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Good evening and welcome to BBC Newsline. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
One man was killed and two others seriously injured in a shooting | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
It happened this afternoon at the Regency Hotel | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Tonight gardai said up to four gunmen were involved in the attack. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
Our reporter David Maxwell is in Dublin for us this evening. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
As you can see, the scene remained cordoned off behind me, what were | :00:26. | :00:40. | |
supposed to happen today was a normal weigh-in ahead of a boxing | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
event this weekend but it turned out to be anything but normal. Some | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
viewers may find the scenes in my report upsetting. This video | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
captured the dramatic moment up to four gunmen entered the Regency | :00:56. | :00:56. | |
Hotel. Go, go! What's happened? Daddy, what | :00:57. | :01:15. | |
was that? Using AK-47 assault rifles, they opened fire during a | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
weigh-in for a boxing event. Witnesses described it as terrifying | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
and surreal. I heard to gunshots and two gunmen dressed in gardai uniform | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
came into the lobby to my left. One of them ran forward as if he was | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
going to go into the restaurant and then one sky was running through the | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
lobby, he turned and shot him in the leg. I jumped over the reception | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
desk and shouted down and shoot, because I could hear further | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
gunshots. The gunman then leaned over the desk, pointing the gun down | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
at May, and I was screaming don't shoot, and he said something and | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
left. The victims were three men in their 20s, one pronounced dead at | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
the scene, the other two in hospital with injuries. Gardai say the men | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
were wearing disguises. Two of the individuals were wearing what was | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
described as police type uniforms, described as a SWAT uniform with | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
metal helmets similar to what you would see in crime dramas. This is a | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
particularly nasty incident where individuals went into a hotel | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
populated, carrying severe weapons. The target and the motive for the -- | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
are not yet clear but gardai are linking it to gangland violence, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
which has dogged the city for years. One theory is that the -- was | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
retaliation for the murder of eight dying member in southern Spain last | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
year. Whatever the reasons, this organised execution has left shock | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
in its wake. A car believed to be used in this attacks was found burnt | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
out not far from here this evening. The identity of the dead man has yet | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
to be revealed. The idea of an amnesty for those | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
who committed crimes during the Troubles has been | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
rejected before by many people, but an academic, who survived | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
a paramilitary attack, says that's something that | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
needs to be considered. Professor Adrian Guelke says | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
the mounting cost of investigating the past means politicians should | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
reconsider such a step. The gunman who tried to kill Adrian | :03:27. | :03:43. | |
have never been caught. He was upstairs in his house in South | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
Belfast when a loyalist gang shot him after mistakenly thinking the | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
South African born professor was working for the IRA. He was wounded | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
but survived. Today his focus is on the future. | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
I'm just happy to move on and I don't | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
see any purpose in pursuing people involved in my particular case. | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
I think South Africa took the right course when they decided to draw | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
a line under the past by declaring very firmly in the transitional | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
constitution that an amnesty would be granted. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Victims' groups very commonly want both truth and justice. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
What people have to understand is they are more likely to get truth | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
is they are more willing to be more flexible about justice and I think | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
the cost of trying to deal with the past, we do need | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
a different approach to the one that is being currently used. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Dealing with the past has already been expensive, | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
but many believe it is a price worth paying. | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
At the same time, politicians still can't agree on a final | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
framework for dealing with the past, but some kind of amnesty | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
We are very clear as a party that that is not about to happen. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
There will be no amnesty, no rewriting of history | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
in Northern Ireland and we will continue to fight | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
For more than 20 years, politicians have been grappling | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
It hasn't always been their number one priority but the fact | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
that the issue is now right at the top of the political agenda | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
at Stormont is in one way a sign of progress. | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
New significant changes to taxi regulations | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
You will be able to hail any taxi during certain hours of the weekend | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
in Belfast City Centre without having a booking. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
It can be a confusing situation - which taxes can be hailed | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
All taxes can be waved down, but here in Belfast city centre, | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
Currently, only public hire taxis, or what we would know as black | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
Other taxes have to be booked in advance. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
What will change is that on a Friday and Saturday night, | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
between the hours of 23:59 and 6am the following day, | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
and on public holidays, members of the public will be able | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
to hail any taxi in the two-mile zone within Belfast. | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
We have done that because often demand outstrips supply | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
and it is a way for the public to get a taxi quickly and get home | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
This is the area in Belfast city centre covered by the new rules. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Not everyone is happy about the change. | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
If this is just to clear the streets, it is wrong, | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
because if you are going to clear the streets, you must know | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
that the clientele and the general public are getting into a legitimate | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
taxi and not one that doesn't have that insurance. | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
The DOE is also introducing new signage that will look something | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
like this, to deter those operating illegally. | :07:04. | :07:04. | |
Black taxi drivers don't understand why they need it also. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Rugby, and Ulster have had a dramatic last-gasp penalty win | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
over The Dragons in the Pro12 league at the Kingspan Stadium | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
After the visitors took an early ten-point lead, | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Ulster hit back with this try from Sean Reidy. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Eight points down in the second half, Ulster cut the deficit down | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
But with almost two minutes left to the clock, up stepped Paddy Jackson | :07:26. | :07:41. | |
to kick the winning penalty and give Ulster the victory. | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
Children in Lurgan got a special audience today with a man | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland player | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Roy Keane signed autographs, posed for photos and gave | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
He also told his audience that he had made some mistakes | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
I made one or two mistakes, but that's part of life. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
I swear, I'm not standing here with a halo over my head. | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
You make mistakes when you play sports. | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
You get injured sometimes or you injure somebody. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
I was unfortunate, I came across a lot of bad referees! | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
Now here's Barra Best with the weekend weather forecast. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
It's turned much drier tonight after a wet they but we have some | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
scattered showers. One or two clear patches may allow a touch of pies in | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
untreated areas but it will not last long with more cloud either morning | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
helping to lift temperatures. That cloud will stick with us through | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
tomorrow, it will bring rain and some strong winds from the South, | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
but to begin to wind will not be too strong, they will not begin to build | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
until later, but it will be a cloudy start with wet weather. Low pressure | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
is in control across and Ireland, unsettled for many of us, but | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
perhaps for parts of the south-east of England, the North West of | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
Scotland could be largely dry, unsettled elsewhere with sunny | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
spells through the afternoon across Ireland but not many on offer. For | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Northern Ireland, temperatures will reach seven or eight and we will see | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
that she rain, it will not be widespread, there will be some dry | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
gaps. As we get into Sunday, not a bad start, if you were going to do | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
anything out doors you would have the day before Maureen comes in | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
later with strong south-westerly winds, so a blustery end to the day, | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
temperatures six or seven at best. It will stay when the overnight into | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Monday and for next week at least, no settled spell on the way yet. | :09:51. | :09:56. |