well, mary lou mcdonald has just us. how is the mood now? well, mary lou mcdonald hasjust been us. lou mcdonald has just been formally confirmed as the new president of sinn fein. she's speaking on the platform behind me and her speech is being punctured by pretty thunderous applause. this is her home city, she might not be particularly well known outside island but she has had a high—profile in the irish parliament since she was elected to its seven yea rs since she was elected to its seven years ago, and knows a prize that it is she who has taken over from gerry adams after 3a years, mr rudd is, the man who led the republican movement from violence to peace. mary lou mcdonald was the only person who put her name forward in this contest, and the membership here, about 2000 of them, have been enthusiastically endorsing her, as it is quite clear, as you can see. there has also been another leadership change in sinn fein this afternoon, mary mcdonald had been the vice president and so the new vice president is the party's leader north of the irish border, michelle o'neill. north of t

gerry adams has stepped down, and been replaced by mary lou mcdonald at a specially convened party conference enthusiastically endorsed the new leader, mary lou mcdonald, in her home city, she's the only person who put her name forward to succeed gerry adams as leader of sinn fein, no surprise that she has been installed as leader of the party, second biggest in northern ireland and the third biggest in the irish republic. now, gerry adams had the longest career of any major party leader in britain, or ireland, extremely divisive politician, he was a peacemaker to his supporters but he was at least an apologist for ira violence to his enemies, although he was never a member of that organisation himself. mary macdonald in her speech said that it was time forfresh macdonald in her speech said that it was time for fresh ideas and bold thinking. —— mary lou mcdonald. the ambition for the party is to be in government on both sides of the border, whether they get back into government in northern ireland will depend upon negotiations between sinn fein and the democratic unionist party at stormont, w

. —— for mary lou mcdonald.be able to build new relationships in a way that was more difficult for past generations of leaders with direct experience with the conflict in northern ireland. now to some action at the winter olympics — as sweden‘s charlotte kalla won the first gold medal of the games with victory in the women‘s skiathlon. after friday‘s opening ceremony, the action in pyeongchang got under way this saturday. the swede beat defending marit bjorgen by 7.8 seconds. it‘s a third olympic gold, after wins in diffrerent events in 2010 and 2014. but, bjorgen, the norwegian still became the most decorated female winter olympian of all time after that silver — now 11 medals in total. i was quite nervous today and the olympics is something i have focused on for a long, long time. itjust feels very great during the season but i know everyone wants to be in shape at the olympics. it was really exciting and fun to compete today. carlijn achtereekte made her olympic debut a golden one, leading a dutch podium swee

well there are significant challenges facing the party under the new leadership of mary lou mcdonald i think people here are quite positive but there's a new generation of leader her deputy michelle o'neill is just forty one mary lou mcdonald is forty nine an acknowledgement that they have to make more they have to make a breakthrough here in the republic of ireland passed working class voters to the wider electorate in the north they have to try to get the power sharing devolved government back on track it's been frozen for more than a year now but something got burned but non of their politicians will be varying from is a promise in the long term. if you're fighting for your thank you the one thing i found that is the demon barber there in the from both. iranians to celebrating their thirty ninth revolution day marking the return of a lot of halachah mainly from exile bashar of iran was removed from power and the slamming republic of iran was born but many iranians talk about the stomach revolution as though it never ended december savi has morphed into iran. the founder of the isla

mary lou mcdonald said she wa nts well. ember... i heard what mary lou mcdonald had to say earlier and the differences that exist between the dup and sinn fein are not insurmountable and we are hopeful that two parties can come together to an agreement this week, and the other parties. an inclusive executive involving as many parties as possible would be more sustainable and beneficial for northern ireland as a whole. in terms of what was agreed last december, between the eu and the uk, there is the protection and preservation of the common travel area, there is maintaining joint citizenship rights, the reciprocity of civic rights that i irish and british people to access housing, studying, education, it means retaining eu citizenship for people who were born here in northern ireland and agreements on things like peace funding. all that is bullet—proof. the tricky part isn't going to be how we deliver on the commitment to avoid a hard border, the agreement in december sets out three mechanisms as to how that can be done. it

