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Has died at the age of 80. Known for his temper as much to deter tens of thousands of people as his drumming talent from taking to the streets. Baker famously often ended up in punch ups on stage. The latest protests came despite a ban on face masks, sparking violent clashes and scores at 10 00 Mishal Husain will be here with a full round up of the days news. Of arrests by the police. First its time for our world. They started firing volleys of tear Steve Rosenberg explores how moscow gas over the wall through these views the tumultuous events of 1989 and how Vladimir Putins russia trees and down into the street. The protesters a re responding by pouring is trying to regain its influence. Water onto the tear gas canisters or throwing them back. As the hong kong governments latest tactic to quell the demonstrations appears to fail, well be asking what could be next. Its 30 years since the iron curtain fell. For millions across europe, it meant freedom. For moscow, it meant the end of its empire. Todays russia wants to forget about 1989. But three decades on, russia is reasserting itself. There are fears of a new stand off with the west. The baltic has become one of the front lines of what feels like a new cold war. As russia pushes for greater influence, i ask its leader how he sees his country. I am on a journey that will take me back to 1989 and across europe, to find out what it was like for moscow to lose an empire and whether russia is building a new one. Moscow it is a city that oozes empire. From the skyscrapers ofjoseph stalin, to the residence of the czars. The message is unmistakable this is a country with ambition. Throughout its history, russia has had an unswerving belief in its own greatness. You can feel that inside the kremlin. This is stunning. Look at this. This says power, omnipotence. This says empire. Russia was built as an empire, russia has existed as an empire because the essence is we are great, we have to have areas of influence and we have to have buffer states between ourselves and the outside world. So this is an empire. But in 1989, the buffer states broke free. People power swept away the iron curtain, and with it moscows domination of Eastern Europe. What had come to be known as the soviet empire was tearing at the seams. Viewed from moscow, these events were earth shattering. In 1989, i was a student in moscow, i was studying russian here and i can remember that every night i would sit down to watch the Television News and what i saw, what millions of viewers here saw, was truly remarkable. The soviet empire falling apart, piece by piece. Across Eastern Europe, you could find pieces of the lost empire. This is wunstorf in the former east germany. It was the red armys Largest Military base outside the soviet union. There is something ghostly about the soviet legacy. The scale of the soviet military presence in east germany was staggering. There were 800 garrisons here and half a million soviet troops. But then again, for moscow, this was its key outpost in europe. The wunstorf base feels suspended in time. Communist russia was convinced its ideas, its ideology, would bind east germany to moscow forever. But it was wrong. When the berlin wall fell, everything changed. Within a year, east and west germany had reunited. The red army had been here since defeating the nazis. Now moscow agreed to withdraw its troops. This man was the commander at wunstorf. He is back from moscow, for an official event commemorating russias withdrawal. The general tells me he was the last russian soldier to leave germany. It would take moscow four years to bring all its troops home. But to what kind of a country were they coming back . The soviet union had gone, russia was struggling. Here in perm region, the returning soldiers were low priority. This man had been a tank commander in east germany. When he came home there were no facilities, no proper accommodation, it was almost as if he had been forgotten. You know, i think that in many ways, his story encapsulates what happened to his country after 1989. The soviet union, this giant superpower, suddenly found itself dumped on the sidelines of history. And, as a result, russia felt abandoned, it felt lost, and it felt humiliated. Perhaps if the end of the cold war had brought instant prosperity to people here, then maybe this loss of status, this loss of empire would have been easier to swallow. But it didnt. The 1990s brought economic chaos and widespread poverty. So what you had here, in effect, was a fertile soil for any strongman promising to make russia great again. Enter Vladimir Putin. Russias president is trying to erase the memory of his countrys humiliation. To restore its power, its influence. But modern russia isnt reinventing the soviet union its methods are different. These people in the kremlin do understand that idea of restoration of the former superpower is impossible. But they have other ideas, and their idea is to be a blackmailer, to be a producer of mischief, to be the grand spoiler in the world, to be the nightmare for the neighbours and for the outside countries. So this is the new idea of superpower and empire. It is an idea that russia has put into practice close to home. In 2014, masked soldiers in unmarked uniforms seized control of a ukrainian