thanks for watching "state of the union." i'm jim acosta. fareed zakaria starts right now. this is "gps," global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we have a terrific show for you today. first up, a tale of murder and intrigue involving a familiar villain. then i know you've heard this before, but europe is facing a major crisis. no, really. within a couple of weeks, the money runs out for greece.

what does ha mean for the euro, europe, and global economy? i have an all-star panel for you.mean for the euro, europe, and global economy? i have an all-star panel for you. next technological breakthroughs. think about a cloud that knows how you speak and write. and finally, mr. putin goes to cairo. you won't believe that he brings with him. but first here is my take. the deal announced thursday to end the fighting in ukraine will face the same obstacle the previous such agreement faced, how to ensure that russia will abide by it. frustrated by moscow's continued support for ukrainian separatists, western statesmen have begun discussing military assistance for the ukrainian government. in trying to decide what would

actually deter moscow, it might be worth listening to what seems to scare russians themselves. it is not military aid to kiev. when asked recently about the possibility of so-called swift sanctions, which would bar russia from participating in the international payment system centered on the dollar, premium the prime minister medvedev warned that moscow's response to be without limits. it's understandable why putin's closest associates are so rattled by the prospect of additional economic sanctions, the russian economy is in free fall. in a report released this week, the international energy agency said that russia is facing a perfect storm of collapsing prices, international sanctions and currency depreciation. the imf projects russia's economy will contract by 3% in 2015. putin needs strong oil revenues to maintain his power. from 2008 to 2009 when oil

revenues did collapse during the global financial crisis, the russian government increased its spending by a staggering 40%, or to preserve social stability. this according to the economists. on the other hand, russia could easily handle continuing its military skirmishing in eastern ukraine. moscow's defense budget in 2014 e in eastern ukraine. moscow's defense budget in 2014 a in eastern ukraine. moscow's defense budget in 2014 s in eastern ukraine. moscow's defense budget in 2014 was roughly 20 times that of es in eastern ukraine. moscow's defense budget in 2014 was roughly 20 times that of kiev's, according to figures published this week by the international institute for strategic studies. the argument against sanctions is that while they may raise the cost for russia putin has shown he does not respond to higher costs in a rational, calculating manner. but if that's the case, then military aid for ukraine won't work either. no one believes that kiev can actually prevail in a military contest with moscow. a recent think tank report urging military aid itself acknowledges that the ate package would merely raise the

cost for the kremlin in order to force it to then negotiate. in other words, the consensus is that the only possible strategy is to raise costs for russia. the disagreement is really about what kinds of costs vladimir putin finds most onerous. i think military aid to ukraine would stoke fires of russian nationalism, let putin wrap himself in military colors and defend his quote, unquote, fellow russians in an arena in which he will be able to ensure moscow prevails. for a regime that waged two bitter and costly wars in chechnya a region far less central to the russian imagination than ukraine, the loss of some men and money in a military operation is not likely to be much of a deterrent. why would the west want to move from its area of enormous strength, economic pressure to an area where it will be outgunned in every sense. if russia breaks this fragile piece, then more sanctions should be considered. senator lindsey graham recently

offered the most honest reason why some in washington are advocating military assistance. even though it doesn't seem likely to work, it's a way of doing something in the face of russian aggression. >> i don't know how this ends if you give them defensive capability, but i know this. i will feel better because when my nation was needed to stand up to the garbage and stand by freedom, i stood by freedom. >> the purpose of american foreign policy is not to make lindsey graham feel better it is to actually achieve american objectives on the ground. that means picking your battles and weapons carefully. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column. let's get started. ♪

to understand what motivates vladimir putin, we decided to call in a man who once helped him get rich. bill browder went from being russia's largest foreign investor to being blacklisted in that country. ceo of capital management, bill browder was once supportive of president putin. that is until he was expelled from russia in 2005 after being considered a threat to national security. browder writes about his experiences in his terrific new book "red notices," a true story of high finance, murder and a man's fight for justice." he joined me recently to tell me about what he learned about how the kremlin works. you begin the book with this incredible story. you're the larger foreign investors in russia. your fund has returned 1,500% returns. you're managing 4.5 billion mr. in capital at a time when that was real money. and you get to the airport and they put you on a plane and throw you out.

