in his sermon this morning at canterbury cathedral, the archbishop of canterbury — who was recently inof congo — drew a link between the suffering there and the recent terror attack in london. darkness is a monster that lies. its growling claims seem to call out with a louder volume than the love—filled whispers of light. we see the shadows out of the corner of our eyes — they may be violence, as in the congo or on london bridge. and there is one more christmas message, from british grime artist stormzy, reciting a passage from st luke's gospel. for you was born on this day in the city of david, the saviour, who was the messiah... the story of the first christmas. john mcmanus, bbc news. meanwhile, the dean of westminster abbey says britain is in need of the hope offered by the christmas story. dr david hoyle said he was hoping the nativity could unite people after years of political conflict. 0ur religion editor martin bashir reports. this is the first christmas season for the new dean of westminster abbey, dr david hoyle. an ancient cathedral where monarchs have been crowned and poet

in his sermon this morning at canterbury cathedral, the archbishop of canterbury — who was recently indemocratic republic of congo — drew a link between the suffering there and the recent terror attack in london. darkness is a monster that lies. its growling claims seem to call out with a louder volume than the love—filled whispers of light. we see the shadows out of the corner of our eyes — they may be violence, as in the congo or on london bridge. they may be political. they may be purely personal — from family feuds, relationship problems, illness, the darkness within us. and there's one more christmas message — from grime artist stormzy, reciting part of st luke's gospel on bbc one. for you was born this day in the city of david, the saviour, who was the messiah... the story of the first christmas. john mcmanus, bbc news. the queen has spoken of the importance of friendship and reconcilitation in her christmas address, following a year of deep divisions in the uk over brexit. she led members of the royal family at a church service on the sandringham estate. prince andrew, who stepp

the conservative candidate for canterbury? yes, she is.ury. so, a lot of them, when they have lived there before, we focus on the story growing up in the area. she didn't have that advantage so we focused on canterbury and why it's great. the company is happy to talk about its work with individual candidates. what's less well known is what it's doing for conservative central office. hi, boris, are you all right? i'm good, how are you? it is no secret, though, that it is responsible for videos like this. this has now been watched by1 million people on facebook, with another 5 million views on twitter. and i made steak and oven chips which were very good. craig dillon is the firm's 27—year—old founder. he is spending much of this election on the road with borisjohnson. you think a focus on the sort of figurehead is likely to move more effective this year because that's sort of what the conservatives tried in 2017 with theresa may and it usually backfired. well, what i would say about that strategy is if you want to run a presidential campaig

in his sermon this morning at canterbury cathedral, the archbishop of canterbury, who was recently interror attack in london. darkness is a monster that lies. its growling claims seem to call out with a louder volume than the love filled whispers of light. we see the shadows out of the corner of our eyes. they may be violent, as in the congo or on london bridge... and there is one more christmas message still to come, apart from the queen, of course. on bbc one, grime artist storms the will recite a passage from sainte lu ke's storms the will recite a passage from sainte luke's gospel. if he was born this day in the city of david the saviour... the story of the very first christmas. let's have a brief look at the day's other news. two days of mourning have been declared in the west african country of burkino faso after militants killed at least 35 people, mostly women, during a gun battle at a military outpost. the authorities say the militants arrived on motobikes and that at least 80 of them were killed. unrest in burkina faso has been growing after islamist violence spilled overfro

he was the former chair of the canterbury conservative association. conservatives win more seats, what you expect to happen within the labour party? we will win this general election to safeguard the nhs, to stop the cuts to our health and care services, to stop the bed cuts and stop the crisis a&e departments. if you do not win, how soon departments. if you do not win, how soon would you expectjeremy corbyn to resign? we will win this general election, people are fed up of the tory cuts to the nhs the waiting lists going higher entire. thank you very much for coming on the programme, shadow health secretary for labour, jonathan ashworth. still to come... in the last of our exclusive series of election blind dates, the subject of war causes a conflict. iraq is very important, it is the defining war of our time. the war that i lived through was the defining war for me. but this is british foreign policy, you have cheerleaders for wars. you have to stop saying that. as someone who lived through civil war and understand the reality is, they are not... li

tory activists in canterbury. he's been stitched up.e to pretend it wasjust banter — you can't win an situation like this, you can't say you meant every word of it and are heading to a big defeat because you don't say that two days before a foreign election campaign. sol two days before a foreign election campaign. so i feel for him today. it's not necessarily a disaster for the labour party, because you talk about how you manage expectations, and i'm convinced there are lots of people in the election two years who voted labour because of recognising the fact that there is very little chance of labour winning. so it sounds a bit convoluted, but i think that be people who will be prepared to vote tactically and cast their vote for the labour party so far as jeremy corbyn will not be prime minister. you agree? i agree, also that anything that will read it complacency amongst the conservative ra nks complacency amongst the conservative ranks could well benefit the labour party. there are many voters who may be sympathetic to the tories and

