Amanpour: Iván Duque, Tzipi Hotovely, Hilary Mantel and Helaine Olen

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Iván Duque, Colombian President, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the ongoing anti-government protests taking place across his country. As the U.S. says it's dispatching a senior diplomat to the Middle East, Tzipi Hotovely, Israeli Ambassador to the UK, talks about the worsening violence between Israelis and Palestinian militants. Novelist Hillary Mantel discusses her new book, "The Mirror & the Light", the last her award-winning "Wolf Hall" trilogy, following the life and times of Thomas Cromwell. Michel Martin talks to Helaine Olen, Opinion Writer at The Washington Post, about the backsliding of gender equality during the pandemic. 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	As anti-government protests escalate in Colombia an exclusive interview with President Ivan Duque and
0:20.0	The latest from Israel as violence ratchets up.
0:23.5	Then, I've got more ideas and I've got years left to execute them.
0:28.0	The great British novelist Hillary Mantel, we talk about wrapping up the epic Wolf Hall saga and her hard journey to success.
0:36.0	Also ahead.
0:37.0	Women are sort of almost, we're almost all schooled in some ways to put ourselves second or third.
0:42.0	Columnist Helene Olin tells Michelle Martin
0:45.0	how American women are being forced out of work. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Some city streets
1:07.2	look like war zones in Colombia. Anti-government protesters show no sign of
1:11.9	letting up, condemning police brutality and
1:14.6	calling for reforms. More than 40 people have been killed since this began when the
1:19.7	president slapped a new tax on people already impoverished by the pandemic.
1:24.7	Let's go straight to the capital Bogotah now with this report from Inigo Gilmore.
1:30.1	Once again, they're taking to the streets of Columbia's capital, making their
1:37.4	voices heard. This march against poverty and inequality has a morbid theme.
1:43.0	Civilian deaths at the hands of police driving protesters to take to the streets in their
1:48.1	thousands.
1:51.4	Despite the COVID crisis, ravaging the country.
1:55.0	Before long a confrontation erupts,
2:03.0	protesters retreat under a body of tear gas,
2:05.0	but no one's giving up.
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