it is very important that he is writing this at the time of queen victoria or the victorian age, and the reason being is during that period, both in the united states and in england, everybody is following the lead of queen victoria. his work is a blockbuster, not only lien -- not only in england but also in the united states. we will talk about this more again, but what is happening in victorian england will happen in the united states during this period. we are starting to get to the point where everybody likes the christmas holiday. everybody wants to celebrate it, but the question is -- who's tradition are you going to follow? as i mentioned before, there were all these european traditions, so who is going to be the dominant one? is it going to be the british tradition? is it going to be the scotch or irish tradition? the answer is no, it's actually going to be the german tradition. the hessians who lost the battle of trenton actually win the war in terms of how we are going to celebrate christmas. the influence from germany is coming in two directions. one externally and one int

he is influence because the he is the husband of queen victoria. when he comes to their court, he introduces a lot of the native traditions of germany. one of the biggest is the christmas tree. and he will introduce that along with the idea that it should be decorated with lots of ornaments. he also stresses the importance of giving gifts, which many people trace back to the influence of martin luther. he thought that was a way of really observing the birth of christ. and he also makes it -- thinks it's a good idea to especially wrap the gifts in special christmas wrapping paper. so he introduces all these things into the court. and very quickly the leading british publications of the time publish these illustrations of what the holiday looks like in her home, queen victoria's home. and almost immediately every proper british family has a christmas tree. and when these images cross the pond to the united states the same thing happens. almost immediately every proper american home wants to have a christmas tree decorated with ornaments. now, speakin

and our families safe and secure. 200 years on from the birth of my great-great grandmother, queen victoria, prince philip and i have been delighted to welcome our eighth great grandchild into our family. of course, at the heart of the christmas story lies the birth of a child, a seemingly small and insignificant step overlooked by many invested in him, but in time through his teaching and by his example, jesus christ would show the world how small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding. many of us already tried to follow in his footsteps. the path of course is not always smooth and may at times this year have elt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference. as christmas dawned, church congregations around the world joined in singing, it came upon the midnight clear. like many timeless carols, it speaks not just to the coming of jesus christ into a divided world many years ago, but also of the relevance even today of the angel's message of peace and goodwill. it's a timely reminder of w

us and ourfamilies safe and secure. 200 years on from the birth of my great—great—grandmother queen victoriad i have been delighted to welcome our eighth great—grandchild into our family. of course, at the heart of the christmas story lies the birth of a child, a seemingly small and insignificant step overlooked by many in bethlehem. but in time, through his teaching and by his example, jesus christ would show the world how small steps, taken in faith and in hope, can overcome long—held differences and deep—seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding. many of us already try to follow in his footsteps. the path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy. but small steps can make a world of difference. as christmas dawned, church congregations around the world joined in singing it came upon the midnight clear. like many timeless carols, it speaks not just of the coming ofjesus christ into a divided world many years ago, but also of the relevance even today of the angels' message of peace and goodwill. it's a timely reminder of what positive thing

and when queen victoria was when queen victoria some private events as well.r before going in for dinner. it is nice and warm in here. it is also mild outside, because we have southerly winds. it has been a wet and also a windy night. and that is how we are starting today. the forecast has got some heavy rain in it, still blustery winds, but some of us will see some sunny skies. they will be fairly fleeting, i must say, for most. what is happening is is driving our weather. we have a clutch of france moving northwards through the night, they will continue to do so through the course of the day as well. but look at the direction of the isobars going round that low pressure, coming up from the south, hence the mild conditions. so this morning we start off with some rain across wales, parts of the midlands, northern england. that is pushing northwards before clearing later on this morning. we will then have a dry interlude before more rain sweeps in from the south—west, spread across southern counties, moves into wales in the midlands, getting into northern irela

eve, so they will have exchanged presents already which is what the royal family do, because queen victoriahusband prince albert who was german, that tradition in continental europe of swapping christmas presents on christmas eve, the british royal family do that although they did not give each other luxurious presence like you might expect like fur coats and cashmere scarves! they give each other jokey presence. one cashmere scarves! they give each otherjokey presence. one year catherine gave prince harry a grow your own girlfriend kit! but now he is married to meghan, but that is what he received, once. we can see the difference the royal family are starting to walk up. i can't tell you are at this point, but we are seeing quite a large group of people walk up now from the main house. all of the cameras, obviously peoples phones are lifted to the sky to try to get a really good picture of them as they walk up, so, we will probably see them at the gate of the church in the next five minutes. we are swapping between two different camera views, so at the moment we are showing the entrance to

