public square. welcome to all you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live. we begin with the stunning new development in russia over the last few days. i ll be joined by top analysts who will help us understand what has happened so far, what might happen next and what it all means for the war in ukraine. also, french president emanuel macron. i talked to him at a global summit he hosted in paris this week about how the west can help end extreme poverty and curb climate change. and about the striking rise of china and the potential of a thaw in its relations with the u.s. it s been an extraordinary 48 hours in russia as the world watched what president putin called an armed rebellion. the leader yevgeny prigozhin was the kremlin s top caterer before he threw away his kitchen apron. he wears fatigue as the head of the shadowy wagner group which has fought in conflicts in africa and the middle east and has been a key player in r
outfront next, the war coming to russia. putin and his forces on defense as the kremlin vows to exterminate ukraine. plus, republican kari lake still obviously won t accept she lost the race for arizona governor, giving a keynote speaking slot at the upcoming georgia republican convention. why? well, a top georgia election official who publicly rejected trump s claims of election fraud and bravely so is outfront and china s brutal campaign against its own people now at a boiling point as chinese officials take on mosques around the country. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront, the war inside russia. there s a bold, new front in the war and it is on putin s territory. a russian official just this hour announcing that russia s air defense system shot down several ukrainian drones over western russia. that s just this hour. right? earlier today smoke rises over belgorod. new video in from there. you can see on your screen, belgorod is the russian
don t have more information whether there was hazardous material or not. the testing they have so far is that it would not be actual poison or threatening material but again, we just got this in moments ago. this is not the first threat of its kind this is a significant development. and while we are careful to note only tell what you law enforcement has said for example they re not saying a source or suspect, i can tell you as a factual matter we re reporting on this new threatening letter sent to the d.a. at the very time just yesterday we were reporting on a new filing by the same d.a. alvin bragg that cites as criminal evidence donald trump s public provocations to potential violence, him swinging a bat at this d.a and that filing, which we have more on later tonight, quotes from exactly these kind of threats, many without powder, many without anything physical attached poured into the office. the d.a. connected in general what he argues is donald trump s unlawful medd
Someone being there in moscow that welcomed him that didn t materialize, but i really don t think we will fully understand yesterday s events for some days or maybe even weeks. masha, do you have a sense of about this whole issue of the people on the streets in rostov, for example, seemed to be cheering him on. that seems kind of dangerous. what conclusion do you grew draw from that? so, you know, his main audience is the military and people who are adjacent to the military and those are people who were in the streets of rostov. i w i wouldn t put too much stock on the rationale for the narrative. propaganda works by creating a cacophony. i don t think he pierces the propaganda bubble, but what he has done is he s tapped into a
What does this do to putin? well, it s probably very unnerving for him. you got to understand that he s used to being in absolute control, being seen as being in absolute control. he s kept the russian people in a propaganda bubble and so these types of attacks sort of undermine his narrative. these are mostly russian nationals carrying out these attacks with guidance from either ukrainian special forces in the military or perhaps intelligence but russian nationals, so in a very public way they re pushing back and he s not used to that. yeah, this is going to be the real question of how he responds. colonel leighton, our understanding is these are russian nationals but the russians say these ukrainian fighters, 50 out of 70 of them who attacked belgorod were killed. it s obviously impossible to foe