for some reason determined that ukraine to join it, there's an ongoing struggle from regional domination, but no side miss dominate in this cross roads region them. so recently we've seen a collapse of the trust that i've been crated in the process of ending the cold war . but it wasn't undermined yesterday. orient triumphalism, whence the heads of western leaders taking advantage of a weakening russia. they claim to the monopoly and leadership and domination in the world. examples the large amount of native yugoslavia cost of michelle defense plans, iraq, libya and syria. the more outside pressure, though is piled on president putin. the higher his approval ratings become among the russian public garbage have will no doubt go down in history for the many things he did as a political leader. but he will also be remembered for the tremendous love he had for his wife rise. maxime of now he always said she was the driving force of his life. and after she died he admitted that he had never felt so lonely. unlike the

wives of most former soviet leaders, reiser got about java, accompanied her husband unofficial visits the death of his beloved wife from cancer in 1999 left him devastated. here's what he wrote after she died in the german clinic. oh me. alex enter junk in the former soviet cache on cultural affairs in the united states, recalls the close bonds that gorbachev's shared with his wife, saying people who personally knew the couple admired both of them kill oak. no, not a soul, exclaim lou residential. he looked as a normal human being talking to us. i accompanied teresa maxime on the jury and hugh tool love and show them very close

to each other. and i think a request already some actually you know, was for the education and she lost the she in this important subjects. i think that she, she was very important that his life we one low he learned something from sheila. no, no it was good example. it was a good example, his family life was good example. i think for all of us offer more on this. we cross live now to former c. i a analyst raymond, mcgovern, thanks lot for joining us on the program sir. most welcome out. many western politicians have already expressed their condolences over gorbachev's death. what would you say about the loss of this historic individual? i'd say there's great loss. but all people pass away, i think working his death is very important because it meant

a major change. a pity striker world wide, or from the old soviet image of a well, you know, other bureaucrat to somebody who cared about peace, somebody who was adroit enough to persuade the likes of ronald reagan that piece could be achieved if negotiations were able to take place. i give him a special credit for suggesting that the intermediate range ballistic missiles already located in russia and in west, in, in europe that they be destroyed. o, a whole class of nuclear chip missiles destroying now was hard for president reagan to believe that. but in 2 years they had, could they had concluded a treaty, though, would i not prove it? i and guess what?

ah, it was monitored successfully and those weapons were destroyed under supervision . override them, put a report right now president trump got out of that treaty in 2019 that was a grievous mistake. because had that not happened, we wouldn't have quite the same situation. we have to day in ukraine. forward to say, do have some critics of garbage have who basically say that the, the kind of achievements that you just outlined therapy came at the expense of the entire soviet union and brought great suffering to the russian people. and the people of the other former soviet republics. oh, in the soviet union and fell apart. it was abrupt, it was unplanned in any reasonable way. and so there is great regret that so many millions of russians ended up stateless, or at least outside the bounds of their former state. so i'm sure everyone

regretted that, but his contribution to pity the reiko glasnost and, and his willingness, who can conclude treaties with the likes of ronald reagan, i think dwarfed that in importance i had a chance to meet, get a bush off. at ortiz anniversary, there was a little dinner, a big dinner actually. and when i saw him come in, i ran right up to him and i introduced myself. and i told him iris what the cia and the name of robert gates came up. now robert gates, i hate to admit, worked for me, but i didn't train him very well when his name came up, his whole expression that is kind of a shock, 6 pressure and change. they look to me and he said pretty at them will give them, give them my reading. ok. that was the end of my conversation with a guy but, but i got to shake his hand and they didn't take a shower for

a whole week after that. well, what do you think about the legacy the garbage have left behind after the fall of the soviet union? because of course, he continued his political career supporting nuclear disarmament. and speaking out about social and environmental problems, what would you say about some of the highlights of that sort of post soviet career is well, in some respects she resembles to jimmy caught her, our president, who didn't go out and play golf for the rest of his life, but some did some very constructive what the marxist used to call socially useful work. the complaint about got about shove and it's a valid one. is that he was true credulous. he wished to he, he trusted too much. he was sold a bill of goods by jimmy baker slick lawyer from texas. who is george

