weeks later, he had his first sum wit soviet leader gorbachev.resident bush expressed his support for the parastrika, or the restructuring and other reforms. >> i wanted to do it on the ship. i was thinking back to the days when roosevelt did that kind of thick. wed went to their cruiser and they were going to come to our cruiser. well, the seas so rough, gorbachev wouldn't come to our ship. >> no agreements were signed, but they struck a cooperative tone that would leave some to say it would define the end of the cold war. and bush was on the verge of another foreign policy challenge, the removal of manuel noriega. >> there was an election in panama and he stole the election. interestingly enough, president carter was down there supervising the election and said, you know, it was a fraudulent election. so, we decided that we had to get rid of noriega. and we did use force. by the time that happened, the president had called all the leaders of latin america. it was the first military move the president made. >> his foreign policy team repeatedly

during the meeting president bush expressed his support for gorbachev's restruck you aring initiativemmunist block. >> i wanted to do it on a ship thinking back to the days roosevelt did that kind of thing we planned to go over to their cruiser they were going to come back to our cruiser we were going to have exchanged visits but the seas were so rough gorbachev wouldn't kocome out t our ship. >> they struck a cooperative tone that would lead some to believe the odd seaborn summit would define the end of the cold war. bush was on the verge of removal of man well another egg ga. >> there was an election and he stole the election. interestingly enough president carter was down there supervising the election and said, it was not an election. they decided they had to get rid of another yeainoryago. they had to call all of the leaders of latin america. first military move they made. >> they faced explosive situations around the world. the president needed to divide his attention to the momentous issues abroad and domestic issues at home. also during his presidency he nominated david souter

gorbachev, open this gate. [ cheers and applause ] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> shep: president ronald reagan not only helped end the cold war, but he also had a sense of humor. >> one of these stories, the one i'm going to tell you, i told to general secretary gorbachev and he laughed. [ laughter ] the story was an american and a russian arguing about their two countries and the american said, look, in my country, i can walk into the oval office. i can pound the president's desk and say, mr. president, i don't like the way you're running our country. and a russian said, i can do that. the american says, you can? he says, yes. i can go into the kremlin, to the general secretary's office, pound his desk and say, mr. general secretary, i don't like the way president reagan's running his country. [ laughter ] >> shep: when doctors diagnosed president reagan with alzheimer's, he wrote a letter to the nation with the help of his wife, nancy. it reads: my fellow americans, i have recently been told that i'm one of the americans who wi

gorbachev? i'm sure you remember those stories. >> yes, i do. yes, i do. i guess because when -- well, it was a big -- this was the first time that there had been a meeting between us and soviet union. but then when they got -- when we got over there and meetings started, the press didn't have anything -- they couldn't get into the meetings, couldn't talk to my husband or gorbachev. so they concentrated and reza and me, more than i thought was necessary, really. it wasn't really vital as to what i had on or what she had on. you know, there were very important decisions being made there. >> when you look back at these days when you were in that white house for eight years, what are the positive moments you remember? what kind of days were the most fun days for you? >> well, when you're in the white house, there's so many highs and lows. it's -- you really can't pick. the lowest day was when ronnie was shot. that's an easy one. it because there were so many highs, and there were so many lows. >> did you get tired? >> sure.

gorbachev, open this gate. [ cheers and applause ] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> shep: president ronald reagan not only helped end the cold war, but he also had a sense of humor. >> one of these stories, the one i'm going to tell you, i told to general secretary gorbachev and he laughed. [ laughter ] the story was an american and a russian arguing about their two countries and the american said, look, in my country, i can walk into the oval office. i can pound the president's desk and say, mr. president, i don't like the way you're running our country. and a russian said, i can do that. the american says, you can? he says, yes. i can go into the kremlin, to the general secretary's office, pound his desk and say, mr. general secretary, i don't like the way president reagan's running his country. [ laughter ] >> shep: when doctors diagnosed president reagan with alzheimer's, he wrote a letter to the nation with the help of his wife, nancy. it reads: my fellow americans, i have recently been told that i'm one of the americans who wi

well, 1985, gorbachev became the head of the soviet state. he began the process of perestroika. supposed to facilitate. the word for publicity and it means, and the policy was intended to kind of energize soviet society. in fact, a very fine french soviets elegist or writer said that you could understand soviet history as the alternation between the era of war communism in which there was to repression and the knew economic policy in which the peasants were briefly allowed a measure of freedom, allowed to grow further and sell it at market prices, and the kind of relaxation that gave the society the ability to draw on its inner resources and saved it from collapse. well, that alternation between repression and liberalization could also be traced to the christian era where the apparatus of terror was dismantled. there was relative liberalization and the situation froze over again and finally there was liberalization under gorbachev, but toward jobs ambitions were such that he was not satisfied with the kind of limited change that might have been possible. he was fiercely resisted

