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'There was fraud committed on both sides' says U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
By Henry Hullah
Afghanistan is in a state of paralysis.
On the day of this interview the new Afghan President was supposed to be inaugurated, instead the country remains in a political deadlock.
Is the nation going to be able to take significant steps forward any time soon?
The United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, James B. Cunningham, seems to think so.
"There's actually been quite a bit of progress," he told Christiane Amanpour.
"What they've agreed is that there will be a president; there will be what's called a chief executive officer, not a prime minister, because that position doesn't exist under the Afghan constitution. It may later, but it doesn't now."
"All the details of how to do that are what they're sorting out right now."
Amanpour asked about the probability of a candidate being inaugurated by the new designated date of September 2nd.
"I think it's possible," said the diplomat. "It's an important opportunity for a president to be declared and to get him on to the international stage at the NATO summit a few days later."
"We'll keep trying to help them reach that goal"
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon talks about a world in crisis
By Henry Hullah
A tense stand-off in Ukraine, the biggest Ebola outbreak in history, devastation in Gaza - and all the while, ISIS grows in strength in the heart of the Middle East and racial tensions come to a head in the United States.
A fractured world and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is the man tasked with picking up the pieces.
"The world is confronting multiple crises at this time," Ban Ki-moon told Christiane Amanpour.
"The situation in Iraq, we have a very serious crisis in Ukraine but we still have very serious crises in Libya, South Sudan, Central African Republic. On top of this we are now being hit by Ebola epidemics."
Amanpour first asked him about the increasing threat of ISIS: an extremist militant group whose seized territory across Iraq and Syria has been said to be larger than the United Kingdom. Can the U.N. help those affected and to stop the threat before it spreads even further?
"The United Nations cannot do it alone in addressing international terrorism and extremists. The way they have been terrorizing the international community and its people by kidnapping the women, children and particularly journalists, this is totally unacceptable. These are against the international humanitarian law and against the international human rights law and we saw this horrendous killing of Mr. James Foley, that we have condemned in the strongest possible terms."
Amanpour asked if the horrors of ISIS that he had just described were due to an escalation of the Syrian crisis because, as he had told her in a previous interview, there was no "Plan B".
"That is why I have always been urging, the number one priority should be that that the parties stop the violence unconditionally and return to political dialogue."
As racial tensions simmer over police shooting, how military police tactics aggravate crowds
By Mick Krever, CNN
Tensions are high in the small American town of Ferguson, Missouri as people take to the streets to protest the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager last Saturday.
Stunning images Wednesday night showed police officers in full riot gear using military grade-vehicles and firing tear gas canisters towards crowds.
“I sat and watched snipers from the top of armored cars train their sights on demonstrators,” Jamelle Bouie, a staff writer for Slate reporting from Ferguson, told CNN’s Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour.
“When that happens, when people see it happens, it agitates them – completely reasonably. I don’t think there’s anyone, really, who could experience that and not come away from it a little shaken.”
Former British Commander: ‘We created Iraq,’ now we have to help fix it
By Mick Krever, CNN
A highly respected former British commander on Thursday said that the UK had a responsibility to help put Iraq back together again.
“Britain created Iraq in 1920,” Col. Tim Collins told CNN’s Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Thursday. “It’s hard to say at this moment is there such a nation as Iraq.”
There must be a strong diplomatic effort to create a more “balanced country;” an effort to supply the Kurds with equipment, ammunition, and training; and an effort to get Sunni tribes on board with fighting ISIS, itself an extremist Sunni group.
Aid or invasion? Russia and Ukraine officials battle it out over convoy on live TV
By Henry Hullah
A convoy of 280 Russian trucks are heading towards Ukrainian border. Russian officials say they are full of aid desperately needed for relief efforts in Eastern Ukraine, officials across the border are not so optimistic.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has come out strongly against the convoy said the move is "cynical," and that "it would be better for Russia to send 300 empty Kamaz trucks to take their bandits back. Then there would be no need to send humanitarian aid."
Russian officials have insisted the move is to deliver humanitarian aid to areas in need.
Oleksandr Scherba, the Ambassador-at-Large to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, echoed the view of his Prime Minister on the program:
"Of course we are very distrustful of Russia's intentions from the very beginning Russia didn't show any goodwill whatsoever."
