Monday will bring forth a number of changes to CNN International and it's lineup of shows. CNN Today, World News, World News Asia, and Your World Today will all become World Report. Guillermo Arduino's weekly World Report show will become World View.

European primetime programming will have two new shows added to its lineup, World One, hosted by Fionnuala Sweeney, and Amanpour hosted by Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

The network will also sport a new logo, which can be seen in an Amanpour promo here.

World One

'World One', hosted by Fionnuala Sweeney, is a fast-paced international news bulletin, designed to keep viewers across the day's major stories. 'World One' delivers everything you need to know about the world's biggest stories in a punchy half-hour format. The programme will showcase the network's best news reports and deliver the latest news headlines from across the globe. Every day, 'World One' will showcase a special segment that brings you closer to one part of the world and 'In Focus' will be a deeper look at an international news story. With Fionnuala's expertise and extensive knowledge of international affairs, 'World One' is designed to become appointment viewing for anyone who wants to keep on top of the news.

Amanpour

On 21st September (22nd in the Asia Pacific region), CNN International launches its centrepiece, the highly-anticipated 'Amanpour' programme. This interview programme, hosted by the internationally renowned and multi-award-winning journalist Christiane Amanpour, will aim to set the agenda for a new global conversation. Each half-hour show will focus on a single topic; often news-driven, often provocative, bringing to bear Christiane's vast journalistic experience and depth of knowledge honed from a quarter of a century reporting from around the world, alongside some of the major influencers and newsmakers of the day.

More information is forthcoming and will be posted as it becomes available.

Christopher Smith is on CNN International for CNN Today (London), filling in for Jenny Harrison.

Former Beijing Correspondent and Hong Kong Anchor, Stant Grant has returned to CNN as a Dubai-based International Correspondent.

Grant joined CNN in 2001 from Australia's SBS News.

In 2007 he moved back to SBS World News Australia then to ABC Local Radio before moving to World Bank as Senior Communications Officer, ultimately returning to CNN in late 2008.

Shown here is his most recent report airing on Saturday's edition of CNN Today.

CNN Press Release - 'CNN Today' and 'Talk Asia', two of CNN's flagship programs produced in the network's regional headquarters in Hong Kong, scooped prizes at the prestigious Asian Television Awards held yesterday in Singapore.

Overcoming extensive competition from across the region, ‘CNN Today’ was selected as Asia-Pacific’s Best News Program. Airing twice every weekday and anchored by Hugh Riminton and Kristie Lu Stout it features on-location reports from around Asia-Pacific and beyond, headline-making interviews and real time business updates. In 2008 special editions have focused on events including the Sichuan earthquake, Cyclone Nargis and the Mumbai bombings.

"This is a fantastic achievement that further underlines the quality of CNN International’s output from the Asia-Pacific region," said Tony Maddox, Executive Vice President and Managing Director CNN International. "CNN Today is agenda-setting viewing for our audience who demand credible, impartial and up-to-the-minute news that shapes their business day.”

Hosted by Anjali Rao, CNN's weekly half-hour chat show ‘Talk Asia’ took the Asian Television Award for‘Best Talk Show’. Every week it explores the personalities behind the newsmakers in the fields of arts, politics, sports, business and more. “The award for Talk Asia is timely recognition for a program that has featured a formidable series of guests including President Clinton, Yao Ming, Jackie Chan and Ban Ki-Moon in the past few months alone” Tony Maddox added.

The two awards in Singapore come in the wake of CNN’s content ownership strategy that has seen the global deployment of ten new correspondents and more than forty newsgathering staff in 2008.

CNN is the world's leading global 24-hour news network and one of the world's most respected and trusted sources for news and information. The CNN brand is available to two billion people via 18 CNN branded TV, internet and mobile services produced by CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System Inc and a Time Warner company. CNN International is the international directorate of CNN Worldwide and distributes news via 14 services in seven different languages. CNN International can be seen in more than 232 million television households and hotel rooms in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including more than 36 million across the Asia Pacific region and online at www.cnn.com/international.

