A violent crackdown against protesters in iran the chief of Police Orders officers to show restraint during a 3rd day of demonstrations comes as a rainy and accuse the government of trying to cover up its role in the accidental downing of a ukrainian passenger jet and a joker a dark look at a comic book villain leaves the Oscar Nominations with a love and nods including best picture well have a look at that and some of the other films that are now on this years short list. Its good to have you with us tonight a royal crisis meeting ending with a declaration of support somewhat Britains Queen elizabeth has agreed to grant prince harry and his wife meggan their wish for a more independent life in a. Statement following talks at her sandringham estate the queen said that the couple will embark on a transition period dividing their time between britain and canada but the issues arising from their shock and els meant that theyre stepping back as senior royals will those issues they remain u
Unbound, and this new one of course speaks t to a very wide d a significanband of significanty in our politics, a subject thats been an area thats been a subject of an enormous amount sought in arguments in many years, the question of nationalism of the nation and what it is in our politics, its connection to some of these forces and threats that have been driving the politics of the west in recent years. Our format will be very simple. We will hear a little bit about the book and he and i will then discuss the few minute minutes t opened up to questions from you. So, please lets welcome rich. [applause] enqueue everyone. It is a pleasure to be here. Thank you for making the time. I will share with you what has been my favorite moment from my book tour so far. It came very early on and on the second day at an npr interview. Npr has a practice i like to think of as professor ring. So, what they do thi did is thee no artist is and you give your take on history or policy, then they have a
And i had the bridge and the honor to stand tall with thousands and thousands of young libyan men and women to defend our country against this western attack and i was appointed the spokesperson of the Libyan Government i was the voice for the Libyan Resistance Movement that time and i walked close with my colleagues and commemorates to represent the libyan point of view to the world i dealt with the International Media for more than 8 months i held 3 press conferences every day under bombardment but i wasnt alone i had the support the love and the expertise of thousands of young libyan graduates and media personnel. It is intellectuals who still after 8 years of the war was very hard to fight for the liberation of the country for the freedom and independence of the libyan people well Mainstream Media around the world called you a liar a mouthpiece for a regime that far from this well being about imperialism this was a regime that was organizing mass rape has a policy using vi agra che
The air bombardment of libyan cities which were which was brutal and false almost immediately and the International Media had to admit because they came to libya and. That is not something you can hide secondly the mass rape of 8000 plebian women the country has been under control of our enemies and the west for a chair where are the victims and where are the convictions and where are the trials after 8 years they havent been able to prove any systemic rape of women during that time and then you have the charge of killing 10000. 00 innocent protesters and the 1st 3 days where are the names where are the bodies of the most they have been able to come up with 25 people who were killed in the 1st few days we say they were armed some people say they were not armed but 25 people killed. Old is not 10000 its very rare to be able to speak to someone who interacted with western Mainstream Media jury what you call an imperial conflict what was it like being a spokesperson for the government tal
Months i held 3 press conferences every day under bombardment but i wasnt alone i had the support the love and the expertise of thousands of young libyan graduates and media personalities and intellectuals who still after 8 years of the war was very hard to fight for the liberation of the country for the freedom and independence of the libyan people well Mainstream Media around the world called you a liar a mouthpiece for a regime that far from this well being about imperialism this was a regime that was organizing mass rape as a policy using vi agra chemicals to complete mess rate policy is the massacre of unarmed protesters and you are basically a mouthpiece for a moment of civilians well in any position. We will take there are 2 powers if you have on your side then you are proven as an honest party the power of except limitation and the power of prophecy and we had both after 8 years everything we said to explain what was happening in libya proved to be right we talked about terrori