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Amanpour and Company

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May 20, 2024

55m 53s

Today, the ICC's Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan told Christiane he is seeking arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders as well as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Khan explains his decision in an exclusive interview. Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Nice discusses the news. Michael Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., offers some insight into the Israeli response.

Episodes

  • September 16, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 16, 2021

    S2021 E4056 - 55m 57s

    Angela Povilaitis; Georgia Wells; Tristan Harris; Leopoldo López; George Will

  • September 15, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 15, 2021

    S2021 E4055 - 55m 57s

    Dr. Hans Kluge discusses waning vaccine uptake in Europe. Global Witness CEO Mike Davis and Mexican climate activist Margarita Campuzano assess the state of the climate crisis. Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt tells Michel Martin how Democrats should seize this political moment.

  • September 10, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 10, 2021

    S2021 E4052 - 55m 58s

    Fmr. Afghan Ambassador to the United States Roya Rahmani, foreign policy expert Lawrence Wilkerson, and retired FDNY Assistant Chief Joe Pfeifer each reflect on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

  • September 9, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 9, 2021

    S2021 E4051 - 55m 57s

    Anand Gopal; Daniel Bogado; Spencer Ackerman; Sandra Cisernos

  • September 8, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 8, 2021

    S2021 E4050 - 55m 56s

    Chris Murphy; Kori Schake; Ali Soufan; Nick Mohammed

  • September 7, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 7, 2021

    S2021 E4049 - 55m 32s

    Former CA Gov. Jerry Brown discusses the climate crisis. Desmond Shum discusses his new book “Red Roulette.” Legal expert Dahlia Lithwick analyzes last week's Supreme Court ruling in Texas.

  • September 2, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 2, 2021

    S2021 E4046 - 55m 57s

    Shefali Luthra; Craig Whitlock; Gen. David Petraeus; Ady Barkan

  • September 1, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 1, 2021

    S2021 E4045 - 55m 38s

    Former U.S. military adviser Sarah Chayes discusses the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan. Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi explains what's at stake in Pakistan if Afghanistan descends into chaos. Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant discusses the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant first seen in Colombia. Author and former U.S. marine Elliot Ackerman joins the program.

  • August 30, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    August 30, 2021

    S2021 E4043 - 55m 22s

    Chokwe Antar Lumumba; Mike Rogers; Mark Hetfield; Ahmad Sarmast and Zarifa Adiba

  • August 20, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    August 20, 2021

    S2021 E4037 - 55m 7s

    How could the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan have been handled differently? John Sopko and General Joseph L. Votel (Ret.) weigh in. Plus: “When the Stars Begin to Fall” author Theodore R. Johnson explains why structural racism is an existential threat to the idea of America.

  • August 27, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    August 27, 2021

    S2021 E4042 - 55m 31s

    Tom Kean; Amna Guellali; Aly Raisman; Russell Moore

Extras + Features

  • A Young Refugee's Journey: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    A Young Refugee's Journey

    S2021 E3254 - 2m

    One little girl, one big hope: That is the story of "The Walk." It's all about little Amal, a young refugee girl in the form of a giant puppet, who travels from Turkey to the U.K. in search of her mother. Little Amal transcends borders and politics as part of a traveling festival with a powerful humanitarian message: "Don't forget us." "The Walk" is directed by David Lan.

  • Antwaun Sargent Named New Director At Gagosian Gallery: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Antwaun Sargent Named New Director At Gagosian Gallery

    S2021 E3254 - 2m 33s

    Antwaun Sargent plans to curate exhibitions devoted to Black artists and his first show does just that. "Social Works" looks at what he calls "notions of Black space," works of art that he says are "doing more than just sitting quietly on a wall." He joined Christiane from New York.

  • Iran's New President Ebrahim Raisi To Take Office in August: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Iran's New President Ebrahim Raisi To Take Office in August

    S2021 E3254 - 2m 37s

    Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative cleric hand-picked by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, will take office in August. At his first press conference, Raisi called on the United States to rejoin the 2015 nuclear agreement from which former President Trump withdrew.

  • Hakeem Oluseyi's Journey From The Street to The Stars: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Hakeem Oluseyi's Journey From The Street to The Stars

    S2021 E3254 - 17m 29s

    Hakeem Oluseyi grew up in some of the roughest American neighborhoods. His father was a drug dealer and his mother, pregnant at 16, dropped out of high school. Oluseyi might have followed their lead. Instead, he became a world-renowned astrophysicist. His new memoir is called "A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars." He tells Hari how he beat the odds.

  • Reflecting on America's Troubled Past with Race: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Reflecting on America's Troubled Past with Race

    S2021 E3253 - 2m 54s

    2021 marks 100 years since the Tulsa Massacre, when a white mob killed up to 300 Black Americans and destroyed an area known as Black Wall Street in an explosion of violence that spread far beyond Tulsa. Director Dawn Porter is shining a light on that period in her new film "Rise Again."

  • Global COVID-19 Death Toll Has Surpassed 4 Million: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Global COVID-19 Death Toll Has Surpassed 4 Million

    S2021 E3253 - 2m 58s

    We're not past COVID-19 yet, in view of the delayed vaccine rollout in the developing world and the ongoing spread of the Delta variant. Andy Slavitt served as the White House adviser for coronavirus response in the first days of the Biden administration. In his new book "Preventable," Slavitt details the failings of the Trump administration's initial response.

  • A Record Number of Parents Are Turning to Homeschooling: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    A Record Number of Parents Are Turning to Homeschooling

    S2021 E3253 - 18m 16s

    Homeschooling among Black families increased by 500% last year, reflecting an increasing trend across America -- one that is especially pronounced in communities of color. Numerous parents abandoned the public school system, feeling that it was not meeting their children's needs. Education justice advocates Keri Rodrigues and Bernita Bradley talk with Michel Martin about homeschooling initiatives.

  • Justice Dept. Under Trump Faces Allegations: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Justice Dept. Under Trump Faces Allegations

    S2021 E3253 - 2m 49s

    The Justice Department under President Trump is now facing a tidal wave of allegations, among them that the department illegally gained access to private data from journalists, Democratic congressmen, and a former Trump lawyer. It’s just the tip of the iceberg, and legal analyst Elie Honig joins the show to explain.

  • The Value of Migration: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Value of Migration

    S2021 E3252 - 2m 38s

    Sunday is World Refugee Day, an international day to honor refugees around the world. Alexander Betts studies forced migration at Oxford University and in his new book, he says we’re doing migration all wrong. He joins the show to explain.

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