RUSHES: Mikhail Gorbachev interviewed by Jon Snow

Mikhail Gorbachev interviewed by Jon Snow; Interview main camera part 9 of 10ENGLAND: London:INTMikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Leader) interview SOT (voice of interpreter heard inbackground - English and Russian on separate audio tracks).Q - In Nobel Prize speech in 1985 you said you never conceived how big the problems in the USSR would be. Do you wish you did anything differently?A - If I had to begin again I would do the same again, even more convinced what we did was necessary, should have started earlier, 20 years ago. Should we have started with economic or political reform? Which has priority? When to begin reshaping federation. Should have been more synchronised, abandoned some old structures too rashly without creating the new ones, perestroika necessary historically