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

Nations with allies thrive, nations without allies with it.

General Jim Matis joins me. thrive nations without allies with it.

General Jim Matis joins me.

Former US defense secretary gives me his take on leadership,

the current security challenges,

and working in the Trump administration.

Then, there will be no further pointless below.

The UK's Brexit battle fuels a constitutional crisis.

I dig into that with British lawmaker and staunch Brexiteer John Redwood

an esteemed historian Margaret McMillan.

Plus...

I think I've been in a way an outsider all my life.

Award-winning author Salman Rushdie tells our Walter Isakson about his new novel and the

personal tragedies that inspire his work. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in New York where summer has

reached its end and the world gets back to work. Bringing constitutional

chaos to the British Parliament and a laundry list of challenges for the United States Congress

when it reconvenes next week. Hurricane Dorian batters the Bahamas and brushes up

to the US coast, new US-China tariffs and a trade war that continues to heat up. Relations with

Iran that continue to deteriorate as the President Hassan Rouhani rules out

bilateral talks and in Brazil wildfires that continue in the

Amazon rainforest threatening one of the world's most important ecosystems

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