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
large rallies have taken place in houston, new york, washington, los angeles and chicago. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme. it brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline in london. it has 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, topping the poll for the first time in the century since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all of that we have brian o connell, a bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, a portuguese journalist and university lecturer and newly british citizen, and jeffrey goffman, who has been able corresponding and new news anchor in canada and the united states. good to have you with us. we start with nato expansi
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
now on bbc news.. dateline london with shaun ley hello and welcome to the programme which brings together the foreign correspondence for audience back home from the dateline london. it has been a convention busting week, this one. the 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 repairing to take sides for, in northern ireland a party in favour of reuniting ireland top the poll for the first time in the century since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and work in the studio are brian o connell, a portuguesejournalist and university lecturer, newly created british citizen, and jeffrey coffman who has been a royal correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. could have you back with us. let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland. finland s president said on friday he is going to ring president putin and tell him that the situation has changed. how a big a
It sjust about it s just about language and everything it s just about language and everything else. but for the dup, i it s more than that. every time you hear jeffrey donaldson saying that, talk about it, as he did i when when they came out of stormont, refusing to toj cooperate with the election of a speaker, he said, - we ve got to get rid of this. the protocol has to go. he s not interested in half measures j that s the difficulty. before i bring injeffrey, can i ask you one question? i was very struck by something. i was very struck by something sam mcbride, who is political editor for the newsletter, which is one of the leading unionist papers in northern ireland. sam said that polling of 80% of people in northern ireland, regardless of their views on this subject whether they re nationalist, republican or non aligned they do not trust what the british government says on the protocol. now, if they don t trust it and the eu don t trust it, there s a real problem h