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

Ukraine faces another dark winter as Western military aid hangs in the balance.

I discuss with NATO's Secretary General Jens

Stoltenberg. Then, half of Gaza's population is starving, says the UN's World Food Program.

We bring you a report on the grave situation and I'll ask

the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross what needs to be

done now to save civilian lives. Next Adam Driver takes the wheel, my conversation with the

Hollywood star about his new film Ferrari. Plus how to know a person. New York Times

columnist David Brooks joins Walter Isaacson about tackling loneliness. Oh, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.

Ukraine shocked the world in 2022 when it fought off Russia's invasion, defying expectations of its imminent

demise. And now nearly two years later, Kyiv is still hanging on, but just barely.

With world support slipping for this critical fight for democracy, one

Ukrainian medic recently told CNN, without aid, we are finished. The US Senate won't vote on that aid to Ukraine until 2024.

Putin has boasted this month that Ukraine has nothing and even the staunches Ukraine's supporters

know that their a counter-offensive

failed to achieve its objectives. So this is a decisive moment for the war as

another dark winter looms, as NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has worked tirelessly to get

Ukraine what it needs and he's joining me now from Oslo. So Secretary General

welcome to the program at the end of this year.

Did you expect that by the end of this year, things would be so dire

and maybe Putin will be proved right to have said that he can wait out the West.

I'm always very careful predicting about wars because wars are by nature and predictable and most experts were very wrong at the beginning of the war because then we fear that many experts believed that Russia would take control over Kia within days and that

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