arthur pointed out when barnum took tom thumb to meet queen victoria, everything you read about it now is what a wonderful impression both men made on the royal family but arthur went and read victoria's diary for that day, her journal, and she was very troubled by the way barnum spoke to tom thumb. suspect it was partly that she didn't understand american humor, but there was a lot in barnum's humor that was rough, and a lot of it was directed towards his wife in ways that i think were pretty hard to forgive. and must be said that barnum -- barnum was somebody who was unusually needy for wealth and admiration, that's not a quality i particularly admire. so the question in the book and the question that's come out of reviews is, was barnum admirable, was he not, how admirable was he, how justified, and my admiration for him and makes me think if barnum were in this situation, he would say, gee, there's a dispute here. the atlantic says one thing, the new yorker says another. you must come and decide for yourselves by reading the book. that's what i would do if i were barnum. i'm going

francine lacqua and tom keene on queen victoria street. a moment here on the extraordinary set of remembrances of paul volcker. had an important essay on it. you at goldman sachs, what was it like on a trading desk with 11%, 12% inflation? jim: kind of scared of it. -- you talkalks about fed watching, that is kind of when it started. thursday nights with m2 money supply. remember the likes of lacey hunt? for many months, the guru, being accurate on each week's numbers, and the markets would move like -- tom: because of the money illusion, the lack of theory, is there any comparison with the quietness of now? jim: there were two big reasons why it was such an exciting time to one was the beginning of the attempt to crack the inflation bubble, so it opened up all the -- particularly in the currency huge -- io you get remember in my days in new york, the dollar deutschmark moved by 25 big figures in a day. tom: the lebanese pound was a major thing. you imagine the life of a currency trader today? you would have to catch up on your sleep. that

they are making their way around the queen victoria memorial, on this familiar ceremonial route to thehe queen and the prince know extremely well. the 66 queen's speech of her reign, which is a remarkable statistic in itself. and, of course, the queen isjust remarkable statistic in itself. and, of course, the queen is just really witnessing the shortest session of her reign, the one that was instigated just a few weeks ago, which came to an end when boris johnson pulled that election. and that was after one of the longest once in many, many years. so we have had two very notable examples of parliamentary activity, in terms of a sustained long period and a very short period, so the queen's bentley making its way down the mall, down towards admiralty arch, and then probably across horse guards per, i would have thought, unless it goes through trafalgar square, and then down to parliament square. let's look inside the house of lords, because the lord chancellor, robert buckland, who shares a hometown with me, ican buckland, who shares a hometown with me, i can say, llanelli, buckland, who

john normand is on our desk here at queen victoria street with jp morgan.organ amend strategy, given 1000 people on the street in hong kong this weekend. don't tell me there is an amendment. john: we does have -- we do have an amended strategy, we have a view that the markets will move up alongside data. but with risk bias around it, you have to say the hong kong issue is a negative wildcard. even though the u.s. is trying to distinction between trade policy and -- it is possible that the chinese respond to what is happening in hong kong, either inhibits arriving at a deal with the u.s., or the u.s. application of that deal could scuttle the deal once it gets agreed to. this is something to keep an eye on. this,tephanie, a part of there is this question of how do you amend given a lack of confidence, a lack of will? what do you do with china so fragile in terms of protests and also trade uncertainty? the waye: to be honest, we think about a lot of this, and how does hong kong play into trade, we have a lot of scenarios for this. over the weekend we were fir

china was being defeated not by some more than at vons utopian powers like the british empire of queen victoria but by an inferior neighbor japan now that we've the schick empire and that was the point when things started to change in a traumatic way they were searched solidly to feed they didn't know what it was them what you heard from 8 $139.00 was defeat of to defeat after defeat often defeat at their point china's own power and the chinese lead there is saw china the chin dynasty was the center was the most powerful most the serialize the nation but 2 of the big their big surprise there were defeats. confusion and conflict reigned across china as it seemed to terra true twin forces from overseas and battled for balance at home. in $1000.00 imperial system but it kept order for more than 2000 years collapsed under the weight of the nationalist revolution the middle kingdom was now public. the nationalist republic joined the allied forces in the 1st world war only for china's contribution to be betrayed as the treaty of versailles ended the war and handed chinese territory over to japan. it