has elected a new leader to replace gerry adams who announced he was stepping down in november mary lou mcdonald says she's committed to pushing for a united ireland but has not been reports now from dublin she has more immediate challenges mean taking over from a man she calls a political giant mary lou mcdonald paid tribute to gerry adams who became shin fein president when she was a teenager and he was instrumental in northern ireland's peace process that led to the good friday agreement two decades ago he has defined politics on the science for a generation or more and when others said it was impossible gerry and martin mcguinness along with john hume and others bravely walked the path to peace macdonald and out of his have been involved in talks on reconvening northern islands devolved government which broke down a year ago shin fein which shared power with the unionist do you once movement on issues such as irish language rights of the removed i mean really facing us. the war is not over there is no matter your anger and anguish and again we don't have to agree on the past the reason you'r

after more than 3a years in the post, he will be replaced by mary lou mcdonald at a specially convenednd correspondent chris page reports. mary lou mcdonald is said to be the new leader of irish republicanism. her party is the second—biggest in northern ireland and third largest in the republic of ireland. sinn fein wants to be in government in stormont and dublin believes that will help towards the ultimate goal of irish unity. at the years, republicans tried to achieve that through bombs and bullets with sinn fein being seen as the political wing of the ira. gerry adams always denied being in the paramilitary organisation but security sources believe he was a senior ira man. during more than three decades of sinn fein president, he led the republican movement away from violence and into the peace process. mary lou mcdonald is a very different background. she in an affluent suburb of dublin and has no direct experience of the northern ireland conflict were not particularly well known outside ireland, she has had a leading role in the irish parliament for several yea rs in the irish pa

well no i think everyone's expecting some sort of a change mary lou mcdonald herself said she grew up watching gerry adams on television she says she won't fill his shoes but she's brought her over and a lot of people are making a lot of comments about not only the fact that her deputy the new deputy leader of the party will be michelle and neal who leads the party in the in northern ireland at the moment but the fact that they do represent a younger generation marilou mcdonald is forty eight compared with gerry adams who's sixteen oil there are a lot of young people in the audience here today but there are real challenges in northern ireland getting the power sharing structures back on track after a least a year of them being frozen and in the republic of ireland there have been problems internally thank you thank you so much you've made very much the move is expected to stick to one thing and that will be the push for a united ireland she's not saying that it will happen soon but it so the hearts of everything on both sides of the border the parking lot was right. there for now the

the president of sinn fein, mary lou mcdonald, accused the government of having no plan for restoring political stalemate, but the dup‘s arlene foster said the time had now come for ministers at westminster to set a budget and make decisions about public spending. i believe, whether intentionally or not, theresa may is actually facilitating the dup blocking advancement and resolution on these core issues. we're concerned about the fact that we have this instability, that we don't have proper governance in northern ireland and it's incumbent upon the uk government to come forward and to fill that gap. 0ur ireland correspondent, chris page, is at stormont. where do we stand after today's talks, chris? well, huw, the parties at the centre of the stormont stalemate have continued to trade blows even on the other side of the irish sea. sinn fein's criticism of the government was particularly strong, i thought. the government was particularly strong, ithought. this the government was particularly strong, i thought. this was mary lou mcdonald's first trip to london since she took over from g

mary lou mcdonald has become the new leader of the irish nationalist political party shin fein but donald takes over from the controversial politician gerry adams who led the party for thirty four years. is in dublin. well gerry adams was here but he didn't address the crowd of several thousand shin fein officials and members mary lou mcdonald certainly did and she started out stressing that she's continuing in the footsteps of gerry adams under late martin mcguinness who were she said did so much for the island of violence bringing about the peace process but also so much for the party getting into the into the power sharing government in northern ireland and making the third largest group in the republic of ireland in the dialogue parliament she had a warning for the british government that there should be no hard border after breaks out something that still a large vote of contention in those negotiations with brussels she committed sin fein to work for social justice but at the same time she acknowledged that there were several challenges one of them is to get that power sharing devol

