Arlene Foster: No longer bitter about IRA attacks

Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has spoken of the difficulties for the province moving forward after the earlier years of conflict.

When she was eight-years-old her father survived an IRA attempt to kill him and she went on to survive the bombing of her school bus because the driver was a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.

Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has suggested political unionism could do more to help with reconciliation.

But Mrs Foster told BBC Hardtalk: "If the deputy first minister is going to talk about reconciliation and reaching out then I think he also needs to think about some of the actions that he has taken.

"He's talking about a push for a united Ireland, he's talking to people from Hamas, and then he may wonder why people in the unionist community are a little reticent about reaching out.

"Well I think there's a need for self-awareness," she said

The First Minister said she no longer felt bitter about the attacks during her childhood: "We all signed up to very clear guidelines in terms of supporting the police service, supporting the rule of law and what we must do now is make sure that we don't go back to the past," she said.

You can see the interview in full on Monday 5 December 2016 on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel and after on BBCiPlayer (UK only).