and of course, you know, you have to be a strong leader to be in that position and you have to be ruthless to get to the top of the communist party. i mean, he really changed the dynamic of water. soviet leader should be, he was young. he was fresh faced, so unlike those that had been in charge before him with ideas glasnost and perestroika. indeed what a,

an enormous contrast to the elderly enfeebled man who had preceded him, whose only goal was to uphold a failing status quo. here came mikhail gorbachev. a member of a new generation, a not of the old communists who had lived and worked under stalin, but of a different generation. more of a technocrat, more of a, a man with ideas. and he did have ideas about how to change the soviet union, how to allow it to us to develop and survive. glass noticed openness in english, perestroika, that means restructuring, glass nosed, gave russian, and other peoples living in at that time, the soviet union, the opportunity to speak out, to, to, to talk about their society, to talk about their leaders to examine. and this is, i think it's very important the history of the soviet union,

the horrors that the people endured under stalin under lenin. ah, no subject was taboo any more. but it, it, it was a, a, a process that you could liken to sort of opening up a steam valve or something like that on a very complicated apparatus. and once that valve was opened, the whole thing became unstable and eventually just broke apart. and of course, you know, you allude to the fact that he wanted open debate, but he also wanted all day and, and he never seemed to be able to get the 2 to marry up and says those, the collapse of the, the union was imminent. i mean, as a report, a how did you view that 1st hand and, and how was that then received in the us, even as you say, the u. s. always wanted to perceive it as a when well, in the, in the us. i remember very clearly this was before i was in moscow in the 1980s under the administration of president ronald reagan. this was

a very hot time in the cold war. president reagan had denounced what he called the evil empire. there was increasing tension in europe as more a weapons were being brought forward, tactical nuclear weapons. there had been other incidents that made things very, very tense. and you know, people who were born after that time, don't remember that, you know, as i do growing up like in the 1900 sixty's that, that nuclear annihilation was not an abstract notion. it was an every day possibility reality in people's lives, in the united states and elsewhere. but i remember gorbachev visiting washington to, to have a summit meeting with president reagan. and at one point, his motorcade, one of those fantastic old jill limousines, the soviet, built a cars, massive tank like structures, stopped in the middle of the street. is motorcade stop. he got out. corbett job

plunged into the crowd, shaking hands with astonished arm workers. he was saying through an interpreter, i want to say hello to you. i mean, it was just, he had that kind of star stature in the united states. and then subsequent events, of course, so hell made him a pariah reviled person in the soviet union. when the soviet union collapsed, the soviet empire fell apart. it wasn't entirely his fault. it certainly wasn't his intention. but if you look even beyond the west, beyond what we call the united states nato, at that time to the, the new countries that were fried a poland check republic hungry, east germany. these were allowed to go their own way under gorbachev to dissolve that decades long soviet had germany without firing a shot. there was no violence with the notable exception of in romania where there

was sort of internet seen fighting in 1989. but unlike his predecessors, sending the tags into budapest, the tanks into prague and so on. gorbachev allowed this process to happen peacefully. and for the, for that, i think a lot of people in eastern and central europe consider him to be a great man for the moment. thanks very much, rob reynolds, our correspondent in los angeles. so let's take a closer look at me call go shop legacy. he drove through reforms aimed at reviving the soviet union's economy. 980 s was a thomas of a economic hardship, the countries in the communist blog. perestroika, rob mentioned the russian word, that means restructuring was name given to a series of reforms that gradually decentralized many businesses, producers could now set their own prices while glasnost, meaning openness, aim to instill a spirit of transparency. but the reforms bank fight as food prices spiked for

millions, used to receiving government subsidies. growing instability led to the clamps of the u. s. s. all in 1991. joining me, the allies from silver springs in the state of maryland is belinda harring. she's a deputy director of the atlanta counsels eurasia sent and a senior fellow of the foreign policy research institute could help you with us live on al jazeera. how do you think mikhail gorbachev will be remembered? a depending really i suppose away. you'll hearing the news in the world. thanks for having me. you're exactly right. so in the u. s. and in britain, i think there's still a bit of gore be media. we remember him fondly. he allowed these reforms that you discuss perestroika glass noticed that unleashed i a lot of energy and allowed the soviet union to fall apart peacefully. he was only in power for about 7 years, less than 7 years. and he did a law. he presided over in arms agreement that cut out an entire class of nuclear

