census.w plus, ad this: the latest entry in the newshour bookshelf, a conversation with author mohsin hamid on his book "exit

mohsin hamid, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.to start with this interesting idea of yours, that you, you say, are a mongrel through and through. what do you mean by being a mongrel? well, i was born in pakistan, i moved to california when i was three, back to pakistan at nine, america 18, london 30, and back to pakistan about nine years ago. and along the way, i have become a mixture of things. so i can't think of myself as just pakistani, or just british, orjust american. i am a mixed—up kind of creature, a hybrid, and that is what i mean by mongrel. it's a term that we tend to think of as kind of negative. yes, i mean, do you wear that badge with pride? i do, i think that is something we should all wear with pride, because everyone is a mongrel, actually. we are descended from all sorts of people, and we have travelled and we have mixed through our ancestry, but also in our own lives. but it is such an interesting statement, everybody is a mongrel. because, of course, most people don't want to think of themselves as mongrel. in

we have to end there, mohsin hamid, thank you very much for being on hardtalk. thank you. we head through the remainder of this week. during monday, there was some blue sky and some sunshine around for many of us. in fact, this picture comes from one of our weather wwatchers in saltburn—by—the—sea in north yorkshire. it was a beautiful end to the day on monday, but skies have been clouding over overnight. and through the day on tuesday, we start with quite a lot of cloud, some rain around, which should clear toward the east and then things will turn brighter from the west later on in the day. so that's all down to the fact that we have this frontal system moving its way from west to east across the country through the day on tuesday. low pressure in charge. but we will see some clearer conditions following behind this cold front as we work through the afternoon. also, a dip in the temperatures behind that front too. so tuesday morning, we've got a lot of cloud. you can see the outbreaks of rain in the east. some snow on the mountains of scotland as well. most of that rain

author mohsin hamid answers youu tions about his newest book "exit west." the accountant w play in the national hockey league. but returning to the murky world of cyber attacks, and defense. the newest u.s. military command is responsible not fiece of land or air, but cyberspace. special correspondent mike cerre, has this exclusive, inside view of the men an women protecting the military's digital networks at united states cyber command. >>uneporter: it looks and so like every other stateside military base, far from the front lines around the globe. but fort meade, maryland, home base to the national security agency and u.s. cyber command, the military's newest ant command, is fighting a war every day. admiral mike rogers commands both the n.s.a. and u.s. cyber command. >> today, we face threats that have increased in sophistication, magnitude, velocity.nd volume and wa>> reporter: the interne largely created by the defense department in the late 60s mostly for research and development programs. now, like every other major institution, it depends on it for

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