she did it. [ applause ] >> the fact is yoko ono did not break up the beatles.eatles. money broke up the beatles. business broke up the beatles. the desire to do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fresher heavier beatle. kids come to his concert and they don't scream any more, they listen. >> john len on and paul mccartney made music in their own ways that focused on the fact they were deeply in love with a woman. ♪ but i'm not the only one ♪ >> mccartney went home, he plays all the instruments on his own, the cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. this is just the mock up, folks. and it's going to be called ringo's -- >> i sell records and it doesn't matter if i've been the beatles or not. if he don't like the record, they won't buy it. >> ringo who, to this day, people dismiss way too much, had tremendous success in the '70s. and george harrison who had been stockpiling these amazing songs explodes like a super nova, all things must pass. may be the greatest beat

down from two point four just a bit higher than yoko would like. three notes but it's not for me to foresee what the final reaction of the commission will be surely our proposal was judged important and significant and the next hours we will continue to work i trust on a positive solution. with italy's prime minister bring an early christmas present back from brussels while shoppers are spending freely on holiday presents the amount of money their government can spend next year is still up in the air the coalition partners in rome are trying to satisfy e.u. regulators by showing goodwill towards brussels and a willingness to compromise on their original budget proposal many italians now want to see their government make a deal. it's all very messy i think that something may finally be moving and maybe little by little in a strange way we will finally become europeans we've tried to form europe for so long even if often we've not been very happy within it i didn't mean to do that but i hope the budget law will be approved. and that the e.u. understa

to indonesia it's yet another natural disaster president yoko widodo is yet again thrust into the role of consoler in chief as he visited the disaster zone it was at pains to come anxious locals worried about the prospect of another tsunami. i advise people to remain calm but be cautious not to be provoked by misleading information i have also ordered the meteorological agency to keep informing people about the situation including the weather conditions as soon as possible this is what scientists believe likely cause saturday's tsunami and that krakatau volcano in support of the ruptured underwater triggering a landslide and the killer waves now authorities are warning indonesians to stay away from the disaster zone as the volcanoes eruption continues there's the risk of further disaster. joining us now from the disaster zone in western job ali a reality from the indonesian red cross and you've just arrived in the worst hit area just moments ago what are your first impressions of are. all you can you hear me. yes i can hear you. just actually asked you what your first impressions are.

but yoko roma came up with the idea the founder of keep africa beautiful says it can feel like a hopeless battle. brings a lot of rubbish. that's all around us weekly you can see the dates and does is that the critical challenge. for see coach express it means continuing high operating costs. the newest boats even have four engines to prevent breakdowns. young people in china especially women are increasingly undergoing plastic surgery in the hopes of improving their job prospects they say that looking better will boost their confidence and thus make them more employable. it was just a slight incision a tiny treatises but this young woman says it changed her life to the surgery added a fold to her upper eyelid it's one of the most popular operations in china was she wanting a young boy a like was suddenly interested in me after i had the operation and i have much more self-confidence a job interviews i tell them what i want my chances on the job market are much stronger sutured at your work and i. unlike trends elsewhere it's mostly younger people who are having cosmetic surgery in china

president yoko we doto is yet again thrust into the role of consoler in chief as he visited the disaster zone it was at pains to come anxious locals worried about the prospect of another tsunami. i advise people to remain calm but be cautious not to be provoked by misleading information i have also ordered the meteorological agency to keep informing people about the situation including the weather conditions as soon as possible this is what scientists believe likely cause saturday's tsunami and that krakatau volcano is for two of the rugged underwater triggering a landslide and the killer waves now authorities are warning indonesians to stay away from the disaster zone as the volcanoes eruption continues there's the risk of further disaster. more on this story we're joined by at risk from indonesia in our barn is very risky as we just saw president joko widodo has visited the disaster zone and he promised to ensure indonesia's tsunami warning systems were up to scratch so what's the problem with them now. it's simple we don't have enough money or they don't have enough money so we did ha

