Hello everyone and welcome to the Ammanpur hour. Here's where we're headed this Thanksgiving weekend.

In an America more divided than ever the roots of the crisis and the possible solutions.

America doesn't have to be the kind of America that you've lived in your whole life.

You would decide to change history.

With political scientists Robert Putnam, who has answers and the unlikely duo finding consensus on the Middle East War,

former Israeli and Palestinian leaders Ehud Olmert and Nasser

Al-Kidwar. Then, the courage it took to co-produce a new documentary, exposing the forced evictions

of Palestinians in the West Bank. I'm joined by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers,

Basel Adra, and Yuval Abraham. Also on the show, following the brutal murder of her son by ISIS,

Diane Foley, on meeting her son's killer and rejecting hatred. If we just stay in our bubbles

and hate one another, we get nowhere.

Plus, how many more families must be destroyed before an agreement can be found to end gun violence?

Dominic Erdozen tells me what America's founders really meant when they wrote that Second Amendment.

The state is designed to protect people from the partiality and violence of men.

And finally, the immigrant experience everyone can relate to on set with Kim's convenience

here in London.

Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London.

As families come together across America this week, on this Thanksgiving, a holiday that symbolizes gratitude, unity and community, the country is perhaps more far apart than ever.

But we've dedicated this week's holiday program to those who are finding common ground around solutions to some of the most dangerous divisions plaguing our entire world.

Following one of the most contentious elections in modern history, divider-in-chief Donald Trump will reoccupy the U.S. presidency come January.

Republicans took control of the White

House, the Senate and the House, and Democrats warn of the mounting threat to freedoms and democracy.

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