it's time for scotland to get out on to being the safety that we see ireland in denmark and whatever and be an independent country and if a manual thank you very much. the rock on which the prime minister's plan has perished is the irish backstop as this week's parliament exchanges sure she has totally miscalculated to the him and of the democratic unionist opposition to any proposal which displacing northern ireland out of total alignment for the rest of the u.k. doesn't probably mention terms that westminster the d.p. have never been more influential or more successful however even as they dominate the commons alex has been finding out the big do you piece uncompromising approach starting from disquiets back home in northern islands in this show we ask stands ulster did. was to a daughter welcome to the alex salmond's show and ali you're very welcome to storm and to northern ireland now you've been a practitioner of the holy bible layoffs politics since nine hundred seventy has a very young man you stood against the bible in paisley what changes have taken place in the background i

with some farmers and may leave the back door in northern ireland open to smuggling, but the uk government says it's the only thing it can do in its control to maintain an open border. the ayes to the right — 242. the noes to the left — 391. so the noes have it, the noes have it. unlock. after the prime minister's deal was overwhelmingly rejected, mps will vote this evening on whether to leave the eu without a deal on 29th march. these are unenviable choices. thanks to the decision that the house has made this evening they are choices that must now be faced. mrs may is briefing her cabinets now after last night's shattering defeat amid signs she's not ruled out bringing her deal back for another vote. european leaders react with disappointment to the vote. the eu's chief negotiator says the ball is in the uk's court. again, the house of commons says what it doesn't want. now this impasse can only be solved in the uk. i hear you're very upset. is that true? in other news, three people are killed in an avalanche on ben nevis. australian cardinal, george pell, is sentenced to s

not good for ireland so why not just leave john john was a c. shaken your head furiously there the possibility of a no deal. that couldn't be more wrong what catherine mcbride has just said britain is extremely ill prepared for leaving the european union with a no deal it has no idea how it's going to manage to make sure that the ferries should still run its adequate capacity to make sure its goods can still go through dover calley the main ferry routes for exports and imports into the u.k. it's been only capable of rolling over about one sixth of the international agreements that it has with the rest of the world so it would cause major disruption to britain's economic relations with its nearest neighbors if it crashed out without a deal and the irony that they're also for cut from abroad also just said about the issue with northern ireland you'd have to put a hard border between northern ireland in the republic of ireland if there were no deal brecht's it to crash out within two weeks so what she's saying is deeply irresponsible and that's no sensible solution either for the u.k.

controls, or require customs declarations for any goods moving from across the border from ireland to northern ireland and irish goods entering the northern ireland market would not face any tariffs. well in the last few minutes, the business organisation, the cbi, has given its reaction, describing any no—deal tariff regime as a ‘sledgehammer‘ to the uk economy. our reality check correspondent, chris morris, is here to unpick the detail of these emergency measures. first of all explain because if you are listening at home and you hear zero tariffs, that sounds great but the cbi says it's a sledgehammer for the cbi says it's a sledgehammer for the british economy. under the rules of the world trade organisation you have to treat all countries the same when it comes to tariffs unless you have a free trade agreement with them. at the moment for example we have zero tariffs with the european union because we are in a free trade agreement with them but we will leave that in the event of no deal so leave that in the event of no deal so then you have to decide do you impose tariffs on

ireland and northern ireland since the 1998 good friday deagreement, but the brexite now threatens that stability. >> nobody envisaged, when the '98 agreement was put in place, that there would be a situation in which britain would be outside the e.u. and ireland would be in the e.u. so, this throws up all kinds of problems nobody had anticipated. >> nawaz: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >>ajor funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ >> on a cruise with american cruise lines, you can experience historic dtinations along the mississippi river, the columbia river and across the united states. american cruise lines' fleet of small ships explore american ndmarks, local cultures and calm waterways. american cruise lines, proud p sponsor newshour. >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellular. >> babbel. a language program that teaches spanish, french, german, italia and more. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial .teracy in the 21st centu >> carnegie corporation of new york. sup

