tonight he is across the border in the republic of ireland, where he ll spend the next two days retracing his irish roots. also on the programme: prince harry will attend his father s coronation next month, but meghan won t be travelling from california. billionaire twitter boss elon musk sits down with the bbc. he defends sacking thousands of staff, and says his time well, it s not been boring! it has been a roller coaster. find well, it s not been boring! it has been a roller-coaster. and is the world on course for been a roller-coaster. and is the world on course for the first - world on course for the first ever fall in fossil fuels producing electricity? because of renewables? on bbc london: and coming up on the bbc news channel. the uk and the republic of ireland submit theirjoint bid to host euro 2028, but two of the proposed stadiums aren t even built yet. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six, live from stormont on the day that president biden was in nort
here he is being greeted on the tarmac at dublin airport by the irish tee shock leo varadkar. the pair then left in a motorcade, heading for county lowth where they re expected in the next half an hour or so. president biden has urged northern ireland s political factions to resume power sharing, during a visit to mark 25 years of the deal that ended the conflict. he is in northern ireland to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the good friday agreement. the president won t be visiting the northern ireland assembly in stormont during his trip. it was established as a result of the good friday agreement, but it s currently not functioning since the democratic unionist party withdrew its support in protest at post brexit trading arrangements. biden acknowledged the differences but said he hoped power sharing would resume. thousands of famliies have been affected by the troubles, the pain was real. every person killed left an empty chair at a dining room table and
can biden do anything to unlock the current political crisis? wouldn t that be amazing? laughter tonight, a change of tone as president biden crosses the border into the republic of ireland in search of his irish roots. the other top stories tonight. prince harry will attend his father s coronation next month but meghan, won t be leaving california. billionaire twitter owner elon musk sits down with the bbc. he defends sacking thousands of staff and summed up an eventful six months as boss. well, it s not been boring! it s been quite a roller coaster. there s the shooting chance, it s in! and the european champions, real madrid, beat a ten man chelsea in their quarterfinal first leg match. and coming up in sport, the uk and the republic of ireland submit theirjoint bid to host euro 2028, but two of the proposed stadiums aren t even built yet. good evening from stormont, on the day that president biden has been in northern ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of
because of the rise of renewables. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am here in singapore and 4pm in san francisco, where the bbc s technology correspondent sat down in an unexpected interview with elon musk. the billionaire telsa car boss and new owner of twitter said running the social media site has been painful and a roller coaster . it s one of his first interviews since he bought twitter. james clayton has this exclusive report. it s not every day you find yourself invited by one it s not every day you get invited by one a sit down interview, and a few minutes before it was due to take place, the inevitable curveball. we re about to go live, very surprisingly, we onlyjust found this out, on twitter. but that is elon musk. we didn t know about that. but you never know with elon musk. when he sat down, he was in the mood to chat. so, how do you think it s gone? well, it s not been boring. it s been quite a roller coaster. the pain