Really good. That us. You bring. This to. The world and our own memories show with Kenny Rogers may have become an international superstar because of the 1970 s. Hit song The gambler but over many years his fans have developed an even closer relationship with him because of his holiday Nisha Rodgers performed an annual ritual for decades his Christmas and hits tour and his last one was in 2015 the same year he would least his 6th holiday album it s called once again it s Christmas Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin spoke with Kenny Rogers on his farewell tour thank you so much for being with us Mr Rogers Oh you re more than welcome and you know this song once again it s Christmas will it has a special feeling for me because it was written by Don Russell who was the drummer with the Bobby Doyle 3 of the jazz group I was with when I was very young and started out and then he wrote this in 1968 and it sounds like a standard it s a perfect Christmas song and no one s done it before
More than 120. Chunks of concrete to search for survivors the dead Kathy. They ve actually become quite proficient to the Indian Ocean tsunami back in 2004 in the purification of water and the distribution of water so they re doing that here in the way to the earthquake and tsunami work. But now they re all point pointing water truck 2. 100 people. President Trump is blaming the Federal Reserve. He tweets today the Fed. Government shutdowns. 1.87 percent at. This. 2 Reuters reporters jailed. In court today to appeal their conviction of violating the country s official secrets act they re serving a 7 year prison sentence Michael Sullivan reports the journalists say they were framed while covering the plight of. Muslims the lawyers for wall loan and. Filed their appeal in early November citing evidence they claim shows the journalists were set up by police and that there was no proof that a crime had been committed their arrest and conviction drew condemnation from the u.s. The u.n. And
Mental friend. The weather the Sun afternoon much finger in a milestone with rain and drizzle in places B.B.C. News It s 3 minutes past 3. Countries. On the T.V. . Good afternoon how are you B.B.C. Local radio in the Eastern Counties as you heard on keep Greentree with you until 4 o clock now this time we played the American number one for the past 4 weeks we ve had kind Bryan and Jimmy Fallon vying for the top spot on the American billboard songs charts but which one will be the Christmas number one neither They have both been overtaken by a completely new track called speechless and it comes from Miles Don and shy a night person I present for a Moonie who has a birthday on the 27th of December a good day to have a birthday that. You Club. You have just listened to the American songs number one the Christmas number one on the Country Songs chart speechless by Dan and shy and show you Mooney. Was born the 27th of December $9091.00 so Dan ish a composer vocalist and songwriters Dan Sm
Nor knowledge executive should continue to provide free home to school transport for pupils as our education correspondent Rob Ameridose reports that s one of the questions in a consultation by the Department of Education primary school pupils here receive free school transport if they live more than 2 miles from their school for post primary pupils the eligible distance is 3 miles it is 4000 pupils benefit at an annual cost of it e 1000000 pines the department s consultation asks the public a number of questions including whether the number of people who get free transport should be reduced or whether some parents should pay for the service but any major changes to school transport couldn t be introduced without the approval of an education minister on the executive. The former British progress cycling champion Paul show and has died at the age of 60 to be cycling said he d been a great force of the sport but here is Michael McNamee Mark Hughes has been sacked this morning as manager
From what was billed that will be an absolute travesty if you think about the people lost if they are to do want to exit the one this extraordinarily hopeless Space Police are they told the family of a missing man that they found a body near Lowestoft Lawrence Gibbs disappeared 3 weeks ago and she George has more 56 year old Lawrence Gibbs who is seen almost Toby the 20th going into the water at peak field beach just outside Lowestoft despite an extensive search by the emergency services he remains missing yesterday police were called to the nearby beach it Kesse England where a body had been found the death is being treated as unexplained although they don t believe there were any suspicious circumstances and whilst the body hasn t been formally identified police say they ve told Mr Gibbs family about the discovery around 70 World leaders are gathering in Paris for a weekend of events to mark 100 years since the end of the 1st World War This afternoon the French president Emmanuel ma