what have you done that so pissed off the russians? >> i wasn't just a regular investor. i was what's commonly referred to now as a shareholder activist. i started out just buying shares of russian companies and i realized that the oligarchs and government officials were stealing all the profits out of these companies. so i thought the only way i could run a sort of moral and profitable business would be to try to stop it. basically research how they did the stealing and share it with the international media. for about four years this naming and shaming of russian companies actually worked because my interests coincided with putin. he was fighting with the same guys i was fighting with. the oligarchs were stealing power from him and they were stealing money from us. every time i would publicize a scandal, putin would step in and fix it. so my profits went up, the company's profits went up. i was feeling like the best guy in the world. i was making money and doing good at the same time. >> then putin makes a deal with

all these oligarchs and things changed at that point. >> he arrested the richest oligarch and said if you don't want to be arrested, he said to the other guys, then you need to share your money with me. he became a partner with them. at that point, i was not going after his enemies but his own financial interest. when i arrived at the airport in november 2005 after living it for 10 years, i was stopped at the vip lounge. i was taken down to the detention center of the airport, kept there 15 hours, deported and declared a threat to national security. what i didn't realize then, and it's become absolutely plain and obvious to me now, based on my experience, putin wasn't above it all, putin was intimately involved in it all. it wasn't like he was restraining oligarchs, he was the biggest oligarch. everything he's done since then has come to prove that. >> do you think putin is about power or about money? >> well, let's say the first

eight or ten years of putin's reign over russia, it was about stealing as much money as he could. some people, including myself, believe he's the richest man in the world or one of the richest in the world with hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth stolen in russia. it's changed, though, it's mutated. >> really? you understand numbers. you understand the numbers of the russian companies. you really think putin is the richest man in the world? >> i really think that. i'm not saying that crazily. >> estimate his net worth. >> $200 billion. >> really. >> i believe it's $200 billion. after 14 years in power in russia and the amount of money that the country has made and the amount of money that hasn't been spent on schools and roads and hospitals and so on, all that money is in property, swiss bank accounts, shares, hedge funds managed for putin and his cronies. >> it would explain why he personally has so much power. right? it is not the power of the party

or the army you worry about or the state. >> the power is simple in russia. whoever has the power to arrest people is the person in power. what putin does, he has guys around him with the power to arrest people. doesn't matter how rich you are, if you can be arrested put if jail and have your money taken away from you, the guy that can do that to you is the most powerful guy in russia. >> you've launched a campaign ever since the death of the guy who was looking after your accounts and the legal issues surrounding them. how did you manage to get people in the united states' attention focused on this issue? >> my attorney sergei magnitsky, he was murdered for exposing government corruption, murdered in pre-trial detention and they covered up his murder. what they did was so evil, so heartbreaking and so well documented that when i went and told the story to members of congress, didn't matter if you were the most conservative

republican or liberal democrat this was one thing in washington everybody could agree on which is that these people were bad. these guys killed sergei magnitsky for money. they all got rich, bank accounts, villas, cars. why should we allow them to travel to america, keep their accounts here and spend that money? everyone says, yes, that's easy. it doesn't stop anything to keep them from doing that. this started snowballing. against the interest of the u.s. administration -- the u.s. administration at that time wanted to play nice with russia. we got the magnitsky law passed 92-4 in the senate. one thing in washington everyone could agree on. zblm oil prices down 50%. the russian economy being sanctioned. banks are in trouble. how does this play out for putin? >> well, there's zimbabwe-north korea, runs russia truly into the ground and stays in power. that could happen. there's also the

ukraine-georgia-kyrgyzstan scenario. people say, why are we allowing him to ruin everyone's life? makes small decisions, doesn't have to be big, sparks a million people on red square and they get rid of him. or it could be some members of army and police decide palace kooi. let's get rid of him. we don't know. in the meantime while he's in power he's going to be running russia into the ground and causing the west a lot of problems. >> bill browder, good to have you on. up next -- greek and european officials are playing a game of chicken. who will blink. stay tuned for a fascinating conversation.

