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Celebrating Mandela's 95th birthday
Christiane Amanpour celebrates Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, and speaks with South African film producer Anant Singh.
The Kardashians meet Downton Abbey
The Kardashians meet Downton Abbey
The Kardashians of Britain?
In attention, maybe, says Sarah Lyall, outgoing London correspondent for the New York Times.
But, she told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, “they're not going to go on and talk about what the labor was like and how hard it is to lose the baby weight and does Kanye want to see me breastfeeding.”
For 17 years, Lyall has been decoding Britain for Americans. She even wrote a book about it: “The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British,” published in 2008.
Obsession with the Royal Family, said Lyall, extends even the sophisticated readers of her New York Times.
“They're obsessed with it,” she said. “It's unbelievable. It's Downton Abbey in the Royal Family.”
Indeed the British, Lyall explained, still struggle with many of the same issues portrayed in Downton Abbey, the hit British TV show.
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Italian PM: Racist senator 'has to go'
By Mick Krever and Claire Calzonetti, CNN
An Italian parliamentarian who compared that country’s first-ever black cabinet minister to an orangutan “has to go,” Italy’s prime minister told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“It was a shock for Italy and for, of course, the public opinion,” Enrico Letta said. “You know, my choice to ask Cecile Kyenge to be minister was a choice very clear for the country. Italians have – they have to understand that the internal integration is one of the main issues for the future.”
Letta, who spoke with Amanpour in London after a meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron, said he had asked Roberto Calderoli, the vice president of Italy’s senate, to step down.
“It’s a shame,” Letta continued. “It’s really a shame, and I will continue to ask him to resign.”
It’s a controversy soon into Letta’s first term. An unlikely candidate, he assumed the office in April essentially by default, after months of political deadlock.
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Syria: A dire situation grows more dire
“The situation is looking more and more dire by the day,” Roula Khalaf, Middle East Editor for the Financial Times, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
She was speaking of Syria, where the U.N. now estimates 5,000 people are killed each month and from which 6,000 refugees flee every day.
“The regime is making gains on the ground,” Khalaf continued. “The whole idea that you make a political solution much more achievable if you alter the balance of power on the ground, we're not seeing that. We're seeing in fact the balance of power being altered in favor of the regime rather than in favor of the rebels.”
Click above to see the full conversation with Roula Khalaf, including why Bashar al-Assad is gleeful about the political chaos in Egypt.
Supporting Afghan women, with or without troops
By Mick Krever, CNN
Even without troops in Afghanistan, the international community can and should support women’s rights, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“International oversight doesn’t require soldiers on the ground,” Heather Barr, who has spent six years in Kabul, said. “As long as the international community is paying for President Karzai’s army and President Karzai’s police force, the international community has leverage.”
All they need to do, she continued, is focus that leverage on women’s rights, something she claims they have not done so far.
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Will Afghan women bear brunt of international pullout?
By Mick Krever and Juliet Fuisz, CNN
Afghan politicians are already preparing themselves for a less-progressive country once international forces pull out, a female Afghan parliamentarian told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“They are preparing themselves for a new situation, post-2014,” Fawzia Koofi said from Kabul, “and perhaps to welcome Taliban and their views in terms of women’s rights in Afghanistan.”
Koofi knows the struggles of Afghan women firsthand. When she was just a newborn baby, her parents left her out in the baking sun, torn about whether to keep a girl – thankfully, they had a change of heart.
Her experience, in which women are treated as something less than men, is far from rare in Afghanistan.
Take the example of Sahar Gul, forced at the age of 12 to marry an older man. She ended up in the hospital, close to death, after police found her in the cellar of her husband’s home – starved and tortured, her fingernails torn out.
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The Queen’s cousin
By Mick Krever & Juliet Fuisz, CNN
Queen Elizabeth II and her cousin, Margaret Rhodes, were born just a few months apart.
They were constant playmates, and have been close friends throughout their lives. Rhodes was there when Elizabeth was smitten with Philip, and was a bridesmaid at their wedding.
So as Queen Elizabeth awaits the birth of her great-grandchild and the next heir to the throne, one would expect Rhodes to be unbearably excited, right?
“Not terribly,” she told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday, exploding with laughter. “Well, you know, everybody has babies, and it’s lovely. I don’t get wildly excited about it.”
“Really?” Amanpour asked, not even for the next heir to the throne? “History?”
“Yes, all right, I’m prepared to be excited,” Rhodes relented with a smile.
Will Egypt get a second chance at democracy?
By Mick Krever, CNN
Will Egypt get a second chance at democracy?
That’s what the world is asking, a week after Egypt’s military forced President Mohamed Morsy from office, after a year of what the opposition called tyrannical governance.
“Second chances are rare in any country,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns said in Cairo on Monday, after meeting with the interim leader, Adly Mansour.
Speaking with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Frank Wisner, the former U.S. envoy to Egypt, said that Egypt should seize the opportunity.
“[It’s] a second chance,” he said. “One worth achieving, and there’s a chance Egypt can do it.
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Wanted by Egypt’s government
By Mick Krever, CNN
The Muslim Brotherhood’s number one goal for Egypt is the restoration of democracy, a senior member of that party told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
“This country is the main concern of us now,” el-Erian said, speaking on the phone from Cairo.
Egypt’s public prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for el-Erian, who is the deputy leader of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood’s political wing.
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Hardship at the United Nations
CNN’s Richard Roth reports on the staffing controversy brewing at the United Nations.
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