Now on bbc news, Zeinab Badawi talks to australian writer Thomas Keneally on hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, where i have come to manly, in sydney, australia, to talk to one of the worlds most distinguished authors, Thomas Keneally. He has written more than 30 novels, including his most famous, Schindlers Ark, which was made into an 0scar winning film, schindlers list. Now in his 80s, as he reflects on modern day australia. Does he believe it is a country that has matured in its identity, or is it still divided on race and culture . Thomas keneally, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You have written about a huge range of topics the american civil war, australia, of course, the first world war, joan of arc, napoleon. How do you go about choosing a subject for a book . Well, its generally some weird connection with australia that begins me, in that i heard that there was a family on saint helena who knew napoleon, and then they got so close to napoleon that they fell out of favour a
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coffin s good to have you with us president donald trump has addressed the nation a day after he was acquitted at his own impeachment trial on wednesday lawmakers in the republican controlled senate found guilty of abuse of power and obstruction of congress he was alleged to have withheld military aid to ukraine to benefit his own reelection campaign out today speaking from the white house said that he is the victim of a long and corrupt process we ve been going through this now for over 3 years. it was evil it was corrupt it was dirty cups. it was leakers in life there s and this should never ever. happened to another president ever. i don t know that other presidents would have been able to take it some people said no they wouldn t have but i can tell you at a minimum. you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly no matter who you have with you if you get away very quickly it was a disgrace get away very quickly all right let s talk about the president s 1
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