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‘Clearly’ Russia’s economy has suffered, IMF chief Christine Lagarde says
By Mick Krever, CNN
There have “clearly” been consequences for the Russian economy because of the crisis in Ukraine, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
The IMF said Wednesday that the Russian economy was in recession, and is expected to grow by only 0.2% in 2014.
“If you look at the monetary policy, if you look at the capital flows, if you look at their own forecast, there have been consequences on the Russian economy as a result of the geopolitical situation, the uncertainty, and the sanctions that have been decided,” Lagarde told Amanpour.
In a key sign of international support for Ukraine, the International Monetary Fund approved a $17.1 billion bailout for the country on Thursday.
The bailout, Lagarde, said, is “obviously not without risk, but it's a necessity to respond to a member's request.”
California governor Jerry Brown, defying the critics
By Mick Krever, CNN
Jerry Brown is his own man.
Jerry Brown is his own man.
“There are some people making fun of everything,” the California governor told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Wednesday. “So that's just the way life is.”
In this case, he was responding to a question about his struggle to get a high-speed rail plan off the ground.
But the man once known as “Governor Moonbeam” clearly holds by that sentiment in his governing style.
When Jerry Brown first led “the nation state called California” – as he calls it - in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a Chicago columnist gave him the nickname, equally for California’s vanguard innovation and Brown’s own eccentricities.
“I feel I've earned that moniker,” Brown told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Wednesday, “because of the creativity … and, yes, the unpredictability.”
‘Mission impossible’: Meet Hamdeen Sabahi, the only man challenging El-Sisi for Egypt’s presidency
By Mick Krever, CNN
It’s ‘mission impossible,’ Egypt style.
Egyptians will go to the polls next month to elect a new president, but the election of former military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seems all but assured.
There is only one man who is taking on the task of challenging el-Sisi: Hamdeen Sabahi.
“Our Egyptian people [are] used [to] accomplishing mission impossible,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour through an interpreter on Wednesday.
“We did that on January 25th and on June 30th. And my mission seems to some impossible like the two others I mentioned.”
When child marriage is law of the land
Imagine a world where nine-year-old girls can't go to school but they can become wives.
As Iraq holds elections, the council of leaders have approved a draft law that would cut the age at which a woman can marry in half – to nine.
Christiane Amanpour reports. Click above to watch.
Thirsting for water in LA LA Land
Los Angeles may be the city of Angels, but it's hot as hell these days. CNN's Christiane Amanpour explains.
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Los Angeles mayor bullish on immigration reform
By Mick Krever, CNN
Immigration reform in the United States, long forestalled, is a matter of practicality, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“This isn't about favors for anybody; this isn't about where the rules were broken or not,” he said. “This is about being practical, pragmatic and making sure that we have that workforce for tomorrow.”
Garcetti himself is the product of America’s melting pot; he is Los Angeles’ first Jewish mayor, is part-Mexican, and bilingual. At 43, Garcetti is the city’s youngest mayor in a century.
“All Americans, whether you're Latino or not Latino, have a stake in making sure the immigrants – who, again, don't just come from Latin America, but come from Asia and Europe and Canada – that they're fully integrated into our country.”
“It's been the strength of our country. It'll be the demographic growth of our country, and the economic driver of this country.”
California Governor Jerry Brown: Donald Sterling comments 'unthinkable'
ONLY ON CNN: California Governor Jerry Brown says the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist comments are “unthinkable.” He said that given America’s history, reaction to prejudice “has to be strong.”
By issuing a lifetime ban on Sterling, he said, the NBA Commissioner had taken “strong action.”
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Amanpour's full interview with Governor Brown airs Wednesday on CNN International.
Veteran U.S. lawmaker Carolyn McCarthy, stepping down, looks back on two decades of fighting for gun control
By Mick Krever, CNN
Is America’s National Rifle Association unbeatable?
As mass shooting after mass shooting has failed to force implementation of even the most popular gun control measures, that sentiment has almost become a truism of American politics.
For 18 years, one American congresswoman – whose own family felt the bitter reality of gun violence – has made it her mission to enact reform.
“We have come a long way from where we first started,” Carolyn McCarthy told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Monday.
“My nemesis has been the National Rifle Association. But I also see now, today, new voices speaking out.”
The NRA, which held its annual convention this weekend, seems to be racking up victory after victory. In Georgia, a new law allows weapons in schools, churches, libraries, airports and even bars.
But gun control advocates have quietly been winning cases against the NRA, McCarthy said – cases that don’t make the news.
“The message has always been that we’re trying to take away everyone’s right to own a gun. We’re not. Never have been. It’s gun violence, gun safety that we’re trying to do.”
China not the target of Philippines security agreement with U.S., says ambassador
By Mick Krever, CNN
A new 10-year military agreement between the United States and the Philippines was “not designed” to counter China, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Cuisia told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama signed the deal during the last stop of his four-nation tour of Asia. It will allow America a greater military presence in the Philippines, a former American colony and long-time ally.
Ambassador Cuisia spoke with Amanpour having just departed a banquet with the American President and Philippine President Benigno Aquino.
Like Japan, another stop on Obama’s tour, the Philippines has territorial disputes with China.
“It will certainly strengthen the defense and security alliance between the United States and the Philippines,” Ambassador Cuisia said.
China, unvisited, looms large over Obama trip
By Mick Krever, CNN
Sometimes, where you don’t go says as much as where you do.
At the end of his week-long, four-nation tour of Asia, the country that U.S. President Barack Obama didn’t visit looms largest: China.
“Our goal is not to counter China, our goal is not to contain China,” President Obama said after signing a security agreement with Philippine President Benigno Aquino. “Our goal is to make sure that international rules and norms are respected.”
The message is indicative of the tightrope he has had to walk over the course of his visit: reassure allies, but don’t frighten China.
“I think he and his entire administration have been striking a very good balance,” says Gary Locke, who until two months ago was a member of that very administration as U.S. ambassador to China.
“Just in the last several weeks and months there have been numerous high-level visits by top administration officials” to China, he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview.
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