so a seven thirty on a saturday night here in moscow you with r.t. are recapping our top story one of russia's a richest man says if not me then who is he sets his sights on the position of prime minister he enters a big politics as head of a liberal pro-business party aiming to become the second largest after putin's united russia in the upcoming parliamentary election. dozens die in a terrible means in afghanistan as for uk obama promises to follow through with the

decision to withdraw one third of u.s. troops from the country the white house is acting against the advice of top military commanders who want a much smaller troop reduction. london is accused of harboring a foreign a fugitive software was revealed the next egyptian finance minister is living openly in britain as a thirty year jail sentence back home who suffered boutros ghali and was convicted of corruption and power used for personal profit but fled. right my colleague our billboard is here in half an hour's time with the now richard daley the mayor of chicago has helped to turn a city once in decline into an attractive cosmopolitan hub i'll go off now and find out if he has some special advice for moscow spotlight is now.

hello again and welcome to spotlight they enter the shelf i'll take i'll very i'll bend today my guest is richard dale. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left our first off the twenty two years and the trip he managed to turn the declining addressed well city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and masterfully dealt with racism issues winning support other black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what advice does the experienced mayor have a must go my guest today is a veteran u.s. political war horse and the longest serving mayor of chicago richard daley. richard daley was the patriarch of a very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was told you just the best mayor out of your cities are you asked for making the caucus business

friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party you supported barack obama during a presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william the current plight most staff. all of us availing thank you very much all the thank you very much a pleasure having you be here right from moscow the petersburg we will be talking about bassinets. let's start. with the first question i want to ask you you like a record breaking politician so how difficult was the decision to leave it was your decision you you decided to quit and nothing was it or was it maybe one for your kids who maybe didn't know know you. what happened is that i enjoy public life i was a mayor for twenty two years and prior to their ten years as state's attorney i was a full time public servant for over thirty two years and prior to that eight years

as a state senator which was a part time and so i enjoyed my public career i was a public servant i enjoyed every minute of it and i sacrificed but i thought of their time in many times in our life it looks truly easy to get so easy it's a disservice to myself or to the public and i thought of the best decision i could make and could i could run again and win and all that but i just felt that it was time and people would try to figure that out you just you just wake up and you realize that what you've made your family happy and well they were happy before because you know they were a wonderful family for wonderful children and wife and friends and all that and you know it is so it's a part of public life was there or so it wasn't like a burden you know i enjoyed it when people think that being a mayor is such a big cities even is even more time consuming than being president so you have one

is because it's a yes because you have to have passion and you have to love people even though they say things and do things and you still in the four hours is there think about a garbage so your is your own people call you like twenty four and only if you look well they're the committee so we don't have a mono but you know i would move all in you know i never did you know because this is when i drove around the city i took notes every day is sauce things differently and i never micromanage people i say you have to have passion you have a lot of people and you have to have a desire to improve the city in the first thing i did one of the first things i did is you know that while cleaning up a city that had been people be part of a block of community organizations and the business community and their realization that the greatest gift i could give to any child is a good education if i give a challenge it. good education i give a gift for life but if i fail they become a burden upon their family and society or another generation that you giving people a good education is not complex the weather center you know it is you know it's the

teachers is no no it's not that's not the teachers the role of the mayor says no i mean you say you are really giving education you take responsibility and so didn't i'm the only mayor in the country have took responsibility and i played so myself that lie i want to have the system in you're the mayor you're responsible they're going to hold a responsible and hold to they hold the mayor responsible in chicago and so what do you want to do we want to give our we're give them an edgy but isn't there something to do schools are good oh you got into the program into the threads into exams here's no no here's an exam we here's an example we teach arabic we take russian and we teach the chinese said it was a literal decision it was it was not a political decision it was an education decision to give young people opportunities to realize the world is changing and now only understand the language the custom of the history in traditions so that you have to you can't leave they have been the size that we build sixty beautiful libraries in the city he said you

