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if he was going to hold onto the white house. that was the big issue. we are covering it going into election night. it was a huge deal when biden won arizona. >> arizona. are you 100% sure of that call and when you made it and why did you make it? >> absolutely. we made it after basically a half hour of debating it. we finally called it right now. >> nbc news is projecting that when every last vote is counted in the state of arizona, joe biden will be awarded 11 electoral votes. joe bi...

Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligenceb...

The quantum computer the principal rival ms. China that the quantum spy is a novel that the characters to be involved to see who can steal the other secret over changing technology but simply it is the story of my hero. Of a cia officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in process learn things about himself and the cia that she came up to his foundation. Not so familiar to readers of Science Fiction like the russian spy world but but it takes us into the world of sec...

Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chine...

Are being shipped around the us, ahead of a Mass Immunisation Programme starting on monday. It comes as germany decides to impose a christmas and new year lockdown, as it battles a new surge of coronavirus cases. The authorJohn Le Carre has died at the age of 89. His best known creation was the quiet and unassuming spy, george smiley. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Im shaun ley. Do stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. S...

Reporter actions are speaking far louder than words right now, kate, and rockets are flying. In the three hours, four hours in fact since that truce was supposed to kick in. Hamas and its allies, Islamic Jihad, have fired 20 rockets skywards towards israel and that being confirmed by the Israeli Military. Moments before we were to come to hour, i guess with two miles down that direction, we saw a single rocket arcing its way towards israel. Now, israel, yes, initially did accept this egyptian pr...

John le Carré was born David Cornwell in Poole, England in 1931. His father, known as Ronnie, was a violent con man who landed in prisons across the globe. Olive, David’s mother, so despised him that she packed her bag and slipped away in the middle of the night. She went into hiding leaving David,

Susan King revisits the movies based on John Le Carre novels.

Cinema Junkie speaks with filmmaker Errol Morris about his new documentary "The Pigeon Tunnel," which explores the life and work of David Cornwell, better known by his pen name of John Le Carré.

A surprisingly candid and confessional portrait of a writer defined self-deception.