live from london. this is bbc news. on the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement — the british prime minister calls for power sharing to return to northern ireland. the chinese military says they have completed their tasks around taiwan after a third day of military drills. migrant charities say they're concerned for the safety of around 400 people on a boat in the mediterranean that's taking on water. the us investigates the leaking of dozens of intelligence documents, including details of training and weaponry for ukraine. hello. i'm lewis vaughan jones. we start in northern ireland —

which is marking 25 years since the signing of the good friday agreement. the historic peace deal was signed by then british prime minister tony blair and irish prime minister bertie ahern — here in the picture along with senator george mitchell, the american chairman of the talks. the agreement played a major part in bringing to an end 30 years of conflict, known as the troubles. the current british prime minister rishi sunak says efforts must be intensified in northern ireland to restore the power—sharing government that was central to the deal. it collapsed in the fall out 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 of talks to largely end three decades of conflict. through it all, these leaders kept their sense of purpose. and in the end, they delivered an agreement that's fair and balanced and offers hope for the people of northern ireland.

the agreement was based on the idea 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 that followed. the result, as predicted, but definitive — northern ireland was ready for change. yes, 71.12%. cheering. but the path has been far from smooth. the anniversary was officially marked last week in a stormont where the devolved executive and assembly aren't currently sitting. the democratic unionist party is refusing to go into government over

brexit arrangements. the prime minister, though, is looking forward. rishi sunak paid tribute to those who signed the agreement, saying, "we will celebrate those who took difficult decisions, accepted compromise, and showed leadership." and he said the promise made in 1998 was one of economic opportunity, prosperity, and stability. "it is a promise we must continue to fulfil," he said, "so we must get on with the business of governance." and there's a reminder that the threat from paramilitaries continues. there was some trouble at an annual dissident republican parade on easter monday last year. police have warned of the potential for more serious violence this year. very strong community intelligence specifically coming forward in respect of monday's events in derry/londonderry, and a real concern that there may be attempts to draw police into serious public disorder, and to use that then as a platform to launch terrorist attacks on police as well. so going into our operation, that's something that is very clearly right at the forefront of my mind, the minds of the commanders that

will be delivering it, and of course, our officers as well. but after 25 years of relative peace, the focus is on a deal that started 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. louise cullen, bbc news. 0ur news correspondent charlotte gallagher told us more about the official visit of the us president joe biden to belfast. belfast is really gearing up at the moment for the arrival of the us presidentjoe biden. and actually on the street below me is the hotel where he is going to be staying. and already the cordons are out so people can't park there and we think the security cordon will be in place tomorrow morning around the hotel. and then around the university he will be going to on wednesday to meet people. that is his only public engagement here in northern ireland before he moves south into the republic. and i think it is about a celebration of the good friday agreement why he is coming here, but also looking forward to the future as well. and that is why he is going to the university and meeting

people who were not even born during the troubles. they do not remember the violence which marred the lives of people and killed thousands of people here in northern ireland. afterjoe biden has been in northern ireland he will then move to the south and go to dublin where he will meet the president and the prime minister, the taoiseach, and then he will also go to county louth and county mayo where he has ancestral links. i think this will be a bit of a homecoming forjoe biden in many ways and i think the fact that he is doing his last engagement in the town where his great—grandfather is from, he has cousins there and will be speaking at the cathedral on friday night, i think that says a lot about him and his feelings towards ireland. he describes himself as a proud irish american, a proud irish catholic and it is obviously incredibly important to him, those roots in the country. and one more line on the good friday agreement, coming from the vatican. pope francis says he's praying that the good friday agreement signed 25 years ago can be "consolidated" to benefit the people

of all of ireland. francis made the comment in his noon address on easter monday to tens of thousands of people in st. peter's square. in the last hour, joe biden seems to have confirmed that he plans to stand for a second term. the election of course next year. now in an interview with nbc news, he said, i plan on running, but we are not prepared to announce it yet. the quote there to nbc is, i plan on running, but we are not prepared to announce it yet. there has been of course speculation that the 80—year—old may choose to retire after a single term in office. but it seems that we are, he has

