stormont collapsed due to incompetence and scandal. that is why our stormont hasn't come back. a plague on all their houses, you are saying? the other issue is one of the reasons it has not come back as there is no trust, no trust between the little parties, no trust between the dup, no trust between the sinn fein and quite frankly, most about don't trust either of them. because one of the things we have seen time and again is we must see substantial reform in stormont. there is no point in bringing stormont back up and running if it is going back to the way it was. the unionist electorate, they elected ten of us. we will csa do on thursday. crosstalk. you have made your point. very quickly, very quickly. i think people are sick of this squabbling. everybody i speak to what those in their dealing with the problem. one in four people are on the waiting list. the man in the audience hit the nail on the head, let suspend, reform or suspend the petition of concern, put a vote to the house in the assembly on the irish language act and get on with it and back to dealing with this. th

its just uncertainty, we stormont and in the brexit process. itsjust uncertainty, we need stormont and in the brexit process. its just uncertainty, we need to know what's happening and we need to know what's happening and we need to know soon, because there needs to be investment here. there is nobody making positive decisions or anything, anything that is a real problem. if we decide what is happening we can decide how it is going to happen, but we need to know. just down the road you get to patch ago, a place that shows why that uncertainty is so unsettling. the border is this river which runs right through the village. a derelict customs post remains as a relic from different times. this bbc field from 35 years ago captured the unique local challenges. this is a smuggler, she is on a return trip from britain into ireland with quantities of butter, bread and teen food, all of which are cheaper in ulster. 79, 79. tension is here remember well the days of disruption, amidst the troubles. —— pensioners. i remember it was hard. the customs, w

winter at stormont, parties out in the cold. each morning civil servants arrive to run the country. it's many moons since politicians took decisions here. it's a source of continuous pain. john's one of thousands of patients in northern ireland now waiting years for routine operations. a lack of government has led to the slow decay of services. while the parties try to resolve their differences, he faces another year—and—a—half‘s wait for a hip replacement. i mean, to wait that long, and your life's on hold. in the kind of pain you're in. yeah, yeah. it's just on hold. you can't do anything. there's too many people pointing the finger at each other. theyjust need to get on. today, calls for an irish language act. the main issue pretending sinn fein and the democratic unionists from governing together again. as ever, we enter into these negotiations in a spirit of optimism and determination. and now the big test is political will. i have listened very carefully during this election campaign, and right throughout the campaign there was a desire to get stormont back up and runn

the fact that there has been no devolved government at stormont going on three years now. really, i think this area in particular nothing front of the race between unionism and nationalism, it always a race between the two candidates. brexit has put all those issues of identity politics are more into the foreground. in this constituency, there have been packed going back a number of years in previous elections. in this particular campaign, we are talking about pack satellite is more than ever before? that's right, in the areas before, there have been deal is made. this time with unionism challenging sinn fein for the seats, the ulster unionist candidate is going forward here. in north belfast, where at the uup are under pressure. the difference brexit has made is up for the first time, there is a degree of cooperation between the two nationalist parties. they do not call it a nationalist pact, you have the sdlp standing aside in that enough belfast constituency, that will help sinn fein. you have a sinn fein standing aside in south belfast helping other parties get target

well, isuppose, unfortunately, you're not going to hear about stormont, because there's nobody in stormont... there's no one there, so it's time people got their heads down together and put the country first and said, "listen here, come on, boys, this is what we're going to have to do." the uncertainty over brexit is no good for anyone here. at enniskillen's livestock market, republic of ireland farmers buy northern irish cattle. 0verall trade across the frontier is worth more than £1 billion to those north of the border. frictionless trade means jobs, decent livelihoods, future. but there's an irony. this is the coverage in the aftermath of the referendum. though the ramifications of brexit are most keenly felt in northern ireland, it's the old ties that bind — orange and green, unionist and nationalist, that swing elections here. it comes back down to the whole orange and green thing here. it's how all the elections that have passed have always ended up. so that sectarian divide transcends everything, even the evil of brexit? even the upheaval of brexit? it does. but if issues of iden

chris page, at stormont, thank you very much. sophie, the new government begins its first week with a commons majority of 80. the politics of the last three years — the deadlock, the in—fighting, and the inability to move things on — may now be a thing of the past. but this is westminster, and only a fool will try to speculate on what happens here next. that's all here from here — back to you in the studio. simon, thank you. a minute's silence has been held in new zealand a week after a volcano erupted on white island, killing and injuring a number of people. 16 people have died and two are missing presumed dead. about 20 people remain in intensive care with severe burns. phil mercer reports. a week ago, the white island volcano erupted without warning. a minute's silence has been observed in new zealand to remember those killed and injured by its fury. families of some of the victims have gathered on a navy ship a short distance away. onboard, there were hugs, while others stared in silence at the island. later, to the s

