Amanpour

Amanpour episodes:

• 04.23.2024

  Chair of UNRWA Review Catherine Colonna

  The desperate humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to worsen. Amidst this crisis the US, the UK and others are still withholding funding to UNRWA, the main relief agency there. This was in response to Israel’s claims that some UNRWA staff...

  
• 04.22.2024

  Foreign policy experts Kori Schake and Nathalie Tocci

  Opening arguments were heard today in the first ever criminal trial of an American president, as a jury of twelve detainees determines whether Donald Trump engaged in 2016 election interference over the payment of hush money to an alleged lover....

  
• 04.20.2024

  A clandestine war erupts into the open

  We begin the show with the wider war nobody wants and the chain reaction playing out in the Middle East. With Israel and Iran’s decades-long shadow war now playing out in the open, the rules of engagement are being completely...

  
• 04.19.2024

  Fmr Head of Israeli Defense Intelligence Maj. Gen Amos Yadlin

  Just before sunrise in Iran, an Israeli strike targeted a military airbase in Isfahan, a retaliation against Tehran for attacking Israel over the weekend. Iran’s attack was itself a retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria which killed several Iranian...

  
• 04.18.2024

  Czech President Petr Pavel

  It's a make-or-break moment for Ukraine, as the US Congress looks closer than ever to finally pushing through its long-stalled aid package. Without US support, Ukraine has had to rely on other allies – including the Czech Republic, which has pioneered...

  
• 04.17.2024

  Displaced Gazans attempt to return north

  As Israel continues its war on Gaza, a strike on a refugee camp on Tuesday killed at least 13 people. Over half were children, according to hospital officials. The latest UN figures show that one child is injured or dies...

  
• 04.16.2024

  Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper

  Israel's war cabinet met again today to weigh up a response to Iran's strike over the weekend. In Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warns even the smallest of actions would be met with a “severe, extensive and painful” response. The United...

  
• 04.15.2024

  Fmr US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer

  Leaders from the US, UK and EU urge restraint as Israel mulls its response to Iran. America has made it clear it will not participate in a counterattack. Jordan accuses Israel of using this confrontation to take attention off Gaza....

  
• 04.13.2024

  ‘Not another nickel’ for Israel's war

  Every week more and more Democrats are expressing frustration with American policy on Israel and the war in Gaza. Some heavyweights, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are now even joining the call for the U.S. to stop arms transfers...

  
• 04.12.2024

  Making sense of Arizona's abortion battle

  Arizona has become a flash point for America’s abortion-rights battle, as the Supreme Court there votes to uphold a Civil War-era law banning nearly all abortions. To discuss what happens now and how will this development impact people in Arizona...

  
• 04.11.2024

  Looking back at OJ Simpson

  OJ Simpson has died from cancer at age 76. The former NFL star was the center of American attention in the mid-1990s, accused of brutally killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Criminal defense attorney and...

  
• 04.10.2024

  Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders

  In the wake of October 7th, when Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, Senator Bernie Sanders spoke out in favor of Israel’s right to defend itself. But now he says Israel is violating international law, arguing “the United States cannot continue to...

  
• 04.09.2024

  Former US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman

  What leverage does America still yield, whether in Israel, in Ukraine, or beyond? And is it as good as its word? There is a rising sense that the values America says it represents in the world are not reflected in...

  
• 04.08.2024

  DO look up!

  Across the Americas people looked up today, as a total solar eclipse journeyed across Mexico, toward the United States and Canada. The skies above delivered a huge communal opportunity across what can only be described as a bitterly divided country....

  
• 04.06.2024

  Is Israel any safer after six months of war?

  This weekend marks six months since the most deadly attack in Israel’s history roiled the region and the world. On October 7th 2023, hundreds of Hamas fighters poured across the border from Gaza, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping some 250...

  
• 04.05.2024

  Israel Minister of Economy & Industry Nir Barkat

  A new IDF report blames "mistaken identification" for the airstrike on Monday that killed seven aid workers in Gaza. Joe Biden has given Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum - protect civilians and aid workers, or Washington could reign in its support. Within...

  
• 04.04.2024

  Scream bloody murder

  Almost one million people murdered in just one hundred days. It seems unfathomable, but that was the reality in Rwanda back in 1994 when militias and civilians from the country’s majority ethnic group, the Hutus, killed their Tutsi neighbors. Thirty...

