Amanpour: Mohammad Shtayyeh, Philip Hammond, Ahmed Albasheer

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mohammad Shtayyeh, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss President Trump's Middle East Peace Plan, which Palestine lies at the heart of but apparently had no say in. He explains how this came about and why he refuses to back it. Philip Hammond, former British Foreign Secretary, reflects on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's support of the plan as well as Brexit and the future of UK politics. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Ahmed Albasheer, host and director of the "Albasheer Show," to talk about his show, the ongoing protests in Iraq and his personal story.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	This is a total disastrous situation which is a serious departure from what the whole
0:15.4	international order is about.
0:17.3	Palestinians reject the US peace plan, the rest of the region is lukewarm.
0:22.1	We hear from the Palestinian Prime Minister and...
0:25.0	Mr Speaker, let's be clear this is a problem that has bedeviled the world for decades and the Middle East of course in particular.
0:32.0	No peace plan is perfect.
0:34.0	The British Prime Minister supports Trump's plan while also seeking a post Brexit US trade deal.
0:40.0	But is this in Britain's best interest?
0:43.0	Former UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond joins me on the changing dynamics of the special relationship.
0:50.0	So don't worry everyone.
0:51.0	Tonight I'm going to go home and watch frozen from tragedy come satire
0:56.8	journalist and comedian Ahmed al-Bashir tells Harry Srinovasan how his show has become one of the most popular in Iraq. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm
1:18.0	Welcome to the program everyone. I'm
1:20.0	I'm on for in London.
1:22.0	President Trump's Middle East Peace plan, which he described as a win-win for both sides, is strongly
1:27.5	rejected by the Palestinian side.
1:30.3	The plan, which was put together only by the Americans and the Israelis, could turn international
1:35.6	order as we know it upside down.
1:38.4	Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now saying that he wants to act quickly to extend Israeli sovereignty and
1:45.0	law over the strategically important Jordan Valley and most Jewish settlements
1:49.6	in the West Bank. Both Trump and Netanyahu predicted support in the region, yet so far no
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