so distant future when martin mcguinness was buried gerry adams carried his coffin so too did mary lou mcdonald who officially becomes shin feigns new leader on saturday her challenge now is to broaden the party's appeal to a younger generation that never knew the troubles nadine barber al-jazeera dublin. the soviet union put the first satellite the first man and the first woman into space the russian are seven rockets that launched the first satellite a still servicing the international space station but with this week's space x. launch russia fears losing its commercial edge in the modern space race challenge now from moscow. the pitches and the achievement amazed millions of people who are around the world but space x. is falcon heavy rocket launch with its gracefully landing boosters didn't seem to impress russia's state space agency roscoe's most they dismissed it as little more than a p.r. stunt for either on musk's tesla electric cars if you have noticed ross cosmo said on a russian radio station this launch went up not with some empty dummy or a load which he wouldn't regret losing in a

democratic ownership and control of our services and utilities. of their public services. as mary lou mcdonaldr the party to embrace fresh thinking and bold ideas. a referendum on irish unity. president for talks, at the "earliest date possible". who's visiting the south for the winter olympics. and ballistic missile programme. laura bicker‘s report now, contains some flash photography. this is no ordinary messenger. is the first of her family to set foot on south korean soil. as the two sides take their seats, the cameras spot a blue folder. and for the two leaders to meet. kim jong—un‘s younger sister's not used to this spotlight. she's usually behind the scenes as pyongyang's pr queen. on this occasion, she is the perfect charmer for this charm offensive. it's typical of north korea to do this sort of thing. and they're also trying to control the message between the two. of advances from north korea. for tougher sanctions on the regime. with a diplomatic breakthrough they never thought possible. but it also presents serious challenges. under what kind of preconditions? to the north, he risk

name baba now in dublin the crowd literally dispersing behind him events just finished what did mary lou mcdonald have to say. will come out you'll forgive me if i have trouble hearing you eventually just write talk after a speech by mary lou mcdonald's in which she paid tribute to have created says that gerry adams as well as martin mcguinness who died a year ago saying that they led the island of violence towards peace and the poets engine fame towards great things both north and south of the boat she's been committing her party to act for social justice she said that they need to do more to reach out to move middle class voters in both on both sides of the border she's also wounds the british government that there must be no hard border which would jeopardize the whole peace process which gerry adams was crucial to in the ninety ninety s. . at the same time and she's been outlining some of the challenges that she admits the parties facing which are numerous come out. i'll leave you then a dame i'm not even sure you can hear me saying goodbye but thank you very much that live update from dublin

after more than 3a years in the post, he will be replaced by mary lou mcdonald at a specially convened challenge will be in northern ireland, where talks to restore the devolved government are due to conclude next week. mary lou mcdonald is set to be the new leader of of irish republicanism. her party is the second—biggest in the northern ireland, and third largest in the republic of ireland. sinn fein wants to be in power at stormont and in dublin. four—year is, they try to achieve the union threw bombs and bullets, seem to be the political wing of the ira. mr adams has always denied being in the organisation, but security forces believe that he was. he then led the republican movement into the peace process. marylou mcdonald is from a very different background, she grew up very different background, she grew up in an affluent suburb of dublin, and has no direct experience of the northern ireland conflict. although not particularly well known in the —— outside of ireland, she has become known for her robust performances. she has already indicated that she will do things her way. i wou

mary lou mcdonald is set to become the new leader of the irish nationalist public republican party shin fein. with donald will take over from the controversial politician gerry adams who let the party for thirty four years adams and now it's his intention to quit in november. votes have been counted in most peaceful election for decades it's the first vote since electoral laws changed allowing a record number of women to campaign for seats in local government. and thousands of anti fascist demonstrators have rallied in the italian city of much errata where six africans were shot last saturday schools and shops were closed and public transport suspended over fears that the march could trigger violence last week a far right sympathizer was arrested on suspicion of carrying out a drive by shooting in which six africans were injured. coming out next al-jazeera world has the story of a young somali refugee trying to find his place in donald trump's america i'll be back after that in about twenty five minutes time i'll see you then bye for now. in asian. countries. the. free stuff. i. have be

