michael: they absolutely trust the harrods brand.oing to buy the most beautiful product, what better can you have been to have the three ticks. you bought this gorgeous bran, you have been to london but you bought it from harrods. you cannot have better authority than that. betty: i am curious about talking about online versus bricks and mortar. onlinethink part of the -- sort of the growth of online has been for the mass consumer is a part of the protection and other luxury retailers have is because it is in the luxury offers a little bit of a buffer from those who are just price conscious and go straight online shopping because of prices, mostly? is anl: i think there element of that. for instance, we would do black friday. that is nine our dna. we want to make sure you have brands and products that you can find nowhere else in the world. that is what drives customers to bricks and mortar. it has to be supported by a great e-commerce offer, which we have. it has to be rare in this, uniqueness and something you cannot get anywhere e

at the royal ballet there elizabeth harrod and demelza parish.n incharge, director kevin o'hare each generation has its dancers from hull. vanessa and her mum before really knew how to engage with the young dancers, and give them a sense of purpose, taking it seriously and professionally. there are hundreds of these schools around the country, but i don't think many have this track record. to celebrate that, kevin o'hare has brought some former students together to rehearse for the huill gala show. demelza parish will be dancing a new piece. i never thought i would be performing back in hull because we don't do regional tours with the royal ballet so i did not think i would ever be coming back to perform and it feels like a once—in—a—lifetime kind of really. it is gala night, and inside xander parish is among the dancers getting ready to perform. this theatre has a special place for me because it is where i did my first performance in the pickwick papers at a street urchin. with harry secombe? yeah, i was a young kid, i was eight or nine, eight i

a must see every year as one of europe's largest department stores it's as well known as london's harrods or got to be left i guess in paris and let's start our two and the french capital. these decorative store windows are a parisian tradition during the christmas season every november the main department stores in paris dress up their window displays for the holidays and they've been doing that for decades. it's a tradition that many persians both young and old look forward to at this time of year it's people may be useful it's the magic of christmas if we're trying to you like. oh well i think they're important department stores do them every year and the children are happy. i wanted to come and see them they're always different i change it's nice a sign of christmas in. the christmas window displays at the big department stores are true works of art they're more inventive and more surprising every passing year the tradition started in the early twentieth century. you kinda think the christmas windows were created after world war one and during a depressing time. they were meant to rai

and harrods. you get. people offering people drink you know eating together a lot of decorations this week that people get out of here every day. and worry them allow themselves to relax a little and think about. the geoffrey museum of the home is putting on a show called christmas pasta it covers english christmas traditions from the past four hundred years. in the seventeenth century suites were made to look like eggs bacon all storerooms . up until the nineteenth century christmas was celebrated over twelve days at least by those who could afford it the twelfth day of christmas the six of january was the highlight then people ate a very special case this cake would have been eaten on the twelfth night and base within the cake would have been a been underpaid and say whichever kind of male member of the family got the he would have become the being king and it's going to be in a small child and a space to be a joke that then that child.

and at the royal ballet com pa ny ballet master and at the royal ballet company there's elizabeth harrodman in charge, director kevin 0'hare. demelza, and the man in charge, director kevin o'hare. each generation has had their whole city dancers, which is incredible. va nessa dancers, which is incredible. vanessa and her mum before it really knew how to engage with the young dancers and give them a sense of purpose maybe, taking it seriously and professionally, because there's hundreds of these schools around the country but i don't think many of them have this track record. and to celebrate that, kevin 0'hare has brought some of those former stu d e nts brought some of those former students together to rehearse for the hull gala show. demelza parish will be dancing a new peers, peace choreographed by andrew mcnicol. will be dancing a new peers, peace choreographed by andrew mcnicoli never thought i'd be performing back in hull because at the role ballet we don't really do regional tours so it's not somewhere i ever thought i would be going back to perform. —— royal ballet. it's a once—i

