Putin’s pawns in the high-stakes game of hostage diplomacy

Amanpour

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🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We begin this hour with Putin’s political pawns, and the dangerous hostage diplomacy at play in the Kremlin. It’s now a year since the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich became the first American journalist detained on espionage charges since the Cold War. Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of jailed Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, discusses the fight to free Russia's political prisoners. In a significant sign of growing dissent inside the Biden camp over the Gaza crisis, US State Department staffer Annelle Sheline resigned in protest this week. She tells Christiane why her job to advocate for human rights had become impossible. Then, Zahiro-Shahar Mor, whose elderly uncle is still captive in Gaza, accuses the Israeli government of misleading the public, and failing the remaining hostages. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Starlink internet satellite system has become vital to Ukrainian troops, especially its drone pilots. But now it’s being used against them by Russian soldiers, who were never meant to have access to it. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh investigates how Russia appears to be bypassing US sanctions. From the Amanpour Archive this week, Christiane's 2015 interview with Gloria Steinem, whose tireless advocacy and undercover journalism made her a global feminist icon. And finally, after seeing his family's home destroyed in Gaza, and fleeing one bombing after another, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha eventually found refuge in Egypt with his wife and children. Christiane asks Mosab to read a poem inspired by the life and home he left behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Ammonpour hour. Here's where we're headed this week.
0:11.0	He is a dictator and a usurper.
0:14.0	It's time the free world finally said so.
0:16.0	Putin's pawns, the wife of Russia's most high profile political prisoner,
0:21.0	reacts to the year-long detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich.
0:25.8	Journalism being equated with espionage, seriously, that is a hostage situation. Then why this State Department staff are quit over the
0:36.4	humanitarian crisis in Gaza. People are shocked and appalled by what the
0:40.9	U.S government is doing. The relative of an Israeli hostage
0:44.3	who was arrested at an anti-government protest accuses Netanyahu of
0:49.2	deliberately slow-walking ceasefire talks. The Israeli public is being pumped with,
0:54.0	together we will win, together we will win and we're not winning.
0:59.0	Also this hour, how did Elon Musk's satellite internet system fall into Russian hands?
1:05.0	And from my archive, the legendary feminist Gloria Steinem turns 90. to you. Welcome to the program everyone.
1:16.3	I'm Christiane, I'm Kristiana Manpur in London and we begin this hour with Putin's
1:20.0	political pawns and the dangerous hostage diplomacy at play in the Kremlin.
1:25.3	It's now one year since the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich became the first American
1:30.8	journalist detained on espionage charges since the Cold War.
1:35.4	He was on assignment with press credentials given to him by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
1:39.8	There's zero evidence to support their charges. And his family and the journal and the US
1:45.6	government deny all the allegations against him. In a moment I'll introduce you
1:50.2	to Evgenia Karamorza, her husband Vladimir, who's a British Russian citizen, is one of
1:56.3	roughly 700 political prisoners in Russia.
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