will we really have to leave belfast?ou want to tell or put together a film about this part of your life at this moment in time? i think the lockdown provoked a sense that the story of the film, which has its own lockdown, a street that has a barricade erected at either end of it, at which you have to register to get in and out of, had, for me, some resonance with the kind of life that we have had to live over the last 18 months, where old certainties are gone, and families have to make quite big decisions about where they live or how they live or how they work, may change quite profoundly. so, all of those things came into my mind as i was working on this. the hand of god was another autobiographical tale from a top director creating oscars heat at telluride. it is a coming—of—age story from the academy award—winning italian director, paolo sorrentino, set in 19805 naples. it touches on the tragic death of the director's parents. for the film—maker it marks a new chapter in his career, in terms of intimate storytelling.

now, you as you say, you're talking to me from belfast today. your home is in one of the most beautiful parts of the united kingdom. time and again, the area you're from in the south of county down comes out as one of the areas with the highest quality of life in the uk. i ask you this in the nicest possible way. you're approaching a time when you could be thinking of retirement. you've got your knighthood. you've gotjobs as trade envoy to egypt and cameroon. were you not don't tempted to retire rather than become a party leader at a time of such crisis for your party and your government and the country? well, there are two types of people in politics, those who, when there is a crisis, run towards danger to try and sort things out and those who don't. and when i was 18 years old, nick, and when northern ireland was at the height of the violence and the turmoil of what we call the troubles, i put on the uniform of the ulster defence regiment and stood on the front line with my comrades to try and protect the community against terrorism. so i don

office in belfast. yes. i ec often belfast. yes [inaudible] . but obviously it's a different role now because it's no longer like representative, it's more like an embassy or something. so it's different. you're absolutely right, i think that we should go back to their being, back to the representation we had. because when i was in the office in belfast, that was the first [inaudible] by the way, there's one new we haven't mentioned yet, john [inaudible] . you know, the role of john hume in bringing both europe and america together and in those days this was the early nineties, i was in it was from 92 to 97, and was instrumental in the european john hume was instrumental in the european peace program [inaudible] and with my office. [inaudible] i commit a controversy, i don't know what's the right where it is, about whether, or if there isn't ec office in northern ireland, where it should be. should it be cited in belfast or should it be at the border? i don't know where they are with that. but certainly [inaudible] . >> thank you. thank you, rep

i was born in belfast. i was a teenager when the trouble started and i've been working for peace and stability for decades, particularly through the work of the northern ireland women's coalition. i can say that the day of the signing of the good friday agreement was the greatest day in my professional life, the day of the brexit referendum was without question the worst. so if you don't mind, i want to focus on that subject because that is my area of expertise and experience. since brexit, i've been -- become a relatively rare breed in my country. i'm a strong supporter of the european union and i'm from a unionist community background. that's why i call myself a european unionist, constructive ambiguity, i think, that's called, i've been a posed to brexit since the outset because i firmly believe that the european union membership enabled peace in northern ireland to happen, and of course the role of america was and still is vital. but if we're talking up the grass roots of putting, bringing communities t

the belfast good friday accord.e belfast good friday accord.— good friday accord. boris johnson and joe good friday accord. boris johnson and joe biden- — i'm joined now by our north america correspondent, gary o'donoghue, who is outside the white house. great to have you on newsday. on that irish border, president biden has repeatedly warned that the uk not damage the peace process amid continuing issues over the northern ireland protocol. what do you make of the latest comments from the two? i think it's interesting, joe biden chose that moment in the oval office. he knows that is an issue on which borisjohnson is having some difficulty with the european union over the border down the irish sea. joe biden does care very much about it. he's often described himself as irish, and he said in the past, he would be very upset if anything would be very upset if anything would sign that could recut —— disrupt the peace agreements and lead to a hard border. i'm not surprised he's raised this. this is one of the things wher

emma vardy is at ulster hospital in belfast. and what will they be doing, emma? at belfast city hospital, a clear indication ofjust how much hospitals are struggling. front line staff say things are on a knife edge, there have been warnings that they are not enough nurses to staff the number of icu patients in beds. it is not all down to covid pressures, unions have warned that the health service here has been under resourced for many years and recently high numbers of nurses have left the profession, which also creates a lot of difficulties. back in january, creates a lot of difficulties. back injanuary, around 100 military personnel also came to help in the wards, in hospitals in northern ireland, and to help with the vaccination programme. but northern ireland's health minister, robin swann, has said the situation is different this time around, there are severe pressures right around the health system is here, he says he is severely concerned for staff working at northern ireland to's hospitals, and that request for military personnel, a decision will be made

