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How to stop al Qaeda in Syria
By Samuel Burke
In April, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said that the longer violence festers in Syria, the greater the danger is of bad actors stepping in. Now, the Obama administration is concerned with growing reports of al Qaeda, its offshoots and other Jihadists flooding into Syria.
In an interview with Christiane Amanpour Thursday, the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Counter Terrorism, Daniel Benjamin, echoed what Bill Clinton said months ago.
“Whenever you have a case of civil strife and instability, as you have in Syria, it makes it extremely attractive to extremists who want to use this opportunity for more chaos and advance their cause,” he said.
Benjamin told Amanpour that these types of individuals are indeed already in Syria, including al Qaeda fighters. FULL POST
Why we love the water
You don’t have to be an Olympian, or even a competitor to love swimming. Journalist Lynn Sherr discusses her new book about why we love the water and what it does for our mind and body.
CNN’s Juliet Fuisz produced this piece for television.
Political crackdown in Russia
Christiane Amanpour discusses dissent in Russia with Andranik Migranyan who knows President Putin well and has held prominent government positions in Russia.
Russia's Pussy Riot band and Putin's iron fist
Even though people power is asserting itself around the world and authoritarian regimes are falling, one is standing firmer than ever: Russia. Vladimir Putin has returned to the presidency for the third time and is lowering the iron fist.
Tonight, I spoke with Petr Verzilov, who’s an artist, activist and the husband of one of the jailed band members of a Russian feminist punk rock band called Pussy Riot. In February, the group did a protest, storming the altar at Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior and called upon the Virgin Mary to "put Putin away." Of course, many found this performance offensive; but is it criminal? The women are charged with "hooliganism, motivated by religious hatred or hostility.” In Russia, that’s a felony, with a maximum seven year jail sentence. The group has pleaded not guilty to the charges against them, but they've already been in prison for five months. Two of them have small children, whom they haven't seen since their arrest.
MORE: 3 members of Russian band Pussy Riot plead not guilty to hooliganism
Political solutions for climate change
Once you settle the science debate on climate change, then comes the hard part: finding the political will to actually do something about it. Van Jones was in a position to do something as Green Jobs Advisor to President Obama – the White House's point man on the environment. But he resigned in the face of a right wing smear campaign. Now he is trying to mobilize change as a grass roots activist.
The frozen history of climate change
Scientists Lonnie Thompson and wife Ellen have made it their personal quests to unlock the frozen history of our climate. He is one of a small group of scientists whose research actually led to the discovery of global climate change. And she leads a major polar research team at the Ohio State University, where they both work.
CNN’s Meredith Milstein produced this piece for television.
The climate change debate is over
In the fierce and sometimes ugly fight over global climate change, we finally have an answer coming from the earth itself: the weather is telling us climate change is here and we are causing it. Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku is among the scientist who say the world is giving us signs that climate change is already happening (to see how he explains it, watch the video above). This summer, there have been relentless droughts, wildfires, melting glaciers and unprecedented storms – all happening at the same time. And around the world people are demanding something be done about it. Even in the United States, ground zero for climate change denial, six in ten Americans say they believe it is indeed happening. But political leaders are missing in action – cowed by a vociferous climate change denial club, which is actually now shrinking faster than the polar ice caps.
Sudan: Give us Bush & Blair, we’ll give you Bashir
Despite celebrating its independence a year ago, the country of South Sudan is still locked in conflict with its neighbor to the north, Sudan.
The main point of contention is oil. South Sudan has the oil fields, but the oil must be shipped from Sudan. The United Nations Security Council has ordered the two countries to end their hostilities and resolve outstanding issues. The deadline is August 2, but after decades of conflict, and more than two million deaths, they have still not reached an agreement.
Christiane Amanpour spoke with Sudan’s Ambassador to the U.K., Abdullahi Alazreg Monday. He maintains that his government is having constructive talks with South Sudan.
Amanpour asked Alazreg whether Sudan will hand over the country’s president, Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court. Alazreg responded by saying that Sudan is “willing to hand over whomever, provided that America hands over Bush and the United Kingdom hands over Blair.”
Meet the runner with no country
By Mick Krever
(CNN) - More than 10,000 athletes are competing in the London Olympics, each representing a country. All, that is, except four.
One of the so-called “Independent Olympic Athletes” is Marathon runner Guor Marial. His country of South Sudan is so new – just over one year – that it doesn’t yet have an Olympic team.
It is safe to say that no one has had to overcome more hardship en route to the Olympic Games.
At age seven, he left his home and was forced to work for Sudanese soldiers, earning just a dollar per month.
FULL POST
Give a child a camera and save the world
(CNN) - The eyes of a child see things differently than an adult. It's an idea that intrigued four young women in college. "If you could give a child a camera, they could tell a reality in a way that a foreigner, or even an adult, could not," co-founder Angela Francine Bullock says. Several years later, they turned that idea into a way to help children around the world and founded the nonprofit 100cameras.
The concept is simple. 100cameras staff members travel to countries armed with cameras. They partner with a local organization serving children in the community. For the next few weeks, they teach the children how to take photographs. Then they set those children free to capture their world and post the photos online. <<FULL STORY>>
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