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Amanpour: David Miliband, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Hoan Ton-That

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the Humanitarian Crisis in Idlib, Syria caused by President Assad's Russian-backed offensive in Syria which has hundreds of thousands fleeing for their lives. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball legend, talks about turning his hand to documentary film making. He executive produced "Black Patriots," a film airing on History that focuses on the black American heroes of the Revolutionary War. Our Hari Sreenivasan sat down with Hoan Ton-That, the founder and CEO of Clearview AI - a facial-recognition app that collates billions of images from across the web - to reflect on the potential impact his business will have on society.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 Amman Four. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Freezing and trapped. A humanitarian catastrophe gripped Syria as the regime's Russian-backed offensive in Idlib takes an even deadlier turn.

0:18.0

I speak to the head of the International Rescue Committee racing to keep civilians alive.

0:23.0

Then, the American Revolution was fought by many people from many backgrounds.

0:29.0

Black Patriots, NBA legend Karim Abdul Jabbar's new film on the forgotten Black

0:35.7

Heroes of America's War of Independence, and...

0:39.2

Do I own my face anymore?

0:41.2

It's your face, of course you do. The facial recognition company that

0:44.6

could end privacy as we know it. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Montpur in London. Hundreds

1:08.0

of thousands of Syrians are fleeing for their lives right now. As the

1:12.3

United Nations warns the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the nine-year war is underway.

1:18.0

Syria's Assad regime backed by Russia is accelerating its deadly offensive against Idlib, the last opposition

1:25.9

stronghold where also there are millions of civilians.

1:29.4

The UN's Human Rights Commissioner calls it cruelty beyond belief as children freeze to death in

1:35.2

sub-zero temperatures and families walk for days on clogged roads with no transport out.

1:41.6

Correspondent Arwood Damon has been reporting on this

1:44.0

unfolding disaster and of course some of the images in this report are upsetting to

1:49.2

watch.

1:51.2

There is barely enough light to see as we head towards Samia's tent in one of

1:56.8

Idlib's sprawling camps. A couple nights ago, temperatures dropped well below

2:02.1

zero and the family didn't have enough to

2:05.0

burn.

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