to do this with the whole way and we need to make rules for the rest. because without us there will be k b. i. what i did was to find the soviet union to the last bullet, but i failed breaking news here went off the international, the fine old leader of the soviet union. mikhail gorbachev has died. 891 in moscow, central hospital after a long illness. there were naughty we'll be looking back through historical accuracy and off special coverage in just a few months. also in the program of the idea of a 2nd civil war in america does not seem to call fetched with over 40 percent of americans now saying they could see that happening within a decade solar coating to a new poll with

that, i just numbers for you here when i change national, we understand that 30 people have been killed and over 700 wounded and pastors in baghdad. it's following to with time and from politics of a leading shia cleric who stood firm for many years against us influence in iraq with it is so good to have you with us today here want to r t international. we've got your top stories right now and we continue with our special coverage and its breaking news or whatnot international as the final leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev has died $891.00 in moscow. central hospital, as we understand it was after a prolonged illness and many top politicians from around the world have already expressed their condolences over his death. so for a moment here, one ought to international. let's take a look through gorbachev. legacy in our special coverage.

ah, i had all teach peter scott with me in the studio just a bit earlier in the program. he's been following the world's reaction to the death of mechanical unsurprisingly, there's been an absolutely huge outpouring of condolences for the former soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev. i mean, stopping here at home, we have putin who expresses deepest condolences on some point later today. he is expected to get in touch with gold shops, friends, and relatives, and express those condolences to him. un 60 general antonio. good terrorist described him as a one of a kind states new changed the course of history. the u. k. p. m, admired gorbachev's, courage and integrity, your opinion and presence of underlying praised him as a trusted,

unrestricted leader who laughed as she described. unforgettable legacy. and i could go on rory, but just touching on, not from forgettable legacy, that sort of underlying phrased him for i think it's fair to say that it is a bit of a mixed fide. depending on where you look at the form in the west. gorbachev is seen as this sort of progressive reforming lead. you both around democracy, an error of hope. and he opened up ross and of course he did, you know, he, he bought an end, the cold war. he signed a number of arms reduction treaties with the u. s, and of course both around the beautification of germany. 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 and 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 iconic perestroika and glasnost, the restructuring,

an openness to plunge, living standards here. and of course, the ninety's were very chaotic time in russia. so he's been seen in 2 favorable lights among many russians here. and of course, president putin famously said that he sees the collapse of the soviet union as the greatest duplicate catastrophe of the 20th century. now, following the clubs 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 re 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 david. she's cemetery next to his wife rice and she passed away in 1990 very famously misses hopes solely or missed her solely. and of course, will bring you more on the full off course of gorbachev death. as a mom,

we get the got a bunch of over hold the soviet union's foreign policy by introducing the new political thinking doctrine, which ultimately thought relations with the western well brought about the end of the costly cold war. gorbachev called for the world to be seen as united and interdependent. instead of divided into a communist and capitalist countries, he saw the balance of interest of different countries other way of solving international problems. universal values had to be recognized above all others, whether they be religious or national. soviet leader also wanted to see the world free of all nuclear weapons by the start of the 21st century. ah, he ended the isolation of our country and she brought last most and freedoms.

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 one when ronald reagan and may have gorbachev moved to a ground breaking nuclear arms control agreements. despite torques collapsing at the last minute, there was still seen as a huge breakthrough. breakable 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 are assigned and 87 and, and 9 to one. those are treated, served russia, us, that the world read well. the tickets reykjavik 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 rightly president for food you can really cannot do business. and doug, which have believed otherwise and said otherwise. and they were able to establish a relationship with reagan that worked 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 west. i like mister gorbachev, we can do business together. she said so to ronald reagan,

in that sense, she was influential and she played an important role in establishing the right atmosphere. remember that before gorbachev came in, there hadn't been a us. so time it was 16. it's an absolutely incredible thing. if you look at, it was a huge turnaround in the relationship and something that despite all the differences between arbitrary and subsequent leaders has not been undone. what about your flesh responsible for 8 major nuclear disarmament of breakthrough. following nearly 2 years of wrangling with n u. s. president reagan over the issue, he suddenly made a surprise announcement, said the soviet union was ready to sign the treaty without delay. so let's take you back. december 1987, the soviet union and america agreed to eliminate all of their land based intermediate range nuclear missiles. right there. that's the iconic photo of

gorbachev. and then president reagan signing the documents and ultimately getting their names on those treaties. or 33 years ago, gorbachev became the 1st soviet leader to visit china after relations between the countries chilled following joseph style and death. it malta, new stage of bilateral relations between moscow and beijing. and now more than 3 decades later, cooperation between the countries is an all time high. china has not become the number one trading partner with russia, creating economic and political ties as an alternative to that of western reliance . moscow invasion of pledge that their relationship has no limits as they look towards the future. well, let's learn more crossing lives now. benjamin child of the power, school of technology and business, and the sense of china and globalization very good morning to you. so thanks so much for joining us, doing a special rolling coverage here on our t international. take me back if you will. what influence has gotten off had an

