j.k.ling, the much-loved author of the "harry potter" series. 20 years after the publication of her very first book, she sat down with me here in london to talk about her remarkable life, and she opened up about something we rarely hear about -- a cause very close to her heart -- helping millions of children in orphanages all over the world through her charity, lumos. j.k. rowling, welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me. >> what is it that got you interested from the beginning? how did you decide that this was your mission? >> well, like a lot of people, i had no idea. i really had no idea about the scale of this problem. and what drew me in was one child. it was a news report about one child in the newspaper. i was pregnant [chuckles] and therefore, perhaps, particularly vulnerable and emotional to anything to do with small children. and i'm flicking through the sunday paper, and i saw what -- still i see it in my memory. it was a very disturbing image of a very small boy scre

please welcome j.k.: there you go. >> thank you, sir. >> stephen: nice to have you on again. thank you so much for coming back. >> it's my pleasure gli very much enjoyed talking to you last time. it's been a year and a half, and i'm not surprised it's been that long since we talked, not because we didn't want you because you've been a busy man. is this all true? since last time you were on in april of 2016, you have been in 13 movies and five tv series. ( cheers and applause ) >> keeps me off the streets. >> stephen: why the rush? how long do the doctors say you have? >> yeah, i know, i'm trying to get in in while i can. >> stephen: this is a hurdle! yow! >> i like to stay busy. >> stephen: you do. and this happened. this is in some ways more impressive. i'll show them this photo because-- and i don't even know how to contextualize what i'm about to show these people, other than to say we did not doctor this photograph in any way. this is you. look at j.k. simmons, look at the guns. ( cheers and applause

i love you, j.k., you're my favorite late-night talk show host, j.k., i never miss an episode, j.k. > it. saying j.k. like "just kidding." >> i think you're hilarious, just kidding! i mean, j.k. did i do it? >> you did one. >> jimmy: i thought you didn't understand the baby. >> oh, look who saw the pilot. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i've actually been watching for a long time, thank you very much. >> we've been watching you a long time too. we loved your prem program "the man show." remember that? girls bouncing around on trampolines and you and some hairy guy saying things that might not play in this day and age. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i don't remember that at all, i think i was drunk during that period of my life. let's focus on for episode 300? >> that's what we call a pivot. >> it's something with a dog and a baby, i don't know. >> jimmy: it's going to be something with a dog and a baby, everybody, i like that. [ applause ] i want did say congratulations. peter griffin and stewie griffin from "the family guy." >> wait, i have a joke for when you host the oscars. harvey weinstein is wat

i expect to see more articles by j.k. on this because i talked to him and he said this is a big story here and it is about time that it gets told. second issue, it was in monday's paper, it talks about restaurants that opened and closed during the year. again on the front maciej. -- on the front page. and we reach out, morphing and changing. we need to become an experience. you have amazon as a competition. now amazon is opening up stores, but they become more concept stores and kind of show rooms for augmenting their ordering online. perhaps restaurants and bars are the saviour here and we actually have an item on our agenda today in jackson square on the number of restaurants and bars that should be there. the article goes on to say is the number of restaurants last year actually shrunk by 7% because of competition, because of costs and because of delivery services and all that. so, reached all across the gambit, including food and beverage, is changing. and i think one of the items that i hope that we do work on this y

anything threatening the whole universe i mean scientists have been warning of an event like the vacuum j.k. for example is universe in danger of self destruction. that's pretty speculative the so. it's not that it's not something that anyone takes that seriously i would say really so all the scientists all this works. using there are just about nothing. well there's a lot of speculative things that go on in science and i think that's a good thing but you have to keep in mind. that the probability of these things is extraordinarily low this is very different than say for instance asteroid impacts which we we see happened right just a few years ago we watched you know what asteroid impact those things happen on a fairly regular basis that's completely different than things like you know hypothetical things like back and forth curation space debris like old satellites is clearing there are so orbit and it's threatening space ships like the i assess it could mess with takeoff trajectories etc why it can't all be just shot down from the sky. the space debris that you talk about is left over jun

tune in tomorrow when my guest will be j.k. simmons.captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ( cheers and ( cheers and applause ) >> good night, first lady melania. >> james: but it's only 3:00 p.m.

