brand and welcoming me so graciously as coanchor. jake will be back in this chair next sunday, so please continue. the news continues right now. the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria comes to you live from washington, d.c. today on the show, in ten days we have gone from a climate change denier in the oval office to this. >> we have already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. we can't wait any longer. we see it with our own eyes. we feel it. we know it in our bones. >> i'll talk about biden's decision to put the climate crisis at the center of american

foreign policy with john kerry his special envoy for climate. >> no one nation can do this alone. >> also, there is anger on the streets of russia. from st. pete rsburg to moscow and many places in between. and it is directed right at president putin. should he fear the movement that's rising around kremlin critic aleksi navalny? i'll ask the experts. finally, i will give you a preview of my latest docum documentary," the divided states of america." i explore the crisis america finds itself in today and how we got here. >> when we cannot agree on what is true, when we cannot agree on the basis of facts that politics

should be about, you cannot have a functioning democracy. >> tune in at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn and cnn international. but first here's my take. we can all see the outlines of a post pandemic world. with vaccinations ramping up in the u.s. and britain, with israel and the uai racing toward herd immunity, it is easy to damage that a return to normalcy is just around the horizon. the only question seems to be, how long will it take? but we might be seeing a false dawn. despite the amazing progress we have made, the truth is our current trajectory virtually guarantees we will never really defeat the coronavirus. it will stay alive and keep mutating and surging across the globe. years from now, countries could be facing new outbreaks that will force hard choices between

new lockdowns or new waves of disease and death. the basic problem is in how the vaccine is being distributed around the world, not based on where there is the most need, but the most money. the richest countries have paid for hundreds of millions of doses, often far in excess of what they actually need. canada, for example, has preordered enough to cover its 38 million residents five times over. meanwhile, nigeria's 200 million people have not received a single dose of the vaccine. rich countries make up 16% of the world's population. yet, they have secured nearly 60% of the world's vaccine supply. in a recent foreign affairs article, thomas and chad pointed out australia, canada and japan have less than 1% of the world's coronavirus cases, but they have locked up more doses of potential vaccines than all of

latin america and the caribbean, a region with more than 17% of global coronavirus cases. even though several african countries have been used for vaccine trials, almost no sub sahara nation has received vaccines in any significant quantity, while more than 40 million doses have already been administered in rich countries. duke university researchers say many developers countries will not be fully vaccinated until 2024, which means that the virus will have years to spread and mu mutate. in their annual letter bill and me linda gates note low and middle-income countries will be able to vaccinate only 1 in out of every 5 people over the next year. the problem goes well beyond public health. the international chamber of commerce released a study showing this lopsided vaccination of the world will cause global economic losses

between $1.5 and $9 trillion, of which half could be born by the richest countries in the world. looking at data from 35 industries and 65 countries, the study concluded the world economy is so interconnected that having large areas still suffering from covid-19 would produce bottlenecks, frictions and loss of demand that would affect everyone everywhere. another study estimates that rich countries would get back $5 in economic output for every dollar they invest in vaccines for the developing world. despite these realities, vaccine nationalism is actually rising as slow supplies and bureaucratic delays in rich countries caused politicians to demand speedy action for their populations. european nations are threatening to restrict exports of vaccines and to take legal action against astrazeneca because of suspicions it prioritized

delivering to britain over eu companies, which, by the way, the company denies. dozens of countries have also restricted exports of medical supplies, which will seriously hamper efforts to eradicate covid-19 worldwide. now, let me be clear. it is entirely understandable that rich countries want to vaccinate their own populations first. but there is a way to act rationally and sensibly without hording vaccines and to make policy that will ensure that the disease is eradicated faster everywhere. they lay out an excellent plan in foreign affairs. they argue that washington should use the lessons from operation warp speed to ramp up production and distribution of the vaccine worldwide. washington could build the same kind of international coalition that it did to takele aids in africa. there is a global effort to help developing countries which

provides a powerful frame work for action. donald trump refused to join this effort, despite the participation of over 118 nations. but biden has reversed that decision. he could go further, using it as a platform to demonstrate america's unique capacity to bring countries together around a common problem, to help raise the resources needed and thus to solve the most pressing problem facing the world today. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my washington post column this week and let's get started. ♪ we're going to start with the extraordinary events in russia. for the second weekend in a row, russians have come out in a rather extraordinary way to express their support for the jailed kremlin critic aleksi navalny and their dissatisfaction with president putin. today protests were planned in

