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I could, of course, have done more, be even more outspoken on the need for more and faster military support in Ukraine.

A reckoning in hindsight, I speak with former NATO Secretary General

Yen Stoltenberg about grappling with Russia, Ukraine and Donald Trump. Then,

this is what's happening in my village now. Soldiers are everywhere. As the tenuous ceasefire

in Gaza holds, Palestinian Basel Adra and Israeli Yuval Abraham, co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary

No Other Land, join me to discuss the ongoing conflict in the occupied West Bank.

And life, law and liberty. Walter Isaacson interviews former Supreme Court Justice Anthony

Kennedy about his new book and his own landmark decisions. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Wampur in London.

European leaders are meeting here in England this week to push for a just and lasting peace,

they say, in Ukraine. They aim to ramp up pressure on Russia's economy and its military

so as to strengthen President Zelensky's hand in future truce negotiations.

The Europeans say current battle lines should be the starting point for any peace talks.

Russia wants Ukraine to cede more territory first.

Meanwhile, talks between Washington and Moscow towards another Trump-Putin summit have come face to face with reality. Secretary

of State Marco Rubio is reportedly concerned that Russia's position, quote, has not evolved enough

beyond its maximalist stance. With President Trump's unpredictable position on Ukraine, European leaders try to hold the line

against a deal that could undermine Kiev and weaken Europe.

Now, former NATO Secretary General, Yen Stoltenberg, led the alliance from 2014 to 2024,

grappling with Russia since its first annexed Crimea and with Donald Trump's threats

to pull out of NATO. Now, Stoltenberg has published all of this in a memoir called On My Watch,

a candid look back at the successes and mistakes of a crucial decade. And a note, we spoke on

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