Good evening. The show begins to now in Istanbul, waiting for President Putin, President Trump, to arrive.

There will be no final settlement until the two sit at a table and sign on and agree to whatever the

counselors have wedged out of each other in the previous sessions.

There are people meeting in Istanbul.

Istanbul was the site of an agreement almost in 2022.

I speak with Anatol Levin about these matters.

Back to the future. Back to Istanbul.

Europe, there is no leader at the scale of Dugal, said and I told. I looked again, Churchill, Dugal.

Yes, we understand. But it needs a leader.

Someone to rearrange its understanding of itself in trade, in military in defense communication 27 in the EU 32 in NATO

well and then a conversation with Chris Regal shipping Christmas the 90 days makes it possible for the Chinese suppliers to fill up the container ships and send them all over the world.

Canada, never mind, says Prime Minister Carney. All those foolish remarks I made during the campaign, I didn't mean them.

Time to move on. Conrad Black and I puzzle. And then Israel with Malcolm Honline. We speak to

Asher Fredman about the Abraham Accords. He's in Jerusalem. We speak to Alex Tremon, he's in New York visiting from the Jewish News Service,

says that there are thousands of reservists ready to go back into Gaza and finish the job.

We speak with Elon Berman, Malcolm, and I about shaking hands with a cutthroat who is cutting a deal.

That would be Mr. Trump shaking the hand of Al-Shara, the self-named president of Syria.

And then Malcolm and I discuss the Iran threat, what is to be done, with everybody moving

towards an agreement.

What kind of agreement makes us safe from Iran's depredations of the neighborhood?

Dismantle is the word.

New World Report with Evan Ellis, first of Petro, the troubled Gustavo Petro,

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