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
and i want the fierce battles in ukraine is taking place in a small town which appears to have significant for russian forces decadent at the upper hand right now. as it s happening, it ll countries appear to be sending any weapons to ukraine. the kremlin shuffles the top commanders of the war. cnn s ben wedeman joins us with the latest on the ground in the battle for the town of ben, what is going on? yeah, anderson, this battle instantly dark has been going on for months, but it has intensified in the last few weeks. at this point, it s not at all clear how much longer the ukrainian defenders can resist unrelenting russian onslaught. medics loot a wounded soldier onto an ambulance, another casualty from the embattled town of soledar. one day, 2025 it varies depending on the number of casualties on the frontlines. russian forces mostly troops from the wagner group, a private military company, claimed to have control of the entire soledar territory. the battle
Situation was very stable and he s there he might be there for years to come, but now they think that probably one year at least because the situation the system is shaky. many people understand that he s not there and they have to prepare for russia after putin, and at the same time, he thinks that he underestimates all of the difficulties of his situation and he thinks that that the time is on his side because he s waiting for american elections. he s waiting for donald trump to be back and he s sure that once trump is back in the white house, he s going to be fine, there s going to be no war no resistance from ukrainians side, no support for ukraine. he ll deal with trump, and that s the ideal happy answer for president putin.
Ukrainians side. this is they are trying to pinpoint ukrainian dangerous. how about positions by radio direction finding that, though? there may decide that the best way to use these forces, and to plan the russians to give them some ground, bring them forward, and then attack them, as they come forward. there is a lot that we do not know about this tactical situation, anderson, but what is clear is that the ukrainians have a strong desire, and intensity to, resist, and they will resist. poland plans to send leopard tanks to ukraine, following news that the united states will train ukrainian soldiers on patriot missile systems in oklahoma. that the u.s., france, and germany, with an infantry fighting vehicles. do you think that support will have a major impact? what sort of impact you think it will have? i am glad we are doing this. patriots won t be there for several months, and it is one battery. maybe poland will put a second battery in. you need several battalions to