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And welcome to the Amanpour Hour. Here's where we're headed this week. First Cop 30. Now the G20. Trump snubs another crucial summit, this time accusing South African hosts of genocide against white farmers. Really? I asked their foreign minister. And the iceman cometh the dragnet, terrorizing immigrant communities as the army patrols American cities. Now retired three star General Russell honorary raises the alarm.
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We don't do that kind of stuff in America. It's not normal.
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Then brutal violence in Mozambique as ISIS surges in the absence of usaid. We have a special report. Also ahead, actor, artist, muse, Oscar winner Tilda Swinton on the collaborations that have defined her career. And the wonder of being weird.
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Everybody feels like a freak. There will be people listening here now who will say I never did. Not true.
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Then. The trial of Germany's war leaders has moved towards a climax. Eighty years since the Nuremberg trials brought justice to senior Nazis. From my archives, what the trial's chief prosecutor Ben Ferencz told me about working one of the most important criminal cases of all time. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiane Amanpour in New York this week, another global summit, another US Boycott. Yes, neither President Trump nor any of his senior cabinet officials will join leaders of the world's richest and most powerful nations in South Africa this weekend for the G20. Remember that oval Office meltdown during President Cyril Ramaphosa's visit earlier this year? Well, Trump has nixed the G20, saying South Africa shouldn't even be it after what he calls a genocide against white farmers there. That claim is false, widely refuted by Pretoria and the actual facts. So I asked South Africa's foreign minister Ronald Lamola for his reaction and about the hundreds of Palestinians who've been flown from Gaza to South Africa under mysterious circumstances. Foreign Minister, welcome to the program.
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Thank you very much, Christian. And to all the viewers, first, your.
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Reaction to what you might have heard President Trump saying in the Oval Office, that all these policies, your discrimination against members of the South African community. He means the whites make it, you know, somewhere where he's not going to go.
D (2:42)
Yeah. Thank you. It is indeed a great week for us. We are upbeat as South Africa. I did hear President Trump with regards to what you said. He has said in the White House which is not based on any truthful information with regards to South Africa. South Africa has got a history of apartheid, a history of inequality which was race based. And there is a need to have policies that aim to address these issues of the past, the past imbalances on the basis of race. And these policies are informed by our constitution. And there is enough safeguards. There is no arbitrary processes. There is courts, there is parliament, there is debates, including organizations of Africaners do have challenges in our country, but they believe that there is enough safeguards in the country within its constitution to address all the issues that the country might be suffering and including the crime challenge that we are facing. It affects everyone. Black, white, Indians, all races are affected by crime. So there is no targeted persecution of any race. So from our perspective, the G20 will go on.
