20 years, and i was even underground, and i felt very close to that story of Benazir Bhutto, and thats why that was another motive to write thats why that was another motive to write it. T me talk about the Commission Report how that has caused a huge controversy when it came to pakistan . At differs quite a bit in the sense that there would go into the history of pakistan in cases of cocacola impunity i go to the story of Benazir Bhutto and her family which is the story unto itself and in pakistan with a lot of tragedy into it by the way because today out of the whole family, killed by a dictator in the late 70s and the two brothers also died violent deaths who was involved in politics and when you look at the kennedys its Something Like that so there were these elements. But also it is a reflection about the relationship with the United States and pakistan because it is a critical actor. All of those elements make up a good 3 4 of the book and theres one part of the assassination the
Up next on booktv, after words with guest host kim barker. Propublica reporter and author of the taliban shuffle. This week Geraldo Munoz and his book, getting away with u. N. And the politics of pakistan. Rnte the u. N. Assistant secretarygeneral reports on the International Inquiry he lit into the assassination of the formerta pakistani prime minist. The program is about one hour. Host welcome, ambassador. I its a pleasure to be here with you to be talking about your new book. W i wanted to start with the obvious question which is what made you decide to write the book thank you hundred and ie assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and immediately after i delivered the report to the secretary general, there was a change in government in my country, in chile. I was the ambassador of chile to the United Nations. Im a political appointee, and a new government came in of the opposition, so i had free time, first. And second, there were a lot of publishing houses interested in this story behind
U. S. Lawmakers give thems a last chance to stop the falling off the fiscal cliff. Its no deal has been actually reached. Budget cuts and tax hikes will tax place on january the 1st. President barack obama returned to washington deeply meyered in another partisan stalemate. But over in the capitol the lower house of Congress Remains dark to avert the fiscal cliff. Its republican leader will call the session on sunday. The top senate said his branch of Congress Must take the initiative on a compromise. It appears to me the action if there is any is now on the senate and we will have to see if were able on a bipartisan to move forward. But the democrats say there can be no deal without republican concessions on tax increases. Unless we get a signoff from the republicans in the house, we cant get anything done. For them to talk about a bipartisan arrangement, we have done that. Without a deal, the mediate effect would billion a tax hike. Relief checks to 2 million 2 million onamericans wo
Stories in fact the economist story was almost word for word my story in the wow Washington Times but they were all afraid to break it. And this fear in western europe about exposing what is really going on, and even since that time, i have been given some grief by some of our old friends who didnt much like the fact that i did this. And to me, its troublesome. This is a little personal because ive been more so theres no question that youre right about that, and the antifracking effort in europe is rim is in sent of reminiscent of receive russian propaganda because its in their interests to prevent it. And that is trumped and this goes to maybe to dougs point and others the reality of russia versus the soviet union. Maybe the difference isnt so great but may end up in the same place. That is that putin and his friends have transformed post cold war russia into a quasimiddle Eastern Trust state which i totally dependent on its ability to sell energy to the west because that how they sup
Well, i think we have ignored it too long already. Its one of the big mistakes we make is assuming its a single block. There are billion 600 Million People in the muslim world, half in four countries, bangladesh, india, snowshower ya, indonesia and pakistan, and life for muslims is very defendant in each country. In the arab world, daytoday life is different in moore morocco than saudi arabia, and even if you assume theres one percent that has very stringent interpretation of islam, thats 16 Million People. A whole country, and not being engaged in the ideological and theological war with them, not dealing with elements that are reconcilable within the islamic world is a tragedy that is going to come to bite us and it may not be as doug said an existential threat, but its a threat where you can see casualties and hundreds of thousands through terrorist activity, and its something we have to worry about a great, great deal. Okay. Were out of time, but ive got a final question for the pa