steve sedgwick is live with that side of the story. steve, what are they protesting? are they just protesting him >> no. i don't think so for one moment actually i think there are a lot of people who don't like his manner i think that they don't like a lot of his comments or policies. but from what i saw last year, and you have to remember this is a continuation of a process as well, july 2018, quarter of a million people in the streets of london, they were protesting about a whole host of global issues they don't like from nuclear disarmament to amnesty issues to immigration issues to foreign policy issues, to the middle east as well. homophobia, massage and made sou name it. but i think there doctor is drift civil from the political establishment and people on the streets, but also him as a lightning rod, the trends that we're seeing we talk about populism and fragmentation in politics, the far left and far right coming more into the european mainstream with parties such as the afd, the lega as well. and national front with marine le pen in france as well the brexit

let's get down to steve sedgwick who is live at buckingham palace and some rather interesting tweets from our president, steve. >> reporter: yeah. what else did we expect, i guess, from the president. he has all guns blazing. let's talk about the tweets. the mayor of london was invited to the state basket. i'm not going. we should not be rolling out the red carpet to mr. trump. mr. trump straight back at him saying pretty nasty tweets bad job, terrible job in mr. trump's words of running london and should concentrate on crime rather than worrying about the president. these two got formed because he was the man who gave the final thumbs up approval to the trump baby blimp when the president was over last time around in 2018 he's done the same this time around this time a 20 foot baby blimp will be allowed to be flown in westminster for a couple of hours. it's a state visit very important only two previous state visits the queen has met all sitting presidents apart from lyndon b. johnson in the 1960s since she became monarch in 1952 very important ceremonially, key day on wednesday thi

let's turn to cnbc's steve sedgwick with the latest good morning, steve. >> very good morning, frances. everyone is eyeing the federal reserve decision goldman sachs is going ts into $140 billion bear mark. it will make it a practice tim rtive to investors they invest in real estate and other hard access deals. back to the target story, it wag their card apparently they had to turn to this old thing called cash cash what's cash? one of the data is not terz apparently was not a security related issue. but cash what is the world coming to? final story coming for you, the hbo mini series which has had such acclaim is leading to a boom in tourism of all places chernobyl. 150,000 people are set to go this is 90 miles north of kiev, a place i've worked many times i'm surprised i haven't thought of going to chernobyl. but everybody is wanting to go there. >> everybody is raving about the docuseries i was talking about it with a coworker something to see, the series and the location steve, thank you >> just ahead, a new music video. plus screen sequels falling flat at the box office. you're wa

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steve sedgwick has been covering this visit and joins us right now from london. steve, what can you tell us? >> reporter: i can tell you, we're hearing the gun salute that you just mentioned actually going off in green park. if i'm quiet enough, you might hear the next salute did you hear that? i think you might have gotten that as i speak, the gun salute going off in green park. what we've actually just seen is the two helicopters with marine one landing in the palace gardens. ten minutes before that. we saw, as you mentioned, prince charles and the duchess of cornwall, camila, arriving and coming into the palace to be part of the official delegation. i hope you can hear those cannons booming as i speak as well that's the official day. as you say, tea with prince charles and camila at clarence house which is literally a stone's throw away from buckingham palace. what we have seen is this enormous presidential entourage that accompanies the president cadillacs, nine ton vehicles they will take the president after the formal lunch down to westminster abby which is

steve sedgwick joins us at buckingham palace with more on this potentially momentous visit. steve. >> reporter: it is a momentous visit. there's only been three united states visits in the 60 plus years since president trump has been here. there have been two state visits on u.s. presidents, george w. bush and then back in 2011 mr. obama as well. it is momentous. the fact is there is controversy whether there should be a visit. our viewers, go have a look at those comments on cnbc.com he said he didn't want to be at the state banquet. he's turned down his invitation because as in his words, president trump is not working in the benefit of the united kingdom. others say it is an important relationship there are controversial comments from the president. >> i look forward to your continued coverage of this visit over the coming days let's take a quick look at u.s. futures. we're in for a negative start of trade. that is it for today's show. i'm julianna tattle balm "worldwide exchange" is coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ applebee's new loaded fajitas. now that's eat

sedgwick is joining us on this all-important state visit. where he had when we were chat, it was just after trump arrived, it was a controversial start, but since then it seems like things have gone smoothly. but it seems like the protesters could create a more challenging landscape for president trump today? >> yes, absolutely and we should point out -- why don't i just step aside slightly because i'm sure people want to see the inflation of the trump blimp rather than looking at me. but you actually the defeats that you are referring to, the rocky start politically with the president calling the mayor of london a stone cold loser is related to this, i believe, because the blimp of course has had permission from the authority led by the mayor of london to be erected again over london, to 100 feet high, it is a 6 meter 20 foot blimp, the same one from july of last year. we were speaking to the designer of it saying it is meant to symbolize a whole host of things but fact of the matter is it has become a lightning rod for a whole host of prot