well, isuppose, unfortunately, you're not going to hear about stormont, because there's nobody in stormont... there's no one there, so it's time people got their heads down together and put the country first and said, "listen here, come on, boys, this is what we're going to have to do." the uncertainty over brexit is no good for anyone here. at enniskillen‘s livestock market, republic of ireland farmers buy northern irish cattle. overall trade across the frontier is worth more than £1 billion to those north of the border. frictionless trade means jobs, decent livelihoods, future. but there's an irony. this is the coverage in the aftermath of the referendum. though the ramifications of brexit are most keenly felt in northern ireland, it's the old ties that bind — orange and green, unionist and nationalist, that swing elections here. it comes back down to the whole orange and green thing here. it's how all the elections that have passed have always ended up. so that sectarian divide transcends everything, even the evil of brexit? it does. but if issues of identity drive political action

it is meant to bea stormont is under way. it is meant to be a long and difficult process, as is always the case here, but there is a mood of optimism compared with previous rounds of negotiations. i think it is fair to say about this time, there could be some kind of breakthrough, it has been nearly three years since northern ireland ? been nearly three years since northern ireland? devolved assembly was sitting and that building behind me and ministers in the power—sharing executive were in office. several rounds of negotiations haven't worked out. this time, the two biggest democratic party, the dup and sinn fein, both actually lost significant number of doubts in the general election, they both drop several specific points in their share of the bout. that is being read by comic as a message from the electorate that patience is really running out of the political stalemate here at stormont, it is having an impact on public health issues, health workers have been demonstrating here in the last hour orso, demonstrating here

new talks have taken place in northern ireland, to try to restore the devolved government at stormont. it's nearly three years since power sharing collapsed because of disputes between sinn fein and the democratic unionists. there's renewed pressure on the parties to get back into government with a crisis in the health service, strike action planned and patient waiting lists the worst in the uk. from belfast, here's our ireland correspondent emma va rdy. winter at stormont, parties out in the cold. each morning civil servants arrive to run the country. it's many moons since politicians took decisions here. it's a source of continuous pain. john's one of thousands of patients in northern ireland now waiting years for routine operations. a lack of government has led to the slow decay of services. while the parties try to resolve their differences, he faces another year—and—a—half‘s wait for a hip replacement. i mean, to wait that long, and your life's on hold. in the kind of pain you're in. yeah, yeah. it's just on hold. you can't do anything. there's too many people pointing th

winter at stormont, parties out in the cold. each morning civil servants arrive to run the country. it's many moons since politicians took decisions here. it's a source of continuous pain. john's one of thousands of patients in northern ireland now waiting years for routine operations. a lack of government has led to the slow decay of services. while the parties try to resolve their differences, he faces another year—and—a—half‘s wait for a hip replacement. i mean, to wait that long, and your life's on hold. in the kind of pain you're in. yeah, yeah. it's just on hold. you can't do anything. there's too many people pointing the finger at each other. theyjust need no get on. theyjust need to get on. today, calls for an irish language act. the main issue pretending sinn fein and the democratic unionists from governing together again. as ever, we enter into these negotiations in a spirit of optimism and determination. and now the big test is political will. i have listened very carefully during this election campaign, and right throughout the campaign there was a desire to get

winter at stormont, parties out in the cold. each morning civil servants arrive to run the country. it's many moons since politicians took decisions here. it's a source of continuous pain. john's one of thousands of patients in northern ireland now waiting years for routine operations. a lack of government has led to the slow decay of services. while the parties try to resolve their differences, he faces another year—and—a—half‘s wait for a hip replacement. i mean, to wait that long, and your life's on hold. in the kind of pain you're in. yeah, yeah. it's just on hold. you can't do anything. there's too many people pointing the finger at each other. theyjust need to get on. today, calls for an irish language act. the main issue pretending sinn fein and the democratic unionists from governing together again. as ever, we enter into these negotiations in a spirit of optimism and determination. and now the big test is political will. i have listened very carefully during this election campaign, and right throughout the campaign there was a desire to get stormont back up and runn

well, isuppose, unfortunately, you're not going to hear about stormont, because there's nobody in stormont... there's no one there, so it's time people got their heads down together and put the country first and said, "listen here, boys, this is what we're going to have to do." the uncertainty over brexit is no good for anyone here. at enniskillen‘s livestock market, republic of ireland farmers buy northern irish cattle. overall, trade across the frontier is worth more than £1 billion to those north of the border. frictionless trade means jobs, decent livelihoods, future. but there's an irony... this is the coverage in the aftermath of the referendum. though the ramifications of brexit are most keenly felt in northern ireland, it's the old ties that bind — orange and green, unionist and nationalist, that swing elections here. it comes back down to the whole orange and green thing here. it's how all the elections that have passed have always ended up. so that sectarian divide transcends everything, even the upheaval of brexit? it does. but if issues of identity drive political action,

