Christiane Amanpour

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…

“The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths,” the foreign ministers said. “The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity. We condemn the drip-feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians,…

From my archives, how space travel made allies out of Moscow and Washington 250 miles high. What American astronaut Scott Kelly & Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko told me from the international space station about working together despite the tensions back down on earth.

A buried scandal that's haunted Ireland for decades, with excavations now underway for the remains of hundreds of babies at a home for unwed mothers— their remains hidden in a septic tank beneath a housing estate. CNN’s @donie on this painful story.

So sorry to hear this. They really don’t make them like Jake Larson anymore. The sacrifices he made with his Band of Brothers in WWII, and the joy he lived throughout his long life, offer an example to us all. RIP

On #TheAmanpourHour this week: • Exclusive with Brazil’s President Lula as Trump threatens 50% tariffs • Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller on his dysfunctional upbringing & loving Diane von Furstenberg • CIA chronicler Tim Weiner on new age of intel under Trump 11aET @CNN

“After 9/11, counterterrorism swamped everything” in the CIA, says Tim Weiner, author of The Mission. “The CIA was not set up to be a lethal paramilitary force… to erect secret prisons or to inflict torture… It’s an espionage service. It’s supposed to spy.”

“The president puts intelligence in scare quotes,” says Tim Weiner, author of a new book on the CIA, The Mission. “He doesn’t believe it. He disdains, despises the CIA. He thinks it is the capital of the deep state. And this will cause trouble down the road, mark my words.”

“I just have this motor ticking around that is almost unstoppable,” media mogul Barry Diller tells me. “I had one big fear, which was sexual confusion… If you have one big fear… then other fears disappear. So I was able to take all sorts of risks that other people might not…

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“I hate the idea that the only way we act is by the use of military power.” Ami Ayalon, former head of Israel’s internal security service, tells me that while Israel has an obligation to defend the Druze community in Syria, “We should try diplomacy as well.”

“I cannot justify, I cannot defend what we are doing in Gaza.” Former Shin Bet commander Ami Ayalon tells me why Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli governing coalition wouldn’t survive a debate over ‘the day after’ the Gaza war.

When Brazil’s President Lula first saw President Trump’s letter threatening massive tariffs, “I thought it was fake news,” he tells me. “Brazil will not accept anything imposed on it from [another] country. We accept negotiation and not imposition.”

“I was born as a negotiator. I was a trade union leader. I went on strikes… but everything ended at a bargaining table,” Brazil’s President Lula tells me, as the US threatens massive tariffs. “It’s much… cheaper than going to war… No one dies at the negotiation table.”

“This is a country that deserves respect,” Brazil’s President Lula tells me in an exclusive interview. “President Trump has to respect the sovereignty of this country… I like to show respect, and I like to receive respect.”

Exclusive: President Trump wasn’t elected “to be the emperor of the world,” Brazil’s President Lula tells me, in the face of massive tariff threats over the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro and more. Our full interview airs 2pm Brasilia time on @cnni and tonight in the US on @PBS

In striking Damascus and beyond, “what Israel is looking for, I think, is a fragmented Syria – one which is weak and divided,” says former British spy chief John Sawers. “That's a miscalculation… I don’t think Israeli actions were at all helpful.”