At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
Still defiant nostrum remnants of the Syrian Revolution in a province as turkey and russia reaching new agreement on a Demilitarized Zone. And a multibillion dollar export industry has been blamed for the month long blanketing Southeast Asia. We got some more weather pushing into western parts of your private the next couple of days but still on the cool side the breezy side wall autumnal should we say scandinavia eastern areas if you are pushing over towards that western side of russia this piece is a cloud here showing up quite nicely and you got this march weather front running right down across the black sea through the balkans into the adriatic into italy some sharp showers all miss some heavy downpours as well sliding further southwards in east was it picking up the northwest even the cool direction of course with the temperatures around 14 celsius in warsaw just 90 degrees there for most meanwhile i was told the western side if you want to 20 in london not see bad 22 in paris ge
How low still no letup in the heat across the middle east if anything temperatures 2 or 3 degrees about the seasonal averages lost a clear skies i saw you last a push over towards the black sea see this line of cloud just pushing up towards the caucasus thats going to sink its way further south which over the next day or so so ankara 26. 00 celsius here on friday quite sharply to 19 degrees as we go on into saturday really setting in this system makes its way through little bit of snow there over the Higher Ground still going up to 43 celsius in baghdad the 39 in kuwait city and that sunshine extends down across the Arabian Peninsula here in doha were getting up to around 38. 00 celsius as well as 100. 00 in fahrenheit a fair bit of cloud across southern parts of the peninsula southern areas of oman into yemen where you see that cloud you might just catch a spot or 2 of light rain or drizzle salada at around 29 degrees some rain some really right pushing its way into the western side o
The saudi led war in yemen now in its 4th year see the incident very differently the who has dismissed the saudi version of events describing the attack as an example of how their own newly developed weapons can now reach targets far beyond yemens borders and they warned if the Saudi Led Coalition wont stop dropping bombs on yemen then Coalition Countries should be prepared for more of the same leaders here in iran have been quick to remind the world that it was yemens who the fighters that claimed responsibility for the attacks last week on Saudi Oil Infrastructure the who these no doubt consider these attacks not as an act of war by iran as the americans would see it but as retaliation for an ongoing saudi war that was sparked by a saudi led invasion and thats the line being pushed by irans leaders as well. Time for a short break here now jazeera when we come back fears the worlds most diverse rain forest will one day become a desert look at how deforestation is killing the amazon mo
Attacks on Saudi Oil Facilities last week iranian leaders say the only reason the u. S. And saudi arabia are blaming them is because the alternative is too embarrassing that yemens hoopy fighters were capable of carrying out such a destructive military operation. But the saudis say the drones and missiles direction of travel recover debris the capacity of the Technology Used in these attacks all draw a Straight Line back to tehran Foreign Ministers of odds are it has said of the iran coincident is used as an excuse to attack his country iran wont think twice about defending itself. He also warned u. S. President donald trump not to listen to his saudi allies who would march into war with iran for their own sake they should pray that they wont get what they seek theyre still paying for a much smaller a human war that they were too arrogant in 4 years ago for those hoping for cooler heads to prevail the rhetoric coming from to iran of widespread and destructive retaliation is worrying an