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FULL INTERVIEW: Hanks, Greengrass, Abdi
Full: Amanpour, Hanks, Greengrass
CNN's Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass about their new film, "Captain Phillips."
Full interview: Amanpour, Barkhad Abdi
CNN's Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Barkhad Abdi about his role in the new film, "Captain Phillips."
Tom Hanks on career, 1960s
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tom Hanks about his career.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Above is Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Actors Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi, and director Paul Greengrass, of "Captain Phillips."
See also the interview as aired.
Christiane Amanpour interviews "The Bravest Girl in the World"
All she wanted was to go to school.
The Taliban told 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai that she could not, threatened her, but still, she went. Because she refused to be intimidated, the Taliban shot her in the head.
Miraculously, Malala Yousafzai survived the assassination attempt. Now, at 16, Malala is a formidable force in the fight to educate girls – still just a girl herself, she is speaking truth to power all over the world to get her message out.
CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour will speak with Malala, in an event broadcast around the world, in front of a live townhall audience in New York.
On stage with them will be Malala’s father and dozens of school children passionate about Malala’s cause; among the students will be one lucky winner of a national essay contest, flown to New York to meet Malala in person.
Be sure to tune in on Sunday, October 13 at 7pm ET, and see why Malala Yousafzai is The Bravest Girl in the World.
(The Bravest Girl in the World will also air during Amanpour's normal Monday timeslot, 2pm ET, 2000 CET.)
Taliban attack on Malala showed Pakistanis ‘who these people really are,’ Hina Rabbani Khar tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
The attempted Taliban assassination of Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old girl who advocated for girls’ education, drew a line in the sand between extremism and progressivism, former Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“The contrast is so overwhelming,” she said, “that in some ways it helps Pakistanis, and it reminds Pakistanis, to who these people really are, and the fact that we cannot have Pakistan be taken over by such thought and such people.”
Wednesday marks one year since the Pakistani Taliban boarded Yousafzai’s school bus, singled her out by name, and shot her in the head – a response, ostensibly, to her public advocacy for girl’s education.
Iran: ‘we are ready’ for a nuclear deal
By Mick Krever, CNN
Iran is serious about resolving the dispute over its nuclear program, and is keen to resolve the issue “in a short period of time,” the speaker of Iran’s parliament, Ali Larijani, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
“From Iran's side, I can say that we are ready,” Larijani said from Geneva.
“If the Americans and other countries say that Iran should not develop a nuclear bomb or should not move towards that,” he told Amanpour, “then we can clearly show and prove that. We have no such intention. So it can be resolved in a very short period of time.”
Washington’s ‘warm bath’ of celebrity and self-interest
By Mick Krever, CNN
The world is watching in disbelief as lawmakers in Washington exude dysfunction and allow America to hurtle closer and closer to a first-ever debt default.
But a longtime chronicler of Washington, Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for the New York Times, says that insiders may care less about the dysfunction than we think.
“The dirty little secret” about Washington, he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, “is a level of insularity which completely shelters people from what the real sentiments of Americans and also people around the world are coming to think about this.”
Leibovich has spent years diving into Washington’s inner workings and has just written a new book called “This Town.”
Vietnam’s “Greatest Generation”
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Imagine a world where a self-taught soldier wrote the playbook for modern insurgency – and used it to defeat two mighty armies.
Vietnam is planning a state funeral to honor General Vo Nguyen Giap, who died on Friday at the age of 102.
More than half a century ago, as a history teacher, he joined forces with a former bus-boy named ho chi minh to create a lethal guerrilla army.
Somalia welcomes U.S. raid, says America doesn’t need permission
By Mick Krever, CNN
Somalia welcomes the U.S. raid on an al-Shabaab leader this weekend, deputy prime minister and foreign minister Fawzia Yusuf Adam told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday, adding that the U.S. does not have to ask permission for future action.
“We are welcoming more if this will help us get rid of al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab,” she said from London. “We have a cooperation, and they don’t have to ask us, because we are fighting a common enemy.”
“We are grateful to their support,” Adam told Amanpour. “Otherwise the whole region will be in turmoil.”
Does U.S. now favor commando raids over air strikes?
By Mick Krever, CNN
The U.S. operations this weekend in Somalia and Libya are putting a spotlight once again on American military tactics around the world, and incursions into other countries.
The fact that both operations used commandos on the ground, instead of drone strikes, which have so proliferated under U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, may be indicative of a recent trend.
“There’s been a strong desire to increase the number of captures and increase the amount of intelligence that we can glean from these operatives,” Former U.S. Counter Terrorism Coordinator Daniel Benjamin told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
Benjamin is director of Dartmouth's John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
Abu Anas al Libi, a man wanted for his connection to the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings, was capture by U.S. forces in Tripoli, Libya.
“There’s a lot to learn from this man,” Benjamin said, “and there’s the additional fact that the Untied States never lets these cases die, and it’s very important to show that we’re going to follow them to their conclusion and that justice will be done.”
Netanyahu makes #IranJeans trend on Twitter
By Samuel Burke, CNN
Fashion and foreign affairs are crossing paths on Iranian social media.
“#Jeans” has been a top trend on Twitter in Iran over the past few days and it all has to do with a comment from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In an interview with BBC Persian late last week, Netanyahu criticized the lack of freedoms in the Iranian electoral process, which now-President Hassan Rouhani won in June.
But during the interview Netanyahu said, “I think if the Iranian people had their way they’d be wearing blue jeans, they’d have western music, they’d have free elections…”
Pope Francis leading a Vatican ‘revolution,’ Politi tells Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
Pope Francis is leading a “revolution” at the Vatican, Italian author Marco Politi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
The new pontiff is focussing on reforming four “key” areas, Politi said: money, power, poverty, and community.
“He told the bishops and the cardinals,” Politi told Amanpour from Rome, “that they have not to behave like princes of the renaissance. He tells the priests not to forget when they buy a car about children who starve because they don’t enough to eat.”
Pope Francis spoke out on the issues of the Church in a frank interview with Italy’s la Repubblica newspaper.
"This Vatican-centric view neglects the world around us,” the pontiff said. “I do not share this view and I'll do everything I can to change it."
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