ireland. i know from personal experience how difficult it would be in northern ireland, but i see no evidence that energy and commitment has been effectively applied. there are calls for ministers to do more to get us all cycling and walking. and talking of exercise, a government peer reveals what he gets up to in a quiet moment. i have actually unrolled my yoga mat in my office. but first, theresa may spent thursday in brussels asking for an extension to the brexit timetable. mrs may told reporters that she had ‘personal regret‘ over requesting a delay to brexit and was still working on getting parliament to agree her deal. her brussels trip came a day after she made a statement in downing street in which she blamed the current situation on mps, claiming people were tired of infighting and political games. and she repeated an accusation that all mps had been willing to say is what they do not want. but those comments provoked a furious reaction in the commons, where the shadow leader of the house said the prime minister were setting up a hostile environment. it is not us in parl

backstop, designed to avoid a hard border in ireland. in his advice, geoffrey cox said the changes still mean the uk can't pull out of the arrangements on its own — but he said the risk of being unable to leave the backstop was reduced. the pro—leave european research group says they can't recommend mps support the deal while labour claims the government's strategy for leaving the eu is in tatters. here's our political correspondent, alex forsyth. westminster is bracing itself for another big moment, one that will decide the fate of the prime minister's brexit plan. last night, theresa may flew to strasbourg for last—minute talks and said she had secured changes to her brexit deal that should allow mps to back it. today we have secured legal changes. we are now going to go to the house of commons to hear from theresa may live. it has been eight weeks since the house held the meaningful vote on the brexit deal and on that day parliament sent a message that the deal needed to change and in response to government has worked ha rd to response to government has worked hard to secu

slam success. they beat ireland on saturday to win a their slam under head coach warren gatland after a hugely impressive tournament. they have been enjoying themselves and rightfully so. they have been fantastic and talking about dealing with pressure, when you have the expectation of a nation on new on grand slam day, that is pressure and the welsh managed to deal with it absolutely fantastically. they have a hero's welcome at the senedd this afternoon and they deserve it, they have won five games and going ahead to the world cup, they look to be a team which is physically, emotionally and mentally seem to be in a strong place. chris jones speaking to me a little earlier, that is all your support for now, more to come through the afternoon. in the past few minutes, police have issued a photograph of a 37 old turkish—born suspect, who've they've named as gokman tanis. police are reported to have surrounded a building where the suspect could be hiding. a gunman has killed one person and injured several others in an attack which is being described as a terrorist incident on a tram in t

signature green today. as we honor ireland's national day, st. patrick's day, we want to make sure that all the way in ireland, lord mayor, that they know that we are going to challenge you to be the best celebration of a st. patrick's day anywhere. i know they say that we have a best and largest parade west of the mississippi, but we're trying to have the best and largest parade anywhere. but thank you, we have the lord mayor who is here with us today and thank you so much for joining us. (apprize). and also the council general of ireland, thank you for being here. liam frost and der space mcphilpott, thank you. our elected family joining us today, our treasurer, jose cesnaros. our city attorney who keeps everything running, dennis harrara and our incredible members of the board of supervisor, supervisor katherine stephanie and supervisor gordon marr and supervisor matt hainey and thank you to those here from law enforcement, from the sheriff's office and police department and the fire department. ouincluding our fire chief, joae hayes-white. the irish community has really an incredibl

ahead in ireland we start out in zimbabwe it made march cyc loney day ravaged the coast of south east africa and destroyed and tired villages people here have been desperately searching for family members beneath the rubble. a once bustling village reduced to a rocky field. coppa was home to more than three hundred residents and government facilities when disaster struck on the night of march fifteenth residents were sleeping. very few of them survived those who did have recounted the horror they experienced in that island that i was asleep and suddenly woke up to the house destroyed but i thought you were in the house was full of water but it was the first thing we thought was to rescue the kids. then we realized our eldest child was already dead. after that moment is when we all got swept away by the raging floods. take one. out of one of the relatives of the victims have been using whatever tools are at hand to sort through the rocks and rubble they're hoping to recover their loved ones many still don't have final answers about the fate of their families what we're looking for righ

