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
again try to end the protests that have now raged for seven weeks. we start with a special report from ukraine as russia has again targeted ukraine s energy infrastructure in a wave of missile strikes across the country, including the capital, kyiv, where the mayor says four out of five people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles, but it was able to shoot down most of them. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine from the frontline battlefields of the donbas, to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s best troops are concentrated to try to stop the ukrainian offensive. his report contains some deeply distressing details. for ukrainians, this is a fight for national survival. the hardest test any nation can face. it upends every life. it has ended the lives of thousands. this is bakhmut, under heavy shelling. at the moment, the centre of the artillery war in donbas. more than 70