experts and commentators to guidance through the day. welcome to viewers on bbc one northern ireland and viewers on bbc news, this is a stormont special, in which history is about to be made. let s cross to parliament buildings. talk is through the significance as you see it as to what will happen. i through the significance as you see it as to what will happen. it as to what will happen. i don t think ou it as to what will happen. i don t think you could it as to what will happen. i don t think you could understate - it as to what will happen. i don t think you could understate the l think you could understate the symbolic significance today here after 100 years of northern ireland, we are going to get our first nationalist republican first minister here and we have had 11 other leaders in northern ireland, so this will be a significant moment is notjust because titles matter, michelle o neill will have a new title, but we will see within the assembly chamber that visual
tonight with the context, anand menon, director of the thinktank, the uk in a changing europe and the former spokesperson for the republican national committee doug heye welcome to the programme. around a million health workers in england have been offered a new pay deal today, which could bring to an end months of damaging strikes in the nhs. the unions at the negotation, represent a wide variety of health staff from nurses, paramedics, and midwives, to emergency call handlers and cleaners. the deal now on the table comes in two parts. first a one off payment for the 22/23 financial year that the government will pay within weeks which rises from 1,600 pounds 1,900 dollars for the lowest paid, to around £3,700 for senior managers. and on top of that there s a 5% pay rise for next year. most of the unions involved in the talks says they will recommend their members accept the offer. here s the prime minister. we ve got a great plan in place to make improvements and yo
this afternoon, asjens stoltenberg has been discussing the war in ukraine, with the big announcement from him today is that finland will join nato, formallyjoining the alliance on tuesday. that join nato, formally joining the alliance on tuesday. that helps turke in alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the fight alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the fight against, - alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the fight against, for- turkey in the fight against, for instance, the pkk, which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by finland and the european union. of course, we work together to fight this type of organisation. it also helps sweden in addressing some of the organised crime that sweden is seeing taking place in its own streets. we know there is a close link between these terrorist organisations and their objectives and organised crime and drug traffic in a country like sweden. i strongly agree that we
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