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Fires kill at least 64 and cause widespread destruction in central Chile
Intense fires raging across densely populated areas of central Chile have now killed at least 64 people. They’re already believed to be the country’s deadliest forest fires on record and the president has warned the death toll could get much worse. At least 1,600 homes have been destroyed, and high temperatures and strong winds are…
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Clapham chemical attack: police offer £20,000 reward for information leading to suspect’s arrest
Four days after a chemical attack on a woman and her two daughters in south London, police have offered a twenty thousand pound reward for information leading to the suspect’s arrest. The last confirmed sighting of 35-year-old Abdul Ezedi remains the night of the attack – despite him having serious injuries to his face.
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So what do today’s events mean for the future of Northern Ireland?
So what do today’s events mean for the future of Northern Ireland? We’re joined now by Emma DeSouza, who’s a commentator, campaigner and advocates for a United Ireland. And by Emma Shaw, a loyalist community activist who runs a project to encourage young people back into education.
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US strikes on Iraq and Syria ‘principally focused on militant groups’ says US military expert
We spoke to General Joseph L. Votel, a retired US Army officer who was most recently Commander of US Central Command, and responsible for US and coalition military operations in the Middle East. We asked for his assessment of the scale and scope of the airstrikes.
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US strikes on 85 Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria kill 16 people, says Iraqi government
Iraq has warned of disastrous consequences for the region, after the US launched air strikes on 85 targets used by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. It said 16 people were killed in Iraq, some of them civilians. The strikes were in retaliation for a drone attack which killed three US troops last Sunday. And…
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Today is a ‘hugely significant day’ says Northern Ireland’s new first minister Michelle O’Neill
We caught up with the new First Minister, Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill.
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Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is ‘extremely’ confident that DUP will stay in the process
We put a couple of questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris.
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Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill becomes Northern Ireland’s first nationalist first minister
Stormont has finally been restored and for the first time in 103 years it’s not a unionist at the helm. Making history Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill, who’s become the first nationalist to lead Northern Ireland – a state she wants to abolish. She’s pledged to be a “first minister for all” and will share power…
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Greta Thunberg case shows new police powers on protests ‘so broad, they’re unworkable’, says lawyer
Katy Watts is a lawyer for the human rights organisation Liberty, which is taking the Home Secretary to court later this month for forcing through the anti-protest laws used in court today, which parliament had previously rejected. She told us why she thought the judgement in this case is so significant.
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Northern Ireland’s Assembly to reconvene two years to the day since devolution collapsed
Party leaders have met in Stormont Castle to discuss priorities for the first day of Northern Ireland’s new government. Tomorrow, the power-sharing assembly will finally be recalled – two years to the day since devolution collapsed – and with its first republican First Minister, Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill. But the leader of the Democratic Unionists…
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‘Water quality around coast lines has been improving’, says Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee
We spoke to Philip Dunne, Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, to get a more detailed reaction from him to last night’s report on how government officials were worried about negative press on sewage overflows and wanted pollution incidents to be “better presented”.
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Ethiopia’s 1985 famine would ‘pale in comparison’ to current crisis, says president of Tigray Interim Administration
We spoke to Getachew Reda, President of the Tigray Interim Regional Administration, and began by asking him about the current humanitarian situation.
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Deadly combination of war and drought leaves Ethiopia facing famine
It’s already been ravaged by war. Now Ethiopia’s Tigray region is on the verge of famine – with at least two million people at risk of starvation and death. Elders and international aid agencies are comparing the crisis to the mid-1980s – when war and drought caused a famine that killed up to a million…
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‘Crisis in the workforce’ in childcare sector, says National Day Nurseries Association
Earlier we spoke to Jonathan Broadbery, the Director of Policy at the National Day Nurseries Association.
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New childcare staff offered £1,000 incentive amid staffing crisis and government promises
The government has promised working parents 15 hours of free childcare a week for two-year-olds from April – eventually extending to 30 hours for children as young as nine months. But a staffing crisis in the childcare sector means it might have to break that promise. It’s now offering a thousand pound cash incentive to…