knowledge grows through sherry, download it now. feel free. ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. world leaders paid tribute to mikhail gorbachev, who has died at the age of $91.00. the last leader of the former soviet union, he's credited with helping to end the cold war, though seen as a hero in the west, the view in his native, russia is more mixed. also on the program, a team of un experts is on its way to ukraine's appreciate nuclear power plant. that planned inspection of the russian health side comes to me. growing fears of

shelling in the area could spark a radiation. the glitz and glamour returned to venice for the 1st mask, free edition of a celebrated film festival. if the pandemic hit ah i'm so gale. welcome to the program. because gorbachev has died at the age of 91. the last leader of the former soviet union, he helped and the cold war by forging warmer ties with the west and introducing policies at home that encouraged openness and reform within the communist bloc is ultimately brought down the iron curtain that had divided europe since $945.00 onset germany on a path to reunification. but while often praise by the west as a hero is domestic legacy is complicated. a mikhail gorbachev 1st

speech as leader of the soviet union. it was clear he was a stark contrast to his predecessors. we is 40 was the old right. i live in peace 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 in aust 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, if we are foreigners all, unless i'm convinced that we will also have to reform our military law. we have far

too many weapons law, sickly. we have to seek dialogue with other superpowers and reduce our arsenals to a reasonable extent, yourself. as a result of that dialogue. gorbachev and you as president reagan find the 1st of many disarmament treaties in 1987. it was the beginning of the end of the cold war in october 1989 when he visited east berlin for the g d r's, 40th anniversary celebrations. gorbachev urged eric hanukkah to implement reforms. he warned the eastern leader saying, life punishes those who come to late a month after his visit. the berlin wall fell and with it, the iron curtain that had divided europe for decades. it was gorbachev's, reformist, policies that helped unleash a peaceful revolution across eastern europe. 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 to coo against gorbachev. in august 1991. at the end of that year, mikhail gorbachev announced his resignation and the soviet union was dissolved with many russians holding him responsible for its demise. ah, well here in germany, money including chancellor shoals of praise, mister gorbachev, role in the countries reunification, cielo lucretia. he is considered one of the fathers of german reunification,

shall go to school using the importance of michelle gorbachev for germany emerged clearly from the words of chancellor or love shots of on mood together for me. he was a courageous, our former and a statesman. go dead to do many things and mister guessing we will not forget that perestroika made it possible you must hurt us to try to establish a pretty walk garcia, russia love encounter and adapt to democracy. and freedom became possible in europe . fly up to the old pop at germany could be united aulshlag flight and the iron curtain disappeared. the eyes on the form for shortlist one does what after the fall of the berlin wall in 1989, it was gorbachev who expressed the u. s. as our support for the reunification of germany's communist east and the democratic west, many germans fondly referred to him as gobby, east germans in particular revere him as the man who brought them freedom after decades of dictatorship. former chancellor angle american, who herself,

grew up in east germany, said gorbachev had fundamentally changed her life that he exemplified how one single statesman can change the world for the better. on the streets of berlin, memories of gorbachev are still fond. who da said that he agreed to rooney? vacation alva medea that was the most important thing for us all at once. iron. i'm hat's luck. no m o for the fall of the wall and that he stood for something good. you know, we have him to thank for our re unification. morgan for, for gone to a fit. i stood for freedom i had and for i don't, the biggest thing was freedom i, i, i there i am very touched, really, very touch. talk good to move. i'm very sorry. the really the letter in his homeland russia views on got a bunch are far more ambivalent. he is perceived as the man who dug the soviet union's grave. but in germany,

he is still regarded by many as germans favorite russian. power has got more on that german view than from d. w. political correspondent, thomas sparrow. welcome at thomas is not how mikhail gorbachev will be remembered here in germany then as the man who allowed reunification? absolutely, that's certainly the case. there's a reason why go batch offs, relationship to germany, to the germans has been described as a special relationship. there is a reason why he is being described as germany's most beloved russian. and that has to do with those reforms that he implemented in the soviet union, which ultimately also paved the way for the so called peaceful revolution in east and germany for people going to the streets and protesting which also then led to the fall of the berlin wall and ultimately to germany's reunification in 1990. important to stress that then chancellor him would call wanted to have not only the united states on board but also the soviet union. and when call went to moscow to

