about their reporter evan gershkovich, who has now been detained in russia for over 300 days. a very good evening. for the first time in nearly two years, it looks like northern ireland will have a devolved government and an assembly up and running by the end of next week. last night, there was a long meeting of the dup executive, the unionist party that collapsed power sharing in february 2022 in protest at the post brexit trading rules and checks which they said undermined northern ireland s place within the united kingdom. they now believe they have the assurances they need from westminster to return to government with the nationalists, sinn fein. our ireland correspondent sara girvin has this report. across northern ireland today, people woke up to news of a political breakthrough that s been nearly two years in the making. the lack of a functioning executive for so long has caused many issues for the lives of people here. public sector workers were out on strike earlier
so you can go ahead, good evening. the prime minister has said he takes extremely seriously the allegations against the former conservative peer, baroness mone. he said the government was taking legal action against the company run by her husband ppe medpro. in an interview with the bbc, michelle mone admitted lying about her links to the medical clothing company and confirmed she and her family stand to benefit from the £60 million profit made during the pandemic. the couple apologised for denying their role in the deal for more than three years. and today baroness mone has hit back at rishi sunak, saying she was honest with the government over the contracts. 0ur poltical editor chris mason is in westminster this evening. it was an extraordinary interview. you can watch or listen to yourself on the iplayer or bbc sounds. it was the story of an emergency. human foibles, taxpayers money, making money, truth and lying. a pandemic strikes. suddenly, gowns and masks, pers
This week we are at the hospital thats using ai to try and cut Waiting Times for surgery. We are all at sea to see if sailing can go solar, we are finding our funny at the Fringe Festival to ask whether tiktok comedians can make it on stage. There is so much scope for error. And theres so much stuff thats not in our control. On tiktok it is actually all in our control. And talking of control, well see how trying to track the twitter bots is no laughing matter. I said no laughing matter. Oh, never mind. You are back, were back, everybody is back, and this august so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. It is a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the Edinburgh Fringe. Please, neverspeak to me again. Filled with experimental performance, innovative shows and, my favourite, comedy. One of the beautiful things about the fringe is that it takes over loads of venues i