Amanpour: Abbas Milani, Alice Waters, Mack Beggs, Nancy Beggs and Angélique Kidjo

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Stanford's Abbas Milani joins Christiane Amanpour to talk about Ebrahim Raisi, the man widely expected to be Iran's next president, and prospects for the nuclear deal. Then Alice Waters, chef and author of "We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto," explains how slow food is not only linked to our personal health but the health of our communities and the planet. Our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to transgender athlete and activist Mack Beggs and his grandmother Nancy Beggs about his story, reflected in new documentary “Changing the Game” and recent uptick in anti-transgender legislation across the United States. And finally, Grammy award-winning singer Angélique Kidjo performs some of her new album "Mother Nature" and discusses working with artists across the African diaspora. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:09.0	It's overwhelming in the interest of the United States America to have a great relationship
0:17.0	and they don't end with the Union.
0:19.0	Back to normal, Biden pays his first foreign visit to allies before meeting Putin, high up on the
0:25.2	agenda Iran, where this week's election could turn the country back to the past and
0:30.1	put relations with the West into the deep freeze.
0:33.0	Then, we are what we eat,
0:35.3	pioneering American chef and restaurateur Alice Waters
0:38.8	on her slow food manifesto.
0:41.1	Plus, I am a man and I'm the state champ of female high school
0:47.8	wrestling. Changing the game, Harry Sri Nabasthan looks at the documentary
0:51.6	giving trans athletes a voice and finally The one and only Angelique Kijo joins me to talk about her new album and about
1:06.8	passing the torch to a new generation of African musicians. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. A warning
1:29.8	against phony populism that was US President Joe Biden's message in Brussels as he
1:34.8	defends democracies on his first overseas trip. I pointed out we have to
1:41.3	prove to the world and to our own people that democracy can still
1:46.2	prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs of our people.
1:53.0	We have to root out corruption that siphons off our strength,
1:58.0	guard against those who would stow hatred and division for political gain is phony populism.
2:05.0	And with that, Biden flew off to Geneva ahead of his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow.
2:15.0	The last time leaders of those countries met there was 1985 when President Reagan
2:20.0	first met with the reformist head of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev.
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