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. >> announcer: "anpour"n pbs by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, everyone. welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. during the turbulent first year of the trump presidency his predecessor barack obama has kept traditional distance. speaking up only on matters of vital importance. calling out racism. supporting freedom of the press. but today the former president was back in the spotlight in washington. looking relaxed and happy unveiling his official portrait. the painting was done by an artist known for depicting ordinary people, usually, african-americans, and placing them in positions of power, using bold colors, and historical scenes. >> i want to say that it was a, although, those, michelle always used to joke. i am not somebody who is a great subject. i don't like posing. i get impatient. i look at my watch. i think this must be done. one of those pictures must have worked. why is it taking so long? so, trying to take a picture of me much less painting a portrait. i will say

. >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. now, you can forget all the gloomy headlines. this is the greatest time to be alive. so say bill and melinda gates. today, in their foundation's annual letter. looking at the big picture -- and healthier. that might be hard to digest as scandal is in the philanthropic world. the british charity oxfam, some of its fired workers operated to what amounted to a brothel after the 2010 earthquake in haiti. bill and melinda are calling for total transparency in their field. i they spoke out about the responsibility of today's tech giants and about persuading the skeptical trump administration that the aid helped america first. they join me from new york. bill and me lynn linda gates, w to the program. >> thanks for having us. >> i want to hold up this letter. it is a very hefty response to some of the questions you get from the public. you do start by saying you're explaini

. >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in ndon. the blood cil war in syria grinds . it enters its eighth year next month with no end in sight. brutal news from guta, a damascus suburb besieged by the assad regime. more than a hundred civilians were killed over the last 24 hours. the images are indeed disturbing. these are children, grievously wounded in the fighting. since the fall of isis in -- foreign forces from iran, russia, turkey as you're seeing right here, and, of course, the united states are dug in for the long run. as the u.s. struggles to remain relevant in the middle east, it has to make known its vision for syria's future. after all, all the other competing powers have done so. this regional battle is explored by pbs frontline starting tonight. now, journalist rami jari joins me from turkey, one of the key players in this syria conflict. peter monosure is joining us from columbus, ohio. >>> let me go first to you, rami, since you

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalynn p. walterd evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london. the me too movement continues to cast its long shadow from washington to hollywood and points in between, delivering his first state of the union address, president donald trump was met by a sea of black as democratic lawmakers staged a show of support for women in the workplace. it all started when a few brave actors spoke out publicly against the hollywood mega producer harvey weinstein, one of the first and loudest voices belongs to rose mcgowan, and in her new book "brave," she speaks in painstaking detail about the alleged assault by weinstein whom she identifies only as the monster. mr. weinstein denies rose mcgowan's allegations of non-consensual sexual contact and it is erroneous and irresponsible to con flight claims of inappropriate behavior and consensual sexual contact later regretted with an untrue claim of rape. when rose joined me earlier today she spoke of the rage and sadness of what ha

. ♪ ♪ >>> amanpour on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter♪ >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm crihristiane amanpour. in any other time in any other news cycle this would be a blockbuster, game-changing headline. president donald trump's personal lawyer saying he paid $130,000 to a porn star who says that she had an affair with trump. he denies it, but such is the new normal that today it is just another news line. the white house is still struggling to explain why a top aide, rob porter was kept on staff for months after the fbi said that he faced allegations of abusing two ex-wives. so is the president who was elected despite multiple allegations of sexual harassment finally having his me too moment? jennifer granholm is the former democratic governor of michigan and joshua green is the journalist and biographer of former trump strategist steve bannon who has been outspoken on the me too effect. welcome both of you, thanks for joining me. >> thank you. >> can i start by asking you about this blockbuster headline and

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> amanpour on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter>>> good evening, everyone and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with a global perspective. as another 17 innocents are mowed down in the united states, this time in florida, the world watches aghast. here in britain this kind of violence has happened, but it has also stoppeded. in 1996 the worst-ever gun massacre killed 16 young children between the agency of 5 and 6 at their school in scotland. the country then tightened up its gun laws and no more mass shootings since. that same year in australia a man massacred 35 people, the conservative government at the time there enacted a hugely successful gun buyback program and also tightened up its laws. no more mass shootings there. the unbearable ordeal in florida leads to the predictable hand-wringing, mass media attention, thoughts and prayers and tweets and each time the question, will this be the one that changes the way we are? joining me now is tom sullivan, the father of alex sullivan who was killed when a s

. >> announcer: "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with a global perspective. the u.s. special counsel's investigation is gathering pace. and president donald trump has even told reporters he would talk to robert mueller under oath. but his lawyers are trying to convince him not to. fearful, according to "the new york times," that the famously free wheeling president might incriminate himself. so who is the dogged investigator? and why do they call mueller washington's straightest arrow? garrett graph is author of the threat matrix, the fbi at war in the age of global terror, and he joins me now from washington. garrett graph, welcome to the program. >> thanks so much for having me. >> we're going to drill down into robert mueller since so much scorn and partisan fury has been poured over him recently. first i want to know, because today you have written about the investigation, and you're warning that it's not just one investigation, but it has

-- www.vitac.com >> announcer: amanpour on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter. you're watching pbs. katty: you d 100 days" on pbs. british mp's travel to talk about russian interference. christian: providing useful information about outside meddling in the brexit referendum. katty: the tech companies downplay the idea that moscow used their platforms to disrupt the brexit campaign. the senior white house official resigns following allegations by both his former wives that he battered them. christian: also on the program, the u.s. coalition killed at least 100 regime fighters. damascus calls it a war crime. the pentagon says has the right to self-defense. a major milestone for

-- www.vitac.com >> announcer: amanpour on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter. you're watching pbs. (relaxing exotic music) - hi, i'm tara lee. the yoga tradition has a longstanding relationship with the forces of nature. i've designed the following sequences around a solar theme