i am going to go off and educate rico on pink floyd.it an all—time low in 2014, sparking concern about how they could be protected. there has been a 14496 could be protected. there has been a 144% rise in the species thanks to the combat of logging in mexico. some way to go. they look beautiful. hello there. we have got a potentially disruptive so that —— snowy spell of weather on the way. very cold air locked in place and an area of low pressure developing over the atlantic. it is perfect bringing ground for a snow event as this moisture moves in across the country, bumps into the cold air, some of us are likely to see some pretty heavy sleet and snow through thursday into friday. some yellow warnings are in force for snow, ice, and the risk of freezing fog overnight through thursday into friday, it is likely to cause some disruption so say —— speaking to bbc local radio and stage into subsequent forecasts. we start this morning on a largely cold night, clear skies. many places will be dry. we will see some freezing fog patches develop

the ground breaking news they go pink floyd still sounds fresh in the lyrics of roger waters relevant as ever how hard is the balancing act between music and politics well i'm here in st peter's to ask the legend himself why. musician author activist co-founder of pink floyd and my guest today is really great to have you with us today welcome to our show thank you everyone's really happy that you're here looking for your tour and i'm looking for a little chat so i'm going to start from there turn a question because you've been pushing the boundaries of music forever. at the same time the lyrics that you write are always very powerful so the question is what is more powerful the words or the music. well the way the way they. have equal importance i mean the trick with with. songs i'm never quite sure where comes from but it has to do with threw away the feelings that are in the lyrics of the song so the ideas that are in the lyrics of some somehow get kicked into a more accessible place by having to relate to the major of of the music other now it's a kind of magical for me it's a feel

why the guitars used in pink floyd's most iconic albums are being put up for auction.ft—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman school teacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the heart of official cairo, was in the hands of the demonstrators. they were using the word "revolution". the earthquake singled out buildings and brought them down in seconds. tonight, the search for any survivors has an increasing desperation about it as the hours pass. the new government is firmly in control of the entirely republic of uganda. moscow got its first taste of western fast food as mcdonald's opened their biggest restaurant in pushkin square. but the hundreds of muscovites who queued up today won't find it cheap, with a big mac costing half a day's wages for the average russian. well back, everyone. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. thanks forjoining us. i'm babita sharma in london. our top stories: parts of the us midwest have been hit by a deadly blast of cold air, known as a polar vortex,

pink floyd were one of most influential and successful rock bands of all time.t david gilmour is auctioning off his guitar collection for charity. matt everitt has been to his studio to find out why now is the right time to stage what might be the most significant guitar auction ever. it's some of the the most remarkable guitar music ever created. now david gilmour‘s famous black stratocaster is up for auction. also under the hammer, this, a 1954 fender stratocaster with the serial number 001. this is the perfect fender stratocaster, you know? and the perfect... the perfect fender stratocaster, in my humble opinion, hasn't been improved on by guitar makers since. i would still prefer to play this very guitar, or one very similar. david gilmour‘s guitar playing has featured on some of the biggest selling albums of all time. yeah. it's got it. it's just a beautiful instrument. now he's parting company with over 120 of his beloved guitars, almost his entire collection. many of them have given me the gift of a piece of music. it's time to move them on for someone el

. >> cue the pink floyd-- china has landed a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon. >> humans haveever landed there before. >> if your new year's resolution was to cut out sweets, you might want to look away. >> it is now officially girl scout cookie season. >> there's a new cookie in down, carmel chocolate chip. >> it is gluten free. >> when are they going to make a carb-free cookie? >> glor: this is our western edition. good evening, i'm jeff glor reporting tonight from washington, d.c. where history was made today. nancy pelosi took the gavel as speaker of the house for a second time, the only woman to ever hold that role, and democrats now control the chamber. a short time later, president trump made an appearance at the podium in the white house briefing room and congratulated pelosi. he appeared with border patrol agents there who made the case to fund a border wall, which is at the heart of the partial government shutdown right now. all of this took place during another steep sell-off on wall street. we'll have more on the president's comments and the markets in just a momen

i remember seeing a pink floyd album jacket with an m.c. escher work in it. i had no idea that was him. ell, actually, more peop are familiar with him than they think they are. >> sreenivasan: johanna guttmann is the exhibition'manager. >> they don't necessarily make the connection between the artwork-- artwork that's very iconic-- it's when they come here that they see all those references throughout pop culture, whether it's the sleeves for the albums or whether it's advertising, film, fashion, it's absolutely everywhere. >> sreenivasan: even though had no formal training inn mathematics,54, the international congress of mathematicians held an escher exhibiti, which sparked correspondence between escher and mathematicians who admired his work. it doesn'tteeem that his was mathematical, but there was so much math involvede in what he wasing. >> his intent was not necessarily mathematthough he is exploring concepts such as hofinity very much so thro his career. however, it's only in the 1950's when he starts this dialog with mathematicians, and they're reachi

