Amanpour: Dr. Yatin Mehta, Bhramar Mukherjee, Kyle Buchanan, Aisha Harris and Brandon Scott

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As covid ravages India, Dr Yatin Mehta, Chairman of the Critical Care Department at Medanta - The Medicity, and Bhramar Mukherjee, Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the situation on the ground and how the country's crisis reached this point. Kyle Buchanan, The Projectionist columnist at The New York Times, and Aisha Harris, Co-Host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, dig into last night's Oscars ceremony and the diverse list of winners. Our Michel Martin talks to Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott about his campaign promise to re-imagine police reform. 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.
0:07.0	Here if somebody dies. You know it dies because of a lack of oxygen.
0:13.0	India's hospitals gasping for air, desperate scenes as a COVID surge grips the country.
0:19.1	I look at what's driving it with epidemiologist Bruma Mukherjee and from the ground in New Delhi Dr.
0:25.5	Yatin Meta.
0:26.5	Then this is for anyone who have the faith and the courage to hold down to the goodness in themselves.
0:35.0	Diversity reigns at the Oscars. I delve into the history makers and the ones who missed out on a night of firsts.
0:42.0	Plus, I myself would be who missed out on a night of firsts.
0:43.0	I myself would be outside and police would just stop me from being basically breathing while
0:48.8	black.
0:49.8	Rethinking public safety, Baltimore's mayor Brandon Scott tells Michelle Martin
0:54.4	how he plans to reform the city's police and tackle gun violence. Oh, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christian Amunpur in London.
1:18.8	International support is now being pledged to India tonight as it racks up the highest number of daily
1:24.6	COVID infections anywhere in the world. In the vice grip of a second deadly wave the
1:30.4	government there says don't panic as hospitals are on the verge of
1:33.8	collapse bodies are piling up makeshift crematoriums are burning non-stop the
1:38.8	oxygen shortage so severe even in the capital New Delhi, hospitals are tweeting SOS messages begging for supplies.
1:47.0	The United States, the UK, Pakistan and several other countries have now pledged to send urgent medical need and families are
1:54.8	forced to try gerry-rigging whatever they can to save their loved ones as
1:58.8	correspondent Anna Corne now reports.
2:07.0	As smoke rises over a pile of ashes, another family huddles over the remains of their loved one.
2:10.0	A son says farewell to his 49-year mother who died of COVID a day ago, while his
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