Hello everyone and welcome to the Ammanpur Hour.

Here's where we're headed this week.

With the Middle East embroiled in endless conflict, Palestinian and Israeli peacemakers,

Hibah Kassas and Nimrod Sheffer, join me to discuss a different way forward.

Then, the killer consequences of Trump going fossils first.

I speak to science writer David Wallace Wells about microplastics getting into our brains.

Everywhere they look on the planet, we find some evidence of this kind of pollution.

And increasingly, we're seeing it inside us, too.

Also...

Well, it's a fortress, and I went in like a foreign correspondent, like a war correspondent,

and did battle in this incredible fortress that's still impregnable.

Adventures in the Louvre, former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Shalino, takes me behind

the scenes of the iconic Paris Museum, from its famous glass pyramid to the coveted Mona

Liza, all explored in her new book.

Plus, four years after the Taliban took over, how women and girls are paying the price for America's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

And from my archives, the familiar chaos that ensued the first time the Taliban seized control in 1996.

Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London.

Of all the crises and wars raging in today's world, none has confounded more leaders than the 80-year conflict raging in the Middle East between Israelis and the Palestinians.

With the war on Gaza grinding past 22 months and a desperate humanitarian

and starvation crisis, even the concept of a two-state solution has all but disappeared from

the conversation. And few understand better this failure to bring a political solution than my next

Israeli-Palestinian guests guests calling to revive the process.

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