which is marking 25 years since the signing of the good friday agreement. the historic peace deal was signed by then british prime minister tony blair and irish prime minister bertie ahern here in the picture along with senator george mitchell, the american chairman of the talks. the agreement played a major part in bringing to an end 30 years of conflict, known as the troubles. the current british prime minister rishi sunak says efforts must be intensified in northern ireland to restore the power sharing government that was central to the deal. it collapsed in the fall out from brexit and now the political dysfunction and security concerns are threatening to to overshadow the historic milestone. from belfast, laura cullen reports. it took 22 months of talks to largely end three decades of conflict. through it all, these leaders kept their sense of purpose. and in the end, they delivered an agreement that s fair and balanced and offers hope for the people of northern irelan
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hello and welcome. the uk prime minister rishi sunak has given his first tv interview of the year to the bbc s laura kuennsberg. mr sunak addressed concerns over nurses strikes and said he will talk to the royal college of nursing union about pay but does not commit to increasing wages now to end their strike action. we want to have a reasonable, honest two way conversation about pay and everything else that is relevant. you do want to have a conversation about pay? because up until now. well, that s different. that s always been the case. the door has always been open to talk about things that the nurses want to talk about and the unions want to talk about more generally, which is why actually we just wrote to all the unions from across the public sector inviting them into the talks. inviting them in for talks. and those talks are happening in many sectors on monday, which is great. and when it comes to pay, we have always said we want to talk about things that are reason
hello, welcome to the programme. it is nato s expansion eastwards that has infuriated vladimir putin. the kremlin is deeply suspicious of europe s intentions, they don t like western liberal philosophy, and in spite of all evidence to the contrary, they firmly believe it is the united states that is to blame for the situation in ukraine. that paranoia underpins their wharped justification for this war and the more widely held belief in russia that the principal danger to the state is external and ideological, rather than internal and structural. and if you doubt that, then take a listen to sergei lavrov, the foreign minister, describing today the threat in the most extraordinary terms. what is going on in ukraine now is a result of many years of preparation by the united states and their satellite states for the beginning of the global hybrid war against the russian federation. nobody tries to conceal it. they are waging a war against our country with the same task the fin