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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 v ....
shouting. saturday night in the port city of marseille, as france s summer of strife continues. police and protesters clashed, officers fired tear gas to disperse the crowds. unrest in france over the police killing of a 17 year old continues. sirens wail. in paris, a beefed up security presence. they had been called on social media for protesters together in the city centre, but it seems they had been outnumbered by the police. it is lights out here in the french capital. the mood quickly changed. and for the last few days, it has been a familiar cycle of frustration, anger and violence. the night was calmer. many who came to the area had their bags searched. some say it is another example of police overreach, targeted at minority communities. translation: the person who was killed was a minor and that is why more miners are coming into the movement. we support this movement because what is going on is unfair. is going on is unfair. imagine if that had happened is going o ....
fighting tradition. a history of ferocious resistance. but it s nothing like what you might think. not at all. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: this is okinawa, just south of mainland japan. for all the relative rigidity of the mainland, okinawa answers in its own unique way. don t eat the same thing each day. that s boring. there s even an okinawan term for it. chanpuru, something mixed. bits borrowed from all over served up for anyone to eat. but maybe you re more familiar with the name okinawa from this. as the setting for some of the most horrifyingly bloody battles of the second world war. how horrifying? for the allies there were more than 50,000 casualties with around 12,000 killed, or missing in action, over nearly three months of fig ....
of people have looted aid trucks entering the besieged strip through the rafah crossing. for the first time since the war began, israel has also opened one of its crossings into gaza to aid. it s hoped the opening of the kerem shalom crossing will double the amount of food and medicine reaching gazans. until now, aid has only been able to reach the territory through the rafah crossing from egypt. israel has kept up its bombardment of gaza, killing dozens more people. gaza s hamas run health ministry says 90 people were killed injust the jabalia area of gaza city. in a change of tone, the uk and germany havejoined calls for a sustainable ceasefire . prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists israel will fight to the end, but the reuters news agency is quoting egyptian security sources as saying israel and hamas are both open to a ceasefire but still disagree over details. our correspondent lucy williamson has more. the target for israel in gaza is hamas. for palestinians, it s ....
anthony: what does it mean to be strong? it implies hardness, inflexibility. okinawa is a place with a fighting tradition. a history of ferocious resistance. but it s nothing like what you might think. not at all. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: this is okinawa, just south of mainland japan. for all the relative rigidity of the mainland, okinawa answers in its own unique way. don t eat the same thing each day. that s boring. there s even an okinawan term for it. chanpuru, something mixed. bits borrowed from all over served up for anyone to eat. but maybe you re more familiar with the name okinawa from this. as the setting for some of the most horrifyingly bloody battles of the second world war. how horrifying? for the allies there were mor ....