this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program as israel celebrates 75 years since its founding i talk to its longest-serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu. with the resurgence in israeli-palestinian violence, can israel continue to make peace with arab states? how will it handle an iran that could reportedly make enough missile material for a nuclear bomb in just two weeks? and the court crisis. how to heal the country s divisions? israel s greatest existential threat according to its president? also washington has declared that america s covid national emergency will end in a matter of days. so what lessons have we learned from a pandemic that took more than a million lives in the united states alone? i ll talk to philip zelico whose covid crisis just released its report. but first, here s my take, visiting india this week i was
about the 21 year old us national guardsmen accused of leaking hundreds of highly classified government documents. macron s controversial pension reform becomes law in france, but after weeks of angry protest , is this a win for the president or a little more than a period victory? they trusted him trusted his judgment. of course, it makes things more difficult for me why i broke filled in somewhere. father questions. plus heartbreak and hope for the first time we re hearing directly and the parents have evan chris covic, the american reporter detained in russia. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with sarah. the us is scrambling to safeguard sensitive information after catching the man who allegedly leaked a trove of classified documents. 21 year old jack to sarah has now been formally charged under the espionage act for taking and transmitting national defense information. the government is now rethinking who gets access to classified material. the department of defense
through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants devices. take a listen. we re also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber hygiene. on the face of it the app might not look like a threat to national security. it s exploded in popularity as a platform to share short videos of viral dances and comical voice overs. and has become a part of today s youth culture. tiktok claims to have more than one billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte dance. and that s what s worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on t
let s turn to ireland where us presidentjoe biden has been meeting with leading politicians and is now on his way to address a joint sitting of the irish parliament it s been an extremely busy day for the president. he set off to parliament from farmleigh house in dublin after meeting with the irish prime minister leo varadkar. while in the grounds of farmleigh, he watched a gaelic sport demonstration by local children. inside, the taoiseach praised american leadership since the russian invasion of ukraine last year. mr biden praised irish values and set out plans for a closer relationship between the us and ireland. there really is an opportunity to make serious progress. notjust because of the accords we have signed, 25 years ago, but in terms of the way you lead ireland and ireland is moving in a way that is taking its place in the world and i think it feels so good to be able to have this merging and stronger relation between the united states and ireland. this mornin
now uncertaintly remains over sunday s sports programming and whether more presenters and pundits willjoin the boycott in support of gary lineker. police and demonstrators clash across france over welfare reforms as the upper house of parliament passes a bill that will raise the pension age to 64. the british chancellor meets the governor of the bank of england, to discuss the collapse of silicon valley bank after the failure of its parent company in the us. and the countdown to the oscars begins but who will be smiling at the end of hollywood s biggest event of the year? hello and welcome to bbc news. talks are continuing to try to resolve the row that s led to widespread disruption of football coverage across the bbc. there are fears that more programming could be affected on sunday, including the women s super league and match of the day two. sports presenters boycotted saturday s programmes in support of gary lineker, who was asked to step down from match of the day