there.aul dobson, julie: let's go to the first word news. mark: federal officials aren't saying much about how they shows a nebraska -- chose a nebraska started company to build $11 million border while in california. they are not saying whether they knew the companies connections to a firm flagged a government audit to the -- for potential fraud. insecuritynd many want answers from the department of home and security used. a 15-year-old girl shot earlier this week at the maryland high school is dead. she died last night after being taken off life support. her and the suspected 17-year-old shooter were in a relationship that ended recently. the justice department is iranian widespread data theft -- the justice department is targeting iranian hackers with stealing trade secrets and other data for the revolutionary guard. hundreds of people demonstrated ininst prime minister abe tokyo today. the called on him into foreign minister to step down in the wake of a scandal linked to the prime minister's wife. testimony will be heard on the case nex

, and dara 0 and astrophysicist, with his wife, anita dobson, and dara o briain, the comedian and science was interviewed on the radio this morning, and he came up with this quote, talking about professor hawking and his disability and his wonderful mind. he said, he was an imprisoned mind roaming the cosmos, which grabbed the public imagination, thinking about the largest things while completely trapped. we know the body of professor hawking will now be cremated, and his ashes will be interred at westminster abbey in june. eu, thank you so much for bringing us eu, thank you so much for bringing us that update on the funeral of stephen hawking. —— jo. thousands of palestinians have been attending funerals in gaza for some of the 16 people shot dead by israeli troops yesterday. tens of thousands of protestors had gathered along the border fence between gaza and israel at the start of a planned six—week demonstration. the united nations is calling for an independent inquiry. yolande knell has this report from jerusalem. israeli drones dropped tear gas as huge palestinian crowds massed on th

it actually -- he has written his name on, reverend cl dobson. he would take this with him to the seaside in the summertime when he spent four months there and so while it was in transit he wanted to have his name on it. so these are some clay figures from a 1948 animated film, that came out just before the more famous walt disney film, claymation version of alice in wonderland. used a live action alice and the used in the long shots when they wanted to fit in better with the claymation figures and then here we have the fish footman, this is one of the hedge hocked from the croquet game and then the cook back there amongst the freeze the trees are from the same film as well. this is something i just stumbled upon. i i knew about the film and had season one of the puppets in somebody else's collection, but we were in new york at a vintage toy store that used to have such things and i said do you have anything about pal his in wonderland. he said go to this auction house down in the west village. i said, really? he says good down there. they have a

professor hawking in the film the theory of everything, astrophysicist brian may with his wife anita dobsonelebrities, families and friends. the people who were here outside the church remained really quiet and respectful but when the coffin was taken out of the house and went into the church, they burst into spontaneous applause. that also happen when the coffin was brought out of the church and put back into the hearse and driven away. professor hawking's first wife jane stood with the rest of the family who looked very solemn but very proud and as the coffin drew away, she gave it a little wave. kimjong un has commited to sending a north korean team to the tokyo olympics in 2020 and the beijing winter games two years later. following a rare meeting with the north korean leader, the olympics president thomas bach said north korea will definitely participate in the showpiece events after what he called ‘fruitful‘ talks. (sot next) the national olympic committee have announced that they will definitely participate in the olympic games in tokyo 2020, as well as in the olympic winter games in

the professor in the film the theory of everything, astrophysicist brian may, and his wife, anita dobson presenter dara o briain was also here. the astronomer royal, martin rees, gave a reading, but he did say on the radio earlier today, a lovely quote, talking about professor hawking's mind and his disability, saying he was an imprisoned mind roaming because most which grabs the public imagination, thinking about the largest things while completely trapped. now, professor hawking's body will be cremated, and his ashes will be interred at westminster abbey near the grave of sir isaac newton. jo, thank you very much. thousands of palestinians have been attending funerals in gaza for some of the 16 people shot dead by israeli troops yesterday. tens of thousands of protestors had gathered along the border fence between gaza and israel at the start of a planned six—week demonstration. the united nations is calling for an independent inquiry. yolande knell has this report from jerusalem. israeli drones dropped tear gas as huge palestinian crowds massed on the israel—gaza border after friday's

redmayne, who played the professor in the theory of everything, we saw brian may and his wife, anita dobsonn, so lots of people, but now people have gone on to a reception. sometimes soon, the body of professor hawking will be cremated, and then his ashes will be interred next to the grave of sir isaac newton at westminster abbey. that will take place, that service at westminster abbey, some time in june. jo, thanks for that update. let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather with phil. ijust want i just want to bring you ijust want to bring you up to date without we see the next 2a hours developing across the british isles, low pressure to the south—eastern quarter, still a front wrapped around the northern and western flanks, so generally speaking the further north and west you are, the better your prospects towards the end of the day. further east, the raft of cloud just easing its way further to the east, still a little bit of showers. quite a frosty night across northern and western parts of scotland, minus six or seven here, but at least that ends into a really decent start to the ne

live in dobson thank you very much police say they have found evidence a twenty three year old was behind a bombing spree in the iowa state of texas that suspect mark anthony condon stared a scar until it gets on friday john hendren asked more from condit's hometown of pflugerville. after a three week manhunt the austin package bombers latest victim was himself his motive still a mystery the suspect is deceased in a final confrontation with officers who had tracked him down to a suburban hotel police say twenty three year old mark anthony condit detonated an explosive leaving him dead his parents at a loss to explain and his series of questions unanswered we don't know where this suspect has spent his last twenty four hours we also have not fully been able to rule out whether or not there were any other accomplices he may be a part of this is still pose a danger police did reveal one surprising discovery on the bomber cell phone was a twenty five minute recorded confession detailing each of six explosives he made leaving police confident none are still waiting to detonate we can account f

- we did a whole piece about his appalling views over his career and especially his friend, james dobsonus on the family. sadly one of their book events is at focus on the family. so, instead what we thought we would do, is write our own -- >> seth: you wrote your own book? >> yeah, we did. on the quiet. >> seth: and is it safe to say that it's inspired by -- i'm going to replace the book -- the original book with your book and tell me if they were they maybe inspired by each other? >> i mean, i guess. [ laughter ] i don't know if i'm seeing quite what you're seeing there, seth. but, i guess. >> seth: yeah. >> i guess if you squint, you could say there's some resemblance there. >> seth: yeah. so, your story -- and it's -- it's beautifully written. >> yeah. >> seth: and gorgeous illustrations. >> yes, it's great. it's about marlon bundo, the bunny, falling in love with another male bunny and getting married. [ laughter ] because that's absolutely fine. >> seth: it's fine. [ cheers and applause ] >> so, yeah, it's a sweet children's book that jill twiss, one of our writers, she wrote with