finally, because of the friendship, the enduring friendships that you have with sir salman rushdie, ill me that. two nights before the event, salman had a dream, or i should saya nightmare, in which he dreamt he was in amphitheatre and where this happened is sn amphitheatre and he was attacked by a gladiator with a spear. it's a bit like the gladiator film of ridley scott and he woke up shouting and rolling around in his bed and his wife said that this was a premonition and he must not go. but in the end he realised he was there to speak about these values that were so important to him and in the end he decided to go and he went and what he had dreamt in this nightmare happened. truly extraordinary. thank you very much for sharing your insights with us. this is bbc news. hello there. some turbulent weather ahead for the next day or two. low pressure's driving in off the atlantic, giving heavy thundery and intense showers, spray, standing water. so tricky conditions on the roads, particularly adding in the strength of the wind. look at the tightly packed isobars. there will be strong t

author salman rushdie has been stabbed.author salman rushdie was attacked. august 2022. one of the world's most famous authors is left fighting for his life. it has shocked the entire world. author salman rushdie attacked. he was dressed in dark clothing and he had like a black covid mask. and he just came sprinting up the stairs. in a major tv interview, he tells me what he remembers. i actually thought he'd punched me very hard. i didn't realise there was a knife in his hand. and then. then i saw the blood and i realised there was a weapon. and then he just started, i think he wasjust slashing wildly at everything. so there was a very big slash here across my neck as well as the stab wound here. and there were wounds down by the middle of my torso, one, two, three like that and the two on the side over here. and then there was the wound in my eye, which was quite deep. it looked terrible. i mean, it was very distended, swollen, and it was kind of hanging out of my face, sitting on my cheek, like a soft boiled egg. and...

author salman rushdie, attacked.ame sprinting up the stairs. in a major tv interview, he tells me what he remembers. i actually thought he'd punched me very hard. i didn't realise there was a knife in his hand. and then i saw the blood and i realised there was a weapon. and then he just started... i think he wasjust slashing wildly at everything. there was a very big slash here, across my neck, as well as the stab wound here. and there were wounds down the middle of my torso — one, two, three, like that. and two on the side over here. and then there was the wound in my eye, which was quite deep. it looked terrible. i mean, it was very distended, swollen, and it was kind of hanging out of my face, sitting on my cheek. and... and blind. while this was happening, something extraordinary happened, in that the audience jumped onto the stage and... saved my life. talk about heroism. that's heroism. i was lying there on the ground, bleeding profusely, and i'm thinking, "i want my house keys." and i think that was that survi

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author salman rushdie attacked. a black covid mask, and hejust came sprinting up the stairs. in a major tv interview, he tells me what he remembers. i actually thought he'd punched me very hard. i didn't realise there was a knife in his hand. and then... then i saw the blood, and i realised there was a weapon. and then he just started... i think he was just slashing wildly at everything. so there was a very big slash here across my neck, as well as the stab wound here. and there were wounds down the middle of my torso — one, two, three — like that. and there are two on the side over here. and then there was the wound in my eye, which was quite deep. it looked terrible — i mean, it was very distended, swollen, and it was kind of hanging out of my face, sitting on my cheek, like a...like a soft boiled egg. and... and blind. while this was happening, something extraordinary happened, in that the audience jumped onto the stage and... saved my life. talk about heroism — that's heroism. you were worried about your credit

author salman rushdie, attacked.and hejust came sprinting up the stairs. in a major tv interview, he tells me what he remembers. i actually thought he'd punched me very hard. i didn't realise there was a knife in his hand. and then i saw the blood and i realised there was a weapon. and then he just started... i think he was just slashing wildly at everything. there was a very big slash here, across my neck, as well as the stab wound here. and there were wounds down the middle of my torso — one, two, three, like that. and two on the side over here. and then there was the wound in my eye, which was quite deep. it looked terrible. i mean, it was very distended, swollen, and it was kind of hanging out of my face, sitting on my cheek. and... and blind. while this was happening, something extraordinary happened, in that the audience jumped onto the stage and... saved my life. talk about heroism. that's heroism. i was lying there on the ground, bleeding profusely, and i'm thinking, "i want my house keys." and i think that w