have to have a learning environment in the home and in the community it isn't just going to school to learn there it has to be the whole community says this is a learning environment and so that's what you have to do this isn't a you surpass you found form for the use of six students well well two terms in office is one of the fundamental principles of american democracy and democracy in a lot of countries in the world so shouldn't be applied to to the post of the mayor you put your name up you say you want to let me or not that's it that's the first wrong with it i think people say well the public is not that smart we have to limit terms the public the smarter than anyone else they can say we like you or reject you why do we need the presidential term well i don't know i. and look the american people elect obama for the fifteenth and i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't mind a i think any president should want but when you start limiting people that means you say the public doesn't have enough education or enough confidence or were

thought to understand whether or not you're doing a good job and so my belief is you run for you run for election and if they accept you the accept you then you carry that around well maybe maybe they just think that when you are in office you've got too much of what we call the administrative resources i mean you can you you can you can pull more money more resources to being relaxed you've got them to kind of know what i mean because if you just weren't really elected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't realize that most people worry about that maybe they can accumulate money to get my campaign going and they forget about doing their job and so the mayor is more it's not a partisan job the mayor is about people and that's what a mayor's office is about what's your biggest achievement what makes you kid kids proud of you as a mayor who i think is is giving them a good quality education striving to judea and i pointed out because you could do everything in a city but if you don't educate your children then you have really failed as

a society and so the number one responsibility of government is to educate children and that includes the family and then includes everyone is that just the we lead the way but it requires everybody behind you you are credited for saving she cardew from a decline suffered by other rust both centers like detroit for example what exactly has been done to revitalize the the the the industrial so wrote this he should call is a public private partnership a business so on the mayor we are elected officials we work with a private business we say what you need to cities always change we said the chicago stockyards always they have chicago huge industries and it changes so city has to be willing to change if it doesn't change it lives in the past. and it gets why you have to change our public private partners or we cart the business come along so what do we need in the workforce how can i put raise money in order to provide a better education how can i do affordable housing what we can do for the

environment so you build a business community and not for profit and academic community as a leader and say let's work together that doesn't mean we have a difference of opinion so our public private partnerships has helped the city tremendously more than any other city in america chicago was the one in the world through the especially through the prints for segregated neighborhoods or through divides and racial politics you tried hard to break these barriers but do ethnic divisions still play going to have when some ethnic divisions you have like a german community you have a polish community and you have segments of that but soul of witchery a generation intermarriage people being educated in so you have a total different generation you have more immigrants coming from the middle east you have more immigrants coming from north africa or immigrants coming from asia and so that what you try to do is you provide a good education and you diversity is good but also it can create its problems so

we're a very diverse city were founded by immigrants jean baptiste do sabo is french haitian he fell in the city and today we welcome immigrants from all over the world into our great city and so that you you diversity is it has the strength but also didn't have its weakness and i said whatever happens in the rest of the world it should not bother you here in america and that doesn't mean there's ethnic religious or racial differences there will be but you try to really work at it we formed a human human rights commission human relations so they're very proactive in any activity in the city of chicago so they're out there with i have an asian community and i need to span a community we can be community i have. an arab community. we chinese agent we have all of different committees set up so we can help new immigrants who arrived in the city chicago is old also known in russia to movies

and as a gangster which he said but again stars in chicago are are a legend today well in moscow the gangsters are still alive and st petersburg eve as it is right now but what was once labeled the gangs through capital of russia couple of years ago so they did this you see some similarities with the chicago you you saw in the movie l o l compose one thousand nine hundred thirty eight and i know that anybody was alive then it was like nineteen thirty and so late a touch of rules are always played so beyond that in you know we have university of chicago we have great university medical. you know just a great city and so you know people to watch untouchables you know there's a guy out there he met most commuters to be ending and you know if you want some advise do you discuss something when we all just i said there was a panel and of course many people surcharge by trafford and traffic is a problem for all of the urban areas in the next ten or fifteen years almost eighty percent or more people who live in urban areas it takes one hundred years of

