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Gingrich, unlike Boehner, could ‘control his party,’ Tyson says
By Mick Krever, CNN
A top economic aide to U.S. President Bill Clinton said that unlike the last government shutdown, in 1995, the Republican party of 2013 has no idea what it wants.
“We do not have anyone in charge,” Laura Tyson, former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday. “Speaker Boehner cannot control the Republican majority.”
By contrast, during the 1995-96 shutdown, she said, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was a “powerful” leader.
“He was able to control his party,” she said. “It was a failed tactic on their part – they ended up suffering in the polls and they ended up helping to re-elect President Clinton the next year – but he had control of the tactic and he had control of what they wanted to get.”
“Here we have a situation where the Republicans are not united,” Tyson told Amanpour. “Boehner cannot raise a deal, as we saw just yesterday. And there a number of people in his party who have different demands.”
Iran nuclear talks ‘detailed,’ and ‘substantive’ says lead U.S. negotiator Wendy Sherman
By Mick Krever, CNN
The lead U.S. negotiator for Iran’s nuclear program called the first two days of a new round of direct talks “detailed” and “substantive.”
“Foreign Minister Zarif and his delegation came prepared for detailed, substantive discussion with a candor that I certainly have not heard in the two years I’ve been meeting with Iranians,” U.S. Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday, adding that her Western colleagues who had more experience with Iran agreed.
“We’re trying to pick up the pace of this, to move quickly, because we don’t want Iran’s nuclear program to keep moving forward,” Sherman said.
These initial talks covered the counties’ objectives – Sherman said that negotiators knew going into it that they were unlikely to immediately reach concrete agreements.
“This is highly technical work, when you’re talking about a nuclear program,” she said.
These talks were for the first time conducted in English, which Sherman said “increased the pace the ability to have direct and candid discussions.”
Amanpour: Bosnia World Cup qualification ‘brings a huge smile to my face’
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN
I remember Bosnia, especially Sarajevo during the war – people loved soccer. Whenever there was a lull in the shelling or the sniping, they would play.
But over the course of nearly four years of war, some of the city’s soccer fields became graveyards, and I stood there as formal cemeteries overflowed with the war dead. Stadiums were shelled and it was all but impossible even to leave for formal matches abroad.
Sarajevo once had the world’s sporting spotlight shining down on it – as host of the 1984 Winter Olympics. The ice skating rink that gave the world gold medallists, Torvill and Dean, was destroyed during the war and it seemed to symbolize all the hope that was seeping out of Sarajevo – and all of Bosnia Herzegovina.
So as Bosnia and Herzegovina qualifies for the first time for the World Cup, there’s certainly a bittersweet feeling to it, it brings a huge smile to my face because it’s wonderful to see Bosnia, to see the city of Sarajevo erupt in such well-deserved celebration.
This will unite people.
OECD chief: America ‘was a good place…and then this happens’
By Mick Krever, CNN
Get your act together, America. That is the message Angel Gurria, who represents the 34 wealthiest countries of the world, had for U.S. lawmakers in an interview Tuesday with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
Gurria is secretary general of the OECD, or Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
“We’re getting a little purple here, because we thought we would have more breathing a lot sooner,” he told Amanpour. “It’s very difficult to understand why the U.S. are doing this to themselves.”
Gurria met with the 34 OECD member states on Tuesday, and said that the U.S. crisis was “practically the only thing we were discussing.”
Like a policeman pleading with someone not to jump off a bridge, Gurria begged with the U.S. to recognize how good it had things.
“They were the only bright spot so far,” he said. “It was a good place; things were happening. Jobs were being put back and growth was happening in the United States. And then this happens.”
We can’t give Peace Prize ‘based on polls,’ Nobel head Jagland tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
How, and why, does the Nobel Committee decide whom to award the Peace Prize?
It is a question that arises almost every year in early October.
Unlike the science Nobels, which award work on “Higgs Bosons” and “multiscale models for complex chemical systems,” the work that leads to a Peace Prize can be understood by the layman.
