morten: sure. i'm working on a book, and i've written a couple of pieces on the person, and a gentleman reached out to me, very generously offering me his family's first editions of the novels in german that had traveled with his grandfather from frankfurt to zÜrich in the 1930's, then to america in exile during the second world war, and the day after i had accepted this gracious offer, they arrived to my apartment, and one of the books, he did not mention this in the mail, was signed. so, yeah kind that is a really unique and wonderful experience. celeste: that is really cool. this is my next question. we now come off writers, unfortunate can have numerical data about how our peace is doing. we can tell how many people have read it. it's not whether or not were being dragged, but you get a certain kind of reinforcement when you write the kind of peace that whoever the creatures are on social media, they are the ones who want to read this thing. they are not all the readers, but they are the ones t

morten, how optimistic are you about the future?nly looks the way it does today because we keep it that way, because the upkeep of how we do things, how we go about things. it can change very fast if we choose to change. there's little doubt norway will meet its target of banning new fossil fuel cars in a couple of years. with electric ferries now entering service, they've already moved on to their next climate challenge, decarbonising the rest of their transport infrastructure. but it was the country's biggest musical export that helped give it that original shove. kevin keane, bbc news, oslo. �*disclosure — electric cars — ready for the charge?�* is available on bbc iplayer and on bbc one scotland tonight at 8pm. the ministry of defence has confirmed it destroyed records of personnel dismissed from the military for being gay. it said it was under a legal duty to destroy the documents. one veterans organisation said it feels to many like a cover—up. meet lance corporaljean mcdonald. proud of her service and the uniform. dismissed b

complaints by environmental campaigners meanwhile, a host of footballers, including norway international morten to fifa asking health issues have found over 100 failings by the nhs trust involved. christie harnett, nadia sharif and emily moore were in the care of the tees, esk and wear valleys trust and died within eight months of each other. today's reports highlight a lack of appropriate places for young people across england. our correspondent fiona trott has been speaking to one of the families affected. # you can count on me, like 1—2—3...#_ singing constantly and dancing around the rooms all the time. and the smile. yeah. the biggest smile. every time, wasn't it? but behind the smile, christie harnett was suffering. she was different, for want of a better word. she'd hide under tables and throw stuff around the classroom. after years of mental health issues, christie was admitted to west lane hospital with anorexia. how it was there is more reminiscent of how the victorian institutions used to be. you know, having to clean the blood up off their own walls, from head—banging. part of the p

meanwhile, a host of footballers, including norway international morten thorsby, and signed an open letterlute disaster in terms of also its environmental footprint. world cup is extremely important, but at the same time, we have to make it more sustainable, we have to work at finding solutions to make it better. fifa says it's taking concrete steps, such as energy—efficient stadia and offsetting emissions through investing in certified carbon credits. in a statement, it said it was... qatar's organising committee, meanwhile, emphasised no internal flights would be required at this most compact of world cups, pointing to a fleet of hundreds of electric buses and vowing the stadia would remain in use after the event. but despite the excitement they generate, the concern is that the sheer scale of such events now means fundamental change is required if they're ever to be truly sustainable. dan roan, bbc news. before we end the programme i want to tell you that japan pausing chief cabinet secretary is due to hold a news conference in a short while. that is all for now. hello there. it was a s

sharon, on its way in won't be particularly heavy the heaviest stuffs up back up here near brew. morten kimberly no been big samples here. the be more to come, which is seasonally correct. just been coming in a bit early, a bit hard. the picture by the sunday gives such degrees and sydney 1st time for what back 279 days. i think sherry rain though, just to the sas in new zealand. the pictures pretty much like spring should be a lot of cloud, some right, and temperatures. hovering a bit below where they should be. this is a disappointing day after say, sunday. now if we go up to a se, asia, so opposite season, of course. unusually heavy rain is on its way around. maybe northern thailand, vietnam, it's not normally particularly bright at this time. the concentration of really heavy stuff has been for the south javan sumatra. but sumatra looks a little dryer than of late as well. also have you right in southern china, we shouldn't really see this this time of year, but there it is to make up for the lack during the summer. ah, to inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism, wo

sharon, on its way in where it be particularly heavy the heaviest stuffs up back up here near brew. morten kimberly may have been big down. pause here. the be more to come, which is seasonally correct. just been coming in a bit early. a bit hard. the picture by the sunday gives 30 degrees and sydney 1st time for what back to 179 days. i think sherry rain though, just to the sat in new zealand. the picture is pretty much like spring should be a lot of cloud, some rain in temperatures hovering a bit below where they should be. this is a disappointing day after say, sunday. now if we go up to a se, asia, so opposite season, of course, unusually heavy rain is on its way around. maybe northern thailand, vietnam, it's not normally particularly better. this tom here, the concentration of really heavy stuff has been for the south jaren, see marcher, but sumatra looked a little dryer than of late as well. also heavy rain in southern china. we shouldn't really see this this time of year. but there it is. to make up for the lack during the summer, ah, with showcase of the best documentary films from

