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Full interview: General Philip Breedlove
Click above to watch Christiane Amanpour's full interview with General Philip Breedlove, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says his is a ‘a very different bank’
By Mick Krever, CNN
From Ukraine to Russia, Tunisia to Egypt, it’s the economy, stupid, as Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign famously put it during his 1992 campaign.
How to get nations into better health, and thus greater wealth? That is the herculean task of Jim Yong Kim and the institution he leads, the World Bank.
“Twenty years ago I was actually on the streets protesting against the World Bank,” Kim said. “I was part of the ’50 years is enough’ movement, and we wanted to shut down the World Bank on its 50th anniversary.”
Now, as president of the organization, he says it is “a very different bank.”
“Twenty years ago the World Bank wasn’t focussed so much on health and education,” he said. “The World Bank was saying, ‘Well, let’s just make the economy grow, and then once the economy grows then we can think about health and education.’”
Is Darren Aronofsky’s Noah an environmentalist?
By Mick Krever, CNN
Is the Noah portrayed in Darren Aronofsky’s new film about Genesis’ great flood an “environmental wacko”?
To listen to the fringe critics, the answer is yes. But Aronofsky – whose film has swept the box office in its first days of release – says he stayed true to the Bible.
“It's in Genesis,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Tuesday. “Noah is saving the animals; he's not out there saving innocent babies, he's saving the animals, he's saving creation.”
“It was very clear to us that there was an environmental message. To pull that message out of it, we think, would have been more of an editing job than just sort of representing what's there.”
Was Noah an environmentalist?
Director Darren Aronofsky tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour there was a clear "environmental message" in Genesis.
Make a film about the Bible, expect controversy.
Make a film about the Bible after a lifetime of directing bleak films about death, drug addicts, and crazed obsessives – expect lots of controversy.
In his perhaps surprising turn to the Bible – he says Noah has been a “patron saint” for him since he wrote a Noah-themed poem at age 13 – Aronofsky has steered well clear of the childhood tales of happy animals living on a ship in harmony.
His flood is dark and deadly, shot in tones of grey and black.
But if there’s a surprise for Aronofosky, it’s how much the biblical epic has been welcomed.
Former Egypt official touts reconciliation, puts onus on Brotherhood
By Mick Krever, CNN
Egypt must reconcile and stamp out violence, Former Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, while putting the onus for that reconciliation on the once-again-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
“The first challenge is the political stability of the country,” he said. “This is a very daunting task because certainly the Muslim Brotherhood, who lost the power, are not willing to come to terms with that loss. And they continue to raise a big fight, using – resorting to violence.”
The man who spearheaded the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsy was the very leader Morsy had appointed to lead the military: Field Marshall Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
El-Sisi has now resigned from the military and declared his candidacy for president; elections are set for May 26.
He was pictured on Monday riding around Cairo on a bicycle, having traded his uniform for a more populist track suit.
“He has opened the door for an inclusive society,” Radwan said.
Many, of course, disagree with that statement – chiefly members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Last week, in one fell swoop, an Egyptian court sentenced 528 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges related to violent riots last August.
An ironclad celebration of freedom
Christiane Amanpour tells the story of the Eiffel Tower, which celebrates 125 years on Monday.
Click above to watch.http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/03/31/amanpour-eiffel-tower-statue-of-liberty.cnn.html
Crimean minority Tatar leader warns of possible bloodshed
By Mick Krever, CNN
The leader of Crimea’s Muslim minority, the Tatars, warned on Monday of possible bloodshed in Crimea and southern Ukraine.
“Our largest, biggest concern is about the possibility of clashes, of large scale bloodshed in Crimea,” Mustafa Dzhemilev, who is a member of Ukraine’s parliament, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview.
The Ukrainian military will fight, despite an imbalance in power, if the Russian military goes further into Ukraine, Dzhemilev said.
“No matter how weak we are in military in comparison to Russia…we’ll start fire.”
Tatar leader warns of possible bloodshed
Ukrainian Member of Parliament Mustafa Dzhemilev warns of possible future bloodshed in Crimea and Ukraine.
“We’ll open fire if [the Russian] Army will move further. And it’s hardly within Russia’s interests or President Putin’s interests, but we can’t exclude anything.”
“But all this will result in bloodshed.”
International Rescue Committee's plea to remember Syria's refugees
After three years of war, Syrians feel the world has forgotten them. The International Rescue Committee is trying to change that.
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Angelina Jolie puts spotlight on Syrian refugees as U.N. Refugees chief warns Lebanon could collapse under burden
By Mick Krever, CNN
Lebanon could collapse under the weight of the massive influx of Syrian refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres warned in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that aired Thursday.
Without economic and financial support, and an increased effort to share the burden of Syrian refugees, “Lebanon [does] not [have] the possibility to go on with the present situation,” Guterres said.
Angelina Jolie, a special envoy for the UNHCR, is highlighting the plight of Syrian refugees.
She recently visited with a family living in a Lebanese refugee camp, speaking with a young child, Hala, and her five siblings.
Hala saw her mother killed under their collapsed home, and their father is missing and presumed dead.
Watch Jolie speak with Hala and her siblings.
“Twenty-five percent of the Lebanese population today is Syrian,” Guterres said. “We have more Syrian students in Lebanese public schools than Lebanese students.”
U.N. Refugee chief on looming crisis
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.
“Lebanon has serious problems with electricity and water, and largely because of this huge increase in population; the health system is totally overburdened, and the security implications of the Syrian crisis to Lebanon are absolutely dramatic.”
“Nobody can afford the collapse of Lebanon in the present moment.”
Web extra: Coping with the burden of Syrian refugees
In this web extra, CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres about the burden of Syrian refugees on surrounding countries.
"Countries must show effective financial and economic solidarity with the host countries, but they also need to open their [own] borders," Guterres said.
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40 years later, Angela Lansbury returns to the London stage – at 88
By Mick Krever, CNN
Performing in a play in London’s famed West End is achievement enough for most actors – doing it at 88 is something else altogether.
That’s exactly what Angela Lansbury – most famous for a 12-year run as a mystery writer and amateur detective in the TV series “Murder, She Wrote” – has done with her role in Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit.”
It’s her first time on a London stage in 40 years, and the play has opened to rave reviews.
“It is lovely, isn't it? It's lovely,” Lansbury told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at the Gielgud Theatre. “I'm thrilled to death.”
How does she find the energy, at 88, for the grueling schedule live theater requires?
“That's the $24,000 question – truthfully, I don't know.”
Lansbury has had a storied career, starting in the Hollywood studio system of the mid-20th century.
At the time of her first big “break,” she told Amanpour, she had been working in a department store, making 18 dollars an hour.
“I was … making change as a cashier, and all kinds of little menial jobs of that sort,” she said. “I had been a drama student in Britain before I ever went to America. So I was prepared. I was ready to be an actress. And I wanted to get a part, either in a play or a movie or anything, just to exercise my talent.”
She was signed to the production company MGM; in the system of the time, the Hollywood studios exercised tremendous control over the actors under contract, especially women.
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