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In bloody Central African Republic, top imam and archbishop urge peace
By Mick Krever, CNN
The top Muslim imam and Catholic archbishop in war-ravaged Central African Republic are coming together to advocate for peace and urge their communities to stop their brutal fighting.
“We are together to first prove to international opinion that the crisis is not religious,” Oumar Kobine Layama, president of the C.A.R. Islamic Community, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Tuesday.
“Religious temperament has been used for some people in order to reach their objectives, which is power,” he said.
Chaos struck the Central African Republic last year after a coalition of rebels dubbed Seleka, a predominantly Muslim coalition, ousted President Francois Bozize – the latest in a series of coups since its independence.
Christian groups, called anti-Balaka, sprung up in response.
They have continued their vicious vigilante fighting despite thousands of French and African peacekeeping troops, and the election last week of a transitional president.
Egypt government suppressing ‘any voice of dissent,’ says targeted academic
What is going on in Egypt?
What is going on in Egypt? Christiane Amanpour explains, and speaks with NPR Cairo Bureau Chief Leila Fadel.
By Mick Krever, CNN
Three years to the week since Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was forced from power, the country seems to have come full circle.
As the country’s first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Morsy, faced a Cairo courtroom months after he was forced from power, Egypt’s generals gave their blessing for Field Marshall Abdul Fatah el-Sisi to run for president.
Mubarak’s military-backed rule may, three years later, become el-Sisi’s military rule.
“In order to implement its [roadmap] they are suppressing any voice of dissent, mine included,” Egyptian academic Emad Shahin told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
Shahin himself is an exemplary case of the state of Egypt today.
He was accused two weeks ago of espionage and conspiracy to undermine national security, but says he has not seen any concrete charges.
Mexico's position as an emerging market
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks to Mexican Finance Minister Luis Vildegaray about why Mexico's economy looks promising.
Ballet legend Carlos Acosta winds down classical dance career
At the top of the dance world sits Britain's Royal Ballet; and at the top of that sits Principal Dancer Carlos Acosta, from Cuba – the first Cuban to ascend such heights.
Amanpour first met him when he joined back in 1999, and he has since gone on to take his sensational athleticism and classical moves to every major ballet company in the world.
But for how much longer?
Acosta tells Amanpour that the time has come for him to hang up those ballet slippers; he may only perform one more season.
After a career that started in the slums of Havana, where his father enrolled him in dance school when he was nine just to keep him out of trouble, he's a family man now with an infant daughter and soon-to-be-wife.
And he has just written his first novel "Pig’s Foot,” about a dysfunctional dynasty in Cuba which debuted to great reviews.
Click above to watch their full interview.
Turkey to Assad: Transition out or face the ICC
Turkey: Indict Assad over Syria photos
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says alleged Syria torture, killing photos represent "a crime against humanity"
The transcript of Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu can be found here.
By Mick Krever, CNN
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should take peace talks seriously and transition out of power, or face the International Criminal Court, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
Responding to photos that allegedly prove systematic torture and killing by the Syrian regime, Davutoglu, said “those photos are clear evidences … this is a crime against humanity.”
Davutoglu spoke with Amanpour from Montreux, Switzerland, where world powers are trying to broker an improbable peace in Syria.
Amanpour was the first to report, with the Guardian on Monday, on an investigation alleging that the Syrian regime is murdering prisoners on a mass scale. The investigation was authored by a team of international legal and forensic experts and based on thousands of photographs provided by a Syrian defector.
“All of those who committed this crime must be accountable,” Davutoglu said. “We should not be doing the same mistake like what happened in Srebrenica.”
“In Srebrenica some people tried to turn their eye and some tried to ignore Srebrenica for some time. But Srebrenica has happened and it was a shame for international community.”
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev says acts portrayed in Syria torture photos are ‘crimes’
EXCLUSIVE: Medvedev on Sochi, Syria
Part one of Christiane Amanpour's exclusive interview with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
EXCLUSIVE: Medvedev on Russia's economy
Part two of Christiane Amanpour's exclusive interview with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
EXCLUSIVE: Medvedev on gay rights
Part three of Christiane Amanpour's exclusive interview with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
The transcript of Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can be found here.