the daily mail leads with comments made by the archbishop of canterbury who's spoken out in support ofal surrounding prince andrew. the mirror says a luxury private jet used by the royals came within ten feet of crashing into an illegal drone as it approached a british airport. and the sun leads with a story about lottery winner steve thomson, who's doing his christmas building jobs for free after his euromillions win. a variety of front pages, but politics never far away, a variety of front pages, but politics neverfar away, is that? rachel, let's start with the daily telegraph, and a picture of boris johnson welcoming some of the new 109 conservative mps to westminster today. johnson to enshrine 2020 brexit in the log, perhaps we will come to that in just a moment, but in terms of the photograph, what do you think we can expect from these new conservative mps in the conservative government, in terms of tone and substance? well, i can't tell. that's precisely the point. a lot of them are people we don't know that much about him in the manifesto didn't have that much in it either. so,

anchor: t archbishop of canterbury addressed those around the world.e also used his christmas day rmon to talk about the darkness of the london bridge terror attack. >> darkness is a monster that li. it's claimed seem toalut with a louder volume. we see the shadows out of th corner of our eyes. there may be violence, there may be political, they may be personal from ram leaf you relationship problems, illness. the darkness within us that sometimes seems to threaten our stability and hope. anchor: in the plippines, a typhoon has caused major floods and instruction. more tn 25,000 people have been stranded. many of them unable to joinr thmilies for christmas. the typhoon has been following a similar track to a tap-in in 2013, the most powerfu to have the archipelago in a long time. reporter: apart from peaceful christmas in the philippines. the typhoon has brought sustained winds of almost 200 kilometers per hour. terrified local people and leaving a trail of destruction. heavy rain has left many homes flooded. more than 16,000 people have to spend the n

malcolm: if johnson is to succeed, h party must win districts like canterbury, south east of london.years, this was a conservative stronghold. but in the referendum, the district voted to remain in the eu, and at the last election two years ago, the fortress fell to the labour party. attorney anna firth is fightingo restle back control of canterbury. >> what mosteople, the vast majority are saying to me on the doorstep, whether they voted leave emain is, they just lont us to move on. they want the gr to be finished, they want the agony to be finished, they want some resolution. malcolm: the incumbent is labour's rosie duffield, who believes brexit would be disastrous. >> we're right next to europe. we're closer to europe than some english cities. and we're dependent on our relationship with europe, for our tourist trade, for the university, for our research programmes, all kinds of things, and it's really important for me to keep fightingor that. malcolm: duffield is benefitting from the breakdown of traditional triballlegiances. lifelong conservative joe egerton has switched sides.

this is the archbishop of canterbury justin welby who be...ishop of canterburyjustin welby who has given an interview to the big issue, and hasn't actually specifically named any royals, has he? but the daily mail is somewhat sensationalized. i'd like to thank you, actually, for this, because one of the problems of doing the papers is that we only get the front pages. and of course, you can't... it the front pages. and of course, you can't. .. it says the front pages. and of course, you can't... it says turn to page five. so when we were working this out tonight, we asked you, could we have page five please. bless you, you delivered. on more than one page as well, that's terrific. are not being patronizing about it, this is so important, because it gives the whole thing into context. he gave this interview, he talked a lot about homelessness, he talked a lot about homelessness, he talked a lot about social issues, generally, he talked about the fact that you know, he had been choosing the pope last week, and had a chat about football in argent

ward we live in this sense of insecurity especially since i'm not sure whether the archbishop of canterbury represented reality and church as messages but pope francis i understand is sent relics this year from the vatican. city from jesus is a manger are you surprised that more christian leaders around the world are not making more of an issue the de facto ethnic cleansing of christians from bethlehem yes this is strange and he turned and there it is the return of the relic to bethlehem is a message by itself immobility the word to the nativity church the words the nativity of peace today when the lake of the cradle of the nativity is back to bethlehem definitely pope francis as well approving this return of the relic has a message. and art of the world a word that we need every turn of peace to the cradle of peace in bethlehem in particular as lot guess peace is absent from bethlehem as long as speace is walled in bethlehem peace would never prevail because the main act of defiance on behalf of palestinian christians and muslims and atheists and in other communities has been the great mar

the daily mail leads with comments made by the archbishop of canterbury who's spoken out in support ofl surrounding prince andrew. the mirror says a luxury private jet used by the royals came within ten feet of crashing into an illegal drone as it approached a british airport. and the sun leads with a story about lottery winner steve thomson who's doing his christmas building jobs for free after his euromillions win. quite a wide variety of front pages but politics never far away. the telegraph, johnson two and try and 2020 brexit in law. according to this is going to try to take written out of the eu with all without a trade deal as he writes the transition cut off which is introduced on friday. what's important about the words we use here, for three years, the remaining establishment delete talk about crashing out with no deal and coming offa crashing out with no deal and coming off a cliff edge and that was about the agreement between britain and the agreement between britain and the european union and that is what the european union and that is what the withdrawal deal is going to

