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. today on the program, what is happening inside putin s russia? is he losing his grip on power? is he at odds with his own commanders? and how might his forces fair against the up coming counter offensive. we ll get inside from julia yoif and andrei soldatov. and since china opened up its economy in 1978, it has averaged almost 10% growth a year. but are we now at peak china? the economy ims keyu jin weighs in. also, has humanity gotten, well, dumber, thanks to the supercomputers in our pockets that could tell us everything that we need to know in an instant. i ll talk to the author simon winchester about the past, present and future of knowledge. but first, here is my take. america s debt ceiling crisis once again provoked the usual commentary about how it shows the country s basically dysfunctional. but the truth is t
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the author and journalist yasmin alibhai brown, and kate maltby, columnist for the i newspaper. good evening to you both. the headlines. the financial times which leads with finland and sweden announcing they will bid tojoin nato. it says the move would cause a geopolitical shift in europe. and lots of focus on the belfast telegraph, which boasts an exclusive essay by borisjohnson where he sets out his northern ireland policy. the telegraph, too, covers the ongoing discussions over the northern ireland protocol also featuring a picture of the margaret thatcher statue which was egged after being unveiled in grantham. and it s the same lead story for the independent, which quotes government sources urging the eu to help resolve the protocol standoff. it also shows a picture from protests after the shooting in buffalo in the us. the mirror takes the us massacre as its lead,
securing peace amid two major current international conflicts were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. cnn news central right now, the jury and hunter biden s federal gun trial continues to hear testimony from a key witness. prosecutors just called the police officer who it s responded to a report that hunter biden s gun had been thrown away in a grocery store dumpster in 2018 before that, hallie biden, who was bo biden s widow, who then dated hunter biden after beau s death testified for hours describing how she found and got rid of the gun. she also went into detail about her own drug use while she was dating hunter biden, cnn s paula reid is outside of the federal courthouse in delaware paul catches up what s the latest here it s been quite a day here in wilmington. hallie biden just got off the witness stand and she has been by far the most significant witness for the prosecution because she was able to share her observat
So plenty of people from europe and around the world call those islands that home but wed like to know what youd take with you if you were costa way to an uninhabited Desert Island all alone with no multicultural crowd to keep you company send us a picture of yourself with a luxury item that would brighten up your stay whether thats a person or an object just upload it to slash lifestyle where you can also find yesterdays installment of our series now we return to the european mainland and take to the skies in our euro max express. From around the world are in italy for this years teano International Balloon challenge cup. Ninety teens are competing in total with one thousand bottles of
local wine up for grabs this is the fourth edition of the balloon challenge cup. Lost in fifteen days it ends on the fifth. Paris is testing Cooling Benches in public streets and squares theyre designed to give pedestrian some relief from the continuing heat wave the benches are connected to an undergro
to his 2020 showing. we have seen a national politics correspondent even mckenna here with the story. this is kind of interesting, eva rate is due doing this on his own you know, he s apparently in the running for being vice president. maybe this sort of sweetens the pot. well, as you can imagine, briana, he did not state that as his motivation too funny when he met with me and some other reporters this week to detail this plan but listen, this does give him a platform to illustrate how he would perform as trump s top surrogate if he ultimately is selected as the running mate, it is an ambitious effort. they are promising to spend $14 million on voter outreach on advertising, on digital marketing, on small events so he plans to visit battlegrounds cities in the weeks ahead and intimate settings with black and latino voters. and they think that they have a path here because of some of the polling that we ve seen you don t see new york