party lines, following its adoption in the senate. it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone 5:30am. a very good saturday to you. now on bbc news, the travel show. oh, wow! look at the size of this place! this is tokyo stadium, and it was home to the football, the rugby and the pentathlon during the olympics, and i m glad to finally be here. japan s delayed summer of sport finally got under way in 2021. my name s steve brown, and i was supposed to come over for the paralympic coverage. not being able to make it out was a huge blow. the whole thing about sport, it s not just about watching it, it s about feeling it, that immersive experience. before i was a presenter, i was captain of the london 2012 wheelchair rugby team. when i was in hospital, sport was what got me out. it was definitely the building blocks to the person that i have become. tokyo holds a special place in paralympic history. it was all the way back at the 1964 games that the term paralympic was first us
This is bbc news. the headlines: the agent of the british writer sir salman rushdie has given details of his condition after he was stabbed on stage in the state of new york. the author is on a ventilator and can t speak. he also suffered injuries to his eye, his arm and his liver. the search warrant executed on donald trump s florida home on monday has been unsealed by a judge, after the former us president made no objection to the move. it shows the search by fbi agents was partly based on suspicions of violations of the us espionage act. us lawmakers have adopted president biden s climate, tax and healthcare plan. it s a major win for the president, and includes the biggest ever american investment in the battle against global warming. the house of representatives approved the measure on
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Lived under the threat of being killed and had to go into hiding for nearly ten years. his book, the satanic verses, published in 1988 was condemned as blasphemous by many muslim countries. they considered his portrayal of islam insulting. i run s spiritual reader at the time called for his execution offering a £2.5 million reward. iran has now distanced itself from that but the bounty remains. sir salman rushdie has spent a major part of his life protecting himself from extremist threats to only now find himself inside this hospital. in a statement, his agents as his author will likely lose an eye and is currently being supported by a ventilator. we can speak now to mark sommer, a journalist with buffalo news who spoke to a number of eyewitnesses immediately after the attack on salman rushdie took place.