While Anjali Rao hosted the last hour of CNN Today HK from Hong Kong, Stephen Frazier is hosting this hour from Atlanta. Thinking there might be technical problems in HK, they do have a guest on live currently from HK so who knows? Update: Anjali is back for the third hour.

CNN Domestic's The Situation Room will now be airing on CNN International, Monday through Friday from 2300 to 0000 GMT. This will replace the first hour of CNN Today HK. No word on if this is a permanent change, or one just for US Political coverage.

• Two new bios have been added to CNN.com: Reggie Aqui and Kate Bolduan (Thanks, Bill!)

• Hong Kong's set has arrived. You can view an opening from CNN Today HK featuring the new set at YouTube. I think it's great that they've finally gotten all 3 sets together so that when they switch to Weather it looks seamless.

• Carol Costello filled-in for Wolf Blitzer today on The Situation Room.

• Mike Galanos has become a correspondent for Prime News with Erica Hill on Headline News. He's come full-circle with this appointment basically because the two used to host the show together. You can view a video of his first Prime News report here.

Colleen McEdwards has been filing special reports and coverage on CNN/I from the US presidential debates in New Hampshire. CNN/I had live coverage of the Democratic Candidate Debate on Sunday from 2300 gmt.

Around the same time on Monday, CNN Today from Hong Kong was dipping into CNN/US coverage of reaction from this debate.

Live coverage continues on CNN/I tonight (Tuesday) at 2300 gmt until around 0200 gmt Wednesday, when the Republican Candidate Debate takes place in New Hampshire.
As well as CNN/US and CNN/I, CNN Pipeline have also been covering the debates and reaction extensively.

* Adrian Finighan, usually of CNN Today and Business International from London, is in Atlanta this week and has been co-hosting Your World Today. CNN/I's London anchors are occasionally seen in Atlanta, with recent examples being Max Foster and Richard Quest. However, it would appear to have been much longer since a Hong Kong-based anchor was anchoring from Atlanta.

* Sanjay Gupta's new series Project Life premiered on CNN/I on Wednesday evening. This is another 15-minute programme, following on from Becky Anderson's "The Spirit Of…". Project Life is on each Wednesday at 1815 gmt, in place of the last 15 minutes of Your World Today. It also repeats at the weekend. It would appear that this series is exclusive to CNN/I, unless anyone can tell me otherwise

from a friend:

A serious fire has forced live programming from CNN's London HQ, Turner House, to be suspended until further notice. The fire, above a clothing department store on the adjacent Oxford Road - London's busiest shopping district - started just before 1900 bst (1800 gmt) Thursday. Half an hour later, World Business Today went on-air from the adjacent Turner House. However, this was quickly pulled off air as Atlanta took over live programming for the rest of the evening. Jim Clancy and Colleen McEdwards took turns with World Business Today, World News Europe and the evening edition of Business International.

Thirteen hours on, and fire crews are still on the scene tackling the blaze. All morning programming from Turner House in London has been suspended. CNN Today came from CNN Center this morning, with Michael Holmes and Jonathan Mann hosting. Mann also hosted Business International at 0700 gmt.

A large part of West-Central London has been cordoned off, with a quarter-mile exclusion zone in place until Saturday morning, according to Westminster City authorities. This area generally attracts between 250,000 to 500,000 shoppers a day. If the exclusion zone is a quarter-mile in each direction, then a large portion of Great Marlborough Street, where CNN London is based, is also included. Therefore, there is a chance that Turner House is currently empty. It is not known if the other networks to broadcast from Turner House, including the Cartoon Network and TCM, are affected.

There are fears that the building on fire may collapse. So far, there have been no reports of any injuries.

More here on CNN Observations as soon as it is available.

Update: I'm also hearing that the CNN London newsroom starting filling with smoke shortly after the fire started last night, and was therefore evacuated. I would imagine they'd have to turn off the air-conditioning/distribution in there to stop the smoke from coming in.

Additionally, Jonathan Mann is putting in quite a shift! He was live on Your World Today yesterday at around 12pm Eastern (1600 gmt). And then he was doing CNN Today at 12am Eastern (0400 gmt) this morning! He's still on right now, doing Business International until 7am Eastern (1100 gmt)!! I wonder if he's slept...