including the existence of god. he finally resigned from the church, accusing it of persecuting gay people. did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to? richard holloway, welcome to hardtalk. at the age 01:14, you left your working class home in the west of scotland and went off to a very austere place in england. it was to train as an anglican priest. train as a monk. what was that like? it was lovely. i was a romantic wee boy who wandered the hills where i grew up. the hills give you a sense of beyondness, of otherness, but that was also related to me and the kind of love for western movies, this idea of the lonely hero. riding on and rescuing. i got kind of bitten by that. i was discovered by the local priest. he invited me to join the choir. the beauty of it somehow consumed me. he talked about the given away life, this mystical thing called a vocation that some people had, to give themselves to a greater purpose. i went to him when i was 13 and said tentat
the iraqi government says the city of mosul has been liberated from so called islamic state, three years after it was first occupied by the extremists. the second largest city in iraq was where is declared its caliphate in 2014. since then, its grip on territory, seen here in red, has been gradually reduced in iraq and in syria. in the last nine months its been targeted in mosul by the iraqi army, backed by us and coalition air strikes, and has lost ground street by street. but as our defence correspondent jonathan beale has seen in mosul, victory has come at a cost, with an estimated 800,000 civilians driven from their homes. what was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble, every building deeply scarred or destroyed by months of war. we joined the sea rch and rescue teams looking for survivors. but, more often, they are just recovering bodies. with the heat, there is also the strong smell of decay. ali s hoping against hope that his brother and his family are still a
i m alan little. my guest today is the former bishop of edinburgh, richard holloway. he entered a seminary at the age 01:14, intent on becoming a monk. he rose to become the leader of the anglican church in scotland. but he gradually lost faith in many of the certainties in christianity, including the existence of god. he finally resigned from the church, accusing it of cruelly persecuting gay people. so did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to? richard holloway, welcome to hardtalk. at the age 01:14, you left your working class home in the west of scotland and went off to a very austere place in england called kelham hall, to train as an anglican priest. to train, in effect, as a monk. what was that like? it was lovely. i was a romantic wee boy who wandered the hills at loch lomond, where i grew up. the hills give you a sense of beyondness, of otherness, but that was also related to me and the kind of love for western movies, this idea of the lonely her
time in shenyang china where china s most famous dissident, liu xiaobo who s dying of cancer, is the centre of a diplomatic row. germany, whose doctors are treating mr liu, has accused the chinese of leaking pictures of him in hospital. and it s called on beijing to ‘show humanity . the chinese says it s a matterfor them and no one should interfere in china s affairs. julia macfarlane reports. he s the most famous dissidents in china, held since 2008 for cowriting a document calling for sweeping democratic reform in china. liu xiaobo is now dying of cancer and the circumstances of his treatment are causing international concern. the german embassy says the visit by a german doctor to treat him at a hospital was filmed and released to the media. diplomats call that a breach trust, as you backed up by angela merkel‘s speaks in. to? the tragic case of liu xiaobo is of great importance to the chancellor and she would hope for a sign of humanity for liu xiaobo and his family
i m alan little. my guest today is the former bishop of edinburgh, richard holloway. he entered a seminary at the age of 1a, intent on becoming a monk. he rose to become the leader of the anglican church in scotland. but he gradually lost faith in many of the certainties in christianity, including the existence of god. he finally resigned from the church, accusing it of cruelly persecuting gay people. so did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to? richard holloway, welcome to hardtalk. at the age of 1a, you left your working class home in the west of scotland and went off to a very austere place in england called kelham hall, to train as an anglican priest. to train, in effect, as a monk. what was that like? it was lovely. i was a romantic wee boy who wandered the hills at loch lomond, where i grew up. the hills give you a sense of beyondness, of otherness, but that was also related to me and the kind of love for western movies, this idea of the lonely hero ri