our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour is joining us from london. e all been disappointed that all the earlier cease-fires didn't exactly work out as planned. what about this one, christiane, you think it's any different? >> well, really, who knows. and to that end, i did speak to the uk ambassador to the u.n. about it. just as it was being announced. and he said that this one must be sustainable. we can't just keep going on repeating the cycle of violence and everybody being exactly back at the same place in another couple of years or so. so to that end, this is an open-ended cease-fire, we're told. there's no definitive number of days put on to it. they are, the parties, apparently, according to the officials, going to continue to work out all of the bits of it and they'll return to cairo, we're told. we're told that it involves expanding some fishing rights for the palestinians off the gaza coast. it involved some easing of the blockade into gaza and presumably it also involves guarantees of no violence from gaza into israel. but, what the u.n. se

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get these little snippets like that that we'd just obsess about. >> let me be clear about the christiane amanpour thing. we didn't have that channel, but within the iranian state television, within their news program, they'd, like, show a 20-second clip of cnn or abc or something. >> so they weren't -- they weren't in the iranians and guards beyond the prisoners, they weren't watching the american media, they were only seeing -- >> some of them watched -- a lot of them would watch bbc farcey on satellite. satellite is illegal. but they told us they have it in the prison. yeah. >> pretty much every prisoner that gave me information from the outside, it was from bbc. most -- a lot of iranians have illegal satellites in urban centers so they watch bbc religious religiously. >> there was one -- a lot of the news, the way we figured out what was going on in the word, the news we would see would be reaction to western media usually. and they wouldn't give what they were reacting to, so we were trying it figure out what the tea party was through the iranian reaction, or the arab spring, you know, they d

i need to bring into the conversation with us our christiane amanpour. she's been up to speed on the latest details regarding the reconnaissance flights that the obama administration has now said is okay to move ahead with that. what is your reaction to what you've been hearing in the last few hours? >> well, we've been reporting on what possibly might -- i interviewed the uk ambassador to the u.n. who says that now the surveillance flights have been authorized, it's possible that some u.s. action could happen, as both the general and josh have been talking to you about. i think from what i've heard from your conversation with the two gentlemen, a big sign needs to go up, wanted, one coherent strategy. as the general said, this is a major terrorist threat. there needs to be a complete strategy to defeat isis. u.s. has done it before with aqi, al qaeda in iraq and during the surge of '07, '08, they managed with the help of sunnis in iraq to push back the isis predecessor. there's a huge amount of fear here in england. the foreign secretary phillip hammond

out and we would get these snippets that we would obsess about. >> let me just clear on the christiane amanpourthing. we didn't have that channel but within the iranian state television within their news program they would show a 22nd clip of "cnn" or abc or something. >> so they weren't showing the guards beyond the prisoner's? they weren't watching american media? >> a lot of them like abc farsi on satellite. they told us they had it in prison. >> pretty much every prisoner that gave me information from the outside was from bbc. a lot of iranians have satellite so they watch it religiously. >> the way we figured out the story around the world was the news we would see would be a reaction to western media usually and they wouldn't give what they were reacting to so we were trying to figure out what the tea party was through the iranian reaction are the arab spring. they didn't say anything about syria and they wouldn't talk about bahrain. i remember when osama bin laden was killed, there was a lot of conflicting narratives that happen and an act example they said that they had a lot of people

back to christiane amanpour's point, in the end, there has to be a way out.solution must be political. the question whether there is a solution, no one quite knows yet. as many as 1,000 russian troops are now fighting in ukraine according to one official. just into cnn, critics have attacked hillary clinton for staying silent on the shooting but moments ago, she made some news. she talked about the death of michael brown and the police response. we will play that sound for you next. take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. honey, you did it! baby laughs! years of swedish experience in in perfecting the rich,150 never bitter taste of gevalia. we do it all for this very experience. that's good. i know right? gevalia. having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car. one second it wasn't there and the next second... boom! you've had your first accident. now you have to make your first claim. so you talk to your insurance company and... boom! you're blindsided for a second time. they won't give you en

out and we would get these snippets that we would obsess about. >> let me just clear on the christiane amanpourthing. we didn't have that channel but within the iranian state television within their news program they would show a 22nd clip of "cnn" or abc or something. >> so they weren't showing the guards beyond the prisoner's? they weren't watching american media? >> a lot of them like abc farsi on satellite. they told us they had it in prison. >> pretty much every prisoner that gave me information from the outside was from bbc. a lot of iranians have satellite so they watch it religiously. >> the way we figured out the story around the world was the news we would see would be a reaction to western media usually and they wouldn't give what they were reacting to so we were trying to figure out what the tea party was through the iranian reaction are the arab spring. they didn't say anything about syria and they wouldn't talk about bahrain. i remember when osama bin laden was killed, there was a lot of conflicting narratives that happen and an act example they said that they had a lot of people

