this is bbc news, the headlines. the us says strikes on iran—linked targets arejust the beginning as america's top diplomat heads to the region again. uk prime minister rishi sunak arrives at stormont to mark the return of power—sharing in northern ireland and will meet with irish taoiseach leo varadkar for bilateral talks later. chile's deadliest forest fire on record claims at least 112 lives — the president warns the figure is likely to rise. as we've been hearing, power—sharing in northern ireland finally resumed on saturday for the first time in two years. a short while ago, mr sunak arrived at the parliament buildings in stormont, belfast. he'll be meeting the the irish prime minister, leo varadkar,

and we're expecting this to happen shortly. there are a lot of issues to sort out including sector pay and nhs waiting lists. sara girvin has been talking to students in belfast to hear their thoughts on the new devolved government. it's almost like you're ashamed to be from here sometimes, just because of the way that the government get on, like children. people say to themselves, oh, the government won't last long, and probably in a year or two's time, there will be another problem for them to kick up a fuss about. | personally, i don't want to have to leave here, i want to actually work and try to make this place work for everyone. _ this is northern ireland's first planned integrated school, set up in the 1980s specifically to educate catholics and protestants together. politics students there have been following the events of the past week closely. the dup and other political parties are still getting paid for not doing theirjob properly. what is it like being a young person in northern ireland? as mad as it looks, people watching on the news,

we all do lead normally enough lives here — or at least normal for us. these young people are part of northern ireland's future, but is northern ireland part of theirs? i would love to say that i would love to live here for the rest of my life. if northern ireland became more open and the political system became better here, i would come back. apart from its quirks, i do love living here, but realistically, looking at the political situation, i don't really see it getting any better. it's sometimes shameful to say i'm from northern ireland, _ especially as a politics student. when you talk to others, like if you go to englandl and you talk to people who study politics. they go. _ "northern ireland, we hear you're a bit of a loose cannon." - do you find as a teenager those kind of old sectarian divides, catholic—protestant, unionist—nationalist, does that affect your life? i'm ashamed to say i probably do think about that, i think that's sort of embedded in all of us here a wee tiny bit.

it's just something automatically that seems to come with living here and we just do it so naturally, unfortunately. and it shouldn't be like that. and hopefully in generations to come it won't be like that. in the next decade, where do you see northern ireland, is it inside the united kingdom or as part of a united ireland? i don't think there will be a united ireland and i'm not too sure if there will be a united ireland my lifetime. i think that there will be motions to maybe move towards one but i think that we should remain a part of the united kingdom. 100% i do believe there will be a united ireland my lifetime i because when you look at the current situation that we've had _ for the last two years, - and over the last 100 years of partition, partition has failed everyone. i the past week has seen massive political change in northern ireland — the return of devolved government and the first nationalist first minister in the shape of sinn fein�*s michelle o'neill. it's truly historic, and as someone who would be a republican themselves, it's truly amazing to see that we're making progress. if you could give a message to politicians in northern ireland, what would it be? you're voted into represent your constituents and to represent your country — do the job, the point you are there is to solve

problems not create them. for me it'sjust about making sure lthat you're delivering for normall people and making sure that people can stay here and be _ able to live good lives. the message from these young people is clear — but are politicians in northern ireland listening? sara girvin, bbc news, in belfast. some breaking news now about the confederation of british industry, which is an organisation which represents some businesses in the uk and its former chairman tony danker. mr danker was dismissed from his role in april 2023 — he then took legal action. we now hear the cbi has settled that legal action. its board has agreed an undisclosed settlement with mr danker. this quote from the cbi... "the cbi board also reiterates that mr danker is not associated in any way with the historical allegations reported in the media concerning matters which pre—date his tenure at the cbi and rejects

any such association." we will have more on that for you as it comes in. here in the uk, a reward of up to £20,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a man suspected of carrying out a chemical attack on a mum and her daughters in south london. police say they believe people who know where abdul ezedi is have yet to come forward, as a nationwide manhunt enters its fifth day. a woman who rescued one of the daughters during the attack has spoken to the bbc about the moment she intervened. and ijust ran outside. and as soon as i ran outside, it was like, "whoa, what am i stepping into?" it was like, shock. the first thing i saw, ijust kind of froze and it was kind of hard to take in what i'd just seen. and then, obviously, once i gathered kind of what was going on, it was like straight away, i need to call the police. i need an ambulance, i need police. he's running down... he's getting away. and if it wasn't for the neighbours and everyone that was there on that night, it would have gone

