northern ireland really has changed. applause i, in the course of years, have had many conversations with martin and he knew only too well how many people struggled with his ira past. he was very aware of it. republicans, we know, were not blameless, and many people right across this community find it difficult to forgive and impossible to forget. s that is true on all sides and in the streets surrounding the church people gathered to reflect notjust on one life but what life here was once like. our friend earned this vast crowd today, even more, he earned the right to ask us to honour his legacy by our living. to finish the work that is there to be done. as a member of the ira,

martin mcguinness did play a role in causing many other families to grieve but republicans see the past differently to the relatives of victims. martin mcguinness was not a terrorist. applause martin mcguinness was a freedom fighter. applause those words will anger some but the thousands who gathered here today believed that martin mcguinness will be missed in the unfinished work of healing old divides. let's have a brief look at some of the day's other news. ukraine has accused russia of an act of state terrorism, after a former russian mp and critic of the kremlin, denis voronenkov, was shot dead outside a hotel in kiev. russia said any suggestion

it was involved was absurd. nat west is to close more than 100 branches, and royal bank of scotland will close 30, because of the rise in online banking. rbs, which owns nat west, says around a70 jobs will be lost. it says transactions at high street branches have fallen by more than 40% since 2010. two official reports suggest the state pension age is likely to be raised again. 0ne indicates that people aged 30 or under might have to work until they're 70, before getting a state pension. the other recommends those under 45 should wait until they're 68. the un estimates that 400,000 iraqi civilians are trapped in the old city of mosul as government forces try to capture it from islamic state militants. as people try to flee the city, one aid agency is reporting that parents are sedating their children or taping their mouths shut, so their cries and screams can't be heard by islamic state militants. 0ur middle east editor and cameraman

nick milard have been to the edge of the old city, and have just sent this report. gunfire gunfire the rule of the jihad gunfire gunfire the rule of thejihad is gunfire gunfire the rule of the jihad is to call themselves islamic state, has brought fire, destruction and death down on mosul, iraq's second city. this is where the fight is now concentrated, in the narrow alice of the old city, too tightly packed for armoured vehicles. it's a classic urban battlefield, a place wherejihadis it's a classic urban battlefield, a place where jihadis who pray that they will die fighting have managed in the last few days to install a defence past the iraqi forces. the iraqi troops took us to a and the positions. —— to one of

dozens and the positions. —— to one of d oze ns of and the positions. —— to one of dozens of sniper positions. the threat from is has managed to recreate some unity in a country torn to pieces by war. iraq is a very divided country. at the moment, they have a common enemy. the fear is that when they beat islamic state here in mosul, they may turn on each other. violence has infested politics and become the route to money, power and territory. war is iraq's tragedy, curse, and its normality. ten minutes ago, he says, i killed one of them near the mosque. the men fighting now were children when america and britain invaded in 2003. they grew up during the sectarian civil war the invaders

helped create. in most sought, even in the ruins, sunny muslims are the majority. but the government in baghdad is dominated by iraq's bigger group, shia. the battle grounds of west muscle are still home to several hundreds of thousands civilians. —— west most soul. this street is about 700 metres from the current confrontation line. the sunnis here are nervous about the future. they remember the old threats from shia politicians. this man, with his five—year—old daughter, says that when the army fled in 2014, he thought it was a sunny tribal revolution. then, men from is, daesh, with the accents of north africa and saudi arabia, began to impose their view brutal views. translation: we use to die 1000

times a day. it was hell, poverty and disease ridden. it was indescribable. we were so scared. we used to hide our children and wives from daesh everyday. now the war has swept through their street, and their local is contingent has left number seven, which they occupied. mohammed says the best thing is that the is tyranny is ending. he protected his family with sandbags. this saved them the morning a shell came in through the roof. by came in through the roof. by then, mohammed's family had already been sheltering in the basement for a month. with food, and water, even toys for the children. with areas held by is in most all, thousands of other families are still hiding from the war. but

mohammed, newly liberated, has the luxury of wondering whether the government will keep its promise to share power. translation: they have always been against sunnis. nobody came here to ask us what we needed. sunny and shia understand each other as people. the problem is between sunny and the shi'ite politicians. in the last few days, the fighting has been ha rd est last few days, the fighting has been hardest in the evenings. the offensive has slowed. this attack started in the last hour 01’ so. this attack started in the last hour or so. it is pretty heavy. it is a sign that islamic state are still fighting, still dangerous, and they still have ammunition. they are organised and prepared to die, but they are not prepared to sell their lives cheaply. but with iraqi forces backed by air

strikes from the american led coalition, is inmost soul can't survive. beating thejihadists coalition, is inmost soul can't survive. beating the jihadists out right, though, need much more now overwhelming force. guns need to be aimed to preserve civilian lives, so survivors feel like winners, not victims. and this war will be followed by another, if iraqi leaders can't share power. the battle for most soul and the plight of its people. a special report by our middle east editor jeremy bowen. let's return to the main story this evening, the terror attack at westminster yesterday. the first victims were on westminster bridge, where the attacker drove his car onto the pavement and into many people as they were working there with walking across the bridge. 0ur correspondent matthew price has been walking the length of the bridge today to retrace the deadly route taken by the attacker. inside the white circle,

difficult to spot, is the dark car driven by khalid masood. it took him about 20 seconds to drive the 252 metres across westminster bridge. at this point it was just an ordinary cardriving round a roundabout in waterloo, but he was about to enter the bridge, westminster, bridge, drive on to it and start killing people. this is where he mounted the kerb. witnesses said they thought it was an accident, as masood ran into his first victims. one man fell over the wall of the bridge here and hit the concrete towpath below. it's believed this is where kurt cochran, the us tourist on holiday with his wife, died. at this point he puts his foot to the floor, accelerating fast and hard. he hits someone else, just about here. imagine the panic along here. people walking along this pavement, desperate to get out of the way. some of them pushing themselves right up to the side barriers

to stop themselves from being hit. and it's at this point where that cctv footage shows the woman falling over into the water. did shejump? well, one eyewitness has told us that she was knocked into the thames by the car. she was andreea christea, the romanian tourist. by this point it's become pretty clear to people on the bridge what's going on, many of them, thankfully, have managed to get out of the way. he drives along the pavement here but he knows he has to get back on to the roads, so he hits another couple of people and then nips off into the cycle lane and these barriers are the reason why he knew he had to get off the pavement. instead, he swung past it, carried on down that cycle lane there, and then took an immediate left, slamming hard into the fence