through a huge security cordon known as the ring of steel. these days, a bus service called the glider makes a relatively easy trip between the east and west of the city several times a day. we ve taken thatjourney with some of northern ireland s so called peace generation , born after the agreement. sarah girvin reports. if the good friday agreement was the start of a journey, what s the direction of travel 25 years later? during the troubles, it wasn t possible to travel on just one bus between largely unionist east and largely nationalist west belfast. and even if it had been, not many people would have felt safe enough to do so. the free movement of today is a big change. you can see from these photographs. these are of the entity which was known as the ring of steel. this is to go shopping, this is to go to work. this is everyday civilian life. we encountered these search points and checkpoints, and this goes on for a quarter of a century. so what do our passengers make
abbey. cheering. and spain sjon rahm wins the masters in augusta and says he was inspired by the late, great seve ballesteros. china has carried out what it says is a mock air blockade of taiwan using jets carrying live ammunition in the latest escalation of tensions in the south china sea. in response the us has sent a destroyer to the area which the chinese have condemned as an illegal incursion. china began a series of military exercises just hours after the taiwanese president returned from a visit to the united states. it views taiwan as a breakway province that it wants to bring back under its control. shaima khalil reports. a show of force and fury. for a third day, china s military continued what it calls operationjoint sword aerial and naval blockade drills to seal off the island. the chinese army showed this short video of simulated attacks on taiwan, with missiles fired from land, sea and air into the island s territory. the chinese military confirmed that its ai
in the available if they continue and stay in the nhs. we ll have the latest on a comprehensive survey of dental practices conducted by the bbc. also on the programme. following the anger over the strip searching of a teenage schoolgirl it s revealed that hundreds of other children have been strip searched by the metropolitan police. ryan giggs, the former manchester united star, attends court to deny a charge of coercive behaviour and assaulting his former girlfriend. and i m here at the alexander stadium in birmingham where the final day of the commonwealth games is due to end with a musical celebration of the city after more golds for the home nations. england came second in the medal table with 57 gold medals. they included a spectacular performance by england s noah williams and 17 year old andrea spendolini sireix in the diving mixed synchronised iom platform final. and coming up on the bbc news channel. england finish second in the medals table as declanjames and jam
aggressive behaviour and assault. the final medals have been one of the common wealth games. australia top the table with a record breaking middle hole petit mangan. and i am reeta chakrabarti live from the alexander stadium where the closing ceremony is due to start in around happen our marketing the end of the competition of ii happen our marketing the end of the competition of 11 days of sport. good evening and welcome to the bbc news channel. bbc research has found that only one in ten nhs dentists in the uk are taking on new adult patients. the most extensive survey in years has revealed that some areas are dental deserts. out of nearly 6,900 nhs dental practices contacted. 90% said they were no longer accepting any new adult patients. only a quarter of those dental practices said they operated a waiting list to become an nhs patient and for most of those, the wait was at least a year or more. and in 12% of local authority areas in the uk, we couldn t find a single pra
released, have been handed to qatari mediators, and passed on to israeli negotiators. prisoners being held in israeli jails will be also be released, as part of the delayed deal. a four day pause in fighting in gaza will start on friday morning, at 07:00 local time, after almost seven weeks of fighting. humanitarian aid will start to go into gaza, as soon as that pause in hostilities begins. qatar s foreign ministry spokesman majed al ansari has been speaking about the truce. we have just finished with all the communication with all parties in order to ascertain the lists of those civilians who will be freed as a result of the deal agreed upon by both parties. the lists have been handed to both sides. and finally, in a communication just now, the list has been handed to the israeli intelligence service, the mossad, in order to facilitate the implementation of the deal. according to this, of course, and as the agreement took place, the beginning of the pause will be 7am frid