to look for common ground in the me what i did was defend the soviet union to the lot. but i failed its breaking news on our team international this our as a final leader of a soviet union mccall. gorbachev has died, 1891 and moscow central hospital for a long illness in the program. now we are looking back to who to storage legacy in our special coverage. the continues in just a moment. the idea of a 2nd civil war in the united states does not seem that far fetched over 40 percent of americans saying they could see that happening within a decade. that according to a recent poll, an independent decision by the solomon islands has shocked us. as the island

changed, suspends old foreign navy ships from entering its waters the at least 30 people reported killed and over 700 wounded in class, shooting back data following the retirement from politics of a leading shia cleric cooper. many you stood off against us influence in iraq the well it very well welcome to hear from all of us here at r t international. great to have your company today as we continue with our special coverage and breaking news on this channel. the final leader of the soviet union at mikhail gorbachev has died 891 in moscow, central hospital after a prolonged illness. i mean, he thought politicians around the world have already expressed their condolences

over his death. so knowledge is for a moment here on the program. let's take a look back through gorbachev. legacy in our special coverage. it's asi and so nash . ah and regarding following the world's reactions to the death of mikhail gorbachev, he is ortiz peters got. unsurprisingly, there's been an absolute huge outpouring of condolences for the former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. i mean, starting here, we have putin who expressed his deepest condolences and at some point later today, he is expected to get in touch with gorbachev's friends and relatives, and express those condolences to him. the un secretary general antonia good cherish described him as a one of a kind states new change the course of history. the u. k. p. m,

admired gorbachev's, courage and integrity. your opinion in present, ursula on the line praised him as a trusted and respected leader who left as she described an unforgettable legacy. and i could go on rory, but just touching on that from forgetful legacy, that is lavonda lion praising for. i think it's fair to say that it is a bit of a mixed bag depending on where you look at it from in the west. gorbachev is seen as this sort of progressive reforming leader who brought around democracy an era of hope. and he opened up wilson, of course he did, you know, he and he brought an end to the cold war. he signed a number of arms reduction treaties with the u. s. and of course brought around the beautification of germany and he was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1990 as well for his role in improving relations between the east and west. but i think it's fair to say the overhead in russia, that legacy isn't quite as rosy. many russians, they do blame him for the economic turbulence caused by his reforms. you have

obviously the, the iconic medi striker and glass nest, the restructuring, an openness. but that's plunged living standards here, and of course the ninety's were very chaotic time in russia. so he isn't seen in 2 favorable, a light among many russians here. and of course, president putin famously said that he sees the collapse of the soviet union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. now, following the collapse of the soviet union, of course, gorbachev stepping down from power in 9 to one. he very much took a back seat in russian politics. he did, however, try one more for a into the national political arena in 96 where he run for president. but he only received half a percentage of the votes. and since then, he mainly focused on humanitarian and educational projects. now he's expected to be buried in moscow's nova, gave it to the cemetery next to his wife rice. and she passed away in 1990 very

famously, and mrs. her solely or missed her solely and of course will bring you more on the full off course of gorbachev death as me getting on our governor shelf over hold the soviet union's foreign policy by introducing the new political thinking doctrine, which ultimately thought relations with the west and brought about the end of the costly cold war, a good, a bunch of cold for the well to be seen as united on into the pendant instead of divided into communist and capitalist countries. so the balance of interests of different countries as a way of solving international problems. universal values have to be recognized above all others, whether they be religious or national. the soviet leader also wanted to see the world free of old nuclear weapons by the start of the 21st century. ah,

he ended the isolation and she brought last most end freedoms. ah, he accompanied group which of to the key meetings of the time on witnessing his history was made. one such meeting was the reykjavik summit in october 1986, the 1 when ronald reagan and may have gorbachev moved to a ground breaking nuclear arms control agreement. despite talks collapsing at the last minute, there was still seen as a huge breakthrough break of ink was the most dramatic, the most exciting and ultimately a disappointment to that point. but later it turned out that the main parameters of nuclear arms reductions had been agreed. and then became treated that were assigned and $87.00, and then $9.00 to $1.00. those are treaties. so slicing russia,