peninsula, crimea. They acquired the nickname the little green men. But they were Russian Special forces sent in by president putin after ukraines pro western revolution. At a referendum, voters backed joining russia. But the poll wasnt internationally recognised. It had taken moscow less than a month to occupy and annex a piece of its neighbour. For many russians, this was cause for celebration. I first met ira in moscow back in the early 1990s. She has a second home now in crimea. The crimean history has always been connected with russia. In the west, as you know, there is a lot of criticism of Vladimir Putin for what happened here, for russia taking crimea. I am very grateful to mr putin, and i take my hat off and bow my head to mr putin, because he saved the generations of the crimean people from rivers of blood here. In the crimean city of sevastopol, they are marking russian navy day. It is a showcase for russian power at sea. Since it took crimea, russia has become the dominant force in the black sea region. Here, moscow doesnt use the word annexation. Crimea, it says, has sailed back to its home port. Few believe that outside of russia. What we see is a pattern of behaviour where russia is responsible for aggressive actions against neighbours. That reflects that the main problem of russia is that they still believe in the idea of spheres of influence. In response, nato has bolstered its forces near russias borders. From estonias amari airbase, nato jets are regularly scrambled. Their main task is to intercept russian planes approaching estonian air space, which fail to identify themselves. Russia denies it is a threat to estonia or to any of the baltic states. But nato is on alert and taking no chances. The baltic has become one of the front lines of what feels like a new cold war between russia and the west. To moscow, the presence of nato troops near its border is a direct threat to russias national security. But nato insists that all of this is purely defensive, and the reaction to an increasingly assertive and aggressive russia. 0ne complaint i often hear from russian officials is that, 30 years ago, a promise was made by the west to moscow that nato would not enlarge and move closer to russias borders. And russia says the west deceived moscow. First of all, no such promise was made. But second, just the idea that washington or a big western ally should promise that to moscow is an idea based on a totally wrong assumption that big countries can promise something on behalf of small countries. Russias new assertiveness extends beyond its military. Vladimir Putins Kremlin has a range of tools for exerting influence. In latvia, there are no russian troops, but the countrys being targeted by russian disinformation. There is an attempt to distort reality with fake news. To sow doubt, confusion. Russias objective to discredit a european democracy on its border. And here is one example of what appears to be russian disinformation. This website is aimed at ethnic russians across the baltic but it is part of a News Organisation that is bankrolled by the kremlin. What kind of stories does it put out . Well, here is one. Listen to this. Among latvians, it says, adolf hitler is more popular than harry potter. His book tops the readers book choice in latvia. Astonishing. So the impression that you get when you read this is that in latvia, in an eu country, nazi ideology is thriving. Sounds incredible. But it is fake. In latvian libraries, mein kampf has only been requested 139 times in three years. Compare that to 25,000 requests for harry potter. And you wont find hitlers book in the shops here. It has not been published in latvia for over 20 years. I tracked down the key link to the hitler story its rita. She runs a Second Hand Book website in latvia. It had based its report on data from her web page. Mein kampf is available through her site and users do appear to be clicking on it but who exactly . So, it is interesting that about 70 of all clicks are anonymous. And if we compare it with the other most popular books like harry potter, 70 are registered users. So if most of the clicks for mein kampf are anonymous, what does that mean . They could be fake users. Fake views to make fake news . Yeah, definitely. I think the fundamental aim of the russian operation is to undermine the other countries. Russia cannot tolerate the success of the baltics that have embraced freedoms and values of the west and can be successful. A good example is very dangerous so you should taint it. If russia has become the grand spoiler, can it be, does it still want to be a superpower . This is my chance to ask the president. Vladimir putin has just finished an event near the kremlin. It is a rare opportunity to get up close to the kremlin leader. But moscow is looking for ways back into Eastern Europe and for some russias return is welcome. Viktor 0rban he is the Prime Minister of hungary and moscows best friend in europe. He praises Vladimir Putin, he criticises eu sanctions on russia. That is partly because he and putin have one thing in common. Both are suspicious of western liberalism. For russia, this meeting of minds presents opportunities. This man is an ex soviet diplomat with connections at the heart of russian government. He heads a soviet Era Development bank that has just relocated from moscow