bricks to build that cathedral used the proceeds in part to fund his passage to the united states. kim want to go back to what you said about by not really having a major policy. objective he did urge ireland in the work more closely to restore northern ireland s power sharing agreement. as you all know, the clinton administration was so influential in brokering that the good friday agreement, so how much influence does biden really have now on this issue? yeah i mean, it appears somewhat limited because, of course, i think president biden and the british prime minister rishi soon i would have liked to see that power sharing agreement restored before the president got to belfast. of course it didn t. he did encourage the two sides to come together in his speech there on tuesday. he really tried to avoid getting drawn in directly to the disputes that these two sides have. remember. it s over this right those brexit trade rules for northern ireland, but it was
the trend is very good. and if you want to watch the full interview with elon musk it s available right now on the bbc news website. away from twitter all attention will be on northern ireland today as us presidentjoe biden begins his visit to belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. he s been meeting with the uk prime minister rishi sunak and has a busy day ahead. the windsor framework will be discussed that s the new brexit deal for northern ireland agreed with the european union. northern ireland is the only part of the uk to have a land border with the eu at the republic of ireland. the signing of the windsor framework in february did ease fears over post brexit trade rules but the democratic unionist party is still not on board so what does the future hold for businesses in northern ireland? gordon milligan is the chair of the institute of directors for northern ireland.
visit. and security is, of course, very tight here in belfast around the president s hotel, the political situation is also sort of tenuous here in northern ireland, the devolved government that was a product of the good friday agreement has been paralyzed over this dispute over brexit trade rules and the president while he s on the ground here, will meet with the leaders of the five political parties that comprise that power sharing government to try and control them back into sort of getting their work done. he will also meet separately with the british prime minister, richie sonntag. i think both president biden and prime minister soon i would have hoped that the government would be back working in working condition for the president s visit, but because it s not he will not address lawmakers at stormont. instead, he will address uh, students that ulster university and i think that s highly symbolic. really talking to a younger generation here. university students who may not have e
and really trying to focus on what s next for northern ireland instead of focusing only on what has happened in the past. now the president is not speaking to lawmakers while he s here. he s not addressing the parliament of stormont and that in part because the parliament is not functioning at the moment, there s this dispute over brexit trade rules and so that the power ensuring agreement that was one of the outcomes of the good friday agreement is not currently sort of functioning, and i do think that tells you the good friday agreement for all of its success in bringing an end to the sectarian violence , many of its ambitions i sort of remain unfulfilled. and, of course, the pieces also somewhat uneasy here, and even in the last several days, you ve seen some flair outs of sectarian violence, including in dairy when republican dissidents clashed with police and think the images of that. so disappointing for so many people because of how young some of
power sharing government back function. being here in northern ireland, and of course, both leaders would have liked to see that happen before president biden arrived, but there continues to be this dispute over brexit trade rules. that unionists in that government have withdrawn and it s been a nonfunctioning for over a year now, and that is sort of one of the unfulfilled ambitions of the good friday agreement. of course , that is the agreement that president biden is here to celebrate, and i think it s notable. he won t be speaking to lawmakers at any point on the strip in a formal speech. instead he ll be speaking to students at ulster university. really trying to focus not necessarily on this region s bloody past, but instead on its future on the potential for economic investments in this region, and you know, a lot of those students may not have even been born in 1998. they may not have any direct memory of the troubles themselves. person in biden really wanting to emphasize the p