us that the world read well, the tickets breakover became possible only after the 1st meeting between reagan and gorbachev. the historic 1985 geneva summit. it was held despite huge skepticism around the events many soviet experts on the might at states thought that reagan was a very conservative, very right wing, the president for food. you can really cannot do business and done. gotcha believed otherwise and said otherwise. and they were able to establish a relationship with reagan that work quite well. but one of the very 1st meetings gorbachev held with the west was with the iron lady herself, yuki premier, margaret thatcher. the 2 met in 1984 before gorbachev, even by in soviet leader, the talks were viewed as a 1st step to finally warming relations between the soviet union and the west. i

like mister gorbachev, we can do business together. she said so to rather reagan in that sense, she wasn't sure and she played an important role in establishing the right atmosphere. remember that before gorbachev came in, there hadn't been a us. so some it was 6 years. it's an absolutely incredible thing. if you look at it, it was a huge turnaround in the relationship and something that despite all the differences between gilbert children, subsequent leaders has not been undone. and what about your force responsible for a major nuclear disarmament breakthrough? following nearly 2 years of wrangling with us, president reagan over the issue, he suddenly made a surprise announcement and said, the soviet union was ready to sign the treaty without delay. taking you back to december 1987, the soviet union, and the us agreed to eliminate all of their land based intermediate range nuclear

missiles. that's the iconic pitcher right there. a good about off and then us president reagan during, during that documents that signing the treaty and political analyst, dimitri babbage says the west view, the steel as a victory at the end of the day. over that of the ussr, he left the huge problem. the cold war was the only war in human history that gives him the and with any kind of a document with any kind of agreement. he didn't find any paper that would set all the conditions which the, the war. so the where interpreted it as, you know, the west and bigotry and the defeat or the soviet union wardrobe argued against it . i think normal authority julian natal started to expand and we've had this 1st i would say a warm pool or need to expect from the georgia what already in 2008. and it was

also a result. all the distribution of the soviet union was, doesn't want to admit that. so what we're chose to let it show that is, is very nice. and one of the biggest marks of the last soviet leader made was that of the fall of the berlin wall. let's go back to november, the 9th 1989. and that led to the reunification of germany after being divided for nearly half a century will show you now how the historic event unfolded. ah 1989 a year when the berlin wall fell together with the political, ideological, and territorial division of germany. the last 28 long years or the people of germany away from 1961 to the bitter reality in tone. they could be divided by bob, white, concrete, and stones from their friends and relatives all throughout the bulls existence,

more than 10000 people tried to make it across hundreds who killed. and mikhail gorbachev played a crucial role making a peaceful re unification possible. come here to this gate. mister gorbachev. open this. ah mister gorbachev. tear down this 1989 mikhail gorbachev visited germany promoting perestroika and glass. no c, my interrogates, got about and people wanting to change quickly follow the leadership of the company's body and moscow was much more open, much mounting, reacting on that a good question with the time. ah,

i think that he wanted to make the, the, the leaders of the eastern world understand, you have to accept that we live in times of changing. and if we don't react, we will be pushed by sour. ah, a gorbachev is not, not only for his new political thinking policies towards the west, but also for his love of western culture. and during his time he rubbed elbows with all sorts of hollywood stars. all sorts of meets and greets and social shenanigans . he also featured in a european clothing campaign and even had a stall rolled in a pizza hut commercial a us. we discourage his wisdom and his vision. and of course his tremendous will a person, a very kind,

a to 91 days before you. i said with, responsible for change to with the city will come on, you better back the blue, a blue a

with now back at home or go to watch off implemented a spread of domestic social, political, and economic reforms including the complete democratization of soviet policies and and attended boost for the economy. of course, no discussion of soviet policies will be complete without mentioning glass in austin perestroika glass last what's the transparent discussion of political and social issues as well as the free circulation of news and information? as a result, ecological problems. politicians, privileges, and soviet bureaucracy we're all fed game to discuss. perestroika was the democratic restructuring of the soviet political and economic systems. however,

many thing that perestroika was a failure. it did lead to a collapse in industry and dia, the shortage of consumer goods leading to hughes, for even the most basic of necessities. on the weak economy spark, massive social unrest hera just songs of angry citizens protesting in the streets of a poor living conditions. now despite strong criticism of perestroika and its consequences, gorbachev insisted that he was defending the soviet union to the very end. last, what i did was to find the soviet union to proceed when i failed. i don't agree with people say that perestroika failed, didn't fail. so it was disrupted derailed at the beginning of $990.00, got which offs approval rating in the u. s. s. r stood at 70 percent. and by the end of that year, it was barely at 20 of the soviet people felt like down by pesto when the hopes for

