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Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur and company. Here's what's coming up. Donald Trump's war on USAID threatens lives and American influence abroad.

We'll hear from a recipient in South Africa and from the former deputy administration of USAID James Cunda.

Plus, as alarm bells sound over the threat to democracy, a new series about Mussolini follows his rise to power and Italian fascism.

I'll speak with director Joe Wright. Also ahead, making sense of Trump's tariff plans.

Walter Isaacson speaks with Ambassador Robert Lightheiser, considered the architect of the first Trump administration's tariff policy. Welcome to the program, everyone.

I'm Christiana Manpur in London.

European allies are reacting to a series of gut punches by President Trump,

following his phone call Wednesday with Vladimir Putin and saying they'll meet soon in Saudi Arabia.

The EU now warns against, quote, a dirty deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

Perhaps no move, though, has had a bigger impact on more people around the world

than the attempt by the Trump administration to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development,

USAID.

The head of the World Health Organization is warned.

This freeze has impacted 50 countries, and it risks serious regression to global health care,

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