is elected a new leader to replace gerry adams the announced he was stepping down in november mary lou mcdonald says he's committed to pushing for united ireland dignity and barbara paul she has more immediate challenges. taking over from a man she calls a political giant mary lou mcdonald paid tribute to gerry adams who became shin fein president when she was a teenager and he was instrumental in northern ireland's peace process that led to the good friday agreement two decades ago he has defined politics on this side and for a generation or more and when other said it was impossible gerry and mark mcinnes along with john hume and others bravely walked the path to peace macdonald and out of his have been involved in talks on reconvening northern islands devolved government which broke down a year ago shin fein which shared power with the unionists do you once movement on issues such as irish language rights. i mean really facing us as the war is was over there is no my hurrying we don't have to agree on the past the reason i'm seeing the historical matters. we will see how we agree that the pa

so distant future when martin mcguinness was buried gerry adams carried his coffin so too did mary lou mcdonald who officially becomes shinn feigns new leader on saturday her challenge now is to broaden the party's appeal to a younger generation that never knew the troubles the barber al-jazeera dublin to people have been killed and dozens injured after two bombs were detonated during friday prayers at a mosque in the libyan city of benghazi officials say both devices were planted in separate rooms inside two weeks ago around thirty five people were killed by twin bombs at a mosque in the same city. egyptian state media says the country's security readiness has been raised to its highest level after the military launched an operation against armed groups the sinai peninsula president of the fact that has sisi told the army to use brute force to restore security after an attack on a mosque in november which killed more than three hundred people shops and schools in north sinai are closed until further notice how does iraq continues to call for the release of its journalist who's been jailed in e

after more than 3a years in the post, he will be replaced by mary lou mcdonald at a specially convenedpondent, chris page reports. it says the scheme that is currently volu nta ry it says the scheme that is currently voluntary and regulated by the eu helps customers understand what is in the food they buy. the public health says that they are committed to giving clear information about what they eat. those are the main stories this morning. now it has urged that the two surviving members, el shafee elsheikh and alexanda kotey have been captured. his daughter bethany has spoken to the bbc about the punishment that she hopes the bbc will face. people say that you learn to get over it, but you never get over it, and you just learn to deal with the motions that are playing in your head every day. my personal opinion is that they should die a long, slow, painful death. ithink a lot of people will understand that, that they should not be allowed to live. the best thing for them is to be locked up and throw away the key. they should never be allowed back into society, because they willjust re

gerry adams‘ 34—year leadership of sinn fein came to an on saturday, as mary lou mcdonald formally tookbold ideas. she also said she wants to secure, and win, a referendum on irish unity. major retailers in the uk are being urged to protect shoppers from an itunes gift card scam, which is conning victims out of thousands of pounds. hm revenue and customs says elderly and vulnerable people are being targeted, as our business correspondent, joe lynam, explains. they acquire the contact details, usually for elderly people, call them up saying that "you have a huge tax bill outstanding" and that if they do not pay it immediately, that they will contact the police, the fraudsters say they will contact the police, or seize their personal assets. and so they say, "right, you can pay straightaway if you go down to your retailer, buy these itunes vouchers with your own money, and then call out the number, the 16—digit number that you scratch off on the back of these cards," over the phone to us. you will say, "how does that work?" well, that number can buy a lot of stuff over the itunes system.

so these issues are not going to go away, myself and mary lou mcdonald are engaged with both governmentse arrival of the british foreign minister on monday?” arrival of the british foreign minister on monday? i can only speculate as to that but i am clear that we had an accommodation with the dup on the issues and the dup leadership failed to close, accommodation. do you believe you had a stand—alone irish language act # the issues are well rehearsed, we need to see a stand—alone irish language act, all the issues. what we're asking for is reasonable, rights for all citizens, good government, equality and respect, integrity and government. that is what we set out to achieve and what we believed we had an accommodation on and the dup leadership has failed to close accommodation. yesterday it was said there would be no freestanding irish language act. did you think it had already been signed off on? well the dup, if they chose to call it something else, what we had was an accommodation on all the issues which are well known to everyone. myself and mary lou mcdonald are speaking with both g