to budapest. For russia, it is a foothold in europe. The bank is totally apolitical. We never do anything politically motivated. Five eu countries are members, but russia is by far the largest shareholder. And until recently, the bank was listed as an official organ of the russian state. Critics of your bank call it Vladimir Putins trojan horse or the kgb bank. In other words, the suspicion is. I am a spy, they also say. The suspicion is is it is tool of moscow to spread spies and agents across europe. Is there any truth in that . Absolutely not. It is all allegations, and even though they repeated hundreds of times, they have nothing to do with the reality. Can you understand where the suspicion comes from . Because, apologies for getting personal, but you yourself are from a family of soviet spies. Which i never concealed. Yourfather was the head of the kgb. In budapest, yes. That is how i started to like the city many years ago. And your mother was a soviet agent. That is an exaggeration. My mother, yes, she worked in the First Department of the kgb but she retired in 1953, steve. In different ways, russia is trying to restore its influence. For moscow, the real lesson of 1989 is weakness costs power. Todays russia wants to forget about 1989. It was, yes, an amazing period but it was the period of backtracking, surrender, defeat. Now, russia seeks victories. I think that whatever label you give russia Global Player or superpower or empire what i see is a country with a cast iron conviction that it is great and that great powers must have influence. Hello there. Many parts of the uk saw at least a bit of rain during sunday, but for some that rain lingered for many hours and caused some significant problems. These pictures were taken by a passenger in a car in norfolk. You can see the extent of the flooding. Some really very difficult travelling conditions with rain falling for a good part of the day. Now that wet weather sliding away to the south east but there is more to come. Another weather system pushing its way in from the atlantic, bringing some heavy bursts of rain again on monday and some really strong winds as well. We could see gusts of 50 to 60, maybe 70 mph across the western isles. As we go through the day, this wet weather will stagger its way eastwards. Probably not as much rain as we have seen but still a further 20 or 30 millimetres of rain in places and the ground is so wet at the moment, that could cause some further problems. Brighter skies developing for scotland and Northern Ireland through the afternoon but still with some hefty showers. Top temperatures between 11 and 16 degrees. As we move through monday night and into tuesday, that first frontal system clears away but this area of low pressure will still be in charge. It lumbers its way very close to the north of the British Isles sending showers in our direction and at times those showers willjoin together into longer spells of rain and that really sets us up for the week ahead. There will be some heavy downpours, yes some sunny spells in between and it will often be quite windy. So on tuesday, well see plentiful showers which are likely to organise themselves into bands with some drier, brighter slots in between. Those temperatures really much of a muchness actually over the next few days 13 to 16, may be 17 degrees. For wednesday, its another breezy day, another day of sunshine and showers. At this stage, the showers likely to be most plentiful across the west. Further east, not as many but there will still be some and your temperatures of 13, 1a or 15 degrees. As we move out of wednesday into thursday, the same area of low pressure will be passing to the north of scotland. Further showers, perhaps longer spells of rain developing across southern parts of the uk and with that there could be some particularly blustery winds and the further north you are, well it is a continuation of that sunshine and showers theme. And those temperatures once again, 13 to 16 degrees. Now for friday, it looks like well see a new area of low pressure developing and sliding in our direction. These frontal systems bringing some outbreaks of rain, chiefly i think across Northern Ireland and scotland. Some of that getting down into Northern England as the day wears on. To the south of that, still some showers but some spells of sunshine and with the winds starting to come in from the south west, temperatures are likely to climb a little bit. We could get to 18 degrees in london, more like 1a for aberdeen and for glasgow. Now, as we head into next weekend, this is how the jet stream is likely to be behaving. Thejet stream coming up from the south west feeding further bands of rain in our direction. Butjust signs there might be a slight change in this pattern into the following week. Thisjet stream digging a long way southwards to the west of the uk and then pushing northwards again. That would hold low pressure to the north west. Higher pressure to the south east, so some slightly drier weather perhaps in south eastern areas by that stage. But certainly it looks unsettled through the coming weekend and beyond. Rain at times, blustery winds, some sunshine yes, and perhaps just turning a little bit warmer. Thats all from me for now. 00 28 15,463 4294966103 13 29,430 goodbye

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