Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, CBEis a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour. Amanpour is also a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. As of 2014, she has been recognized as one of the journalists most world leaders follow on Twitter, according to a report by the PR firm Burson-Marsteller...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 January 1958
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His hair is black, as it's always been, his beard was black with significant gray ... a good deal older and weaker and more frail than he looked the last time I saw him come into court in the summer of 2004 when he came for his initial hearing.
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And then there's always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.
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I am personally thrilled though by the changes at CNN, which no doubt you have all read about. because it means we are responding to the times.
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now is a crucial stage of the peace process
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More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world's royal bad places.
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I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around the world, because it couldn't be more important.
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I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints.
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I was showing a man and telling his story and explaining how ill he was, and it was a live camera and all of a sudden I realized that he was dying.
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Milosevic was at times impassioned, caustic and sarcastic
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And yet, the powers that be, the moneymen, have decided to eviscerate us.
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I still have many years left in me, if I still have a job, but that's what I'll tell my son when he's old enough to torture me with painful questions.
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That was seven years ago. I have been married two years and I have a five-month-old son now.
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She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.
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And I worked my way up through every level. I was a writer, I was a producer, I was a field producer, I was a reporter and I am a reporter.