A civil lead government of transition was gone. That the real strong amount of molly is a see me going to. So this comes as no surprise it in the run up to this. And now its made made by the Constitutional Court. Well as see me going to has been meeting leaders, religious leaders, union leaders, the opposition really trying to rallying to his cause, meaning that there was no real surprise when this Constitutional Court announcement was made. The remains of 215 children have been found at the site of a former school in western canada, at least a 150000 indigenous children attended so called residential schools between the 840 in 1900 ninetys. Many were forcibly taken from their families. An event of career virus has reportedly been detected in vietnam. The Health Minister says its a hybrid of the indian and u. K. Mutations and spreads quickly by germany has acknowledged committed genocide in the early 19 hundreds when it controlled what is now namibia is ruled out reparations and said is agreed to more than a 1000000000. 00 in development, age and support for the victims, descendants, kinds of thousands of people are thinking shelter and democratic republic of congo after all 13 or the evacuation of areas near the city of goma volcano that may abrupt again at any moment. The government says nearly 400000 people have been displaced in just a few days. And republicans in the us senate derailed an inquiry into the attack on capitol hill by donald trump. Supportive democrats had wanted to set up a commission looking into the events leading up to the riots. Those are you headlines we back with another news update on now to 0 after war hotel. Paul county, of course india, the 6 biggest economy of pharmacy in the world behind the lumbers practice. Because late the process, the world works, the competition is china financing the destruction of forests. India is looking for new oil supply us counting the cost on al jazeera, the repair hotel, i think is the most bombed hotel, said nathan. Ive ever stated in conflict that there is a bomb in the rope. A hotel would you believe a bomb went off . Youd always targeted by the re primarily because it was a symbol of progress. I regard the roper in belfast as the greatest hotel in the world news. We loved it when it was built and we loved it. Even when it was bombed. Why would you apply to work in the most bombed building in europe. And the biggest box you have ever seen had as exploded would actually take the hotel ah the ah, belfast, the capital and largest city in Northern Ireland was torn apart by sic terry and conflict during the 19 seventys eightys and ninetys between the Protestant Union as the majority wanted Northern Ireland to re maine within the United Kingdom and the catholic republican minority. We sold themselves as oppressed by the protestant. More than 3500 people were killed and thousands injured. In this 3 decade long conflicts known as the trouble. Over 16000. 00 bomb exploded across the Northern Ireland from both sides and the violence spread to the Irish Capital dublin and the english capital london. But amid the violence, this building stood firmly in the center of belfast. Witness some of the bloodiest chapters of the conflict. It hosted more general it still tourists survived 33. 00 bombings by the provisional irish republican army, the re and held the dubious honor of being europes most palm hotel. Ah ah, in the mid 19 sixtys. Despite the historical enmity, the relationship between the Protestant Unionist and the catholic nationalist communities was relatively stable. In belfast, growing Economic Confidence had led to a construction boom. And a decision was made to build a large new hotel on the sides of the Great Northern Railway Station in 1900. 60 thanks, john metropolitan hotels commissioned the building of the hotel. Youd opa here in the center of belfast. It was a time the relative Economic Prosperity of relative positivity that was the time before the troubles really emerged. However, in the summer of 968. 00, a new phase of sectarian violence broke out and delayed the building of the hotel. The flesh is broke out between nationalists, catholics im loyal, if protestant during civil rights demonstrations in the bump side area of the city of the fierce confrontation attracted wide media attention. Bbc correspondent martin bell was one of the 1st to arrive in Northern Ireland. And one of the 1st guests to check into the europa hotel 2 years later, i remember coming to both of us to november 968, to had to been the famous civil rights much in terry london dairy the months before we stayed at one of 2 really Old Fashioned hotels, right in the central city, while mister all avenue, the other was the grand central, both of which later close to the europa open. This is the whole area of bell fast at 7 oclock this evening, the violence, the Northern Ireland increase. Youre in 1969, and the u. K. Government sent in the british army. Amid the uncertainty, the construction of the 12 story euro per in Belfast City Center gradually emerged in 1970 the tallest building and the city at the time. Another euro for regular was robin walsh. Then