joining us is fareed zakaria host of fareed zakaria "gps." does the russian attack prove that putin has absolutely no qualms potentially destroying international norms to achieve his goals? >> reporter: i think what it shows you is that things are not going according to plan. this is further evidence of that. there is no particular strategic logic to it. you can see it from the start, the russian plan has faultered at every level. they wanted a lightning strike. they wanted really to take control of the airport outside of kyiv, then bring troops in by plane. they were not able to get the airport. they had not resupplied the troops. now they're basically trying -- seems to me they are now moving to a situation where they are looking for targets of opportunity rather than strategic targets. they're taking what they can rather than what they want to and that makes it more indiscriminate, that makes it more reckless, that makes it more dangerous. i don't think, you know, given that radiation levels aren't that high, i don't think this is as dange

we'll get perspective from fareed zakaria. president excetelling xi what t consequences could be. but the white house is still concerned china could help russia. do you think a call like this makes any difference to china's calculation? >> i think it makes an enormous difference. it was a very important call. i'm glad the president made it. he seems to have laid out exactly what he needed to, which was quite explicitly how the united states would view this as an act of collaboration and would punish china accordingly. as we talked about yesterday, anderson, united states has the lethal weapons it can use. it has the dollar, the financial system, all of that that china relies on. and it has energy. china is the largest importer of liquified natural gas in the world. the u.s. is the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons. these are all powerful, powerful weapons. the fundamental question china has to decide, it has always argued what it is seeking is a peaceful, tranquil world, a world with civility, a world with which people

i want to bring in fareed zakaria.e unhinged than he's ever seen him. do you think this is a different vladimir putin? and how capable is u.s. intelligence really of understanding what's going on in anyone's mind, let alone the leader of russia? >> he does seem to be a different man, anderson. from the more cautious, more calculating man who took office. he was careful in his military interventions. he seemed to weigh cost and benefits more. what changed? he's been in power 22 years. when he took over, russia was a basket case. it now has high oil prices, high energy prices. big foreign exchange war chest. so at some level, anderson, probably it is more than anything else that old line, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. which lives us with a dilemma. as you say, he's now mercurial, unpredictable, rash. we can use all these descriptive terms. he's also evil. what he's doing is wicked. he is showing extraordinary vengeance against a country, against a people who have done him no harm. >> also, this

. >>> i want to go to an exclusive fareed zakaria just spoke with ukrainian president soelds. what did he have to say? >> it was a sober interview. he was trying his best to hold out the prospect of negotiation while acknowledging the terrible tragedy and the loss. he talked a lot about the children who were dying and the way that weighs on him. but at the same time, as you mentioned, jake, he's calling for negotiations. i asked him very specifically, given what has happened, given what russian forces have done, given what vladimir putin has done to his country, can you negotiate with him? listen to what he said. >> president biden has called vladimir putin a war criminal and yet you have called for negotiations with him. will it be hard? will it be painful for you to have to sit down with putin were he to agree and negotiate with him? >> translator: i'm ready for negotiations with him. i was ready for the last two years, and i think that -- i think without negotiations we cannot end this war. i think that all the people wwho oh think this is shallow and won't resolve anything

faree fareed zakaria is here.nt biden announcing new weapons for ukraine as soon as tomorrow and he's meeting with leaders in brussels next week. clearly, thaer realizing they need to do more as russian shelling intensifies but is it enough? >> it's not enough but it's the right thing to do. look, the only strategy that makes any sense here is to raise the cost for putin, and you can raise them in two of three different ways. but the most potent one by far is going to be the military costs of arming ukraine, giving them weapons is what is already achieved this extraordinary resolve which is that russian plans are entirely thrown in disarray. you can already see the impact of ukraine's resistance on demands. we have good reporting what is going on on negotiations and it's clear the russian demands are moderated. the russians thought they'd take ukraine within a day or two or week or so. it been two weeks and u.s. estimates are that russia lost five, 6,000 soldiers. that's more russian soldiers that died in ukraine

