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Amanpour interviews - March 2024

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'I had to measure those minutes with a timer': Wife of jailed Russian dissident on his calls from prison
Evgenia Kara-Murza, whose husband Vladimir is imprisoned in Russia, discusses the difficulty of communicating with her husband and the fight to release him.
'We're not winning... this charade should stop,' says relative of Israeli hostage
Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem turns 90

Friday, 29 March

'We just want our friend back,' say Evan Gershkovich's friends
Bianna Golodryga speaks with Polina Ivanova, a reporter at The Financial Times, and Pjotr Sauer, a reporter at The Guardian, both close friends of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia on charges of spying one year ago.
Of life, death and a spaniel named Ringo: David Frum on his daughter Miranda

Thursday, 28 March

U.S. Envoy 'hopeful' deal to release Evan Gershkovich can be reached in next 90 days
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Roger D. Carstens, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs of the U.S., on the efforts to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich who is accused by Russia of being a spy.
'Shocked and appalled': Why this State Department staffer resigned in protest over Gaza

Wednesday, 27 March

'Apologize in your next life': Video shows Myanmar pro-government militia torture rebel fighters to death
CNN's Anna Coren reports on videos obtained by CNN that show how torture and killings are being used by the military junta in Myanmar. The junta took control of the country from a democratically elected government in a coup in 2021.
'Support of Israel isn't an absolute fact for all American Jews', says author Noah Feldman

Tuesday, 26 March

Scaramucci: Trump wants to be part of 'axis of autocracy'
After his short tenure as White House communications head, Anthony Scaramucci now sees Donald Trump as a 'systemic danger' to democracy
'They went into the water and drowned': Gaza resident describes attempts to reach aid

Monday, 25 March

'Europeans have to take more responsibility for our defense,' says EU foreign policy chief
Christiane Amanpour speaks to Josep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, about support for Ukraine and the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Putin's 'predictable' response to Moscow terror attack: Blame Ukraine
Trauma patients or starving kids: MSF says Gaza doctors face harrowing choice who to treat first

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Turning the global frown upside down with America's top doctor
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on why we need the World Happiness Summit more than ever, and how he shed the "shame" he felt from his own loneliness struggle.
The last Soviet leader's lost legacy, and Putin's path to dictatorship
Wicked Little Letters: The poison pen letter scandal that rocked Britain

Friday, 22 March

Ukrainians 'need to be able to retaliate against the Russians,' says fmr. US official
Evelyn Farkas, former Defense Department official, joins Bianna Golodryga from Kyiv to discuss Ukraine's desperate fight for survival.
'We disobeyed in the way children sometimes do': Why Gabriel García Márquez's sons published posthumous novel

Thursday, 21 March

'A possible story of western failure': Lithuanian's top diplomat warns Ukraine may lose
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tells Christiane Amanpour why he fears the EU and the US could be repeating past mistakes by not sufficiently supporting Ukraine.
'For Black Boys': The show storming London's West End

Wednesday, 20 March

'A failure of humanity': David Miliband on looming famine in Gaza
David Miliband, President of the International Rescue Committee, talks to Christiane Amanpour about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Why filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz unearthed her family's secrets for 'The Persian Version'

Tuesday, 19 March

Dominican Republic Official on Haiti chaos: 'Our national security is at stake here'
Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez Gil says the Dominican Republic has to reinforce its border against the 'catastrophic situation' in Haiti, next door.
'We all feel fear': Bridging the divide between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel

Monday, 18 March

Former US diplomat's message to the West: 'Don't give up on Russia'
Christiane Amanpour speaks with former U.S. diplomat and President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, about the "potential for political evolution" in Russia and shifting U.S.-Israel relations.
Making sense of the Trump indictments

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NASA boss Bill Nelson on the Lunar 'gas station' of the future
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson explains how the moon's untapped resources will help us reach Mars.
Martians wanted: NASA boss on the hunt for new Red Planet recruits
What Putin craves most, according to fmr U.S. ambassador to Russia.
Amanpour Archive: Haiti's unending cycle of violence and poverty

Friday, 15 March

Israeli public knows how to get angry at their leaders, says political analyst
Dahlia Scheindlin, author of "The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel" talks to Bianna Golodryga about the reaction to Senator Chuck Schumer calling for new Israeli elections.
'Mysterious inspiration': Paul Simon and Alex Gibney team up for a musical biography