gorbachev gave a lot of emphasis to the people that come now. look, you've got 1,000 years of serfs, 1,000 years of communisms and now there's a fledgling democracy. from what i see, it's beginning to work. it's going to be very interesting to see how this thing goes on, even though we're critical of the leaders. tonya, significance? >> to wrap it up quickly. we were really one of the first to come in. we were huge. we were in comparison to what they had seen before and we did show them an awful lot about america. they were very, very interested. you know, they couldn't get information about america over there. they were just horrible. the kind of news that the soviet public was exposed to. they couldn't get the -- you had to have special permission to go and get "the new york times" and a special library of "the washington post." you just didn't have that kind of access if you were russian at that time. it would not like we were keeping it from them. you couldn't get it. that's why we became so important. because we brought so many things. our

it reminds me of one time when i was playing the fairmont hotel, gorbachev from russia with here and travel throughout the whole united states and in front of the company could tell, i was listening to him speak about san francisco. he said, "i traveled to every city in the united states, and i was disappointed with what i saw. there was not one city that i liked, but as far as i'm concerned, san francisco is so beautiful that i would like to design 15 cities in russia that look like san francisco." [laughter] and he was right. [applause] my wonderful wife, my family is here. i'm thrilled. thank you very much. i must say -- excuse me, i have to mention one thing. i have never seen anything in my life as beautiful as these young people. [applause] you stand so beautiful. [applause] -- you sang so beautiful. [applause] >> it is tony bennett day in san francisco. [applause] just fantastic. now, before we leave here today, just one more time, let's hear that special song one more time, now performed by the talented san francisco gay men's chorus, who will be joined by -- yes -- who will

gorbachev, tear down this wall. shortly thereafter the wall did in fact come down and what ronald reagan said of course. but we all cheered that internationally, getting rid of that symbol as we are building something that is not just the same kind of thing but it looks so similar to what i remember. a great difference. you have in east germany this attempt by the government are the most part successful in keeping its citizens from leaving and here we are trying to keep the mexicans and others from coming north. but let me read from the book, "calexico" true lies of the borderlands, and give you a sense for how that felt to me as i was walking along the border, checking out that wall. i followed the wall on the road for a couple of miles and it turned into first-rate but i got back to town. in places, the wall was okay to, a harsh blind spot making it impossible to see activity on the mexican side. it's more sophisticated components leave feeling spaces between upright posts that are spaced tightly enough together t

gorbachev led the soviet union from 1985 until the collapse in 1991. >>> back at home, there are newns tonight about how the last two presidential administrations handled the release of terrorism suspects from guantanamo bay prison. chief congressional correspondent rahm emanuel has details. >> a new report estimates 27% of the 600 former guantanamo detainees were confirmed or suspected of returning to terrorist activities. >> the study blames the bush and obama managers seeking to release or transfer detainees in reaction to pressure. desire to earn good will abroad. republican congressman whitman led the study. >> reengagement is the most concerning to us. the policies don't seem to be refined to ensure we're not having detainees return to the battlefield. >> today, speaker boehner expressed his own concerns. >> the clear evidence on the battlefield. >> the top democrat disagreed with the report believing that detainee policy improved and favors closing gitmo and says, "i continue to believe the detention facility at guantanamo bay, cuba, is a black eye for the nation abroad servin

gorbachev was a visionary who came to power. he saw he needed to change the country. he used his powers to do that. he withdrew from afghanistan. he called for nuclear abolition. he worked with ronald reagan. he understood you need political solutions, not military solutions. when the soviet troops were ready to come out of the barracks so the berlin wall would not come down, he told them to stay in the barracks, the empire is going. we cannot be a country that will be one of glasnost and perestroika if we live the way we have. it is the 20th anniversary of the soviet union, the end of the soviet union. many people in russia blame him for the economic conditions in which they live. they blame him for the end of the country that many felt was the cradle to grave welfare state instead of a totalitarian system. i have great respect for him. you can also see people's weaknesses. you talked about all salvador. what about the priests and nuns? to me, that is the people power in that situation. flm was a revolutionary force seeking power. the people power were trying to alle

strange when the mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the moving war in full display. correctness mr karzai was carefully spared. from their answers. to most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is their rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and. our growth. leading factors there could precipitate the implosion then a stand from within that was r t contributor currently of herself you can catch more of his analysis in our blog section at r.t. dot com also right there for you now are all mine explosive reflections from iraq party asks people on tough ronna how they feel about their country's controversial nuclear program and hears from students who volunteer to do atomic research. also anonymous strikes again as happy divison bring down several u.s. government websites and the latest sap to protest against online censorship. is it. down the official ante up location your i phone on pod touch from the dumpster. video on demand. old girls. and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your.

