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The Bravest Girl in the World
Malala on the Nobel Peace Prize
Malala Yousafzai talks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour about the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala describes her shooting
Malala Yousafzai describes her shooting to CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Malala on being Pakistani prime minister
Malala Yousafzai tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour that she wants to be Pakistani prime minister.
Malala on if she wins Nobel
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Malala Yousafzai about how she will react to a Nobel Peace Prize win.
Christiane Amanpour's interview with Malala Yousafzai, The Bravest Girl in the World, will air Sunday, October 13 at 7pm ET, and reair during Amanpour's normal Monday timeslot.
By Mick Krever, CNN
When Malala Yousafzai woke from the coma the Taliban put her in, she was aware of only a few things.
“Yes, Malala, you were shot,” she told herself.
She thought back to her dreams – of lying on a stretcher, being in some distant place far from home and school – and realized that they weren’t dreams, but recollections.
“The nurses and doctors, everyone was speaking in English,” she recalls. “I realized that now I am not in Pakistan.”
All Malala Yousafzai wanted was to go to school.
Hanks holds ‘mirror up to nature’ in “Captain Phillips”
True story of piracy on the high seas
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tom Hanks and Director Paul Greengrass about their new film, "Captain Phillips."
The Somali star of "Captain Phillips"
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Barkhad Abdi, star, with Tom Hanks, of "Captain Phillips."
By Mick Krever, CNN
A U.S. raid on al-Qaeda-linked militants; the 20th anniversary of Black Hawk Down; a new film on the true-story pirating of an American shipping vessel – Somalia, the war-ravaged East African nation, finds itself in the news now more than almost any other time in recent memory.
The hijacking of an unarmed American ship by Somali pirates in April 2009, and subsequent commando rescue operation by U.S. Navy Seals, is the subject of “Captain Phillips,” a new movie starring Tom Hanks and first-time Somali actor Barkhad Abdi, and directed by Paul Greengrass.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour spoke with all three in an interview that aired Wednesday.
“The best non-fiction is a record of human behavior that is always checkered, that is always very complex motivations,” Hanks told Amanpour in New York. “They do not hew to the antagonist/protagonist storyline which is the basis of any kind of dramatic art.”
Taliban attack on Malala showed Pakistanis ‘who these people really are,’ Hina Rabbani Khar tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
The attempted Taliban assassination of Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old girl who advocated for girls’ education, drew a line in the sand between extremism and progressivism, former Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“The contrast is so overwhelming,” she said, “that in some ways it helps Pakistanis, and it reminds Pakistanis, to who these people really are, and the fact that we cannot have Pakistan be taken over by such thought and such people.”
Wednesday marks one year since the Pakistani Taliban boarded Yousafzai’s school bus, singled her out by name, and shot her in the head – a response, ostensibly, to her public advocacy for girl’s education.
Iran: ‘we are ready’ for a nuclear deal
By Mick Krever, CNN
Iran is serious about resolving the dispute over its nuclear program, and is keen to resolve the issue “in a short period of time,” the speaker of Iran’s parliament, Ali Larijani, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
“From Iran's side, I can say that we are ready,” Larijani said from Geneva.
“If the Americans and other countries say that Iran should not develop a nuclear bomb or should not move towards that,” he told Amanpour, “then we can clearly show and prove that. We have no such intention. So it can be resolved in a very short period of time.”
Washington’s ‘warm bath’ of celebrity and self-interest
By Mick Krever, CNN
The world is watching in disbelief as lawmakers in Washington exude dysfunction and allow America to hurtle closer and closer to a first-ever debt default.
But a longtime chronicler of Washington, Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for the New York Times, says that insiders may care less about the dysfunction than we think.
“The dirty little secret” about Washington, he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, “is a level of insularity which completely shelters people from what the real sentiments of Americans and also people around the world are coming to think about this.”
Leibovich has spent years diving into Washington’s inner workings and has just written a new book called “This Town.”
Vietnam’s “Greatest Generation”
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Imagine a world where a self-taught soldier wrote the playbook for modern insurgency – and used it to defeat two mighty armies.
Vietnam is planning a state funeral to honor General Vo Nguyen Giap, who died on Friday at the age of 102.
More than half a century ago, as a history teacher, he joined forces with a former bus-boy named ho chi minh to create a lethal guerrilla army.
Somalia welcomes U.S. raid, says America doesn’t need permission
By Mick Krever, CNN
Somalia welcomes the U.S. raid on an al-Shabaab leader this weekend, deputy prime minister and foreign minister Fawzia Yusuf Adam told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday, adding that the U.S. does not have to ask permission for future action.
“We are welcoming more if this will help us get rid of al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab,” she said from London. “We have a cooperation, and they don’t have to ask us, because we are fighting a common enemy.”
“We are grateful to their support,” Adam told Amanpour. “Otherwise the whole region will be in turmoil.”
Does U.S. now favor commando raids over air strikes?
By Mick Krever, CNN
The U.S. operations this weekend in Somalia and Libya are putting a spotlight once again on American military tactics around the world, and incursions into other countries.
The fact that both operations used commandos on the ground, instead of drone strikes, which have so proliferated under U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, may be indicative of a recent trend.
“There’s been a strong desire to increase the number of captures and increase the amount of intelligence that we can glean from these operatives,” Former U.S. Counter Terrorism Coordinator Daniel Benjamin told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
Benjamin is director of Dartmouth's John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
Abu Anas al Libi, a man wanted for his connection to the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings, was capture by U.S. forces in Tripoli, Libya.
“There’s a lot to learn from this man,” Benjamin said, “and there’s the additional fact that the Untied States never lets these cases die, and it’s very important to show that we’re going to follow them to their conclusion and that justice will be done.”
Pope Francis leading a Vatican ‘revolution,’ Politi tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
Pope Francis is leading a “revolution” at the Vatican, Italian author Marco Politi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
The new pontiff is focussing on reforming four “key” areas, Politi said: money, power, poverty, and community.
“He told the bishops and the cardinals,” Politi told Amanpour from Rome, “that they have not to behave like princes of the renaissance. He tells the priests not to forget when they buy a car about children who starve because they don’t enough to eat.”
Pope Francis spoke out on the issues of the Church in a frank interview with Italy’s la Repubblica newspaper.
"This Vatican-centric view neglects the world around us,” the pontiff said. “I do not share this view and I'll do everything I can to change it."
Human impact of Obamacare
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta about the human impact of Obamacare, which is now rolling out, and what impact the U.S. Government shutdown is having on American healthcare.
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