Was a finding member of the social democratic and labor party the s. T. O. P. And served as a 2nd leader from 1989 to 2001 he also served as a member of the European Parliament im to member of the u. K. Parliament i dont so as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly Today we look at the contribution of john hume by contrasting the position of disaster reached in the province and the early 1970 s. At the height of the troubles with the peace which still holds to be despite the intense strains caused by bricks it 1st we speak toward winning journalist David Blake Knox about his new book on the killing of Thomas Needham our manager of Northern Ireland factory and then we examine with alice to mcdonnell one of john hume successors as leader of the s. T. O. P. About how the Northern Island was pulled from tragedy to peace. Just after christmas in 1973 thomas need him i was bundled into his car id say to school in west belfast he was never seen alive again by his friends or family it was a
You to welcome to the alex salmond shoe in this year of many tragedies perhaps the passing of joined him did not get the prominence it deserved john hume is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the recent political history of ireland as one of the architects of the Northern Ireland Peace Process and he took a day he was a finding member of the social democratic and labor party the s. T. O. P. And served as a 2nd leader from 1989 to 2001 he also served as a member of the European Parliament im to member of the u. K. Parliament i dont so as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly Today we look at the contribution of john hume by contrasting the position of disaster reached in the province and the early 1970 s. At the height of the troubles with the peace which still holds to be despite the intense strains caused by bricks it 1st we speak toward winning journalist David Blake Knox about his new book on the killing of Thomas Needham our manager of Northern Ireland fact
Successors as leader of the s. T. O. P. About how Northern Ireland was pulled from tragedy to peace just after christmas in 1973 Thomas Needham i was bundled into his car i would say to school in west belfast he was never seen alive again by his friends or family it was in a deal of murder and tragedy in the province with 500. 00 people a year dying as nationalist and loyalist paramilitaries mobilised against the power sheeting stunning deal agreement alex takes up the tragic story with journalist and author David Blake Knox who has published a new book on the killing. David yes this book where they get station of this book come from there you know the very height of the troubles 970 free this dreadful murder tell us a bit more about it. Well i suppose part of the reason the crew moved to this story is as you say it was at the height of the troubles and i thought it reflected is a very unusual case it was sort of because they only German National to die in Northern Ireland and the trou
Has been ongoing in recent weeks between. President to mark or president calderon of turkey do you think that this could have contributed to that and then create increased tensions that. That is what Police Sources are saying at the moment when they talk about the sort of attacks that are happening if you look at lone wolf attacks just attacks out of nowhere these are not attacks that have been planned which the attackers have gotten got hold of explosives these are just men with a knife attacking people so that is the fear that could have been unfortunately and expecting more of these type of lone wolf attacks not the type of well established well programmed it tanks that we saw several years ago a french prosecutors have opened an antiterrorism probe what does that mean for the investigation well and that means that as you said all began to terrorist police who will be taking control of the investigation they will have at their fingertips a whole range of resources from there of cour
Tell you it is not gone we are just in the middle of it and we didnt get what we saw at the weekend was unacceptable is it time. To irresponsibility of a few puts is all without risk limits that soon demonstrations like those we saw of a weekend our health risk its an example its what it is for the behavior of many demonstrators cannot be justified if chatter is. Also coming up tonight Northern Ireland mourns the passing of john hughes the nobel peace laureate whose lifes work made it possible to turn the troubles into peace john hume genuinely was a political titan i dont think we would have to have really got the Peace Process going and. Implemented if he hadnt been down offering help and advice. Which our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the reality of the pandemic in germany and the people who refused to believe it on saturday the streets of central berlin were flooded with protesters who say the coronavirus pandemic is