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And we meet the 97 year old former Fighter Pilot taking to the skies to mark battle of britain day. Good morning. Its 6am in singapore, pm in london. And 6 in the morning in hong kong, where clashes between police and protesters continued into the night, after protests during the day that saw several people seriously injured. Violence broke out between pro democracy and pro china demonstrators in the north point neighbourhood. Thousands defied a ban to attend the rally, and in Response Police fired tear gas and Water Cannons. Nick beake reports from hong kong we have now seen 99 days of this. Violence the authorities just cant extinguish. Hardcore pro democracy activists are not backing down, in what is a chinese city, even setting alight the polices latest weapon to try to wash away this protest movement. The police have ....
And we meet the 97 year old former Fighter Pilot taking to the skies to mark battle of britain day. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, and 1am in london. Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. With me is bob mcnally, president of Rapidan Energy group in washington. He served in the Bush Administration as its top energy advisor. Hejoins me now. Thank you so much forjoining us. Firstly, the us says that this was an ....
American revolution. Host author stacy schiff, besides the fact you have written about them, what do ben franklin, the witches of statement wishes of salem, cleopatra have in common . Stacy off the top of my head, they are people and moments that change our world. People that leave the world different to the one they had been born, and i think thats what im looking for any a subject. Some subject which resonates for me on a personal level because biography is kind of a marriage. But also where you feel theres a shift in time, a shift in space. In cleopatras case, the world came crashing down with her death and the roman empire begins. The salem witch trials, for better or worse, as a sense of here is where you dont want to go and what you dont want to do, there is an antimessage in a way. In each of these i could make a case it is a world changing moment and i come to each of them what they certain set of questions that start to obsess me. Those questions write themselves into the book ....
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