a new exhibit celebratesis work which paved the way to middle earth.elcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. a stunning reversal as police accuse actor jussie smollett of staging a hate crime against himself. he claimed he was attacked by two men i and unknown chemicals. today he was charged with filing a false police report. his sty sparked a national outcry, but after weeks of speculation, chicago police id it was all made up, above sae city -- a publicity stunt because he was dsfied with his salary. aleem maqbool reports from chicago. fall: it is a humiliating from grace. used to appearances on the red carpet, jussie smollett has been snapped for his mug shot. he is best known to u.s. audiences for playing a sensitive and troubled r&b singer on the series "empire." this is exactly where jussiett smolaid he was attackedou in the early of the morning when he had gone out. ac said two men punched him and subjected him tot and homophobic attacks, at one point saying this is "make america great again" country. suggestin

and the world that inspired the maker of middle earth. exhibition celebrates the art ofjrr tolkien. hello. it would be utterly outrageous and despicable, a judge has told the tv starjussie smollett, if allegations that he staged a hoax hate crime against himself are true. the african—american actor has appeared in court in chicago, accused of filing a fake police report that he'd been the victim of a racist, homophobic attack. chicago police say the star of the empire series may have staged it to promote his career. he denies the charges. aleem maqbool has the story — there is flash photography. it is a humiliating fall from grace. used to appearances on the red carpet, actorjussie smollett has now been snapped for his mugshot, arrested for concocting a fake hate crime against him. # sometimes you feel insecure #. he is best known to us audiences for playing jamal lyon, a sensitive, slightly troubled r&b singer in the tv series, empire. this is exactly where jussie smollett says he was attacked in the early hours of the morning when he ha

a new exhibition celebrates his work — which paved the way to middle—earth.om our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 6pm —— it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 6pm in chicago where the american actor jussie smel—lett, has appeared in court after being charged with filing a false police report. the tv star had claimed he'd been the victim of a homophobic and racist attack by two men last month. but chicago's chief of police says the actor may have staged it all, because he was dissatisfied with his salary. aleem maqbool‘s report contains flash photography. it is a humiliating fall from grace. used to appearances on the red carpet, actorjussie smollett has now been snapped for his mugshot, arrested for concocting a fake hate crime against him. # sometimes you feel insecure #. he is best known to us audiences for playing jamal lyon, a sensitive, slightly troubled r&b singer in the tv series, empire. this is exactly where jussie smollett says he was attacked in the early hours

and the world that inspired the maker of middle earth.

and the world that inspired the maker of middle earth.

humanitarian aid and assistance for those affected by me multiple crises across the middle east, more than any other nation on earth. the united states of america has been a force for good in the middle east. but under the mullahs' regime in iran, for their people, it's been 40 years of corruption. 40 years of repression. 40 years of terror. and 40 years of failure. yet for too long, america tried wishing away the dangers of a radical islamism that's poisoning both islam's great sunni and shia streams that seeks to crush every form of dissent and divergence. we made a devil's bargain with our common enemy, the enemy of our allies and partners in the middle east. since day one of this administration, president trump promised to stand with the good people of iran and stand up to their oppressors. and that's just what we've done. president trump kept his word. when he with drew the united states of america from the disastrous iran nuclear deal. the so-called joint comprehensive plan of action did not prevent iran from obtain agnew clear weapon, it merely delayed the tai when that vile regime would gain access to the w

middle class is tax right now? wait until he sees the taxes when the senate miraculously passes the green new deal and medicare for all. how on earth is the middle class going support that? it's people over profits. you don't want corporations make profits anymore. who is the government going to tax? b2 what notes do you think he needs to hit in the speech tonight? to think this is the right way to go? does she let out a deal that democrats would look will look irresponsible for passing up something for dreamers? all the things they have wanted in exchange for money for a barrier by some type? >> jason: i've been to the last ten state of the union speeches on the floor of the house, and i can tell you donald trump is at his best when he is in this forum. he likes a big venue, he likes the audience, the pomp and circumstance, but he stays on script. he doesn't deviate. look, he has crafted the speech. he gets an hour and a half to talk to the american people. he gets to recognize the people he wants to recognize. there are millions of people who will watch his speech that don't normally get to see it. part of it is conciliatory, but