, so there is a great deal of pressure on the parties, to get a deal back on, and return to stormont, early in the new year. shoppers are being warned about the dangers of buying cheap christmas tree lights through online marketplaces such as amazon and ebay. an investigation by the consumer group "which?" found that almost half the products it tested could cause a fire or electric shock. our business correspondent katie prescott reports. a christmas nightmare. this is what the consumer group which? found could happen when fairy lights sold online don't meet uk safety standards. half of the products they tested caused melting circuit boards and electric shocks. when we're decorating the christmas tree, most of us are probably thinking about what looks prettiest. but all these lights that were found to be faulty came from third—party sellers on online marketplaces, which makes it extremely difficult to know exactly what you're getting, because it's the vendor, in these cases, rather than the website, that's responsible for the product. the charity electrical safety first has been cam

chris page is at stormont. after what years of inactivity, what are the chances that they will restore things now? well, it is almost three years since the devolved government collapsed here. since then northern ireland has been in this kind of limbo. there has been no ministers to make decisions and there has been real pressure on the public services, the nhs in particular, waiting lists have been spiralling and are the longest in the uk, health workers are taking industrial action over pay and you have had hundreds of out—patient appointments cancelled. that is bringing pressure to bear on the main political parties and you have general election results last week, which sent a certain signal i think to the dup and sinn fein, certainly could be read in that sense. both parties lost a few percentage points in their vote share. the dup lost two of their ten mps. sinn fein retained their number of mps. they won seven seats. however, they still lost a significant number of votes. so all the parties acknowledge t

strikes are happening as politicians at stormont. health care reform to be left on the shelf because there have been no ministers in office. this is the front line. it is a christmas of crisis in hospitals here. chris page has been following the story — we can speak to him now from belfast. give us an idea of the level of disruption the strike has caused. the current number of outpatient appointments that have been cancelled stands at around 5000 so there is no doubt that there has been a significant level of disruption to the health service as you had in my report there. services that are deemed critical, the likes of cancer treatment for example, those services are continuing. workers in those areas have been given an exemption from striking. strikers are pretty confident that in spite of the levels of disruption, the public is right behind them and certainly the levels of support that was being expressed towards strike at on picket lines that seem to bear that out. what is noticeable is that health care managers are far from say

it sends a message to politicians who are in the middle of talks in stormont today, talks that began on monday into reviving the power—sharing devolved government that collapsed injanuary devolved government that collapsed in january of 2017, say they must strike a deal to get back in the assembly and get ministers back in office to make decisions on pay and bring in urgent reforms for the health service that had been planned but left on the shelf because ministers have been out of office for so long. when i have been in northern ireland in the last couple of weeks i detected a good deal of public support for the nurses. a lot of people actually blaming the fact that the northern ireland assembly is not up and running to make decisions, the sorts of decisions those nurses are calling for on pay. is there any way the secretary of state for northern ireland could step in in the absence of any progress? lots of people there hope there will be progress on restoring there will be progress on restoring the assembly but in the absence of that, and could the northern ireland secretary step

winter at stormont, parties out in the cold. each morning civil servants arrive to run the country. it's many moons since politicians took decisions here. it's a source of continuous pain. john's one of thousands of patients in northern ireland now waiting years for routine operations. a lack of government has led to the slow decay of services. while the parties try to resolve their differences, he faces another year—and—a—half‘s wait for a hip replacement. i mean, to wait that long, and your life's on hold. in the kind of pain you're in. yeah, yeah. it's just on hold. you can't do anything. there's too many people pointing the finger at each other. theyjust need to get on. today, calls for an irish language act. the main issue pretending sinn fein and the democratic unionists from governing together again. as ever, we enter into these negotiations in a spirit of optimism and determination. and now the big test is political will. i have listened very carefully during this election campaign, and right throughout the campaign there was a desire to get stormont back up and runn

winter at stormont, parties out in the cold. each morning, civil servants arrive to run the country. it's many moons since politicians took decisions here. it's a source of continuous pain. john's one of thousands of patients in northern ireland now waiting years for routine operations. a lack of government has led to the slow decay of services. while the parties try to resolve their differences, he faces another year—and—a—half‘s wait for a hip replacement. i mean, to wait that long, and your life's on hold. in the kind of pain you're in. yeah, yeah. it's just on hold. you can't do anything. there's too many people pointing the finger at each other. theyjust need to get on. today, calls for an irish language act. the main issue pretending sinn fein and the democratic unionists from governing together again. as ever, we enter into these negotiations in a spirit of optimism and determination. and now the big test is political will. i have listened very carefully during this election campaign, and right throughout the camp