america to be urbanized this world be urbanized in less than twenty five years or thirty years and that is amazing we talked about environment we talked about how the environment it is economic sense environment of the land the air and the water which is really important for a city we talked about traffic we talked about economic development housing you talked about emergency police and fire and other things and mayors get together we talk about best practices what works and what doesn't work and the mayors are closest to the people and so they have to do if they have a lot of passion and you can't solve everything well at least you're striving to solve them. says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving mayor of all chicago retired just in may spotlight will be back shortly ride out the breaks out don't go away stay where you want to play.

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. just say. welcome back to the spotlight and i we're not even just a reminder that my guest today is richard daley a veteran u.s.

politician and the longest serving mayor chicago the guy did a lot for the city for the environment universities for reform for racial problems but mr daley thinks that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids a good education the right leadership of the right leadership to be a spokesperson for education ok now one of your best pupils your personal best pupils was michelle obama was she yes you the guy who advocated to become oh no leadership and i'll. i came from she was here you know you are going to your advisor or she planned involvement she's she's a well educated woman and a brother and came from a wonderful family who parents again when they strive for education she was an amazing yes she worked in the mayor's office and of course she was your assistant or it was because she was in the planning development office and she was a wonderful ploy and she had to have passion and dedication about it and of course

president obama was a former community organizer a state senator u.s. senator and now we're very proud of him to be our president and he really would flex america first african-american mayor but he was elected on that alone he was elected and his competency and in his passion a willingness to look at people in seeing people in a different light he sees and looking at them and trying to give them a whole in a better world and a better country this is your opinion today when you time this your opinion still counts in the democratic party while everybody counts i mean you know everybody counts i mean if you go that mean you're you're right well i don't think i think you listen to everyone it's not just those in government or have an opinion and it's you have to really listen to the people that i did all my life the people i have more to say and then just political leaders well we have today u.s.

presidents from illinois he's not exactly from chicago but from illinois it's a very special place do you think that being for a little a newly made of bama special role his style you know he came he lived in chicago and he represented chicago and not only that but he has a different feeling from the midwest and the values and he understands the closest you have to be to people and he never lost that as president yet he has a great feeling to people when people meet him one hand one it's amazing go tell you about and of course very successful as can. pain young people felt that he's making changes and even today would a deep recession and a tough recession he's still very optimistic you have to be optimistic because everybody that we're going through a recession so you have to know there's light at the end of the tunnel but we're going to get there the people in russia the often compare it to kennedy and well you would of course say they're different can't compare people because if you start

your plan for each one has their own identity their own character they're all ideas of what their president should do but most importantly they understand the greatest sacrifice that former presidents have made to the country and i can't speak for him but he's taken a part of all of them that some way have made a wonderful contribution all the presidents to our country in the world do you think michelle obama has the own political ambitions could could could should be like like hillary clinton number two while she's. in she's the first lady and she's making her voice heard and many of the issues confronting children and families and and not just in the country but in the world and she's a wonderful spokesperson as the first lady around around the world and you see it a wonderful family keep their their family life even in the white house her strongest influence the president will just say well i would know i would know how much influence they have but their loving couple respect each other and and she has

a great education background and well respected well is it more than the tea party or less than the tea party what do you think that the tea party in general how do you really a challenge what remember people get a lot of frustrated you have a party give a beer party the party of a coffee party whatever party you want in a democracy you know people form different things they get it and so like anything else there had to be heard in so you listen to them where they say in their freighted that they're afraid that america's going to bankrupt. so you have to listen to everyone and this is the right that's part of democracy in the person it was willing to listen he's making great strides of cutting back at various programs or cutting back red tape and efficiency listening to the business community trying to understand how people get hired that new jobs that we have to train for so he's out there are responding to people. a bomber won't what was