it basically begins by some reference to, you know, whereas a statute under queen victoria, you know, allows us to do this thing. we've got permission from our parents to declare independence. and from my point of view, i think i would say canada basically becomes independent because our hero, lincoln, wins the civil war and canada gives -- britain begins to give up its new world ambitions once it's clear that america is not going to divide. so they don't, they owe their independence actually to us. they didn't fight for it in quite the same way. and i think that is, to some extent, a piece of some of the things that you're saying. the people basically in the american revolution didn't want to fight went to canada. >> right. >> and, or in vietnam, you know? and even their independence actually, i think, is more product of america's -- >> certainly their unity. and there's one of troll op's novels, i forget which it is, but his job is the canadian pacific railway. that's definitely in response to american civil war and the fact that there's the world's first modern army all of a sudden

synthesis of our team at queen victoria street? been a regional map of the u.k..rs.hat labour had for they wanted brexit and they switched sides. whether they can stay with him is another question entirely. tom: the idea of staying as well, we will discuss this with sir martin sorrell. u.s. -- we saw a far-left . suggest the jeff -- debates will affect the in the united states, that they learn something? rosalind: brexit is an unusual beast that is peculiar to the u.k. we saw joe biden commenting overnight, saying people in the u.s. will paint this as the show for the far-left and what happens if you try to push too far to the left. there are questions about how far-left the democrats are going in the states. is that the way to get voters back from the right? francine: when our markets on a tear like this? we don't know the future relationship between the u.k. and e.u. thefrey: if you look at u.k. specific basis, they are outperforming. are probably more to a sign of the china-u.s., and bearing in mind that matters to the u.k. as well. the u.k. is important levera

our studios for parliament are just up the road from where they are now going to queen victoria towerf quiet american politics. viviana: from that pomp and act intance to the next the impeachment drama in washington, d.c., there will be a trial in the u.s. senate next year. the house impeached donald trump on abuse of power and obstructing congress. the vote made mr. trump only the third president in u.s. history to be impeached. he is expected to be acquitted in the republican-controlled senate. the bank of england looks to keep interest rates on hold. adding to bets on a move on the fears of no deal brexit. the bank of japan leaving all untouched. u.s.-china trade talks, the bank no longer sees these as increasing. global news 24 hours a day, on air and @quicktake on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am viviana hurtado. this is bloomberg. tom: let me do the data right now, it fixed income look. fixed income has been quiet. curve steepening up to 30 basis points, difference in yield for the 10 year and the two-year, we are begin

. ♪ ♪ streetom queen victoria in london, bloomberg "surveillance."the election, not on tv or radio. in the print media. lots to talk about, including the ecb meeting in germany. right now is a joy, because if you go to harrods, everybody has a certain way to walk in the door. for me it is simple, you have to eat first because you spend less money if you eat first so i go to the fish bar. michael ward has been brilliant joining us today as he has itsne the fish bar back to brilliant splendor. michael: we have done 250,000 square feet and the center of it is that beautiful room taking it back to 1900, 1905 splendor. tom: how do you bring back the dreaded beauty room? do you bring it back or forward? michael: the whole beauty room has been redone in the most stunning, gold flecked marble. tom: you can take my gold? michael: i can take your gold. francine: what are you getting right when so many department stores are getting it wrong? is it the heritage, the tourists? michael: no one is investing like us. we are investing to make at the palace of night b

victoria. western australia and queens land have had dangerous days too. intense and could get worse. the town of balmoral, south—west of sydney, was largely destroyed by fire. here's an account from one man caught in the fire there. a pottery artist who stayed to defend his property took these photographs of the fire claiming several buildings on his property. here he is describing how he survived. it came in, like, three orfour minutes. just a big plume of black smoke and the day before, i had actually built myself this in the back and a coffin size, just big enough for me to crawl inside, i had in there for half an hour while the fire raged. the prime minister scott morrison has faced a backlash for taking a family holiday to hawaii, as the crisis escalated last week and two volunteer firefighters were killed. he returned over the weekend and apologised for his absence. i'm sure australians are fair—minded and understand that when you make a promise to your kids, you try and keep it. but as prime minister, you have other responsibilities and i accept th

