the report gives details between the northern ireland secretary and a catholic bishop. documentiously-secret reveals that the secretary saw the cardinal privately. the cardinal agreed he was a very bad name -- a very bad man and he would see what could be done. this music was shared with the then-consul. he said "i would prefer a transfer to tipperary." father james chesney was later transferred to donnegal, as the cardinal had wanted. >> i believe conway did what he believed to be right in that situation. he was faced with an impossible situation. his primary concern was the prevention of violence. >> from the government, there was an apology. >> i am profoundly sorry that this man who was allegedly involved in this appalling atrocities did not go through the full process of law. and i am very sorry for the families to let been waiting a long time for this report to come through. >> but for many of those relatives, just saying sorry about the government cover-up is not good enough. >> i can understand what they did and why they did it, but that does not really make it

official investigation into northern ireland has revealed the british government colluded with the catholic church to cover up the involvement of a priest in an ira bombing. nine people died in 1972 in an attack. the father was suspected of being an ira commander and is thought to have helped plan the bombing. we have this. >> father jim chesney leading as secret life as an ira bomber. one of his most famous plots was to kill with a bombing in 1972. but he was never arrested by the police, never questioned, and never charged. the revelations are contained in this report, published today. one victim of the bomb was an 8- year-old girl. her brother survived. today he and other relatives say they feel betrayed. >> i blame the government. they have not performed at all. they have totally washed their hands of that. >> the reason the priest was not arrested is there was a cover-up involving the church and the states. the documents uncovered by the police gives details of a meeting between the then- northern ireland secretary and catholic cardinal william conway after the bombing. the previously-

. >> bomb alerts are becoming part of life again in northern ireland. this controlled explosion over the weekend was carried out by the army with a suspicious package left near belfast. one of these children play in the street gave a radio interview about what happened when the device went off. >> i did not really know what it was. i just ran. it was like, shock and really nervous, and just a sad and stuff. >> i did not know what to do. [crying] >> despite the outrage over what happened here in northern ireland, there has been more violence since. after a difficult summer for the police in northern ireland, a debate has begun about how to tackle dissident republicans before their violence gets any worse. >> there have been calls for mi5 to handle the lead role in intelligence gathering with police in belfast. it is not likely to happen. but one suggestion that is gathering is the idea of opening of talks with the dissidents at some stage. >> history has said that there has never been a security solution to terrorism, whether in ireland, europe, or acros

in a sense, in northern ireland, we had about 700 days of failure and one day of success. we approached this past with the same determination to succeed, notwithstanding the difficulties and not withstanding past efforts. that can not deter us from trying again. because it is noble and a just and right for all concerned. >> thank you. >> i wanted to get it in in terms of this timeline. the 12 months, do you see that as a deadline or is it looser than that? what makes this peace process any different from all other peace processes? >> we will only know the answer to your second question when it is completed. i believe, as i said in response to the previous question, that the cause is so important, so right, so just, that our continued effort is the right thing to do. with going to pursue it determination. i believe that the two leaders themselves are sincere and serious and believe that it can be done and we will do everything humanly possible to help them see that it is done. with respect to your first question, prime minister netanyahu said in a public appearance in this

in a sense in northern ireland. we had about 700 days of failure and one day of success. and we approach this task with the same determination to success and that's not with standing the difficulties and not with standing the inability to get a final result so far included past efforts but past efforts at peace, that did not succeed cannot be tear us from trying again. the cause is noble and just and right for all concerned. >> michelle and then we'll go up to martha and back. >> i want to beat a sense of the time-line. 12 months is a deadline or is that - or is it looser than that and following up on the other question, what makes this for us any different from all other peace processes? >> we will only know the answer to your second question when it is completed, but i believe that, as i said in response to the previous question, that the cause is so important, so right, so just that our continued effort is the right thing to do. we're going to pursue it with determination. i believe that the two leaders, themselves. president habas and net yah o are sincere and serious

and northern ireland. nice and dry for iberia, and also for much of paris -- france and the low countries and its dry to the east, too. that's not what we want. we need rain into western parts of russia. what we look at here is the air. look although the color of the skies. really smoggy here. the fumes in the air from the fires just toxic. people are being told to stay indoors or if you have to go outside wearing a mask is a good idea. look at the temperatures on friday. not going down at all. 38 degrees in moscow, very hot in kiev as well, much better out towards the west in the low 20s there for you. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's it for this edition of "newsline." we'll be back in half an hour. thanks for joining us on nhk world. jj

many of the undocumented from ireland are from northern ireland. they are both irish citizens and u.k. citizens. we have tried to engage the u.k. government in pressing for this, and they have had no interest. there are thousands of undocumented citizens of the united kingdom in america, and the united kingdom government has no interest. i would urge you to press that. there are bilateral trade agreements and millions of people working. press the slew. one final point, i would challenge the bill. at would price do we have comprehensive immigration reform. i would ask the question at what price can we not have it? >> so you would give them all the bad stuff just to get the good things? >> no, i wouldn't. but i'm reminded of what voltere said, which is let not the perfect be the enemy of the good. by holding out for the perfect, there are 12 million in a bad way in this country. >> what is the difference between imperfect and the atrocious. >> i would ask you to not let the perfect outway the we. thank you for having this commission tonight. someone

