Yesterday. Ill have all the detaIls. Its saturday, 7 september. Our maIn story the PrIme MInIster, SIr KeIr Starmer, Is makIng hIs fIrst offIcIal vIsIt to Ireland today. Hell be In dublIn for talks wIth hIs opposIte number, SImon HarrIs. Theyll dIscuss topIcs IncludIng commerce across the IrIsh Sea And Theyll attend a NatIons League Football match between Ireland and england. Our Ireland Correspondent ChrIs Page reports. At the fIrst meetIng, SIr KeIr Starmer and SImon HarrIs were pIctured havIng a plate. The photo symbolIsed a better relatIonshIp between the two countrIes after some years of straIn. Today, Balgo To watch england take on Ireland In the uefa NatIons League, but beyond Impact on whIch wIll dIsrupt the dIplomacy. In recent weeks he has had trIps to germany and france. BrItIsh PrIme MInIster To MInIster to go to dublIn was borIsjohnson, fIve years ago. RelatIons had cooled sIgnIfIcantly. BrexIt was the major factor. The border wIth Northern Ireland was the uks only frontIe
Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. Its the longest Prison Sentence that has been handed down so far after the wave of riots that swept parts of england and Northern Ireland last month. 27 year old Thomas Birley from rotherham has been sent to jail for nine years after helping to set fire to a Hotel Housing Asylum seekers in the town and attacking Police Officers in august. The judge told Thomas Birley, you were a leading participant in an ignorant, racist attempt at mob rule. From sheffield, heres danny savage. It was one of the most notorious events of the nationwide civil unrest over the summer the attack on a hotel at Housing Asylum seekers in south yorkshire. A mob targeted police and those inside. AJudge Today described this as an ignorant, racist attempt at mob rule. One of them was Thomas Birley, seen here at the time. He was filmed throwing a bin at officers. And then stoked the fire in a burning Wheelie Bin rammed against one of the hotel exits. He today received
Thing and does another . Were very clear about wanting to advance renewable energy nationally, and ive made very clear that we need to see the government do far more to include renewable energy on new homes and buildings. But it is going to require infrastructure somewhere. Of course we need to invest in upgrading the national grid. There are different options for how you can do that that havent been properly assessed by this government. For now, the challenge is to turn their words into action as the greens new mps celebrate their success and look to build more. Hannah miller, bbc news, manchester. Let s get some of the days other news now the Royal Navy has named the serviceman who was killed in a night flying Training Exercise in the english channel. Leftenant Rhodri Leyshon died when his Merlin Helicopter came down on wednesday off the coast of dorset. Two other servicemen survived. His family says he was immeasurably loved by his parents, siblings, partner, and friends. The number
Officials have imposed sanctions on the two top editors of the russian state funded Broadcaster Rt accusing them of interfering with her than Thes President ial election. Eric garland said the goal was to secure moscows preferred outcome in the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. These websites were designed to appear to american readers as if they were major us news sites, like the Washington Post or fox news, but in fact, they were fake sites. They were filled with russian Government Propaganda that had been created by the kremlin to reduce international support for ukraine, bolster pro russian policies and interests, and influence voters in the united states and in other countries. Internal documents of the kremlin described the content as, quote, Bogus Stories Disguised as newsworthy events, close quote. This malign Influence Campaign has been referred to as doppelganger. The russian Public Relations companies drove viewers to these websites by deploying influencers and pa
With Rebecca Cheptegei was again, from what we hear, from again, from what we hear, from a man. World athletics have to try to find a way to set up some processes in which when people do start to become successful and start earning money, they are protected. To paris now. Sprinter Skanderjamil Athmani secured the Gold Medal in the mens 400 Metres T13 Event at the Paris 2024 Paralympic games. The algerian finished with a time of 47. 43 seconds during the final held at the Stade De France on thursday. The win marks athmanis second gold of the games, following his win in the 100 metres on sunday. And there was a second Bronze Medal for britian s 14 year old Tennis Star bly twomey. The teenager who is ranked fourth in the world had already picked up a medal in the took doubles alongside Team Mate Fliss Pickard earlier in the week but has now secured another in the womens singles. It was a Big Night Of Tennis in new york. With the final four now decided in both the men and womens singles at