one of charles dickens' best—loved stories, a christmas carol, is 175 years old today. e compassionate by ghosts, was written in condemnation of the child poverty that dickens saw around him. the first edition published in december 1843 immediately sold out, and the tale has captivated people ever since. david sillito reports. # god rest you merry gentleman... "marley was dead. to begin with, there was no doubt whatever about that. the register of his burial had been signed by the clerk." a christmas carol. simon callow is at the moment performing it onstankse twice a day in this, its anniversary year. i'm holding this very gently because this is an original a christmas carol, published exactly 175 years ago and they all sold out within five days. and while it would be going too far to say dickens invented a victorian christmas, he certainly, for millions of us, defined what christmas should be. he certainly gave christmas a meaning which it hadn't had before. he says, "it's the only time in the long calendar of the year that i know of that men and women open their close

one of charles dickens‘ best—loved stories, a christmas carol, is 175 years old today. ild poverty that dickens saw around him. the first edition published in december 1843 immediately sold out, and the tale has captivated people ever since. david sillito reports. # god rest you merry gentleman... marley was dead. to begin with, there was no doubt whatever about that. the register of his burial had been signed by the clerk. a christmas carol. simon callow is at the moment performing it onstage twice a day in this, its anniversary year. i'm holding this very gently because this is an original, a christmas carol, published exactly 175 years ago and they all sold out within five days. and while it would be going too far to say dickens invented a victorian christmas, he certainly, for millions of us, defined what christmas should be. he certainly gave christmas a meaning which it had not had before. he says, "it is the only time in the long calendar of the year that i know of that men and women open their closed up hearts freely and think of those below them as fellow passen

it was 175 years ago that one of charles dickens best loved —— it was 175 years ago that one of charlesublished. the story of scrooge, the miser who is forced to become compassionate by ghosts was written to condemn the child poverty that dickens saw around him. the first edition immediately sold out, and the tale has captivated people ever since. one of his descendants has read from an original copy of the book to mark the anniversary, as david sillito reports. # god rest you merry gentleman... "marley was dead. to begin with, there was no doubt whatever about that. the register of his burial had been signed by the clerk." a christmas carol. simon callow is at the moment performing it onstage twice a day in this, its anniversary year. i'm holding this very gently because this is an original a christmas carol, published exactly 175 years ago and they all sold out within five days. and while it would be going too far to say dickens invented a victorian christmas, he certainly, for millions of us, defined what christmas should be. he certainly gave christmas a meaning which it hadn't had

a christmas carol by charles dickens. who are you? what do you want? the story of scrooge and his night of ghostly encounters goes down through the generations. what do you want with me? much. there have over the years been 73 film and tv adaptations and marking today's anniversary, a display at the london pall mall gallery. this lost portrait was rediscovered in south africa, much to the delight of charles dickens‘ great—great—great—granddaughter. this is what he looked like when he wrote a christmas carol. this is him at 31 years old. the intensity of those eyes. when you think about the campaigning in this book, this is what dickens looked like when he was writing it. thejob now, raising the money to buy it for the dickens museum. time perhaps for a bit of the spirit of a christmas carol. as tiny tim observed, god bless us every one. david sillito, bbc news. newsnight‘s about to begin over on bbc two in a few moments. here's emily. tonight, who are the people you'll remember from 2018 and how have their moments defined our country and our year? join

a christmas carol, by charles dickens. who are you? what do you want?ortrait was rediscovered in south africa, much to the delight of charles dickens‘ great—great—great—granddaughter. this is what he looked like when he wrote a christmas carol. this is him at 31 years old. and the intensity of those eyes. when you think about the campaigning in this book, this is what dickens looked like when he was writing it. thejob now, raising the money to buy it for the dickens museum. time perhaps for a bit of the spirit of a christmas carol. as tiny tim observed, god bless us every one. david sillito, bbc news. now it‘s time for the weather with tomasz. not long now until christmas, just days away and we are a little more confident with the forecast for the day itself. we will look at that in a second. let‘s talk about the run—up to christmas if you like. not much change compared to what we‘ve had in the last two or three days. really mild weather with some showers. if you look at the satellite image, you have a sense of the atmosphere in motion. low pressure in

