the man accused of carrying out the attack is hadi matar from newjersey.out the man he was planning to kill. he said he'd read a couple of pages. he didn't say of what, and that he'd watched a couple of youtube videos and decided that i was disingenuous, disingenuous and therefore right to kill. there's a sentence in the book where i say that language is a knife. you know, language is a way of cutting things open and revealing the truth. calling this book knife is notjust a description of the attack against me. the book is the knife. the book is my kmife and it's my way of fighting back. well i spoke to alan earlier to talk more about his exclusive interview with sir salman. thank you for taking the time and speaking to us today. i understand that your friendship with sir salman rushdie goes back decades. i am just wondering, in conducting this interview, and having this conversation with him if there was anything you learnt about him this time, anything that surprised you. i don't know if it surprised me but i tell you what i felt was his incredible coura

the man accused of carrying out the attack is hadi matar from newjersey.e trouble to inform himself about the man he was planning to kill. he'd said he'd read a couple of pages — he didn't say of what — and that he'd watched a couple of youtube videos and decided that i was disingenuous. disingenuous. disin. .. and therefore right to kill. donald trump is now inside the courtroom ready for the first day of his trial. we will have more coming from new york. with us. —— stay with us. live from london. this is bbc news. donald trump arrives in court in new york — for the first criminal trial of a former us president. protestors take to the streets — chanting �*no one is above the law�* — as the former president faces 3a charges of fraud. new pictures of the barrage of missiles and drones launched by iran at israel — as tehran rejects western criticism of its attack. and i'm injerusalem as media reports — and i'm injerusalem as media reports that opposition parties have been invited to a real security meeting — been invited to a real security meeting raising q

the man accused of carrying out the attack is hadi matar from newjersey.e said he was surprised to hear that rushdie survived the attack. a lot of what i know about him — which is very little — doesn't make much sense. he took very little trouble to inform himself about the man he was planning to kill. he'd said he'd read a couple of pages — he didn't say of what — and that he'd watched a couple of youtube videos and decided that i was disingenuous. disingenuous. disin — and therefore right to kill. and that's all he knew. does this attack suggest that freedom of speech has got more and more difficult, rather than less so, since then... 0h! freedom of speech has got much more difficult, and notjust for this kind of reason. a lot of people — including a lot of young people, i'm sorry to say — have formed the opinion that it's now almost 0k to be prepared to suppress speech that you don't agree with. whereas, of course, the whole point of freedom of speech is that you have to permit speech you don't agree with. it came to me that, really, there were two forc

the man accused of carrying out the attack is hadi matar from newjersey.elf about the man he was planning to kill. he said he had read a couple of pages. he didn't say of what. and that he'd watched a couple of youtube videos and decided that i was disingenuous. disingenuous? disingenuous, and therefore right to kill. there is a sentence in the book where i say that language is a knife. you know, language is a way of cutting things open and revealing the truth. calling this book knife is notjust a description of the attack against me. the book is the knife. the book is my knife. and it's my way of fighting back. and you can see the whole of that interview on the bbc iplayer — sir salman rushdie, the interview. now, it's long been associated with the sun, but a study has begun to investigate whether stonehenge has a possible link to the moon. it'll explore the connection during what's called a "major lunar standstill" — when the moonrise and moonset reach their furthest points apart along the horizon — to see if the landmarks stones align with the moon. the

the man accused of carrying out the attack is hadi matar from newjersey.. he took very little trouble to inform himself about the man he was planning to kill. he'd said he'd read a couple of pages — he didn't say of what — and that he'd watched a couple of youtube videos and decided that i was disingenuous. disingenuous. disin — and therefore right to kill. there's a sentence in the book where i say that language is a knife. you know, language is a way of cutting things open and revealing the truth. calling this book knife is notjust a description of the attack against me. the book is the knife. the book is my knife and and it's my way of fighting back. with me is the bbc�*s alan yentob. it's a moving interview and what is interesting is that it's still very vivid for him, the attack and how he talks about it. we vivid for him, the attack and how he talks about it— vivid for him, the attack and how he talks about it. we have to remember that the fatwa _ talks about it. we have to remember that the fatwa was _ talks about it. we have to remember that the fa

the man accused of carrying out the attack is hadi matar from newjersey.himself about the man he was planning to kill. he said he'd read a couple of pages. he didn't say of what, and that he'd watched a couple of youtube videos and decided that i was disingenuous, disingenuous and therefore right to kill. there's a sentence in the book where i say that language is a knife. you know, language is a way of cutting things open and revealing the truth. calling this book knife is notjust a description of the attack against me. the book is the knife. the book is my knife and it's my way of fighting back. that was alan yentob. well, i spoke to alan earlier to talk more about his exclusive interview with sir salman. they have known each other for decades and i asked what more he learned about the author since the attack. i don't know if it surprised me but i tell you what i felt was his incredible courage. he has faced up to this and it could have been something so devastating that he would have to give up writing and he considered that. the wounds were extraordina

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the man accused of carrying out the attack is hadi matar from newjersey. — and that he'd watched a couple of youtube videos and decided that i was disingenuous. disingenuous. disin — and therefore right to kill. there's a sentence in the book where i say that language is a knife. you know, language is a way of cutting things open and revealing the truth. calling this book knife is notjust a description of the attack against me. the book is the knife. the book is my knife and and it's my way of fighting back. there's some great news for bird lovers. loch arkaig in the scottish highlands has welcomed its first osprey egg of the season. the woodland trust in scotland says one of its visiting ospreys, called dorcha, began chirping on sunday morning and treated livestream viewers to a glimpse of the egg just before 11.15am. let's go back to new york. we are closely watching the live pictures coming to us from the courthouse thatis coming to us from the courthouse that is the focus of the rope is not media at the moment. there are 100 reporters lined up to get i

jeffrey: this kid, hadi matar.in california, living in new jersey before the attack, now awaiting trial for attempted murder. in his book, rushdie chose not to name him, calling him the a for my assailant, my would assassin, the asinine man who made assumptions about me. and, in a very rushdian twist, he imagines a series of talks with his attacker, a fictional section within this very non-fiction book. you clearly had to address him or think about him as person. >> yes. jeffrey: but you also clearly, i think, had to make a decision, how much of a character in your life, in your book, in your story? >> yeah. i mean, i think he obviously is a character in it, but the reason i wanted to think about him imaginatively is that i think there's sort of a puzzle about him which that he, you know, he was very, very young. and one of the things he must have known he was doing was to ruin his life. by, by committing murder, it would also be a terrible catastrophe in his life, not just in mine. and why would somebody so young

the man accused of carrying out the attack is hadi matar from newjersey.o kill. there's a sentence in the book where i say that language is a knife. you know, language is a way of cutting things open and revealing the truth. calling this book knife is notjust a description of the attack against me. the book is the knife. the book is my knife and and it's my way of fighting back. salman rushdie speaking to alan yentob. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. a very good morning, welcome to bbc london, i'm thomas magill. this programme has learned that some tory mps including a former chair of the conservative party are planning to boycott an event for eid at downing street tonight. it's understood the move is in protest at the government's support of israel's military action in gaza. the annual eid reception by the prime minister is normally attended by leading muslim figures. a government spokesperson said it understood humanitarian concerns regarding gaza, but that hasn't convinced everyone. they're supporting israel, who stand accused