at the famous department store harrods the shop windows are always original and elaborately designed. and at harvey nichols department store christmas looks like a big wild party. that suffragist the santas are in a festive mood and things are buzzing. with missing it. names are not under this interim endings are not dismissing that it's a test you. know you can gain by not living up to the christmas but. meanwhile back in paris the streets are alive with the usual hustle and bustle. but sometimes local residents and tourists alike take time out to notice some window display were to. what you can see they took time to create the windows and make their ideas come true. this is the day. i love them they're super i find they're full of light simply beautiful and magnificent. christmas may still be a few weeks away but the decorative windows in various european capitals are a great way to get into the holiday spirit. our staying in the when to load. a round up on today's express. the city of dresden is currently hosting its ice world event twenty five artists from twelve countries spent w

london's famous department store harrods has officially ushered in the christmas season. this year the design do odo cheer it up on a has been commissioned to recreate any tell you in christmas market. hiring designers to bring a christmas spirit to life is an annual tradition of guards. this year's market will be open until december twenty eighth. sagna of norway and norwegian popstar money if you go home and have opened an exhibition of their work and or has done mark the artists spent about eighteen months preparing for the show the proceeds from the exhibition will be going to the queen sagna print award foundation the eighty year old scandinavian royal has been showing her work regularly since two thousand and six. the former member of the band hot money a few men met queens on you of norway at an art workshop in new york and they decided to hold an exhibition. is celebrating its first birthday since it was opened the new concert hall and has become one of the most popular sites in your more than four million people have visited the concert hall in the last twelve mo

and harrods. you get. people offering people drink you know eating together lots of decorations this week that people get out of here every day. and worry them allow themselves to relax a little and think about. the geoffrey museum of the home is putting on a show called christmas past it covers english christmas traditions from the past four hundred years. in the seventeenth century sweets were made to look like eggs bacon all stored. up until the nineteenth century christmas was celebrated over twelve days at least by those who could afford it the twelfth day of christmas the six of january was the highlight then people ate a very special case this cake would have been eaten on the twelfth night and base within the cake would have been a be underpaid and say whichever kind of male member of the family got the would have become the being king i mean this could have been a small child and it was space to be a joke that then that child with be the head of the household would have seen over the christmas fes

and harrods. people love bringing people drink you know eating together decorating the suite that people get out of every day. and were never allowed to relax a little i think. jeffrey museum of the home is putting on a show called christmas past it covers english christmas traditions from the past four hundred years. in the seventeenth century suites were made to look like eggs bacon all stored. up until the nineteenth century christmas was celebrated over twelve days at least by those who could afford it the twelfth day of christmas six of january was the highlight then people ate a very special case this cake would have been eaten on the twelfth night. when the cake would have been a big underpaid and say whichever kind of male member of the family would have become the being king i mean this could have been a small child and it was space to be a joke that then that child will be the head of the household i would have kind of seen over the christmas festivities and i also had the. pay to feed t

and at the royal ballet company, there is elisabeth harrod and xander parish's sister.charge, director kevin 0'hare. sister. and the man in charge, director kevin o'hare. each generation has had their hull dancers. it is incredible. vanessa and her mother before her really knew how to engage with young dancers and give them a sense of hope is, perhaps. they took it seriously. —— purpose. many companies exist around the country but not all of them have this kind of record. to celebrate that, kevin 0'hare has brought his former stu d e nts 0'hare has brought his former students together. i never thought i would be performing here. they don't do regional tours. it is not somewhere i thought i would go back to perform. it is a once in a lifetime event, really. it is gala night. inside, xander parish is among the dancers getting ready to perform. it has a special place for me. i had my first form and here. i was eight, nine. that is what got me hooked. whenever i say i'm from hull i always get quite a similar reaction, there's so many people from hull that are dancers and th

that evidence from amnesty international, he received a police escort to go christmas shopping at harrods attempts you were badly hurt. the second attempt was in brussels in 2001 when i tried to arrest him in the lobby of the hilton hotel. i was set upon by his henchmen. i had eight severe blows to the head. i was eventually knocked unconscious. it has left me with some permanent brain damage but i must taste and to add, nothing compared to the suffering of the people inside zimbabwe —— i must paste and to add this. thousands of these people have been tortured, raped, subjected to horrendous beatings that have left them permanently physically and mentally disabled and in many cases actually killed. so my injuries are nothing in comparison to the mass torture and murder that mr mugabe has inflicted on his own people, primarily black zimbabweans. inflicted on his own people, primarily black zimba bweans.“ inflicted on his own people, primarily black zimbabweans. is a keen observer is what has been happening in zimbabwe all these yea rs, happening in zimbabwe all these years, —— is a keen ob

