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Bahrain: ‘Our region cannot withstand this deviated cult’
By Mick Krever, CNN
ISIS is a “deviated cult” that cannot be tolerated - or withstood, as he put it - in the region, Bahrain’s foreign minister told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“We urge every cleric and every place of scholarship in the Muslim religion to really stand out and say clear words, and very clear terms, that this is not Islam, and they are not Muslims – this is a very deviated cult,” Khalid bin Ahmed al Khalifa said.
Bahrain was one of five Arab allies that joined with the United States in Tuesday’s early hours to strike at ISIS targets in Syria – the first U.S. military intervention in Syria’s three-year conflict.
Al Khalifa confirmed to Amanpour that Bahraini participated militarily in the operation, using F16s to strike targets.
Bahrain will continue to be part of the coalition for “as long as it takes,” he said.
“We know that this is a threat to sovereignty and integrity of countries. There is a declared state that transcends borders. We know that this is something that targeted civilians, and displaced them in the hundreds of thousands – attacked mosques, churches, people of different sects and religions – Yazidis, Christians, Muslims, Shiites, Sunnis.”
Finding Eden: The photography of Sebastiao Salgado
In a world where the Damocles Sword of climate change hangs precariously above our heads, Sebastiao Salgado has made it his goal to galvanize people to protect the planet through his photographs of pristine areas untouched by modern civilization.
The photographer explained to Christiane Amanpour at the New York exhibition of his work, that the project was "a kind of a state of a union of the planet. It's the cross-section of what we must have reserved. If you want to survive, as a species, we must protect what these pictures represent and we must rebuild part what we destroy if we want to survive, as a species."
But the land is not as sacred for some as it is for Sebastiao Salgado. Telling the program of a time he was attacked by a hostile subject created by a hostile environment.
"For the first time in Zambia we were attacked by an elephant. An elephant attacked our car."
"These guys that killed the elephants inside of the national parks, they come by car. And elephants now know that when they see a car, they are in danger. And they attack."
It's an exhibition that has crossed the world, and Sebastiao Salgado's estimates about two million people have seen it. So what could they take away from it?
"Everything around us is alive, very alive. All of these mountains, all of these rivers, all of these trees, they are as alive as we are. We are an animal. We are part of the animal species. We are part of all this. We are nature."
EXCLUSIVE: Abdullah hails new Afghan unity government, says ‘failure will turn into a failure for everybody’
By Mick Krever, CNN
Afghanistan’s new unity government was based on “the need of the country” and is “in the best interest of the country,” Abdullah Abdullah, who will now take on the new role of chief executive, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday.
It was Abdullah’s first interview since signing a landmark power-sharing deal on Sunday with his rival in the presidential election, Ashraf Ghani. The deal ends months of deadlock.
Ghani, a former finance minister and World Bank executive, will become president and Abdullah, a former foreign minister, will have a role like that of an “executive prime minister,” he told Amanpour.
“It is a national unity government by all … sense of it,” he said. “It is a partnership between two teams.”
Where do Scotland and UK go from here?
Christiane Amanpour talks to British Members of Parliament Bernard Jenkin and Menzies Campbell about how the UK moves on from the failed referendum vote.
Scotland's role in UK terrorism fight
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks to Louise Richardson, vice chancellor of St. Andrews University, about the importance of Scotland to the United Kingdom.
Afghanistan ‘on the right track’ for unity government, says ambassador
By Mick Krever, CNN
After months of deadlock over its presidential election, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Kingdom told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday that the country is “on the right track” to forming a unity government.
“Today the president” – Hamid Karzai – “met with leaders figures of the country, and tomorrow these figures, these leading personalities are slated to talk to both candidates to encourage them to reach a final agreement as soon as possible,” Mohammad Daud Yaar said.
Former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah is in a stalemate with former Finance Minister and World Bank executive Ashraf Ghani. Both claim they won April’s presidential election.
Moderate Syria opposition pleads for support, but not troops
By Mick Krever, CNN
As the U.S. Congress moves towards authorizing training and weapons for the moderate Syrian opposition, the former commander of the Free Syrian Army pleaded for support but said there was no need for international troops on the ground.
“We don’t need ground troops from any country in the world. We are able, if we receive enough support, to fight against ISIS,” Former Free Syrian Army Commander General Salim Idriss told CNN’S Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“We have a large number of fighters who are ready to fight and more than five thousand now are ready in the suburbs of Aleppo and suburbs of Idlib.”
Scotland's indelible mark on the world
A day before Scotland's independence vote, historian Ewen Cameron takes Christiane Amanpour on a historic tour of Edinburgh.
Click above to watch.
David Steel makes the case for Scotland in the union
David Steel, founder of the current Liberal Democrat party and former speaker of the Scottish Parliament strongly believes that Scotland belongs in the United Kingdom.
He told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour why – click above to watch.
Scottish nationalist: It’s now or never
Scotland’s landmark independence referendum, due to open for voting in just hours, is a “one-off opportunity,” Scottish Member of Parliament Marco Biagi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in Edinburgh.
“This isn’t the kind of choice that we get very often. This isn’t like an election.”
“This is a one-off chance to really do things differently in Scotland, and to fundamentally change the kind of society we are living in – to get the governments we vote for, to protect our public services, and to have governments that pay attention to Scotland not just once every three hundred years when an opinion poll suggests we might vote for independence, but every day.”
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