and j.k. rowling for creating harry potter. and then there's stan lee. the world would have far fewer superheroes without him. he created spider-man and the hulk. iron man and doctor strange. the avengers, the x- men and many, many more. "i started with marvel comics when i was about 16 and a half. it was known as timely comics in those days. in fact, we didn't change the name to marvel comics until the very early 1960s because at that time we had started an entire new type of stories of superheroes. and we thought, well, now that we're doing everything differently, we might as well get a different name." stan lee reinvented superhero comics by making them more relatable. "one day my publisher came to me -- i was the editor at the time -- " " -- and he said, 'you know, stan, one of our competitors has a superhero team which is selling very well. why don't we do a superhero team.' i figured okay, but i had been in comics so long doing the same old thing, i didn't want to continue dong the same old thing, and i figured, well, if we do a superhero team, may

j.k. imaging. lobeicense for all the g digital cameras and video cameras for kodak.e are a technology company developing new technology for future video, but we also support all the legacy kodak digital cameras. host: are these on the market? how much would they sell for? guest: these are not yet available. that haveept products been in development. we do have two other products on the market. host: which ones? guest: these will probably be a consumer model here. probably a $500, $600 range, probably still several months out. and this will be more of a pro-sumer model, $1500. it depends on market conditions when we launch the product. the other models, we have the orbit, a consumer model. this one has internal stitching, so that we have the same concept where we have two different lenses, and then it stitches internally. this one is $500 and is available today. we just started shipping two or three months ago. it also has another feature, where this lens, we can change modes so you can do 360 degree recording, but if you want to just do a flat 4k video, you can use t

someone said to me recently louisa may in that day was more famous than j.k. rowelling.probably because there wasn't as much competition with sports stars and such. but she was a huge international sensation. and this george healey asked ms. alcott if he could paint her. i'm prod to say today we have the only other dining room in america that i know of with a george healey in it is the white house where there's a portrait of abraham lincoln done by george healey. he was in that day the big painter who would be summoned to paint presidents. so it was quite an honor. however, she was disappointed. she said i look like a smoky relic from the boston fire. there had been a fire in 1872, and it was a terrible disaster in boston. and she just thought she looked like she stepped right out of that fire. she said we should hang it behind the door. and then we have an interesting likeness of elisizabeth alcott. she's the one who died just before they moved into this house. they spent a whole year fixing this house up, they were excited about this was going to be the finest home for

we're j.k. imaging, and we license for all the globe, basically, digital cameras and video cameras for kodak. so we're a technology company that's developing new technology for, you know, future video, but we also support all the legacy kodak digital cameras. >> host: are these on the market, and how much would they sell for? >> guest: these are not yet available, these are still concept products that are, have been in development. we do have two other products that are on the market -- >> host: which ones? >> guest: these will probably be a consumer model here will probably be in maybe a $5-$600 range, probably still several months out. and then this will be more of a prosumer model. the other two, we have of the orbit which is a consumer model. this one has internal stitching so that we have the same concept where we have two different lenses, and then it stitches internal. this one's $500, and it's available today. we just started shipping about two or three months ago, and it also has anothe

[laughter] by j.k. rowling. i don't even have to add my name on the cover and they informed me their legal department frowned on it. >> if all of you could get your friends to buy a copy we will help end the madness. who would like to ask a question? please wait for the microphone. >> why now? why didn't he write this book 20 years ago? i've a lot of theories on that but i would like to hear why now now? >> actually rick mentioned earlier that when i started copying the pentagon papers in 1969 with the example of draft resisters very much in my mind on their way to prison and they said what can i do to help with the war in vietnam now that i'm ready to go to prison. so i thought of putting out something in the pentagon papers and i started 47 volumes of top-secret pages on decision-making in vietnam. then when i started on that i realized something that's more important actually is nuclear material that i had been working on for years. i copied everything in my top-secret save them a lot of stuff from the secret

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china j.k.lampdown has rocked global markets of bitcoin and other digital services -- digital currencies -- china's rolling clampdown as rock global markets of bitcoin and other digital currencies. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by over 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. markets, the sliding dollar continues to be the biggest story. dani burger has more for us here in london. good to have you with us. the dollar weakness despite the u.s. being out of action today, it does seem to be one of the biggest trends. the u.s. is off, the day that we are focusing on euro strength but on the euro side of the coin, we have the german government closer to building a coalition. near that 10 year high of 2.4% last year, there certainly is a lot that is pushing the euro higher and weighing on the dollar. on the flip side, there is a lot of bearishness building around the u.s. dollar. it is interesting because when you look at where we were last year, a completely different story an