than a year, because the democratic unionist party, the biggest party which wants to keep northern ireland in the uk, is vetoing the formation of the power sharing coalition because of its concerns over brexit trade barriers with the rest of the uk. setting that aside, when you look back at the last 25 years, the change in northern ireland has been remarkable. the level of political balance has dramatically reduced to the extent that it is relatively rare now, so coming after a bitter sectarian conflict that lasted three decades, and cost the lives of three and half thousand people, it has been a very successful, peace process, most would say. the president biden is likely to again reflect on that, the fact that it was a peace process that benefits the whole island of ireland. most of ireland in northern ireland but the republic was touched by the conflict as well. so we can expect him to talk about that. with regard to the major conflict in the world today, ukraine, that has
deadly rampage. police say the suspect in the murder of a 38-year-old woman later returned to the scene and shot and killed a 24-year-old reporter who was covering the story before fatally shooting a 9-year-old child in a home nearby. for the journalists in orlando, it s a story that hits unbelievably close to home. this is every reporter s absolute worst nightmare. coming up, the details we re learning about the 19-year-old suspect and how the community is trying to make sense of this tragedy. plus, any second we expect to get our hands on the national transportation safety board s preliminary report on the ohio train derailment that led to the controlled burning of hazardous chemicals. it could offer new clues about what went wrong. there are still lingering questions about the health is and safety of the air and water. this land is everything to me. we have a stigma here that we re dirty, and it hurts everybody here. transportation secretary pete buttigieg is i
will receive would be 30 days in jail, at the very least. it could go up much higher than that. the justice department would like it to be quite harsh, a six-month sentence in jail. they also want bannon to be fined the maximum amount, 200,000, because wherever the court was doing their proceedings to try to figure out how much he could pay financially, he said, charge me the most. i was convicted, charge me the most. i m not giving you my private, financial information. that s what the justice department wants. they also want punishment for bannon s bayer. the trial was very simple. it was about, did he show up or did he not, wherever he was subpoenaed. today is about how he has acted throughout this process of the congressional proceedings, of the court proceedings, and the justice department writes throughout the case, the defendant has exploited his notoriety to display to the public the source of his bathe refusal to comply with the committee s subpoena. a total disregar
the met has apologised to carrick s victims after it emerged he was allowed to stay in the police force despite allegations about him over many years. also this lunchtime. the drive by shooting in london that left six people injured a 22 year old man is arrested. investigators in nepal find the black box flight recorders of the plane that crashed yesterday killing at least 68 people. counting the cost of christmas. fears that some people got into so much debt over the festive period that it will take them years to pay the money back. and emma raducanu puts aside her injury worries and makes it through to the second round of the australian open. and coming up in sport on bbc news, on the day that the new england head coach steve borthwick announces his first six nations squad the former england boss eddiiejones becomes australia s new head coach. good afternoon. a serving metropolitan police officer has admitted he s a serial rapist who carried out sex attacks over almost tw
seeing at the moment in two hours from the people are saying yesterday and it might be longer tomorrow. people have gone into such a level that they have had to make people queue for a few hours earlier today. it is approximately five miles, eight kilometres long and the wait time is now at least 2a hours and earlier today the government says the gates were closed for six hours and that took place and it lasted for about six hours. here angus crawford. step by step and my bum while they come in their thousands. here, the very start of the queue in civic park. so many at one point, the gates were closed to stop overcrowding. even that did not put people off. we have come from birmingham, and our plans are quite simply to stay here until the gates open. we are tough. we re not worried about it. we ve come to pay our respects. we are going to manage. opening again soon after, the flow carefully regulated. official advice, please don t come yet. the queue snakes around the park f