over 127 cities across all 11 of russia's time zones and marchers came out in force, chanting slogans like putin is a thief. they were met with a massive police response. a watchdog group says more than 3,500 people have already been detained among those cnn correspondents and navalny's wife who was still detained as far as we know. julia and alexander join me. he is a senior fellow at the endowments moscow center and julia is a russian-born journalists, currently correspondent for gq. let me ask you. if you can simply explain to us what are these protests about. >> first, they are about aleksi navalny and the investigation he has done into putin's wealth and putin's secret palace, but also they are a tip of a larger bay

of discontent with declining incomes. russian disposable incomes have decreased 10% compared to others, the pandemic and the economic recession. >> if you saw the video of the palace, i should say we are required to point out that the russian government, president putin, denies that that is his palace. nobody knows whose it is then. julia, explain what navalny has been able to do. he's built an extraordinary political infrastructure, but almost a kind of media network of his own on youtube, right? >> that's correct. he was blacklisted from state media, which has the largest reach in the country, and i think he wasn't fully satisfied with the way opposition and dependent journalists were covering him, so he built his own. and it's on youtube, which is now one of the primary ways that

people can cut the cord to state tv and watch independent content. we have seen that the video he produced about the palace has been seen over 100 million times. the population of russia is 143 million. we don't know all these views are unique views inside russia, but it is still a stunning figure. he has also built something americans would recognize. he has offices and staff around the world in cities large and small. in 2020 when he was running for president knowing he would not be allowed on the ballot, he used the opportunity to meet with volunteers, to meet with fans and supporters for his people to train people all around the country in how to investigate corruption and how to get people to the polls and how to monitor elections. and he created a kind of personal connection with millions of russians that

vladimir putin, who doesn't really, you know, ever come down from mount olympus really have with his people. >> alexander, tell us what the russian state's reaction has been and what happens if they just jail navalny indefinitely? >> i think that the russian state is trying to create a very delicate balance between repression and older reaction because they see the risks of the overreaction that the police torture has created in belarus last summer. so they are raising the stakes and increasing the cost for participation, not something unfamiliar to us. we have seen a ded desaid of th.

the state tactic has been increasing and starting to unpack a vast tool kit of intimidation and repression. that's what we're observing over the course of the last two weeks. mr. navalny's problem is that because of this very high cost that the state has put forward, it is difficult to translate millions of viewers into millions of people on the street. so last week we have seen an optimistic figure would tell you 40,000 people. so it could make a big difference. unfortunately now the trend point to the fact that mr. navalny will be imprisoned and, yes, it will cause a new spike, but it is very unlikely it will change the kremlin's decision or mr. navalny's fate. >> very briefly, navalny is unique, right? he's very charismatic.

he's funny on those youtube videos. it would be a serious blow if he were not part of this movement. >> he is completely right that the state has infinite resources and all it has to do is wait the protest out for crush them and intimidate anybody else who is thinking of protesting. so the state, you know, this is an existential questions. he is not proposing reforms. he wants to tear the system down and build a new one. if you are the system, which includes the riot cops beating up protesters, it is an existential crisis, and i think putin will pursue it to the bitter end. >> stay with us. next on gps, the u.s. secretary of state and the russian foreign minister have been sparring on social media this morning over

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protests. alexander, the last time there were serious protests in russia after the arab spring and hillary clinton then secretary of state supported them or made similar noises of encouragement, putin was engaged and u.s. intelligence believes that as part of the rage that putin had that caused him to interfere in the 2016 elections, is this a parallel? and is the kremlin presenting navalny as some kind of american puppet or a cia tool? >> absolutely. so, fareed, mr. putin said it in public that mr. navalny is assisted by western swintelligee and that a lot of information has been given to him by western services. it's a familiar trick of the kremlin to castigate its opponents as the fifth column supported by the vests, forces

seeking regime change and call a revolution in seeking to ultimately topple mr. putin. and by the way, these tactics works. polls time and again show that considerable part of the russian society is convinced and is binding to this narrative. >> julia, you mentioned this was existential for the regime. but the regime also has supporters. and is it fair to say that -- i mean, things can get quite nasty. you could end up with a kind of civil war because the two sides really now have maximalist goals. >> yeah. and we saw this morning a cop in st. petersburg pull his gun on protesters, which seemed, you know, an escalation we haven't seen in these protests and hopefully not a portend of things to come. but i do want to say to your previous question, the thing is, though, that the kremlin would paint navalny and has painted