a whole lot worse. i held on to the girl the whole time, trying to keep her still in case she had a spinal injury, in case she had severe something on her brain. ijust kept her calm, kept talking to her, kept trying to keep her awake. the nhs is failing some parents whose children die unexpectedly, according to a leading paediatrician who's been speaking to the bbc�*s panorama programme. about 50 children's deaths in the uk every year are termed as "sudden unexplained death in childhood". little is known about what causes them. 15 months ago gavin and jodie�*s two—year—old son addy died unexpectedly. panorama's richard bilton has followed addy�*s family's search for answers — you may find parts of their story distressing. high in the peak district, gavin dacres is on his way to a job. i'll be there in five minutes. all right. all right, bye.

but this last year hasn't been about work. not really an hour goes by when i'm not thinking about it. he's coping with the loss of his two—year—old son, addy. i've tried to block it out most of the time. we want to find out if something's been missed. that's how we both feel. we have followed gavin and his wife, jodie, as they search for answers. with addy, it's like an instant bond. addy was adopted by gavin and jodie at eight months old. he wasjust such an easy, happy baby. it's all we both wanted. when addy started speaking and calling daddy, for me, there was nothing better. he was apparently fit and well when he died in his sleep 15 months ago. this is going to be tough but tell us what what happened in the morning. ijust went in like any other morning and... ..he just laid face down, and ijust tried to wake him up. and, then, obviously, just the worst thing that could ever happen happened.

going to the hospital, and not coming home with your child is just, like, the worst pain you could ever feel. it'sjust, like, i didn't want to leave him on his own. it was classed as sudden unexplained death in childhood or sudc. it happens about once a week in the uk. no symptoms, warnings or explanation. if you look through his records... no, it's not even in layman's terms or anything, is it? - the inquest is coming up and gavin's father—in—law has come over to help him prepare. if there's anything on there that you think you could ask questions on... the dacres should be getting some help from an nhs key worker, according to government guidelines. i've just phoned up,

it's on the website and they said they don't deal with it. that's probably the fourth, maybe fifth solicitor i've tried contacting. because you were told to get legal representation for the inquest, which is approaching fast. and when you ring a solicitor, they just say they can't help. yep. everyone — it's near impossible. but the family feel they've not had enough support. just want to scream — - want to get hold of somebody and say, "please help them get some answers." - sheffield children's nhs trust was responsible for supporting gavin and jodie. it says it recognises there are areas for improvement in bereavement support and it's undertaken a thorough review to do this. it's coming up to christmas, but there are no decorations here. last christmas was horrible. this christmas, we've been saying we do not want to celebrate without my son. it'sjust like a very difficult time. yeah. not feeling too great at the minute. can't move on. yeah. the most precious thing that you had in your life's gone.

and you just don't know why that is. he were a smashing lad, he were marvellous. - we're never really going to be able to grieve properly till _ we actually know why addy died. why a two—year—old child, who were full of beans, i is here at night and then gone...next morning. i earlyjanuary, and it's an important evening for gavin and jodie. they're meeting the pathologist, professor marta cohen, who examined addy after he died. he was a beautiful, - well looked—after child. then a fear the parents have carried for more than a year. you don't think that we could have missed anything? no. this is not your fault. i want you to think. that he didn't suffer. it's nothing you could have done to avoid. l it's a reassurance that matters to the family.

ijust wish we'd seen marta a few months earlier, and then i wouldn't have had so many sleepless nights. it's the day of addy�*s inquest. i always feel really anxious before these things. it's just really upsetting to have to keep talking about the worst day that happened to you. once we get in there, it'll probably hit us a bit. they didn't find a solicitor, so they will have to ask questions. so, for an hour and a half, that terrible morning was relived. the coroner looked at the details of addy�*s life and death before recording her verdict. a verdict of natural causes with sudc. it's what the family expected, i think. but it's also what they feared because it isn't a conclusion. it doesn't end. sudc is just an admission that we don't know, and that doesn't really help the parents. i did feel a bit heard, at least. i'm kind of glad it's out of the way, but we still

have a lot of questions. i thought you were both incredibly impressive in there. you did have your voice and that's on the record. that's just... that is a place where... where you're heard. yeah. trying to make a difference and raising awareness while we're doing this. why we're doing this. if it can help just one more family, then we've kind of set out to do what we wanted to do. it is only more awareness and more research that will stop young lives being taken without warning or explanation. richard bilton, bbc news. you can watch panorama s sudden child deaths: the search for answers on bbc iplayer now and on bbc one at 8pm. if you have been affected by any of the issues raised help is available from bbc action line, just visit bbc.co.uk/actionline.

