stephen kirk —— steven craig has already served a life sentence for the attack onjacqueline kirk.of november. thank you very much for that. new elections to the northern ireland assembly are expected to be announced imminently after the deadline set by westminster for restoring the devolved government passed without a breakthrough. the northern ireland secretary, chris heaton—harris is due to set out plans for an election, possibly on the 15th of december. the return of power—sharing arrangements is being blocked by the democratic unionist party in protest at the post—brexit trading arrangements. here's our ireland correspondent, chris page. just to remind people about this midnight deadline that passed last night. there were some very slim hopes that something would happen. that midnight deadline was passed, no events, so where do we stand now? yes, well, this very splendid building, which is meant to be the home of northern ireland's devolved assembly and government, has now officially fallen silent. as you say, that midnight deadline came and went with no reform a of the power—