mr page is said to have been blasted with black sabbath as well as pink floyd.elayed. noidea no idea of when it will be working again and that means there is a knock—on effect for the blackpool tunnel. and in notting hill, there are temporary traffic lights at notting hill gate near the tube station, due to a gas leak. now the weather with kate. good morning. after a relatively mild weekend it is set to get colder this weekend. not quite yet. it will feel chilly today, largely cloudy with a couple of sunny spells and the risk of a couple of showers a bit later. the wind is much less, still coming from the north—west and that could blow in a couple of showers for some later in the afternoon. sunny spells between and temperatures reaching 89 —— 8 or 9 celsius. cold on the weekend but not as cold as it could be. overnight, and some clear spells to start with then again cloud moves down from the north—west. and slightly milder air with that. minimum temperature between three and four celsius. as we head into tomorrow it will be a large fully dry day. temperatures in

surface a fascination an unexplored frontier celebrated in popular culture this need to be kept by pink floyd record breaking song. but now thanks to a pioneering chinese space mission it is being explored for the very first time the chunky four spacecraft was launched last month and successfully landed on the far side of the moon at two twenty six g.m.t. on thursday. by ground zero used the whole process was as expected the result was a decisive fit on the landing was very stable the current one wing location is our most valued deal landing place in other words we were right on target the chunky four carries a rose which will study the means to rain and send back samples to scientists say the far side of the moon is geologically different to the near side one of the goals of this mission is to find out more about what lies beneath the surface but china's space dreams don't end there it wants to catch up with the united states and russia one day even lead the world space race china is treating the moon as the first big outpost in deep space for its long term plans it's already sent several mi

managed an historic first that is literally out of this world, successfully landing a rover on what pink floyd famously call the dark side of the moon. it is really the f side. the change e touched down on the moon's far side which clirnlt faces away from planet earth. it is loaded up with instruments to analyze the geology. they've ao planted a potato and silk. they are hoping it will provide more information. >> prosecutors have decided tonight pursue charges against reuben foster. e linebacker was arrested inmp a in november and jailed overnight after an incident with a woman. the redskins claimed foster after the san francisco 49ers released him. >>> it may not be your favorite things to do but goi to the doctor is part of a healthy st lie. lie. >> today ahead at 5:00, susan denise? oh hey, sandy. hey. this is a trick my nonna taught me to make .re my produce is fre but aldi produce is delivered fresh every single day. every day? yeah. so you don't need to... do that. you're not eveg to hold that cantaloupe against your face? the only trick you need to se time and money is to shop at aldi.

. >>> cue the pink floyd because a spacecraft has landed on the dark side of the moon.s is pretty cool stuff. earlier today china announced it landed a vehicle on the relatively unexplored far side of the moon. the side that always faces away from the earth. it is the first time that a soft landing has ever occurred there. the probe has already sent back to earth the first major humans have ever seen of the normally hidden far side. the main lander will also release a six-wheeled rover to roam the major crater near the moon's south pole. with that, let's go to our space expert. >> i'll keep it in our atmosphere. >> i mean, if there was a space expert in this studio, i'm looking around -- you're it, man. >> good morning. so we're still dealing with our snowstorm in areas of texas and oklahoma and a little bit of ice mixed in with that too. we have 21 million people in this flood watch that goes all the way from houston toward louisiana and mississippi and even georgia too. it's a wet soggy morning. it just continues. one rainstorm after another throughout the south. this

not even pink floyd. until now. next, the winner of the race to the far side of the moon. >>> and why netflix is telling people don't try this at home. >>> the state department revealing that the ambassador to russia jon huntsman visited paul whelan. he spoke with whelan's family by telephone. this is a swift escalation on whelan's behalf. we have cnn's nathan hodge live in moscow. some were saying this is a sign that huntsman went quickly to intervene here. that is sending a message to vladimir putin. >> reporter: christine, that is right. this is not a typical consular visit. it does signal that washington is taking more serious interest in this case. here is what we know right now. the fsb the intelligence agency of russia, said they detained mr. whelan last friday on espionage. his family said he was there to attend a wedding in moscow and visited moscow several times before and he was familiar with the city. he was acting as a guide for his friends. cnn spoke to his brother, david, last night, to tell us more a

