i'm interested in your view of the dup. became the dominant party on the unionist side in northern ireland, and they were not there. did you think of them as an irrelevance or what was your view of the dup? i was sorry that they were not there. they had played a constructive enough engagement in the talks in 1991 and 1992. those talks broke up without really getting anywhere, but there were talks. then they were involved in the talks in 1997 and 1998, but they had pulled out at that stage as well. i would have preferred them in, because we always said that what we were trying to achieve was a comprehensive inclusive process. of course, they oppose the good friday agreement, they were under no side of the vote in may of 1998, but they were usually on the no side of everything in those and those days. there was a moment in 2004 when everyone wanted the dup to come in, and become the biggest party on the unionist side in northern ireland and you met with ian paisley and prayed with him in the irish embassy in london. tell me a

the eu's brexit negotiator is in ireland for visits on both sides of the border — amid dup claims thats not "an honest broker". more than 20 people have been killed and dozens injured, in two explosions in the afghan capital, kabul. also this hour — a group of central american migrants who've angered president trump as they made their way through mexico, have reached the us border. president trump has been making it clear that he regards this caravan of migrants as a threat, as a serious problem for the united states. and more than a month's rain forecast in one day — distinctly unseasonal weather hits parts of southern and eastern england. good morning. it is monday the 30th of april. welcome to bbc newsroom live. in the last hour, the prime minister has appointed sajid javid as the new home secretary, following amber rudd's resignation late last night following the windrush scandal. mrjavid is the son of a pakistani bus driver, his family came to the uk in the 1960s. he's had six governmentjobs in the past six years, including housing, business and culture secretary. he backed remain

is relying on the dup makes it harder for her to be the may is relying on the dup makes it harderfor to bring in some sort of outside mediator? i think she can do it, because to be fair to her, i'm sure she wants to keep the good friday agreement and she wants to make sure it works satisfactorily, but i do think it is important to realise there were points of time certainly in that ten years, because remember we went through the setting up remember we went through the setting up of the new northern ireland police service, decommissioning drumcree, there will always things happening. and at a certain point, the authority of the prime minister is necessary in order to get people to move and to come into some form of alignment. so i don't... i think it's just constant work, that's all i'm saying, and i sometimes say to people but now i study a lot of what has happened in the balkans, i work in the balkan state with my institute, and you can see for example there it was 20 years ago, roughly the same anniversary, that the dictatorship in serbia was removed, that kosovo was liberated. but

and i asked you about the conservatives' relationship with the dup. his not so long ago sincejeremy corbyn sacked his northern ireland minister over brexit. what has been the role of labour in this? i hope that the labour party even under this leadership will support the good friday agreement. the only thing they've got to remember is that we would never have got the good friday agreement if it hadn't been clear that we understood and accepted the legitimate aspirations also of the unionist community, and people forget this now, but the very first speech i went to make when i became prime minister back in may 1997, i think it may have been the first really big speech i gave was in northern ireland to the unionist community. and i did that very deliberately in order to say to them, we are here to find a just solution, but we are not here to take one side rather than the other. isjeremy corbyn capable of that? he is perceived by the unionists to be on one side. let's see. quite the range of weather across the uk again today. on the beach in cornwall bel

but it's worth working at. executive isn't functioning. the dup, and sinn fein, can't work with eachlet down by the politicians today? yeah, i feel frustrated. i used to feel a sense of failure and an enormous sense of friction. you just have to keep working at it. they should by now have learned how to do a deal. the belfast good friday agreement or st andrews. about fulfilling those promises. quote, "outlived its usefulness. well, i think that's total nonsense. the life i am now leading. are now a role model for other countries. there's a human rights commission. and the main republican, nationalist party... yeah. she said is no longer fit for purpose. yeah. that's not the way politics in a more mature society should work. we need those institutions. relationships were improved, it would be much better. of martin mcguinness came together, those institutions worked. promised and people didn't live up to those commitments. so we have to get back round the table. i've been round that table many, many times before. i believe that those negotiations can come out the other end. i believe