try and get that support. he got it from gorbachev and it's that support that is still to day referenced when people in the street. but when people also, when politicians also refer to gorbachev and the legacy that he had here in germany, one legacy is what he had at home in russia. a very positive legacy, the one that he has here in germany, and i do believe that that is something that will remain that role that gorbachev played in the fall of the berlin wall and also in germany's reunification in 19 night. thank you for that. thomas thomas sparrow, i did of the political correspondence of course such tributes have been paid by a wide variety of international leaders. so here's a selection they could they thought it was cool. i remember very well this he studies days. well, let me hire a java santa window freedom of russian society. he tried to

change the communist system from insight gerber. mister gorbachev made positive contributions to the normalization of china, soviet relation. so to get cargo hydro ne sandals whose figure he has left behind a great accomplishment as a world leader and supporting the abolition of nuclear weapons. so justine was really didn't get through it said the lead a day to manage it because of which often one of those people who change the world and unquestionably changed it for the better. so let's look at how i mikhail gorbachev . legacy is viewed at home, where some blame him for the soviet union's collapse of him see him as a traitor. as day broke in moscow saw to did the news of mikhail gorbachev. death

russia's news channels reported that president vladimir putin had expressed his deepest condolences. but musk invites themselves were not united and mourning their former leader. one waiter was kaiser with i have a negative view of michelle gorbachev's time and power. still, he did a lot of damaging things to our country. we're the ones facing the consequences on your go off was gone. i think he wanted to show all countries and also the western europe. i would say all countries around the world that we are a peaceful country on a few warm yearbook, i read that we are ready to desire love from us when we got a lot of those rather than he introduced ballistic missile reduction, et cetera, et cetera. and move to partner in gorbachev's homeland ambivalence reigns, kremlin spokesman dmitri pasco, of hailed him as a statesman who will go down in history, but dismissed his hopes, of a rapprochement between russia and the west. as romanticism that did not work out

was in the face of what he called the bloodthirsty innes of moscow's opponents. and we can get more from date of his former moscow bureau chief. are you re re shatteau who is now working from rigor in latvia? welcome at uri. but let's start with this. this mixed russian view of mikhail gorbachev. for yes, for many russians, indeed, gorbachev doesn't only stand for freedom and openness, but also for the collapse of the soviet union. phil and it very much depends on who you ask. people from my generation, for so the transition from socialism to democracy as a great opportunity that they are very grateful talk about yourself, but for many others as the collapse of the soviet union is primarily associated with the economic cows. poverty and a are unemployment in russia. during those times, a families who no longer knew how to raise their children. so gorbachev as the destroyer of their families, prosperity,

even though their country was already facing and economic collapse before got much of. and on top of this, over the course of the last 20 years rush, the propaganda has constantly repeat that that, that, that the collapse of the ussr east is the greatest geopolitics catastrophe of the 20th century. and that's why vladimir putin likes to be portrait as a young leader who saved russians from the ve cows of the garbage elephant later, boris yeltsin times and then will as pick up on that point. so what did, but the former soviet lead a think of the current russian president and indeed his war and ukraine. well, it was a difficult relationship and we say i would say between putting and gorbachev and the one hand put him took away almost all of the liberties said that gorbachev had given to the russian people. and this must have upset gorbachev in terms of foreign policy. and now they're coming to the war. however, gorbachev has always defended puting policies, especially in the ukraine. after 2014,

he maintained that the ukraine crisis provided an excuse for the united states to pick on russia, as he said. as for the current war, as there was a little reaction from the former soviet president, gorbachev had been seriously ill for a long time. he hasn't commanded publicly on the subject, but one of his closest friends said, does that make hold? what about was very disappointed, very upset because all his life's work had been destroyed with his work. and one of the former soviet countries has mister gorbachev regarded backups at their in latvia, where you are now. well mikhail gorbachev came to paula. she is the soviet union. as he is cat at the one she came to power, the soviet union was an aging. and pious, it's needed reforms. glasnost and perestroika was the instrument and instruments. he used to try and save the country, but especially here in the baltic states were as a people web brush, pushing for independence. and gorbachev created the atmosphere for independence to