relationship between the u.s. and are one -- and ireland and the effects of britain leaving the european union. president trump: thank you very much. it's a great honor of the prime minister of ireland. we've become fast friends, had some good transactions on trade and other things. he's in a very complicated position right now because of brexit, you'll have to tell me what's happening. have to perhaps tell the world what's happening because i'm not sure anybody knows. but very, very special country, so many friends and you're doing a great job. very popular man, doing a wonderful job, the people love him and that's very important. and thank you very much for being with us. thank you, leo. >> thanks for meeting us again. it's an enormous privilege for ireland, as a small country, to have this meeting on account of st. patrick's day, a chance to make even closer and tighter the bonds between the u.s. and ireland. i particularly want to help you with -- thank you for your help with the plans in west ireland where hundreds of jobs were threatened as a result of russian sanctions and with th

and how the u.k. should leave e.u. the more dangerous the situation is becoming in northern ireland it is here at this countryside where the uncertainty is most probable farmer's fields straddle both sides of the border and every day people cross it seamlessly the prospect of a hard quarter between the republic of ireland and northern ireland has reignited fears of a conflict after twenty years of peace well more than three thousand people died and tens of thousands were injured during what's known as the troubles those decades of violence were put to an end in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight with the good friday war belfast peace agreement but for the hardline republicans the fight for a united ireland isn't over young people like paddy gallagher see a hard break sit as their golden opportunity to reclaim the north from great britain. the unfinished revolution miral identifies this building as a local headquarters of northern ireland's most dangerous political party c route irish for liberation the party demands the unification of ireland it was founded in twenty sixteen jus

. includes professions to prevent a hard border between the republic of ireland and the british province of northern ireland known as the backstop so this is important to keep trade flowing but it's also important in guaranteeing pace irish republicans for to decade. it's a long campaign to force reunification of the island of ireland and largely lay down their arms after the nine hundred ninety eight good friday agreement but republican hardliners who never accepted peace are sensing that bret states could give them a fresh opportunity to restart their campaign of violence. patty gallagher is the youthful face of the latest irish republican offshoot the party sierra or liberation as it's called was founded after the bronx and referendum their stronghold is a city whose name itself is a point of contention londonderry to some dairy to others the group is widely seen as the political wing of the paramilitary group called the new ira. the area of today there's one with an army that function and can still conduct acts of resistance against british occupying forces. a security camer

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fundamental political change in northern ireland, or some fundamental change of circumstances going to the essential basis of the agreement, then we would have the right to withdraw. but in all normal circumstances, all invisible and predictable circumstances, particularly while we are negotiating a subsequent agreement to the pace and accelerated timetable that this instrument now requires, we would not do so. it would be wrong to do so. wrong because it would be a breach of our obligations, wrong because this is a law—abiding country. obligations, wrong because this is a law-abiding country. the attorney general said that it is highly unlikely the best endeavours that they cannot reach an agreement. but they cannot reach an agreement. but the last four months, the government has been in brussels trying to replace the backstop with alternative measures and has come back empty— handed. the alternative measures and has come back empty—handed. the negotiations have not delivered, despite the best endeavours. is it not the case that the very situation he describes in two years' time

another six nations grand slam — but they must beat ireland here tomorrow. for english sites featured in today's champions league quarterfinal draw. which of those has the favourable draw? i will be like from the cheltenham festival where willie mullins has finally bagged it the big one. more from cheltenham in a moment. reflecting on that champions league job today. here we are reflecting on the weekend. three teams still in the weekend. three teams still in the running to win it. the holders are ireland, england, but wales of course are in the driving seat. four out of four, still unbeaten. on the brink of a third grand slam under head coach warren gatland. it is here the fans will watch it all and tomorrow, surely whales are not going to follow the final hurdle. are they? among the voices from the valley may be wells choir has its tv connector. warren gatland has spent 12 years learning the words and shaping a tea m learning the words and shaping a team that is breaking records. in this, his final year in charge, his wales side are on a 30 team match winning streak. one more agains