confirmed there will be an announcement. he is the oldest person to be elected as president in us history. he has made the statements in an interview to nbc. we are getting that on our news wires from reuters news agency. we don't have independent verification of that at the moment. now to the tensions around taiwan, where china says it has completed various tasks around taiwan, after a third day of drills. china has carried out what it says is a mock air blockade of taiwan using jets carrying live ammunition — in the latest escalation of tensions in the south china sea. in response the us has sent a destroyer to the area which the chinese have condemned as an illegal incursion. 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. china began the series of military exercises just hours

after the taiwanese president returned from a visit to the united states. it views taiwan as a breakway province that it wants to being back under its control. shaima khalil reports. a show of force and fury. for a third day chinese military continued 0perationjoint sword, aerial and naval blockade drills to seal off the island. the chinese army showed this short video of simulated attacks on taiwan with missiles fired from land, sea and air to the territory. the chinese military confirmed its aircraft carrier took part in the exercises on monday with fighter planes carrying out some elated strikes on important targets. carrying out simulated strikes on important targets.

china is infuriated by the taiwanese president and his visit to the united states. this is the response from beijing to what it said was a series of active collusion. china sees taiwan as part of its territory and insists it should be unified with the mainland at necessary by force. today the chinese government reiterated its message. translation: the taiwan question is for china alone to decide. the biggest threat to peace in the taiwan strait is taiwanese separatism and its support from foreign forces. in shanghai, residents voiced support for the military exercises. translation: conducting these drills is a normal thing for china. we need to show the us we are able to do this. what taiwan says or thinks is not important. translation: we still need to deter separatists - and we are telling _ the international community that taiwan is part of china. as china displayed a wide array of weapons the us navy said its guided missile

destroyer performed what washington calls a freedom of navigation operation in the south china sea large parts of which are claimed by china. the chinese government said the us illegally intruded in its waters. china said its military drills had ended successfully but there is no end in sight for the tensions between beijing and washington. the mother of two israeli women who were killed last week has died. they were killed last week has died. they were killed last week has died. they were killed on friday when their car was shot at by a suspected palestinian gunman. the mother was in the car with them and was critically wounded and we now have confirmation that she too has died.

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an italian coastguard ship is said to be on the way the rescue the boat. according to alarm call they say on the boat where the 400 people are so are, people are panicking. they have managed to get into a zone which is a shared search and rescue zone between malta and italy, but there are high winds and high waves. and a number of people on board it says are in need of medical assistance, including a child and a pregnant woman. how assistance, including a child and a pregnant woman.— assistance, including a child and a pregnant woman. how unusual is it for boats to — pregnant woman. how unusual is it for boats to be _ pregnant woman. how unusual is it for boats to be in _ pregnant woman. how unusual is it for boats to be in this _ pregnant woman. how unusual is it for boats to be in this position? - for boats to be in this position? well there has been a sharp rise in the number of migrants making these very dangerous crossings across the mediterranean either from northern africa, from libya and tunisia or

from turkey in recent months. you may remember in february there was a ship wreck off the coast of calabria in which 70 people died when the boat crashed against rocks in bad weather. the coastguard said they were hampered by the difficult sea conditions. this of course is a very difficult situation politically as well. there are many people who say that the charities who say that more should be done by the european union, by governments to have search and rescue missions to pick up these people from the boats, then you've hardline governments such as the italian government which says if you do, you'rejust italian government which says if you do, you're just encouraging italian government which says if you do, you'rejust encouraging people and you should crackdown more on traffickers. we have seen this big spike of numbers in recent weeks and

months and even yesterday, two people died and around 20 are still missing after a boat ran into trouble that was coming from tunisia to italy. it is a problem that isn't going away. the us government's urgently investigating the leaking of dozens of intelligence documents on social media. the bbc�*s seen some of the documents including detailed accounts of the training and equipment being provided to ukraine. some of the papers are labelled top secret. the bbc�*s carl nasman is in washington with more details. these documents have been circulating online for several days but us officials are clearly concerned about the impact of these especially when it comes to security in the most recent statement for the pentagon officials are saying that they are working to assess any potential impact on us security as well as its partners and allies. there are also working to determine the veracity of these documents and officials to say that they

