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the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this hasn t been some sort of party. welcome to belfast, to the ulster university, where you can still see a very heavy security presence here, as there has been across the city for the past few days with the us president in town, everyone has been listening to the speech that president biden has made to a small group to mark 25 years since the signing of the good friday agreement. he seemed to hit all the notes in his speech, that is what is being said, particularly poignant when he talked about the pain and suffering of families who lost loved ones during the troubles. have a listen. thousands of families have been affected by the troubles. losses a re real. the pain was personal, i need not tell many people in this audience. every person killed in the troubles left an empty chair at the dining room table. and a hole in the heart that was never filled for the ones they lost. peace was not inevitable. we can t ever forget th ....
[ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please receive this benediction. gracious and everlasting god, as we depart this had ceremony inspired by the create can jous actions of colonel davis, help us to follow his selfless example as we serve our nation s people. hay our participation in today s ceremony couple with the strength and shaping of your spirit to compel us to live lives of integrity and valor for the good of the nation, for the gad of our families and the good of human kind around the world. bless and protected our armed forces as they preserve our freedoms. keep the lamp of liberty burning bright on the united states of america and our allies around the world. and grant us all your grace to meet the challenges ahead, the strength to overcome every obstacle and um part the wisdom and will to do justly and walk humbly before you all the days of our lives. it is in your most holy and precious name i pray, amen. you re watching a simply remarkable moment there a ....
yes. so, in summary, what is it? so, what happened was, last month, the scottish parliament, by a pretty big majority, passed this legislation and the legislation, this gender bill, seeks to remove administrative and medical barriers to changing the sex on your birth certificate. that s basically what it does. it s passed the scottish parliament and it was waiting to be given the rubber stamp by the king, royal assent. but, crucially, while the issue of trans rights is devolved to the scottish parliament, the issue of equalities is something that s decided at westminster on behalf of england, scotland and wales and the uk government says, hang on a minute, we think those two clash. and there s a line in the rule book that set up devolution a quarter of a century ago that allows us, they say, to pull this trigger and stop that proposed law becoming law and getting royal assent. that s what they ve done and it s caused one heck of a row. right, well, let s chat a bit ....
a political clip for instagram. and a senior un official visiting kabul says progress is being made to ensure that afghan women continue work with aid agencies, despite the taliban ban. you are watching bbc news. now newscast. hello, it is chris, back in the studio in westminster and no longer in edinburgh. here in the studio. we have got this week, we ve had to guess in recent weeks in the first edition of newscast in this, we have three. forthe edition of newscast in this, we have three. for the price of one. we have brigid phillipson, labour, shuttle education, we have grand, the business secretary and we have the deputy leader in the house of competence. and we ll talk about that in the second and an issue that has dominated our lives down the last couple of days which is the coming together of two very naughty and complex and controversial issues and complex and controversial issues and what is the uk constitution and the other one is this planned lot of the other ....
and coming up getting ready for blast off preparations are underway in cornwall for a rocket launch that could mark a breakthrough in the uk s space race. good afternoon. unions say they have made little progress with the government in talks aimed at bringing an end to long running strike action in the nhs to an end. ministers are holding meetings with health, teaching and rail unions to try to resolve the walk outs, over pay and working conditions. strikes in the health service this month, are now likely to go ahead. month are now likely to go ahead. a government source described a meeting with health unions this morning as useful and constructive. well, ambulance staff in england are scheduled to stage two more strikes, one on wednesday and on the 23rd of january. nurses will also strike next week for two days, on the 18th and 19th. and this week in scotland, there ll be two days of industrial action by teachers, driving instructors in england and wales will also man pi ....