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they have grown up in. yeah, i am very grateful that leaders in their fields came to northern ireland to positively drive forward the change and, you know, bring together both sides of the equation to form an agreement. i think they are fantastic, they are role models. ithink... ijust hope coming up to the 25—year anniversary that things can start moving forward again with the politics. we're at a bit of a standstill at the minute. it would be a shame to see all the hard work be undone. to see these two young people serves as kind of a book end for me because on the saturday after the good friday agreement, as i left, there were two elderly women and they said to me, "thanks to you, our grandchildren will live in peace, "which we'd never had." it has a lot of meaning to me. i love the people and the place of northern ireland, and i pray that they
until the good friday agreement. i'm very happy growing up in northern ireland. there's nothing i think that would really put me off staying here and having a family, compared to what it was, i think it's a great place to live. having hope in my middle name, i think when everyone gets to the 10th of april every year, it comes up, that 5 what it gave people, hope, every time, that life would be different. and it was, for us. the violence was rising, and so i thought, this . is doomed to failure - if we continue in this way. there were many years when hope was hard to come by. but some leaders did have ideas for a peaceful process. this man was one of them. john hume, from the social democratic and labor party, or sdlp, who were irish nationalists. i honestly think thatjohn hume had the courage of a lion to keep going. he had a vision.
to say about the northern ireland they have grown up in. yeah, i'm very grateful that leaders in theirfields came to northern ireland to positively drive forward the change and, you know, bring together both sides of the equation to form an agreement. i think they are fantastic, they are role models. ithink... ijust hope coming up to the 25—year anniversary that things can start moving forward again with the politics. we're at a bit of a standstill at the minute. it would be a shame to see all the hard work be undone. to see these two young people serves as kind of a bookend for me because on the saturday after the good friday agreement, as i left, there were two elderly women and they said to me, "thanks to you, our grandchildren will live in peace, "which we've never had." it has a lot of meaning to me. i love the people and the place of northern ireland,
i'm very happy growing up in northern ireland. there's nothing i think that would really put me off staying here and having a family, compared to what it was, i think it's a great place to live. having hope in my middle name, i think when everyone gets to the 10th of april every year, it comes up, that s what it gave people, hope, every time, that life would be different. and it was, for us. the violence was rising, - and so i thought, this is doomed to failure if we - continue in this way. there were many years when hope was hard to come by. but some leaders did have ideas for a peaceful process. this man was one of them. john hume, from the social democratic and labor party, or sdlp, who were irish nationalists. i honestly think thatjohn hume had the courage of a lion to keep going. he had a vision.
between failure and success became more real for the negotiators in the spring of 1998. the violence was rising, there was a period of escalatory and retaliatory violence, and so i thought, "this is doomed to failure if we continue in this way," and so i developed a plan for an intense final two—week period and a hard deadline, and the parties and the governments all agreed to it and that's when i felt the first sense of hope. he set a cut—off date of thursday 9 april, but with just over 48 hours to go, a deal was almost inconceivable. reporter: the main stories - on newsline this tuesday evening - the prime minister arrives at hillsborough as talks hit crisis point. i mean, i was determined to come but there was no doubt
keen for these things so we were there with the lunch and everything else, and waited for hours. then when he finally showed up, i mean, it's as close to sort of a god arriving on earth that i think i have ever experienced. he was just an incredible, charismatic guy who just held an audience of whatever it was, half a million people or something, just held them in the palm of his hand. that word, hope, it felt like there was hope. gill, you have written a couple of critically—acclaimed volumes of poetry, one of which i have given you, the sun is open, it focuses on very personal experiences in your life that you did speak about. my own personal history was that my father was a prison governor in the maze prison, and he was shot and killed by the ira outside our home in 1984 when i was three and a half. and so for me i felt like i really wanted to try to understand the kind
hundreds of palestinians have barricaded themselves inside the al—aqsa mosque injerusalem. tensions remain high, as israeli police stopped palestinian men from entering the compound, forcing them to pray outside the old city gates. you're watching bbc news. now it's time for troubles and peace. 25 years since the good friday agreement was signed, this is a story of history and hope. the good friday agreements promised that a new generation would live in peace. it gave people hope that life would be different, and it was, for us. i'm very happy growing up in northern ireland compared to what it was, i think it's a great place. it was a really formative time. what we were studying in the classroom - wasn't in a textbook. the deal largely ended
the longest—running conflict in europe, 25 years ago. i thought, this is not a conflict that has got any place in the new millennium. if you want to solve it, you have to take that risk and talk to those who actually control the violence. enemies compromised and differences were settled. this is a story ofjeopardy, dilemmas and leadership. tony blair: |think| there's a hope that - ifeel the hand of history upon our shoulders. kerrie and erin had never met before. if they had been from a previous generation, they probably wouldn't have met at all. but they were born on the day of a peace deal. we are very lucky that we grew up where we did after the good friday agreement. lived a very happy life so far, always enjoyed all my
though, what does needs to happen, especially if you would lock at the mr 19, their specialist firearms units, and the protection officers, those particular units are singled out in the reports, and reading it it is so upsetting and damning. something has got to happen with those two units, but i would hate to see the metropolitan police broken up see the metropolitan police broken up in any way. there are so many parts of it that perform so well. because of its nature, people can't discuss it, but they do some incredible work. ijust hope that sir mark rally gets to grips with some of the issues that are out there and have been pointed out in this report. working in the ambulance service can be fraught with danger and challenges. now, specialist paramedics have spoken out about their experiences. the hazardous area response team happened to be wearing a camera
maddie hinch has announced she's retiring and wants children to have opportunities to get into the sport in the future. hinch was instrumental in team gb�*s historic olympic title success at the rio 2016 games where she made a series of saves in the final shoot—out. hinch was also part of the team that won bronze at tokyo 2020 before claiming a maiden commonwealth title last summer in birmingham. i was just your i wasjust your average i was just your average kid at school, love to play sport. now i get it, the goalie is the coolest position on the pitch. ijust hope that the legacy is that you can go be a superhero if you want to. a big retirement too in women's rugby — as captain and world cup winner sarah hunter — has announced she's stepping away from the sport. hunter play her last game for england against scotland this