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

Will a Ukraine Minerals deal mark a new phase in relations between Kiev and Washington?

I ask the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Ukraine's parliament.

Then, an American doctor just back from Gaza shares his eyewitness accounts of the accelerating humanitarian catastrophe

and slow starvation under siege.

And Isabelle Allende's newest novel blends history and fiction in the story of love in

the time of war.

Also, elite universities reckon with the Trump White House and free speech minefields on campus.

Harris Srinivassan speaks with the Wall Street Journal Education reporter. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. Could today's

Critical Minerals deal be a win-win for the US and Ukraine?

The US Treasury Secretary and Ukraine's economy minister signed the deal in Washington after

controversial, long and contentious negotiations. And now, today's reported departure of

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz prompts new questions about White House

Ukraine policy. Waltz had espoused a harder line and more sanctions on Russia. Details of the

minerals agreement called the United States Ukraine Reconstruction Fund have not yet been made public,

but a release from Kiev says the agreement will benefit both nations,

highlighting that, quote, full ownership and control of the resources stays with Ukraine.

Speaking for the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant,

he says the deal positions our two countries to work collaboratively and invest together.

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