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borisjohnson used a newspaper column to describejeremy corbyn as one, but what is a mugwump? good evening and welcome to bbc news. police have arrested a man after another terror alert just yards away from last month s deadly attack in westminster. the man is being held under the terrorism act and a number of knives he was carrying were seized. it s now clear that the suspect who was captured on whitehall was under surveillance by scotland yard s anti terror squad. asjune kelly reports, there s been a high profile police presence in the area since khaled massood killed five people including pc keith palmer in march. under arrest in the shadow of government buildings in whitehall. the man was detained by armed officers near parliament square. this wasn t a random stop, search and arrest. it is understood the man was targeted by police as part of an ongoing operation by scotland yard s counterterrorism command. it was just before 2:30pm this afternoon that officer ....
here is the quick look at our coverage today. michael weiss his new book called isis inside the army of terror followed by authors and books growing up in an upper class black neighborhood in chicago, of voting rights, artificial intelligence, looking at past and future technology and a new book out on president and mrs. johnson. coming up today on our live coverage to a number to of the texas book festival. for the full schedule go to booktv.org to get behind the scene of dates if you follow was on twitter or follow-ups are run facebook follow us on facebook this is texas book festival and here is michael weiss talking about isis . [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i am here to introduce michael weiss author of isis inside the army of terror your times best-seller. to introduce him and moderate a discussion with question and answer sessions with you as all our other author was supposed to be here he sent his regret ....
michael weiss author of isis inside the army of terror your times best-seller. to introduce him and moderate a discussion with question and answer sessions with you as all our other author was supposed to be here he sent his regrets the author of black flag which is another book on the basis in he was not able to come because of the death in the family. it is good to see such a large crack a and we have a lot of time alloted on the back end of the discussion for questions and answers. first of all, i will tell you about michael weiss who has reported recovered russia and the middle east extensively as a senior editor at the daily beast and his book came out last february iran and it was a national best seller are in crisis. on isis. we can go into my set of questions first to get started. tell us of little how you came to write the books and why. guest: i was covering the serious crisis more or less since its inception 2011 and long before there is any isis pr ....
wonderful panel that we have. i m just going to be making a personal introduction and very shortly turning it over to my colleague. tom mann who is a senior fellow in governance studies and then of course needs no introduction to all of you but of course julia gillard australia s first prime minister and e.j. dionne. first female prime minister. [laughter] thank you. she really looks great, doesn t she? the first female prime minister. [laughter] and then the e.j. dionne. the laughter covered up your intra-e. j.. senior fellow for government studies. we are going to and note lots of people in the audience but just two people. welcome to ambassador kim beazley who is also the former leader of the labour party and tonya who is currently the deputy of the leader party labour party and shadow foreign minister so welcome to all of you. it s my pleasure to introduce the session the likes of an australian prime minister, first female prime minister. i am now going to be ....
true opportunity and social mobility for the future. the book takes some of the biggest shifts, is happening in our region of the world. the explosive growth economically and asia and the rise of china. it s economic rise and strategic rise. its desire for a larger and more military force. my conclusions are overwhelmingly optimistic ones and i come to those optimistic conclusions informed by my experience as prime minister. it was impossible for our nation, for history to improve its relationship with the u.s. and china at the same time. this is a zero-sum game county could only improve the relationship with one at the cost of the relationship with the other. i set out to prove that that was the right. you could improve both. during my time as prime minister we took a step forward in our alliance with the eu. we know trained u.s. marines in our northern territory. president obama said he wanted a harsh environment for them to train and. or, have i got a harsh environme ....