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government for i'm going to marco wrote on twitter chancellor i got a merkel has expressed to president yoko widodo the president of indonesia her deep consoled condolences on behalf of germany she said the news and images out of indonesia are very upsetting we mourn with the victims' families and hope many people are now rescued so now we'll just see if these words of condolences will turn into action should in an easier require and request any help from any of these neighbors or any countries from around the world william no if you think you and the relief effort is intensifying in the aftermath of that deadly tsunami i spoke to kathy muna from the international federation of red cross she joined us from palo in the wishes monitoring recovery efforts of to indonesia's last major disaster and i asked what the situation was after this latest tragedy. i have to let the indonesian red cross deployed teams of volunteers immediately after the tsunami last night they were on the ground again this morning and had the photos that they're sharing with us show why scene of devastation something you w

president yoko widowed is yet again thrust into the role of consoler in chief as he visited the disaster zone was it pains to come anxious locals worried about the prospect of another tsunami. i advise people to remain calm but be cautious not to be provoked by misleading information i've also ordered the meteorological agency to keep informing people about the situation including the weather conditions as soon as possible this is what scientists believe likely cause saturday's tsunami and that krakatau volcano is thought to have the rugged underwater triggering a landslide and the killer waves now authorities are warning indonesians to stay away from the disaster zone as the volcanoes eruption continues there's the risk of further disaster. and for more on this story we're joined by risky. indonesia in our born news room a risky thank you for joining us so nearly forty eight hours after the tsunami hit what are conditions like for survivors. right now hundreds of military personnel. volunteers are in the disaster zones trying to search in the remaining fixin's under the rubble. we alrea

president yoko we doto is yet again thrust into the role of consoler in chief as he visited the disaster zone was it pains to come and locals worried about the prospect of another tsunami. i advise people to remain calm but be cautious not to be provoked by misleading information i've also ordered the meteorological agency to keep informing people about the situation including the weather conditions as soon as possible this is what scientists believe likely caused saturday's tsunami and that krakatau volcano explorer two of the rock did underwater triggering a landslide and the killer waves now authorities are warning indonesians to stay away from the disaster zone as the volcanoes eruption continues there's the risk of further disaster. fergus jensen a correspondent with the reuters news agency joins us now from indonesia fergus thank you for joining us so you obviously very familiar with this area of java can you tell me how hard hit or how hard the tsunami has hit the region. and this is. a big impact for the area i mean. an economic impact. from medicare the water quality. recovery.

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because she did it. >> the fact is, yoko ono did not break up the beatles. beatles. money broke up the beatles. business broke up the beatles. a desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier, heavier beatle these days. respectably married. when the kids come to his concerts, they don't scream anymore, they listen. >> the significant thing is that both john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. ♪ but i'm not the only one >> mccartney went home, made the record where he plays all the instruments on his own. this cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. >> this is just the mock-up, folks. >> the new album with atlantic. >> it's going to be called -- >> i sell records. doesn't matter if i'm with the beatles or not. if they don't like the record they won't buy it. >> ringo to who this day people dismiss way too much. has tremendous success in the

and i have always loved john and yoko. i'm such a big yoko fan.ink that's what he's really inherited more than anything. just this radiant magic. >> jimmy: guy, pick that up. that is midnight tonight. >> yeah. >> jimmy: you're releasing that. and that's going to be super fun. miley and mark. how's everything over with converse? that's another cool thing that you're doing. >> converse is awesome. i've been doing it to give everyone something special. >> jimmy: maybe. no, i mean -- what's the message behind the -- >> so, wait. i thought we have a gift. >> jimmy: i don't know. we'll discuss that. >> you're holding out? okay, we'll discuss that. >> jimmy: yeah. >> okay. so basically converse -- the thing that i love about converse is they look great on you, by the way. we've got magenta. we've got baby pink. we've got crushed velvet. >> jimmy: hey. >> we've got vegan patent leathehi and also unisex for me. i mean, they are pink, but i think that they're unisex. >> jimmy: everything's -- >> and yeah, what i love about them mostly, is i love that conver

it's a really big thing, and two minutes later we got the yes from yoko. i was like. >> why is it making you emotional? >> because i think that's amazing. like, that felt very big for me. that felt like i am living my purpose. when i was younger, i wanted to join the peace corps and they were like, no, girl, you're not a nurse, you have no real skills for what we need, and i remember thinking, oh, yeah, so i have my skills now. >> thank you so much, karla. >> thank you. >>> and with that we button up tonight's program. thank you for watching, "amanpour and company" on pbs and join us again next time. uniworld is a proud sponsor of "amanpour and company." bea pollman is synonymous with style, a boutique cruise line, she brought a similar style to the rivers. with a destination inspired design for each ship. bookings available through your travel adviser. additional support has been provided by roslyn p. walter, bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edward wachenheim iii, seen melvin, judy and josh weston. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers

or a more lucid more i know what to do also be indicted you see with yoko for it if it's even more the sue went to look at this she did have cause the pot luck to morrow the second best city and. the us is equal to please. and all put to fit on a vanity fair we call a few men don't get enough. sick i'm behind look sad to say we're fair share so for the decisions. that are they defy me design the genius that is done in a one sided haji. inform that if he can they started to look. good he's on sunday. said we're fairness you now see. possibility in a very busy. dizzied economy. to a large meal but it's how could such a sale be concluded out of the inaction of the political class in this case be explained did an aggressive acquisition by americans and the loss of a whole strategic sector really take place right under the noses of france's m.p.'s not really just two weeks after the scandal broke former deputy mayor. called for a commission of inquiry commission look at. it in this is how do you work it could be any of you dumb are. fair. celebrate this you defect. yet in the national assem

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show on ice without going there but they are seeing the effects of climate change fast hand the long yoko glass it is shrinking this is the country's second largest class and in a bid to try and raise awareness of the issue a tunnel has been built to take tourists into the heart of the ice a magical experience but one that won't last forever. the journey to europe's longest ice total passes through a snow covered wilderness. long your code is iceland second biggest glacier measures fifty kilometers long and up to twenty kilometers wide. global warming means it's shrinking fast until recently it was only possible to view the glacier from above. going inside was a perfectly true reserve for scientists. but last year the glacier opened to the public. again this going and what exactly are you good because on your feet so you don't. target so few of your odin's daughter is taking twenty visitors from the u.s. and china into the glacier. seismic activity and glacier movement monitored regularly to make sure it's safe to enter the project is the first of its kind many people were skeptical at fi

[applause] >> actually, yoko sent me the message monique just read and asked me to translate them intold like to thank everybody at new direction, especially barbara cotler who did a great job editing. editors are so important. and of course i'd like to thank yoko for writing the book because translators are nothing without authors. and i'd like to thank the national book foundation for this award. thank you very much. [applause] >> it's pronounced frankie. i love poetry. i have a poem that i intended to recite, but it was suggested that might be a tad midwestern for this crowd. i thought instead i would talk about how almost anything can be poetry. for example, some people i know recently said that it was a sort of poetry the way the red sox clinched at yankee stadium this fall, which is a new york sports team. and even then if you consider it a piece of poetry depending on your point of view, for example when you live in manhattan it might seem like a william blake poem. as he traveled northeast needed to new haven is more like a soviet plot verse and maybe becomes a little brighter,

his death my wife and i were in amsterdam staying at the amsterdam hilton the same place john and yoko stayed i said we should have a bed in to protest they were protesting the vietnam war i wanted to protest justice scalia's death. that she said to me what you to try some him up in one paragraph just write one paragraph summing up the man. so that's what i did. it ended up being the second paragraph of the book but the first paragraph goes like this. a one sentence paragraph. incident scalia was a man of strong likes and dislikes. one is that he embellish long paragraphs and single sentence once. that was the first. then comes the ended up being broken up but this is actually one paragraph initially and what i wrote in the amsterdam hilton with my bed in protest. a once conservative nonconformist temperamental but companionable the admiring of this study is a passionate but conscious thoughtful but unremarkable rotund but athletic competitive but compassionate serious but impish at terms he could be jovial demanding and forgiving curmudgeonly resigned tenacious stubborn or acquiescent

. >> the fact is yoko did not break up the beatles.broke up the beatles, money broke up the beatles, the desire to do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier heavier beatle these days. married. and when the kids come to his concerts, they don't scream anymore. they listen. >> both john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. mccartney went home, made that record where he plays all of the instruments on his own. this kind of domesticity. beautiful, wonderfully warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. >> new album. >> it's going to be called ringo. >> i sell records. and it doesn't matter if i have been in the beatles or not, if they don't like the record, they won't buy it. >> ringo who to this day people dismiss way too much had tremendous success in the 70s. and george harrison that was stock piling these amazing songs, explodes like a super nova on an album called all things

