This past week on Noosphere - @LauraTrevelyan and @chucktodd cohost our first Global Live! - @chucktodd talks to @JeffFlake - @ConklingAnna reports from Ukraine - @tiff_higgins reports from Brazil - @blumenfeldpix reports from Israel - @Shrouqaila reports from Gaza Access the full reports on the Noosphere app: noosphere.app

U.S. humanitarian aid to South Sudan has been cut by more than half, further straining hospitals as refugees flee Sudan’s civil war. Noosphere’s Anna Conkling reports from a hospital in Renk, where medicine is running out and limited generator power forces staff to choose which wards receive electricity. Watch @ConklingAnna's full report on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/on-the-ground-…

Girls disappear from Syria's new school textbooks No more Mona Lisa. No more little girls playing in the park. Even an ancient Egyptian statue, which had spent several thousand years bare-chested, has been given a striped shirt to preserve its modesty. These are among the extraordinary changes to Syria's school textbooks, where women have been given headscarves, celebrated historical figures have vanished and entire lessons on democracy have been quietly removed. The changes have provoked outrage among teachers and women's rights campaigners, who fear that the country's new government is replacing decades of propaganda under former dictator Bashar al-Assad with an ideology of its own. Read @rachelhagan_'s full report on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/girls-disappea…

Who is Gadi Eisenkot? (Israel's potential NEW Prime Minister??) Watch @blumenfeldpix's full report on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/who-is-gadi-ei…

Trump's approval rating ranks second-worst among the last 14 U.S. presidents at day 645 of their respective terms, ahead of only Harry Truman and 4 percentage points below Joe Biden. Check out: bellwether.noosphere.app/env…

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Ian Bremmer tells @chucktodd that Trump is waiting until after the midterms to strike Iran. @ianbremmer: “But Trump understands that any military move is only going to bring [oil and gas prices] higher. So he's waiting until after the midterms ... But I still do expect that we're going to see more U.S. and Israeli military activity against Iran.” Watch the full conversation on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/how-geopolitic…

If Netanyahu loses in today's Israeli election, could it be a reset moment for American Jews? @ianbremmer tells @chucktodd that Netanyahu has ruined Israel's public image in the U.S. by being in coalition with "fascist leaders" who he says have prevented the government from going after “Israeli terrorists in the West Bank.” Watch the full conversation on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/how-geopolitic…

Ian Bremmer explains to @chucktodd why military aid to Israel is one of the three most unpopular positions a congressional candidate can hold. @ianbremmer: “Why are we sending billions of dollars to Israel? ... They are an advanced industrial democracy with nuclear weapons. So why are we doing that? Like, even if nominally, you think, okay, fine, like, they're a democracy and we generally like them more than we like Palestinians. But why would you pay for it?” Watch the full conversation on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/how-geopolitic…

“If anyone other than Netanyahu were leading Israel, then Trump is not sure he'd be interested in continuing to attack Iran going forward. He actually said that!"

Ian Bremmer tells @chucktodd that Trump would be reluctant to strike Iran if Netanyahu were no longer Israel's prime minister. @ianbremmer: “[Netanyahu] actually said that he, of course, wanted to engage in strikes against Iran before his own election. ... And Trump told him not to. But he's got at least a blinking yellow, maybe a blinking green, to go in with the Americans after US midterms.” Watch the full conversation on the Noosphere app: noosphere.app/how-geopolitic…

Ian Bremmer tells @chucktodd that Trump is more popular than Netanyahu in Israel. @ianbremmer: “Even before October 7th, there were nationwide demonstrations against him because of what he was trying to do to destroy the independent judiciary in that country, because of the domestic challenges where there are real opponents, because this is a corrupt guy who's been done up on all sorts of individual charges that involving his family, and he's trying as best as he can to avoid ever going to jail.” Watch the full conversation on the Noosphere app: noosphere.app/how-geopolitic…

Ian Bremmer tells @chucktodd that if Marine Le Pen wins, it could bring about a “financial crisis” in France. @ianbremmer: “The markets are punishing the French for their behavior, but they're punishing France when the leader they're worried about isn't even in power.” Watch the full conversation on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/how-geopolitic…

Ali Latifi tells @chucktodd and @LauraTrevelyan what life is like in Afghanistan under the Taliban. @alibomaye: “There are still women reporting on television. Yes, they have to wear COVID masks, but they're still able to report ... There are these sorts of little glimmers of hope ... And there's no doubt that there are massive limitations. The biggest issue being the fact that girls beyond the sixth grade are not able to attend formal government-run schools.” Watch the full episode on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/noosphere-live…

With 6% of Israel's population living abroad, many Israeli Americans are returning to vote in the upcoming election. A campaign to encourage Israelis overseas to return and vote faced opposition from Netanyahu, with organizers barred from paying for flights or accommodations. Watch the full episode on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/noosphere-live…

Former Republican senator Jeff Flake tells @chucktodd that Trump turned Arizona over to Democrats in statewide elections. @JeffFlake: “There are 300,000 more registered Republicans statewide than Democrats. ... All you need is an R behind your name. And as long as you don't say, ‘Well, Donald Trump really won the 2020 election’...” watch the full conversation on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/jeff-flake-bei…

Former U.S. Senator Jeff Flake tells @chucktodd that Thom Tillis is right: Most Republican senators loathe Trump but go along with him. @JeffFlake: “A couple of us would go to the White House to talk about trade policy or immigration or whatever and just come back and regale everybody else ... Does the president know the difference between a trade deficit and a budget deficit? ... And so everybody knows it there.” Watch the full conversation on the Noosphere app noosphere.app/jeff-flake-bei…