Massive human rights abuses in a country led by a Nobel Peace Prize winner. And understanding the new york city bomber, and what radicalized this american citizen . We know who it was, a preacher, but he has been dead for years. Ill explain. Finally, how many skittles or refugees would you have to go through before you got to a bad one . We will tell you. But first, heres my take. It is the annual gathering of World Leaders in new york this week, and for most of them, it is time for group therapy. Around the globe leaders of all stripes seem afflicted with the same mall dirks low Approval Ratings. Morgan stanleys richard has pointed out that the leaders for the emerging e can conmys popularity has dropped 17 points over the last decade. What is going on . Well, as i argue in a fourth coming Foreign Affairs essay, todays western countries face four structural challenges demography, globalization, automation, and increasing debt burdens. The demographic challenge might be the most fundamental. In almost every advanced economy, fertility has dropped sharply from japan to south korea, germany to italy. Globalization and the information revolution while positive overall concentrate the costs on skilled and semi skilled workers particularly in the basic Manufacturing Industries that once provided large numbers of stable highpaying jobs. As a response to the global finanph financial crisis, governments have taken on huge debts. And aging population means that spending on the elderly is crowding out investments for growth, infrastructure, science and technology. So facing all of these force, le leaders have no easy path to restore Economic Growth and revive their countries. Deep radical reforms are always unpopular, and in this climate, they dont seem to lead to growth. Ireland and portugal and mexico have enacted broad radical reforms, and yet growth has not boom in those countries. Japan has spent hundreds of billions on stimulus plan, and yet, it is muddling along. So even the leaders who come to office with very strong public approval and much promise find themselves strapped by the same force forces. Quickly, their the Approval Ratings are beginning to drop and pop ulous anger grows. Itlys former Prime Minister has seen his numbers fall to below 30 . The populous and very popular greek leader alexis sip rose is down to 19 . Now in the u. N. Speech president obama outlined Many Solutions to growth and economy. He explained how the United States has foe kcussed the refo and growth efforts on helpingping the middleclass to gain better access to jobs, health care, training and retraining and housing. He argued that helping with new investments, child care and basic infrastructure reform could work for all in society. But the policy solutions that he put forth, and the ones that other countries are adopting are all small bore and incremental, and meanwhile, the populations promise Dramatic Solutions that are much more satisfying. After all, americans tell americans that their lives are hard and there is a simple reason for it, foreigners. They steal american jobs, burden americas welfare state, and make americans less safe. His solution is to get tough on them. It ist not hard to understand the appeal of simplicity in a complex world. There is little drama in plans to expand Early Childhood education, and yet they work. The persistent and the energetic efforts of reform do pay off. A recent Census Bureau report shows that the biggest oneyear drop in poverty in america in almost 50 years. It highlights that the efforts in the United States are working. To americas north, canada is handling a slowdown in growth welcoming in thousands of refugees and celebrating diversity, and the two major leaders in the western world with the highest Approval Ratings today are barack obama and justin trudeau. The center can hold. For more go to cnn. Com fareed and read my Washington Post column this week. Lets get started. If there is a foreign leader who has dominated the 2016 president ial campaign, it is without question Vladimir Putin. He is at the heart of the debate in syria that heated up this week, and of course, donald trump has praised putin repeatedly and taken much heat from Hillary Clinton for doing so. Well, i had the opportunity to sit down with one of his main d adversaries, the president of ukraine Petro Poroshenko. I asked poroshenko about the rumors that trump had refused to meet with him about trumps questionable claims of ukraine, and about putin as an adversary, a man he has negotiated with for many, many years. Mr. President , pleasure to vu on. Pleasure for me, too. Thank you for the invitation. You met with Hillary Clinton, and what was your impression of he her . I know her for maybe 16 years. We have quite an intensive dialogue when i was minister of Foreign Affairs and we launched together the strategic Cooperation Commission between ukraine and the United States, and i can confirm that shes very well informed and deeplied are di for the Old Development of the situation in ukraiyou deeply ready for the development of the situation in ukraine. And you have refused to meet with donald trump first of all a that is not