Amanpour: Frans Timmermans, Zeid Raad Al Hussein and Yoni Appelbaum

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Frans Timmermans, the European Commission Executive Vice President for the European Green Deal, tells Christiane Amanpour why the deal is the "best option" for the bloc to tackle the climate crisis. Zeid Raad al Hussein, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, discusses disgraced Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's hearing at The Hague. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Yoni Appelbaum, Historian & Ideas Editor at The Atlantic, about why the U.S. is 'coming apart.'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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:09.0	This is Europe's man on the moon moment.
0:14.3	Europe charges ahead on climate setting the continent
0:18.0	at 2050 carbon neutral goal.
0:20.8	Franz Timmermans, the man behind the EU Green Deal, joins me.
0:25.0	Plus, surely under the circumstances, genocidal intent cannot be the only hypothesis.
0:32.0	A global hero loses her luster.
0:35.0	Myanmar's Aung-Sung-Suchi defends her country against charges of genocide.
0:40.0	The UN's former High Commissioner for Human Rights joins us and...
0:44.0	We should be aware that this experiment can end, that it's not inevitable.
0:48.4	How America Ends!
0:50.1	A somber warning from the Atlantic's ideas editor Yoni Applebaum
0:54.3	about the fragility of democracy and what it takes to protect it. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. The world is
1:17.0	losing the climate race that is according to the UN Secretary General Antonio
1:21.6	Gutierrez today in Madrid.
1:24.2	The major climate summit there is coming to a close,
1:27.0	but not before the teenage activist and time person of the year,
1:30.8	Greta Thumburg took to the stage and railed against companies and countries
1:35.2	which are finding loopholes to around having to take real action, like double counting emissions reductions and moving their emissions overseas, and walking back on their promises to increase
1:55.2	ambition or refusing to pay for solutions or loss and damage. This has to stop.
2:09.5	And that call ahead of next December in Glasgow, Scotland, which will be a major benchmark when pledges made at the 2015 Paris Accords will be reviewed. Is Greta's message
2:15.2	getting through? What is actually being delivered? Even if all the Paris pledges
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