Amanpour: Linas Linkevičius, Andrei Sannikov, Bill Gates and Jeffrey Toobin

Amanpour

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Police and protesters clash in the streets of Belarus over the disputed sixth term election victory of President Alexander Lukashenko. His opponent, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was detained on Sunday after filing a complaint about vote rigging and has now fled to neighboring Lithuania. Christiane Amanpour speaks to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius about the latest developments and Tikhanovskaya's experience. Then former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, who ran against Lukashenko in 2010, talks about his own mistreatment at the hands of Lukashenko’s regime and the need for international sanctions. Our Walter Isaacson speaks to Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates, about his fight to improve global health through the Gates Foundation, the search for a coronavirus vaccine and why he thinks much of the testing currently being done in the U.S. is useless. And President Trump continues the fight to keep his financial history a secret, his lawyers are now arguing that he’s being “harassed”. Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst and author of "True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump" joins Christiane to unpick the facts of the case. 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.
0:08.0	I speak to Lithuania's foreign minister shielding the opposition leader from Belarus after
0:14.3	she tried to crack what's called Europe's last dictatorship.
0:18.2	And just what is it like to run against President for Life Alexander Lukashenko? We find out from one who tried and was forced into exile.
0:26.0	Then, it'll keep coming back to the US and disrupt everything we do until we stop it everywhere in the world.
0:33.2	Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates talks to our Walter Isakson about fighting the
0:37.4	coronavirus on a global scale.
0:40.0	Plus President Trump keeps on fighting to keep his tax returns away from investigators.
0:46.0	We get the latest on the Trump travails from legal analyst Jeffrey Tubin. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane, I'm
1:06.0	Amunpur in London. The latest showdown over democracy is taking place in
1:10.4	Belarus. Demonstrators have been clashing with armed police there after a
1:14.8	disputed election result saw forever President Alexander Lukashenko sweep
1:19.6	to yet another victory. These are the biggest protests in his 26-year rule over that
1:25.2	former Soviet state and this all down to his opponent Svetlana Ticanovskaya.
1:30.5	She started her candidacy as a stand-in for her jailed husband, but she became a powerful
1:36.6	challenger in her own right, drawing tens of thousands of people to her rallies. After the government reported that she won just 10% of the vote in Sunday's election,
1:46.4	she went to file her complaint about vote rigging,
1:49.4	but ended up being held for seven hours by the authorities.
1:52.8	She then fled to neighboring Lithuania.
1:55.5	In an emotional statement posted on YouTube today,
1:58.6	she implied that she left to keep her children safe,
2:01.8	and she begged protesters to be careful.
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