as you can see, my colleagues here waiting for the vice president of sinn fein, michelle o'neill, president and internationally. ltufe who most focus will be on nationally and internationally.— and internationally. we are all still digestive _ and internationally. we are all still digestive in _ and internationally. we are all still digestive in it, _ and internationally. we are all still digestive in it, we - and internationally. we are all still digestive in it, we will. and internationally. we are all. still digestive in it, we will have to see the detail, but does it seem to see the detail, but does it seem to you rishi sunak has got is markedly different from his predecessors, in terms of concessions from the eu? what is the thought process and speculation on why it is? is it because of the personalities involved in the top of uk politics, ukraine effect, the passing of time? i uk politics, ukraine effect, the passing of time?— passing of time? i think is the sha te passing of time? i think is the sha -e of passing of time? i think is the shape of this _ passing of time? i think is the

sinn fein's vice president, michelle o'neill , it president, michelle o'neill, it as an attack on the entire community. i think it's important that we continue to send a united message to wider society. we this year celebrate 25 years of our good friday agreement and so much that's been achieved over those past 25 years. our society has been completely transformed and we're not going to allow anybody to reverse any of that progress that's made. that's why that's been made. so that's why it's important that we do it's very important that we do put across today. but this isn't attack on the community, this is an attack on all of us and this is attack none of us is an attack that none of us will tolerate. junior will ever tolerate. junior doctors are to stage three days of strike action next month. the british medical association has announced. they'll have their doctors job from doctors walk off the job from the of march. nearly 37,000 the 13th of march. nearly 37,000 bma members voted in favour of industrial action. that's the largest ever turnout for a ballot of doctors. and it follow

sinn fein's vice president, michelle o'neill , it president, michelle o'neill, it as an attack on the entire community. i think it's important that we continue to send a united message to wider society. we this year celebrate 25 years of our good friday agreement and so much that's been achieved over those past 25 years. our society has been completely transformed and we're not going to allow anybody to reverse any of that progress that's made. so why that's been made. so that's why it's important that we do it's very important that we do put across today. but this isn't attack on the community, this is an attack on all of us and this is attack that none of is an attack that none of us will tolerate. junior will ever tolerate. junior doctors are to stage three days of strike action next month. the british medical association has announced. they'll have their doctors job from doctors walk off the job from the 13th of march. nearly 37,000 bma members voted in favour of industrial action. that's the largest ever turnout for a ballot of doctors. and it follows a strike by nurses and ambul

one is they do not have with michelle have to sit with michelle o'neill fein as the o'neill of sinn feine first minister and believe you me that it was visser with great many of the debate the fact that that jeffrey donaldson or whoever deputy to a whoever would be the deputy to a sinn michelle o'neill that really really hurts. the other thing is karl marx got virtually everything wrong in my opinion, but one he did get right but one thing he did get right was when he talked about human behaviour being explicable in terms economic imperatives. terms of economic imperatives. what's to happen ? a what's going to happen? a backlash in northern ireland the moment from the i've spoken to the ulster farmers union, i spoke to many of traders spoke to many of the traders groups. you they are groups. you know, they are absolutely with the fact absolutely livid with the fact that can't export that you can't export a cookstown sausage the cookstown sausage across the border. cannot border. fact that you cannot trade, know , properly with trade, you know, properly with the rest of europe and you hav

speaking in belfast, sinn fein vice president michelle o'neill welcomed the deal. >> what i've said haven left in limbo, left with uncertainty. i'm hoping today because we are at the end negotiations, that all focus at he -- amy: the u.s. marshals service has launched a new initiative to investigate missing and murdered indigenous persons. according to the bureau of indian affairs, there are more than 4200 unsolved cases of missing native americans. under a new pilot program, the u.s. marshals service will team up with the yurok tribe in northern california to help address the crisis. and this week marks 50 years since the start of the american indian movement's 71-day occupation of the village of wounded knee on the pine ridge indian reservation. the occupation helped draw international attention to the plight of indigenous people within the borders of the united states. the u.s. government responded to the occupation with a full military siege that included armored personnel carriers, f-4 phantom jets, u.s. marshals, fbi, state and local law enforcement. during the occupation, two siou

