mission street now in the palm of your. call. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice ceased to face with the news makers. welcome back here's a recap of the top stories on our team u.s. warships are assembling near the libyan coast of a growing speculation of a nato intervention the old rich country for the same time critics say that claims about colonel gadhafi possessing chemical weapons have an all too familiar ring. and protesters in arab countries look for western support we take a look at a history which is just that it only backs democracies it can control and knows

that it can't be crushed as that was the case with hamas in gaza which was denied international legitimacy for its opposition to certain interests. and also outrage after allegations that a u.s. psychological warfare unit used mind tricks on senators to secure more cash and fruits raising fears over the military's reach into political life. now as the first and only presidents of the soviet union that may have got a bunch of eighty on wednesday talks to his daughter and asks how much influence her father's ideas hold today our interview show spotlight is up next.

how again you're welcome to spotlight the answers shout out our seat. then today my guest is. the first president. of a child is celebrating his eightieth birthday for many people in the world his name is synonymous chant to strike and openness his new unprejudiced policy towards the west the arctic air and made the u.s.s.r. a new country his heritage today is his ideas of democracy and freedom promoted by the barbershop foundation. do they have much worse to do these days here's the rice president of the garbage your foundation and the order of the first and last president of the u.s.s.r.

which. after years of stagnation some circles and a saw good leadership came to understanding it was necessary that was the time for mikhail gorbachev comparatively young local party leader to step in to being elected as the communist party secretary general he announced in. policy terms glasnost stupor openness and perestroika which to call reconstruction the world's political capital or gorbachev to the country from confrontation to corporation with the west and his popularity in europe and america brought him the nickname for me. just as you are arena and thank you for being with us today thank you for inviting me to dinner could you tell us where and how mr gorbachev is planning to celebrate his eightieth birthday there has been a lot of talk about that many people have already said they would like to send very

greetings to mr gorbachev how will told take place because it's it has already been a long celebration a long one yes a long one the first celebration was held when a photo exhibit open in the my news exhibit hall in moscow it was called gorbachev and his time that let's take a closer look at the garbage of error in a report by spotlights eludes me there have. been three years of the girl richer of ceased to be leader of the country because when you heated debate among russian from prison for the democratic freedom they wrote about other ways of economic instability of the mind and ninety's and the collapse of the soviet union overthrow of three pools one got very poor got and the word was the biggest weak day fills the room and the guy one of the younger man at the top level of the u.s. soccer which of showed his passion for reform almost immediately after he'd become the leader of the country in mind to meet a five weeny little core of the board and here we have

a deeply developed strategy. to win the war program of perestroika before long the world became internationally known and the change it implied was profound for the society that had been used to moving along the same track for seventy years to putus the nation economy to shift from state regulated to consumer based model began and private business was allowed that came together with a tremendous change in political life monsanto literature was published secret soviet archives were opened state control over the media was used and political prisoners were released. and for the first time the reader of the country will see them either crowned. please me closer to the people i'm as close as i can be. a broad group of short was hailed as the man who helped and the cold war his name

is associated with the fall of the berlin wall and companion for nonproliferation in one thousand ninety you received the nobel peace prize however at home he spoke to larry king weekend as there are many this is my very strong give way to disappointment due to the thing you know we can only create forms the end of the ninety eight is the shortages of basic food stamps unemployment and unpaid wages became a reality keep in mind those economic hardships many russians don't you attribute to good ritual with completely impartial eyes and it might take another generation or two of russians for his legacy to be truly understood and accepted. now correspondent went to the exhibition you can see some of the photographs that were on display here is a very nice photo submission feature in many photographs which all of us remember very well but what about personal photos photographs taken of frank family archives

where he also displayed at the exhibition yes of course it was me all the speed lower and her team who prepare that exhibit was the first such event where plenty to organize a slightly different exposition in berlin it will tell more about gorbachev as a person opened it on february twenty fourth what those are you but the main celebrations ability clasen march second it's going to be on gorbachev's birthday we're going to celebrate it in the company of close friends colleagues isto shades and relatives in short with a narrow circle of people so can we call it a family celebration in first not quite so our family is still smaller than three hundred people i'm with you mean that all these three hundred people are the closest friends of mr gorbachev yes. in the. dream it's really surprising but can you really say that's a dream. gorbachev has three hundred friends perhaps there are not france but simply people with whom human teams close contacts. we can now enter

a discussion that will consume all our time. so why not i'm all for that that was a close friend and who is just a friend who is a close personal who is a colleague there are people with whom we maintain pretty warm relations can i put it this way yes of course but does mr gorbachev has some really close friends yes of course how many close friends does he have. more than that more than that more than there are more than that. many say that people especially when they're turning eighty have one or two close friends left all the others are just acquaintances is that really so. or has this because they're a different generation their relationships and stood the test of time in the value and appreciate his relationships a lot depends on how you value those relationships so i think that we have many more friends than just five or ten many more that many friends come from the region

