Tim Bewesl 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...

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...