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and kilts, after an eight-hour journey from china, inflight meals on a plane adapted, dubbed the panda expresse monitored the pandas throughout the entire trip between eating the panda cakes and the carrots and the apples, they were just as happy as they could be. >> reporter: they have left their home to spend a decade in scotland. the female called sweetie is shy compared to her male traveling companion, sunshine. so shy, perhaps, that it will be months before they share a cage, and get to know each other a little better. it is notoriously difficult to breed pandas, but the hope is that sweetie and sunshine will not be the last new arrivals. once they become friends, they provide new links between china and the outside world. >> the pandas are a symbol of the friendship and the cooperation between chinese people and others. >> reporter: the zoo says its new guests will raise awareness of an endangered species. one estimate puts the number of giant pandas in the world at less than 2,000. for now, the panda population of the uk stands at two. keir simmons, nbc news, london. >>> that's "nbc nig

the pair traveled 5,000 miles today on fed ex's panda express. the zoo keepers said they ate well.britain is hoping the two will successfully mate and produce a cub. the suspicion is that any cub will belong to china and go back there with his parents in ten years. >>> president bush is in ethiopia right now. mr.bush visited a children's hospital today. as president he created the aids relief. since then the fund has created $1.4 billion to ethiopia. >> it's also important for the american people to know we don't continue to support people who have hiv aids or are dying because of mosquito bites, more and more people will die. it's important our country not retreat from the war. >>> mr. bush is in ethiopia for a five day international conference on aids in africa. >>> 31 miles, a simple gesture this morning that has a much larger meaning for a very big cause. >>> and the big game gets a big start. the material girl is set to perform on a stage she's never been on before in her illustrious career. -dad, why are you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, ther

the fedex panda express touched down in scotland yesterday.ina. there hasn't been a giant panda in the uk for 17 years. they're hoping for some baby pandas down the line. no pressure, guys. sweetie and sunshine are the english translations of their names. they have ten years in the uk to work it out. get it? >> no, apparently don't. >> please, please, i'm not a roll. >>> we're not sure what the correlation of the video game and goes trick delight might be. the makers of angry birds are getting into the recipe business. i know what i'm getting you. it teaches users how to make everything from scrambled eggs and noodle-dee-do. it's a noodle-based quiche. >> i like playing the game. >> you don't want egg-based recipes? >> no, i love playing the game. >> i want to go to the last line. go back. the book encourages reads to fling yourself to new levels of egg-cellence. >> that was worth going back to. >> thank you, everybody. thank you so much. >>> next up, huge honors last night. the kennedy center. meryl streep, neil diamond. stealing the show, ou

the fedex panda express touched down in scotland yesterday. with some pretty precious cargo.there hasn't been a giant panda in the uk for 17 years. the zoo is preparing for tons of fans to come and meet the new couple. they're hoping for some baby pandas down the line. no pressure, guys. sweetie and sunshine are the english translations of their names. they have ten years in the uk to work it out. get it? we're not exactly -- >> wait, no. apparently don't. >> please, please, i'm on a roll. >>> we're not sure what the correlation of the video game and gastric delight might be. the makers of angry birds are launching into the foodie world with a new cook book. it's called "bad piggy's egg recipes." it's in stores just in time for christmas. i know what i'm getting you. it teaches users how to make everything from scrambled eggs and noodle-dee-do. it's a noodle-based quiche. noodle-dee-do. >> i like playing the game. >> you don't want egg-based recipes? >> no, i love playing the game. >> i want to go to the last line. go back. thank you. i just want to say that -- the book encou

and knowledge of china and she was like panda express doesn't count.ut there was a great joke and i think that is why people respond so much to you is that you have this sort of just great, young, my reaction i think people understand and it isn't so scripted and that is the most refreshing part. >> i think that's what people really like about our twitter account. very light hearted, but it tells it in a way where it's very true, but it gives some sort of laugh or like entertainment to a >> kind of saying it how it is. as the mcclellan wanted to, first of all, say great scholarly faces you have on. it was very serious. it was good. i wanted to ask about your father and when he first saw it in his reaction. >> we were in the car and he looked down and broke out laughing and i knew that is what he was looking at. we send it to them at the exact moment we sent it out. >> jon has quite a bit of a dry sense of humor and the more the country gets to know him, the more they see that in him. >> dinner on a friday night look like? is it a lot of laughter? buhle

>>st there's a tweet about the lack of experience in china and knowledge of china and said panda expressoesn't count. that was a great joke, and that's why people respond to you because you have this great, young, nice reaction that people, i think, understand, and that it's not so scripted, and that's the most refreshing part. >> yeah, i think that's what people like about our twitter accounts, very light hearted, but it tells it in a way that's true, but gives some sort of laugh or some -- i don't know entertainment towards it. >> yeah, we say how it is. >> yeah. >> so i wanted to first of all say it was great scowly faces on during this, the serious, it was good. i wanted to ask about your father and his reaction. >> well, he was -- he was with my mom in the car. we were in the car, and he looked down, and he just broke out laughing, and i knew that it was okay. >> we sent it to him the exact moment we sent it out. >> oh, wow. >> jon has a dry sense of humor, and the more the country gets to know him, the more they will see that. >> what's dinner look like on a saturday night? a lot o

pandas in britain in nearly 20 years. look at the fanfare and you can hear the bagpipes there. of course, the federal express -- yeah. is a big deal. >> it is. >> when china gifts a panda or a pair and the idea is that, you know -- >> it is very difficult. >> yeah. but they use it to improve relations. they call it panda diplomacy. we heard of all sorts of diplomacies, but this is a very specific chinese thing. china is the only place which offers a habitat to the species, which is a very rare species close to extinction, only 1500 of them left in the wild. so when it makes this gesture it really wants to improve or boost relations with the country, and the timing is very significant. >> what do you mean? >> the vice president of china announced this loan in january, when he came to secure some trade deals in britain. the pandas are arriving now as the first secretary of scotland, guess where he is, china, securing trade deals. it is quite obvious and china is not making a secret about the use of pannia iapandas to impro relations. >> they never had a pair of pandas before. uk may have, but -- >> that was 17 years ag