The four year and we will have about fifty percent of our desk repaid. Talk russell was the official rejoice in the studio sean has this was as good news for the good news for taxpayers because said this now but dax thirty billion office as hangovers is a contingent liability. It becomes our problems economic capital of that money back so the more that they sell all the mormon faith that they repay the mess we have to worry about its awesome that the most important thing secondly its a code for the banks because they are holding the snout of bombs that giving cash into them thus making them go faster improving their Balance Sheets mc and help support their situation. Its also cool because the country in terms of improving the image is a lot of investor interest to keep me from abroad and fine irish property at the moment that was a good time to sell the stuff so the wrapping up those sales moving along faster. We told him it would be moving to cut the one to pay to about billion of deb
to agree once again to power sharing in the wake of local election results. the nationalist party, shinn fein, has emerged with the largest number of seats. here s our ireland correspondent emma vardy. the balance of power between the two different visions for this island has shifted symbolically, at least. what do you think it means for northern ireland? well, it means maybe stormont will get back together and maybe it won t. i mean, this is what we ve been living with for years now, dysfunctional politicians and dysfunctional systems. the immediate challenge for northern ireland is to heal the divisions caused by the brexit arrangements. the anger over a new border down the irish sea, which split the unionist vote. it places us under the jackboot of the eu, and we have been effectively held hostage in an economic united ireland. goods carried over the irish sea on ferries from britain undergo new checks when they reach these shores, which is perceived by some unionists as severing
of many businesses. attempts to make the arrangement simpler has put the uk government at loggerheads with the eu. the eu has shown no flexibility and it s very disappointing that what we re hearing is that the eu is already saying it won t show any flexibility, and that s why it is absolutely right that we, as the uk government, are very clear. we want to get a resolution on this with the eu, but we have never taken anything off the table in terms of resolving this issue for the people of northern ireland. while this persists, the dup has said it won t go back into the power sharing executive, which sinn fein argues holds everyone to ransom. a fundamentalist approach that it is either the executive or the protocol, but you can t have both, that is not helping somebody with the cost of living. i m a committed devolutionist, the dup are committed devolutionists, but it can only be on sound, stable footing, which means consent for both unionists and nationalists. hi, guys, can i get- you
new questions over what it says about the choices voters are making for northern ireland s future. the party strongly believes in holding a border poll, a vote on whether northern ireland should remain part of the uk. there is only one person that can call a border poll, and that is the secretary of state for northern ireland. he s obliged to call a border poll if it appears to him that there is a majority in favour of a united ireland within northern ireland. at the moment, the opinion polls suggest that support for a united ireland is within the 30 a0% range, so we ve still got considerable distance to travel before we get to that point. for now, the problem for sinn fein is how to translate their victory into real power, because unless there s agreement between the parties, northern ireland remains in deadlock. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. the man who oversaw the crackdown on protesters in hong kong during pro democracy demonstrations in 2019 has become the territory s new leader.