and be better. we apologise to the victims of this organisational failure including those impacted by the revulsion we have all felt at hearing their stories. nobody should feel in place in their workplace so the boss of the cbi, tony danker, has been dismissed with immediate effect. we will bring you more analysis on this with our business correspondence very shortly. in northern ireland final preparations are being put in place forjoe biden s visit to mark the anniversary of the signing of the good friday agreement. the white house says the us president is very excited for his trip, which will also take him to the republic of ireland where he has his ancestral roots. he lands in belfast later today, from where charlotte gallagher sent this report. the us president is coming to town. belfast is preparing forjoe biden, with his presidentialjet, air force one, landing tonight.
but for more than a third of its lifetime, there hasn t been a sitting government at stormont. and tonight, belfast welcomes president biden. huge security presence in the city when i walked through this morning. we understand he will meet leaders from all political parties tomorrow at an event at ulster university. people will be watching and listening to see if this american president can make a difference to the political stalemate. joining me is dr claire rice, specialist in ni politics at the university of liverpool. claire, very good to see you. when i soke to claire, very good to see you. when i spoke to young claire, very good to see you. when i spoke to young people, claire, very good to see you. when i spoke to young people, some - claire, very good to see you. when i spoke to young people, some of - claire, very good to see you. when i l spoke to young people, some of them told me they didn t know anything about it. they had barely even heard about it. they had barely ev
live from london, this is bbc news. a doctors strike that threatens to be the most disruptive in the history of the nhs begins in england. final preparations for a president joe biden heads to northern ireland to mark 25 years of the good friday agreement. the head of the uk s largest business lobby, tony danker, has been sacked over misconduct claims. hello and welcome to bbc news. i m samantha simmonds. we begin here in england, where thousands ofjunior doctors
air force one, landing tonight. this building is the location for his main visit to northern ireland. the trip is notjust about celebrating the good friday agreement and its 25th anniversary but also about looking forward to the future of northern ireland and many of the generation studying here do not remember the troubles or perhaps were not born at that time. his trip properly starts on wednesday. a meeting with rishi sunak and a visit to ulster university s new campus. butjoe biden won t be visiting this building stormont the home of the devolved government. power sharing here in northern ireland collapsed over a year ago, with the democratic unionist party refusing to return over post brexit trading arrangements. the president seemingly wants to avoid the political standoff. from wednesday afternoon,
of the power sharing agreement that was part of the good friday agreement that s been paralyzed for several months now over this dispute between the brexit trade rules. and so that is something that the president may want to talk about. when he arrives here later today, he will only be here in northern ireland, though. around 24 hours before heading south to the republic of ireland later on wednesday. rosemary alright thanks to kevin liptak joining us live from belfast. and still to come. tensions flare in the west bank as thousands of israeli settlers and even members of benjamin netanyahu s cabinet marched to an abandoned settlement, the details just ahead. you re doing busisiness in an app driven muli cloud world. that s whyhy you choose vm waree with flelexible multi cloud serviceces that enae digital innovation and enterprise control helps you keep your cloud options open. what s it like to hear from the