Christiane Amanpour

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I had no idea how fascinated I was by concrete, until David Byrne explained the Pantheon, highway overpasses and self-healing lime clasts. It's all in his predictably unpredictable new book, “Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up.”

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At a dinner with world leaders at COP31, Finland’s President @alexstubb tells me there was more talk about our current wars than about climate.

Nonetheless, he says, we cannot neglect the climate: “If the temperature of the Earth continues to rise… we’re going to get climate-related conflicts emerging.”

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After speaking with Putin recently, “the maximalist demands are still there,” Finland’s President @alexstubb tells me. “The two key issues – security and territory – will have to be dealt with on the leaders level, between Putin and Zelensky.”

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Finland’s President @alexstubb spoke with US and Ukrainian negotiators after talks in Abu Dhabi today, and tells me “we can see some careful steps forward,” but tomorrow’s Moscow meeting will be crucial. If Europe can be around the table in future talks, he adds, “that would be progress in and of itself.”

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The lead singer of Talking Heads is out with a new book. And as you’d expect, “Sleeping Beauties” is not what you’d expect. See my conversation with David Byrne, Wednesday on Amanpour@CNNI, Amanpour&Co@PBS. (Photo by Darren Bull)

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"We should not be dreaming of a return to the former status quo where Europe was sure that if a problem arises, the United States would bail us out."

Wolfgang @ischinger contributes a European perspective on the 🇺🇸 midterms for @cnni with @amanpour ⬇️
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A walk around the world! It’s the end of a 28-year journey for Karl Bushby, who returned home to England this week after an extraordinary trek that began in Chile in 1998. Here's what he told CNN about finding hope in humanity along the way:

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This week marks the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A jubilant moment that changed history, but I saw rising economic anxiety in 1990, when East Berliners were nervous about the arrival of the free market.

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North Korea has begun opening a spree of new barbecue restaurants. Is it a sign of new prosperity or just propaganda? @willripleyCNN reports.

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On #TheAmanpourHour this week:
• Rahm Emanuel on what Democrats should do after a triumphant Midterms;
• @miaamormottley on her fight for slavery reparations;
• The leader of Israel’s Arab parties tells me how he plans to oust Benjamin Netanyahu.

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“The problem with rural America is that we don't feel seen, we don't feel heard.” With her new novel “Partita,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver says she’s writing from the place she lives, as a Southern Appalachian.

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Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley warns that there’s a humanitarian crisis in Cuba: unless we all make sure that Cubans have access to basic food and energy, “we put at risk people's lives, from babies to elderly people.”

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“There's definitely still the risk that a president who has lost the ballot box might feel that he needs redemption in the battlefield.” Iran expert @AliVaez tells me that now is the time for Tehran to be flexible with the US, and negotiate a face-saving way out of the Iran war.

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“President Trump has to look at this and decide whether he wants to be a diminished president or play a role.” I speak with former Presidential Chief of Staff @RahmEmanuel about how past US presidents like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton worked with the opposition to get things done.

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Our show airs earlier tonight on CNNi- joins us at 12pET/5pGMT/6pCET for international reaction to those stunning midterm results

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Are Israel and the US preparing to strike Iran again? @AnshelPfeffer tells me "I am hearing from my sources here [in Israel] that a lot of preparations are under foot. Some nights you can just hear it in the sky. The level of aircraft activity, which does sound like either operations or major manoeuvres and training towards an operation. And we're hearing it from sources in the defense establishment. And the real question is, what would be the point now of an attack?"

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"What is the administration's objective? That's been the question since February 28th, when the president ordered the first strikes." Amid fears that the US and Israel are preparing to reignite the war on Iran, @SangerNYT tells me "I don't find it hard to believe that [the president] would think that one more strike would accomplish something that the previous two strikes have not."

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"Corruption is the issue": @TimothyDSnyder says Democrats have to move quickly after the midterms, to seize what he calls a once-in-a lifetime chance to make real change in US politics.

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Following record Arab-Israeli voter turnout in Israel, Arab coalition leader Yousef Jabareen tells me they would support the opposition to oust Netanyahu, from outside the coalition, as long as those leaders have the "courage" to work with him.