h w bush, his secretary of state the the key key moment in europe was baker saying, me say i got a truck. what we would like is there real knighted germany? russian people couldn't sam better than anyone. what a re or nighty germany a would and still in terms of fear. so go to workshops and what's, what's the quote for this quinn? this a very bitter quid. and the promise was made. james baker slippery lawyer from texas . how about how about nato would never move one inch to the east toward, towards soviet, toward the soviet union at the time. now, why was that not put in writing? i asked one of got a bunch of associates at the time. his name was cove, eileen, and i said why was that not written down? and he said the usual excuses while he the germans more on board yet true. the wash

or pack still existed. true, but they looked me straight in the eye and he said, mr. mcgovern, we trusted you. that's what's missing now. and that's the great, great tragedy of what happened when things could have been much different. esther got a bit shots left the scene and instead in came this clown is drunken clown call buddy ca seen who allows us to pretty much exploit rushes. national resources allowed the expected asia of russian males to go down from 63 years old to fifty's 7 years old in 4 years from 1991 to 895. so there was cas there and the trust evaporated. poochie and tried to regain trust, offered to join nato, but there was no trust left. and today we're at

a very delicate situation where trust is really needed, but a seabag pirated. i hope the spirit of me had career got a bunch of will come back and envelop those who are trying to work out a decent solution to the ukraine problem. all right, former c i a analyst raymond, mcgovern, thanks a lot for that. very interesting insight into gorbachev's you're most welcome now to iraq, or at least 30 people have reportedly been killed and over 700 wounded in clashes between protesters and the authorities in the green zone of baghdad. the protests or a storm government offices on monday in support of leading opposition, shia cleric moved out, solder, renounced his final retirement from politics amid a power struggle in the country. earlier on tuesday,

the cleric urged his supporters to leave the streets within an hour with military protesters starting to disperse shortly after. here is local journalist most and not bill with the latest, from baghdad. after a mass, so the pleasure which last food for 16 hours. now, with this account, after the speech of the off saw the withdrawal, the processors from the green zone stopping the fire display for us sand, witness heavy flashes, heavy fire lots. now the security forces cleaning the area. i'm for doing all the fuels backed up all the flight the security forces working on opening the streets to reduce the traffic, jump on the back that in people to bring life back. as before, this spite of the conflict politician conflict between the leadership book that i

saw there and the cord initial frame or the unrest began as outsiders followers storms. the republican palace key meeting place for iraqi heads of state and foreign dignitaries. units of the regular iraqi army have been deployed across baghdad with the states forces using live bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds. away the unrest with barked when we got outside or announced he is quitting political life and closing his offices. party has been unable to form a new government despite having won the largest number of electro in the federal elections last october, outsider, support or have been protesting and support to call for a new national vote. worked out all solder is also the founder of the sonorous movement, iraq's, leading, she a political group. he became a symbol of resistance to the us, led invasion in 2003 and helped form of militia to fight american troops during

their occupation of iraq. he's also wanted by the u. s. government over his the legit role in the, in the killing of a washington back. she arrival in 2003 in the wake of the american invasion and occupation of his country looked out outside or went on the record with some, damming criticisms of washington. bush reportedly said that his picture will be hung in every iraqi house. no, no, my dear, your picture is now under iraqi. the popularity the united states is diminishing day by day if not every 2nd. we reject the presence of the american army or even the coming by the us forces we reject them. we do this as an act of occupation and now to ukraine, where 1200 of key of troops have been killed in a failed offensive in the country south. according to russia's defense ministry. while scout says the ukrainians last 48 tanks and almost 100 other armored vehicles