he has many classmates he stays in touch with of course there are fewer of them left because of their old age after all their egos. it has occurred to me though i've never planned to ask you this question have you been baptized because yes who's your godfather you know i don't know the name of my godfather because my grandmother my father's mother baptized me secretly and that's why i'm asking you this question i don't think that mr gorbachev would have approved of that it was a convinced communist right i don't think that was the case this simply wasn't common practice it was the same with me my grandfather baptized me when i was six months old my parents brought me to my grandmother you know and she secretly invited a priest to her house that plays me as you know let's get back to me gorbachev i know that on march thirtieth this. gorbachev has gone to war a unique prize titled loser people who have changed the world and who should be

commended for their contribution to the development of the world community it's a very long name but it's true too please tell us more about the surprises how many categories does it have how many people are going to be awarded do you know them already you know when they will be three categories the candidates have already been nominated the categories are polled. last list openness in being exhilaration so this three well known matos yes they've been selected as models which could be a fourth model called new thinking yes but we've included that in the perestroika category the nominees in this category are people which means the world through social processes. that. today. time but to do years today not at that time here is why there are people who don't always feed into the formats of academic awards existing in the world see the nobel prize

isn't very good a word but it is i don't know how to put it to formalize maybe yes formalize is the right word but it is a good and respected prize to formalized that there are people who can really influence and transform human existence they don't just change it but don't want to word those who change the world by driving it into these sanity. we want to word people who radically changes the entire way of life of the world community of a continent or of a country like india but we don't want to limit ourselves to global issues. really jury will decide who should be awarded. this time and we're going to wear the price but we want to make a deal longstanding price for supporting people of this level. and if this really works you know i'm a very big pessimist by nature that's us and then too i don't have my glass fool i

always say that it's half empty so if this idea works and this ceremony takes place the jurors are going to be selected but in fact they've already been selected to practice and select a jury there will be a prize council we're going to select them any cedars to include the gorbachev foundation russia the new policy forum by the noble peace prize for him in the green cross international this combined it's a fair term international team that comes from all over the world yes and are you going toward the prize only to russians you know we're going to word the people who change the world are you seeing this person maybe living in kenya what do you choose london for the word ceremony i will how they deal with a word game leader and a deal of london they deal london came together with an idea to hold the

charity concert on the keys of the jubilee when you go into regardless of what people say i strongly really and that london is in a deal the new for charitable events. yes says gorbachev the vice president of the gorbachev foundation. and do it or are the first and last president of the us a sorry spotlight who did actually will continue this insinuate after a short break so stay way or a little help from. the . good samaritan. excellent professional.

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company. to the most low. pressure players up on oxy. welcome back to spotlight i'll do love in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is. going to the child of the vice president al the gorbachev foundation and daughter are the first and last president of the us as our it is only now we're talking about the gorbachev prize which he's going to award in london soon it's not the gorbachev prize yes i know but it's mr gorbachev was going to award it but it's not named after war but self well it's your award oh yes this project is our brainchild as you said that there is going to be a big concert in a big charitable you think and you just name at least some of the stars who are

going to participate will talk with us though just so that people can understand the level of the forthcoming event it will really be something rent breaking just to give you an idea i can say that. will be the chief conductor for this concert as will the london symphony orchestra will be the main orchestra for the night except for a few numbers that will use their own bands that will have katherine jenkins a very popular opera singer will have the bolshoi ballet in the my belly will. dimitri quarter still ski there will be an all star host crew sharon stone and kevin spacey will also have my scene of amy and the russian are all group yes they really hurt or spearing i'd like to ask you this one for the last resort is popular known as gorbachev foundation but it's official name is the international foundation for social economic and political studies. do you think russian

politicians for example in the government or industry duma c.s.k. are interested in your studies to do. list that i have said whenever we have the major project but not just one off thing but i always do our best to make the results available to everybody then take for example we did a major study on globalization it was a while ago this is important because globalization is the process that expects the world to be mostly so intellectuals have analyzed all those issues but people in practical politics often tend to ignore those intellectual findings that it is impractical all its expedient are always preoccupied with something a burden and they have enough problems of their own that they want to be reelected so they need to take care of practical things like electricity heating gas and water supply and so on is that the so when we finished that project where

