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Amanpour and Company

Featuring conversations with global leaders and decision makers on the issues affecting the world today, Amanpour and Company adds to the long tradition of public affairs programming that has been a hallmark of public media for decades.

May 17, 2024

55m 53s

Correspondent Nic Robertson reports on the IDF announcement that the Israeli army found the bodies of three hostages in Gaza. The New York Times Magazine's Ronen Bergman discusses their investigation into settler violence in the West Bank. Bestselling author Kristin Hannah tells the story of female nurses in the Vietnam War in her book "The Women."

Episodes

  • March 12, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    March 12, 2024

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    Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has announced that he will resign. Monique Clesca and Ambassador Pamela White join to discuss. Four years after WHO declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, Dr. Cornelia Griggs discusses her new memoir, "The Sky Was Falling." Josh Tyrangiel joins Walter Isaacson to discuss his latest piece: "Let AI Remake the Whole U.S. Government (and Save the Country)."

  • March 11, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    March 11, 2024

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    Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan discusses humanitarian aid to Gaza. In his new book "The Achilles Trap” Steve Coll explores Saddam Hussein's behavior in the lead-up to the Iraq war. Former NBA star Rex Chapman tells his story of overcoming addiction and more in his new book "It's Hard for Me to Live with Me."

  • March 8, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    March 8, 2024

    S2024 E6180 - 55m 39s

    Anat Shenker-Osorio breaks down Pres. Biden's State of the Union address. Rachel Cockerell's new book, "Melting Point," tells the story of Jews from Russia seeking refuge in Texas in the early 19th century. We revisit Christiane’s conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath shares years of research about age and memory in his new book "Why We Remember."

  • March 7, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    March 7, 2024

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    Chen Almog-Goldstein's husband and daughter were murdered by Hamas and she and her three youngest children were then kidnapped and held for 51 days in Gaza. She tells her story. Suzanne Nossel CEO of PEN America Center discusses the power of culture to shape the world order. Plus, reports on Putin's propaganda machine and rising violence in Haiti.

  • March 6, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    March 6, 2024

    S2024 E6178 - 55m 53s

    Fania Oz-Salzberger joined from Tel Aviv to talk about the necessity of defeating Hamas while also protecting the soul of the nation. Considered a terrorist by Israel, Marwan Barghouti is seen by others as a "Palestinian Mandela." A recent documentary paints his portrait. In her recent piece "IVF and the GOP," Mona Charen details the conflict between legislation and fertility treatments.

  • March 5, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    March 5, 2024

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    Caretaker Prime Minister for the Palestinian Authority, Mohammed Shtayyeh joins the show for his first interview since resigning. Palestinian journalist Dalia Hatuqa and Israeli journalist Oren Persico discuss what each side understands about suffering and how media coverage divides the region. New York Times Magazine reporter Marcela Valdes on the ambivalent voters' role in the 2024 US election.

  • March 4, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    March 4, 2024

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    Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak analyzes Israel's handling of the war. Daiana Al-Bukhari is a displaced Palestinian now living in Rafah and joins the show. The Supreme Court has ruled to keep Trump on the CO primary ballot. Susan Glasser analyzes the implications. Reiko Hillyer traces the changes in America's prison systems throughout the 20th century in her new book, "A Wall Is Just a Wall."

  • March 1, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    March 1, 2024

    S2024 E6175 - 55m 53s

    Alexey Navalny was laid to rest this week, Russian opposition journalist Mikhail Fishman talks about the work of his friend. In his new novel "My Friends" Hisham Matar tells the story of three Libyan refugees in London. Bao Nguyen tells the story of the production of the 1985 charity single "We Are the World" in “The Greatest Night in Pop” and is joined by vocal arranger for the song, Tom Bahler.

  • February 29, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    February 29, 2024

    S2024 E6174 - 55m 53s

    More than one hundred people have been killed whilst gathered around food aid trucks in Gaza city. Mark Regev joins the show. Tech journalist Kara Swisher is chronicling her career in a new memoir, “Burn Book.” "LatinoLand" author Marie Arana on the impact of the Latino vote in the upcoming election. Josh Paul resigned from the State Department soon after Oct. 7th in protest. He joins the show.

  • February 28, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    February 28, 2024

    S2024 E6173 - 55m 48s

    UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini addresses the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and allegations that 12 of its staff members were involved in the October 7th attacks. Lawrence Wright discusses his new documentary "God Save Texas." Dr. Jonathan Metzl looks at the gun crisis in America through the lens of a 2018 mass shooting in Nashville in his new book “What We’ve Become.”

  • February 27, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    February 27, 2024

    S2024 E6172 - 55m 43s

    Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, is in Gaza for the first time since October 7th. He joined the show from Rafah. Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star in the hit TV series "True Detective: Night Country." They spoke with Christiane ahead of the show's recent grand finale. "The Internationalists" author Alexander Ward on the effort to repair America’s global reputation.

