you're with bbc news, live from london. on the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement being signed — the british prime minister calls for power—sharing to return to northern ireland. chinese military forces conduct drills around taiwan for a third day. the display of force is beijing's angry reponse to a visit by the taiwanese president to the us. two bodies are found in the rubble of a building in marseille, 2a hours after it collapsed in an explosion. elon musk says the bbc is "among the least biased news organisations." it's in response to the bbc�*s objections to being labelled as "government—funded media" on its main twitter account.

welcome to bbc news. we begin in northern ireland — which is marking 25 years since the signing of the good friday agreement. the historic peace deal largely ended decades of violence in northern ireland. but prime minister rishi sunak says efforts must be intensified to restore the power—sharing government that was central to the deal. it collapsed in the fallout from brexit and now the political dysfunction and security concerns are threatening to to overshadow the historic milestone. from belfast, laura cullen reports. it took 22 months to last the end three decades of conflict. through it all, these leaders kept their sense of purpose. and in the end,

they delivered an agreement that is fair and balanced and offers hope for the people of northern ireland. the agreement was based on the edge of cooperation between communities and set up a new government representing both nationalists and unionists. a copy of it went to every household in northern ireland, and almost a million people voted in the referendum which followed. the result, as predicted, but definitive, northern ireland was ready for change.— ready for change. yes, 71.1296. cheering _ but the path has been far from smooth. the anniversary was officially mark last week in a storm rowdy devolved executive and assembly are not currently sitting.

the democratic unionist party is refusing to go into government, over brexit arrangements. the prime minister is looking forward. she soon i pay tribute to those who signed the agreement, saying that... and he said that the promise made in 1998 was one of economic opportunity and prosperity and stability, which is a promise we must continue to fulfil, he said, so we must get on with the business of governance. and there is a reminder that the threat from paramilitaries continues. there was some trouble at the annual dissident republican parade on easter monday last year. police have warned of the potential for more serious violence this year. strong community _ serious violence this year. strong community intelligence, - serious violence this year. strong community intelligence, covert i serious violence this year. strong | community intelligence, covert in respect of the events on monday in derry, londonderry, and there may be attempts to draw police into serious public disorder and to use that as a platform to launch terrorist attacks on police as well so going into our operation that is something that is

clearly right at the forefront of my mind and the minds of the commanders and our as well. fitter mind and the minds of the commanders and our as well-— and our as well. after 25 years of relative peace, _ and our as well. after 25 years of relative peace, the _ and our as well. after 25 years of relative peace, the focus - and our as well. after 25 years of relative peace, the focus is - and our as well. after 25 years of relative peace, the focus is on i and our as well. after 25 years of relative peace, the focus is on a l relative peace, the focus is on a day that started as a work in progress with the us government having played a key role in the good friday agreement talks, a visit to belfast tomorrow by presidentjoe biden will mark the anniversary. for more let's speak to charlotte gallagher in belfast. atime of a time of celebration back with this backdrop of no functioning government at stormont, and warnings from the police about potential violence over the next day also. yes, and there is no doubt that it is disappointing that on the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, such a landmark moment, there is not a functioning government at stormont. if i went to stormont today, a ten minute drive

from here, the building would be empty. it is essentially mothballed. the politicians they should be there debating every day, nothing is really happening. decisions are not being made. if you talk to people in northern ireland, they are thoroughly fed up with the situation. there has not been a functioning devolved government for months, and at the moment it doesn't look like there is any sign of politicians going back there because of the stand—off about post—brexit trading arrangements. however, it is a time to celebrate. 25 years, and political violence, which was all too common in northern ireland is now, thankfully very rare. thousands of people die, lives were marred, and now that violence is very rare, we don't really see it on the streets of belfast. if you walk around belfast today you meet tourist from all over the world, people enjoying a day out, shopping, going to bars and museums. it is a very different place. and of course tomorrowjoe biden, the us

