Amanpour: Mikhail Kasyanov, Nina Jankowicz, Jonathan Powell and Gulalai Ismail,

Amanpour

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🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mikhail Kasyanov, former Russian Prime Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss President Erodgan's bloody offensive in Northern Syria caused by President Trump's decision to withdraw troops from the region. He explains the possible impact this will have on U.S. allies. Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, gives her take on President Trump's actions in Ukraine as the U.S. ambassador the to EU testifies in the congressional impeachment inquiry. Jonathan Powell, former chief of staff to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, gives his take on the news that the UK and EU have reached a new Brexit deal. Our Michel Martin sits down with Gulalai Ismail, human rights activist, to discuss her home nation of Pakistan and why she was inspired to become an advocate for victims of alleged sexual abuse by Pakistan's army.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	Trump's top team in Turkey to rein in Erdogan Syria offensive.
0:13.4	One clear winner out of this chaos, Russia.
0:16.3	We talk to the former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.
0:20.3	Then, we have a deal.
0:21.9	Another Prime Minister, another Brexit deal but can this one pass parliament I talked to Tony Blair's former chief of staff Jonathan power
0:30.3	and people were inciting violence against me people would give me death
0:34.8	threat some would give me rape threats a human rights activist since she was
0:38.3	16 Pakistan's Gulala Ismail talks to Michel Martin about standing up against abuse and being forced into hiding. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Top US
1:05.2	officials Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence have made a
1:09.7	desperate attempt to get President Erdogan to stop his bloody offensive in Syria,
1:15.0	after President Trump essentially gave it the green light.
1:18.0	American allies, the ISIS fighting Syrian Kurds, are now holding mass funerals for their dead as they
1:24.4	accused the United States of abandoning them. A humanitarian disaster is
1:28.6	underway amid calls for the UN to somehow stop this. It has transpired that after the backlash against his move
1:35.4	President Trump tried appealing to Erdogan himself through a letter that
1:39.6	surfaced yesterday in which he said don't be a tough guy don't be a fool and back in
1:45.3	Washington house speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed more details about this
1:49.5	contentious meeting with President Trump. I also pointed out to the President I had concerns that the L-road seemed to lead to Putin.
2:02.0	The Russians have been trying to get a foothold in the Middle East
2:06.7	for a very long time unsuccessfully and now the president has given them an opportunity.
2:17.0	This is a mounting concern in the US military and among US allies. Mikhail Kasyanov served as Russia's prime minister during Vladimir Putin's first term,
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