Reporting from the UN General Assembly

Amanpour

CNN

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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First: As the UN General Assembly meets in New York City, Ireland Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaks about the fight against imperialism, the importance of Ireland not being a member of NATO, the climate crisis, advocacy for a unified Ireland, and the UK's recent Northern Ireland Troubles Act. Next: Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong speaks about Canada and India's mutual expulsion of diplomats over alleged Indian government connection to the murder of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. She also discusses obstacles to global peace, Australia's environmentalist goals, and Indigenous recognition in the Australian constitution. Then: UN Secretary-General António Guterres discusses the state of the war in Ukraine, and advocates for military support for Ukraine. Later: Writer Diana B. Henriques discusses on the Great Depression, the New Deal, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and her book, Taming the Street. 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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:10.0	President Biden leads world leaders at the UN summit what will be accomplished.
0:15.0	I speak to a key EU leader, Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadka,
0:20.0	and from the Asia Pacific Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
0:23.4	Then, no one ever said that this was going to be easy, the offensive.
0:28.7	It was clearly stated that this was going to be a bloody, difficult and hard offensive.
0:33.6	Will Ukraine overwhelm the agenda?
0:36.2	Ayaas, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg,
0:39.2	who warns we're in for a long war.
0:41.9	And Walter Isaacson talks to financial journalist
0:44.9	Diana Enriches about how America's financial security
0:49.2	is on the ballot in 2024. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur at the United Nations in New York where more than a hundred world
1:15.1	leaders are gathering to discuss pressing world issues from climate to grinding poverty. President Biden called for cooperation in the face of these
1:25.5	challenges here's what he said. My fellow leaders we gather once more at an inflection point in world history with the eyes of the
1:35.7	world upon all of you all of us as president United States I understand the duty my country has to lead in this critical moment.
1:46.7	To work with countries in every region, linking them in common cause, to join together with partners who share a common vision of the future
1:56.2	of the world.
1:59.7	The Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Chinese President Xi Jinping are missing in action
2:05.2	here. In fact President Biden is the only president and leader of the G of the
2:10.5	Security Council. But President Volodia Mearselenski is also there,
2:14.5	and both of them stand together at this critical time
2:17.1	as an alliance for the defense of democracy.
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