for the entirety of her life, every movement analyzes, every facial expression dissected. such is the life of royalty, yet the world felt connected to her, speaking of the world it changes a great deal during the course of her life and her 70 year reign. think about what she experienced and lived through and bore eyewitness to think about how much the world, of technology and medicine changed. and celebrate some things that did not change like your pr relationship with great britain, she was a friend to the united states, our leaders and our people are for most of us we never met her, we just know what we saw, read and heard over the years, and admired her. she was in a real sense, a bridge from one generation to the next from a world we read about to the one we find ourselves in. her son king charles iii will as ascend to the throne. we celebrate her life and grief with our staunchest allies over the passing of a monarch and the end of an era, here to celebrate the life, leg
from heaven on a technicality. my name is giovanni di stefano. i am a lawyer. best known as the devil s advocate. i have defended the indefensible from saddam hussein to charles manson. they want a person who they believe has got away with them. if i ve committed anything that the media had alleged, i would not be a free man. am i going to be condemned and convicted? on a television program? devil s advocate, mr. murder, call him what you will the who s who of the criminal world. giovanni destefano is one of the attorneys representing saddam hussein. mr. de stefano, good morning to you. good morning. committed the most serious of criminal offenses. do you believe that? i really don t care. i don t live in a fantasy land. the legal world of london is a bit of a village really. it s elitist. the judges and lawyers come from the same place. they ve been school together. they will tell jokes among themselves. and along came this very unusual lawyer. with
[inaudible] there is the current investigation. it would be nice to have heard from you in person, instead of hearing from the media. this is the first time, and the only time that i had threat conversation with him. and i said i would like to see just speak to you at some stage to get your side of the story, effectively. i cannot be there in march. i m going to be in iraq for four, five days. his city was very busy. it was involved with saddam, iraq at that time. i will be there very polite, very sincere. i can bring you documents, if you want. [inaudible] i arranged a meeting with him. [inaudible] last they came, last i came, i waited, he didn t turn up. all the signs were, when we were going through it, it s charade. okay, i ll go along. outplay the game. i would never have a case like that before, which became so personal. the devils advocate, mr. murder, call him what he is. he is the who s who of the criminal world. giovanni destefano is
because there are i was at my desk working. no consequences. we can t wait. recall chesa boudin now. completely out of the blue mr. walters, can i speak to [inaudible] in force me that he s seen an article in the times, this paper about a potential investigation into his activities.
speechless on the phone. it was late afternoon and i was at my desk working, and it took me a few moments to understand what was going on in the conversation, honestly. i think as a poet, you just don t expect something like this to happen. it s not a kind of creative path where there s much money involved, so, yeah, it was a huge, huge surprise. i understand you can read some of the lines from your winning poem. and i want to know what you think it was about your work that helped clinch the prize? yes, sure. i would love to read a few lines here. shuffling cards, hoping for a dare. kids love animals first and learn their ways. i know where i m going wrong. flicking between screens. my mood is split and my meaning filling up the boot, a hand in the pocket of last year s jeans and the jeans of the year before.