this is t w news coming to you live from berlin literary giant philip are all done at the age of eighty five we look back the life and works of the lives of the pulitzer prize winning novelist explored the tragedy and comedy of the american experience also on the program facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg apologizes to european lawmakers for the recent data scandal at the social media giant but he runs out the clock to several tough questions on how user data has been shared and manipulated. also on the program

a two by royal disappears after an escape attempt on the high seas princess has not been seen for months in a video released after her disappearance she says she was fleeing mistreatment by her father the ruler of dubai we have a special report. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us one of america's greatest modern writers philip roth has died he was eighty five years old roth push boundaries with his fearless explorations of sex death and assimilation the lauded author won every major u.s. literary award including the pulitzer prize. reclusive and often reluctant to give interviews philip roth was known for his provocative and uncompromising novels

about the american jewish experience there's a certain order acidy in writing books without the audacity of can't write books and perhaps there's even a certain recklessness in writing books. i think the society i live in can live with my recklessness such as it is rob who is the author of more than thirty novels and short story collections spanning seven decades is a work frequently blurred the lines between fiction and memoir and drew on his experience growing up in a jewish family in new jersey many of his protagonists were thinly veiled fergusons of himself my strong as addresses a life of men and i think my subject has been that. what what what is that what is what it what is the life of a man in my time roth was one of the most highly honored figures in american literature but for him a claim and controversy were inseparable he insisted writing should expose and not

sanitize the human experience. well with us in the studio to talk more about this is day to be a correspondent bess if good morning at morning philip roth was considered a literary giant many of his books were also turned into films so he was he was hugely successful what made him so successful well first of all it's hard to overemphasize how big this guy was. if you study literature he felt like he belong more to this category of literary giants like hemingway fokker fitzgerald these people where you just used the last name you know somebody who was a towering figure who was in every textbook if you want to talk about american literature the way he got there was through this idea of the great american novel he wrote not just one but several great american novels novels that use history the history of the twentieth century tell the story of what it meant to be an american

and. if you look at his international fame he he also told the story of what it means to be human he's been published all around the world novels like american pastoral that. shows a vast expanse of of american history but in one jewish american family merican radicalism and issues like this so you put him in a league with with hemingway and faulkner when we talk about style we can define maybe a faulkner risk style did philip roth have a distinctive style of writing is there a typical rough ian literary style sure if if you read one paragraph of roth and you're interested in roth iraq fan you know it's him but the thing is like a lot of his peers because he came after hemingway he was coming of age in the sixty's. if if you look at his writing it's not like a lot of his peers are experiment thing with new literary styles is still very

plain plainspoken he gets right to the point but he is extremely controversy. show because of the content of what he writes. he writes about male sexuality he uses very descriptive language it's raw it's painful but it's also larry is a lot of his books you laugh out loud if you read it but talking about the controversy it was if the portnoy's complaint came out in one nine hundred sixty nine and it shocked middle america and i would say it still would shock everybody now we think in the sixty's people were prudish but if i dare you to go back and read the book and and not have to look away if you ok and he was course showered with literary prizes in the u.s. but the most prestigious international prize eluded him didn't it yeah that's true like he said he won the men book of the poets or the national book award but the nobel prize he was always on the list a lot of people thought in two thousand sixteen that it was going to be him didn't happen and as you know the nobel prize doesn't go to deceased literary giants ok

thank you so much for that assessment i mean. from social media that's thanks so much check on some other stories making headlines around the world today south korea's former president to lead a book has arrived at court in seoul for the first hearing in his corruption trial at least as accused of receiving a total of ten million u.s. dollars in bribes while in office between two thousand and eight and two thousand and thirteen he denies any wrongdoing. an experimental ebola vaccination program is underway in the democratic republic of congo the world health organization says more than thirty health care workers have received the shot authorities in congo are rushing to head off a major outbreak of the deadly virus. italy's two populist parties the far right league in the n.t. establishment five star movement are struggling to quell accusations that their pick for prime minister decepticon to patted his resume conte claimed he quote

perfected his legal studies at new york university but the prestigious school has no record of him studying there. and emergency workers are rushing to seal off a power plant in hawaii as the lava from kill away a volcano approaches the site engineers have warned that the lava could breach underground wells releasing talks it gases into the atmosphere the plant generates roughly a third of the island's electricity. even lawmakers have demanded better data protection and privacy measures from facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg face questioning at the european parliament in brussels in the wake of a massive data scandal at the company but a byzantine committee process meant that sucker burkett baited some probing questions even if he made sure to apologize for the social media giants most glaring failures. lots of fake zuckerberg demonstrating in front of the european

