global questions. hello, welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from kyiv, the capital of ukraine. the buildup of russian troops near the border with ukraine has raised fears of oscar wants to extend its influence in former soviet states such as ukraine. moscow. we ask what is putin s game in his backyard? applause . hello and welcome. let me tell you who is on my panel and taking questions from our audience. deputy prime minister of ukraine is olha stefanishyna. she has been the international face of the ukrainian government during this covenant government. she is the acting ambassador for washington, kristina kvien. carl bildt and sergey radchenko. that is our panel. welcome to you all. give them a round of applause. and remember you canjoin the round of applause. and remember you can join the conversation. we re going to a couple of questions to kick off with. russian troops under the border, russian troops under the border, is russian troops under the
o sullivan and r.k. russell and s.e. cupp and comedian helen hong. come on in. it is a grand reopening for all of the best, all of the worst 2021. i m tom foreman, welcome and congratulations. we all survived a tough 12 months packed with upheavaled and conflicts and difficulties and victories and hope and happiness. that is saying something given we are were up against a raging pandemic and the deepest social divide the united states has seen in decades. so how did we make it through. let s sort that out by starting with the biggest news. that sounds like gunshots. worse story of the year. the violent invasion of the u.s. capitol by people angry over joe biden winning the last presidential election. the idea that 2021 was going to be better, i think probably lasted for about exactly six days. the january 6 insurrection was straight up crazy. the losing candidate then president trump stoked the fury with the big lie that he had won. they rigged an election. th
china and russia have announced a new partnership, hailed by president putin as an unprecedented pact of cooperation. china says it ll back russia s foreign policy aims and says it supports russian demand that nato halt its expansion. xijinping and vladimir putin held talks hours before the official opening of the winter olympics in beijing, with the low key ceremony held amid concerns about covid and a diplomatic boycott over human rights abuses. from beijing, robin brant reports. china s capital city, an olympic host for the second time. the bird s nest stadium built for 2008 is still glorious. but there is a different man in charge now and it feels very different in 2022. xijinping promised a safe, efficient games. for most people in beijing tonight, this is the closest they re gonna get to the opening ceremony of the olympic games watching it on a roadside near the stadium or on a walkway over the motorway. we re actually being moved away from this area at the moment. n
as tensions in ukraine continue, we have a special report from the eastern region that for years has suffered loss of life on the front line with russia. and iceland promises to end commercial whale hunting within two years, following a drop in demand for blubber. hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. the former vice president of the united states mike pence has said he would have had no right to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, and that donald trump is wrong to claim otherwise. it s mr pence s strongest public rebuke of his former boss since they left office. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and frankly, there is no idea more un american than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. our north america correspondent, david willis, has been giving me the reaction to mr pence s comments. mike pen
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 from new york today on the program the state of relations between america and israel only this week, primary in this the net and you reacted angrily to the us position on a un ceasefire resolution. have stingy it was the latest it s in a series of serious disagreements what to make of the growing rift between the jewish state. and it s most important benefactor. and protector, richard haas has some thoughts then be atlantic s graham wood will help us dig through the rumor in innuendo. but what really happened in last week s terror attack in russia who was behind it and former supreme court justice stephen brian will give us a master class on what hi court s job is and what it isn t but first, here s my take the hiring and firing of ronna mcdaniel as an nbc political analyst might seem like a small media tempest but it