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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 live from new york. Today on the program, a week and a day after hamas terror attack, israel continues to strike gaza and rockets continue to hit israel. As the world watches for a Ground Invasion to begin. Lets get the latest live from israel and then we will talk to Richard Haass about the Global Politics at play, the influence of american, saudi arabia and ir...

Nephews. people are coming with their families, christians, muslims. you still see an incredible diversity among the crowd that certainly does reflect the diversity of egyptian society. you see a certain number of what happened to be the members puff the muslim brotherhood, but theyre not the dominant force. the predominant number is young people, fairly well educated, by and large i would say solidly middle class, so its a fascinating group people who are down in that square. >> all right. ben ...

living, going about the rituals that are part of a life. like marriage. for one young couple their life begins. they choose to be married in front of what they call their new family, protesters. but for a journalist, a life ends. he has died from wounds he suffered. mahmud was standing on his balcony photographing the fighting between protesters and security forces when he was shot by an unidentified sniper. today angry demonstrator staged a. just hours ago, goaling executive wael gh...

Antiques, totally reformed. very, very bold. joining me is rasheed khalidi. professor, you can tell i was skeptical. am i right to be skeptical about his record? >> i believe hes deserve a rich degree of skepticism. hes old-school, is identified with repression. the idea of connecting that individual with the word "reform" is ludicrous, to put it mildly. >> that gets to the critical question, if mubarak is saying ill hang out for seven months action ill go out in september, have my guy run, prob...

on why it wont work this time. good evening. there it is, breaking news. im cenk uygur. president hosni mubarak was foursed to go before the cameras and say he will not return for another term. he says in september he will be walking, like an egyptian, out of office. in a recorded statement that aired late this afternoon, he vowed to oversee the peaceful transition of power. that means his 30-plus year will come to an end. its important hes not stepping down, essentially retiring sev...

when -- he was killed in 1990. i think this was 88 or 89 that he said this. he says -- he asked the question, are we normal? is it normal to attack ones own citizens? is it normal to subject jews to laws, demands, restrictions and prohibitions that are totally disregarded by the arabs? is it normal to so fear arab riots and protests and world condemnation that we tighten the noose around our own jewish people struggling to hold onto the land of israel while we ignore the daily prolifer...

minute. first, concerns over a major national security breach are growing. military officials and political leaders from both parties are expressing disappointment and outrage over the posting of tends of thousands of highly classified documents on the wikileaks website. some lawmakers are declaring the leak is an act of treason. >> the fact is what happened, whoever gave that information is guilty of committing the most contestable, contemptable crime we have to take it seriously. we ...

minute. first, concerns over a major national security breach are growing. military officials and political leaders from both parties are expressing disappointment and outrage over the posting of tends of thousands of highly classified documents on the wikileaks website. some lawmakers are declaring the leak is an act of treason. >> the fact is what happened, whoever gave that information is guilty of committing the most contestable, contemptable crime we have to take it seriously. we ...

tonight on "worldfocus" -- a vote in the house of representatives sparks outrage in turkey. what will it mean if the government in average ankera stop cooperating with washinon? large protests after parliament concludes new measures. will the germans bail out the greeks? youve heard how the chinese restrict internet access. tonight, a different take on state-sponsored chinese television. the premier using the internet to talk to ordinary citizens and promote democracy. and from egy...

tonight on "worldfocus" -- >> a vote in the house of representatives sparks outrage in turkey. what will it mean if the governor and emperor stop cooperating with washington? large protests after parliament concludes new measures. will the germans bail out the greeks? youve heard how the chinese restrict internet access. tonight, a different take on state-sponsored chinese television. the premier using the internet to talk to ordinary citizens and promote democracy. and from egypt,...