with between baker and mikhail gorbachev. about lacing a united germany in nato and in that meeting baker says if they are united and placed in nato nato will not move one inch further east. and i've seen that record both the translation of the russian record from charanaya. and the american record from dennis ross. it was both agree. that the statement won each further east. was said and what baker meant was that i'm focused on eastern, germany. and it is east germany that i'm talking about. and he was not conscious at that time. of whether hungry and poland and check and slovakia would follow he was determined that germany should be united in nato, but it is. force to think that he already anticipated the other countries of eastern europe. now as we all know now. in 2004 and subsequently the other eastern countries eastern european countries joined nato. and that has provoked the russians by now to claim that baker broke his word. and they have used this one inch further east in their propaganda to say you can't can't trust

next, former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev's lecture at the college from may 1992.

next, former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev's lecture at the college from may 1992. he talked about how the world could emerge from the cold war and shape the future. >> sculpture in which the sculpture's imagination and fantasy, with remarkable expressiveness convey the drama of the cold war. the irrepressible human striving to penetrate the barriers of alienation and confrontation. it is symbolic that this hard est is the granddaughter of winston churchill and this sculpture should be in fulton. is the granddaughter of winston churchill and this sculpture should be in fulton. more than 46 years ago, winston churchill spoke in fulton and in my country, the speech was singled out as the formal declaration of the cold war. this was, indeed, the first time the words "iron curtain" were pronounced and the whole western world was challenged to close ranks against the threat of tyranny in the form of the soviet union and communist expansion. everything else in this speech, including churchill's analysis of the post-war situation in the world, his thoughts about the possib

conflict and it would open up for alternatives all right ok let me let me get 15 seconds back to you mikhail o. before we go once again to moscow with victor. look i'm going to be very brief at the end of the day there's a $100000.00 troops that are being pressed troops that are being massed on the borders of ukraine this in fact troops if they are going to be invading ukraine will not be in beating the past because. the area that is being turned meet it it is actually depressed reach there's very little interest in actually it right however there is an interest obviously if you medical interest and in a very clear economic interest creating a land bridge crimea and that means cutting off grain from the black sea ok that has now that's interesting obviously that but it's nothing to do with with nato or anything else that's simply russian expansionism in and you're ok you made your point let me ask victor what is the bottom line of this phase of the escalation do you think russia wants to to go to war with ukraine directly and divert me and threw into a war with ukraine. look despite kiev suc

european parliament has been debating latin america's worsening covered situations and i've talked to mikhail garner who's foreign affairs coordinator for the parliaments and largest grouping the center right european peoples party welcome to d.w. once a parliament has debated the situation in latin america what can you actually do about it well we have stated that both europe and latin america are 2 of the most distracted regions in the world with regard to this pandemic and we have. according or survive to just reportage clearly said that we regret this pandemic has been heavily politicized including such negation it negates in this rhetoric don't play off the severity of the situation by heads of state and government i mean realit not named anybody directly grants everybody knows who is. who is to be named and shamed but what can we actually do we have. work on the commission to activate oath of the civil protection mechanism and other solidarity funding for a latin america we have contribution to it financially to the kodak solution to the commission has from the budget added 500000000 wh

mikhail why hasn't a clear conservative candidate emerged yet. because things didn't go to plan and the man who was seen as the natural successor. is really doing very badly in the current opinion polls he's whole varying around more below 20 percent approval ratings and mark will serve to from bavaria boasting of upwards of 50 percent and that's what makes him so confident to shift the goalposts to say that yes your party may be behind you arm in the us it's the new cd you party leader and merkel successor as the conservative leader there but the opinion polls give him better chances at this very moment in time and that's what he's insisting on not shying away from this showdown this high noon moment in the midst of an epidemic so explain to us then if if so there is indeed leading in the opinion polls why isn't the party just back again. well because it would be a breach of code of honor almost to block the wild card from bavaria the c.d.u. and the c.s. you are a conservative union here in germany that's often lost in translation the c.s.u. is

mikhail left poor tareq and ran away with neil schoen, the guitarist for journey.but it's like why don't you just leave the job of covering the white house to the journalists in there. now, this will probably lead to more scrutiny of those with access. but, you know, at the end of the day, this seems like a silly antic and maybe they got what they wanted. >> but griff, you have to be -- i'm sorry, if a roblox player can come on and get this kind of question asked, isn't it kind of, rachel, an indictment of the press corps for their own inability to ask tough questions? we saw during that biden press conference how soft they were on him. maybe the gamers would actually be better at this. [laughter] what do you think? >> i think this gamer was not very good. he asked about portrait unveilings? not exactly what might anybody e country cares about at all. i wish the federalist had tried this or maybe even the babylon bee would have been awesome because they actually might have of the questions that the american people want. i'll tell you who should be asking questions,