most important thing for us in ireland is that their decision to leave should not cause any problems in northern ireland where people actually voted to stay, and we should not have a hard border or anything to disrupt the peace process. lots of reaction coming in from europe. the european commission saying this... donald tusk: "during my consultations ahead of euco, i will appeal to the eu27 to be open to a long extension if the uk finds it necessary to rethink its brexit strategy and build consensus around it." @adamfleming referring to mr tusk‘s tweet: "by long he means at least a year, according to those familiar with his thinking." here's the dutch prime minister being quoted this evening. he said to an interviewer: you ve been going round and round like this for two years. interviewer said: "may will ask for an extension. rutte: and europe will ask ‘why? what do you actually want?”' damian grammaticas, brussels. but as you take? that simple question is going to be the one that that you ask now because we are setting out that the uk is going to ask for an extension

concern in parliament over one issue in particular, the northern ireland backstop. having been sean ‘s policy to guarantee that there will never bea to guarantee that there will never be a hard border in northern ireland is absolutely right. —— insurer must. it honours the uk's solid commitment in the belfast good friday agreement but if we ever had to use that insurance policy, it can't become a permanent arrangement and it is not the template for our future relationship. the deal that mps future relationship. the deal that m ps voted future relationship. the deal that mps voted on injanuary was not strong enough in making that clear and legally binding changes were needed to set that right. today, we have agreed them. first, a joint instrument with comparable legal weight to the withdrawal agreement will guarantee that the eu can't act with the intent of applying the backstop indefinitely. if they do, it can be challenged through arbitration but if found to be in breach, the uk can suspend the backstop. thejoint breach, the uk can suspend the backstop. the joint instrument also g

ireland would vote if it comes to brexit, and when it comes toa dup— comes to brexit, and when it comes to a dup— tori brexit. 77% are satisfied with the uk government. —— dissatisfied. 67% dissatisfied with the way the dup is representing northern ireland. and 67% want the uk to stay in the eu single market and customs union to ensure they will be no hard border. so the majority supports a very soft brexit with no borders at all. this is quite different from the picture in the republic of ireland. yes, what is interesting, the survey was done face—to—face and that is why they can be so face—to—face and that is why they can be so accurate face—to—face and that is why they can be so accurate about it being correct, but also, what i understand is that only 30% of northern irish people voted to support the dup and supported them in the election, even though they won so many seats. so actually, these numbers feel about right. from what i understand, for the irish and the northern irish, not having a start—up of the troubles again is what is very important. —— troubles.

born after northern ireland's peace agreement are trying to unite their divided communities. in the united states, the head of an influential committee in the democrat—controlled house of representatives, says he wants to see documents alleging obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by donald trump, and his aides. committee chairmanjerrold nadler has requested information from more than 60 people and organisations, but he says it's too early to talk about trying to impeach the president. we are starting this investigation. we will — tomorrow, we will be issuing document requests to over 60 different people and individuals, from the white house to the department ofjustice, donald trumer, allen weisselberg, to begin investigations to present the case to the american people about obstruction ofjustice, corruption and abuse of power. so that would includejohn kelly, the former chief of staff, don mcgahn, the former white house counsel? i would imagine. i mean, i don't have the list in front of me, but we will be releasing the list tomorrow of over 60 entities, people,

ireland, which would have safeguarded the position of gibraltar, and more than anything, would have looked after the manufacturing industries for which we worked so hard in wales, with different parties in government, to secure over the last 30 years. but not everyone thought a continued customs union was the way forward. i think that the customs union has not been quite so marvellous for this country as noble lords opposite suggest, and i very much hope that the government will stick to their policy of leaving on a basis where we will have our own independent trade policy, which will enable us to do more trade and enter into trade agreements with economically faster growing parts of the world. what this amendment proposes to do is, right at the 11th hour, when we're in sight of an agreement, we have an agreement... we have an agreement and we have an exit day which meets those criteria. at this 11th hour, it proposes to require her majesty's government to reopen the whole negotiation process which has been going on over the past two years to somehow help business. i don't think tha