about a future. we're not met. the same time. good about you. officer rating in the west was just going through the roof at 81 percent in america, $75.00 in germany, britain and 70 percent approval rating in italy. now we did speak with dan co violet crew teachers international human rights at the university of pittsburgh and is the author of the plot to scape goat russia who says perestroika cause dire consequences for the soviet people. you had both russian oligarchs, in addition to western oligarchs who looted the country of resources, who privatized public factories and businesses, took them for their cell, leaving the people, the soviet republics with very little and the economies collapse. and again, 2000000 people died prematurely from economic dislocation from hunger.

this was a disaster. this isn't discussed much in the west. but the people, the former soviet union, very painfully aware of what happened on gorbachev you mentioned tried to run for office later. he got half a percentage of the vote. i mean, he is a villain. in the former soviet union, he failed those people. he did the bidding of the west, but he failed his own people. a slew of economic, social and political failures during perestroika lead to an attempted coup will take you back to august 1991 with the 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 liter. boris yeltsin then poise to come to the for oh, good. the 19th 1991 on every tv channel in the country,

a continuous loop of the ballet swan lake. meanwhile, in moscow, dramatic scenes were playing out a moment, vehicles rolling into the capitol. 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, cities is new as motionless. stoopa stay unused at all yet these bonia go to my children. we fail up to the age. hm. so i doesn't list the president the as a say, these anastasia, 3 of william shuttle, you play awfully senior 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 nickerson with independent media shut down,

people across the soviet union left struggling to understand what exactly is happening. well, most device for 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 outside, forming around the russian government, had quoted russian leda boards. yelton famously defied the takeover from the toll tank i knew on by the evening. 6 more tanks join yelled inside the next day, crowds outside the white house continue to grow. 1 ah, on august the 21st 3 people it kills when andy cooper is tried to solve for colon,

the vomit vehicles ah, a day later gorbachev returns to moscow is the attempted overthrow effectively collapses, crowns cheer. as the russian tree corolla becomes the official state flag, it's symbolic sign of victory, a hard line communist truth . spoke a short time ago with a journalist on ortho, daniel lazar. now he says that gorbachev facilitate the disillusion. all the soviet union to per power was disintegrating before the world size. it was an amazing event. but i would emphasize they were actually 2 cruised underway. one was by the party hardliners workshop. the other was legally

dissolved the union without any kind of broader political consultation and. busy declared on his own authority, the sovereignty of the russian state was complete turmoil. but nobody but the crew was not only on the parties part, i'm not saying that gorbachev cards to collapse. so we 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 amid the political bickering, income inequality rising, distrust and criminal investigation into a former president. more than 40 percent of americans now say they could foresee a civil war breaking out within the next decade. that's according to a new nation wide survey by you gulf and the economist magazine. the washington post said last week that america quote,

stands as close to the edge of civil war as it has it since 18. 61. the current investigation into former president trump is visibly res pensions across the country. and that's how the new york times has claimed that criminal prosecution of donald trump would be a necessary 1st step towards fixing the country's problems. his correspond, kellum often taken a good hard look when you have more than 40 percent of the u. s. public saying that they believe a civil war is coming within the next decade. that's a pretty big deal. now when people explain this, they don't really explain where these beliefs are coming from. a major factor might be that the democrat run whitehouse is labeling the g o p and branding millions of their followers as fascists. i was very clear when lane out and defining what make america great again, republicans have done. and you look at the definition of fascism and you think

about what they are doing in attack in our democracy. that is well that is, it is very clear over the history boy, the word fascism brings back memories of world war 2. it's quite an extreme label, but the democrats are not shying away from it. joe biden and his allies seem hell band on pinning this on republicans. what we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme mug of philosophy is not just trump is the entire philosophy that underpins the i'm going to say something. it's like semi fascism. i think the american people are waking up to reality that things have changed so drastically. mark my words, if republicans will win the mid terms, they will move to wiping out choice across the board. but it gets worse now people with right wing views are being told they're not welcome. in liberal stays. the governor of new york just told the states 5400000 local republicans to get lost.