i'm joined by fareed zakaria. ed, based on what you know of vladimir putin, let me put it differently this version of vladimir putin, that number, which could grow a lot, con concerning at all? >> look, putin has never been particularly concerned about civilian casualties or the loss of human life, the russian operations in syria were brutal. the russian operations in chechnya probably killed a quarter of a million people and leveled the entire city of grozny virtually to the ground. so the issue is not putin's brutality. what worries me even more sad to say is his unpredictability. he seems to now be more emotional, less calculating, less rational than he has ever been before, and that makes it very hard to figure out how do you stop him, how do you negotiate with him? what are the levers to pull? we're dealing with a very volatile situation. one man, who controls the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, making decisions of what appear to be largely by himself and without a clear path of cost benefit analysis goi

he told our fareed zakaria if those peace talks fail that could mean a third world war. is that right? >> that's not right. and west leaders need to be very firm on this. president biden and all the leaders of the west countries need to make certain this does not escalate beyond the borders of ukraine. as bad as this is, as much of that segment you just had, as gut wrenching to listen to or hear would be catastrophic if it expands beyond there so say to a polish countryside or slovakia or god forbid if it escalates into a tuckler exchange and you have whole cities being torched. nobody wins in that, and we must keep this contained within ukraine no matter what. >> containment seems a bit callus, though, at this point. given what we just saw, what we have been seeing, are nato and its allies just going to sit back really and watch this siege warfare? it's essentially a terror campaign and could engulf as you know more of ukraine. and this is not -- i want to make clear this is not collateral damage. those of us who cover chechnya know what it is. this is the whole ball ga

i want to bring in now fareed zakaria, host of "fareed zakaria gps" right here on cnn.areed, thank you for joining. good evening to you. the u.s. is banning all imports of russian energy and along with nato giving ukrainians thousands of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. two weeks in this war has become really a grinding fight. not the crushing defeat putin had anticipated. how can we make sense of how much has changed so quickly? >> this, don, is sort of one of those events that i think we will look back in history the way we look at the fall of the berlin wall, maybe 9/11. in some ways it is really comparable to the fall of the berlin wall in that it is beginning to alter the geopolitics not just of europe but of the world. you see how countries like germany are changing 40, 50-year-old foreign policies and becoming much more aware of the danger they face, the need to project military power. europe is coming together in a way it never has. the chinese are trying to figure out whether they need to reevaluate the way in which they have been pursuing an alliance or qu

i'm joined by fareed zakaria.t the military capabilities? we had on general zwack earlier who was talking about the inprecise fire, the chaotic fire around this plant. >> clearly things are not going to plan. we've seen that from day one. the hope was that kyiv would fall instantly, maybe the government would be overturned. none of that is happening. really none has gone according to the russian plan. but what worries me is that what that is likely to do is to make vladimir putin more determined that he is going to get kyiv no matter what, get control of this country no matter what. and you are seeing the russians are operating with a greater degree of brutality. so, you don't see much by the way of russian -- this army is not nearly as confident and fearsome as people thought. but it is turning very brutal. it is turning indiscriminant. and that, in some ways, is even more worrying. >> a french official said today after president macron's phone call with vladimir putin that the worse is yet to come. it's clear it

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i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program, kyiv is preparing for the worst as russian troops get closer and closer. i will talk to cnn's clarissa ward who reports that ukrainians are ready to defend their capital. i will also be joined by a well-known ukrainian intellectual who has taken up arms to fight the russians, as well as bandages to heal the wounded. and i've talked to the "new york times" moscow bureau chief about putin's crackdown on the free press and what russians think of putin's war. and paul krugman on whether china can or will save russia's economy. but first, here is my take, russia's invasion of ukraine is a seismic event, perhaps the most significant one in international life since the fall of the berlin war wall. this war marks the end of an age but what can we say about the new one we are entering? most important, it is marked by the triumph of politics over economics. for the past three decades most countries have acted with one lone star in mind, economic growth. they have embraced

