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South Africa paused its rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine due to a small study which suggests it offers minimal protection against mild and moderate cases of the so-called South Africa variant. To this situation and vaccine hesitancy in the region, Christiane speaks with UNICEF's Angus Thomson and Dr. Matshidiso Moet, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa.
Born in Kentucky, Nikki King saw firsthand the devastating impact of the opioid crisis and became determined to give those suffering from addiction a fighting chance. She moved to Indiana, where she established an innovative new addiction program that focuses on treatment and support rather than jail. She tells Hari Sreenivasan how this could serve as a model for other rural areas.
Over the course of her 60 year career, Judy Collins has given concerts all over the globe with perhaps her most famous being her first solo appearance at The Town Hall in New York in 1964. Collins has now filmed a new concert from that same venue, which will be streamed later this week. She joins the show from her apartment to reflect on this latest step in her impressive career.
Nury Turkel was born into a re-education camp during China’s Cultural Revolution and is now a lawyer who has secured asylum for more than 100 Uyghur refugees. He also serves on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Turkel joins the show to shed light on the plight of the Uyghur people.
The new book "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019" aims to be a “choral history” of the United States. It features essays from such prominent Black voices as Angela Davis and Nikole Hannah-Jones. The book was co-edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, who speak with Michel Martin about what they hope to achieve with this project.
In the new film "Falling," Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen turns his hand to directing in the very personal story of a father's strained relationship with his gay son, who cares for him as he loses his battle against dementia. Mortensen, who plays a lead role, also wrote, directed, and scored the film. He speaks with Christiane about this passion project.
Allies have welcomed President Biden's commitment to the international order, while the Kremlin scorned his words on Russia as aggressive. Biden also honed in on China, where there is a fair amount of consensus in Congress, particularly on human rights. Christiane discusses all this with Senator Bob Menendez, who in January ascended to chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
A new study by Oxford University shows that its AstraZeneca vaccine can prevent serious COVID illness as well as actually slow down transmission of the virus. Christiane discusses this with renowned medical researcher Dr. Helen Rees and journalist Tim Harford, who has been tracking the vaccine rollout closely.
Truman Capote is one of the most recognizable yet enigmatic literary figures of the modern era. "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany’s" were literary blockbusters now regarded as classics. A new documentary, "The Capote Tapes," centers around the author's unfinished novel "Answered Prayers" -- the project that destroyed his social standing and led to his decline.
After living in NY for 25 years, author Charles Blow moved to Atlanta. In his new book, "The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto," he proposes that Black Americans in the north do the same and return to the South -- the region fled by their ancestors -- with the intention of establishing political power in key cities. Blow joins Hari Sreenivasan to make his case for a reverse Great Migration.
The Republicans are in a highly divisive fight for the soul of their own party as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy refuses to strip a GOP congresswoman who embraced QAnon conspiracy theories of her committee assignments. Where does the Grand Old Party stand these days? Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson joins Christiane to discuss his party's existential crisis.
A new HBO series focuses on the 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who went missing after she boarded a homemade submarine in Copenhagen to interview its designer. After an exhaustive investigation, she was found to have been murdered. Writer and director Tobias Lindholm joins the show alongside Kim’s parents to discuss the series and Kim’s legacy.
A Moscow court has sentenced Alexey Navalny to 2.5 years in jail for breaking the terms of his parole. Today the Russian opposition leader ridiculed the verdict, given that when he left the country for Germany, he was in a coma after having been poisoned with Novichok in August. He blames President Putin for the poisoning, which the Kremlin denies. Sergey Markov joins the program to discuss.
In 2018, renowned artist Kehinde Wiley rose to global superstardom with his presidential portrait of Barack Obama – and his ambitions have only increased since then. Wiley has spent the last year at his Black Rock studio in Senegal, West Africa, and is also mentoring a new generation of artists. He joins the program to discuss Black Lives Matter and what inspires him artistically.
In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko was the first high profile Russian dissident to be poisoned in a public fashion. A British public inquiry found his death was probably ordered by President Putin himself, which the Kremlin denies. . Litvinenko’s widow Marina has long campaigned for justice for her husband, and she joins the program to Alexey Navalny's prison sentence.
In our world of tribalism and echo chambers, is it possible to unlearn firmly held beliefs and opinions? Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist who explores how to navigate discussions with people of different opinions, and his latest book is called "Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know." He speaks with Walter Isaacson about what steps are needed to bridge our divides.
This weekend saw protests across Russia against President Putin, with protestors triggered by the arrest of opposition leader Alexey Navalny upon his return to Russia after recuperating from Novichok poisoning. It was there that Navalny teamed up with CNN and open-source intelligence site Bellingcat to investigate this apparent assassination attempt. Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins joins the show
Today, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Iran could be very close to producing enough nuclear material for a weapon. The new administration wants to reverse Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and Iran has said it wants the U.S. to re-enter. The two countries are locked in a stalemate over who goes first. In an exclusive interview, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif joins the show.
President Biden is threatening to review sanctions on Myanmar after the country’s military staged a coup early this morning. Elected leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi is now under arrest along with multiple other party members, and the junta has imposed a curfew and a state of emergency. Christiane discusses the situation with the United Nations’ special rapporteur on Myanmar.
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