. >> reporter: for as long as anyone can remember, they have been king of the beast at the edinburgh number one with visitors. >> we have such a large colony, perhaps the largest one in the world. >> reporter: enter the pandas, after years of negotiation, two giant pantas arrived here in edinburgh on long-term loan from china. that very contented panda is the female who's named sweetie. that's not a man in a panda suit. that's the male panda who's name means sunlight. not surprisingly, they've been an instant hit. >> reporter: so the penguins are no longer -- >> no longer number one. >> the pandas have unseated the penguins. >> yes. >> reporter: that's painful? >> it is, yes. >> reporter: which brings us to poop. they're like projectiles. meet them with the devil red eye. they are called rock hoppers and they're at the center of this dirty tale. >> just approaching the side now, you'll see we've got, the penguins are at the top there. they've chosen to nest up there, which didn't in the past cause problems, but now this is the main entrance to the pandas. these people are waiting to

jason was the -- he was one of the judges at the edinburgh -- >> film festival. >> in europe. d," and when he came back and started developing the show and they were about to cast it, jason told howard gordon, the executive partner of "awake," hey, so i know this kid, wilmer valderrama from this movie "the dry land." i don't know if you guys had heard of him. howard goes, well, he's in america. he's been around for a while. they gave me a call and sent me the script. and it was very flattering. you know, they -- we sat down and the thing that got me was that, you know, we are trying to do something different here. >> yeah. it must be nice not to have to audition for anything anymore. right? >> yeah. it depends on a certain project you would have to -- and it's nice because you really got to get a hold of the character and see if that's something you would play right. but i like challenges and stuff. i don't mind them. but it's really nice when television, you know, people remember you and the studio and the network. >> very different, though. >> yeah. >> and you and jason are h

then all eyes were on her majesty and the duke of edinburgh. the queen visited a mosque for the first time. her shoes exchanged for just a pair of shoe liners. she opened a waterfront regeneration project. while in wales, it was the young who came out in force. celebrations culminated in essential jubilee weekend, which brought people out in their millions. that was also the case for the queen's silver jubilee in 1977. then, at the age of 51, not only did she tour the nation, she also traveled nearly 60,000 miles around the world. this time there will be no foreign travel, but the queen and prince phillip will be crisscrossing the country on a tour which will end in july. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you through the business strategies and opportunities of international commerce. we put our exten

i am putting in a resolution that would change the street name from edinburg without the age to edinburgh with the h. we will still have the option of renting or mispronouncing it correctly. that is one item for introduction. the next is in except and spend item for the clubhouse in the amount of $710,000. i am happy to be ushering this through for a park that is very worthy of recertification. the rest i shall submit. supervisor farrell: today i remain incredibly excited about the america's cup coming to san francisco. i think it will be a great thing for our city and waterfront, and for all the spectators. but i am disappointed today for the port in san francisco, for all san franciscans. i think that we lost a golden opportunity and drove away and organization individual yes -- individual -- yes, a billionaire -- someone who wanted to spend $100 million rehabilitating our crumbling piers along our waterfront that we have no financial plans to fix in the next decade. i was the first person to say that san francisco needed to get a good deal out of the bargain. we should not give away th

our affection as a nation will rightly 'em place the duke of edinburgh and other members of your familye will be moments striking for the sincerity expressed as much as for the scenery encountered. 60 years of stability. 60 years of security. 60 years of certainty. 60 years of sacrifice. 60 years of service. ghandi also observed that in a gentle way, you can shape the world. your majesty in a gentle way, you have shaken this united kingdom and the world for six decades. on behalf of all the members of the house of commons may i thank you wholeheartedly for all that you have done, are doing and will do for the good of our country. [ applause ] >> so it is the speaker's turn to approach the throne and to present the address to her majesty on behalf of the house of commons. he will return to his seat and when he arrives back in his place, he will then signal to a colleague to unveil the gift, which is the window. [ applause ] >> it is a magnificent sight by a british artist who designed and based the design it bears -- there's the mp responsible. the queen preparing now having received the

