what it was like to be told no irish need apply and we know what it was like to have nothing except just your two hands the one length to work on the whole and to work in the dirty job to work for your children so that they would get the education they would become the doctors the dentist the nurses the accountants the politicians the corporate sector and a generation or two generations which is exactly what the irish did we know the story of immigration and if you give people a chance because we were those people. still on a hot day in a period of a bottle saudi a child of six oil. an estimated eighteen since under-age refugees are now living in greece. you know

still more. to do at home in their euro food bring. many sell their bodies just to make ends meet. on the second on and on the city and with. the afghans. dealing drugs to make a living. legend of the. game of the. moment we've had a period of fake the flame. engineer by all the central banks of the day don't have the control that they think that they have and that once you start to see this being picked up in markets like the go. martin and others you know you got to start

to see feed on itself in a big way. fifty years ago breaking within two conjugation as a sleeping pill does this would only does. the side effects were terrible but not on. indulge one for board more worldly feel not war then boom boom of across europe victims or starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation. in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the concert mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there has been a cover up. welcome back to dublin i'm speaking to merely marco he's fourteen years old on our president of ireland

lot has been said i was chef anomic progress of transformation and i went over the last generation looking through a political career how would you assess the social transformation of our the social transformation of our land i think really is rooted in the massive changes that happened in access to education from the one nine hundred sixty s. onwards with the opening up of second level education free and then the mass of the cation of university education as you know ireland has one of the highest rates of third level education in its working among us working people going to give you a simple example my mom and dad my dad god rest of my mother were what were smart but they belonged to a generation that had no chance of education my father became a barman my mother became my hairdresser they would have loved to have the chance to stay on school after fourteen but it just didn't happen when i got into university i was the order of nine children the first of my family you know to go to college. and my parents were so enthralled that they took the whole nine of us

including the baby who was my mother's youngest child who was then only a matter of a few months old they took us out to lunch we'd never been to lunch before and. i had just got my a level results so i knew i was getting and cleans to do law but we got the school. what happened was the girl who were serving us came along with the menu and i can still remember my father giving it to me for me to order for all of us i remember the pathos of that that some home my father felt increasingly there was a gap between him and his daughter who was nice to become an educated person because my parents had wonder in their eyes at the idea of being in the company of educated people they often told them they were really the only educated people they were under the thumb of really were the local clerics. and so. for them the idea

that their daughter was going into that world was an extraordinary phenomenon now i tick that the image of that that for me was the watershed in ireland because everybody around us was first generation to university everybody around us suddenly had kids who were becoming whatever their parents had never had a hope of being we know could become and did become the culture that we came from the religion that we came from the underpinning value systems that we came from we know had the tools for interrogating that to ensure that those things were consonant with the other parallel track we were living with which was the european convention on human rights the universal declaration of human rights the realisation that for example that we as women or catholics or blacks or whatever that we were the equal of anybody and everybody everybody was intitled to respect if we. wanted respect we had to give it that systems that had grown up

around disrespect around elites the hold for example of the churches in ireland. diminished greatly and there's an irony in that because i and most of the people around me who have the benefit of education got that education thanks to the churches we belong to in my case it was a dominican nuns in the mercy non jew know who who give me access to the education that got to me or to where i am now to kind of an irony to me that that c.m. church that give me my education simply cannot cope with educated women it seems but at least the hierarchy of the church can't cope with educated women they are terrified of them and but that's a good thing too because that proves the problem of power. of interrogation that we were given the powers of analysis that ensure that we're always seeking to refresh

and that the destiny we see is a destiny of equals and the future of our lives where women the future of. strong i think the future of our land is really very very strong when i think of what we coped with during the years when the celtic tiger disappeared and the huge problems that that produced for everybody particularly people left with huge debts and people who lost their jobs and having come from a time when it looked as if we had actually cracked forever the problems of migration and poverty and. employment underemployment and unemployment for one golden moment when the celtic tiger was in its you know if and when it was at a very advanced stage we felt the power of what could be when everything was working well for us then that all fell away it was a diabolical lesson and the hardship the people injured but then they endured it