and, yoko's in it.e're kind of going-- "why is she in the beatles' photo?" >> alfonsi: but how did that happen? >> mccartney: because-- how did what? >> alfonsi: that she was allowed in the photo? >> mccartney: because they were madly in love, and john wanted to take her everywhere. i think none of us dared say, "john," you know... but we all felt it.soit bwardor, i must admit. >> alfonsi: this is my very favorite photograph. >> mccartney: oh, yeah. that little baby in my jacket now has four children of her own. >> alfonsi: mccartney credits his love of family and music to his father, jim, who raised paul after his mother died when he was just 14. today, the man who wrote "mother nature's son" has four grown children, a 15-year-old daughter and eight grandchildren. we also showed mccartney what amounted to home video of the beatles... >> mccartney: here we are. it's cold. and we're coming out. >> alfonsi: ...from their last live performance together. >> mccartney: there's me testing the roof. >> alfonsi

went back to pick up the suit and it was right that same week when i looked up in the sky and saw yoko ono having skywriting a birthday greeting to john and their son sean. i went to get this suit, i picked it up and tried it on again, he had made beautiful alterations and he said again, it fit nice, it fit nice. he put it on a hanger, suit hanger, and put it inside a suit bag and zipped up the suit bag and handed it to me. i walked out with it over my shoulder like gene kelly in an mgm musical. i had never been happier in my life. everything was coming together. there was a collision of my sister and the fitzgeralds and gene kelly new york musical and we were living in a basement room be damned. got back here, put the suit back down, and because i was so in love with this moment, i unzipped the suit bag and looked down, there was the jacket and the pants were gone. exactly. i looked and i saw to my grief and horror that this was a suit bag that had no bottom and the suit hanger was plastic and obviously the pants had slipped right off the hanger, out of the bag and were some place out

. >> and this was a very very difficult time because he was choosing yoko over the beatles. >> yes, yes, it was. >> i maybe did one of the few good things, really good things i have ever done, which was went down as he asked me if i would, and protested the fact that our great unindicted coconspirator of that time, richard nixon wanted john out of the country, and then unfortunately later got himself out of the white house. i thought they would have to cut his hands off his wrists to get him out of the white house. >> we forget that john was put on a blacklist, right, nixon sicced the fbi on him. >> and i helped him. it was a good feeling. >> what did you do? >> anything i could do for john, and against nixon, i would jump at. >> and what did you do for him? >> i just went down and talked about how he should not be thrown out, and his lawyer was there, audience, and now, if you go to you tube and put in cavett nixon, you can see him in the oval office, the words are up here. it begins with what is cavett anyway, he says to his hr alderman, and the last line is cavett, there must be some

john and yoko. >> jimmy: of course. >> and i was like, "oh, that's such an amazing idea."his parents wrote the song. he's one of my oldest friends. he actually took me to my first "saturday night live" when i and it was -- i remember the show. it was ted danson and luther vandross. >> jimmy: no way. >> yeah. >> jimmy: so that's great. so you and sean -- >> so we're going to do "war is over." and it sounds so great. miley just sounds so good singing it. her voice is just so incredible. she is one of the greatest voices, i think, of our generation. i'm so glad -- >> jimmy: absolutely. >> i got to work with her. >> jimmy: mark, i can't tell you how proud i am to say that i know you. [ light laughter ] i love you, buddy. i'm so happy for you. and come back. much, much, much more continued success. >> thanks so much. >> jimmy: you deserve it, buddy. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. >> jimmy: mark ronson, everybody. catch him performing with miley cyrus on "saturday night live" this weekend. pete lee performs stand-up for us next. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ connecting

inland without warning rescue teams are working around the clock in search of survivors president yoko widodo has promised to upgrade tsunami detection systems israel will be heading to elections on april the ninth finance one by the coalition parties headed by the prime minister benjamin netanyahu follows a deadlock over a controversial bill the vote was shuttled for november of twenty nineteen. a car bombs exploded in the afghan capital kabul the blast took place near a government building fighting in the area is ongoing between police and armed groups no one group has claimed responsibility for the attack a court in pakistan a sentence the former prime minister now i sharif to seven years in prison sharif along with his daughter and son in law was jailed earlier this year on corruption charges relating to the purchase of luxury properties in london turkey says is working with several countries to take an investigation into the killing of the saudi journalist jamal shuggie to the united nations the announcement came from the foreign minister to a news conference in tunis he's also de