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talks over the greek debt crisis are down to the wire. greece's $240 billion euro

bailout program is set to expire february 28th. how will this play out and what chain reaction could be triggered by a greek exit from the eurozone. to ponder this i'm joined by the newly appointed editor in chief of "the economist." she's the first woman to run that magazine, which is bizarrely called a newspaper, in it's 172-year history. joining her, "times" assistant managing editor for business and the u.s. managing editor at the "financial times." welcome all. zanny, explain to us very simply, it feels as though it's the greeks versus europeans and they are playing a game of chicken. >> that's basically right. question whether they are playing chicken where they are both going towards the cliff or towards each other. we've talked often about the euro crisis. always felt like a huge crisis that never actually happened. this time i think is really is

going down to the wire. the greeks don't want to stay in their current program. they don't want it extended. they want a bridge loan for something more akin to what they like, a lot of debt relief, different conditions. germans are saying basically no, you have could work within the constraints of what you have right now. so there is a standoff. >> are greek reasonable? are the greeks only asking for what the germans asked for in 1950? >> absolutely. they enjoyed debt relief. they are taking a patronizing turn towards the greek telling them to accept this austerity is not working well for them political. germans keep arguing it makes good sense economically but that doesn't work well in the greek electorate. the question everyone should be asking, is this europe's lehman brothers moment? are we going to see a crisis occur that's going to be

cathartic and force the europeans to work on a longer-term solution for their problems or a very nasty chain reaction that could be extremely bad for the economy. >> greeks or germans. who is to blame? >> greeks often come out as the bad guys but germans have their part to play as well. it's ironic they have benefited more than any other country as part of the eurozone, part of their export economy. ironically, the quantitative easing which they have protested against they will benefit from as well. it will make euro more competitive in the international market. >> mercedes benzes are cheaper i i think that the germans have not done enough frankly, to create a consumption economy, to bolster wages. they have a part to play, too. ultimately there has to be an underlying political solution, there can't be a series of small-step technocratic fixes. they aren't going to work here. >> what's the solution?

>> they have to become united states of europe. have to come together, integration fiscally, more power with brussels and berlin holding purse strings. >> you could use german money to build holiday camps in places like greece gives germans vouchers to have holidays down in greece and spend money -- >> that's absolutely what you need to see. economically that would be most rational. >> in part europeans are falling into the trap. the way you set the question up, who is to blame here. i think greeks blaming germans, germans blaming greeks. actually the sort of limited solution to this -- i agree with you that there has to be a broader approach for the euro. but the greeks have been asked to do too much austerity. they've got a lot of debt that they can't possibly repay. everyone knows they can't possibly repay.

everyone knows they need to reform their economy. what they want to do is throw away all of the reforms. as my colleague said they've hit the ground running backwards on that stuff. i think they're wrong in that. germans wrong in demanding austerity and not thinking of the debt. there's a clear solution here. which is you commit to doing more of the right kind of reforms, and in return you get -- you have to have a lower budget surface, or you get not so much austerity. and you get some debt relief. >> isn't there this larger point, steve ratner wrote a piece saying, look, you can do all the spending of money you want. most european economies, southern european economies are fundamentally uncompetitive. they have 2,700 pages of labor laws in italy. you can retire 50 years ahead, get a pension. making some of this stuff up but not some no far from the truth. >> certainly periphery has to reform. there needs to be a comfort zone they can reform. it's hard to say to a country

you'll have 25% contraction of your gdp indefinite lip and not have a sort of revolutionary impulse. >> the irony greeks are doing this. the economy has hit bottom. it is beginning to grow. there's light at the he said of the tunnel. insanity, just at the moment it appears they have got through the worst and getting better they are throwing baby out with the bath water. to me, and to go back to your parallel with the lehman moment, the interesting question is would there be massive contagion if greece left. it's not clear there would be. there might be. it is certainly a risk. probably it's been so talked about they wouldn't necessarily be. >> at the end of the day you've got to make a choice. is a greek -- are the greeks or europeans going to blink? >> i suspect that in the end of the day we'll have the typical european solution which will be a kacan-kicking.