author salman rushdie, attacked.d like a black covid mask, and hejust came sprinting up the stairs. in a major tv interview, he tells me what he remembers. i actually thought he'd punched me very hard. i didn't realise there was a knife in his hand. and then i saw the blood and i realised there was a weapon. and then he just started... i think he was just slashing wildly at everything. there was a very big slash here, across my neck, as well as the stab wound here. and there were wounds down the middle of my torso — one, two, three, like that. and two on the side over here. and then there was the wound in my eye, which was quite deep. it looked terrible. i mean, it was very distended, swollen, and it was kind of hanging out of my face, sitting on my cheek. and... and blind. while this was happening, something extraordinary happened, in that the audience jumped onto the stage and... saved my life. talk about heroism. that's heroism. i was lying there on the ground, bleeding profusely, and i'm thinking, "i want my hous

author salman rushdie attacked.ly thought he'd punched me very hard. i didn't realise there was a knife in his hand. and then... then i saw the blood, and i realised there was a weapon. and then he just started... i think he was just slashing wildly at everything. so there was a very big slash here across my neck, as well as the stab wound here. and there were wounds down the middle of my torso — one, two, three — like that. and there are two on the side over here. and then there was the wound in my eye, which was quite deep. it looked terrible — i mean, it was very distended, swollen, and it was kind of hanging out of my face, sitting on my cheek, like a...like a soft boiled egg. and... and blind. while this was happening, something extraordinary happened, in that the audience jumped onto the stage and... saved my life. talk about heroism — that's heroism. no, when i was lying there on the ground, bleeding profusely, and i'm thinking, "i want my house keys." and i think that was that survival instinct that was sayi

but in august 2022, as he was about to speak at a literary festival in chautauqua, new york, salman rushdie rushdie, who is now 76, lost his right eye and came close to dying. he's come to terms with the attempt on his life by writing a book about it called simply "knife," which comes out tuesday. this is his first television interview since the attack. >> you had had a dream two days, i think it was, before the attack. what was the dream? >> i kind of had a premonition. i mean i had a dream of being attacked in an amphitheater. but it was a kind of roman empire dream, as if i was in the colosseum, and it was just somebody with a spear stabbing downwards and i was rolling around on the floor trying to get away from him. and i woke up and was quite shaken by it. and i had to go to chautauqua, and i said to my wife, eliza, i said, you know, i don't want to go. >> because of the dream? >> because of the dream. and then i thought, don't be silly. it's a dream. >> reporter: salman rushdie, one of his generation's most acclaimed writers, had been invited to the tranquil town of chautauqua on lake

in august 2022, as he was about to speak at a literary festival and should talk when new york salman rushdietacked by a muslim man with a knife rushdie, who's now 76, lost his right eye and came close to dying he's come to terms with the attempt on his life by writing of new book about it called simply knife, which went on sale on tuesday. i talked to him for report. i filed for 60 minutes this past weekend. it was his first television interviews since the attack you had had a dream two days, i think it was before the attack. what was the dream? >> i had a premonition. i mean, i had had a dream of being attacked in an amphitheater labor is a kind of roman empire dream you. it's as if i was in the colosseum and it was just somebody with the spear stabbing downwards and i was rolling around on the floor trying to get away from him and i woke up and was quite shaken by it. and i had to go to to talk and i i said to my wife, eliza said i don't want to go because of the dream because if the dream and then i felt there'll be silly, it's a dream that's felt. >> salman rushdie, one of his generation

please welcome to the program salman rushdie. sir!tion, obviously, how are you? this was obviously a dramatic experience. how are you feeling? >> i am okay, surprisingly. >> jon: yes. >> sometimes there are great surprises. this is one. i'm pretty much recovered. >> jon: i have to say, i know it sounds peculiar to say this, because of the traumatic experience that you endured. i love this book. >> thank you. [laughs] >> jon: it is a beautiful work of introspection. i feel like i know now how your mind works. you know, i have read other of your books. but you really do a wonderful job of taking us through how you think. >> yeah, it is weird how i think. >> jon: [laughs] [laughter] >> i mean, i have this kind of free associating mind, which goes from the moon to a movie to a book to a piece of mythology, to a joke. >> jon: i had to read this book with another book next to me to get to some of the references. but it is -- it allows you, sometimes he read an author's memoir and there is a certain self-consciousness to it. but maybe becaus

