Also mentioned his late critic, Alexei Navalny, by name. For Vladimir Putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, ourwilland our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny. Translation you may be surprised, but a few days i before mr navalny died, some colleagues of mine told me there was an idea to exchange him for certain people in prison in the west. You can believe it or not. I said, i agree, even before he had finished talking. But what happened happened. Election results on russian tv, not a hold your breath moment. The winner, by a mile and a half, Vladimir Putin. What an incredible level of support and unity around the figure of putin, he says. And a powerful signal to the west. But in this race, Vladimir Putin was, from the start, un
Gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york on todays program, Bibi Netanyahu approves plans for an assault on rafah at one of the most powerful democrats in washington says israels Prime Minister must go ill ask The Middle East scholars should be to homie, to make sense of these developments also, the clock may be ticking on the future of tiktok in the United States the house has voted for legislation that could ban. Now it is up to the center to ban or not to ban. We will have that debate then. The ai nightmare, Silicon Chips deciding whom to kill and whom say if this isnt happening right now on the battlefield, it is likely to happen soon enough. I will ask an expert what we can expect and what we can do about the Ai Warfare Revolution but first, heres my take. In a recent interview with Russian State Tv, Vladimir Putins had something that was in his words important for us ourselves and
Families living just behind the frontline. Eastern ukraine is being eroded. Russian forces are approaching, taking village after village. And for the People Living here, death or occupation feels imminent. Valeriy and his Grandson Denys have taken up the offer of evacuation. Their home in toretsk is in russias sights. Here, its making its size and ammunition reserves count. Ukrainian forces are going backwards. And with valeriy s town now constantly shelled, its time to go. Translation i lived my life already. But i need to save the little one. Police take them to kostyantynivka, a place of relative safety but increasingly less so. The city is used to being close to the battlefield, but its risk of being captured is growing. When ukraine liberated territory more than a year ago, there was hope. But the tide hasntjust changed its approaching. Now there is fear that cities like kostyantynivka will be gradually destroyed and its people will be forced to flee. This is what russia does when
Know we must ask ourselves and all of our allies, what more can we do, what more ammunition can be provided, what extra production can we invest in, what weapons do we have to help the ukrainians in this fight . And we have been discussing this today. And there is the question about what we can do in terms of medium and longer range missiles. I make this point, because it is a sovereign decision for every country, but in terms of what britain has done, i know what we have given to the ukrainians has helped them resist this appalling invasion and fight back against russian aggression. In ukraine itself, Russian Forces are advancing in the east, and many who live there are packing their belongings, and moving away. Ukraine says its forces are holding on, but in the Donetsk Region, several villages have been captured after invading forces took the town of avdiivka, and there are fears more settlements could follow. James waterhouse has been to meet families living just behind the frontlin
A member of this alliance. But even once that decision was made, none of this was easy, none of this was obvious. It has taken nearly three years of tireless diplomacy, together with extraordinary Secretary General of nato to achieve ratification by every nato member. Again, the determination of swedens leadership, the extraordinary diplomacy it has exerted, making sure every question was answered, every challenge met, every obstacle overcome, that is what brought us to today. Now, some doubted we would get here, we never did. Here we are. This of course is also built on an extraordinary foundation of partnership between sweden and nato that goes back many years. Sweden has long been an active partner with nato allies, training together, exercising, working together. Fundamentally, the reason this is such a strong powerful fit is because sweden embodies and promotes the core values that are at the heart of nato. Democracy, liberty, the rule of law. And it also brings unique capabilitie