they would not have gone ahead without the support of the dup.ul stock if you are a labourmp, cropped up in powerful stock if you are a labour mp, —— in politics. cropped up in powerful stock if you are a labour mp, -- in politics. she might have been lucky that david cameron didn't get close on a vote in military action in syria. she is an much safer ground with the action has been taken. if she was to lose that vote, she would resign. it means that she won't lose the vote because the stakes are so high. if there is a vote held, she will presumably win it. we don't know whether a vote will be held on a government motion. the observer is convinced they will be problems for theresa may on monday. pm reveals legal advice on allied attack. trump hails his mission accomplished. we have been hearing on so many of them is the president trump about the decisions he has made that they wish more could have been done in america. there are, it has been looking like a repudiation of 0bama's drawing of a red line. specifically, trumpet‘s spokesperson has gone

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with talks failing to bridge the gap between the dup and sinn fein, it remains mothballed.falls to the westminster government to set the budget. mp's approved a bill to give civil servants the legal power to carry out day-to-day spending. theory following revelations about an annual charity fund-raising dinner where guests were sexually harassed. the club announced it was following claims that women were groped at the men's only event. >> organizers chose to make this a men only event, chose to treat the hostesses in this way. >> women have the right to feel safe, wherever they work, and allegations of this type of behavior are completely unacceptable. >> celebrations across parliament to celebrate 100 years of women getting the right to vote. although it did not apply to all, it was a historic step forward. the house of lords held a special event to mark the anniversary, and one pm recalled her conversations with a former suffragette. >> more than once, she would love to carry those big laundry baskets into meetings. the police would say, what is in that basket? and they w

the two main parties, that is the unionist party, the dup, and sinn fein, can't work with each other.ns today? i used to feel a sense of failure and an enormous sense of friction. the frustration continues, but that's not useful emotions, you just have to keep working at it. they should by now have learned how to do a deal. there's nothing wrong with the agreement, either the belfast good friday agreement or st andrews. it's about relationship building, it's about committing to something, it's about promising to carry it out, and it's about fulfilling those promises. well, i come back to that word realism — the historian ruth dudley, who spends a lot of time thinking about northern ireland politics, she says that given the fact it's more than a year since you've had workable power—sharing, she says the truth is the good friday agreement has, quote, "outlived its usefulness." well, i think that's total nonsense. i don't know when ruth dudley edwards was back in belfast to see the life i'm now leading. it's notjust governance arrangements, the policing changes are now a role model for o

but this isn't about punishing the uk, said mr barnier, in response to criticism from the dup.ofoundly regret brexit, for many reasons. and i have been never aggressive. the british government believes a free—trade deal with the eu would mean there would be no need for customs checks on the irish border after brexit. but michel barnier‘s preferred fallback, of keeping northern ireland in the customs union while the rest of the uk leaves, continues to provoke unionists. i don't think he does understand the wider unionist culture of northern ireland. he's hearing a very strong message from the republic of ireland's government. he's hearing it from sinn fein. we have tried to get him to understand the unionist position for the people of northern ireland, but he hasn't really responded to that and i'm disappointed about that. 0n the face of it, the eu and the uk remain deadlocked over the irish border. however, sources inside the british government have told the bbc they believe they will get their proposal through. but until an agreement is reached, businesses both north and south

but this isn't about punishing the uk, said mr barnier, in response to criticism from the dup.egret brexit. for many reasons. and i am never aggressive. the british government believes a free trade deal with the eu would mean there would be no need for customs checks on the irish border after brexit. but michel barnier‘s preferred fallback, of keeping northern ireland in a customs union while the rest of the uk leaves, continues to provoke unionists. i don't think he does understand the wider unionist culture of northern ireland. he is hearing a very strong message from the republic of ireland's government, he is hearing it from sinn fein, we have tried to get him to understand the unionist position for the people of northern ireland, but he hasn't really responded to that and i am disappointed about that. while on the face of it, the uk and eu appear to remain deadlocked over the border, sources inside the british government have told the bbc, they believe they will get their proposal through. a solution needs to be found byjune, says the eu, to keep the talks on track or the

