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

“We have to use all our power to fight the threat of Maduro”: Former Colombian president Ivan Duque explains why he supports US intervention in Venezuela.

"This is far too widespread and nationwide... a collective movement of the youth reclaiming public space in Iran... When the numbers are too much, when this is happening, not in small pockets, but all over the place, the government has a challenge." Amid changing social mores

I ask Julianne Smith, former U.S. NATO Ambassador, if opportunities to help Ukraine were missed under President Biden. “We’re very proud of the way in which we were able to support a country in crisis,” she tells me, but acknowledges that in hindsight, there are fair questions to

“I don’t like the sound of what we heard yesterday from Putin.” I speak with Julianne Smith, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, about what she calls a “thinly veiled threat” against Europe from Vladimir Putin.

RIP Sir Tom Stoppard, a true legend of the theatre. It was a privilege to speak with him back in 2021 about what would be his final play, Leopoldstadt. You join re-watch our conversation here:

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."