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

The situation in Ukraine is desperate.

Speaker Johnson has now sat on his hands for 55 days.

All eyes on Washington as Congress decides whether to turn the key on aid to Ukraine and now also Israel.

I speak to Wendy Sherman who recently stepped down as Deputy Secretary of State.

Then aid delivery turned deadly we bring you a detailed investigation into the

February killing of more than 100 starving Palestinians rushing to get food in

Gaza. Then he knew he was sort of a rock star, so what did he do is he played humility.

Becoming Benjamin Franklin at the dawn of American diplomacy,

Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas tells Walter Isakson why now it's time for his first ever period peace.

Plus,

Mamma Mia, now I really know,

on my, I should gonna let you go. Mamma Mia, creator and producer Judy Kramer joins me to celebrate the global phenomenon

launched 25 years ago on London's West End. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Manpur in New York what leverage does

America still wield whether in Israel in Ukraine or beyond and is it as good as

its word there is a rising sense that the values America says it represents in the world are not reflected in some of its actions.

In Gaza, the ongoing death toll and the heartbreaking images local reporters bring us every day

have pushed the Biden administration into calling for at least a temporary seat fire

but the flow of weapons from the United States to Israel has continued a pace.

Meanwhile in Ukraine, the government there faces almost the opposite dilemma.

Ongoing public support expressed by the Biden administration but without

sending the weapons and ammunition so desperately needed thanks to

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