queen is. we see the first lady, melania trump, exiting as well. what are you watching, victoria, as you see this? how key is this visit from the president along with other nato leaders, and what are some of the potential land mines? because there's always some here. >> reporter: there's always some, but i have to say i think the queen is the one person since his presidency started that the president has not managed to disrespect in any way. when he was there in the state meeting in june, he was very pleasant with the queen. the trumps are really capping off what's been a big day in london, and this reception at buckingham palace is an opportunity for everyone to be before the discussions get underway tomorrow. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> i want to bring? je -- in jeff zeleny. there are some breaking news when it comes to the 2020 race. >> there is, brianna. we're told that senator kamala harris is ending her presidential bid. she is advising staffers as we speak here. she canceled a fundraiser that was scheduled for new york for tomorrow, but she is advising her

studying public health at queen's university and the classes we re queen's university and the classes were held in the royal victoria or access community ca re waiting list or access community care so it is the equivalent of putting a plaster on to a wound that was not healing. it is a huge decision to decide to move away from where you are living because you cannot get the health care you need. it was very daunting but when i look at wales in comparison to northern ireland even though it is the next worst provider of health care competitor northern ireland uk wide difference between northern ireland and wales as night and day. the statistics in northern ireland of 300,000 in august who were waiting to get a first face—to—face appointment with a consultant and a pa rt appointment with a consultant and a part to the uk that would be 11 million people. it was not possible for me to stay there, i had one doctor decide my situation as tantamount to palliative, and i am a young woman that is not something i wa nt to young woman that is not something i want to hear, i have plans for my future and with the current situatio

hello, it's thursday, it's just after 9:30, i'm victoria derbyshire and we're live from new broadcasting house, on air slightly earlier. because of the queen'sdent trump has become the third president in us history to be impeached, but he's not likely to be removed from office and he says it's the democrats who are in the wrong. they're the ones that should be impeached, every one of them. cheering we'll look at what it all means for his presidency. in a couple of hours, the queen will set out what the government plans to do in the year ahead, in the second state opening of parliament injust over two months. meanwhile, the first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, says she won't be drawn on what she'll do if borisjohnson blocks a second independence referendum in scotland. in her first ever interview, the mum of a 19—year—old british woman who says she was raped while on holiday in cyprus and then forced to retract her statement, tells us she feel let down by the foreign office. and she couldn't believe what had happened when she spoke to her daughter. i had gone out and found my daughter to be in this terrible state after being raped. sh

victoria. borisjohnson will welcome more than a hundred new conservative mps to westminster today, and the queenut the government's programme on thursday. on friday, mrjohnson is expected to bring his brexit bill back to parliament, which will now pass easily as he has a huge majority of mps. so britain's on course to leave the eu onjanuary 31st. meanwhile, labour leader jeremy corbyn says he'll step down early next year, with plans for his replacement to be in place at the end of march — but many in the party have said they think he should have gone already after a disastrous result which has reduced their tally of mps to just 203. let's talk to a labour shadow cabinet member, andy mcdonald. he's their shadow transport secretary. good morning. the worst electoral defeat for more than 80 years so why hasn'tjeremy corbyn defeat for more than 80 years so why hasn't jeremy corbyn resigned defeat for more than 80 years so why hasn'tjeremy corbyn resigned yet? he has said he will no longer be leader of the labour party and john mcdonnell has given the same indication that he will no longer be shadow

victoria murphy. she will give us her examination of the message the queen has given.staff and hard copies sent to family. harry and meghan are currently spending a 6—week break in canada. borisjohnson and jeremy corbyn have thanked nhs staff and other public servants who work through the holidays in their christmas messages. the prime minister also said the uk stood in solidarity with christians around the world who faced persecution for their beliefs. mr corbyn said it had been a "difficult" year for many, but christmas was a chance to reflect on hopes for a better world. around 2,000 volunteer firefighters will spend their christmas day tackling australia‘s bushfires as the crisis continues. the country‘s prime minister has pledged more support amid criticism from some unpaid workers. nine peope have died after more than 8a fires devastated homes and businesses. our news correspondent phil mercer is in bargo in new south wales. we can see the damage that has been done. how are they coping there? this house behind me as one of about a thousand across the state of new