Hello everyone and welcome to Amman Poor. Here's what's coming up.

America is headed into a summer dramatically different from last year's summer. A summer of freedom.

The U.S. races back to regular life, but what about the rest of the world?

I talked a Nobel Prize-winning economist Estherflow and Abigit Banergy about vaccine

inequality and to one of the G7's main players meeting in Oxford, Britain's health

secretary Matt Hancock.

Then, US troops prepare their exit from Afghanistan

and the Taliban plot its return.

We get a view from the ground from Major General Sammy Sadat, a

commanding general in the Afghan army. Plus, I just wanted to put the art out there in the

world that was going to live longer than me because I wasn't sure that I was

going to make. Faith, race, and love. Creative writing professor Kiese Leemon

opens up to Michelle Martin about lessons he's learned growing up in Mississippi. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Bianna Galadriga in New York sitting in

for Christiane Ammanpur. Pressure is ramping up on rich nations to spread the vaccine wealth, as new statistics show

that only 0.4% of all doses have been given in low-income countries.

Health ministers from the wealthiest countries, the G7, are meeting today in Oxford to address

the issue.

And in the US, President Joe Biden's team announced that the White House's strategy to send 80 million doses abroad.

Here's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

Our overarching aim is to get as many safe and effective vaccines to as many people as fast as possible.

It's as simple as that.

We want to save lives and thwart variants that place all of us at risk. But perhaps most important, this is just the right thing to do.

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