a reporter for the belfast evening telegraph. He later became a b b. C news editor. And ultimately the controller of bbc Northern Ireland. Well, i think that the impression was very mixed, that there was a bit of what is this place doing here . But then there was an element of hope actually is that such a hotel should be built ah said carrion, killing car bombs and violence paramilitary activity spread across the Northern Ireland and built to a peak in 1971. In the construction of the europa was nearly complete. When the 1st bomb struck. Hotel you probably bombed for the 1st time on the 3rd of july, 971, actually a week or 2 weeks prior to the opening of the building. So even before the hotel u t. O paul was open to doors to the public in belfast, had already been a target for the provisional nevertheless, 5 days after the 1st bomb, the rope held its ground. It has been designed to make a bold statement and its architecture Effective Services staff and management. Ah, at the time henry kelly with the young irish print journalist working in belfast for the dublin faced irish time. The 1st time i went into the europe, obviously through the security then up in it. And the foyer was just one of the biggest bits of hotels ive ever seen in my life. And i been a few places. Obviously, whatever they had decided to do, they were going to say, were here. Gerald seymour was among the 1st journalists to report extensively on Northern Ireland while working for the british news organization. The 1st time i went to the rubber hotel, it was brand new and it would be opened a couple of weeks and that would have been in the early summer of 971. And all hell had broken loose in belfast at that time. You know, fast and bomb explosions. Rock this inches in broad daylight. 2 months after it opened, on the 6th of september, 971. 00, a 2nd bomb hit the europa. A car bomb exploded next to the hotel, seriously damaging the Protestant Union if party had courted. 40 people were injured and the rope has windows completely shattered. The hotels 1st manager was half a brown, and he immediately ordered the glass to be repaired and the guest should been evacuated to be re accommodated. Most of them were journalists, harper broad, international grey, a double m, v. He was to be awarded. Member of the British Empire metal by the queen. A 2nd m b e was of course manager foster robot. And he was a seasoned hotelier who i think harper brown was that red sort of character who actually enjoys emergencies and danger. He bustled around and he was a small, energetic man who ran everything to do with a hotel. And we were actually rather proud of him and funny. So the way he was rather proud of us under brown, the roper continued to convey a sense of business as usual. But despite his efforts, the europa was soon back in the firing line. In october, 971. 00 to our men, entered the hotel, held 8 people at gunpoint and placed a large white box at reception, which contained a huge bomb in the hotel with the vacuum aged vehicles were removed from the area. And the british army arrived including bomb disposal experts. Major, george stone. I was never there train a bomb, went off, but i was there once in the lower park, when somebody came in, it said that theres a bomb. Weve got together ex. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I looked across to the for you and the biggest box you have ever seen. The size of that table was there. And that was the famous bomb battle, dismantled by george sty ups, which had as exploded would have actually taken out. The hotel style was prepared to go to enormous links to diffuse the bomb. And on one occasion, he and up to the ro Victoria Hospital for their most molden and sophisticated x ray equipment. And had it brought down the road and brought into the hotel. So he could better examine the ball and worked on it for hours. He came out and he said, got my boot on the beast throat, and crushed it. 972 was all give me the worst in the 30 history of the Northern Ireland violence. It began with whats known as bloody sunday on the 30th of january, when british soldiers killed 13 people in dairy during demonstrations against the british policy of internment without trial, 2 months later, a car bomb went off in the parking area behind the europa. The explosion triggered fires and caused massive damage to the nearby grand victoria Railway Station, shattering all the hotels windows and spreading panic among local residents. But no one was killed. More belfast bombings followed, and the europa became a ill re propaganda target. Here you had the words media in this hotel, the provisional i or race activities involved the bombing of commercial premises. They wanted to make Northern Ireland ungovernable gift. The british arch hit commercialism. And lets have a United Ireland and they were doing it by serious violence. And here they brought the news to the doorstep of the charges. And here you had a posse of people who are a witness that im the be exported. The message the hotel became an irish target. First of all, cultures bright shiny new and inviting to be blown up. They didnt say a bombs to make