hello, everyone. i m christiane amanpour. we will take you around the world to ask questions and tackle the big problems and let history be our guide. here is where we re headed this week. the united states fights fires on multiple fronts. will it win? a briefing from one of america s best-known generals, david petraeus. we face more challenges in number and more complex and more dangerous challenges than arguably at any time since the end of the cold war. also ahead, the imf chief optimistic about the u.s. economy. cheer up, this is a new year, people. then can you feel it rock star lenny kravitz on life, legacy and vying for an oscar. and from the archive, the anniversary of the pope s first visit to atheist communist cuba. welcome to the program, everyone. i m christiane amanpour. this year crises overseas could also tip the scales. first in ukraine where the war grinds on and president biden s request for emergency funding could die in congress.
become the first former president ever to be criminally indicted. ahead why his former lawyer, michael cohen might play a key role. in california residents are preparing for another round of severe weather including excessive rainfall, official from monterey county joins me in a few minutes and a shock and outrage in germany after a deadly attack on a jehovah s witness church. . . live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with kim brunhuber. it s been more than six years since $130,000 in hush money was paid to porn star stormy daniels to keep her from going public about an alleged affair with donald trump, that payment was made days before the 2016 presidential election, now, the new york times reports the trump has been offered a chance to testify next week before the grand jury that s been hearing evidence in that case. cnn evan paris tells us what it might mean for the former president. reporter: we know that they met with trump team recently and time says that
times as much to ship supplies thousands of miles from south korea. it s both stressful and immoral, say the doctors. [indiscernible] if american people know this, things would change inlin less n 24 hours. havana looks like america, frozen in time. the chevys and buicks are all classics from the 50s. wherever you go, whoever you talk to, you always here people blame the u.s. embargo for all their woes. the fact is that cuba s rigid
five children, of course parents are involved in it. he the question should be could extreme republican bill that would allow parents to take buicks off of shelves, should that be left in the hands of parents? there is no place for critical race theory in our school system and why on day one i m going to ban it teaches children to see everything through a lens of race and divide them into buckets and have children that are called privileged and other that are victims. it s just wrong. ainsley: what are the voters saying in virginia. lawrence jones is live in roanoke. going to be here tomorrow to talk with those moms, fired up about those issues, got former governor mcauliffe have opportunity to be honest but he lied. he agented as if his kids were in public school and we know they were in private school. the democrats had a real opportunity here and we know education has become the defining issue, the shift in the polls dead heat at first and now that new fox news poll showing youn
was not easy for the residents of pol town, an old polish neighborhood in detroit who had to watch their homes, businesses and churches be destroyed to make room for a new general motors assembly plant. today this is what remains of pol town, old neighbors don t stand in the way of new factories in this economically troubled see. despite the outrage of demolition of pol town, the plant created thousands of jobs in what was an economically depressed area. it had a significant impact on the auto industry. general motors said the plant produced more than 4 million vehicles since it opened in 1985 including chevrolets, buicks and cadillacs. but this week more than 1500 jobs are at risk. kevin tibbles has a look at what this could mean for the new community around hamtramck. kevin, good to see you. as much as pol town was destroyed, hamtramck did build a community around a plant because that s what happens when you have a plant and workers and a