and we're here to say that the era of trump and zeldin and manero, just jump on a bus and head down to florida where you belong. okay, get out of town, get out of town. and you don't really, you don't represent our values. you are not new yorkers. and in addition to being described as fascists, republicans are now being labeled as terrorists time and again, we see them say one thing and do another they are. they are not concerned with life . they're just concerned. we're trying to score cheap, political points or concern. we're trying to clinical own lives and they don't really care what wreckage is left in their wake. they are a destructive force in american politics. they are basically a domestic terrorist cell operating within america. their goal is to end democracy and the responsibility of any leader in such a situation would be to re unify the country and turned down the heat. abraham lincoln famously quoted the biblical passage sang. a house divided against itself

cannot stand, but that is not the approach of the white house. it looks like the heat is going to keep rad thing up, along with inflation until the november mid terms. at least they live mopping artsy, new york. so it's a story with wide reaching implications. have a listen to this. the solomon islands have band. busy foreign naval vessels from entering its territorial waters until a new vetting process is in stated. we have requested our partners to give us time to review and put in place our new processes before sending further requests for military vessels to enter the country. these will universally apply to all visiting naval vessels. so i can do some more details here. the move comes just a week after a u. s. coast guard vessel very far away from home was blocked from refueling in the capital of the solomon islands, which the white house cold quote regrettable in a stipend from his embassy in australia. the u. s. said it had received formal

notification regarding a moratorium on old pending naval visits and is awaiting updates and so called political procedures. this comes off to the island chain, signed a security packed with china that happened in may. and you, as you can imagine, it inevitably set off alarm bells in washington dc. clearly we've seen the chinese bully and coerce nations throughout the indo pacific to do their bidding and to serve what they believe their selfish national security interests or rather than the broader interests of a free and open indo pacific. it's regrettable, we call it out when we see it. it's a short time ago i spoke with matthew robson, the full, my deputy foreign minister old new zealand. now, he says that washington's reaction amounts to a rejection of the solomon islands right to be sovereign in its policy. while the solomon islands, its 2000 kilometers from the north of the trailer and from new zealand,

is exercising its sovereign right against patton, a bullying from the united states. and they are doing what every other country which is sovereign does. if there's, if we're going to have military naval visits, will determine who comes and when this reaction take the daughter states and all the countries is one which denying the rights of the solomon islands have its own supplement policy. it's part of the power play in the pacific of the wal mart colonial countries, which is still there. when i was a cabinet minister, we had a stand off with united states by being nuclear 3. and we said we wouldn't take part in the bullying that we had all of the world and we made else. then we criticize this trailer for being the deputy of the united states. unfortunately,

my former colleague taken us deeply into nato. we're part of the blue pacific strategy. we become a deputy sheriff, the deputy show what does this radio, and that's against the long term interests of new zealand. it looks like the united states is setting up a proxy war as they have done in the ukraine with destroyer and taiwan. to lead the charge with united way into our la storia for the program to south. here when i say to iraq where at least 30 people a dead, 700 wounded in clashes between protests and authorities. this happening in the diplomatic green zone of baghdad. the protest storm government offices on monday in support of leading opposition, shia cleric. because our, our daughter, who announced his final retirement from politics and made an ongoing power struggle in the country. earlier on tuesday,

the cleric urged his supporters to leave the streets within an hour with medicine protests starting to disperse shortly after. let's get some of the latest news now . we the local joe. mister mussa beal from dyke after the clash which lost food for 16 hours. my good now with ms. coleman, after the speech of all saw the withdrawal, the processors from the green zone, stopping to fire. this place where i stand with, with heavy flashes heavy fire blocks, now the security forces cleaning their. yeah, i'm for doing all the key was backed up all the flight the security forces working on opening the streets to reduce the thrust or jump on the back, the people to bring life back. as before, this, spite of the conflict politician conflict between the leadership looked at solder

and the cord initial frame war spaniel corners of the globe here went off into national pleasure having you with us for that our program. we are back soon with the news churchill, the goal was to preserve the british empire. the united states wanted an open world in which american dollar could penetrate, which american tre, it would have access everywhere and to markets and to labor add to resources around the globe. so they had very different kinds of conflict. the interest churchill wound stolen of an impending attack on the u. s.