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nor whether president putin will attend. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk — and another chance to watch stephen sackur�*s 2014 interview with mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, who died on tuesday. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk from berlin, with me, stephen sackur. this city is currently marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, that extraordinary moment which symbolised the beginning of the end of the communist system and the end of the cold war. well, my guest today is this man — mikhail gorbachev, the former president of the s...

the former president of the soviet union, the man whose policies of glasnost and perestroika were supposed to reinvigorate the soviet system but which, in fact, hastened its demise. well, today, he's going to reflect with me on the current state of east—west relations. mikhail gorbachev, welcome to hardtalk. it was 1989 here in berlin when the wall came down. it took two more years for the soviet union to collapse. but in your view, was it inevitable when this wall came down here in berlin that the soviet union was finished? he speaks russian. russian translation: the point i want ...

Mikhail gorbachev, we have to end there, but i thank you very much indeed for being on hardtalk. spasibo. ochen spasibo. hello. as we turn the weather page from summer to autumn, it looks like nature is taking its cue as well. big changes this weekend — there could be a bit of thundery rain around