>> i'd agree budget most likely. what we are seeing tremors getting more frequent and closer together in terms of aftershocks. i agree definitely rising. >> i think eventually the germans are going to blink and realize they have gained more than anybody else but i think we'll have pain along the way. it is not going to get fixed this time around definitively. >> one of you pointed out this is the charlie's angels of economic policy. >> i think "charlie's angels"" won. didn't they? >> thank you very much. up next, what percentage of the world enjoys freedom. how many are living with oppression. we have the answers coming up.

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now for "what in the world," the fall of the berlin wall and the events in eastern europe and russia that followed were a time when freedom throughout the world seemed unstoppable. every time you turned on the news, you expected to see another country lifting the veil of tyranny. nowadays, the trend is actually moving in the opposite direction. recently the watchdog group

freedom house released inciteful annual report on freedom and democracy around the world. it looked at 195 countries and 15 territories giving them numerical ratings, one being the most free, seven being least free, based on u.n.'s universal declaration of human rights. the group's conclusion -- democracy is under greater threat than at any point in the last 25 years. overall 40% of the world's population is free, 24% is partly free, and 36% is not free. maybe that doesn't sound so bad. but in fact, freedom has been on the decline for nine straight years according to the report. in 2014, 61 countries saw their freedom deteriorate since the year before compared to only 33 countries that saw freedom improve. that tally of countries gaining freedom was the lowest figure over the last decade.

if you look at the 21st century overall, freedom has plateaued according to the report. the tally of electoral democracies in the world has also been stubbornly stagnant. what's the least free region in the world? the middle east and north africa where 85% of the population is not free. so much for the arab spring. the notable bright spot there is tunisia, which freedom has moved into the free column last year after it adopted a constitution and held successful elections. just five years ago, freedom house ranked tunisia among the most oppressive regions in the world. notwithstanding, autocracy is on the march. if you look at beyond metrics, the nature of autocracy is changing. autocrats no longer paying lip service to democracy as they once did and returning to

21 -- 20th century modes of oppression. russia's crimea is most prominent, a boldface move that 0th century modes of oppression. russia's crimea is most prominent, a boldface move that recalled world war ii. china is detaining activists under stricter conditions rather than just house arrests, the organization says. they are also televising people's confessions. in egypt, the military is in charge and the court sentenced hundreds of political prisoners to be executed in sham trials, the report points out. and it says there are overlooked autocracies, flying under the arar dp like azerbaijan vietnam and thooet and ethiopia which don't receive the ire of the free world despite oppression. of course the news isn't all bad.ire of the free world despite oppression. of course the news isn't all bad.the ire of the free world despite oppression. of course the news isn't all bad. ukrainians rebelled against government and stood firm despite russia's power moves. despite russia's power moves. we've seen resistance in hong kong. vladimir putin is in a tough

spot thanks to falling oil prices. still, we must face a sobering fact. at the end of the cold war, it seemed like freedom was an unstoppable wave. but every wave has an undertow. perhaps that's what we're witnessing these days. up next bill and melinda gates on the future of technology, health, and the american education system when we come back. .

bill gates is no stranger to taking risks. forty years ago he bet that personal computers and software would transform our lives. we all know how that worked out. so it's no surprise that he's made some more bets. in 2000, bill and his wife melinda started the bill and melinda gates foundation and they recently released an annual letter which makes some bold predictions for the future. let's start with how mobile technology is transforming lives and how they hope to revolutionize education right here in the united states. listen into my conversation with bill and melinda gates whom i caught up with recently at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. bill, let me ask you about mobile technology.