  
• 04.03.2024

  Former US Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker

  Tomorrow marks 75 years since NATO’s creation and this anniversary comes at a critical time for the alliance, as it grapples with how to continue supporting the country battling for survival on its doorstep. Kurt Volker is a former US...

  
• 04.02.2024

  UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths

  Foreign aid workers feeding starving people are the latest to be killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deadly airstrike a “tragic accident,” which “happens in war,” and vowed to investigate. The seven who lost...

  
• 04.01.2024

  'Rise and Kill First' author Ronen Bergman

  Iranian media is reporting that the country’s consulate in Syria has been destroyed in an airstrike, killing a senior commander in the revolutionary guard’s Quds force. The Iranian ambassador to Syria is claiming that Israel was behind the attack that...

  
• 03.30.2024

  Putin’s pawns in the high-stakes game of hostage diplomacy

  We begin this hour with Putin’s political pawns, and the dangerous hostage diplomacy at play in the Kremlin. It’s now a year since the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich became the first American journalist detained on espionage charges since...

  
• 03.29.2024

  'His story should be here'

  The Wall Street Journal's front page is blank today, a huge void with a simple headline: "His Story Should Be Here." It marks one year since journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on espionage charges. Gershkovich’s parents campaign tirelessly for his...

  
• 03.28.2024

  Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger D. Carstens

  Abroad, alone, and locked away on trumped up charges, it's the stuff of nightmares. Yet for one year that has been the reality for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is being held in a Russian prison on the...

  
• 03.27.2024

  Atrocities in Myanmar

  We start with the fallout from a brutal military coup in Myanmar, all but forgotten by the wider world, while atrocities playout in plain view. In a new investigation, correspondent Anna Coren examines videos that show two rebel PDF soldiers...

  
• 03.26.2024

  Former Trump supporter Anthony Scaramucci

  Donald Trump made history when he became the first US President to be impeached twice, and now he's making history again, becoming the first former president to be criminally prosecuted. Anthony Scaramucci was once a dedicated Trump supporter and spent...

  
• 03.25.2024

  European policy chief Josep Borrell

  We start tonight with terror and trauma around the globe. In Russia, four men from Tajikistan have been charged in the attack on the concert hall in Moscow which killed at least 137. Russia continues its assault on Ukraine with...

  
• 03.23.2024

  Turning the global frown upside down with America's top-ranking doctor

  We begin this hour with the very latest on the Moscow terror attack, and the Princess of Wales’ cancer diagnosis, from CNN's Fredrika Whitfield. Then, the pursuit of health and happiness, in an emotional conversation with America's highest-ranking doctor, Vivek Murthy. The US Surgeon...

  
• 03.22.2024

  Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine

  Evelyn Farkas is a former official of the US Defense Department and head of the McCain Institute. She joins Bianna Golodryga from Kyiv, which was struck by Russian missile strikes for the first time in six weeks yesterday, to talk...

  
• 03.21.2024

  Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis

  Gabrielius Landsbergis is Lithuania’s Foreign Minister and one of Ukraine's fiercest allies. He has repeatedly chastised Western allies for doing far too little, too late for Kyiv. Landsbergis is currently in the United States to drum up urgent support for Ukraine...

  
• 03.20.2024

  IRC chief David Miliband

  Israeli military action continues to devastate the civilian population in Gaza. A three-day siege at Al-Shifa hospital is ongoing, though thousands are sheltering there. The IDF claims the site is being used by "senior Hamas terrorists," saying it's killed ninety...

  
• 03.19.2024

  Inside one of the last trauma centers in Haiti's capital

  On today’s program, we examine wars the international community is failing to contain, and the man-made famines they are creating. First to Haiti, where gangs rule, and national security forces are low on ammunition and leadership. Correspondent David Culver reports...

  
• 03.18.2024

  Six more years of Putin

  With a record of 87% of the vote, Vladimir Putin won a landslide election in Russia, solidifying his grip on power and securing a fifth term. Correspondent Fred Pleitgen looks at Putin’s re-election and what six more years of his...

  
• 03.16.2024

  Rubberstamping Putin's forever presidency

  In Russia this weekend, an election that's more of a rubber-stamp on Putin’s eternal presidency. Any real opposition to him or his war in Ukraine has been brutally crushed - both inside and outside the country. Christiane speaks to John Sullivan -...

