it s about 50 minutes. welcome to rnegie connects, a virtual series of conversations and on issues of critical iortance. tay s conversation on how the world sees america is especially timely. we are on the cusp of one of the most consequenti elections in american history and even though the nation is preoccupied with covid and economic recovery and foreign policy tends to be an inside the beltway issue, it s likely not to figure prominently in voter preferences and choices in this electction the resultof , that election will have a decisive impact on how america acts in the world and how the world evaluates the consequences of those actions. i ththink it s clear that we are at a crossroads. donald trump has played the role of disruptor, fundamentally altering the policies ofis for postwar, post-cold war predecsors, embracing auoritarians, rejecting alliances and multilateral diplplomacy and embarking on wht caonly be described as a wholesale withdrawal or to or a threat t
what some think america needs to do. that is, write a new constitution. and then he ll speak to one of the top scientists responsible for the web telescope and those awesome images it has captured. these videos show explosions that have happened in the last two weeks at russian military facilities in crimea, which has been occupied by russian forces since 2014. one attack at an air base destroyed at least seven russian warplanes. ukraine has claimed responsibility for that attack and two others, according to an internal ukrainian government document obtained by cnn. is this evidence that kyiv is launching a counteroffensive against russia? and could it gain back territory illegally overtaken by moscow? joining me now is retired u.s. army general mark hurtling, a national security and military analyst for cnn. good to have you on this morning. great to be on this morning, jim. first, let s speak about these attacks in crimea, territory controlled by russia for some eight
position, hope springs. across gaza, bbcjournalists captured the reaction. ..of those convinced, perhaps prematurely, that a ceasefire will happen. translation: the feeling is indescribable. we re so happy we re going back to our home in gaza city. we re refugees from the north and we fled here, this young man says. we re so happy there s a ceasefire. israelis are still absorbing the news. it came late on one of this society s most important days, when across the country sirens bring the nation to a halt in memory of the dead of the holocaust. ..a day of reflection in a country traumatised by the hamas attack last october. chanting tonight, on the streets of tel aviv, those who believe healing that trauma can begin with a ceasefire deal and the release of israel s hostages. we expect the israeli government to take this deal, to save all the remaining hostages who are still alive. but after seven months of a war in which israel s army pledged to destroy hamas, a ceas
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 from new york city. today on the program, world leaders made their annual journey to new york city this week for the u.n. general assembly. among them, iran s president ibrahim raissi. after his fiery speech, he sat down with me for an exclusive interview. i asked him about his country s nuclear program, its place in the middle east deeply changed by the abraham accords and about women s rights in iran after the death of mahsa amini and the protests that followed. are all these hundreds of millions, maybe over a billion muslims wrong and only the islamic republic of iran is right? then, open trade has been one of the great engines of progress in the world lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. is it now moving in reverse? and is america to blame? i ll talk to the head of the world trade organization and iweli who