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Washington D.C. is in Lockdown as officials warn of the potential for domestic terrorism, the danger is underscored by new details from last week’s insurrection on Capitol Hill. Correspondent Shimon Prokupecz spoke to several police officers about what they were up against that day – we bring you that report. Then counterterror expert Ali Soufan and Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan join Christiane Amanpour to weigh up free speech and national security in response to Trump's challenges...Show more. Looking back on history – Veteran filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new film "MLK/FBI" which tracks the FBI's attempts to destroy the reputation of Martin Luther King Jr. The pandemic’s broader impact falls disproportionately on women and jobs are nearly two times more vulnerable to this crisis than men’s jobs – o-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Melinda Gates speaks to our Walter Isaacson about this, the coronavirus vaccine and her book “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.”

Francis Rooney, former U.S. House Republican, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the House's vote to impeach President Trump, the Senate trial ahead and the reckoning in the Republican Party. Gideon Saar, founder of New Hope party, talks about his run against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's fourth election in two years. With President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration right around the corner and security in the Capitol at an all time high, our Hari Sreenivasan talks to ProPublica's ...Show moreA.C. Thompson about far right movements. Then, we delve into Amazon's latest period romance, "Sylvie's Love", with the film's star Nnamdi Asomugha.

Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of Michigan joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the ongoing House impeachment proceedings. Paul Greengrass, the director of the hugely successful "Bourne" franchise, delves into his new film, "News of the World" starring Tom Hanks. And, as Youtube becomes the latest social media platform to ban President Trump, our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Roger McNamee, author and early investor in Facebook about why platforms must pay for their role in last week's riots on Capito...Show morel Hill. 

Juliette Kayyem, Former Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the ongoing national security concerns following the riots on Capitol Hill last week. All this as Democrats continue to try to remove President Trump from office. Former U.S. Senate Republican Jeff Flake speaks with our Michel Martin about the major soul searching by his colleagues in a Republican Party that has been dominated by Trumpism for the last four years. Then, ahead o...Show moref Uganda's Presidential elections on Thursday, President Museveni discusses why he deserves to stay in power after 35 years and the race against the popstar turned politician Bobi Wine. And as Covid-19 cases continue to surge in California, we get a pulse check from our CNN correspondents on the ground.

Republican U.S. Representative Nancy Mace has been in Congress barely a week and in that time, she has seen the Capitol attacked and been personally threatened by angry Trump supporters. Despite all this she joins Christiane to explain why she’s against impeaching the President. Then New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer and "Sway" podcast host Kara Swisher discusses his ban from a whole host of social media sites and how social media companies get engagement through enragement and therefor...Show moree riots should surprise no one. Walter Isaacson speaks to Democratic Senator from Montana about holding Trump to account beyond social media and those Republicans also responsible for inciting the insurrection. They dig into this as well as the defund the police movement, covid relief and his book, “Grounded: A Senator's Lessons on Winning Back Rural America”. And finally, Dr. Peter L. Salk was only 9 years old in 1953 when he got the polio vaccine – a vaccine invented by his father Jonas Salk. Now an infectious diseases expert himself, he speaks about the vaccine rollout then and now

As the U.S. still reels from Wednesday's attack on Capitol Hill, former senior director on President Trump's National Security Council Fiona Hill joins Christiane to assess whether impeachment is warranted. The Lincoln Project’s co-founder Rick Wilson weighs in, joining calls for President Trump to resign or be removed from office. He speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about what’s at stake. Then in a exclusive joint interview, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and First Lady Rula Ghani discuss peace in A...Show morefghanistan and talks with the Taliban, coronavirus, and relations with the US.

After an extraordinary and sad day in American history, when hundreds of Trump supporters charged on the U.S. Capitol in an insurgency not seen in hundreds of years, many are asking how this happened? But not Gretchen Whitmer; the Michigan Governor is not surprised as only last year a very similar mob stormed the seat of power in Michigan in response to her covid strategy whilst others plotted to kill her. She joins Christiane to unpack all of this. Then some the striking on-the-ground reporting...Show more from ITV News’ Washington Correspondent Robert Moore as he follows the mob breaching the Capitol. For Republican perspective of someone who was in the building on the fateful day, Walter Isaacson speaks to Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy. He talks what should be done about President Trump now. To discuss the global fallout of yesterday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, Christiane speaks with Kim Darroch, who served as the UK’s Ambassador to the United States during much of President Trump’s term, and former member of the European Parliament Marietje Schaake, who now specializes in cybersecurity at Stanford.

Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole and The Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum give Christiane the global view of Trump's attempts to overturn the U.S. election. Then turning to coronavirus, journalist and author Lawrence Wright digs into the 3 biggest mistakes in America’s covid response. This after The New Yorker dedicates an entire issue to "The Plague Year": an investigation by Wright detailing these deadly missteps. In the wake of George Floyd’s death, Ijeoma Oluo’s 2018 book “So You Wan...Show moret To Talk About Race” shot to the top of the bestsellers list and now she’s out with new work: "Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America." She joins our Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how gender and race intersect.

Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the latest news in the coronavirus pandemic. He says the UK should not be extending the gap between doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Turning to U.S. politics - Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen explains why he and 9 other former defense secretaries are calling on Trump to not use the military in his efforts to overturn the election. Carol Moseley Braun, former Democrati...Show morec Senator, also weighs in on President Trump's attempts and brands his supporters in Congress 'a cult’. Then our Walter Isaacson speaks to Dr. Vivek Murthy, Biden’s nominee for Surgeon General and the co-chair of his COVID-19 Advisory Board, about how the U.S. is falling very short of it’s vaccination rollout plan. He also explains the mental health crisis being caused by coronavirus and how he plans do deal with it once in office.

 

Director Jeff Kaufman and producer Marcia S. Ross join Christiane Amanpour to discuss their new documentary "Nasrin." Then, Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan speaks to Walter Isaacson about what the company's coronavirus vaccine means for the the world. Director Jasmila Zbanic tells Amanpour about her highly acclaimed new film, called "Quo Vadis, Aida?" which tells the story of the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. And Finally, Women's freediving world record holder Alen...Show moreka Artnik talks to Amanpour about how she spent more than three and a half minutes underwater while holding her breath.