believe they contain classified and highly sensitive materials. the criminal investigation has also been opened into the case which is believed to be the biggest leak of classified information since edward snowden gave classified documents to journalists back in 2013. we still do not know who is behind this particular round of leaks but us officials believe it might have originated in the united statesjust based on the breadth and depth of information contained within these documents. however they have not ruled out russia or russian sympathisers. in terms of the documents themselves we had a couple of different brands of leaks, the first happened back in march, a handful documents mostly pertaining to the war in ukraine. this was sensitive material containing maps and photographs and timelines and specifically it did mention a potential spring offensive,

so there were concerns that this information could help russia determin when any kind of counterattack by ukraine could be taking place. also concerns according to the new york times that one of these documents reveals that the air defence systems of ukraine could be running low in terms of missiles and other elements that have been used to protect the skies from russian aircraft. that defence system could be running low as soon as the month of may. interestingly some of the documents also appear to have been altered to paint russia in a slightly better light in terms of the number of russian casualties and altering also the number of ukrainian casualties to make them appear to be higher. there was a second and much larger leak of documents on friday, around 100 different documents, and this could potentially be embarrassing for the united states. the documents appear to reveal the country has been spying on some

of its close allies, south korea and israel for example. this is being seen as a worrying development for us spying operation that has been remarkably effective throughout the war in ukraine. thank you for that. earlier i spoke to professor michael clarke from the royal united services institute. undoubtedly it is embarrassing, i do not think it is as damaging in an intelligent sense as people would imagine. the importance of intelligence material as it lets you know in advance something that then gets to be known by everyone in a couple of months, so the longer the leak has been around and this one has been around since the end of february, the less valuable it is because itjust gives you advance news of things, but undoubtedly it is embarrassing for the united states. it seems to be genuine and it is embarrassing for us

relations with ukraine but embarrassing for us relations with canada, britain, australia and new zealand because it creates a kind of kickback. because then other countries start to withhold information if they think it is not entirely secure. is there any sense that you can get, i'm asking you to speculate little but any kind of motives or how this would have leaked or why? well purely speculative but someone got hold of documents and actually photographed them. it was notjust a kind of computer geek as such but someone got hold of them and in old—fashioned style photographed them and link them onto a gaming site which suggests it could have been one or two people maybe through ideology orjust devilment, may be just the mentality of hackers who put things on gaming sites just

to see what happens, or it could have been someone who was a bit more sinister and put it on a gaming site to disguise it in some way, disguise their tracks. but if this was a genuine russian attempt to get hold of material and the material was valuable, they would just have used it, rather than making it public so the material is interesting because it confirms what most of us certainly on ukraine studies new or believed in any case so another bit of evidence confirming that ukrainians are training nine or ten new brigades. this has given us the name of some of the brigades. hurricane for example so that it adds a bit of detail to things that are of minor importance. but it does not take ahead sensitive material, we all know ukraine is going to launch an offensive in the spring and we do not know, we do not need the pentagon to tell us that. so this is difficult for the americans because it is embarrassing but the intelligence value is actually relatively low.

thank you for that. twitter has added a label to one of the bbc�*s accounts, saying it is �*government funded media'. 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. so let's hear from james in san francisco. well, when i saw that twitter had added this label, i decided just to email elon musk. i'm a technology reporter. sometimes, we do reach out to twitter. ijust thought i would email elon musk and just say to him, "look, this is actually how the bbc is funded. it's funded through the licence fee. it's paid for by the british public." and he responded. he responded first of alljust saying, "oh, do you think this label is inaccurate? " and then he came up with a suggestion himself. he said, maybe the accounts themselves should link to the sourcing of funding. i then pushed him on that and he gave me a much sort of longer email. he said, "we are aiming

for maximum transparency and accuracy. linking to ownership and source of funds probably makes sense. i do think media organisations should be self—aware and not falsely claim the complete absence of bias. all organisations have bias, some obviously, much more than others. i should note that i follow bbc news on twitter because i think it is among the least biased." now, i think what you get an impression of there is that this is policy that is not defined yet. this is most certainly spitballing. it is policy on the hoof. he is thinking, he is being inquisitive about what to do with accounts like the bbc�*s. the problem is, the label has already been attached to the bbc�*s... one of the bbc�*s twitter accounts. and you've seen this with other media organisations as well. so you have npr, national public radio. a few days ago, that was labelled as "state—affiliated media", akin to russia today.