nigel boll who was educated at georgetown university and oxford university, he's taught at the university of edinburgh and oxford where he's been a lexurer since 1988, his books include "the white house and capitol hill," "nixon's business authority and power in presidential politics" which won the richard e.nustead prize in 26. his current project which we're looking forward to is "the politics of money, president's congress and the federal reserve board 1945-1988" and he's currently the director of the american institute at oxford. we're also pleased to have karen holt. karen m. holt, she's professor of political science at virginia polytechnic institute. she's the author of "agency, merger and bureaucratic redesign" and is the co-author of "empowering the white house, governance under nixon, ford and carter, governing the white house from hoover to lbj and governing public organization." she's co-authored essays on the white house council and staff and secretaries and the white house transition project from 2000 to 2008. she's the past president of the american political science association preside

i have a degree from the university of edinburgh. then i came back and went to harvard. ph.d. from harvard in philosophy. and after harvard i started teaching at yale where i was associate professor of philosophy and then i came to georgetown with a stint at the naval academy and a few other lectureships here and there. >> host: was this your first exposure to soldiers when you went to the naval academy or had you been exposed to them before? >> it is an interesting history. i love the era of vietnam with a brother and husband who were of age to serve in vietnam but in one case there was a graduate school deferments and my brother was for medical reasons not eligible. that was as you know a momentous historical moment on college campuses in the 60s and 70s and it was an unpopular war and given that there was conscription it was an especially unpopular war. when i went to the naval academy, la ended up serving as i like to say. i did serve as a public servant next to a colonel who had marine turtles who had been in vietnam and navy captains, navy chaplains. so my formative year

produce and stock that winter, which allowed him to purchase the 18 volumes of the encyclopedia britannica. published in edinburgh which was a vast compendium of the arts and sciences related to globemaking. there are extensive entries in that enpsych low ped ya on globes, cartography and various other geographic information. he's really able to obtain this at a general store relatively close to where he's living. so i'm arguing here that encyclopedias are really the archetypal artifacts with their compendium, what they promise is all of recognized knowledge in one place, in one area, and in making that information available through print even in northern new hampshire -- new england. wilson then, with his woodworking skills, constructed this imposing desk and bookcase to house his prized possession. his next hurdle was engraving on copper. again he walked to new haven to meet amos doolittle, the engraver of the two maps in jed dedie ya's geography made easy. which was the first text published in the united states in 1784. he's really able again through the proliferation of print in the late 18th century to obtai

the queen and duke of edinburgh inspected the palace building and garden yesterday.he two-year, $18 million renovation project was financed through grants and donations. the restoration project coincides with the queen's diamond jubilee. the palace has been home to some of the country's most famous royals including queen victoria, princess margaret and diana, the princess of wales. the duchess of cambridge is showing off some of her athletic skills. >> staying with royalty now. she scored a goal on her first official engagement as an ambassador for the london olympic games. during a visit with britain's field hockey team at olympic park, kate middleton picked up a stick and took a few shots. there she is. wham! the duchess served as captain of her high school's field hockey team back when. she told the crowd it had been a little while since she played. hasn't lost much of her form. the olympics start on july 27 and you can watch them right here on nbc 4 and whammo. that was a gentle one. good for her. >>> breaking news overnight, the search for a missing boy from our

the whoopi cushion kos pum? >> i do. i've done it in melbourne, edinburghmerica. >> jimmy: you wear it on the plane? >> no. i also do this mattress bit where i'm like a mattress that's been thrown out on the street, and i have this giant foam mattress that i wear, where i talk about how much i could have been, and my dreams. [ laughter ] >> and that is tough because if you check it on jet blue or anybody, it's like 25 bucks. then you show up for a gig with five people and you're just not going to make your money back. >> jimmy: no, you won't. you have to buy a mattress in every city and that's not going to be economical. i think gallagher and carrot top have a 16 wheeler that they travel with. >> they're very successful, i know. >> jimmy: and you also made a move we jean-claude van damme. >> yes. >> jimmy: it seems to me that one of you will be put of place in this film. >> for me, i think it's inevitable that hollywood should come to its senses and match us up, for real. it's a comedy. it's jean claud van damme's first comedy. it's called welcome to the ju

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the royal bank of scotland has recently enacted another 300 jobs. mostly in edinburgh and london. it was a jobs have not gone completely to india. the prime minister and the government are the biggest shareholders on half of the stakeholders. so when will the prime minister stand up to rbs to seek these job losses from the uk's because i think the most important and where to do with the royal bank of scotland is to recognize that the last government put in over half of the country 45 billion pounds into that bank. that is two and a half thousand pounds for every working family in the country. and the most important thing is we get that money back. we nd rbs to return to health. it's got to do with its bad loans, have to do with a troubled economy, it's got to go the rest of us visited then moved into a position where we can return people the money that they put into that bank. that's what matters most of all. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i offer my sympathies to the families and friends of the six soldiers who have been killed, five of which have served with the yorkshire regimen

