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
someone who's been out there unafraid despite the threats that have followed him his entire adult life. iran's then—spiritual leader ayatollah khomeini issued a fatwa — a death threat — against the novelist in 1989, after the publication of his fourth novel, the satanic verses. there'd been mass protests by muslims across the world against a book inspired by the life of the prophet muhammad. sir salman went into hiding for ten years, burned in effigy from the streets of islamabad to london. in recent years, sir salman�*s been a more visible presence, after the iranian government distanced itself from the fatwa. what happened today is a stark reminder that the threat of violence never went away. katie razzall, bbc news. more now on the attack on author salman rushdie in the us. our security correspondent said the threat has continued ever since. it
fatwa do not have any expiry date. death sentences don'tjust disappear, but because of that, relaxation, if you like, by the iranian government itself, mr rushdie had been living in increasingly public life. he had moved to new york city, he had become an american citizen back in 2016, he could be found at some big, well—known american literary events. this was not someone who was hiding, he was hiding in plain sight, and had been doing so for several years now. i think that is why people are so shocked, really, that this has happened in. so shocked, really, that this has happened in-_ so shocked, really, that this has hauened in. ~ . , ., ~ happened in. michelle fleury, thank ou ve happened in. michelle fleury, thank you very much- _ happened in. michelle fleury, thank you very much- i _ happened in. michelle fleury, thank you very much. ijust _ happened in. michelle fleury, thank you very much. ijust wanted - happened in. michelle fleury, thank you very much. i just wanted to - you very much. ijust wanted to bring a few more details. this is from cbs news, which has reported direct conversations the reporter has had with family members attending the chautauqua literary festival, and he says family members in the audience of the event said the assailant appeared to be armed
be remembered. that is anne heche, whose death has been announced. let's get more on that attack on salman rushdie, stabbed while preparing to give a lecture at the literary festival in chautauqua in new york state. he went into hiding after a fatwa was issued against them. earlier i spoke to journalist and film maker mobeen azhar, who made a documentary which examined the effect of salman rushdie's novel the satanic verses. i remember meeting sam and rusty about four years ago at a book signing, and it felt in many ways at that point, although it lingered for many years and we heard in the package there, that fatwa, that egypt, did not have a date to expire —— i remember meeting salman rushdie. even though that was considered, it felt that salman rushdie can live as a free man, and
after ukraine was declared too dangerous to host it. while we await a update on the author salman rushdie, i want to bring a couple of bits of detail from numbers of the audience. this is from a lady called julia, who was attending the event, and she says, i thought at first that he was a microphone that the man was fixing, but then he started stabbing mr rushdie, so we saw knives. the first was right into his neck, and then like lower in the shoulder blades. mr rushdie, i think he got up and started running to the back of the stage, but the attacker pinned him on the ground and then people from the audiencejust ran on the ground and then people from the audience just ran onto the stage, and then mary newsom, a local, was in the audience, said there was a giant collective gasp. nobody was screaming, you're just in shock. this is a very peaceful
various members of american media here that mr rushdie is in surgery, but there has not been much more information in terms of his condition, and in fact earlier on, the governor of new york, kathy hochul, said that he had been airlifted to hospital. we understand he has gone to a hospital in erie, pennsylvania, which is about a six orseven pennsylvania, which is about a six or seven hour drive from where i am sitting right now. this would have been probably one of the biggest metropolitan areas from chautauqua institution, where he was given this lecture were the incident occurred. as for the person who carried out the attack, we understand, again, from new york governor kathy hochul that, thanks to the swift actions of state troopers on scene, he was quickly apprehended, but we still don't know the name or the motivations yet, and i think that is something, given who mr rushdie is, i think there is a lot of curiosity as to what was behind this attack.
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