the idea so there are some word games and that are schoolboy humor but then by someone like salman rushdie. and for whom the bell rings for example were doctor zhivago. . . . . with this relationship. >> for a novelist, the humor, and is written in novels about the holocaust. in these books are written with his best memoirs. and it's anglo american to generously and at the cusp of 1918. in which i appear once. >> it is my best friend. and this book is basically about his interest. i see the chapter, the question on friday answer is can you have a relationship with another guy. i don't know whether you can or not. i discovered this with my writing. the way in which we used to have very long conversations. this is about women. [inaudible]. and i'm not sure how you can make lead into gold. and terrible things in new york. which he had to go to, his character and money, had to go through this. it was most intensely thought of. it is shameful really. you can read it in cnnmoney printed to get that reference printed. [inaudible]. but when i read that, i thought well, you can explore the misery.

it became a kind of duty it's a cliche for their western media the western news agency is to blame rushdie mediately after something happens basically there are many questions unanswered and the western media is not seeking answers to these questions instead is just so much easier to blame russia putin personally or to speculate if it could be done by a russian government agents without which inseparable with fortunes approval is just safe to make it has a chance against russia because it's much more dangerous to really investigate and to see broadly the role of are the exodus borth in the story or. the story of. this week tech giant apple became the 1st ever u.s. company to be worth 2 trillion dollars apple's value puts it on par with major economies it's now surpassed the g.d.p. of brazil canada russia and south korea its market capitalization has doubled over the past 2 years and most of that growth has happened since the start of the pandemic experts now estimate that if it were an economy it would be classified as the 9th richest in the world my colleague you know neal asked economist

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it became a kind of duty it's a cliche for their western media the western news agency is to blame rushdie mediately after something happens basically there are many questions unanswered and the western media is not seeking answers to these questions instead is just so much easier to blame russia personally or to speculate if it could be done by russian government agents without which inseparable with fortunes approval is just safe to make it has a chance against russia because it's much more dangerous to really investigate and to see broadly the role of are the exodus borth in the story or. the story of. germany france the u.k. russia and china have all rejected a u.s. request to reimpose sanctions on iran the so-called snapback sanctions can be triggered as part of the nuclear deal but only by signatories come up and picks up the story. so at this point we've got the united states essentially demanding that the united nations reimpose its crippling sanctions economic warfare against the islamic republic of iran this is mike pompei o laying out the demand just a few minutes ago i delivere

rushdie is working to attack joe biden and iran is working to undermine democratic institutions.vice president joe biden clarifying comments he made comparing the latino and black communities saying he did not mean to suggest the african-american community is not diverse. biden also pushing back on the president's claim he is against god, calling that "shameful." peter doocy reporting live in wilmington, delaware, we have heard it all. >> wright, john. and the former vice president is not saying sorry. he just wants to clarify that comment about diversity in the african-american community with this purity said on twitter, throughout my career i witnessed the diversity of sentiment within the african-american community. this diversity makes our workplace, community, and country a better place. remember biden did not say sorry last time in hot water for making a similar comment when he said on the breakfast club in may african-americans considering voting for trump "ain't black." that time he just said he shouldn't have been such a wise guy. president trump said he has heard enough

1000 infections in the country diagnosed just in the past 2 weeks alone well let's now speak to not rushdie she's the un resident and humanitarian coordinator for lebanon she joins us now on skype from beirut not that i know this is a very busy time thank you for being with us it's now been more than 10 days since the blast that we start by asking you about your priorities at this stage i know you've been distributing tents of aid kits but to people even have places to erect them. well thank you very much you know we came up with the emergency buried his which is related to the life saving a humanitarian relief and i was covering the food security they had this shelter are the access to water with protection as a cross campaign issue. a lot of focus was of course on the heavy system because of what you already does a some are very important hospitals were completely destroyed and there was a need for really very ringback important help those services to treat actually the injured and you know that there are there has been more than 6000 injured in design in this blast and that was our our o

from west virginia, thank you for your commentary at the atlantic and protecting salman rushdie and theerican citizen. why do brits favor that depiction of down and violent and fat is it just in the british nature to be cynical and snarky? >> yes. that the united states overhauled in the united kingdom and it seems quite a long time ago and many people are not forgiven. and that british compensation for this loss of time is the greeks to be dominated by the roman empire. >> that's why they referred to as the irony of slaves. >>host: arkansas go ahead. >> and to have the opportunity so as a lifelong atheist what kind of advice do you give an atheist living in the bible belt how to be okay with the bigotries and discrimination people have? thank you. >> just don't let them push you around. that the beginning of the wisdom and one case of one book festival people come in the hundreds to hear me speak but their afraid if they don't i will be the only one there. and then to put a piece of alarm. >> what do you think of the controversy of immigration? >> not to be too contentious but only one