after trying to advance on 3 fronts all at once and being beaten back by the russian lead forces. the botch defensive is said to have been personally ordered by president vladimir the lensky in came amid intensified ukrainian shelling of civilian infrastructure and southern regions which are controlled by russia. and one of the latest ukrainian attacks a key bridge was head to san region. this on verified amateur footage appears to show the immediate aftermath of the bombing, the bridges mainly used by civilians and the local authorities have set up an alternative pontoon bridge to help get people across. but it has been shelled by the ukrainian military and in the neighboring is upper rogia region. local authorities say ukraine has once again shelled the city of and her goldar on your screen is the aftermath of a previous attack which wounded 10 people on sunday. and our go to our is the city where these upper osha nuclear power plants is located,

which is expected to be visited by a delegation from the international atomic energy agency. later this week, that's after the facility has been bombed multiple times with russia blaming ukraine for attacking the site which could spark a nuclear disaster. we got rec reaction from some of the residents of enter go down with us is chief of this is horrifying. i have no words. this is over the top. they're just shelling civilians. this is complete lawlessness. we'll see it though, unless you look after the explosions and fires we began to look around. i found these shell fragments and there is a hole on the 2nd floor where i found even more fragments, which have been sent to law enforcement authorities. and now to the dynamic peoples republic, where at least 2 civilians have been killed and 8 more injured after ukrainian shelling of residential areas. it's according to local authorities. it's also being reported that keeps forces have used nato's 155 millimeter artillery shells in the attack. number of residential buildings and turner kindergartens have been hit as

well. well, in the center of daniel city, a center of slavic culture took heavy damage. as ortiz, roman culture of reports, ukrainian nationalists continue to target civilians and civilian infrastructure. quite a lot of destruction in donetta on tuesday. right now, we're just outside of the done nets. slavic culture center. this is the point of impact where according to authorities, 155 millimeter shell, landed destruction is everywhere, holding buildings war blown out. the strike took place at around 6 o'clock in the morning. thankfully, there were no people here at this time, but when this sensor is full is a full it's a home to at least 800 people who come here to learn about slavic culture.

lou ah let us should eulissa this is probably been done to destroy some source of cultural foundations. this is the center of slavic culture. after all, we have around $400.00 students here in a total of 15 groups with people from the age of 4. 80. maybe as crowded events have always been held here. so maybe they just don't like something about our culture and values. hey, this is a hospital number 14 in the patrol school district of the nest kits located basically are right on the front line. and it's the 1st medical facility to take in wounded civilians. right now, i will speak to 2 people who were wounded today as the result of ukrainian shilling

. by your call, the other day i went to buy food for my poultry. a tank drove by 3 shells were fired at it from the ukrainian side, and then out of nowhere grad rocket launchers, fires, cluster bombs, to go still. i had just woken up and gone out to open the door when the impact came without warning. i was stunned then i ran back inside and saw that my arm was all covered in blood. this hospital, his work in 247 to save locals from wounds that were inflicted on them by the ukrainian nationalists. as you can see, there's still accepting patients right now as we speak. while we were working here in since shilling continued, and we were advised to leave the area as to as possible from on call through martinez, the people's republic. poland has extended the pre detention period for

a spanish conflict journalist being held on charges of working for russian intelligence at despite offering no evidence of guilt. pablo gonzales, who has joined spanish russian nationality was arrested on february 28th and is now spending his 27th week in custody with poland. now, having extended that detention by 3 months, he was initially detained in ukraine in early february, and advised to leave the country, but not formally expelled. upon arriving in poland, he was again picked up after he turned out to have 2 passports, russian and spanish, which contained 2 different names. poland subsequently accused him of quote, carrying out operations for the benefit of russia while profiting from his journalist status. the detention of gonzales has not been covered by any mainstream western media despite several spanish journalist organizations trying to draw attention to his imprisonment. as for his trial,

there still no set date under polish law, he could be held in custody until he appears before a court, and that's a process. lawyers have said could take more than a year. we spoke to gonzalez, his lawyer, guns, gonzalo boy, who says that the polish prosecutor has violated many of gonzalez as humans, human rights lose him of only gosh, uncle. the last time i spoke to pablo was in february, literally a couple of days before he was detained. then he had decided to go to poland in order to proceed to ukraine and cover the war because that's his job. any other explanation for his trip that being propagated by ukrainian, mostly by polish intelligence agencies. on august the 23rd, we learned that the polish prosecutor's office had extended pablo gonzalez as temporary detention from the 3 months in accordance with a court order without providing any over information. that is, pablo will continue to be in pre trial detention without the ability to contact his family or a lawyer representing his interests. that is with me. the prosecutor's office