the first time we got a television, the day that we got a tv, we turned it on, and there was christian amanpour on tv and pictures of us in the background, and it was this rist crazy feeling because it felt like those kind of shows when o. it's, like, some kid that went missing and died. it was like i was watching myself as a memory, you know? but, youwe know, we did get this like, you know, that one of the three americans -- or three american spies to be tried separately. that made us think, oh, talk ad nauseun about who would go nk first. sarah was out.m we would get snippets like that hat that we would obsess about.tel >> let me be clear.news we didn't get that channel. it was like a 20 second clip. >> they weren't iranians and guards beyond the prisoners. they weren't watching the american media? >> i mean, some of them watched -- a lot of them would r watch bbc on satellite.'t watch satellite is illegal, but everyone has it, and they had it. they told us they had it in thet prison. >> pretty much every prisonerol that gave me information from the outside, it was from bbc. a lot of iran wra

let's bring in chief international correspondent christiane amanpour to discuss all of this. of bad options, either go it alone in syria against assad's warning or somehow turn assad into an ally. how do you see the path forward? >> well, i think there is very, very little doubt that they will not be turning assad into an ally. everyone from general martin derpcy, the top commander in the united states, to the british foreign secretary have said that that is a no go area. with he cannot turn assad into an ally, even if we have a common enemy, which is isis. they don't, they believe they don't need permission from syria to attack isis strongholds inside syria, and of course they know exactly where isis is. isis controls racca province in syria and controls a huge swathe of land inside syria and iraq, which the british foreign secretary said is a terrorist state which is going to be launched, they are absolutely convinced it is going to be used to launch attacks on britain, on europe, and perhaps even on the united states as well so they're saying it has to be addressed now. >>

i respect her bravery and her longevity and my personal example, cnn's christiane amanpour.watching her to put leaders on the spot and ask them tough questions. it's the type of journalist i always wanted to be. >> this has been enormous great pleasure. i got to acknowledge and thank them for taking time for this presentation. >> it was wonderful. it was a learning experience for me. i want to thank everybody for participating in jeff's moderating. those of you watching who want to follow us and what the panel talked about, we've createddest essays on our website. thank you for watching and i hope you will extend that conversation online, thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> by this time in the war, a lot of soldiers have been away from their homes for about three to four years. they're getting letters home saying the farm is falling to pieces. their patrollers in the area. they are taking supplies from us. when are you going to come home? there is a large number of desertions at th

the founder of the ebola virus talked to christiane amanpour and said this is a result of the dysfunctionalre of the ebola virus and centers of the countries. all precautions are being taken on this end. the cdc director emphasizing to those who have concerns and fears that they don't see the risk. if there was a risk to the general public, they would not bring the two americans here. they feel, obviously, miguel and christi, there is no better place to treat these two americans that contracted the virus than here in the united states. this hospital behind me, emory university hospital outfitted with every resource to do just that. >> we understand some experimental drugs may try to help treat them in a way they have not been able to be treated before. nick valencia, thank you so much. nick, we appreciate it. >> reporter: you bet. >>> now to our other big story. a disturbing story. the crisis in the middle east. the official palestinian delegation is headed to cairo for necessity gosh negotiations aimed at curbing the violence. >> egypt's president laid out a cease-fire initiative that he c

. >> well, you said to christiane amanpour after you left your post, i was no longer in a position wherelicy. you went on to say that we have been unable to address either the root causes of the conflict in terms of fighting on the ground, and on the balance on the ground. so in your mind, is there really even a policy debate about this question of is it a fantasy in terms of what the president thinks? because you think you're right? >> well, there is a debate going on in washington right now. but i think it is incumbent on those to say there is nothing we can do in syria to then say how do you address the national security threat emanating from syria in the form of the islamic state and other al qaeda linked extremists. you cannot ignore it given what we have had in our own history, dating back to 9/11 and other threats to america national security since then. in iraq, what we see is forces, friendly to us, with our help, have been able to blunt much of what the islamic state has done. i think that same approach needs to be taken in syria. >> what is the hesitancy in your view coming fr

christiane amanpour was on our show yesterday and saying to some extent these sanctions are working,dimir putin. my question, again, what does it matter though if they are hurting to an extent if he's still invading? >> well, i think that's the right distinction to make. the sanctions have obviously had an impact in the russian stock market and in investor confidence and in the lack of investment in russia over the last several months so they are hurting, but they haven't had the decisive strategic impact that you want, and they haven't changed the behavior and strategy of president putin, and so the sanctions need to be tougher to drive up the cost to him to such an extent that he understands that the price is too high to pay for this outright escalation of the activities of his own military in eastern ukraine. that's going to be the test to watch more next week when the nato leaders meet. chancellor merkel of germany, a very important leader, spoke yesterday of the possibility of new sanctions. president obama did not really speak to that pint, but it's clearly the next step that t