after a straight sets win. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. just days before taking over the white house, president elect donald trump has promised a quick trade deal with britain. the former cabinet minister and brexit campaigner, michael gove, who interviewed mr trump for the times newspaper, said the president elect was enthusiastic about britain leaving the eu and that the offer of a us trade deal would strengthen theresa may s hand in the brexit negotiations with brussels. but president elect trump s apparent disdain for nato, which he described as obsolete, and for the eu has triggered concern. our political correspondent ben wright reports. angela merkel said this afternoon that european unity was the best offence to the comments. defence to the comments. angela merkel said this afternoon that european unity was the best our political correspondent ben wright reports. by friday, he ll be president, the most powerful politician in the world. and getting a visi
britons on a beach in tunisia in 2015 hears that the shooting could have been stopped sooner. and a young woman abducted as a baby 18 years ago has now been reunited with both her biological parents. it s five o clock. our main story is the political crisis in northern ireland, where the power sharing executive has collapsed following sinn fein‘s refusal today to nominate a new deputy first minister to replace martin mcguinness. the first minister and dup leader, arlene foster, has accused sinn fein of risking northern ireland s stability for political self interest by forcing an election. the northern ireland secretary is expected to make a statement within the hour. the crisis was provoked by the mishandling of an energy scheme which could cost the taxpayer half a billion pounds. sinn fein have accused arlene foster of failing to take responsibility for it. my colleague annita mcveigh is in stormont for us. thank you very much. good evening from stormont, where in the las
political crisis in gambia. neighbouring senegal has sent in troops, to ensure adama barrow assumes power as the new president. and a french win in record time in the vendee globe race. welcome to bbc news. donald trump has arrived in washington, along with his wife melania, ahead of his inauguration tomorrow as the 45th president of the united states. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend some to support him, some to protest against him. and it will be watched around the world by millions. let s cross to our washington correspondent jane o brien. asign of a sign of the times, our viewers saw the pictures. that plane did not have the word trump all over it and it will be official tomorrow. the clock is ticking, fewer than 2a hours to go on donald trump will become president. he is on his way right now to the national cemetery to lay a wreath. he has had lunch with some of his cabinet picks and the republican leadership at trump hotel which hejokingly the re
Represents our entire society, something that builds on the framework that was laid out by the good friday agreement 25 years ago to a point where we have a fair system where everybody feels they re represented and where everybody s views are represented. it s going to take a lot of work to get there. i don t think we re there yet, i think we re on the road there, but what we have now, our current power sharing system has some wrinkles that really need to be ironed out desperately. the final person i m meeting on my tour of derry is student ellie jo at one of the city s newest tourist hot spots, the derry girls mural. so, ellie jo, you are a real life derry girl. we ve got obviously the tv derry girls there, but you are a true born and bred derry girl. yeah, born in derry, love it. what other issues are young people in northern ireland concerned about at the minute? we have no opportunity here. we have a cap on the numbers of students who can attend our local universities, which i thin
To a point where we have a fair system where everybody feels they re represented and where everybody s views are represented. it s going to take a lot of work to get there. i don t think we re there yet, i think we re on the road there, but what we have now, our current power sharing system has some wrinkles that really need to be ironed out desperately. the final person i m meeting on my tour of derry is student ellie jo at one of the city s newest tourist hot spots, the derry girls mural. so, ellie jo, you are a real life derry girl. we ve got obviously the tv derry girls there, but you are a true born and bred derry girl. yeah, born in derry, love it. what other issues are young people in northern ireland concerned about at the minute? we have no opportunity here. we have a cap on the numbers of students who can attend our local universities, which i think is just abysmal. that we would actually rather them to go somewhere else. and they don t come back after that. so i m seeing my