institutions. but inside the parliament not so much the hearing of the facebook c.e.o. was supposed to take place behind closed doors so that gave some the impression that the privacy of mr zuckerberg was more important than the privacy of facebook users but some you parliamentarians fought back and managed to have the hearing that took place right here in this room live streamed. so everyone could see how mark zuckerberg apologized for digital facebook tools causing real world problems once again we haven't done enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well and that goes for fake news foreign interference in elections and developers misusing people's information. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility now is a mistake and i'm sorry for it. the start of an interesting debate not really

the european parliamentarians used up most of the time to ask dozens of questions with zuckerberg sitting there quietly for nearly an hour in the end this questionable procedure worked to his advantage because he got to pick and choose those questions he answered now what we're doing is taking a much more proactive approach rather than waiting for people in the community to flag for us that there may be issues we are going through in investigating ourselves up front all the different apps that had access to a large amount of information but with time many parliamentarians felt like they didn't get the information they wanted i am quite disappointed by his appearance here in the european parliament and i think that his company did the european parliament serious and told him to come but he didn't really it took the question serious which we had to pose and i think that he lost

a lot of credibility tonight and the ability to also reste or trust with european consumers in the end the hearing left a bitter aftertaste for the way the european parliament handled it and for the answers it got from zuckerberg. the united arab emirates a remarkable story of a missing the princess a french spy a yacht seized in international waters has the hallmarks of a bestselling geo political thriller but this is no novel princess of dubai disappeared after she tried to escape her family and her father the ruler of the emirates she had made it to the waters off india before she was apprehended human rights organizations are urging dubai authorities to reveal her whereabouts how to stop its reports and you are watching this video it's not such a. dead. thirty two year

old. wanted to flee from her father the ruler of dubai and prime minister of the united arab emirates shaikh mohammad bin rashid al maktoum. people. who teach us friends released this video after she was abducted attempting to escape they want to raise awareness of her disappearance these messages were the last that they ever heard from her the last people to see what he found where those who helped plan her scape from a french spy her bear and a friend from finland hear him then. to be. new. and the one where i have some voice or i don't have to. she thought fled to dubai in february twenty eighth to get her with tina they drove

to amman's capital muscat and then sailed on a small boat into international waters there as waiting for them on his yacht one son board they sailed for go on in india. after six days at sea they noticed they were being followed their pursuers then board their wessel. we heard some noise. that sounded like gunshots. because very very scared and we looked ourselves to the bus. and soon after their whole campaign started dealing with this we were basically mix with. men dressed in black. who values our don't. like. they were going to keep us later on and i select the

following on day from day she was repeating that she wanted to see wanted to go asylum. but they were not listening to her and she said shoot me you're just don't they don't take me back to eight. that was the last time. they claim their wessell was boarded by him ready forces assisted by the indian coast guard but the authorities are not admitting anything. think we have real concerns about the issue of inforce disappearance so in in force disappearance is what a government detain somebody and then they refused to confirm that that person is in detention. latifa seen here skydiving has disappeared without a trace and ready media are keeping silent about her disappearance and anyone who asks questions has risks or reprisals. we've got bomb threats i had surveillance outside my house. i had people you know coming into the garden banging

on the windows anyone who would dare to criticize you a authorities could face arrest could be disappeared. you know the situation there in terms of respect for basic rights the respect for the right to free expression free association for use and these absolutely it's. the teachers lawyers have filed a complaint with the united nations in the hopes that it will help free her. if you see her is alive and we can get around the magnitude of this we means rights in the whole of the middle east he's groundbreaking. changes about le t. for was aiming for she wanted to flee to torture and control of her country especially when it comes to women's rights and basic freedoms. and just a bit of football before we go english premier league club arsenal have just appointed emory as their new head coach spaniard replaces arsène who stepped down

following twenty two years in the role emery has lots of european experience having won three year ople league titles with sylvia as well as the french league and with the social month last season so i knew for now thanks for watching. the d w d a center. i. find it a can. of. discovery. video and audio podcast and language courses. in d w lydia center cat media center don d w dot com.