the refusal, but it is a protocol matter, and as far as i understand that the schedule was so stressed that we should find out the reason of that. And we were told that your office approached the trump campaign, and you nef heard back from them . Well, we demonstrated that we were ready to meet and we dont have they have a dialogue, but they dont find the place and the schedule before they the have acceptable for both of us, because i can inform them in the last two and a half days, i meet with the 22 head of states and the Prime Minister. Do you think that he is avoiding you . I dont think so. And let me ask you, trump has said a few things that have taken some people, and many experts by surprise. He said at one point that russia ist not in ukraine, and then he said that it is there, but in a certain way. Now, in a sense, this is what the russians are often saying that they are actually not in Eastern Ukraine, and those are not russian soldiers in Eastern Ukraine, but those are, maybe russian citizens, but they are volunteering, and that this is not a planned act. Expl explain to us, whether you have proof that the people who are in Eastern Ukraine are russian soldiers directed by the russian military. I hate the idea to have just a common phrase. I want to give you some absolutely practical examples. For example in the august 2014, we take 22 russian paratroopers take oen to prison and demonstrated it to the whole world. Receiving a number of their parents there to the ask me as a pardon right to give him back. In that situation, russia do not command how appeared in ukraine, and they said that at the end of the day, when they have their tanks, their military i. D. , their forms, they said, okay, they lost their ways lost in ukraine. Yes, lost in 22 clkilometers inside of my territory, and killing ukrainian soldiers and providing an offensive operation, and this is the only way to use it aggression, and we have lots of media and their testimony in the court when they recognized that. In the year 2015, we have many cases, and just to finish, to give you the figures currently on only occupied territory on the east of my country, we have more than 700 russian tanks. More than 1,250 artillery system. More than 1,000 armed personal carrier. More than 300 multi rocket launch system, and this is the huge army. More than 50 of the number of oarmies in the European Union and this is supplied by russia and occupying the territory to attacking ukraine. Next on gps lots of people have opinions about Vladimir Puti putin, and some love him, and hate him, but very few know his tactics as Petro Poroshenko who has known him as a businessman and since the russian invasion of ukraine two years ago. I will ask Petro Poroshenko what kind of leader Vladimir Putin is. Guyhey nicole, happening here . This is my new alert system for whenever anything happens in the market. Kids a natural. But thinkorswim already lets you create custom alerts for all the things that are important to you. Shhh. Alerts on anything at all . Not only that, you can act on that opportunity with just one tap right from the alert. Wow, i guess we dont need the kid anymore. 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Look, first of all, i think that is the method for the american people, and this is the not only privilege to be american and to vote for the next president , but also, if you will allow me the big responsibility. Because you elect the pt reside of the country who will be the Global Leader, and this Global Leader is vitally important not only for the United States, but to keep freedom, and keep democracy, and to keep failures in the very difficult world situation that we have now. If you allow me, i can command that this is the part of the election rhetoric, and i believe that after the election, no matter who is going to be elected they will be a great responsible leader of the american nation. Reporter who has recognized the annexation of crimea from russia . Well, it is very few. Mostly, it is the cuba and venezuela history, and i think that it is a very selfexplained. No, sorry, i doublecheck. Putin is moving a little bit, because it was a statement and not printed paper. And putin is a strong leader, and you have actually dealt with him in certain circumstances, and you were a big businessman and you have a big factory in russ russia, and you have dealt with him as the leader of ukraine, and is putin a strong leader . Look, putin when i have an opportunity to speak with him, ten years ago, putin had 2014, 2016, completely different person. If you reach any agreement with putin now, it doesnt mean nothing. Reporter why . Because he does not keep his word. And this is not the characteristic of a strong leader if i may be straight forward, because strong leader means responsibility. Strong leader means the bright perspective of the country. Strong leader means to keep the word words, and with that situation, strong the leader is the ability to provide reform and make life of your people better. And with that understanding of the strong leader, i wish putin to become a strong leader. Reporter a haand has he liee you personally . Sometimes he