and keep the public safe. u.s. troops in south korea dined on roast beef and donned christmas sweaters today celebrating the holiday 60 miles north of the border of north korea. and buckingham palace just released the queen s christmas message. queen elizabeth shared her thanks to those who served and referenced a personal highlight of 2019, the birth of her eighth great grandchild. now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline extra. registered sex offenders were in police custody, arrested on four counts each of first degree
going to and from the church service and then the prerecorded queen s christmas message. this is viewed by millions. some 7 million in britain and with social media, it s impossible to estimate the audience. a very important message, particularly one has to say, the queen regarding as deeply religious person, it s a significant time of year. it s also a time where she s a symbol of national unity and presides over a deeply divided country after the brexit vote. very quickly, there was some speculation that maybe this wasn t necessarily a health matter because the queen was seen in good health on tuesday. maybe it was a security matter. that s something one can t comment on. it s perfectly true that the cancellation occurred moments before the royal couple were
because what happens is a gathering of the royal family. this year the duke and duchess of cambridge will be staying with michael and carol middleton, kate s parents but some 30 members of the royal family joined the queen and prince phillip at their sandringham estate and what we have seen on christmas day is the church, the family going to and from the church service and pre-recorded queen s christmas message. this is viewed by millions, some 7 million in britain and with social media it is impossible to be estimate the audience. a very important message, particularly one has to say the queen, regarding a deeply religious person is a significant time of the year and a time when she, as monarch, is a symbol of national unity presides over a deeply divided
and the darkness has not overcome it. the queen s christmas message, one of the rare occasions when she voices her own views. in vatican city a holiday tradition as pope tran francis delivers his annual krls message. part of the message included a prayer for syria and his desire that a recent u.n. peace deal would end the suffering of the people in that war-torn country. our senior vatican analyst john allen has more for you from rome. pope francis today delivered the traditional christmas message directed to the city, meaning rome, and also to the world. now, popes traditionally use this platform to issue a kind of 360 degree review of the global situation, and that s very much what pope francis did today. the top note was a strong plea for peace in a series of global hot spots. the pontiff mentioned the israeli-palestinian conflict, the war going on in syria. he talked about libya, the
welcome back. edward snowden has a message for the people of great britain and a tv network gave him a couple of minutes of air time to deliver it. a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. they ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves. an unreported un andlized thought. and that s a problem because privacy matters. privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. snowden, of course, who is under russian protection at the moment is wanted by the u.s. government for spying. he did make those remarks from moscow. the uk s channel 4, they do this every year airing what they call an alternative christmas message after they run the queen s christmas message. sometimes it s goofy.