emma vardy with the latest at stormont in northern ireland. labour's heartlands in wales were not safe from the conservative sweep, where they gained six seats. the tories took seats including wrexham, which had been labour since 1935, and they took the rural seat of brecon and radnorshire from the lib dems. our correspondent hywel griffith starts his report in wrexham, north—east wales. only £2 a bunch! welcome to a town of first—time tories. wrexham has never returned a conservative mp before. for most of a century, it stuck with labour, through thick and thin. austerity bit hard here, but it's turned its back on the party and gone from red to blue. for liam, it was all about delivering brexit. get it done. we should be an independent country. we should be moving forward, looking at different things. onwards and upwards, i say! others lacked faith in labour's leader. for pam, he was the reason she voted tory. i really just didn't want jeremy corbyn to be our prime minister. i don't think there was a great deal to choose from, but ijust

the other thing people are thinking about is stormont, the fa ct are thinking about is stormont, the fact that there has been no assembly sitting for three years, come january. this isn't a stormont assembly election, this is a westminster election. nonetheless, people here may be looking to see if there will be any change in terms of there will be any change in terms of the configuration of the westminster seats that might unlock some sort of movement at stormont. for now, from enniskillen, back to you. thank you very much indeed. we will catch up with the weather now, it looked rather chilly in enniskillen but we will start off with something a little bit wilderfurther afield. we are talking about a typhoon which at the philippines local time on monday night. these pictures were taken before the strongest of the winds and the heaviest of the rain, but you can see, it was a powerful storm. sustained wind around 100 mph, gusts shy of 150 mph, so a powerful system working its way through. you can see it clearly on the satellite image, there is a great swirl of cloud and because it hit

well, isuppose, unfortunately, you're not going to hear about stormont, because there's nobody in stormont... there's no—one there, so it's time people got their heads down together and put the country first and said, "listen here, boys, this is what we're going to have to do." the uncertainty over brexit is no good for anyone here. at enniskillen‘s livestock market, republic of ireland farmers buy northern irish cattle. 0verall, trade across the frontier is worth more than £1 billion to those north of the border. frictionless trade means jobs, decent livelihoods, future. but there's an irony... this is the coverage in the aftermath of the referendum. though the ramifications of brexit are most keenly felt in northern ireland, it's the old ties that bind — orange and green, unionist and nationalist, that swing elections here. it comes back down to the whole orange and green thing here. it's how all the elections that have passed have always ended up. so that sectarian divide transcends everything, even the upheaval of brexit? it does. but if issues of identity drive political action

to stand up to borisjohnson, to protect us from brexit, but you also want us to get back to work in stormont. but none of the northern ireland parties back borisjohnson‘s brexit deal, and big differences must be overcome for a devolved government to return to stormont. the conservatives' victory saw them advance into areas of the country that had previously been out of range. that was the prime factor in achieving a substantial commons majority — which should now see the brexit process speeding up. 0ur correspondentjon kay has been to three former labour seats in the north—east of england. ian levy, the conservative party candidate, 17,000. cheering. would you believe it? blyth valley, in northumberland, woke up with a conservative mp — for the first time ever. so, how are you feeling this morning? good. walking her dog by the north sea, we meet allison — labour born and bred but, this time, tory. and i know a lot of people are saying, oh, well, i was brought up labour and me dad voted labour and me mam. those days are long gone. the labour party then, in its day, was great, but th

stormont sitting for four years. exactly, both sides will fight over the history of who budged more but they both budged and there was a deal and that, in the end, is the thing that really matters and they both budged for political reasons because there desperate to have it happen, but i'll always remember the very beginning of all this, someone very senior in the government said to me, "i wouldn't bet you 5p that we can get a deal done." they wanted a deal and they always wanted to deal, they never wanted to leave no deal but they were very, very dubious about whether or not they could actually do it. anyway, welcome to brexitcast, when we spend longer on the footnotes on the backstop than we do on the general election of 2019. the general election... the what? forgotten already? yeah! it was a weird general election because it felt like the build—up went on for ages and the it was least surprising snap election in history, wasn't it? it was. but it only happened because boris johnson got this deal and he wasn't s

the northern ireland secretary is meeting the five main stormont parties as part of those talks and i understand he is planning to invite them to a health summit tomorrow to try to resolve the issue. studio: thank you. tony blair has delivered a scathing verdict on labour's performance in the general election, and urged moderates in the party to take back control from the far—left. in a speech in london, the former prime minister warned that the party had to change course, or it might never win power again. his intervention comes as candidates to be the next labour leader begin to outline their vision for the future. nick eardley reports. just wondering whether we are going to be able to count on your vote? what went wrong and how does labour rebuild after its worst election result in 80 years? there is a lot of soul—searching going on in the party. the last man to win an election as labour leader says a big rethink is needed. labour can keep with the programme and positions of jeremy corbyn with a new leader in which case it's finished. or it can understand that it must recapture