navalny to be an american stooge, whether washington says anything or not. you know, during the four years of the trump presidency when trump and his administration did absolutely nothing to support navalny or call for an end to corruption in russia, they were still calling navalny an american stooge. so in some ways it doesn't really matter what the americans say. it will not change anything in russia and it will not change how they see navalny supporters at home. >> alexander, just a final quick thought. the back of all this, as you pointed out when we started, is declining economic conditions in russia. and i presume that at the heart of that is the kremlin's dependence on oil revenues and the western sanctions. >> i think that the sanctions don't matter that much. yes, they're taking an economic toll on russia, about half

percent of gdp. growth ratio is not happening because of the sanctions. but at the heart of that is really oil revenue and the revolution happened. for years that will be the ultimate blow the kremlin's ability to run the country. at the same time right now, the kremlin is presiding over half a trillion u.s. dollars in reserves, so it has a lot of currency and a lot of steam to kick the can down the road for a number of years now. >> thank you both. fascinating conversation. we will definitely come back to you as we watch this story. next on gps, we will go to that technological green revolution and whether and when it can happen. an exclusive interview with john kerry, president biden's climate envoy.

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donald trump called climate change a hoax, pulled america out of the paris climate agreement and rolled back some 100 environmental rules and regulations. shortly after his inauguration, president biden signed an executive order to re-join the paris agreement. and this past wednesday, biden signed an order mandating among many other things that the entire government get behind the fight against climate change. he also makes the climate crisis a central consideration in american foreign policy. and central to that strategy is the appointment of the former secretary of state john kerry as the special envoy nor climate with a seat in the cabinet and on the national security council. john kerry joins me now. welcome, secretary kerry. >> glad to be with you. thank you, fareed, for inviting

me. >> so let me first ask you, do you think that we have the time to actually ramp up not just rejoin paris but to do more? because as you know, many climate scientists believe that the 2050 goals are just too inadequate now for the challenges we face. >> well, the goals thus far have been inadequate. the goal out of paris -- the goal of achieving a 1.5 degree limitation on the rise of earth's temperature is absolutely the appropriate goal. but the current promises of countries through the paris agreement are in insufficient to get the job done. but you were asked, do we have time to be able to do it. yes. scientists three years ago said we have about 12 years within which to make the decisions that

would avoid the worst consequences of climate crisis. we have used up three of those years without the trump administration doing anything, in fact, working against those efforts. so now we have nine years within which we have to make key decisions and actually less because obviously you can't make all those decisions in the last two years. you have to start making them now. so this is the year. we have a huge conference, the negotiation in glasgow at the end of year in november and we have nine months now within which to raise the ambition of countries all around the world. that's what we're setting out to do. the president has made a very bold, very visionary program to bring every agency of government to this task. >> now, in order to do it, you know, even to send a signal to the world, most believe the important thing is that the united states get its house in order and to really tackle the climate crisis and to really

take on the -- because, you know, carbon is produced in so many different ways, in cement, steel and plastics. so much more than the burning of fuel for transport. you need a carbon tax. do you think the united states can do that? that will slowly but surely change the economy. can we do it? >> well, we could do it. i think. i mean theoretically yes. it is one option of many things we're going to have to consider and may wind up doing. there are many people who make the point, and i personally accept it that that is the most significant bold steps you can take to actually have an impact in a rapid way. and i believe there are ways to do that and make it very progressive to protect people who have to drive long distances to get to work, do things like that. there are ways to cushion any

negative impacts on it. but, here's the but, we really need to do a great deal more than that. general motors just announced that they are going to be moving to pure electric cars. nothing but electric in 15 years. a lot of european mode of manufacturers have made a similar kind of announcement. and i think that is the trend. people are going to move to electric cars, which means you're going to have to produce more electricity ultimately but there are ways to do that clean. so this is all achievement. and i think the important point, fareed, for people to really focus on is it's a very exciting economic transition. it's a job creating transition. there are just going to be millions of jobs created with new products coming online, innovation that takes place, technology advances that will help us do things that we may not be able to do today, but it will happen because the demand is there. and that demand is going to have

