author salman rushdie is attacked on stage at an event in new york state. police say he suffered a wound to the neck and has been flown to a hospital near the town of chautauqua we hear from someone who saw what happened the announcement comes as part of the southwest southern and eastern and central england after the prolonged period of dry weather. this is an exceptional summer and we can all think about how we use our water and think about where it comes from. when you turn on the tap, have a shower, that water is coming from the environment from rivers like here. us justice officials are poised to make public details of the search warrant used to raid
generation on that are holding on to these grievances and of course, i think it is very important to say, we can t engage with that in a meaningful way apart from telling people that this is entirely wrong in condemning violence. we have to be united in that within the muslim community and outside the muslim community, we have to be resolute and that in more than anything, i am hoping that mr salman rushdie makes a swift recovery. i really do. exploring the effects. thank you so much for talking to us this evening and i m sure your good wishes for salman rushdie s recovery are shared much tonight. i will bring you a quote from the british prime minister borisjohnson who said he is appalled by the attack and while exercising a right, we should never cease to defend the rights of free expression. prime minister boris
to the film maker who made a documentary that examined the effects of salman rushdie s novel. thank you very much for talking to us. but you make of today s events. this is a man who has been in the public eye for a long time that s been a target but perhaps from recent years, people tend to think that threat had faded a little. i think that s very true. i remember meeting her to perhaps four years ago at a book signing and i thought in many ways that the threat that it lingered for many years and as we heard in the package there, that edict and have a date to expire and even though that was considered, it felt that salman rushdie could live as a free man in my initial thought and response isjust complete