public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming you to live from new york. today on the program. the united states versus iran. american soeldiers killed in jordan. u.s. ships attacked in the red sea. and missiles and drones launched at american bases and iran s proxies claim responsibility for it all. america has begun to respond. is it the right way? how can an all-out war be avoided? i ll ask an expert panel. then, american aid to ukraine and israel is being held up until the troubles at america s border with mexico are fixed. david frum will explain why he called this the gop s great betrayal. and also we ll tell you about the most interesting world leader to break on to the scene in quite a while. argentina s halfjavier milei. but first here is my take. it is fitting that the line that best describes u.s. foreign policy over the middle east in the last 15 years comes from the godfather. michael has been tr
this is gps global public square. i m fareed zacaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program, united states versus iron. american soldiers killed in jordan. u.s. ships attacking the red sea. missiles and drones launched at american bases. and iran s proxies claim responsibility for it all. america has begun to respond. how can an all-out war be avoided? i ll ask an expert panel. then, american aid to ukraine and israel the being held up until the troubles at america s border with mexico are fixed. david crumb will explain why he calls this the gop s great betrayal. and we ll tell you about the most interesting world leader to break on to the scene in quite a while. first, here s my take. it s perhaps fitting that the line that best describes the u.s. foreign policy of the middle east comes from the godfather. in the third movie, the aging michael corleone is trying to distance himself and a crisis flares up. just when i thought i was out, they pull me
to ask them player forests, and their employer has to give it due consideration. it doesn t mean that it always has to be granted. so that is very important. and it s notjust about home working, although that could be part of flexible working. it s also, for example, if you have parents or people with caring responsibilities because it will their relatives in the family that they are looking after, it s arrangements like, for example, going part time or working a five day week compressed into four days i think it s important. i also think james tyson is a total uncountable voice and what thank you improves productivity. exodus going to cost the economy billions of pounds. it s a huge impact on our gdp because its depressed britain s experts and it s one of the reasons why they ve got such terrible growth forecast compared to the rest of the g7 in the coming years. if you look at countries that have recovered or have started to recover from the pandemic through export led growth, britai
spoke to dr marcus there he s a senior economist he s a trade specialist as well at the university of st gala and i asked him whether the slowdown in chinese economic growth would have a knock on effect on an export led economy germany s take a company such as volkswagen that i think is up to forty percent of its revenues being directly and indirectly depending from from china even siemens wrong ten percent of this so it s very important for a country such as germany but since the quality and the way how the chinese economy shell develop in the next ten years will be changing it will open up advantages and challenges for countries such as germany so conrad which is it opportunity for better business or a risk. well of course the opportunities are definitely there given the mere size of the country the hundreds of millions of people joining the middle class every
russia. it s right on their borders. it s a international part of russian culture and history. and we need to take into account russian sensitivities, justified sensitivities, as well as insist on the ukrainians being able to take their own decisions and determine their own future. what about what s going on in china? you look at china. you have a powerful leader. more powerful some people say since mao. he has consolidated power. he is presiding over a currency fiasco. what do you think is going on? i wouldn t be quite so strong on the in terms of the challenges they re facing. they are trying to make a transition from an economy which has been export led, really highly successful, the most successful economy in the world at the last 30 years in the rate of growth it s achieved and sustained. and they are having to adapt to or they re trying to adapt