Amanpour: Skye Fitzgerald, Nima Elbagir, Blake Bailey and Thomas Roberts

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A famine is stalking Yemen; with nearly half a million at risk of starving to death. Oscar nominated documentary "Hunger Ward" looks at those bearing the brunt of this tragic reality: children. Director Skye Fitzgerald and international correspondent Nima Elbagir join Christiane Amanpour to discuss what they learnt in covering this humanitarian crisis. Then Blake Bailey, author of "Philip Roth: The Life," discusses the relationships, the obsessions and the legacy of American literary giant Philip Roth. A controversial police encounter occurred in Virginia in December, when Army 2nd Lieutenant Caron Nazario was held at gunpoint and pepper-sprayed by two police officers during a traffic stop and Nazario is suing for one million dollars in damages. His lawyer Thomas Roberts speaks with our Michel Martin about the incident in question. 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	The world's forgotten war. I talk to director Sky Fitzgerald and
0:17.2	correspondent Nema El Baghe about Yemen and the starvation that could wipe out a
0:22.1	whole generation then.
0:24.6	The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Philip Roth.
0:28.4	The life of a literary giant, the late author's official biographer Blake Bailey joins me to discuss Roth's writing and his complicated personal life.
0:38.0	Plus, he has his hands out the window. He's dressed in fatigues from the US Army. He is not representing a danger to anybody.
0:47.0	More police outrage, the attorney for a US Army officer, pepper sprayed by police in Virginia tells Michelle Martin why his
0:55.0	client believed he could have been killed. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London and it's been a major
1:16.5	foreign policy week for President Biden. The Japanese Prime Minister is at the White House
1:21.6	today as the President raises Asia to top
1:25.2	national security priority. On Thursday the United States announced retaliatory
1:29.7	measures against Russia for a massive cyber attack.
1:33.0	That followed Wednesday's declaration
1:36.0	that American troops will all soon leave Afghanistan.
1:39.0	But an ongoing and largely ignored humanitarian crisis in Yemen
1:44.6	could pull the US back to the Middle East.
1:47.4	There are complicated geopolitics at play between Iran and Saudi Arabia,
1:51.5	but bearing the brunt of it all are the children.
1:54.6	A famine is stalking Yemen and they are literally starving to death.
1:58.9	Nearly half a million children are at risk.
2:01.7	It's a devastating reality for an entire generation.
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