reports suggest a man opened fire during a family dispute. at 10pm, tina deheley will be here with a full round up of the day s news. but before that, a bracing dose of hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. a year on from the re imposition of taliban rule, afghanistan is facing a humanitarian calamity. half the population is facing serious food insecurity, more than 1 million children are at risk from acute malnutrition. as for the taliban, well, they seem focused on snuffing out opposition and imposing strict controls on women and girls. my guest is former first vice president of afghanistan, now a seniorfigure in the national resistance front, amrullah saleh. is internal resistance viable when afghans are starving? amrullah saleh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a year, mr saleh, since the taliban swept into kabul and toppled the government of which you were a part. would you acknowledge that this past year has been a year of failure from your point of vi
someone who has been out there, unafraid, despite the threats. a man has been arrested. we ll have the latest. also on the programme. drought is officially declared across large parts of england after the driestjuly in 50 years. there s no cheer in the latest economic figures which show the economy has shrunk slightly. people don t seem to be coming out eating as much, or coming out drinking as much, because they can t afford it. train drivers strike this weekend over pay and the cost of living disrupting people s ability to get to sporting and social events across the country. and the shortlist of uk cities that could host next year s eurovision song contest has been revealed, with seven left in the running. coming up on the bbc news channel, gold in herfinal major race for britain s n triathlete non stanford who sprinted to the line to win the european championships in munich. good evening and welcome to bbc news at ten. the author sir salman rushdie has been stabbed on s
gold in herfinal major race for britain s n triathlete non stanford who sprinted to the line to win the european championships in munich. good evening and welcome to bbc news at ten. the author sir salman rushdie has been stabbed on stage at a literary event in new york state while preparing to give a lecture. he was flown to hospital by helicopter and earlier his agent confirmed he was in surgery. police said a suspect was arrested at the scene and taken into custody. salman rushdie received death threats after writing his book, the satanic verses in 1988 and went into hiding for nearly a decade. our north america correspondent john sudworth has more. there was confusion and panic.