our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour is joining us from london right now. heartbreaking story this is. but there has been in recent hours the arrival of teams from several countries including the u.s., britain, france, china, israel, raising hopes that the girls might be found. what do you think they're going to be able to achieve, if anything? >> honestly, wolf, if all these forces, all these experts are come from all these countries, this is the best chance there is of these girls being rescued. despite clearly the nigerian government has not been able to do that. when we saw this terrible picture, we did wonder when this was taken, were these 200 or so -- 200-plus girls that were taken just last month, and now we understand from relatives, as you've reported, some of them were abducted years ago. and this has been going on for years. the nigerian government has not had the wherewithal or the incentive to go and get them or the ability to do so. so they really do need outside help. when i asked prime minister david cameron here in london on sunday, he sai

joining us, our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. had the chance to speak to the chinese ambassador to the united states. what's he telling you? >> well, as you can imagine, the line from beijing is a firm denial. as you said, demanding that these indictments be withdrawn. the ambassador told me in an exclusive interview that the only way to get over all of this is by dialogue. but, as a condition, as a precondition, they demand that those indictments be withdrawn. that doesn't look like it's going to happen. he also said that the u.s. has no business telling china where to get off when it comes to cyber spying. listen ton wh what he said. >> amazing to see some people still believe they have the moral high grounds and credibility to accuse others, if we consider the snowden revelation and so on, so forth. it's a bit incredible. the fact is is china is a victim to such cyber attacks. there has been persistent and large-scale attacks on china's internet, on china's government institutions, schools, universities, companies and even ind

. >> this morning our own christiane amanpour tweeted out this picture of herself with british prime david cameron. the british intelligence team is on the ground in any engineer yeah. >> it joins a team from the u.s. that arrived last week. the girls were taken nearly a month ago now from their school. >> now one of the girls who escaped and who spoke exclusively to cnn telling us boka haram militants used at least seven trucks to carry out this abduction. president obama has directed his administration to do everything it can to help the nigerians find the kidnappers and return those 200-plus girls to their families. >> there are times i want to reach out and save those kids and am having to think through what levers, what power do we have at any given moment. >> tough task. >> countries around the world are hoping to help in this effort, trying to determine how they can help. the president was in los angeles. back in washington, the big question facing members of his party are the democratic lawmakers. will they join a new committee created by republicans to investigate the 2012 b

he and christiane amanpour held a sign together with the popular hash tag on it. cameron promised that britain will do what it can to help find the girls. officials say the terrorist group boko haram wielded guns and forced over 200 of those schoolgirls into seven cargo trucks last month. but one of those girls made a bold dash for it and escaped. now the girl is telling cnn a firsthand account of what happened that day. in a cnn exclusive, we talked to her. nema made a dangerous journey to the town where the kidnapping took place. it took them on a four-day treacherous journey to get there. it started around the capital and traveled around 500 miles before making it to the town. it took four days to travel roughly 500 miles. she is the only journalist to reach that town where the kidnapping happened. she is joining me now with this exclusive interview. tell us more of what you went through to get there and what this young lady went through. >> reporter: i think especially since we were talking about pope fran circumstances i think it's really important when you h

christian amanpour had it up on camera back in february but unfortunately, it is still necessary.urnalists are still behind bars in egypt nearly five months after they were detain and falsely charged with aiding a terrorist organization. this is an afront to journalists everywhere. and it was back in the news this week because the three journalists were back in court for their ninth appearance in what sure seems like a sham trial. the journalists are peter guesty, mohammad family and barra mohammed. family used to work here at cnn. they should not be in those cages. unfortunately, on thursday, the trial was adjourned again, now until june 1st. there is a fourth al jazz year? kra reporter also in prison in egypt, abdallah eshammy, been there since august and he is now on a hunger strike to protest his detention. four journalists, for us to keep in our thoughts today and every day until they are set free. now, that's all for this televised edition of reliable sources but our coverage continues all the time on cnn.com, so check it out. i look forward to seeing you right back here nex

he and our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour held a sign together with the popularameron promised that britain will do what it can to help find the girls. officials say the terrorist group boko haram wielded guns and forced more than 200 of those schoolgirls into seven cargo trucks last month. but one of those girls made a bold dash and escaped. now the girl is telling cnn a firsthand account of what happened that day. in a cnn exclusive, our nima elbagir talked to her. nima made a dangerous journey herself to the town where the kidnapping took place. it took nima her producer and photographer four days on a treacherous road trip to get there. she started in abuja and traveled around 500 miles to make it to that town. it took four days. she is the only journalist to reach the town where the kidnapping happened. nima joining us now with her exclusive interview. so tell us more about this dangerous ordeal and what this little girl went through. >> reporter: that road that you described there, as you get further away from the nigerian capital, it gets more and more dan

chief international correspondent christiane amanpour joining us with a closer look inside boko haramwith us. give us a sense of why this group is so pervasive, why the nigerian government seemingly unable to handle it. >> well, it depends on who you talk to. i've just been speaking with nigeria's laureate who has been watching this closely for years. he thinks it's because they simply didn't tackle it from the beginning, and threatping not just nigeria, but west africa as well. al qaeda's ally boko haram, you can see swaggering, gleeful and laughing, talking about setting off these girls, and western education should be banned, and really completely showing himself for what he is, and what the group is, to the world. so the point here being, that the nigerian government seems to be, according to critics, in a state of denial. and that was exemplified beyond any doubt by the fact that the president did not address the nation, say anything public for about 20 days since these girls were kidnapped. he only said something this weekend. i will tell you, it is incredibly hard to get the ni

