it comes just a day after a gunman killed ten people in a suspected racially motivated terror attack at a supermarket in the city of buffalo. now on bbc news, dateline. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast for audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a convention busting week, this one a queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen. two countries strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take sides. in northern ireland, a party in favour of reuniting the island of ireland topped the poll for the first time in the centuries since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and more, in the studio are brian 0 connell, former bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, eunice goes, portuguese journalist and university lecturer and newly created british citizen, and jeffrey kofman, who s been both a war correspondent and news anc
hello and welcome to the programme that brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a convention busting week, this one a queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen. two countries strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take sides. in northern ireland, a party in favour of reuniting the island of ireland topped the poll for the first time in the centuries since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and more, in the studio are brian o connell, former bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, eunice goes, portuguesejournalist and university lecturer and newly created british citizen, and jeffrey kofman, who s been both a war correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. good to have you back with us. jeffrey, let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland, finland s president, sauli niinisto, said on f
And, you know, that covers everything from basically the end of the second world war up to where we are now, and it s covered generations. and it will be a huge cultural shift as well. ten seconds. well, growing up in canada, i can say that i think- in canada, it sjust not talked about. i i think everyone has enough respect for elizabeth that i no one will talk about it when she s gone. i i think it s an open question. jeffrey kofman, brian o connor, eunice goes, thank you all very much. thank you. bye bye.
Jeffrey kofman, brian o connor, eunice goes, thank you all very much. thank you. bye bye. a real mix of weather types out there today. heavy showers, thunderstorms, essentially spells of warm sunshine. that is how it is looking through the rest of the day. some of us will catch those heavy downpours, but for other areas the warm spring sunshine will break through. high pressure still not far away, sitting towards the north east. a feature pushing northward bringing heavy showers and thunderstorms this morning. fizzling out into the afternoon but quite a lot of cloud and a few showers in parts of central england, wales and northern england, south west scotland and northern ireland. either side of that area of cloud and showers, sunshine and dry for