it strikes me this is the next big wave that's going to coarse through the world, particularly the third world. i look at india where i grew up. most indians don't have access to the internet because infrastructure is bad. people haven't run fibre optic cable. but when you get 4g and when you get cheap smartphones which are already happening, they're selling them for $30. you can imagine -- i think estimates, within five to seven years -- 800 millions indians will then be connected to the internet which is up really from about 100 million. talk about this. how does it change in why is it important? >> that cell phone is enabling. today the cell phone doesn't give you banking and online courses are not good enough, they don't connect to what you need to learn. but in parallel over the 15 year period, we'll be getting

coverage up the price down hopefully more gender equity in terms of who has those phones. and the software online software will be flourishing. >> when you look at this issue, because a lot of the things you talk about in terms of empowering women is about giving them knowledge about markets, about products, about prices. do you think this could be a game changer, this rise of cheap smartphones, i guess? >> absolutely. kenya has had mobile money a while and peso mobile money, 90% of households use it in kenya. it's a closed system but what women are talking about is the fact it's so cheap now. what they can do is save a dollar a day, $2 a day. if their husband goes into nairobi and gets a job, she can ask for remittances back. when you see these things going to scale, in tanzania 46% of households are using mobile money. using mobile money, bangladesh,

going to scale in places like the philippines. for women that's transformative. >> when you look at this mobile space, what do you think, you know -- what are the next things we should be watching? is it tablets? what's -- paint a picture of this new world. >> well, the tech companies keep doing amazing work. today you kind of think of working on that one devise and then you have to think about switching to the other device. basically the cloud will know how to hear you speak, it will know your handwriting. so the idea of helping you remember things remind you of things, tracking your schedule. there's some pretty unbelievable snaz yo scenarios, pervasive bring. >> melinda, what about education and technology. where do you see its role in transforming education. >> today we predominantly focus on education in the united states. we feel like inequity is our

education system. it is fundamentally broken. the fact that only a third of the kids who graduate high school are prepared to go onto college. you can't have a public education system like that and have a great democracy. the key thing in education is having access to a fantastic teacher. we know that a fantastic teacher gets more learning gains from the kids. what we're finding in the u.s. getting a great teacher in front of every kid, if you have the digital tools that go along with that he or she can then personalize the lesson. that really draws kids in. i think over time in developing world, if you're in a rural area and have a good teacher up to maybe fourth grade but you don't just have access to a great high schoolteacher in science if you're a motivated kid. eventually you'll be able to get a lot of it online. that's when i think it will be more transformative in the rest of the world. it may be some fantastic professor in india, somebody that's a great professor in china or some teacher you hear

about in the uk, that's when you start to get kids motivated and learning together. >> you look at education, one can't help noticing so much of your educational opportunities depends on what zip code you are in, because education is funded with local property taxes. then you have the growing inequality. is there anything to be done about it? >> it is why we focus on the u.s. education system, because to tackle inequality you've got to make sure all kids are educated and educated well. in the u.s. i think there's some points of light. one of the nice things about the charter school movement is taking public funding and using less dollars than are spent in the normal public school and educating kids less expensive but a much higher quality of education. they are doing all kinds of innovations in the charter schools. it gives us ideas and examples of what can be taken to the public schools. again, u.s. schools, how do you make sure you have a personnel system, given it is a personnel system.

how do you have a phenomenal teacher for every kid in the front of the classroom. we don't feel you can do that unless you have an open, fair, accurate evaluation system. >> so when you think about education and technology, it seems to me that this has to be the hope that technology is going to have a huge transforming effect that will produce a much more productive system. as you know, bill, there's this debate among economists about whether technological inventions of the world we're living in are as significant as the ones from, say, 1880s, 1890s, somebody like peter teal, the entrepreneur says we wanted flying cars. instead we got 140 characters, meaning twitter. but if technology could be used to transform education, and i would say health care, that might provide for a kind of systemic transformation of the kind that we haven't seen for a long time.