. poll of northern ireland and ireland, the really important part is under the good friday agreement, if the secretary of state has evidence that there will be a majority for reunification they have to hold a boy to poke about these. so that yet but they do show that back enough support. —— hold a boat about these. we expected this. the dup, they are the only party we hear from you northern island and westminster context, their success isn't there party a very vocal and well organised minority. —— the only party we hear from northern ireland. they seem to be a lot of similar voter discontent among sinn fein and the problem is if you are somebody who wants an alternative, the sdlp has done a deal with one of the traditional white wing parties and ireland. there are not a lot of places for voters to go other than these two parties which northern ireland shows a dislike for. are you shocked by the numbers here?” shocked by the numbers here?|j suppose shocked by the numbers here?” suppose we shouldn't be surprised because northern ireland voted to stay in the eu. even though

european commission president dog dog. concerns the future of the border with northern ireland both sides agreed that the so-called backstop which foresees northern ireland continuing to follow e.u. rules in order to keep the border open would only apply temporarily after breakfast or younger warned that there would be no third chance to change the agreement theresa may says the revised terms should convince british lawmakers to back her bracks a deal today having the insurance policy to guarantee that it will never be called to do in northern ireland it is absolutely right its own is the u.k. some of the commitments in the belfast good friday agreement but if we ever have to use that insurance policy it cannot become a permanent arrangement i just know the template for a future relationship. the deal that m.p.'s voted on in january was not strong enough to make that clear and legally binding changes we needed to set that right today we have agreed to. and joining us now from london is the interviews bagot moss and max hoffman is covering events for us in strasburg welcome to both o

politicians, including the ten democratic unionist mps from northern ireland. their leader at westminster, nigel dodds, has said his party must see significant change to theresa may's proposed withdrawal agreement regarding the so—called northern ireland backstop. that is the measure designed to prevent the return of physical border checks in ireland if talks on future trade fail. and the importance of the backstop has been highlighted by northern ireland's most senior police officer. in 1998, the signing of the good friday agreement brought a measure of peace to the british province, but chief constable george hamilton says politics is now more polarised and more entrenched than 20 years ago. as part of the bbc‘s crossing divides season, our home editor mark easton reports from belfast. rebecca is from a protestant area in belfast. naomi lives in a catholic district. but, like 93% of children in northern ireland, to this day, they go to segregated schools and they live in segregated neighbourhoods. until recently, neither girl had any friends from the other side of the wa

, scotland and northern ireland. and coming—up on sportsday on bbc news... premier league players and managers say they're prepared to walk off if there's racist abuse during a football match. good evening from westminster. if the prime minister had had her way, the united kingdom would be leaving the eu in one hour's time. today should have been brexit day. that's what theresa may promised. but instead she had to watch on as mps rejected her plans for a divorce deal with the eu once again. she told parliament that this was their last chance to deliver the kind brexit people had voted for. but it wasn't enough. 286 mps voted yes, 344 voted no — the prime minister lost by 58 votes. so now april 12th — is our new brexit day. either we leave with no deal. or the prime minister asks brussels for another extension — and it could be a long one. we may now have to take part in the european elections, too, electing meps. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports on today's vote. this really is such an iconic day, it is march the 29th. what do we want? brexit! when do we want it? now