wanting that the labour party could find themselves winning canterbury and losing other seeds that belong this totemic seat of this imagine traditionalists labour, eu sceptic voter that they must win in order to balance it out... the top line from it is that, on exactly the same methodology from two weeks ago, it is down to a majority of 28. it shows, however you look at it, the poles are narrowing. it suggests, they have got it wrong before. johnson ready to shake up overseas aid if he wins vote. i had not come across this before but is it basically saying the department for international development will be taken over international development will be ta ken over by international development will be taken over by the foreign office? and if so is that significant? taken over by the foreign office? and if so is that significant7m was always the case until 1997 that those two departments were merged and he would be planning to go back to that kind of model and i suspect the rationale behind it may be partly to detain ——to tie in the two departments. one example might be he would make the g

here in the uk, the archbishop of canterbury addressed anglicans around the globe, and reflected on thetment of society's most vulnerable. justin welby also used his christmas day sermon to talk about the darkness of the london bridge terror attack. darkness is a monster that lies. its growling claims seem to call out with a louder volume than the love—filled whispers of light. we see the shadows out of the corner of our eyes. they may be violence, as in the congo or on london bridge. they may be political. they may be purely personal, from family feuds, relationship problems, illness, the darkness within us that sometimes seems to threaten our stability and hope. queen elizabeth has made her annual christmas broadcast to the united kingdom and the commonwealth. she acknowledged that 2019 has been "quite bumpy", and encouraged people to follow jesus‘ message of understanding. here's our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. morning service at sandringham. notable for who attended and who was absent. making their first appearance, six—year—old prince george and four—year—old princess ch

st margaret's church, which is 900 years old, and the st thomas of canterbury are within a two—minuteaudia sermbezis has the details. a stained—glass window broken, a door. 0pen, a stained—glass window broken, a door. open, the church office ransacked. it will cost thousands of pounds to repair all of this. ransacked. it will cost thousands of pounds to repair all of thism ransacked. it will cost thousands of pounds to repair all of this. it is very tragic. we have been serving the local community for over 900 yea rs the local community for over 900 years and to have such damage caused to the church is just really sad because actually if people need help at this time of year we would have helped them in any way we can. john weir runs the local funeral directors and is helping to look for the stolen cctv box. it is a little black box. given we held our services yesterday for bereaved families, i services yesterday for bereaved families, lam services yesterday for bereaved families, i am totally appalled by what has gone on. i will put up a £500 reward for information leading to the arr

canterbury being an area which voted a5% leave to 5a% remains that as part of the thinking. at this point is take stock in northern ireland because there are some significant contests taking there and emma vardy is there and nigel dodds, the dup, the du —— and nigel dodds, the dup, the du —— and nigel dodds, the dup leader of westminster is standing. we could be close to a dramatic result here in north belfast and belfast itself. north belfast and belfast itself. north belfast and belfast itself. north belfast has been a bitter and savage battle, a campaign between the dp. sinn fein's possibility of unseating nigel dodds, the dup leader in westminster. a huge blow, the dup, the mp for north belfast for 18 years, very prominent for the dup for 18 years, very prominent for the du p throughout the brexit negotiations in westminster. what happened in this general election was unprecedented and packed between nationalist parties stepping aside in order to nationalise maximalist —— nationalist or pro remain votes. and if sinn fein have one north l fast, nigel dodds will have falle

archbishop of canterbury, of all—england and metropolitan.dvice of our said council, do give and grant by the tenure of these presents unto the said archbishop of canterbury, robert james buckland, chancellor of great britain, peter norman, lord fowler, lord speaker. natalie jessica, norman, lord fowler, lord speaker. nataliejessica, baroness norman, lord fowler, lord speaker. natalie jessica, baroness evans of bowes park, lord privy seal. richard mark, lord newby. so the reading clarke is now introducing by name each of the members of the royal commission. and the members respond by doffing their caps. in the case of the ladies, they know. to begin and hold our said parliament and to open and declare and cause to be opened and declared the causes of holding the same and to proceed upon the said affairs in our said parliament, and in all matters arising therein, and to do everything which for us and by us and for the good government of our said united kingdom and other dominions thereto belonging shall be there in to be done. and also, if nec

