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ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev overcame mutual suspicion and in watching. to end the cold war. it's an example many here hope donald trump vladimir putin who followed as our message for them. that guy's so we're now reaching a very dangerous. no. line very danger is not that even the redline that's. the double or triple red. so i'm. a bit of dissension and. trump and putin a notch reagan and gorbachev time the background a different. replacing. she should cooperation. it's what moscow and washington say they want. the world is waiting to. if it happens. steve rosenberg bbc news. script. scientists are looking at a deeper into the heavens and today we're learning about a mission to mercury two decades in the making. european and japanese experts say two spacecraft will travel to the songs closest planet and then separate to conduct their own studies. of science correspondent rebecca morale has spent the day at the european space agency's test center in the netherlands. a mysterious world matt trees the smallest planet in our solar system and the closest to some. covered in crate

meet together and discuss these issues i'm very glad that you brought up the former president mikhail gorbachev because i want to talk about nato since they had just added the twenty ninth member montenegro there by expanding nato eastward right up against the russian border conducting military nato military exercises along the border this breaks that gentlemen's agreement from the early ninety's between then soviet union russia and and secretary of state james baker during the. german unification talks there was no official treaty as you know but for you know there are thousands of meeting minutes and memos transcripts that suggested that it corroborates that that there was this gentleman's agreement so doesn't this give item or put enough valid complaint or concern to address with with president trump you know the complaint is on the record for a long time home would call who just two weeks ago in his his own records as chancellor of germany had that noted so you know that's a real bone of contention and it is indeed why putin self admitted li was really interested in getting crimea back into

. >> president bush sent a signal to mikhail gorbachev today. will be no gloating from the white house over the developments in east germany. >> i was in the oval office as part of a pool when the wall came down. >> you don't seem elated and i'm wondering if you're thinking of the problems. >> bush basically said in effect i'm not going to poke gorbachev in the eye. >> bush did come into his presidency in the shadow of ronald reagan. but maybe we had elected the right man at the right time because he wasn't internationalist. >> you had 50 years of the cold war, two visions of the world locked in combat and then suddenly a whole world of totalitarian rule began to fall. bush was quite cautious. he was really aware that even subtle messages from the united states could indicate all sorts of things. >> the wall fell in berlin. the questions were numerous. right away, what's going to become of europe. >> bulgaria is under a state of alert this morning. protesters set fire to the headquarters of the governing socialist party and chanted let the commu

on that note, mikhail gorbachev, the former union of this soviet union is calling president trump and vladimir putin to restore the trust between u.s. and russia. they want to create a constructive, joint agenda. president trump's meeting with putin is drawing historical comparisons to past presidents, appointed by lager lower ingram earlier today. >> when i was watching it yesterday, it took me back. >> he's not reagan. nobody is reagan. i'm not trying to say he is reagan. but the moment where he said, "does the west have the welter survive," do we have the will to confront the challenges before us? i say we do. it was very optimistic. >> eboni: okay, kat, we know he's not reagan. >> kat: i had no idea. >> eboni: i know. breaking news. but, what do you think about the historical parallels? >> they are fine. i think that right now, it would be stupid to completely trust russia. and i don't think that we have to completely trust them to work with them and try to have a relationship that would work out best for us. we are facing issues like north korea and syria, especially with, again,

let's go back and talk about ronald reagan talking about mikhail gorbachev. if he had spent an extra hour with gorbachev, we would have said, this is impressive, maybe we'll cut a deal. with this guy part of what's going on, a, will we ever know what he said? no. b, if we get a glimmer of what he says, can we be confident that the kremlin won't come out and say, actually, nothing came out of that meeting. the question is, what the heck did they talk about and we don't know. >> jeffrey toobin, i want to play a little devil's advocate on this. i was covering that news conference in seoul where president said to medved and they still had a pretty substantive exchange. how is that so different from what we see at a dinner which is in a much more public setting? >> i think the main difference is there were american witnesses to what president obama and medvedev were saying. the problem with this exchange, as i'm aware -- >> the media. it was a hot mike, right? >> it was a hot mike, but here you only have a russian translator. you know, strobe talbot, who was deput

one of the things that george bush understood was that he had to work closely with mikhail gorbachev.difficult for gorbachev, it would be much harder to achieve a unified germany and nato. a soviet un yo that would participate in the coalition against saddam hussein. none of these things would have happened if the united states had been a bully. george bush's patient diplomacy is what was needed to stabilize the world following the fall of the berlin wall. >> all right. thank you so much. thanks for that look back. of course, the "'90 airs tonight at 9:00 eastern time. >>> hello, again, thank you so much for being with me. we begin this hour with new retaliation from russia, russian state media says putin is demanding 755 u.s. diplomats and personnel leave russia by september 1st. this is in response to a russia sanctions bill president trump has yet to sign. north korea in that bill, that country is resmonponding with a firm action of justice against the u.s. this threat comes just two days after kim jong-un tested a ballistic missile that experts say could one day reach the west coa

. >> we still don't know the whereabouts or the condition of mikhail gorbachev tonight. >> mikhail gorbachbachev down. showing surprising medal cri climbing on a tank to deliver a speech. the hard liners failed. mikhail gar ba chof wasn't toppled but he resigned and just like that the soviet union was no more. the russian federation took its place with boris yetson at its president. he soon discovered that leading the democracy was much harder than standing down a coup. russian tanked, corruption was rampant. the country was in trouble and so was yetson. he came to depend on a kgb agent, a name by the name of vladimir putin. but the summer of 1999, boris yetson fired his prime minister and announced putin in his place. almost immediately bombs tore through apartment buildings in russia killing hundreds. putin blamed terrorists from check chi that. but evidence emerged that the check chans might not have been behind the apartment buildings. many believed that the whole thing was orchestrated by putin to consolidate his power and boost his popularity. by 1999 boris yetson was a shadow of his forme

it's a quote from mikhail gorbachev. 75 years after the united states the claremore on germany, the cold war over, gorbachev came to the united states and he went to fulton missouri. and there on the anniversary of winston churchill's famous address in 1946 saying that an iron curtain was falling across europe, gorbachev three years, or nearly 3 years after the fall of the berlin wall declared that the end of the cold war was a victory for common sense, reason, democracy. the united nations should create structures which are authorized to impose sanctions to make use of other means of compulsion from the rights of minority groups especially are being violated. he went on to underscore the universality of human rights, the acceptability of international interference for wherever human rights are violated. in a democracy can't exist not only as the antithesis of totalitarianism. this means this movement from the national to the international arena. >> on today's agenda is not just the union of democratic states but also the democratic we organize community. it's really quite an extraordina