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here's what he told fareed zakaria in an exclusive interview earlier today. >> president biden has called vladimir putin a war criminal. and yet you have called for negotiations with him. will it be hard? will it be painful for you to have to sit down with putin were he to agree and negotiate with him? >> translator: i am ready for negotiations with him. i was ready over the last two years. and i think that -- i think that without negotiations, we cannot end this war. i think that all the people who think this dialogue is shallow and that it is not going to resolve anything, they just don't understand that this is very valuable. if there is just 1% chance for us to stop this war, i think that we need to take this chance. we need to do that. i can tell you about the result of this negotiation. in any case, we are losing people on a daily basis. innocent people on the ground. russian forces have come to exterminate us, to kill us, and we can demonstrate the dignity of our people and the army that we are able to deal a powerful blow. we are able to strike back. but unfortunately, our dignity

welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world, i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live. on today's show, the man of the moment, volodymyr zelenskyy. i will ask the ukrainian president how his country is defending itself from the russian invasion and what he needs from western powers to keep up the fight. we will discuss the end game of this tragic conflict. is compromise possible with putin, a man president biden has termed a war criminal? i will ask about the personal toll that this is taking on him, his family and his country. let's get started on this special edition of "gps." ♪ >> it has been nearly a month since russia invaded ukraine and the institute for the study of war put out an assessment yesterday that said ukrainian forces have defeated russia's initial campaign in the war. the think tank declared that the fighting is now a stalemate. nonetheless, the russian assault on military bases and some key cities has been brutal. in the eastern city of mariupol, many hundreds of people are believed to be buried under rubble of a bombed-out theater, despite the fact

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here's more of that interview with my colleague fareed zakaria. >> putin has c-- republican has called vladimir putin a war criminal yet you have called for negotiations with him. will it be hard, will it be a painful for you to have to sit down with putin were he to agree and negotiate with him? >> translator: i am ready for negotiations with him. i was ready over the last two years. and i think that -- i think that without negotiations we cannot end this war. i think that all the people who are, who will think that this dialogue is shallow and that is-it-is not going to resolve anything, they just don't understand that this is very valuable. if there is just 1% chance for us to stop this war, i think that we need to take this chance. we need to do that. i can tell you about the result of this negotiations. in any case, so we are -- we are losing people on daily basis. innocent people on the ground. russian forces have come to exterminate us, to kill us, and we can demonstrate the dignity of our people and our army, that we are, we are able to deal a powerful blow. we are able to stri

ukraine's president zelenskyy spoke to fareed zakaria saying the russians are making imminent attacks and why he wants to negotiate with vladimir putin. take a listen. >> i am ready for negotiations with him. i was ready toward the last two years. and i think that without negotiations, we cannot end this war. i think that we have to use any format, any chance in order to have the possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to putin, but if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third world war. >> this renewed call to negotiate comes as president biden prepares to travel to europe this week to meet with allies for a series of critical gatherings. beyond a show of resolve, it makes unclear what, if anything, will stop the slaughter of the ukranian people. on the ground, the russian brutality has only increased. we learned that an art school being used as a shelter in the town of mariupol had been bombed by russian forces. according to them, there were 400 people being sheltered there. a tank opened fire on a nursing home in kramini, and some had been abducted and ta

i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from washington, d.c. on the program today, it is day 11 of putin's invasion of ukraine. the attacks on that country's people and its cities are escalating. i will ask ukraine's foreign minister about his nation's urgent request for a no fly zone and nato's denial of that plea. >>> also, putin and his cronies have quashed almost all that was left of the free press in russia. i will talk to a journalist whose radio was forced to shut down this week. >>> and are sanctions working? i will ask the former secretary of the treasury, larry summers. >>> but first, here is my take. the battle has been joined, now all that remains to be seen is who will win. vladimir putin's naked aggression against ukraine has triggered almost universal condemnation. last week's vote in the u.n. general assembly to denounce the invasion was 141-5 with 35 countries abstaining. president biden has rallied not just the west, but much of the world. he has announced sanctions that are more far reaching than any ever inflicted on a major

i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york.and closer. i will talk to cnn's clarissa ward who reports that ukrainians are ready to defend their capital. i will also be joine

