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Amanpour: Kristalina Georgieva, Esther Perel, Peggy Flanagan and Andrew Lloyd Webber

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, joins Christiane Amanpour to talk about the economic consequences of the coronavirus. She says that debt cancellation may be necessary. Esther Perel, psychotherapist and best-selling author of "Mating in Captivity," speaks about the impact this crisis is having on our relational health. She offers up innovative ways to cope in these unprecedented times - from harnessing our imagination and getting creative in lockdown to communicating honestly with one another. Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota Peggy Flanagan opens up to our Michel Martin about losing her brother to Covid-19. She explains how Native Americans - like Hispanic and African American communities- are being disproportionately hit. Then the world-renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber plays one of his most famous tunes from his home in Hampshire, England. He reflects on the impact this pandemic is having on Broadway and the West End and why he decided to stream "Phantom of The Opera" online free of charge.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.

0:09.0

What's the pathway out of the great economic depression and not just for the 1% I ask the head of the IMF

0:17.4

then our relationships with lockdown and under lockdown tens of millions tune in for therapy with Esther Perrael.

0:26.0

We get her top tips for couples, quarantine and more.

0:30.0

Also ahead.

0:31.0

40% of Americans don't realize that Native American people still exist.

0:37.0

Minnesota's lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan talks to our Michelle Martin about the devastating impact of coronavirus on Native Americans and her own tragedy, losing her brother to the disease.

0:49.0

Plus... Still making music, composer Andrew Lloyd Weber pulls back the curtain on his lockdown performance. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane Juan Paul working from home in London.

1:22.0

Nearly half a century of continuous economic growth in

1:25.9

China is over. New figures show it contracting 6.8% in the first quarter of this year

1:32.0

according to the Chinese government itself.

1:35.0

Now with the global economy so heavily dependent on China, this exposes an immense challenge ahead.

1:41.0

And it explains why President Trump and other world leaders

1:44.9

are so eager to restart their own frozen economies. This week saw unemployment

1:50.3

continue to soar in the United States and around the world.

1:54.0

The question for everyone, will this all change after lockdowns are lifted

1:59.0

or will they be a much longer term impact?

2:02.0

With me now is Krista Gorgieva. a much longer term impact.

2:02.6

With me now is Kristalina Gorgieva head of the International Monetary Fund.

2:07.8

The IMF, which oversees Member States economic development and crucially lends money predicted this year

2:14.8

the global economy will experience its worst recession since the Great

2:19.2

Depression. Madam Gorgioga, welcome to the program.

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