there will not be any black friday deals at harrods. them but the amazon trend? >> we will not do black friday. that's not in our dna. what we want to do is make sure you've got brands and products you can find nowhere else in the world. customerat drives the to brick-and-mortar. it's got to be supported by a gritty commerce offer which we have. in the end, it's got to be unique and rare and something you cannot get anywhere else. >> do you think black friday cheapens your brand? >> absolutely. so none of these promotions, none of these discounts in your view, you don't want to participate in any of that? >> absolutely not, we want to have gorgeous products that you cannot find anywhere else and we want to sell them at full retail. >> are you worried you will be one of the few to advocate an approach like this? 27% salesar we did a growth. if we are a dinosaur, i would like to be the same down -- the same dinosaur. >> you're not worried about amazon? i think amazon is really more of a technology company than a retail company. amazon can

myself and my colleagues and president mcgarvey was given a police escort to go christmas shopping at harrodsrted them for over 30 years in this trouble for democracy. but i'm very uncertain about the future. we don't know who's going to replace mugabe. we know who will probably do it. all of these zanu—pf leaders, almost all of them have been implicated in the corruption and human rights abuses of the mugabe regime. there is a fear that this could be the continuation of the regime under a different leader. i hope that's not the case but that's certainly a possibility and a fear. a5 everyone is saying, as zimbabweans are saying, the true test will be free and fair elections. having said that, also today i feel joy and elections. having said that, also today i feeljoy and sorrow because i remember the thousands and thousands of zimbabweans murdered by his regime, thousands. i was campaign against the white minority regime in rhodesia, i supported the struggle against south african apartheid but robert mugabe killed more black africans and even the evil apartheid regime and that is a damning in

the water overlooking the brooklyn bridge david chang is doing a restaurant, a food hall akin to a harrod's food hall and it will drive continual demand for new yorkers, and then espn just took 19,000 square feet and they will broadcast, instead of having a studio, no disrespect in englewood, new jersey, you should have made that deal. >> we made several good ones in the city, we're good. >> espn used to be to have to drive out to connecticut to go interview. >> that's the point. if you want to hire talent, it's got to be in the cities and then also people have to want to take selfies of themselves at these places not just experiences it's got to look good the seaport is a great setting >> to specifically make money, to buy the retailers is still very dicy. what you're talking about i don't know how you play it from the retail standpoint. >> buy howard hurgs corp. >> concepts started in the last six months that will become major retailers, but they have the benefit of starting with a blank sheet of paper, and it's very hard to take a macy's, right, which has had a huge fixed asset around th

live from studio fourteen harrod al jazeera headquarters and. you're watching the news grid. in papua new guinea a police have forced asylum seekers out of a decommissioned prison camp they refuse to leave about fifty were taken away in buses but more than three hundred remain saying that they fear for their safety we hear the very latest from our reporter on the scene. also on the great man agrees to take thousands of wrecking jail refugees who fled to bangladesh at least six hundred thousand have a state since the military crackdown began in august we'll delve into the details and the role the u.s. secretary of state played in all of this plus three months ago deadly hurricane harvey made landfall in texas today more than eighty people it was the most expensive tropical fike turn on record two hundred billion dollars worth of damage in around his county hundreds still remain homeless he didn't live to tell that story and i'm leah hardy and us from in sanaa sixteen is in the headlines again but this time it's about sexual abuse several of the women say their team doctor mole

alternative except either make your store dramatically more as a concession opportunity as it is in harrodsl. and i think that the model of the department stores in the united states is broken. i have said it there's no one that wishes macy's and department stores do better than they have been doing than i do, but i believe the model is broken and it has to be dramatically changed people to have step back and say what is going to excite the customer you can't look add what's happening on broadway. you can't look at what happened in apple, you can't look at what happened with kylie cosmetics and all these things and say the customers aren't interested in experiences. yes, they are. and those people that want to figure out how to do that and do that well will be enormously successful going down the road >> one last question, michael. we have seen a bit of an upturn in retail traffic by week. apparel traffic by week over last year, over two years ago. is that just cold weather at work how sustainable is that? >> i can't tell you. it's going to be a funny season. first of all, i think last year