High everybody i am david and neck schist, columnist for the washington post. Welcome to the National Book festival in this difficult time of the pandemic, one thing we can do i know you are loving it as i am is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which was about a cia officer who is struggling with one of the central problems of our times which is knowing what is true and what isnt. And it is my great pleasure to have with me today to people who wrote two of those very best books of this summer, about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First i want to introduce bart gelman, my colleague at the washington post, wrote an extraordinary memoir that led to the revelation about nsa, technology and surveillance. And the subtitle of barts book says the american surveillance state. I also into introduce another outstanding author, thomas ridden who teaches at john hopkins. Whose book active measures is a history of what
Across india over the gang rape and death of 2 women from the dalai community. The e. U. Formally launches legal action against the u. K. Over its plans to breach parts of the brics it divorce agreement and scores of arrested in hong kong even as new laws and coronavirus restrictions cause protesters to create. Global come to the program we begin with the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia and the disputed nagornokarabakh region where its alleged syrian fighters have now joined the battle that france and russia are saying they have evidence the fight has traveled through turkey to join the fight on behalf of azerbaijan adorn a car by his internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but its controlled by on media and separatists a flare up in fighting over the past week is the deadliest for years robin foresee a walker reports. The spoils of war shown by as every Public Television of a 1000000 tanks and other hardware proof the army says of terror troops taken in the disputed l
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