Your nose cnn news central weekdays, at seven eastern hello everyone. Welcome to the amanpour hour. Here s where we re headed this week people would play to trump s ego from the trenches while serving in the trump white house was general, a jaw mcmaster s tough this mission. Yet he wants to be regarded the way he thought people regarded strong men. Also this hour legendary actor in mcallen on why he ll never retire fat suit that saved him as i landed vault somewhere in the front row on myself screaming, help me, help me. Then quick far conversation with journalists for hersh and mark landler on the week s biggest stories, should elon musk worry about being arrested the next time he goes to france, it s not an inconceivable notion. And from my archive holy ghosting, the divine disconnect that reshape britain. And why my conversation with the author hilary mantel s is more relevant than ever. And finally there s one more on the hong the afghan women defying the taliban s latest draconian
freedom of speech. that s the most basic of all of the freedoms. that s why it s enshrined in the first amendment to the bill of rights. it s central not only to freedom but to humanity. we can speak. that s our power. in the beginning was the word declares john in the opening of the fourth gospel. the word is the most important thing we have. take away our ability to choose our own words and we are no longer human. we are subject and chattel. authoritiarians understand this. they mate freedom of speech. they would let you have a machine gone before they allow you to say what you want. with a gun you can kill people but with words you can expose them. with words you can change the world. there has never been a deep change that not begin with words. not with violence but with words. that s why they are so focussed on what you can say. on the words you can use. they understand the power of words. elon musk understands this too. that s why he is trying to buy twitter. not beca
beautiful. they re trying to help people affected by the war, including these two soldiers who were badly injured. they take a moment to reflect. now recovering in mexico, these fellow ukrainians have more than their country of origin in common. their lives will never be the same. they each lost a leg in combat trying to keep ukraine a free nation. pavel says he spent two months in the hospital after suffering several different injuries in combat. he told us he was a businessman in the city of western ukraine but when the russians invaded, he knew he had to fight for freedom. this mans are a career soldier, also got a prosthesis
military command where they run the ukraine war from. who is this guy? here he is in one of his very famous rants, wearing military uniform, he is not a career soldier, he is ex convict, he got catering contracts for the kremlin, at one point known as putin s chef but he has been leading or at least figurehead leading his forces doing some of the fiercest fighting around bakhmut and around the donbas but what he has done is so down the gauntlet of a challenge, he has gone way beyond criticising individual figures like the defence minister sergei shoigu and the chief of general staff, sergei shoigu and the chief of generalstaff, he sergei shoigu and the chief of general staff, he has gone further than that. he has said the whole pretext for coming into ukraine and invading ukraine was based on a lie. that is going right against president putin s word and it has made him a traitor in the kremlin s eyes so against him of course the
between the democrat shapiro and mastriano. mastriano is a guy you are not allowed to talk about like lake was. you can t mention their names. maybe that s because he is impressive. he served for 3 decades in the u.s. army. he may flip the state of pennsylvania politically. we are honored to have him join us now. mr. mastriano thanks for coming on. they identified you early as someone who was a threat and tried to make you unacceptable to even talk about. you must have been after 30 years in uniform, were you surpriseed to see this? i actually was. you thought the establishment would welcome a career soldier. from the cold war to afghanistan and loving our country.