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

We need Mother Nature to give us a break.

California still burning. I get the latest as dangerous winds threatened to undo progress already made.

And Trump's 24-hour deadline for ending Russia's Ukraine war slips,

foreign policy expert Robert Kagan, on what losing Kiev to Putin would mean for Trump,

for America, and for the world. Then...

We need to have a conversation.

You're very young. I don't want to worry.

I think I have power over you,

because I could make one call and use everything.

Baby Girl, writer-director Halina Rain,

joins me on her bold, buzzy new film starring Nicole Kidman

about reclaiming female sexuality. Plus,

Porcelain War, documentary directors Slava Leontev and Brendan Belomo

talked to Haris Srinivasan about Ukrainian artists

who keep creating beauty in their scarred country. Welcome to the program, everyone.

I'm Christiana Manpur in New York. The winds are picking up again in California and the death toll is rising in what could be the state's worst wildfires ever. It's an all-out race against the environment. Firefighters are battling to keep the blazes contained and maintain what progress

they've made in the past few days. More than 20 people are confirmed dead, dozens more are missing,

over 100,000 are under evacuation orders, and thousands of homes have been destroyed. These parents

lost even the most personal keepsakes and memories of their late daughter.

We had a daughter 15 years ago.

She'd be 15 and she passed away when she was one and her ashes were in our home and they're gone.

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