Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, tell me about the difficulty they have had in getting a U.S. release of the film. It’s now available to stream.

“The vast majority of the aid that we’re trying to shift is being looted.” I spoke with UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher about the ongoing starvation in Gaza, the influence President Trump may have, and the difficulties of distribution.

In Gaza, “the situation is catastrophic,” says Rachael Cummings of Save the Children.

The U.S. says no one has died due to the dismantling of USAID. So CNN’s Isobel Yeung went to Afghanistan to investigate.

Producer: Mick Krever
Photojournalist: Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou

Exclusive: President Trump wasn’t elected “to be the emperor of the world,” Brazil’s President Lula tells me, in the face of massive tariff threats over the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro and more.

Our full interview airs 2pm Brasilia time on CNN International and tonight in the US on PBS

Today marks 30 years since the Srebrenica genocide -- a dark moment in European and world history, with vital lessons for international justice and impunity. #Srebrenica30

I just spoke with Mahmoud Khalil, who spent 104 days in ICE custody, and he described to me the conditions he faced and his emotions about missing the birth of his son.

Our full interview airs at 5pm BST on CNN International and tonight on PBS

“Many innocent people, civilians are being killed” in the current conflict, says Iranian Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi. In an exclusive video, she speaks of how ordinary Iranians feel right now, and how difficult it is for them to flee or shelter.

“There’s been, I think, too much certainty in the public discussion that this 30,000 lb bomb could actually eliminate Fordow,” cautions former Chair of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen. Nonetheless, “we are very, very close to a wider war breaking out,” he says.

“We are in a dangerous moment. I’m sorry that diplomacy did not work,” says former top US diplomat Wendy Sherman, who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear deal. “If Donald Trump had not withdrawn from the original JCPOA, we would not be here.”

"We become acclimatized to this idea that empathy in leadership must denote weakness," former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern tells me, as her new memoir releases. "I really want to challenge these traditional notions of what makes for good leadership."

“800 infants who had a high risk for a chronic disease like near-fatal food allergies now have had a clinical trial pulled because of the lack of NIH funding,” says Dr Kari Nadeau, who ran the trial. “When this type of clinical trial is ended… you put patients’ lives at risk.”

“We need to be very clear: this is an authoritarian government that is using the machinery of… the state as a weapon to punish, to bully, to silence,” argues Harvard Prof. Steven Levitsky, adding the targeting of Harvard “is part of a much broader attack on American democracy.”

The UN’s top humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher spoke with me about what he says is a “trickle” of aid now being allowed into Gaza and why it’s “a drop in the ocean.”

Bridget Brink recently resigned as US Ambassador to Ukraine in protest. "The policy," she tells me, "has been to put pressure on Ukraine as the victim, rather than on Russia as the aggressor. And peace at any cost is not peace at all -- it's appeasement."

In The Director, novelist Daniel Kehlmann explores the true story of G.W. Pabst, a director who ended up making films for Joseph Goebbels. “He started to go down that long road of compromise that we see many people in all kinds of environments, including today, go down.”

With some European countries turning against Ukraine and the EU set to reintroduce pre-war tariffs on Ukrainian imports, “Ukraine is heading towards what I would call strategic encirclement,” former FM Dmytro Kuleba tells me.