no place was safe for salman rushdie who sprawling 600 page novel, the satanic verses, offended some muslims for its depiction of the prophet muhammad ron's, i had told khomeini issued a faa, a religusree calling for rushdie his death in 1989 there were worldwide protests from londono lahore satanic verses was burned and 12 people di in clhes with translat was murdered and otrs associated with it. we're attack did u have any idea that it would cau violence? >> no. i had no idea. i ought probably some conservative religious ople wldn't like it. but they didn't like anything i wrote anyway. so i felt well they don't have to read it. were you naive probably you know, i mean, it's easy looking back to it but nothing like this had ever happened to anybody. >> and of course, almost all the people who attacked the book did so without ready good i was often told that i had intended to insult offend people. in my view was if i need to insult you, i can do it really quickly i don't need to spend five years of my life trying to write a 600 page book to insult you rushdie was living in london whe

it left salman rushdie near death.uld lose the use of his right eye and suffer numerous other injuries to his hand, and, chest and abdomen, , and undergo multiple surgeries, numerous setbacks, a painful, slow recovery. when he decided to write about it, he says now, the first word that came: the title, knife. >> at its most basic, it's the story of a knife attack, you know? but then i came to think of it in another way, a kind of metaphorical way. i came to think like language is a kind of knife, you know, it's a kind of also a sort of tool which you could use to cut through things to the truth. and i thought, well, that's my knife. you know, i don't, i don't, and if you're going to be in a knife fight, you may as well have a knife. so i think in a funny way, i came to think that the book itself is a knife. but it's my knife. it's a way of fighting back. jeffrey: was this one harder to to write because it was so , personal? >> the first chapter was very hard to write. the first chapter, which actually details the attac

salman rushdie being the old bloke.ainst forgetting the value of free speech. and i was starting to think when i was reading this, why the guardian? but why is this in the guardian? but we'll to that minute. we'll get to that in a minute. as discussed, sorry, is as discussed, sorry, this is about salman he's about salman rushdie. he's saying to young people must value free speech. discussed, value free speech. as discussed, the very big and negative impact of second trump presidency in of a second trump presidency in a rare public appearance since his stabbing. now it's the trump bit that the guardian are really homing in on. and here, they're not that i would quite happily argue with anyone who reads the guardian or with anyone from the guardian. they're not particularly interested in free speech. they're much more interested in the speech they want to hear. and that is true of probably the mail and anybody else, the only place where i really see open debate is here, genuinely here. and i know josh said earlier, you sh

salman rushdie live with the threat of assassination for years after iran's supreme leader called for his death over the book, the satanic verses then in 2020 to nearly 35 years after it was published, rushdie was repeatedly stabbed as he was about to give a public lecture in new york. he was lucky to escape with his life. and now in a brave defense of free speech he's written about his near death in knife meditation's after an attempted murder, he joined me this week from new york to tell me his book is also about the triumph of love over hate. >> can i just start by asking how you are, how you feeling i'm okay you know, i mean, i think i'm surprised myself by how well i feel. i think i'm pretty much repaired. thank you. >> someone i find it really interesting because you said you don't believe in miracles and you you also admit that your recovery is miraculous, but also you say you don't believe in premonitions and you did have something that we might call a premonition or a dream just before going to chautauqua, just before going to make this speed, we've asked you to read just a l

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and, ahead of his new memoir, sir salman rushdie gives a chilling account to the bbc about the knifehe big question across this region last week was, what will iran do next? this week, the same question is being asked about israel. the war cabinet met last night for

author salman rushdie attacked.ed there was a weapon. and then he just started... i think he was just slashing wildly at everything. so there was a very big slash here across my neck, as well as the stab wound here. and there were wounds down the middle of my torso — one, two, three — like that. and there are two on the side over here. and then there was the wound in my eye, which was quite deep. it looked terrible — i mean, it was very distended, swollen, and it was kind of hanging out of my face, sitting on my cheek, like a...like a soft boiled egg. and... and blind. while this was happening, something extraordinary happened, in that the audience jumped onto the stage and... saved my life. talk about heroism — that's heroism. i was lying there on the ground, bleeding profusely, and i'm thinking, "i want my house keys." and i think that was that survival instinct that was saying to me, "you're going to live. live." ijust remember the sounds of the machines and the ventilator breathing for him. that's... that's what

