Amanpour: Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy, Sara Goldrick-Rab and Will.i.am

Amanpour

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🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek Prime Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour from Athens to discuss how his country is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and what the country are doing to protect its thousands of refugees who are unable to social distance or isolate safely. Airforce General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, Commander of United States Northern Command, talks about leading the fight against Covid-19 and defending the homeland from this new threat. Our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of higher education and sociology at Temple University, about how college students in the U.S. who were already struggling to pay rent, hold down a job and go to class are now in an even worse situation. Will.i.am, the award-winning musician, reveals the process of creating his new single "Sing for Life," with Bono, Jennifer Hudson and Japanese rock star Yoshiki whilst in isolation. He explains how he was inspired by the resilience of people around the world during these uncertain and scary times.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.
0:10.0	What world needs now, Solidate.
0:13.0	The United Nations calls for a united response to coronavirus,
0:18.0	but the cracks are showing in Europe and in the United States.
0:21.0	The Greek Prime Minister joins me for an exclusive interview
0:24.9	and General Terence O'Shaughnessy joins me
0:27.7	the designated survivor who would lead the United States
0:31.1	in a worst case scenario. Then that college degree is the thing
0:35.2	that most likely is going to help them get out of poverty and now they're essentially
0:40.0	trapped. The crisis facing students out of school and out of work. Plus.
0:45.4	Say you're never alone. And again.
0:50.4	Say as an act of resistance.
0:55.0	Artist and producer Will I Am on joining forces with Bono to make a song for life. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London working from home
1:19.0	broadcasting to you from here. Now the United Nations is calling for a global solidarity, a
1:25.3	unified action to battle this coronavirus. Here in the UK a 13-year-old boy has died of
1:32.2	the illness. Hosp hospitals are overwhelmed, and a row has broken out about the lack of testing
1:38.8	despite the British government's promise to ramp up that testing.
1:42.8	As cases surge and peaks are yet to be attained around the world,
1:46.5	nations that could cooperate instead
1:49.4	are fighting to acquire much-needed life-saving equipment for themselves.
1:54.0	There's even in the United States competition between states as the US now has the most infections in the world.
2:01.0	This as President Trump gets somber about the prognosis.
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