Bianna Golodryga

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@CNN Anchor, Sr Global Affairs analyst, co-author ‘Don’t Feed the Lion’ with @leviyonit (pre-order link below), wife, mother, proud immigrant, ❤️ Houston, TX

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“I can hear them laughing and eating cakes and drinking tea, like there is no person that walks like next to them and looks like a skeleton. It's surreal, it was very frustrating. But this is how they are, they're very cruel." Evyatar David recounts being forced to dig his grave.

.Miad Maleki: “within 2 wks, Iran won’t be able to store oil and will have permanent long term damage to extracting it. The regime won’t be able to pay salaries if they can't collect taxes without selling metals, petrochemicals and petroleum. That is going to really hurt them.”

The world first saw Evyatar David emaciated, forced to dig his own grave in a Hamas propaganda video. Nearly a year after his release, he sat down with me for his first international interview on his captivity and his recovery. Our full conversation on Christiane Amanpour CNN today.

Special thanks to CNN producer and friend Harry Hullah for finding this gem from my 2013 ABC News interview with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, marking the 30th anniversary of #islandsinthestream. Can’t believe they’re both gone. True legends 💔🎶

“I remember walking by another room in the tunnel, seeing a big amount of food…huge amounts. So I was being starved, There’s no question about it.” For the majority of his 505 days in captivity, Omer Shem Tov survived on one biscuit and salty water a day. He lost over 50lbs.

“The US and Israel are of course using kinetic power, but we are using soft power as well through different ideas because we need to collaborate with the public in Iran and make sure they will be responsible for their future.” - former Israeli Defense Minister יואב גלנט - Yoav Gallant

Hamas released a video hostage Liri Elbag. I spoke to her mother in Oct.: “Liri and Naama are little girls, young girls that for one year are there, in hell. People in the world forget them. Our government, the media, and all over the world. They forget they are still there.”

Thank you CNN This Morning with Audie Cornish for having Jake Tapper 🦅 and me on for our coverage of Hamas’ sexual assault and rape of Israeli women. And the shameful 7 week silence from the global community and women’s rights groups.

“She’s the daughter of a lioness, they are fighters. Proud Jewish girls who never lost hope.” Released hostage Daniella Gilboa’s uncle Razi, tells me. CNN was the only international network to witness in real time the return of four female hostages alongside their families today.

“October 7th is the most hard thing for her to speak about, she lost a lot of her good friends. The loss of them is very hard for her, more than the period of time of the captivity." My interview with the mothers of 3 recently released Israeli hostages.

"This must come to an end. It's not just for the hostages and the hostage families and the people in Israel. It's for the hundreds of thousands of innocent Gazan people who are suffering horribly." Rachel Goldberg-Polin shares her message to negotiators. Bring Hersh Home

Video shared with me of protests happening now in Tel Aviv in response to Netanyahu firing Defense Minister Gallant

"I felt that someone had cleaved part of my body off and walked away. But I knew that wouldn't be productive in trying to save him...I would say to myself, 'Pretend to be a human. Get up, go’ And I would go because it was my son." Part 1 of my interview with Rachel Goldberg-Polin

I was with the aunt, uncle, cousins and friends of Daniella Gilboa, one of the four hostages released today, the moment they saw her on tv.

“I can’t imagine why he decided to go…Putin is an indicted war criminal and the UN Secretary General went to see him? This is unacceptable.” - Former US Amb to Ukraine William Taylor on whether it was appropriate for Antonio Guterres to travel to Russia for the BRICS Summit.