Freed prisoners, the UN general assembly, and HIV/AIDS relief

Amanpour

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Five Americans detained in Iran are free and on their way to the United States, as part of a US-Iran agreement, which also includes the release of $6 billion in Iranian funds for humanitarian use. Christiane is joined by US National Security spokesperson John Kirby, and later by Jared Genser, who represents former detainee Siamak Namazi. As world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, they face cascading challenges – from the war in Ukraine to the critical climate crisis. Christiane sat down with UN Secretary General António Guterres. 20 years ago, President Bush introduced one of the United States’s most successful foreign aid programs, PEPFAR. The plan for AIDS relief has saved 25 million lives but is now under threat. House Republicans are opposing funding for it, which expires at the end of the month, over abortion politics. Steven Thrasher is a HIV and AIDS scholar and joins the show to discuss the global impact of this relief. 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.
0:10.0	Free at last. The nightmare is ending for five Americans detained in Iran.
0:15.0	I speak with US national security spokesman John Kirby about the deal to bring them home
0:20.0	and to lawyer Jared Genser who represents the longest held,
0:24.2	Siamak Namasi.
0:25.6	Then, the Secretary of the United Nations has no power and there's no money.
0:30.0	What we have is a voice and that voice can be loud.
0:34.0	As world leaders gather in New York for their annual UN summit,
0:37.8	I speak to Secretary General Antonio Guterres
0:41.0	about breaking the log jam on climate, peace and equality. Plus...
0:46.0	We first been aware of HIV for more than 40 years now and it's still a pandemic.
0:51.6	It's still killing the better part of the million people for a year.
0:55.0	As Republicans in Congress target George W Bush's PEPFAR, one of the most successful aid programs
1:01.2	of all time, Harry Strinovas and speaks to the scholar Stephen Thrasher
1:05.7	about the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in New York. Five Americans
1:27.1	detained in Iran are free and on their way to the United States. This morning
1:32.2	Siamak Namazie, Emadshari, Morat Tabaz, and two who were not
1:37.1	named boarded a katari jet in Tehran landing in Doha before then traveling to Washington DC.
1:45.0	It's all part of a US-Iran agreement which also includes the release of 6 billion in Iranian funds for humanitarian use.
1:53.4	This marks the end of a years-long nightmare for these detainees.
1:58.0	I spoke with Siamak Namasi in March.
2:00.5	He was so desperate that he called this program from Iran's notorious
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