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 & all major podcast platforms

Barcelona’s wondrous church La Sagrada Familia came one step closer to a long-sought completion this week! Gaudi’s architectural marvel got a blessing from Pope Leo XIV to inaugurate its latest, and tallest, tower.

Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine has now lasted longer than WWI but could it have all been so different? From my archives, how Boris Yeltsin made a charm offensive in Paris after becoming Russia’s first democratically elected President.

In Kyiv, a new opera is tackling one of the most traumatising aspects of Russia’s invasion: the abduction of Ukrainian children. In the new work called “Mothers of Kherson”, music tries to give voice to that unspeakable pain, here’s my report:

“A geopolitical Chernobyl.” That’s the stark assessment of the US-Israeli war with Iran, from France’s former prime minister Dominique de Villepin. “What we see is a meltdown of the core reactor that is the US leadership.”

On #TheAmanpourHour this week: • Fmr French PM @Villepin tells me the US-Iran war is a “geopolitical Chernobyl”; • @brhodes predicts a dire future for Iran; • Tennis legends Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova talk battling each other on court, and cancer off it.

“People's talents in their previous lives turned into talents in a refugee shelter that could help save and solace many of their country people.” I talk to author James Verini about stories of extraordinary courage inside the Mariupol Theater, site of one of Russia’s greatest wartime atrocities.

“Being in the theater when it was bombed, the defining atrocity of the Ukraine war, I would argue, was the formative experience of their lives.” In his new book “The Theater,” author James Verini documents stories of courage and survival amidst the Mariupol siege.

Huge congrats to @bbclysedoucet who has won the Women’s Prize for nonfiction for her brilliant book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul. So well-deserved!

My brilliant friend @bbclysedoucet has won the Women’s Prize for non-fiction. I am bursting with pride and excitement! Her book ‘The Finest Hotel in Kabul’ is wonderful. share.google/aU9Uzr3R3auTrzS…

“We have had enough of just surviving" With Lebanon viewed as the key to ending the Middle East war, @amanpour reflects on the frustration she heard from people there just before Israel's latest airstrikes Watch Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files 🗂️ on @globalplayer 🎧

Returning to Czechoslovakia in 1986 after defecting “was bittersweet,” @Martina Navratilova tells me. “There was so much emotion… I cried when I left, when the plane was taking off, because I could leave, but 15 million people couldn’t.”

After a close on-court rivalry and friendship, @ChrissieEvert & @Martina Navratilova found themselves bonded even closer when they were both diagnosed with cancer. We discussed the importance of listening to your own body – and the blanket I sent to Chris when she was diagnosed…

Just as her tennis career was taking off, @Martina Navratilova took the extraordinary decision to defect to the US from Czechoslovakia. “It was a one-way ticket, and that was the hard part,” she tells me. “I never knew if I would ever go back.”

A new Netflix documentary, Chris & Martina: The Final Set, tells the amazing story of the on-court rivalry, friendship and deep bond between two tennis greats, @ChrissieEvert and @Martina Navratilova. “We did everything together,” Chris tells me. “We really did care about each other,” though she concedes there was a serious rivalry between them too.

A year ago, the world met Habiba al-Askari, a three-year-old toddler in Gaza fighting for her life. @JomanaCNN and @AbeerSalmanCNN's reporting resulted in Habiba's medical evacuation to Amman. CNN returned to Jordan this year to reunite with little Habiba and her family.

>> @amanpour: "I am a complete and utter adherent to fighting for editorial independence and to being able to pursue independent news coverage without fear or favor, no matter who is in charge politically, no matter where we go. That is our mission. That is Ted Turner’s legacy, and that’s one that I intend to fulfill in my life." cnn.com/2026/06/10/media/cnn…

Top CNN journalists vowed to uphold founder Ted Turner's legacy at a Warner Bros. Discovery event honoring the maverick businessman in Atlanta today. Here's my full report: cnn.com/2026/06/10/media/cnn…

.@AUB_Lebanon is an educational and cultural powerhouse. See the determination of faculty and staff to LIVE, not just survive endless wars. This incredible & moving video shows a whole city coming together to repair the vast damage done to heritage by the massive 2020 port explosion: youtu.be/7G4lEEqEzpQ?si=3qhu…

(Reuters) - Lebanese President Joseph Aoun made a rare public appeal to the Israeli government and people in an interview with CNN aired on Monday, saying a military solution "will never provide you with security and safety" for the people in northern Israel. "We are ready, we are willing, we are committed. Are you? If you are, let's sit and talk," said Aoun. He said he would not meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before reaching an agreement to end the war, which he said would be a non-aggression pact and not a full peace deal.