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Amanpour

‘Not another nickel’ for Israel's war

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Every week more and more Democrats are expressing frustration with American policy on Israel and the war in Gaza. Some heavyweights, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are now even joining the call for the U.S. to stop arms transfers to Israel. Senator Bernie Sanders has been one of the loudest voices on this issue. At 82 years old, he manages to be the voice of young liberals, and warns that if President Biden doesn't change tack on the Israel war, and doesn’t expand his economic policy for working families, he could lose in November. Senator Sanders joins Christiane from Washington. Then, the unbelievable life story of the newly elected New York City Council Member Yusef Salaam. He was just 15 when he, and four other teens, were falsely accused of raping a jogger in central park in 1989. The media went all-out, assuming their guilt and the group became known as the "Central Park Five.” Salaam spent nearly seven years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He and the others were exonerated after the real perpetrator confessed and submitted DNA to prove it. But Salaam refused to be beaten by bitterness, and began this year being sworn in as the councilor for Harlem. He speaks with Christiane about all of it as they sit down together in Manhattan. This Sunday marks a decade since terror became reality in Chibok, Nigeria, sparking a global cry to 'bring back our girls', when nearly 300 innocent students were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants. Many of those taken have yet to return home. And kidnapping has become a recurring horror in the country. Now, CNN’s Stephanie Busari takes us to where tragedy unfolded, as part of CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality called As Equals. Also in this week's show, Bill Weir, CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent who has spent years covering our warming planet, says there is still room for hope, despite all the despair surrounding climate change. His book , ‘Life as we know it (can be)’, goes on sale on April 16th. He joins Christiane in New York. From the Amanpour Archive: With war raging in Gaza, the Israeli Palestinian conflict may feel more intractable than ever. Peace may feel like a distant possibility. But there was a time when Northern Ireland felt like that too. After decades of brutal sectarian conflict and terrorist violence, its leaders and its people bravely chose peace. And this week they celebrated 26 years since the Good Friday Agreement that secured it. It remains one of the United States' greatest diplomatic triumphs as President Bill Clinton and Senator George Mitchell brokered the talks. Along with British Prime minister tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, and of course Northern Irish leaders themselves, they got the deal over the line. And last year, on its 25th anniversary Christiane travelled to Belfast to speak to Clinton, Blair, and Ahern. A peacemaker’s reunion. We revisit some of that historic conversation. We end the hour with a little opera for the soul. And a history making show at the Met in New York. “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” by the Grammy-award winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard, made history as the first work by a Black composer at the Metropolitan Opera in its 138-year history. And now it's back. Christiane went to the Metropolitan Opera House to meet him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunfor hour here's where we're headed this week.

0:12.0

I think our policy has got to be very clear, not another nickel.

0:17.0

Conditioning USAID to Israel to stop the carnage in Gaza,

0:21.0

Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont joins me.

0:24.0

Then, one of the exonerated Central Park Five,

0:27.0

Youssef Salaam tells me about his extraordinary journey

0:31.0

from prisoner to elected New York City Council member.

0:35.0

Having been run over by the cycles of justice,

0:39.0

I thought that that was the end of my life.

0:42.0

Plus, I believe she's alive. She life. Plus, I believe she's alive.

0:43.3

She's my blood and I believe she's alive.

0:45.4

The story that gripped the world.

0:47.5

Ten years since Boko Haram

0:49.7

kidnapped almost 300 Nigerian school girls, some have still to return.

0:55.0

And the art of the possible 26 years since brokering peace in Northern Ireland,

1:01.0

a look back at my interview with the leaders behind this historic peace deal.

1:05.4

I still believe that people everywhere would prefer to work together than be at war.

1:11.4

Also this hour staying positive despite the dread plaguing the planet,

1:16.8

America's chief climate correspondent Bill Weir.

1:19.8

It's sort of a double-edged coin.

1:21.3

You gotta hold sort of fear and hope in your head at the same time.

1:27.0

Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in New York this week.

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