Researched this book for five years. Thank you for being here with me. We are so happy to have you. Her first book was radio shangrila, which i love the fact that they have a gna, national happiness. We are glad youre here to talk about your new book ray and joe and his third and final ways. The story is so compelling in so many ways. I think we need to go back to the beginning a little bit here because mcdonalds is huge. Its ubiquitous. It is everywhere but it has some modest beginning in the little town in california with a couple of brothers. When you started researching, that take you where . San bernardino, california which is a small town and yes it is two brothers who came from New Hampshire she cant know yet if the weather in New Hampshire to california and the tonys, but they wanted to make their way in the movie industry like a lot of people did and still do today. And mac mcdonald made their way west and they found out very quickly as many people do that its hard to make it
Strengthen the vaticans ties with islam. Pope francis makes a key visit to istanbul. [ music ] and using ballet to honour venezuela elcomondante we begin in egypt where former president Hosni Mubarak has been cleared of all charges after his latest retrial. Hed been accused of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 resolution and was facing charges of corruption. This was the reaction inside the court, after the verdicts were handed down. Hosni mubarak and his sons, former interior minister and six aides were cleared of charges. Before delivering his ruling the judge warned anyone making trouble in the court would face a year in prison. Lets take a look at the charges ruled on today. The court threw out charges for killing protesters, and cleared six of his aides on charges. Corruption charges of Hosni Mubarak and his son were thrown out on a technicality. Hosni mubarak was cleared of corruption charges over sending gas to israel with a coused, an aide, to Hosni Mubarak. Here is
In wartorn iraq with music for the people. Well, we begin with news that reached us in the last ten minutes or so about explosions in the Eastern Libya city of cooper and we understand at least 20 people have been killed in what is thought though have been a car bomb the town is to the east of benghazi and more on that in a moment. Meanwhile the United States and britain rejecting libyas call to lift a weapons embargo and British Foreign secretary saying they need a National Unity government first and recognized by u. N. Made the appeal to lift the embargo two days ago and neighbors nigeria and tunesia warned against war intervention because of fighting with rival malitia and thoughts now of richard from the British Ambassador to the country says a stable india is in the best independent of the entire region and europe. The sort of statements you hear from the neighbors, liberia and tunesia and egypt show the level of concern there that insecurity could spread and i think everybody in
Once pan-Arab socialism counted as a real force in the world, its most famous leader being Gamal Abdel Nasser. Yassamine Mather looks back at his heady rhetoric and ultimate failure
New Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi claims to oppose sexual violence from security forces and others, but there is bloodcurdling evidence that it is still used to silence critics.