welcome to belfast and the lyric theatre where tonight, the play agreement will mark a moment 25 years ago that changed every aspect of life here in northern ireland forever the signing of the good friday or belfast agreement. it brought peace to northern ireland, but it has been an imperfect peace. the agreement guaranteed power sharing in government between nationalist and unionist communities. but for more than a third of its lifetime, there hasn t been a sitting government at stormont. these halls at the lyric have captured huge moments of symbolism both big and small. ten years ago, martin mcguinness, northern ireland s former deputy first minister, a former ira commander, shook hands with queen elizabeth here, a moment that would have once been unimaginable. and it is moments like that that people will be looking out for this evening when president biden arrives. here in northern ireland, words matter, and people will be looking to president biden s speech to see ho
let s start in china, where the latest figures just released show the world s second largest economy grew faster than expected in the first three months of the year at 4.5%. this is the first set of quarterly gdp figures following the end of strict covid 19 restrictions in december. they also follow the easing of a three year crackdown on tech firms and property. lets get reaction from julian evans pritchard, head of china economics at capital economics. this is better than expected. most people are saying we re looking at 4% growth, give us your take on this number? really the strength is all about the consumer centre, we saw the vigors beads on the retail sales numbers are more generally in qrs or the household savings rates, so households are feeling more comfortable, households are feeling more comfortable, spinning again, they have comfortable, spinning again, they have the comfortable, spinning again, they have the possibility - comfortable, spinning again, they ha
good evening this is your update from the bbc sport centre. john w henry has today given an insight into liverpool s future plans and has ruled out a full sale of the club. his fenway sports group revealed back in november they were searching for investment into liverpool, and were also reportedly open to a full sale. henry has now told reporters in boston they won t be in england forever, but aren t selling the club now. they are talking to investors and he believes something might happen in relation to that but says it won t be a sale. the future ownership of manchester united has had a lot of attention over the last few days with interest confirmed from qatar, as well as ineos founder sirjim ratcliffe. but the current owners, the glazers, might still have a part to play. it s thought us based elliott investment management are offering to put together an investment package, that would allow the glazer family to retain some kind of interest in united. they ve owned the
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good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. as we come on the air, former vice president mike pence finds himself at the heart of two special counsel investigations unfolding simultaneously. one into classified documents that the fbi is searching for at his home literally as we speak. he s also facing a brand new subpoena regarding donald trump s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election. will he testify, and if so, could that be the key to criminal charges agains the former president? look at this extraordinary video out of southern turkey. a woman buried for 108 hours pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building. but accounts of survivors like her are few and far between with the death toll soaring over 22,000. this morning a representative with the u.n. refugee agency said more than 5 million may have been left homeless in syria alone. i ll talk to him live coming up. plus, a stunning new admission from one of those memphis police o