france, germany, ireland, oman, os tr austria, the netherlands, turkish air as well. so there are as i count something like 55 to 60% of the global 737 max fleet is now grounded. for the most part it is flying in the united states and in canada. boeing is standing behind the plane. the faa says at the moment they see no reason to ground the plane. the airlines here in north america believe it is a good plane and have not seen any issues with it. but this cascade of countries and airlines now taking this action is quite amazing. moments ago i talked to the former secretary of transportation under president obama, ray lahood. he reminds us that he grounded the 787 when they were having battery fire problems. you may recall he grounded the plane over objections of boeing and the faa. he said he's glad he did and he would grounding the 737 max now because he said we can't afford to have another one fall out of the sky. boeing says all of their engineers believe this plane is safe. i should make the point the faa does say it's going to mandate a change in the software design on the 737 ma

across northern ireland and western scotland. as we go through this evening and tonight, we will bring those outbreaks of rain south—eastwards, some of the rain will be quite heavy, and accompanied once again by some strong and gusty winds. temperatures overnight generally holding up between five and 9 degrees. so we get on into tomorrow, and we start the day with this next frontal system, pretty heavy burst of rain sinking south—eastwards, though the main body of the rain will have cleared from most areas by the rush hour. then we see some spells of sunshine but also some showers, some heavy and thundery, still with some fairly blustery winds, wind gusts again between 45 and 55 mph across some parts of the uk. notice across the far south—west it is likely to stay pretty cloudy through the day, and rain will return here later on. temperatures between nine and 13 degrees. during thursday nights we bring outbreaks of rain north—eastwards across the uk, a wet start on friday morning, and the rain tending to fizzle as it works its way towards the south—east. behind that a m

in which 50 people died. police in northern ireland are investigating the deaths of three teenagers at a st patrick day's party last night. a 17—year—old girl and two boys aged 16 and 17 are thought to have been crushed in a large crowd outside a venue in cookstown in country tyrone. 0ur ireland correspondent emma vardy reports. this was the scene outside the hotel last night as the crowd waited to get in. people began to scream that they couldn't breathe. there was confusion and disbelief, as one teenager died at the scene and two died later in hospital. terrible. terrible, just chaos. young ones, hysterical. today, local youth clubs offered support. 17—year—old kyra said she'd watched as people tried to resuscitate her friend on the floor. i just started crying, just having to see everybody there, depressed, and having to see him lie on the ground like that. why do you think it became such a crush? i don't know. i just think everybody just wanted to get inside and drink. that's what everybody wanted to do. 17—year—old lauren bullock was killed. her school described her

the boys. you have to be so ready, especially against burnley. and ireland overcome france and the conditions in dublin to keep alive their slim hopes of retaining the six nations title. hello and welcome to sportsday. jack grealish has been attacked by an intruder on the pitch during aston villa's game at birmingham. the local derby was stopped briefly as a supporterjumped out of the crowd and appeared to aim a punch at the villa captain. the man in question was led away by stewards and arrested by police. grealish was ok and able to continue... ..he even went on score the winning goal for villa. after the game the midfielder said: this was the reaction of villa manager dean smith after the game. some mindless idiot runs on the pitch at the birmingham city end and the lack of security and tried to attack one of our players. you know, it makes you ashamed to be a football fan and especially me being from the city. i am all for banter and local rivalries but that is taking too far and then you have 15,000 idiots clapping him off as well. it doesn't sit well. 22 players out there wor

the border between northern ireland part of britain and the republic of ireland an e.u. member my colleague frank hoffman met with the author of a trench in belfast she's written a bestselling book about this is an irish republicanism today. iconic images that have gone down in european history bloody sunday the deadly incident in derry in one nine hundred seventy two has become symbolic of the north and conflicts between pro irish republic catholics and pro brits and protestants that conflict ended officially in one thousand nine hundred eight with the good friday peace agreement but historian marisa mcglinchey says many irish republicans to refuse to accept that deal for her recent book unfinished business the politics of dissident irish republicanism she interviewed some ninety radical pro irish nationalists who stand as commemorations right darling today of so-called dissident organizations you will hear the soon traditional republican ideology unless it's been articulated as you would have heard in the seventy's or eighty's that ideology calls for a united ireland and the end