Government in Northern Ireland expires injust under two hours, with no agreement in sight. Sinn fein is refusing to be part of an Executive Led by the Democratic Unionist leader, Arlene Foster. The Northern Ireland secretary will have to decide whether to call a Snap Election. And the new £1 coin is released tomorrow but are these everyday machines ready for it . Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may will meet Nicola Sturgeon in scotland later for the First Time Since the snp announced their proposals for a second independence referendum. At the beginning of a week that will see article 50 triggered on wednesday, the Prime Minister will say she wants to build a more united nation. Tomorrow, the Scottish Parliament is expected to pass a vote in favour of seeking a new Scottish Independence referendum, which ms sturgeon wants to hold in autumn 2018 or spring 2019. Theresa may, though, has said now is not the time for it. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. It
Government in Northern Ireland expires injust under two hours, with no agreement in sight. Sinn fein is refusing to be part of an Executive Led by the Democratic Unionist leader, Arlene Foster. The Northern Ireland secretary will have to decide whether to call a Snap Election. And the new £1 coin is released tomorrow but are these everyday machines ready for it . Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may will meet Nicola Sturgeon in scotland later for the First Time Since the snp announced their proposals for a second independence referendum. At the beginning of a week that will see article 50 triggered on wednesday, the Prime Minister will say she wants to build a more united nation. Tomorrow, the Scottish Parliament is expected to pass a vote in favour of seeking a new Scottish Independence referendum, which ms sturgeon wants to hold in autumn 2018 or spring 2019. Theresa may, though, has said now is not the time for it. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. It
distillation you can find of change that you can believe in that he talked during the campaign. it is, i think this is a microcosm of the obama philosophy and era. people didn t pay a lot of attention to his policy ideas during the campaign, partly because they were interested in his race and his pastor and the ads about paris hilton but partly because a lot of his ideas were standard democratic ideas and there were things that even republicans have been talking about for a long time in terms of cutting taxes for the middle class, in terms of moving toward clean energy, reforming education so it is not just throwing money at schools. and then he suddenly had this opportunity to spend $800 billion and he kind of did it. you know, he had a line in his inaugural address where he sort of went through how we are going to knit the country closer together with high-speed rail and new broadband lines and he went on and on and talked about, you know, all these new things that he is going to d
let s put folks back to work rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our railroads and our schools and putting broadband lines in the rural communities all across america. that s how we build an economy that lasts. that s also, by the way, how we take care of our veterans. now they re coming home, they shouldn t have to fight for a job after they fought for us and they should get the benefits that they ve earned. so we ll be fighting any kind of cutbacks on veterans services. we ve got to take care of folks who took care of us. i m running to make sure our kids get the best education in the world. you know, i want to help our schools hire and reward the best teachers, especially math and science. i want to give 2 million more
the president is making this a very personal story, community by community, talking about investments from the federal government in broadband lines which is important. investments in community colleges. the challenge for the president will be whether or not he can weave that local story community by community, congressional district by congressional district, state-by-state, into a national story, into a national narrative, that says we ve done better over the last now years and we ll do even better the next four. romney is starting to find his groove. he had to take down every republican nominee one-by-one with the exception of jon huntsman, who never really emerged as a serious candidate against him. that has helped him. you hear confidence in his voice now. the president has it too. but i have to tell you, he s going to have to get even better. both have to get better. but romney has made progress just in the last week. now he is presenting and projects. something else i noticed