Martin Luther King III on the need for civility in America & what the U.S. response to strikes in Qatar & Poland should be

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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Following the murder of Trump ally Charlie Kirk, Christiane speaks with human rights activist Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of the late civil rights icon. The two discuss the rising political violence in America and the need to seek civility. Then, Michigan's Democratic Senator, Elissa Slotkin, speaks with Christiane about what America's foreign policy should look like, following Israel striking inside Qatar and Russian drones entering Polish airspace. Plus, freed Israeli hostage Liat Beinin Atzili & filmmaker Brandon Kramer join Christiane on set in London to discuss his new film "Holding Liat," looking at how Liat's family fought for her return from Hamas captivity while also grappling with their own moral outrage over the war in Gaza and desire for peace and reconciliation. Also, Isobel Yeung reports on the UK government's decision to designate Palestine Action a terrorist group. And twenty four years after 9/11, Christiane reflects on her own coverage in the chaotic days after the attacks, and goes back to her report from Afghanistan from December of 2001, where she and her team found evidence of Osama Bin Laden's plans, his Al-Qaeda training camp, and the last place he was known to have lived before fleeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Yamanpur Hour.
0:10.0	Here's where we're headed this week.
0:12.0	America and much of the world in shock after the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
0:20.0	With political violence continuing to escalate,
0:22.6	I speak to Martin Luther King III.
0:25.6	Plus,
0:26.6	Trump wants to be the peacemaker.
0:28.6	Netanyahu and Putin are making that difficult.
0:31.6	Former CIA and Pentagon analyst, Senator Alyssa Slotkin joins me.
0:35.6	Then, after the dangerous escalation in the Middle
0:39.0	East, Liyat Benin Adzili, held hostage by Hamas for 54 days, bears all about that
0:45.8	torturous journey. Plus, why has the United Kingdom branded these senior citizens' terrorists?
0:53.3	Isabel Young investigates. And from my
0:56.2	archives, 24 years after 9-11, inside bin Laden's al-Qaeda training camps.
1:05.8	Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. Swift condemnation from here abroad this week
1:12.3	after the assassination of President Trump's key ally, 31-year-old Charlie Kirk, leader of America's
1:19.4	conservative youth movement. Trump calls it a dark moment for America. Indeed, instead of fostering a
1:26.0	small pause for national unity, it seems to have done
1:29.3	the contrary. Even a moment of silence called in Congress devolved into a raucous shouting
1:34.9	match while President Trump blamed the radical left wing, also ignoring the fact that two
1:40.9	Democrat politicians were shot in Minnesota in June, killing one of them
1:45.2	alongside her husband. From Japan to Europe recently, assassins have targeted top politicians
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