blossom in the baltics. and i think many people he appreciated. on the other hand, he did try and suppress protests in neighboring lithuania. for example, are 14 people were killed and hundreds people were injured. i lithuanians put up a strong resistance of that, that gorbachev hadn't had, i'll count it on. and of course, got a bunch of is a symbol over the soviet union, which also means the time of the soviet union. so your occupation as to this time is cold here. i thank you for your in europe, rosetta and maria to ukraine, where experts from the us nuclear watchdog are on their way to carry out long awaited inspections of the separation nuclear power plant that arrived in the city of zappa's asia and are expected to head to the russian occupied site on thursday for a visit that could last several days. ukraine and russia have repeatedly traded accusations of shelling in the area as inspectors were on their way. russian officials again

accused ukrainian troops of firing shells site in order to disrupt the mission ruffled a grocer, director general of the international atomic energy agency, outlined what he hopes of is the chief is a mission that seeks to prevent a nuclear accident and preserve at this important, the largest, the biggest nuclear power plant in europe be the whole of europe, not only in ukraine. so this is what we are concentrating on. we can jointly w correspondent, mathias building a who is in is after asia. welcome mathias inspector, still need to get to the plant itself. can i actually do that safely? i given these reports of fresh yelling in the area. yeah, we've seen them passing by today, yearns up or is your the ukranian authorities? i did. are you concerned about their safety? there is a police escort for people who are trying to take pictures are prevented from doing

so. the problem is, of course that shelling has occurred again today in our dar and that also the have you mixed signals from the russian side, the a representative of the occupational authorities there has said that they would not get be given a pass through the checkpoint. that they would have to queue up like everybody else, and this, or this does not point to a very friendly a welcome. but on the other hand, of course, russia has said that it had good guarantees in place to ensure they say, see, and their access to the sites. and at the moment, it's a word that russia has given. we will see probably tomorrow, whether this is going to happen or not. okay, and if it does happen, what do we expect them to do that at zapper asia, what they want to do is they want to excess, assess the damage that it has been happening to this plan you throughout the

shelling i just rode the past few weeks so there is a physical damage to electricity lines and, and 2 buildings on the premises of this, of this plant. if not to the reactors themselves, they want to assess the functioning of the security systems. a nuclear power plant needs to be cooled throughout all the times. if the cooling stops, we have a big problem. we probably have a nuclear disaster. so there are several mechanisms in place that should ensure that the cooling continues. if for example, the power plant is cut off the electricity grid or in other cases. so this is something they accessed the ukrainians, have said that they have given them specific details about the plans of the, of the plant and where to look for these of the systems and how to assess them. and the 3rd thing they want to do is to assess the conditions for the workers there . the work is there, run these,

this plant on shift or the workers who used to work there before the war. they are ukrainians. they are employed by the ukrainian atomic energy authority, but the plant is run by or, or the, the command is, is, is run by the russian atomic energy authority. so can these are people do their job? are they under pressure, is their safety risk from that as well? this is the 3 things they want to do and briefly ambitious, but people are going to wonder how truthful a picture inspectors will be able to get given that russia now is in control of the plant. that depends a lot on how long they will be spending. there they are, there are talks about them leaving a few, inspect his behind. of course, you can hide a lot of things very well for one day or 2, but the longer this takes, the more difficult it becomes to hide it. so this is $11.00 thing days of course,

