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ah ah ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev is dead known for promoting openness and democracy in the communist state. gorbachev was also credited for helping to end the cold war. we look at his legacy at home and abroad. tributes of being paid around the world.
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germany's chancellor had this to say for thinking of mikhail gorbachev and know how important he has been for the development of europe and our country as well in recent years. also coming up a team of international inspectors heads to the separation nuclear power plant in ukraine. the trip comes as fee as grow over a radiation legal potential accident at the site, which is occupied by russian forces and devastation on an unimaginable scale. the un calls pakistan's floods an unprecedented climate catastrophe. it says the world is sleep walking into the next disaster. ah, i've been fizzle and welcome the soviet leader who helped end the cold war mikhail gorbachev has at the age of 91 after
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a long illness. gorbachev started policies encouraging openness and reform within the communist block and forged warmer ties with the west. it ultimately brought down the iron curtain at a divided europe since 1945 and put germany on track to bri unification. but while often hailed as a hero in the west at home, his legacy is complicated. ah mikhail gorbachev arrived and freedom followed. when he visited east berlin for the g d r 's 40th anniversary celebrations. gorbachev urged electronica to implement reforms. he warned the east german leader saying, life punishes those who come to late a month after his visit, the berlin fell and with the iron curtain that had divided europe for decades. it was gorbachev's reformers, policies that helped unleash
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a peaceful revolution across eastern europe. douglas, as yet, he laid out his agenda in his best beach as leader of the soviet union. oh, so she a stark contrast to what had gone before. also, she is vanya, we is 40, was the order, right? right. every piece and freedom is the most important basic right of each individual for our kilobit. gorbachev wanted to change the soviet union to bring it closer to the people. he promoted glass, most openness and perestroika reforms to words that will forever be associated with him. his new outlook was popular with many his policies also applied to the military, despite the resistance of soviet generals. to us, here we are voters on this. i'm convinced that we will also have to reform our
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military. last, we have far too many weapons, law, stately. we have to seek dialogue with other superpowers and reduce our arsenals to a reasonable extent in the gift shop. as a result of that dialogue gorbachev an u. s. president reagan signed the 1st of many disarmament treaties in 1987. it was the beginning of the end of the cold war in 1990 gorbachev was awarded the nobel peace prize for his key role in bringing about a new peaceful world order. internationally, he was highly regarded but at home he was increasingly under pressure. the economic situation was dire. the soviet union on the verge of falling apart, communist hardliners stage, a coup against gorbachev in 1991 and put the soviet leader under house arrest and
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his holiday retreat in crimea. one man stopped the boris yeltsin, the russian president. gorbachev was allowed to return to moscow, but politically, he was ruined. he else in band the communist party and publicly humiliated coverage of new so yeah, you're sure you should. shortly afterwards the soviet union was dissolved in december 1991 mikhail gorbachev announced his resignation. his attempts to regain political ground in the new russia failed. many russians held him responsible for the demise of the soviet union. but while his own country turned its back on him, gorbachev was hailed around the world as the man who helped tear down the iron curtain and bring about a peaceful revolution. judge as all so it has just comment,
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had done the passing of the last soviet leader, mechanical which off his what he had to say we have isn't and that's how your stall we know that he died at that time when not only democracy has failed in russia, you cannot describe the current situation there in any other way about me. but as russia and russian president, putin has created fresh divisions in europe, etc, and begun a terrible war against its neighbour ukraine. and because of that, we are thinking of mikhail gorbachev isn't. and know how important he has been for the development of europe and our country as well in recent years, young at other tributes have been pouring in from leaders around the world. in russia are a spokesman for vladimir putin said. the president expressed his deepest condolences to go which os family you and chief antonio quoterush said he was deeply saddened by gorbachev passing and described him as a one of
