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To save the rhino and the soul of a continent
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Mahatma Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
By that standard, Africa is failing its wildlife population, and in particular the endangered rhino.
Amanpour has reported before on this tragedy – what's become an organized crime wave against Mother Nature.
Since 2007, rhino deaths have increased by a staggering 3,000%.
Egypt will ‘find other sources’ for aid if needs not met
Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Foreign Minister Fahmy is online here.
By Mick Krever, CNN
In the wake of the U.S. suspending significant military support to Egypt, that country will “find other sources” if its national security needs are not met, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“If your friends in the region, when they’re facing terrorism in particular, cannot depend on a continuous supply of equipment that deals with terrorism, then you are obviously going to raise questions in the mind of those friends about your dependability,” he told Amanpour, referring to the United States. “And that will affect your interests as well as those of your friends, like Egypt.”
Fahmy called the suspension of some aid a “freeze, or delay” – not a “cut-off.”
The United States announced last week that it would withdraw a significant portion of its military aid to Egypt.
The decision came after months of debate since President Morsy was deposed in early July. The American government did not call that a “coup”; if it had done so, it would then have been legally obligated to withdraw aid.
But the harsh government crackdown on pro-Morsy protestors in the past – including hundreds killed in August and dozens just last week – was seen as a step too far by the interim government.
Fahmy pleaded with the international community to be patient with Egypt.
“I refer you back to the U.S. system,” Fahmy said. “It took you a very long number of years before you gave African Americans equal rights in America. So let’s just respect how difficult it has been.”
FULL interview – Robert Einhorn
Above is Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Robert Einhorn, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation.
FULL interview – Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy
Above is Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy.
Gingrich, unlike Boehner, could ‘control his party,’ Tyson says
By Mick Krever, CNN
A top economic aide to U.S. President Bill Clinton said that unlike the last government shutdown, in 1995, the Republican party of 2013 has no idea what it wants.
“We do not have anyone in charge,” Laura Tyson, former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday. “Speaker Boehner cannot control the Republican majority.”
By contrast, during the 1995-96 shutdown, she said, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was a “powerful” leader.
“He was able to control his party,” she said. “It was a failed tactic on their part – they ended up suffering in the polls and they ended up helping to re-elect President Clinton the next year – but he had control of the tactic and he had control of what they wanted to get.”
“Here we have a situation where the Republicans are not united,” Tyson told Amanpour. “Boehner cannot raise a deal, as we saw just yesterday. And there a number of people in his party who have different demands.”
Iran nuclear talks ‘detailed,’ and ‘substantive’ says lead U.S. negotiator Wendy Sherman
By Mick Krever, CNN
The lead U.S. negotiator for Iran’s nuclear program called the first two days of a new round of direct talks “detailed” and “substantive.”
“Foreign Minister Zarif and his delegation came prepared for detailed, substantive discussion with a candor that I certainly have not heard in the two years I’ve been meeting with Iranians,” U.S. Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday, adding that her Western colleagues who had more experience with Iran agreed.
“We’re trying to pick up the pace of this, to move quickly, because we don’t want Iran’s nuclear program to keep moving forward,” Sherman said.
These initial talks covered the counties’ objectives – Sherman said that negotiators knew going into it that they were unlikely to immediately reach concrete agreements.
“This is highly technical work, when you’re talking about a nuclear program,” she said.
These talks were for the first time conducted in English, which Sherman said “increased the pace the ability to have direct and candid discussions.”
Amanpour: Bosnia World Cup qualification ‘brings a huge smile to my face’
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN
I remember Bosnia, especially Sarajevo during the war – people loved soccer. Whenever there was a lull in the shelling or the sniping, they would play.
But over the course of nearly four years of war, some of the city’s soccer fields became graveyards, and I stood there as formal cemeteries overflowed with the war dead. Stadiums were shelled and it was all but impossible even to leave for formal matches abroad.
Sarajevo once had the world’s sporting spotlight shining down on it – as host of the 1984 Winter Olympics. The ice skating rink that gave the world gold medallists, Torvill and Dean, was destroyed during the war and it seemed to symbolize all the hope that was seeping out of Sarajevo – and all of Bosnia Herzegovina.
So as Bosnia and Herzegovina qualifies for the first time for the World Cup, there’s certainly a bittersweet feeling to it, it brings a huge smile to my face because it’s wonderful to see Bosnia, to see the city of Sarajevo erupt in such well-deserved celebration.
This will unite people.
OECD chief: America ‘was a good place…and then this happens’
By Mick Krever, CNN
Get your act together, America. That is the message Angel Gurria, who represents the 34 wealthiest countries of the world, had for U.S. lawmakers in an interview Tuesday with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
Gurria is secretary general of the OECD, or Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
“We’re getting a little purple here, because we thought we would have more breathing a lot sooner,” he told Amanpour. “It’s very difficult to understand why the U.S. are doing this to themselves.”
Gurria met with the 34 OECD member states on Tuesday, and said that the U.S. crisis was “practically the only thing we were discussing.”
Like a policeman pleading with someone not to jump off a bridge, Gurria begged with the U.S. to recognize how good it had things.
“They were the only bright spot so far,” he said. “It was a good place; things were happening. Jobs were being put back and growth was happening in the United States. And then this happens.”
We can’t give Peace Prize ‘based on polls,’ Nobel head Jagland tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
How, and why, does the Nobel Committee decide whom to award the Peace Prize?
It is a question that arises almost every year in early October.
Unlike the science Nobels, which award work on “Higgs Bosons” and “multiscale models for complex chemical systems,” the work that leads to a Peace Prize can be understood by the layman.
This year, the Nobel Committee bypassed Malala Yousafzai, the popular favorite to win, awarding instead the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
“We wanted to give a signal to the world that now we have the possibility to do away with a whole category of weapons of mass destruction,” Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
West can ‘do business’ with Rouhani, former counterpart Jack Straw tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
Portraying Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as a genuine pragmatist, Former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw expressed optimism to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday that a nuclear deal with the West was possible.
Direct nuclear talks, ushered in by the election of Rouhani earlier this year, began Tuesday in Geneva.
Straw, as foreign secretary, worked closely on the nuclear file with Rouhani, when he was head of nuclear negotiations under President Mohammad Khatami.
“You could do business with him, and we were able to do business with him,” Straw told Amanpour. “I very profoundly believe that [this] is a new chance for proper negotiations.”
Sceptics in the West, and Israel, have welcomed President Rouhani’s words but said they need to see actions – a sentiment mirrored in Iran when talking about the West.
“President Rouhani is an Iranian and he represents Iran’s national interest, so people have got to factor that in, and it’s entirely right that he should do that,” Straw said.
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