european parliament has been debating latin america's worsening cuz its situations and i've talked to mikhail gather who's foreign affairs coordinator for the parliaments the largest group in the center right european peoples party welcome to you once a parliament has created the situation in latin america what can you actually do about it. well we have stated that both europe and latin america are 2 of the most effected regions in the world with regard to this pandemic and we have. according or savant you just reported clearly said deaths we regret that this pandemic has been heavily politicized including such negation it negates in this rhetoric laying off the severity of the situation by heads of state and government i mean we have not named anybody directly going to have a body knows who is. who is to be named and shamed but what can we actually do we have. called on the commission to activate author of the e.u.'s civil protection mechanism and other solidarity funding for a latin america we have contributed financially to the contacts initiative the commission has from the budget added 1

chief political editor mikhail tell us about the latest developments. but angela merkel was very much on the defensive and you could see that she herself was surprised by some of the connections that she was quizzed about the fundamental question is why she received the wooden back he's a former minister in her cabinet and only a few days later than raises wire card then knowing that barack was a lobbyist for wire card well she says she didn't at that point in time and that she no longer has contact with him. she says that this payment service fit into an overarching policy that she had that germany had anyway which was trying to secure market access to particular in the financial sector into china that much her defense but still question marks over her chief economic advisor. how much he knew when and how much his wife was involved in potentially working on behalf of wire cards so this at least raises many questions as well incident. the optics of all of this not very good. absolutely not and although the finance minister who's from the social democrat

and let's bring in mikhail a chief political correspondent our chief political editor i should say they give a good to see you the 2 rival conservative candidates here the 2 people who want to stand for the conservatives in this election become chancellor they said they would have this worked out as to who it would be who they would get the nomination by the end of last week it didn't happen so where does this go from here. yes we were even sifting the definition of what the end of the week is and there was a late night meeting on sunday evening for 3 and a half hours and the 2 men simply couldn't work it out. instead we saw the use the organizers they said of the conservative bloc here in germany come out in favor of marcos zuda from bavaria so that's quite a surprise so this month a fight that's been going on for just over a week now since my office it just suddenly declares that he would now officially run is counted after having his posse and much of the opinion polls here in germany call for him for months and that is there's no end in sight to this state at the same time we're see

position of president castro has said he'd quit communist party leader and 2021 a successor back then mikhail dia's can know is also expected to succeed him in his government rule row castro had been in power since 2011 when he took over from his iconic older brother fidel both men were the leaders of the 1959 cuban revolution which resulted in the creation of a socialist government they'll then lead the nation through the cold war the cuban missile crisis will still leader into the 21st century the spy decades or pressure from the u.s. he stepped down as president in 2008 as party leader in 2011 handing power to his brother he died 5 years later when we spoke to latin america specialist danny shaw who believes rule castro's resignation won't alter the country's direction in any significant way. even though i wrote castro is no longer going to be the leader of cuba. as kind then an entire generation if not 2 generations of leaders will now step up and as the cubans have said this is about continuity i think the cubans are confident they can still continue to build socialism an anti-imperialis

by the way and those 2 areas refused to be part of a post soviet georgia particularly one ruled by mikhail saakashvili what he attempted to do in 2008 was to knock both those obstacles out at the same time by re incorporating up cars in south ossetia even getting the russian peacekeepers and then making himself nato ready i would argue that selenski is preparing to do precisely the same thing as a matter of fact he is quoted in the ukrainian news today as is pushing the membership action plan you know the final step before for nato membership as a matter of fact i should mention the ukrainian press today also quotes the ukrainian ambassador to germany saying it's either nato or nuclear weapons i'm not paraphrasing i'm quoting he says either nato gives us membership action program we enter the alliance or we may be forced to redo the nuclear option that's a quote from the ukrainian ambassador to germany so i mean this is i understand rhetoric it's not playing out but it's clearly i think a situation in analogy exactly the one you've established peter which is ukraine sees it's the necessity

