and that is a massive transformation and something that's extremely positive very good reflection so yes it is a change. and also from what they called the south even from the east coast dublin's actually on the east and the south bush and so for shin fein very often associated as a northern parsi a parsi of the north i think it's now clear that we are truly a national organization and that's always been the case but as we grow in political strands rice across the provinces of ireland and now that the leader is a job. i think that kind of writes open in lights in a way that perhaps wasn't the case before. world war w on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks

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this minute. off to mars and coalition negotiations germany's two largest parties have provisionally agreed on a compromise that may yet pull through all of these difficulties a sign of something major going wrong in german politics the birthing pangs of the country's fourth brown coalition. if north korea really believes we're about to conduct a preemptive strike on this could be a significant and a serious preemptive strike that may. they may be motivated to make a point to try to be just the flights have to go first but.

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welcome back to dublin where i'm speaking to maybe a blue mcdonald then you'll be elected president of shouldn't fame. how does she find the key to taking shouldn't fame into paula and the public of ireland. thirty years troubles twenty years of peace but of course. that process which some people believe is a fundamental blame go to the peace process how do you have to bragg's this and the good friday agreement are mutually incompatible you cannot have brags that you cannot have a forcing of the north of ireland out of the european union on the one hand and still claim to honor in word and spares and lasher the good friday agreement is in our view a star. and i listened to theresa may and i listened to others from the english tories saying. don't worry about the border in ireland ireland will be fine

on the one hand and then insisting that britain will leave the customs union leave the single market and so on and of course the reality is that those two positions are completely at odds with each other i think the tories have played a very dangerous game no way can ari and or show darren and or will argument be the collateral damage in the midst of all of the us. the idea of reimposing a border on the island is not just economically disruptive it's potentially jeopardizes the entire political infrastructure of the good friday agreement the executive itself in the north and the assembly the northern institutions are built on our premised on the notion of european standards and regulations and law so this is a big problem for us bragg's this is

a disaster in my view generally if i can offer that for you i respect absolutely the rights of other countries to make their own decisions i think greg's this is a mistake from an irish perspective. it's dangerous i think it is great she was the way in which the british government has disregarded us out by the way we have said this to mrs may so i'm i'm not saying anything as it were behind her back that we're not quite prepared to to put it to the british government but i wouldn't put you in the same category as some of our top it ministers that so i believe that that's that's as i put up some more straightforward the breaking of the good friday agreement and letter of spirit is that the same thing as the ending of the peace process so the told him to the violence of the sort of the war is over and there is no purchase no sentiment at tola told that i see

that wishes for a return to any form of political violence. i think it would be a very very foolish person and a truly food dish government that would gamble or that would take the necessary risks with all of that i believe the peace process is robust. i believe that certain irish nationalism is growing in confidence is very much at ease and happy with the general momentum and direction of political traffic i am conscious that some of our unionist brothers and sisters are perhaps not as secure or happy with all of us but generally i think it's fair to say that there is no appetite for conflict as one of the of the political consequences of brics of this provision of course or from the peace accords for a referendum or my own under certain circumstances and i wish unity is it your

opinion the blood makes such a referendum very likely or than deep inevitable at some stage i think it demonstrated very clearly just how vulnerable the north of ireland is in the within the union because let's face it the people in the north voted to stay and yet that could be totally disregarded and i know for rules a scenario where investment into our land the economic activity right across the island people born on the island of ireland. who take for granted the fact that they can do simple things like travel throughout europe like europe is people's hinterland now people have grown up with the. access for education for work and so on but even genius politicians are advising people to go as are you five words where precisely precisely because these are things that people value i

wouldn't go so far as to say that it makes our unity inevitable but i certainly think it underscores the common sense of the united are and the common sense of actually managing our own political affairs and not allowing other forces beyond you to actually overrule and override decisions democratic decisions made by the people i think it's sets that are very clearly and how closely do. the political developments another cope to wales and scotland campaign by the welsh scottish first minister together to keep the nation's will from the contents of the single market do you see will from not development something that might provide a different arrangement for the various communities of the soil the evidence so far is that in fact number ten cares very little for me of the devolved at ministrations think on any of these matters and i think it would be

a good day's work for a little bit of humility to enter into the equation perhaps in terms of the tory government and to actually allow those voices and perspectives in and to listen and hear when scotland tells you wash scotland understands to be in her best interests what scotland me to survive to thrive and to advance and likewise for the welsh i think it would be wiser for the british system to listen to the us here's the distinction for us though the heavy lifting to protect our lives will have to be done by the government and. that's a reality dublin will be at the table as an equal european partner when all of these matters are to be. negotiators and discussed and decide and we've said consistently to teach shock to the tarnish there that their responsibility and duty of care doesn't stop at dundalk that it goes into the north of ireland and that is