they will be decided at stormont but the stormont assembly has not been sitting for nearly three years. so party manifestos in northern ireland will be a bit less full of the grainy detail you might get in borisjohnson's plans for the nhs or whatever, and they are a bit more basic. let's start with the two big parties, the dup and sinn fein. the dup are really angry about borisjohnson's brexit deal. they are predicting that they will still be power brokers after polling day. they are predicting there will still be a hung parliament and the conservatives will still need the dup's votes for a majority. probably the codeword for thinking that is going to happen is that they are secretly wishing they will remain in that position of power. the dup's main message is if they do end up in that position, they will continue to fight boris johnson on the brexit deal. they want it changed, they don't want anything that makes northern ireland different from the rest of the uk, so they are going to keep banging that drum. here is arlene foster, the dup leader, banging that drum metaphorically at the

stormont sitting for four years. exactly, both sides will fight over the history of who budged more but they both budged and there was a deal and that, in the end, is the thing that really matters and they both budged for political reasons because there desperate to have it happen, but i'll always remember the very beginning of all this, someone very senior in the government said to me, "i wouldn't bet you 5p that we can get a deal done." they wanted a deal and they always wanted to deal, they never wanted to leave no deal but they were very, very dubious about whether or not they could actually do it. anyway, welcome to brexitcast when we spend longer on the footnotes on the backstop than we do on the general election of 2019. the general election... the what? forgotten already? yeah! it was a weird general election because it felt like the build up went on for ages and the it was least surprising snap election in history, wasn't it? it was. but it only happened because borisjohnson got this deal and he wasn't sure

that collapsed nearly three yea rs stormont that collapsed nearly three years ago now, injanuary of 2017. since then hospital waiting lists have grown, significantly, they are currently the worst in the uk. infra structure projects are delayed, and school principals complain about what they say is a funding crisis so public services in northern ireland are feeling the strain of not having ministers in charge, of not having elected politicians in office. civil serva nts elected politicians in office. civil servants have basically been running the place because northern irish civil servants are not elected politicians their powers to make decisions are limited. there is a sense that the general election results, which while it still meant the dup and sinn fein are the largest parties in northern ireland, it perhaps represented a kind of tipping point, and certainly the parties have acknowledged they were getting a lot of heat on the doorsteps while canvassing about the impact having no government was having on northern ireland. the thinking is that, yes, it might well concentrate mind

winter at stormont, parties out in the cold. each morning civil servants arrive to run the country. it's many moons since politicians took decisions here. it's a source of continuous pain. john's one of thousands of patients in northern ireland now waiting years for routine operations. a lack of government has led to the slow decay of services. while the parties try to resolve their differences, he faces another year—and—a—half‘s wait for a hip replacement. i mean, to wait that long, and your life's on hold. in the kind of pain you're in. yeah, yeah. it's just on hold. you can't do anything. there's too many people pointing the finger at each other. theyjust need no get on. today, calls for an irish language act. the main issue pretending sinn fein and the democratic unionists from governing together again. as ever, we enter into these negotiations in a spirit of optimism and determination. and now the big test is political will. i have listened very carefully during this election campaign, and right throughout the campaign there was a desire to get stormont back up and runn

stormont are sitting in four years. exactly, both sides will fight over the history of who budged more but they both budged and there was a deal and that in the end was what really matters and they both budged for political reasons because there desperate to have it happen, but i'll always remember the very beginning of all this, someone very senior in the government said to me, "i wouldn't bet you 5p that we can get a deal done." they wanted a deal and they always wanted to deal, they never wanted to leave no deal but they were very, very dubious about whether or not they could actually do it. anyway, welcome to brexitcast when we spend longer on the footnotes on the backstop than we do on the general election of 2019. the general election of 2019. the general election of what? forgotten already? yeah! it was a weird general election because it felt like the build up went on for ages and the least surprising snap election in history, wasn't it? it was. but it only happen because borisjohnson looked out —— but it on

stormont sitting for four years. exactly, both sides will fight over the history of who budged more but they both budged and there was a deal and that, in the end, is the thing that really matters and they both budged for political reasons because there desperate to have it happen, but i'll always remember the very beginning of all this, someone very senior in the government said to me, "i wouldn't bet you 5p that we can get a deal done." they wanted a deal and they always wanted to deal, they never wanted to leave no deal but they were very, very dubious about whether or not they could actually do it. anyway, welcome to brexitcast when we spend longer on the footnotes on the backstop than we do on the general election of 2019. the general election... the what? forgotten already? yeah! it was a weird general election because it felt like the build up went on for ages and the it was least surprising snap election in history, wasn't it? it was. but it only happened because boris johnson got this deal and he wasn't sure