now we can bring you some live pictures because we are waiting to see prime minister rishi sunak and the taoiseach leo varadkar at any moment now, as they mark the return to power—sharing in northern ireland. that is after a two—year deadlock. so please keep watching because we will have more for you on that. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. apologies, we may be having some slight technical issues but we will fix that as soon as we can. there are those live pictures as i was

talking about earlier in belfast. as i mentioned, the prime minister rishi sunak and the taoiseach leo varadkar should be arriving at any moment, as they hope to mark the return of power—sharing in northern ireland. and of course it is rishi sunak�*s seventh visit as prime minister but it is the first in which northern ireland has a fully functioning government. that is after a two—year political deadlock there. we will also be marking the fact that the democratic unionist party has now come back after its protest. you're live with bbc news. the large hadron collider is the world's biggest atom—smasher, but, as it turns out, it's not big enough. the european centre for particle research, cern, is unveiling details of a new particle accelerator today, three times larger and twice as deep. 0ur science correspondent

pallab ghosh has been to switzerland to find out why they need an upgrade. wow. welcome to the large hadron collider. it's huge! it's massive. i can tell you after ten years working here, coming through this tunnel nearly every day, i still get that sort of wow as i look at all of it. this experiment has been going on for more than a decade. it's made some important discoveries, such as a particle called the higgs boson. this is one of the detectors that discovered the higgs12 years ago. it was an incredible scientific achievement. but the lhc was built to do much more than that. it was supposed to discover brand—new particles that would change the theory of physics. it hasn't. so in that sense, it's failed. and that's why they need a larger machine. the plan is to build what's called the fcc — the future circular collider — next to the existing accelerator.

it'll be at least twice as deep and measure nearly 91 kilometres — that's around 56 miles. inside, particles will travel much further than they currently do. they're pulsed by an electric field and stronger magnets, which make the particles collide with much greater force and, hopefully, revealing far more. there are so many outstanding questions in fundamental physics today and, in our knowledge of the universe, its structure and its evolution, for which we have no answer. and so we need more powerful instruments to be able to address those questions. there is the historic moment, michelle o'neill shaking hands with prime minister rishi sunak. 0f

prime minister rishi sunak. of course, this is again the prime minister's seventh visit, but this is the first time he is there to mark the fact that northern ireland has a fully functioning government. there is northern ireland secretary chris heaton—harris. he has been accompanying rishi sunak as he has been visiting stormont. 0f accompanying rishi sunak as he has been visiting stormont. of course, both leaders, both rishi sunak and tee—shot leo varadkar will and have been meeting separately with michelle o'neill and emma little—pengelly, and there they are going in to hold further meetings. they have been meeting earlier this morning as well. now of course, this marks the end of a two—year deadlock as we have been saying and that is because two years ago the democratic unionist party walked out in protest, that was after post—brexit agreements, but they have now

endorsed a deal to restart the political institutions, that is what has paved the way for what we are seeing today, the executive's very first meetings that are being held today. of course, this isn't the easiest day for prime minster rishi sunak, as he will be met with several demands by stormont. we will bring you more updates and of course there is a large page on our website, so please go and read it as website, so please go and read it as we will have a further report from our correspondents. now before we go you may have heard about rohan bopanna, who at the age of 43 has reached a milestone, becoming the doubles number one tennis player in the world. my colleague nikhil inamdar asked him about the secrets to his success and the advice he has for other leaders. i would say to really focus on short—term goals, even if you have a long—term goal, break it into

