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Turkey willing to put troops in Syria 'if others do their part,' Prime Minister says

October 6th, 2014
02:27 PM ET

Click here to watch part one of Amanpour's conversation with Prime Minister Davutoglu, about ISIS and the Syrian war, and click here to watch part two, about Turkish domestic issues.

(CNN) - Turkey would be willing to put its troops on the ground in Syria "if others do their part," Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Monday.

"We are ready to do everything if there is a clear strategy that after ISIS, we can be sure that our border will be protected. We don't want the regime anymore on our border pushing people against - towards Turkey. We don't want other terrorist organizations to be active there."

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Filed under:  Christiane Amanpour • Iraq • Latest Episode • Syria • Turkey

Italy could be ‘the leader of Europe’ in ten years, declares bullish prime minister

October 3rd, 2014
01:07 PM ET

By Mick Krever, CNN

Despite a dismal and worsening economic situation, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday that his country could, in the next ten years, become “the leader of Europe.”

“I see there is in my country the possibility to create the future. But after twenty years of politics, discussions, [and] ideological crisis, we lost a lot of opportunities. Now I think for a politician, it's absolutely important, this message: We can lose the elections, but we cannot lose this opportunity.”

The 39-year-old Renzi, who took office in February, must first overcome extremely worrying economics.

In August, the country slid back into its third recession in six years; unemployment is over 12%; and youth unemployment is a staggering 44%, causing a massive brain drain of young professionals.

“We change a lot of times the prime minister” – four in the past five years – “but we don't change our country. And our country is an incredible country, very beautiful, with an incredible past, an incredible present – but we need a future.”

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Filed under:  Christiane Amanpour • Italy • Latest Episode

Previously unseen footage, bearing witness to the Holocaust

October 3rd, 2014
01:06 PM ET

Bearing witness to crimes against humanity is one of the most important jobs of the journalist and film maker, and there are few crimes in history more extreme than the Holocuast.

But one of the most comprehensive cinematic records of the Nazi death machine, recorded by a specially commissioned Allied film unit entering the camps for the first time, was never shown in full – until now.

Liberation came to there in April 1945 and this compelling testimony is part of Night will Fall, a documentary by Andre Singer on how this footage was filmed, and why it was shelved.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour recently sat down to speak about the film with Singer and historian Rainer Schulze, who also worked on the project.

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Filed under:  Christiane Amanpour • Latest Episode

Envoy sees promise in talks to end Libya chaos

October 3rd, 2014
08:17 AM ET

By Mick Krever, CNN

U.N.-brokered talks between rival factions in Libya have a reasonable chance of ending the three-year-long chaos that has gripped Libya since the fall of Muammar Gadhafi, British envoy to Libya Jonathan Powell told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.

“Libya is not Syria or Iraq. It hasn't got the division between Shiite and Sunni. It hasn't got the division between Kurds and Arabs. It hasn't even really got political divisions.”

“This fighting mainly has been, as I say, a state of anarchy and fighting about power and about money.”

That state of anarchy has been almost impenetrably complex, with a parade of civilian and militia leaders claiming to be Libya’s salvation.

“The problem in Libya was that NATO played its role in getting rid of Gadhafi, but afterwards the West sort of walked away. They left it alone. They thought it was for the Libyans to sort out.”

“And out of that arose chaos, arose a state of anarchy. No one was in charge. There were thousands of sides.”

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Filed under:  Christiane Amanpour • Latest Episode • Libya

New NATO chief touts relationship with Russia as he takes office

October 2nd, 2014
03:11 PM ET

By Mick Krever, CNN

The new NATO Secretary General, Former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, emphasized his long and productive relationship with Russia in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, a day after he took office.

“As a Norwegian politician in Norway, a country bordering Russia, I have developed a working relationship with Russia,” he said. “And we were able also during the coldest period of the Cold War to work with Russia on issues like fishery, energy, environment.”

When Stoltenberg was chosen for the position earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russian State TV that he had “very good relations, including personal relations” with the former Norwegian premier.

“This is a very serious, responsible person,” President Putin said, “but we’ll see how our relations develop with him in his new position.”

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Filed under:  Christiane Amanpour • Latest Episode • Russia • Ukraine

Amid chaos in Iraq, U.S. paints optimistic picture for new Afghan government

October 2nd, 2014
09:43 AM ET

By Mick Krever, CNN

As chaos reigns supreme in Iraq, the United States is painting an optimistic picture for the country where it waged its longest war in history, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has just inaugurated a new president, ending months of political deadlock, and signed a security deal with the United States to keep foreign troops in the country beyond 2014.

But the country has also been rocked by an uptick in violence; this summer the Taliban advanced on Helmand Province, and Thursday saw the third suicide attack targeting the Afghan National Army in the space of just 24 hours.

“This is a very, very different circumstance from Iraq in a number of ways,” Daniel Feldman, the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.

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Filed under:  Afghanistan • Christiane Amanpour • Latest Episode

Brazil candidate makes last presidential push

October 1st, 2014
02:35 PM ET

By Mick Krever and Ken Olshansky, CNN

Days before a presidential election, opposition presidential candidate Marina Silva recalled her very remarkable upbringing in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

“I was illiterate until I was 16. I suffered five times from malaria, a few times from hepatitis, also metal poisoning. I lived in slavery. I lost my mother at fourteen.”

“If I were the result of what the past did to me, I wouldn't be here today. But I tried to do something good, productive, and creative with my past and that's why I'm here, full of energy and experience, ready to move on to the next stage.”

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Filed under:  Brazil • Christiane Amanpour • Latest Episode

Reading, writing and revolution

October 1st, 2014
02:32 PM ET

Across the world, students are using civil disobedience to further their agendas; in Hong Kong, they protest for democracy; in Colorado, they boycott classes to protest a new history curriculum.

Christiane Amanpour has the story.


Filed under:  China • Christiane Amanpour • Hong Kong • Imagine a World • Latest Episode • U.S. Politics

Chinese golden age at British Museum

October 1st, 2014
01:03 PM ET

Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have cast the world's uneasy gaze on China, but at the British Museum in London, a golden age is remembered.

Christiane Amanpour tour a news exhibition of Ming-era art with curator Jessica Harrison-Hall.

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Filed under:  China • Christiane Amanpour • Latest Episode

Controversial former militia leader puts himself forward as Libya’s savior

October 1st, 2014
07:58 AM ET

By Mick Krever, CNN

A Libyan former militia leader who fought alongside Osama bin Laden against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and claims to have been abducted and “rendered” by the CIA is putting himself forward as the savior for Libya’s astounding chaos.

“We have to unite our efforts, all Libyans, all patriotic Libyans, regardless of their affiliations, regardless of their ideologies,” Abdelhakim Belhadj told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.

If you thought the meteoric rise of ISIS was complicated, don’t even think about trying to understand Libya.

Militias have run the country since the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi over three years ago. Last month, Islamists seized control of the capital, Tripoli, and forced the internationally recognized parliament to flee to Tobruk, a thousand miles away.

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Filed under:  Christiane Amanpour • Latest Episode • Libya
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