good friday accord — that's the belfast good friday agreement.e of course going to be a big part of the debate at the forthcoming cop26 summit in october and november in glasgow. and you can read much more about that summit in a special section on our website. just log on to bbc.com/news. back to the earthquake in australia, magnitude 6 earthquake north—east of melbourne. we are hearing reports of damage as far away as sydney. i'm joined now from sydney by our correspondent phil mercer. what details are you getting about the damage caused by this? ~ ., about the damage caused by this? ~ . , ., this? we are getting reports of the aftermath _ this? we are getting reports of the aftermath of— this? we are getting reports of the aftermath of this _ the aftermath of this earthquake. it was a magnitude six, about 100 kilometres from the city of melbourne. seismologists say that the shakes and the earthquake were felt as far away as sydney. this is a considerable distance from melbourne. that gives you an indication as to the force or some of these shud

thanks so much alex tito, for joining us from belfast and q. i'm moving on an original affiliate of the group . i still claim responsibility for recent bombings in the afghan city of july about the group known as i phil k says it carried out 3 attacks on saturday and one on sunday video released by the groups news agency shows one attack with what it says is a taliban vehicle driving along a road before being hit by an explosion group times more than 35 taliban members were killed or injured. meanwhile, decades of war, of the large parts of afghanistan littered with unexploded, munitions, the hidden thread is proved dangerous to civilians. many of them children and with the taliban in control of money to clear them up as as disappeared as child stratford reports from what a province. 8 year old marty was playing with his friends when the explosion happened. blast blew off part of his leg. he joined other children in his village and a talk organized by a local organisation about the dangers of unexploded munitions left by the decades of war. mar

the british and irish prime ministers attended her funeral here in belfast.uch in a betterfuture gay rights advocate who believed very much in a better future for northern ireland. chimney previously, one man has already been charged with murder and possession of a firearm, but holes have always believed that a number of senior figures in the new ira were responsible were responsible for that night. their investigation has always been continuing in the background and these new arrests are a result of that.— a result of that. emma vardy, our ireland correspondent, _ a result of that. emma vardy, our ireland correspondent, thank - a result of that. emma vardy, our ireland correspondent, thank you | ireland correspondent, thank you very much. most women in british prisons are mothers, and through the pandemic, many of their children were stopped from visiting them. the prison reform trust says this has had a significant impact on the children of imprisoned mothers, damaging their mental health and causing anxiety and nightmares. karen morrison reports. i had nig

nobody wants to see anything interrupt or unbalances the belfast accords.fast good friday agreement. >> [reporters talking over one another] >> british prime minister boris johnson holding a bilateral meeting. holding it today and in the oval office. let's return to bloomberg technology already in progress. i'm mark crumpton, bloomberg headquarters, new york. >> as we expect for demand to continue and our goal is to be there simply for our customers. we expect more volati we have proven time and time again we have been there at the right time at the right moment. we have worked with one of the largest global consumer brands where we were seeing a lot of congestion and we were able to -- our technology to provide pop-up fleets for them instantaneously. that has really helped them. over the course of the last year, we have worked with one of the highest grossing fitness brands. in the midst of covid and moving forward, helping them with some of the p demand they were seeing in the market as well. emily: all right, transfixed president ceo lily shen. coming up

our ireland correspondent emma vardy is in belfast.ma? that is riaht, in so a delay is confirmed emma? that is right. in the _ so a delay is confirmed emma? that is right, in the last _ so a delay is confirmed emma? trisgt is right, in the last few minutes it has been announced by the uk ease brexit minister lord frost that the introduction of lots of new checks and paperwork on goods arriving here will now be delayed indefinitely and you may feel like we have been here before, because back in march and june of this year, the uk government already pushed back these deadlines and the problems remain the same. that many businesses here, particularly supermarkets say there will be big problems with the supply of food to northern ireland if they didn't. now, the situation between the uk and the eu is that the two sides are still far apart when it comes to resolving this. the uk wants a fundamental renegotiation of all these rules, while the eu says it will allow some flexibilities but as we heard refer the deputy prime minister today there

