Hello everyone and welcome to the Ammanpur hour. Here's where we're headed this week.

Golden gifts, royal welcomes, red carpets and high states as Trump toured Asia. A former top

national security advisor to the president tells me what went right

and wrong. Then, facing your fears with faith, the Bishop of Washington, Marianne Buddy, on

learning to be brave and challenging even a president. Courage isn't something that only brave people

have, but that it's a lifelong journey of lessons and practice and

efforts that we make large and small.

Also ahead, CNN's former Cairo Bureau Chief on reporting from an ancient land and her shocking

revelations on FGM that brought change for little girls.

She didn't want it and that they forced it on her.

I think that was the most powerful point of that story.

And from my archives when we journalists were hunted down during Algeria's brutal civil war.

And finally, as Mexico marks Dia de los Muettos, an extraordinary monument to its Aztec roots.

Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. And this week, the Trump presidency pulled off its own pivot to Asia, a whistle-stop tour where the president danced in Malaysia,

received a replica ancient gold crown in South Korea,

and secured that all-important meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping.

He announced a thaw, stripping back some U.S. tariffs

in return for Xi giving on rare earths and soybeans.

But behind the deals was an undoubted show of force as the president backed South Korea's

plan to build nuclear-powered submarines and announced his own order to begin testing nuclear

weapons for the first time in 33 years, saying that he's only following China and Russia's lead.

It had to do with others. They seem to all be nuclear testing. We have more nuclear weapons than anybody.

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