Hello everyone and welcome to Ammonpour live from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

Here's what's coming up.

In a race with winter to rebuild from the rubble, our report from the butcher region,

and a battlefield assessment from former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen

and former NATO Deputy Commander Richard Shearer.

Then, the clock is ticking. We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing.

The COP27 climate summit starts in Egypt the ultimate stress

test for tackling our existential crisis. With much of his country underwater

Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutozadari joins me.

Plus, I hope that we can avoid this cold war from becoming hot war, but we are on a collision

force with China.

The sage who foresaw the 2008 economic collapse,

Nureel Rubini, talks to Walter Isakson

about his fears for the future and his new book Mega Threats. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpour in Kyiv. And amid the rolling blackouts that you can see behind me,

the coming winter is sure to be the new battleground

all across Ukraine.

As the past four weeks of Russian attacks

on energy infrastructure forced legions of engineers

to work around the clock trying to prevent a total collapse of the grid here.

For many residents, especially in towns and cities badly damaged earlier in this war,

monumental efforts to rebuild homes as well as traumatized mines are going full steam ahead.

Here's our report from the suburbs that felt the full

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