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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.

September 13, 2024

55m 47s

Kholood Khair, a Sudanese journalist, joins the show to shed light on what some call a forgotten crisis in Sudan. Cindy McCain, Director of the World Food Programme, describes the hardship that has spread across Sudan since the outbreak of war. Saad Mohseni on his memoir and the struggle for a free and independent press in Afghanistan. Jerusalem Demsas on the housing crisis in America.

Episodes

  • June 23, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    June 23, 2021

    S2021 E3256 - 55m 55s

    The first case of AIDS was reported 40 years ago this month. Since then, millions of people all over the world have lost their lives to the virus.

  • June 22, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    June 22, 2021

    S2021 E3255 - 55m 37s

    Andrey Kelin; Brian Lehrer and Christine Quinn; George Will

  • June 21, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    June 21, 2021

    S2021 E3254 - 55m 31s

    Iran has elected its most hardline leader since the Islamic revolution 43 years ago.

  • June 17, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    June 17, 2021

    S2021 E3252 - 55m 34s

    Sunday is World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honor refugees around the world.

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

    June 16, 2021

    S2021 E3251 - 55m 53s

    Richard Haass; Nina Khrushcheva; George Packer; Salman Rushdie

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

    June 15, 2021

    S2021 E3250 - 55m 38s

    Abbas Milani; Alice Waters; Mack Beggs and Nancy Beggs; Angélique Kidjo

  • June 14, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    June 14, 2021

    S2021 E3249 - 55m 58s

    President Biden took part in his first NATO summit today as Commander in Chief.

  • June 11, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    June 11, 2021

    S2021 E3248 - 55m 49s

    Businesses are welcoming employees back to the office.

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

    June 10, 2021

    S2021 E3247 - 55m 49s

    Tom McTague and Mark Landler; Bianca Jagger; Bill Bratton; Jamie Metzl

  • June 7. 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    June 7. 2021

    S2021 E3244 - 55m 38s

    Border encounters reached a two decade high in April, according to the US Customs and Border Protection, and nearly half were from Central America.

  • June 4, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    June 4, 2021

    S2021 E3243 - 55m 36s

    Linda Thomas-Greenfield; Wu’er Kaixi and Finn Lau; Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel

  • June 3, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    June 3, 2021

    S2021 E3242 - 55m 34s

    Health ministers from the wealthiest countries are meeting today in Oxford to address vaccine inequality.

Extras + Features

  • Israel's Fragile New Government: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Israel's Fragile New Government

    S2021 E3249 - 2m 43s

    Israel's former Foreign Minister and peace negotiator Tzipi Livni joined Christiane from Tel Aviv to discuss the complex challenges facing the fragile new government in Israel.

  • Russia Stalls Navalny’s Opposition: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Russia Stalls Navalny’s Opposition

    S2021 E3248 - 2m 5s

    As President Biden gets ready to meet Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Russia has all but liquidated Alexey Navalny’s opposition movement this week. A Moscow court designated the two organisations linked to the Kremlin critic as “extremist” groups, forcing them to shut down-- a charge they deny. Vladimir Ashurkov, the Executive Director of Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation, weighs in.

  • Top 25 U.S. Billionaires Pay Almost No Income Taxes: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Top 25 U.S. Billionaires Pay Almost No Income Taxes

    S2021 E3248 - 17m 53s

    Pulitzer prize-winning ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger speaks to our Hari Sreenivasan about how the world’s richest men -- Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch to name a few, legally work the system to avoid paying more than a fraction of their earnings in tax.

  • G7 Leaders Unite Against Authoritarianism: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    G7 Leaders Unite Against Authoritarianism

    S2021 E3248 - 2m 57s

    At the first G7 meeting in two years, leaders of the world's largest economies look to present a unified front against authoritarian aggression. Senior Director for Europe on the US National Security Council Amanda Sloat joins Bianna Golodryga, standing in for Christiane Amanpour, to discuss.

  • Nicaragua Plunges Deeper Into Authoritarianism: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Nicaragua Plunges Deeper Into Authoritarianism

    S2021 E3247 - 2m 38s

    Just months ahead of a national election, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega regime has imprisoned seven opposition leaders. Human rights defender Bianca Jagger is one of Nicaragua’s best-known pro-democracy advocates and joins the show to explain what’s going on.

  • Why Expert Jamie Metzl Thinks COVID-19 Was Likely a Lab Leak: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Jamie Metzl: Why He Thinks Covid-19 Was a Lab Leak

    S2021 E3247 - 17m 41s

    Jamie Metzl is an adviser to the WHO’s committee on human genome editing and was among the first to argue the virus likely escaped from a lab in Wuhan. Once widely dismissed, the theory is now gaining traction. To unpack it all, Metzl speaks with Hari Sreenivasan.

  • Former Boston, LA, NY Police Chief Discusses Police Reform: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Former Boston, LA, NY Police Chief Discusses Police Reform

    S2021 E3247 - 3m

    Bill Bratton knows the knotty issues around police reform inside and out: As former police chief in Boston, New York and Los Angeles, Bratton won accolades for a historic decline in crime rates on his beat. His new book is called "The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America." He joins the show from New York.

  • Assessing the Biden-Johnson Working Relationship: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Assessing the Biden-Johnson Working Relationship

    S2021 E3247 - 2m 57s

    Today, President Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson co-signed a new Atlantic Charter: The foundational document of the "special relationship" between the U.K. and the U.S., but it is no guarantee of a warm relationship between the two leaders. To assess the Biden-Johnson working relationship, Bianna speaks with Tom McTague of The Atlantic and Mark Landler of The New York Times.

  • The Negotiation of Data and Ransomware: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Negotiation of Data and Ransomware

    S2021 E3246 - 1m 53s

    When companies’ data are held hostage and they are presented with a demand for payment, should they just go ahead and pay? The U.S. government urges them not to, but many victims see payment as the quickest – and sometimes cheapest – solution. Kurtis Minder is a ransomware negotiator and joins the show to explain why this is.

  • Belarussian Opposition Leader's Call to Action: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Belarussian Opposition Leader's Call to Action

    S2021 E3246 - 2m 26s

    As President Biden lands in Europe for a week of summits, he sets himself a high bar. In his meetings with G7 and NATO leaders and in his face-to-face with Vladimir Putin, Biden is out to prove the viability of democratic institutions and alliances.

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