a huge change in the kinds of things, the kind of work that is available to people. nobody is going to be told they have to go do that. they're not going to be ordered to go do it. but the marketplace itself is going to work in a way that makes it inviting and profitable. and, frankly, cleaner and healthier and more secure. >> you talk about it being exciting and the marketplace telling people to do this. but right now there are areas where president biden's actions will put people out of work, canceling the keystone pipeline, the decision on no new fracking on new federal lands. those governmental decisions will put people out of work and in fact already are doing so. what do you say to those people? after all, you were a politician you understand there has to be -- you have to find a way to bring people along. >> well, we're a great nation at creating jobs, which

historically constantly been creating jobs when our economy is growing. obviously the first objective to do that is to be able to deal with covid. covid has knocked economies all around the world for a loop. so that has to happen. but as the president has said, as president biden has said many times that covid actually offers us the opportunity to build back better. because the economy has been rocked, as we come back, we will be putting major investments into various sectors of the economy to get it moving again. and if those investments are done in a way, fareed, that are green, that are looking to develop hydrogen fuel, for instance or the making of those electric cars. people don't lose a job in the transition to electric cars because the car still has to be built. the batteries have to be put in it and people are going to work

at doing those things. so we have already seen remarkable growth. there are 55,000 new jobs in texas, the home of the fossil fuel energy. i mean, this is a transition where the fossil fuel companies themselves. i mean, look at bp or shell or other large fossil fuel companies. they're diversifying. they're engaged in the creation of these jobs and doing research in carbon capture and storage and so forth. there will be literally millions of jobs created over these next years, and there will be a transition in our economy just the way there was in the 1990s when computers and cell phones and other things started to be created and at&t changed. >> when i listen to republicans, and i listen to fox news, i watch fox news, the thing that they are hammering on is the green new deal, the socialist

new deal and a lot of it is attacking these sub cities or regulations favoring green technology. do you think that the republicans will come along? and if they don't, is it possible to just move ahead anyway? >> well, first of all, i laugh when they talk about the subsidies to clean energy or things like that. fossil fuel industry has had the biggest subsidies and some of those still continue. i mean, they're getting subsidies. i don't hear them complaining about that. farmers in certain sectors and other people get payouts. donald trump paid vast sums of money to try to offset the effect of his ill-advised tariffs. so let's get real here. the private sector in the united states of america has already made the decision that there is money to be made here. that's capitolism. and they are investing in that

future. there are going to be huge fortunes made by people who make the breakthroughs in these sectors, the person who discovers how to take carbon dioxide out of the at mor fear and store it adequately. the person who comes up with battery storage that is 25 or 30 days of storage. those are game changers. and there will be a huge amount of money made in that because the demand is there to do this. and the alternative is that the planet changes so profoundly negatively that life itself is not supportable in many parts of the planet and will be changed forever in others. so the alternative to this is that we actually have citizens paying more money than they would be paying otherwise. right now, for instance, we pay $265 billion to cover the cost of about three storms several years ago, maria, harvey and

irma. harvey dropped more water on houston in five days than goes over niagara falls in a year. irma had winds at 125 miles an hour. first hurricane we have ever measured that in. we spend $265 billion just to clean up after those storms, fareed, not to prevent them. so every economic analysis now shows it is more expensive to do nothing, not to respond to the climate crisis, than it is to respond to it. so you're going to be -- citizens will spend this money. they're either going to spend it cleaning up or building barriers or moving homes or whatever it is going to be. but there is a way to do this productively that actually moves our economies forward and allows the united states to push the curve of technology which we're really good at and begin to invent the new products of the future, create the new economy of the future, make the air

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engaging in genocide against the uyghurs. none of the tariffs have been reversed. they're reaching out to taiwan. so with all those policies toward china, how are you going to get beijing to cooperate on climate? >> well, all of those issues need to be addressed obviously, fareed. we have some very real differences, needless to say, with china on big issues. on trade, on technology, intellectual property protection. access to the marketplace. you mentioned uyghurs and other things. there are big issues. nations have had those throughout history. you know, ronald reagan who called the soviet empire because

it was met with gosh chov and they came to the critical decision to stop having 50,000 warheads pointed at each other. that's where we are, nuclear warheads, 50,000 approximately. and they decided to go the other direction, down. take them away. many people think we could go further, but that changed the dynamic of the planet, of great nation competition. the fact is that we need to do that in climate now. the united states and china together are about 45% of all the emissions on the planet. so if one nation or the other ignores this and doesn't join together to try to resolve this problem, we're all going to see these profoundly catastrophic changes take place, from the warming of the ocean, to

