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The headlines on BBC Newsline: The known dissident republican | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
A soldier tells a court he can't recall the day he shot | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
A former IRA man hits out as the police launch another legal | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
Everybody seems to be thinking that the war is over and if the war is | :00:35. | :00:47. | |
over then why is the PSNI still intent to get them. | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
The family of this 95-year-old veteran say it's time | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
We meet the young table tennis sensation whose back on his home | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
turf. And the cold Arctic air is with us | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
for at least another 24 hours. I'll be back with a full forecast | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
later in the programme. The County Tyrone man | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
shot dead in Dublin last He was 34 and known | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
to the Gardai for being involved Michael Barr had appeared in court | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
on IRA membership charges. He was one of two men shot dead | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
in the city last night. The killings are said | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
to be unrelated. Our Dublin Correspondent | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
Shane Harrison reports. Another Dublin murder scene. Once | :01:31. | :01:42. | |
again in the north inner city. Last night around half past nine, two | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
gunmen described as skinny and wearing masks entered the Sunset | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
house pub near Croke Park and fired a number of shots. They and their | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
getaway driver escaped in a silver Audi that was later found burnt out | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
in junk and. The murdered man was originally from county Tyrone and | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
had been living in the area. He was known to guard as a dissident | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
republican. He had appeared before the anti-terrorist special criminal | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
escort charge of membership of a unlawful organisation and handling | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
stolen property. Last week detectives investigating one of the | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
murders Eddie Hutch kinaesthetic him began out feud raided his home. The | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
feud has so far claimed the lives of five men. The first and I -- in | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Ireland was David Byrne murdered at the boxing way in. It widely | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
believed another dissident from county Tyrone was one of the | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
murderers and that dissident is provided some of the weapons for the | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
hutch gang. At a news conference this morning, Gardai said that at | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
this early stage of their investigation they were keeping an | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
open mind about who was responsible for last night killing. Obviously we | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
will be looking closely at possible links between this murder and | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
previous murders in the area. That will be one line of inquiry. Another | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
line of inquiry will be in relation to dissident activity. Those in the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
area willing to talk on camera spoke of a sense of fear in the community. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Don't get involved. Just keep yourself. They goes on. What else | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
can I say? It's a gangland staff and that's it. In an unrelated murder, a | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
37-year-old man was shot dead in a house in Condor can in the west of | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
the city around midnight. Once known to gardai, he had not been involved | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
in criminality for years. A man has been found | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
dead following a house The blaze at Barrack Street | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
in Coalisland was already out when firefighters reached | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
the scene at midday. The police are investigating | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
the cause of the fire and the man's A construction firm in Newtownabbey | :03:58. | :04:14. | |
has been placed into administration. Upwards of 50 jobs could now be | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
lost. In a statement, the company said it was profoundly disappointed | :04:20. | :04:20. | |
by the announcement. The soldier who fired a rubber | :04:21. | :04:21. | |
bullet which killed an 11-year-old child 44 years ago has told | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
an inquest he has no concerns about his conduct | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
or actions that day, Under the name Solider B, | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
he has been giving evidence at the inquest into the death | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
of Frank Rowntree. The child was injured near Divis | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Tower in Belfast in April 1972. 11-year-old Frank Rowntree died two | :04:41. | :04:55. | |
days after being struck at close range by a rubber bullet. Today his | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
family got here the voice of the man they believe pulled the trigger. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
They couldn't actually see the former company Sergeant Major. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Soldier B gave evidence by video link and after a ruling by the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
coroner the chairs for the Rowntree family were moved across the | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
courtroom where he can see his face on the screen. His face was visible | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
only to the coroner, legal representatives and courtroom staff. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
He said he did couldn't recall the specific event of 44 years ago. He | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
said they become jumbled. Asked about his conduct on the day, he | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
said... He agreed he later had a child had | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
been killed. Talking of dealing with riots he | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
for members of the Rowntree family, the evidence was hard listening. | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
Very upsetting. It's as if we're not going anywhere. We just digging | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