president, is flying in for a tour of northern ireland, and the republic of ireland. you will be in belfast where he will go to a new university campus and meet uk prime minister rishi sunak and then onto the republic of ireland, he will visit dublin, and county mayo, county louth, and it will be a bit of a homecoming for the us president. he describes himself as a proud irish american, proud irish catholic and when he goes to county mayo, he will meet with his cousins who sometimes go to the white house, they go for st patrick's day, and he will do a speech outside the cathedral in the town of ballina. in that town they have a us flag is out, there are murals painted on walls, and i think he has a real personal connection with ireland, and those moments when he's with his family and meeting people from across ireland, are the things he is really going to be looking forward to. he really going to be looking forward to. , ., really going to be looking forward to. , ~' ., really going to be looking forward to. , ~ ., , ., ., . to. he is keen to show how much he su orts to. he is keen to show how much he suaports northern — to. he is keen to show how much he

supports northern ireland _ to. he is keen to show how much he supports northern ireland and the l supports northern ireland and the republic. it is hard to overstate the important role the us played in the important role the us played in the good friday agreement. i think, without the us — the good friday agreement. i think, without the us and _ the good friday agreement. i think, without the us and around - the good friday agreement. i think, without the us and around the - the good friday agreement. i think, without the us and around the table brokering the deal, the good friday agreement may not have happened at all. they played such a key role. and you saw after it was signed when bill clinton came to northern ireland and the republic of ireland, the reception that us president got was immense. thousands of people lining the streets, wanting to hear him and see him. it was like a rock star moment here. so i thinkjoe biden will get a similar perception because there is that strong link between the us and the island of ireland. lots of us presidents talk about how important that relationship is. joe biden, certainly among them. he is very proud of his irish roots.— certainly among them. he is very proud of his irish roots. thank you very much. _ proud of his irish roots. thank you very much, charlotte _ proud of his irish roots. thank you very much, charlotte kalla - proud of his irish roots. thank you very much, charlotte kalla her- proud of his irish roots. thank you very much, charlotte kalla her in. very much, charlotte kalla her in belfast. we'll have more from —— charlotte gallagher. we'll have more

on this later in the programme, talking to the person who chaired the talks leading up to the good friday agreement so stay with us for that. chinese military forces are conducting drills around taiwan for a third day. taiwan's defence ministry says it has detected 11 chinese warships and 59 aircraft around the island. 39 entered taiwan's air defence zones on monday morning. these are some of the latest images of the drills released by china's military and shown on the country's state television. the chinese display of force has added to tension between china and the united states. and just to say the us navy has said it has sailed a guided missile destroyer through contested waters claimed by china near the spratly islands to assert navigational passage rights. we have some live pictures coming into us now. a couple of items coming through on the wireless. a statement from china warning taiwan

that independence and peace are mutually exclusive. and also coming from taiwan, the air force has scrambled jets i made this military threat from china. —— amid this military threat. let's get more on this now with our asia pacific regional editor, celia hatton. it feels like things are ratcheting up it feels like things are ratcheting up a bit. it it feels like things are ratcheting u- a bit. ., up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put _ up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a _ up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a little _ up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a little bit _ up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a little bit of- up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a little bit of caution l i should put a little bit of caution around this. in comparison to the drills we saw last august after the then us house speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan, these drills are a little bit more measured. we are still seeing no disruption to flight patterns, to regularflight patterns, to regular flight patterns, to regularflight patterns, commercial planes, passenger planes. no disruption to shipping routes. and that us naval vessel that you mentioned travelling through waters that beijing claims

for itself in the south china sea, that happens kinda regularly. so, yes, these drills are taking place. many people are watching them carefully. but i don't think there is cause for alarm at the moment. what we are seeing that it really important is, are seeing beijing play out over three days is threat, really, of how it would take taiwan. day one, we saw chinese forces practice seizing control by air, by sea, on day to be practising strikes. this is day three, three days of planned drills, we are fire drills taking place quite close to the chinese mainland so some in taipei say that these are taking place in order to please a domestic mainland china audience, but we are seeing what the chinese military says are practising sealing off taiwan, and that is really the

