This is GPS, the Global Public Square.

Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

Today on the show, as scores of world leaders prepared to descend on the United Nations this week,

I will talk to the Secretary General Antonio Guteras.

He's called the pandemic the greatest global challenge since World War II.

The big question is, can the world's powers be persuaded to embrace a plan to vaccinate all of humanity?

Let's be clear, all these is too little too late.

Also, what can the UN do to help the growing humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan?

And in a stunning move, France recalls its ambassador to Washington.

Why?

I will ask the former ambassador Gerard Aroh.

Then, Justice Clarence Thomas said on Thursday that the Supreme Court may now be the most dangerous branch of the US government.

Meanwhile, many are asking whether the highest court in the land has become too political.

I'll put all the big questions swirling around the court to Justice Stephen Breyer.

But first, here's my take.

On Tuesday, President Biden will make his first speech to the UN General Assembly.

The address comes at a crucial moment in the Biden presidency and will have a particular impact on how it's viewed abroad.

After almost eight months of watching policies, rhetoric and crises, many foreign observers have been surprised, even shocked, to discover that in an area after area, Biden's foreign policy is a continuation of Donald Trump's and a repudiation of Barack Obama's.

Some of this dismay is a consequence of the abrupt and unilateral manner in which Biden withdrew American troops from Afghanistan.

A German diplomat told me that in his view, Berlin was consulted more by the Trump administration than by this one.

Some are specific actions like the US, UK, Australia, Submarine deal, which has enraged the French.

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