McGuinness: 'My war with Britain is over'

Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has told a BBC documentary due to be broadcast tonight that his war with Britain is over.

Mr McGuinness, a former leading member of the Provisional IRA, said his job now is to prevent war and he vowed to use the rest of his life to build a better future politically, not militarily.

Speaking about his past, the Sinn Fein MP for mid-Ulster said he joined the IRA in Derry when he realised there were limits to what can be achieved with stones, bricks and bottles.

He refused to answer questions about whether he had ever killed anyone, but said he did not join the IRA to play games.