Amanpour: Luiz Henrique Mandetta, Mariana Mazzucato, Mark Cuban and Hassan Akkad

Amanpour

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As coronavirus infections in Latin America sky-rocket, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro continues to dismiss the virus as a 'little flu'. Christiane Amanpour speaks to Luiz Henrique Mandetta, Brazil's former Health Minister, who sparred publicly with President Bolsonaro over his handling of the crisis. Mariana Mazzucato, professor of economics at University College London, reflects on the damage COVID-19 has caused across the globe, and digs into how the crisis could spark a move towards fairer economic systems. Our Walter Isaacson speaks to Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, about the challenge for American business, and his plans to get his team back on the court. And Christiane speaks to Hassan Akkad, a Syrian refugee and film maker now working as a cleaner in the COVID ward of his local hospital in London.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	Brazil records its highest daily death toll yet as the President
0:14.8	Jaibol Sonaro continues to dismiss the coronavirus threat.
0:19.2	We get the story from the health minister he fired, Louise Henrico Mandetta.
0:25.0	Then, as recession looms large for the United States and many economies, can a fairer and more
0:31.1	equal society emerge? Economist Mariana Mazzuccato on her way forward.
0:37.0	Plus, Desper Times call for different if not desperate measures and that's where we are now.
0:42.0	Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban talks to
0:44.4	our Walter Isakson about getting the NBA back on court and small business
0:48.8	back on its feet. And the Syrian refugee turned filmmaker and now hospital worker, the amazing story of Hassan Akad. So, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in London.
1:23.4	As nations around the world wrestle with reopening their societies, a reminder of the dire health
1:29.2	emergency still out there.
1:31.6	Coronovirus infections in Latin America's largest country
1:35.2	are skyrocketing and this week saw Brazil's deadliest day yet with 881 deaths
1:41.8	taking the total to over 12,000.
1:44.9	In the capital Brasilia, dozens of nurses
1:47.7	gathered to pay tribute to many of their own colleagues
1:50.3	who've also died from the virus.
1:53.0	Yet, the President Jaya Bolsonaro, known as the Trump of the Tropics, consistently plays down the threat.
2:00.0	He's even called it a little flu, and he regularly flout social distancing guidelines.
2:06.0	Like many world leaders, Bolsonaro is desperate to get his crashing economy humming again.
2:12.0	He's urging businesses to reopen across the country while
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