The second largest party at stormont, as we have been explaining over the last few days, it does not like the protocol because it thinks that it undermines northern ireland s place within the uk. let us talk about the many issues. i m joined by louise cullen, a correspondent for bbc northern ireland. 0na on a practical level, what is going to happen over the next week? tomorrow should have seen stream of jubilant returning mla streaming through the pillars behind us to find their places in stormont and stirred the horse around which parties will take which ministries when a new executive is formed. we know that is not going to happen. the course of the next week will be a series of talks between the politicians in northern ireland, the government in the uk, the us has been involved as well, messages from their urging them to form a new executive. the government and the republic as well calling for that, but we know that it s not going to happen because the dup have been firm in their s
They have more than doubled the representation here at stormont and thatis representation here at stormont and that is a significant block to take account of, not unionist, not nationalist, but a wider voice that needs to be heard. nationalist, but a wider voice that needs to be heard. louise, thank you very much- needs to be heard. louise, thank you very much- its needs to be heard. louise, thank you very much. as one needs to be heard. louise, thank you very much. as one dup needs to be heard. louise, thank you very much. as one dup assembly - very much. as one dup assembly member told me earlier, it is either the protocol or the executive and as for the westminster government, we heard from dominic raab earlier he said that they would be doing everything they could to fix the protocol, he said, in his words, nothing was off at the table. let us see what the week brings and how much of a mention of the protocol will be included, if at all, in the queen s speech. back to you
Unless and until that northern ireland protocol is scrapped. lats ireland protocol is scrapped. lots of initial talks ireland protocol is scrapped. lots of initial talks between the ni secretary brandon lewis and party leaders, but tell us more about that dup opposition to the protocol, sinn fein has emerged as the largest party, it opposed brexit, but it accepts the protocol, doesn t it? many of the parties at stormont are quite quietly happy with the protocol and they see it as working for northern ireland and they have been pushing it as an opportunity for trade and investment, northern ireland getting the best of both worlds, one foot in the eu and one footin worlds, one foot in the eu and one foot in the uk. it does impose those checks, an irish sea borderfor goods coming from gb and northern ireland and for the dup in particular and other union is, that is simply the ultimate limit, they cannot accept that, they see that is threatening the position of northern ireland within th
We can speak to our correspondent danjohnson who s at stormont for us this lunchtime. it s an historic election result but little sign of a functioning government? little sign of a functioning covernment? ., , ., , government? the votes have been counted, government? the votes have been counted. the government? the votes have been counted, the seats government? the votes have been counted, the seats allocated - government? the votes have been counted, the seats allocated and l government? the votes have been l counted, the seats allocated and we know who counted, the seats allocated and we know who the new assembly members will be know who the new assembly members will be here know who the new assembly members will be here at stormont. we know that sinn will be here at stormont. we know that sinn fein will be the largest party that sinn fein will be the largest party but that sinn fein will be the largest party but they cannot come into power party but they cannot come
Yet another milestone in her impressive career as she won the wta title in madrid beating the 12th seed jessica pegula in three sets. it s jabeur s first wta 1000 title and she becomes the first african to win a wta1000 event. that s all the sport for now, next on the bbc news channel, anita mcveigh is live from stormont. thank you very much. welcome back to belfast, i am standing here in front of the very ground stormont building where if everything was working normally, the northern ireland assembly would be returning to set this coming week, after the last couple of days of elections which have returned 90 members of the assembly, but what is going to happen in reality is it will be a wake of some pretty intense and frankly difficult talks to try and get around a number of issues that the party has and although mps in