here right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m christianne amanpour in london. welcome to the ammanpour hour. in the next 60 minutes, we will take you around the world, to ask the questions, tackle the big problems, and let history be our guide. here is where we re heading this week. nobody s hands are clean. is america reaping of the consequences of value in the middle east? the former. df soldier joins me, before israel s last invasion of gaza. this is a leadership that i don t really trust. guns alone are not going to defeat hamas. two super heroes, a high stakes meeting months in the making. it is time to ratchet down the temperature. my exclusive conversation with one of biden s top china whisperers, u.s. commerce secretary gina raimondo. also ahead mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. 34 years ago this week, that wall finally did come down. from the archive, my interview with reagan s partner, the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev. and finally, why
u.s. have now been fully vaccinated against covid-19 than those confirmed infected with the virus. it s a huge development. health experts warn americans to keep their guards up in the coming months. the cdc has released new guidelines for those who have been fully vaccinated. some things they don t some think they don t go far enough. what can you do? what can t you do? a lot of news to get to. let s begin with omar jimenez in minneapolis as jury selection in derek chauvin s trial get sets to begin. this is a long time coming, as you know, omar. you were there in the immediate aftermath of this. a lot of anticipation for this trial. that s right, jim and poppy. a long time coming, plus a day. because, of course, we were supposed to be beginning jury selection yesterday. we went through that delay. and now this morning, in about an hour, we re expecting jury selection to officially move forward. lawyers for derek chauvin and for the state are filing into court right now t
on friday the opening ceremony of the 2022 winter olympics will get under way in beijing. president putin will be there, president biden will not. in fact many western leaders are buoycotting the event. yet despite the condemnation of china s behaviour towards zinjiang, hong kong, taiwan, tibet, the ioc remains silent. their mission they say is to build a peaceful and better world, and the olympics will remain an apolitical event. i have been speaking to a sporting star who refuses to be silenced, despite the pressure from the nba and many of his fellow basketball players. he is enes kanter freedom, who plays for the boston celtics. the ioc is scared to talk about human rights because they know the chinese want to foist this regard this and they would the money and talk about values and i see this