i can't remember what the magazine is, the archbishop of canterbury's interview, but he was asked aboutng to refer to anyone individually. i've had a copy now, i'm 0k. -- a individually. i've had a copy now, i'm 0k. —— a coffee. some amazing pictures of the top. that isjust nice bits of snow. it can be difficult for the high street. it's as christmas comes early to the high street. we've seen this year after yearjust to get people through the doors, they are having to make cuts, because we are so doors, they are having to make cuts, because we are so unused to playing full price for anything. this suggesting price cuts as big as 44% ina bid suggesting price cuts as big as 44% in a bid to boost sales to get people buying someone figured out, some clothing and accessories down by 17% already. 0ne some clothing and accessories down by 17% already. one of those big sellers could be voice—activated devices. the amazon one is out of stock but some handy hints on how you might respect your privacy. look at all the settings. turn off things like human review which means humans can listen to the

looking at it theological terms, not just rome and constantinople, best canterbury and maybe not even speedy that requires a certain historical perspective to know what you're talking about. >> exactly. >> i hope you all understood that. [laughing] >> ifat i can just add, the houi experience in yemen, and i think it kind of sharpens the point that ron and pat were making, and that is that each of these instances where the iranians have been able to establish relations to work, to build alliances, relationships, is really kind of unique to that particular set of circumstances. so in the case of yemen where you have the houthis, yes, they have relationship with iran. yes,re they have explored the relationship, and the iranians have exploited the relationship with the houthishe in order to achieve an objective that they had,ct which is to stress and pt pressure on saudi arabia. but nevertheless, the issues that are unique to the conflict that's going on in yemen now are issues that are integral to yemen. the houthis are not fighting because they are partners or proxies iran. they are fig

. >> the archbishop of canterbury called the wedding of prince charles and lady diana spencer today thehe royal wedding, they are part of history and it's done beautifully and everybody has a chance to watch it all on television and everybody just wants to drink a toast to chuck and di. >> a princess who must now be aware, as it was on this day, that every single move she makes in public will be recorded and observed. a very difficult life indeed. >> we'll be back in just a moment with some closing observations and one final look at what has justifiably been called the wedding of the century. >> by the authority of the state of new york, i pronounce that they are husband and wife. you may kiss the bride. >> your wedding was seen by an astonishing number of people. 16 and 19 million viewers. how do you account for that kind of popularity? >> oh, i can't. i can't. the way it's grown is just amazing to me. >> it did appear in the '80s it was a good time for daytime soap operas, especially for a show like "general hospital" which had that huge success with luke and laura's wedding. >> i rem

his friend, the called greg bigger, the conservative activist, chairman the canterbury conservative associationrvative association, it is in fact a stain, he knows what he is doing, willjeremy corbyn be removed if he loses, he is asked. and jon as hworth says if he loses, he is asked. and jon ashworth says things could move pretty quickly. speaking on the victoria derbyshire programme he tried to play it all down, saying he wasjoshing around tried to play it all down, saying he was joshing around with his colleague. have a listen to how he explained what he said. it was a bit of banter with a tory friend of it was a bit of banter with a tory friend of mine, at least i thought was a friend, a tory activist called greg barker. having a bit of banter with him. he was saying the tories are going to lose and i was saying, no, you're going to be fine. josing, as in old friends do. he has only gone and given it all to a website. and i thought he was a friend. obviously, he is not. right, well, let‘sjust tell our audience what that was about. the conservative website guido fawkes has got hold of what t

i hope they keep talking like this because they are guaranteeing a trump win in 2020 you canterbury keepd and more children will die and the cartel keeps getting rich en and i hope they keep talking because most americans don't want this. pete: and the left is also not talking about the victims like angel moms and others who are victims of crimes of illegals who are then also shielded bye-bye sanctuary cities in the amount of ways this touches the lives of every day americans. president trump understands this and the left hasn't gotten the memo. maybe they will. >> turning to your headlines. pete: we now know that the texas mother who went missing for a week with her newborn baby was strangled to death. heidi broussard's body was found in the trunk of a car outside a houston area home. the baby was found inside unharmed in a baby swing. the owner of that home now under arrest. they insisted to officers the baby was hers. they met at church camp and more to come on that disturbing story and boeing starliner set to return home tomorrow. experts believe a timing issue in the system caused t

results for labour, dudley north conservative, small majorities, newcastle with paul farrelly, canterburyon because here we have battersea as well on the last column which we have under the exit poll staying read sue in london, they are defending them better but you can see the conservatives doing an awful lot of damage just on this first board. let's move it on and see some seats with bigger majorities. with all of them, by how close they were last time, we still have so much conservative damage being done to these seats in the election. stoke—on—trent north going blue. dewsbury, vale of clwyd, reading east going to the conservatives in the first successful labour defence outside london, we have gower. darlington, weaver vale, cardiff north, different story, all going blue. surprising to see some of these names going from blue to red. here we have some labour defences. gedling, the majorities are getting bigger. not a result yet. bury north they would hold under the exit poll and workington, everyone talked about workington man, it's going blue. croydon central, so much conservative dama