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christi christiane amanpour is going to be joining us as well as experts who know the country very welln top of that. and we'll also continue to cover the continuing violence in ukraine. it's intensifying, the death toll rising in bloody clashes between pro-russian militants and ukrainian troops. just look at the video. is ukraine on the verge of war? will russia use the bloodshed as an excuse to invade? we're breaking down the conflict and what, if any, options leaders have to try and calm things down. >> all right, kate bolduan, thanks. can't wait. >> thanks, guys. >>> a new phase about to begin in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. investigators set to re-examine the evidence, sort of a reboot in the investigation. so, what comes next? we are live in malaysia with the latest on that after the break. (mother vo) when i was pregnant ...i got lots of advice, but i needed information i could trust. unitedhealthcare's innovative, simple program helps moms stay on track with their doctors to get the right care and guidance. (anncr vo) that's health in numbers. unitedhealt

thanks christiane amanpour. >>> new this morning, pay attention to ukraine.clashes are breaking out as they attempt to clean up and restore order in the east. the violence is forcing the closure of a major airport among other huge problems on the ground. can the west, including the u.s., avoid getting involved on the ground? a new cnn poll shows war weary americans are in favor of offering help, but not of of the military variety. arwa damon has the latest live from ukraine on the ground. arwa? >> reporter: good morning, chris. we are just outside of that international airport that was shut down this morning. just a handful of flights leaving domestically from here and it will be shut down indefinitely. exactly why, we don't know. we are not being given a specific explanation. it's contributing to the instability. a lot of the fighting between the ukrainian government forces and the pro-russian militants centering two hours from where we are now. as ukrainian forces try to push into the city yesterday, they clashed with the pro-russian militan militants. casu

she's mother to 3-year-old jonah and chief international correspondent christian amanpour is on the listg, christina aguilera is on that list. happy early mother's day to all of you and a happy mother's day to my mom who i know is watching right now as she normally does. have a great weekend, everyone. thanks so much for being with us. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >>> check out vladimir putin today strutting around crimea like he's sinatra of the sands. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead, russia's president swaggering around like he owns the place, making his first visit to crimea since russia annexed it from ukraine will ask our guest senator john mccain, is this the first of many in the putin ukrainian crisis. >>> anyone who tells you that the absence grows fonder was not thinking about the white house. hillary clinton is every

our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour is there.s a significant agenda on his plate this morning. he's not only speaking to the people here in the united states, he's speaking to the entire world. >> you're absolutely right. to that point, many of his allies both until europe and around the world in the middle east and elsewhere do express private frustration with what they see as a lack of u.s. leadership on perhaps the most critical issue they point to is syria. what the president is going to do in syria any different than what the u.s. has done until now, we're not sure and we'll wait to hear. after all these years of this intervention that's defeated al qaeda as you know, the syria conflict has allowed al qaeda to rear its head again and be effective again and to threaten that whole region. i think what people around the world see about the united states is this incredible pendulum effect that seems to happen. during eight years of the bush administration, there was what many saw as too much intervention and now in the nearly ei

we have had great generals like christian amanpour. we have had the united nations high commissioner for human rights. we have had pulitzer prize-winning journalist and we have had three african-american congresswoman. clearly in my vision they would all be women and african-american. maxine waters and i'm trying to remember who else. eleanor holmes norton of course from the days when the two of us were the women's caucus in the student nonviolent coordinating committee. we have it all sorts of shiny famous people but as our more important are the gas that i have on who are not and you don't get media space. these are some of them. we don't even use her last name for security reasons. she single-handedly got linked in, you know the site linked in other policy changed because she was being stalked by a man who had raped her and when she went to them and said i want to keep them from knowing where i am and i can't do that. you can do that on facebook and other sites and they said no, no, no we don't do that exist it's important for us --

even christiane amanpour says the president has a weak foreign policy. views on his west point speech were he didn't say much of anything. again, even the mainstream media can't argue that he has a strong foreign policy and the results from crimea to syria as the iranians continue to move toward a nuclear weapon as girls in nigeria still missing. they are still missing. >> jim, i have to say when you compare this president to president bush i will take this president's position foreign policy any day of the week. >> have to leave it there, ellen, jim, always great to see you here. jim in chicago and ellen here in new york. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> surprising speech from the nanny mayor, michael bloomberg. he is accusing liberals of silencing conservatives. we will take a look at the elite intolerance on college campuses coming up. >> problems with -- illegals dumped at a bus station in arizona after being caught. ceo steve ballmer for a record $2 billion pending a from the nba's board of governors. donald sterling not going down without a figh