you know with something approaching real economic real stores as an extraordinary store says i'm and we've now come through it still with casualties but. but we're through the worst of it in my view and in the doing of that i think the social solidarity that we have is really it's an exemplary thing i'm very fortunate my three children who've all been away have all lived away at some time or been away at some time all tell me that by comparison with all the places in the world they've either lived or have studied that they would live nowhere else but the great city of dublin maybe my clues thank you so much for just one thing the. below example sure you get the quick pushes the copper kindness as you know the whisky goes in in the quick which the scorched best but. this was where i

learned this all over saluting of course for our thank you mike my late father would have adored this though i have to say on his deathbed when we asked him what advice he wanted to give the ninth children gathered round his bed willing for him to die he said jemison is your only man. for good so what a pleasure. no to discuss the interview was really macaluso and they did the three interviews and i was serious i'm joined by professor john tong professor of british and irish politics at the university of liverpool john welcome to the valley so i'm unsure so looking at the million mark lives interview which in some senses personifies the peace process a teenager growing up in belfast from the trouble started roles to become president of ireland at a time basically of the peace process been established and of gloomy economic and social progress how rate issue to be worried about the blacks at threat to all of

that progress where you sense from the interview with mary mcaleese her frustration at the way that briggs it threatens to derail a very carefully constructed peace process mary mcaleese was part of that peace process generation having lived through a conflict she came to appreciate greatly as did her children the benefits of relative peace in northern ireland and she seems monumentally frustrated at how briggs it threatens to derail that she seemed baffled at the fact that anyone could receive a carefully constructed process by an act of economic self harm from from a british point of view and from our point of view as she points out what about the good friday agreement that's the question has not been answered the good friday agreement is an international treaty it's read just that the united nations it can't simply be changed that the the stroke of a pen and strands two of that agreement the all island dimension you would simply have to rewrite it to accommodate the united kingdom leaving the european union as

mary mcaleese said the good friday agreement was predicated upon the u.k. and ireland being part of that european union the implications of brigs it are very profound for both nations and thinking well let's have a look at the other two interviews just snatches from them and see what they have to hear the middle of it donald had to say. i mean this threesome me or david davis even though you know on either side of the complacent because it's been upgraded of composite of peace and we tried hard in the breakfast at the base to get the irish message over. i went to some of the universities and textures blood and the court and the dead and to soak went over to some debates both the reality is that none of them curt two hoots about northern ireland it was no longer an issue it wasn't one of the. top three stories as it was for for generations in the

news. thirty years of troubles twenty years of peace but of course but subprocess what some people believe is a fundamental danger to the peace process how do you evaluate the braggs us and the good friday agreement are mutually incompatible you can also have brags that you cannot have a forcing of the north of ireland i was of the european union on the one hand and still claim to honor in words and spares and last are the good friday agreement i think the tories have played a very dangerous game no way can our and our show darren and our will arlen's be the collateral damage in the midst of all of the ass. but first here betty i have the myth that he was to show who negotiated the good friday agreement if uses words beautifully but some of his stuff was very very point you can understand bertie

ahearn frustration with the way things have developed in terms of the good friday agreement when you've got british ministers or former secretaries of state for northern are now recklessly saying frankly the good friday agreement as served its time they certainly weren't saying that when they were in office you can understand why bertie ahearn is virtually uttering disbelief at the way events have turned bertie ahearn was the man who flew up from dublin to belfast on the morning of his mother's own funeral to try and clinch that agreement he put years of effort without any electoral reward in the south people weren't voting in the twenty six counties of violence on the basis of what was happening in the north bertie ahearn wasn't doing it for you know vainglorious reasons he wasn't even doing it for domestic political reasons he put a lot of effort into the peace process for the good of ireland as a whole and the middle of mcdonald very much the merging woman of irish politics if she is going to be a force to be reckoned with merriment on was the obvious successes you carry out

