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Amanpour

Rubberstamping Putin's forever presidency

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In Russia this weekend, an election that's more of a rubber-stamp on Putin’s eternal presidency. Any real opposition to him or his war in Ukraine has been brutally crushed - both inside and outside the country. Christiane speaks to John Sullivan - America’s ambassador to Moscow under Presidents Trump and Biden. Meantime, with northern Gaza on the brink of famine, the first aid ship is arriving from Cyprus. And for the first time in weeks, a UN food convoy managed to reach Gaza city using a new military road. But experts say it's not nearly enough to stem the suffering. In a world exclusive interview, Queen Rania of Jordan tells Christiane how her country is helping get airdrops to starving people.  Then, Christiane speaks to NASA administrator Bill Nelson just after the latest SpaceX rocket launch. It is a critical time for NASA. Its just had its budget cut. Its Artemis manned moon mission is behind schedule. And now China and Russia are talking about a nuclear power plant on the lunar surface. Nelson explains how the moon's untapped resources will help us get to Mars - plus its search for a new crop of wannabe Martians! From the Amanpour Archive this week: Christiane's report from 90s Haiti - and the country's unending cycle of violence and poverty - just before the US restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.  And finally, in our Letter from London, it's the return of a smash hit play the Guardian calls "a moving meditation on Black masculinity and Black life in Britain." It’s called “For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue gets too heavy." It’s back in the West End after a sellout first run. That's where Christiane met playwright Ryan Calais Cameron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Exchange fees and fair usage limits apply. Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpur hour. Here's where we're headed this week. Nuclear saber rattling and

0:46.0

election engineering Putin tightens his grip as Russia's longest serving

0:50.6

leaders since Stalin. Then air drops, aid and the humanitarian disaster in

0:55.9

Gaza, my exclusive interview with Queen Rania of Jordan. Israel experienced

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one October 7th.

1:03.0

Since then, the Palestinians have experienced 156 October 7th.

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Then, U.S. Marines and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring Haiti back from the brink of civil war

1:14.0

flashback to the 90s in this unending cycle of poverty and violence.

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Also this hour Martians wanted NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on new Red Planet recruits and

1:25.6

Elon Musk exploding rockets. And finally the smash-hit West End play that

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meditates on being young and black in Britain.

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There are stories out there that need to be told for people that look like me.

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