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Amanpour

On the frontlines of Ukraine's counteroffensive

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Ukrainian counteroffensive continues, advancing for the second time in two weeks in the southeast of the country with the recapture of the village of Urozhaine. Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh has been with a Ukrainian brigade involved in that fight.  Also on today's show: Russian economist Sergei Guriev; Eric Newman, executive producer of the new Netflix drama "Painkiller"; Stanley Nelson and Valerie Scoon, co-directors of the new documentary, “Sound of the Police”  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 Amman Four. Here's what's coming up. Many have

0:09.9

died to take each kilometer.

0:13.0

Ukraine makes gains in its grueling counter-offensive.

0:16.5

Correspondent Nick Payton Walsh reports from the outskirts of a newly

0:20.3

liberated Ukrainian village.

0:22.3

Then Russia's Rubel tumbles, what's behind the squeeze on its wartime economy?

0:28.3

I ask economics professor Sergei Gurev.

0:31.7

Also ahead.

0:32.6

How can something legally prescribed be killing so many people?

0:36.6

The story of those who won and lost in the opioid crisis,

0:41.1

told in a new Netflix drama, Painkiller.

0:44.4

I speak to executive producer Eric Newman.

0:47.8

And how these cops operate in this country has been America's dirty secret.

0:52.4

An unflinching look at the relationship between black people and law enforcement.

0:57.0

Harry Sri Navasan speaks to director Stanley Nelson and Valerie Scoon

1:01.0

about their new documentary, Sound of the Police. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Bianna Goladriga in

1:23.0

sitting in for Christiane Amanpur. Ukraine has been pleading for over a year

1:28.0

for coveted American F-16 fighter jets to help defend its skies.

1:32.6

But today, Kieve says it does not expect any deliveries in 2023.

1:36.8

That's according to a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force.

1:40.2

Training for Ukrainian pilots on the much anticipated planes was supposed to begin this month,

1:45.0

but U.S. officials previously said that they were still waiting for a final plan from their European counterparts before that could begin.

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