cuban president mikhail diaz canelo has taken over as the head of the ruling communist party replaces roll castro the succession marks the end of 6 decades of rule by castro and his brother fidel but he has canel says castro will still be involved in important decisions. and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story goodbye. ready for another perspective listen to the tape al-jazeera is flagship news podcast with milly could be a lounge or discover hindsight and a regional docu drama could cost new writing by chance don it's the same as an interest politics and culture go undercover t.v. allegations of corruption by those in power and if you're in a hearty get your news in 2 minutes from al-jazeera nice updates on the radio. india is the world's biggest vaccine maker but days of record breaking cold 19 infections have forced it to delay exports its hospitals are under strain and cases are rising so how will the government bring it under control this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm a jew him just a month ago india declared an

are more of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the end of an era in cuba president mikhail diaz cannell is pick to head the ruling communist party taking over from raul castro. jailed russian opposition leader has moved to a prison hospital he's on hunger strike and his doctor says he may be near death. and a 1st in the history of space exploration now serves flies a helicopter on mars describing it as a right this moment. the. after 3 weeks of testimony in the murder trial of a former minneapolis police officer the case has been handed over to the jury derek sjodin is accused of killing george floyd after nearly won his neck for war the 9 and a half minutes showing his face in 2 murder charges and manslaughter john 100 is covering the trial in minneapolis otherwise we are in recess until we hear from the jury in their final words in the most highly charged us civil rights case in decades prosecutors told jurors to trust their eyes but. the defendant's actions pushing him down. george later died that day. drugs you just breathlessly drive a drug overdose in that time. maybe

i've seen mikhail gorbachev's great reforms he is a social democrat, and he is someone who speaks about really trying to end war, trying to end the nuclear peril, who was a courageous thinker, a bold thinker about many things. i respect your caller's feelings about his own personal stake in remembering cuba for what he sees it as, but i think we make a great mistake today, for example, in not quickly re-engaging cuba. i think that was one of obama's important moves, its folly that decades later we have this kind of skirmish war with cuba. and i think we need to rebuild a good neighbor policy. one of the reasons we have an immigration crisis is yes, corruption, drug cartels, military force in these countries, but also u.s. policy over the years has not been helpful in engaging a part of the world which we should be engaged with in different ways, and that includes cuba. host: kevin in texas, democrat. caller: yes, i am here. host: go ahead with your question or comment. caller: i am just wondering. we have been here, what, 5000 years? is it better today than yesterday or 1000 years ago?

the latest developments now where we are is on the story of the she's our chief political editor mikhail oh tell us about the latest developments. but angela merkel was very much on the defensive and you could see that she herself was surprised by some of the connections that she was quizzed about the fundamental question is why she received the wooden back he's a former minister and her cabinet and pretty only a few days later than raises wire cards then knowing that barack was a lobbyist for wired well she says she didn't at that point in time and that she no longer has contact with him she says that this payment service fit into an overarching policy that she hides that germany had anyway which was trying to secure market access to particular in the financial sector into china that much her defense but still question marks over her chief economic advisor. how much he knew when and how much his wife was involved in potentially working on behalf of wire cards so this at least raises many questions as well incident where. the optics of all of this not very good. absolutely not and althou

bush and i, knew, as his secretary of state, knew that we had a lot of business still to do with mikhail gorbachev and his foreign minister at the time. so we didn't rub their noses in it. we were very restrained to the point that president bush was criticized roundly for not showing more emotion at the fall of the wall. after all, we had been in the cold war situation with the soviets for over 40 years. the war had ended, we had won, why weren't we celebrating? we weren't celebrating because we didn't want to stick it in their eye, since we had a lot more things we needed to get done. i think that would be one example. >> so after you've walked in your counterpart's shoes and empathized, and before you get to the table, then you get to the table. and it's time to start the actual horse trading, as we say in texas. >> right. >> so, what do you think in order to be able to strike a deal, you talked a minute ago about not viewing it as a zero-sum game. you talk about yourself many times about the importance of pragmatism. >> right. >> expand upon how you always kept pragmatism in the front

the final part of that story is that when, in 1990, mikhail gorbachev came to the white house and we were sitting together in the lawn of the white house in marine one, presidential helicopter, getting ready to take off for california, this me, gorbachev and his wife and secret service i thought, i'm really glad i changed my major. so if you find your passion, if you find people who support you, and if you work hard and you don't worry too much about what comes next, incredible opportunities do open themselves to you. finally, i'd say get involved in politics at some point, you know. find a candidate you like. work for them. ultimately, that's really how i got to be secretary of state. i worked for george w. bush and i became his secretary of state. those are some of the thoughts i have but the most important starts right now, find your passion. [ applause ] >> wonderful. let's talk a little about the organization of decision making and your role in the nsc, national security council. that role is -- was almost painful for me to read it, it was herding cats. if you were to advise now

