next leadership. talk about weapons that i sign off ongoing into taiwan to pardon taiwan and are they prepared? do we have enough deterrence to stop aggression coming from china? todd: big development, you re watching fox and friends first on thursday morning, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. house speaker kevin mccarthy sitting down with taiwan president in california where he called for the u.s. to send more weapons to the nation immediately. todd: lucas tomlinson with more. lucas. lucas: the republican chairman just arrived in taiwan. here is more from chairman michael mccaul. being here sends a signal to the chinese communist party that the united states supports taiwan. we will help taiwan and want them to think twice about invading taiwan. lucas: chinese government is outraged by the visit to taiwan s leader to meet house speaker kevin mccarthy. china could never tell us what to do, as speaker of the house, i will meet wi
hello and welcome to bbc news. pakistan s former president, general pervez musharraf, has died following a long illnes. he was 79. president musharraf seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1999 serving in office for seven years from 2001. and in 2019 he was sentenced to death in absentia, for treason charges for absconding the murder trial of one of his successors, benazir bhutto. at the time of his death he had been living in exile in dubai, recieving medical treatment. the bbc s gordon corera looks back on his life. 1999. and when troops stormed the national television headquarters to put pervez musharraf in power, the people of pakistan heard a familiar refrain. the nation needed another leader in uniform to save it from self serving politicians. in the past, our governments have ruled the people. it is time now for the governments to serve the people. pakistan had already been under army rule for more than half the time it had been independent. general musharraf
united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, vladamir putin says the world faces the most dangerous decade since world war ii. will he make it more dangerous by using nuclear weapons? can he compromise and make a deal? i will ask boris bondarev, one of the highest level defectors from putin s own government. then britain has its third prime minister in less than two months. we will tell you what you need to know about rishi sunak and his plans. trust is earned, and i will earn yours. can he gave the economy? and the reputation of that storied nation? and as a divided america heads to the polls, what can we learn from the most divided period in american history? the civil war years. i sit down with john meacham who just published a new biography of abraham lincoln. but first, here s my take. history and current polling both tell us that the house of representatives will likely flip over to republican control in the november midterms.
we ll talk about the war in ukraine and how it is going. putin s nuclear threats and the annexation of ukraine s lands. and fears of a chinese attack on taiwan. also, just what is vladimir putin thinking? i will talk to one of russia s richest men who knew the russian president well before putin jailed him. finally, the new term of the supreme court starts tomorrow. [ chanting ] i will give you a sneak peek of my newest documentary, supreme power, inside the highest court in the land airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. but first, here s my take. italy and sweden are about as different as two european countries can get. one is catholic, mediterranean, sunny and chaotic. the other protestant, northern, chilly, and ordered. over the decades, they ve had very different political trajectories. but both are witnessing the striking rise of parties that have some connections to fascism. in each party, this has coincided with collapse of support of the center her, a
now the family of mahsa amini say they ve been threatened. russia has carried out the most widespread bombardement of ukrainian cities since the begining of the war in an act of retaliation for saturday s explosion on the bridge connecting russia with occupied crimea. take a look at this. this girl was walking past taras shevchenko national university, in a cultural discrict of kyiv. she thankfully survived a near miss, others were not so fortunate. this footage was captured close to the university as ukrainian emergency services respond to the wounded. so far 11 dead have been reported, and 64 wounded. were damaged in the explosion. it s the first time moscow has targeted downtown kyiv since the start of the war. the bbc has been speaking to residents near the blast site. translation: 0h, translation: oh, it is horrible this is our life and translation: oh, it is horrible this is our life and just translation: oh, it is horrible this is our life and just now, translati