the dup leader arlene foster has returned to give evidence at a public inquiry into a green energy schemere of a dispute resulting in the collapse of devolved government at stormont. the renewable heat incentive scheme ran up a projected overspend of hundreds of millions of pounds. mrs foster said she should have been given more information when she signed it off as stormont enterprise minister, and denied she'd authorised the project freedom to spend any amount necessary. whilst there has been much commentary around this place of a blank cheque scenario i do not accept it was a blank cheque. i did read the information that was given to me and i took that information at face value. now with hindsight i look back and say i would have been given more information but i do not accept it was a blank cheque at that time. let us be generous then, and say it was a cheque to £25 million plus an undetermined further figure, it was not a cheque with a bottom right—hand corner number of £445 million, which at that time was the best estimate of what that cost? no, because that figure regrettably had n

there is no spirit of revenge , no the dup. there is no spirit of revenge, no spirit of punishment.gret the brexit, for many reasons, and i am never aggressive. the uk hopes to agree a close trading partnership with the eu, which it believes it would mean there would believes it would mean there would be no need for customs checks on the irish border after brexit. but michel barnier‘s preferred backstop option of keeping northern ireland in the customs union while the rest of the uk leaves continues to infuriate unionists. i don't think he does understand the wider unionist culture of northern ireland. he is hearing a very strong message from the republic of ireland's government, he is hearing it from sinn fein. we have tried to get him to understand the unionist people of northern ireland's position but he has not responded to that and i am disappointed about that. a solution to the border must be found byjune according to the eu, so it can be presented at the next leaders summit to be completed in october. without that, the uk could be in danger of crashing out was no agreement an

i wonder whether you would win the vote, the dup voted against action in 2013 and they hold the balance the moment. it's true they did but andrew percy, a conservative mp, has made clear that although they voted against before they would now. many labour backbenchers who voted for action in 2015 have indicated they would be open to supporting it. i wouldn't make assumptions about the vote. chris philp and zalmay khalilzad, thank you very much. well we've talked about syria and our response to russia's involvement there. but let's look inside russia itself now. we associate the country with its president, but there's a potentially complicating factor here. there are different factions around president putin and much of what happens mightjust be reflecting the playing out of tensions between them. gabriel gatehouse explains in a film that contains some flashing images. prison system of power is much more ofa prison system of power is much more of a bosanquet in court that a relationship where the lead at dictates to his subordinate stash rack byza ntian. putin dictates to his subordinate

but the president is saying he wants this dup by end of may, early june.o it is really coming up very soon, alisyn. >> abby, thank you very much for all of that. so now those direct talks with the north korean leader have reportedly already taken place. what does it mean for the is summit abby is talking about between couple jong unand the president? what happened in the previous meeting? we dig in on all of that next. ♪ ah, my poor mouth breather. allergies? stuffy nose? can't sleep? enough. take that. a breathe right nasal strip of course. imagine just put one on and pow! it instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicine alone. so you can breathe, and sleep. better than a catnap. shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. breathe right. at crowne plaza, we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we're all business, mostly. crowne plaza. almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with

which means if he had wanted to do this firing, he should have dup it a year ago. it gets more and more self interested as we go on. what you're talking about is a theory called the unitary executive, the president has all the power to do whatever he wants in the executive branch and you're saying he could do it directly without following the rules that his own branch has for him. you know, at that point i think what you will get is a constitutional crisis/no man's land. because the provision he would technically be violating if he wanted to get into it is his obligation to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. those laws include the rules that his own department created to hire and fire people. >> the president is upset. understandably. his close longtime attorney michael cohen's home was raided for documents seized. just because he is considering them doesn't mean he is going to do it. he has considered openly firing sessions. >> yes. >> mueller, rosenstein. he is trying to figure out how to do it. >> things are things he long contemplated on bad days w

