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Amanpour: Anote Tong, Aliza Ayaz, Steven Yeun and Bill Gates

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Anote Tong, former President of Kiribati, and Aliza Ayaz, climate activist and UN Youth Ambassador for Sustainable Development Goals, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the very real effects of the climate crisis in Kiribati and Pakistan - and what might change now the U.S. has rejoined the Paris Climate Accord. Actor Steven Yeun discusses his new film "Minari" about a Korean family trying to build a new life in rural Arkansas. Our Walter Isaacson talks to billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates about the pandemic, the climate crisis and his new book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster". 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 Ammanpore. Here's what's coming up.

0:08.0

We have to be ambitious all of us because we have to get the job done.

0:15.0

The US back in the game we profiled two urgent climate cases.

0:19.7

From Pakistan, the young activist Aliza Ayaz, joins us.

0:23.7

And from a small Pacific island nation struggling to stay afloat,

0:27.8

Anote Tong, former president of Kiribati, joins us.

0:31.7

Then,

0:32.1

I'm not going to make sure. Kiribati joins us. Then, Then,

0:33.0

I'm going to make you know,

0:34.0

I go have a great thing.

0:36.0

Pursuing the American dream,

0:38.0

Minari tells that quintessential story,

0:41.0

the resilience of a Korean family setting up a new life in America.

0:45.0

I'll speed to lead actor Stephen Young.

0:48.0

And only by really bringing the cost down can we make the case to them that they should stop building new coal plants?

0:55.6

Bill Gates tells our Walter Isaacson how to avoid a climate disaster. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.

1:17.6

The race against climate change starts up again in earnest. Here in Britain, Prince Charles today warned that there is no time to

1:25.3

waste and with the United States now back in the Paris Climate Agreement this weekend, America's

1:30.7

so-called Climate Tsar, the former Secretary of State John Kerry,

1:34.1

pledged that his country would lead a global response

1:37.4

and warn that there is only nine years to get our environmental act together.

1:41.9

As he says, millions of people just have to look out

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