continues to claim there is a certain corpus direct i, but we have not been given access to specific data after 6 months. it seems doubtful to me that they have any evidence. during this time, my client changed lawyers 3 times and in the 1st 15 days, he was not provided with the human rights advisor at all. how was it that the european country of person can mean detention for 15 days without the opportunity to contact a lawyer? how is it that for 6 months, a person has no opportunity to communicate with his family? all were the rights advisor. we are convinced kind of brought this to the attention of the un working group on arbitrary detention that during the 6 months, all the rights of my client, as a person accused of the crime, had been violated in pablo's case. these rights are guaranteed by the european commission of human rights, the universal declaration of human rights, and the charter of the european union of human rights, which poland must comply with as a member. and i think the worst thing is the criminal silence of many media outlets . someone deliberately slandered pablo and gave the impression that he was detained

for a case and may be guilty of what he is accused of. many media outlets. a silent while i colleague is in custody in such a difficult situation. i wonder one, i am convinced the poem has been trying for many months to break pablo's will in order to force him to confess to something he did not do. this practice was widely used by many regimes and at a certain period was also used here in spain. but it is believed such methods are a thing of the past, especially in western europe, which is perceived as a kind of club of democratic countries. i think that in the absence of evidence, the polish authorities to try to do to that to break his will probably the appropriate guarantees of not being provided. and that this case is not being conducted in an impartial manner. because any i repeat any church in europe would immediately say, i'm sorry, and how is it possible to tie, need to talk to not have the opportunity to contact his family, the lawyer or any judge in europe would have asked that question. india's richest person gall tama, donnie has been bidding to take over one of the countries major television

companies and a tv. the move has sparked worries all over western media against new corporate ownership of the reputed, entered independent news channel. but at the same time, i'm a major american media outlets themselves are owned by corporate magnates such as jeffrey bass outs, being a current holder of the washington post. here's archie contributor, archie chico, who says the western press is being a bit hypocritical on the issue. the fact is that n b is no expert to me, all spared on by them. as the western media is trying to project in tract, americas washington post has been lemons. seeing that this is essentially curtailing the for the best in india, the trying to project as the 3 british had ended with the speak will. but let me put the fax across to the audience on this particular issue. first,

nbc has been hopefully, but all congress by the media platform, they have been peddling. the narrative which suit the club this party. and over the years there will be, has eroded because of the bias that big gabby in their news and their athenians also. nbc, the last the screen will be when you start anchor. but cut that put exam clue was involved in the political corporate nexus, which was lobbying for ministerial portfolios. so that is one aspect of the tv. the 2nd issue is that be western press, which is lamenting towards the loss of rest. freedom in india doesn't not this be irony of the fact that the washington force is owned by amazon's boss,

just so it is ridiculous for them to say that, you know, does because of the need to for, we're doing d 9 percent stakes. and then the tv in guy's last, it's independent press, also 29 plus some speed back down the bought. he bought it from another great giant, which is headed by makisha by means that is the reliance group. and it never got to be there still, chris still now that's a corporation, had so many stakes in entity. so it is a complete farce. the western media is trying to project about this whole issue. it is not a big deal. also the fact that danny, at the end of the day has only 29 for us in state. he does not really have much see or in fact, any say on the editorial side,

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ah, it is breaking news is our live on out. he international, the final elidah, all the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev has died age 191 in moscow. central health, as we understand this is after a prolonged illness. aeronautics will be looking through its historic legacy in our special coverage in just a few moments. i thought he people are reportedly killed and over 700 wounded in clashes in bagdad. you can see the pictures right here. we understand it's actually following the retirement from politics of a leading shia cleric.