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further still, commissioners, under your discretionary review calendar, item 22, case number 2017001920 dup 2 at 3047 jackson street, parties have come to terms and the d.r.'s have been withdrawn. i have no other items proposed for continuance, and i have no speaker cards. >> president hillis: all right. thank you, jonas. any members of the public who would like to speak on any of the items being proposed for continuance? great. seeing none, we'll close public comment. commission commissioner koppel? >> motion to propose to continue items one, two, three, four, five, and six. >> second. >> clerk: [ roll call. ] >> clerk: commissioners, that'll place us on your consent calendar. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the public, the commission or staff so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. item six was continued indefinitely, so that leaves us with items seven. [agenda item read]. >> clerk: item eight. [agenda item read]. >> clerk: item nine. [agenda item

she shouldn't have dup it.n, i don't think we should get into a blame game about this person did this, that person did that. it's about what to do in the future. >> do you say to minutes of the democratic party, stop blaming jim comey for costing us the election? that's not why we lost? >> i think that james comey made a mistake. i think i made mistakes. i spent time talking about mistakes that i made. i think it is productive to have these discussions particularly as we think about how do we win this race in 2020. but playing the blame game, trying to figure it out. anything could have made a difference. it was 70,000 votes. >> if she had no server and just an e-mail account, do you think she's president of the united states? >> i think that, to be honest with you, i think if it wasn't this, it would have been benghazi. the reps were relentless about picking something, turning it into more than it was and beating on it every single day. because a lot of people thought she would win we almost excused blowing sm

now look what they've dup.nd i just want to fix this. >> do you think ronny jackson is going to survive this day? >> i don't know about this day. there are community-based outpatient in swraeupbsville, lima, chillicothe. people who work at the v.a., people recruited by the v.a. to work there, there's an anxiety out there because of the politics played by the white house that jon tester and i and others are trying to sort out. don't put this whole operation in turmoil because president trump liked admiral jackson in his medical relationship. we're good, but check him out through the fbi, through the vetting process. call people who used to work for him, not just people who were his peers that were above him. he clearly treats his peers and those above him very well. how does he treat the people under him? we have seen that game. i have seen that in the senate with plenty onf people. >> let's move on to mick mulvan mulvaney. he had a meeting in front of the bankers association on tuesday and he said eyebrow raisi

one thing we know about trump he dup like that kind of advice. he wants to express him. >> why is why he can go on his cell phone and go on a cable news shoe atcal in the morning of everything about the interviews suggests that it was something that he wanted to do because he wanted that release. i just wanted to make one quick point on the justice department thing. i think that may be the most significant thing that trump said today. he is giving a specific warning about something he says he is going to come back to. he is going to let it did for now, but he said, i will deal with the justice deputy. >> i would argue he picked a bad day to do that. >> right. >> because you had the senate judiciary committee debating -- 14-7 vote moved the mueller proek broke bill out of committee. 14-7 -- >> the timing could not have been worse. >> listen to orrin hatch and lindsay graham. >> firing mueller would cause a firestorm and bring the administration's agenda to a halt. it could even result in impeach men. >> you can't fire mueller. you can fire rosenst

but this isn't about punishing the uk, said mr barnier, in response to criticism from the dup. been never aggressive. the british government believes a free—trade deal with the eu would mean there would be no need for customs checks on the irish border after brexit. but michel barnier‘s preferred fallback, of keeping northern ireland in the customs union while the rest of the uk leaves, continues to provoke unionists. i don't think he does understand the wider unionist culture of northern ireland. he's hearing a very strong message from the republic of ireland's government. he's hearing it from sinn fein. we have tried to get him to understand the unionist position for the people of northern ireland, but he hasn't really responded to that and i'm disappointed about that. on the face of it, the eu and the uk remain deadlocked over the irish border. however, sources inside the british government have told the bbc they believe they will get their proposal through. but until an agreement is reached, businesses both north and south say they feel livelihoods are at stake. we keep tra

she is running a minority government, relying on the dup to get votes through.it. i think a number of labourmps would vote against it. i think a number of labour mps would vote with the government, but the numbers are dicey and there is no guarantee she would get their approval. there was a time imperative, it seems, and president trump i think, certainly, led on the timetabling of the strike. but theresa may does not and will not risk a defeat in parliament on this. thank you to ben wright joining us live from downing street. in the past howard the secretary—general has been giving a briefing at nato headquarters in brussels saying all the nato allies we re brussels saying all the nato allies were supportive. all nato allies expressed full support for last night's actions. it was intended to degrade the syrian regime's chemical weapons capabilities. and to deter further chemical weapons attacks against the people of syria. nato strongly condemns the repeated use of chemical weapons either syrian regime. chemicalweapons of chemical weapons either syrian regime.