emma vardy, bbc news, belfast.d harassment. mr vaz likened jenny mccollough to a prostitute. she left herjob in 2011 because of the bullying. the report also criticised mr vaz�*s non co—operation on health grounds, despite his presenting a radio show and writing newspaper columns. manufacturers will be forced to create a universal charger for phones and small electronic devices under a new rule proposed by the european commission. the aim is to reduce waste by encouraging consumers to re—use existing chargers when they buy a new device. apple has warned that such a move would harm innovation. golf's ryder cup between europe and the us gets under way tomorrow with the opening ceremony taking place this evening. europe have won nine of the previous 12 meetings, including last time in paris in 2018. this year's event was scheduled to take place in 2020 but was delayed by the pandemic. andy swiss is in whistling straits, wisconsin, for us. yes, whistling straits is certainly living up to its name at the moment, pretty

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a mild enough night, temperatures in double figures, up to 15 in belfast, we get quite a strong southerlypushes in. it will move its way into the west of the uk, but then it kind of grinds to a halt, actually, for friday. so, because it does that, that means the rain willjust keep on coming for the likes of northern ireland, possibly for the south—west of scotland. later on in the day, some downpours for the south—west of england and for wales. but it's northern ireland stuck under the cloud and with the rain on friday. quite breezy here as well, quite gusty winds at times. big contrast between east and west — just mid teens, the temperatures in the west under the rain, we could still see 22, maybe 23 in the sunshine further east. 0ur front will gradually make its way eastwards across the uk through the weekend. for scotland and northern ireland, i think it will bring some patchy cloud, but for england and wales, it does bring the threat of perhaps some quite punchy showers, longer and more persistent outbreaks of rain at times. certainly, saturday looks like it could be quite wet across

ireland are currently in belfast zimbabwe some 231 in the rain affected indians, and ireland currentlywomen were well beaten in their first rugby world cup qualifier, losing to italy 38—13. they face spain on sunday and ireland next saturday, with one automatic qualifying spot available for the tournament in new zealand next year. there was no shortage of sporting drama at the weekend and that includes the italian grand prix from which lewis hamilton says he was lucky to leave alive after a frightening crash with max verstappen. the race was won by mclaren's daniel ricciardo but it was overshadowed by the incident between the two championship title rivals. i've been getting the thoughts of our formula one correspondentjenny gow. when they were first talking about introducing the halo — this curved, reinforced bar in front of the driver's head — lewis hamilton was sceptical. he backed it in the end and there's no doubt it after a poor saturday which meant he only managed to get four from the grid from the start of the race. it was always going to be a bit of a tough contest for hamilton

. >> -- you were in belfast >> seth: right yeah, not even pittsburgh.> seth: belf -- croatia, a lot of time in croatia, right? >> yeah, that, too >> seth: yeah. >> but, boy, was that fun. >> seth: yeah, that must have been nice. >> boy was that fun in my marriage to just be like -- >> seth: also, it must have been ni -- 'cause i think we've done this as well, where, you know, as a parent you do a lot of zoom things now, and we complain about them, forgetting that in regular times, you'd have to go places >> i was at those things >> seth: yeah. >> with the other parents, alone. >> seth: exactly >> schmoozing and ooh-ing and ahh-ing. >> seth: and other parents were like, "should we ask her to play pickleball?" and they were like, "she's too old. [ laughter ] >> seth: "she'll fall apart. i can't believe you found a one-armed sweater. >> i found a one-armed sweater [ laughter ] it's, like, the greatest thing ever >> seth: i want to close by saying the show is fantastic, and everybody should check it out. you guys, that is amanda peet. "the chair" is availab