doing the middle of the room signal. that's good earth but it's survival guide book stacie just call the store and simply. visit. the sure it's going to get him back. oh heck no good repatriations forget the rest of seven years chris filippi a separate kaiser report. welcome back catching up with the u.s. housing market new home building has fallen to a two year low in the u.s. there were just over a million units and the latest monthly housing stats starts from a u.s. commerce department covering the month of december that figure was the lowest since september of twenty sixteen that's an eleven percent drop from the previous month and well below market survey expectations a broad range of other indicators including housing completions also trying to low seeming to signal a sectorial slowdown in the u.s. economy. and there's more news on the wall wave beat today u.s. officials reportedly are taking their efforts to block the chinese tech giant from building internet infrastructure or getting other technological put olds in markets abroad

earth. ♪ ♪ >> the middle class is shrinking. a lot of people living in poverty.g very, very well. it's not wrong to say to those people you have got to pay your fair share of taxes. that's how we'll fund making sure colleges available for all. i am proud of successes we have had in recent years pushing a progressive agenda, healthcare for all. raising the minimum wage to $15, and making university and college tuition free. demanding the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. candidates run on a progressive agenda that demands we take on the billionaire class and fight for the rights of working people. i think that's not only good public policy. i think it's good politics. trish: free college, free healthcare. everybody deserves what bernie sanders thinks they deserve. he's also running. add his name to the pile, hat in the ring. you know i don't agree with him. at least the policies he wants to put in place. you have got to admit he seems honest in his delivery. he seems earnest in his passion. he was the mayor of bur whring on, vermont. honeymoon in the soviet u

the middle to try all new solutions are going to be killed in the in the middle of this trial against nationals leave the earth and we have to remind here that one of the political forces book these new. political course is one of. those of these nationalising so they were how they're going to have a really. hard or. two to talk about against a national national you do there and it and it gets going and so diverse the first thing we have to take into account is. the visual power has been to one shore all these political. political as they've been given by the political course and the trial against nationally and in living with it we will see in the. next electoral campaign will be the name these courses are going around. the girl or there are issues that are more concerning the rest of the sense that. troubling. prayer thank you so much for your insight we appreciate it joining us from madrid thank you very much world leaders are meeting and germany to decide how to contain the icefall threat as the group has lost almost all of its territory and syria and iraq defeating ice was likely to face if it sure at the

look, google earth queued up, i'll drive you here and you can see, you can see this building right here, working to get that, for you, the bottom line is the explosion occurred right in the middle of geary, there were crews working on an underground fiber optic line. here's the google earth. so that work was being done right here, along the side of geary boulevard and this is the restaurant that immediately caught fire and appears to be a total loss. so this whole building went on fire and then the next two buildings down parker right here, so this one with the black roof here and this one with the tan roof here, one, two, three, and then this one as well so four buildings on this block, and then the flames were pushed it appears by wind and there was also water that was put on this building over here as you can see, the h&r block awning as we can zoom in a little closer. and go street-level. so a lot of residential here on this block, these are some of the buildings that were at least damaged, again the explosion right here, this is the restaurant, here's the h&r block building, and you can see the effort was focused on stopping the fire from continuing to march down this bloc

middle we will hunt and i will be a shield i shall the new york behold i live much of the earth for a lawful charm of that i say and it will loom i live in the thought and then jar also show the love i wouldn't have been done i shall be sure but i don't know that of which might be worth a good idea or enough how question i've asked you how. my white house. model my wife. i love it it's still a dog dog so there are a lot of bills a lot almost all my last month i was going to put we had we had to feel like they don't. look good in. the future because there's. a. lot. i don't really. know that i'm glad you guys have just. given that do they do it with the post office some of the oil well i don't know of well off shore up the what they do know what i know but it is more of them are going to shoot each other while much i'm going to end on but. we'll argue i want to. go there and that is not what i wanted. i think if you do. what i wanted what. i did not like. and i didn't want it i don't live what i have now live to live in washington. let me die a big split don't want to add up the money

