in the 3rd simon is in charge of the auditions like many others. here simon lost family members in the genocide to one his young people know the history of the massacre but on days like this they try to forget about it for a while still you know we're just. we're moving on we're moving along we don't want to be held by what's happened in the past we want to move on we want to look for the future and it doesn't but the odds you all know we are in the period of 100 days of the ritual and just this thing is part of it so we remember we are night and then didn't you so we have a new ourselves and this is part of the new york about what what what what one of my one people are called up to audition. and this one was a has come here with a friend who is an aspiring singer. for nasa herself is too shy to sign up for the show she's a survivor of the genocide. but that. new via email and i think this show is great there aren't many jobs for young people in rwanda but they all want to blacken make their dreams come true well this might give them a chance. tha

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. on may 3rdof 2003 the ambassador of switzerland to tehran delivers a letter from iraq to the united states. in that letter the iranians essentially offer negotiations to open up the nuclear program for full transparency. the proposal came in i happened to see it's because it was also given to a member of congress that i worked for at the time. he sent it over to the white house and called rove called rove called back he said that he found the proposal intriguing he wanted to know if it was genuine were a promise to put it in front of the president i would call karl rove a dear friend. i've seen him a to far sighted courage put america on a war footing. and protect us against a brutal enemy in a dangerous conflict that will shape this new century no formal response was given to the iranians. i'm grateful to have been witness to history. and the argument was that whatever could come out of a negotiation with the iranians. even more could be achieved by simply removing the regime in iraq. in a way