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CNN Connect the World CNN's Becky Anderson investigates the stories changing our world. Tune in Monday-Friday 18:00 UAE | 16:00 Berlin | 15:00 London | 10:00 a.m. New York

08/04/2024

"If Hamas has a price, pay it...there is no price for freedom."

Six months on since Hamas' October 7 attack, Yifat Zailer still faces an intensely painful wait for the release of family members being held hostage in Gaza.

01/04/2024

"If the world was serious about human rights...we would have never allowed this to happen."

Gaza Medics Co-founder Tanya Haj-Hassan speaks to Eleni Giokos on the atrocities taking place in Gaza.

11/03/2024

"I went through a really tough time. At one point I was homeless... ‘The Wire’ changed my life completely."

Superstar, DJ and entrepreneur Idris Elba spoke with me about his early days in acting, raising his children and his new project -- a city of the future off the coast of Sierra Leone.

07/03/2024

Dubai Airport plans to attract record number of passengers in 2024 after welcoming more than 86 million passengers last year. CEO Paul Griffiths tells me how new technology is at the heart of his plans.

06/03/2024

Breaking news: the IMF has just approved a long-awaited 8 billion dollar loan to Egypt. It comes as the country's currency hit record lows. Deputy Director of The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Timothy Kaldas helps break all this down.

05/03/2024

Can the situation in Gaza get any more absurd?

29/02/2024

"We're all running out of words to be able to describe this situation."

MSF Secretary-General Chris Lockyear says "nothing feels adequate" when describing the situation in Gaza.

29/02/2024

"This event is not isolated and it's not the first time."

Oxfam's Bushra Khalidi calls for an end to Israel's state of impunity after more the 100 people in Gaza were killed after live rounds were fired at crowds gathered around aid trucks in Western Gaza City.

29/02/2024

Gaza's Health Ministry reports over 100 people were killed in Gaza after the IDF fired at crowds gathered around aid trucks in Western Gaza City. Christiane Amanpour puts the tragedy in the wider context of horrors in the besieged strip.

23/02/2024

Container tonnage passing through the Suez Canal slumped 82% in the first half of February, according to new data from the UN. CNN's Scott McLean explains the risks that persist in the Red Sea.

20/02/2024

Head of Reconstructive Surgery at Gaza's Nasser Hospital describes what it's like to be a father in the war-torn Strip.

16/02/2024

David Herszenhom, Author of "The Dissident: Alexey Navalny, Profile of a Prisoner", explains the political timeline of the Russian opposition leader who is believed to have died in prison according to the Russian Prison Service.

16/02/2024

"It's a reminder that the Russian regime is waging a war not only externally against Ukrainian citizens, but as well internally against its own citizens."

Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Internation Peace Alexander Baunov says the death of Alexey Navalny is a sign of a changed Russia.

16/02/2024

"If indeed this news is true, it's shocking, but unfortunately not entirely surprising."

Reacting to news of the death of Russian Opposition leader Alexey Navalny, Senior Fellow at The International Institute for Strategic Studies Nigel Gould-Davies says he has no confidence in the official version of how he died.

15/02/2024

What does the world's fastest large language model look like? I got to see it firsthand at the World Government Summit using Groq's record-breaking computer chip.

15/02/2024

A growing number of countries and international organizations are pleading with Israel not to launch a ground offensive in Rafah — Gaza’s last refuge for Palestinians. I spoke exclusively with World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus who told me a military operation will not bring about a lasting solution for peace.

09/02/2024

Had a great conversation with Nancy Paton of , director Zainab Shaheen and lead actor Naser at the UAE premiere of “Mountain Boy” – a film that tackles neurodiversity through the extraordinary tale of Suhail.

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