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Christiane Amanpour

@amanpour

8 years

Truthful, not neutral.

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Christiane Amanpour

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2 years

Protests are sweeping Iran & women are burning their hijabs after the death last week of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by the “morality police”. Human rights groups say at least 8 have been killed. Last night, I planned to ask President Raisi about all this and much more. 1/7

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A reflection on President Trump’s comments last night: The last President I covered who refused to accept the vote count in an election was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, 2009.

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Houston Police Chief @ArtAcevedo : “Let me just say this to the President of the United States, on behalf of the police chiefs of this country: please, if you don’t have something constructive to say, keep your mouth shut.”

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And so we walked away. The interview didn’t happen. As protests continue in Iran and people are being killed, it would have been an important moment to speak with President Raisi. 7/7

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CNN crew has been released. Governor has apologized. For the record: arresting journalists is the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. We live in a democracy.

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Minnesota police arrest CNN reporter and camera crew as they report from protests in Minneapolis

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Christiane Amanpour

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President Zelensky’s address to the Russian people “was a speech for the ages, one that deserves to be read now and long after this crisis is over. For it did not just plead his people’s case, though it did that: ‘Lots of you have relatives in Ukraine… 1/2

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EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Brazilian President @LulaOficial tells me he is urging President Biden to call a G20 meeting to ensure proper vaccine distribution worldwide: “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine!” He adds: “I couldn’t ask that [of] Trump, but Biden is a breath for democracy in the world.”

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1 year

A brief hello with President Zelensky, as I film him entering his packed press conference on this one year anniversary of total war.

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6 years

@realDonaldTrump @FoxNews If President Trump knew the facts, he would never have sent that tweet. Here is my (late) camerawoman Margaret Moth, who took a bullet in the face covering the facts and truth in Bosnia. #FactsFirst 🍎

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2 years

I politely declined. We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition regarding headscarves. I pointed out that no previous Iranian president has required this when I have interviewed them outside Iran. 4/7

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3 months

Does Tucker really think we journalists haven't been trying to interview President Putin every day since his full scale invasion of Ukraine? It's absurd -- we'll continue to ask for an interview, just as we have for years now.

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Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin.

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Christiane Amanpour

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2 years

Again, I said that I couldn’t agree to this unprecedented and unexpected condition. 6/7

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Christiane Amanpour

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2 years

The aide made it clear that the interview would not happen if I did not wear a headscarf. He said it was “a matter of respect,” and referred to “the situation in Iran” - alluding to the protests sweeping the country. 5/7

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“I have to go back.” Speaking just before he returned to Russia, Navalny told me: “I don’t think that I can have such a privilege of being safe in Russia, but I have to go back, because I don’t want this group of killers [to] exist in Russia. I don’t want Putin ruling Russia.”

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“Children with… open fractures, partial amputations, open chest wounds, horrendous lacerations… and burns. And that was every day.” Dr Deborah Harrington recently spent 2 weeks in a Gaza hospital. “I feel ashamed and shocked that we’re doing this to fellow humans,” she told me.

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2 years

40 minutes after the interview had been due to start, an aide came over. The president, he said, was suggesting I wear a headscarf, because it’s the holy months of Muharram and Safar. 3/7

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2 years

This was going to be President Raisi’s first ever interview on US soil, during his visit to NY for UNGA. After weeks of planning and eight hours of setting up translation equipment, lights and cameras, we were ready. But no sign of President Raisi. 2/7

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Starvation. The unacceptable face of Israel’s war on Gaza. A doctor from an international aid agency took these pictures 10th April at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. The desperate parents gave permission to publish these.

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4 years

So happy to see these girls together - between them they’ve mobilized more armies for good than any leader today! @Malala @GretaThunberg

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In a world exclusive, @QueenRania of Jordan spoke with me about the ongoing bombing of Gaza, civilian deaths, the massacres of October 7, and what she calls “a glaring double standard” in the west’s reaction to all this. Watch our full conversation.