an impact. So was better place to place them then the then the hotel where the, where the press. Well thats why they didnt tell you dont always targeted by the re primarily because it represented if you like the investment into the sensitive belfast investment by the government of Northern Ireland into the center of the city. The it was one thing for the journalists to be the reporting, the attack. But for the hotel stuff, the bombings kept them on high alert all the time. In april 1972, they noticed a Suspicious Truck parked on the street between the hotel and the opera house and raised the alarm. A British Army Bomb Disposal unit arrived and of course the cameras were there. A few minutes later the bomb exploded. The bluff was felt across the city doing huge damage to the ground floor of the europa, shattering most of its windows, causing panic amongst the journalism. Well, there werent too many visitors during the troubles to northern harland, other than the hordes of news people who came here and the place actually survived because of its journalistic involvement. And the, the hotel i really took that by the scruff of the neck and made it almost unusual room. Dana, i remember, was quite conspiratorial, because you didnt want of the journalist to hear your conversation. It was another age of journalism in which you will remember not for your successes but feel defeats. So you do Everything Possible to keep up with the got it. Ah, the sunday times journalist chris ryder described the hotel you to the crossroads of intrigue. And in a sense, it was. So the hotel you rope was actually a really important place to come to shade information to hear the gossip of journalists, perhaps to get your story across journalists, ah, the dining room on the evening in the early motion. Amazing place. There was a journalist, be with our various contacts, supposedly be from the security forces. Books, pardon miller, trace politicians right across the board. And it was very interesting to observe the dining room of the tide because half the people were listening and trying to eavesdrop on the next table because they were so many intriguing people. This was a hub of journalism the re often warned of impending attacks. So when a bomb was found in the ladys toilet, in june 1972 stuff and journalist had an hour to evacuate, the hotel casualties were avoided, but the ball badly damaged the 1st floor. This was the 1st ball to go off inside the hotel. The i really remember being evacuated from the euro. Bo tell only alarm sounded, and we were, we were ushered out. And this was one occasion when, when the bomb did blow up the killing climax, the day of pilot encoding a bomb belfast luxury europa hotel. If you had been evacuated as a guest from the hotel on 17 occasions or more than 17, then the Hotel Management presented you with a special tie. And i have a little certificate to say that i have been evacuated on the 17 times, plus on the 21st of july, 1972 was one of the most violent days of all. Its known as bloody friday. The 26 i all re bulbs, went off across bel, killing 11 people, and injuring more than 140. The europa survived bloody friday, but not for very long. Some 6 months later, they re hit the hotel again with a series of bombings in 1973. In march, a British Army Bomb Disposal unit, thats an aged carbone with a robotic all. And in may and october of that year to bombs exploded at the back of the hotel. The robin was remembered vividly. I did not have the misfortune of being evacuated. That is enough to say, i didnt have an experience of that because one afternoon, my wife was having afternoon tea in this hotel. There was a bomb alert. She armed her girlfriend or escorted algebra hotel, past the ball, which was in the should cash at reception. Unlike the good wife of a journalist, she went to a telephone kiosk crossed the road from the hotel and rang my direct number at work. To say, there is a bomb in the a rope, a hotel, and ive just been evacuations. And would you believe that bomb went off and i heard that part in the fall, and i remember screaming, are you all right . Are you all right . And she was, she was not injured. So a little i wasnt affected directly. I had a worse experience because it was my wife, the in the 3 years since it opened 25 bomb said so far exploded in and around the europa. But yet there was optimism for both the people of Northern Ireland and the roper. When d, i all re announce to cease fire on the 22nd of december 974. But he only laughed at 25. 