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firefighters from seven different european countries come to france's rescue as it battles a massive wildfire in the southwest. hello and welcome. the author salman rushdie has been stabbed on stage at a literary event in new york state while preparing to give a lecture. he was flown to hospital by helicopter and earlier his agent confirmed he was in surgery. salman rushdie received death threats after writing his book, the satanic verses in 1988 and went into hiding for nearly a decade. our north america correspondent john sudworth has more. there was confusion and panic. the attack...

Verses much of like salman rushdie does's work, a fiction. in this particular instance some of the characters were loosely, in terms of their name and some of their history were linked to islamic history. and so there were people in the muslim community, where talking about years ago. people within the community who were offended. it's also important to say when the time that he issued the fatwa, there was a political aspect, there was a rallying call and the ayatollah khomeini became a kind of told him to gather support. this is ten years after the revolution in iran. exactly. going wa back r...