CNN's Christiane Amanpour interviews

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About the show

CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour's new live global interview program, "Amanpour," combines her experience, sharp intelligence and extraordinary depth of knowledge, the show will set the agenda for a new global conversation.

In the coming weeks, Amanpour will interview a range of political leaders, cultural icons and global influencers, including: South African President Jacob Zuma; Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair; Queen Rania of Jordan; Israeli Deputy PM and Minister of Justice Dan Meridor; Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erakat; former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Human Rights Council Report on Gaza War Richard Goldstone; and HRH Haakon and Mette-Marit, Crown Prince and Princess of Norway.
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Zuma is up tonight in 5 minutes time at 9pm on CNN.

Mugabe was up last night: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/24/zimbabwe.mugabe.amanpour/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
 
Why is Iran not allowed to have weapons when the big boys have them ?
 
isede said:
Why is Iran not allowed to have weapons when the big boys have them ?
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Because the 'big boys' are more responsible and have more to loose (they're big) in case of a nuclear exchange. Of course the main reason is that the big boys want to control the big weapons too.
 
Just watched the Zuma interview. I am so dissappointed by both Amanpour and Zuma. I'm a big of Amanpour but her approach was totally American/Ignorant Imperialist. And what the f@ck was the comment about 'political instability in SA if Zanu PF calls an election close to 2010'. I cannot believe how uninformed she was.

And Zuma couldn't even dish out anything positive. For heavens sake, sit down with a spin doctor for 30 minutes and you'll have enough to fend her off.

Mugabe was a bumbling fool.

BTW, her line-up is dynamite. I'll certainly be (PVR) recording it.
 
PeterCH said:
Amanpour = :sick:
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This is why......

Carbon_Fibre said:
Just watched the Zuma interview. I am so dissappointed by both Amanpour and Zuma. I'm a big of Amanpour but her approach was totally American/Ignorant Imperialist.
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How Amanpour lost to Mugabe

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe stuck to his well known script, Amanpour and CNN fumbled all over. Thus after the highly expected interview of Mugabe by senior CNN Journalist, Christiane Amanpour, on Thursday, September 24, it came out, in my view, to a victory for Mugabe, if we take it as a contest.

Amanpour failed to rise above the familiar frames of the western media’s analysis of Zimbabwe -- dictatorship, hunger, land, Roy Bennett and white farmers. These are part of the issues, but more of symptoms of a deeper problem which we hoped CNN would probe.

We expected Amanpour to bring these issues to the interview but in a way that makes it impossible for Mugabe to waive them away so simply. We expected more facts, events and names. And they are many that Mugabe cannot run away from.

Yes, the Zimbabwe crisis is also about land among many other things, but this is more a symptom of a deficiency in democracy that Mugabe demonstrated very early in his rule. It is this failure to understand history and looking at Zimbabwe in compartments that has been the failure of the western media for so long and indeed the Achilles heel of Amanpour when she met Mugabe.

Amanpour stated clearly that her Rhodesian journalists friends, some of them ex-Rhodesian soldiers, really enjoyed the first ten years of Mugabe’s rule. In those ten years, Mugabe presided over the massacre of thousands of Ndebeles who happened to support an opposition party and belong to an ethnic group other than his. It is, therefore, wrong for CNN to say Zimbabwe’s crisis is a post-2000 phenomenon and only so because Mugabe started grabbing farms from white farmers.

Amanpour thus sunk into a familiar tune that Mugabe was well prepared for, giving a full lecture of history which Amanpour was, again, unprepared for. Statistics are there all over the internet on how Mugabe’s government abused donor funds and some resettled farmers sank more into poverty. Mugabe’s views were never seriously challenged.
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Shame it's actually a tough interview for her. This man was once a hero to people like her, not so long ago :o
 
Iran and nUkes

isede said:
Why is Iran not allowed to have weapons when the big boys have them ?
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Wake up, where have you been???? They MUST not have them because they are a bunch of homicidal maniacs that would think it is an honour to detonate the thing in the middle of your City. Same reason why North Korea should not have them.
 
myt792 said:
Wake up, where have you been???? They MUST not have them because they are a bunch of homicidal maniacs that would think it is an honour to detonate the thing in the middle of your City.
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and Redant returns...

Another reincarnated banned user with an opinion.:mad:

Same reason why North Korea should not have them.
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and the only rogue state ever to use them,may have them.
 
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JustAsk said:
and the only rogue state ever to use them,may have them.
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Well the US did use these bombs but most Japanese I know are of the opinion that in the end it was a good thing or they'd be like North Korea nowadays.

Those Japanese who are angry at the bombs also hate NK with a greater passion and don't want NK or China to have nukes.
 
JustAsk said:
and the only rogue state ever to use them,may have them.
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Hmmm now why did they use them? (assuming you talking about the USA, which is not a state but a country) Because they were attacked unprovoked ---UN- PROVOKED--by lunatics who also carried out suicide missions much the same as the terrorists of today.
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I can think of other countries who were attacked ---UN- PROVOKED--...by lunatics.

Is it perhaps maybe because they didn't have any?
 
You can get he episodes for free as iTunes podcasts if you have a US iTunes account, you can download on local too using iTunes.
 
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