which is marking 25 years since the signing of the good friday agreement. the historic peace deal largely ended decades of violence in northern ireland. but prime minister rishi sunak says efforts must be intensified to restore the power sharing government that was central to the deal. it collapsed in the fallout from brexit and now the political dysfunction and security concerns are threatening to overshadow the historic milestone. rishi sunak willjoin the us president, joe biden, on a visit to northern ireland on tuesday to commemorate the good friday agreement. a few minutes ago, the us national security council spokesperson, john kirby, told the white house press corps how much this trip means to president biden. president biden will head to ulster university to deliver remarks marking the tremendous progress since the signing of the belfast good friday agreement 25 years ago. and he ll underscore the readiness of the united states to preserve those gains and support no
but warned that many residential areas were badly damaged or destroyed. our correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from lviv. a parting gift from russian forces in retreat. this used to be the palace of culture in a small town on the outskirts of kharkiv. translation: we were hit by rockets. three floors were breached. as you can see, the palace of culture is almost completely destroyed. it has nothing to do with military infrastructure. it s a civilian facility. it s a scene replicated right across ukraine s second city, much of which has been reduced to rubble. but kharkiv is known as a fortress city. in this invasion, it has earned that name. its defenders have resisted, and now repelled the russians. the battle for kharkiv, it seems, has been won. it s a very different story from that of mariupol, where russia seems confident enough of the victory to be redeploying troops to the donbas region. the ukrainian government says it wants to arm a million men for what is increas
those families of those hostages. the largest number of foreign nationals taken by hamas on october the 7th when they seized 250 people of nationality in breaking news line, the israeli military said they have retaliated today to cross border fire from southern lebanon, the united nations keep peacekeeping force in lebanon has told the reuters news agency who are reporting this and reuters witnesses said they had blasts along the south eastern lebanese frontier with israel and we know this is an extremely sensitive area and hundreds of thousands of israelis have been moved out of that area where there have been skirmishes since october the but reuters reporting the israeli military have retaliated on thursday to cross border fire from southern lebanon and of course that is a his brother stronghold. let s bring you the latest from dubai. c0 p28 co p28 taking place. cop28 taking place. such a significant event. we cop28 taking place. such a significant event. cop28 taking plac
I definitely want to take the positives out of this and make sure that i use it in a positive way for the rest of my life now. Still got a few years left in me for sure. In sport, chelsea are on the brink of the Premier League title as their closest challengers tottenham are beaten by west ham at the london stadium. These Bopping Bakers are just some of the people taking part in the first ever festival of makers. Well be live there to find out what its all about. And louise has the weather. Good morning. Another north south divide with the weather across the country, a chilly start for scotland and Northern Ireland but here therell be plenty of sunshine, more cloud for england and wales with outbreaks of showery rain into the extreme south west. More details coming up. Good morning. First, our main story. After a day of tory triumph in the local elections, the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn has admitted he faces an historic challenge ahead of next months vote. Campaigning for the General E
I definitely want to take the positives out of this and make sure that i use it in a positive way for the rest of my life now. Still got a few years left in me for sure. In sport, chelsea are on the brink of the Premier League title as their closest challengers tottenham are beaten by west ham at the london stadium. These Bopping Bakers are just some of the people taking part in the first ever festival of makers. Well be live there to find out what its all about. And louise has the weather. Good morning. Another north south divide with the weather across the country, a chilly start for scotland and Northern Ireland but here therell be plenty of sunshine, more cloud for england and wales with outbreaks of showery rain into the extreme south west. More details coming up. Good morning. First, our main story. After a day of tory triumph in the local elections, the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn has admitted he faces an historic challenge ahead of next months vote. Campaigning for the General E