globalization was thoroughly analyzed we publish the bulky monograph on the subject incented to everybody if this they do mut'ah the government of the president and so on when you post the i don't know how much they were interested in oh yeah it's hard to say presently we're working on another interesting project devoted to federalism also lose track of the subject in the bustle of empty arguments over insignificant details. but the problem of federalism is gradually becoming very. russia and it will continue to do so in the future yet very few people think about it so right now we're working on it. once we're finished we'll make the results of our research available i don't know if people will be interested you see we do our work nobody asked us to study federalism if that's what you mean by being interested. has anyone asked you to study the history of perestroika through it

people today want to learn more about that period no one has asked us but it's our standing project so you've been doing it absolutely with you in a permanent basis because we believe if we don't provide an analysis books documents and archives are huge no one possibly will. ask do you publish classified documents of course i think there are hardly any documents on perestroika available to the public to do we have to wait for another a few fifteen or twenty years for something to appear published. naturally we can't publish what was classified by the government and wilson don't have access to those documents so we had a very interesting project which eventually resulted in the book published three or four years ago it wasn't titled the liberal of this c.p.s.u.

central committee it was based on handwritten notes made by aides rather than official transcripts so the let's why were able to publish them because they were not official transcripts they were just notes taken by his aides and i was amazed when i read how the members of the point you discussed various issues because you can tell that those people were engaged in historic discussions had never read the book. you said there were many things you couldn't publish. the. you know i mean classified documents we don't even have them but he knows a lot of things and yet he prefers to keep them safe from cell phones is this because he has some sort of an understanding with the current leadership. and an official nondisclosure paper you know this because he comes responsible as the president so the reasons are purely ethical absolutely being the president he has

to act responsibly there is no other way to just i wonder if he tell you anything that no one else should know i don't think still don't know i feel that i know an awful lot you just there but i'm afraid it's not the classified hated where it was so you didn't sign any non-disclosure papers and you can freely share what you know absolutely all right irina posters your foundation make money you don't know about some exotic thing says for example mr gorbachev appearing in it's a hard commercials but it was speaking seriously worries your primary source of funds being influenced me perience is in lectures. by joel donates some of the money he gets from that i peer and says in lectures to the foundation. i mean he still works and he works hard yes and how many lectures does a year a month approximately. i can give you a day or almost

a month this year for example because of his birthday we had. to pull him after you were through with the birthday celebrations who would normally have a couple of two week trips to the united states to give lectures at various universities say stop it when it was still visits to chip in. and so one more year you know it's hard to count we don't have a set number of letters per month and we're just a letter on the same old subject on the end of the soviet union and perestroika or something different. you know. well there is no then what are people interested in his views on the current situation on today's politics exactly absolutely one subject is the global world and global challenges and the other one is environment protection and the other subject is russia usually the election is called either russia yesterday today and tomorrow his vision for russia in the global world

a media russia in europe people often ask him to speak on some specific subjects like problem of what are resources or environmental problems but i would be after all he founded green cross international and environmental organization so there are subjects like this to. your foundation isn't a charity right and then it's a foundation for political studies and analysis movement you do a lot of charity work with why security or maybe your father say do you know it was my mother's initiative and it was she who began it when my father was the word that the nobel peace prize you decided to give the prize money to hospitals in russia. she was really the first in russia to get involved in charity work no question about that. at least at the state level she was you know in one thousand nine

hundred one i think she was just first period later after the resignation continued their charity activities it was mostly her wish that after she died and because she had given so much of herself and her money for charity to help children suffering from leukemia by individually she died of leukemia herself which is the accepted as our family mission we've zelie so you picked up the work she had begun in your health mr gorbachev with the foundation. do you personally view this as a mission of your life time or just something interesting to do or is it maybe a duty or responsibility what's your attitude to lists this is perhaps part of my family life or death to me family means sharing the same interests. i do. perhaps that's because of the family i was born into because of the values i

was raised with to me this is both my duty in my normal everyday life. but did you ever want to have a life of your own without politics without gorbachev without politics yes change your last name maybe change my name but possibly in five years or so i'll be ready to you can change my name what's this about you know how children are famous people not only politicians tenser run away from their fame i think it's because of their unfulfilled ambitions and. perhaps their i'm happy because attention is always focused on their parents and in their largely ignored. i have no such worries myself i'm happy to remain in the saddle you know that's how i look at it to me it's my family my father my whole life. i'm an absolutely public person and i cope well with that i lead such an eventful life i

have so much experience well i do get tired of it now and then everybody gets tired of working once in a while will is mr gorbachev a good father yes because he was a very good house and i heard that from my use of gorbachev your mother is he good father to you that he's a unique father in the unique man in which he thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was either one of a child who was president of the gorbachev validation and the daughter of the first the last president of the us and that's it for now for the last year if you have your sins for life or if you help someone in law and you think i should intervene next time it got alderman up out into the yard are you and let's discuss life interactive movie back with more firsthand comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on our team and take your. place in this.

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