before this event occurred the prime minister valentine pavlov and another hard-liner flew to mikhail gorbachev's vacation d a that he resign. when gorbachev refused, valentine pavlov told him, 'you are going to be sick for a very long time.'" at the order of the revolutionary leaders, tanks stormed into moscow to arrest some 200 leaders marked as enemies to the party. one of those was russian state president yeltsin. into office and thousands spilled into the square in front russia's parliamentto his defense. perhaps the single most prolific act of defiance during the entire coup attempt was yeltsin climbinon a tank and ordering a general strike to protest the communist overthrow. "yeltsin! yeltsin! yeltsin!" so wle yeltsin was galvanizing a cause amongst the people, gorbachev was being held in his vacation home cut off people, gorbachev was being held in his vacation home cut off protesters drew a line in the sand "'go back! go back' she screams. 'we are not afraid of you.'" ey built up a makeshift barricade protecting yeltsin and other democratic leade from potential arrest. "in moscow, ten ta

winning that power, 54-year-old mikhail gorbachev. rld is watching what the new leader will do. >> they reached for the youngest man among full members. the one that comes advertised is the one likely to rock the boat. >>> at 54, gorbachev is the youngest to lead the soviet union since stalin. unlike his predecessors, he may feel less tied down by the burden of soviet history. >> he is a revolution in himself, talking about a new soviet union, allowing some freedom of speech, allowing a more open society. gorbachev had seen how the gap between how the soviet people lived and what the party said was growing wider and wider. but he is a child of the system. he did not want to destroy it. he had in his mind i have to save it. >> i want him to fight for peace and for better life. >> i think that he will be a good leader and i like him. >> the first couple of years of the reagan first term, reagan didn't meet any soviet leaders. when asked about it, reagan said they keep dying on me. that was true, but he wasn't making much of an effort, an

ten days earlier officials staged a coup to remove mikhail gorbachev from office. it failed. he returned. months later gorbachev resigned. the next day the soviet union came to an end but parliament kicked out the communists, or at least the party. 25 years ago today. should news break out we'll bleak because breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" is coming up. first a look at the end of the dow's day. we're up 108 on the session. it seems stocks rebounded. they were led by financial shares today because somebody at the fed spoke and the prospect of higher interest rates makes the bank stock very happy. they'll explain it all coming up. have a great afternoon. >> an uproar in south carolina after a high school bans the american flag from a football game. welcome. this is "your world." it happened over the weekend. travelers rest high school opposing rival beret ya hi which has a large hispanic population. the principle of travelers defending the decision to ban the flag saying, quote, any decision to not allow the american flag to be used in an unp

why we were overwhelmed, all of us, by the end of the cold war, after the coming to office of mikhail gorbachevnd the historical sitdowns with ronald reagan. today president obama was asked what he thought about donald trump having power over the nuclear arsenal. he said we should all make our own judgment. listen about what trump has said about when he would use them. he said he wouldn't take it off the table in the middle east and even in europe. quote, i would never take any of my cards off the table, he said. when i said that nobody in the world wants to hear an american presidential candidate talk about using nuclear weapons. mr. trump said -- well, you just gotta call this troubling. let's watch. >> would there be a time when it could be used? possibly. >> you whole world heard it, david cameron and britain heard it. the japanese heard it. they're hearing a guy running for united states talking about using nuclear weapons. no one wants to hear that. >> then why do we make them? >> we make them so we keep other people from using them. it's called nuclear deterrence. didn't people our age g