mary lou mcdonald has become the new leader of the irish nationalist political politician fame adonal takes over from the controversial politician gerry adams who led the party for thirty four years but there isn't up and. gerry adams was here but he didn't address the crowd of several thousand shin fein officials and members mary lou mcdonald certainly did and she started out stressing that she is continuing in the footsteps of gerry adams and the late martin mcguinness who were she said did so much for the island of violence bringing about the peace process but also so much for the party getting into the into the power sharing government in northern ireland making the third largest group here in the republic of ireland in the parliament she had a warning for the british government that there should be no pause boda after breakfast not something that still a large vote of contention in those negotiations with brussels she committed sin fein to work for social justice but at the same time she acknowledged that there were several challenges one of them is to get that power sharing devo

welcome back to dublin where i'm speaking to mary lou mcdonald then you'll be elected president of shared fame how does she find the key to taking shouldn't fame and to paula and the public of ireland. thirty years troubles twenty years of peace but of course. that process which some people believe is a fundamental danger to the peace process how do you evaluate. braggs is the good friday agreement are mutually incompatible you cannot have brags that you cannot have a forcing of the north of ireland out of the european union on the one hand and still claim to honor in word and spares and lasher the good friday agreement is in our view a stark as the us and i listened to theresa may and i listened to others from the english tories saying. don't worry about the border in ireland ireland will be fine on the one hand and then insisting that britain will leave the customs union leave to single marcus and so on and of course the reality is that those two positions are completely at odds with each other i think the tories have played a very dangerous game no way can are in and are sure darren an

gerry adams‘ 34—year leadership of sinn fein came to an on saturday, as mary lou mcdonald formally tooksh thinking and bold ideas. she also said she wants to secure, and win, a referendum on irish unity. new migration restrictions have led to long queues on colombia‘s border with venezuela. the main bridge between the two countries has been opening and closing intermittently since the colombian president, juan manuel santos, announced tighter rules for venezuela ns entering the country. more than 40,000 people have already left crisis—hit venezuela. thousands are expected to either stay or travel on to other countries in south america. the us vice president says there‘s no daylight between the us, south korea and japan on the need to isolate north korea, until it abandons its nuclear programme. mike pence was speaking on his way home from the winter olympics, where the sister of the north korean leader, kimjong—un, delivered an invitation to south korea‘s president to visit pyongyang for talks. now to the action at the winter olympics in pyeongchang, and some of the achievements on the

gerry adams‘ 34—year tenure as leader of sinn fein has come to an end, as mary lou mcdonald formally delegates in dublin it was time for the party to embrace fresh thinking and bold ideas. she also said she wanted to secure and win a referendum on irish unity. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn says that returning britain's energy system to public ownership is the best way of going green. speaking at a conference outlining labour's alternative models of ownership, mr corbyn said labour needs to take a radical approach to battling climate change. in 1945 we elected a labour government to take control of the country that was ravaged by six yea rs of country that was ravaged by six years of war. clement attlee's labour government knew that the only way to rebuild our economy was through a decisive return to collective action. necessary action to help avert the climate catastrophe requires us to be at least as radical as that government was, if not more. tackling global warming won't be achieved by warm words. the headlines on bbc news. the haitian ambassador tells the bbc his government wan

gerry adams' 34—year leadership of sinn fein came to an end today, as mary lou mcdonald formally took was time for the party to embrace fresh thinking and bold ideas. she also said she wants to secure, and win, a referendum on irish unity. the north korean leader kimjong—un, has invited the south korean president for talks at the "earliest date possible." the invitation was given by kim jong—un‘s sister, who's visiting the south for the winter olympics. as he left the games, the us vice president mike pence, insisted washington and seoul, were united in their desire to isolate the north, because of pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programme. laura bicker‘s report contains some flash photography. this is no ordinary messenger. kim yo—jong, the sister of the north korean leader, is the first of her family to set foot on south korean soil. as the two sides take their seats, the cameras spot a blue folder. within it, a handwritten invitation to travel north and for the two leaders to meet. kim jong—un‘s younger sister's not used to this spotlight. she's usually behind the scenes

