After accusing India of fudging its COVID case number in the first presidential debate, Trump called India and its air "filthy" in the final round.
Will the Trump-Modi friendship ever be the same again?
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@AndrewYang
describes the vision of America he hopes
@JoeBiden
presents during the general election: "This pandemic is going to cause damage that's going to be with us for years, and we need a new Marshall Plan-scale initiative to rebuild the country."
Steve Bannon on
@realDonaldTrump
's 2020 strategy: “He definitely should go after the oligarch that wants to be the overlord of the Democratic Party and the White House, which is
@MikeBloomberg
."
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@IanBremmer
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@AndrewYang
: "If you've been in DC for 20, 30 years, having your emails read to you, you might not understand what's happening with A.I. and software and autonomous vehicles that's around the corner."
Watch the full episode:
#GZW218
#AndrewYang
#C1
#UBI
The Putin invasion of Ukraine now unfolding is the worst outbreak of war that we've had since Hitler invaded Poland in September of 1939. The same motives, the same technique, the same lies leading up to it.
@carlbildt
Europe
#In60Seconds
Alexei Navalny's death is a deep tragedy for Russia.
He represented the hope of very many Russians that there was something beyond this repressive, backward looking, imperial, nostalgic, aggressive regime that is now dragging Russia down, says
@carlbildt
.
Europe
#In60Seconds
A fundamental difference: Russians believe in a strong state, while Ukrainians prioritize society and freedom above the state.
This helps explain why Russians have traditionally misread Ukraine, says political scientist Ivan Krastev.
#GZEROWorld
Before the war, Russians had been richer than at any time in history,
@McFaul
tells
#GZEROWorld
.
Many feel Putin threw it all away, and he'll never earn back credit for bringing stability to Russia.
The Russians are “proud of their operation”. Michael
@McFaul
, former US ambassador to Russia discusses the meddling in the presidential election on GZERO World. @ GZEROMedia
#Mueller
In the Nordstream sabotage mystery, there must be proof, then accountability
…and that might mean rethinking international law,
@kajakallas
says
#GZEROWorld
Sanctions on Russia are being intensified. Weapons deliveries to Ukraine are intensified. The Europeans want to get off dependence on Russian natural gas.
European support for Ukraine is holding up.
@carlbildt
Europe
#In60Seconds
After the Prigozhin drama, it is clear that "virtually everyone in Russia" sees that Putin "launched a war he is not winning," says
@carlbildt
Europe
#In60Seconds
Putin claims overwhelming domestic support for Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine.
@McFaul
tells
@ianbremmer
: there are no winners inside Russia, and the war has hurt Putin politically.
#GZEROWorld
Protests In The Streets of Venezuela. Demands that President Maduro must go. Opposition leader Juan Guaido declares himself president.
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China's space program is a force to be reckoned with, but no one has reached the moon without NASA's help.
It's Space in 60 Seconds with
@Cmdr_Hadfield
!
Norway's push to ban smartphones from schools has transformed student wellbeing, explains
@jonasgahrstore
.
"Students have started to play in the breaks. The girls say, 'We can finally take a shower after the gym. We are not afraid anymore to be photographed."
#GZEROWorld
Amount of the world’s population living in global poverty 200 years ago: 90%
Now: 8-9%
Generally, humanity is much better off today than at any point in our past, says
@sapinker
#GZEROWorld
Belarus's
@Tsihanouskaya
wants to discuss how to release political prisoners like Roman Protasevich, not what he said in his TV interview in police custody.
“We know how those who are in prison are made to speak anything the regime wants.”
#GZEROWorld
From
@BTS_twt
& the BTS ARMY to recognition for Parasite at the Oscars to
#SquidGame
--
South Korean pop culture has the potential to shape culture globally, punching above its weight the way England has,
@newsjean
tells
@ianbremmer
on
#GZEROWorld
.
"I don’t know how the international system finally heals from the reality that one of the permanent members of the security council is a nuclear-armed rogue state now”
@RadioFreeTom
joins
@ianbremmer
and
@SlaughterAM
#GZEROWorld
NPR has become the first major news org to quit Twitter
The broadcaster says being labeled "state-affiliated media" undermines NPR's credibility & "falsely impl[ies] that we are not editorially independent"
#GraphicTruth
Living in an economic collapse and humanitarian crisis, feelings of hopelessness take hold. In a special GZERO World report, we hear from voices inside
#Venezuela
Africa's economy is slated to grow at a rate of 3.8 percent in 2020, outperforming the projected worldwide growth rate of 3.4 percent.
#HardNumbers
below!
.
@RadioFreeTom
decries narcissism and the mentality of "what's good for me, and what's good for my family is good. And I don't really have to care about anybody else."
"I think that's poisonous ... for democracy."
#GZEROWorld
Norway's push to ban smartphones from schools has transformed student wellbeing, explains
@jonasgahrstore
.
"Students have started to play in the breaks. The girls say, 'We can finally take a shower after the gym. We are not afraid anymore to be photographed."
#GZEROWorld
Trump's Twitter account has been permanently suspended.
The last time he was locked out of his account, he went to Russia for help. Will he do it again?
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@AndrewYang
: "If you've been in DC for 20, 30 years, having your emails read to you, you might not understand what's happening with A.I. and software and autonomous vehicles that's around the corner."
Watch the full episode:
#GZW218
#AndrewYang
#C1
#UBI
In the eyes of Europeans, POTUS has gone from being the leader of a great democracy to being a cult leader of a mob of hooligans:
@carlbildt
on Europe
#In60Seconds
Sweden and Finland didn't join NATO out of fear that Russia would attack them, says
@carlbildt
.
He explains what was behind the two countries' big security pivot.
