and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl
where talks on the deal have been taking place, support for a return to stormont. i think everybody from an economic standpoint would like stormont back, and that way the money will be released to the services that need them, such as education and the health service. money isn t being allocated to the areas that needed it. so absolutely. so it s a bit of a vacuum. yes, yes. we are almost two years - without a devolved government and it matters to people, - because it feels like there s no one in charge, no one in control, - no one there to make decisions. schools are not functioning some days. hospitals are not functioning any day as they should. there are massive problems across the entire public sector. two commentators on the perils of a power vacuum and, from a leading unionist newspaper, strong forces suggest a return to stormont. i think there are two things that are pushing jeffrey donaldson and his party back into stormont. the first is ideological. they believe in de
ireland who settled in north america and talked about how central they wear to america and the great history that they showed. then when it came to the point where he sort of scolded the dep about the power, you know, it s up to you, think you should return to him he didn t even cite the dep, didn t want to embarrass anybody. i think that it would be good to see stormont back, although i cannot decide. so it was although i cannot decide. so it was a very long way from the scolding about two per exit and saying the good friday agreement had to be protected when there was a line being pushed on the good friday agreement. so i think there was a very diplomatic speech from president biden. very diplomatic speech from president biden. what about the economic windfall president biden. what about the economic windfall that president biden. what about the economic windfall that he - president biden. what about the economic windfall that he has i president biden. what about the i economic