i thought -- >> alert pink floyd. >> the far side of the moon gets sunlight, it just never faces us. don't think pink knew that. >> yeah, mr. lloyd -- which one is pink? >> there's a great documentary called "which one is pink." >>> a child is injured after slipping into a rhino exhibit. we'll talk to the zoo's executive director about what went wrong here. >>> a florida zoo has suspended all animal experiences after a girl was hurt. she fell into a rhino enclosure and came face to face with two rhinos. one bumped her before her father pulled her out. thank you so much for joining us. can you tell us what happened that morning that the two-year-old got hurt? >> well, according to the two witnesses, we were doing a rhino encounter, who is something we do every day and have for nine years. it was a small group, mom, dad and their daughter. 10 or 15 minutes into it while the father was crouched next to the little girl and holding her, she stumbled backwards. and the poles are 12 inches apart on the center. so they are pretty narrow, but you can slip through them. she basically sprawled

that's a pink floyd album. that's not science.e of the moon that w on earth don't see and humans have never landed there before. fo the first time a landing on the far side of the moon. this extraordinary picture sent from a chinese rover opening up a new chapter in moon exploration.be the p called chang'e-4 after the chinese moon goddess blasted f a month ago carrying instruments to analyze the unexplored region. scientis hope this provides more information about how our planetary system was formed. the crate is the oldest and deepest on the moon, so the discovery may offer insigh to how the moon came to be. some scientists suspect the area around the crater may be rich ie ls. chang'e-4 is also carrying potato and plant seeds as well as silk worm eggs for biological experiments. rse landing unring china's ambition to join the space race in a major way, seen as a big milestone in space exploration and of great propaganda value back home. only china, russia and the u.s. have managed soft the moon. on the chang'e-4 rover is the firs

pink floyd was wrong.de of the moon. >> president trump and top con cessional leaders plan to try again tomorrow after the meeting at the white house yesterday with no progress toward ending the partial government shutdown. the president digging in on his demand for money for a border wall saying the shutdown will last as long as it takes to get the funding. democrats take control of the house today. they're likely to pass legislation that would reopen the government but does not include any funds for the wall, but it is expected to meet a dead end in the republican-controlled senate. >> we're getting our first closeup look at the miracle baby pulled from the rubble of that collapsed building in russia after a gas explosion on tuesday. this is video from the icu at a moscow hospital. he was flown there for treatment. rescued from a pile of concrete and steel after spending 35 hours in freezing temperatures. officials are saying he's expected to make a full recovery. >>> video shows the moments a pa para gl

. >> i once read that you were called the pink floyd of the '80s. what do you think of that? when i said it was true ♪ ♪ it couldn't be me and be her between without you ♪ >> the holy trinity of alternative british music is the cure, depeche mode, and the smiths. all three of them started out as these fringe bands that by the end of the '80s were selling out stadiums. ♪ you give it to me will you take the pain i will give to you ♪ ♪ again and again and will you return it ♪ >> what's new? computer programmers or musicians? >> i'd say neither, actually. >> what are you, then? >> bank robbers. ♪ how does it feel ♪ when you laid your hands upon me ♪ >> in the u.k. disco did not suck. it never sucked. and bands like new order combined it with the new synthesizer sound and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. ♪ and i still find it so hard to say what i need to say ♪ >> i like what's happening at dance places now, over the last year or two. i think the music is becoming very healthy. ♪ (urgent drumming) ♪ (drumsticks clatter) sagging record industr

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. >> has pink floyd weighed in yet?her line for us. >> fantastic. >>> grammy winning musician, daryl dragon died. the world new him as one-half of the captain & tennille. ♪ ♪ love will keep us together >> how great is that wrong? >> written by? harry enten's uncle. it was their biggest hit. daryl dragon died wednesday in arizona and he was 76. his publicist said toni tennille was at his side when he passed. >> they were divorced. >> you can't break up that duo. >> he was not really a captain. >> he had the hat? >> he was not a captain. and mike love called him the captain of the keyboards. >> you know a lot about the captain. >> very important to me. >> we will have harry enten on to ask about it. >> i am not watching this. >>> he slammed into his head into the backboard. he did appear to be unharmed despite the blow. the good news really is he managed to get up and walk off the court, and somehow he returned to the game. i am not quite sure how he was cleared from any kind of concussion protocol after hitting the backb

