Amanpour: Fawzia Koofi, Jon Ossoff, Diane Warren and Laura Pausini

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Afghan peace negotiator Fawzia Koofi joins Christiane Amanpour from Kabul to unpack President Biden's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan before September 11. Democratic Senator from Jon Ossoff speaks about the need for Congress to act in the wake of voter restriction laws in his home state of Georgia. Then Princeton sociology professor Patrick Sharkey talks to our Michel Martin about the unprecedented rise in urban violence over the last year and the relationship between police violence and guns. And finally, songwriters Diane Warren and Laura Pausini discuss their Oscar-nominated song "Io Si (Seen)" for the new Netflix film "The Life Ahead". 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 Amunfor here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	We are embarking on a new chapter in our work here and in our partnership with the Afghan people.
0:16.6	When the US and its allies leave Afghanistan, what awaits the women?
0:21.6	I speak to one who's faced the Taliban
0:24.2	across the negotiating table.
0:26.3	Then, this is what democracy looks like.
0:29.3	The return of Jim Crow as restrictive new voting laws provoked boycotts in America, I talk to Georgia
0:35.6	Senator John Osoff.
0:37.4	And... How do you get a song to the Oscars? I ask 12 time nominee Diane Warren and singer Laura
0:50.7	Porcini, also ahead.
0:52.6	There is a window to take a different approach
0:55.8	to deal with the challenge of violence.
0:58.6	Sociologist Patrick Sharkey tells Michelle Martin
1:01.8	how the US can confront surging violence. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London.
1:14.0	The U.S. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane
1:22.8	Wancour in London. The US Secretary of State Anthony
1:26.1	Blinkin has touched down in Afghanistan this morning a day after
1:30.0	President Biden announced the US will start withdrawing its troops May 1st and that all will be gone by September 11th
1:37.7	thus bringing America's 20-year war there to a close.
1:41.4	Alongside Afghan political leaders, Secretary Blinken sent this message to the Taliban.
1:47.0	It's very important that the Taliban recognize that it will never be legitimate and it will never be durable if it
1:58.6	rejects a political process and tries to take the country by force.
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