Was a finding member of the social democratic and labor party the s. T. O. P. And served as a 2nd leader from 1989 to 2001 he also served as a member of the European Parliament im to member of the u. K. Parliament i dont so as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly Today we look at the contribution of john hume by contrasting the position of disaster reached in the province and the early 1970 s. At the height of the troubles with the peace which still holds to be despite the intense strains caused by bricks it 1st we speak toward winning journalist David Blake Knox about his new book on the killing of Thomas Needham our manager of Northern Ireland factory and then we examine with alice to mcdonnell one of john hume successors as leader of the s. T. O. P. About how the Northern Island was pulled from tragedy to peace. Just after christmas in 1973 thomas need him i was bundled into his car id say to school in west belfast he was never seen alive again by his friends or family it was a
You to welcome to the alex salmond shoe in this year of many tragedies perhaps the passing of joined him did not get the prominence it deserved john hume is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the recent political history of ireland as one of the architects of the Northern Ireland Peace Process and he took a day he was a finding member of the social democratic and labor party the s. T. O. P. And served as a 2nd leader from 1989 to 2001 he also served as a member of the European Parliament im to member of the u. K. Parliament i dont so as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly Today we look at the contribution of john hume by contrasting the position of disaster reached in the province and the early 1970 s. At the height of the troubles with the peace which still holds to be despite the intense strains caused by bricks it 1st we speak toward winning journalist David Blake Knox about his new book on the killing of Thomas Needham our manager of Northern Ireland fact
Successors as leader of the s. T. O. P. About how Northern Ireland was pulled from tragedy to peace just after christmas in 1973 Thomas Needham i was bundled into his car i would say to school in west belfast he was never seen alive again by his friends or family it was in a deal of murder and tragedy in the province with 500. 00 people a year dying as nationalist and loyalist paramilitaries mobilised against the power sheeting stunning deal agreement alex takes up the tragic story with journalist and author David Blake Knox who has published a new book on the killing. David yes this book where they get station of this book come from there you know the very height of the troubles 970 free this dreadful murder tell us a bit more about it. Well i suppose part of the reason the crew moved to this story is as you say it was at the height of the troubles and i thought it reflected is a very unusual case it was sort of because they only German National to die in Northern Ireland and the trou
Authorities for approval. Im aaron tilton welcome to the program we begin with breaking news at this hour armenia has ordered an end to the fighting with azerbaijan over the disputed nagornokarabakh region armenias Prime Minister said its an extremely painful decision by john has called it a capitulation the longstanding conflict for control of the territory erupted again in september with azerbaijan steadily advancing into areas controlled by Ethnic Armenians thousands have died in the fighting in moscow mediated the peace deal and says it has already deployed peacekeepers to the region. During 6 weeks of fighting Azerbaijani Forces had been making steady inroads in nagornokarabakh they claimed they had taken many settlements but armenia disputes that the region had been in armenian hands since it won a war with azerbaijan in 1994 the territory is also mainly inhabited by armenians azerbaijan claims it has always been an integrity part of its country. And then on monday a Russian Mili
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