destroying is a very warm welcome marty live here in moscow top stories now in this hour russia is laying into the e.u. for taking a unilateral approach against syria for me is the second of all says that if you transfer newborn in body it will destroy any part in like approach to solving the arab countries process. hundreds of thousands of israelis have gathered for a morsel to get the biggest ever anti-government rally is the latest in the summer protests against the high cost of living and an array of economic problems. also reporting r t the gas prices up in ukraine with another winter of discontent looming i think yet to successfully negotiate with russia over its previously

agreed fuel bills. and i'll be back with more on their stories more their relevance in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime we've put the spotlight on chicago's long serving where he's timely reforms transformed the city stay with us for that and. remind you the latest in science and technology from russia. we've got the future covered. hello again and welcome to spotlight they enter the shell. albert hall then today

my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left our first call for twenty two years and which he managed to turn the declining address trail city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and masterfully dealt with the racism issues winning support other black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what advice does the experienced mayor of moscow my guest today is a veteran u.s. political world horst and the longest serving mayor of chicago richard there. richard daley was the patriarch of a very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was told it is the best mayor out of the five largest cities or have asked for make the chicago exploring business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party he

supported barack obama in the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william her own life house chief of staff. plus a daily thank you very much all the thank you very much a pleasure having you be here and rock the moscow she could use burger well we will be talking about boston but let's start let's start. with the first question i wanted to ask you like a record breaking politician so how difficult was the decision to leave because it was your decision you you decided to quit enough as it was it or was it maybe a wife with kids who maybe didn't know know you. what happened is that i enjoyed public life i was 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 and enjoyed every minute of it in and i sacrifice but i thought at that time that many times in wherever you are in life if it looks too 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 up could we 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 need your family happy. were happy before because you have 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 enjoy it because people think that being a mayor is such a big cities even is even more time consuming than being president of the u.s. won't is because it's yes because you have to have passion and you have to love people even though they say things and do things you're still in the four hours is

there to think about a garbage so your is your burden people call you like twenty four i don't think you know well this is somebody told me don't have a mono but you know i move over and you know i never did you know be good decision when i drove around the city or took notes every day sauce things differently and i never micromanage people i say you have to have passion you have to love people and you have to have a desire to improve the city in the first thing i did when i first things i did is you know that by cleaning up the city and have people be part of a block of community organizations in the business community and the realization that the greatest gift i could give to any child is a good education if i give a child. 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 are giving people a good education is not complex so what is i know you know it is you know it's the teachers is no that's not the future is the role of the mayor says not when you say

you are really giving education you take responsibility and so that in the only mayor in the country that took responsibility for myself that lie once you have the system when you're the mayor you're responsible they're going to hold you responsible that i hold to hold the mayor responsible in chicago and so when you want to do we want to give our we're give them an edgy but isn't just of the children schools or good oh you got into the program into the into exam here is 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 little 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 they cuss and the history and traditions so that you have to you can't leave that to me size that we build sixty beautiful libraries in the city he said you have to have a learning environment in the home in the community it isn't just going to school

you know to learn there it has to be the whole community says this is a learning environment and so that's what we have to do this isn't a you surpassing family farm for the use of six through this world well two terms in office is one of the fundamental principles of our american democracy democracy in a lot of countries in the world so shouldn't be applied to kids and to the post of the mayor or you know as you put your name up you say you want to learn here now that's a that's the first well look at i think people say well the public is that they're smart we have to limit terms the public the smarter than anyone else they can say we like you or reject the way to deliver the credential to them well i don't know i . the american people elect barack obama for the fifteenth year i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't mind a i think any president should run 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're right for you one for election and if they

accept you the accept you then you carry that around well 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 reelected that's the there is no more time because you just weren't really elected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't reveal i think most people worry about that maybe they don't accumulate money or 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 but what's your biggest achievement what makes you kid kids proud of you as a mayor who i think is giving them a good quality education striving to do that 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 clued everyone is that just we lead the way but it requires everybody to be behind your ear are credited for saving she cardew from the decline suffered great other rust belt centers like detroit for example what exactly has been done to revitalize the this leads that's truly what this he should call is a public private partnership a business so i'm the mayor we're elected officials we work with the private business we say what you need the city's always change we said the chicago stockyards we used to have a chicago huge industries and it changes so city has to be willing to change if it doesn't change it was in the past. and it gets now you have to change our public private partners are we court 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 it the business community and not for profit and academic