and she's very very smart intellectually she's very very well at human politically she will leitch in fane i'm sure to greater success you've got a lot wish in vain of come from first of all in one thousand nine hundred seven the year prior to the good friday agreement she only had a single member of the oil aaron you know twenty years on the vote there already up to twenty three t.d.'s on the mary lou i would expect she would fain to continue to grow very rapidly and i think the big attraction in terms of marilu to ordinary voters is she's not really associated with the northern irish conflict in the way that gerry adams was so she's far less politically toxic and she can in many ways continue to modernize shin fein and lead it further and further away from those ira roups this week we've seen a significant shift in the labor party british wing on the question of the you. being customs union that may offer an op if it's supported by a majority of m.p.'s as it might be a solution to a physical border between the north of ireland and the republic but many of the

interviewees were suggesting this is more than a physical border the storm is the birth of a psychological border they're concerned about more than just the existence of customs porson yeah i mean nationalists across the on the violence will just about accept a border as a political fact in the short to medium term but they want a united ireland more broadly but they're certainly not going to accept it as a fence nor reinvigorated one. of the troubles now whether you have an electronic fence or whether you have a physical fence the fact is you know it's something that nationalists don't want the only way you can get around that is to have a customs union embracing the u.k. and ireland and if there's not a bespoke u.k. island deal then frankly the u.k. has to stay within the customs union as the labor party is now proposing there are no alternatives professor john tongue thank you so much just one final thing looks are from them are liverpool swisscom producing qualities but for being

a guest of the show in total to the they'll examine quick whisky scotch in the quick the couple came this past phoned your many friends in liverpool fantastic thank you very much thank you so much for the interview thank you. throughout all three of our programs in ireland these major figures of zero when the dangers that breaks it poses to the peace process they see the dismantling a body as an island is not just physical but psychological and bret's that threatens up process interestingly the rather more concerned about the potential impact on the island of ireland itself than for example the threat to trade and commerce between britain and. and westminster the top plates are also shifting the opposition labor party switch to support the european customs union this week is not just a tactical shift to place the government the type parliamentary caught up but a strategic move possibly justified on the basis of only such the next of kin all

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fails russia's new strategic hostile including a nuclear capable missile said to sponsor all existing. defense systems design your state of the union address the president added that all this comes in response to the u.s. anti missile system build up. elsewhere four civilians are killed by militants in the syrian district of east there's a third humanitarian pause established by russia collapses. and south africa's parliament passes a motion that could see white farmers across the country stripped of their land without compensation we had different opinions on this controversial move.

harvey watching our international image putin has delivered his annual state of the nation address to parliament sharing with them his vision of the country's future during the speech the president announced the development of new strategic weapons which he said outmaneuver all existing missile defenses senior correspondent has more. if you aren't russian the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption science and industry that sort of thing after that though it got real hot real fast and i mean. russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us so listen to us now rockets lasers nukes in a rush hooted unveiled an arsenal of new weapons bigger faster

stronger and deadlier than any that came before. the sun super heavy i.c.b.m. two hundred ton missile capable of penetrating any existing defense in service at the end of the year next an enigmatic new development seemingly nuclear powered cruise missile it flies extremely low to avoid detection and can hit almost anywhere in the world says putin up next is just fantastic an underwater drone submarine also nuclear powered with a nuclear payload it can reportedly underwater for months and months silent and undetectable next to the oven god the hypersonic missile extremely fast

rockets that can actively dog and the vader anti missile defenses to do it it is heading for the target like a meteorite to top all of that off laser weapons systems though putin didn't go into detail saying only that it still classified the russian president says all of this isn't to intimidate or scare anyone or invade anyone these serious weapons designed for one thing. restore and guarantee russia's strategic power in an age where an ever expanding nato is trying to nullify it too sure what you mean we shouldn't russia's growing military might is not meant to threaten anybody we have no plans and have never had plans to use this potential to achieve offensive or aggressive in russia's in harm's military power is simply a guarantee for peace on our planet preserves to restore parity in the

