Hello. Welcome to Bbc News. Sir Keir Starmer has become the first britIsh Prime MinIster to vIsit the Republic Of Ireland in five years. Downing street says saturdays vIsit marks a new era of co Operation And Friendship between britain and ireland, with london looking to continue a reset of damaged relations with European Union nations after brexit. The Prime MinIster met with simon harrIs, who was only elected taioseach in april just three months before hIs britIsh counterpart so both are relatviely new to their roles. Sir keir and Mr HarrIs swapped Football Shirts ahead of their talks, before going on to attend the Nations League Match between the Republic Of Ireland and england at the Aviva Stadium In Dublin. They did speak earlier and the Prime MinIster outlined hIs expectations from the vIsit. Prime minIster, here we are again following on from chequers, a lot of warm words about the reset in relationship and second meeting in four weeks, but what substantive action are you in the
big football match tonight, scotland ukraine semifinals. the match has been delayed from march because of the outbreak of war. chetan pathak is in glasgow s hampden park where they ll play later. good morning. here, at hampden park, a cool crisp morning but the sun is beginning to come out from behind the clouds ahead of a huge, huge game this afternoon and evening. how the teams deal with the emotions will be key, for scotland, a chance to move closer to the world cup finals in qatar, if they win tonight they will play wales on sunday for a winner takes all place at the world cup. but what is happening in ukraine and pains everything we will see here this evening. ukraine have not been playing for months as you would expect, half of their players
bfm reporting that at least 60 people are now confirmed dead in this terror attack, coordinated series of terror attacks in the french capital. melissa bell is joining us, she s from france 24. melissa, i understand you re right at the interior ministry in paris, which is in charge of the law enforcement counterterrorism operation. what are you learning? francois hollande of course as you know was at the football match tonight where some of the explosions took place earlier on. one of the many attacks paris has seen over the course of the last couple of hours. he left there and has come here to the interior ministry. he s in a crisis meeting with the country s interior minister. of course they re monitoring the situation and deploying forces to deal with it. we believe at the bataclan forces which is french elite police unit that you ll remember had dealt so efficiently with the hostage situation at the end of the charlie hebdo attack back in january.