"But on the other hand," Scherba stated, "The humanitarian situation on the ground is very desperate, very difficult. We are not in the kind of situation to be very adamant about sending back anything we receive even from the nation that is behaving in a really hostile manner."
When questioned by Hala Gorani, sitting in for Christiane Amanpour, about why there has been no coordination with red cross, Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Special Representative for Human Rights, rebutted "I am amazed to hear that it hasn't been coordinated. From what has been said many times, not just by Russian officials, all the details, all the parameters of this humanitarian convoy have been meticulously discussed and agreed upon by: Russia, Ukraine, the International Committee for the Red Cross."
"As far as I understand he [Scherba] works in the Foreign Ministry" the special representative went on to say. "The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has officially, by sending a reply note to the Russian Foreign Ministry, has confirmed that all the details of that humanitarian convoy have been agreed upon. Once they have confirmed that all the details have been agreed upon. This was a very precise official reaction."
"The green light was on in Kiev."
Ukraine's Ambassador-at-large responded: "Nobody except for Moscow knows about that meticulous discussion."
Egypt security forces wanted to ‘simply mow down demonstrators,’ says Human Rights Watch
By Mick Krever, CNN
Egyptian security forces systematically fired on largely peaceful Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators during the worst spate of violence in the aftermath of President Mohamed Morsy’s removal from power, Human Rights Watch said in a damning new report this week.
“The broad accounts that we received largely corroborated each other, and told a story not of a careful effort to deal with the specific threat of violence, but rather a broad effort to simply mow down demonstrators,” Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth told CNN’s Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Wednesday.
His organization says the killings of more than 800 people at Raba’a Square last August likely amount to crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch calls it a premeditated attack equal to, or worse than, China’s Tiananmen Square killings.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad: 'I'm shocked but not surprised'
By Henry Hullah
As the United States Ambassador to Iraq from 2005-2007, Zalmay Khalilzad said he was met with "demanding circumstances with a lot of violence."
Since the end of his tenure, Iraq and the region surrounding it have spiraled into political unrest and violent conflict.
The events have left the former ambassador "Shocked but not surprised."
The United States stepped into the fray with aid drops and airstrikes this week and by doing so, Zalmay Khalilzad says, U.S. President Barack Obama has "saved the lives of many people" and helped "Kurds prevent a takeover of Irbil, possibly, by the ISIS terrorists."
"I think the president has taken a good step. He needs to build on that as the situation requires."
Regarding the trials facing Nuri al-Maliki's replacement, the "more worldly" Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi, Khalilzad told the program "he has huge challenges confronting him."
Iraq's Ambassador to U.S. Lukman Faily: ‘Airstrikes need to be wider and more intense’
By Henry Hullah
U.S. airstrikes and aid drops have given hope to many in Iraq, where a large portion of the country is still under the control of ISIS militants.
However political turmoil has peaked in Baghdad with the new Iraqi president's nomination for Prime Minister: Haider al-Abadi. It's a job the incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pronounced he wanted for a third term.
A defiant al-Maliki has stated that the nomination of his former aide is in breach of the constitution, while al-Abadi has thirty days to form his new government.
Iraq's Ambassador to the United States, Lukman Faily, remains hopeful about the situation and told Fred Pleitgen, sitting in for Christiane Amanpour, that he is "confident it will be resolved soon".
"What we have seen over the last six weeks we have never seen it before. Previously it took six months and the previous election nine months, now we are talking about six weeks. We are making significant progress now."
Murdoch’s reign ‘like the power of a school bully’
By Mick Krever and Annabel Archer, CNN
It is the scandal that has shaken Britain to its core, embroiling the political elite, the police and the press.
Allegations that British journalists hacked into phones and computers, and were involved in bribery, forced media tycoon Rupert Murdoch to shut down the country’s best-selling newspaper and resulted in the conviction of Andy Coulson, a former newspaper editor and top aide to Prime Minister David Cameron.
“It begins with the crime in the newspapers,” Nick Davies, the reporter who uncovered the hacking scandal, told CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Thursday.
“But when you look at the way the authorities reacted to that, you see first of all the press regulator, and then Scotland Yard, refusing to investigate properly, refusing to get anywhere near the bottom of the problem.”
Davies is the author of a new book, “Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch.”
Forty years since Nixon resignation
Forty years ago Friday, Richard Nixon became the first-ever U.S. President to resign.
But just 24 hours before he stepped down, the American president still believed he could remain in office.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen has the story. Click above to watch.
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