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the painting. and he passed it on to me. so i actually then found a restorer in edinburgh, and had it restored to its present state.roy butler: now i would say that this painting, if it was put into an auction - of militaria-- militaria-- - yeah. --military paintings, it should fetch something between £2,000 and 3,000. because these single pictures - can fetch up to £500 each. - all right. so if you look upon it in that light, five, 10, 15, - you're looking at a lot of money. - man: yeah. - butler: right? - yeah, thank you. he likes antiques. he collected a lot of different things-- furniture and all sort of things. - ian harris: anything that took his fancy? - yeah. harris: well, these are actually-- they're japanese. and... if they've been in the family for a long time, that wouldn't be surprising because they actually date from the end of the 19th century. - right. - they're really rather spectacular pair of vases of their type, and it's the type of work that it's called "shibiyama." and the shibiyama is this decoration which is basically ivory. and then it is just made with stained mother of pearl, tortoiseshel

the royal bank of scotland has recently enacted another 300 jobs. mostly in edinburgh and london. it was a jobs have not gone completely to india. the prime minister and the government are the biggest shareholders on half of the stakeholders. so when will the prime minister stand up to rbs to seek these job losses from the uk's because i think the most important and where to do with the royal bank of scotland is to recognize that the last government put in over half of the country 45 billion pounds into that bank. that is two and a half thousand pounds for every working family in the country. and the most important thing is we get that money back. we need rbs to return to health. it's got to do with its bad loans, have to do with a troubled economy, it's got to go the rest of us visited then moved into a position where we can return people the money that they put into that bank. that's what matters most of all. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i offer my sympathies to the families and friends of the six soldiers who have been killed, five of which have served with the yorkshire regim

the second person. he has great accomplishments. american medicine. steady in edinburgh, many others said their sons. this enlightenment. he went there is that a medicine and came back and became a leading worker. when he wrote his first pamphlet he wanted done anonymously. somehow it was slipped to be he was afraid that you will lose his business. so he brought the agnostic franklin with the presbyterian rush. he had tremendous impact on others. john wesley filed. the father of mathis to be read something called ways of overcoming slavery. when he wrote this pamphlet he said that took almost everything . he wrote in apologized. no need of apology. i'm very happy. no idea of a celestial property law in those days. and then of course the founder of antislavery in england. something called the somerset case. the somerset case was basically the idea that any time a free man to lead automatically become free. it tested that in england. and his pamphlets, every member of their parliament. eventually got it. and many others. had a tremendous impact. somerset was freed. blacks in america about this meant th

the royal bank of scotland has recently enacted another 300 jobs. mostly in edinburgh and london. it was a jobs have not gone completely to india. the prime minister and the government are the biggest shareholders on half of the stakeholders. so when will the prime minister stand up to rbs to seek these job losses from the uk's because i think the most important and where to do with the royal bank of scotland is to recognize that the last government put in over half of the country 45 billion pounds into that bank. that is two and a half thousand pounds for every working family in the country. and the most important thing is we get that money back. we need rbs to return to health. it's got to do with its bad loans, have to do with a troubled economy, it's got to go the rest of us visited then moved into a position where we can return people the money that they put into that bank. that's what matters most of all. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i offer my sympathies to the families and friends of the six soldiers who have been killed, five of which have served with the yorkshire regim

woman: we actually found it on a beach in leven-- which is in fife which is north of edinburgh-- on theiver forth. and it was just driftwood, basically. a piece of driftwood? yeah. it was right about 30 years ago. - it's a lovely thing. let me hand it up to you. - yeah. can you hold half of it? it's beautifully carved. it does have the appearance of it being in water. it's very very dried out and salty in the grain. it's oak. what i think it is, is a piece of jacobean carving, - so i think it's 17th century. - right. it's missing elements. see, it would have had a lion's head here, and you can see that's come off. should have been a head there. but it's beautifully carved. it's got a great deal of movement and all the lovely features you get on carving in interiors of that period. and i think this probably-- it could have come off a ship. it'd be nice to think that it was off a shipwreck. alternatively it's come out of a jacobean mansion that's been demolished and somehow it just found its way down to the beach - and drifted out to sea. - wow, okay. but it's a gorgeous thing, a lovely t