gerry adams‘ 34—year leadership of sinn fein came to an end today, as mary lou mcdonald formally tookh as leader, she told delegates in dublin it was time for the party to embrace fresh thinking and bold ideas. she also said she wants to secure and win a referendum on irish unity. a five—year—old boy has died after being swept more than four into a river in northern ireland. a major search was launched after the child fell into the braid river near skye park in ballymena this afternoon. the boy, who hasn‘t been named, was dragged out more than 45 minutes later. police say he died in hospital. the father of an 11—year—old schoolgirl who was stabbed in wolverhampton yesterday says he is "utterly devastated" by her death. jasmine forrester‘s father simeon said she "was a shining star and a huge part of us". detectives are questioning a 51—year—old relative on suspicion of murder. the north korean leader kimjong—un has invited the south korean president to visit him at the earliest date possible. the invitation was given by kim jong—un‘s sister, who‘s visiting the south for the winter oly

held a majority of parliamentary seats across the island of ireland last weekend they elected mary lou mcdonald as president of shaun finn she is the first shannon fame leader not to be associated with the struggle so could once again shouldn't fame be challenging for power across the island of ireland until the easter rising of one thousand sixteen shin fein had little success when all was changed and changed utterly by the oppressive british response to the rising sinn fein started to win by elections and then the one nine hundred eighteen u.k. general election swept ireland in a landslide victory only in the six counties which were to form northern ireland and unionism still hold sway after the establishment by treaty of their ideas for the state and the civil war which followed shin fein effect to the split into the two parties which were to dominate the politics of violent for the rest of the century one party which became feel a gale came from the pro treaty wing of nationalism led by michael collins and the republican field a foil party of him and the really low. meanwhile shin fein was

public figures in northern ireland is retiring in fein leader gerry adams is being replaced by mary lou mcdonald he was considered the spokesman for the irish republican army in its thirty year was when british rule of northern ireland since then these played a pivotal part in the peace process those are your headlines the news continues after upfront stay with us here announcer zero. after you. he's been called one of the most wanted political fugitives of twenty nine team that's former georgian president mikheil saakashvili faces possible extradition to his home country from his new country ukraine i'll ask him if he's prepared for life behind bars and later i'll talk to the somali refugee turned u.s. politician about life in trump's america. really thanks for joining me up front you were twice as president of georgia and govern there for nine years and yet you're now a wanted man in georgia you've gone from president to fugitive how does it feel. i mean i finished my presidential. record well we you know georgia has been the most. transformation case in this part of the world but then we had

after more than 3a years in the post, he will be replaced by mary lou mcdonald at a specially convened0ur ireland correspondent chris page is in dublin. chris, a change of leadership — are we going to see a change of approach? well, that is a very interesting question. marylou mcdonald is getting something of a rock star welcome here, the singer ryan sheridan is onstage here at sinn fein‘s special conference in dublin. party members are not here for the music, is now hearfurther politics and no matter what people's opinions of sinn fein, this is an important moment in that sense, gerry adams are standing down after 34 gerry adams are standing down after 3a years, gerry adams are standing down after 3a yea rs, after gerry adams are standing down after 3a years, after one of the longest and most could have a show political careers in britain or ireland, leading the republican movement away from violence and into the peace process and in that time shivering has become the second—largest party in northern ireland and the third largest party in the irish republic. —— sinn fein has become...