short—term goals, and that is when you start to not lose focus. you may want to own your own company but to get to that, there are short steps, small journeys, get to that, there are short steps, smalljourneys, it should be a personal goal, it should not be someone else�*s goal that you are trying to fulfil, that is a key factor. in the australian open this year, my first and foremost goal was to get past the third round, i had never, ever done that in so many years i had played, so i said, that is my first goal. of course i would love to win it but the first focus was to do that.— love to win it but the first focus was to do that. ., . ,., ,., , ., was to do that. you are somebody who has exclusively — was to do that. you are somebody who has exclusively played _ was to do that. you are somebody who has exclusively played doubles - was to do that. you are somebody who has exclusively played doubles and - has exclusively played doubles and so you have a unique understanding of what makes partnerships successful, what is it that makes partnerships successful? trier? partnerships successful? very sim - le, partnerships successful? very simple, communication - partnerships successful? - simple, communication makes a great partnership, there is no question on it. no matter how difficult the situation is, just eggs you mean what the other person is thinking, it does not work. however difficult the communication could be, when

that communication happens, it builds a real strength in that communication, and then, no matter what hurdle comes your way, you can channel it. ., �* , , , what hurdle comes your way, you can channel it. ., �*, , , ,., channel it. now, let's bring up some live pictures — channel it. now, let's bring up some live pictures for _ channel it. now, let's bring up some live pictures for you _ channel it. now, let's bring up some live pictures for you because - channel it. now, let's bring up some live pictures for you because as - channel it. now, let's bring up some live pictures for you because as we l live pictures for you because as we said to day is an historic day. people are busy working right now so thatis people are busy working right now so that is who you are seeing in front of the screen, as are the police officers there, because there is a visit by prime minister rishi sunak, as well as all of the executive who are holding their first meetings in belfast, and we are there monitoring the comings and goings as they continue. this of course marks the end of a two—year political deadlock there in stormont, which is why it is so significant that those first meetings are being held today, and of course, michelle o'neill has become the first minister, and that is a historic moment in and of itself, she told unionists at their national identity, culture and

traditions were important to her. the first minister then promised to be inclusive and respectful. you are watching bbc news. let's move onto story now. this one's for the swifties out there. taylor swift made history at the grammys overnight as she became the first artist to win album of the year for the fourth time. it was also a big night for other female performers, with miley cyrus and billie eilish both taking home top prizes. 0ur correspondent emma vardy was in los angeles on the red carpet earlier, entertainment journalist kj matthews spoke to my colleague nicky schiller and he asked her about taylor swift's history—making night. she took home the most important award — album of the year — which means she's the only person to ever win album of the year four times in a row. so that's amazing. yeah, beating stevie wonder, paul simon and frank sinatra.

she's in great company? absolutely. and we also had an announcement from her of a new album. i see she is top global trend at the moment. yes, well, look, taylor swift is known for her marketing prowess, if we can say that, she is not going to miss a moment when it comes to promotion. and yes, she used her acceptance speech to promote her upcoming album, which comes out in april. so sue her if she's wrong, right, but, you know, we we all love taylor swift. she's the the artist of the year, she's the artist, really, of the decade and she knows how to promote herself and how to promote her music. and she's still going to be on our tongues even next week when she goes to the super bowl to support her boyfriend. so it's just taylor swift's world and we're living in it. yeah, i was quite pleased to see miley cyrus win. i hadn't realised that's her first grammy?

can you believe that? i feel like she's been around forever. she was a disney kid, she started out acting then she transitioned over into music. and yes, after all these years, miley cyrus finally won an award. it's her first grammy for her flower song. she won for record of the year and she was excited. she said she almost missed it due to traffic but, you know, she wouldn't have been bothered if she missed receiving her award, but she didn't want to miss receiving it from mariah carey. so that was that was warm and nice. yeah, lots of people i saw on social media talking about her red carpet outfit. billie eilish also performed at the event, didn't she? yes, she performed and of course, billie eilish, as you just heard, won song of the year for what was i made for for the film barbie. and yes, she did perform there and trevor noah, the host, joked with her parents before she performed and before she actually won, basically saying, you know, you should have more kids. both of the two kids you have are so successful, why didn't you have more? it was just a hilarious moment, but it was nice to see her parents there in the audience there for her and her brother when they won. i'm interested, you mentioned trevor noah, it is a hard gig to host the grammys, but he's done it a couple of times now.