their heels in every time. Can even see him on the video link. Soldier B | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
later denied making up his statement in 1972 as a cover story. It also | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
became clear during his evidence that he had arrived in the witness | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
box still wanting confirmation of what the inquest has been hearing | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
from the very start, that it was his shot, his rubber bullet that had | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
killed Frank Rowntree. Lawyers acting for a former IRA | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
member are taking legal action to prevent his interviews | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
in the Boston College project Anthony McIntyre was one of the main | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
researchers in the Troubles His legal team says the request | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
by the Public Prosecution Our Home Affairs Correspondent | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Vincent Kearney reports. Anthony McIntyre regrets ever | :06:51. | :07:05. | |
becoming involved in a Boston tapes project. A number of former IRA | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
members and loyalist paramilitaries recorded interviews about their | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
activities during the troubles. They did is on the basis of the material | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
will be kept under lock and key until they were dead. In recent | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
years, the PSNI has successfully taken legal action to gain access to | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
some of the tapes. Now the police are going after Anthony McIntyre. I | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
see this as an attempt to force me to become a witness against people | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
that they allege I interviewed or to reveal the contents and identities | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
of those who I have interviewed. There are no circumstances under | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
which will be doing that. Anthony McIntyre live now listen dropped and | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
no longer lives in Northern Ireland because he fears that being | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
arrested. He served 18 years in prison for IRA offences and insist | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
the police have questioned him about the issues listed in a subpoena. | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Everybody seems to be agreed at the war is over and if the war is open | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
why is the British state still intent on taking prisoners? A | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
subpoena seeking copies of interviews he recorded about his IRA | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
activities were served by a lawyer for the British government. They | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
acted after the PSNI used an international treaty to seek | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
assistance. A representative of the college has been ordered to appeal | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
in court in Massachusetts next Friday to provide the material | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
presented but Anthony McIntyre's legal team says that request was | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
unlawful. The application for this Pina has to be granted on to basis. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
Firstly there has to be some evidence of the commission of some | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
offence and secondly there has to be an ongoing inquiry or investigation. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
In this instance there is no evidence basis of any of that. In | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
the absence of that we say this points to a fishing exercise and we | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
say it doesn't stand up in a court. The research is legal team are given | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
the PPS until five o'clock today to withdraw its request for | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
international assistance but didn't do so. The lawyers will lodge papers | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
of the High Court seeking an emergency review of the legality of | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
the request. What began as a secret project about Northern Ireland's | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
past is now scheduled to be the subject of a secret hearing and an | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
American next week. Those involved mind corporate in police | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
investigations no matter what the outcome. | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
The family of a 95-year-old man who fought in World War II has | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
called for his bravery to be recognised by the French | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
government with the award of the Legion d'Honeur. | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
George Rogers was one of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
who fought at Dunkirk in 1940 and were evacuated. Lisa McAllister has | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
been to meet the veteran. Home from the hell that is Dunkirk. According | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
to many Dunkirk veterans, hell was an understatement. Among the 330,000 | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
soldiers rescued from the beaches, was George Rogers, a young rifleman | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
from the Shankill area of Belfast. He's already been awarded a number | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
of medals for bravery and now his family are keen that he receives the | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Lee John d'honneur. -- Legion d'honneur. It's a lovely thing. I'd | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
love to see one. Who knows? George 's family has applied to the MoD for | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
the award and BBC understands it is considering placing George on a | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
priority list given his age and ill-health which would then be | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
submitted to the French authorities. He deserves to be recognised by the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
Ministry of Defence. If they move a bit quicker and get this sorted out | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
because I all is almost 97 years of age. He hasn't got too many days | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
left. We just fight on the season and the oceans. On the air. We shall | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
fight on the beaches as we fought emblazoned on Dunkirk. George 's war | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
didn't Dunkirk will stop you went to Burma twice where he was seriously | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
