tonight he is across the border in the republic of ireland, where he ll spend the next two days retracing his irish roots. also on the programme: prince harry will attend his father s coronation next month, but meghan won t be travelling from california. billionaire twitter boss elon musk sits down with the bbc. he defends sacking thousands of staff, and says his time well, it s not been boring! it has been a roller coaster. find well, it s not been boring! it has been a roller-coaster. and is the world on course for been a roller-coaster. and is the world on course for the first - world on course for the first ever fall in fossil fuels producing electricity? because of renewables? on bbc london: and coming up on the bbc news channel. the uk and the republic of ireland submit theirjoint bid to host euro 2028, but two of the proposed stadiums aren t even built yet. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six, live from stormont on the day that president biden was in nort
Leo Varadkar made a comment during an interview at the New Economy Gateway conference in Dublin on 20 April that seems to have gone somewhat unnoticed.
chrisjoins me now. it was certainly a brief visit to northern ireland. how successful has it been? it was brief and short, the prime minister s involvement was minimal. he wasn t even at the president s speech. he was though meeting the police officerjohn caldwell and his family, you remember he was a senior detective who was shot in february. life changing injuries he sustained. the president referred to him in his speech, pleading northern ireland to leave violence behind and also crucially wanting to see power sharing government back up and running at stormont. the real question tonight is how closer are we to that? when you speak to people in the dup, who had walked a way from power sharing, you get a range of views. some feel the president is