(Transcript from World News Radio)
In Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been released without charge after being held in police custody for four days.
He criticised the timing of his arrest in relation to one of the most notorious murders of the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Prue Lewarne has the details.
Gerry Adams was questioned over the abduction and killing in 1972 of Belfast mother-of-ten, a 37-year-old widow, Jean McConville.
He has again rejected allegations that he was involved in the killing by the Irish Republican Army.
"Let me very clear. I am innocent of any involvement in any conspiracy to abduct, kill or bury Mrs McConville. I've worked hard with others to have this injustice redressed and for the recovery of the bodies of others killed during the conflict, and secretly buried by the IRA, I will continue to do so."
Mr Adams had presented himself for interview by prior arrangement with detectives on Wednesday night.
He was then arrested under terrorism legislation for questioning.
That arrest ignited a political row in Belfast with Sinn Fein and pro-British unionists trading threats and accusations.
Mr Adams insists Sinn Fein retains support for the Northern Ireland police - the PSNI.
A Sinn Fein withdrawal of support for the police could have triggered the collapse of the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive.
But Mr Adams criticises the timing of his arrest.
"They didn't have to do this in the middle of an election campaign. Remember I contacted them two months ago. Despite this I want to make it clear that I support the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland). I will continue to work with other to build a genuinely civic policing service. The old guard which is against change, while they are in the PSNI leadership, within elements of unionism or the far fringes of self-proclaimed but pseudo-Republicans, they can't win."
Gerry Adams' release is not the end of the matter.
A file will now be sent to Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service.
It will be up to its lawyers to decide if there is sufficient evidence to bring any charges.
Mr Adams is the seventh person to be arrested and questioned over the McConville murder.
Jean McConville was dragged at gunpoint from her children in west Belfast just before Christmas in 1972.
She was driven across the border into the Irish Republic and shot in the head several days after being interrogated by the IRA and her body buried at a secret location.
The IRA only admitted it had murdered her in 1999.
Her body was discovered in 2003 by a man walking his dog on Shillington Beach in the Irish Republic.
Most of Jean McConville's ten children, aged six to 17 at the time of her disappearance, were placed in separate foster homes and grew up as strangers to each other.
Jean McConville's son, Michael, says the family's fight for justice will continue.
"The McConville family is going to stay until the bitter end until we get justice for our mother. We know it's going to be a long road."
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