Hello youre watching the context on bbc news. Coming up the uk Prime Minister will no longer accept donations for clothes after a row over accepting gifts. Party Conference Season is well under way here in the uk and Today Reform Leader Nigel Farage opened his Partys Conference in birmingham. He told Supporters Britain is broken and said this was the weekend his party would come of age. We do not need to change the mind of a single person living in this country. Because the Silent Majority is already with us on the key issues that we care about. We can win the next general election, just with the numbers of people that agree with our principles, that agree that family, that agree that community, that agree that country should be the things that absolutely everybody in british public life campaigns for because they are the most important things to all of us that live here. Applause the labour partys annual conference will also kick off this weekend but it comes in a week in which the P
Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
About, i know we will talk about immigration because immigration has been a policy issue that has fueled your Public Service but lets talk about you say in the book you landed in the airport with two suitcases and that was it. Guest that is right. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. You are right. Its such a pleasure to have an indepth conversation with a colleague and something you just dont get to do. Yes, i landed here a few months before i turned 17 and again by myself. My dad had about 5000 dollars in his big account and used all of it to send me here because he really believed that this was the place i would get the best education and have the most opportunities. I show up at jfk airport with my two suitcases because that is all you are allowed to bring without having to pay for more baggage we did not have money to pay for more baggage. I just remember and i write about this in the book is how strange it was to see, first of all, not the diversity of people but its
You arrive in the United States at 817 never having been here, born in india, educated in indonesia. Granddaughter of a indian British Police officer. Remarkable mother and father, so motivated. Tell us a little bit about comeo well talk about immigration because immigration in the policy issue that has suffused your Public Service. Lets start with all the bit of what that was like. You say in the book you landed with two suitcases and that was it. Guest thats right. Taking so much for taking time to do this and to write commit such a pleasure to be able to have an indepth conversation with a colleague something we just dont get to do. So, yes, i landed here two months before 2027370003. I came by myself. My dad had about 5000 bucks in his bank account and use all of it to see me here because he really believed this is a thise as going to get the best education and have most opportunities. I show up at jfk airport with my two suitcases because thats all you are allowed to bring without
India 414 does seem really low for a country with a population of 1300000000 people india has also performed the lowest number of tests among affected countries Something Like 3 per 1000000 that was a was about 90 a day and there are increasing concerns of the very low level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases and so indians a bracing themselves as the government has now expanded testing criteria and doubled the number of Testing Centers brought in the private sector private hospitals so there was Something Like 52 Testing Center the government Testing Centers and not all of them were operational its double that people are really bracing themselves to see what the real number of cases are and there has been an exponential rise just on saturday and sunday both days saw saw the biggest jump so again you know unprecedented times here like like many other places in the world but for now most indians do understand the need for the for the lock down for the number of dead has