destruction of ecosystems. i don't need to run through all the list of it, but most of the world has come to the conclusion, the leaders of 196 countries signed an agreement all saying we have to move in this direction. only donald trump, the only president of any nation in the world who decided to pull out of that agreement and go in a different direction against all science, all common sense. so we need to come back together, china, the united states, india, i mean, mexico, canada, all these countries, europe, everybody has to be part of this. and you made the point precisely. no one nation can do this alone. >> if there is increasingly confrontational policies between china and the united states, if there is what some people describe as a new cold war, does that make it impossible for you

to do your job and find an agreement between china and the united states? >> well, i don't know the answer to that. i mean, i'm not going to start predicting the impossibilities. what i do think is we don't have to go down that road. i think there are ways, and i think president biden is deeply committed to and understands how to find those ways as well as anybody. i think he's the right president for this moment, partly because of that. his experience in foreign affairs. the relationship that he already has with president xi is strong. i think that he's going to be critical helping to get this equation to come together in the right way. and i think that he has confidence that it's worth exploring that possibility before you start going down the road to harpen down everybody's

animosity. are there tough issues? yes. as i said earlier, there are tough issues. but this isn't the first time the united states of america and others have stood up for values and principals and fought to find a way forward for nations with which we have disagreements. and i think the world wants us to pursue sober, mature, humble, thoughtful diplomacy in the effort to avoid conflict in the future. >> john kerry, pleasure to have you on, sir. >> thank you, sir. good to be with you. (judith) but not for your clients. that's why we're a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. (money manager) so, what do you provide? cookie cutter portfolios? (judith) nope, we tailor portfolios to our client's needs. (money manager) but you do sell investments that earn you high commissions, right? (judith) we don't have those. (money manager) so what's in it for you? (judith) our fees are structured so we do better when our clients do better.

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and the capitol ride showed us nothing less than the future of the republic is at stake. >> we are at war. >> i have a new documentary premiering tonight that examines the crisis and all of the forces that have led us to this moment. it's called "the divided states of america: what is tearing us apart." it airs at 9:00 p.m. eastern. take a look at this clip which explores who is responsible for the ugly, war-like politics that have become to define politics in recent decades. >> it's tempting to say that donald trump is the reason for america's great divide. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol. >> fight for trump! >> especially after his dangerous rhetoric led to this. >> people climbing the walls, breaking windows, breaking into

doors. >> but before there was a donald trump, there was a republican pioneer who paved the way for the trump brand of destructive politics. >> i am a genuine revolutionary. we are going to change their world. >> this is the story of newt gingrich, the man who wrote the play book for the modern conservative movement. >> newt gingrich, a republican, is taking over a congressional seat that's been a democratic stronghold for a quarter of a century. >> in 1979, when gingrich arrived in washington, he had a singular goal, to blow up the political establishment, including the republican party. democrats had been in control of congress for so long, it was called a permanent democratic majority. it was a very different time in politics when civility and compromise matters.

house republican leader bob michael was widely known as mr. nice guy. imagine that. >> newt gingrich comes in with a buzz saw. >> what we are living through is a fundamental civil struggle, a civil war fought in public speeches rather than with armies. >> the gingrich philosophy, the only way for republicans to win back power was to be nasty, really nasty. >> for the democrats to say not only are we going to rape you, but you have to pay for the hotel room is a big much. >> newt gingrich saw politics like war. >> at first, the republican old guard someone shunned. >> he wasn't a great legislator. but what he had was a knack for stirring con troe verisety.

>> he launched an ideological insurgency. >> they were going to undertake political gorilla warfare. >> long before trump used twitter and fox to get around media filters. >> democrats have lost control of the radical left. >> gingrich had c-span. >> i'm going to speak this evening on the looney left, the machine which controls the u.s. house of representatives. >> c-span? yes, believe it or not c-span. you have to tune in tonight to find out how newt gingrich weaponized that sleepy but vital cable channel. but special is called "the divided states of america: what is tearing us apart." it is premiering at 9:00 p.m. eastern. thanks to all of you for being part of my program. i will see you tonight, i hope, and again next sunday.

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