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downing street has described the report as a significant contribution . i will be back at the top of the hour. now it s time for the week in parliament hello and welcome to the week in parliament. a setback for the government, as the lords gives the brexit bill its first defeat. peers demand guarantees for eu nationals in britain. these people are not bargaining chips. will we say, take your children out of the schools? will we say to the elderly, please go away from our care homes? these amendments are at the wrong time on the wrong bill, on the wrong subject. peers make their mark in a week when a tv documentary discloses what life is really like in the house of lords. complete with its rather odd ceremonies. visitors from overseas go to watch the changing of the guard or the beefeaters at the tower. i sometimes think people do like these quaintnesses. and if so, in whose interest is it to take them away? snappy dresser and long served parliamentarian, tributes are p ....
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. sinn fein are celebrating their best ever showing in elections to the northern ireland assembly. with all the votes counted, they ve won 27 seats, just one behind the democratic unionists. sinn fein‘s president, gerry adams, has described the result as an end to the old status quo . the two parties now have three weeks to try to agree a new power sharing coalition. for the latest, annita mcveigh is in belfast. thank you and good afternoon from belfast. if you were to ask most people here if the dup and sinn fein, the two largest parties could elect a new first minister and deputy first minister and get the devolved government back up and running in the initial three week time period they have for negotiations then most people would say it would take some sort of miracle to achieve that. there are some long standing historical legacy issues to be sorted out, contemporary issues to be sorted out. issues that led to the collapse o ....
winds. in between, some pretty decent weather across the eastern borders of scotland, coming down to the eastern side of england. too far towards the west, you start to run into showers, pretty heavy across wales and the south west, urged along by a noticeable breeze, and it is cold and miserable underneath that band of rain and snow and strong winds and that eases further north, followed by showers, turning wintry across higher ground, and then a new set of weather fronts across the south west quarter. this is the feature that evens out the weekend because having had the bulk of the sunshine through saturday, england and wales are not doing quite so well. it does bug up along the south coast. further north, scotland, after a disappointing saturday, gets better sunday, for the most part, save for the far north east. see you later. hello. this is bbc news with maxine mawhinney. the headlines. sinn fein make big gains in northern ireland s assembly elections. the dup is s ....
here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. sinn fein are celebrating their best ever showing in elections to the northern ireland assembly. with all the votes counted, they ve won 27 seats, just one behind the democratic unionists. sinn fein‘s president, gerry adams, has described the result as an end to the old status quo . the two parties now have three weeks to agree a new power sharing coalition. from belfast, chris buckler reports. the battle between unionism and nationalism has been at the centre of politics in northern ireland for decades. and the harsh words of old returned during this election campaign. the dup leader even compared irish republicans to crocodiles. if you feed a crocodile, they are going to keep coming back and looking for more. this vote saw republicans bite back. the increase in support for sinn fein has left them just a single seat behind the democratic unionist party. until the start of this year, they worked in coalition w ....
a 365 day celebration of all things arty and culture. we are at hull truck theatre where the royal shakespeare company have upped sticks from their home in stratford upon avon to come here and put on the world premiere of a brand new play. called the hypocrite, a farce about the english civil war. we will take you behind the scenes with actors caroline quentin and mark addy. we will find out why this 75 metre long turbine blade has landed in hull city centre. and take a look at the tiny footprints making a giant artwork celebrating life, birth and memory. as you can see there is already quite a buzz at hull truck theatre. but then again it s not everyday that the rsc up sticks and move to a new home temporarily. but then again it s not a usual year for hull, we are the uk city of culture for 2017. i m anne marie tasker, the arts and culture correspondent for the bbc in hull. and this is kofi smiles. i m the face of hull, chosen by the bbc to tell the world about the cit ....