conor murphy is of that goal, he is seen as highly competent and a plausible leader.is possible that sinn fein may have a woman leader. thank you. thank you for joining us. let's go back to theresa may's speech. let's speak to our business correspondent tanya beckett in davos. how well did this speech go down? she was certainly broadcasting to a business audience, so one has the expect the content will be different. she put a strong narrative across a question people are asking themselves, what is it that voters want and how can we as companies and governments deliver that? what voters are to be saying in many cases is that globalisation has not delivered equally. it is not an incoming tide that has lifted all boats, quite clearly. they would like to see more spreading of wealth. there is a dramatic and increasing income gap that needs to be addressed in order to voters to begin to be satisfied, and democracy to be satisfied, too. she used brexit as an opportunity to say, we are not relieving the eu because we offered up with the eu, we are using it as an opportunity

the name you hear most often is conor murphy, a guy who spent some time in prison for ira offences intminster mp. he has a lot of experience, he's pretty smart and articulate. of course, but he doesn't have, nobody does, the charm that martin mcguinness could turn on when he wa nted mcguinness could turn on when he wanted to. he doesn't have the charisma either. it will be a loss for champagne whoever takes over. david, many things forjoining us. —— many thanks. the headlines on bbc news: sinn fein‘s martin mcguinness says he's stepping down donald trump has arrived in washington, ahead of his inauguration tomorrow as america's 45th president. theresa may has re—emphasised britain will be open for business after brexit, in an address at the world economic forum in davos. she was speaking as one high street bank predicted london will remain europe's top financial centre. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day. and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. all down. coming up, we will tell you about the

conor murphy said that the party had stretched itself to the limit to try to make things work here. minister of northern ireland and she was saying that the people of northern ireland don't want or need an election, but that sinn fein was choosing to, for political purposes, to create the situation in which inevitably an election would happen. so, reallya which inevitably an election would happen. so, really a lot of vitriol between those two parties. at the end of the day, after an election, they're likely to be returned as the two largest parties in the northern ireland assembly so they're going to have to find some way of accommodating their differences and working to resolve the differences. the next step is we await to hear from the secretary of state for northern ireland, james broken shire. —— brokenshire. in a moment a look at how the financial markets in europe closed the day, but first the headlines on bbc news: donald trump has promised a trade deal between britain and the united states will be a priority when he takes office on friday. northern ireland's power sharing go

conor murphy from sinn fein accused the dup of treating the stormont institutions, with contempt.of the dup and the behaviour in these institutions. we have done so because we can no longer accept how these institutions we re longer accept how these institutions were being treated with contempt, and continue to be treated with co nte m pt by and continue to be treated with contempt by the dup. for our part sinn fein and martin mcguinness have stretched ourselves to the very limits to try and keep these institutions working. unfortunately they have been let down by the behaviour of the dup, by the imposition of tory policies, and by the inaction of the government. and by the inaction of the government. the former northern ireland first minister, arlene foster, was scathing in her condemnation of sinn fein's actions accusing it of trying to re run an election to advance it's own political ambitions. northern ireland does not need, nor does its people want, an election. with the triggering of article 52 leave the european union, a new president of the united states of america, a vola

the name you hear most often is conor murphy, who is a guy who spent some time in the maze prison forinster asa went on to spend time in westminster as a westminster mp. he has a lot of experience, pretty smart, very articulate. of course, nobody has the kind of charm that martin mcguinness could turn on when he wa nted mcguinness could turn on when he wanted to and he hasn't got the charisma either so it is going to be a bit ofa charisma either so it is going to be a bit of a loss for sinn fein, whoever takes over. by this time tomorrow donald trump will have been sworn in as the 45th president of the united states after the inauguration ceremony on capitol hill which is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to washington dc. this week we've been taking a road trip through the heart of america on route 45. today our correspondent jon kay is in tupelo in the state of mississippi, the birthplace of elvis presley. one last practice before heading to washington. tonight, the tupelo high school band will be travelling 900 miles from mississippi to the capital to play at presi

conor murphy, a sinn fein mla, spoke on behalf of his party. today we have called time.nstitutions were kante treated with contempt and continue to be treated with contempt. for our part, sinn fein and martin mcguinness have stretched ourselves to the very limits, to trying keep these institutions working. unfortunately they've been let down by the behaviour of the dup, the imposition of tory policies on in action of the irish government. the former northern ireland first minister was scathing in her condemnation of the actions by sinn fein, in a statement earlier today. a warning, there is some flash photography in this item. northern ireland does not need, nor does its people want, an election. with the triggering of article 50 to leave the european union, a new president in the united states of america, a volatile global economy, now, more than ever, northern ireland needs stable government. we, asa ireland needs stable government. we, as a party, have done all that we can to maintain government in the northern ireland assembly so that the real issues like health, edu

most often is con murphy who is the quy most often is con murphy who is the guy who spent some time in the maze prison for ira offensive —— conor lot of experience, very smart, very articulate. he doesn't have and nobody has the kind of charm that mcguinness could turn on when he wanted to. a bit of a loss to sinn fein, whoever takes over. dozens of people are feared dead after an avalanche destroyed a hotel used by skiers in central italy. at least three people are known to have died and rescue teams are searching for up to 35 people still trapped. the avalanche happened yesterday after a series of powerful earthquakes struck the area of abruzzo, around 150 miles from rome. our correspondent, james reynolds, sent this report. at night, the quickest way through the wall of snow was on skis. a six—foot—high wall of snow and rock broke through the building's walls. several miles away a father waited for news of his daughter up in the hotel. straight after yesterday's earthquakes they text each other. "stay calm," he wrote. "you can come down tomorrow." "that's hard," she replied. "i think that the worst has already happened," he