i'm fareed zakaria. this week we're coming to you out of london with an in-depth conversation with david miliband, the 43-year-old prime minister of great britain. he's the odds-on favorite to be the next labor party leader and the next prime minister of the country. he has to confront the problem arrested nine iranians who worked in the british embassy. western countries face a difficult set of choices with iran. should they return to the negotiating arena with iran? wouldn't that mean glossing over the rigged election and accepting president mahmoud ahmadinejad as the head of its government? yes, but it isn't clear what the alternative would be. the problem with iran's nuclear program remains, and we're negotiating with them to see if some agreement can be reached. that program continues to grow, and refusing to negotiate will not do anything to stop it. and, yet, it seems odd to act as if the extraordinary events of the past month simply didn't happen. so, here's one solution. do nothing. the five maj

fareed zakaria will be back with our viewers. fareed zakaria gps starts right now. s/ >> this week we have an exclusive interview with a man in charge of the world's largest economy, secretary of treasury timothy geithner. we'll have a wide range in conversation, and not a moment too soon, since the green shoots seem to have turned brown. the hopes for economic recovery were dashed last week when new unemployment numbers came out, with job losses 100,000 worse than predicted. the stock market that seemed to predict a turnaround fell last week. now, you can make too much of a few pieces of data here and there, but what strikes me most is that we are watching a grand economic experiment, and no one knows how it's going to turn out. there are three big questions that are being tested. the first, is the stimulus large enough to make a difference? you'll recall that on this program, distinguished experts like paul krugman and martin wolf made the claim that the stimulus is too small and too slow to have much impact on a $40 billion economy? is that true? second, should t

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i'm fareed zakaria. today on the show, a remarkable man who has saved the country on its way to collapse. a conversation with the president of rwanda, paul kagame. let me start by reminding you what happened in rwanda 15 years ago. over a period of just 100 days, 800,000 men, women and children were killed. most of them slaughtered with knives, machetes and axes by their neighbors. it is perhaps the most brutal genocide in modern history. many of you probably remember its portrayal in the movie, "portrayal of rwanda." by the time it ended, one-tenth of the country's population was dead. most people assumed that rwanda was broken, and like somalia, another country wrecked by violence, it would become a poster child for africa's failed state. 15 years later, rwanda is a poster child, but for an entirely different reason. it is now one of the most stable countries in africa, tourism and trade are all improving dramatically. the government is widely seen as one of the most efficient and honest ones in africa

>>> fareed zakaria gps starts right now. >> we have a wonderful show today. mort mortimer zuker man tell us when the reform will be over. first, iran. there is much stirring beneath the surface. the most striking aspect is an opposition movement that refuses to be silenced. the former president, head of an important constitutional body, has called for the release of all those in prison for political reasons. that, by the way, would include the friend of this program, the respected news release reporter who is in jail skpchlt another president called for a referendum on the leaders. the company's president, ahmadinejad ahmadinejad are battling over an appointment. finally, the candidate who may have actually won the june elections, has asked if he can create a large social movement to oppose the government. what does all this mean? it's very hard to say from the outsi outside, but clearly there is a bitter fight in iran. the stakes are high. it has not lost any grip on the backbone of its power, the military. but the facade is clearly cracking. that's why ahma

i'm fareed zakaria. >>> today on the show, a remarkable man who has saved a country on its way to collapse. a conversation with the president of rwanda, paul kagame. let me start by reminding you what happened in rwanda 15 years ago. over a period of just 100 days, 800,000 men, women and children were killed. most of them slaughtered with knives, machetes and axes by their neighbors. it is perhaps the most brutal genocide in modern history. many of you probably remember its portrayal in the movie, "hotel rwanda." by the time it ended, one-tenth of the country's population was dead. most people assumed that rwanda was broken, and like somalia, another country wrecked by violence, it would become a poster child for africa's failed states. 15 years later, rwanda is a poster child after all, but for entirely different reasons. it is now one of the most stable countries in africa, tourism and trade are all improving dramatically. the government is widely seen as one of the most efficient and honest ones in africa. "fortune" magazine published an article recently titled "why ceos love rwanda." t

i'm fareed zakaria.s week we're coming to you out of london with an in depth conversation with david miliband the 43-year-old prime minister of great britain. he's on favorite to be the next labor party leader and the next prime minister of the country. he has to confront the problem of iran head on because last week the tehran government arrested nine iranians who worked in the british embassy. western countries face a difficult set of choices with iran. should they return to the negotiating arena with iran? wouldn't that mean glossing over the rigged election and accepting president mahmoud ahmadinejad as the head of its government? yes, but it isn't clear what the alternative would be. the problem with iran's nuclear program remains and we're negotiating with them to see if some agreement can be reached. that program continues to grow and refusing to negotiate will not do anything to stop it. and, yet, it seems odd to acas if the extraordinary events of the past month simply didn't happen. so here's o

