From COP30 to Ukraine: Power, Resistance, and Resilience

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore joins Christiane to discuss the COP30 climate summit and U.S. politics. Then, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter talk about their reunion, this time for a bold new Broadway production of “Waiting for Godot.” In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians have surged, CNN brings a special report from the ground. Plus, a taste of Ukrainian soft power as a London chef who once fought on the frontlines brings his country’s culture to the table. And from Christiane’s archive, Holocaust survivor and resistance fighter Selma van de Perre reflects on survival, courage, and the cost of defiance. Air date: November 15, 2025 Guests: Al Gore Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter Eugene Korolev & Polina Sychova Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpur Hour.
0:10.0	Here's where we're headed this week.
0:12.0	From the COP summit in Brazil, the former US Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore,
0:18.0	on US climate leadership, that Bill Gates 180, and what he thinks of the trouncing
0:23.2	Democrats just gave Trump at the latest elections.
0:25.9	Well, people who go into the grocery store and look at the prizes, they believe their
0:30.9	eyes rather than the falsehoods that Donald Trump continues to put out.
0:36.5	Then, front row at one of Broadway's most hyped and most expensive shows.
0:41.3	Ceremonious ape, puntilious pig.
0:43.3	Finish a phrase, I tell you.
0:44.3	Finish your own.
0:45.3	Moron.
0:46.3	That's the idea. Let's abuse each other.
0:48.3	Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter tell me why they are reuniting to wait for Godo.
0:53.3	Plus, The devastating attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.
1:01.0	We have a special report.
1:03.0	Also ahead, a taste of Ukrainian independence via the kitchen
1:07.0	as we visit the new London restaurant whose head chef wrote recipes as he was fighting on his country's front lines.
1:14.6	And remembering Selma van der Paer from my archive, my conversation with the Dutch Holocaust survivor and resistance fighter,
1:22.6	how she fought through her fears and never gave up against the Nazis.
1:26.6	I didn't want the Germans to have the satisfaction of killing me.
1:35.3	Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London.
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