does not keep the word that strong. Reporter one peculiar thing that happened in the United States with policy toward ukraine which is in the Republican National convention, there were planks in the platform and you are well aware of this that called for the lethal aid provided for ukraine and then taken out. A lot of people wondered whether Paul Manafort who was then the chairman of Trumps Campaign had something to do with this . And the ukrainian investigators said that the president who was ousted was providing Cash Payments to mr. Manafort. Can you confirm that . Look, in the Ukrainian NationalAnticorruption Bureau was evidence of the possible participation of the Paul Manafort in this type of a operation. I hate that he had any commans,s because we are a democratic civilized country, and that is a part of the investigation, but i can confirm that the investigation now is going on, and without any political interference neither from president nor from the government. I want to confirm that we are open to cooperation with any americans, partners, Law Enforcement agency to reporter who want to see the evidence, and who want to have the cooperation. Reporter you have spoken of russia as the hybrid war and the russias way of affect iing the internal policies of ukraine and other countries and the financing of the elections and cyber warfare, and do you believe it is possible that russia is trying to do something similar in the United States . I think that russia tried to do it in all of the centers of activity. If you are looking at some of the european capitals, and i specifically said about ukraine, but russia financing all of the euro skeptic unions. The danger for russia is european unity, and all of the skeptics will receive a strong support, and not necessarily financial from the russian federation. And if you know now the number of people who is listening and viewing this statesponsored Russia Today Television in the United States, that would be quite a big number of people, and this is in every cable network, and i believe that this is not dangerous for the United States, because the United States has a very strong injection, against this hybrid war. But in europe or in ukraine, the russiansponsored mass media, social network, Political Parties, the main purpose is just to destabilize the situation, to the ruin the unity and to move the situation back on the bilateral nation with russia. In that situation when i was asked what we need the most from le leaders of European Union and Member States and the United States, my answer is very simple. Not money. Money is yes, but it is not the first priority. Not assistance of the reform. Yes, but not on the first priority. And even not the lethal weapon, because we can defend our country by ourselves. First of all, we need unity, european unity and transatlantic unity and solidarity with ukraine. Reporter mr. President , pleasure to have you on. My pleasure. And what is to cause a new york bombing to wreak havoc last weekend . Turns out that his inspiration may have come from beyond the grave. I will explain when we come back. 33,000 looks like. Think again. And. Again. The 2017 cla and gla, both starting at under 33,000. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Its a very specific moment, the launch window. We have to be very precise. If were not ready when the planets are perfectly aligned, thats it. We need really tight temperature controls. Engineering, aerodynamics a split second too long could mean scrapping it all and starting over. Propulsion, Structural AnalysisMaple Bourbon caramel. Thats what were working on right now. From design through production, Siemens Technology helps manufacturers meet critical deadlines. I think thisll be our biggest flavor yet. 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We need to make sure that we have a beautiful place for our children to live. Together, were building a better california. Now for a owhat in the world segment. There is going to be much speculation in the weeks to come about what motivated ahmad ra a rahami who orchestrated the bombings in new york city last week. There is some clues to his road to radicalization may be in his own musings. He was carrying a notebook where he praised the americanborn cleric Anwar Al Awlaki. He revolutionized the world of t terror. Once radicalized he became one of the most prominent speaker with such a vast appeal his s sermons are sold in box sets. His messages were a calling card for terrorists there. Was the underwear bomber who tried to blow up a plane, and did just that on Christmas Day 20 2009. And omar mateen who was inspired by al awlaki and then he committed the deadliest shooting in American History at an orlando nightclub. And cnn security analyst peter bergen reports from his think tank that since 2011, awlakis sermons have appeared in 99 of the terrorists cases. He died five years ago in a drone strike, and he was reportedly the First American citizen since the civil war to be executed on the orders of a president and without a trial. That turned al awlaki into a ma martyr. And while the messenger is dead, the message ist not. There is one pivotal