National archive. In meet the author this week, our guest is the American Writer rj palacio, and were talking about her international bestseller, wonder, all about a boy called august. A woman from birmingham has been found guilty of terrorism offences, after buying a weapon for her husband to use in an attack. 21 year old Madihah Taheer had denied preparing an act of terrorism by helping Ummariyat Mirza he pleaded guilty to plotting an attack earlier this year. From Woolwich Crown court, our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani reports. Wrestled to the ground in an armed stop, stop a birmingham man setting out to kill. The suspects seized in a joint intelligence led operation by mi5 and the West Midlands Counter Terrorism unit. A week after the westminster attack in march, Ummariyat Mirza wanted to rampage in his home city. Now convicted, alongside of his wife Madihah Taheer, who helped him, and his sister zainab, who encouraged planning via social media. Mirza was obsessed wit
A woman from birmingham, who bought her husband a combat knife that he planned to use in a terror attack, has been found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism. Madihah taheer, whos 21, had expressed her support for the Islamic State group on social media, but she told Woolwich Crown court that she hadnt known what the knife was for, as our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani reports. Wrestled to the ground by armed police, a birmingham man setting out to kill. This was the man arrested, ummariyat mirza. He wanted to rampage in his home city. Now convicted alongside his wife, Madihah Taheer, and his sister, zainub, who encouraged them both. Mirza was obsessed with knives and replica guns. He wanted to fight in syria but then turned his attention to home. His pregnant wife bought him this combat knife on her credit card and he trained on this martial arts dummy. Mirzas attack plan wasnt fully formed when he was arrested but he has admitted preparing an act of terrorism by resea
Live now to the National Press club where army chief of staff general mark milley will be todays speaker, he is the top uniformed official in the army assuming his duty as chief of staff back in 2015. Live coverage. Good afternoon and welcome to the National Press club the place where news happens. Im myron belkein the 2014 National Press Club President and a former correspondent and bureau chief for the Associated Press in england, india and japan and i now teach journalism and the importance of accuracy at George Washington school of media and public affairs. Before we get started i want to remind our inhouse audience to please silence your phones if you havent already done so and for our viewing and listening audience please feel free to follow the prok on twitter at npclive. And for our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, so any applause or reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. Before
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Good afternoon. And welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. Im the 2014 National Press Club President and a former Foreign Correspondent in and bureau cheap for the Associated Press in india, england, and japan. And i now teach journalism and the importance of accuracy at George Washington University School of media and public affairs. Before we get started, i want to remind our inhouse audience to please silence your phones, and for our viewing and listening audience, please feel free to knoll program on twitter, at hash tag npc live. Accomplish for our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public so any applause or reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. Before i introduce the head table, i want to recognize two very special tables on my right, your left. In the audience. Which are prized of the members of the channel press clubs American Legion post 20, which was founded