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Josh Paul resigned from the State Dept over sending arms to Israel. “I have heard from actually so many hundreds of colleagues at this point who support what I did,” he says. “They are finding what is happening both a moral disaster and a policy disaster for the United States.”

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“Ukraine is maybe the most important place in the world right now, and the fate of freedom writ large really does hang on what happens in Ukraine,” says historian @TimothyDSnyder , who’s teaching an open class on the history of Ukraine at Yale.

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May Harry Belafonte, the lionhearted civil rights hero, rest in peace. He inspired generations around the whole world in the struggle for non-violent resistance justice and change. We need his example now more than ever.

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6 years

Exclusive: @HillaryClinton says “you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.”

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4 months

The number of journalists killed during Israel’s war on Hamas is appalling and unprecedented. 79 in just three months, according to @pressfreedom Journalists in Gaza are our eyes and ears for the truth, and must be protected, like civilians, under the laws of war.

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Christiane Amanpour

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6 years

Monstrous sex abuser Larry Nassar gets the book thrown at him. Prosecutor praises a dogged investigative reporter, and one brave girl, for outing him. That’s not fake. That’s fact. This is news to be proud of.

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“Death is better than this.” Shocking images of starving, emaciated children from inside Gaza are laying bare the desperation inside the strip, as @nadaabashir reports.

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At 102 @BenFerencz is the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor. “I am heartbroken” at atrocities in Ukraine, he says. “To see it happening again, very similar, kids being shot, homes being blown up, it pains me to see we have learned so little from the Holocaust & from the trials”

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No Mr President, we at CNN are not "dumb bastards" for covering Covid. Listen to why we do. h/t @brikeilarcnn

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Christiane Amanpour

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4 years

Defunding @WHO in the middle of a pandemic is like pulling the plug on firefighters in the aftermath of 9/11.

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The UK PM @BorisJohnson is in hot water after being pictured unmasked next to 95 year-old David Attenborough. I asked him for his response:

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Gay sex is illegal in Kenya and President-elect @WilliamsRuto previously said “we have no room for gays.” Ruto tells me “we respect everybody,” but adds “this is not a big issue for the people of Kenya” and President Kenyatta was “spot on” to say homosexuality “is not agreeable.”

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3 years

Dr. Sasa says he was with Aung San Suu Kyi on the morning of February 1, when a military coup took over Myanmar’s government. He tells me he had to dress as a taxi driver to escape, and it took him three days and three nights to reach relative safety.

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“I have never… seen a place… so bombarded for such a long time with such a trapped population without any escape. People are traumatized beyond belief.” Jan @NRC_Egeland of @NRC_Norway is in Gaza for the first time since Oct 7. “I’m pretty shaken, actually, from what I saw.”

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5 years

NEW: Venezuela’s @jguaido in English, gives this message to the American people: We want to reconstruct “our country, our liberty.”

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“The worst ever.” Those are the stark words of @UNReliefChief Martin Griffiths, about the death and destruction in Gaza. Having worked in the field for decades, he adds “I don’t say that lightly.” Watch our full conversation.

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5 years

. @ImranKhanPTI : 'I fear a massacre' in Kashmir -

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia William J. Burns doesn't mince his words on the Trump/Putin summit: "I think that press conference was the single most embarrassing performance by an American president on the world stage that I've ever seen."

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Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now @CNN ’s @clarissaward , @scottycnn and @BrentSwailsCNN managed to enter without Israeli military escort. Watch their extraordinary report.

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Awful news about our colleague Ibrahim Dahman's family: at least nine of his relatives have been killed. He's been fearlessly reporting for CNN from Gaza since well before this war began. "They were extremely peaceful and simple people, and their entire lives were devoted…

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Watch this extraordinary denunciation of the modern Republican Party by Reagan's former solicitor general Charles Fried. He was born in Prague in 1935 and says today he hears "the same tunes -- and it scares me."

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EXCLUSIVE: Will @LulaOficial run for president of Brazil again? “If my party and the other allied parties understand that I could be the candidate, and if I’m well… I can reassure you that I will not deny that invitation.” Full interview airs tomorrow on @cnni and @PBS .