sound of earth moving, trees napping and a home succumbing to the forces of nature woke everyone up. >> the sound was almost like two freight trains crashing together. >> reporter: in the middle of that natural disaster was susan gordon. her home is the one crumbled at the bottom of what sausalito resident call hurricane gulch. she survived with only bumps and bruises. >> to be so close to it was incredible. >> reporter: the hills of sausalito are dotted with homes engineered against gravity . but mother nature's will can be more powerful than that. it is not the first time this neighborhood is seen equations lose to brute force but in 1982 and other mudslide ripped through here, leaving tons upon tons of damage in its wake. frank lived here then. >> this whole neighborhood was impacted with 3-6 feet of mud. it was all around our houses and streets. it took months to clear it up. >> reporter: tonight is worry along with many others about more rain. >> this hillside is obviously a saturated as it can tolerate. if they have a mudslide of this magnitude these structures are really impacting that hillside. >> reporter: at this point the gas has been secured, the electrical has be

earth secret flights a u.k. veteran of afghanistan was on board one. i mean you got any good news. ok well this is pretty important to middle east i reports exclusive british army permitted shooting of civilians in iraq and afghanistan beacher we can talk about climate change and so forth this is potentially a scandal it turns out that spot has not mean civilian afghan residents who won tom door even implied as being on talked of in the military against the british army were legitimate targets are we have well just as. he witnessed the fatal shootings of significant numbers of civilians and bouncer and he described as a killing spree there does seem to be quite a lot of evidence of it you former interim injury man alleged there for they and their fellow soldiers in southern iraq permission to shoot anyone seen holding a mobile phone carrying a shotgun talk about one british soldier said i'm quoting him we were shooting old man young man this is what i witnessed i've never seen such lawlessness when you think about the fact that this whole initiative this whole military incursion was justified to put law and order and wester

this morning these elementary, middle and high school students made demands at senator dianne feinstein's office in san francisco. >> this is the only earth it. >> this rally by environmental groups was profit. ed by the viral video. this impromptu meeting in san francisco over environmental legislation took place on friday in san francisco between senator feinstein and bay area students, some who were at today's rally. >> the governor is supposed to be for the people and by the people and all for the people. >> you know what's interesting about this group is i've been doing this for 30 years. i know what i'm doing. you come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway. i don't respond to that. >> the students are pushing the senator to support the green new deal that would shift the u.s. economy from fossil fuels to renewable sources. senator feinstein argued the deal has no chance of passing the republican-controlled senate and said she supported an alternate plan that she gave to the students. today the students issued their response. >> mainly what we think is it's not bold enough. >> senator feinstein, your resolution doesn

it is probably the middle of the night and you are probably be quite glad to use the tardis behind you to materialise a more civilised time of the day but we are grateful. what on earthemy up to? i cannot sleep because of this ongoing shambles. the 0sca rs sleep because of this ongoing shambles. the 0scars should be held ina big shambles. the 0scars should be held in a big top because the whole thing is becoming a circus. wonder is a decision to be made you can trust the academy to make the wrong one. this latest gift is the latest in a series of mistakes which have infuriated the film industry and made the oscars, which should be the greatest showpiece for town, total embarrassment for hollywood. stately was one of the signatories and he said any comments he made about this that there were not be a film without cinematography so how could you give the award for best seven saga for during the advert break? i suppose people would say it would be replayed in the televised ceremony so replayed in the televised ceremony so what is the fuss about? anyone who has been to the oscars knows thatis who has been to the oscars knows that is a nonstarter because during the commer

middle-classax cuts. -the front line is just up here. that's where the river... -she took me out to those wetlands. -i think we' off to a great start. ♪ nar on this episode of "earthfood? a model of local control along the coast of madagaar provide a blueprint for ocean sustainability and community buding, while in san diego scalability is the goa researchers work to build the first open-ocean fish farm in the united states. [film advance clicking]

