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thousands of royal mail workers in the uk stage a second day of strike action in a row over pay, disrupting deliveries of packages and letters. a new study shows the impact of climate change on the shrinking glaciers of switzerland. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk, or around the world. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, has died, aged 91, following a long illness. mr gorbachev was crucial to ending the cold war. he was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. world leaders have been paying tribute. the un chief antonio gut...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ hello, everyone, thanks for joining us on "newsroom." i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. president biden is in geneva, switzerland, where in 17 hours, he will meet with russian president vladimir putin. >> these are live pictures right there of villa la grange where the summit will take place. geneva is also where president ronald reagan met gorbachev. >> the preparations for this conversation have been pointed and plentiful. he has consulted other world leaders and national security aides, political advisors. but reme...

I found as i did a lot of foreign travel for reagan that i met people. i always wanted to go to the funerals, you know, and so much so that jim baker said you die he'll fly. i'd go to all these different funerals. and there i'd see the different leaders. i made the first contact for the united states officially, or for reagan with gorbachev, for example. i was over there when russian premier chernenko died. and i went and met gorbachev, got a feel for him, wrote the cable myself to reagan telling him we've got a different man here, we've got a different breed of cat, somebody that you