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Syria's battle of the textbooks
CNN's Christane Amanpour looks at how the Assad regime and now the Syrian opposition have both used children's textbooks to push their agendas.
Will Imran Khan’s dramatic fall affect his campaigning?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour looks at how Imran Khan's dramatic fall might affect his ability to campaign just ahead of Pakistani elections.
Six Israeli security chiefs stun the world
By Samuel Burke, CNN
Six former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secretive internal security service, have spoken out as a group for the first time and are making stunning revelations.
The men who were responsible for keeping Israel safe from terrorists now say they are afraid for Israel’s future as a democratic and Jewish state.
Israeli film director Dror Moreh managed to get them all to sit down for his new documentary: “The Gatekeepers.” It is the story of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories, as told by the people at the crossroads of some of the most crucial moments in the security history of the country.
“If there is someone who understands the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it’s those guys,” the director told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. ((CLICK HERE TO READ FULL POST))
Syrian opposition PM: Arm us, not the extremists
By Samuel Burke, CNN
If the West doesn’t arm the Free Syrian Army, extremist groups will take hold of the war-torn country. That’s the assessment of Syrian opposition leader Ghassan Hitto, who in past weeks, went from being a Texas-based I.T. executive to prime minister of the Syrian National Coalition, Syria’s government in exile.
“Do we wait until thousands and thousands more of Hezbollah fighters continue to pour into Syria? Do we wait for more Iranian soldiers and Iranian influence in the region?” Hitto said to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
Hitto is a Syrian-American who's just been appointed the first interim prime minister of the Syrian opposition. He has temporary headquarters in Istanbul, but told Amanpour he'll soon name his government and move into Syria.
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Negotiated end to Syria's civil war?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour asks Syrian opposition Prime Minister Ghassan Hitto if there's still any hope whatsoever for the possibility of a negotiated end to the country's civil war.
Israel: We do not hide our red lines
By Samuel Burke, CNN
Syria may call Israel’s airstrikes near Damascus this weekend a "declaration of war," but if you ask Israeli officials, it's all overblown.
"There are no winds of war," Israeli commander Yair Golan told reporters while out on a jog.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn't even in Israel – he’s in Beijing – adding to the impression that all is in hand.
Indeed, Israel is bending over backward to convince Syria that it was simply going after Hezbollah-bound arms from Iran, and that its airstrikes were not to support the rebels.
Still, dozens of Syrian soldiers were killed, according to the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing medical sources.
“Nobody in Israel wants another war with Syria – this is not the intention,” the former head of Israel’s internal security service, Ami Ayalon, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Israel, he said, simply felt it had no alternative. FULL POST
Bangladesh's prime minister: 'Accidents happen'
By Tom Watkins / Produced by Claire Calzonetti, CNN
Bangladesh's prime minister acknowledged Thursday that her nation's garment industry is beset with problems, but said her government was moving rapidly to fix them.
"Bangladesh now is a place for good conditions for the investment," Sheikh Hasina told CNN's Christiane Amanpour eight days after a nine-story building collapsed on the outskirts of Dhaka, killing at least 437 people, most of them garment workers. She said 2,437 survivors were pulled from the rubble, where recovery work was continuing.
"Yes, there are some problems," she said, but added that a committee has been formed to ensure the safety of buildings and workers. FULL POST
Amanpour asks Bangladesh's PM for journalist visas
Christiane Amanpour asks Bangladeshi Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina for journalist visas so that CNN can report on the tragic building collapse that killed more than 400 people.
Schmidt: ‘If Google had algorithm to detect terrorists, we’d use it’
By Mick Krever, CNN
In the days after the Boston bombings, a YouTube account was found with the username Tamerlan Tsarnaev, which included a playlist labeled “terrorists.”
“If there were an algorithm to detect terrorists, trust me, we would use it,” Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday. Google owns YouTube.
He is the author of a new book, “The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations, and Business,” about the perils and promises of the Internet.
His co-author, Jared Cohen, is a former State Department adviser who now holds the nouveau title of Director of Google Ideas.
“Future terrorists are going to have to opt into technology if they want to be relevant,” Cohen told Amanpour. “In the future, there’s going to be no hidden people.”
The Tsarnaev brothers may have carried out the attacks in Boston despite their online profiles. But, as law enforcement, government, and business become more adept at tracking internet activity, terrorists too could be more easily rooted out.
Watch the video above to see the full interview with Schmidt and Cohen, and to find out why the internet may increase Iran’s population ten-fold.
Is it medically ethical to force-feed Guantanamo detainees?
By Samuel Burke, CNN
There’s a life-and-death tug-of-war going on between President Barack Obama and more than 100 prisoners who would rather die than stay alive forever at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Nearly all of the inmates there have never been charged with a crime.
Twenty-three detainees and counting have lost so much weight that they are being force-fed.
A doctor's code is "do no harm," but it is also to respect the autonomy or the independence of the patient.
That’s according to world-renowned bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the NYU Medical Center. FULL POST
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