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

You know what? The Republicans have to get tougher. If we end the filibuster, we can do exactly what we want.

Trump ramps up pressure on his party over the shutdown stalemate, while millions prepare to vote in local races across America, will have the details.

Then, farmers under attack, a special report from the West Bank on the settler violence targeting the region's olive harvest.

Also ahead.

If they don't kill you, the thirst will kill you. The hunger will kill you.

It's humiliation.

Devastation in Sudan, as survivors and satellite images tell stories of an unfolding massacre.

Plus... It would be a huge mistake to say, well, the world's gotten polarized, so we have to pick aside.

No, the world's gotten polarized.

We need to describe that fairly.

The Seven Rules of Trust, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales

discusses his new book and how his site's success

can inform our increasingly partisan world. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Biona Gola-Ladriga, New York, sitting in for Christiana Amadpur. It's the start of a week that could have major consequences for President Donald Trump's second term.

The government shutdown is inching closer to becoming the longest in history,

with the effects being felt by millions facing frozen paychecks and reduced food aid.

Yet the president is resisting pressure to ease the burden on vulnerable Americans

while indicating that he sees few ways out of the stalemate. Take a listen. Sounds like it's not going to get solved, the shutdown. It's going to get solved, yeah. Oh, it's going to get solved. How? We'll get itself. Eventually, they're going to have to vote. You're saying the Democrats will capitulate. I think they have to. And if they don't vote, that's their problem.

Now, I happen to agree to something else. I think we should do the nuclear option.

This is a totally different nuclear, by the way.

It's called ending the filibuster.

An idea firmly rejected by Republican leaders, we should note,

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