. >> cue in the pink floyd music. >>> and barack obama is climbing the billboard charts the former presidents featured on a remix of hamilton's one last time. he reads a portion of george washington's famous farewell address. this remix was written and released by lin-manuel miranda it is currently sitting at number 22 on the billboard hot r&b songs chart. >> can i admit that i have never seen "hamilton" before >> i haven't either. >> my wife is a big broadway show person. i'm surprised we have not done it yet i don't find a lot of time to see the broadway shows, this is one i feel like i want to watch it >> everybody talks about it. >>> it is the most wonderful time of the year -- no, not christmas. that's over. it's girl scout cookie season. the girl scouts have a brand-new cookie to offer. the treat is called carmel chocolate chip >> that's going to do wonders for my already burgeoning waistline from the holiday season >> i will give you more details. it is a chewy cookie with chocolate chips, carmel and just a hint of sea salt sea salt is the big thing nowadays >> especially when you com

. >> relatively unexplored by humans except for pink floyd. >>> the snow continues to add up in southern california along the u.s./mexico border. tucson picked up 6 inches of snow. we looked it up and that's the most the city has seen since 1971. when it does snow in tucson, it's usually less than an inch. >> i don't know. i just looked outside and i couldn't believe it. i thought i was dreaming. >> neighboring states like new mexico and nevada are feeling the cold, too. you know we've been feeling it here in california. something else out of the ordinary. meteorologists say the jet stream is bringing warm weather to alaska. >>> now, to nbc bay area responds to an east bay man with a dental dispute. >> consumer investigators helped straighten it out. >> good morning. bob s. in brentwood said it all started when he had a bridge fitted into his mouth. he says the dentist didn't cement the partial dentures correctly. bob says the bridge was uncomfortable and you could see metal when he opened his mouth. he says he complained to the dentist and his insurance company, but bob says they were b

. >> if you watch that, the pink floyd, dark side of the moon, great friday night >>activity. to share something on twitter a lot of parents of teenagers can be like. this is what it's like. >> reynolds said 35oj a ginning face, a sunglasses face, a crazy face, s sevenley faces, a face crying with laughter, two faces with tongue t, two faces with monocles, two smirking ces, three party faces, a goofy face. >> of course, that was the car's talk-to-text feature. >> just so you know, aaron is controls.ng with t i's sitting in the passenger seat. e always wondered what is that face. now >>> still ahead on this friday morning, willie geist going one-on-one with natalie portman as she opens up about her latest complicated role and the unlikely start to her acting career. >>> but first the bears' cody parkey on moving forward after that field goal miss during thel nfl's ward weekend. we can't wait to t k tohim. he's an incredible guy. coming up right after this. there's little rest for a single dad, and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the on

. >> reporter: they've turned them into talented artists, performing with the likes of pink floyd's rogercrow. but what they didn't expect is how profound the personal transformations would be. >> i felt like i was stuck in a rut and i needed to do something more. >> reporter: for army specialist tyler mcgibbon, music helped reawaken parts of his mind after he suffered a traumatic injury from a humvee rollover in kuwait. >> i guess that brain injury unlocked something. it just has me in the moment of, this is my music. this is my time. this is my zone. nothing can interfere with it. just pure joy. >> the design of the holder is a little bit looser, so it's great for strumming. >> reporter: musicorps helped sergeant shane heath rediscover his joy after he lost his arm and leg to a roadside bomb in iraq. his injuries left him struggling. >> they definitely help reaffirm that purpose. ♪ don't you know you're not the only one suffering? ♪ >> all the stress, all that stuff that kind of goes away and it's a feeling of peace. >> i know it's not just these guys who benefit, these women and men wh

. >> if you watch that to pink floyd's dark side of the moon, that's a good friday night activity. >>twitter that a lot of parents of teenagers can appreciate. he said, this is what it's like to get texts from his 14-year-old while riding in a car. take a listen. >> 35 emoji, a grinning face, a sunglasses face, a crazy face, seven smiley faces, a face crying with laughter, two faces with tongue out, two faces with monocles, and three party faces, a goofy face -- >> and it goes on and on. of course that was the car's talk to text feature reading his son's message. just so you know, that's not aaron fiddling with the controls. he's sitting in the passenger seat. safety. but is that not great? >> also it's a definition. it's like, what is that face? now we know. >>> still ahead on this friday morning, willie geist going one-on-one with natalie portman as she opens up about her latest complicated role. and the unlikely start to her acting career. >>> but first, the bears' cody parkey on moving forward after that field goal miss. can't wait to talk to him. coming up after this. there's lit