now, that has now been taken down because that simply isn't true. but what you're seeing is, once again, elon musk sort of riffing, making policy up as he goes along. now, sometimes, that can be really 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're then being unlabelled, or they're being labelled as something else, and it all feels a little bit chaotic, frankly. and you've got organisations like npr and bbc, who absolutely strenuously believe in impartiality and accuracy, being labelled in ways that they simply don't trust or believe in, or believe is accurate. so that's it, in a nutshell. elon musk, he clearly seems to like the bbc, he trusts the bbc. but you do have, very clearly, this sort of slightly strange situation with elon musk that you can kind of email him and he will simply email

you back a response. the mother of who israeli sisters who were killed in an attack last week has died. our correspondent can bring us up—to—date. me week has died. our correspondent can bring us up-to-date._ bring us up-to-date. we have had a statement from _ bring us up-to-date. we have had a statement from the _ bring us up-to-date. we have had a statement from the head _ bring us up-to-date. we have had a statement from the head of- bring us up-to-date. we have had a statement from the head of the - statement from the head of the hospital injerusalem treating the woman. the statement said she was evacuated by helicopter in a critical condition after that fatal attack in the west bank on friday. they say teams fought for her life in the trauma unit, the operating room and the intensive care unit, but despite this, due to her injuries, the team had to determine

her death today. that comes after a day after the funeral of her two daughters, who were killed in that attack. we are expecting a statement from her husband later on this evening. from her husband later on this evenina. , ' . ., ., ., evening. difficult to imagine what he is auoin evening. difficult to imagine what he is going through. _ evening. difficult to imagine what he is going through. you - evening. difficult to imagine what he is going through. you and - evening. difficult to imagine what he is going through. you and i - he is going through. you and i watched the distressing scenes yesterday of him yesterday speaking at the funeral of his two daughters? yes, it was a very emotional event. thousands of people came from the surrounding settlements, there was members of the israeli knesset as well. the father spoke about his daughters and the unity he has experienced from the rest, from other populations as going through this. we are expecting another statement from him later today and we will see what he has to say at that point. we will see what he has to say at that point-— we will see what he has to say at that oint. . ~' ,, . ., that point. thank you so much for

that. an awful— that point. thank you so much for that. an awful update _ that point. thank you so much for that. an awful update there - that point. thank you so much for that. an awful update there for i that point. thank you so much forl that. an awful update there for us. this is bbc news. hello, the weather this week is looking wet and windy. the morning rain will be followed by heavy showers. in the atlantic the next the system will develop as this strong jet streams start to develop an area of low pressure that will bring strong winds our way on tuesday night. today plenty of showers following in. the heaviest showers following in. the heaviest showers will be working across wales and northern england, where thunder storms are likely, with some hail mixed in. also a few showers for western scotland and northern ireland. away from that, some spells of sunshine around. temperatures not as high as yesterday. tonight

showers continue across north western areas of uk and otherwise the weather is drier and the winds are lighter. temperatures three to six degrees, leading to a chilly start to tuesday morning. for many a bright enough morning with some sunshine. showers from the word go for western scotland and through the afternoon it turns unsettled with rain moving in. temperatures about 10 to 14 degrees. through tuesday afternoon we will see the winds pick up afternoon we will see the winds pick up and it is through tuesday night it gets windy in western areas with gusts up to 60mph. we could see a zone of stronger winds if we get a deeper area of low pressure. some of the most exposed areas could get winds up to 80mph, but this uncertainty about the strength of the strongest winds. on wednesday

the strongest winds. on wednesday the low pressure takes up residence and we will see some heavy rain and thunder storms. and we will see some heavy rain and thunderstorms. it and we will see some heavy rain and thunder storms. it will stay windy with gusts up to 60mph. with some colder air around, we might see some snow across some of the highest mountains in northern ireland and scotland. mostly above 400 metres. but it will feel cool. the winds will calm down later in the week, but staying unsettled with rain. next week it is turning milder.

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