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Amanpour: Ron Howard, Anjan Sundaram, Jaime Casap, and Firooz Zahedi

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Oscar-winning director Ron Howard talks to Christiane Amanpour about his film, "Rebuilding Paradise," which shows the aftermath of California's devastating wildfires. Journalist and author Anjan Sundaram explores the extraordinary story of Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina, who was suspiciously charged with terrorism. Ana Cabrera speaks to Jaime Casap, Former Education Evangelist at Google, about how technology can be used to improve learning experiences. Then, one of Hollywood’s most celebrated photographers, Firooz Zahedi, joins Christiane from Los Angeles to discuss his new book, “Look at Me.” 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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

November 8th.

0:10.0

730 in the morning, this town started to burn down within three hours was gone

0:16.3

Paradise found as fires rage across California Oscar winning director Ron Howard shows us what happens to the people left behind.

0:25.0

Then, I do not leave these people today.

0:28.0

A shocking twist for the real life hero the world knows from Hotel Rwanda,

0:32.0

why he's now under arrest in his own home country.

0:35.3

Plus what I'm hoping that happens through this process is that all of a sudden we see

0:40.8

education as one of the most important priorities that we can focus on.

0:44.4

Google's global education evangelist tells Anna Cabrera how schools can adapt to the

0:49.8

pandemic. And finally, look at me, how Iranian American photographer

0:55.3

Firuz Ahidi got from there to here and helped define an era. I'm Christina Manpur in London.

1:20.0

For weeks the skies over California have looked like this an alternative universe.

1:25.0

The wildfire blazes bleeding into the heavens.

1:28.0

Dozens have raged through California, Washington and Oregon,

1:32.0

scorching millions of hectares of land,

1:35.4

killing residents and destroying homes.

1:38.0

And climate change is the gasoline pouring all over these tinderboxes. This same horror show has played out across the world

1:45.8

in Australia, the Amazon rainforest and even in the Arctic Circle as extreme

1:51.7

weather becomes ever more so. But what happens to people after

1:56.0

the ashes settle? That is the focus of prolific director Ron Howard's latest

2:01.0

documentary, Rebuilding Paradise, which follows the aftermath of the 2018

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