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Robert Capa’s ‘lost’ D-Day photos may never have been shot at all, says his former editor
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
Legendary war photographer Robert Capa may have never shot the supposedly lost photos of the D-Day landings in Normandy, his former editor, John G Morris, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Tuesday.
Until now, it was widely accepted that Capa had taken 106 pictures on that day but only 11 iconic ones survived, thanks to a mistake in the darkroom.
But Morris, who was Capa’s editor at Life Magazine at the time and responsible for getting the pictures onto the frontage, told Amanpour this may not have been the case after all.
“It now seems that maybe there was nothing on the other three rolls to begin with. Experts recently have said you can't melt the emulsion off films like that and he just never shot them,” Morris said.
After tensions, Japan-China relations normalizing, says former Australian PM Kevin Rudd
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
There are several reasons to believe that long-time rivals China and Japan have entered a period of “renormalization” of relations, Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe broke the ice with a somewhat anxious handshake Monday at the APEC summit in Beijing.
“I think it's six months of diplomacy, which lie behind that handshake,” Kevin told Amanpour, and that “the meeting between the two, however difficult that was, was the formalization of the beginnings of a renormalization.”
Rudd, now incoming President of the Asia Society Policy Institute, went on to explain why he believes the Japan-China relationship is now in a better place.
Not all foreign fighters in Syria are the same, pleads father whose sons are waging jihad
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
The British government should differentiate between the different types of Western men and women who decide to take up arms and join extremist groups, the father of two British jihadists killed fighting in Syria and terror expert Peter Neumann told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
Abubaker Deghayes, whose two teenage sons were killed while fighting for the Al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, wants “to try to talk to our government and tell them that don't put everybody in one basket” as “there are different types of people who go there.”
A third son of his is still fighting in Syria.
Peter Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, agreed with Deghayes.
Syrian opposition head laments not being Obama Administration’s priority as conflict rages on
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
The President of the Syrian National Coalition expressed his disappointment on Monday that the Obama Administration is not including the country’s opposition in its priorities.
While the current “Administration believes that [Syrian President] Assad will not play any role in the future of Syria,” Hadi al Bahra told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, it is putting far more effort into achieving a nuclear deal with Iran, a close ally of Damascus for decades.
“This Administration, I think, puts much more priority on finalizing its deals on the nuclear program with Iran, and this has number one importance to it, while [the] Syrian people has paid two hundred thousand victims until now, and they see no action from the international community in response to these crimes committed by Assad himself,” al Bahra said.
Amanpour asked the leader of Syria’s moderate opposition when the program to vet, arm and train the country’s moderate rebels, approved by the U.S. Congress in September, was expected to finally get off the ground.
Don’t expect to see breakthroughs in Myanmar in the short term, says U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
As President Barack Obama prepares to visit Myanmar next week for the East Asia and ASEAN Summits, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights and labor said the Administration is not expecting a major leap forward any time soon.
“I don't think we're going to see breakthroughs in the short term. Burma was an opening to a breakthrough and it's one that we always knew would take years to move from its starting point to its finishing point. And we knew the success was not guaranteed and it is still not guaranteed,” Tom Malinowski told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
Myanmar showed some signs of openness and reform in recent years, most notably with the release of the iconic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in late 2010.
Yet fears that reform has stalled and the country’s disgraceful human rights record have put pressure on the international community to intervene.
Journalist facing jail for protecting source assails Obama Administration as ‘the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation’
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
New York Times reporter James Risen, who is facing jail time for refusing to reveal his source for a story, has denounced the Obama Administration as “the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation” in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that aired Thursday.
The current administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers under The Espionage Act than all previous presidents combined.
Risen, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author who was the first – alongside colleague Eric Lichtblau - to uncover the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program on Americans, told Amanpour that he is “trying to uphold the traditions of journalism. And that's what I'm going to continue to do.”
The U.S. government is not happy about a chapter in Risen’s 2006 book “State of War” that looks into a CIA operation that aimed to undermine Iran’s nuclear program.
Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari on bringing 'Rosewater' to the screen
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
It all started with a harmless comedy clip on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, in which satirical correspondent Jason Jones met with journalist Maziar Bahari in a Tehran café.
The clip marked the beginning of a partnership that would lead to Stewart’s directing and screenwriting debut. Or maybe that just happened by chance, Stewart told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Wednesday.
"I had always wanted to be in the Directors' Guild. And so I was looking for anything. And the script had come across – it could have been a Martin Lawrence, Will Smith buddy comedy. It really didn't matter to me,” he joked.
“Rosewater” tells the story of Bahari’s months-long-imprisonment in Iran following his coverage of the 2009 presidential election. Stewart told Amanpour that he and Bahari became friends after the journalist was released.
‘I will not have my own Room of Situations,’ Jon Stewart tells CNN
By Henry Hullah, CNN
Good luck trying to get Jon Stewart to tell you what he’s planning for the future.
“You have to tell me what's going to happen in my life,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Wednesday.
As the satirist’s contract with the “The Daily Show” reportedly comes to an end, Amanpour asked what the future holds – will he continue his journey into directing, or will he stick with his job as the world’s chief political satirist?
“I don't view them as separate entities. I view it all as a process. In my mind, this is all chicken. I'm just making chicken. Sometimes I make cutlets, sometimes I make a nice teriyaki, sometimes I just grind it up and feed it to baby birds. But it's still chicken.”
Could one of these "chickens" one day be a role as a serious news anchor?
Issues lost in horse race for Senate, two U.S. journalists say
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
As America went to the polls on Tuesday, two U.S. journalists told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that the battle for control of the U.S. senate has dominated this midterm election.
“One of the things I find particularly peculiar about this election is that the degree to which it doesn’t seem to be about anything big apart from winning the senate,” said U.S. correspondent for The Guardian Gary Younge.
Joining in the discussion was Brian Lehrer, host of the Brian Lehrer Show on WYNC radio, who agreed with Younge.“Yes, this is a ‘stop Obama election’, not a ‘get something we really believe in done election’ for the Republicans,” Lehrer said.
U.S. senior envoy for Iraq: every time we've engaged with local forces we’ve succeeded in defeating ISIS
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS has succeeded in defeating the terrorist organization every time it has worked with local forces on the ground, Brett McGurk, the U.S. Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
"What I can say is that every single time we have worked with a local force on the ground and we have coordinated with them with our special forces who are in the field, and we have coordinated with them with our air coalition above, we have succeeded in defeating ISIL, not only defeating ISIL, but actually routing them in some major battles,” he said.
McGurk described the operation against the terrorist group, which has recently seized vast swathes of Iraq and Syria and executed hundreds of religious minorities, as “very much a fight to the death.”
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