Translation i had jotted down the dates when the probe adjusted its orbit. If there is a hayabusa 3 or 4 or even 5, id like to be involved in the mission. That next mission on this mothership, having launched its first capsule, will boldly go examining near earth asteroids where no one has gone before. Mark lobel, bbc news. Japans mission is not the only Space Exploration taking place at the moment. China says it has now begun analysing Data Collected by its chang e 5 probe on the moon. The samples were gathered in the last week, and havent yet been returned to earth thats likely to happen in the coming days. Its the first time lunar rock has been gathered since the 1970s. Now its time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. Clear and cold, good for looking at the sky and the stars hello, there. Its been a cold day today with a very light winds, and weve seen some mist and fog which has been stubborn to clear. The reason for the light winds, as you can see on the pressure chart, barely any isobars and that stagnant air continues into the start of next week as well. Now, we start to see those showers fading away and becoming confined to coastal areas. Most places will be dry tonight and well start to see a return to some dense fog around, some frost and also a risk of some ice in places as temperatures for many of us hover around freezing, and a few places below freezing. So its a cold start on monday, rather grey with some dense fog around which could be slow to clear, and where the fog lingers it culd be pretty cold. Start to see some showers and stronger winds moving into the east coast of scotland and north east england, a few showers also affecting the channel area. Otherwise its a dry and a chilly day with limited brightness, temperatures three to six degrees. Looks like we start to see some unsettled weather across the north of the uk as we move into tuesday, but for most of us, though, its staying cold. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. The uks chief negotiator is back in brussels to resume brexit talks with time running out to do a deal. Were going to see what happens in negotiations today and we will be looking forward to meeting our european colleagues later on this afternoon. Hospitals across the uk get ready to take delivery of the Coronavirus Vaccine, with the first jabs set to be given on tuesday. Hes played it boldly up there. That could be, that could be magical. Peter alliss there, the voice of golf, whos died aged 89. Thank you. And coronavirus stops play as positive tests in englands hotel mean the one day series in south africa will face further delays. Now on bbc news, tom brook marks the 40th anniversary of former beatle john lennons murder in new york on december 8th 1980, and assesses his powerful legacy forty years on. Any doubts about the beatles reception in america were dispelled the moment they touched down. Friday, february the 7th, 1964, a pan am boeing 707jet caught clipper defiance from london taxis to its destination at a terminal atjfk airport in new york. There to greet the beatles the biggest pop act of the 20th century were more screaming fans than the airport had ever seen before. 4000 of them. Screeching and screaming. To americans, the spirit of the most outspoken beatle, john lennon, was evident the moment he arrived as he jousted with reporters and fans at an airport press conference. For lennon, that february gave him his first taste of new york, a city he grew to really love and move to living permanently in august, 1971. Photographer, bob, took countless images of lennon in new york and the men grew to become friends. He very much enjoyed the freedom of new york, maybe some people would wave to him, but he could go around the corner to a coffee shop and people wouldnt bother him. You know, he felt very comfortable living here. In his last seven years in the city, this was his home, the dakota Apartment Building on manhattans upper west side. He lived there with his wife, yoko ono, and sunshine, until that fateful day a0 years ago december the 8th, 1980. Gunfire. On that night, a disturbed fan shot john lennon as he returned as he returned to his Apartment Building with yoko ono. As news of his death spread, it traumatised millions around the world, nearly everyone can remember exactly where they were when they first got word that he had been killed. As a Young Journalist working for the bbc in new york, i became intimately involved that night in reporting on lennons death. Id arrived in new york ten years after lennon moved here on a twa flight from london on january the 5th, 1980, to do a temporary stint as a radio news and Current Affairs producer. Much of the time in the bbc news bureau reading the teletype machines while eating lunch, but it was an exciting time, covering the democratic and Republican Conventions in 1980. In my career with the bbc, i have probably filed some 3000 reports or packages. Ive interviewed nearly every living big name movie star, but whenever i meet people, all they want to know is what was it like to cover the death ofjohn lennon . I never knew the man, but i do feel a real kinship with him and have often wondered what his last few hours on this planet were like. John lennon and yoko ono. New york city are your people. I do know that he and yoko ono left the dakota late on that monday afternoon and headed south, they may have gone down Central Park West which, today, with its grand Apartment Buildings overlooking the park looks much like it did whenjohn lennon was alive. To him, new york city was the capital of the universe. Lennons destination that monday afternoon was a now defunct Recording Studio called the record plant at 321 west 44th st, not far from times square. Phone rings. Sometime after 10pm that night, my phone started to ring. I was living in an apartment, a tiny shoe box for which i paid 400 a month on horatio street in greenwich village. Hello . 