well d w chief political editor mikhail akutan a says sadr has put lash it on the back foot. i finally declaring his readiness to run as chancellor candidate for i'm going to malcolm's conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. union but various state premier marco has put. the c.d.u. leader on the defensive he was initially seen as a given to succeed angela merkel on the conservative ticket here in germany when germany goes to the polls on the 26th of september now will have to fight and he will have to fight within his own c.d.u. party because his now rival marco suitor wants to leave it up to the c.d.u. to decide so the coming hours and days may see a lot of party fight and debate with the various state premier vowing that he won't look back in anger if it's not his name on the ticket this is once again a departure if there ever was a plan for the succession of anglo macko and it shows a significant lack of stability within the c.d.u. at a moment of crisis for the whole country in the midst of a pandemic. let's take a look at other stories making headlines around the world iran is calling

because the tensions really or are too much now but ever been this website before billable hours or mikhail gorbachev came to power in the soviet union prison by dint of the right thing by proposing a summit but the risks and uncertainty for a summit are probably greater than 4 in a somber sense premier khrushchev walked out of one in paris in 1950 would present eisenhower why do you say that and is actually such a summit realistic is the kremlin likely to agree to a meeting like that after it's just had sanctions imposed on it. the foreign minister sergei lavrov has moscow reacted positively to president biden's proposal and from a criminal standpoint having such a summit helps legitimize the prestige of criminal rule if you will in russia there's been a continued tightening of rule. of stronger limits on freedom of expression in russia i think this is posing a problem for russia in terms of which of them a city in the west and so somewhat like this could help. right but russia isn't going to accept any sort of into ferentz in internal matters when it comes to freedom of expression is free

to happen here world leaders continue to come to westminster college and and the museum we've had mikhail gorbachev president re margaret thatcher these great leaders in cold warriors if you will who helped end the war have followed in churchill's footsteps and the museum plays a great role in that the westminster college platform for world leaders to make remarks and speeches is quite extraordinary and it really is a ripple effect from what happened here on this campus 75 years ago. we're still living with it history is not old we live with it and see it and continue to be influenced by today. talk a little bit about that statue. you were just mentioning the breakthrough statue talk a little bit about it and tell us why it's there. well, you know edwina sands, who is winston churchill's granddaughter a very gifted internationally known artistic. saw the berlin wall fall on television like many of us did and had a notion to relocate eight sections of the berlin wall from berlin to fulton as a as a as a sculpture, but she did something interesting she carved through these these abstract ma

. >> reporter: ronald reagan's crowning achievement was starting a face to face dialogue with mikhail would always say she never got involved in policy questions. >> reporter: oh, please. >> she was relentless in pushing her husband to negotiate with the soviets. >> i remember so vividly her saying to him, ronnie, you need to sit down with gorbachev and talk with him. i mean, that's the kind of influence i think she had on him in a number of different instances. >> she really envisioned this would be ronald reagan's place in history, as a peacemaker and not a war monger. >> reporter: of course, that was near the end of the reagan administration. but early on, ronald reagan was shot less than three months after his inauguration. what wasn't known at the time was that he came very close to dying. how did things change for her and the white house after he was shot? >> she became very, very not paranoid, but very nervous say time there was going to be a public event. and it was only after that attempt that she began, i think, to regularly consult her astrologer friend. >> reporter: this w

i've seen mikhail gorbachev's great reforms he is a social democrat, and he is someone who speaks aboutlly trying to end war, trying to end the nuclear peril, who was a courageous thinker, a bold thinker about many things. i respect your caller's feelings about his own personal stake in remembering cuba for what he sees it as, but i think we make a great mistake today, for example, in not quickly re-engaging cuba. i think that was one of obama's important moves, its folly that decades later we have this kind of skirmish war with cuba. and i think we need to rebuild a good neighbor policy. one of the reasons we have an immigration crisis is yes, corruption, drug cartels, military force in these countries, but also u.s. policy over the years has not been helpful in engaging a part of the world which we should be engaged with in different ways, and that includes cuba. host: kevin in texas, democrat. caller: yes, i am here. host: go ahead with your question or comment. caller: i am just wondering. we have been here, what, 5000 years? is it better today than yesterday or 1000 years ago? i ju