i think a return to stormont. they don't have anywhere else to go. also saying about us being a unionist paper, stormont is better for unionist than nationalist. it is something that keeps northern ireland in the uk you could argue committee could also argue that sinn fein who, by the way had a bad election, their vote went markedly down, if you don't want northern ireland to exist and clearly the ultimate one a united ireland, there's an argument that does not matter to them but i think what's sinn fein also having a bad infected we re sinn fein also having a bad infected were selection, they went down 7%, the dup went down five, the two of them now are probably going to resume or want to resume quite quickly. that's very dramatic and significant because there were quite serious and sober commentators who we re serious and sober commentators who were beginning to think that stormont would never come back, the divisions were too great and the atmosphere was too ugly. this election has been a big change, really between them only getting about half of

they will be decided at stormont but the stormont assembly has not been sitting for nearly three years. so party manifestos in northern ireland will be a bit less full of the grainy detail you might get in boris johnson's plans for the nhs or whatever, and they are a bit more basic. let's start with the two big parties, the dup and sinn fein. the dup are really angry about boris johnson's brexit deal. they are predicting that they will still be power brokers after polling day. they are predicting there will still bea they are predicting there will still be a hung parliament and the conservatives will still need the dup's votes for a majority. probably the codeword for thinking that is going to happen is that they are secretly wishing they will remain in that position of power. the dup's main message is if they do end up in that position, they will continue to fight borisjohnson that position, they will continue to fight boris johnson on the that position, they will continue to fight borisjohnson on the brexit deal. they want it changed, they don't want anything that makes northern irel

jurors deliberated for less than an hour and pe standing by stormont, what is the latest? >> north bay getting the heaviest and there is a unique concern in the north bay because we still have that big burn scar from the kincaid fire. that's going to get dumped on. i want to start off by spotlighting that. you'll see green, yellow and orange on this. i will show you that bird scar is. all you have to do is look for the heaviest rain. you don't have to look at high definition doppler, i could with the footprint of the fire on the screen. if i look at had and how much rain were going to get on the bird scar for the kincaid going forward, that is four inches of rain on the higher slopes. all of the water has to flow downhill. that is why there was a flash flood watch for the reasons of the kincaid. the number one concern here would be anyone out driving around on rural roads between now and 4:00 tomorrow morning. just be very aware of your surroundings. they can change quickly. whether it is rockslides or washing. as far as total rainfall between now and midnight tonight, we

the stormont government. health care reforms have been left on the shelf without ministers. this is the front line where the political deadlock collides with the most valued public service. it is a christmas of crisis in hospitals here. well, the westminster government says it can't step in because health care is a devolved matter, it should be the responsibility of local politicians, but the northern ireland secretary is meeting the five main stormont parties as part of those talks this afternoon, and i understand he is planning to invite them to a health summit to take place tomorrow to try to resolve this issue. that was chris page. pat cullen is the director of the royal college of nursing in northern ireland and is a registered nurse. shejoins me now from belfast. a sad day, and i wonder if this was ado a sad day, and i wonder if this was a do you ever thought you would save. a do you ever thought you would save. no, in my 38 years as a registered nurse, i never thought one day i would find my selves out

what does all this mean, if anything, for stormont and the northern ireland assembly that has been in the deep freeze for almost three years now. three years next month. is there any possibility of it soon being brought off the ice? i think the dup needed now more than the other parties. now their westminster influence has gone. the problem is they are going into this negotiation on monday with the wounds of this election wide open. they have worked a sense in their own community now that the union is under threat, that the kingdom is disunited, if you like. and having tried to manage all of that during the election campaign, they are now going to have to go to their community to ask for further compromises on things such as an irish language act, if you are to restore stormont. if we don't get stormont by the middle ofjanuary then we are into the prospect of an assembly election, and given this set of results, that sinn fein and the dup have had overnight, would they really want a stormont election at this stage? i think there will be at this stage? i think there will be a pressure o

. >>> now streaming on cbsn bay area, we are on stormont. i am veronica de la cruz. >> i am ken bastida. we got some time-lapse video tonight from mount to a vaca looking across the north bay, with heavy cloud cover. and, right now the rain is coming down on drivers crossing the golden gate. and richmond san rafael bridges. our meteorologist is tracking it all for us tonight. >>> those pictures of ns is not moderate range, not heavy downpours but more moderate than the streets are slick, that'll be just as good information for you as the radar i'm going to show you. this radar is a very impressive show tonight. a lot of yellows and oranges. remember, it is mainly moderate rain, just enough that the roads are slip out there slick out there. they have been fairly manageable. now having shown you those numbers, i want to go back to live high definition doppler and show you were the best rain has been the last two hours. it been focus on the north bay, the 101 corridor. orange shows you moderate rain, but, it's not only raining there now, it has

to stand up to borisjohnson, to protect us from brexit, but you also want us to get back to work in stormont. it's a very significant moment for northern ireland, which has, for the first time, a majority of nationalist mp5, but none of them, neither nationalist, unionist nor the cross community alliance party mp, back borisjohnson's current brexit deal. brexit though not the only concern here as voters wonder whether talks aimed at restarting the northern ireland assembly at stormont after nearly three years can work. annita mcveigh, bbc news, belfast. the conservatives have taken seats from labour across north wales, as well as bridgend in the south. hywel griffith is in wrexham. a turn—up for the books yet again. absolutely, and wrexham is a town which has never returned a conservative mp before. last night this was another brick in the red wall which turned blue, even red wall which turned blue, even red wall which turned blue, even red wall which has been bulldozed by borisjohnson. brexit wall which has been bulldozed by boris johnson. brexit was definitely the key issue in many of th

