Amanpour: Senait Fisseha and David Kessler
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur from London. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:07.0 | The window of opportunity is narrowing and the time to act was actually more than a month ago or two months ago. |
| 0:16.5 | I speak to the WHO senior advisor about what can still be done as world leaders finally come together in a virtual summit? |
| 0:25.0 | Then, I was ready to fight Ebola, but I wasn't ready to fight against the trauma of this community. |
| 0:35.0 | A lesson from the front lines fighting Ebola. |
| 0:38.2 | After battling the virus in a war zone, |
| 0:40.6 | the devastated Eastern Congo now braces for a new threat from coronavirus. the people, our work, everything has changed. |
| 0:54.2 | Behind the spiking death toll or individual lives lost, |
| 0:58.1 | our Michelle Martin speaks with grief.com founder David Kessler. |
| 1:02.6 | And finally a spiritual balm, an ode to joy. playing Beethoven's ninth and proving that creativity won't be stifled by social isolation. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. |
| 1:39.3 | Coronavirus is a global war in urgent need of a global response and so an extraordinary |
| 1:45.4 | virtual global summit took place today as Chinese President Xi Jinping, the US President |
| 1:51.0 | Donald Trump, another G20 leaders finally met via teleconference to unite |
| 1:56.4 | their efforts towards fighting this pandemic. The WHO has been calling for world leadership |
| 2:02.2 | to share resources and information. |
| 2:04.5 | Just yesterday, a meeting of the G7 most powerful economies fizzled after the United States |
| 2:10.2 | insisted on playing name and blame games, calling COVID-19 the Wuhan virus. |
| 2:16.3 | Meanwhile, the world economy is tumbling toward recession. |
| 2:20.0 | In the United States, 3.3 million workers filed for unemployment benefits, it's the highest |
| 2:26.1 | number ever reported. |
| 2:28.1 | But it simply isn't accurate to say that no one could have foreseen this pandemic as President Trump and some other leaders |
| 2:34.1 | claim. In the United States war gaming for these catastrophes is a matter of |
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