. >> fareed zakaria was on last ni night, he said, listen, there are a number of players involved in this who can destroy the world several times over, with nuclear weapons, and that was really chilling, and it's true. he's absolutely right. >> it's a strange power. it's like having a hostage, your power comes from having a hostage and threatening to kill the he oostage f you kill the hostage, you have no more power. nuclear weapons are a lot like that. >> i talked about your vanity fair article when we were bringing you in here, the headline says can ukrainian freedom fighters stand up to the russian military. history suggests that they can, and you say successful underdogs have three things in common, and ukraine has all of them. what are they. >> freedom is how underdog groups can defeat greater powers, and fortunately they can or there would be no freedom in the world. the world would be made up of huge fascist megastates and it's not. the things i looked at and this goes from insurgencies all the way to political movements, the civil rights movement, the labor movement in this c

i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from washington, d.c.attacks on that country's people and its cities are escalating. i will ask ukraine's foreign minister about his nation's urgent request for a

on sunday, fareed zakaria spoke with the president on how he is explaining the situation to his own childrennslator: my children know for sure what is happening. and i don't know whether it's good or bad. the first two days we did not talk about it at all. and my family and they did not ask questions. they were thinking about it themselves of what is happening. they simply believe that the good shall prevail. it may seem, but in order to prevail the good people have to sacrifice themselves. fortunately, we do not have to explain anything to our ch children. they have access to any kind of videos or news. and i see to it that their access to these videos is open, that they have access to it. i think that my children should not be prohibited from seeing any kinds of videos about what russia has made. my son -- my son has to be aware of it. because while my son is alive, that means some ukrainian army member is giving up his own life for this. >>> meantime, china's ambassador to the u.s. is rejecting rumors beijing may be providing military assistance to russia. but at the same time it's conduc

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i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york.an troops get closer and closer. i will talk to cnn's clarissa ward who reports that ukrainians are ready to defend their capital. i will also be joined by a well-known ukrainian intellectual who has taken up arms to fight the russians, as well as bandages to heal the wounded.

ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy told cnn's fareed zakaria in an exclusive interview. >> we're losing people on a daily basis, innocent people on the ground. russian forces have come to exterminate us, to kill us, and we -- dignity of people and an army, we're able to deal a powerful blow, we're able to strike back. >> they strike back with any weapons they can get their hands on, whether those come from allies abroad or from their enemy. these fighters say anything that drives and shoots will be put to use against vladimir putin's invading force. >> reporter: that invading force is still pretty close to where we are right now. i told you, john, a lot of people in this building are sheltering in the basement of this building. it's probably a good thing. all around we're finding shrapnel pieces. these are all over this building here, and anybody, of course, who would have been in the path of something like this could have been severely wounded at the very least, possibly even killed. a lot of people saying because they sheltered is, in fact, why they may be alive here as we're o

would like to begin, if i could, with the view that president zelenskyy has now, as he told our fareed zakaria in that very important interview yesterday that even if there's only a 1% chance that negotiations with russia work, they are critical and he's willing to come to the table because if they fail, we'll be in the middle of world war iii. given the russian demands, even though they may have come off on some of us, so many are unmeetable by ukraine and the u.s. where does that leave us? >> i think you have seen on the ukrainian side now, for two weeks, president zelenskyy is looking to find a way to end the fighting. that's understandable. he's losing lots of ukrainians every day from this brutal russian attack. and he's indicated, for example, he's prepared to abandon the idea that ukraine might seek nato membership and pursue a path to neutrality but it's not clear yet that moscow is prepared with those demands that almost sometimes seemed designed to elicit rejection from kyiv. >> the problem, ambassador, what does neutrality really mean if neutrality is one of the conditions and it se

