Will conflict in the Middle East impact the US election?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How important is the United States when it comes to resolving conflict in the Middle East, and how much power does the U.S. president really have in the region? With the election just weeks away, Justin and Sarah look at how the conflict might affect voters, and what it means for both Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s presidential campaigns. CNN’s Chief International Anchor, Christiane Amanpour joins Justin and Sarah, sharing her insights and contacts from the region.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America Editor
GUEST: • Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Anchor
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's all very combustible, isn't it? |
| 0:07.0 | Huge violence in the Middle East and an American election about to happen. |
| 0:11.0 | Two questions then. |
| 0:12.0 | Does the election affect the conflict in the |
| 0:15.3 | Middle East and does the conflict affect the election in America? Those two |
| 0:20.8 | questions of course both hugely important important both hugely complex and the answer to each of them can be yes or no |
| 0:27.7 | So they don't necessarily cancel each other out, but there's no question at all that what is happening in the Middle East |
| 0:34.0 | matters in America and what happens in America matters in the Middle East. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 0:42.0 | AmeriCast. |
| 0:43.0 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 0:46.0 | There was blood pouring everywhere and yet I had God on my side. |
| 0:51.0 | So I decided the best way forward is to pass the torch for a new generation. |
| 0:54.8 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 0:57.6 | We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies. |
| 1:01.2 | You know it, you feel it it these guys are creepy and yes just |
| 1:04.7 | weird as hell. |
| 1:05.7 | Let Trump, a mania, run wild brother. |
| 1:09.0 | Let us choose Joy! Hello, it's Sarah, and I'm in the BBC's Bureau in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:26.5 | And it's Justin in the Worldwide Headquarters of America, |
| 1:28.8 | in London, England. |
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