standstill here, thanks to celebrate. belfast and northern ireland so different now, it is very quiet in belfast city centre right now, but on a normal day it will be full of tourists, people shopping, going to bars, museums. the violence we saw in decades past seems such a distant now. joe biden will to a new university campus here, he will meet with rishi sunak here, and then it is off to the republic of ireland, he will go to county louth, one of his ancestral homes, back to dublin, and then he will finish the week in county mayo, of the town of ballina, where he went in 2016 as vice president and got a huge reception, thousands of people lined the streets of ballina, you have to expect that coming as president on friday, the deception will be even bigger. pl. friday, the deception will be even bi ler. , friday, the deception will be even bi er, , ., , friday, the deception will be even biner. . , ., bigger. a big day indeed for northern ireland. bigger. a big day indeed for|
by presidentjoe biden will mark the anniversary. louise cullen, bbc news. we can speak now to our correspondent charlotte gallagher, who s in belfast. morning, charlotte. it is easy to forget 25 years on just how historic the steel was, little wonder that the american president is making this visit. goad president is making this visit. good morninl. president is making this visit. good morning- little president is making this visit. good morning. little wonder president is making this visit. (limp. morning. little wonder indeed, given the role the americans played in the good friday agreement, the broker invaded around the table, it is a time to celebrate in northern ireland, 25 years of the good friday agreement, thankfully now political violence is incredibly rare. lives were mad, thousands of people were killed, but now that violence is very rare indeed, but politics at a
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good morning. during the troubles, people who wanted to travel across belfast had to pass through a huge security cordon known as the ring of steel. these days, a bus service called the glider makes a relatively easy trip between the east and west of the city several times a day. we ve taken a gliderjourney with northern ireland s so called peace generation, born after the agreement and on both sides of belfast. this report from sarah girvin. if the good friday agreement was the start of a journey, what s the direction of travel 25 years later? during the troubles, it wasn t possible to travel on just one bus between largely unionist east and largely nationalist west belfast. and even if it had been, not many people would have felt safe enough to do so. the free movement of today is a big change.
and perseverance of the leaders who helped broker the power sharing deal. he willjoin the us president, joe biden, on a visit to belfast tomorrow to commemorate the deal. it took 22 months of talks to largely end three decades of conflict. through it all, these leaders kept their sense of purpose. and in the end, they delivered an agreement that s fair and balanced and offers hope for the people of northern ireland. the agreement was based on the idea of cooperation between communities, and set up a new government representing both nationalists and unionists. a copy of it went to every household in northern ireland, and almost a million people voted in the referendum that followed. the result, as predicted, but definitive northern ireland was ready for change. yes, 71.12%. cheering.