President biden heading to israel this morning on a wartime journey that could prove to be the most important Foreign Mission of his administration to date. But even before touchdown, mr. Biden is encountering turbulence. It just might destroy any hope of warding off a full blown mideast battle. Good morning, everybody. Kevin corke In Washington with live one hour coverage. A special on the latest developments in the mideast. It is 3 a. M. Here in the nations capital, 10 a. M. In israel this morning. People there across in fact, across the mideast are waking up to growing concerns about a possible escalation of hostilities in the region. And now President Bidens efforts to tamp down the tensions are already facing a massive setback. The latest disturbing images from gaza explain why widespread carnage at a hospital once with wounded war victims and palestinians seeking shelter. At least 500 reported dead, many of them children. Israels military says it was a rocket fired by islamic. Ha
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Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
The quantum computer the principal rival ms. China that the quantum spy is a novel that the characters to be involved to see who can steal the other secret over changing technology but simply it is the story of my hero. Of a cia officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in process learn things about himself and the cia that she came up to his foundation. Not so familiar to readers of Science Fiction like the russian spy world but but it takes us into the world of security. That is the principal antagonist in the book. Host how much is real . I always say the preface exist in the imagined world if you take any book that i write the menu and up with the mud pie. E. But that said i try to do a lot of research i research that for many months going to the computer laboratories and i travel to every place mentioned in the book study the Chinese Intelligence Service. Would be those characters o dont exist in real life but it is as real as i could make it be and st