step in the iraqis radicalization there are pawns in the games of politics. And the unintended consequence of being under k constant surveillance by the u. S. Government. Because two of the 9 11 hijackers had prayed at his mosque, the fbi watched him for months. They did not find any evidence that he was directly involved in those brutal attacks, but still, the fbi did discover a damning secret, awlaki, the married man and father of three was visiting prostitutes in washington hotels. Scott shane reveals that is the real reason that a awlaki fled the u. S. In 2002 and ultimately ended up in yemen where he ended up in prison and eventually j n joined the ranks of a al qaeda, and he was not the only one included in the bloodsoaked journal of rahami. He also mentioned the boston brothers. The brothers were practicing muslim and unemployed one who only became radical when he lost his dream of becoming a boxer. And the youngerer brother was more interested in marijuana and alcohol and women, and why do so many of the immigrants respond then to the rhetoric of Anwar Al Awlaki . I am told that the lure is to tap into what is not only inherent muslim about american muslims, but what is inherently american about them. Al awlakip appeals to immigrants who are more politically conscious, feel marginalized and search ing f searching for the sense of purpose. He says that the message represents, you who live in the land of the free, you are responsible for the actions of your government and the ways in which the actions oppress and murder your fellow muslims around the world. You have to do something about that, he says. That is why awlaki used perfect english in the sermons. The appeal is not religious, but political. The influence is less than being deeply islamic, and more in the style and substance fully american. Next on gps my exclusive interview with the leader of myanmar, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Dont forget, if you miss a show go to cnn. Com Fareed Zakaria for a copy of my broadcasts. Okay. Uh, do you get your fees back if youre not happy . dad laughs wow, youre laughing. Thats not the way the world works. Well, the worlds changing. Are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed . Wealth management, at charles schwab. Big day . Ah, the usual. Moved some new cars. Hauled a bunch of steel. 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In his Farewell Speech to the United Nation hs this week, president barack obama singled out in the hall, the newly elected leader of myanmar. We welcome the new democratically elected leader of myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi. And it was in 1990 the dick ta or theship refused to acknowledge and imprisoned her for 15 years. They decided to open her up to the world, and allowed her to run for a seat in parliament. She had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest and finally able to accept it in person in 2012. Today, she leads myanmar after landslide elections last fall swept her Opposition Party into power. It is a rare story of peaceful transformation from dictatorship to democracy. And president obama considers this one of his most successful Foreign Policy legislation, and lifted all of the remaining sanctions on myanmar, and here is my exclusive visit with Aung San Suu Kyi. Reporter Aung San Suu Kyi, pleasure to have you on, and thank you for being on. Yes. Happy to be with you. Reporter i have to start with asking you a important question that perplexes many people. What is your country called . Officially, it is called myanmar and used to be called burr mia in your language, but in our language, it is referred to as a myanmar and that is how we pronounce it. Reporter i notice that you used myanmar at the u. N. And you used to call it burma and is that a conscious shift because of your position . Because myanmar is the official name under which we are a member of the United Nations. I dont believe that just because we are now in administration that we should go about changinging everything. It is a little bit like flexing ones muscles, and as i explained is that we want is reconciliation and not domination. Reporter what does it feel like to have been a dissident, and somebody under house arrest and now, you are the head of the country . Well, a lot of decisions i had to make while i was under house arrest, and perhaps more than now, because you have to live day to day by yourself and just yourself and that requires many, many important decisions. So the difference, of course, is in the whole setup, but on the other hand, i dont think that i am doing anything very differently than what i was as the leader of the opposition. Do you think about comparisons like nelson mandela, and one of the things that mandela seemed to have, the lesson that he seemed to impart to the world is one of forgiveness and forgave the people who jailed him unjustly for over 25 years . Well, when people ask me about forgiveness, i always explain they dont believe it is for me to forgive or not to forgive. I dont really have any feelings of bitterness. And that is just my good fortune, and perhaps it is something that you are