you're in "the situation room." d >>> bringing in cnn's fareed zakaria with an exclusive interview withothy geithner. it was an important interview, fareed. i want to play this exchange that you had with the treasury secretary. listen to this. >> the economists, i think, it would be fair to say a lot of economists think it's likely lower than 3.2%. if that happens my question to you is the deficit as a percentage of gdp becomes much higher. are you willing to do whatever it takes to keep the deficit as a percentage of gdp within the range that the president has suggested? >> he understands deeply the importance of making sure that we put in place a stronger foundation with recovery as a whole and part of that will be a return to living within our means as a country. >> and that may mean higher taxes? >> it will -- the only two ways to close as a country and there's no mystery in this, we have to bring our resources and our commitments closer in to balance. it is a necessary thing for us to do. >> it sounds like the rich people are going to be paying a lot more taxes, based on what he's

cnn's fareed zakaria talks with the show this weekend and fareed asked him about shoring up the nation's economy. >> your growth forecast for 2010 is 3.2% economic growth for the united states. the imf just came out with its forecast which is 0.8%. if -- >> i haven't looked that forecast, but economists, i think fair to say that economists think it's likely to be lower than 3.2%. if that happens, my question to you is the deficit as a percentage of gdp becomes much higher. are you willing to do whatever it takes to keep the deficit as a percentage within the range that the president has suggested? >> he understands deeply the importance of making sure that we put in place a stronger foundation for a recovery as a whole and part of that will be a return to living within our means as a country. >> that may mean higher taxes. only two ways to close it. >> as a country, and there's no mystery in this, we'll bring our resources and our commitments closer into balance. that is a necessary thing for us to do. >> you can hear the rest of fareed's interview with the treasury secretary sunday afte

. >>> this weekend on "fareed zakaria gps" coalition efforts in afghanistan going on for close to eight now. should they change course? should they end? fareed talked to two experts. >> andrew, you think the best thing to do, cut our losses, withdraw, and we'll be surprised at how -- how -- how little the instability, if there is any, in afghanistan, affects us, our core national security, correct? >> yeah, by and large. last week, "time" magazine, fareed, had a story about the new u.s. commander in kabul, and the headline on the cover was -- described him as the general who's remaking afghanistan. i simply believe that remaking afghanistan is something that we're not capable of doing. that we can't afford to attempt to do, and, frankly, is unnecessary, and so we need to -- to examine strategic alternatives rather than simply continuing down this path that we've been on for almost eight years. >> i think we need to be there. we node to make it stable. we need to step up to our moral responsibilities to the afghan people, but i would agree with the professor that we need to do that in th

you can see the entire interview with fareed zakaria on fare"far zakaria gps" right here on cnn. >>> now to an explosive allegation being leveled once again at the cia. some top democrats now accusing the spy agency of misleading or outright lying to congress. and they say the cia chief leon panetta has admitted it. some republicans say this is the purely political case of democrats trying to protect one of their leaders. let's go to our congressional correspondent, brianna keilar. she's up on capitol hill. this is causing quite a stir up there. >> reporter: sure is, wolf. the house is set to take up a big intelligence agency bill. since this is an opportunity for republicans to again attack house speaker nancy pelosi for comments she's made about the ci airks, democrats are launching a preempive strike. to hear democrats tell it, the cia has been keeping congress in the dark for the last eight years. what does this mean? >> it means that something very serious broke down. >> reporter: anna eshoo and six other democrats say leon panetta himself revealed the cia mislead members of con

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zakaria. >> welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world, i'm fareed zack jar ykar. >>> no big events, protests, explodes but much stirring beneath the surface, most striking aspect is an opposition movement which refuses to be silenced. the former president, rafsanjani, ahead of a constitutional body, called for the release of all those in prison for a political reasons. that would include the friend of this program, the respected news week reporter maz ya ba harry in jail. khatami, another two-term president, calls for a referendum on the country's leader. the supreme leader, khomeini and ahmadinejad are battling over an appointment. finally, mousavi you the candidate who might have won the june presidential elections is going to create a large-scale social movement to oppose the government. what does all this mean? very hard to say from the outside but clearly there is a bitter contestation for power taking place in tehran. the stakes are very high. it does not appear the regime has lost any of its grip on the repressive backbone of its power, the military, revolutionary