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who do we think we are? That's all from us. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to BBC Newsline. The Irish President, Michael D | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Higgins, arrived in London ahead of his state visit to the United | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Kingdom, the first by a president from the Republic. The visit had | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
already been described as historic, a further sign of the closer | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
relationship between the two countries. The decision by Sein | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Fein's Martin McGuinness to accept the Queen's invitation to a state | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
banquet has been attracting most political attention here. Donna | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Traynor is in Windsor tonight ahead of tomorrow's state banquet hosted | :00:29. | :00:42. | |
by the Queen. . Good evening from Windsor. Following the visit by the | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Queen to the republic in 2011, this visit by the president completes the | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
circumstance in Anglo Irish relations. The stamg has been set. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
-- stage has been set. As you can see, as with protocol union flags | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
and trick tricolours line the route. The Royal Standard is flying above | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
the tower. That means that the queen is in residence and is awaiting her | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
visitor. But today the focus has been on Martin McGuinness and that | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
acceptance of an invitation to a state banquet tomorrow. Our | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
political correspondent reports. The band played Raglan Road, a bitter | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
sweet air on the president's first state visit to Dublin. Now an | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
enchanted way as the dangers of the past are laid to rest. With full | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
military honours for president Michael D Higgins. Also on his way, | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
in very different circumstances, the deputy First Minister, who says the | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
visit is about building peace and reconciliation. Well this is about | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
sending the message to everybody about how things have changed. Werp | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
not just involved in a peace process, we are involved in a change | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
process. And change is good for all of us. We had to move forward and | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
being progressive and positive and constructive. Ofbgt it won't be | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Martin McGuinness's first encounter with the Queen. But it will be at a | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
state banquet. So what is the view from the banks of the Foyle? | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
#123450i I have no problem with it. Why not, she came here. So he can go | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
there. I think he was being a bit two-faced. I was pleased that he | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
did, because he is going to represent the people really isn't | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
he? He should, yeah, I think it's OK. The deputy First Minister's | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
decision has been welcomed by the Secretary of State. This is another | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
demonstration of the real progress that has been made with respect to | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Northern Ireland in recent years and in terms of improving the | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
friendliness and strength of the relations between the UK and Ireland | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
and the Republic of Ireland. At the last Westminster and Dail elections | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
over 24 million people voted and 400,000 voted Sinn Fein. It is not | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
just about them, but about everybody in Britain and Ireland. Let's | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
represent it is about the president of Ireland and the Queen of United | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Kingdom and not about Sinn Fein. This oak Strang from an acorn taken | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
from wind sor castle and planted here to mark the Queen's coronation. | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
It has thrived and as is blot somes again -- blossoms again, so will a | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
new relationship between Britain and Ireland. Even though the security | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
was tight for the arrival of president Higgins. President Higgins | :04:06. | :04:15. | |
spoke about his visit before he left. In an interview with the BBC | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
he explained its significance. I think the visit is very important | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
for relationships between the people of Ireland and the people of of the | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
United Kingdom. I also think it will have a special significance for the | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
Irish community in Britain. It would be hard to match the symbolism of | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
the queen's visit to Dublin. This will be a different visit. I think | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
the Queen's visit here was of great significance. Full of symbolism. And | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
that visit having happened then, we move on then to in this visit to | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
look very much to the future. Like all state visit there is will be a | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
banquet and an address to Parliament. But this one is | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
different. President Higgins will be here for four days and for those | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
staying in the castle, that is not normally the domain of royal guests. | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
President Higgins will be at the Irish embassry tonight and then he | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
will be staying here. We will bring you full coverage of the visit. And | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
I'm back here tomorrow afternoon for his ceremonial arrival. Back to the | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
studio. Thank you. A row has erupted over posters in south and east | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
Belfast claiming hundreds of overseas workers are receiving | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
higher wages and denying local people jobs. The UKIP MLA David | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
McNarry says the posters represent community frustration over 500 | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
foreign workers being employed on an oil rig contract at Harland and | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Wolff. The Alliance Party has condemned the posters as racist. I'm | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
outraged by it. I think this is ridiculous putting up these | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
unsubstantiated lies, accusations of immigrants coming into Northern | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Ireland. Particular ly when we have seen recent racist incidents in | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
Belfast. I know who is responsible and it is nothing but a reaction as | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
to what they think is happening to workers, men losing jobs, men not | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
being offered jobs in east Belfast, where the shipyard was born and | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
bred. More than two dozen towns and cities across Northern Ireland are | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
to benefit from lower parking charges. From next start, 93 roads | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
service sites will charge ?1 for five hours parking. As Mark Simpson | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
reports, Belfast is not included in the scheme. The idea behind the | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
scheme is to try to get more shoppers into towns and cities | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
across Northern Ireland like Hollywood here. In fact 25 towns and | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
cities will be part of the scheme and under the scheme it will be ?1 | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
for five hours of parking. And the scheme begins on Saturday morning. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
The question is - will it work? I think it is a perfect compromise. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Five hours for ?1 doesn't sound like a lot. In an ideal world you would | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
be able to park free, but those days are long gone with so many cars. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Anything that encourages people back into the towns has to be a great | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
thing. This one obvious place missing from the long list of towns | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
and cities benefitting from cheaper parking and this a Belfast N terms | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
of price of parking there, there is no change. Preparations for the | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
first major golf tournament of the year - the US Masters - have been | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
disrupted due to thunder storms. Stephen Watson is reporting from | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Augusta all this week for BBC Newsline. First light at Augusta and | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
Northern Ireland's champions had already arrived. They were all | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
trying to squeeze in some practice before the bad weather set in. But | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
it wasn't long until day one was brought to a premature end. There | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
are storms approaching the area. Accompanied by dangerous lightning. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
The former open champion was taking it in his stride. I have been here a | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
few times, so I know course well. I have got a few holes in yesterday. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Disappointing for the people that come to watch. They travel from all | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
over America and they have got a day where they won't see any golf. The | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
course was evacuated and practice cancelled for the first time since | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
2003. Thankfully there is better weather forecast for tomorrow. Now | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
the local weather. We have had some hefty showers today, but once we get | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
beyond today there isn't as much rain in the forecast. There will be | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
some, but mainly patchy and light. Maybe the odd bright interval. I | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
think we are going to see increasing amounts of cloud as the week | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
progresses and temperatures are heading back to average after a mild | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
spell. Coming back to tonight, although the showers are moving on | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
there will still be some to come on a brisk breeze. But not as heavy and | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
not as many as today and clear spells in between. Maybe some grass | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
frost, but most places should be frost-free. Tomorrow, a bright and | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
breezy day. Mainly dry too, although there will be one or two showers. It | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
is a similar start across the republic, although that breeze will | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
bring more cloud in the afternoon, as it will in western Scotland. For | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
eastern Scotland, England and Wales, mainly dry and bright. Also quite | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
breezy and feeling cool in the breechltz temperatures up to 15 in | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
the south-east. For Northern Ireland, near average temperatures | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
tomorrow. 11 degrees or so. Still bright in the south and east at | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
first. But cloud will increase later and that will threaten some light | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
rain for northern and western parts tomorrow night. Through the rest of | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
the week, a good deal of cloud. Some patchy rain on Thursday. Otherwise | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
largely dry. Have a good night. | :10:43. | :10:44. |