i want to bring in our fareed zakaria also obviously listening to the president's speech. how do you think allies are reangting to the president's speech? >> it was a very strong speech, well delivered, well started. a very traditional state of the union speech and what he said i think showed resolution, showed determination. i do wonder, anderson, whether there should have been more on foreign policy, more on ukraine not so much for the allies for whom he has been supporting and reassuring, but for the american people. i think the president will at some point need to explain in greater detail just how consequential this is. what the stakes are. why it is so important for americans to care about this transgression of borders, this aggression so far away. because there may be prices that have to be paid and those prices may be long term. i wish there had been a little bit more. maybe this is special pleading on my part. he clearly had a big domestic agenda he wanted to go through. but i felt the one area where i would have loved to see more was just how important it is that

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with that on the table and the geopolitical stakes running high, i want to check in with fareed zakaria first call between president biden and his chinese counterpart since russia invaded ukraine. what do you think the president needs to convey? >> it's a very consequential call. it's one of the highest stakes diplomacy, diplomatic issues that the president is dealing with. i think what he needs to convey to the chinese is look, china's main economic relations are with europe and the united states. china trades ten times as much with europe and the united states as it does with russia. it needs to recognize that in order to maintain that relationship, in order to maintain its integration into the world, it has to get off the ball and it has to recognize that the russian invasion of ukraine is a violation of every norm that china has advocated. and he should point out that the united states wants to have a good working relationship with china. china is a competitor, but it does not have to be an enemy. but if china were to choose -- so, you have to convey i think there is an upside for c

i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from washington, d.c.of putin's invasion of ukraine. the attacks on that country's people and its cities are escalating. i will ask ukraine's foreign minister about his nation's urgent request for a no fly zone and nato's denial of that plea. >>> also, putin and his cronies have quashed almost all that was left of the free press in russia. i will talk to a journalist whose radio was forced to shut

she talked about it in one of the last interviews before her death with my colleague, fareed zakaria.orked for the government in exile and actually broadcast over bbc into czechoslovakia. i remember what it was like to spend nights in -- not an air raid shelter, but the cellar of a house, an apartment house on nottingham gate before that got fancy. i remember my father saying i'm glad we're down here, but if a bomb should hit this building, it's got hot water pipes and gas pipes and we would be dead anyway. we moved briefly back to czechoslovakia but what happened was then my father did not want to work for the communists when the coup happened in february '48 and so he took the job and we came to the united states and my father defected and asked for political asylum. i was 11 at the time that we came. so i learned most of this from him. and he is the one, and i will never forget him saying this, even as a teenager, he would say americans don't know how fragile democracy is and how resilient it is. and so i really did get enamored of understanding what democracy was about. i was very

ukraine's president, volodymyr zelenskyy, told cnn's fareed zakaria in an exclusive interview -- >> we'reaily basis. innocent people on the ground. russian forces have come to exterminate us, to kill us. and we have demonstrated the dignity of our people and our army that we are -- we are able to deal a powerful blow. we are able to strike back. >> reporter: they strike back with any weapons they can get their hands on, whether those come from allies abroad or from their enemy. these fighters say anything that drives and shoots will be put to use against vladimir putin's invading force. fred pleitgen, cnn, kyiv, ukraine. >> fred, thank you very much. another deeply sad loss of life in ukraine. 96-year-old boris romanchenko who survived four different concentration camps during the holocaust was killed in a russian strike on friday. the memorial institute reports that romanchenko was living in an apartment block in kharkiv when it was hit during a russian attack. the picture you see there was from a memorial be trip he took as one of the last surviving members of the camp. we'll be right b