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A new space race, with new players
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Imagine a world where a new race for outer space – with new players – has achieved lift-off.
Over fifty years ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced America’s intention to beat the Soviet Union to the moon.
Today, a spacecraft was rocketed into orbit, the first stage in an ambitious mission to mars. But it wasn't launched by the United States or Russia.
The un-manned spacecraft was launched by India – for the relatively bargain-basement cost of $73 million.
It is scheduled to reach the red planet sometime next year, where it will conduct scientific experiments.
Interactive: Mars exploration from Viking to MAVEN
While some say India should spend its treasure feeding its children – among the most malnourished on earth – India is also a global economic power, in open competition for research and resources.
Former Iraqi PM Allawi on engulfing violence
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi about the violence engulfing his country.
For Congo, ‘hopeful moment’ of M23 rebel disarmament tempered by decades of conflict, U.S. envoy Feingold says
By Mick Krever, CNN
The U.S. special envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Russ Feingold, said that while the decision by M23 rebels in that country to lay down their arms against the government is a “hopeful moment,” it is far from the end of the road.
“It would be a great over-simplification to call this important step the end” of Congo’s hardship, Feingold told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
“Some five to six million people have died in this conflict over the last 20 years,” he said from Johannesburg. “There are dozens of armed groups involved; there are complex issues involved in the countries in the region. We need a broader political dialogue to resolve that.”
The M23 has been fighting the Congolese government for nearly two years. On its website, the group announced that it would "pursue, by purely political means, a search for solutions to the profound issues that led to its creation."
“What has happened here is not simply the M23 rebellion saying that they’re going to have a ceasefire, or cease for a while,” Feingold said. “They have formally renounced their rebellion.”
Life after the Elysee
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with the former first lady of France, Cecilia Attias.
Egypt not on a ‘proper path to democracy,’ suggests Egypt deputy PM, who blames Morsy
By Mick Krever, CNN
On the day former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy emerged from four months of military captivity to face trial, Deputy Prime Minister Ziad Bahaa el-Din implied to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that Egypt is not on a “proper path to democracy,” while blaming that state of affairs on Morsy.
Bahaa el-Din said that it was under Morsy’s presidency that “freedoms began to be taken” and “the constitution was no longer upheld.”
“Having said this,” he said, “we need to keep our eyes fixed on not continuing in that road, and as quickly as possible, as strongly as possible, going back to a proper path of democracy.”
The deputy prime minister represents a voice of moderation in the interim government at a time when Egypt has become hyperpolarized, violent, and politically bewildering.
He admitted to Amanpour that compromise had become a “dirty word” in Egypt.
Malaysia PM: Obama’s cancelled Asia trip a “missed opportunity”
By Mick Krever and Claire Calzonetti, CNN
The cancellation of U.S. President Barack Obama’s trip to Southeast Asia earlier this month because of the government shutdown was a “missed opportunity,” Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“It was a missed opportunity for Obama to assert his leadership, particularly in the context of his policy pivot towards Asia,” Najib told Amanpour in London. “I know he regrets it.”
“When he called me he said, ‘By hook or by crook, I will visit Malaysia next year,’” the prime minister said. “So we’re looking forward to receiving him.”
Najib leads a nation of nearly 30 million – a diverse, majority-Muslim country that wants to be viewed as a modern Islamic democracy.
It is an appealing destination for tourists and investors alike – though the global recession did take its toll, and with tension between various ethnic groups and allegations of election fraud, it is not without controversy.
“My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind,” Najib said.
German FM Westerwelle: U.S. “cannot fight terrorism” by taping Merkel’s phone
By Mick Krever, CNN
The U.S. “cannot fight terrorism” by listening to German Chancellor Angel Merkel’s personal cell phone, the foreign minister of that country, Guido Westerwelle, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“I understand that it is necessary to fight against terrorism,” he said, “but you cannot fight terrorism by taping the Chancellor’s cell phone.”
When asked if Westerwelle believed that his own phone was being tapped, the foreign minister demurred.
“I cannot exclude it,” he said.
In Yorkshire, the moor the merrier
By Lucky Gold, CNN
With Halloween upon us, imagine a world where the landscape of nightmares is now one of the world's top tourist destinations.
The lonely moors and fog-swept dales of Yorkshire in the north of England have long been a source of gloomy inspiration.
Bram Stoker was drawn to the ruins of Whitby Abbey and made it the setting for his horror classic, Dracula.
And Sherlock Holmes famously roamed those same moors in pursuit of the dreaded hound of the Baskervilles.
Not to mention Heathcliff and Jane Eyre, who wandered through the imagination of the Brontë sisters.
But Yorkshire is more than gloom; more even than a puffy pudding that goes with roast beef at Sunday lunch; more than the name of a cute little terrier that you can fit in a purse.
The man at the forefront of the Special Relationship
Part 1: The U.S. ambassador in London
Part 1 of CNN's Christiane Amanpour conversation with U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Matthew Barzun.
Part 2: The U.S. ambassador in London
Part 2 of CNN's Christiane Amanpour conversation with U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Matthew Barzun.
By Mick Krever, CNN
It’s quite a time to become an American ambassador in Europe.
When Matthew Barzun took up his post as the American Ambassador to the UK, he could hardly have known how quickly he would be thrown in the arena.
Six days into his job, as the British parliament rejected a military intervention in Syria, The Sun newspaper issued a front-page death notice for the so-called Special Relationship between the UK and U.S..
“I got some emails from friends back home, saying, ‘Well done! Six short days and it's over,’” Ambassador Barzun told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday. “Of course, it's not over; it's as strong and healthy as ever.”
Greenwald: NSA chief did not offer ‘any evidence’ to Congress
By Mick Krever, CNN
Glenn Greenwald on Wednesday said that the head of the U.S. National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander, did not offer “any evidence” when he told Congress on Tuesday that the NSA did not collect data on millions of citizens in Europe.
“Notice what he didn’t offer, which is any evidence for the truth of what he’s is saying,” Greenwald said in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
Greenwald is the activist and journalist who broke the story of NSA snooping and has a trove a leaked documents from former intelligence staffer Edward Snowden.
“This, remember, is an agency that is extremely beleaguered, in the middle of a very intense scandal both at home and abroad,” he said. “It is an agency whose top officials have a record of lying to the Congress and to the American people through the media, including General Alexander.”
On Tuesday, General Alexander went before Congress and batted down media reports that the NSA had collected data on tens of millions of phone calls in a single month in France and Spain.
“The assertions,” General Alexander said, “are completely false… But both they and the person who stole the classified data did not understand what they were looking at.”
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