i'm here today with morten hoi jensen was a professor writing at the new school and the author of a difficult -- which is a literary biography -- his essay for us was a takedown of the literary biography which i hope we'll get to talk about later. shawn mccreesh is a writer from the new york magazine when he wrote for memoir piece called the hot blues which was about growing up inside the city ravaged by the opioid crisis. literary critic dasher echo ruffled us contribute editor at the point magazine and she is just and a process of finishing up her first book which is a collection of essays you'll be able to buy in about a year. okay. liberties was started about two years ago and is dedicated to a very particular conception of the essay. essays are long. they are not paid to anything so do not like occasion by end of it for the release of a book or a movie. we really do reviews but we can see that not essays are like this. so this first question is really for beckett and more. you are both as a yes. if i could talk a little bit about your relationship with the form of the essay. i would be g

morten, how optimistic are you about the future?ntry's biggest musical export that helped give it that original shove. kevin keane, bbc news, oslo. you will have that song in your head all day. we are really sorry. it is a great song. disclosure: electric cars — ready for the charge? is available on bbc iplayer and on bbc one scotland tonight at eight o'clock. stay with us, headlines coming up. good morning. welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and sally nugent. our headlines today... police officers with criminal records and links to organised crime. a damning report says hundreds of recruits are joining the force when they should have failed vetting procedures. going to "where the people are". former health secretary matt hancock defends his decision to appear on i'm a celebrity. counter terrorism police are investigating the fire—bombing of a migrant processing centre in kent. who will have to take higher taxes? the government warns of even tougher times ahead, as it looks to plug a £40 billion hole in the national plan for tax

like -- the agencies will not change after tomorrow other than maybe they go double down and get morten neighbors against republicans. the only thing -- >> against the republicans >> democrats in the agencies are going to go nuts against business >> if the business and republicans are the same thing >> all right say you're a business person and trying to do a deal. an acquisition you have labor problems. you have regulatory problems good luck. if the democrats lose, those agencies double down that's what happens. that's tradition, okay the agencies double down because they're allowed to double down the only way i can find anything that would run up, if you take the windfall profit tax off the table, which is succeeding in europe europe, the oils can go higher cpi is a problem or else powell wouldn't have been so rough and tumble >> you are talking about taking worst-case scenarios off medicare, drug pricing, windfall tax. >> yes i'm taking the worst off the table. >> b of a wonders if you get a republican sweep, could you see a return to r&d tax breaks something like that. >> you need t

meanwhile, a host of footballers, including norway international morten thorsby, and signed an open letterave to work at finding solutions to make it better. fifa says it is taking concrete steps such as energy—efficient qatar's organising committee, meanwhile, emphasised no internal flights would be required at this most compact of world cups, pointing to a fleet of hundreds of electric buses and vowing the stadium would remain in use after the event. sorry about that. that was our sports editor, dan roan. the area surrounding the world's largest iphone plant is under a new covid—19 lockdown in central china. zhengzhou is the capital of henan. the city is home to 10 million people. it's also home to the foxconn plant, which produces apple's iphone 14. this week, the city reported 167 local covid—19 infections prompting a lockdown in one district, as the bbc�*s katie silver explains. for the next week, residents of the zhengzhou airport economy zone are banned from going out. public transport services are suspended and officials say they will "crack down on all kinds of violations". now, o

lucy is a representative of the eis lucy morten is a representative of the isu, the union for borderlearning more about the situation there, what is it like at the moment for some of the workers? it is a very tense situation which has just been getting worse and worse over the last three or four weeks. the site is getting more and more overcrowded. because of the technical difficulties of getting things clean. things are getting more and more dirty and the migrants are getting more and more frustrated. and with that frustration comes greater risk of violence and more sporadic risk of violence and more sporadic risk of violence that the staff then have to go in and deal with. they are facing daily things like sit down protest, slow chance, migrant shouting give us our freedom. slow chance, migrant shouting give us ourfreedom. it slow chance, migrant shouting give us our freedom. it is just very wearing and following the attacks on sunday it is also very frightening because now staff don't know if that is going to set a precedent, there will be a copycat. there is a lot of press and a