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. this is "gps", the global public square. welcome to you all of you in the united states and around the world. im fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. well begin todays program with mondays powerful earthquake. the devastation and destruction it has caused and the politicians that are now at play. also, the china balloon cry is, what is the fallout? ill talk about all of that and more with david milibrand and richard haas. also, who is really fighting on the front lines for r...

this is "gps", the global public square. welcome to you all of you in the united states and around the world. im fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. well begin todays program with mondays powerful earthquake. the devastation and destruction it has caused and the politicians that are now at play. also, the china balloon cry is, what is the fallout? ill talk about all of that and more with david milibrand and richard haas. also, who is really fighting on the front lines for russi...

Korean aggression or to adventureism? because in the past, while china has supported north korea as its only military ally, it is usually restrained it. it is usually acted as a kind of break on some of this. what is going on in that relationship? >> so i think, as you mentioned, i think this is a very important point. the environment is continuing north korea their testing and continuing to develop their program because the russians invasion of ukraine, the political environment has changed. ch...

Koreans are genuinely not interested in returning to talks with washington. >> so north korea is under a huge international sanctions. how is it able to find the funds to -- to pay for all of this modernization of its nuclear arsenal? >> on paper it looks like there is a lot of sanctions. but sanctions have to be implemented and china and russia are not playing ball. they have not been implementing sanctions for some time. right now north korea, as they have always done, rely on illicit activiti...

And happy thanksgiving to you. >> happy thanksgiving, benjamin. >> benjamin: so how concerned should we be about the warming relationship between russia and china? if you imagined russia trying something in ukraine at the same time as china trying something in taiwan, is there any way the u.s. could counter that alliance? >> thats exactly what i worry about is them acting at the same time in different places around the world where they have interests and objectives. lets be realistic, the main i...

With overwhelming force, even n obliteration. but his national security adviser john bolton said the door is still open to negotiations. live to our correspondent fred pleitgen from tehran. what are you hearing in iran? >> reporter: hi, wolf. were hearing tough talk from the iranians. a senior commander came out and said any nation that indulges in what they call adventureism in the region will not survive. clearly pointing to the united states. meanwhile iran president hassan rouhani on the one...

Hezbollah. hundreds of millions going to hamas and a huge amount of money going to the revolutionary guard themselves and the ballistic missile program. all the money weve given iran theyve spent on their adventureism abroad and why we saw people coming into the streets several months ago protesting against the regime. they were expecting to see some benefits from the nuclear deal and instead not surprisingly the iranian regime squandered those funds. >> jon: you mentioned syria a moment ago. mi...

North/south world. he is arguing its europe, the united states and russia against islamic radicalism essentially. do you agree with that? >> there is an element of truth to that. there are more than 15,000 nuclear warheads in the world. russia 7,000. theyre modernizing their arsenal. we have less than 7,000. we arent modernizing ours. thats a basic reality. their influence is growing even though theyre a t*engt the size of our economy. he is utilizing adventureism to solidify himself in his own ...

Everything you see in red on this map is what we believe isis controls today. the area where this plane went down west of aleppo is not according to our information controlled by isis. so it appears those are anti-assad forces operating in syria with the cover of the russian air force. if that is all true, what comes of this significant international development today? >> i think it is potentially significant. i think -- i lay responsibility here lp totally at moscows doorstep. they shouldnt be ...

When you combine it with russian adventureism here and elsewhere. what we have overall in the middle east is continuing deterioration of americas influence and the continuing influence of chaos and conflict. >> the next president is going to have their work cut out for them because there has been a lot of leeway and learning taken. >> its not just iran. the nuclear deal and negotiations leading in the up to the deal has prompted the saudis and the turks to move ahead on their own nuclear weapons...