ultimate threat, that is how the chinese military would force taiwan into submission, by sealing it off. we are seeing a lot of rhetoric. we are seeing these drills take place. but both sides are seeing that this is happening. daily life are still going on as usual in taiwan. the us military is doing what it has been doing for quite some time, taking boats through waters that beijing claims as its own so these drills are taking place but i think tensions are at a level that we have been seeing for the past few months. talk to us about the taiwanese government response. a couple of days ago they were saying that they would react calmly to this. now we get a slight change, they say that we are going to defend ourselves and uphold us of entry, maintain our national security —— uphold our sovereignty. what do you make of the response? sovereignty. what do you make of the resonse? , .,

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drills is also looking forward to what is going to be happening in january. if you look on social media, people in taiwan are alarmed, they are not happy about this but life is continuing as normal. we have to take what is being released about these drills with a little bit of a grain of salt. i cannot thank you, celia hatton, ourasia—pacific correspondence. two bodies have been found in the rubble of a collapsed building in marseille in france, almost 21t hours after an explosion brought down two residential blocks. fire officers have worked through the night in difficult conditions — searching for survivors — as investigators try to work out what caused the blast. aruna iyengar has the latest. thick smoke billows up from collapsed homes in the centre of marseille. there still could be people trapped. rescue work has been hampered by a fire that broke out and the partial collapse of neighbouring buildings. the cause of the explosion is not confirmed, but it may have been

a gas explosion. michele devoluet has lived in the neighborhood since the 1970s. translation: i heard a bang. i thought it was a bomb. i thought they'd put a bomb somewhere under my window, because it was huge. i saw the house collapsing like a house of cards. i've never seen that before in my life, but it's awful. this was the scene in the early hours of sunday. the explosion took place in one building, causing a partial collapse of two others. residents from 30 buildings were told to grab their belongings and leave. five people were taken to hospital with serious injuries, two of these suffering from hearing problems as a result of the blast. although many buildings in this mediterranean port city are old and characterful, the ones that collapsed in the rue de tivoli were not known to have structural problems. aruna iyengar, bbc news. in the french alps, the search is resuming this morning

for two missing skiers after an avalanche which left four skiers dead near the ski resort of contamines—montjoie. nine people were injured in the avalanche — which happened southwest of mont blanc. a boat carrying 400 people is feared to be at risk of sinking in the mediterranean. charities say the captain has left the boat, and now it's adrift and taking on water. the boat left a port in libya and is currently off the coast of malta — that's according to alarm phone — a hotline for boats in distress. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. there are people, both young and old, who simply do not know that people of colour fought and died alongside their british counterparts in both world wars. a large crowd gathered to remember a generation who crossed oceans to help britain

during world war ii. nothing short of a disgrace that the service of these brave men who came all those thousands miles from the caribbean to help this country in its hour of need has been pretty much erased from the history books. glen's uncles came over from the caribbean to train with the raf. he wanted the memorial for them and thousands of others who volunteered to serve. very good, very moving and i hope people do think on this. iam proud, my god, lam proud, and i'm here_ for my comrades, you know? some's missing, obviously. bugle sounds you're live with bbc news. i'm lucy gray. in october 2022, brazil experienced a dramatically polarised election that was decided by a razor—thin margin of less than two percentage points.

