we start with ac grayling, a professor of philosophy at college of humanities in london is the author of 30 non-fiction books, most recent, "the good book," and "the god argument." >> host: you're watching booktv on c-span2, and booktv is in london interviewing some authors, and joining us now is professor ac grayling, author of 30 books, most recent called "the god argument,," and in that book, you write the burdens of religion are both social and political. what do you mean by that? >> guest: well, we need to look really across the landscape of history to see how devicive, how many conflicts, how many difficulties created by divisions among people of religious outlook. the burden there is not just a historical, but contemporary looking across, for example, the middle east and south asia. we see difficulties too, and in our societies, and so there is a great burden. one thing that i wanted to argue for in that book was a different way of thinking about the ethical, which is to say all those questions we ask ourselves how we relate to one another, what our speedometers -- responsibili

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government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interest of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year has worried me what what they're doing that taken away from and warning what's going on to us when we get older you know we've got to be really careful and not say like. artie stoke on trent. and i was to go to some other stories making news around the world a suicide bomber has hit a government building in afghanistan's northern province of boggle on the blast killed fourteen people including the local town chief while nanny state workers are among the wounded the attack falls in line with a promise spring offensive by the taliban who warned people to distance themselves from the authorities. some five hundred members of an authority slepian islam as grow battled police in the streets of tunisia's capital on

government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interest of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year it's worried me what what they're doing that taken away from a spark and the wording of what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful. not safe like. artie stoke on trent. well the fukushima radiation no go zone still means locals are banned from staying overnight in their own neighborhoods but as we explained online japanese farmers are ploughing on anyway using land for growing rice for mass consumption. also online how do you keep full faith and safe at a twenty first century world cup perhaps an army of u.s. military robots and israeli drones learn about brazil's twenty fourteen points. of british prime minister could get a slap in the face from his own m.p.'s this week t

government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interest of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year it's worried me what we've done it taken away from a supply and i keep wondering what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful. not safe like. r.t. stoke on trent. so to come this hour we take a look at the latest twist in iran's nuclear deadlock let's invest a couple of minutes here on alt. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations to rule the day. about the program now some other news making headlines around the world a suicide bomber has hit a government building in afghanistan's northern province of background the blast killed eight people including the local town chief of an

we start with ac grayling, a professor of philosophy at college of humanities in london is the authorof 30 non-fiction books, most recent, "the good book," and "the god argument." >> host: you're watching booktv on c-span2, and booktv is in london interviewing some authors, and joining us now is professor ac grayling, author of 30 books, most recent called "the god argument,," and in that book, you write the burdens of religion are both social and political. what do you mean by that? >> guest: well, we need to look really across the landscape of history to see how devicive, how many conflicts, how

governments faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency well continuing to protect the interest of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year because for me what they're doing that taken away from him and i keep wondering what's going on to us when we get older you know we got we really could. not say like. stoke on trent. right on our web site the fukushima radiation no no go zones still means locals are banned from staying overnight in their own neighborhoods. but as we explain online japanese farmers are ploughing on anyway using the land for growing why it's up and mass consumption. also how do you keep football fans save at a twenty first century world cup of perhaps an army of you with military robots the army is really very into learn about twenty fourteen plans on r t dot com. runs the first official astronaut says he's delighted and privileg

government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interest of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year has for to me what we've done that taken away from him and the world and what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful and not say like. artie stoke on trent. and a reminder of our breaking news story here on r.t.m. there have been two deadly blasts in the capital of russia's biggest republic the explosions went off within a fifteen minutes of each other at the central bailiff office the second device was time to target first response teams and it's the largest such attack in the past year or less may at twin bombing at a police station killed twenty people and just on is a predominately muslim republic and has long suffered with islamist insurgency well coming out here on ou

government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interest of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year it's worried me what we've done it taken away from a supply and i keep wondering what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful and not say like. stoke on trent. now all the things which might be bothering brits right now it's the debate on legalizing gay marriage that's taking center stage at westminster and it's by no means a done deal as we explained suit. choose your language. make it with. us today still some of. the consensus to. choose the opinions that you think great to. choose the stories that impact the lives choose access to your. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some

government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interest of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year it's worried me what they're doing that taken away from and the world and what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful. not to say like polyploid are stoke on trent what you know weekly live here naughty still ahead for you this israelis fighting for syria's embattled leader and techno dancing protesters clashing with swiss police stay right where you are the news continues it's the weekly on r.t. . although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about that buddhist monk who burned himself to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which

government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interests of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year he swore to me what what they've done it taken away from and i keep wondering what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful and not safe like. stoke on trent. still ahead few fine words but little action president obama has to close guantanamo the thing a ban on detainees transfer while the prison is cold in massive hunger strike with many not holding much hope for yet another promise and as a key battle in the syrian border time intensifies we'll bring you the story of one community to stand by the president and the surprising country they come from for not off the shore bright. wealthy british style some time to live on. the. market why not. find out what's really happenin

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government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interests of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year it's worried me what they're doing that taken away from islamic and the world and what's going on to us when we get older you know we've got to be really careful. not say like. stoke on trent. this is the weekly here not he still to come this a lot of promises. he claims that he is going to further limit is murder by drone program making us president obama talks to national security leaving exposed to wonder whether his new promises will be. the story of a community in israel which has chosen to take up arms in defense of the embattled syrian government back with those stories and all this after this break. a u.s. senate committee has passed a bill that if signed by obama will allow the u.s. to put a lot of w