Getting you informed and involved: This is the official blog-page of Vision-World news. we bring news,sports,entertainments and lots more to you. goodies of all kinds
Search This Blog
Prince Charles meets Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams
(FRANKS..)
Prince Charles has met Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at the start of his four-day visit to Ireland.
Mr Adams was among a number of politicians to greet the prince at a reception at National University of Ireland Galway.
It was the first meeting in the Republic of Ireland between Sinn Féin's leadership and a Royal Family member.
Mr Adams and his colleague Martin McGuinness also had a private meeting with Prince Charles.
That meeting took place after the handshake and was in a private room. It lasted between 15 and 20 minutes.
Afterwards,
Mr Adams said: "We did discuss the need for the entire process to move
forward, particularly in regard to those who have suffered, those who
have been bereaved.
He said the meeting "was a big thing for him to do and a big thing for us to do.
"We have a cause to represent and a future to carve out and that's what it's all about."
The Royal couple watch Irish dancers after arriving at the university
However, not everyone welcomed the meeting and the prince's visit.
As
Mr Adams was meeting the prince, one of his party's MP's, Paul Maskey,
was attending a protest over Army shootings in the Ballymurphy area of
west Belfast in the early 1970s.
A protest involving about 40
people was held in Londonderry opposing it. It included some relatives
of those who were killed on Bloody Sunday.
John Teggart's father, Danny, was one of 10 people killed by soldiers in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, in 1971.
"Prince
Charles represents the Parachute Regiment who, for many years, murdered
innocent civilians in Belfast, including my father," he said.
"I am totally opposed to him coming to Belfast and to the north in general."
Download Flash Player now
You need to install Flash Player to play this content.
Media captionSinn Féin leader Gerry Adams: "It was a good meeting"
'Extraordinary kindness'
In a speech at the university, Prince Charles paid tribute to the "magic about Ireland that is totally unique".
"Having
first had the great joy of coming to Ireland 20 years ago now, for the
first time in 1995, then again in 2002, each time I have been so
overwhelmed and so deeply touched by the extraordinary kindness, the
welcome, the enthusiasm and indeed the fun of being in Ireland," the
prince said.
He said of the Irish people: "You raise our spirits in so many ways."
He
also joked that he was "a little too old to be able to learn some of
the steps from the Irish dancing routine" performed for the Royal couple
after their arrival.
You need to install Flash Player to play this content.
Media captionSpeaking in Galway, the Prince of Wales has said that he is greatly looking forward to his "all-too-short visit"
In
2012, Sinn Féin's deputy leader Martin McGuinness met the Queen in
Belfast in his role as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister.
The handshake between the Queen and the former IRA commander, at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, was considered historic.
However, he was not the first party member to meet British royalty.
In May 2011, Michael Browne, the Sinn Féin mayor of Cashel shook hands with the Queen in County Tipperary.
You need to install Flash Player to play this content.
Media captionThe Queen shook hands with former IRA commander Martin McGuinness.
The meeting had not been approved by the Sinn Féin leadership.
During
his own trip Charles, joined by the Duchess of Cornwall, will visit the
village of Mullaghmore in County Sligo - where his great-uncle, Earl
Mountbatten, was killed by an IRA bomb in 1979.
Analysis: Peter Hunt, royal correspondent
When the Queen shook hands with Martin McGuinness it was a historic moment for the relationship between Britain and Ireland.
The
two countries' deep, once troubled, history passed another striking
milestone when the Queen's eldest son - who is colonel-in-chief of the
Parachute Regiment - met Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Féin, who
has always denied being a member of the IRA.
Republicans, now, are talking about reconciliation and healing.
Thirty
years ago, when Prince Charles first came to Ireland, they were
demanding he apologise for the killing by paratroopers of 14 civilians
on Bloody Sunday.
This week's visit to the Republic of Ireland
will have political resonance and personal significance for Prince
Charles. He'll travel to where Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA in
1979.
At the time of his great uncle's murder the prince wrote that he had lost someone "infinitely special" in his life.
(FRANKS..) Continue reading the main story Nigeria abductions Politics and parents Malala's appeal Hostage negotiations Military failings Six months since militant Islamist group Boko Haram sparked global outrage by abducting more than 200 girls from Chibok town in north-eastern Nigeria, the government has still failed to secure their release. The BBC's Will Ross spoke to the parents of some of the girls about their ordeal. In the remote farming community of Chibok, the agony is only getting worse. The parents and other relatives of the missing 219 school girls complain that they have been left to rely on a diet of rumour from the media and a long list of unfulfilled promises from the politicians. "The government must do more to get the girls back. Some parents are already dying. About six women have g...
(FRANKS..) Barack Obama has taken a tour of the Bob Marley museum in Jamaica after becoming the first US president to visit the country since 1982. To the strains of the late reggae star's One Love, Mr Obama was shown around the sprawling house in Kingston that was Mr Marley's final home. The US president said he was a fan of the musician, telling his museum guide: "I still have all the albums." Mr Obama is in Jamaica to meet the 15-member Caribbean Community bloc. But his first stop after landing in Kingston was the old Victorian-style house in central Kingston that Mr Marley called home between 1975 and his death in 1981. Mr Obama spent 20 minutes in the museum, which now houses artefacts from the singer's life including gold records and his Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. His arrival aboard Air Force One on Wednesday made him the first sitting US president to set foot in the country since Ronald Reagan visited 33 years ago. He was gree...
(FRANKS..) n this Head to Head special from Washington DC, Mehdi Hasan challenges retired Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, on the rise of ISIL, the War on Terror, torture, and how to deal with Iran. Flynn was the former head of the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and a commander of J-SOC, the ghost military unit whose squads hunted Al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan all the way to Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. With no panel or audience, we ask him whether the US is to blame for creating ISIL and whether the War on Terror has become a crusade. We also discuss torture in US bases and why he is opposed to a deal with Iran. Follow us on: Facebook and @AJHeadtoHead Is the US to blame for ISIL? with Michael T. Flynn will be broadcast on Friday July 31 at 2000 GMT, and will be repeated on Saturday August 1 at 1200 GMT, Saturday August 2 at 0100 GMT and Monday August 3 at 0600 GMT. Head to Head is Al Jazeer...