where i could stand in the middle if if they have a new and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters ok it's like incredible there are not two more different people on earth than bob mahler and president trump and very early on in that in this whole process i think the trunk people realize that the best defense would be a political one and not a legal one legally they really don't have a lot to stand on trump and his people made a determination very early on we're going to claim that this whole thing is politically motivated is a witch hunt that a whole new way if they were the witch hunt i would call it the rigged to which aren't. ok when john cena. to when she was a democrat gets fired when you don't add something. on the phone to you which she really was. is washington celebrates the fourth of july and. and instead a major offensive against the president is about to be launched. the surprise attack comes from the center of washington from the press. the new york times claims the trump campaign was in secret contact with russian officials five months before the two thousand and sixteen election a major scoop. this was the work of our washington best it

earth. ( laughter ) >> stephen: because you couldn't get off planet that quickly. >> and the people are all so good at what they do, and there's this giant machine, and you're just like put into the middlestephen: okay. well, i would love to pry something out of you, but i don't think i'm going to, you're very good. now, you're part of this fictional superhero universe now, but i know that you know some very and have known some very prominent people and people who are heros of yours. who are some to have the people you point to and say that person is super heroic? >> i have been lucky, i've met a lot of people. senator george mcgovern was a great hero i got to meet. >> stephen: i met him once. i asked him to sign my nixon poster. >> did he? >> stephen: yeah, it was fun. he was a great man. he was a great world war ii pilot, just to remind everybody. and then john mccain was a good friend of ours. ( applause ) >> stephen: how did you know john mccain? >> john mccain was -- is -- was a very dear friend of gary hart's who was a friend of my husband's and we met years ago, and when john was running with president bush, we got to know him and spent time with him and his family. when he would

middle-class tax cuts. -the front line is just up here. that'shere the river... -she took me out to those wetlands. -i think we're off to a great start. ♪ narrator: on this episode of "earthrban sprawl and traffic-clogged system of eeways rather than its diverse array of living species. in america is actually a biodiverse hotspot--one of ust a few in the entire world. within the confines of this concretjungle, species are adapting and, in some cases, even thriving. welcome to the los angeles urban wild.

middle-class tax cuts. -the front line is just up here. that's where the river... -she took nd out to those wet -i think we're off to a great start. ♪ narran this episode of "earth focust basic human need is also its most precioucommodity. in california's central valley, home to 19% of the food production in the world, many live without clean drinking water while at the edge of morocco's sahara region, harvesting water from fog has the potential to deeply impact a culture.am a focus ring clicking] [shutter clicking]

middle. i think it will no rate. is excellent it became very apparent to me that. evolution has given the human species some very very powerful survival instincts we don't grass earth men want to spread their genes we want to gather as much resources together as we can to to help our genes continue and survive and as a result of that there's been a lot of very fairly dark episodes in our history of the roman empire which was terribly oppressive headed mystic the vikings who stole raped pillaged the parish and so on so forth do you not think that it was actually that i do years of religion that human the human race the human species from beyond these big. survival instincts and started to give them a new paradigm for thinking which was not necessarily in the interests of their instinct for survival it is perfectly true that. sort of selfish gene view of. life which is what i've mostly mostly written about is a very unpleasant view of life and if you followed the the creed of the selfish gene literally and actually lived your life according to it it would be a very unpleasant world in which to live it would be a sort of thatcher right. i mean i i often said that whil

middle. i think it will know when it right. is excellent it became very apparent to me that. evolution has given the human species some very very powerful survival instincts we don't grass earth men want to spread their genes we want to gather as much resources together as we can to to help a continuance of vive and as a result of that there's been a lot of very very dark episodes in our history of the roman empire which was terribly oppressive headed mystic the vikings who stole raped pillaged the parish and so on and so forth do you not think that it was actually that i do years of religion that human the human race the human species from beyond these big. survival instincts and started to give them a new paradigm for thinking which was not necessarily in the interests of their instinct for survival it is perfectly true that. sort of selfish gene view of. life which is what i've mostly mostly written about is a very unpleasant view of life and if you followed the the creed of the selfish gene literally and actually lived your life according to it it would be a very unpleasant world in which to live it would be a sort of thatcher right. i mean i i often said that while i'm a

