first african pope. is the catholic church at a crossroads? cardinal peter turkson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. in your long career in the church, you have seen the centre of gravity, the geographical centre of gravity of the church, shift quite dramatically. what difference do you think it has made? well, thanks for having me on the show. yeah, it is true. it is true that what used to be. ..a church centred in europe, out of which a lot of missionaries went out, and so came to africa and several other places in the south, we see some decline. decline that manifests itself first in the form that missionaries are no more. ..out there to be sent. church numbers are dwindling. but in the home of those missionaries. yes, yes. in germany, in germany, in france, in ireland. absolutely. and those countries where the missionaries did their work so many years ago, they re not really needed now because the catholic church is in countries such as your own in ghana. right. so that is
after talks in brussels. at the same summit, leaders agreed to open membership talks with ukraine and moldova and to grant candidate status to the country of georgia. all three nations have been pushing to join the alliance. ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, called the decision a victory for ukraine . the president of the european council charles michel said age talks would continue next year. he said important progress had been achieved at the summit. tonight we sent a very achieved at the summit. tonight we sent a very powerful - achieved at the summit. tonight we sent a very powerful signal i we sent a very powerful signal to the european citizens, a very powerful signal to the ukrainian citizens because we have decided to grant status to georgia to open negotiations with ukraine, and with moldova to make a very important step with bosnia and herzegovina, because we will open the decisions and a report will be issued by the commission in the coming weeks to make
united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, vladamir putin says the world faces the most dangerous decade since world war ii. will he make it more dangerous by using nuclear weapons? can he compromise and make a deal? i will ask boris bondarev, one of the highest level defectors from putin s own government. then britain has its third prime minister in less than two months. we will tell you what you need to know about rishi sunak and his plans. trust is earned, and i will earn yours. can he gave the economy? and the reputation of that storied nation? and as a divided america heads to the polls, what can we learn from the most divided period in american history? the civil war years. i sit down with john meacham who just published a new biography of abraham lincoln. but first, here s my take. history and current polling both tell us that the house of representatives will likely flip over to republican control in the november midterms.
more humanitarian relief in to those who are in need in gaza. we ll hear more on the possibility of an extended truce later from our correspondent on the ground. it all comes as m more israelis held by hamas, including nine children as well as three foreign nationals, were released on sunday. among them is abigail idan the first us citizen to be freed. she was just three when she was taken hostage and she spent her fourth birthday in captivity. her parents were killed by hamas gunmen during the october 7 attacks. members of her family have released a statement saying: the family also thanked the qatari and us governments for helping to secure her release. here s her grandfather speaking earlier. translation: it was wow . i couldn t believe it until i saw her. i simply couldn t believe it. now i m a bit more relieved. not relieved completely, because there is happiness mixed with missing abigail s parents. there are other people who have not returned. i want them to return
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