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were there lessons/experience from either, but particularly perhaps from northern ireland, that came to be releva in addressing the iraq issue and counter-terrorism and -- >> yes, very much so. i think the experience of northern ireland, the mistakes made there, the length of time it took for the agencies to work constructively together, the police, the ruc in those days, thermy, ourselves, the but it helps inform the we approached this of experience i think it is e relationship with the police. the assistance that we have for moving the operation from intelligence investigative phase 2 and evidential arrest and prosecution stage. a mass of other useful experiences are approached and this counter terrorism threat. of course, it was not complete because of threats that were different with irish republican terrorists. the threat was from the rest of us. it was not global. it did not come from anywhere in the world. irish terrorists were not interested in mass casualty some of those do not prevail. another issue that is different is that it had a recognizable structur the good intellige

ireland actually want to be part of a union and while people want it works and other countries have a different basis of what constitutes a nation as for good will that he didn't cause any trouble the tall will this is a democratic politician democratically elected who is not an extremist if you actually bothered to look he's actually defending liberal democracy against extremist people because in the trouble outside the house of commons i went outside after because i had lunch with mr will there's another woman with the extreme left who were verbal ie attacking the english defense league who had nothing to do with work with resigned or who on the other side of the street so as usual it was the extreme left who was stirring up the trouble and trying to cause violence and confrontation and you know some unscrupulous commentators and then accuse the winners of betraying which is totally untrue mr was on a number of occasions i wouldn't have anything to do with him if i thought he was an extremist but i think he's actually a heroic person but at the risk of his own life he lives under

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in a sense, in northern ireland, we had about 700 days of failure and one day of success. and we approach this task with the same determination to succeed notwithstanding the difficulties and notwithstanding the inability to get a final result so far, including past efforts. but past efforts at peace that did not succeed cannot deter us from trying again, because the cause is noble and just and right for all concerned. >> let's take michele and then kirit and then we'll go up to martha's vineyard and come back. michele. >> i wanted to get a sense of this timeline, this 12 months that the secretary talked about. do you see that as a deadline or is that -- or is it looser than that? and also, just following up on this other question. i mean, what makes this peace process any different from all other peace processes? >> we will only know the answer to your second question when it is completed. but i believe that, as i said in response to the previous question, that the cause is so important, so right, so just, that our continued effort is the right thing to do, and we are goi

in a sense, we had about 700 days of failure and one day of success in northern ireland. we approach this task with the same determination to succeed, notwithstanding the difficulties and not withstanding the inability to get a final result so far, including past efforts. but past efforts at peace that did not succeed cannot deter us from trying again because the cause is noble and just and right for all concerned. >> the president went up to martha's vineyard. >> i wonder if you could give us a sense of this timeline. do you consider that a deadline? what makes this peace process any different from all of the peace process is? >> we will only know the answer to your second question went is completed. i believe that the clauses are so important, so right, so just that our continued effort is the right thing to do. we are going to pursue it with determination. i believe that the two leaders themselves, president two and prime minister -- president assad and prime minister netanyahu believe it will be done, and we will do everything humanly possible to see that it is done.

in a sense, in northern ireland, we had about 700 days of failure and one day of success. we approached this past with the same determination to succeed, notwithstanding the difficulty is and not -- the difficulties and not withstanding past efforts. that can not deter us from trying again. because it is noble and a just and right for all concerned. >> thank you. >> i wanted to get it in in terms of this timeline. the 12 months, do you see that as a deadline or is it looser than that? what makes this peace process any different from all other ?eace process ies >> we will only know the answer to your second question when it is completed. i believe, as i said in response to the previous question, that the cause is so important, so right, so just, that our continued effort is the right thing to do. we're going to pursue it with determination. i believe that the two leaders themselves are sincere and serious and believe that it can be done and we will do everything humanly possible to help them see that it is done. with respect to your first question, prime minister netanyahu

were the lessons experienced from northern ireland that came to be relevant to in addressing the iraq issue? >> yes. very much so. i think the experience of northern ireland to, the mistakes made there, building the time it took four the agencies to work constructively together, the police, the army, the other agencies, at the length of time it took to develop intelligence processes and the lessons learned by the emission of intelligence to evidence, the lessons learned by managing a peace process. there are whole range of issues which helped in forma the way we approached the subjects. in particular, the relationship and the systems we have before moving in operation from an intelligence investigative phase 2 and evidential prosecution stage. other useful experiences in formed our approach to this counterterrorism threats. of course, it was not complete because of threats being very different with the irish republic and north terrorism, the threat was from an island to the west of us. it was not global. it did not come from anywhere in the world. irish terrorist were not interested i

on march 17, members of the northern island -- ireland policing board will be here. on march 23, the mayor of taipei will be here. on march 28, the foreign minister -- the foreign minister will be here for any event. today, we have people who will -- to have been on the front lines, including news directors from mississippi and louisiana who will discuss the lessons learned from katrina and how they cope with the ongoing catastrophe. as the moderator, we have lake pontchartrain, -- jason siegenthaler. the foundation and the association president is here. merkel hosting the event. >> thank you very much. we're happy to be here. we want to thank the national press club for inviting us to be here today as well as the mccormick tribune foundation for sponsoring this event and our leadership program. thank you for being here. i am especially proud to be sitting at this table with these people. this is a special group of people. they were on the front lines after katrina. they have some remarkable stories to tell. we have just an hour. i will keep this short perio. i spent