held a majority a parliamentary seats across the island of ireland last weekend they elected mary lou mcdonald as president of shane finn she is the first shannon fame leader not to be associated with the struggle so could once again shared fame be challenging for power across the island of ireland until the easter rising of one thousand sixteen shin fein had little success when all was changed and changed utterly by the oppressive british response to the rising sinn fein started to win by elections and then the one nine hundred eighteen u.k. the general election swept ireland in a landslide victory only in the six counties which were to form northern ireland and unionism still hold sway after the establishment by treaty of their ideas for the state and the civil war which followed should feel effect to the split into the two parties which were to dominate the politics of ireland for the rest of the century one party which became feeling guilt came from the pro treaty wing of nationalism led by michael collins and the public can feel a foil party of him and the really low. meanwhile shin fein

has elected a new leader to replace gerry adams who announced he was stepping down in november mary lou mcdonald says she's committed to pushing for a united ireland those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after upfront also use a bubble. al jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world and all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. he's been called one of the most wanted political fugitives of twenty nine team and former georgian president mikheil saakashvili faces possible extradition to his home country from his new country ukraine i'll ask him if he's prepared for life behind bars and later i'll talk to the somali refugee turned u.s. politician about life in trump's america. really thanks for joining me up front you were twice as president of georgia and governor for nine years and yet you're now a wanted man in georgia you've gone from president to fugitive how does it feel. i mean i've finished my preside

held a majority a parliamentary seats across the island of ireland last weekend they elected mary lou mcdonald as president of sion fair in she is the first shannon fame leader not to be associated with the struggle so could once again shouldn't fame be challenging for power across the island of ireland until the easter rising of one thousand sixteen shin fein had little success when all was changed and changed utterly by the oppressive british response to the rising sinn fein started to win by elections and then the one nine hundred eighteen u.k. the general election swept ireland in a landslide victory only in the six counties which were to form northern ireland and unionism still hold sway after the establishment by treaty of their ideas for the state and the civil war which followed should feel effect to the split into the two parties which were to dominate the politics of ireland for the rest of the century one party which became feel a gale came from the pro treaty wing of nationalism led by michael collins and the public can feel a foil party of him and the really low. meanwhile shin fe

at the weekend, the new sinn fein leader, mary lou mcdonald, indicated that some sort of deal might beay now be the case. the prime minister was last in northern ireland in the election campaign and has been criticised for what some described as a hands off approach to restoring the power—sharing executive. today's visit is a clear indication that progress has been made. the prime nest is meeting the parties at stormont, the home of the assembly along with the irish premier. the speculation is the deal to restore the power—sharing assembly may include a workaround to resolve the issue of the official status of the irish language, which has been a better source of division between the dup and sinn fein. the bitter source. restoring the power—sharing executive would come ata power—sharing executive would come at a crucial time for northern ireland as it faces another huge issue, brexit and the irish border. the irish comment wants further guarantees that there will be no ha rd guarantees that there will be no hard border. theresa may has given those guarantees but as yet, no clear plans

mary lou mcdonald is set to become the new leader of the irish nationalists political party should same but donna will take over from the controversial politician gerry adams who led the party for thirty four years adams announced his intention to quit the will in november in a move that passes the leadership to a new generation of seven should favor them. that mexico is in the grip of a war on drug gangs acapulco was once a sought after holiday destination now though it has the highest murder rate in the world despite the best efforts of police and aid groups it seems as if the social fabric by becoming undone from acapulco john holeman reports. the shadow of death has lain across a couple of years the full maturity is one of the highest murder rates in the world and behind the military patrols police sirens and daily crime scenes live a townspeople struggling with fear and grief knowing my in the first of last year francisco's wife was caught in the midst of a gang shootout and killed now he's raising their food children alone we hid his identity speaking out here is dangerous which o

taking over from a man she calls a political giant mary lou mcdonald paid tribute to gerry adams who became shin fein president when she was a teenager and he was instrumental in northern ireland's peace process that led to the good friday agreement two decades ago he has defined politics on this side and for a generation or more and when other said it was impossible gerry and mark mcinnes along with john hume and others bravely walked the path to peace macdonald and out of his have been involved in talks on reconvening northern islands devolved government which broke down a year ago shin fein which shared power with the unionist do you wants movement on issues such as irish language rights elite i mean really facing us as the war is not over there is no my hunger and gazing at me. we don't have to agree on the past the reason you're seeing other historical narratives. we will see how we agree that the past is never again he says other things we can agree to disagree like mcdonald the party's new deputy leader michel o'neill represents a younger generation of activists hoping to get