suspicion i've talked to an engineer from her, from the plan to has fled to ukraine. and he says basically that he does not think that they will get the full picture. and we also don't know whether the employees that they hope to speak to have been put under pressure. no, we've heard information that it might be so, but or this is impossible to verify. thank you for that. material mathias are bullying in zachary's. you take a look at some or stories making a headline saturday. iran's present at bonham. salah, her score for early elections to saddler, political crisis, that triggered some of the deadliest violence for years. at least 30 people have been killed since clashes between rival shiite factions broke out on monday. influential she eyed cleric, mach todd al sada, has called on his supporters to end their protests. taliban have been celebrating 1st anniversary of the withdrawal of american troops left counties down. us president joe biden faced heavy criticism when his forces withdrew, suddenly allowing the taliban to regain control of the water country. a truck has

plowed into a bus stop in jakarta, killing 10 people, most of the elementary school children at the truck, also at down to telephone pole, which then crashed into motor bikes. on the pickup truck, the driver has been detained by police. the rent has described floods in pakistan as an unprecedented climate catastrophe. secretary general antonio gutierrez 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 hacked hands are farmland, have been submerged more than 1100 people killed and millions more of lost their homes. as the rains finally ease the scale of 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 induce 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 induced crisis poses a global challenge. pakistan is a washing, suffolk. the pakistani people are facing them on soon on steroids. the relentless

impact of ethical 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. now the world's oldest film festival, the venice film festival begins to day. after 2 years of covered restrictions, the event will be masked, free with an all star lineup of celebrities and films expected it sold so hoping to mark a return to the glitz and glamour of festivals passed. oh,

when it comes to old world movie magic. no one does it better than the venice film festival. for this year, the goal is clear to get film fans excited about going back to the movies. oh, female figures are and focus on the lido. cuban actress on a day a mass plays marilyn monroe and blond, showing the darker side of the hall with icon. ah ah, the buzz around cape blankets performance as a driven conductor in tar already has people talking about the oscars. oh. ready ready jeff are upon a, he won't be in venice. the distant director was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment

by the iranian government. his new film, which was shot in secret, explores the struggle of a band artist to live and work in iran, as for the odd with him. if or yeah, love mars as long and nicky vivian on them was you will lose it. potter damage that an annual aren't house fans will play to watch and venice this year. the big question is whether the world's oldest film festival can get them off the couch and back into cinema's. will d w culture scott to rock's profile that report and joins us now. he get old, that he gets all the tough jobs. welcome to scott. and how are very strong i was reacting to this 1st events. since corona restrictions were lifted. yeah, no it's, it's been quite amazing. i mean, i was here the last 2 years when we had grown restrictions, when there were social distance saying, unmasking, and so forth. that's all gone now i'm and you really feel it here on the streets in

venice. i was just walking past the red carpet and people are already camped out there waiting to see the stars of this night's opening night a film i'm and i think given some of the stars that we'll be seeing over the next a few days, including harry styles and timothy shalumi, i think we're gonna see are really hundreds, maybe thousands of streaming, maybe not even a few fainting fans, which is great to see because even though cinemas are open again, i'm, i've really missed this sort of real celebration of sentiments of the fan frenzy that you only get at a festival like venice will do your best to keep it together. and netflix us for films in the running on the lido as the streaming giant, not find me at one over cinema. lummus. i think so. yeah, i mean, venice was the 1st festival, the ever a show on netflix thompson. they've been netflix don't here for the last 67 years. i'm but having 4 films, he'll really makes a statement. i think a statement that is really important for netflix at the moment. given the problems that they're having in their business with the subscriber number slipping and with

talks of cost cutting on this or having 4 big films here at one of the biggest film festivals in the world is really a sign from netflix that they want to be here at the top of the cinema world, playing with the big guys i'm and that they'd know have no intention to leave a quick word about the standout films that well, we looked at a saw some of them in, in, in my piece. tar, starring cate blanchett, a blonde, a marilyn my ro biopic, people talk a lot about that. i'm personally really excited to see the whale, which is a stars brendan frazier. a really interesting actor who i don't think has got a chance to have a real breakout, oscar nominated style movie, and this could be the one. so that's my tip for vanessa this year is the way i'll starring brendan frasier. thank you for that, scott. scott rooks brought up in venice film festival. this is d. w coming up next in news,

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