Amanpour: Frans Timmermans, Ayoade Alakija, Randi Weingarten and Robert Ballard

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, discusses his meeting with U.S. Climate envoy John Kerry ahead of the COP26 summit later this year and warns that "there's no vaccine against the climate crisis". Ayoade Alakija, Co-Chair of the Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance, discusses how the continent is struggling to get enough doses and the dangers of vaccine apartheid. Michel Martin talks to Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, about what it will take for schools in the U.S. to fully re-open in the fall. Robert Ballard, oceanographer and author of "Into the Deep: A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic", discusses his career exploring the depths of the ocean. 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. These
0:09.1	states could not be more serious. How to avert a climate catastrophe?
0:14.1	Fresh off meeting with US envoy John Kerry,
0:17.0	EU Climate Chief Franz Timmermans joins us
0:19.7	on this pressing global issue.
0:21.9	Then India's COVID crisis
0:24.0	derail Africa's vaccine drive.
0:26.6	We talk to the woman coordinating distribution
0:29.0	on the continent, Dr. Iowade a la Kijab.
0:32.2	Plus, we need in-school learning. It needs to be full and robust. Back to school.
0:38.0	Teachers Union leader Randy Weingarden tells Michelle Martin why come September, students and teachers must be back together.
0:46.3	And finally, my mission in life, in fact if you look at my job description, it's to explore.
0:53.6	Robert Ballard, famous for discovering the wreckage of the Titanic,
0:57.4	looks back at his remarkable life and career
1:00.2	exploring the ocean's depths. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Bianna Galadriga in New York sitting in for
1:18.4	Christiane al-Mampir. Well as the world starts to free itself from the grips of COVID, another global crisis ever
1:25.2	present is demanding attention.
1:27.3	And that of course is climate change.
1:29.4	With the missions rising again after this year of lockdown's activists and officials are working on how best to
1:35.7	tackle this urgent issue before it's too late.
1:39.0	But there is a lot of skepticism.
1:41.3	The pandemic has laid bare systemic failures and the pitfalls of political
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