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a kind statesman who changed the course of history. european commission president, also a funder lion, said gorbachev, crucial role in bringing down the iron curtain opened the way for a free europe. and the foundation of then you, as president ronald reagan tweeted that gorbachev was a man who was once a political adversary, but who ended up becoming a friend o from riga, our full and moscow bureau chief fury the shadow, joins us along without a political correspond. melinda crane. belinda, starting with you for the germans. this would be clear, but for people abroad, just explain what, what sort of a ro gorbachev did play in that re unification process between east and west germany. many of the tributes that are now flowing in here in germany referred to him as one of the architects of unified germany. he is deeply, deeply revered, in this country, and many germans remember
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a legendary sentence that he uttered in october 1989. so one month before the wall fell, when he said, if you get there too late, history will punish you. and actually he said to have said something slightly more prosaic that you get into trouble in life if you don't deal with what it throws at you. and in fact, he dealt with what was thrown at him in november 1989 with the fall of the berlin wall with restraint. he kept soviet troops in their barracks. he later agreed to pull them back out of germany. in fact, one of my very 1st reports as a young journalist was on that soviet troop withdrawals from eastern germany. and he mentioned and emphasized restraint in one of the key speeches that he gave in the summer of 1989. when he told the council of europe that he had a vision for a europe whole and free for a common european house. and, you know,
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been that's language. we still used today to talk about an ideal for europe that he saw at that time. and he said that can only be based upon restraint and upon political reality. and at the same time, he admitted that in fact, the winds of history had brought into a into effect consequences. that meant that he still could not fully see the contours of the blueprint. for that common european home, such a stock contrast to the russian leadership. now, what sort of responses are we getting from, from berlin over this news? well, you heard a laugh schultz immediately tying this to the war in ukraine and talking about gorbachev is a man of peace. and indeed the phrases we're hearing from across the entire political spectrum. here in berlin, father of german unity, a man who changed history, a man of peace,
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or indeed the absolute opposite of certainly how people here would describe bladder me put in. yours can we bring you in? russians have a more mixed view of gorbachev. tell us more about that mikhail gorbachev was able to break apart something seemingly unbreakable, a political regime that ruled soviet russia for 70 years. so therefore millions of russians are thankful to him for it. but at the same time, it took russia a long, long time to overcome the poverty of the late eighties and early nineties. and to many people in that pool, russia came to feel that garbage host reforms, glasnost, and perestroika will not enough to provide them with a dignified life. a strong economy was also necessary, something that russia didn't have. so garbage has legacy after the collapse of the soviet union is a difficult one. on the one hand, he opened his country and gave the citizens of the soviet union,
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freedom and possibility they that they wouldn't have dreamed on before. but on the other hand, people blame him for the difficulties that follow to the collapse of the soviet union. and what, for what many in russia feel was a national humiliation. how close was gorbachev to vladimir putin? could you tell me more about that and where, where he stood on the war in ukraine. yet mikhail gorbachev has talked about his support for russian president putin. many times i he defended to russia's policy and ukraine. i'm absolutely convinced he said that that booted protects. protect thrushes, interests better than anyone else. and that is something that is the best, obviously didn't like to hear from one of the young favorites. russian politicians, i got much of maintained to get to the ukraine crisis provided an excuse for the united states to pick on russia. but that was all said before the start of the war
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at the beginning of this year. and we have for little information on what's gorbachev reaction to it really was reportedly he was upset by hooton's invasion of ukraine. he felt his life's work was being destroyed. all the freedom he once gave to the russian, people with his reforms has now been undone again. melinda, you have to say, this is so significant, 6 years at 6 months into this war. ah, and this man, this towering figure in history, in modern history, ah, passes away what, what's your personal reaction? well, you know, in terms of how would he have thought about the war in ukraine? it's interesting because if you look at what he said in the years that followed unification, he often cited what he had been told by the u. s. foreign minister james baker. at the time when it was clear that germany would be reunited within nato,
