Phonte elijah holly is an Award Winning journalist and author of an american the shakers and nation. They created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you things are coming out of retirement thank you for being here and having me i moved here a year ago which is the first chapter and the part that i wrote for this book the scene that sets the stage for the rest of the book. Im going to read a short excerpt from that and that im going to talk about the book itself, the themes behindoo the book and how i came to write and why i wanted to write it. Then i will read another short excerpt, i promise theyre very short. And then we will have audience q a the name of the book is American Family and the nat
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As a whole and hamas, who had carried out murderous attacks on ordinary israeli families and young people at a music festival. One viewer who wrote in to newswatch wished to put a complaint in about the news channel at 11 25 am saying, the protesters in london were hamas supporters. That was a disgrace. They were showing support for the palestinian people. Maggie gardiner said, this is not only factually incorrect, it is extremely offensive and dangerous and disrespects all the protesters who were there to call for peace. Apologise and do better. And the bbc did. On monday afternoon, the Bbc News Channel issued this apology for the mistake. Now, before we go, earlier on bbc news, we reported on some of the pro palestinian demonstrations at the weekend. We spoke about several demonstrations across britain during which people voiced their backing for hamas. We accept that this was poorly phrased and was a misleading description of the pro palestinian demonstrations. On tuesday, there was
Officials in japan, suzuki saying that thet are aiming for wage growth. It was in contraction territory for the 24th straight month. This week it has been the continued slippage in the japanese yen now trading, above the 155 mark. The question of how long if we did indeed see intervention twice last week which does appear to be the case how long that will last in the market. Today we have the nikkei 225 coming on to the upside. Wall street overnight had signals of positivity. We had weaker than expected initial jobless claims. It really backs the case that the fed can cut rates later this year. Nikkei up zero. 4 . Lets look at how the korea how korea is sharing a bank. The korean won looking for more against the dollar how korea is [crowd cheering]. The korean won looking firm or against the dollar. Haidi in sydney we had a giveback of the recent gains, the 5session winning streak. Retail is dragging. This meant lower on the session. But a bit of a bounce back there, 0. 1 higher. We ha