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“It is just so horrific, so unbelievable, so unconscionable that every single Palestinian and… person with just an iota of humanity is shaken to their core.” Veteran Palestinian politician @DrHananAshrawi reacts to the strike at Jabalya refugee camp & the ongoing bombing of Gaza

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2 years

… You know our character, our principles, what matters to us.’ It did not just make the case against all wars: ‘People lose their loved ones and themselves.’ It specifically set out the principle at stake: ‘international law, the right to determine your own future.’ - @Freedland

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. @falzthebahdguy is part of Nigeria's #EndSars protests. Is he afraid for his life? He says no. "We have a seriously high level of poverty, there’s unemployment. We’re in a critical state because of how much corruption… we continue to see… What kind of life am I living anyway?”

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“Journalism in India is on a ventilator,” argues @RanaAyyub . “Why is Modi not being asked the tough questions on the front page of our newspapers?” #WorldPressFreedomDay

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The death of Navalny shows “Putin’s playbook hasn’t changed. This is the way he operates. This is the dictator’s handbook in real life,” Estonian Prime Minister @kajakallas tells me. “History rhymes. We have seen this already in 1930s… Let’s learn something from the history.”

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You can see my full interview with @falzthebahdguy about #EndSARS here:

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. @falzthebahdguy is part of Nigeria's #EndSars protests. Is he afraid for his life? He says no. "We have a seriously high level of poverty, there’s unemployment. We’re in a critical state because of how much corruption… we continue to see… What kind of life am I living anyway?”

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2 years

I’m isolating and working from home as I just tested positive for Covid-19 this morning, but thanks to being fully vaccinated the symptoms are mild.

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President @LulaOficial has been criticized by western allies over his position on Ukraine. He tells me that if a country is invaded, “of course it has the right to defend itself,” but he wants to “fix the error” Russia made. “I don’t want to join the war, I want to end the war.”

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“Nothing is a substitute for a ceasefire. Delivering aid under bombardment does not stop the destruction... We cannot save people from hunger only then to bomb them to death.” Queen Rania spoke with me about Jordan airdropping aid into Gaza, the humanitarian crisis, and more.

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“People are shocked & appalled by what the US government is doing.” Annelle Sheline has resigned from the US State Department in protest over the administration’s ongoing support for Israel & the war in Gaza. “I know that I speak for many people” in the department, she tells me.

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“I don’t have anywhere else to go.” Ibrahim Dahman is a CNN journalist in Gaza and sent this first person account of what life is like right now in Gaza. “I know deep down no building is safe.”

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U.S. policymakers "don't have the guts and the moral courage" to stand up to the Israeli govt, says top Middle East watcher @FawazGerges . “I really have no trust in American foreign policy anymore,” he tells me.

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“This is me giving you a sneak peek into hell.” Watch this visceral look at life and death inside Gaza from 20-year-old Nowara Diab – and her tribute to her two best friends, who were killed. Producers: @ZahidM_ and @AbeerSalmanCNN

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. @edyong209 : “A country that, 7 months into a pandemic, still cannot ensure that its healthcare workers have enough gowns and gloves and protective equipment is not going to be able to distribute a vaccine in an efficient way. It simply isn’t.”

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“I think we’re seeing the unwinding not of a company but of a person,” @profgalloway says of Elon Musk and Twitter. “I think this is an individual who has demonstrated a total lack of grace, has no guardrails around him, and is going to see his wealth probably cut in half.”

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These are the sounds of the final gasp from Gaza’s collapsing healthcare system. @nadaabashir reports.

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“I was going over a list of books that are banned in Tennessee [schools] and… the list was really staggering,” says novelist Ann Patchett. “Yet at the same time, we’re not doing anything to keep our children safe from guns… It’s ludicrous and an embarrassment… It’s a crime.”

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My heart breaks for Tony Bourdain. May he rest in peace now. He was a friend, a collaborator, and family. A huge personality, a giant talent, a unique voice, and deeply, deeply human. My heart goes out to his daughter and family, and his longtime partners and friends at ZPZ.

