Amanpour

At the NATO summit in Ankara, President Trump declares “love and unity” with allies, and Europe signals it is taking more responsibility for its own defense. Christiane speaks with former US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith about what the summit revealed and growing uncertainty around the fragile Iran truce. Then, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III responds to White House broadsides accusing the institution of having a “radical, activist ideology.” Will Ripley reports from Taiwan on China’s striking mock-up of a U.S. warship in the Xinjiang desert. Former British Prime Minister Theresa May joins Christiane to discuss CNN’s new documentary The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door about the Novichok attack in England in 2018, and they discuss the threat Russia still poses to the West. From the archives, Christiane looks back at Beirut in 1993, a city emerging from civil war and still symbolic of Lebanon’s repeated cycle of destruction and rebirth. And finally, Spain’s Running of the Bulls festivities explode across Pamplona, 100 years since Ernest Hemingway immortalized them in The Sun Also Rises.

Air date: July 11, 2026

Guests:

Julianne Smith

Lonnie G. Bunch III

Theresa May

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Now that NATO leaders have returned home from this week's summit, the question is what, if anything, was accomplished? Is the alliance more united, or have its underlying divisions simply been pushed to another day? For answers we turn to former US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith.

Also on today's show: , former UK Prime Minister Theresa May; singer/songwriter Angelique Kidjo


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The US and Iran are once again trading threats and strikes with a peace deal in the balance. CNN's Fred Pleitgen regional expert Mehran Kamrava report on the state of play. Then, we discuss terror in the West Bank, where Palestinians live under constant threat. Politician Mustafa Barghouti joins Christiane from Ramallah. And with the far right ascendant in Europe, can the center hold?
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After trading strikes overnight, are the US and Iran still in a truce? Not according to President Trump, who declared the deal with Iran "over" and promised more bombing tonight. CNN Senior White House Reporter joins Christiane from the NATO summit in Ankara to discuss the latest developments.

Also on today's show: Sanam Vakil, Director, Middle East and North Africa Program, Chatham House; Carl Bildt, Former Swedish Prime Minister & Ivo Daalder, Former US Ambassador to NATO; CNN World Sport's Amanda Davies


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NATO leaders are gathered in Turkey for a summit that will test whether unity can hold, after a year of deepening tensions between the US and its allies. Joining the show to discuss are New York Times National Security Correspondent David Sanger and former US Ambassador to Turkey and Iraq James Jeffrey.

Also on the show: Kholood Khair, Sudanese Political Analyst & Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director, Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale; CNN Senior International Correspondent Melissa Bell; David Wallace-Wells, author, "The Uninhabitable Earth"


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