and salman rushdie joins us now.the title and the event that inspired it, this is a book about healing, and in a way, a love story. and you told pbs it is the story of the knife attack. but you started to think of it in another way. a more metaphorical way. like language is kind of a knife? it is also a tool that you could use to cut through things. like a truce. could you bring us through how writing this book impacted you? help you? brought you to where you are today? >> to begin with it it was very hard to write. especially the first chapter in which the actual details of the attack are given in great detail, kind of gory detail. that was very hard, emotionally difficult to write. but once i got past that it got easier, and it kind of began to flow more smoothly. people have asked me if it was therapeutic. i wouldn't say exactly therapy, because i have therapy, you know? therapy is therapy and writing is writing it but what it did do is give you a feeling of taking control of the narrative, of making it mine that

and also an april award winning author salman rushdie will release his account of the august 12th, 2022 knife attack that nearly took his life. that incident came more than 30 years after the former iranian leader, ayatollah khomeini, called for mr. rushdie to be killed for publishing the book the satanic verses. the british american novelist was blinded in one eye from the attack that took place during an appearance at a new york art center. now, mr. rushdie's newest book is called knife metal asians after an attempted murder. and on april 30th, bestselling author erik larson will release his latest, the demon of unrest. the book focuses on the election of abraham lincoln in november of 19, 1860. then april 1861, bombardment of fort sumter and south carolina, and the outbreak of the civil war. crown publishing rights. in its preview of the book, quote, drawingn diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers and plantation records, larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led america to the brink. also, this spring will see new books written by politicians, as

author salman rushdie offers his account the august 12th, 2020 to knife attack that nearly took his life. the british american novelist was left blind in one eye from that attack that place during an appearance at a new york center. the incident came than 30 years after iranians supreme leader ayatollah khomeini called mr. rushdie to be killed, publishing his book the satanic verses and to upcoming to note. former house speaker nancy pelosi is releasing the art power on august the sixth. according to publisher simon schuster, the book will her personal account of the events of january 6th, 2021. ms. pelosi's previous book was know your a message to america's daughters, which came out in 2008. simon and schuster also announced recently that had penned a deal with michigan democratic gretchen whitmer to release book about her life and career. it's titled true gretch and is set to be released on july the ninth. the simon and schuster press release quoted governor as saying, no matter who are or what you hope to achieve, i hope this book will help you find the good and use it to make a diffe

and also an april award winning author salman rushdie will release his account of the august 12th, 2022 knife attack that nearly took his life. that incident came more than 30 years after the former iranian leader, ayatollah khomeini, called for mr. rushdie to be killed for publishing the book the satanic verses. the british american novelist was blinded in one eye from the attack that took place during an appearance at a new york art center. now, mr. rushdie's newest book is called knife metal asians after an attempted murder. and on april 30th, bestselling author erik larson will release his latest, the demon of unrest. the book focuses on the election of abraham lincoln in november of 19, 1860. then april 1861, bombardment of fort sumter and south carolina, and the outbreak of the civil war. crown publishing rights. in its preview of the book, quote, drawing on diaries, secretommuniques, slave ledgers and plantation records, larson gives us a litical horror story that captures the forces that led america to the brink. also, this spring will see new books written by politicians, as we

and, ahead of his new memoir, sir salman rushdie gives a chilling account to the bbc about the knifettack on stage, which almost ended his life. hello, i'm lyse doucet injerusalem, the big question across this region last week was, what will iran do next? this week, the same question is being asked about israel. the war cabinet met last night for three hours to deliberate about israel's response after the unprecedented attack by iran in the early hours of sunday morning. 350 suicide drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. again today, the wall cabinet has convened. no statement yet about what they will do. reports coming out of deliberation so far indicate there is a consensus emerging. israel will have to retaliate, not now but at a time and manner of their own choosing. this kind of tension is reverberating in capitals around the world, including in new york last night, where the un secretary—general had a special meeting of the un security council, warning that the region was on the edge of an abyss. it is one of the few places where is israeli and iranian top diplomat can