This year, the Nobel Committee bypassed Malala Yousafzai, the popular favorite to win, awarding instead the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
“We wanted to give a signal to the world that now we have the possibility to do away with a whole category of weapons of mass destruction,” Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
West can ‘do business’ with Rouhani, former counterpart Jack Straw tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
Portraying Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as a genuine pragmatist, Former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw expressed optimism to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday that a nuclear deal with the West was possible.
Direct nuclear talks, ushered in by the election of Rouhani earlier this year, began Tuesday in Geneva.
Straw, as foreign secretary, worked closely on the nuclear file with Rouhani, when he was head of nuclear negotiations under President Mohammad Khatami.
“You could do business with him, and we were able to do business with him,” Straw told Amanpour. “I very profoundly believe that [this] is a new chance for proper negotiations.”
Sceptics in the West, and Israel, have welcomed President Rouhani’s words but said they need to see actions – a sentiment mirrored in Iran when talking about the West.
“President Rouhani is an Iranian and he represents Iran’s national interest, so people have got to factor that in, and it’s entirely right that he should do that,” Straw said.
The Bravest Girl in the World
Malala on the Nobel Peace Prize
Malala Yousafzai talks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour about the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala describes her shooting
Malala Yousafzai describes her shooting to CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Malala on being Pakistani prime minister
Malala Yousafzai tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour that she wants to be Pakistani prime minister.
Malala on if she wins Nobel
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Malala Yousafzai about how she will react to a Nobel Peace Prize win.
Christiane Amanpour's interview with Malala Yousafzai, The Bravest Girl in the World, will air Sunday, October 13 at 7pm ET, and reair during Amanpour's normal Monday timeslot.
By Mick Krever, CNN
When Malala Yousafzai woke from the coma the Taliban put her in, she was aware of only a few things.
“Yes, Malala, you were shot,” she told herself.
She thought back to her dreams – of lying on a stretcher, being in some distant place far from home and school – and realized that they weren’t dreams, but recollections.
“The nurses and doctors, everyone was speaking in English,” she recalls. “I realized that now I am not in Pakistan.”
All Malala Yousafzai wanted was to go to school.
Libyan prime minister realeased
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with former Libyan Prime Minister-Elect Mustafa Abushagur about the abduction and subsequent release of Prime Minsiter Ali Zeidan, and the state of Libya's democracy.
Libya does not have ‘criminal justice system,’ foreign minister Abdelaziz tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
The abduction and release of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan by armed gunmen is the result of weak and absent government institutions, a member of that very government, Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdelaziz told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“In the absence of a functional, strong, and humane criminal justice in Libya, these things could happen anytime,’ Abdelaziz said the capital, Tripoli. “These types of groups exploit these types of gaps that exist in the country at the moment, given the fact that we are in the process of building our criminal justice system.”
Hanks holds ‘mirror up to nature’ in “Captain Phillips”
True story of piracy on the high seas
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tom Hanks and Director Paul Greengrass about their new film, "Captain Phillips."
The Somali star of "Captain Phillips"
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Barkhad Abdi, star, with Tom Hanks, of "Captain Phillips."
By Mick Krever, CNN
A U.S. raid on al-Qaeda-linked militants; the 20th anniversary of Black Hawk Down; a new film on the true-story pirating of an American shipping vessel – Somalia, the war-ravaged East African nation, finds itself in the news now more than almost any other time in recent memory.
The hijacking of an unarmed American ship by Somali pirates in April 2009, and subsequent commando rescue operation by U.S. Navy Seals, is the subject of “Captain Phillips,” a new movie starring Tom Hanks and first-time Somali actor Barkhad Abdi, and directed by Paul Greengrass.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour spoke with all three in an interview that aired Wednesday.
“The best non-fiction is a record of human behavior that is always checkered, that is always very complex motivations,” Hanks told Amanpour in New York. “They do not hew to the antagonist/protagonist storyline which is the basis of any kind of dramatic art.”
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