a great hit when he was elected well i mean worldwide but his popularity has been has been front and pretty pretty dramatically for the last the last months or so and many many say it's be is because of the economic problems that lead us did he believe this is i mean it's all because of the only reason i don't know if every president for two years hit all time high then all a sudden in the midterm elections midterm elections are going to be president they lose every president if you look back so they lose but in a recession when there's a recession you know people worry they start worrying about economic development and jobs and what's going to happen to their parents or what's going to happen today when they graduate everybody is looking for opportunities but he's he's hailing that straight out any he's looking at the eyes of the people he says listen we're trying to do everything possible nothing's perfect we're going to come through it's challenging there's a hardship and he's out there if you watch him almost every day talking to the

american public and not running for ducking from these issues what a chance it is in two thousand and twelve and you see the chances of a in two thousand and twelve oh i think they're good i think i think he's done a very very good job and in difficult circumstances and he's that point is finger back and said i'm taking responsibility you know when you get elected you take responsibility and that's what he's done he's not blamed anybody he's not saying yes i have done this and this is how moving forward and people want vision they want they want a leader they have passion and understanding at the same time to this. the problem is all over the world so it's not unique united states is look at what's happening in europe today in china other places and a recession is affecting everyone so illinois still supports what it's about do you think that's why it's like why kids from hell there you know i think you want a president hails from respectively bill clinton hail from arkansas on jimmy carter

hail from georgia and. bush one to hail from texas and they're very proud of that so you get an identity from chicago and eleanor we're very proud that he hails from there. you mentioned meeting people you told me when you came into the studio today that the that you use the television you are used to giving their like for us conferences that we easily you know moscow may russian politicians are the scale they meet like once one a year do you envy them or should they envy you well you know one thing you know i am going to talk about whatever the moscow regime piers. but i made it a point to military for days and even saturday i can't i work there is saturday to make sure because the public is not working so this one america should be out and so we get there we not jewish and. i was not there all the time and working in and

so that press always had access to me and so that was that was something i was proud of and they ask any question any any question whatsoever and so that's all part of communicating with the public as well well the press but they do give you a hard time i mean and these to do in the st louis for example your your your governor and mr. lee's he's shown as an example of patronize corruption and things like that well you know it's funny he's already convicted of perjury and a retrial. but he. he was he was somebody that. young man that is well educated woman to be a lawyer well educated in a just he didn't understand what public service was about but that's it that's what we've hired people and you know it doesn't reflect everyone there are people who are corrupt in every facet of life in the public and private sector academic

community and not for profits it is one of failures of society it's that it's one of the failures of people that have isn't it sort of also traditional in chicago or from the times are going to capone and no no you know i don't think so i mean if you take if i took advantage of what europe was all about you wouldn't want to live there i guess you know i mean there are there are issues there in europe and we don't want to get into on you know where the real market is because we like me talking about germany and that's usually when trying to fight corruption here in moscow with everybody in russia and many people are saying this is difficult because it's a tradition this is what the russian russian business russian wear but this is what it is all about you know you never go to a doctor with without carrying about a chocolate or a bottle of vodka you know when you read case i mean i mean this is our words but it can't because you can't survive on that because it's a it's a world that is changing rapidly. at the st petersburg conference and talked about

the russian investment fund where the russian government put enough money for foreign investment to come here and the first question open she transparency corruption all the issues the legal system and all that that's the first thing they're asked and so if it is a tradition you think it's doomed anyway why has to be because the venture. like anything else it affects the quality of service and the quality of service of government into any place in the world it could be any place in the world thank you thank you very much for being what is your idea of being here in moscow and st petersburg and i wish the people of. so that's the in the future and to say we have a wonderful embassador burly he done a tremendous job representing united states russia come again bring your family i will take you down it's just a reminder that my guest today was richard daley a veteran u.s. politician and the longest serving average mayor of chicago twenty two years spent and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your sales pipeline

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