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“The poorest fifth of the population are now much poorer [in the UK] than most of the poorest countries in central and eastern Europe,” says @MyStephanomics . “They would be better off in quite poor countries in the European Union.”

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For months, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov and many other Russian officials repeatedly denied Russia planned to invade Ukraine – and then invaded anyway. I put this to Peskov: after all those lies, how can anyone ever believe Russia in future negotiations?

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President Trump has been able to appeal to journalists’ “own narcissism” by attacking them, says Jon Stewart. “They take it personally, and now he’s changed the conversation to, not that his policies are silly or not working … it’s all about the fight.”

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“We just want to give him a dignified burial”. Overwhelming grief as a mass grave containing over 300 bodies has been uncovered at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. @nadaabashir reports

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“Putin kills whoever he wants, be it an opposition leader or anyone else who seems a target.” President Zelensky reacts to the death of Putin’s fiercest critic: “After the murder of Alexey Navalny, it’s absurd to perceive Putin as a supposedly legitimate head of a Russian state.”

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@realDonaldTrump @FoxNews At CNN we dodge bullets to bring you the news. Nothing fake about that. #FactsFirst 🍎

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"Brexit is, and was, and will be a total disaster," economist @MazzucatoM tells me. "There has been a massive flight of business investment away from the UK."

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It was shocking not only for what it says about President Trump’s state of mind, but for all but authorizing authoritarian regimes around the world to target CNN and other journalists. Without journos’ sacrifice and service, all that remains is propaganda and lies. Damned lies.

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“The consequences of Putin conquering Ukraine would be catastrophic.” Poland’s Foreign Minister @radeksikorski tells me “the cost of deterring Putin after he conquers Ukraine would be much much higher than the cost of keeping the Ukrainians supplied now,” urging additional US aid

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“Aging only exists for those that don’t have to fight for a cause. If you have a cause to fight for, and you are dedicated to that course, aging doesn’t exist. It disappears,” President @LulaOficial says. “I have 77 years of age and I say I have the energy… of 30 years of age.”

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“There’s no doubt in my mind… [that] his death is a result of Putin’s brutality.” Former Secretary of State @HillaryClinton tells me that Alexey Navalny’s death “is a tragedy for Russia,” and places the blame firmly at Putin’s door.

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Oil companies “shifted the guilt to people,” says Richard Wiles, head of @climatecosts . “Climate change is not a tragedy – it’s a crime that’s been forced upon [people] by the oil companies, who knew their products were going to do this and went ahead and lied about it anyway.”

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Just sat down for an exclusive w/ President @BarackObama in Athens to discuss the future of democracy, at home & abroad. I asked how the US should engage with autocracies. Watch his response. Our interview and a conversation with 3 Obama Foundation leaders airs 10pET on @CNN .

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EXCLUSIVE: “No one will be able to interfere with elections to such an extent again,” Istanbul Mayor-elect @ekrem_imamoglu tells me. He had to run twice, after the AKP challenged the outcome of a 1st vote. Pres Erdogan’s party won't control Istanbul for the first time in 25yrs.

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In March, Brazilian President Bolsonaro visited President Trump in Florida. Bolsonaro’s former Health Minister @lhmandetta says that, “from the people that went with him, 17 tested positive in about 15 days after they arrived. So this trip was really a corona trip.”

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Quit the clickbait and get back to issues. @Sulliview calls out the “destructive obsession” with @JoeBiden ’s age. “I wonder whether people are as aware of Trump's authoritarian plans as they are of Biden's age? And I think the answer to that is pretty clearly no," she argues.

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“The suffering is everywhere – I mean absolutely everywhere – that I have been.” Gemma Connell is the Gaza team leader at @UNOCHA and tells me what she is seeing on the ground. “I have never in my humanitarian career seen [this] level of suffering, desperation and depravation.”

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“This is historically important. It would be a catastrophe if the United States walked away from Ukraine… It would embolden Putin,” warns @SenAngusKing , just at a moment when Trump’s NATO comment “completely undermines the concept of deterrence.”