sinn fein is there now with the pm, mary lou mcdonald, the leader of sinn fein, and michelle o'neillt michelle o'neill, the first minister, and winning both entered here about 20 minutes ago. they're meeting will be over very shortly and then we are expecting in the dup now of course dup have to buy into deal course dup have to buy into deal. unionists do not the protocol they have never liked . protocol they have never liked. it says that it takes them away from the uk. it takes this part of the uk away , even making laws of the uk away, even making laws and under the laws of the uk. 70% of the goods that are sold and northern ireland are through the uk and vice versa . nearly the uk and vice versa. nearly 20% anywhere from 12 to 20% of the food that is in the uk comes from northern ireland. so there's quite a big relationship there's quite a big relationship there between the uk and northern ireland and that is being broken by the protocol today. being broken by the protocol today . these talks and tend to today. these talks and tend to try and straighten that out and get the gover

sinn fein's vice president, michelle o'neill, described it as an attack on the entire community.t is so important in moments like this , we stand united and like this, we stand united and we do stand here united as one voice and our condemnation against this horrific attack on against this horrific attack on a police officer, someone who is part of our community. and i think that the most powerful message that we as political can stand can do is to stand with the chief constable today and stand with the police service and say is not good and to say this is not good enough, is an attack all enough, this is an attack on all of us. is an attack on our of us. this is an attack on our community. humza yousaf kate forbes and ash regan have advance to the next round . the advance to the next round. the contest to succeed nicola sturgeon as first minister and snp . the candidates will now hit snp. the candidates will now hit the campaign trail to persuade members can lead the party and the country. the ballot will open march 13th, with the winner announced on the 27th of the same month .

sinn fein's vice president, michelle o'neill, said today it was an attack on the entire community. think it's important that we continue to send a united message to wider society. we this year celebrate 25 years of our good friday agreement and so much that's been achieved over those past 25 years. our society has been completely transformed and we're not going to allow anybody to reverse any of that progress that's made. so that's that's been made. so that's why it's very that we do it's very important that we do put today. this an put across today. this is an attack on the community. this is an attack on all of us. and this is attack that none us is an attack that none of us will tolerate. junior will ever tolerate. junior doctors are to stage three days of strike action next month. the british medical association has announced a walk off the job from the 13th of march. nearly 37,000 bma members voted in favour of industrial action. that's the largest ever turnout for a ballot of doctors . and it for a ballot of doctors. and it follows a series of strikes by nurses and ambulance

here at about to 12, he came through , met to 12, he came through, met michelle o'neill, the minute firstnn fein and a bit of a press call it rained the great hall here before the mlas made their way into the chamber to vote to try and elect a speaker the speaker. of course the dup and unionism very opposed to the protocol , saying opposed to the protocol, saying as soon as a speaker is elected, well then the government is then put in place and there's no way of putting it back down. this legislation was passed by of the parties here. it must be said before the collapse of this government, and it couldn't be put through the books quick enough. put through the books quick enough . it was brought down. enough. it was brought down. robin swann, the former health minister, an ulster unionist member, said it was one of his proudest achievements was that piece of legislation and he wanted it to go . we had people wanted it to go. we had people like naomi long of the alliance party saying this was the time and this was the place for this. but the dup who have gathered ground in the polls the las

and this is sinn fein vice president michelle o'neill, who paid tribute "to the huge strides she hasr scottish independence." in the us, we've heard from former house speaker nancy pelosi, who said ms sturgeon "has earned respect and admiration from all over the globe for her strong, values—driven leadership," but at home, ms sturgeon has become something there's been plenty of reaction from within the first minister's own party as well. this is from the official snp twitter account. stewart mcdonald, mp for glasgow south called nicola sturgeon "the finest public servant of the devolution age". and we've also heard from the opposition. douglas ross, leader of the scottish conservatives, said nicola sturgeon had �*presided over a decade of division and decay�* — he's faced some criticism for that statement. and this is the former leader of the scottish conservatives — ruth davidson. we probably had more disagreements with nicola sturgeon than anyone else. more public ones. it doesn't mean i don't have an appreciation of the effort level that has been putting to not wish her well and w

