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
Mr netanyahu said a ceasefire would not be agreed until israeli hostages, captured by hamas in october, were released. Translation the achievements of the war are great. We eliminated 19 out of 2a of the hamas battalions, including senior commanders. We killed, wounded or captured a significant number of hamas terrorists. We purged shifa and many other Terrorist Headquarters as well. We destroyed factories, manufacturing rockets, control rooms, weapons, ammunition, and we continue to systematically destroy what is underground. We are one step away from victory. Israel is not the one preventing a deal. Hamas prevents a deal. Its extreme demands were intended to bring about an end to the war and leave it intact, meaning to ensure its survival, its rehabilitation, its ability to endanger our citizens and our soldiers. Surrendering to hamas demands will allow it to try to repeat the Crimes Of October Seventh again and again, as it promised to do. Hamas hopes that the pressure from outside
Im stephen sackur. To make it to the top in the world of ballet requires notjust extraordinary talent, but immense reserves of physical and mental determination. So imagine how much more it takes if your childhood is torn apart by civil war, hunger and homelessness. Todays guest, Michaela Deprince, has made a remarkablejourney from horrific suffering in sierra leone to accolades in the world of international dance. How on earth did she make it happen . Michaela deprince, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you. Its almost a cliche to talk about people who have made remarkable journeys, but you really have. And i want to know today, as you sit here with me as an internationally acclaimed ballerina, how connected do you feel to that little girl who was born and brought up in the first few years of her life in sierra leone . I dont feel as connected as i used to be to her. I do have those days where i still have those horrible nightmares about my past in sierra leone, but, really, im ju
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. To make it to the top in the world of ballet requires notjust extraordinary talent, but immense reserves of physical and mental determination. So imagine how much more it takes if your childhood is torn apart by civil war, hunger and homelessness. Todays guest, Michaela Deprince, has made a remarkablejourney from horrific suffering in sierra leone to accolades in the world of international dance. How on earth did she make it happen . Michaela deprince, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you. Its almost a cliche to talk about people who have made remarkable journeys, but you really have. And i want to know today, as you sit here with me as an internationally acclaimed ballerina, how connected do you feel to that little girl who was born and brought up in the first few years of her life in sierra leone . I dont feel as connected as i used to be to her. I do have those days where i still have those horrible nightmares about my past in sierra leon
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. To make it to the top in the world of ballet requires notjust extraordinary talent, but immense reserves of physical and mental determination. So imagine how much more it takes if your childhood is torn apart by civil war, hunger and homelessness. Todays guest, Michaela Deprince, has made a remarkablejourney from horrific suffering in sierra leone to accolades in the world of international dance. How on earth did she make it happen . Michaela deprince, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you. Its almost a cliche to talk about people who have made remarkable journeys, but you really have. And i want to know today, as you sit here with me as an internationally acclaimed ballerina, how connected do you feel to that little girl who was born and brought up in the first few years of her life in sierra leone . I dont feel as connected as i used to be to her. I do have those days where i still have those horrible nightmares about my past in sierra leon