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The evening. A US investment firm is in the process of completing the | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
biggest ever Northern Ireland property deal. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
It will take control of office blocks, hotels, building sites, pubs | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
and shopping centres which had been in the Irish government's bad debt | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
bank NAMA. The assets were once valued at ?4.5 billion, but the sale | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
is for much less. Here's our business correspondent, Julian | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
O'Neill. This deal is huge, one which alters | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
the landscape in terms of commercial property. Out goes a major player, | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
the so called bad bank in June, which managed the portfolio of loans | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
or assets hit by the. What is being sold are not just buildings that | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
parcels of undeveloped land, over 1000 property assets now under the | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
control of new owners, a New York investment firm. NAMA had been | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
funding the completion of this Belfast office block but a lot of | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
lesser project is on its books are sitting idle. Experts predict this | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
New York firm will change that. To a large extent, NAMA found that its | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
hands were tied. A lot of projects have been on hold for many years, so | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
hopefully now they can come out of storage and those projects can be | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
bought through to completion. The price has not been disclosed but it | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
is expected to be close to ?1.3 billion. NAMA said this represents a | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
significant achievement and the sale was the best possible result for the | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
Irish taxi -- tax player. The fact an American company sees an | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
investment opportunity here is visiting a fantastic sign as well. | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
If we can get some more of these projects of the ground, then we will | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
see jobs for people on these projects. The deal comes with the | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
blessing of the first Minister who recently criticised NAMA for not | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
doing enough to help the local economy. Now the onus is on a new | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
player. A 31-year-old man has been arrested | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
under the terrorism act in relation to trouble in Larne last Sunday | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
night. A number of people and homes were attacked in disturbances which | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
the police have blamed on the south-east Antrim UDA. The man was | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
arrested in Carrickfergus this afternoon. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
The Secretary of State says it's unrealistic to suggest the | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
government could take back powers from Stormont to legislate for | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
welfare changes. Last night, the First Minister, Peter Robinson, told | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
the BBC that might have to be one of the options explored if the logjam | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
with Sinn Fein over welfare reform continues. Here's our political | :02:59. | :03:08. | |
correspondent, Gareth Gordon. Bridge building not bridge burning | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
was on Peter Robinson's mind as he helped open a new one in East | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Belfast today, accompanied by the Sinn Fein Lord Lane. But less of a | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
welcome from his government partners for a claim that the D P once | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
believed it had had an agreement with the Deputy first Minister over | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
the fixed subject of welfare reaffirmed -- welfare reform. It is | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
your belief that he took that agreement to the wider party and | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
they said no? It is not my belief, it is my knowledge. I know that was | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
the case. Martin McGuinness does not agree. He quite clearly crossed the | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
line he should not have crossed. For a start, in terms of his | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
interpretation of the discussions that took place between his party | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
and my party on welfare cup is, what he said for no reality in relation | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
to the outcome. I have said I would go to my party to seek the sanction | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
and support of my party. That was for the outcome of the discussions | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
that we have had with PDU P. I made it very clear in the interval -- the | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
interview that no deal is done until we have the support of both | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
parties. I outlined that position and I stand by it. But Mr | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Robinson's claim that without agreement, power could be held back | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
-- handed back to Westminster appears to be a nonstarter. The | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
powers are clearly in the devolution settlement. It is not practical to | :04:56. | :05:04. | |
bring them back to Westminster. So Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
need to make up and this dispute over welfare reform must be | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
resolved, though it is unlikely to happen ahead of the right -- the | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
elections in May. 50 staff at Fivemiletown Creamery | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
are to begin talks over redundancy. It follows the decision to sell the | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
business to Ireland's largest dairy processor, Glanbia. They have agreed | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
to buy the milk supply and the Fivemiletown brand, effectively | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
ending processing in the town. People, some of them pensioners, had | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
to flee their homes early this morning in Londonderry when | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
arsonists set fire to an oil tank. The blaze took hold outside a block | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
of flats in the Carnhill estate. The Fire and Rescue Service say it's | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
lucky no one was hurt. With the rise in the number of | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
tablets and mobile phones among children and young people comes a | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
rise in cyber-bullying. And that's been shown in a new survey carried | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
out among teachers at dozens of schools across Ireland. As Kevin | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
Sharkey reports, many schools are already taking action to create a | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
greater awareness of the problem. Hands up if you have a tablet of any | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
description. Hands up if you have a mobile phone. Mobile communication | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
to allergy becoming increasingly popular amongst schoolchildren and | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
leading to an increase in cyber bullying. According to this new | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
report, one third of primary school principals see cyber bullying is a | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
growing problem in their own schools. 92% of school leaders want | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
advice on tackling online bullying. When it happens, it has. This was | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
sent to a 13-year-old in another part of Northern Ireland: | :06:48. | :07:00. | |
cyber bullying is not a problem at this class and the school wants it | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
to stay that way. It is beginning to emerge. It is not a crisis by any | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
manner of means but we are finding example of children with technology | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
beginning to misuse it. It is not just a problem in primary schools | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
either. In this report, three quarters of secondary school pupils | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
agreed cyber bullying was a problem in their school as well. This school | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
does not have a cyber bullying problem, but does have an awareness | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
and campaign about it. I know it is a growing issue. I think it is more | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
of a problem than physical bullying in school. There are restrictions on | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
when and how pupils can use their phones in school and cyber bullying | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
only becomes a problem when they break the rules inside or outside | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
school. And Belfast boxer, Carl Frampton, | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
has earned a chance at a world title bout. He defeated the two-time | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
former champion Hugo Cazares from Mexico at the Odyssey arena in a | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
second round knock-out. He should now go on to fight the WBC champion, | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Leo Santa Cruz, later this year. Football, and in tonight's League of | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Ireland game Derry City beat Sligo Rovers 1-0 at the Brandywell. It's | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
their first win of the season. Now the weather with Angie Phillips. | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
We are heading into the weekend with mixed fortunes. There is rain in the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
forecast and the priest will be picking as well. Other positive | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
note, dry spot between those bands of rain and the priestly -- the | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
breeze lifts the gloom. Patchy fog and patchy rain overnight, turning | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
more persistent, but mild the close of six degrees. Into tomorrow, | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
things will improve after dismal start. First thing, wet with heavy | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
and persistent spas offering clearing from the East Coast | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
mid-morning. That rain and edges into western and central parts of | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Scotland, northern England and Scotland. Another pageant of the | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
Republic of Ireland later on as well. The breeze is picking up a | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
little bit in the south-west to, helping to clear the list and see | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
fog, including -- improving the air quality across the West of England. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Coming back to Northern Ireland for the afternoon, with the rain out of | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
the way, it looks that bit drier. Still a good bit of cloud around, | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
with temperatures reaching 13 or 14 degrees. Through tomorrow night, we | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
have another batch of rain moving its way in, giving us a damp start | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
on Sunday again. A breezy day as well. That rain will move along and | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
that afternoon looks brighter and drier. Much fresher because of the | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
breeze. That's it for now. You can keep up | :10:00. | :10:00. |