we as a country and as an island have to understand our fortune in this regard is completely interlinked so a new leader shouldn't fear and when you look at the the strong influence the decisive position of the democratic universal formula one hundred full of m.p.'s might have been most of cobham's are you tempted to reverse the abstentions policy maker for you into the past westminster over the upset the apple cart no. and i would not say that the d p have what i what i would understand are considered to be a position of huge strengths i think they they find themselves at a particular moment in time with a particular mathematical relationship don't get me wrong i think this confidence and supply arrangement between the tories and the day you pay is. is wrong i think it absolutely compromises the british government's

claims to impartiality or independence i think it is highly problematic from that point of view but i think it's a stretch to say that therefore the d u p are all dominating and that they hold all of the cards and actually when you talk to you notice in the north of art and there's a very clear sense that you know governments in london will have a lot of unionist support and then dispense with us as and when it's pragmatic for them to do so so that's to me a very short term arrangement what are you offering the people of the of the so for the all the parties let's just grow more conventional parties it can talk for all the conventional parties the older parties have had it all their own way since the one nine hundred twenty s. really when you think about this it's been them the politics of tweedledum and tweedledee so the two big beasts of ours politics feel of all infinite go search to

swap roles what do we offer well where we are a party that is not in the back pockets of any vested interests we've had a whole history in this jurisdiction of corruption of corrupted institutions and the consequential loss of confidence in public life and political life i think we can be in fact i think we are a new broom even though we're even sold as political party to to sweep some of the us clean we argue for investment in public services. and generation a prosperity that isn't just about creating wealth we are in and that looks good statistically you know the rice and g.d.p. the right g.n.p. you know the ratios looking smart we talk about a prosperity that is lived and that is shared and how would you describe the

politics of fame on the left right split aware of the left or very decidedly am of the left and we are republican left so we're about freedom and we are about equality we believe that citizens have rights we believe that it's the juicy of the station of good government to vindicate those rights what a shame feels route to power the other parties the established parties a jew or police as you put it. we will deal with should famous been a historic position you know in a proportional system to get to power you probably have to have coalition allies know it takes two to tango how are we going to get. the first thing we have to do is we have to get a sufficient mandate sometimes it amuses me you know you hear politicians oh no we won't go we won't entertain you or we won't do this or nobody will be doing anything unless and until you have a sufficient mandates and until you win sufficient confidence of the irish people

so the first thing we have to do is prepare for elections prepare a political platform and we need to go and win hearts and minds we need to convince people who may never have voted for sinn fein before that we are offering something new and hopeful and different and i believe that we can do vast at the end of the day whenever the election is the votes are counted well then it's for other political parties to decide what position they will take but i would just warn them against being overly our reagan's are overly dismissive a few weeks ago you were celebrating the hundred fiftieth anniversary of the book of of conscience markovitch if she was looking down what advice we should be giving you as the new president ocean for. i believe that she would say to me to stay true to stay strong to be flexible but not to settle for too little and above all a marquee event she was

a woman who came from privilege but who was a lover of the poor not least of this city she would say stay true to the women and the man of now property stay true to our land and you won't go too far on. or like you're so pleased to say from scotland a small gift. this is a quick it's got to go out for top of tightness but whiskey in liquid ground your close friends only your close friends and of course one last thing has to be scotch well i can't promise that thank you so much we were both thank you so much. fascinating stuff from dublin beers will have noticed and welcome the increasing influence of women in the political leadership of island and of scotland maybe a limit on all night joins a growing list of women who have helped me to ship positions in the republic while

currently northern ireland both leaders of the ulster unionist and of sion fein arlene foster and michelle neal i women this is the case in scotland where the question is first minister is opposed by this davidson as leader of the opposition conservatives in wales in westminster women leaders are heavily outnumbered with only pride come easily and would carling because of the greens and of course to resent me the prime minister however even more important than me to lose gender or to other political changes. mili mcdonald is the first in families or not to be associated with the armed struggle this may well remove the political ceiling which is people see to stick to their support and their public secondly and this is equally important the election of this dublin born woman represents a move of shifting leadership from the north of ireland to what may be termed an all i learned approach it could well be that after a full century since at last happened the next elections will see should find challenging for the leading position and irish politics both north and south the

consequences for ireland i'm for island as a european nation would be fire reaching so until next week from all of us here in the studio and of course from alex and up like peace. and good politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so if you want to express. yourself want to watch that it's a right. this is likely. to get. interesting

always a lot. the stakes couldn't be higher and it's happening in syria the goal of destroying the islamic state is largely complete now the syrian proxy war is entering a new stage for the players and one of their aims and what is winning. well.

police say suspect nicholas cruz has confessed to the florida high school shooting that's left seventeen people dead and around a dozen injured we speak to a student who witnessed one of the deadliest campus shootings in u.s. history. i just like feel that it is certain friends olaus it's like i don't know what they were like so like so stuff i just don't think the going to school is going to be like the same up there with. the u.s. secretary of state meets turkey's president says america begins to we choose his rhetoric on the conflict between ancora and the kurds in syria around.

