about their reporter evan gershkovich, who has now been detained in russia for over 300 days. a very good evening. for the first time in nearly two years, it looks like northern ireland will have a devolved government and an assembly up and running by the end of next week. last night, there was a long meeting of the dup executive, the unionist party that collapsed power sharing in february 2022 in protest at the post brexit trading rules and checks which they said undermined northern ireland s place within the united kingdom. they now believe they have the assurances they need from westminster to return to government with the nationalists, sinn fein. our ireland correspondent sara girvin has this report. across northern ireland today, people woke up to news of a political breakthrough that s been nearly two years in the making. the lack of a functioning executive for so long has caused many issues for the lives of people here. public sector workers were out on strike earlier
he went on. a few days later, oceangate s stockton rush replied. he told rob mccullum. the next day, rob mccallum replied in the starkest terms. oceangate s lawyers then contacted rob maccullum and threatened legal action. today, we ve contacted them again and they say they have no additional information. rob mccallum maintains that no one should have gone in this submersible. our science correspondent jonathan amos has been tracking this story since the sub was first reported missing. this is a stark exchange your? it s a this is a stark exchange your? it s a fascinating exchange, actually. it is polite ish, but it s also very testy indeed. we should perhaps explain who rob mccullum is, he s got a storied career in deep submersibles. he led the five deeps expedition so this was the american adventure of the first person ever to reach the deepest points and all the world s oceans. so he certainly knows what he s talking about. and his criticism of stockton rush here, the c
duress and that hamas has provided no evidence for that claim that these two men were killed in israeli air strikes, but clearly deeply upsetting for all the families concerned. israel says more than 100 hostages are still being held by hamas. and there is no sign, as yet, that negotiations to free them are making any progress. let s go live to oliver mcternan, director of forward thinking, who has worked in hostage negotiation for over 20 years. he played a key role in the negotiations surrounding the release of the israeli soldier gilad shalit, held hostage by hamas for five years. good to have you back on the programme tonight is a very sad circumstances without the israeli army said tonight to hamas media was the brutal use of innocent hostages. how do you think it will affect the debate in israel? will it harden the resolve of the israeli government or put more pressure on them? first of all, put more pressure on them? first of all. christian. put more pressure on them
continue, and potentially, if they cannot, that game may be played tomorrow. in the same group, norway, who lost to scotland. on saturday are playing cyprus, and leading 1 0 with a goal from ole salbakken. and it s another landmark occasion for cristiano ronaldo who s become the first man to win 200 caps for his country. portugal are playing iceland in reykjavik. it is currently 0 0. australia s cricketers have beaten england in a thrilling finish to the 1st test at edgbaston in birmingham. the tourists began the final day on 107 for 3, chasing 281 to win. england looked on course to win when ben stokes bowled usman khawaja for 65 and joe root held a stunning catch off his own bowling to see off alex carey. but a 9th wicket stand of 55 between pat cummins and nathan lyon steered australia to victory by 2 wickets. it s their narrowest margin of victory in an ashes test in terms of wickets since 1907. at any i ve ever felt like this after a test match. there were so many emotio
this news came to us in the very last hour or so we are waiting for that press conference to begin in about 30 minutes or so. give us a sense of the mood where you are not that this latest information has come through. that this latest information has come through. this is going to be hiuhl come through. this is going to be highly anticipated come through. this is going to be highly anticipated press come through. this is going to be i highly anticipated press conference, we are used to getting them about once a day around one o clock in the afternoon and coming at three p:m., the world media is here and that will be a highly attended press conference. everyone wanting to know more details about the debris field that was found. this was confirmed in a tweet earlier today by the us coast guard which has been coordinating its operations from right here in boston. this has been an international search and rescue effort. you have gotten very few details. we have had to be pa