Im jim sciutto in washington. Fareed zakaria gps is next. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com this is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. Im fareed zakaria. Well begin todays show with iraqs battlefield failures and isiss military successes. Just how is a band of terrorists able to take entire iraqi cities, and what can be done about a local army with no will to fight . Well ask the experts. And has the sun set on britain as a global power . I told you last week that i thought so. Today youll hear from the British Ambassador to washington, who disagrees. Next, well bring you some lessons after irelands samesex marriage referendum. The real story is what it tells us about religion today. Then californias drought is scary, but it might just be the beginning. Are fullon water wars between nations in our future . The United Nations deputy secretary general paints a scary picture of a world that is getting dry and angry. But well lea
Todays top story, theres only one. The dow rallied more than 300 points in the last two sez sessions. The blue chip index is now within 89 points of its alltime record rose. Europe is seeing a lot of green in early action, as well, on thursday. February 28th, 2013, squawk box begins right now. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Our guest host this hour is sentinel president and ceo christian swake. Good morning. Thank you for being here and joining us. As you said, it is a good day to here be here. Weve been watching the u. S. Equity futures because of all the actions yesterday. This morning, you did see a few green arrows, but no massive move at this point. The magic number is 14,164. 53. That is the record closing high for the dow. It was reached back on october of 2007. The bulls a number of catalysts for mondays sharp sell down. Some are calling this the bernanke bounce. The stocks soared after the twoday testimony on ca
Quintanilla. Good evening. The historic wildfire season in california has taken another turn for the worse. This one is called the valley firl north of sacramento, and in just 224 hours its grown to some 60 square mete miles. Thats more than double the size of manhattan. Its destroyed hundreds of homes, gutted cars on the highway, and forced thousands to evacuate. Its one of a dozen major fires now raging across the state, and nbcs Gotti Schwartz is there starting us off. Good evening. Good evening, carl. The devastation out here is absolutely staggering. This right here used to be a row of ten houses. You can see they have been completely incinerated. I also want to show you this right there. You see that. That is natural gas still burning, still flaming. Last night we saw and we heard natural gas and propane blowing up all around us. Reporter the roads are surrounded. Its a town set ablaze. Now, this is main street middletown. You can see theres all kinds of torching going on. Theres
The late justices body lay in repose. Scalia died last weekend. He was 79 years old. His funeral will be held in washington in the coming hours. Now back to fiji, the story were covering about this Tropical Cyclone winston rampaging across the countrys main islands. The storm made landfall after 7 00 p. M. Local time. Fijis Prime Minister is calling for citizens to be alert and stick together. Earlier my colleague Natalie Allen spoke with fijis red cross manager with more. The government to the area effected now. I think the whole of fiji will be effected, during Tropical Cyclone winston, but in terms of the population evacuated, different districts supporting what theyre doing in attending to those that need supported in terms of blankets and coats. Together with our presence, currently on watch since today, we are currently awaiting for the weather to ease a little bit so that we at least we can look at what are some areas that are effected and also people to be assisted. And thank y
Marine environment to get more on this first of its kind deal. Also coming up in the next sixty minutes life on Eastern Ukraine frontline a reporter visits a village called between Ukrainian Government forces and russian backed separatists after almost four years of conflict well ask a Top International monitor about the prospects for t. Pieces. And out the Berlin Film Festival the story of a kenyan girl with cancer who wants to be a superhero well talk with the films director. Hello im terry Martin Thanks for joining us. Russia is blocking a u. N. Security Council Resolution that is trying to bring a cease fire to Eastern Ghouta on the edge of the syrian capital damascus russian. Has put forward a raft of amendments and a boat has been delayed until later today syrian Government Forces are bombarding Eastern Ghouta and the un chief antonio good terrorists has called the situation hell on earth human rights monitors say government shelling has killed more than four hundred people there