My first podcast series with @global has arrived. Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files with Jamie Rubin He was in the room. I was on the frontline. 20 years married. 7 years divorced. Now we’re picking up the conversation again. 🎧 Launching 13 May 🔗 Listen @GlobalPlayer

Across the US, people are spending their Thanksgiving weekend giving back. So from my archive, when I joined one of the Thanksgiving deliveries of @godslovenyc a charity which started during the AIDS crisis and has now delivered more than 40 million medically tailored meals.

In Sri Lanka, the discovery of a mass grave site is reopening painful wounds of a decades long civil war. CNN's @HanakoMontgome1 reports.

"I think it's un-American": Fmr. Secretary of State John Kerry tells me why he thinks the Pentagon's move against Sen. Mark Kelly is "very sad for our country."

On #TheAmanpourHour this week: •John Kerry on the Pentagon investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly. •Ukraine's fmr. foreign minister slams the new US peace plan. •Annie Leibovitz tells me photographing Timothée Chalamet for Vogue was the “hardest” shoot she’s ever done. 11aET @CNN

"It's still an emotional image to me... It turns from a story of love to a goodbye." An emotional Annie Leibovitz tells me about how she took her iconic photograph of John and Yoko in an embrace, just hours before his assassination.

"Men have their stories. We don't have enough stories as women. We need to see ourselves." Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz tells me about the new volume of her book Women, with portraits of some true female icons of our age.

"It's fair to say that it was disappointing," John Kerry tells me of COP30. But, he adds, math is helping: "there is a transition [to renewables] taking place which is profitable & that... is going to get more & more people seeing that there's money to be made" in going green.

"I hope they're successful, genuinely... the war must end," former US Secretary of State John Kerry tells me about ongoing peace talks over Ukraine. But "one has to be tougher... You know the old saying, 'peace at any cost'? No."

In his gripping new book The Traitors Circle, Jonathan @Freedland tells the story of a group of well-connected, privileged Germans who bravely resisted Nazi rule. But as they met, "what they did not know," he told me, is that one of them "was about to betray all the rest."

So tragic. RIP Sarah. https://t.co/0da0BW3WIF

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"Those who can burn the olive groves of Palestinians can burn everything." Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expresses outrage over ongoing settler violence in the occupied West Bank, calling it "totally unacceptable, intolerable and unforgivable... done with the tacit

A bold new Broadway adaptation of Oedipus is bringing the Sophocles tragedy bang up to date, with some thrilling twists. I sat down with actors Mark Strong and Lesley Manville to talk about the play's infamous central relationship and why "truth is a motherf**ker"...

Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war https://t.co/gUXQbfjUjS

The Witkoff/Ushakov call "reaffirms how strongly Mr Witkoff is trying to help Russia," says Ukraine's fmr FM @DmytroKuleba "That 28-point plan is a list of Russian ultimatums...The situation is completely different now & I think we can bury the 28-point plan...it's discredited."

“We all need to stand together and make ourselves heard and seen and felt in this fight,” said @amanpour, @CNN's Chief International Anchor and host of CPJ’s International Press Freedom Awards last week. Read an excerpt from her speech in the @guardian 👇 https://t.co/HoKDVhvh4s

Putin has not moved from his maximalist goals in invading Ukraine, even as Kyiv & DC appear closer to agreement. And European allies have reiterated that Russia's aggression and violations of international law cannot be rewarded. It seems we're far from an end state right now.

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As the FIFA World Cup wraps up this round of qualifiers, some small countries have racked up big wins and made history against the odds. Good luck to them all when the tournament kicks off in North America next year!

From my archives this week, on the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, my conversation with chief prosecutor Ben Ferencz. How he found the evidence that brought many Nazis to justice.