In your home, your Writing Study is just below us, the floor below. Just tell me, does it matter to you when you are writing what is going on in the world outside Yourfront Door . Does it affect your writing . Well, it depends on what you mean. If theres a fire engine screeching in front of my door, it will interrupt my concentration, and i might go out and see whats going on. But if theres a distant war going on in another place and i know about it, im not going to read about it while im doing my work for the day. But i certainly will inform myself about it later. You talk of distant wars. Im thinking of wars much closer to home. You write a lot about your take on american politics. Youve talked about your feelings through the course of four years of donald trump. Youve talked about a country at war with itself. So the war isnt so very far away. Yes, the war that were engaged in here, fortunately, has not become yet a fighting war with guns, to a large degree. But we are divided in wa
Changed for those who serve in the armed forces. There are concerns that thousands of people could be let down when they buy a pre paid funeral plan, with many not get what they think theyre paying for. Ill have more later. In sport Johanna Konta is now favourite for the wimbledon womens title. She plays on court one later. She is one of four britons for the first time in 20 years heading into the final week. Good first time in 20 years heading into the finalweek. Good morning. Yesterday we hit 32. 2 celsius. Today wont be as hot with highs of about 28, it should be dry in wimbledon. There is some rain and showers in the forecast and i will tell you where when we are back later in the programme. Mike, carol, thanks very much. Good morning. First, our main story. There were violent clashes last night in hamburg ahead of the g20 summit. Police used water cannon and pepper spray on masked protestors who hurled bottles and stones. The demonstrations came ahead of the highly anticipated fir
Religious and secular itseemed to sum up many peoples vision of the countrys future. Turkey, however, is now t a crossroads. Recent terror attacks and the ongoing crackdown on thoseaccused of being against te government, have left manyresidents, like fuat, fearfl that the future of their countryis not what they had hopd for. It looks like the snow hastemporarily masked the tensin on the streets of istanbul. Hardly anyone dares to talk about politics or terrorism and certainly not in public. I visit fuat, whom ive knownfor as long as ive lived in turkey. Hes a turkish teacher and coowns a laundrette. Fuat was hesistant to grant me an interview. Its a challenge for any foreign journalist these days to find aninterview partner ready to discuss political issues inturkey. Anyone who speaks critically isquickly denounced as a traito. It has been a difficult year forthe country. Tourism has experienced anunprecedented slump followinga slew of attacks, and that hashad an affect on many busines
Religious and secular itseemed to sum up many peoples vision of the countrys future. Turkey, however, is now t a crossroads. Recent terror attacks and the ongoing crackdown on thoseaccused of being against te government, have left manyresidents, like fuat, fearfl that the future of their countryis not what they had hopd for. It looks like the snow hastemporarily masked the tensin on the streets of istanbul. Hardly anyone dares to talk about politics or terrorism and certainly not in public. I visit fuat, whom ive knownfor as long as ive lived in turkey. Hes a turkish teacher and coowns a laundrette. Fuat was hesistant to grant me an interview. Its a challenge for any foreign journalist these days to find aninterview partner ready to discuss political issues inturkey. Anyone who speaks critically isquickly denounced as a traito. It has been a difficult year forthe country. Tourism has experienced anunprecedented slump followinga slew of attacks, and that hashad an affect on many busines
Religious and secular itseemed to sum up many peoples vision of the countrys future. Turkey, however, is now t a crossroads. Recent terror attacks and the ongoing crackdown on thoseaccused of being against te government, have left manyresidents, like fuat, fearfl that the future of their countryis not what they had hopd for. It looks like the snow hastemporarily masked the tensin on the streets of istanbul. Hardly anyone dares to talk about politics or terrorism and certainly not in public. I visit fuat, whom ive knownfor as long as ive lived in turkey. Hes a turkish teacher and coowns a laundrette. Fuat was hesistant to grant me an interview. Its a challenge for any foreign journalist these days to find aninterview partner ready to discuss political issues inturkey. Anyone who speaks critically isquickly denounced as a traito. It has been a difficult year forthe country. Tourism has experienced anunprecedented slump followinga slew of attacks, and that hashad an affect on many busines