trade barriers between northern ireland and the rest of the uk. it s not clear yet what s in the deal, but it won t reverse the basic settlement between the uk and the eu. speaking in the last hour or so, dup leaderjeffrey donaldson said the deal vindicated his strategy of boycotting the assembly. thoses who said there will be no legal change, who were protecting all kinds of outcomes, what things would fall short well, i simply have asked people to wait and see the outcome. we at and see the evidence and judge for yourself what this deal does, what it delivers, the change that it secures. and i believe we are now beginning to see on day one that delivery coming through. there will be more to come. tomorrow, the government will publish the proposals so everyone in northern ireland will be able to see clearly what has been agreed, what is proposed, what change will come, what difference will it make for all of us in northern ireland? and i look forward to the publication so
falling to civil servants, and elected officials to decide how northern ireland can balance his books and in a recent budget published by the government in london, there are cuts on the table. so it s really down to senior officials in the light of the packed department of health and the department of health and the department for education who are going to have to decide exactly where cuts are made. officials think that on the whole, northern ireland is going to have to find savings of about £800 million over the next financial year. so what they head of the northern ireland civil service is going to want to talk to politicians about is to get their take on this and if there is going to be a restoration of the devolved government, she would also want to know where politicians were planning on taking policies for the departments that are facing these financial pressures and many pundits and commentators certainly think that after the elections for the local councils which we
intense the further north you go across the uk. looking at the weather chart, you think perhaps perfect conditions, high pressure normally means a lot of fine weather, but it doesn t necessarily equate to crystal clear skies. at the moment we have a north easterly wind coming around our area of high pressure kicking up moisture off the north sea bringing cloud and showers. quite a leopard print effect to our satellite picture at the moment. many areas are seeing cloud passing over and glimmers of sunshine coming in. some showers in the midlands this afternoon, some to the far south east as well, and a north easterly wind needs factoring in. one of the monitor you will see nine or 10 degrees, outside it will feel closer to five or six. indicators of a strong aurora to the north of the uk, even again possibly visible to the south. the best areas to get the clear skies probably somewhere in the south west of england and again to the north west of scotland. also where you get the
week. we will bring you that live. fresh calls for the government to stop energy bill rises in april as the energy regulator ofgem lowers the price cap for gas and electricity. a new panorama investigation uncovers evidence that women are being misled and manipulated about abortion by some crisis pregnancy advice centres in the uk. the first female speaker of the houses of commons, betty boothroyd dies aged 93. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. we ll be live in windsor shortly but first, just to let you know we re expecting a news conference very shortly in belfast from police investigating the shooting last week of det chief inspectorjohn caldwell. two gunmen shot the 48 year old several times in front of his young son at a sports complex on wednesday evening. mr caldwell remains critically ill in hospital. six people remain in police custody for questioning. this is the scene, the podium, as we expect the conference getting under way. there are significant developm
Uk. earlierthis trade barriers with the rest of the uk. earlier this year the uk government and eu announced a new deal announced and called the windsor framework which they think will help ease the passage of trade between great britain and northern ireland and pave the way for the dup to go back to power sharing. we have heard that the dup leaderjeffrey donaldson talking about finishing thejob of donaldson talking about finishing the job of securing northern ireland place in the uk so many people are reading that as a desire by him to ultimately get the institutions up and running but he has stressed that he still wants more, particularfrom the uk government, more commitments before he leaves his party back into stormont. irate before he leaves his party back into stormont. ~ ., before he leaves his party back into stormont. ~ . , stormont. we will leave it there but thank ou stormont. we will leave it there but thank you very stormont. we will leave it there but thank you very muc