one of charles dickens' best—loved stories, a christmas carol, is 175 years old today. w around him. the first edition, published in december 1843, immediately sold out and the tale has captivated people ever since. david sillito reports. # god rest you merry gentleman... marley was dead. to begin with, there was no doubt whatever about that. the register of his burial had been signed by the clerk. a christmas carol. simon callow is at the moment performing it onstage twice a day in this, its anniversary year. i'm holding this very gently because this is an original, a christmas carol, published exactly 175 years ago and they all sold out within five days. and while it would be going too far to say dickens invented a victorian christmas, he certainly, for millions of us, defined what christmas should be. he certainly gave christmas a meaning which it had not had before. he says, "it is the only time in the long calendar of the year that i know of that men and women open their closed up hearts freely and think of those below them as fellow passengers to the grave." a chri

a christmas carol, by charles dickens. who are you? what do you want?rough the generations. what do you want with me? there have over the years been 73 film and tv adaptations. and marking today's anniversary, a display at the london pall mall gallery. this lost portrait was rediscovered in south africa, much to the delight of charles dickens' great—great—great—granddaughter. this is what he looked like when he wrote a christmas carol. this is him at 31 years old. and the intensity of those eyes. when you think about the campaigning in this book, this is what dickens looked like when he was writing it. thejob now, raising the money to buy it for the dickens museum. time perhaps for a bit of the spirit of a christmas carol. as tiny tim observed, "god bless us every one." david sillito, bbc news. wishing you a very merry christmas and happy holidays. you have been watching newsday. i'm babita sharma in london. and i'm mariko 0i in singapore. stay with us. business news back. we told you about japan's biggest share listing yesterday — but softbank shares c

i don't have very good fiction writer charles dickens would never have the indiscretion to invite queen victoria until the child called himself what it would twist and he would never never basically decide to open. a charity called for what it would be saying that what it was to was real and that your capital sent him money and that you kept a wall when are they counted to leave for a dollar what the waste from some dictator very good enough. could have an expression here a crisis of leadership political elites merged with global financial institution institutions people are left on their own will this situation take us to the left or to the right radicalisation protest because there were already started talking about this when we were discussing the relations you know between the yellow vests and trumps the floor balls in the united states the question the answer to the question is not right or left the point is that by this centralization of center right center left around neo liberal economic and post-modern liberal social policies that. globalization then the forces that suppo

one of charles dickens‘ best—loved stories, a christmas carol, was published 175 years ago today.y ghosts, immediately sold out, and the tale has captivated people ever since. david sillito reports. so, i'm handling this very gently. this is a little bit of history. this is a first edition of a christmas carol. and it would have gone on sale today, exactly 175 years ago. well, i'm joined now by the great, great, great granddaughter of the author, charles dickens, lucinda hawksley. when it went on sale, did it actually sell out? it did. 6000 copies was the first print run and it had sold out by christmas eve so, in five days, all of them had gone. it was on its third print run by the new year. so, this was an expensive book as well. there was a real buzz then, wasn't there? yes, there really was. and i think even dickens was taken aback byjust how popular it was. it was five shillings, which was a decent amount of money. and beautifully hand illustrated and hand coloured, absolutely gorgeous book. now, this is a bit of a moment for dickensian connoisseurs because we have this that

and finally, the vox celebrates 175 years of charles dickens' a christmas carol.e stage and screen countless times making it an iconic christmas favourite. and i recently saw it at the old vic, playing the a christmas carol, it is superb. with me is nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal. let's look at the new york times,

and finally, the vox celebrates 175 years of charles dickens‘ a christmas carol.ver the years, the book has been renacted for the stage and screen countless times making it an iconic christmas favourite. and i recently saw it at the old vic, playing the a christmas carol, it is superb. with me is nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal. let's look at the new york times, and its analysis of the decision that president trump tweeted, the news that they were withdrawing troops from syria and many even in his own party were shocked to read that week. it seems to be the way he tells people what he is up to. give us tells people what he is up to. give us your take on the move. it is interesting to see this came from twitter, which of course mr trump would be expected to do, but for something as large as troop movement, i would something as large as troop movement, iwould have something as large as troop movement, i would have expected... more official statement from the white house. more briefings from people like the defence secretary and people involved who have tr

one of charles dickens', best—loved stories, a christmas carol, turns 175 years old.