frasier and if you would recommend that private american citizen choose one way or z.t. products or services. not of your generation tran thank you for that us intelligence warns americans against using chinese made small planes but the warning comes from those embroiled in want to toughen control facilities. thank you for watching the news headlines he went on to international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate. we start with a late. on wednesdays high school shooting in the american city of parkland in florida police claim the suspect nicholas cruz has confessed to being the gunman responsible for killing seventeen people the police report says cruz told officers he shot students you saw in the school's hallways and on the ground it also says he

admitted ditching his rifle and a vest he was wearing in an effort to blend in with the crowds to escape in addition to the seventeen people who died at least a dozen others were injured in the assault video has emerged online apparently from one of the classrooms while the attack was under way a warning the following pictures contain upsetting sagan's. part. one of the shots rang out inside the school panicking students were seen running to safety this video was taken while the gunman was still at large it's understood the killer set off a fire alarm to draw people out into the open to cause as many casualties as possible armed officers rapidly swarmed the campus before leading pupils and staff to safety. thank you very.

much the same way we spoke to police in l.a. nick one of the students in the school at the time of the shooting. world. like about to leave school because of those ten years before the bell rang supposed to ring. but the final lot of and we're starting to look out but down right the school. and high because it's not a fire drill it goes all grab and it's first like everybody still thought it's going to feel like they grow that they do in the schools but then we just here are the people second talking about life. is short you know like in the next village and. i'm still lost on holidays you got killed and this is serious. world isn't all those still be on the floor like so nobody can see us and all that

stuff like not to be on our phones and. it's an amp like most here when they realize this for real and they would just like it waiting at some point and they came and they told us like like thirty minutes later this all goes like everything's clear around but like we're not going to let you out like right now because we still it was great you know the school everybody was just trying to reach out to their friends and their family. world i'm not harm i just like feel very kind of lost because like i don't know what so rigid so will i call it sort of like it's all stuff because like it's just never happened so me and i just don't think that going to school is going to be like the same up there with fun because i feel like knowledgeable claassen the view of the shooting was all the pictures from the scene that showed the distress of those touched by the tragedy here's how events unfolded.

he saw my dead body there on the floor and blood or on the floor how many people like five on the third floor. they look like students it was one teacher and four students. so the do call the fire drill you want to side boom boom boom boom marriage gosh i doze firecrackers but there is a lot of shouting oh i'm out. going to come in being they are going to shoot at school you like start taking your family i love the green every night biggish are killed are is the word that can describe you because at that moment you're wondering what do we have my kid is

yorkies the safe. i want to start up i say this is catastrophic. and on the eve of a catastrophic game broward county history it's devastating i'm sick to my stomach we need to talk about it i woke up this morning and i said this is happening in my backyard this is part of cathcart. well this is a video of the florida shooting suspect arriving at a county jail police identified him as nicholas cruz and nineteen year old former student at the school he was expelled for disciplinary reasons and further details about him of also emerged linking him to a white nationalist group police say he was armed with a semi automatic rifle and had multiple magazines well cruz has been charged with seventeen counts of premeditated murder the students at the school have described the suspect as troubled report. claimed teachers were warm some time ago about his

enthusiasm for firearms in his free time and the f.b.i. says it had investigated crews for a huge comment he made under a documentary about a nine hundred sixty six texas university shooting it said i'm going to be a professional school shooter the u.s. has a long history of school shootings there have been two hundred seventy five incidents since twenty thirty that's an average of nearly one week eighteen shootings have been reported in school so far this year alone and here's a look at some of the most serious cases of the last decade.

so over three hundred million guns is enough for every person in the united states to have a gun it's insane and you know we license cars you can't just get in a car and drive it but you can get a gun and shoot it you don't need any training you don't need any licensing. and a lot of states now you can carry them. undercover illegally there's a lot of nuttiness in this country about how guns make you safer and they evidence is all to the contrary. the u.s. secretary of state is set to finish his relations building tour of the middle east

in turkey next to listen has arrived there for a much anticipated meeting following a souring in ties with ankara the closed door talks lasted for more than three hours and the details are likely to be released into a news conference on friday it comes as the nato allies have been at odds over kurdish forces in syria but washington's rhetoric seems to be contradicting itself ati's caliber weapon has moved. in the lead up to tillerson za visit we heard a number of words from u.s. officials indicating support for the turkish government which is a member of nato and saying that their security concerns are legitimate this is what we've heard from u.s. leaders nato has only one nation and one of our allies. and insurgency inside its own borders and nato and america stand with turkey on a good image should curity concerns we have never given heavy arms to the y.p.

jews so there's no one to take back the turkish military is in syria fighting against kurdish forces kurdish forces that have been armed by the united states now it turns out a number of the forces in the past d. ath have actually relocated they've essentially gone to a wall from their position elsewhere in the country and gone to northern syria to fight against the turkish military turkey is demanding that kurdish forces be expelled from the anti islamic state fighting force led by the united states in syria however in the past we've heard u.s. leaders quite adamant about their support for the kurds the coalitions we can join with the syrian democratic food system stop motion train the new soon border security force approximates two hundred individuals training in the b.s.f. snow group close with the goal of a funnel for the sons of approximate thirty thousand now the turkish government considers these kurdish forces operating in syria to be terrorist.