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Amanpour: Giorgos Gerapetritis, Susan Glasser, Vali Nasr and Peter Harckham

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Giorgos Gerapetritis, the Greek State Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour amid the migrant crisis at the Turkish-Greek border. As the Greek government's point man for handling this worsening crisis, he explains how President Erdogan's actions have opened the floodgates, but "no excessive violence" has been used in handling it. Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Vali Nasr, professor at Johns Hopkins university, weigh in on the geopolitical challenges that caused this crisis. They analyze the situation in Syria and Afghanistan. Then our Michel Martin sits down with Peter Harckham, a Senator from New York's 40th District, for a candid conversation about his battle with alcoholism and how he was inspired to tackle the worsening opioid crisis in New York head on.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

Deja vu at the border as Turkey opens the gates to Europe to refugees.

0:17.0

And Greece is on the front line we talk to the minister in charge.

0:21.0

Then the wars that have fueled this migrant crisis the Ali Nasser and the New Yorker Susan Glasser.

0:33.0

And...

0:34.0

We're not talking about a moral failing, we're not talking about a crime, we're talking about a disease.

0:40.0

A bracingly frank interview on the pain and price of addiction from a New York State senator

0:45.7

with personal experience. Welcome to the program everyone.

0:53.0

I'm Christina Manpur in London. History is

1:05.8

repeating itself at Europe's border as migrants are desperately trying to

1:09.6

make their way from Turkey into Greece. Now this all stems from Syria where airstrikes

1:14.8

of course even more civilians to flee their country and cross into Turkey. The

1:19.5

country says it's unable to handle this influx and so it's no longer stopping migrants

1:24.0

crossing into the European Union but now President Erdogan says there will be

1:28.8

a ceasefire in northern Syria set to go into effect at midnight local time.

1:34.0

The result of all of this though is a migrant crisis

1:37.5

leaving shocking violence on the edge of the European continent

1:41.0

as our Jomana Karaje reports now.

1:45.0

We don't know her name.

1:49.0

She's too distraught to speak.

1:53.0

But you really don't need words to explain the gut-wrenching means. French. Those with her Tellerus, her husband was killed at the border.

2:07.0

Turkey says Greek border guards open fire on refugees and migrants gathered at its border on

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