hello. we start in belfast on a historic day, as a devolved government has been restored in northern ireland, with its first irish nationalist leader. michelle o neill has been elected first minister of the devolved government. her party, sinn fein, hopes to one day unite northern ireland with the republic of ireland. sinn fein became the biggest party during elections two years ago. it is also two years to the day that the assembly at stormont last met, after the main unionist party the democratic unionists walked out of the power sharing agreement over post brexit trading rules. our political editor, chris mason, reports from belfast. good morning, stormont! stormont s back up and running today, we ve been running the past two years. limbering up and under way park runners here first thing, pounding around the stormont estate. and the politicians are back, too. whoo! and it s notjust you guys rattling around here now. no, there s going to be a few others rattling arou
are reporting that dozens more girls have been poisoned in a suspected gas attacks on iranian schools. no girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. now on bbc news, troubles and peace 25 years since the good friday agreement was signed, this is a story of history and hope. cheering. the good friday agreements promised that a new generation would live in peace. it gave people hope that life would be different, and it was, for us. i m very happy growing up in northern ireland compared to what it was, i think it s a great place. it was a really formative time. what we were studying | in the classroom wasn t in a textbook. the deal largely ended the longest running conflict in europe, 25 years ago. i thought, this is not a conflict that has got any place in the new millennium. if you want to solve it, you have to take that risk and talk to those who actually control the violence. enemies compromised and differences were settl
hundreds of palestinians have barricaded themselves inside the al aqsa mosque injerusalem. tensions remain high, as israeli police stopped palestinian men from entering the compound, forcing them to pray outside the old city gates. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for troubles and peace. 25 years since the good friday agreement was signed, this is a story of history and hope. the good friday agreements promised that a new generation would live in peace. it gave people hope that life would be different, and it was, for us. i m very happy growing up in northern ireland compared to what it was, i think it s a great place. it was a really formative time. what we were studying in the classroom - wasn t in a textbook. the deal largely ended the longest running conflict in europe, 25 years ago. i thought, this is not a conflict that has got any place in the new millennium. if you want to solve it, you have to take that risk and talk to those who actually control the violence.
i thought, this is not a conflict that has got any place in the new millennium. if you want to solve it, you have to take that risk and talk to those who actually control the violence. enemies compromised and differences were settled. this is a story ofjeopardy, dilemmas and leadership. tony blair: |think| there s a hope that - ifeel the hand of history upon our shoulders. kerrie and erin had never met before. if they had been from a previous generation, they probably wouldn t have met at all. but they were born on the day of a peace deal. we are very lucky that we grew up where we did after the good friday agreement. lived a very happy life so far, always enjoyed all my classes, loads of opportunities. they are in the newest cinema in northern ireland in a shopping centre in belfast, which was bombed five times in as many years. they are reflecting on scenes of bloodshed which they have never known. very different than what i would have grown up in, two different worlds. eve
we asked bbc news for a response to that point, and they told us. it s fair to say not everyone is so concerned about the outcome of local elections, which often struggle to enthuse large parts of the electorate. those who are politically engaged were well served by bbc news, which ran through the night programmes on both television and radio, as well as extensive coverage through the day on friday. coverage through it was all too much, though, for dawn cannell. one way of trying to attract audiences to a topic like local elections is to go beyond those well worn shots of ballot papers being counted and use visual metaphors, pictures which can be linked to the subject in question through a deft script line. that was the approach used for a report from wales on friday s news at six. steeped in labour history, the south wales valleys relationship with the party has wavered in recent years. cheering ..but today, vows were renewed. voters who may have flirted with other parties