born with, attitude towards life. I am not very good about remembering things done unto me as it were. I like to think that, i have a deep sense of gratitude and never forget any nice thing that anybody has ever done for me to me. I try not to forget. But i am fortunate in that i dont dwell on, on what might be called the unpleasantness of others to us. To us as a working force, not just to me individually. Reporter now, your country is in transition from a military dictatorship to something else. There were many people who felt that it was important to keep the pressure on, on myanmar, and thushgs it was important to maintain sanctions, but this week, all u. S. Sanctions have been lifted. You, yourself, only in may thought it was important to maintain some of the pressure and the sanctions. Do you think that you have made enough progress that you dont need that pressure anymore . I think that we have made enough progress for us to try to move on to another state. After all, sanctions were to help us along the way. It is a means and not the ends. As i was explaining to our friends in congress, sanctions were in a sense crutches to help us when we were not very strong. Now i think that we have to lay aside the crutches and strengthen our own muscles. Reporter but the military rem remains very powerful, and it is written into the constitution that they are 25 of the pa parliament, and there must be red lines that you still cannot cross with the military. Yes, there are, because we believe in the rule of law, and we accept the constitution for what it is at the moment, as long as it is enforced, but we want to amend it. We have been very open about it. This is part of the election platform that we would amend the constitution. Reporter and remove some of those well, we want to truly have a democratic constitution, and you cant say that you are a working democracy, and there is a constitution is democratic to begin with. As it is, many countries have perfectly democratic constitutions which are not implemented fully. Up next, i will ask Aung San Suu Kyi about one of the biggest puzzles of her nation, the home of buddhist leaders, and however they are soundly persecuted for the persecution of a minority, the muslim minority. We will ask her about this when we come back. Its a fortress. And with this standard of luxury. Its an oasis. Introducing the completely redesigned eclass. Its everything you need it to be. And more. Lease the e300 for 549 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Back now with more of my exclusive interview with the Nobel Peace Prize winner turned leader of myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi. I have to ask you something about something that puzzles most westerners and particularly americans. When one reads reports about your country now, mostly, they are about the treatment of the muslims that are 5 of the country, but this is a group that is by every human rights accounts this is a group persecute and denied citizenship, and even an identity and until recently people would not refer to them as the rahinga and so people are looking at a buddhist country that is persecuting violently a muslim minority, and the country is led by a nobel peace price winn winner. Why . Well, it is has been led by a Nobel Peace Prize winner only since the end of march, and we have a lot of trouble to bring about the harmony and the to tolerance and understand agatha we wish for. You have heard that we have head Ad Commission head ed by dr. Koi annan to look into the state to look at the questions that you are asking, and why have we got this . Mind you, i would like to take the opportunity that this is not the only problem that we have to face, but this is one on which the International Community has focused. So when we formed this commission, there were a number of Political Parties who opposed it, and are still opposing this for various reasons. So it is an uphill battle, and we also, and for us also, it is puzzling, why are we so intolerant when buddhism is the most tolerant philosophy imaginable. Reporter and you know, there are people who argue that given the scale of the atrocities, it is not enough to form a commission, and another Nobel Peace Prize winner the dalai lama has been critical of myanmar in this regard. Is there not anything that you can do more immediately to ease the plight of the people . We with have done everything that we can immediately, and we have started a gnashle nal ti verification, and we have started that there were restrictions against muslims that were not spelled out by edicts or the laws or anything like that, and we have lifted a lot of these restrictions, which we are in a position to do. Reporter do you envision a circumstance whether the rahinga will be treated as citizens with a vote and full rights . First of all, all are entitled to citizenship must be given the rights of citizens. That is, thats legal. What is more important is that we must try to bring back harmony and understanding and tolerance between the different communities. It is not just enough to just legally make people equal. You cant make laws that make people love each other, you