00 days. In january 975, the roco was hit again. A boma le cause to complete evacuation, but the bomb exploded and caused great structural damage, albeit without casualties. Hall for brown over saw the response. I can anybody in my car because id like to get those 2 windows sites 1st and 1975 in the year here. There were 2 large bomb attacks. Second to which in december 1975, a car bomb exploded outside the hotel, destroyed almost all the windows in the hotel. And as a consequence of the damage, encouraging that stickler tot that will tell her to because for several months they had after the hotel, you roper became colloquially known as the hard boars hotel because after explosions, it wouldnt be possible for the glazier to fit new windows immediately so wouldnt boards had to be directed the bloss forced europa to close over a year when it reopened. It was fortress europa, surrounded by barricades to stop on identified calls going near the entrance and the hotel safe to be on. I r a target in the late 19 seventys, and most of the 80 it was sold in 1983, and the new owners rebranded it as the forum hotel. But the old name was restored 3 years later with another set of owners. Half a brown whod run the hotel through its darkest days, retired in 1985 and died a christmas 2 years later. But then the europa hit new problems. In 1991 its own as went bankrupt, throwing its future into doubt. Not long after the i re resumed its focus on the hotel and center bomb threats on the 4th of december, 1991 Martin Mulholland who worked his way up on the concierge desk over 18 years to head. It remembers that day 91. 00, the hotel was significantly damaged. Probably the worst damage to that point of any of the attacks when we got into the building. It was a mess. There were very few ceilings that were, were up there were no windows at all. There were given holes in the side of the hotel, it was, it was pretty significant damage. We spent 2 years actually renovating motel and, and trying to get a to, to works. And we just got to that stage. And then in 93, it was tucked in in may 993, a massive 450 kilos. Foam rocked bel phone. It was hidden in a large laurie park between the europa and the opera house. The damage was so severe, i was able to stand at my desk and for a look through the restaurant wall, look through the opera house will and see the opera stage. Such was the, the force of the blast. And we find a part of the engine block on the 12th floor refill. Tell the devastating ball the main 1993. Was the last of 30 attacks by the provisional i already on the hotel youd opa. Thereafter the hotel you dont was bought by the Hastings Hotel group, and the hotel move towards a more positive future. Me the new owners completely refurbish the roku. Ah, but the face of politics and Northern Ireland was also changing peace talks ramped up in the mid 1919 when you as president bill clinton and his wife hillary visited Northern Ireland in support of the peace process. They checked in to the roper, 4190995. The clinton suite is named in their own i. The formal end of hostilities was finally signed with the good friday agreement. On the 10th of april 1998. It was the end of the decades of grim conflict at the end of an era for this extraordinary war. For the hundreds of journalists to cover Northern Islands darkest years, the per will always occupy a special place in their hearts and mine. Ah, we love the big house of the security and con with all hell going on around it, that they europa invoked. I will never forget that. I have enormous fondness for it. Ah, i regard the re put in belfast as the greatest hotel in the world. We loved it when it was built and we loved it even when it was bombed and it was and remains a special place in this hotel is for ever in my mind because i see it so often, spying in the middle of belfast beside my Railway Station and i never fail to pass sir roper was sight. Busy seeing the images of the past and of course, right in the middle of the trouble as much as you look back, was initial town, which is not a symbol of hope for the future ah dislike as if it was no conscious monument. To the sheer decency of a great city. Fast. So as far as im concerned, you can call the rope what effort youre like. But for me and for my generation of joan, this is to just be the are over. I ah, the important thing if you are Walking Around and be rude, was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday. Fall off, we heard gunshots. I was the 1st one to flee. The whole battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights. And there were no prisoners at the end control over the in, and you control the region around. And thats why it was such an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil war bay route holiday in war hotels on al jazeera, the latest news, as it breaks all the half of the coal mines by separatists is we labeled as russian cole and transported out to markets in asia and europe with detailed coverage before into withdrawal is underway and will be completed after the may 1st the deadline from around the world. These demonstrates with team to remind the British Government about any new laws designed to cattail peoples rights of assembly damage, the countrys democracy, awe, and other more con, into how these the top stories on al jazeera, the colonel who led a military coup and money while serving his Vice President has been declared inter impreza by the Constitutional Court as see me going out to be of the temp really doesnt order that, detention all the parts of another, motley crue in august, they were leading a transitional government, which was supposed to organize elections disagreements wessons when military figures were stripped of the ministerial posts and a cabinet re shuffle. Next