he did quite well tonight, didn't he? yes, and you know what i think they're figuring out if it ain't broke, don't fix it. trevor noah is an excellent host when it comes to hosting the grammy awards. and they don't want to break it. they say, look, this is working, the audience loves him, the ratings are solid, let's just stick with trevor noah and they did a good thing. now, the grammys wouldn't be the grammys without a little bit of controversy. and jay—z, he accepted a global award, but not too happy that his wife beyonce has never won best album of the year, even though she has the most grammys of anyone. she's the most decorated grammy—winning artist, and yet she has never won album of the year. so he took a little dig at that to basically say, look, a lot of changes need to happen. he's excited about receiving the dr dre social impact award. however, he can't take it too seriously because, you know, no—one has ever given his wife the album of the year award. yes, she has the most grammys, so,

yes, he took a little dig at her. and then when people say, oh, he says, well, you know, when i get nervous, i get honest. so maybe he was being honest, was being a little bit nervous. but it was wonderful to see him up on stage receiving his award with his daughter right beside him, blue ivy. let's go back to our top story now and just show you some of the moments from this historic day at stormont. there is prime minister rishi sunak northern ireland first secretary chris heaton—harris shaking hands with emma little—pengelly and michelle o'neill, who have been appointed deputy first minister and first minister of northern ireland. that is as the executive is about to hold its very first meetings of the day. the four that you see there have actually been meeting earlier this morning as well, and of course, this is an historic moment, rishi sunak is an historic moment, rishi sunak is visiting for the seventh time as prime minister, but the very first

in which northern ireland has a fully functioning government. now, this of course marks the end of a two—year political deadlock that is because two years ago, the democratic unionist party walked out in protest against post—brexit agreements. as we mentioned this is an historic day and we have a live page on our website, that has not only all the updates you will need throughout the day but also context, also the background to all these stories, to understand exactly how important this day is, notjust because it marks the end of a two—year political deadlock, but also because michelle o'neill has become first minister, and that in itself is an historic moment. she repeated her pledge in her speech on saturday after becoming the first to hold that post in northern ireland's 103 year history, the first

nationalist, that she would push for an inclusive leadership that would represent unionists' culture and traditions, that they work all important to her. before we bring you more on that, it is time for a look at the weather, with carol kirkwood. hello again. for many of us, it was a mild weekend but as we go through this week, the temperature is going to drop closer to where we would expect it to be at this time of year. now, today, we've got this weather front. it's been with us for a while. the met office has a yellow weather warning out for rain across parts of northern and western scotland. it expires this evening at nine o'clock and by then we could have had as much as 170 millimetres of rainfall — flood warnings in force. behind the rain we've got cold air, so the showers increasingly turning wintry. but ahead of the weather front, there's a lot of cloud around. and in the west, we're looking at some light

rain and some drizzle, but mild for many, brisk winds today and cold as we push up towards the north—east. now through this evening and overnight this rain heads south, eventually getting into northern ireland and into northern england. there'll be some showers crossing the north of scotland, which will be heavy with hail and thunder. and for england and wales, it still is going to be a windy night, quite brisk winds and also fairly cloudy but mild in the north, comparatively colder. so into tomorrow, then. then the weather front continues to sink southwards. you can see from the squeeze on the isobars that it still is going to be quite windy across southern areas. and we've got the rain sitting across northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland heading into wales. as the cold air behind it digs in, we could see some wintriness on the hills here, and behind it, increasingly through the day, the wintry showers will be falling at low levels across parts of scotland. but there will be a lot of bright weather here, whereas in the south, although it's milder, it is going to remain fairly cloudy.

now on wednesday it looks like that weather front will clear but it will come back later in the day to the south—west. there will be a lot of dry weather around and again some wintry showers. these are the temperatures, two in lerwick to nine in london. but the milder air where we've got the cloud and the returning weather front. and it's that that's going to give us some complications in the forecast wednesday into thursday. we've got this area of low pressure pushing north, rain in the south, but it looks like we could well see some snow as well. this could change, i can't emphasise that enough, but it looks like the south will have a blustery day with the rain, but snow could well fall across parts of wales, parts of england and northern ireland eventually getting into southern scotland, but drier in the far north.

live from london. this is bbc news rishi sunak arrives at stormont to mark the return of power—sharings in northern ireland and holds bilateral talks with irish taoiseach, leo varadkar. the us says strikes on iran—linked targets are just the beginning — as america's top diplomat heads to the region again. chile's deadliest forest fire on record claims at least 112 lives — the president warns the figure is likely to rise. taylor swift. and taylor swift makes history at the grammy awards becoming the first artist ever to win best album four times. the british prime minister rishi sunak and the irish prime minister,

leo varadkar, are in northern ireland to mark the return