sinn fein's vice president, michelle o'neill it as an attack on. the entire community. to send a united message to , wider send a united message to, wider society. we this year, celebrate 25 years of our good friday agreement and so much that's been achieved over past 25 years. our society has been completely transformed and we're not going to allow anybody to reverse any of that progress that's been made. so that's why it's important that we put it's very important that we put across this an attack across today. this is an attack on the community. this is an attack and this is an attack on all us. and this is an attack on all us. and this is an attack none of us will ever attack that none of us will ever tolerate. junior doctors will stage three days of strike action next month. the british association has announced. walk off the job from the 13th of march. nearly 37,000 bma members voted favour of industrial action. that's the largest ever turnout a ballot of doctors. and it follows a series of strikes by nurses, ambulance workers . by nurses, ambulance workers. the p

michelle o'neill is in the wings where he becomes first minister. jeffrey donaldson. he said last week. big moment . donaldson. he said last week. big moment. this donaldson. he said last week. big moment . this is a big moment big moment. this is a big moment for his leadership. he can't mess this up if rishi sunak has bounced or about to bounce to democratic unionist party. i think that could be a very dangerous court and i think it will be. it should be ought to be inconceivable that mr. sunak could bring forward any deal without being absolutely that the democratic unionist is going to back it. and we have evidence and no confirmation that there has been in—depth negotiations policy with jeffrey donaldson and his and his aides on this whole issue. so it could be a very dangerous for rishi sunak and for jeffrey donaldson . okay. and for jeffrey donaldson. okay. look, both of you, what i'm going to do is now just ask you quite a short. we're awaiting the start of this press conference. another angle i want to get stuck into this with my next guest

but it's so important there to see michelle o'neill leadership fighting shoulder shoulder with the shoulder to shoulder with the other political leaders. yes. and know , my background and you know, my own background is deep roots in the nationalist catholic communities. but the great thing now is that there is there is a consensus surround there is a consensus surround the fragile peace . yeah, there the fragile peace. yeah, there are processes that came out of the belfast agreement, which are what worth fighting for. and you today is very, very encouraging . absolutely. and we really wish detective chief inspector . well, detective chief inspector. well, terribly shocking for his son to have to witness at the start. we shot multiple times . there have shot multiple times. there have been four men have been arrested . so the best of luck with that. police investigation. now, of course, it's a year ago today that russia invaded ukraine in a major escalation of the conflict , which began in 2014, when russia annexed parts of the crimea . the putin thought it crimea. the putin thought it would

they're going to have into stormont under have to go into stormont under michelle with a sinn michelle o'neillnn fein first minister and just remind the problem remind people the problem is northern adjoins northern ireland adjoins ireland, which is still part of the union. so goods going backwards and forwards need to covered by the eu. but the problem at the moment, goods going from britain to northern ireland, still a the eu ireland, there is still a the eu say they've cut a lot of the checks. there is still 20% of goods going into northern ireland subjected goods going into northern irecustoms subjected goods going into northern irecustoms checks subjected goods going into northern irecustoms checks . subjected goods going into northern irecustoms checks . oh ijected goods going into northern irecustoms checks . oh yes,3d to customs checks. oh yes, east—west trade is massive . east—west trade is massive. yeah. people talk about, yeah. people often talk about, you know, the norway, sweden thing you have a land thing where you have a land between a non eu country and an eu country. the popul

if they back into stormont and if they assembly reconvened, michelle assembly is reconvened, michelle o'neillfirst minister. and that means that jeffrey donaldson or whoever choose, whoever the leader they choose, will be deputy first will be the deputy first minister to sinn fein minister to i. sinn fein minister. is anathema . huge minister. that is anathema. huge numbers unionist particular numbers of unionist particular on the gop is it faces a double whammy on one side they've got traditional ulster voice which sort of slightly more if i may say, extreme version of it, who are taking votes for them on that side. the other side, that side. on the other side, they the alliance name in they got the alliance name in everybody who taking votes the other they're other side. so they're in a difficult, difficult place. and they would find extremely they would find it extremely difficult at moment, leaving difficult at the moment, leaving aside internal, aside their own internal, you know, jeffrey know, people like jeffrey donaldson, be in donaldson, who used to be in more ulster unionist more mo