Thursday, 14 March

Trump would be 'unpredictable' on Ukraine, warns his former ambassador to Moscow
John Sullivan, who served as US Ambassador to Russia under President Trump and President Biden, speaks with Christiane Amanpour about the war in Ukraine, Putin's re-election, and more.
'A Muslim and a Jew Go There': A new podcast 'trying to keep the complex door open'

Wednesday, 13 March

Russia's stability hinging on result of Ukraine war, says expert
Senior fellow for the Russia & Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Dara Massicot talks to Christiane Amanpour about what could happen if Ukraine loses its war against Russia.
How a terminal cancer diagnosis gave this war correspondent a second life

Tuesday, 12 March

Gang members in Haiti are asking this nun for prayers
Gang violence has ripped through the lives of children in Haiti. CNN's David Culver uncovers the violent reality of what's happening on the ground, speaking to a rape victim, a girl shot while playing and a teen forced to burn bodies.
'I do not know if I'll be alive tonight': Haitian activist on chaos engulfing country
Surgeon describes what it felt like 'living through a real horror movie'

Monday, 11 March

Jordan's Queen Rania: War in Gaza 'a slow-motion mass murder of children'
In an exclusive interview from King Abdullah II Air Base, Queen Rania of Jordan speaks with Amanpour about airdrops of aid and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Saddam Hussein's secret tapes: Author reveals never-before known details about the Iraqi dictator

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France future-proofs abortion after U.S. reverses on women's rights
"Solidarity with our American sisters." France's fmr minister for gender equality Marlène Schiappa champions a history-making moment for reproductive rights.
Former hostage details the moment her husband and daughter were murdered by Hamas
'We have nothing': Children face starvation in Gaza as supplies run out
How moonlighting as a taxi driver fueled Putin's rise

Friday, 8 March

Communications Expert: Biden making election a contest between two potential futures
Analyst Anat Shenker-Osorio says voters may be turned off by another Trump vs. Biden race, but are focused on where their futures are headed.
The search for a Jewish homeland... in Texas

Thursday, 7 March

'It is hell there': Former hostage describes being held in Gaza and the murder of her loved ones
On October 7, Chen Almog Goldstein's husband Nadav and daughter Yam were murdered by Hamas, and she and her surviving children taken hostage into Gaza. After 51 days, she was released, and tells Christiane Amanpour about the ordeal.
Putin's propaganda machine trolls and scapegoats the US
14-year-old gang member was recruited at 11. How innocence is shattered for many in Haiti's gangland

Wednesday, 6 March

'We have nothing': Children face starvation in Gaza as supplies run out
Some mothers say goodbye to their children as vital necessities like food and water run out in Gaza. CNN's Nada Bashir has the story.
Fania Oz-Salzberger: Gaza war 'among the worst' we ever had to fight
Film documents 'Palestine's Mandela'

Tuesday, 5 March

'Revitalization of the Palestinian Authority means one thing: allow us to function,' says caretaker Palestinian Authority PM
Christiane Amanpour speaks to caretaker Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, in his first interview since he resigned last week.
What do Israelis see of Gaza and what do Palestinians think of October 7th? Two journalists discuss

Monday, 4 March

Why this former Israeli Prime Minister was shocked by the US aid drop into Gaza
Former Israeli leader Ehud Barak tells Christiane Amanpour why he thinks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "risking" Israeli security with his management of the war.
'We are humans, we deserve a better life': Displaced Palestinian gives glimpse of life in Rafah
Donald Trump putting Supreme Court under tremendous stress, says political anaylst

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Top aid worker visits Gaza: I'm shaken by what I saw
Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, tells Christiane Amanpour that he's never seen anything like the devastation in Gaza.
Diet Coke and money troubles: Mary Trump on what keeps her uncle awake
Issues not clicks: Media critic blasts 'obsession' with Biden's age
Under siege: Civilians dodging sniper fire for food in Sarajevo

Friday, 1 March

Navalny is dead, but hope is not: Russian opposition journalist
Russian journalist Mikhail Fishman talks to Bianna Golodryga about the funeral of opposition leader Alexey Navalny and what his death means for the future of Russia.
Friendship, grief and the pain of exile: A discussion with novelist Hisham Matar