Amanpour: Sadiq Khan, Nachman Ash, Dana Priest and Michael Pollan

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As virtually all coronavirus rules are lifted in England, London's Mayor Sadiq Khan joins Christiane Amanpour to explain that he does support the easing of restrictions but urges people to get vaccinated, saying "the virus is still with us". Then the Director-general of Israel's Health Ministry Nachman Ash discusses his country's fight against Covid-19 as the Delta variant hits. The Washington Post's Dana Priest talks about the sophisticated technology used to spy on journalists, activists and two women linked to Jamal Khashoggi. And our Walter Isaacson speaks to Michael Pollan, author of "This Is Your Mind On Plants," about the way we think about drugs, from psychedelics and opioids to the caffeine in tea and coffee. 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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0:30.1	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:37.0	I'm a little bit nervous about the whole thing coming to an end. England marks Freedom Day with COVID cases rising and a Prime Minister in isolation.
0:50.0	I talked to the London Mayor Sedi Khan about the wisdom of lifting all restrictions now and what comes next.
0:56.0	Then, the virus won't stop.
0:58.0	It is evolving, it is nature.
1:01.0	Israeli doctors on the front lines of the battle between vaccines and variants.
1:05.5	Health Ministry Director General Nachman Ash joins me with lessons from his highly vaccinated
1:10.4	country.
1:11.7	Also ahead. They can get your location, they can get all your
1:13.8	emails, you get all of your social media, they get all your pictures, they get all
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