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In early June, far right politician Geert Wilders pulled his PVV, Party for Freedom, out of the ruling coalition, in the Netherlands. The government is now in caretaker mode, with a new election likely to be called in October.GUEST: Jon Henley, Europe Correspondent, Guardian UKPRODUCER: Ali Benton

US President Donald Trump has left the G7 in Canada early as conflict between Israel and Iran escalates. Domestically, the nation is reeling after the murder and attempted murder of two Democratic state legislators and their partners in their homes in Minnesota. Guest: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director at the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University

Kumara or sweet potato originally comes from South America, but how did it become one of the national foods of Aotearoa New Zealand?  The Polynesians that first settled New Zealand around 1300 were thought to just be hunter-gatherers and only later turn to farming. But archaeologists have used new research technology to prove the Maori arrived with plans and sophisticated techniques for growing kumara, and even started off in the cooler climate of the South Island. Guest: Professor Ian Barber from the University of Otago led research that used granules of kumara starch to establish the date and place kumara was first grown by Maori in New Zealand

It was one of US President Barack Obama’s key foreign policy achievements back in 2015. The Iran nuclear deal, though far from perfect, prevented Iran from advancing its own nuclear program. President Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, claiming it failed to curtail Iran’s missile program and regional influence. A year later, Iran began ignoring limitations on its nuclear program.GUEST: Jamal Abdi, President, National Iranian American Council PRODUCER: Ali Benton

Whilst Australia is not a G7 member, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Canada for the annual G7 summit for a number of "sideline" talks, including a face-to-face with US President Donald Trump, where AUKUS will be on the agenda. Australia will also hold formal negotiations on joining a new defence agreement with the European Union, as The Guardian Australia's Tom McIlroy reports. Guest: Tom McIlroy, Chief Political Correspondent 7.30

Emily Kam Kngwarray, from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory, picked up a paintbrush in her 70s for the first time, and now, her work will be exhibited at the Tate in London. A new film has been made about Emily, and will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival – called Emily: I Am Kam.GUEST: Screenwriter and Producer, Danielle Maclean and Producer Anna GrievePRODUCER: Ali Benton

The history of the United States cannot be told without telling the story of Latin America. Connected through wars, conquests, trade, ideas and political struggle, it's a long and complex relationship, spanning centuries.GUEST: Greg Grandin, author of AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World PRODUCER: Ali Benton

Maori MPs were issued record bans from the New Zealand Parliament recently for their impromptu haka last year protesting a bill to wind back the Treaty of Waitangi. But haka has been pivotal in race relations in Aotearoa before. An event in 1979 at the University of Auckland triggered significant debate and change. Yet the incident was buried until Katie Wolfe helped dig it up to create first a play and now a documentary.  Guest: Katie Wolfe is a New Zealand film and theatre director and her people are Ngāti Mutunga Ngāti Tama, Ngati Toa Rangatira. Her new documentary The Haka Party Incident is screening at the Sydney Film Festival.

Russia and the US have not traditionally been close culturally but there’s a few shifts going on. The Trump administration has a very different relationship and attitude towards Moscow than usual.  And mirroring that is an increased conversion to the very conservative, traditional and some say masculine Russian Orthodox Church in pockets of the US. Journalist Lucy Ash has spent a lot of time reporting from Russia... and found some converts who had even left the US for Russia to deepen their ties.  Lucy noticed a trend in the US for young men but also women converting to Russian Orthodoxy. Guest: Lucy Ash - journalist and author of The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin.

There are not many colonial heroes in Australia's frontier wars, but some emerged after the unprovoked 1838 massacre of at least 28 Wirrayaraay people in northern NSW. They ensured that the perpetrators were identified, and prosecuted.Guest: Mark Tedeschi KC, author of ‘Murder at Myall Creek: the trial that defined a nation’ (Simon & Schuster, 2016)  Producer: Ann Arnold