Good evening. This is John Batch. The show tonight begins in Gaza, a conversation with Brad Bowman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies about what Gaza needs, the Gaza War, and what Ukraine needs. They war in Donbass against the Russian invaders.

There is some common purpose, 155 long-range artillery shells. Over the needs are profoundly different in general. Israel needs air defense rockets. It has plenty of tanks, plenty of ammo, to my understanding, save for that 155 detail.

And Ukraine needs everything. Ukraine, most recently, has taken delivery of attackums, and there is report now that they are in action. That is a very good news for Ukraine. But this is a drain on the arsenal of democracy.

The report out of London is that only one third of the EU shells promised to Ukraine have arrived. It is also the question of sustaining Ukraine through the winter because of the reluctance of political actors, most notably, and most recently, the new speaker of the house, to go ahead and win the appropriation requested by the White House to support Ukraine.

Gaza, on the other hand, has different needs entirely. The US fleet has deployed two carrier strike forces in the Eastern Mediterranean. The show turns to Pakistan, and questions about Pakistan now include a proposal to deport 1.4 million Afghans from Pakistan.

I spoke with the Sainakani former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States about this plan and how it shapes politically the future of Pakistan. It seems extremely ambitious and cruel at the end of the Afghan war that both the US and NASA and the NATO have left.

And now the Pakistani government is proposing to return all the Afghans who fled Afghanistan since the US and NATO left.

The show goes on to discuss at length a question of what is to happen next in Gaza. It appears that there are raids that stay in longer than the raid before in North Gaza.

It does not appear to be a general invasion as promised in the first days of the war. That is a good thing. As a positive thing, we also discuss the political dimensions with Malcolm Online, that is my colleague.

Having to do with Erdogan of Turkey to announcing Israel and Israel pulling diplomats out of Ankara, not all of them, some of them.

This also includes the United Nations condemning Israel while not looking at the right for self defense at all, just condemning Israel.

We also look at Hamas hoarding fuel and supplies in Gaza and then claiming that the Israeli forces are starving the people of fuel and supplies.

Even water, the major water pipes into Gaza were destroyed by Hamas. The Israelis have restored one, they are two now, but Hamas destroys these units and then puts out the announcement that they can't get water, they can't get fuel, they can't get supplies.

Gordon Chang is here with Charles Burton, his friend, to discuss the mystery around the death of Lika Chang, former premier.

Number two, under Huzion Tao, who was seen as a possible successor to Huzion Tao in 2012. He lost out to Xi Jinping and now, dead of a heart attack in Shanghai while swimming.

The mystery is why the authorities took him to a herbal medicine, a Chinese traditional herbal medicine hospital, and not to a first-rate heart, a hospital that could receive someone with a heart attack.

It's a mystery that can be solved over these next months or years. We also discuss the Philippines being threatened by the Chinese, the PLA Navy is provoking and poking at the Philippines in Gordon advances the concept.

That Taiwan is too hard, they're going to go for an easy victory in the Philippines in some fashion, some incident, some sinking of a ship.

And then later on, I discuss with Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the policy of the Biden administration that is now ended, we assume, the idea of appeasing Iran, Iran the driver of the Gaza war, Iran the driver of the Houthis firing missiles at Israel, or a lot in these last hours.

Iran the sponsor of terror and the sponsor of war in the region is the Biden administration ready to walk away from the negotiation with Iran after passing billions into its hands.

Later on, a conversation in the fourth hour of the show about Iran's influence, malign influence in the Americas with Joseph Umair, the executive director of Secure Free Society and Ernesto Arrusha, former foreign minister of the Republic of Brazil.

There is good news in America. Metro, Gustavo Petro of Colombia suffered a severe setback in local elections. Mayors all went to the opposition to him, showing that there's momentarily a hesitation in the pink tide in Colombia.

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