you look like a pink floyd fan. >> not at all. 4 billion years ago but for at least the last year and-a-half, and perhaps more, america has had a worker shortage. you see it every month in these nfib small business reports. we'll get another one today. you see this story about the h2b visas, people lining up for them. the servers are crashing. our population is barely growing and despite what many people think, we've actually had very little immigration over the last 10 years. i hope this understanding makes its way into these negotiations. how about the border wall and more legal immigration? >> actually, i think it's a very good thing that this happened. it really spotlights the fact, not just h2b visa, it's agricultural, entertainment industry, et cetera, hospitality i mean. i think it's an incredibly important issue and it has to be addressed. >> president trump is getting pressure to cut back further on legal immigration and the steven millers of the world are pushing him in direction on this issue that is not helpful. >> tha

caller: that wall, maybe he ought to play that song by pink floyd, you are just another brick in theall. erb inwe will go to h pennsylvania. caller: i say he should compromise and here is how, tell the democrats what i am going to do is print signs for every language in south america, you set one foot in the south side of that rio grande with the intent of crossing into this country illegally on the north side of that rio grande and you will be shot on site. host: how is that a compromise? caller: that is the compromise. host: how is that a compromise? caller: that would stop the crossing at the border instantly. first man shot would end it all, period. host: that is herb in pennsylvania. one organization seeing aspects of employees coming back and doing their business is the irs with tax refunds at least from the government's perspective still expected to go out. this story said the irs said monday it will process returns starting on the 28th of january and it will be recalling a "significant portion of furloughed agency employees back to work. they plan to release an updated shutdo

pink floyd. the chinese rover known as jade rabbit shot these images.r this month. they say look, it likely won't be able to work for long because of the harsh conditions there. but those are pictures from the dark side of the moon. >>> look at this. one tech company has unveiled the world's first mobile pet cam. ashley: finally. stuart: it's made by vava. lets you follow your dog or cat around the house when you're not there. it's equipped with two-way audio so you can hear and speak to your pet. there it is. that's the camera on the floor, you see. follows the pet around so you can see it, talk to it. ashley: that would freak my dog out. stuart: it's got a collision detection system so it can follow around without bumping into things. it's going to pounce. i wish you would. >>> a check of tech stocks. shortly we will talk to ray huang, who picked specific winners and losers and will share them with us. right now, all the big techs are down. >>> holiday shopping. target reported strong sales but others like macy's, kohl's, not so much. we are talking t

pink floyd were one of most influential and successful rock bands of all time.ous stratocaster here, the perfect famous stratocaster in my opinion has not been improved on by guitar maker since. —— stratocaster. i would still prefer to play this very guitar. david gilmour's guitar playing is featured on some of the biggest selling albums of all time. yeah, it has got it. # c won the dark side... now, he is parting company with over 120 of his beloved guitars, almost his entire collection. -- see you on. well, i remember using this one at live aid, backin remember using this one at live aid, back in 1985, the original live aid. i went tojust back in 1985, the original live aid. i went to just sit with bryan ferry and he asked me if i would play. i got on stage, i think it was a 70 minute slot, you got on stage, it did not work, something had gone wrong. and so he quickly held this one at me and i played this. —— hurled. many of them have given me a gift of a piece of music. —— i've been with them for many years. it is time to move them on, for someone else to enj

so, the far side of the moon, what some people, especially pink floyd fans... well...!on. a lot more cratering, the surface is older, and there are some very the surface is older, and there are some very big craters there, for instance, the one that chang'e four has landed in, and so that is very useful, it is essentially doing geological excavations before we get there. the asteroid has hit the moon, produced the crater, produced a big hole, so you have a big place you can look inside the moon to see what is happening underneath the surface. what next, is it to concentrate on the moon, put a base there, is this still part of a bigger plan to get us to mars?” there, is this still part of a bigger plan to get us to mars? i am not privy to what the chinese space agency may be planning, there are more plans, for future agency may be planning, there are more plans, forfuture landers. we will return the samples back to earth, they have said. with another rocket, they have said, that this lander will have, that will be launched off and that will be the first samples from the

surface a fascination an unexplored frontier celebrated in popular culture this need to be tapped by pink floyd record breaking song. but now thanks to a pioneering chinese space mission it is being explored for the very first time the chunky four spacecraft was launched last month and successfully landed on the far side of the moon at two twenty six g.m.t. on thursday. by ground zero used the whole process was as expected the result was a decisive fit on the landing was very stable with the current one location is our most valued deal landing place in other words we were right on target the chunky four carries a rose which will study the means to rain and send back samples to the scientists say the far side of the moon is geologically different to the near side one of the goals of this mission is to find out more about what lies beneath the surface but china's space dreams don't end that it wants to catch up with the united states and russia one day even leave the world space race china is treating the moon as the first big outpost in deep space for its long term plans it's already sent severa