stores in the soviet union and their question was absolutely evident. so where is all this? and of course, they blamed the commonest party. and we heard from political analyst, alexander rod, who says that gorbachev lost control of its own reforms and that of the communist party. i would say that until 809 go back for many things in the soviet union and the firm control some very good ideas had been implemented in, in the reforming reform process in the soviet union. we had glass unless we had to be destroyed. russia or soviet union's image was improving. the relations with united states in the west were improving from week to week. but in the 90 and 91 thinks were seen of course, very difficult and different. and i think that that, that these 2 years where were periods where gorbachev was running after events. he was not in comments of politics anymore. core which was reacting and not acting. he

was prepared to pay almost any price in order to receive the needed credits from outside. he saw the distributors ation of his own country. he had lost already control over eastern europe and he was losing control of his own party of his own establishment. and really, also fearing and after a cool in his own country, he was very weak, just fine, strong criticism of perestroika and its consequences. gorbachev insisted that it was not a failure did only just been derailed. you will get them. i don't agree when people say the perestroika failed, it didn't fail. it was disrupted derailed in the beginning of $990.00. gorbachev approval rating in the u. s. s aust at 70 percent. however, by the end of the year that dropped all the way down to 20, let's get people felt let down by perestroika when their hopes for a better future simply were not met. now at the same time go,

but jobs racing in the west remain very high. in the west, he was at 81 percent approval rating in america, $75.00 in germany, in britain 70 percent in italy. jack matlock who once served as us ambassador to the soviet union recounts the difficulties the gorbachev faced. he was very much a transformative leader. i think he was a trying to. number one, put it into the cold war, which with cooperation was to american presidents. he was able to do that, but he also wanted to free his own people from the straight jacket that the comment system had imposed. he would say in private, at times, that a russian history was such that the country had always been ruled top down. but if you look out at the world at that time, the successful countries,

the ones that were adapt and were ruled bottom up. and so he said, you know, our task is to turn russian history upside down to let our people begin to rule themselves. so to speak, and but that he could not reinvent history or reinvent the russian people. and that the country was not yet accustomed to making the sort of choices that were necessary. so it was going to take time. so i think he was realistic about that. now a slew of economic, social and political failures during perestroika led to an attempted coup that was august 1991 with senior government and military officials trying to take control of the country away from gorbachev. now it failed in just 3 days, but precipitated the dissolution. of the soviet union with future leader boris yeltsin. then coming to the 4 good, the 19th,

1991 on every tv channel in the country, a continuous loop of the ballet swan lake. meanwhile, in moscow with dramatic scenes were playing out a moment. vehicles rolling into the cabin the presence of the usa seller is out of town and not a house arrest. the holiday home in crimea will radio and t v announcements proclaimed mikhail gorbachev was no longer fit for duty. and the country was now under the control of an emergency committee. ah, citizen was motionless. stoopa stay unused at all. yeah. the phone, you got a bunch of them if you wanted to gauge him. so i doesn't list the president. this is a say. these anesthesia, the volume shuttle playoff missing him at his teaching is up on misty, but at least teaches a chain, a pleasure, any of us didn't. if me, if we're supposed to set natal, tracy nick,

it's have independent media shut down. people across the soviet union left struggling to understand what exactly is happening. well, most device were waking up to around $4000.00 troops and hundreds of times to petroleum street. the co attempt was masterminded by communist hotline, as he wants to derail a pending agreement on wide ranging sovereignty for soviet republic, but tens of thousands of protest. this began heading out, fight for me around the russian government had with my russian leader boards yelton famously defied the takeover from that full tank. i do on friday evening, 6 more tanks join yell inside the next day. crowds outside the white house continue to grow. ah, as the 21st 3 people it kills when andy cooper,

a vomit vehicles. oh a day later, gorbachev returns to moscow as the attempted overthrow effectively collapses. as the russian trick law becomes the official state flag in a symbolic sign of victory, the hard line come with no, i wasn't allowed to join us an author, daniel lazar. daniel, great. have you with us for the program on this or special rolling coverage about breaking news here. that of the death of the former soviet liter mikhail gorbachev . we were just showing some amazing pictures just now when it was during the attempted coup in moscow in 1091. when ultimately it, it did lead to the end of the gorbachev era. perhaps tanks rolling down the streets . people very unhappy with, whether it's perestroika or glass not as well when,

when those pictures were shown and they were shown around the world, what kind of effect do you think that had on global politics? it had a profound effect. i mean, the, the, a super power was disintegrating before the world's eyes. there was an amazing event. but i would emphasize that they were actually to cruise underway. one was by the other party, hardliners got gorbachev, but the other was by yeltsin who illegally no dissolve the soviet union without any kind of broader political consultation. and. busy declared on his honest already the sovereignty of the russian state. so, so, so he was complete turmoil, but nobody but the crew was not only on the parties, part interesting analysis there and some broader perspective. we appreciate that here at our tea, daniel,