a strengthening breeze, so by the end of the night it will be turning milder in the west — ii for belfastay, this frontal system dominates the weather — that's going to bring some outbreaks of quite heavy rain southwards and eastward, the rain quite sporadic, quite on and off in nature. very windy to start the day, especially in north—west scotland. the winds will ease a little through the day across northern areas — it should brighten up a little bit here, too. further south, those winds will stay strong and gusty, exposed spots in england and wales seeing gusts in excess of a0 or 45 mph even through into the afternoon. temperatures still struggling — 13 degrees for aberdeen, 17 in plymouth — although, actually, that's about where we should be at this time of year. now, into the weekend, low pressure dominates. weather system spinning around these areas of low pressure — that means we'll see some outbreaks of heavy rain at times, some very strong winds are possible, too, and temperatures will stay in a similar range — between 12 and 17 degrees. so with the cloud, the rain, the brisk wind

a mild enough night, temperatures in double figures — up to 15 degrees in belfast, where we get quitehes in. it will move its way into the west of the uk, but then it kind of grinds to a halt, actually, for friday. so, because it does that, that means the rain willjust keep on coming for the likes of northern ireland, possibly for the southwest of scotland. later on in the day, some downpours for the southwest of england and for wales. but it's northern ireland stuck under the cloud and with the rain on friday. quite breezy here, as well, quite gusty winds at times. big contrast between east and west — just mid—teens, the temperatures in the west under the rain. we could still see maybe 22—23 degrees in the sunshine further east. our front will gradually make its way eastwards across the uk through the weekend. for scotland and northern ireland, i think it'll bring some patchy cloud. but for england and wales, it does bring the threat of perhaps some quite punchy showers, longer, more persistent outbreaks of rain at times. certainly, saturday looks like it could be quite wet across en

so for places like belfast, northern ireland, i think we'll see wind gusts here of about 60 kilometers per hour. by monday this shifts into england and it will play london. not a lot of rain with this, but still sun, gusty winds, that flooding rain that we had over iberia has now shifted toward the north than the east pulses of energy here in particular northern italy, switzerland, and germany. but i want to get your rate to italy rate now, because there is a red weather warning in play. i think the very real risk that we will see flooding here once again for northwestern italy. now if we look further toward the east, we've got some high he belgrade could very well hit 30 degrees on sunday. it is dry across turkey, things looking good, and it's stumble with a hive. 26 degrees off to west africa and your own day in cameroon. 79 millimeters of rain, and we can really track all that. what weather falling from cameroon rate through in sierra leone. so free towns got a high of 27 degrees. also wet in abidjan. that's it for me. we'll catch up with you soon. the little is more distressing for

a mild enough night, temperatures in double figures — up to 15 degrees in belfast, where we get quiteay into the west of the uk, but then it kind of grinds to a halt, actually, for friday. so, because it does that, that means the rain willjust keep on coming for the likes of northern ireland, possibly for the southwest of scotland. later on in the day, some downpours for the southwest of england and for wales. but it's northern ireland stuck under the cloud and with the rain on friday. quite breezy here, as well, quite gusty winds at times. big contrast between east and west — just mid—teens, the temperatures in the west under the rain. we could still see maybe 22—23 celsius in the sunshine further east. our front will gradually make its way eastwards across the uk through the weekend. for scotland and northern ireland, i think it'll bring some patchy cloud. but for england and wales, it does bring the threat of perhaps some quite punchy showers, longer, more persistent outbreaks of rain at times. certainly, saturday looks like it could be quite wet across england and wales. the showe

and even further north, 21 for aberdeen and 22 there in belfast. and there is more warmth to come., particularly given lots of sunshine, and on tuesday, we can expect largely sunny skies after morning mist and fog has cleared. away from the far north of scotland, here it will stay quite cloudy. but look at the temperatures. 2a to maybe 28 or 29 degrees down towards the south, and wednesday, very similar weather in most places. some good spells of sunshine around butjust the chance of some showers and thunderstorms starting to creep in from the south—west. but ahead of that, a very warm if not hot day for some of us. however, things do look set to change for the end of the week. it�*s going to turn more unsettled, with some rain at times. temperatures are a little lower by this stage but still quite respectable for this time of year. good morning, you are watching bbc news. the headlines... the prince of wales�* former aide steps down temporarily from his charity role after allegations he used his influence to help secure an honourfor a major donor. taliban officials have broken up