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that james baker said to him, nato will not move one inch closer to russia. he often cited that, and he talked about his disappointment with the west and also with germany. he was angry that russia also often in his eyes was scape goaded and he constantly worried about the potential for violence between russia and the west. on the other hand, would he himself have resorted to what we have seen put into. i think certainly not . it was emphasized in our report that he was a man of disarmament. he signed the 1st nuclear disarmament treaties. he was under pressure to use military to hold the soviet union together, but he always refused to do so and said explicitly to the media a heavily nuclear armed country, we are not going to use violence because it could get out of hand. and it's also interesting to note that he was partly ukrainian, his grandparents were from crimea. so i think for a whole host of reasons,
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by the way, he also never served himself in the military, which was quite unusual in russia at that time for a host of reasons. i think he never would have resorted to force as we say, putting uri. how is gorbachev regarded in ex soviet stays like lapierre, for example, where you up well, the relationship between the baltic countries and gorbachev is mixed. i would say on the one hand go bunch of enabled the freedom that people enjoy here in lot fair and, and all the other baltic countries as well as a whole post soviet block and got a bunch of could of course have a reactor to much more harshly when the bowl to countries declared to their independence. on the other hand, the war casualties in the protest. here in the 1990s, lithuania was the 1st soviet republic to declare independence. in january, 1981 because gorbachev, who was the general secretary of the soviet union, sent special forces to videos to the capitol, lithuanian lithuania. in the effort to reverse affairs,
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fought in people war killed and at least 700 people were injured. lithuanians put up a strong resistance that gorbachev hadn't counted on. and of course got a bunch of is also seen as a symbol of the soviet union, which is the man. but here is the ball to countries as a time of the soviet occupation. yury. thank you very much for your analysis, melinda crane. thank you very much for coming in and giving us your insight as well to ukraine. now, way united nations nuclear experts have left the capital key for the occupied power plant needed separation. the team will assess the condition of the facility, and any danger near by fighting could pose for europe's largest nuclear power station, lead investigator. rafa grossi told journalists, the un experts hoped to help stabilize the situation. the plant has been occupied by russian troops since march and has repeatedly in shelled. both moscow and cave blame each other for the attacks. he
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w correspond mathias bellinger is in separation. i asked him what the un inspectors will focus on during their visit. on their way now they were possibly arrived tonight or tomorrow morning on the site and they will look for the damage done to the facility there has been selling in our for now some weeks that some of it has had closely to the plant or 2 electric lines and other important structures near the plant, so they will, this has the damage. that's the 1st thing. it will assess how the security systems are working. every power plant has a range of systems that are either need to be activated in cases of security or that protect the power plant and that will ensure the cooling keeps on. so there can no be no a nuclear meltdown. so this is the 2nd thing they want to do. and the 3rd thing is
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that they want to talk to the stuff, the ukranian stuff in this power plant and see what they're working conditions are like and whether this is still sustainable. to mathias has been speaking to people fleeing the russian occupied area around the nuclear power plant. one of them was a technical worker for the facility. he says he's concerned about it safety and he is russia may try to conceal the reality of the situation for the un inspectors. some have spent hours some days waiting for this moment here in support. easier refugees arrive from the occupied territories in the south. some awfully in the fighting. some lie from the occupation. and recently, new worries have emerged. the little da does not live here, which i believe about 40 kilometers from and had her dad officially when not endanger, saying what are you more but it's not far that i do it,
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nor now of hitting them with when they shoot, we can hear it. so we decided to pack our things here on leave. i'll leave it of all this is because we need them or know is up what is. yeah, the refugees are registered and get food and assistance. buses are waiting for those who want to travel on in the past few days, many have arrived from the embattled city of and now her daughter we have spoken to a few people who have just left an out her door and the nuclear power station there . they're talking about constant shelling, they saying they are afraid of what might happen to the nuclear power station and that they want to move as far as possible from there. none of them agreed to speak on camera out of concern for relatives they've left behind. but we managed to reach or you could opiates by video call. he passed through here a few days ago and he was an engineer at the plant was on shifts until last week.