i want to ask you about the reaction we're already getting from from around the world. for example, the forest johnson van delay and a lot of other politicians are coming out. why do politicians who are still in power? why do they still look back upon the time of gorbachev as being so significant? do you think most gorbachev said rule and eventual fall was a, a traumatic victory for the us of those hours. i mean, essentially a half century long crusade, or maybe a 40 years better way to describe it. long crusade had ended and complete and total victory for the west. so yeah, so they look back very, very finely on, fondly on gorbachev, who essentially helped bring it about i'm not saying that gorbachev cause the collapse of the soviet union because that was taking place under its own steam. but certainly gorbachev was, was looked fondly upon by western politicians for facilitating that process.

so basically, so they embraced western politicians embraced gorbachev to, to the west and bosom. one might say because they found the baby, they felt like they had one with the collapse of the u. s. s. all, you're saying? absolutely. and gorbachev, you know, made it possible. you know, i mean, you know, the soviet union, as i said, was collapsing under its own weight. so this process is unstoppable. but nonetheless, gorbachev made, made 2 mistakes. one was to think he could reform the soviet economy through a car, through a cockeyed combination of privatization and somehow socialist reinvigoration. and he also trusted western leaders like ronald reagan. did you think he should have trusted trusted west? me clearly turned into a celebrity in the wake of it. of course, not because those western leaders were, were, had,

had the goal up in most uppermost in mind and turning former warsaw pact, members into close u. s. allies. and then using them to dismantle what ever was left of the old soviet union. and that method tacking russia itself. you'll get it. you don't have to be drawn to be a stalinist or a hard line nationalist to see what happens. i mean, essentially the, the, the, the west responded to the, for the soviets by, by increasing its militancy, launching more and more war wars, until finally on 2003 can the invasion of iraq fall by the invasion of, of libya, etc, etc. and so now we find russia completely hemmed in by a hostile west, surrounded by enemies, and practically understood each. now gorbachev was at the helm when,

when the usaa saw essentially ceased to be followed up by yelton yelton's, a whole nother story entirely that we'll try and get through provided we have time here. it's a national but, but you know, when, when you say the quote of a trough was embraced by the west, some would say it was because the soviet union was collapsing. it was seen as weak . it was seen as needing help from the west. now look at russia, rebuilt essentially by vladimir putin. now as the world says, russia is diverse, it's strong. why such love gorbachev and such a lack of love for putin? because i think the, the goal once the soviet union was destroyed and i must emphasize that self destruction that destruction came from within. it was self destroyed. once that had taken place, the, the west nato set about surrounding russia with a hostile rank. and, and that processes continue. i mean,

the west was quite happy with gorbachev. quite happy with yeltsin would have been quite happy to see russia fall apart into a dozen different pieces and grew progressively more alarmed. one put, put a stop to that process and i'm not endorsing put in by the way, but there's no doubt that the, that the, the west is opposed the national consolidation. that, that, that flatter me a potent represents daniela's are journalist on author joining us live here on our team to national for our rolling break and use coverage. thank you very much for that. we appreciate it. thank you. i'll go which off may have long since retired from governance, but he always remainder a vocal influence on russia's political course. i want to say in more or less got if, if you can,

we must move on from the blame game to search for common ground undergraduate lifting of sanctions, sanctions which are damaging to both sides. as a 1st step, we should lift the so called personal sanctions that affect politicians and parliamentarians. for sure dis, nato is for some reason determined that ukraine should join it. there's an ongoing struggle from regional domination, but no side miss dominate in this cross roads region. 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 euphoria and 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 a missile defense plans, iraq, libya, and syria. the more outside pressure that is piled on president

putin. the higher his approval ratings become among the russian public. appreciate you joining us or what are you into national or more special coverage of the death of the last leader of the soviet union coming up throughout the day. here we are shifting gears now to our focus and iraq, where at least 30 people reportedly killed over 700 wounded. all of this in classes between protesters and authorities in the green zone, the diplomatic zone of baghdad. the protest stormed government offices on monday. this was in support of leading opposition, shia cleric mac tada. i'll start a good outage, final retirement from politics submit a power struggle on going in the country. earlier on tuesday, the cleric owes to support is to leave the streets within an hour with militant protest starting to discuss shortly after his local journalist mussa not deal with

the latest from back that after that. so the class which last for 16 hours now with ms. a call after the speech of looked off, saw the withdrawal, the processors from the green zone, stopping the fire display for us and with heavy flashes. heavy fire lots. now the security forces cleaning the area. i'm doing all the fuels backed up . it's all the place, the security forces working on opening the streets to reduce the traffic, jump on the back, and then people to bring life back. as before, this, spite of the conflict politician conflict between the leadership book that our father and the cord initial frame war. while the unrest forgotten about the others,