improving relations between moscow and beijing. but the relations between moscow and paging had unexpectedly turn sour during the cold war between the u. s. a. u s. s r. but it's also expected in a sense that the u. s. wanted to gain support from china in that very important golden triangle of international relations. and colbert chef went to china in may, 988. he was the 1st high level leader of the u. s. s. o. 2 with the china in 30 years. and the relationship between more school and bridging had to improve since that when you talk about or go to much office visit the end of the decade, it was in may, as you said, the visit was followed by student protests. and even now, of course, the infamous gentleman square of benefits,

do you think in some way those developments hut, bilateral ties to an extent eye witness what happened during the movement at that time, i think called the shelf high port visit page right in the middle of the various, if you're into problems in china, that the man you can on the imported who reform in china and at the time called the chef was traced by with so much that he was re put to the stage for reform and hope he's a young leader at 58 compared to the paramount chinese leader then south p 84 and his old comrades and the chinese at the time were fully aware of what's happening in the soviet union. and so the communist party grew by the chinese people that come this party in the soviet union was more or less in clothing. and so the, the company's pocket meant in china on with that. and, you know,

the rest of the story is what we know today. china did not follow exactly what the u. s. r has done to be formed, the system and the economy to china. it is gradually, in many sense, global shelf has taught china what not to do in a uniform with a child. let's, let's do a bit of a comparison. if we can, we talk about to go to much office visit in the late eighty's to china. then let's talk about the difference now with putin at the helm of russia, gorbachev was essentially a man who gained celebrity status with his western professional partners. putin doesn't seem to have that celebrity status now. however, how is the relationship between beijing and moscow different now to day than it was back in the times of quarter. but you know, as you have been seen,

china relationship with for sure is or time high or almost in history. now, because although the 2 leaders put in an accomplish of what they were being viewed quite deeply in the west, by the western standard. but what is important should to china, it's really about the welfare of the people. of course, 1st of all, the people of its own country. we see china for them see a lot of, you know, complementarity. we have with the us or the washer. because china is that, well actually we didn't have too much energy, which is very good. and we put a huge amount of energy research so that we, we, we didn't see that there is a, to anybody's interest from the us from days what your site knows. we're trying to

thank you to not to improve the relationship, but china fall, follow the way we do it for many economy in the last 40 years. using this thing is so called to track system work. market economies gradually take a more and more important role alongside with the plan economy in well, in terms of mutually be measured by pushing power to china has already surpassed us in 2020 so. so china proves that there was a way other than a call to reform to improve the lives of the source or something good about you were saying back in those days when he was visiting china, he, when he was supportive of a more of a multi polar well, he said he didn't want the world to be separated communist states and capital estates. and essentially, now you look at what lot of putin has been saying in recent months about the emergence, the new born, multi polar world. it would be interesting if we could go back just a few days and get the opinion of the former soviet liter mikhail gorbachev.

benjamin child of the center for china and globalization joining us life a for the special rolling coverage. we appreciate your time. thank you. now one of the biggest marks that the last soviet later made was the fall, of course of the berlin wall will take you back november. the 9th 1989 now ultimately led to the reification of germany. after being divided for almost half a century. this is how the historic event unfolded have a look at ah, 1989. a year when the berlin wall fell together with the political, ideological and territorial division of germany, the last 28 years. or the people of germany away pic, 1961 to the bits of reality. miss milton told they would be divided by bob, white, concrete, and stones from their friends and relatives were throughout the bulls existence

more than $10000.00 people tried to make it across hundreds who killed. and mikhail gorbachev played a crucial role making a peaceful reunification possible. ah, come here to this gate. mister gorbachev. open this. ah mister gorbachev, tear down this way. i know he 90 knowing mikhail gorbachev visited germany promoting perestroika and glass no see my interrogates, got about and people could shave quickly falling. i did the leadership of the communist body and moscow was much more open, much mounting, reacting on literally pushing the time a i think

that he wanted to make the, the leaders of the eastern world understand you have to accept that we live in times of changing and if we don't to react, we will be pushed by sallow. ah. now gorbachev is not known only just for his new political thinking policies towards the west, but also for his love of western culture. and during his time, he had also to meet and greets, with the hollywood superstars rubbing elbows with the a list as he was also featured in european clothing campaigns and even had a starring role in a pizza hut commercial. oh, he's bad. all of us. we discourage his wisdom and his vision, and of course his tremendous will a very kind i to