a mild enough night, temperatures in double figures, up to 15 in belfast, we get quite a strong southerly the west of the uk, but then it kind of grinds to a halt, actually, for friday. so, because it does that, that means the rain willjust keep on coming for the likes of northern ireland, possibly for the south—west of scotland. later on in the day, some downpours for the south—west of england and for wales. but it's northern ireland stuck under the cloud and with the rain on friday. quite breezy here as well, quite gusty winds at times. big contrast between east and west — just mid teens, the temperatures in the west under the rain, we could still see 22, maybe 23 in the sunshine further east. our front will gradually make its way eastwards across the uk through the weekend. for scotland and northern ireland, i think it will bring some patchy cloud, but for england and wales, it does bring the threat of perhaps some quite punchy showers, longer and more persistent outbreaks of rain at times. certainly, saturday looks like it could be quite wet across england and wales. the showers shoul

so belfast, northern ireland, i think when gus here of about 65 kilometers per hour, keep in mind this is on sunday. also sunday energy that produce flash flooding through iberia has shifted toward the north and the east are seen some big storms for coastal areas. northern italy, switzerland, and germany. ok, that's a bad stuff. let's move on to the good stuff and take it back toward saturdays, from the best weather on the continent. the bulk in belgrade, full on sunshine, with the high 27 degrees. and we do have what, whether diving down toward turkey's northeastern black sea region impacts him play like our hobby meantime, for western africa. gone up, picked up 50 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours and more of it to come see you soon. the l g 0 recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts for cabana dot. a tossed by the security council to mediate between arabs and israelis. his days would prove one of the darkest days in the quest for peace in the middle east. ah, killing the count on algebra. 2 planes came from so there are the 15 men checked patel in this new

a strengthening breeze, so by the end of the night it will be turning milder in the west — ii for belfastite heavy rain southwards and eastward, the rain quite sporadic, quite on and off in nature. very windy to start the day, especially in north—west scotland. the winds will ease a little through the day across northern areas — it should brighten up a little bit here, too. further south, those winds will stay strong and gusty, exposed spots in england and wales seeing gusts in excess of a0 or 45 mph even through into the afternoon. temperatures still struggling — 13 degrees for aberdeen, 17 in plymouth — although, actually, that's about where we should be at this time of year. now, into the weekend, low pressure dominates. weather system spinning around these areas of low pressure — that means we'll see some outbreaks of heavy rain at times, some very strong winds are possible, too, and temperatures will stay in a similar range — between 12 and 17 degrees. so with the cloud, the rain, the brisk winds and the cool conditions, it will feel very autumnal. welcome to newsday. reporting live

good that the interim period has been extended because clearly the protocol is not protecting the belfast good friday agreement, as it should in all its aspects, and we must sorted out. >> thank you, mr. speaker. yesterday, without consultation, the prime minister announced plans to impose the regressive poll tax on millions of workers. a foundation estimates around 2 million families on low incomes will now pay an average of an extra one hunter pounds a year because of the prime minister's tax hike. yet again, they are fleecing scottish families, hitting low and middle income workers and penalizing began. the secretary called it a shame. a former chancellor said this is the pork subsidizing the rich former prime minister has called us regressive. prime minister, isn't this the key that this tax hike is once again balancing the books on the backs of the poor and the young? >> mr. speaker, the right honorable gentlemen, i much enjoyed my conversation with representatives of the scottish administration. what they said to me was they wanted more funding for the nhs. i am delighted that we ar

and even further north, 21 aberdeen and 22 there in belfast. and there is more warmth to come., quite a brisk breeze at times as we head into the middle part of the week. but drawing this very warm air up in our direction. you will feel that, particularly given lots of sunshine, and on tuesday, we can expect largely sunny skies after morning mist and fog has cleared. away from the far north of scotland, here it will stay quite cloudy. but look at the temperatures. 2a to maybe 28 or 29 degrees down towards the south, and for wednesday, very similar weather in most places. some good spells of sunshine around butjust the chance of some showers and thunderstorms starting to creep in from the south—west. but ahead of that, a very warm if not hot day for some of us. however, things do look set to change for the end of the week. it's going to turn more unsettled, with some rain at times. temperatures are a little lower by this stage but still quite respectable for this time of year. good afternoon. the chief executive of one of prince charles' charities, the prince's foundation, has t