well, i'm joined now by the great, great, great granddaughter of the author, charles dickens, lucinda on the 19th of december. they had all sold out by christmas eve. it was a fairly expensive book as well, wasn't it? it was. dickens wanted it to be a thing of beauty, and it cost five shillings, which was a decent amount of money. so rich people were buying this. the message of the book? well, this is what dickens wanted. rich people, he wanted them to read the book and realise they were all a bit like ebenezer scrooge. this was dickens' desperate attempt to get the issue of child poverty into all the houses in britain. this also comes at a moment when you're standing by something that's quite a discovery, isn't it? this is known as the dickens lost portrait. this is what dickens looked like at the age of 31, when he wrote a christmas carol. it's a miniature by the scottish artist margaret gillies, recently discovered in south africa. it hasn't been seen in this country since 1844. we are trying to raise money now to bring it home to the dickens museum in london. people can donate via

well, the classic tale of charles dickens‘ a christmas carol gets an asian update by a theatre company who‘s made his fortune as an app developer intent on taking away human interaction and affection. i am no scrooge, i am sk lu! sklu! sk lu is very media savvy, he‘s a crazy rich asian who is very aware of his social standing, about climbing the social ladder and at the cost of his own soul he will achieve success in his business. the panto‘s achieve success in his business. the pa nto‘s director says achieve success in his business. the panto‘s director says in addition to drawing inspiration from asia, the production is also looking to present society and people‘s interconnectedness with technology. we have running through the whole story the same themes that dickens had written for scrooge, for a christmas carol, but along the way, we updated the ghosts. we have asianised some of the ghosts and we‘ve broke the story forward to the zist we‘ve broke the story forward to the 21st century. there‘s lots of technology, there‘s multimedia, the audience are playing with their phones and lea

their own people in their own countries wanted to make that recreated so back on you know in charles dickens novel the because you have a character who cares about kids in africa kids in the ship he didn't in america and she doesn't care about her old kids who are congregated that same cause so the idea is not that you don't care about us or about other nations they do of national state is if you can if you can't care about your own country about your own kids you won't be able you won't be able to properly care about those of us and this is the right message and the last word on this you know i just said this is what i sense is the problem in bricks of no because if you look at the people who want to remain there all the socialists are aligning themselves more with the elites so look at the. for example he's not saying let's respect democracy this is sort of this is a pride of the english instead of saying listen. you have to help us to get out of this this vote and this is this is what is making a lot of people upset even if they're able to overturn an emergency with your help through a su

idea how the book works and i would talk about the virtue of justice which i examine through charles dickens a tale of two cities. this was the hardest virtue for me to research and wrap my mind around and write about but justice, all the others have to do with you as an individual person to attain and practice but justice is a virtue related to an individual but also of a community so that makes it complicated there is individual attainment and also a society and culture and community can attain political or social justice in the societal and communal way. essentially it is the right ordering of relationships within a community as individuals we desire that right ordering and we want our society to protect that as well. in a tale of two cities we see this propensity to gravitate toward the extreme because the center of the story as a reaction to many years of injustice perpetrated upon the poor and the oppressed by the aristocracy it was horrible and terrible in the french revolution came about in order theoretically to correct that injustice. but as we all know as a result of what happened

0ne investor quoted charles dickens and said it has been the best of times and the worst of times, andey look on 2019, they don't think that there will be any more of those good times. i think a lot of things are weighing on them. they're worried about the prospect of tech regulation hurting a lot of the companies, facebook being the biggest one there. it's been one of the biggest leaders on the nasdaq, that has led to a lot of profits for many investors. they're worried that won't last for much longer. and then, of course, there's the ongoing us—china trade war, and of course what will happen with brexit. all of these things are weighing on investors. and that's why even though today they saw a bit of, i don't know, christmas cheer, belatedly, it's not necessarily something that many think will continue well into the new year. let's get some of the day's other news: in ukraine, 30 days of martial law has come to an end, amid continuing tensions with russia in the kerch strait. the measure was in force in 10 regions along the black sea and the borders with russia, belarus and moldova.

