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hello, everyone. im christiane amanpour. we will take you around the world to ask questions and tackle the big problems and let history be our guide. here is where were headed this week. the united states fights fires on multiple fronts. will it win? a briefing from one of americas best-known generals, david petraeus. >> we face more challenges in number and more complex and more dangerous challenges than arguably at any time since the end of the cold war. also ahead, the imf chief...

>> well, first of all, i think that the meeting between our two presidents was very modestly encouraging. it is far better than it not happening. the subsequent meetings between various counterpart in our two governments, engagement by other countries of the u.s.-led west with china. this is all an effort to try to establish a floor for a relationship in which in a fairly recent episode a spy balloon is floating over the united states, we picked up the phone in pentagon and no one in beijing ans...

Russia has achieved far less via cyber warfare in Ukraine than many Western observers expected. Many aspects of Moscows approach to cyber operations have been misunderstood and overlooked.

Express an opinion. but whatever people think of the trade deals, henry, that she has struck, she has clearly been rewarded with one of the great offices of state. what is she going to have to do to breathe life into that so—called special relationship between the uk and the us, if joe biden even cares about it? well, ithinkjoe biden definitely is an atlanticist and does care about the relationship with britain and also europe as a whole, notjust the uk. i think liz truss is actually in a fair...

With what the biden administration has as its priorities in terms of dealing with china and checking its rise as a competitor and also a potential adversary. you know, just a couple of days ago, that deal between australia, britain and the us in which australia will be provided with nuclear—powered submarines made a big splash, as it were, and that is something that dominic raab, liz trusss predecessor, worked on but she is the one who can now implement it and in a sense take some of the credi...

Well, i thinkjoe biden definitely is an atlanticist and does care about the relationship with britain and also europe as a whole, not just the uk. i think liz truss is actually in a fairly good position at the moment, purely by dint of timing. she probably will go with prime minister borisjohnson next week to new york for the un general assembly, which is a big stage upon which to make a splash, her very first trip as foreign secretary. also, we know that liz truss has actually been fairly hawki...

Quite _ adversary. and that, actually, its quite hand — adversary. and that, actually, its quite hand in glove with what the biderr— quite hand in glove with what the biden administration has as its priorities— biden administration has as its priorities in terms of dealing with china _ priorities in terms of dealing with china and — priorities in terms of dealing with china and checking its rise as a competitor— china and checking its rise as a competitor and also a potential adversary...

Way that is going to be damaging, and provides a sort of retribution they believe is required in that setting. >> thats a final grim element of our discussion this morning, joe. what effect do the tweets have on north korea, our potential adversary. my best korea watcher sources say that the north koreans believe they need to do two more things to have their deterrent. they need to launch an icbm with flat trajectly across the pacific and need to test a hydrogen bomb in a way thats visible. >> e...

>> how could something like this have happened? you know, its supposed to withstand hurricane-force winds and all of a sudden it gets loose and now theres $200 million of taxpayer dollars down a toilet? >> right now its in a test program and in year one its about to enter its second year of a three-year test program and you can be certain that something like this is really going to weigh in on the pentagon decision on whether or not to keep buying these blimps to put around perhaps other cities ...

Arming themselves or attempting to with nuclear weapons? >> what were talking about is a pentagon-led review for the options for the president. every president wants to have options. the pentagon is laying out a range of options. one option is do nothing, stay where we are and go to the other extreme, cut 80% of the force. get down to a few hundred nuclear weapons. i think likely well end up someplace in the middle. heres the situation. there are about 20,000 nuclear weapons in the world. the u....