This is 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. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of israels Supreme Court, and as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times Paul Friedman about the politics involved and with his colleague Emily Bazilon about the legal issues. Then the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin lose or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zigov. But first heres my take. The mysterious disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister qin gang is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations will be determined not just by american policy and whats happening domestically in the United States such as the president i
Coup. and they believe that he was detained for questioning late last month. this is actually a disappearance that is bad for putin and his immediate objective, winning the war in ukraine. seravikin earned the nickname general armageddon. his tactics are brutal and abhorrent, but kurg putin s aims, they are effective. he is known as dangerously competent military leader. in october, putin apointed seravikin head of the forces in ukraine. he withdrawn from kherson, built up the defensive positions and stepped up the power plants. i am not praising the man or the russian invasion of ukraine, but these were clear-eyed tougher decisions given that the kremlin wanted an aggressive offensive. and for these efforts, he was demoted in favor of another