0rganisers described the event as a rallying call to save the nhs. and sportsday is at 6:30 p.m.. sinn fein are celebrating their best ever showing elections to the irish assembly. they have 127 seats, just one behind the democratic irish unionists. gerry adams said it was a watershed election. the two parties now have three weeks to try to agree a new power sharing coalition. sinn fein believe they have changed the political picture in northern ireland. if this election was a battle in the long fight between unionism and nationalism, they are claiming victory. clearly the unionist majority in the assembly has been ended and the notion of a permanent or perpetual unionist majority has been demolished. the dup are still stormont‘s biggest party, but they can only watch as republican add to their sizeable lead from the last election just ten months ago. many voters were motivated by the harsh words of the campaign. at one stage the dup compared republicans to crocodiles. now
under craig shakespeare that s in sportsday at 7:30pm. good evening and welcome to bbc news. sinn fein are celebrating their best ever showing elections to the irish assembly. they have won 27 seats, just one behind the democratic irish unionists. sinn fein‘s president, gerry adams, said it was a watershed election and the end to a permanent unionist majority in northern ireland. the two parties now have three weeks to try to agree a new power sharing coalition. sinn fein believe they have changed the political picture in northern ireland. if this election was a battle in the long fight between unionism and nationalism, they are claiming victory. clearly the unionist majority in the assembly has been ended and the notion of a permanent or perpetual unionist majority has been demolished. the dup are still stormont‘s biggest party, but they can only watch as republican add to their sizeable lead from the last election just ten months ago. many voters were motivated by t
donald trump has accused barack obama of having his phones at trump tower in new york tapped, during last year s presidential election. in a series of messages on social media, president trump called mr obama a sick man and compared the alleged bugging to the watergate scandal. a spokesman for mr obama said claims that he had ordered surveillance of any us citizen were simply false . our north america correspondent, nick byrant, reports. it was warm handshakes and friendly bonymaen on inauguration day as donald trump peacefully took power from barack obama, two men fiercely hostile in the election campaign, coming together in a show of presidential and personal civility, but early this morning donald trump launched the kind of public attack ona launched the kind of public attack on a predecessor which in modern times is completely without residence. terrible, he wrote in a twitter tirade without precedent. abe road from rally outside his towel in new york, a pro trum
that barack leads on president from s claimed that ba rack 0bama leads on president from s claimed that barack 0bama orchestrated a watergate style phone tapping operation. and in the film review mark kermode gives us his verdict on the ‘viceroy‘s house‘ and the rest of this week s top releases. good evening and welcome to bbc news. donald trump has accused barack 0bama of having his phones at trump tower in new york tapped during last year s presidential election. in a series of messages on social media, president trump called mr 0bama a sick man and compared the alleged bugging to the watergate scandal. a spokesman for mr 0bama said claims that he had ordered surveillance of any us citizen were simply false . 0ur north america correspondent nick bryant reports. it was warm handshakes and friendly bonhomie on inauguration day as donald trump peacefully took power from barack 0bama, two men fiercely hostile in the election campaign, coming together in a show of pre
a schoolteacher comes face to face with the driver responsible for her boyfriend s death. good evening and welcome to bbc news. sinn fein are celebrating their best ever showing in elections to the northern ireland assembly. they have won 27 seats, just one behind the democratic irish unionists. sinn fein‘s president, gerry adams, said it was a watershed election and the end to a permanent unionist majority in northern ireland. the two parties now have three weeks to try to agree a new power sharing coalition. from belfast, chris buckler reports. sinn fein believe they have changed the political picture in northern ireland. if this election was a battle in the long fight between unionism and nationalism, they are claiming victory. clearly, the unionist majority in the assembly has been ended and the notion of a permanent or perpetual unionist majority has been demolished. the dup are still stormont‘s biggest party, but they can only watch as republicans ate into their s