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hello, everyone. thank you for coming thanks for supporting your authors, your favorite authors and your local independent bookstore and thank you tonight to c-span for being here. this is a first for me. maybe you guys are used to this. i m going to cover just a few basic things before we get started. copies of the book are available downstairs. i think at the register you can purchase them there and bring them up here to get signed after the events. if you could take a moment, silence your phones come i think we would all appreciate that. you are welcome to take photographs and you can post them on social media if they are good. after the author has finished speaking there will be a q&a and if you could please wait for microphone, so we can all hear your questions. that would be great. all right, let s get started. james is a writer, literary agent and former book editor. he s the author of the new york times bestseller neptune inferno: the last stand he is widel ....
infringe on sicivic rights. and we ll have the story of a man in war-torn iraq who makes sure the dead get a proper burial. south korea s former president has spent most of tuesday being questioned by prosecutors. park geun-hye is facing a slew of charges connected to a corruption scandal that has gripped the nation for months. prosecutors provided an update saying proceedings were behind schedule. questioning is expected to last into the night or early morning hours on wednesday. then it s expected that park will be allowed to return home. park started the day by briefly addressing the media in front of the prosecutor s office. translator: i sincerely apologize to my fellow citizens. i will fully cooperate with the investigation. park is the fourth former president to be questioned over criminal allegations, but she s the first to be kicked out of office by impeachment. park is reportedly repeating her claim of innocence while under questioning. joining me in t ....
reporter: abe was trying to refute sworn testimony from yasunori kagoike, the president of educational group moritomo gakuen. he told lawmakers that he received a donation of about $9,000 from abe s wife on his behalf in 2015. kagoike also says he believes there was political involvement concerning the moritomo purchase of state-owned land to build the school. the group got the land for a fraction of its estimated value. the deal has been questioned by lawmakers. abe denies any wrongdoing. translator: the issue originated with the problem related to the state land sale and licensing of the school. regarding those issues, i believe it was made clear that no specific politician was involved. reporter: while the prime minister issues denials, his wife is still in the spotlight for her connections to moritomo. she was listed as the honorary principal for the new school being built on the controversial land. she stepped down from the post when the scandal broke in an a ....
reporter: abe was trying to refute sworn testimony from yasunori kagoike, the president of educational group moritomo gakuen. he told lawmakers that he received a donation of about $9,000 from abe s wife on his behalf in 2015. kagoike also says he believes there was political involvement concerning the moritomo purchase of state-owned land to build the school. the group got the land for a fraction of its estimated value. the deal has been questioned by lawmakers. abe denies any wrongdoing. translator: the issue originated with the problem related to the state land sale and licensing of the school. regarding those issues, i believe it was made clear that no specific politician was involved. reporter: while the prime minister issues denials, his wife is still in the spotlight for her connections to moritomo. she was listed as the honorary principal for the new school being built on the controversial land. she stepped down from the post when the scandal broke in an a ....
joining us at the business desk. filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, cutting losses from u.s. unit as it tries to rebuild its finances. the company president says the bankruptcy filing is the first step in restoring its health. toshiba says it can post a net loss of $9 billion fiscal year. that would be the biggest ever for japanese manufacturer. we believe the removal of westinghouse from toshiba s consolidated earnings is in line with the company s policy of avoiding risk from the nuclear business abroad westinghouse has faced ballooning costs to meet upgraded safety standards at four reactors it s building in the u.s. the subsidiary received orders for the reactors in 2008. earlier toshiba projected losses from westinghouse to reach at least $6 billion for the current fiscal year. toshiba executives say they will remove westinghouse from their consolidated financial statements and they intend to withdraw from the u.s. nuclear business entirely. joining us in the stu ....