  
• 03.15.2024

  Political Analyst Dahlia Scheindlin

  The majority of Israelis are in favor of early elections, according to Dahlia Scheindlin, a political analyst and pollster. As the government faces growing calls for change and international critics voice their concerns regarding Israeli leadership, the author of "The...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Pro-Ukraine Russian volunteers claim more success

  Polls open this weekend in Russia for the presidential election, but the outcome isn’t in doubt. But Vladimir Putin is facing some resistance from his own people. Anti-Kremlin Russians based in Ukraine claim they’ve crossed into Russia and captured two...

  
• 03.13.2024

  Russia defense expert Dara Massicot

  European partners are trying to get on the same page about how far they’ll go to help Ukraine and make up for the dire US shortfall. Meanwhile, the Kremlin is vastly out producing the west in ammunition and weapons production....

  
• 03.12.2024

  Living hell for children in Haiti

  Gang violence has ripped through the lives of children in Haiti. Speaking to a rape victim, a girl shot while playing, and a teen forced to burn bodies, Correspondent David Culver uncovers the violent reality of what is happening on the ground....

  
• 03.11.2024

  Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan

  On Sunday, the United States and Jordan conducted another joint airdrop into northern Gaza. Jordan’s Queen Rania has been outspoken in defense of Gaza civilians and urging the United States and other Israeli allies to use all their leverage to end what she calls...

  
• 03.09.2024

  The Roe v. Wade ripple effect

  With reproductive rights under attack in America, a world first as France makes abortion a constitutional right. CNN's Melissa Bell explains how US politics galvanized this history-making moment. Then, Christiane asks French President Emmanuel Macron’s former minister for gender equality Marlène Schiappa if America’s reputation...

  
• 03.08.2024

  Analyzing Biden's high-stakes SOTU

  After a week in which the election race was all but confirmed as a Biden-Trump rematch, pundits - and likely many voters - were listening and watching closely to the current president's State of the Union address. They were met...

  
• 03.07.2024

  The moral duty to bring Israeli hostages home

  On this day five months ago, Hamas stormed out of Gaza and into Israel. Israel says they murdered 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage. Across Israel, families are taking to the streets to demand that their government prioritizes their...

  
• 03.06.2024

  Starvation in Gaza

  In Gaza, the most vulnerable are paying the cost of Israel’s war to avenge the October 7th Hamas attack. Aid agencies say children are facing "extreme malnutrition" and dehydration. 15 have already died because of it, according to the ministry...

  
• 03.05.2024

  Palestinian Authority Caretaker PM Mohammad Shtayyeh

  After formally resigning as Palestinian Prime Minister last week, Mohammad Shtayyeh is staying on as caretaker until a permanent replacement is announced. He joins the show from Ramallah.  Also on today's show: Dalia Hatuqa, Independent Journalist & Oren Persico, Staff Writer,...

  
• 03.04.2024

  Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak

  Israel refuses to send a delegation to ceasefire talks in Cairo, where Egyptian, Qatari and US mediators are meeting. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has been a prominent critic of the Israeli government’s handling of this war and recently...

  
• 03.02.2024

  UN says Gazans forced to eat animal feed to survive. Now even that is running out.

  The impact of the war in Gaza is ratcheting up on Israel, the US, and on the people of Gaza themselves. More than 30,000 are now dead - an unthinkable toll of Israel's offensive, since the October 7th Hamas attack....

  
• 03.01.2024

  Russian opposition journalist Mikhail Fishman

  Thousands of Russians lined the streets to honor opposition leader Alexey Navalny two weeks after his death. Mikhail Fishman is a Russian journalist who knew Navalny well. He anchored a popular news program on opposition station “TV Rain,” until he...

  
• 02.29.2024

  Netanyahu Special Adviser Mark Regev

  More than one hundred people have been killed while gathered around food aid trucks in Gaza city, according to the Ministry of Health there. Despite disputed timelines, Israeli forces say they did open fire. This comes in the context of...

  
• 02.28.2024

  UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

  One of the key groups responsible for providing humanitarian assistance in Gaza is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), whose leader is sounding the alarm about what he calls a “man-made disaster.” But UNRWA itself has come under...

  
• 02.27.2024

  Norwegian Refugee Council head Jan Egeland

  There are major disagreements about a possible agreement for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The death toll in Gaza is fast approaching 30,000. And the U.N. warns of a looming famine as the World Food Program says it's suspended...

  
• 02.26.2024

  Behind the stunning Palestinian resignations

  The Palestinian Authority Prime Minister and his entire government have handed in their resignations to President Mahmoud Abbas. It is a stunning shakeup that raises even more questions about the future of Gaza and what the Palestinian leadership could look...