world sure that there's no point in gauging in a senseless arms race after all mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe for the best part of a sentry. all reaction to putin's weapons comments have been coming in from around the world to the pentagon it was not surprised that it had been expecting such an announcement while artist who was following the reaction from the u k. well look this is an annual speech it doesn't normally get many column inches here but of course talk of new nuclear warheads piqued the interest of the world media headlines chose to focus on descriptions of a hawkish putin boasting about his doomsday nuclear weapon there was of course talk of an arms race and predictably when there's talk of an arms race there are mentions of the cold war take a look at what those in the media had to say about tet we told americans not to

leave. we told them not to abandon the. we told them that we will we have caught up so these are missiles particularly designed to counter what russia sees as the stretch posed by the u.s. missile defense shield which has been deployed into reach almost any charge around the world so scary stuff this morning by focusing on talk of the new weapons a lot of the media outlets actually managed to miss the wider point that the russian president appeared to be making with this speech announce that now that nato and russia have nuclear parity well there's no point in any sort of arms race it's time to sit around the table and start talking this speech was trending on twitter in the u.s. at some point which suggests that it garnered quite a bit of interest stateside either that or that infamous troll farm in russia was excelling itself this morning nevertheless here is what those in the twisties fair

had to say about it. the ribbon of birth the time to make peace with scientists soon to achieve nuclear dominance with just one percent of the us military budget for the forseeable future it looks like the us russia gender we limited to just one item war prevention good luck to us all when trouble watched fox news he will say that he wants to now during that speech vladimir putin also said that some of russia's new weapons are so new that they don't even have names yet so he launched a competition to name a new cruise missile and also an unmanned underwater drone that drew quite a bit of attention from twitter users especially here in the u.k. plenty of them suggested new team new face for a name which for those of you who don't remember is a reminder of the time the british government asked the british public to name

a new research vessel and the name that drew the most votes was both both face the other name that i rather liked was new skywalker that was suggested online as well in the wake of the speech i have a feeling that. putin is going to be waiting for some rather more serious submissions there the economy was also a key issue in the address with an annual four percent g.d.p. rise promised some fifty billion rubles will also be spent on fighting poverty and eleven trillion on building new roads education for its part will get a billion ruble support you spoke to russia's economic development and finance ministers right after the speech they told us what they think of the goals that putin assert them. but all these restrictions stimulated russia to increase production and we've been drug growth not just in sectors such as agriculture and every day goods we see the reorientation of our economy in science towards what we

previously received via inputs we're developing our own high tech industries not picture of it yet a key priority is taking a konami growth rate above the global average the goal set before the government of vital and will require more investment but all six key initiatives highlighted by the president obama development increased life expectancy improved business climate developing human capital as its workforce productivity and reducing poverty have already been making progress for half a year now we're going to take them to the next level. but. a place saver can bring in our poor linger and he's an executive director of the british american security information council paul good evening we've heard about the weapons and their capabilities no one seems to be saying that they don't exist and they're not as powerful as but they were putin has said what was your reaction to

hearing this announcement. well it's not a complete surprise. i do doubt some of the capabilities the overall the overwhelming message is that president putin and the russian government is confident that it has technology to respond to the development of. missile systems by the united states my personal view is that they always have had that technology and that the missile defense system is many decades from being effective enough to to intercept conventional ballistic missiles in any case but you know militaries have their reasons technological development and the being on the safe side if you like technologically they don't want to be caught out red handed in turn twenty years time if the americans were ever to develop an effective intercontinental missile defense system is this ng to see what kind of reaction

there will be from of the major nations will we hear any any kind of message coming from say the united states will any of these countries then the ante in terms of their research and development well i think that i think that it's quite clear that there will be condemnation of this from the americans and from nato allies over the next few days it will be it will be sold as a contribution to an ever escalating arms race. the funny thing is though is that is that actually arms race or not it's this this sort of technology eventually will become redundant not because of missile defense or any other ways of of physically intercepting these missiles but because actually it's far easier to hack into these systems or to neutralize them in other ways and we're not there yet but that will be.