luiz inacio lula da silva, became head of state for the third time injanuary, 20 years after the start of his first presidential term. lula's administration today hits the 100—day mark. so how has it been faring? iam nowjoined by bbc�*s daniel gallas. he has been here before, hasn't he? this is by far his biggest challenge because he has inherited a very divided country with a very tough economic, cost of living crisis as well, so yes, to unite the country and get the economy back together, very tough challenges for him. remember there were fierce riots in brasilia just a few days after he took power. and the supporters of the former presidentjair bolsonaro vowed they would not accept him as a leader and that they wanted him in jail. on the other hand he wanted to

bring back to congress all of the people who can help him with economic reforms but he has not been able to convince some of the members of his own party that his economic plan is viable. he has always been a very mistrusted figure among markets and businessmen as well. so a very fragmented country, and these have been 100 days of work for him. the final challenge for him is to get brazil on the international stage as well. he is going to china this week, and one of his main goals in the long term is to get china, russia and different countries to negotiate and broker a peace deal in ukraine, and get all of these parties that are not talking at the moment, like nato, russia and china, together. his aide was in russia last week and was received by vladimir putin, so he has some friendships abroad and he is trying

to get this foreign policy as well. thank you very much, daniel gallas, in our newsroom. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has defended an online advert released by his party — which accused rishi sunak of not wanting to send all child sex abusers to prison. our political correspondent david wallace—lockhart has more. and of course, this advert focuses on the number of adults evicted of child sexual assault since 2010, who haven't seen jail time. it has a big, smiling rishi sunak on the advert, and suggests he is content with those figures. now, broadly speaking, the figures that labour have used are right, but they go back to 2010, and of course, rishi sunak only became an mp in 2015. he has only been around the cabinet table since 2019, so it is personalising such a sensitive issue towards him that is proving so controversial. criticism from within the labour party, the former home secretary david blunkett saying that his party has gone down in the gutter to fight politics

with this advert, but as you say, writing in the daily mail today sir keir starmer standing by it and says i make absolutely zero apologies for being blunt on this her no matter how squeamish it might make some people feel. so, defending the overall idea. perhaps not entirely engaging with that question of why it is tailored so personally towards rishi sunak but of course labour really at the moment trying to paint themselves as the party who are tough on crime, tough when it comes to law and order, but remember before politics sir keir starmer was the director of public prosecutions. a conservative source saying that they believe when he was in that role he failed to look up some of the worst people in britain so we may see some conservative scrutiny of his record when it comes to questions around justice. twitter has added a label "government—funded media" to the bbc�*s twitter account.

the bbc has a number of accounts on twitter. the one in question — @bbc — has 2.2 million followers, and primarily shares updates that aren't related to news. the bbc objected to the label, saying it is independent, and funded by the british public through the licence fee. twitter owner elon musk emailed our north america technology reporterjames clayton. he said... he added: well, let's hear more from our north america tech reporter james clayton in san francisco. when i saw twitter had added this

label, i e—mailed elon musk, i'm a technology reporter and sometimes we reach out to twitter, and i thought i would e—mail him and say that the bbc was funded through the licence fee, paid for by the british public. and he responded. he responded first of all, saying, do you think this label is inaccurate, then he came up with the suggestion himself, he said maybe the accounts themselves should link to the sourcing of funding. i pushed him on that end he gave me a much longer e—mail. he said... all. now, i think what you get an impression of there is that this is a policy that is not defined yet.

this is most certainly spit pulling, it is policy on the hoof. he is thinking, about what to do with accounts like the bbc, what to do with them. the problem is the label has already being attached to one of the bbc�*s twitter accounts. and we have seen this with other media organisations as well, so you have npr, national public radio, that was labelled as state affiliated media hack into russia today. that has been taken down because that simply isn't true. what we are seeing once again is elon musk, riffing, making policy as he goes along. sometimes that can be effective in business, but what i would add to that is the problem we have in this case is that media organisations are being labelled. they are then being not labelled, or labelled for something else and it all feels a little bit

chaotic, frankly. you have organisations like npr and bbc who strenuously believe in impartiality and accuracy, being labelled in ways they simply don't trust or believe in or believe is accurate. so that is it in a nutshell. elon musk, he clearly seems to like and trust the bbc, but you do have, very clearly, this slightly strange situation with elon musk, that you can kind of e—mail him and he will simply e—mail you back a response. asum e-mail him and he will simply e-mail you back a response.— you back a response. our north america technology _ you back a response. our north america technology reporter i you back a response. our north - america technology reporterjames america technology reporter james clayton america technology reporterjames clayton in san francisco, on his e—mail exchange with twitter earlier elon musk. —— twitter owner. the spanish golfer, jon rahm, has won the masters golf tournament in georgia — and reclaimed the number one world ranking.

