welcome to bbc news. we begin in northern ireland which is marking 25 years since the signing of the good friday agreement. the historic peace deal largely ended decades of violence in northern ireland. but prime minister rishi sunak says efforts must be intensified 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 ireland. the agreement was based on the idea of cooperation between communities, and set up a new government representing both nationalists and unionists. a copy of it went to every household in northern ireland, and almo
welcome to bbc news. we begin in northern ireland, which is marking 25 years since the signing of the good friday agreement. the historic peace deal largely ended decades of violence in northern ireland. but prime minister rishi sunak says efforts must be intensified 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 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 ireland. the agreement was based on the idea of cooperation between communities, and set up a new government representing both nationalists and unionists. a copy of it went to every household in northern ireland, and almost
and instead, it was 52 year old phil mickelson who rode into contention. mickelson who rode into contention. mickelson began the final round some ten shots adrift but he really rolled back the years to set a testing target. butjon rahm held his nerve over the closing holes. he has proved himself to be one of the most consistent players in golf over recent years he won the us open in 2021 and he never looked like losing his composure as he held on for victory. and what that means is that jon rahm becomes the fourth spanish man to win the masters, after seve ballesteros, josemaria olives about and sergio garcia. this famous tournament injohn ryan certainly has a worthy winner. an emotional victory for rahm and an historic one too. he s become the first european to win both the masters and the us open. if there is anything better than accomplishing some thing like this, making history, you tell me that to be the first european ever to do that, it is hard to explain. out of all t
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