Is The New World Order, No World Order?

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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From the war in Iran, to the global economy, to shifting international alliances - is the old world order gone for good? Former deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Iranian-American academic Vali Nasr on the latest in the war with Iran. Then, as the war's ripple effects seem to play into Putin's hands, the European perspective with Czech President Petr Pavel. CNN reporter Abeer Salman takes us to the West Bank, where Palestinian schoolchildren are protesting after Israeli settlers surrounded their school with razor wire. Then, Christiane speaks to former Israeli diplomat Colette Avital about how she is speaking out against her country's government. For World Press Freedom Day, we go back to 2007, when Christiane visited Moscow and discovered many journalists living in fear. And finally, how King Charles' first state visit to the U.S. has been centuries in the making. Air date: May 2, 2026 Guests: Wendy Sherman & Vali Nasr Petr Pavel Colette Avital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpur hour. Here's where we're headed this week.
0:12.0	The fate of the global economy hangs in the balance. I ask Iran expert Valley NASA and former US negotiator Wendy Sherman for a way out of this Middle East morass.
0:22.6	Then Europe had a crossroads. How will the continent defend itself in a world according to Donald Trump?
0:29.6	My conversation with Czech President and former top NATO official, Petter Pavel.
0:34.6	I think Europe has to grow up.
0:36.6	Also ahead, Israeli settlers rampage across the West Bank, their latest ploy setting up
0:42.3	razor wire to block Palestinian children from going to school.
0:46.3	A report from the scene.
0:48.3	And fighting for the soul of Israel,
0:57.0	seemingly at perpetual war,
0:59.0	former Kinesit member and democracy activist Colette Avital joins me.
1:04.0	Plus, this weekend marks World Press Freedom Day,
1:07.0	but it's been another deadly year for journalists.
1:09.0	From my archives, we go back to Russia when killing reporters was common practice.
1:18.6	Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London.
1:21.6	Iran, the global economy, shifting alliances in the Middle East,
1:26.6	all questions that won't go away after more than 60
1:29.4	days of war, a war of choice by the United States and Israel that is locked in a fragile ceasefire,
1:35.5	but nowhere near peace. President Trump negotiates in public on social media, even posting this
1:41.8	AI image of himself with a gun to make a point. But it's important
1:46.4	we pay attention because whatever happens next will impact all of us from the rising cost of living,
1:52.4	the constraining of the nuclear weapons to general stability in our world. This week I asked two
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