In the coming week, world leaders discuss global security in Munich.

President Biden visits Poland, and Israel's domestic crisis over a planned judicial overhaul continues to heat up.

It's February 16, 2003, in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McAnne.

And I'm Carla Ann Robbins.

So, Bob, let's start in Europe.

This weekend, world leaders will land in Germany to attend the 59th Munich Security Conference.

This is Davos for national security nerds.

The U.S. delegation was going to be headed up by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State,

Tony Blinken. And, you know, the Munich Conference has seen some really dramatic moments in the

past. You know, in 2007, Vladimir Putin gave that speech in which he declared that

U.S. global leadership was creating,

quote, a world of one master and one sovereign, and he attacked NATO expansion, demanding to know

against whom is this directed? Are you guys the boss of me? So this year's conference will

certainly focus on Ukraine as the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion approaches. But what else should we be

expecting? Well, for one thing, Russian officials are not invited. That's a first. Last year,

they didn't come because the heat was getting pretty intense over what looked to be a planned

invasion of Ukraine, which in fact was an invasion. But this year, they're actually formally

not invited. The hosts of the Munich Security Conference

invited Russian opposition figures.

So Mikhail Kodorkovsky, former chess master Kaspirov,

Gary Kusparov, and the wife of Alexia Navalny,

are going to be there, our plan to be there.

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