between the uk and the eu, as sara girvin reports. across northern ireland today people woke up news of a political breakthrough thats has 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, public sector workers were out on strike earlier this month over pay. unions hope that increases will now be a priority. our members have a sense of hope but they are apprehensive. teachers haven t had a pay increase for three year, they really have waited long enough. they have watched teachers wages grow far ahead oaf wages in northern ireland. that is one priority. parents hope that financial hope with childcare available in other parts of the uk will now be signed off. families here have been watching developments elsewhere in the uk, in england we have seen record investment in childcare and the extension to 30 hour scheme, it is considerably more than families can access in northern ireland. the dup wal
scotland and northern ireland chilly with sunshine from the word go. all the details later on in the programme. it s tuesday, 30th of january. our main story. the democratic unionist party says it s agreed a deal to restore the devolved government in northern ireland. the dup leader, sir jeffrey donaldson, said the proposals are subject to the westminster government passing laws to address concerns about post brexit trading arrangements. a warning this report from our ireland correspondent chris page includes some flashing images. as the democratic unionist party reached a pivot point, protesters tried to increase the pressure. more hard line unionists have been urging the dup not to agree a new deal to restore the devolved government. 130 party members took part in a meeting, which lasted more than five hours. but, early this morning, the leader, sirjeffrey donaldson, announced he had won support for a plan to bring back power sharing. i believe that with the faithful delive
these are new pictures released by us central command of b 1 bombers taking off to carry out the strikes. our north america correspondent will vernon has the latest. american bombers carried out air strikes on more than 85 targets. the us military said they included the personnel and facilities of iran s revolutionary guard and the militant groups it backs. but the air strikes hit locations only in iraq and syria. iranian territory was not targeted. the message from the white house the us doesn t want a war with tehran. the goal here is to get these attacks to stop. this was about degrading capability, taking away capabilities by the militant groups. these responses began tonight. they re not going to end tonight. so there will be additional responses. and this is what america is responding to. a drone attack on a us base injordan last sunday killed three us soldiers and wounded dozens more. washington said iran backed militants were to blame. pressure had been building onj
because people have known this response would be coming. it was very clear from the attack last sunday when three american service personnel were killed in effectively a countdown clock started in the region. the various american spokesman saying during the weekend, american officials that the response would come. and very clearly had to be different from the kind of responses that america has used before. it has previously retaliated against attacks by these iranian backed militia by striking locations like weapons storage facilities, training grounds and so on. i think what president biden was trying to do tonight very clearly was to signal that this was a different order of magnitude. 85 targets being hit in one series of strikes. us officials have been emphasising that this is just the officials have been emphasising that this isjust the beginning. this will be a multitiered response. over several days, at several locations. the difficulty, i think, for the white house is
killed 3 us soldiers and injured dozens. iran denies involvement, calling the accusations baseless and saying it was not involved in the decision making of resistance groups . reuters is reporting that an iraqi spokesman has called the strikes a violation of iraqi sovereignty and pose a threat that could lead iraq and the region into dire consequences. now let s turn to elise labott, a us foreign affairs journalist and founder of zivvy media. thank you forjoining us. this is the first part of the us response as we have heard from the administration, is it what you would have expected to see? it is what i expected to see. i think the us knew that it could notjust make a pin attack. that is basically what it has been doing all along. we ve had around 160 attacks since october the 7th against, by these proxies against us forces in iraq and syria. some of the only responded around seven times. 0bviously iran and its proxies thought they could keep pushing. so the us really ne