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Young Iranians “don’t want this system any more,” says Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis. “They want democracy.” “They want a new government… This generation is very, very different from us,” she tells me, especially young men's solidarity with women’s rights inside Iran.

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50 years ago today, on September 20, 1973, @BillieJeanKing defeated Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes, a tennis match watched by 90 million people worldwide. The impact of her victory not only permeated the sports world, but also advanced women’s rights and equality…

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“Our children are dying, we are dying. What are you doing, where is the world?” Amid starvation and desperation in Gaza, @JomanaCNN reports on the deaths of 12 people as they attempted to reach aid dropped into the sea. Producer: @ssirgany

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Estonia’s PM @kajakallas has a message for NATO allies on supporting Ukraine: “Please, look to your storage, look to your warehouses, find things that you have, do agreements w/ the private sector… so that we can send top equipment to Ukraine and end this war once and for all.”

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Some lessons from around the world: the most successful global leaders in fighting coronavirus have communicated clearly, displayed empathy, and always favored science over politics.

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“At some basic level, almost anybody in parliament would be a better prime minister than Boris Johnson. Larry the Downing Street cat, at the moment, would be a better prime minister,” says former Tory MP @RoryStewartUK . “He simply can’t govern.”

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Chef @chefjoseandres tells me in Kyiv that his humanitarian organization @WCKitchen have been delivering 300,000 meals a day for those Ukrainians hit by war. I asked him how he does it: "It's not so complicated. I'm a cook. I have restaurants... we are the food fighters."

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“Everybody should understand that if Ukraine is not helped, then Russia will not stop in Ukraine or Moldova,” Molodva’s President @sandumaiamd tells me. Ukraine’s self-defense is about “the security of the continent, and also about the international rules-based system.”

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“I stuck with it as long as I could,” says former Fox News host Shep Smith. But does he think some of his former colleagues spread disinformation? “I don’t know how some people sleep at night… There are a lot of people… who are smart enough and educated enough to know better.”

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Tune in today for my exclusive interview with Brazil's former President @LulaOficial . We discuss coronavirus, President Bolsonaro, corruption, and more. 4pm Brazil time / 7pm GMT on @cnni , and tonight on @PBS .

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18 years ago our colleague Danny Pearl of the @WSJ was brutally murdered, beheaded, by Al-Qaeda. Now Adam, 18, the son Danny would never meet, votes along with his mum Mariane, in his first ever presidential election.

Mariane Pearl: Behind my ballot

Journalist Mariane Pearl can claim four nationalities. But America is the one she chose freely. Here’s the very personal story of why she continues to do so

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“They're seeing life being lost… in front of their eyes in the most dramatic fashion… This is about human survival.” @rescueorg calls the imminent famine in Gaza “a profound failure of humanity.” Here's my conversation with its CEO @DMiliband

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Exclusive: While demonstrations continue across Iran, as many as 14,000 people have been arrested since protests began. Now, men and women are alleging sexual assault by Iran’s security forces, as @nimaelbagir reports, in a story that contains disturbing details.

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Christiane Amanpour

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“If Russia succeeds in Ukraine, then the whole transatlantic community will not be trusted anymore,” warns Czech President Petr Pavel @prezidentpavel . “We are talking about protecting our values – but we are not doing enough to protect them in practice.”

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Christiane Amanpour

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Chile’s President @gabrielboric has been open about his own OCD & struggles with mental health. “When you have a broken bone it’s noticeable,” he tells me, but with mental health, “many times you hide it.” It should “stop being a stigma… Mental health does not have to be taboo.”

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Christiane Amanpour

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Kenya’s President-elect @WilliamsRuto calls himself a “hustler” – I asked him to explain. He tells me that with his election victory, now “the child of every Kenyan can know that they can live their dreams… irrespective of whatever background they come from.”

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Christiane Amanpour

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“There will be absolutely no accountability of what they did in Gaza for the past six months. This is what pains me.” Exiled Egyptian heart surgeon-turned-satirist @Byoussef blasts the Israeli government for the carnage in Gaza, where his wife has family.

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