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and in an exclusive interview with the bbc, sir salman rushdie speaks about the knife attack which almostfter last night's attack on israel by iran. iran and iran—backed groups in iraq, syria and yemen launched an estimated 300 drones, cruise, and ballistic missiles towards israel. iran said it was responding to a strike earlier this month on its consulate in damascus that killed several iranian military commanders. us officials say thatjoe biden told the israeli prime minister to think

he has lost salman rushdie. yes.alman rushdie unleashed donald trump will drive me back to britain. this is quite shocking. in his memoir, knife meditations after an attempted murder , he says that a return murder, he says that a return for the former us president scares him more than the attack that almost killed him. at least that's the way the times are phrasing, and that's not a direct quote, it seems. but there direct where he there are direct quotes where he talks about choosing between a post—brexit second post—brexit britain and a second trump presidency. he calls it choosing the lesser of two evils, one evil, meaning evils, but one evil, meaning britain family it. so britain has my family in it. so it's of the liberal mindset it's kind of the liberal mindset that's so extreme that, you know, doesn't matter what know, it doesn't matter what happens you still sort happens to you. you still sort of cyber liberal because you could course, that, could argue, of course, that, you liberalism allows you know, libera

. >>> plus the author salman rushdie is out with a memoir about his attack. here in studio with his wife, poet and author for their first joint live interview. a love story too. >>> and tanner adele talking about country carter is a rising country singer. you may recognize the voice as it's featured on two songs on beyonce's new album "cowboy carter." what it's like to be hand picked by queen bey herself. it feels pretty good to be picked by beyonce. we'll see you at 7:00 a little over ten minutes from now. >> i think you say it perfectly. i'll beed if i can't slow dance with you beyonce making a way for new artists. i love it. good morning. >> yes. >> well, a new bill to ban tiktok could be up for a house vote this week. it's different than the one that passed last month with strong bipartisan support. this time the ban is tucked into a package of four foreign aid bills to lure democratic votes. three bills have aid for ukraine and israel and taiwan. the fourth includes the tiktok ban. lawmakers say they're concerned tiktok's chinese parent company bytedance

the world voices festival was founded 20 years ago by the writer and activist salman rushdie. staffers called on pen america to take a stronger stance against the israeli offensive in gaza. everything came to a head this week with the issues dating back to the initial hamas attack on israel on october 7th. three days after hamas terrorists reached the border between gaza and israel, killing more than 1000 people and taking dozens of hostages, pen america released a statement, writing in part, " pen america deplores the premeditated and vicious attack launched against israeli civilians, resulting in more than 900 deaths, countless wounded, and scores kidnapped , held her hostage, and unaccounted for." the intercept reports, "a week later, 30 staff percent management letter protesting the statement for failing to include historical context about israel's occupation of palestine and for failing to address the issues of free expression that have already risen in israel's retaliatory war in gaza, including the killing of journalists." in the days that passed, pen america issued two

could even hit them in the united states, there are radians sleeper cells here as we know from salman rushdie there could be brought to bear. so they have a broad options. and as everybody has been talking about, it's the problem of escalation. if we move to escalation, the iranians certainly would take out the gulf oil facilities infrastructure and they've done this before. they hit ob cake and they would move to that in the case of escalation, they not they don't want to escalate. but i agree that they at this point that they need to respond in order to keep their proxies in line and save their credibility, >> well, general hurtling after the feeling the need to escalate. and you heard secretary is where they're talking about when the soleimani strike happened. there was this fear among experts that there was going to be a serious as then but then you saw a ron respond in a rather limited way for what people were expecting the us did not respond to that. i mean, is that a pathway here or doesn't seem clear from these warnings that something's going to happen i think you have to consider the

salman rushdie has just released his new memoir, giving a vivid and harrowing a story about the knife 1986 b satanic verses? was it a 1986 b 1987 or c 1988 lizzie cundy a 90 c and you're saying c he was in fact c 1988. >> could you get a single point this week ? i got one she got no, this week? i got one she got no, no, no i got that, i got the throw away. i think she might've got the one before you got one. you got 11.1. >> well done. disaster. the winner is matthew laza on today's quiz. well done at home. well, listen, on today's show, i've been asking. what did i ask in the great british debate is rwanda, safe, that's the question . do you believe it's question. do you believe it's unsafe for asylum seekers? and according to our twitter poll , according to our twitter poll, 14% of you say yes. and a whopping 86% of you say no. is it unsafe? 86% of them say it is not unsafe. it's perfectly safe . not unsafe. it's perfectly safe. exactly, exactly. well, thank you so much to my panel. broadcast and columnist lizzie cundy. thank you so much, lizzie. and also thank you to you matthew la