The prisoner swap with Russia; the prospect of a long war in Ukraine; a coup plot foiled in Germany; and the first Iranian protestor is executed

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Fareed sits down with Luke Harding of The Guardian and Owen Matthews of The Spectator to discuss the present and future of Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as this week’s U.S.-Russian prisoner swap: who got the better deal? Then, Germany arrested 25 people accused of plotting a coup. Who are these people and what do they believe in? Plus, actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi joins Fareed to talk about where the ongoing protests in Iran are heading and how government executions of protestors will affect the movement. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the global public square.
0:04.9	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:08.1	I'm Farid Zakaria.
0:11.2	Today on the program, understanding Russia.
0:15.6	On the warn you, Krain, Vladimir Putin said this week that his military would fight with
0:20.4	all available means at its disposal, but it's going to take a while.
0:25.7	Also, Moscow's prisoner swap with Washington, Brittany Griner for infamous arms dealer Victor
0:32.7	Boot.
0:33.7	A fair trade?
0:35.7	Welcome home, Brittany.
0:37.1	I asked two of the best Russia experts.
0:42.3	And the coup plot in Germany.
0:48.8	It's arrested, including a German aristocrat and a former member of parliament.
0:56.2	Makes it in allegedly our elements of QAnon and a German conspiracy group that believes
1:02.3	the state of Germany is actually a corporation.
1:07.0	What in the world is going on in Deutschland?
1:10.7	We will ask an expert.
1:16.5	Iran is the tight-turning in Iran.
1:21.3	This week a former Iranian president called on the current regime to take a softer approach
1:27.3	and recognize where their governance has gone wrong.
1:30.8	I've told to Iranian actress and activist Nazanine Bonieri about what is happening on the
1:38.7	ground.
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