community as a leader and say let's work together that doesn't mean they have a difference of opinion so our public private partnerships has helped the city tremendously wore the native city in america chicago was. in the world through this personally through the press for segregated neighborhoods through divides of racial politics you tried hard to break these barriers but do ethnic divisions still play with louis have when some ethnic divisions you have like a german community you have a polish community and you have segments of that but slowly but surely a generation intermarriage people being educated in so you have a total different generation who have more immigrants coming from the middle east you have more immigrants coming from north africa more immigrants coming from asia and so that when 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 salvos french haitian

he found a city and today we welcome immigrants from all over the world into our great city and so that you you diversity is it has a strength but also can have its weakness and i say 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 form a human human rights commission human relations so there are very proactive in any activity in the city of chicago so they're out there with i have an agent really and i have in a span of community i have a. community i have. arab community. i have the chinese asian we have all different committees set up so we can help new immigrants who arrive in the city chicago is or were also known in russia to movies as a gangster which. again says in chicago are are a legend today well in moscow the gangsters are still alive and st petersburg even

says that right now it was once labeled the gangster capital of russia a couple of years ago so so did you did this you see some similarities with the chicago you you saw in the movie i now know how composed one thirty am and i don't know anybody who's alive then it was the late one nine hundred thirty and so they touchable zur always played so beyond that in you know we have a universe in chicago we have great universal medical institutions and you know just a great city and so you know people to watch untouchables you doesn't bother you know you met must commuters again and you know this is even some advise do you discuss something we ought to start said there was a panel and of course many people start talking about trafford and traffic is a problem for all big urban areas in the next ten or fifteen years almost eighty percent or more people 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 is economic sense environment of the land the air in the water which is really important for city we talked about traffic we talked about economic development housing you talked about the 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 they have to have a lot of passion and you can't solve everything well at least a striving to solve it. says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving mayor of chicago retired just in the spotlight will be back shortly ride out the great south don't go away stay where you want.

i got out of the military the night you sixty six i got over because the things i saw the things i was doing and this is the reason sept were given for doing a job as a personal protest. during the vietnam war amazing war movement emerged that altered the course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in barracks and on ships and penetrated elite military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefields of vietnam. today few people know about the g.i. movement against the war in vietnam. after the army we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant the.

play. welcome back to spotlight on a mound we know of in just a reminder that my guest today is richard they leave veteran u.s. politician and the longest serving mayor on chicago. and i did a lot for the city for the environment universities for the racial problems that mr daley things that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids a good education being ready for leadership program and leadership of the a spokesperson for education ok now one of your best pupils you have been personal best pupils was michelle obama was she yes this is will you the did you created it to become an all or all know leadership. came from all she was here you know you're going through your advisor or she played in a garment she's well educated woman and the brother in came from a wonderful family who parents began what they strive for education she was a means of yes she worked in the mayor's our fish and of course she was your

assistant or it would go she was in a plane in a garden office and and she was a wonderful ploy and she had the passion and dedication about it and of course president obama was a former community organizer a state senator us senator and we're very proud of him to be our president and flex america first african-american mayor but he was elected on that alone he was elected and his competency and in his passion and willingness to look at people and see people in a different light he sees in 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're a time there's your opinion still counts in the democratic party while everybody counts i mean you know everybody council meeting i mean you're you're right well i 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's why i did

all my life because people have more to say and then just political leaders well. we have today u.s. president from illinois he's not exactly from chicago but from illinois it's a very special place do you think that being from illinois made a bama special only 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 on one it's amazing they'll tell you about in a course very successful campaign young people felt that he's making changes and even today with a deep recession a tough recession he's still very optimistic you have to be optimistic because everybody's that we're going through a recession so you have to know there's light at the end of the tunnel of what