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back home. gorbachev implemented up spread of domestic social, political, and economic reforms, including the complete democratization of soviet policies and an intended boost for the economy. of course, no discussion of soviet policies will be complete without mentioning glass lost and perestroika, glass northwest transparent discussion of politic, full and social issues as well as the free circulation of news and information. as a result, ecological problems, politicians, privileges, and soviet bureaucracy were all fair game to discuss. but historical was the democratic restructuring of the soviet political and economic systems. however,

many think that but it's broke up, was a failure. it led to a collapse in industry and dia, shortages of consumer goods, leading to long queues of people for even the most basic of necessities, the weak economy, as well as political divisions, spock massive social unrest. here are the features for you right now. how many angry citizens protested in the streets over poor living conditions, or despite strong criticism of perestroika its consequences. gorbachev insisted that he was defending the soviet union up until the very end of the year. what i did was defend the soviet union to the last bullet to see what i failed. i don't agree when people say that perestroika failed, didn't fail. it was disrupted derailed at the beginning of $990.00. gorbachev approval rating in the u. s. s. r stood at 70 percent. by the end of the year, it was roughly 20. the survey people felt let down by perestroika when their hopes

for a better future simply were not met. at the same time, go to the officer rating in the west, went through the roof, 81 percent approval rating in america, $75.00 in germany, in britain, and 70 percent approval rating in italy. now a slew of economic, social and political failures during put us through a lead to an attempted coup as take you back. august 1991 with senior government and military officials tried to take control of the country away from gorbachev. it failed in just 3 days, but it did precipitate. the disillusion of the soviet union were then future leader boris yeltsin. poise to come to the full august the 19th. 1991 on every tv channel in the country, a continuous loop of the ballet swan lake. meanwhile, in moscow dramatic scenes, we're playing out

a moment. vehicles rolling into the capitol. the presence of the usa salary is out of town and not the 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. is this new motion? stoopa stay unused, that or yes, the phone you got a bunch of them if you wanted to gauge him. so i doesn't list the place into these anesthesia. the volume shuttle. okay. flail from a 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 nick itself with independent media shut down, people across the soviet union and 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 communists hotline as they wanted to derail a pending agreement on wide ranging sovereignty for soviet republic, but tens of thousands of protest. this began heading out fight, forming around the russian government had quoted russian leda boris yeltsin famously defied the takeover from the tub tank. i sent you on friday evening, 6 more tanks. join yell inside the next day. crowds outside the white house continue to grow. ah, on august the 21st 3 people it kills when anti cooper is tried to soften colin vomit vehicles ah. with a day later,

gorbachev returns to moscow as the attempted overthrow effectively collapses. as the russian freak law becomes the official state flag in the symbolic side of victory, the hard line communist truth . despite the controversies, gorbachev was still widely considered one of the brightest and most significant politicians of his time. we will continue our special coverage of his profound historic legacy throughout the day here on the audience. ah, i returning to today, i made political bickering, income inequality rising distrust and a criminal investigation into

a former president. now more than 40 percent of americans say they could foresee a civil war breaking out within the next 10 years. that is, according to a new nation wide survey by you. gov and the economist magazine and the washington post said last week that america quote, stands as close to the edge of civil war as it has since 18. 61. the current investigation into former president trump has visibly raised tensions across the country. and thus, as the new york times, as claim that criminal prosecution of trump would be a necessary 1st step towards fixing the country's problems. well, let's take a long, hard look without his caleb. 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 attacking our democracy. that is well that is, it is very clear. opened a history book. 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 bent on pinning this on. republicans. what we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme maga. 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 midterms,

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 states, the governor of new york just told the states 5400000 local republicans to get lost . and we're here to say that the arrow 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. they're concerned, 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. so operating within america, their goal is to end democracy. now 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 ratcheting along with inflation until the november mid terms. at least they were mopping r t new york gives you some disturbing numbers from iraq, whereas we understand now. 30 people have been killed and over 700 wounded in flashes between protests and authorities. all of this going down in a diplomatic zone also that have the green zone in baghdad. i protest a storm government offices on a monday in support of leading opposition, shia cleric mercado our father, he announced its final retirement from politics is an ongoing power struggle in the

country. earlier on tuesday, the cleric to support is to leave the streets within an hour with militant protest, just starting to disperse quite quickly. there after more details on a story from iraq online at our p dot com. for the meantime. though, a team of experts from the international atomic energy agency has left kiev and it's heading to be embattled zacko, dodgy nuclear power plot, and southeastern ukraine. the vienna based agencies, director general rafael growth. see said earlier that he hoped to arrange a permanent presence at the facility to ensure security. early on tuesday, the i. e. a mission arriving where they met the ukrainian president of the parents comes on the heels of repeated attacks on the nuclear power plot by ukrainian forces during the last 2 months. and that is, according to russian officials, the kremlin earlier no to the delegation will visit the plant from ukrainian

control zones. safety during the trip will be provided by the sight came under control of russian forces in march. they've been guarding it ever since. earlier moscow had asked for an independent investigation into the types to prevent a possible nuclear is asked for thanks for spending a time with us here at auto international in moscow. appreciate you joining us for our special rolling coverage that help with the death of the final soviet lead mikhail gorbachev. catch up on all of our stories online at all t dot com for the meantime. thanks with a.