know. Reporter the first trip that you took as state counselor, as the head of your country is to china. I am wondering how do you feel that china is too dominant in your country. There is a dam being built and a chinese project, and the previous government, and not yours essentially canceled it or froze it because of the public concern that, i think it is a sense of the chinese domination was too strong. How do you feel . I dont think that china is trying to dominate us. I think that everywhere big powers do try to do as much economically, because this is the age of soft par, but china is a neighbor, and we can never move away from each other, and since we have become independent, we have maintained good relations with china. That is exactly what i intend to do. Reporter what is your impression of president obama . You have spent time with him this week. I like him. And i like his dogs very much. Reporter what did you talk about . We talked about sanctions, about relationship between our two countries, and what we are trying to do to bring about democratization in burma. Reporter is he well regarded in burma . Yes, he has been to burma twice. In the first visit, he had a goodt meeting with some of our young people. Reporter what is your goal for the myanmar, and do you believe it should be a Multi Party Democratic system with the full kind of the panoply of rights or do you believe because it is a small asian country, it is going to have a Different Development . All countries develop differently, but the multi party democracy, if you can make it work is the healthiest and the best in the long run. Reporter that is your aspiration for burma . I want to say that my aspiration is to do myself out of a job. They will no longer be needed. They would have this discharged all of the duties that i took on when i first became part of the movement of democracy. Reporter then what will you do . I will sit back to the read some of your recent books. Have you written one lately . Well, it is a short one, and you could read it with your current responsibilities. Aung san suu kyi, pleasure to have you on. Thank you so much. Thank you. 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Campbells one dish recipes, designed around one pan and your schedule. Made for real, real life. New york city was flooded with World Leaders this week for the annual meeting of the u. N. General assembly. I it has been five years since the u. N. Admitted the recent member the republic of south sudan which brings me to the following question, which of the countries has bneen a member state for less than two decades china, cuba, somalia or switzerland . Stay tuned and we will tell you the correct answer. This weeks book of the week is jonathan temleplemans the fix how nations survive and thrive in a world of decline. This is a refreshing read. Anybody looking for good news, and genuine and smart and factually grounded good news in todays world should read this vividly written work. It is a collection of case studies highlight iing the smartest and most effective strategies that the nations are pursuing to tackle the problems that you read about, stagnation, immigration, radicalization and think of it as the best practices of governments today. Now for the last look death, destruction, suffering. These are the images of syria that the world should have been focused on this week. Inste instead, we were distracted by this image of a bowl of candy. It went viral this week when donald trump jr. Used poison skittles as the offensive metaphor for the serious syria c crisis. It was pointed out that the odds of a american killed by a refugee would be 1 in 6 million, but as using the metaphor of trump, bump says that if you grabbed a million handfuls of skittles, you might get a poisoned one. The candy mett ta for happened when there is a spotlight on syria in the general assembly, and change the focus back on images like this, and it is taken by senior cnn correspondent Fred Pleitgen on the destruction there. These hauntingly images come out of syria everyday. These photographs were taken in the last few weeks alone. And sometimes we need images like these to remember what the caulk of the u. N. Is really all about. The correct answer to the gps crisis is this, despite the hub is located in geneva, swi switzerland, switzerland did not become a member until 2002 following a referendum in the country. China was the first nation to sign the u. N. Charter as it was the first victim of aggression by an axis power, and became a u. N. Member in october of 1945. Thank you to all of you for being a part of my program this week, and i will see you next week, and i will see you next week. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good morning. Im brian selter and we are in hemstead, new york, and inside of the arena has been transformed into a president ial debate stage. This is where Hillary Clinton and donald trump will faceoff for the first time, and actually behind my shoulder, you might be able to see the standins for trump, clinton and lester holt who are pretending to debate right now. I heard a trump standin saying how many would be holding on the stage