weapons. he withdrew the soviet forces from afghanistan. he eventually came clean about chernobyl, not at 1st. they eventually did, and he sanctioned multi party elections in soviet cities. these are all pretty extraordinary accomplishments began in russia. i'd say it's a mixed bag. indeed, let's just say one of those issues because he was, amanda oversaw, as you say, significant change in the former soviet union on the inside the economy was crumbling and he needed to take urgent action. they were very difficult choices to make in a politic that was so fractured within the communist party. that that's absolutely right. and either i think that he didn't know, you know, he never wanted to dismantle the soviet union. i think that's something important to keep, keep in mind. he never knew how far he could go. right. that that was. i want one of one of the challenges that he was always trying to deal with uncle. so he sort of found a peaceful way to work alongside the west and bring you might say his country to

the mountain world with a full of the iron curtain. and in part it worked for the part it didn't because it then you must exacerbated the ethnicities within russia itself as a, as an integral country on its own, apart from the mold overs and the on the hungary on the check republics that, that's right. and that, that's why he's going to have an a mix legacy. i in rush, i just looked at the leading newspapers before i came on your show. and then you know what? one of the biggest russian papers says he's remembered as the man who presided over the peaceful dissolution of the soviet union. and then others remember him as tearing apart this great union and to all sorts of strife. i and many, many countries. but you know, he, he did have, were relations with president reagan in the us with margaret thatcher. he is regarded as a great statesman and i think that's how he'll be remembered. one of the things though, that i think that is worth digging into a little bit is,

what did he think about modern russia, and what did he think about hooton's legacy? that's one of the most interesting questions, indeed of income. he's quite critical of putin certainly in the last few months, not ready brings me to my next question about how you think his death is going to be broadcast and reported in russia. and also in those former soviet states. because there, we will get some gauge, perhaps in the next few hours of, of how all of these states you might say, ah, lining up in the current political climate that europe is experiencing. so it's going to be tricky and then there's going to be different responses. i think it's little, it's focused on ukraine since that's where the war is. so i gorbachev told his close friend i else even addictive. who is the head of an echo mosque? the what the, the premier radio stations earlier this year that he was upset about the war. and he felt like, couldn't, with the war, was undoing his legacy, undoing his legacy on rights in greater freedom. and so that maybe that was

a private comment, but i, i think that's an accurate depiction, but he also supported the annexation of crimea in 2014, and he was sanctioned by ukraine. as a result, i think ukrainians are very grateful for their independence. absolutely grateful. but they're not gonna let that crimea bit go, you know, the, the other former soviet countries are fantastically grateful to be independent today. and i, i think that he will go down, i, in the other for most of the countries in, in a positive way. but in, in rush i, i, like we said before, i think it's going to be a mixed bag in terms of his criticism of putin. i mean, has it really been as fast as you might have thought it should have been because of the ukrainian conflict with seeing right now or has it been tempered that's for his own security? look, he was an older man. he was 91 years old. i don't think the regime is going to do something to him. he's an honored statesman. but he, i think that he knew where the red lines were. i'd been putin express sympathy for

him to day. and i'm not sure how widely known his views were about the war. do you think that any comment from the white house is goal also going to see what's the impact on the current relationship that dare i say? it's a poor relationship between east and west snow. i think president biden will be, i offer a dignified sympathy in condolences, but it's not going to have any bearing on the current war or did you to the low point of washington. the low point of relations between the us and marco. now, interesting times i had sent you for the next few hours, if at the moment. thanks very much for joining melinda herring the in maryland. thank you. now i leave as a concert, i have been paying tribute to mikhail gorbachev. the russian president vladimir putin has expressed his deepest condolences and says that he will send telegrams to his family and friends. the european commission present level delay and has described the former soviet leader as trusted and respected. the she says he opened

the way for free europe, the united nations secretary general. antonia good harris says gorbachev did more than any other individual to bring a peaceful and the cold war. he says the world has lost a towering global leader. and the british prime minister barak johnson says he might gorbachev courage and integrity to bring an end to the cold war. the onto the knees now and the team from the united nations nuclear watchdog agency. the i a e, a has been meeting ukrainian president, ultimate landscaping keith. the delegation is due to travel to reach nuclear power plant, ukraine and russia of accused each other of shilling around the facility, which was briefly knocked offline last week. the fighting has drawn international concern about a potential disaster. the i. e. a team has been given access to inspect the russian