with the terror group, the new ira, the chief line of inquiry, sinn fein's vice president, michelle o'neill, described the shooting as an attack on the community. i think it's important that we continue to send a united message to wider society. we this year celebrate 25 years of our good friday agreement and so much that's been achieved over those past 25 years. our society has been completely transformed and we're not going to allow anybody to reverse any that progress reverse any of that progress that's made. that's that's been made. so that's why it's important that we do it's very important that we do put across today. but this is an attack the community. this is attack on the community. this is an on all of us. this an attack on all of us. and this is that none of us is an attack that none of us will ever tolerate. junior doctors are to stage three days of strike action next month. the british medical association has announced. they'll walk off the job from the 13th of march. nearly 37,000 bma members voted favour of industrial action . favour of industrial action. that's the largest

with the terror group, the new ira, the chief line of inquiry, sinn fein's vice president, michelle o'neill, described the shooting as an attack on the community. i think it's important that we continue to send a united message to wider society. we this year celebrate 25 years of our good friday agreement and so much that's been achieved over those past 25 years. our society has been completely transformed and we're not going to allow anybody to reverse any that progress reverse any of that progress that's made. that's why that's been made. so that's why it's important that we do it's very important that we do put across today. but this is an attack the community. is attack on the community. this is an all of us. and this an attack on all of us. and this is that none of us is an attack that none of us will ever tolerate. junior doctors are to stage three days of strike action next month. the british medical association has announced. they'll walk off the job from the 13th of march. nearly 37,000 bma members voted favour of industrial action . favour of industrial action. that's the largest

we have also heard reaction from michelle o'neill, the vice president of sinn fein, the largest politicalof a complex deal. so let's look at what else has been agreed. another issue has been tax, particularly vat. under the old arrangement, eu vat rules could apply. but rishi sunak says that the new deal would allow the uk to make critical that changes, which include northern ireland. there is also the so—called store outbreak that we have always mentioned. the idea that if there is a change to eu regulations that they northern ireland assembly did not like, they can veto it. our ireland correspondent has some more on how this agreement has been received in belfast. �* , ., , ., , this agreement has been received in belfast. �*, ., , ., , , belfast. there's two questions. does it work for many _ belfast. there's two questions. does it work for many businesses? - belfast. there's two questions. does it work for many businesses? and i it work for many businesses? and then the big political question as to whether the dup will back it. let's look at businesses first of all. broadly, it has be

with sharing back up and running with the on board sinn fein's the dup on board sinn fein's michelle o'neillthe prime minister in a conversation . i welcome a phone conversation. i welcome yesterday's breakthrough the dealis yesterday's breakthrough the deal is done. my key message deal is now done. my key message is let's keep momentum going. the priority must now be getting stormont without stormont and moving without delay . as you indicated, they've delay. as you indicated, they've got interest in that if you got an interest in that if you like us in terms of the parties position in stormont how long is the prime minister going to give the prime minister going to give the dup to consider this before coming to some kind of decision . well first of all there is going to be that vote parliament and that's the way aside and doesn't really involve the dup to a degree clearly . the to a degree clearly. the government will be concerned about potential conservative rebels the backbenches . rebels on the backbenches. pretty made it pretty clear that will only back this deal if the dup do. i don't

michelle o'neill is the first minister elect.problematic for the democratic unionist, even if we had a resolution here , there had a resolution here, there will be those who would say that jeffrey donaldson should not into government if sinn fan of the upper hand so that's another problem with which he's going to have to deal down the road. so those making life difficult for jeffrey donaldson and for rishi sunak now are doing us no favour here in northern ireland. okay i am. and kind of another voice in this now i'm going to bring in gb news political reporter catherine forster, who's joining us now. catherine boris is back or at least he's ready his head on his baulking. what has that gone down in westminster circles 7 gone down in westminster circles ? not very well at all. basically, senior tories are grumbling that he's meddled , grumbling that he's meddled, that it's mischievous and unhelpful. there's certainly a lot of backseat driving by former prime ministers going on at the moment, isn't there just two weeks on since liz