gorbachev, tear down this glacier. now listen, is there an album, because you know albums sell great with songs associated with movies. is there an album of like, of like whaling songs that go with this. >> do you happen to know of any good whale songs. >> stephen: oh, who ray and here ray and up she rises up she rises early in the morning. you sing that you get that, throw a little-- on it or something like that, mary j. blige. >> what if we did like a stephen colbert, you know, sing songs for the whales cd. >> stephen: well, the movie going to be a huge success. >> thank you. >> stephen: drew barrymore, big miracle in the theatres captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org now, robot, kick 'em in the knees. bears have weak knees. and you should vibrate, 'cause the robot's full of radiation. yeah, that's it. frank. how many bears did i say you could have? one.

rather strange when mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the bleeding wound in full display of poetical correctness mr karzai was careful this spared from answering two most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and the narco aggression there. too leading factors there could precipitate the implosion of ghana's stand from within. russia and china came under international fire when they refused to take sides in syria's conflict and vetoed a u.n. security council resolution it's just the most recent example of the two standing largely on their own when i was resident in new york went to ask people in the big apple whether the two countries should be feared. if you believe the news media you should fear china and russia this week let's talk about why if they wanted to china could wipe out the us in probably three minutes but anyone with an atomic bomb could true so why china in particular. chinese people are very dangerous why are they wh

gorbachev tear down this glacier. now listen, at bulls sell great, associated with movies, is there an album of whaling songs. >> dow happen to know of any good whale songs. >> stephen: hugh ray and up she rises, early in the morning ♪ ♪ you sing that, you get that, you throw a little-- on it or something like that. >> i mean-- . >> jon: mary j. blige. >> what if we did like a steve be colbert, you know, sings songs for the whales cd. >> stephen: well, the movie is going to be a huge success. >> thank you. >> stephen: drew barrymore, big miracle, in the theatres next friday. we'll be rig we want to protect the house. right. but... home security systems can be really expensive. so to save money, we actually just adopted a rescue panther. i think i'm goin-... shhh! we find that we don't need to sleep that much. there's an easier way to save. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >> stephen: that's it for the report, everybody. the report, everybody. good night. charlie: thank you so much for tak

strange when the mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the leading war in full display of poetical correctness mr karzai was carefully spared from answering two most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and the narco aggression there. too leading factors there who precipitated the implosion of ghana's stan from within and later the moscow out team takes you on a trip to live the life of the rich and famous in the russian capital. the scene is here in the russian capital with dozens of galleries opening up every year and contemporary art especially being explored and developed more than ever before with you and it is the laws on taking pieces out of the country this allows various collectors or international to take full advantage of the growing industry and such a creative and profitable market is any. my friend is going to love it here. russia and china have come under heavy criticism after their veto of a u.n. security council res

gorbachev tear down this glacier. now listen, at bulls sell great, associated with movies, is there an album of whaling songs. >> dow happen to know of any good whale songs. >> stephen: hugh ray and up she rises, early in the morning ♪ ♪ you sing that, you get that, you throw a little-- on it or something like that. >> i mean-- . >> jon: mary j. blige. >> what if we did like a steve be colbert, you know, sings songs for the whales cd. >> stephen: well, the movie is going to be a huge success. >> thank you. >> stephen: drew barrymore, big miracle, in the theatres next friday. we'll be right

wixman: because many chechens say that gorbachev promised that if the north caucasians helped russia in the war against georgia in abkhazia, when many chechens fought and died, that they would create a north caucasian republic in the same way that they had been promised with lenin. this never came about. narrator: tired of broken promises, the chechens began a guerrilla war against the new russian state in 1994. another centrifugal force throughout the caucasus is religion. unlike most russians, a majority of the people here are muslims. and here, location is key. the caucusus rise on russia's southern borderlands, the northern edge of the islamic world. today, muslims here construct many new mosques. despite the violence in chechnya, islam, like dagestan, is multifaceted. when they go to a mosque, we think of them as being fundamentalist moslems, which is not the case. it's funny that we see russians going to churches and rebuilding churches, and this is called russian culture. but when a dagestani reincorporates part of islamic culture, now they're called "fundamentalist moslems."