Can the UN do anything to mitigate global crises?

Amanpour

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Christiane is at the United Nations, where world leaders are gathering for their first in-person general assembly in three years – just as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin decided to call up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine. It’s a massive escalation amid his troops’ recent setbacks on the battlefield and comes just after officials in several occupied regions of Ukraine said they will hold referendums on formally joining Russia this week. It adds to a perfect storm of global crises, yet organizations like the UN seem largely incapable of working as a mechanism for peace and stability. Spain is a key NATO member and announced a boost in military spending when it hosted NATO’s summit in Madrid this summer. Its prime minister Pedro Sanchez joins Christiane in New York. Also on today's show: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen; Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. 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.
0:09.0	I think it is necessary to support the decision to partially mobilize citizens of Russian Federation.
0:17.0	Widespread condemnation as the Russian President Vladimir Putin calls up reservists to fight in Ukraine.
0:24.5	As world leaders gather here in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, we get
0:29.1	reaction from a key NATO member, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the President of the
0:35.1	European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. Then... People really need to
0:39.2	understand just how politicized things are right now.
0:43.4	Journalist Jennifer Berkshire speaks to Hari Sri
0:45.9	Rina Vassen about the state of public education in America. And then Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur at the United Nations in
1:08.9	New York, whereas world leaders gather behind me for their first in-person General Assembly.
1:14.5	In three years since the COVID crisis, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to call
1:19.5	up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine, a massive escalation amid his troops recent setbacks on the battlefield.
1:28.0	Now, the announcement comes just after officials in several occupied regions of Ukraine said
1:34.3	that they would hold referendums on formally joining Russia this week. It's a move
1:39.4	that's been widely condemned as a sham by the Western Alliance. In his address, President
1:45.1	Biden said that Russia's invasion is about extinguishing Ukraine's right to
1:49.6	exist as a state. Take a listen.
1:51.6	Now Russia is calling up more soldiers to join the fight and the Kremlin is organizing a sham
2:02.3	referendum to try to annex parts of Ukraine an extremely
2:07.6	significant violation of the UN Charter.
2:12.8	This world should see these outrageous acts for what they are.
2:17.2	Putin claims he had to act because Russia was threatened, but no one threatened Russia and no one other than Russia sought conflict.
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