we're going to get their people in russia the often they're bama to kennedy and well you would of course say they're different can't compare people because if you start to climb into each one has their own identity they're all character they're all ideas of what their president should do but most importantly they understand the great 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 had made a wonderful contribution all the presidents to our country in the world do you think michelle obama her through own political ambitions could she be like right hillary clinton number two well she's well educated in she's the first lady and she's making her voice heard and many of the issues confronting children in families and and not just in the country but in the world and she's a wonderful spokes person as the first lady around around the world and you see it a wonderful family and keep it there. family life even in the white house her

strongest influence on the president was you say what i would know i would know how much stronger influence they have but their loving couple respect each other 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 here for the party give a bigger priority having the party of a coffee party whatever party you want in a democracy you know people form different things and so like anything else there had to be heard in so you listen to what they say and they're afraid of the debt they're afraid that america's going into bankruptcy so you have to listen to everyone and do something right that's part of democracy in a person it was willing to listen he's making great strides of cutting back various programs or cutting back red tape and efficiency listening to the business timidly

trying to understand how people get hired that new jobs and we have to train for so he's out there are responding to people. a bomb where was a green hit when he was elected well i mean worldwide but his popularity has been has been falling pretty dramatically for the last in 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 think so because if you only reason in the noise every president for two years hit all time high then all of a sudden midterm elections midterm elections are very present 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 in jobs what's going to happen to their parents or what's going to happen to them when they graduate everybody's looking for opportunities but he's he's handling that straight out any he's looking at the eyes of the people he says listen we're trying to do everything by. well 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 duck came from these issues what a chance it is in two thousand and twelve i mean 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 different circumstances and he's now playing his finger back and said i'm taking responsibility you know when you get elected to take responsibility and that's what he's done he's not blamed anybody he says saying yes i have done this and this is how in moving forward and people want vision they want they want to leader they have passion and understanding at the same time to this economic problem is all over the world so it's not unique united states isn't look at what's happening in europe today we have in china and other places and a recession is affecting everyone so illinois stills of course where it's about how do you think it's a whole. like his stronghold there you know i think you know when

a president hails from we started with bill clinton hail from arkansas on jimmy carter hail from georgia and bush one two hail from texas and they're very proud of that so you get their identity from chicago known or we're very proud that he hails from there. you mentioned meeting people you told me when you came into the studio today that you use a television like you used to giving me like for us conferences that we easily you must tell me russian politicians are this scale they make like once a year do you envy them or should they end the well you know one thing you know i am now not to talk about whatever the moscow or isn't piers were but i made it a point that you know three four days and even saturday i can i work there is saturday i want to make sure because the public is not working so. that's when the

marriage should be out and so we get there for the not jewish and. i was not there all the time and working in 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 the press but they do give you a hard time and you know me and these to do it industry you know we were for example here you are your governor mr blagojevich he's he's shown as an example of patronize corruption and things like that right well you know it's funny he's already convicted of perjury and to retry him but he was he was somebody that. young man as well educated well educated lawyer well educated in a just didn't understand what public service was about but that's it doesn't reflect all people and you know it doesn't effect everyone there are people who are

corrupted in every facet of life in the public and private sector academic community and down for profits it's one of failures of society it's it's one of the failures of people that isn't it sort of also traditional and chicano from the times that al capone and the now you don't know i don't think so i mean if you take if i to that describe what europe is all about you wouldn't want to live there i guess but you know i mean there are there are issues there in europe and when i want to get into on you know what the real market is because we're like me talking about germany and that's you know what we're 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 where this is what it is all about you know you never go to a doctor with without caring about a chocolate or a bottle of vodka you know you read kids i mean i mean this is how it works 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 they tried to 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 that legal system and all that that's a first scene or ask and so if it is a tradition you think it's doomed anyway what has to be because it eventually 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 here enjoyed being here in moscow and st petersburg and i wish the people of russia the best the in the future and to say we have wonderful embassador burly he's done a tremendous job representing united states russia come again bring your family i want to thank you thanks just to remind you that my guest today was richard daley veteran u.s.

politicians had longest serving average mayor of chicago twenty two years he spent in church that's it's an hour from all of us here if you want to ask yourself what life are if you have someone in mind you think i should be next right to drop me a line of algernon at our t.v. dots are you and let's give the shall we interact we'll be back with more so then they are to take here.

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