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Fmr. CIA official: Cyber war ‘more sinister than nuclear age’
U.S. cyber battle with China
CNN's Christiane Amanpou speaks with reporter David Sanger about his report on the Chinese army hacking the U.S.
Former CIA official on cyber attack
CNN's Christiane Amanpour looks what the U.S. can do about cyber attacks with expert former CIA official Chad Sweet.
By Mick Krever, CNN
The U.S. believes that cyber warfare could begin to threaten the underpinnings of its relationship with China, New York Times journalist David Sanger told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
Sanger and two colleagues reported in the New York Times on Tuesday that a secretive unit of the People’s Liberation Army, the Chinese military, is responsible for most of the many Chinese cyber attacks on U.S. corporations and infrastructure.
“This is, diplomatically, I think one of the most complicated problems out there,” Sanger said. “The fact that your adversary would know that you could get into their systems and turn them on or off at any time – whether it was cell phones or air traffic control or whatever – might well affect your future behavior. So it doesn’t mean that they’re going to do it, or there’s out-and-out war, but it does mean that they have a capability to do this by remote control.” FULL POST
Home videos turn into Oscar-nominated documentary
By Meredith Milstein & Samuel Burke, CNN
When a Palestinian farmer named Emad Burnat bought a home video camera to record the birth of his youngest son, he didn't realize he would end up capturing the birth of a movement.
Burnat became the unofficial cameraman for his village of Bil'in in the occupied West Bank, and documented five years of local resistance against the encroaching Israeli settlements and the separation wall snaking through his and his neighbors' lands.
The home movies have now been transformed into the Oscar-nominated documentary, "5 Broken Cameras." FULL POST
How to prosecute a president
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN & ABC
For the past 20 years, the world has been steadily working towards holding even the very highest officials accountable.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was established in 1993. It was the first war crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, which prosecuted Nazi leaders for genocide after World War II.
At the turn of this millennium, for the first time ever, a sitting head of state was indicted, imprisoned and tried: Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, though he died before the trial ended. But generals and foot soldiers have been convicted. And in a landmark case, rape as a weapon of war has been determined to constitute a crime against humanity.
So from Liberia to Libya, the long arm of international justice has reached out to meet people's demands to hold their leaders and their warlord’s accountability for the most heinous of crimes. It is tough, slow going and sometimes critics even say that seeking justice can get in the way of sealing peace, but Judge Theodor Meron says that there is no alternative. He is the president of the International Criminal Tribunal and has spent decades laying down the law.
You can watch my interview with Meron in the video above.
The Arab Spring's bumpy road to democracy
Two years into the Arab Spring, the winds of hope and change have turned into a tempest of fear and people are crying foul.
Shadi Hamid is the director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and knows many of the leaders now in power in Arab Spring countries. In the video above he shares his rare insight with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Former U.S. bailout cop says another crash is inevitable
By Mick Krever, CNN
Just as the world struggles to emerge from a deep financial hole, the former top cop of the U.S.’s bank bailout says that a new crash is inevitable.
He is Neil Barofsky, and from the end of 2008 to 2011 he was tasked with ensuring that there was no abuse of the government’s bank bailout, or “Troubled Asset Relief Program” (TARP).
The idea that the U.S. has had any meaningful regulatory reform, Barofsky told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, “is a fiction.” FULL POST
Formerly forbidden, Afghan music plays new tune
By Samuel Burke & Juliet Fuisz
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, there was no music – certainly not in the open.
The Taliban rounded up and destroyed instruments and cassette tapes, string their entrails on branches as a warning to others who dare thinking of listening to or playing music. Only religious chants were permitted; public performances were unthinkable.
That tune has been changing since the Taliban’s fall more than 11 years ago.
Now the Afghan Youth Orchestra is reviving music in the country. This week they made it all the way from Kabul to New York’s esteemed Carnegie Hall.
Thanks to the leadership of their maestro, Afghan musician Ahmad Sarmast, the Afghan Ministry of Education, and money from the United States and its international partners, the student musicians were able to make the adage that “practice, practice, practice” gets you to Carnegie Hall come true.
Sarmast, their teacher and conductor, had fled Afghanistan, and returned only in 2006. He founded the Afghan Youth Orchestra and an institute that now trains 141 students between the ages of 10 and 21. Half of these students are street children and orphans; 41 of them are girls.