. >>> stormont right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, good evening i'm ken bastida. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. we begin with the rain returning, sprinkles falling in santa rosa. you can see the raindrops from this car's windshield, just enough to need those wipers again and an umbrella. live look at sausalito where showers are headed overnight. darren peck has been tracking all of us for it. >> interesting timing. here we are getting right into the heart of the home and this is exactly when the best of the rain is showing up. north bay it is yours for now but this will get the entire bay area over the next three hours. this impressive band is not just light rain, this is coming down moderately enough it will impact your drive. so for the north bay is priority number one. we are going to start at the top of the 101 corridor. there is healdsburg, right through the center of town, right three central square. it to a look at windsor, same story, down into santa rosa. the story doesn't change. that is good rain, petaluma same story for you. now as we pull back a little bit furt

. >>> now streaming on cbsn bay area, we are on stormont. i am veronica de la cruz. >> i am ken bastida. we got some time-lapse video tonight from mount to a vaca looking across the north bay, with heavy cloud cover. and, right now the rain is coming down on drivers crossing the golden gate. and richmond san rafael bridges. itr meteorologist is tracking

isn't governed by westminster and is supposed to be run by northern ireland's devolved government at stormont. but you won't find many politicians coming to these doors. it's been nearly three years since power—sharing collapsed. civil servants are running public services, but they have little powers to tackle a crisis. it means whoever gets the keys to number ten will have to keep one eye on getting this seemingly ungovernable place back to business and means the election in northern ireland has become about issues largely beyond mps' control. wales is traditionally a labour stronghold. the party has come first in every general election vote here for a century. two years ago, it took 28 of the a0 welsh seats, including this constituency of gower. but during the campaign, that grip may have loosened. the polls suggest that the conservatives are on course to take several of those seats, including this one. by putting brexit at the front and centre of his campaign, borisjohnson has been trying to woo lifelong labour supporters who voted to leave the eu. and there are plenty of them in wales,

but the man who loves to keep moving is frustrated by political paralysis, both at stormont and in the brexit process. it's just uncertainty. we need to know what's happening and we need to know soon, because there's nobody investing in here. there's nobody making positive decisions in anything. and i think that is the real problem. if we just decide what is happening and we can decide how it is going to happen, and it'll survive, but we need to know. just down the road, you get to pettigo, a place which shows why that uncertainty is so unsettling. the border is this river, which runs right through the village. a derelict customs post remains as a relic from different times. two soldiers... this bbc film from 35 years ago captured the unique local challenges. this is a smuggler, she's on a return trip from britain into ireland with quantities of butter, bread and tinned food, all of which are cheaper in ulster. 7-9, 79. pensioners here remember well the days of disruption, amidst the troubles. it was an awful handicap to have the roads blowing up all around you, that you couldn't trave

isn't governed by westminster, and is supposed to be run by northern ireland's devolved government at stormont. but you won't find many politicians coming to these doors. it has been nearly three years since power—sharing collapsed. civil servants are running public services, but they have little powers to tackle a crisis. it means whoever gets the keys to number ten will have to keep one eye on getting this seemingly ungovernable place back to business. that means the election in northern ireland has become about issues largely beyond mps‘ control. wales is traditionally a labour stronghold, the party has come first in every general election vote here for a century. two years ago, it took 28 of the a0 welsh seats, including this constituency of gower. but, during the campaign, that grip may have loosened. the polls suggest that the conservatives are on course to take several of those seats, including this one. by putting brexit at the front and centre of his campaign, borisjohnson has been trying to woo lifelong labour supporters who voted to leave the eu. and there are plenty of them in

they were in a position a few years ago where they were in command of the stormont assembly, then they lost that but very quickly got the compensation of holding the balance of power across the uk. that was a massive moment for them and a very exciting and then of course boris johnson quite quickly went back on his word. he was at the conference here a year ago and then after that, there is a selection where they have lost their influence entirely and as you say, they lost their most important mp, nigel dodds, who was very well—established, very well—known to tory mps, respected by tory mps, a very bright man, he got a first tory mps, a very bright man, he got afirst in tory mps, a very bright man, he got a first in law from cambridge and then there has been this reshuffle with sirjeffrey donaldson moving up having been chief whip now to take over from having been chief whip now to take overfrom nigel dodds. john worboys, the london taxi driver convicted of rape and numerous sexual offences, has been handed two additional life sentences for attacks on four more women. it's been rev