Europe
#In60Seconds
With China not taking a clear position against an outright, clear cut case of Russian aggression against Ukraine, EU will be more reluctant to cooperate with China where cooperation otherwise might have been possible.
@carlbildt
Europe
#In60Seconds
The blame for Hamas’ success in its Oct 7 attack rests squarely on the Netanyahu government, says
@harari_yuval
.
On the upcoming
#GZEROWorld
episode, he tells
@ianbremmer
how domestic politics got in the way of Netanyahu heeding warnings from military and intelligence services.
White Americans can patrol & have the right to open carry.
This is not something that Black americans can engage in, in the same way,
@nhannahjones
notes on
#GZEROWorld
.
“Ratcheting is a conceptual change that needs to take place with sanctions.”
As long as Putin's army is “parked” in Ukraine, “there's gotta be a ratcheting,” former US ambassador to Russia
@McFaul
tells
@ianbremmer
.
#GZEROWorld
Before Modi became India's PM, he said he'd give his spies the license to kill terrorists abroad, James Bond-style.
A US indictment suggests he did do that, then angrily denied responsibility for an assassination in Canada.
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@stphnmaher
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin is out now.
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Former Swedish PM
@carlbildt
shares an update from Kyiv:
There's a long slog ahead to align with the policies & practices of the European Union, and no guarantee.
But Ukraine & Moldova are on the road to membership.
Europe
#In60Seconds
Greece's economic crisis brought it to its knees. Now that it's back from the brink, what comes next?
@kmitsotakis
, the man likely to be Greece's next prime minister, weighs in.
#Greece
#GreeceEconomy
There's a humanitarian crisis on the edge of Europe, but you might not have heard about it
@ianbremmer
explains why 120,000 people are at risk of starvation in Nagorno-Karabakh
#QuickTake
.
@RadioFreeTom
decries American narcissism and the mentality of "what's good for me, and what's good for my family is good. And I don't really have to care about anybody else."
"I think that's poisonous ... for democracy."
#GZEROWorld
Message from
@RadioFreeTom
: Peace doesn't just happen.
"I think Americans have become so spoiled ... inured to the idea that the world is a dangerous place ... don't understand that the seas are navigable because someone makes them that way."
#GZEROWorld
Europe's new daily deaths from the coronavirus have surpassed those of the US.
The current situation stands in sharp contrast to the summer, when European countries seemed to have kept the coronavirus in check.
#GraphicTruth
Trump and Brazil's President Bolsonaro say that don't have
#COVID19
, and don't seem to be social distancing. Let's hope they have been thoroughly washing their hands after meetings.
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.
@carlbildt
: The anti-corruption protests in Russia will rattle the internal structures of the regime. Lots of people, including insiders, are not happy with the corrupt clique that is so powerful in Russia.
Europe
#In60Seconds
:
Elon Musk's vision of online free speech allows for Russian disinformation.
Even without repeating Russia's talking points on ending the war in Ukraine, Musk owning Twitter would be good news for Putin.
@ianbremmer
World
#In60Seconds
No question that Novichok is a nerve agent poison that has origin in Russian state laboratories: former Sweden PM
@carlbildt
More Europe
#In60Seconds
:
Turkey, is a member of NATO, a key player in the middle east, and a nation with US military bases but is this authoritarian government American ally?
@RichardHaass
, President, Council of Foreign Relations, doesn’t think so.
#Turkey
#Erdogan
What's really going on in Belarus?
@carlbildt
shares his perspective on Lukashenko's 26-year regime & what to expect from Russia, the EU, and from the people of Belarus themselves, on Europe In (more than) 60 Seconds.
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Vladimir Putin's May 9 "Victory Day" speech was a "nothing burger."
But there was something in there that signals his intentions in Ukraine,
@McFaul
tells
@ianbremmer
.
Watch the new
#GZEROWorld
episode on US public television stations.
“Politics, in my view, ought to be boring. It shouldn't be something you have to pay attention to every minute.”
@RadioFreeTom
says Biden has bridged the political divide in his first 100 days by “just going to work.”
New
#GZEROWorld
episode now airing
Today, the US faced domestic insurrection & terrorism.
Let me be clear, the violence that we have seen today is the responsibility of the president directly.
@ianbremmer
's
#QuickTake
Putin’s Victory Day speech deliberately discussed parts of Ukraine that we had thought of as contested parts - or even not contested parts - as being part of Russian territory,
@McFaul
tells
@ianbremmer
This suggests Putin's annexation plans
#GZEROWorld
What should Putin do if he sees
@DanielRoher
’s Oscar-nominated documentary "Navalny?"
"End this brutal genocidal campaign and take a dose of his own Novichok," Roher tells
@SaoSasha
Catch their full conversation on
#GZEROWorld
:
"Global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world,"
@BjornLomborg
tells
@ianbremmer
.
On the latest
#GZEROWorld
episode, Lomborg shares his view on where climate policy and investment should be focused.
.
@ianbremmer
says the comments from Iran’s permanent mission to the UN signal that Iran is sending a “strong message that [the] attack is limited” and it's “looking to avoid war with Israel or the United States.”
Colombian President
@IvanDuque
: "Per every ton the U.S. seizes of cocaine in its borders, Colombia is seizing 18 tons. Colombia represents more than 40% of all drug seizures in the Western Hemisphere."
Watch the full episode:
#GZW213
#IvanDuque
#C2
BREAKING: Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.
This follows the February announcement from King Charles III of his own cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Reaction from Sweden's former PM
@carlbildt
:
The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is a major event for the UK & the world.
She was the last remaining link with an imperial past & a stabilizing presence for UK in times of change.
Europe
#In60Seconds
A Russian invasion of Ukraine has begun. This is a turning point in the global order.
This sad turn of events will only strengthen the NATO alliance.
@ianbremmer