Okay, im going to have to say goodbye now, were going to wrap up this segment of the program, journalists and activists political analysts, john bosnich joining us from belgrade, and also thanks to journalist, author and activist, frag huws joining us from belfast, we are going to keep a close eye on all the latest developments with regards to the war on gaza, were going to go for a short break, but our coverage will resume shortly, stick around. Hi, im shawn murray and this is the conversation where we take an alternative look at political events and Current Affairs through annaries lens. In this show we hope to pick, probe, investigate and uncover the stories that you want to hear. We go, were mainstream one. This week we look at the topic of our fragile peace process, how does peace now look 25 years on from the sending of the good fredy agreement . Has Common Ground been made by former enemies or are we as polarized as ever . My next guest served under the royal ulster constablary.
Ulster constablary, depending on what side of the political divide you come from, the ruc were seen as a protectors of a community or an oppressive force against another, but before we speak to our next guest, lets get a quick overview on this weeks topic. As always we are joined by our rese and copresenter michelle gildernew. Michelle is a current np for fermana south toron. She has served in the Northern Ireland assembly as a former minister for agriculture and Rural Development and chairperson of the Health Committee amongst other things. Michelle has been a shinfian activist since her teens and has been elected almost continuously since 1998. And todays guest is sam thompson. Sam is a former member of the royal olster constablary. He experienced the loss of number of colleagues and friends and saw numerous killings. And bombings during the conflict. Sam retired in 2008 and has exponded on his love of history and his naileacture. Sam welcome to the show. Yes, thank you shan. So sam,
as the plan comes into focus. is there some cause for optimism at last? with the names of those being swapped tomorrow now known to israel and hamas, the stage is set for a four day truce, we ll find out how it might work. also tonight, violence on the streets of dublin following a knife attack in the city centre earlier today. we ll have the latest. as a right wing populist party wins the most seats in the dutch parliament, nick is in the netherlands finding out how they did it and what lies ahead. this really is a huge moment. here we are in amsterdam in the heart of the netherlands, which is one of the originalfounding members of the netherlands, which is one of the original founding members of the european union. this country has given first place in the general election to a far right leader. with the uk recording 670,000 immigrants in the year up tojune, we ll unpick government plans to get the numbers under control. and we meet two people who were child refugees, with
Expressing his citys grief over thursdays rampage sources tell us it was armed with an ak47 type rifle and enough ammunition to keep police at bay the wounded include a sailor and a Police Officer his title was a military recruitment of of the Navy Operations support center will paid within 30 minutes the caught up to and kill the 24 your shoulder they recently traveled to the middle east but they say he was not in any other u. S. Databases of suspected terrorists. Reporter those who know them are in shock of that the man they described as a nice guy to be a killer while we have learned a little bit more about the shoulder we have not yet learned the name of the former ranger were killed in chattanooga guest today the marine corps is what the process of notifying their next of kin. We expect to get a briefing from federal and local officials with the latest on this investigation. James the shooting and tennessee did lead to increase security you consider video on the right showing that
It will be open from 9 00 until 12 00. It will be closed at noon. That will be the end of that. The churchill display in their is worth looking at. We need you to get the word out about that to the schools in your community. We have a special guest with us this morning who just arrived because he was finally given permission by the u. S. Navy to leave his ship for a few hours. He is the president present Commanding Officer of the uss Winston Churchill. [applause] with that, i will turn it over to our moderator, i very good friend. Good morning. I want to begin by congratulating all of you for joining us at this hour of 9 00 a. M. Winston churchill was a man of tremendous energy, but i cannot livedut bill that if we in history spirit, we would all still be in bed at this time of day. We would have already the newspapers and work through all the daily correspondence by this point. Unfortunately, i feel like many of us are lacking in the amount of domestic and secretarial assistance that