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
unrecognizable landmarks. and it also store up ft. myers beach. we went on a boat ride with the cajun navy and other volunteer rescuers across the area. and matt lachey in the coastal area is where most of the deaths occurred. what is going on over here? a lot of restaurants, into the lot of homes. pretty much all restaurants. theme that do shrimping, fishing. there was buildings the whole way. and they are just gone. you heard their stories that there are bodies in some of the canals and stuff? yeah, like up to the second story window, the water was still going. and that is the road right there. yeah. and it is gone. yeah. this area is pretty typical of the destruction around here. there is a bridge intact just about a block from here. maybe a quarter of a mile, nothing more than that, but the road leading to that bridge is completely washed out. so the island that is on the other side of that bridge is cut off right now. the people texted me hey, your ho
everybody s overjoyed to be here and y all really celebrated the community of the last couple days and y all have heard some fantastic people, but y all are in for a great treat. our friend andy lack. that s andy. that s don in case y all don t know. andy ran nbc and sony music and and he s now. yeah, go ahead don messing up my introduction. look at that. seriously, i got like 30 seconds. and and andy is now actually who moved down here came down from the northeast decided to get a life. he came he lives in new orleans now. all right, so give him a round of applause. for some reason he was like dancing on the street and mardi gras on like the y all do that in new york. it was like, i don t think so. and y all know my dear friend don lemon. i ve been i ve been he s been having me up on the cnn desk trying to opinionate about stuff. but he and i have gotten to be dear friends. he actually is a homeboy and he s about to leave here and go see his mama. so this is his home. he s b
and y all really celebrated the community of the last couple days and y all have heard some fantastic people, but y all are in for a great treat. our friend andy lack. that s andy. that s don in case y all don t know. andy ran nbc and sony music and and he s now. yeah, go ahead don messing up my introduction. look at that. seriously, i got like 30 seconds. and and andy is now actually who moved down here came down from the northeast decided to get a life. he came he lives in new orleans now. all right, so give him a round of applause. for some reason he was like dancing on the street and mardi gras on like the y all do that in new york. it was like, i don t think so. and y all know my dear friend don lemon. i ve been i ve been he s been having me up on the cnn desk trying to opinionate about stuff. but he and i have gotten to be dear friends. he actually is a homeboy and he s about to leave here and go see his mama. so this is his home. he s been reporting for me. he represen
covid and everything, and i know everybody s overjoyed to be here and y all really celebrated the community of the last couple days and y all have heard some fantastic people, but y all are in for a great treat. our friend andy lack. that s andy. that s don in case y all don t know. andy ran nbc and sony music and and he s now. yeah, go ahead don messing up my introduction. look at that. seriously, i got like 30 seconds. and and andy is now actually who moved down here came down from the northeast decided to get a life. he came he lives in new orleans now. all right, so give him a round of applause. for some reason he was like dancing on the street and mardi gras on like the y all do that in new york. it was like, i don t think so. and y all know my dear friend don lemon. i ve been i ve been he s been having me up on the cnn desk trying to opinionate about stuff. but he and i have gotten to be dear friends. he actually is a homeboy and he s about to leave here and go see his