0n the phone was a colleague, jonathan cain, the british pop empressariou then living in manhattan. He told me the herd there been a shooting at the dakota and that john lennon was possibly the victim. I moved quickly, leaving the apartment rapidly with a tape recorder radio and notepad. I rushed to eighth ave to get a cab uptown. Can you take me to the dakota Apartment Building . The cab couldnt go fast enough. I loved lennons music, beatlemania and john lennon were a big part of my youth. This is how i looked on my First Official bbc id card in 1976. I had been a bit of a hippie, it shows, i was just the kind of person to have embraced john lennon and yoko ono. As i travelled up to the dakota, lennons music was on my mind, he just made an album, double fantasy after a five year break. Across town at the Roosevelt Hospital where lennon had been taken after being shot was wabc tv news producer, alan wiess, who lay injured in the emergency room after a motorbike accident opposite a room where doctors were working on lennon, trying to resuscitate him. The door was open and i was able to watch them work onjohn lennon. So, the scene is this, john lennon, they take all his clothes off, hes lying on his back, his feet are facing me, his head is away for me. And in a semi circle around him are the medical staff. And at least one of the doctors has his hands injohns open chest. Around that time, millions of americans were tuned into monday night football on the abc network, when sports commentator, howard casale, broke the devastating news to the nation. An unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by abc news in new york city, john lennon, outside of his Apartment Building on the west side of new york city, the most famous perhaps of all the beatles, shot twice in the back rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. So i set about doing myjob. Remember, in those days, there was no internet, no mobile phones, no texting, so i rushed down the street to this point right here, where there once stood a payphone, and i made a call to my bbc colleagues in london on the today programme where i once worked as a producer to let them know what was going on. I spoke to the overnight editor, quite an excitable fellow, he was agitated and so was i. After all, a former beatle being murdered on the streets of new york was a major news story. In those days, we used these rather big west german tape recorders made by a Company Called euer to record interviews when we went out into the field. They had great fidelity, but they were rather unwieldy, as clockwork handbags. Anyway, i still have mine from decades ago, and the other day, i put some batteries into and lo and behold, it kind of works. You can see the reels go around here. Anyway, the night thatjohn lennon died, i have this in reserve and i got most of my interviews of the small cassette recorder, and i was speaking largely to fans outside the dakota, and they were in a very emotional state. I remember some of their responses to this day. There was one young woman who told me that when she heard the news, she felt like shed been punched in the stomach, and that to me is a very accurate way of describing the emotional response to lennons death. After i did the interviews, it was time to do the life reports. After i fed the interviews, it was time to do the live reports. It was nowjust around 6 15am in the morning in london, soon, millions of britons would hear that shocking news. I had scribbled out a voice piece for the news bulletins and practised it but, to be honest, i was a novice. I had been trained in news journalism by the bbc, but i was not exactly a hard news person. But the story was so dramatic and it was easy to reports. I rushed to the payphone, got through to broadcasting house and soon i was on the air. Radio four, half past six, time for today. Good morning from Brian Redhead and libby purvis. The former beatle, john lennon, has been shot dead outside his home in new york. 0n the line now from outside the Apartment Building where the murder took place as our reporter, tom brook. Time, can you tell us exactly what happened . John lennon was killed two hours ago, he was returning home from with his wife, yoko ono, into his home, the Apartment Building, the dakota Apartment Building, and everything is still rather confused, but we gather that he got out of the car and there was an altercation about an autograph. Shots were then fired, several shots, he was very badly wounded and the Police Squad Car took him to hospital and he was pronounced dead upon arrival. It was a very emotional assignment. I remember at one point saying, of course, now lennon is dead. And i did feel a very big lump in my throat. Outside the dakota, the crowds of fans continue to grow. In the days that follow, there was a massive outpouring of grief. In new york central park, on the sunday after his death, thousands showed up for a vigil. They sing imagine. Today, people of all kinds, but perhaps those of my generation in particular, look back on the night of december the 8th 1980 with great sadness. 69 year old lennon fan, anne, will neverforget. It was a bad day. I heard it on the news. And i didnt believe it. I had to listen to it again and again to make sure i wasnt dreaming. It was bad. It was a bad day. I felt as if someone from my own family had died and it was just so tragic. He was my hero, so i couldnt wait for the new album and now that it was out again, starting over was playing, and all these great songs. I was excited to hear his voice again, and then he was so sadly taken away from us. They sing imagine. There was a palpable sense of loss, but why was the grief so extreme . It was definitely more pronounced than that brought on by the untimely death of other pop culture figures like Whitney Houston or michaeljackson. John lennon in a way connected very emotionally with his fans. People mostly know john through his music or some of his interviews, and yet, they felt very personally connected. I think a lot of the things he says in his music, people took very personally. And it was that loss, violence loss, that was just such that violent loss, that was just such a shock to sony