so belfast, northern ireland, i think we got here of about 65 kilometers per hour. keep in mind this is on sunday . also sunday energy that produce flash flooding through iberia has shifted toward the north and the east are seen some big storms for coastal areas. northern italy, switzerland, and germany. ok, that's a bad stuff. let's move on to the good stuff and take it back toward saturdays, from the best weather on the continent. the bulk in belgrade, full on sunshine, with a high 27 degrees. and we do have what, whether diving down toward turkey's northeastern black sea region impacts in places like our hobby meantime, for western africa. gone up, picked up 50 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours and more of it to come season. the weather, sponsored by cattle airways voted world's best airline of 2021. when freedom of the press is under threat in oh, you just because i thought, genuinely about your thought toward the making government step outside the mainstream. the has been a implement here, some of access points shift the focus, the pandemic that's turn

a strengthening breeze, so by the end of the night it will be turning milder in the west — 11 for belfastgoing to bring some outbreaks of quite heavy rain southwards and eastward, the rain quite sporadic, quite on and off in nature. very windy to start the day, especially in north—west scotland. the winds will ease a little through the day across northern areas — it should brighten up a little bit here, too. further south, those winds will stay strong and gusty, exposed spots in england and wales seeing gusts in excess of a0 or a5 mph even through into the afternoon. temperatures still struggling — 13 degrees for aberdeen, 17 in plymouth — although, actually, that's about where we should be at this time of year. now, into the weekend, low pressure dominates. weather system spinning around these areas of low pressure — that means we'll see some outbreaks of heavy rain at times, some very strong winds are possible, too, and temperatures will stay in a similar range — between 12 and 17 degrees. so with the cloud, the rain, the brisk winds and the cool conditions, it will feel very autumnal.

a mild enough night, temperatures in double figures — up to 15 celsius in belfast, where we get quitet kind of grinds to a halt, actually, for friday. so, because it does that, that means the rain willjust keep on coming for the likes of northern ireland, possibly for the southwest of scotland. later on in the day, some downpours for the southwest of england and for wales. but it's northern ireland stuck under the cloud and with the rain on friday. quite breezy here, as well, quite gusty winds at times. big contrast between east and west — just mid—teens, the temperatures in the west under the rain. we could still see maybe 22—23 celsius in the sunshine further east. 0ur front will gradually make its way eastwards across the uk through the weekend. for scotland and northern ireland, i think it'll bring some patchy cloud. but for england and wales, it does bring the threat of perhaps some quite punchy showers, longer, more persistent outbreaks of rain at times. certainly saturday looks like it could be quite wet across england and wales. the showers should thin out somewhat for sunday.

a mild enough night, temperatures in double figures — up to 15 degrees in belfast, where we get quitegrinds to a halt, actually, for friday. so, because it does that, that means the rain willjust keep on coming for the likes of northern ireland, possibly for the southwest of scotland. later on in the day, some downpours for the southwest of england and for wales. but it's northern ireland stuck under the cloud and with the rain on friday. quite breezy here, as well, quite gusty winds at times. big contrast between east and west — just mid—teens, the temperatures in the west under the rain. we could still see maybe 22—23 celsius in the sunshine further east. our front will gradually make its way eastwards across the uk through the weekend. for scotland and northern ireland, i think it'll bring some patchy cloud. but for england and wales, it does bring the threat of perhaps some quite punchy showers, longer, more persistent outbreaks of rain at times. certainly, saturday looks like it could be quite wet across england and wales. the showers should thin out somewhat for sunday. this is

temperatures early in the morning will be around 15 degrees in glasgow and not far off that in belfastlthough some of us could wake up to a bit of mist and fog but that should clear very quickly through the morning. how warm? most of us will be in the mid to high 20s, look at that, 27 degrees expected in hull. but most of us will hit around the 30 c. unusually we�*ve not had 30 celsius in this country since the 23rd ofjuly, that�*s the last time the mercury hit 30. here�*s wednesday, that low pressure to the south west of us is approaching. ahead of it we still have some pretty warrior. many eastern and central areas will be enjoying, i say enjoy if you like the heat, the warm and sunny weather. but out towards the southwest thunderstorms are looming, some pretty big downpours in places, typical summer weather, really. here temperatures dropping only 19 in plymouth whereas temperature is still not far off 13 degrees for example across the midlands. and then wednesday night into thursday this thundery weather front will push ever eastwards and northwards, so many of us will get showers.

