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The white house has announced a new $150 million package of military aid for ukraine, including artillery, munitions and radar. here in the uk, local council elections have resulted in the conservatives losing nearly 500 seats. the scottish nationalists remain the biggest party in scotland, while there've been gains for plaid cymru in wales. but it's northern ireland where the result could bring seismic change if the main nationalist party, sinn fein, wins more seats than the unionists. our ireland correspondent emma vardy has the latest. and a warning — this report contains flashing images....

Jonathan buckley of the dup presenting his analysis of this election and there has been much discussion of disunity amongst unionism and that was what he was referring to in his acceptance speech, saying that if unionism was divided it couldn't win the elections and certainly the dup, thatis elections and certainly the dup, that is diane dodds also of the dup, speaking at the moment... certainly it has had an impact on the dup vote. i think we can do is show you a rundown of those election results in upper bann. here they come. that is two seats for the dup, one for sinn fein, one for the ulst...

Represented by the dark green here. they were the primary vehicle of nationalism. but pretty much on the get go, almost from the get go, that inverted. you saw a rejection of those two more moderate forces within nationalism and unionism in favour of sinn fein, the light green line and the dup, the red line. they overtake those two parties. since 2003, they have been the primary vehicle and then you have the nonsectarian alliance party skirting around the bottom here. up until 2017, where you can see the dup and sinn fein basically nip and tuck, the dup on top by only 8% or two. everywhere to ...

Elections have resulted in the conservatives losing nearly 500 seats. the scottish nationalists remain the biggest party in scotland, while there have been gains for plaid cymru in wales. but it is northern ireland where the result could bring seismic change if the main nationalist party, sinn fein, wins more seats than the unionists. our ireland correspondent emma vardy has the latest, and a warning this report contains flashing images. cheering and applause. heading towards a new future. sinn fein are hoping this is the moment that marks an end to the domination of unionism in northern irela...

Because people wanted us to talk about how we wanted to work together in partnership with others. that's the only way we'll achieve much, much more for people here. another big sign of change came with the success of the cross—community alliance party. it is neither unionist nor nationalist. alliance is set to move up from fifth place to third. its leader believes that shows how northern ireland is moving on from its years of conflict. i think itjust reflects the changed place that northern ireland is. i mean, in 1998 when we had the good friday agreement, it was about trying to manage our d...