By Mick Krever, CNN
The killings portrayed in photos allegedly proving torture of prisoners by the Assad regime are “crimes,” but it is not clear who is responsible and the claims must be proven in court, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday.
“These are crimes, of course,” Medvedev told Amanpour at his office outside Moscow, but the case “should have firm proof legally.”
“I know there are a lot of victims, and that's very sad, but that does not mean that the existence of victims or victims in a particular place is the proof that those are the victims of the regime and not the bandits who were doing something or any other force.”
The investigation alleging that the Syrian regime is murdering prisoners on a mass scale, first reported by Amanpour on Monday, was authored by a team of international legal and forensic experts and based on thousands of photographs provided by a Syrian defector.
The defector claimed to have worked as a photographer at a military hospital that received dead bodies from detention centers.
Amanpour showed Medvedev gruesome pictures of emaciated corpses and torsos covered from neck to groin in bludgeon wounds.
“You know, in my university where I was studying law, I was taught that until the fact of guilt is proved in court, a person cannot be claimed guilty,” he said.
“We cannot say that Assad is a criminal without investigation,” he told Amanpour. “So probably this other trial should be held on the territory of Syria after the conflict subsides. It's the right of the Syrian people.”
Syria denies allegations of systematic detainee torture, killings
Syria's Justice Ministry on Wednesday categorically denied allegations published in a new investigation, and first reported two days ago by CNN's Amanpour, accusing the regime of torturing and killing thousands of detainees in government custody.
The government called the report "politicized and lacking in objectivity and professionalism," according to a statement on the sate news agency SANA.
The report was authored by a team of renowned international legal and forensic experts, based on thousands of photographs provided by a Syrian defector who claimed to have worked as a photographer at a military hospital that received dead bodies from detention centers.
Bill Gates: The world is a better place than it’s ever been
By Mick Krever, CNN
To look at news headlines, it’s easy to get an impression that there’s nothing good in the world – it’s all protests, and car bombs, and civil wars.
To Bill Gates, the world’s foremost philanthropist, the headlines are hiding the truth.
“By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been.” he writes in his annual Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation letter.
“The good things are kind of quiet,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Tuesday.
“For example, poor countries getting richer – when I was born, most of the world was poor, and the rich countries were the exception. Now most people live in countries that are middle income.”
EXCLUSIVE: Russia's Medvedev on Syria talks, Sochi security
EXCLUSIVE: Medvedev on Sochi security
EXCLUSIVE: Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev tells Christiane Amanpour Russia is ready to keep security at the Sochi Olympics.
In an exclusive interview, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Iran should attend a new round of Syria peace talks, a day after its invitation from the UN was rescinded.
Medvedev and Amanpour also spoke about security concerns surrounding the upcoming winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia; the Prime Minister said that he was aware of the threats, and his country would take them into account during the Games.
Christiane Amanpour's full interview airs Wednesday on CNN International at 7pm GMT.
EXCLUSIVE: Gruesome Syria photos may prove torture by Assad regime
Syria's alleged 'killing machine'
Assad regime systematically tortured to death prisoners, including by forced starvation, new report by renowned experts alleges.
Analysing Syria's alleged torture report
Experts analyse a new report by renowned experts that alleges the Assad regime systematically tortured to death prisoners.
How will Syria react to torture allegations?
How will the Syrian regime respond to the new report by renowned experts alleging torture? CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.
By Mick Krever and Schams Elwazer, CNN
(CNN) - A team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts has found "direct evidence" of "systematic torture and killing" by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the lawyers on the team say in a new report.
Their report, based on thousands of photographs of dead bodies of alleged detainees killed in Syrian government custody, would stand up in an international criminal tribunal, the group says.
CNN's "Amanpour" was given the report in a joint exclusive with The Guardian newspaper.
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE.
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