control site. last week, it is very important for us pressing demand for the i a and the demand supported by all world leaders concerning immediate demilitarization of the plan. we asked for the removal of the rush military unit and the liberation of our plan in the upper easier nuclear plant must return to ukrainian control the school. only this way we can eliminate any risks regarding nuclear power in ukraine. military says it's destroyed key russian positions, weapons and warehouses as it tries to take back the occupied southern region of cash. but most of it which borders the black sea was seized by russia at the start of the invasion. 6 months ago, president lindsey says, troops are pressing on with a counter offensive. he's urged russian soldiers to flee for their lives, but mosca says its repelled the tanks and inflicted heavy losses on ukrainian troops. the united nations as

a ship carrying wheat from ukraine to the drought stricken horn of africa has don't injure beauty. the ship was transporting $23000.00 tons of grain is the 1st vessel to make the journey to the region. since russia invaded ukraine, the shipment will be transported to ethiopia. experts say it's enough to feed $1500000.00 people for a month. the us says 82000000 people need food a to cross eastern africa because the extreme weather surging food prices and conflict. we've already seen a reduction of 15 percent in wheat prices globally. since the blacks, the initiative commenced. what we want to see is more food flowing. we need from wi fi perspective. millions of tons in this region in ethiopia alone, 3 quarters of everything that we use to distribute originated from ukraine and russia. the rocks prime minister says he'll quit if the political crisis in his country continues. must not could the mere address the nation after supporters of

she either moved on, sutter withdrew from baghdad heavily fortified green zone. that be 30 people were killed and hundreds wounded, and unrest across the country on monday, following those announcement that he was quitting politics. well, has the men who none. and i want that if they want to continue to create disputes and complications and not to listen to the source of reason that i will make a moral decision. but i'm proceed to leave my post in accordance to the iraqi constitution. us an appropriate time, my day people, our country iraq is bleeding and has been bleeding for a long time. at such a cost, iraq's president bob sala was warned that the political crisis is not yet over, but such an early election could guarantee stability. his method of the what had on it, the president have been in his speech, have covered a few significant and crucial points on top of them. he started by commending the

move by looked at a southern withdrawing from the green zone. he says that it's a brave step that serving the public interest. meanwhile, he's is calling on the rival fractions, including the southern himself and his rival, the iranian pat political factions. to come back to the negotiating table as a way out of this political deadlock, he reiterated that elections and forming a government power key steps to get out of this political crisis. he also reiterated that the, the iraqi people have been suffering for 2 decades now. and it's now time for them to get their wishes fulfilled. he also highlighted the fact that in his words, that iraq should not be a soil for although foreign and regional powers to settle scores. so the present

was very clear also calling the rival fractions to come back to the negotiating table to work on holding early elections and form a new government to run the coming transitional period. as a way out of this political crisis, people in level have been protesting against draft legislation. they say would make it even harder to get savings out of their bank accounts. since 2019 lebanese banks imposed strict limits on the withdrawal of foreign currency. the economy has struggled over the last 3 years, and one of the world's was financial crises. excellent. say the capital control bill will be ineffective unless the government also brings and wide ranging economic recovery plans. some l shaped crusade was the protests 2 weeks ago. he took people hostage in a bank at gunpoint to demand funds from his locked savings account. he says the system needs to change, and then we came to protest to get back the money that they stole from us. i

cool on all the resolution res to come to the street in large numbers so we don't lose the money. they want to feel. everyone needs to be on the street today. we will have to stop this draft by force and we will have to return all the money by force. has to be done by 4. below with the secretary general says he'll visit buck is done next week. and tony garish is appealing for $160000000.00 an aid to help more than $33000000.00 people are affected by massive floods. more than 1100 people have died since the monsoon rains began in june. pakistan is a washing suffering. the pakistani people are facing them on soon on steroids. the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding. the climate catastrophe, a skilled, more than 1000 people with many more injured. let us all step up in solidarity and

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women and children were asleep inside at the funny alea's wife, young son and 3 other children were crushed to tad. welcome your mother. he feels helpless, he says, his household wiped away. traditional structures in rural sin, affordable for the poor, usually suited to the terrain, are being overwhelmed by the effect of climate change. the weather has become so extreme. so suddenly people said the building techniques, their fathers and grandfathers used to make houses just aren't strong enough anymore. pockets on producers less than one percent of global carbon emissions, but suffers some of its worst effects. bahama the stain, last 2 daughters and the sun when the roof collapsed. a message to the world from grieving father nathan, asking me, i got him helped me. i've got my for my for the lego. the rain was not like this

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