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

After all these stipulations and trials, you have to do your best.

From political prisoner to Prime Minister, Malaysia's Anwa Ibrahim

on being a bridge between the United States and China.

Also ahead.

A lot of times there's just a lot of love and joy and connection and somehow those things aren't taken as seriously.

Anne Patchett's meditation on love, the award-winning author of Tom Lake joins me.

Plus...

They did such an amazing job and they really helped to pave the way for the women that

came after them because they were so adept and capable of what of their jobs.

The Six, journalist Lauren Grush speaks to Harry Streinovassen about her new book on America's first women astronauts. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in New York, closing out a week of

reporting and interviews from the United Nations General Assembly. The war in Ukraine and defensive democracy took

center stage, with the Ukrainian president even urging an end to the war in order to

focus on other global challenges, including the worsening climate crisis and rising

inequality.

But no shows included Russian President Putin, Chinese President Xin Ping, and the French and British leaders.

Rising Chinese power and influence in the Indo-Pacific region,

a big focus for my first guest Anwar Ibrahim, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, balancing relations

with both China and the United States. We spoke about all of this including his own

incredible journey from protest leader to political prisoner to

Prime Minister. Just under a year ago after a long time in waiting,

Ibrahim became Prime Minister.

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