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And she loves where she lives. and thanks to her new track, she and others can now enjoy even more of it. kirk england, bbc news. film footage is going on display at a museum in the us state of louisiana that's believed to show the oldest moving images of the city of new orleans. the black and white film dates back to 1898 and shows the annual mardi gras parade. the bbc�*s tim allman has the story. even in the late 19th century, the big easy knew how to have a good time. this was canal street, more than 120 years ago, celebrating mardi gras in its own inimitable style. the floats, the costum...

Who stole tamara ecclestone's diamonds? is on bbc three tonight at 9pm and is available to watch on iplayer now. the black and white film they back to 1898 and shows the annual mardi gras parade. even in the late 19th century, the big easy knew how to have a good time. this was canal street, more than 120 years ago, celebrating mardi gras in its own inimitable style. the floats, the costumes, the spectacle — new orleans putting on its best.

You did not go to canal street unless you were dressed up and i am sure that this was early on in the culture, in new orleans culture among all people. but here on mardi gras day, the people were dressed very well. mardi gras, or fat tuesday, is part of the fabric of the city. it's become a raucous affair these days with the crowds almost as big a part of the show as those on parade. things were a little different in 1898. the people standing there watching, are just staid and not really interacting the way that people are now. this footage, discovered only recently in a museum in the dutch ci...

On my mother's family coming to this family in 1898, buying a house on 17th street in brooklyn, that's the house my mother grew up in. that's my aunt sarah, my mother's sister right there and that's my grandmother and my mother behind her and all of the grandkids. it was incredible to learn so much and also to learn so much, that's my sister and my mom, about how military -- how much the military was important to my family. both sides, the bartiromos and the morialis served the country. my grandfather came to the country in 1906. first thing he did was fight in world war i, serve our country. ...

We'll talk about food towards the end of the programme. let's talk a bit about china in the light of the hong kong anniversary. xijinping's interesting interpretation of recent history. isabel, remind us of how we got to the stage. the history of this — it wasn't british, we had it under a long lease. opium war, 1842, we get hong kong island. one of the most shameful events in british history. i i would not argue with that. that gave us hong kong island in perpetuity. but hong kong island is unsustainable on its own. we then later acquired kowloon, and in 1898 we acquired a hundred year leas...