In the video above you can see them perform and discuss their passion for music with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
READ MORE: In Afghanistan, 11-year-old girl married to 40-year-old man
Fighting rape in South Africa's 'broken system'
By Samuel Burke & Claire Calzonetti, CNN
The brutal rape, mutilation and eventual death of a 17-year-old girl in South Africa could be a watershed moment for the country, opposition leader Lindiwe Mazibuko told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
Mazibuko is a Member of Parliament, and one of South Africa's loudest voices calling for change.
“It’s taken this kind of heinous act for the government to actually stand up and say we need to do something about this,” Mazibuko said. “So, on some level it’s clear enough hasn’t been done.”
The shocking rape, which occurred on February 1, two hours outside of Cape Town, has brought the issue of sexual violence to the fore and enraged the nation.
President Jacob Zuma has called for the harshest penalties for the perpetrators. Many South Africans are expecting Zuma to address the country’s calls for cultural change in his upcoming yearly address.
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Some 70% of South African women report being victims of sexual abuse.
Mazibuko says South Africa needs more oversight of the police, and investigations when the criminal justice system fails.
A lack of jobs and education are feed-in factors, according to Mazibuko.
“Young men,” she said, “who feel emasculated in a country where they can’t work, where they can’t feel like they are validated by some type of economic activity, become susceptible to situation where a woman becomes a punching bag for them to take out their frustrations on.”
She also says there must be a change in South African culture and that the country must partake in a national dialogue on sexual violence.
“We need to deal with the fact we live in a society where there is an unequal relationship between men and women,” Mazibuko said. “To the extent that men feel like women are their possessions with which they can do whatever they like, and it starts in seemingly small ways.”
In the video above you can watch her discussion with Christiane Amanpour about combating sexual violence in South Africa.
READ MORE: Teen's killing outrages South Africa
Meet the man who could be the first black pope
By Samuel Burke, CNN
You don't have to be Catholic to care about who the next Pope will be.
The guessing game about who will replace Benedict XVI has begun, and near the top of many lists is Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana.
The Catholic Church is growing fastest in Africa and Asia, so many are wondering if the next Pope might come from outside Europe.
“It is certainly possible to have a Cardinal come from the Southern part of the globe,” Turkson told CNN’s Christaine Amanpour on Tuesday, citing the long history of the Church in Latin America and Cardinals from Africa and Asia now taking important leadership positions. “So the possibility that a candidate, or that any of the Cardinals, to be elected Pope can come from the southern part of the globe is very real.”
When Amanpour asked Turkson about the possibility of the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal spreading to Africa, he said it would unlikely be in the same proportion as it has in Europe.
“African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency,” he said. “Because in several communities, in several cultures in Africa homosexuality or for that matter any affair between two sexes of the same kind are not countenanced in our society.”
According to the American Psychological Association, "homosexual men are not more likely to sexually abuse children than heterosexual men are."
Turkson acknowledged that many Catholic nuns have been driven out of the church because they are prevented from joining the top levels of the Church and becoming priests, but he defended the practice as part of Catholic tradition.
“If one does not have access to ordination is not discrimination,” he said, but rather “it is just how the church has understood this order of ministry to be.”
You can watch the interview with the possible papal contender in the video above.
READ MORE: Pope’s friend ‘not surprised’ by Benedict XVI’s decision
What do North Koreans think of nuclear tests?
By Samuel Burke, CNN
When the former British Ambassador to North Korea, John Everard, told acquaintances in that country that he was travelling to the United States, they asked him if he thought he would make it out alive.
Such is the view of America in the Hermit Kingdom. FULL POST
Not the first Pope to step down
By Lucky Gold & Richa Naik, CNN
While it is rare for a pope to step down, it has happened before – though not always by choice.
Nearly 1,000 years ago, Pope Benedict IX was accused of rape and murder (one historian even called him “a demon from hell in the disguise of a priest”). He was so despised that the Church actually paid him to quit.
Four hundred years later, Pope Gregory XII was pressured to resign in order to end the Western Schism, a division in the Church.
Although Vatican records are sealed on the subject, it is said that during World War II, the controversial Pope Pius XII had a letter of resignation prepared, in case he was kidnapped by the Nazis.
But there was one pope who chose, completely voluntarily, to give up his crown. In 1294, Pope Celestine V resigned after only five months. He preferred the simple life of a monk to the majesty of being pope.
Perhaps Pope Benedict XVI was inspired by Celestine’s example?
He has visited Celestine’s tomb twice in just two years. You can see photos from his visit in the video above.
READ MORE: Pope’s friend ‘not surprised’ by Benedict XVI’s decision
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