Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much indeed. Thank you particularly for having me here all the way from the old country. As a former BBC journalist, I thought I would just structure what I say for the next 10 minutes around the five questions that are key to any journalist, and that is who, what

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's my—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm struggling to hear you, David.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Oh, I have to put this in. Okay, sorry.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sorry. I was thinking I was hearing you naturally.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, I have it better now. I was thinking that if you were speaking English I would be able to hear you.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As I say often, I spend as much time standing down stories as I do standing them up. That means working out which stories are exaggerated, which stories people are promoting. I have to do this because people want to get donor dollars. I always check the sources back to the origin

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  People have an idea of what Christianity is. They think it's a western or, dare I say,a North American religion. We sometimes forget, to our peril, that Christianity was birthed in the Middle East. It's actually not a religion of white people. It's a religion that came out of the

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm a bit familiar with it. I've met Andrew Bennett. I've met him twice. I met him once at the foreign office in the U.K. and once again last year in Rome.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I was very impressed by Andrew Bennett when I met him in London and again in Rome. I walked in Rome with him and had quite a deep conversation with him about what's happening in Ukraine. I was sad to hear that his office had been closed, but that's the government's decision. I t

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sorry, religious...?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We talk a lot about human rights, and I would say that the fundamental human right that we all have is freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. That is number one. As a human being, that is the one everything else stems from, in a sense. Of course, if people of one religious

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I visited Burma, as I call it, about three years ago. Of course, I'm really delighted that although Aung San Suu Kyi is not actually leading the country, she's very involved in leading the country. I know there have been decisions and some disquiet that she hasn't spoken out as s

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No, that's fine. I think I've made my main point. Thank you.