Pope Francis has done his first extended one-on-one interview with a US TV network in the course of his 11-year papacy.

The 87-year-old Pope on 24 April did an interview in Rome with news anchor Norah O’Donnell of CBS (the abbreviation of Columbia Broadcasting System), one of the main commercial broadcast television and radio networks in the United States.

In the interview the Pope “shared his insights on the state of the world” and spoke about “war, peace, famine and climate change”, O'Donnell says in a short CBS promotional video.