Tim Bewes News Today

hello. welcome to the programme. the agent for the internationally acclaimed british author salman rushdie says the novelist has sustained serious injuries to an eye and his liver, during a knife attack in new york state. he was stabbed repeatedly by an assailant who pounced on him as he took the stage at an arts centre in new york. police named the attacker as hadi matar, a 24—year—old man from newjersey. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports. there was confusion a...

welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the acclaimed british author sir salman rushdie has sustained serious injuries to his liver and an eye after being stabbed while taking to the stage at an arts centre in new york. the 75—year—old is currently on a ventilator and unable to speak. police have named his attacker as hadi matar, a 24—year—old from newjersey who is currently in custody. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports. there was conf...

The fatwa and salman rushdie and it led to serious consequences, notjust for salman rushdie, a norwegian publisher was attacked, shot in the late 1990s, he survived. an italian translator was stabbed in his apartment in milan and ajapanese translator was killed as a result of this from stabbing. and so while salman rushdie ended up coming out of hiding, continuing his works, becoming a huge advocate for freedom of speech, it did affect his life, his works in a serious way but in the last few yea...

Satanic verse asked another question in his day mode, almost on the same page, how does newness survives, extreme and dangerous as it is, what compromises, what deals or betrayals of its secret nature must it make? that question and the answer that it contains applies, i think, the answer that it contains applies, ithink, to the answer that it contains applies, i think, to rushdies own work. newness survives not through willing authority but by giving it up. that, i think, is the great lesson ru...

Leader, ayatollah khamenei, upheld it, and he tweeted about the fatwa and salman rushdie and it led to serious consequences, notjust for salman rushdie, a norwegian publisher was attacked, shot in the late 1990s, he survived. an italian translator was stabbed in his apartment in milan and ajapanese translator was killed as a result of this from stabbing. and so while salman rushdie ended up coming out of hiding, continuing his works, becoming a huge advocate for freedom of speech, it did affect ...

Professor tim bewes from brown university there. lets get some of the days other news. us lawmakers have adopted president biden�*s sprawling climate, tax and healthcare plan. its a major win for the president and includes the biggest ever american investment in the battle against global warming. the house of representatives approved the measure by a 220—207 vote along party lines, following its adoption in the senate on sunday. 11 people have been killed in a mass shooting in montenegro. re...

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