the win was rahm's fourth this season, earning him a second career major to go along with his 2021 us open title. our sports correspondent andy swiss has more. what a day to remember forjon what a day to rememberforjon rahm. he finished his first masters title in emphatic style. he began the final round two shots behind brooks koepka but brooks koepka never recovered from a poor start and instead it was 52—year—old phil mickelson who roared into contention. phil mickelson began the final round at some ten shots adrift but he really roared back the years to set a testing target, butjon rahm held his nerve over the closing holes. he has proved himself one of the most consistent players in golf over recent years was that he won the us open in 2021. he never looked like losing his composure, as he held on for victory. and what that means is thatjon rahm becomes the fourth spanish man to win the masters after seve ballesteros, jose maria olazabal, and sergio garcia. this famous tournament, injon rahm, certainly has a worthy winner.

that's all for now. hello again. it certainly is the day for keeping your brolly to hand. it's been a wet morning and we've got some heavy showers to come as we go through the course of this afternoon. the weather much more unsettled than last week. there will be some sunshine, but it is going to be wetter than it was last week. it's also going to be windy. the met office has yellow weather warnings out for these areas covering the wind, between a0 to 60 mile an hour gusts. and this is from tuesday afternoon, overnight tuesday into wednesday and all of wednesday. today, though, pollen levels and we're talking tree pollen, are moderate or high across much of the uk and they're going to remain so as we go through much of this week. so we've got this morning's rain continuing to push away into the north sea, lingering for a time in shetland

and then we've got two bands of organised showers. now these are likely to be heavy and thundery, blustery as well. these are the average wind speeds, but on either side of them there'll be a bit more sunshine and just the odd shower. temperatures up to about 1a or 15 degrees, but not feeling as cold along the north sea coastline because today there will be a bit more sunshine and less cloud. now, through this evening and overnight, under clear skies, temperatures will fall away quite quickly. it will be breezy. there will still be a few showers around as well and a temperature range between about three and seven degrees. tomorrow, then, we start off with a lot of dry weather, still some showers peppering parts of scotland, but there'll be some sunshine, but the cloud building across northern ireland, wales and south west england. and then the rain comes in, accompanied by strengthening winds. temperatures, eight in the north to about 11t further south. now, tuesday night into wednesday, this area of low pressure bringing that rain continues

to move across us. and you can see the squeeze on the isobars, so not just is it going to be wet, it's also going to be windy. the rain pushing up into scotland with snow above about 400 metres. but we could see some wintry showers in the moors, the mountains in wales and also the pennines, and frequent showers, but these are our wind gusts. so if you're camping, if you're still on holiday this week, do bear that in mind, both in a tent and also a caravan. temperatures, seven to about 12 degrees. then as we move towards the end of the week, it does remain unsettled with some rain or showers, but it looks like by the weekend it turns milder.

live from london, this is bbc news. on the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement being signed — the british prime minister calls for power sharing to return to northern ireland. chinese military forces conduct drills around taiwan for a third day. the display of force is beijing's angry reponse to a visit by the taiwanese president to the us. taiwan air force scrambles jets amid rising tensions with china. as china warns — taiwanese independence is incompatible with peace. elon musk says the bbc is "among the least biased news organisations." it's in response to the bbc�*s objections to being labelled as "government—funded media" on its main twitter account. the us investigates the leaking

of dozens of intelligence documents, including details of training and weaponry for ukraine. and 100 days in — mixed reviews in brazil