people. Lennons greatest legacy is of course his music. Together with fellow songwriter, paul mccarty, they formed one together with fellow songwriter, paul mccartney, they formed one of the most successful music partnerships in history. Broadcaster and journalist, robin desnlow appeared on the bbcs Newsday Programme that after lennon died with this assessment of the former beatles professional career. John lennon was surely the most remarkable records that. 40 years on, does robin desnlow still see lennons stature in the same way . Its grown in that hes a legendary figure, people still write books about him, people buy books about him in large numbers still, so hes one of those few heroes who have kept going and going and going. In terms of his stature musicly, i think an awful lot of people just remember him, apart from the beatles of course, for just a few songs, give peace a chance and imagine. So i think probably musically, people have forgotten how good he was. I revisited lennons death every decade since 1980 during special programming, and ive always found it relatively easy to get big names in the industry to reflect on his talents as a musician and to express how much he means to them, perhaps because he so revered. My whole life as an artist was kind of shaped by him. And i. Icant. Exaggerate enough the effect his music had on me. He was synthesising a lot of other things that were coming and you know . Pulling on the Everly Brothers and elvis and rhythm and blues and country music. It was very wide open sources that he had for his music. But as much as any of us might want to praise lennon, he was a complicated character who could be difficult. He reportedly had a short temper and he admitted he had abused women, but none of this seems to have tarnished his love and peace image. He was a very complex character. I mean, the love songs, they could be very sentimental, very loving, as his last album, his odes to yoko and sean, his son, he could be obsolete vicious, as his song about mccartney. He could be very funny, he could be a rocker, he could be almost anything, and so that is what made them so interesting, and he could be very nasty, im sure, and he could be very very funny. So there was that contradiction within that made him such an interesting character. Two years after lennon died, i returned to the dakota to interview yoko ono. The interview was broadcast on nationwide, then the bbcs main early news and magazine programme. Thoughts ofjohn were clearly on yokos mind. Well, hes still alive, hes still with us, his spirits will go on, you know . You cant kill a person that easily. Thats the way i feel about it, yeah. In new york, the most obvious memorial to lennon is strawberry fields, the part of central park a stones throw from the dakota dedicated to his memory. His fans routinely gather here, often leaving flowers. But lennons spirit thats still alive is of course most evident in the appetite for his music, his lyrics, his thoughts. There is a whole generation that wasnt alive at the time he died who have become his fans. Last year, beatles songs were streamed online 1. 7 billion times, almost half by people under 30. It is remarkable how many young people know about lennon. What is it that you like about john lennons music in particular . Do you like the words that he uses . Yeah, i like the words and i like the music and, yeah. And i like the rhythm and how it all goes together. I think that its about something that is very important. Hes got a real reputation for being a man of peace and spirituality, which i think speaks to the moment today in a pretty fundamental way. I mean, the song imagine is sort of a banner song of what we are all trying to work for right now. He plays imgaine. And lennon isntjust engaging legions of young followers, hes also continuing to influence musicians from the time he was alive right up to the present day. The sound of his voice, he has one of the truly great voices in rock history, and are you have artists like Liam Gallagher of oasis and the modern bands like tame bands like tame impala and cut worms who all get that very specific lennon vocal sound because of such a trademark. He sings imagine. And among the new generation of Young Musicians influenced by lennons work is seattle baseds 26 year old tom. Hes drawn to lennon by the way he thought about the world. You may say im a dreamer. But im not the only one. I thinkjust the fact that he emphasised love and peace and this idea of striving for something that doesnt currently exist. I still see that message as something that we need. The idea, feeling, or thinking about something thats beyond ourselves is just incredibly powerful. Lennons fans have long been drawn in by his pacifism, by his anti vietnam war bed ins for peace. He was a political figure targeted for deportation by the Nixon Administration for his anti war views. He and yoko ono were sometimes criticised for being naive in their approach to world affairs. A matter i brought up with yoko ono a few years ago. What do you say to people who think you might have been naive in terms of the message, war is over if you want it. I dont think it was naive at all. I think thats the only way that we can really get some results. And we did get the result in the vietnam war. Lennon may have left us with a worldview and great music, but it was hope there might be another legacy, one that resulted from the fact that he was murdered with a handgun. Ed karch, then mayor of new york, spoke out. All of us here in central park are showing our distress, are upset with the fact that a deranged person who came from honolulu and bought a gun in honolulu and came to the city of new york and struck down a world personality was able to do that, and the only way to stop it is to have national gun control. But the restrictions on gun ownership werent part of londons legacy. Unrelated homicide in america is now 25 times higher than it is in other developed nations. With issues like gun violence, a worldwide pandemic, meltdowns and calls for Racial Justice on pe