was among the dead in that residential building there. and ukraine s defense ministry says it hit 17 air targets on saturday, including three russian aircraft, five cruise missiles, and nine drones. and it reports a strike on a russian-command post in the southern kherson region took out two russian generals. russia, not commenting on that attack. moldova s foreign ministry has summoned russia s ambassador following comments made by a russian general. on friday, tass quoted the officer as saying the russian military is aiming to control southern ukraine, and access moldova. for more on all of this, i am joined from kyiv by jeffrey getleman who is a foreign correspondent for the new york times, and a fine one at that. i wanted to ask you about these commanders comments saying the military the broader aim, is not just that land corridor from donbas to crimea but stretching as far as moldova. you were there in moldova
they re not able to take these large chunks of territory, so that s why i wasn t clear that this threat against moldova, how real is it? was this guy just boasting? saber rattling? or was this like a directive from the kremlin, and he was revealing what the next move is? we really don t know. yeah. yeah. jeffrey getleman, a pleasure to speak with you. great reporting there. um, let s talk again. thank you. all right. well, evacuations from ukraine s war-torn areas are becoming increasingly difficult. while some were able to evacuate from the port city of mykolaiv on saturday, authorities had hoped to get civilians out of mariupol in a column. but city officials say, that effort was thwarted by the russian military, again. so far, more than 5 million people have fled the fighting in ukraine to other countries. the u.n. says more than 7.7 million are internally displaced within the country. all right. we are going to take a quick
world. i m fareed zakaria. we begin an important show with the most important topic today. the economy. to talk about it, we have no lesser an authority than president obama s top economic advisor, that s gene sperling, director of the national economic council. why isn t employment picking up? we ll ask him. then we ll go global. who should be the next president of the world bank? should it be an american, as always, or should it be opened up to emerging economies, in asia, africa, south america, nigeria s finance minister says she should be the bank s next leader, and she has some very influential supporters. we will talk to her. also, the new kind of warfare we re seeing pop up more and more. dirty wars. that s what the new york times s jeffrey getleman calls them, and we ll talk to him about it. first, here s my take. as many regular viewers know, i have been following the tense back and forth with iran very closely. i continue to believe it is the single most dange
should it be an american, as always, or should it be opened up to emerging economies, in asia, africa, south america, nigeria s finance minister says she should be the bank s next leader, and she has some very influential supporters. we will talk to her. also, the new kind of warfare we re seeing pop up more and more. dirty wars. that s what the new york times s jeffrey getleman calls them, and we ll talk to him about it. first, here s my take. as many regular viewers know, i have been following the tense back and forth with iran very closely. i continue to believe it is the single most dangerous crisis that we confront today. everyone seems to believe that whatever the momentary ups and downs, there is unliable to be a deal between iran and the great powers that will avert war and prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. that s not clear. there is a path to a deal. if, as with any successful negotiation, both sides can come away with something. so what would a deal loo
he has covered somalia and east africa for years, probably spent more time in somalia than any western journalist and ken minkhouse is an expert on the region and professor at davidson college in north carolina. he has worked for the united nations in somalia and written extensively on the country. so welcome to both of you. jeffrey, weak or nonexistent state. you have, you know, virtually an authority, all kinds of things into al qaeda. why does al qaeda end up showing up in somalia and what is the nature of al qaeda now? somalia was a cold war dumping ground. first, it was itself yet ally state, then it was a u.s. ally state, tons of weapons float into this place. it is a very poor, traditionally pastorless community and a population of 6, 7, 8 million people and it was one of the most militarized parts of africa. then both of the sponsors to withdrew r. no coincidence the state