a professor at the mitchell institute for global peace security and justice at queens university. belfast. he's also a former deputy, each special representative to afghanistan and he joins us now from dublin. professor, i want to talk about the regime in power. now in cobble, many of suggested that the u. s. intervention overreached that it evolved from dealing with a terrorist threat into nation building rather. and we've obviously seen that play out elsewhere. iraq to does this outcome. now draw a line under washington's nation building project. do you think it's it a strange way? i'd say it's too early to say simply because i think that the regime that we have in power in cobble is not in a state of librium. this is not the final state. and i found this done. certainly so much of what the us tried to do and promised on, and that which the us is african partners tried to achieve currently lies in ruins. but they, the regime in cobble really is so narrowly based on enjoys. so that will support out from the population on is about to face unimed credible economic crisis. that this is not

a strengthening breeze, so by the end of the night it will be turning milder in the west — 11 for belfastystem dominates the weather — that's going to bring some outbreaks of quite heavy rain southwards and eastward, the rain quite sporadic, quite on and off in nature. very windy to start the day, especially in north—west scotland. the winds will ease a little through the day across northern areas — it should brighten up a little bit here, too. further south, those winds will stay strong and gusty, exposed spots in england and wales seeing gusts in excess of 40 or 45 mph even through into the afternoon. temperatures still struggling — 13 degrees for aberdeen, 17 in plymouth — although, actually, that's about where we should be at this time of year. now, into the weekend, low pressure dominates. weather system spinning around these areas of low pressure — that means we'll see some outbreaks of heavy rain at times, some very strong winds are possible, too, and temperatures will stay in a similar range — between 12 and 17 degrees. so with the cloud, the rain, the brisk winds and the cool con

so for places like belfast in northern ireland, i think we'll look for wind gusts here of about 65 kilometers per hour. that's a bad stuff on to the good stuff. now look at this run of sun through is stumble with the high of 26 and i think i think we'll get you up to a high of 30 as well dry across siberia. we haven't been able to say that for a while, except maybe a few showers to what the northwest of spain and also northern areas of portugal go into western africa right now and we've got driving rain, we can pretty well trace it from areas of cameroon rate. through to sign a goal and the gambia. so banjo has a high of 31 degrees. that's it. that's all for me. i'll catch up with you later. the weather sponsored by katara airways voted world's best airline of 2021. talk to al jazeera, we can what gives you hope that there is going to be peace because of the situation on the ground seems to be pointing. otherwise we listened. we were never on whatever road to off migration. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories on sierra ah bolden unfold stories from asia and the pacific

who actually care about political stability in northern ireland that far from -- [inaudible] the belfast agreement, the northern ireland protocol is now the single greatest danger to the political institution? mr. speaker, the deputy prime minister ignores -- [inaudible] does the deputy prime minister believe in a solution that restores northern ireland -- internal markets is the only way to avert the collapse of the institution and such a solution must be found in weeks rather than months? >> can i thank the honorable lady. we absolutely agree that having a smart, prague pragmatic appros the only way that we will be able to uphold the good friday agreement. and not withstanding what the -- i know having been with the prime minister and is with the president is he understands our view, and we've explained our position as well as them taking into account what the e.u. said. >> jesse norman. >> mr. speaker, the house will know that the river wide is one of -- river y is one of the most beautiful rivers in our country and also a priceless national asset, yet it's being threatened by toes if

so for places like belfast, northern ireland, i think we'll see wind gusts here of about 60 kilometers per hour. by monday there's shifts into england and it will play.

to be judged on its actions. miko simple as a visiting research professor at queen's university, belfast and his, the former deputy use special representative to afghanistan. thanks very much for being with us just on the issue the, the makeup of the government. the time when it took over said it would be inclusive and many, unfortunately, the current line up doesn't fit that bill particularly what, what do you make of it? this is the absolute opposite all inclusive in find this is just so it's exclusively composed of taliban. it doesn't even really represent the whole of the taliban movement. there are lots of lots of disgruntled taliban complaining that they are not included. but essentially this is the other plan. they hear. oh, it's not just that it's a little bit exclusive, is that there was a proposal which the the taliban discussed with the international community in cutter for something like 3 years. oh, which, you know, lots of people advised them to do and which they said they would do that whenever a post us intervention government was formed, that it would have representative