faction seeks to terrorize or intimidate ordinary people. [ sirens ] >> there was bad trouble in belfast today, and the only word to describe it is ghastly. the irish republican army set off more than 20 explosions for an hour and a half, creating a scene of bloody carnage without parallel in the long history of northern irish violence. 13 people are known dead, more than 120 injured. >> that day became known as bloody friday. it was part of their campaign to try and undermine british rule in northern ireland and to make northern ireland effectively ungovernable. >> no warnings were given, and the targets seem to have been chosen precisely because they would be crowded with people at that time of day. >> what they managed to do was make the percussive regularity of bombs going off the norm in northern ireland during the 1970s. >> what do you think will happen? >> i think they'll just keep bombing going on. >> it's got to end sometime. >> aye, sometime but i don't know when. nobody knows. >> i'm jim mckay speaking to you live at this moment from abc headquarters just outside the olympic v

when we asked whether more walls were needed to help the people of belfast feel safer, rixmarqholdings and dickie from texas both hope that the walls come down soon. while jrtvfan wondered why the two communities couldnt look past their religion and come together. please do get in touch. we love to hear your thoughts. until next time, it's goodbye from me and the whole focus on europe team. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

when we asked whether more walls were needed to help the people of belfast feel safer, rixmarqholdings and dickie from texas both hope that the walls come down soon. while jrtvfan wondered why the two communities couldnt look past their religion and come together. please do get in touch. we love to hear your thoughts. until next time, it's goodbye from me and the whole focus on europe team. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] steves: a selection of ferries make the 50-mile crossing between helsinki and tallinn nearly hourly. because of the ease of this delightful two-hour cruise and the variety a quick trip over to estonia adds to your nordic travels, pairing helsinki and tallinn is a natural. stepping off the boat in tallinn, the capital of estonia, you feel you've traveled a long way culturally from finland. its a mix of east and west. tallinn's nordic lutheran culture and language connect it with stockholm and helsinki, but two centuries of czarist russian rule and nearly 50 years as

a young generation in belfast and london have grown up without ever having to think about ira bombs. in just the past 16 years, we have come from a world without marriage equality to where it is a reality in nearly two dozen countries. we have lifted more than one billion people from extreme poverty. we have cut the child mortality rate worldwide by more than half. america is better. the world is better, and stay with me now, race relations are better since i graduated. that is the truth. my election did not create a post-racial society. i do not know who was propagating that notion. that was not mine. but the election itself and the subsequent one, because the first one folks might have made a mistake. the second one, they knew what they were getting. [laughter. ] pres. obama: the election was one indicator of how attitudes have changed. in my inauguration, i remarked 60 years earlier my father might not have been served in a d.c. restaurant. there were no black ceos of fortune 500 companies. very few black judges. as larry wal-mart pointed out last week, -- larry wilmore pointed ou

a young generation in belfast and london have grown up without ever having to think about ira bombs. years, wee past 16 have come from a world without marriage equality to where it is a reality in nearly two dozen countries. we have lifted more than one billion people from extreme poverty. we have cut the child mortality rate worldwide by more than half. better.is the world is better, and stay with me now, race relations are better since i graduated. that is the truth. my election did not create a post-racial society. i do not know who was propagating that notion. that was not mine. but the election itself and the subsequent one, because the first one folks might have made a mistake. the second one, they knew what they were getting. [laughter. ] pres. obama: the election was one indicator of how attitudes have changed. remarkeduguration, i 60 years earlier my father might not have been served in a d.c. restaurant. there were no black ceos of fortune 500 companies. very few black judges. as larry wal-mart pointed out more week, -- larry wil pointed out last week, a lot of people did n

the young generation of belfast in london have grown up without ever having to think about ira bombs.t 16 years, we've come from a world without marriage equality to one where it's a reality in nearly two dozen countries. around the world, more people live in democracies. we've lifted more than 1 wl from extreme poverty. we've cut the child mortality rate worldwide by more than half. america's better. the world is better. and stay with me now, race relations are better since i graduated. that's the truth. no, my election did not create a post-racial society. i don't know who was propagating that notion. that was not mine, but the election itself, and the subsequent one, because the first one, folks might have made a mistake. the second one, they knew what they were getting. the election itself was just one indicator of how attitudes have changed. and in my inaugural addressed, i remarked that just 60 years earlier, my father may not have been served in a d.c. restaurant, at least not certain of them. there were no black ceos of fortune 500 companies, very few black judges. shoot, as l

i happened to be in belfast in 1993. it was a war zone, literally. i was there again a couple of years ago. it looks like any other city. you can see ethnic antagonisms, but nothing terribly out of the ordinary. that's the way to deal with these issues. incidentally, what's happening in syria right now is horrendous, but we shouldn't -- useful to remember that it's not the first time. if you go back a century, almost exactly a century, the end of the first world war, there were hundreds of thousands of people starving to death in syria. proportionally, proportional to the population, it's likely that more syrians died in the first world war than any other belligerent. syria did revive, and it can revive again. amy: we will continue with noam chomsky, world-renowned political dissident, author, his latest book "who rules the after break. ♪ [music break] amy: sinead o'connor, "black boys on mopeds." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are the road in chicago, illinois. we continue part two of our conv

no major problems remember where is our home tonight is our home tonight the parking lot of belfast takeublic transit that will impact your commute from to 38 to 980. >> mark:the body of a pilot has been plane crash in the mountains north of los angeles. los angeles county sheriff's deputies say the cessna 182 was found in the angeles national forest yesterday afternoon. this is video showing the area. one body was found at the scene. crews had been looking for the plane since it was reported missing yesterday morning during a flight from san diego to santa monica. the plane was about 17 miles east of van nuys when it went off radar. a u-s navy seal instructor in southern california has been temporarily re-assigned after a sailor died during a training program. a preliminary autopsy shows seaman james lovelace drowned in a swimming pool on may sixth. it happened at a base in coronado. near san diego. lovelace was treading in a pool and wearing a uniform and dive mask when an instructor noticed he was struggling and pulled him out of the water. he died at an area hospital. the instructor