Within your means please pot buy books at the book tent. This festival is free to all of us, but book sales are important because it helps publishers and convinces them to send their authors to the book festival and we would like to continue to make this festival grow. Its now my great privilege to introduce our speaker, Sidney Blumenthal was the former assistant and Senior Advisor to president bill clinton and Senior Advisory to Hillary Clinton and began his career as a journalist and has been an National Staff reporter for the washington post. Washington editor and staff writer for the new yorker and Senior Writer for the new republic as well as contributor to many other publications. He has also written several bestsellers, the clinton wars, rise of the counter establishment and the Permanent Campaign and has worked in television and film was executive producer for the Academy Awards taxi to the dark side. He is here with us today to talk about his newest book, wrestling with his an
Proceedings lincoln knew how to use a fun to advantage, an opposing liar who claimed he could bring a man to prove an alibi heard lincoln shooting back i have no doubt you can bring a man to prove a lie by. You can watch this and other programs online a book tv. Org. Book tv tapes hundreds of other programs throughout country all year long. Heres a look at some events we will cover this week. Monday, National Press club in washington where derek grapple report on the us governments doomsday plan. That evening we fly out to california where former speechwriter and Senior Advisor to president richard nixon, pat buchanan will shed light on the inmate nixon administration. On wednesday, to the macarthur memorial where Washington Post Foreign Correspondent peter eisner will recall how the contingent of filipinos and americans survived Japanese Occupation of the philippines during world war ii. Also that evening in denver at the chatter cover bookstore to hear Laura Cardwell discuss how 14 e
Workers in greece and say they are dealing with hundreds of extremely vulnerable refugees held on the island of lesbos. Bags of Rubbish Pile Up in birmingham as rubbish collectors step up their industrial action. Collection has already been disrupted for weeks. And its only just bought it. A Driver Looses Control of his new £200,000 ferrari. That was one hour after he picked it up that was one hour after he picked it up from the garage. Good morning. Its friday 28th july. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The bbc understands that at least 60 high rise buildings, which used insulation and cladding similar to Grenfell Tower, have failed a new fire safety test. The test is seen as more thorough than previous ones, as more materials were analysed together for the first time. So farjust nine of the buildings which failed have been identified. Theyre in salford in greater manchester, where the local council is asking for help from Central Government to meet the cost of replacements. Ministers w
And a romcom with a diference boy meets girl, and girl falls into a coma in the big sick. Well get film critic james kings thoughts on this and the other releases in the film review. Good evening. In the past few minutes, the government has announced that an independent review will be carried out into Building Regulations and fire safety, because of the Grenfell Tower fire. The fire in west london, which killed 80 people, raised serious questions about about the fire safety of high rise buildings and led to the widespread testing of cladding, like that used on Grenfell Tower, on other buildings across the country. Also in the past few minutes it has been confirmed that 82 buildings have failed those new fire tests for cladding. That includes these in salford. 47 of them are in local Authority Control run by housing associations. All the details of the findings of those particular tests have only just been released, just in the last few minutes. So our correspondents arejust reading few
Journal, white house chief strategists relationship with President Trump was explored. This new book, devils ba rgain. Meetdid steve bannon first donald trump . Guest a lot earlier than most people realize. I tell the story of how they were actually introduced in 2010, by a veteran republican activist. Trump had begun turning to tutor him and give some political advice on the idea that he was going to run for president and said hey, im going up to advise donald trump, dont you come along and steve bannon decided to go along and by all accounts, van and trump hit it off right off the bat and he has been a part of trumps cabinet ever since. Host what do they have in common and what separates the two . Guest they have quite a bit in common. They both went to military high schools. They are both dealmakers. Trump in manhattan real estate, bannon on wall street finance and later in hollywood. Involved both deeply in the paint entertainment industry. Trump in the apprentice and then and prod