her country shaped her fiction? anne enright, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. well, it s great to have you here. now, to an outsider, you do seem like a deeply rooted writer. that sounds so dull, doesn t it? yeah, no, ishould have gone places and done things, and i did a little, but, yeah, i returned to ireland. but would you acknowledge that those roots are hugely important to you? i pass the building where i was born when i go into town. so it is, it is quite close. yeah. it s fascinating because, just the other day, i interviewed a colombian novelist and he said to me, i only really was able to write about my country and the things that really mattered to me when i left it, when i had a little bit of space and distance and freedom to actually express what i really thought. but you ve always felt free enough from within. orfoolish enough one or the other to say whatever i wanted to say at any given time. yeah, um. ..so i think it was difficult in the deep pas
a newark tax on u.s. forces in the middle east 2 drones targeting al asad air base where u.s. troopers stationed no casualties. the group claiming responsibility for this latest incident is alined with iran. and israeli sailor strike leveled a populates camp in the northern gaza strip today the camp taken over by hamas and strike kill aid senior commander of the terrorist organization. palestinian officials claim 25 were kill in the the bailiff as limp get to alec hog an live in tel aviv. alex? hi. trace the israeli defense 2 solders were killed 2 severely wounded and the idf managed intercept and attack from the red sea hours earlier before that. we heard the country air defense system the rareo air defense stopped a missile from that same area. the idf took out 300 hamas targets in the left day. medical presses forward in northern gaza reported death toll is soaring from the israeli blast. the idf tried to target a central hamas strong hold and managed take out a commande
cnn hello everyone. thanks for joining me. i m alison camp morata in for fredricka whitfield today okay. the countdown is underway for a pivotal moment in the 2024 presidential election. we are four days away from the cnn presidential debate. the first between president biden and former prime president trump of the 2024 race. and the two candidates are preparing for this high-stakes event in very different ways. we re told president biden hunkering down at camp david all weekend reportedly holding intensive prep work and mock debates with a team of advisors. donald trump has spent the weekend on the campaign trail and says he has decided on his vp pick. and that person will join him at thursday s debate. he says, today, trump s supporters hit the sunday political talk shows to give their advice on what you should focus on it, it ll be a great opportunity for president trump to talk about his policies and how his policies when he served as president of this country, we re
Almost everyone in power claims to believe it. The push to war in syria, by the way has united politicians have both sides. Lindsey graham and howard dean typically agree on very little. Not much at all. But today they are both calling for war in syria. Graham is ghanelding massive attacks on the syrian military, dean is going even further than that on twitter, he called the president , quote a wimp for merely sending thousands of troops and launching tons of bombs at syria. Thats not enough for howard dean who you may remember once ran for president as the peace candidate. Tonight he wants total war in syria. Television pundits, of course, strongly agree. This morning the Foreign Policy team over on Msnbc Exexplained that its far more important for american troops to fight in syria than it is to secure our own border here in america u watch. There is no question that now all these years later is Donald Trumps challenge. He has to take action. He has spoken to macron. What he ought too