the dup, on which theresa may depends on for a parliamentary majority have issued a statement backingrvatives are and happy about the attacks last night. things could be fraught and that's perhaps why the government is unwilling to go down that particular road. she suggests things have to be donein road. she suggests things have to be done in this timescale because it needed to be linked to the attacks last week in douma. i suspect many mps will not think it sufficient simply for mrs may to come to parliament and said that the arguments we have just heard from her. thank you very much. let's get the reaction of sir vince cable, the leader of the liberal democrats, who is in our london newsroom. thank you very much for holding on to speak to us. would you like to give your reaction to the prime minister's press conference? first of all, just to acknowledge that british service personnel are involved and are at risk. i'm disappointed that the parliament mr —— the prime minister has not sought parliamentary approval. there has to bea parliamentary approval. there has to be a proper debat

but the leader of the dup in northern ireland arlene foster said he was not "an honest broker".y to engage in this kind of politics with arlene foster. i have never been aggressive from day one of this negotiation. there is no spread of revenge, no spread of punishment. let me repeat that i regret brexit. for many reasons. i am never aggressive. let's speak to tony connelly, the europe editor for rte in ireland. an important summer ‘s coming up in june. is arid and the insurmountable filler that could bring it all down? we keep coming back to this problem, christian, of the irish border. we thought there was a deal in december when there was a joint report between the eu and the uk on how to manage the problem of avoiding a ha rd manage the problem of avoiding a hard border. now that deal is going to have to be converted into the withdrawal treaty which is an international legally binding agreement and it was going to be in the form of a protocol and when the protocol was converted into legal language, the british government rejected it out of hand. brussels and the other member

dup and sinn fein have not been able to resolve their differences. to resolve their differences. over the last few minutes. hospital yesterday and she was taken to a secure location. to a secure location. strength was growing daily but we now know she has been discharged. now know she has been discharged. discharged from salisbury district hospital. hospital. from the hospital and from the services as well. services as well. hospital had been saying, she had been responding to treatment. been responding to treatment. involvement, which they have denied throughout. throughout. statement, we will bring it to you as soon as it happens. minutes, i wonder if you could give us your reaction to that news? great news. news. sergei skripal, healthier and out soon as well. soon as well. although we had been told previously she was speaking. she was speaking. great or help she can give a better and i'm delighted she is alive. and i'm delighted she is alive. for us this morning, what is your reaction? reaction? family has failed and they are recovering. recovering. chooses to do with a life ahead

she did need the support of the dup, to get big votes through parliament like the budget, potentiallyinitely. you've got russia and syria on one side, angela merkel, is she getting involved? the french getting involved? the french getting involved? if we do get involved, it should be under the european umbrella. that's what i think. not alone. i mean donald trump is pretty much a warmonger. he only communicates with people through tweets. i have to pause and their gill because it is the end of the programme, for no other reason. thank you sandra, thank you gill, really appreciated. palin says tensions are high and the situation in syria is horrifying yet i strongly believe all mps should be given the chance to debate the situation. bbc newsroom live is coming up next. we are in a rut at the moment, lots more misty murky conditions across the uk at the moment. this is the scene right now in east sussex, you canjust scene right now in east sussex, you can just about make out the cliffs. drizzly conditions in place as well, some sunshine towards the north of scotland, you'll see the suns

to discuss this i‘m joined by gavin long vincent from the dup.telligence that would lead you to the conclusion that such a decision was the right one to make and she is the one with the duty to protect the nation of national interests. some will say that this wasn‘t about our national interest, it was intervening in a horrible messy civil war and actually putting more missiles into that arena could cause even more destabilisation. we not only have national interests, internationally we adhere to the chemical weapons charters and the prohibition of such weapons, we must stand with the international community to say that what assad is doing to his civilian population be tolerated. you can't launch chemical weapons against your defenceless population. he did so in the douma, the country took a stand against it, with france and the us and the prime minister, in receipt of the evidence, was best placed to make the decision. what about the suggestion that mps should have been consulted first, that theresa may had plenty of time to recall parliament las

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