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

We need each other. I mean, the United States and Europe and Europe needs the United States.

As the fragile stalemate in Iran continues and the Ukraine war drags on, could tension between the U.S. and Europe benefit Russia.

Christian speaks with Czech President Pietit Pia de Pavl.

Then a call for U.S.-Uk. unity amid rising transatlantic tensions.

Veteran journalist Ed Luce joins me as Washington welcomes King Charles.

And all the kids in Palestine suffer.

They want to just live their life normally, but they pay the price. Israeli settlers block Palestinian children from going to school.

Abir Salman reports.

And later, what's stealing money from your pocketbook and keeping you sicker is the way our health care system is treating you. A barbaric problem in American hospitals. Hari Srinivasa speaks toadrigan, New York, sitting in for Christiana Manpur.

There's a chain reaction happening across the world.

The longer the war in Iran drags on, the more the U.S. drains its global supply of critical weapons.

The longer oil prices remain high, the more Russia reaps the reward, leaving Europe increasingly exposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggressive instincts, questioning whether he'll set his sights beyond Ukraine.

Nonetheless, the diplomatic stalemate continues, with U.S. President Donald Trump

signaling that he's unlikely to accept Iran's latest proposal to end the conflict.

And Europe left on the sidelines, not consulted by the White House before the war, and targeted

by Trump for not supporting the U.S. during the fighting.

Well, now Europe is pushing back.

In an appearance this week, German Chancellor Frederick Mertz criticized the White House.

The Americans clearly have no strategy, and the problem with conflicts like this is always that you just don't go in.

You also have to get out again.

We saw that all too painfully in Afghanistan for 20 years.

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