00:00good afternoon from the newsroom the former US president bill Clinton has
00:09offered to intervene to help resolve the current political deadlock in the north
00:13his offer came in an hour-long meeting with the Taoiseach in New York last night
00:18mr. Kenny said President Clinton told him of his concern about the current
00:22difficulties and that he was willing to help
00:25Stormont's Assembly is in go slow mode because of a political crisis negotiations
00:30involving the five main parties and the British and Irish governments finally got
00:35underway last Monday now comes word that bill Clinton is willing to help if
00:39requested president Clinton has expressed his continued interest in wanting to
00:44assist the process in Northern Ireland and remains available to us in any event
00:50if if if that assistance were to be required or appropriate in the 90s at
00:55the time of the IRA ceasefires and the Good Friday agreement the Clinton
00:58interventions were important bill and Hillary Clinton have always maintained an
01:03interest in Irish affairs this was his message during a visit last year finish
01:10the job American goodwill towards Northern Ireland remains a factor Gary Hart the US
01:18envoy has made several supportive statements the American ambassador in
01:22Dublin Kevin O'Malley and the US Consul in Belfast Dan Lawton are tracking matters
01:27it's too early to say if that bill Clinton offer will be taken up but when the
01:32talks reach a critical stage sometime next month British government money and
01:37lesser amounts from Dublin may have a role ultimately its politicians from here in
01:42Northern Ireland who decide the outcome of these negotiations if they're to
01:47succeed they'll need to show a new courage and pragmatism and they'll need luck
01:52that has so far evaded them Tommy Gorman RT news Belfast a charity for the
01:59homeless is urging members of the public to report the locations of people they
02:03believe to be sleeping rough in Dublin it follows the discovery of a man's body at
02:07Dawson Lane in Dublin city centre yesterday morning the man aged in his mid 30s had
02:13been sleeping rough the Peter Mcvery trust has said that people can report the
02:17locations of those sleeping rough at the website homeless Dublin dot ie to ensure
02:23that those who are homeless are offered every possible support when Jonathan
02:28Corey died last December people talked about it as a homeless crisis it's really
02:32a housing crisis we need to get people out of emergency accommodation so we can
02:37make sure we have beds for the most vulnerable like the gentleman died last night
02:41the United States has disclosed that some equipment it gave to Syrian rebels
02:46ended up in the hands of the Al Qaeda linked al-Nusra front rebels trained by the
02:51United States gave trucks and ammunition to the Nusra front in exchange for safe
02:56passage through Syria the disclosure is seen as a blow to the US effort to train
03:01local partners to fight Islamic State in militants in that country Switzerland has
03:08banned sales of Volkswagen diesel cars and the most far-reaching step taken by a
03:12government in reaction to the emissions crisis the country has stopped the sale
03:17of the majority of cars that have the software designed to cheat the missions
03:21testing the move affects roughly 180,000 cars that are yet to be sold or
03:26registered Germany the US and the UK have launched investigations into diesel
03:32emissions and more could ban the cars from their roads an Islamist rebel suspected
03:38of attacking mosques and monuments in the city of Timbuktu in Mali has been
03:42handed over to the International Criminal Court it's believed to be the first time
03:47that a person has been brought to the courts custody for wrecking cultural
03:51heritage the man was handed over by Niger and is being detained in The Hague a
03:57memorial stone has been unveiled in Trinity College Dublin to commemorate the
04:01students staff and alumni who lost their lives in World War one the engraved stone was unveiled
04:08at the Hall of Honor in Trinity's front square in a way it's an act of
04:11reparation a recovery of a lost memory the hall that you can see there the
04:16Hall of Honor commemorates the 471 Trinity men who died on all fronts in the
04:21First World War and that's all from the newsroom for the moment bye for now
04:31hello good afternoon
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