saying now is the time for us to get in the middle and be that bridge we stand on a foundation of brokenness and you will become that bridge between heaven and earthrong and stuff like this that's going on in virginia and new york, it just defines the context for us to take that stand. ainsley: thank you so much, guys. god bless you both. it's called bold and broken. you can pick it up on amazon. god bless. >> thank you. ainsley: president trump sending a message to ilhan omar after the congresswoman's anti-semitic comments. her new statement that is sparking more controversy this morning. firefighters to police to border security. is there a shortage of americans signing up to serve? our first responders panel is here to discuss that coming up next. but, first, happy birthday to bill russell, the nba hall of famer turns 85 years old today. ♪ ♪ blue and the red. new lobster. it's a crispy coconutty, vacation on a plate. new ultimate lobsterfest surf & turf is here, too. 'cause what's better than steak and lobster? steak and lots of lobster. so hurry in and see how you're going to lobsterfest. has been excellent. they really appreciate the military

earth, i still wouldn't tell you. >> you have to tell me what you did. just tell me what's they're going to do to you. >> unlike every other show on tv, it's showing an upper middles. but that was okay. the mere fact they existed was a deep issue. >> the decade was waiting for something real. in other words, unless it's real, it doesn't seem like it moves anybody. if someone's feeling something, you get to the heart, you get to the mind. if you can hit the hearts and minds, you've got yourself a hit. >> how was school? >> school? dear, i brought home two children that may or may not be ours. >> cosby's show brought this tremendous audience to nbc. and that was a bridge to us. i mean, our ratings went way up. ♪ sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name ♪ >> even the theme song to "cheers" puts you in a good mood. >> evening, everybody. >> norm! >> norman! >> what's shaking, norm? >> all four cheeks and a couple of chins, coach. >> by the end of the "cheers" pilot, not only did you know who everybody was, but you wanted to come back and see what was going to happen. it's like all you have to do is watch it once. you're going to love these people. the

earth by far. members of congress, the state of our union is strong. [cheers and applause] [chanting u.s.a.] brian: that catchphrase was not said in the beginning. it was said kind of in the middlefirst third when he said the state of the union is strong because he thinks everybody was expecting that but, over all, the president, i thought, was great. i thought he was, i guess the third longest state of the union in history. but, overall, you can't imagine a more comfortable situation where he knows millions are watching around the country and around the world. and was hard not to applaud on maybe two thirds of that speech if you are an american. steve: here's the thing though. i think he went into that state of the union last night and i think he was a little apprehensive. nancy pelosi uninvited him to this thing a couple of weeks ago. and there he was, she had a tough time applauding for a lot of the things he said. brian: nice of her to read along. she seemed a little awkward. did you notice though, you know, he walked in and it is the custom for her to introduce him and he just started -- he jumped the ball, essentially. but, he made it very clear what his argument for a re-

involved and doting father he was, bringing out tolkien the man, not justjr tolkien the author of middle earthuman imagination and creativity can go — when they see what one man has created and the legacy he has left us. iama big i am a big fan. you would like that. absolutely. i will. roll out the red carpet because after much hype and anticipation, the oscars are immanent. on sunday the stars will gather in hollywood for the industry's biggest night. but while the awards ceremony will only last a few hours — the lobbying campaign has been under way for weeks. each production house has a lot invested and perhaps none more so this year than netflix — which is hoping the art house style film roma will deliver it its first golden statue — for best picture. for more on how you win an oscar we're joined from los angeles now by the bbc‘s colin paterson. great to see you. thanks for coming up. what is the root? how do you win an oscar? either guaranteed rates of success? there are so many ways that you can make it so likely. hello from sunset boulevard. the huge billboard behind us, one of the favou