studio: mark, as we look at that incredible show of unity between the two leaders, i wonder, tessa dunlopistorian and broadcaster, what is the view from germany of moments like this? it's interesting, the first world war was a very complex one for the germans. 1914, they irresponsibly use what happened between austria hungary and serbia as an excuse to delay bash the french once russia was in the war and in many ways they we re was in the war and in many ways they were culpable, it was the military underpinning that pushed on this massive struggle on both fronts and the health to those two fronts —— they held onto those two fronts and didn't let go of the ultimate goal untilfailure in didn't let go of the ultimate goal until failure in late 1918, didn't let go of the ultimate goal untilfailure in late 1918, and then in1919 untilfailure in late 1918, and then in 19 19 they really pay for that and lost great swathes of territory and lost great swathes of territory and huge numbers of german people are and huge numbers of german people a re left and huge numbers of german people are left out

tessa dunlop.ut you still love it, it's which of these is not real. a chinese news agency says it has developed an artificial intelligence news presenter ready to read, 24/7 every single day of the year. and it's the war on the right if you haven't worked it out. i think it's fairly obvious. —— the one on the right. it is all real here though, i promise you. that is it for today's morning briefing. we havejust got the latest gdp figures for the third quarter of the year. simon is here to tell us what they are. if you wa nted to tell us what they are. if you wanted to know what gdp was doing you have to follow the weather. it was terrible, with the beast from the east early in the year between february and march which stopped construction and retail so sluggish growth and then it picked up and in the third quarter we have a reflection of that. the figure for growth in the word quarter —— third quarter is 0.6%. very much in line with expectations and that is faster than the 0.4 we were getting before

sorry to talk over you, we had tessa dunlop talking about this yesterday and she said the same thing,s year and we think of them especially with the flooding at the moment. they had horrific losses. all members of someone's family. scotland has a un envoy. yes, that is going to glasgow. we know that glasgow has some very poor glasgow. we know that glasgow has some very poor areas, glasgow. we know that glasgow has some very poor areas, but incredibly poor areas, and highlighting dad, who helps the poor? it is highlighting that life expectancy in the north of glasgow like craig end i5 the north of glasgow like craig end is ten years shorter than here is that we would know. and coming across a significant percentage of the population who admitted they had not seen that date or that they were in the position of running and food, 40%. look at the food banks, we are aware of that, but actually, at the desperate ends of our society we forget how bad that is. it did point very well made. in amongst the discussions of pro—brexit will affect everyone and the economy more generally, there are c

we're joined now by the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop, who has been looking into the role playedrecently but we still wholly neglect the eastern front, where actually, in terms of fatalities and numbers who died, it is horrific. i did a straw poll around friends and people on the train yesterday and nobody could tell me more than one of our allies of the eastern front, where countries like serbia, lost nearly a quarter of their population, romania, nearly an eighth of the population, as well of course, russia, which kind of sucked up the horrorfor russia, which kind of sucked up the horror for three years and then revolted. the reason i came across this was through discovering an english born princess who became queen of romania, queen marie, and in1918, queen of romania, queen marie, and in 1918, the new york times wrote she is the vivid and unforgettable personality of the war. you had best explain something about it. this is moving footage of her. so who was she? queen victoria's granddaughter, she? queen victoria's granddaughter, she was born in kent and there is a statue abo