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Amanpour: Vali Nasr, Karl Sharro, Julie Andrews and Ev Williams

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Vali Nasr, professor of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, and Karl Sharro, the Lebanese-Iraqi satirist, join Christiane Amanpour to dissect the motivations behind the deadly protests in Iraq. Julie Andrews, the Oscar-winning actress best known for her iconic roles in "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music," talks candidly about the highs and lows of Hollywood and penning her new memoir "Home Work." Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Ev Williams the co-founder of Twitter, to discuss his new publishing platform Medium and why he's focusing on more nuanced, quality content. He also digs into why Twitter needs to take more responsibility.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.

0:07.0

Deadly protests rock Baghdad with one year until America's election we dive into a

0:17.4

foreign policy issue that's plagued US presidents for decades, Iraq.

0:23.0

Then, I was gobsmacked and I said,

0:25.0

oh, Mr Disney, I would be loved to,

0:28.0

but I'm so sorry I'm pregnant.

0:30.0

From Mary Poppins,

0:31.0

it's super-calophagulistic,

0:34.5

X the allidocious.

0:36.0

To Maria von Trapp and much more,

0:38.5

National Treasure Julie Andrews reflects on the ups and downs of her dazzling career.

0:44.0

And...

0:45.0

Turns out there's enough bad actors in the whole world to wreak a lot of havoc.

0:49.0

Twitter's Toxic Side,

0:51.0

our Walter Isakson challenges company co-founder

0:53.5

Ev Williams on how to rein in the madness. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. The countdown is on to the US presidential election.

1:17.0

Yes, a year from now the American people will go to the polls and they'll choose whether to keep President Trump in office or to replace

1:24.1

him. With all the impeachment news on the domestic front it is easy to lose sight of

1:28.7

critical issues that are going on beyond the borders. One such example, Iraq, where the United States is

1:35.2

heavily invested and where American presidents have struggled for decades.

1:39.6

Of course President Bush invaded back in 2003 in the country is still wounded by war and

1:44.8

divisions but after two years of relative stability deadly protests seem to

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