>> yeah, i agree with that. but the fact that people can say they don't see the acceleration and innovation, including on fundamental issues, to me it takes almost a willful blindness. our understanding of biology and tools that can help and what that means for childhood death rate, nutrition, we are finally beginning to understand nutrition, and therefore mall plal nutrition. that unlocks so much potential. about 40% of the kids in africa simply don't have the diet to be fully physically or mentally developed. and it is strange you have the people who are afraid we're innovating too fast. and you have the people afraid we're not innovating. the truth is we're innovating at a wonderful speed that in -- for

the basic things we think everybody should get, we will be reducing that inequity far faster than ever before. so it's a far more positive picture than either the people who say it's coming too fast or too slow would point out. >> up next, more from the gateses on the amazingly good news on the state of the world and why women should handle family finances. you won't want to miss it. kid: hey dad, who was that man? dad: he's our broker. he helps looks after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don't know exactly.

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>> yeah. the key thing economists have a hard time with is the innovation. the world went up until the last 300 years or so basically no gdp growth. until you get things like energy intensification, modern materials, eventually deepening of education, infrastructure, that's where you start to see amazing economic growth. so there's really two reasons why those numbers are so great. one is the china piece of it, which is a meaningful piece of it. what they did between 1989 and even today, every year there's a headline saying the chinese miracle will end because there's this imbalance or that imbalance. in fact, yes, growth is lower than it was but still growth that we would love to have, or the globe would love to have. >> a much higher base. the growth is slowing but off a much larger economy.

>> that's right. they are a middle income country now. everybody slows down once you get into that phase. the economic miracle really does extend outside of china. not only do we get economic growth, basket of goods, fundamental basics have improved as well. what we predict, the wonderful thing of the fundamentals improving is going to accelerate in the next 15 years. >> why has it happened? have we gotten smarter how to eradicate poverty in the last 20 or so years? >> the ability not to soften agriculture sector, to get the inputs, latest seeds available, to educate the farmers. the information about when to plant, what the market prices are, all of those things are way

easier to do now. it's not something where we looked and said nobody ever did that before. the green revolution happened in india and pakistan in the late '60s and '70s. so none of those seeds were used in china until they did the reform. ng there until the 1990s. the inputs were so out of date. >> so mel linda, the other piece of this is help. it's not just that we gotten less poor i refer that to say richer for people living on $2 or $3 a day, but most importantly the health care has gotten better. so you make a prediction of cutting the number of children who die before the age of 5.

it's astonishing, one out of ten children died before they hit 5 years of age. now it's one in 20. why do you think health care has him proved so much is it because we have gotten smarter about what to do? >> basically looking at the biggest child hood killers in the world and then tackling them. the vaccines we take for granted in france united states and the other parts of the world, we're starting to get them out in scale in the developing world. what used to take us in the developed world -- that lag time has been cut to between one and three years, and we have the right strains. for about $30, you can get a set of vaccinations for kids. and it's saving lives.

>> do you think that's just not kind of a received wisdom that if you give money in the form of aid to women, it is a much better use of the money, that beautiful, i suppose a simple way to say it. if you give the muffin to the man. >> the research suggests that every marginal dollar has a woman gets she's most likely to pour it back into her family. so if you echl power that woman, you empower that everybody else. if she's educated she's more likely to marry later, she's likely to have children later. for a literal woman, her child is 50% more likely to make it to their fifth birthday and sheif she's educated she's more

likely to educate her daughter. it's why we start to talk about if you can get labor force participation of women, you can raise the jobless rate. so to me the female piece of this is absolutely fundingmental. >> thank you, melinda and bill gates 89.

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egyptian orchestra played the russian anthem for the president. take a look at what the russian national anthem is supposed to sound like. ♪ ♪ >> now listen to the version putin endured. ♪ ♪ >> many called the rendition cringe worthy or worse. the anthem may have fallen flat. but throughout the visit, putin and -- putin showed the world he has friends outside the west announcing russia would help build egypt's first nuclear power plant. welcome to the new northeast. the correct answer to the gps challenge question is b, nothing says true friendship like an

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