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Heat rising in Cairo
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman about rising tensions in Egypt, as the military chief there calls for mass demonstrations on Friday.
Iranian insider on country's next leader
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former member of Iran's nuclear negotiating team, about Iranian President-Elect Hassan Rouhani, with whom Mousavian has worked closely.
Is Pope Francis endorsing Brazil protests?
By Mick Krever and Juliet Fuisz, CNN
In his first international trip, Pope Francis has travelled to Brazil, a country wracked in recent weeks by massive street protests.
So is the pontiff, with his message of social change and revival within the church, endorsing the activism of Brazilian youth?
“The core message that he's trying to deliver to young people on this trip is that he wants young people to see themselves as inserted into the struggles of society,” CNN Senior Vatican Analyst John Allen told Christiane Amanpour from Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.
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Barriers to Israel peace less now, says President Carter
By Mick Krever, Claire Calzonetti & Juliet Fuisz, CNN
The differences to bridge for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians are not as great now as they were between Israel and Egypt during the groundbreaking Camp David accords, Former President Jimmy Carter told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“The differences between the two are not nearly so great as they were then,” Carter said, “if Israel will still accept, which they did in 1978 and ‘79, that the acquisition of territory by force is not legal.”
President Carter’s efforts as president led to the groundbreaking first-ever peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, known as the Camp David Accords.
Direct negotiations between Israel and another neighbor, the Palestinians, now look more real than they have in years, thanks to the work of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
President Carter – as a member of The Elders, a group of distinguished former presidents, veteran diplomats, and other leaders founded by Nelson Mandela – is using his years of experience to try to solve some of the world’s toughest problems.
He spoke with Amanpour in London along with fellow-Elder Lakhdar Brahimi, the longtime diplomat who is currently the joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria.
Brahimi told Amanpour that one of the toughest issues to be worked out in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the right of Palestinians to return to their erstwhile homes now in Israeli territory, may not actually be as difficult as it is made out to be.
Longtime peacemakers reflect on Mandela’s legacy
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and longtime diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi are uniquely qualified to reflect on the legacy of Nelson Mandela.
Not only are they lifelong peacemakers with decades of experience each, but they are a members of The Elders, the organization of former heads of state and leaders founded by Mandela himself.
“He not only was a good in being theoretically wonderful,” President Carter told Amanpour on Wednesday, “but he also brought wonderful new life to his own people.”
Brahimi, who is currently the U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria, reflected on the iconic speech given by Mandela when he was released from prison.
“To make that speech,” Brahimi said, “in which he reached out to the people who, who were keeping him under their feet for 27 years, is hugely inspiring.”
Palestinian politician says talks cannot relinquish people’s rights
By Mick Krever, CNN
Israel and the Palestinians need “to move fast with genuine commitment, not with P.R. statements,” a top Palestinian politician told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
The possibility of direct negotiations now looks more real than it has in years, thanks to the old-fashioned shuttle diplomacy of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Hanan Ashrawi, a long-time Palestinian peace negotiator and a senior member of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), told Amanpour that they were awaiting an invitation from Kerry.
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First glimpse of royal baby
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Max Foster as Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, emerged Tuesday with their baby son.
‘Born into a club in which they are not welcome’
By Juliet Fuisz, CNN
“In the peerage, there are girls who by an accident of birth are born into a club in which they are not welcome,” Lady Elizabeth Campbell told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
Campbell, as the daughter of the 25th Thane of Cawdor, is a member of that peerage, or nobility – not to be confused with “royalty.”
Thanks to legislation passed this year, female royalty will be able to inherit their family’s wealth, but women in the peerage do not have that right.
It was an issue portrayed in the popular television drama Downton Abbey, in which a family with only daughters is forced to find a distant cousin to inherit the family fortune.
Click above to watch Amanpour’s full interview with Lady Campbell, and find out about her fight for women’s equality.
Israel: Negotiations not a favor to U.S.
By Mick Krever and Claire Calzonetti, CNN
Israel’s decision to agree to preliminary talks with the Palestinians are not because of outside pressure but rather because of the country’s own interest, the Israel's top point person for the talks, Tzipi Livni, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
“It’s not a favor to the Palestinians, not to the E.U., and not even to the President of the United States,” Livni, who is also Justice Minister, told Amanpour from Jerusalem. “It is the interest of Israel.”
Livni said that she hoped to meet with the Palestinians in the next few days, and lay the groundwork for direct negotiations between the highest levels of government among the Israelis and Palestinians.
“I support deeply not only the idea of negotiations,” Livni said, “but the idea of the need to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.”
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Striving for a Rainbow Nation
As Nelson Mandela turns 95, Christiane Amanpour speaks with South African radio host and author Eusebius McKaiser about his country as the "Rainbow Nation.
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