  • February 26, 2024: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    February 26, 2024

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    Journalist Barak Ravid discusses the mass resignation of Palestinian leadership. Middle East expert Khaled Elgindy on the situation on the ground in Gaza. Member of the European Parliament, Nathalie Loiseau analyzes the death toll and current status of Ukraine's troops. Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus discusses his ongoing trial in Bangladesh. Michele Norris explores race in her new book.

Extras + Features

  • “Living and Dying in a Country of Arms”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    “Living and Dying in a Country of Arms”

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    Despite unending pleas for tighter gun laws, public possession of firearms has only gone up in recent years. Dr. Jonathan Metzl is Director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Metzl joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss his new book, “What We’ve Become,” and the social and political obstacles preventing the passage of meaningful firearm regulation.

  • Biden’s Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy Post-Trump: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Biden’s Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy Post-Trump

    S2024 E6172 - 17m 37s

    President Joe Biden met with top Congressional leaders today, pressing them to pass his aid package for Ukraine and Israel. The failure of Congress to act is hurting Ukraine and undermining America on the global stage. Politico National Security Reporter Alexander Ward takes a look at how Biden’s foreign policy team copes with all of these challenges in his new book, "The Internationalists."

  • Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Think About Race: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Think About Race

    S2024 E6171 - 18m 14s

    It was back in 2010 when Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris began inviting strangers to send her six words about race on a postcard. In the end, she collected more than one-half million personal stories in an online forum. This formed the basis for her new bestseller "Our Hidden Conversations." The author joins the show to discuss why these conversations are essential.

  • Special Rep. Pritzker Says U.S. Needs to Aid Ukraine: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Special Rep. Pritzker Says U.S. Needs to Aid Ukraine

    S2024 E6170 - 18m 35s

    Fresh off the success of pushing the foreign aid bill through the Senate, majority leader Chuck Schumer is in Ukraine and he’s saying that without U.S. aid, Ukrainians undoubtedly will be facing more losses. He is also warning about the war's future impact on the West -- a warning echoed by Penny Pritzker, the former Commerce Secretary who last year took on the role of U.S. Special Representative

  • Is the World at Risk of a New Economic Cold War?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Is the World at Risk of a New Economic Cold War?

    S2024 E6169 - 17m 23s

    More than 30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, might the world be on the verge of a new Cold War? Gita Gopinath says that tensions between the world's most powerful nations have caused fragmentation of the global economy into competing regional blocs. The First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund joins the show to discuss this "turning point" for the world economy.

  • Alexey Navalny’s Mentor: Putin Is “Evil, and a Killer”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Alexey Navalny’s Mentor: Putin Is “Evil, and a Killer”

    S2024 E6168 - 19m 3s

    As a result of a crackdown on independent journalists in Russia, Yevgenia Albats has been forced into exile. The Editor-in-Chief of The New Times, an independent political weekly based in Moscow, has been working in the United States since 2022. She was a close friend of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, whose death she blames squarely on President Putin. She joins the show to discuss.

  • Haaretz EIC on Netanyahu & “Israel’s Self-Destruction”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Haaretz EIC on Netanyahu & “Israel’s Self-Destruction”

    S2024 E6167 - 17m 18s

    "Israel’s Self-Destruction: Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the Price of Neglect" is Aluf Benn’s most recent essay for Foreign Affairs. The Haaretz Editor-in-Chief joins the show to discuss his piece at a time when Palestinian health authorities place the Gaza death toll at 29,000 since October 7th.

  • Can Ukraine Win? Zelensky and Christiane Amanpour Discuss: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Can Ukraine Win? Zelensky and Christiane Amanpour Discuss

    S2024 E6166 - 5m 2s

    Christiane Amanpour is in Ukraine, where -- days away from the second anniversary of the war -- there is a sense of urgency and of frustration. Amid this gloom, the death of preeminent Putin critic Alexey Navalny hit Europe, and Ukraine, like a bolt of lightning. Christiane spoke with President Zelensky onstage at the Munich Security Conference.

  • Hillary Clinton Reacts to Alexey Navalny's Death: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Hillary Clinton Reacts to Alexey Navalny's Death

    S2024 E6165 - 5m 40s

    Reports of Alexey Navalny’s death come as world leaders are convening in Munich for the annual security conference – with Russia’s war in Ukraine at the top of the agenda. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins Christiane to discuss the world's reaction and the current mood in Munich.

  • Wife of Imprisoned Russian Dissident on Navalny's Death: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Wife of Imprisoned Russian Dissident on Navalny's Death

    S2024 E6165 - 5m 7s

    One who understands the tragedy better than most is the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, an opposition politician who was sentenced last April to 25 years in prison for treason and other charges that he has denied. Evgenia Kara-Murza joins the show to discuss the death of Navalny and the fears it stokes for the fate of other Russian political prisoners.

  • He Says 100+ Family Members in Gaza Have Been Killed: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    He Says 100+ Family Members in Gaza Have Been Killed

    S2024 E6164 - 18m 25s

    Palestinian-American cardiologist Dr. Tariq Haddad has lost more than 100 family members in Gaza. It was for this reason that he turned down an invitation from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss the administration’s response. Instead, the doctor wrote a 12-page letter to Blinken accusing him of sharing responsibility for the killings. He joins Michel Martin.

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