put up posters, martin's photograph was on it, saying, "we will never achieve united ireland through stormont." yes, he continued to believe in the arms struggle. exactly. but listen, i want to bring it back to the personal. if martin mcguinness had known that you were a spy, you were informing to your british handlers on every move, every thought he had, you would have been killed. i'd have been dead. and in fact, many times, i thought that i'd been compromised. you had this thing in your head all the time. you lived with fear all the time. oh, i used to get phone calls at 1am in the morning — "can you come and see me and don't bring your car". and i thought, "that's it, i'm dead." but you weren't just risking yourself, you were risking your family. um... yeah, selfish as it sounds, iwas, yeah. well, it is selfish. yeah, i was. did you think hard about that level of selfishness? um... i didn't really, you know, because here's the thing, it's hard to explain, i was living on adrenaline. it's the greatest drug ever. in fact, when i left ireland, i didn't know what to do with myself i wasn't

turns to this place. 0ld differences must be overcome if a devolved government is to return here to stormont after nearly three years. and talks are supposed to restart on monday. but the face of northern ireland is changing. the hardliners now punished by voters for years of paralysis. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. labour's heartlands in wales were not safe from the conservatives' sweep to power, where they gained six seats. the tories took seats that have been red for generations, like the industrial town of bridgend, and they also from there, our correspondent, hywel griffith, reports on the results in wales.

isn't governed by westminster and is supposed to be run by northern ireland's devolved government at stormont. you won't find many politicians coming to these doors. it's been nearly three years since power—sharing collapsed. civil servants are running public services but they have little powers to tackle a crisis. it means whoever gets the keys to no 10 will have to keep one eye on getting this seemingly ungovernable place back to business. it means the election in northern ireland has become about issues largely beyond mps' control. wales is traditionally a labour stronghold, the party's come first in every general election vote here for a century. two years ago, it took 28 of the a0 welsh seats, including this constituency of gower. but during the campaign, that grip may have loosened. the polls suggest that the conservatives are on course to take several of those seats, including this one. by putting brexit at the front and centre of his campaign, boris johnson's been trying to woo lifelong labour supporters who voted to leave the eu. and there are plenty of them in wales, which overall

following hot on the heels from stormont here we've got our next batch of wet and windy weather racing in off the atlantic. it's this stripe of cloud you can see here moving into the west of the british isles. now, earlier in the night, we had temperatures down as low as “11 celsius across eastern england, but over more recent hours as the winds have been picking up in the rain's been spreading in, we've seen those temperatures continue to actually rise. and so by dawn, 9—10 degrees in the west, technically quite mild a start to the day for a number of places in the west. it's mild, but for many of us it's a wet start to the day as well, the exception eastern england, perhaps starting off with some early morning brightness before the cloud and rain spreads in. and this rain is going to be happy for all of us, the winds will be really quite gusty and squally, particularly so across parts of north wales, northern ireland, wales and parts of scotland. in exposure, 60—70mph gusts, otherwise 50—60mph, and that strong enough to bring down some tree branches, so there is a risk of som

that means people here or at the ground are more anxious about what is not happening in stormont, as opposed to what could be happening at westminster. it will be interesting to see if they use their boat moored to send a message to those parties who labelling for that particular stalemate. and of course, it's polling day is tomorrow — — but if you still haven t made up your mind, check out our how should i vote? guide to the election to see what the parties are promising — that's on our website — bbc.co.uk/news or on the bbc news app. the nobel peace prize laureate, aung san suu kyi, has has been leading myanmar‘s defence against accusations of genocide at the un's top court. she blamed the killings and mass displacement of more than 700,000 rohingya muslims on militants seeking independence. speaking at the international court ofjustice, aung san suu kyi firmly denied accusations of genocide. she said the situation in rakhine state was complex and not easy to fathom. she admitted that it could not be ruled out that disporportionate force may have been used by myanmar‘s

the fact is we have had multiple government reports from stormont saying what needs to be fixed to make the health service in northern ireland sustainable and most of those have not been implemented, they have been gathering dust on a shelf. it is not as simple as fixing the nurses pay and bring it in line with the uk, there are other issues. nurses pay is one piece of a very large jigsaw and unfortunately it is the tip of the iceberg, there is a lot more to be done and i would like to see staff better supported because we do have a brain drain in northern ireland because why would you want to come to work somewhere where you are going to have to work extra hours... we have to leave it there, thank you. we can carry on talking, we just thank you. we can carry on talking, wejust had to thank you. we can carry on talking, we just had to say goodbye to viewers on bbc two but you were saying concerns about the brain drain, your sorrow at thinking you may not be able to return but obviously it is still a situation you care about deeply. what would you care about deeply. what would you like,