CNN’s Christiane Amanpour reports on the latest diplomatic effort to bring about a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour sits down with Tony Blair and gets his reaction to the conflict in the Middle East.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour reports on a Gaza hospital overflowing with casualties, many of them civilians.

Program Note: Watch Christiane Amanpour report live from Jerusalem tonight on AC360° at 10pm.

Program Note: Watch Anderson report LIVE from Israel tonight on AC360° at 10 pm ET.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour report on the situation in Gaza.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has an exclusive interview with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on the Gaza situation.

In an interview about the Gaza situation, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that Israel will “take the necessary steps.”

Program Note: Christiane Amanpour introduces you to the courageous few who saw evil and tried to stop the killing. December 4, 9 p.m. ET

CNN's Christiane Amanpour in a Sarajevo cemetery; she returned to Bosnia for ''Scream Bloody Murder.''

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CNN International Correspondent

No one teaches reporters how to cover a war, much less wars that include genocide. Most of us rely on the wisdom of experienced colleagues and a lot of on-the-job training.

My first war assignment — Bosnia, in the 1990s — included visits to the Sarajevo morgue to see the bodies. How else would a journalist know exactly how many Muslim children were cut down by Bosnian Serb snipers? How else could we put names to civilians left faceless by mortar shells from the surrounding hills? I learned what it means to bear witness.

I found my voice and my mission in Bosnia. I learned to seek the facts, to tell the truth no matter how difficult or unpopular. I learned that objectivity meant covering all sides and giving all sides their hearing, but never to draw a false moral equivalence when none exists. I learned never to equate victims with their aggressors. I learned that there are limits to the style of journalism that goes: “On the one hand, on the other hand.”

Most of all, I learned that as reporters our words and our actions have consequences and that we must use this powerful platform, television, responsibly.

But how many times have people asked me, when I’ve come back from a place like Bosnia or Rwanda: Is it really that bad? I have found that many people want to believe that I am exaggerating. I guess they do not want to believe such evil can exist. Or perhaps they just do not want to be pushed into that moral space where they would have to take a stand and do something.

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Program Note: 5 former Secretaries of State tell Christiane Amanpour & Frank Sesno what advice they have for “The Next President.”

Watch The Next President: A World of Challenges. Saturday, 9 p.m. ET

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CNN International Correspondent

Christiane Amanpour: “The other thing we were talking about, with advice to the new president, is climate change… What does the United States need to do to take the lead on something that is so vital globally?”

James A. Baker III: “Kill all the cows ‘cause most of it comes from cow farts”

Christiane Amanpour: “We’re leaving that in…’

There was much humor splashed about the serious advice being dispensed, despite, or maybe because, of the unprecedented challenges on the next president’s plate.

The forum generated huge buzz on The George Washington University campus. Students started lining up at 5:30am for tickets which were free. Later, when the Secretaries walked on stage together, the auditorium rose in a standing ovation. This struck me profoundly.

I know ‘America’s foreign policy’ and ‘where in the world we are headed’ are vitally important questions, but I was gratified to see how many young people felt the same way.

America’s image, and therefore its influence abroad are at historic lows, and the Secretaries unanimously said the next U.S. President must immediately close Guantanamo Bay Prison and ban torture.

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Editor’s Note:
We are devoting many posts today to the anniversary of 9/11, with first-hand accounts, insight, and commentary dedicated to that day seven years ago that changed our world.
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Christiane Amanpour
CNN Chief International Correspondent

Seven years later, I remember like it was yesterday. I was covering a story in Sierra Leone, the war torn country in western Africa. With no scheduled airlines in or out, it had been incredibly difficult to get there in a series of charted helicopters and small prop planes.

I had literally sat down to my first interview, when patchy and intermittent phone calls started coming in, first from our base in London, then from HQ in Atlanta: a plane had crashed into the WTC….it may have been an accident…still checking…..then a second plane…..and suddenly it was all systems go.

Having barely any communication, no scheduled flights to get out on, and no TV to even see what had happened across the ocean in New York, I quickly powered through a couple more interviews and a stand-up…my mind only half on this story as it churned into gear for what was clearly going to be a huge one.

At last we secured a charter flight, and headed for Ivory Coast to board a flight back to Europe. I was in a black hole, I still had not seen any of it, cell phones did not work and no-one on the ground in Africa could clearly understand what had happened.

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Christiane Amanpour
CNN Chief International Correspondent

North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is the world’s most mysterious leader presiding over the world’s most closed society. So trying to pin down any information about him is incredibly difficult. A US intelligence official today says that for the past few weeks Kim has been suffering from serious health problems which could include a possible stroke.

This could provoke an international crisis, since so little is known about the inner workings of North Korea, a country which has already tested a nuclear weapon…but which has now started down the long path towards disarmament.

I have made two trips to North Korea this year, first in February to cover the historic visit to Pyongyang by the New York Philharmonic orchestra, and then in June to witness North Korea blow up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear plant. But I had hoped also to be there today, to cover the mass-games ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state. However, we never received visas, and Kim Jong Il was a “no-show” on the reviewing stand.

The White House, and the State Department also seem to be in the dark, as evidenced today by Spokesman Sean McCormack

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Radovan Karadzic, shown here in 1995, is accused of committing war crimes in Bosnia during a 1992-1995 war.

Editor’s note: The man called the “Butcher of Bosnia” has finally been caught. Radovan Karadzic led Bosnian Serbs back in the 1990s. He also allegedly led a campaign to kill Bosnian Muslims in what was widely called ethnic cleansing. CNN’s Chief International Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, joined us on AC360°. She offered this perspective earlier by phone.

This is a very good day for international justice. Radovan Karadzic has been on the run for more than 10 years now. He was indicted twice back in 1995, not just for the siege of Sarajevo and the wholesale slaughter of Bosnian Muslims and Croats around Bosnia, but also more specifically for the massacre at Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, when more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were separated and slaughtered.

This was the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. And after the U.S. brokered the Dayton Accords, which ended the Bosnian war, Radovan Karadzic was meant to be handed over, along with his fellow henchman, the former Bosnian Serb General, Ratko Mladic, who is still on the run.

This, of course, has been a great shame for the international community. They have refused to get too far into trying to capture him while NATO forces were in Bosnia. They were afraid of getting hurt. They were afraid of all sorts of instability, and they did not go after him hard enough.

His being at large has held up Serbia’s full integration into the international community and the European Union.  His capture and Mladic’s capture have been a condition for accepting Serbia into the European Union

And now he’s been captured after many, many years hiding out, finally captured in Serbia.  It’s been welcomed by the head of the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, where Radovan Karadzic will shortly be dispatched to hear the formal charges and face prosecution.