Ada Ferrer won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for her acclaimed book, Cuba: An American History, which examined the island’s relationship with the US.

Her latest work, Keeper of My Kin, tells her family story: a mother who fled the island nation carrying an infant daughter, while leaving a brother behind.

Now, as Donald Trump increases pressure on Cubans and their leaders, cutting off oil while obtaining an indictment of Raul Castro for the 1996 shootdown of a small plane, Ferrer tells Mishal Husain about the human cost of Cuba’s long crisis.

03:26 - Writing “Keeper of my Kin”
04:09 - A love-hate relationship with Cuba
05:40 - The Cuba of Castro
07:11 - Leaving Cuba in 1963
08:13 - Leaving her brother Poly behind
12:08 - Letters from Poly
15:48 - Cuba’s history of migration
17:58 - Helping family in Cuba
22:50 - People in Cuba are “suffering”
24:01 - A threat to US national security?
26:51 - A shared experience with Rubio
32:19 - Cuban-Americans and Trump
34:04 Obama’s visit to Cuba
37:52 - Calling myself an American
39:52 - The books is a “testament of love”

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David Dimbleby was for decades the face of election programs on the BBC. He anchored coverage of 10 UK general elections, as well as the 1975 and 2016 referendums on European membership, the funeral of Princess Diana and a host of other royal and state occasions.

He’s seen prime ministers come and go, from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair and many more since. With Prime Minister Keir Starmer facing a potential leadership challenge, Dimbleby is uniquely placed to understand the characters and conflicts shaping Britain’s volatile politics today.

In this conversation with Mishal Husain he gives his take on Starmer, Andy Burnham and Nigel Farage.

[03:15] Why so many prime ministers?
[09:14] Keir Starmer is a “dud”
[09:55] “I don’t know what (Burnham) stands for”
[11:31] Would Burnham be a different PM?
[13:37] The UK is in a “dire state”
[16:16] “I am worried about the future”
[16:49] Nigel Farage as prime minister
[21:35] Ten years on from Brexit
[24:31] The UK rejoining the EU
[31:52] King Charles' state visit to the US
[37:15] “I'm not in any way a republican”

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Beyond this week’s talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, there’s an epic tale that has been unfolding for decades. It’s a battle to be the world’s number one power and a much bigger story than the latest meeting of these two men.

Kishore Mahbubani is a former Singaporean diplomat who served as president of the United Nations Security Council. For two decades, he has argued that the West fundamentally misunderstands the rise of China and its challenge to American supremacy.

Mahbubani. who eventually turned to academia, now specializes in governance and public policy. In this conversation with Mishal Husain, he traces the story behind the Xi-Trump talks, the handshakes and the social media posts–and what may lie ahead.

Mahbubani also reveals how his own successes were made possible by Singapore’s remarkable growth.

Read this interview with Mishal’s notes on Bloomberg Weekend: www.bloomberg.com/Mishal

03:34 - “The most important contest of our time”
5:50 - “It's not about personalities”
6:26 - “China can no longer be stopped”
07:28 - US versus China: It’s a “zero-sum” game
08:40 - Bill Clinton’s first meeting with Jiang Zemin
12:35 - Cold War Comparisons
18:30 - Growing up in Singapore in the 1950s
19:53 - "My mother never cracked”
26:25 - “China has become a tiger”
30:24 - US war is a “gift” to China

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