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Kenneth Roth: Drones ‘anything but precise [and] targeted’
By Mick Krever, CNN
American drone strikes are “anything but precise [and] targeted,” Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth told CNN’s Hala Gorani on Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International both released major new reports on drones, alleging that they kill far more civilians than the U.S. government has suggested.
“Time after time [the U.S. government] says it’s only going after militants, it says there is zero tolerance for civilian casualties, it says it’s extraordinarily careful,” Roth told Gorani, who was sitting in for CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “That’s just not the way it’s working out in practice.”
The ‘inattentive generation’ raises the ‘restless generation’
By Mick Krever, CNN
What are your children doing on the internet?
For many modern parents, it’s one of the scariest – and most mysterious – questions they can be asked.
It’s something British filmmaker Beeban Kidron – director of the second “Bridget Jones” film – realized she too was anxious to answer.
(On the release of a new Bridget Jones book, Kidron called Helen Fielding “a genius” for killing off the character of Darcy, but when asked if she would direct a film without Darcy, she deflected “Of course not!”)
Her newest project is called “InRealLife,” a documentary about children’s addiction to the internet.
The question she wanted to answer was not the fraught one of whether online activity was good or bad – a complicated question that is moot anyway – but how the internet was changing young people.
“I felt that the world around me was just sort of closing in, and I suddenly realized it’d been over a year since I’d seen a young person without some sort of device in their hands,” Kidron told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Monday.
‘Absolutely’ a link between climate change and wildfires, U.N. climate chief Figueres tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
There is “absolutely” a link between climate change and wildfires, U.N. Climate Chief Christiana Figueres told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
Wildfires are raging in a ring around Sydney, Australia, as that country experiences its hottest year on record.
“The World Meteorological Organization has not established a direct link between this wildfire and climate change – yet,” Figueres said. “But what is absolutely clear is the science is telling us that there are increasing heat waves in Asia, Europe, and Australia; that there these will continue; that they will continue in their intensity and in their frequency.”
Australia’s new prime minister, Tony Abbott, has expressed deep scepticism about climate change, once even calling it “absolute c**p” (he has since walked those remarks back).
Abbott is trying to get rid of Australia’s carbon tax and has dissolved its climate change commission.
“What the new government in Australia has not done is it has not walked away from its international commitment on climate change,” Figueres told Amanpour. “So what they’re struggling with now is not what are they going to do, but how are they going to get there.”
Will politics exacerbate Australia’s raging wildfires?
By Mick Krever and Ken Olshansky, CNN
Will politics exacerbate Australia’s raging wildfires?
It’s not supposed to be fire season yet in Australia, where summer hasn’t even begun. But more than sixty devastating bush fires are already raging in a ring around Sydney.
Just a month ago, Australians elected a new prime minister, Tony Abbott, who once called climate change “absolute c**p.” (He has since walked those remarks back, calling them a bit of “rhetorical hyperbole.”)
Though it is unclear that climate change directly caused these wild fires – police arrested two teenagers for starting two of the Sydney fires –local officials do fear those hot, dry, and windy conditions this week could exacerbate the situation.
In the past 12 months, Australia has lived through the hottest summer, in the hottest year, on record.
“There is a real political debate about how to deal with this issue of climate change,” Stan Grant, international editor of Sky News Australia, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
“Tony Abbot in the past has been citizen for being a climate skeptic, if not a climate change denier,” Grant said. “Now he stepped back a lot from that hard line that he’s taken, but he’s been very ideological when it comes to how to deal with this.”
FULL interview – Malala Yousafzai
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour profiles Malala Yousafzai.
In bizarre diplomatic spat, Putin ‘acting like a cornered animal,’ Russian journalist tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
A decidedly undiplomatic spat between Russia and the Netherlands is bringing to the forefront once again what Russian journalist Masha Gessen calls President Vladimir Putin’s “bully” syndrome.
Late Tuesday night, a senior Dutch diplomat in Russia, Onno Elderenbosch, was beaten in his apartment by two men posing as electricians.
Just days ago before that, Dutch police arrested a Russian diplomat in The Hague after neighbors reported suspected child abuse – police released him hours later and apologized to Moscow.
And all this comes on top of Russia’s arrest of 30 Greenpeace activists who, using a Dutch-flagged ship, were protesting oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. Earlier this month, Russia charged the 28 activists and two journalists on board with piracy, which carries a potential sentence of 15 years.
“This was a high-level diplomatic message of sorts,” Gessen told Amanpour from Moscow. “It’s not specific to the Dutch-Russian relationship, but it is specific to the way Russia is treating the rest of the world.”
President Vladimir Putin has run the country “like a thug” for 14 years, Gessen said, and is only now showing the world who he really is.
Putin began his third presidential term last year, after a brief interlude as prime minister.
To save the rhino and the soul of a continent
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Mahatma Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
By that standard, Africa is failing its wildlife population, and in particular the endangered rhino.
Amanpour has reported before on this tragedy – what's become an organized crime wave against Mother Nature.
Since 2007, rhino deaths have increased by a staggering 3,000%.
Egypt will ‘find other sources’ for aid if needs not met
Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Foreign Minister Fahmy is online here.
By Mick Krever, CNN
In the wake of the U.S. suspending significant military support to Egypt, that country will “find other sources” if its national security needs are not met, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“If your friends in the region, when they’re facing terrorism in particular, cannot depend on a continuous supply of equipment that deals with terrorism, then you are obviously going to raise questions in the mind of those friends about your dependability,” he told Amanpour, referring to the United States. “And that will affect your interests as well as those of your friends, like Egypt.”
Fahmy called the suspension of some aid a “freeze, or delay” – not a “cut-off.”
The United States announced last week that it would withdraw a significant portion of its military aid to Egypt.
The decision came after months of debate since President Morsy was deposed in early July. The American government did not call that a “coup”; if it had done so, it would then have been legally obligated to withdraw aid.
But the harsh government crackdown on pro-Morsy protestors in the past – including hundreds killed in August and dozens just last week – was seen as a step too far by the interim government.
Fahmy pleaded with the international community to be patient with Egypt.
“I refer you back to the U.S. system,” Fahmy said. “It took you a very long number of years before you gave African Americans equal rights in America. So let’s just respect how difficult it has been.”
FULL interview – Robert Einhorn
Above is Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Robert Einhorn, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation.
FULL interview – Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy
Above is Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy.
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