followers storm the republican palace at the key meeting place for iraq, he heads of state and foreign dignitaries. units of the regular iraqi army hovering, deployed all across the city with the states forces using live bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds. now, the latest on rest was sparked. wayne and todd outside are not honest. he is quitting political life and closing his offices as part he has been unable to form a government despite having won the largest number of state from the federal elections. last october, fathers supporters had been protesting in support of his coal for a new national vote. now looked at it, i saw that it is the founder of a scientist movement, iraq's leading sheer political group. he became a symbol of resistance to the us led invasion in 2003 and helped form well, number of militias to fight american troops during their occupation. you also, he's also wanted by the u. s. government over as alleged role in the killing of washington back to she rival. this was

a back in 2003 in the wake of the american invasion and occupation of the country, mac tada. i'll start though, went on the record with some diamond criticism 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 awnings by the us forces we reject them. we do this as an act of occupation. we heard from sara founder's co director of the anti wall group, the international action center. who says that getting the us military to leave iraq has been an immense struggle for the people of that country. this has been a long struggle to get the us out. its hundreds of thousands of troops that were there an occupation from, from troops to contractors, mercenaries, every form possible and still today are in iraq and still today

consciously being a horse of the vision they really have. they broke the secular constitution and previously existed in iraq and set up a structure that is intended to keep people come completely divided and fighting among themselves. it's called divided rule away us strategy functions and countries around the world with plans that they have from russia to china or that the french and pose in lebanon. that you're at something syria. again and again, it's how to keep people local people at each other as well. citing each other over the club and at the same time, not able to function. and this is what is continuing in the last today to your grade. now,

where 1200 of kids troops have been killed and failed offensive in the countries. so this is according to russia's defense ministry. and moscow says, the crane is last 48 tanks and almost a 100 other armored vehicles off the trying to advance on 3 fronts. at once, though, being pushed back by russian lead forces, or the offensive is said to have been personally ordered by president lensky and came it intensified ukrainian shelling of civilian infrastructure and southern regions which are now controlled by russia. one of the latest ukrainian attacks to key bridge was hit the 1st on region. there's unverified. amateur footage appears to show the immediate aftermath of the bombing. the bridge is mainly used by civilians. local authorities have set up an old tentative pontoon bridge to help get people to, but that's also been shown by ukraine's army. meantime, in the ne, brings upper ocean region, local officials say ukraine is once again shell. the city of an article doc. when the screen is the aftermath of a previous attack,

which wounded 10 people on sunday and not to go, there is the city where there's apple watch a nuclear power plant is located, which is expected to be visited by a delegation from the international atomic energy agency later this week, but after the facility has been bombed multiple times with russia, blame new crane for attacking the side, which could at the end of the day, spark a nuclear disaster, bigger than chun noble. we got reaction from local residents. of this is horrifying. i have no words. this is over the top, they're just showing civilians. this is complete lawlessness. we'll see it though. i'm actually after the explosions and fires, we began to look around. they found the 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 or not to the republic where at least 2 civilians have been killed and ate more injured author, ukrainian shelling of residential areas, that is of course, according to local authorities,

also has been reported that key as forces have used nato's $155.00 millimeter artillery shells in the attack. a number of residential buildings and a kindergarten were hit on in the center of the next city, a center of slavic culture. it's a heavy damages. archie is roman cause a ref, 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. hold of 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, little little should you lou? this is probably being done to destroy some sort 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 $4.00 to $80.00. various crowded events have always been held here. so maybe they just don't know 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 to day as the result of ukrainian shelling by year of the other. i went to buy food from my poultry. a tank drove by 3 shells were fired at it from the ukrainian side, and then out of nowhere grad rocket launchers fired cluster bombs to the coast fill . 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, they're still accepting patients right now as we speak. while we were working here, incense shilling, continued, and we were advised to leave the area as to as possible from on call to re martinez

the people's republic. i'm going to take a very short break or an auto international. appreciate you joining us here. we are doing our special rolling coverage with breaking news of the death of the former soviet leader. the final soviet lead mikhail gorbachev. this is auto international live from moscow. nearly 5 a m, but back in a moment. ah, ah no one no, sir, no, no, admiral who job no, no. well door, more shrill than what they should end up unit 73. 1 was a unique organization in the history of the world. what they were trying to do was to simply do nothing short and build the most powerful and most deadly biological weapons program that the world had ever known.

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want to be brought into that's about a its breaking news to us. our live on our international, the final leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev has died age 91 in moscow. central hospital offer a prolonged illness on the program will be looking through his historic legacy and special coverage in just a few moments. i and at least 30 people that report living killed and over 700 wounded in classes and by got it all following the retirement from the politics of a leading shia cleric who was for a long time opposed.