thanks for spending your spunda morning with us. fareed zakaria gps starts now. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakari coming to you from new york. on today s program, the u.s. and britain strike the houthis in yemen. and the strife between hezbollah and islamrael heats up. is this turning into a war in the west? then, china s eagle eyes were watching across the strait as taiwan voted yesterday. what did they see? will the results bring us closer to conflict or further away? i ll ask an expert. also, escaping from north korea. it s an incredibly dangerous prospect. would be defectors are likely to be tortured or killed if caught. we will bring you an extraordinary inside look at the journey out of the hermit kingdom with the people behind the new film, beyond utopia. it s almost three months since the ground invasion of gaza began. has it been proportional to the damage hamas inflicted on is
republic, if you can keep it. can we? thanks for spending your sunday morning with us. fareed zakaria gps starts now. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. on today s program, the u.s. and britain strike the houthis in yemen. and the strife between hezbollah and israel heats up. is this turning into a war between iran and its proxies on the one hand and the west? we ll tell you all you need to know. then, china s eagle eyes were watching across the strait as taiwan voted yesterday. what did they see? will the results bring us closer to conflict or further away? i ll ask an expert. also, escaping from north korea is an incredibly dangerous prospect. would-be detectors are likely to be tortured or killed if caught. we will bring you an extraordinary inside look at the journey out of the hermit kingdom with the people behind the new film beyond ut
i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
the decision is based on a rarely used provision of the us constitution that bars officials who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion from holding office. the ruling says he s ineligible to appear on next year s ballot because of his role instigating violence against the us government. the ruling only applies to colorado s republican primary ballot but is on hold pending appeal until next month. the decision came down shortly before mr trump gave a campaign speech in iowa, where the first contest of the 2024 season will take place in less than a month. the former president did not explicitly mention the case, though he has discussed other legal cases against him before on the campaign trail. in a statement, the trump campaign said the court had issued a completely flawed decision . adding they. will swiftly file an appeal to the united states supreme court. live now tojosh gerstein who s the senior legal affairs reporter at politico. thank you forjoining us on bbc new
great to have you with us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. kyiv has denied those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15 month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last hours, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops and the paramilitary wagner group for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been on a whirlwind tour in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counteroffensive against russia. it s been a busy few hours for zelensky, touching down injapan on saturday fo diplomatic talks touching down injapan on saturday for diplomatic talks with many of the gathered heads of the g7 nations. that includes prime minist