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he thinks the risk at the plant grows. as more colleagues leave, mother was a goodness station needs constant maintenance. now this work is not being done at a power plant. everything should go like clockwork. from the beginning of a mason's job until the end, let him in. there should be a strict shadow. everything needs to be done at certain hours, certain days on certain shifts in now the clock is broken. it's still ticking. i just, but it doesn't work any more. anything you guys 9 give alma he doesn't believe the mission of the international atomic energy authority will have any impact. he doubts, they will get the full picture based on the visit for russian t. v. crew to the plant. it because i linda, they showed the crew that they were removing military equipment from the plant and that everything was working well just after the journalists left and they brought
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everything back in. they have learned how to make propaganda, which in kind of see what they know how to prepare pictures. when the i a a comes, they will show them a nice picture. when, when the i alias, everything will be the same as before. i got there with journals. those who have made it out. i relieved nobody knows for how long the roads will be open. the united nations has called the floods in pakistan, an unprecedented climate catastrophe. secretary general antonio gall terrace, said the world was sleep walking into the destruction of the planet and urged leaders to prevent what he called the next disaster. millions of acres of farmland did pakistan have been submerged while the 1100 people have been killed and millions more, have lost their homes. as the rains finally ease the scale of
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the catastrophe becomes clear. the worst flooding in pakistan's history has left more than one 3rd of the country under water. satellite images revealed the sheer extent of the damage, which pakistan's foreign minister has blamed on climate change. i want to emphasize here that the scale and magnitude of the current floods is unprecedented, whereby the country received rainfall equivalent to 3 times the national national 30 year average. this is a grave manifestation of climate change induced disaster. the devastating floods have forced more than half a 1000000 people to flee to dry ground. many now shelter in makeshift camps where supplies of food, medicine and clean water are running dangerously low. the un secretary general appealed to the international community for help. warning that the climate
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induced crisis poses a global challenge. 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. let stop sleep walking towards the destruction of our planet by climate change to they. it is pakistan to morrow, it could be your country. the u. n. has cold for a $160000000.00 in international aid to help those most in need. but the pakistani government says it will need more than $10000000000.00 to recover and with more rain predicted in the coming weeks. that number is likely to rise. joining us now from northwest and pakistan is, was emma mud is the ceo of islamic relief. was im,
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you're in one of the worst affected, or we're in one of the worst affected areas. tell us what you've been seeing. this section everywhere where i'm standing this morning. we are in the shallow have a signal shadow and a problem. the 200 house is just washed away by the flood 3 days ago. we are trying to reach to this area, but there was the water and the house is behind me. all was covered in water. and this is the destruction that the moon from season and the freddie is doing the all the cost. unfortunately, getting this much needed really supplies such as food items, shelter and hygiene. gift is challenging. we are trying for last 2 days to get to this area, but we manage this morning to get to a quite a dryer ground. we managed to really for white, these relief items to over 200 families. so what is needed? most right now people don't have their homes so so much has been destroyed
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in so many areas of been totally cut off as well. absolutely. i think the rescue efforts are going on in the southern province where we're team is we're working in problems, but in case we need essentially supplies such as food items, shelter, hygiene kids because people need this is at risk of all the recalls in the community. but also the houses behind the people are going inside, the house is not notice and they are very tangent because that water was in this area for a good for 5 days. and they think that it's a great, it happened 2010 plus that people are distracted moving into their home. it also started collapsing and they were injuries and they were debt in this district that i'm spending 10 people that we lost their lives to flirt so far. i find it interesting that the government blames this on climate change. manmade climate change and emissions from other countries from rich countries. does this mean
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pakistan is going to be hit by these sorts of floods, time and again, until the world cleans up its act after? absolutely, i think that's what i've been speaking to affected community for lots about 10 days and 3 to 4 days in this particular province and typically proven everybody thing that is a could you describe move on ski, right? we never saw in this country moonstone at this scale and magnitude and i think unfortunately, we're going to see this more unless we're not really step up and bring the emission down to the level that it's already level. so we need to really make sure we have lot of islamic relief. thank you very much for your time. let's take a look at some other stories making headlights. iraqi president ha ha,
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has called for early elections to settle a political crisis, which is triggered some of the deadliest violence in years. at least 30 people have been killed since clashes between rival shiite factions broke out monday. influential, shia cleric malta, it's cold on his supporters to end. their protests shot behind on us president joe biden has traveled to the key battleground state of pennsylvania. ahead of november as mid term elections. he demanded action on gun violence and called for a ban on a soap weapons. former president donald trump is expected to hold a rally in the same city on saturday. when i sign in, hundreds of people have taken to the streets of hate to protest against crime and soaring prices. the central bank says inflation is at a 10 year high fuel stock. so running low as importers struggle to get the subsidies, the key price is lower. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. what leaders and other public figures have been paying tribute to former soviet liter mikhail gorbachev. dined at
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