so distant future when martin mcguinness was buried gerry adams carried his coffin so too did mary lou mcdonald who officially becomes shin feigns new leader on saturday her challenge now is to broaden the party's appeal to a younger generation that never knew the troubles the al-jazeera doubling. the amount of the top stories are not just here an israeli war planes crashed after an iranian drone was shot down near the border with syria both f. sixteen pilots ejected and parachuted safely into northern israel syria says it was responding to what it called an israeli act of aggression the israeli military says it's now struck twelve iranian targets including and defense system imran khan has more than western lucilla. the israelis are squarely blaming the iranians for this they have gone off what they say are iranian targets inside of syria they say they destroyed a command and control center for the unmanned aerial vehicle the drawings that flew over. really taking a look at where what they should do next now we are hearing that a cabinet meeting the government is going to formulate a cabinet m

mary lou mcdonnell says she's committed to pushing for a united ireland but isn't a report some double and she has more immediate challenge is. taking over from a man she calls a political giant mary lou mcdonald paid tribute to gerry adams who became should inform president when she was a teenager and he was instrumental in northern ireland's peace process that led to the good friday agreement two decades ago he has defined politics on this side and for a generation or more and when others said it was impossible jerry and martin mcguinness along with john hume and others bravely walked the path to peace macdonald and out of his have been involved in talks on reconvening northern islands devolved government which broke down a year ago shin fein which said power with the union is due you once movement on issues such as irish language rights. i mean really facing us. the war is not over there is no matter your anger anything we don't have to agree on the past three years no single historical narrative. we will see how he and really it is never again when he says i think we can agree to disagree like mcdonald the party's new deputy leader michel o'neill represents a younger generation of activist

the president of sinn fein, mary lou mcdonald, said the parties had reached a draft agreement, but the have to say that michelle and i and our entire team were very straightforward with the dup. we put our cards on the table. we said that a decision needed to be made and it is at that juncture that the a decision needed to be made and it is at thatjuncture that the dup faltered. at no stage where we given the impression, much less the information, that there was a deep problem within the dup. in all fairness to us, we are not mind readers. we don't have special insights into the hearts and minds of the dup officer board. we understood that party officers had been informed. that different briefings were going on. and we understood, above all else, that we had a deal. sinn fein's statement. sinn fein giving their response to the collapse of the toxin storm at yesterday and suggesting that there might bea yesterday and suggesting that there might be a way back to resume some of the talks, but clearly very angry as they believes the dup caused the colla pse to as they believes the dup caus

sinn fein leader mary lou mcdonald has again warned direct rule is not an option for northern irelandevolved government 13 months after it collapsed but instead was updating mps about the collapse of those negotiations between the dup in sinn fein. that has meant she had major decisions to make. the civil serva nts major decisions to make. the civil servants have effectively been running the stormont departments for a yearand running the stormont departments for a year and they have said they need a year and they have said they need a budget for the next financial year just a few weeks from now. she indicated that she did intend to bring forward a budget for northern ireland in westminster. things in northern ireland cannot simply remain in a state of limbo. a number of challenging decisions will have to be taken. ultimately the government has responsibility to ensure good governance and the continued delivery of public services. in particular as the head of the northern ireland civil service has made clear, there needs to be certainty and clarity about a budget for northern ireland f

so distant future when martin mcguinness was buried gerry adams carried his coffin so too did mary lou mcdonald who officially becomes shin feigns new leader on saturday her challenge now is to broaden the party's appeal to a younger generation that never knew the troubles nadine barber al-jazeera dublin. well still ahead here all the al-jazeera news breaking barriers in sri lanka is a record number of female candidates campaigning for seats in upcoming elections plus. brazil but not in rio for the country's most traditional carnival plus. i'm pouring in sweden where five hundred years of history could be on the side of the swedes as they continue their battle against norway and the winter olympics. from dusky sunsets if it's pruning savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis i once again the weather looks logic watch across a good part of central and southern china temperatures in hong kong at around twenty two degrees so while the west the weather though pushing up towards the southwest and some snow on the northern edge of fact that will get pushed a little further south which is we go th