0ne investor quoted charles dickens and said it has been the best of times in the worst of times, andwhen they look on 2019, they don't think that they will be any more of those good times. i think a lot of things are weighing on them. they are worried about the prospect of tech regular asian hurting a lot of the companies, facebook being the biggest one—day, it has been one of the biggest leaders on the nasdaq, that has led toa leaders on the nasdaq, that has led to a lot of profits for many investors. they are worried that won't last for much longer. and then of course there is the ongoing us china trade war, and of course what will happen with brexit. all of these things are weighing on investors, and that is why even though today they saw a bit of, i don't know, christmas cheer, belatedly, it is not necessarily something that many think will continue well into the new year. thank you, plenty to way there. —— weigh. the united states coast guard said on wednesday it was searching for a british crew member who went overboard from a royal caribbean cruise ship, harmony of the seas, o

the original sketches are byjohn leach who was a friend of charles dickens. have become is stood as test of time. —— stood the test of time. it gives us an insight into how dickens is imagining his characters at the time. today you are unavailing recently rediscovered portrait of your great, great, great grandfather. this is a poor chip that was painted in 1843, the same yearin that was painted in 1843, the same year in which dickens was writing at christmas carol. the last time it was exhibited in this country was in 1844, 174 years ago. it been com pletely lost 1844, 174 years ago. it been completely lost for all of those yea rs. completely lost for all of those years. nobody knew where it was and it was completely coincidentally in their 175th anniversary year of a christmas carol, it was rediscovered this year in a box ofjunk. in a sale in south africa. the person who bought it didn't know what he was really buying. he bought a box of trinkets and children's toys for the equivalent of £27. it is currently on display at the gallery in pall mall. they try to

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inaugura [ laughter ] it takes real guts to go out in public dressed like a coke dealer from a charles dickensel.ug [ er ] i mean, look at him. he looks like he's about to hi carjack chittyy bang bang. [ laughter ] and for months, trump has been enly floating the possibility of pardoning manafort, even as llspecial counsel robert m tries to get manafort to cooperate in the investigation. tren praised manafort thblicly in an interview on fox news and complaine mueller was trying to get him and other trump associates to flip. >> this whole thing about flipping, they call it. i know all about flig. for 30, 40 years, i've been wahing flippers. they flip on whoever the next highest one is. it's called flipping. and it almilt ought to be gal. >> seth: you know, trump may say he's against flipping. but if he was ever arrested, he would flip more than a dad working a grilat a cookout. here is our scientific computer simulation of how donald trump would react if he was indicted. "it was don junior. it was eric.va it wasa. it was melania. it was tiffany. take tiffany. you don't want me. you want tiffany

do you remember charles dickens' description of life in the 18th century after the french revolution? he wrote it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. in my lifetime, i think to myself this is a good description of life as a black man in america in 2018. why do i say that? because i stand before you, i'm 64 years old, in my lifetime i have seen the first black secretary of state. i have seen the first black chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. i have seen the first black president of the usa. i have seen musicians from michael jackson to kendrick lamar rise to the top of popular culture. i have seen black athletes from shaq to stefan curry to colin kaepernick, even the controversial colin kaepernick, all over tv advertising products, and i have seen black actors like denzel washington and jennifer hudson win academy awards. i can keep going on this way. i mean, it's just an incredible record of achievement in my lifetime. more blacks and latinos today serve in the congress than ever before. black high school graduation rates at an all-time high and more african-american

so with apologies to charles dickens, perhaps there is yet another tale of two cities, paris and philadelphia. indeed, there is a philadelphia tale to discover in exploring the relationship of faith and liberty. philadelphia's story of faith and liberty may be part of the reason why this city has been distinguished by the united nations as a world heritage city. is it conceivable that faith helped guide liberty towards a more just political order? tonight we are privileged to explore together the relationship of faith and liberty in the creation of the american public. are there religious origins to american constitutional order? what, if any, is the role of faith in the founding? our guide in exploring these questions is dr. daniel driesbalk. he is a professor in the school of public affairs at american university in washington, d.c. he received a doctor of philosophy degree from oxford university where he studied as a road scholar and a juris doctorate degree from the university of virginia. following law school he served as judicial clerk for the circuit judge of the u.s. 4th court of appe

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