injured when a grenade exploded in his face. Took my nose. In my | :11:29. | :11:41. | |
stomach and all. You're lucky to be alive! Staying free! If I could go | :11:42. | :11:57. | |
back again, I would go back tomorrow. I'll go back tomorrow. I | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
loved it. For George and many like him, the Dunkirk spirit never left | :12:05. | :12:05. | |
them. Now, two weeks ago, we reported | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
on the theft of a number of World War I medals from a house | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
in north Belfast. They were described | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
as of great sentimental value. Well, those medals have been | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
returned. They were awarded to | :12:20. | :12:20. | |
McIntyre Shields Pelan, a sapper in the Royal Engineers | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
who fought at the Last night, the medals were left | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
outside the home of his grandson who said their return | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
restored his faith in human nature. Still to come on the programme: | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
Remembering the Chernobyl disaster, we hear from the Antrim woman | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
who was there at the time. Ahead of the Assembly election, | :12:40. | :12:52. | |
we've been with the main party leaders as they relax away | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
from the campaign trail. This evening, BBC Newsline's Mark | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
Simpson joins the Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
practising his golfing skills. Oh, yes. Oops. Why did you hit it | :13:01. | :13:23. | |
out there? This was your idea. Why golf? I used to play a lot as a | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
juvenile and it's relaxing to come hit a bucket of all is. I don't have | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
time any more to play a round of golf but half an hour on the driving | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
range at the weekend is great. You were a journalist for 20 years. You | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
know what the media are thinking. If you were me, what would you ask Mike | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
Nesbitt? I would say the Mike Nesbitt, how do you feel about the | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
election? Are you in good spirits? You know how the media works. We | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
look for issues will be answer. The executive, will you be in it or out | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
of it? We are looking at a mandate to go into negotiations and at the | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
end of that you make a decision. If you look at your election | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
priorities, one of them is improving mental health. I can't imagine any | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
other Ulster Unionist leader has done that. Why? Poor mental health | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
came to my front door over 20 years ago when Linda was diagnosed as | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
clinically depressed so that put it on our radar. She has done | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
phenomenal work in tackling the stigma and the frustration is ever | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
and agrees. There's an issue. There's interventions that we know | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
about that we could afford and yet were not doing it. You mentioned | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
your wife. Another former TV presenter. We thought she would have | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
been in politics by now. She not go to give it a go? I doubt it. She has | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
on. She's an lecture at Belfast met. You could be in the new Mr and Mrs | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Clinton. That is properly one of the factors that put off. We never see | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
each other and that's why the marriage is going so well. | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
It moved left to right, that kind of sums you up. Very good! You have | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
brought the party towards the right. I'm not sure. I look at policy in | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
their own right. I make a decision. I would have thought some of our | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
policies are pretty left-wing, with centre-right and other issues. Final | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
question, it's about sport. You're a sports fan. The cover two World Cups | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
with Northern Ireland. Will you also be cheering on the Republic at the | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
Euros? My primary interest is Northern Ireland doing well and | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
coming out of the group but I'm a Unionist and I British but I also | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
have Irish within me and I'm proud to be an Irishman and it part of my | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
identity so I hope they do well and I hope Northern Ireland do well. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
Wouldn't it be fantastic if they both came out of the group and where | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
to meet in the knockout stage. On that note, Mike Nesbitt, thank you. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Ards Football Club says one of its players is in hospital | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
with a fractured skull after an assault in Belfast city | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
The club has reported that Gary Warwick was making his way | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
home from a nightclub when he was attacked | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
The team's manager says the club is sickened | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
We'll get the guy and will be there for him and as I say the main thing | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
for us now is the make sure he gets well soon and hopefully fingers | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
crossed he can get into out and get him to the game on Saturday and | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
finish off what he's been working so hard for these last couple of years | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
in the joint and maybe get him a trophy. That's the plan. We'll be | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
trying our utmost to make that happen. | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
30 years ago today, there was an explosion and fire | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
The meltdown was the worst nuclear disaster in history. | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
There were 31 deaths among clean-up workers but thousands more deaths | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
One of those who had to leave the area at the time | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Julie Bond has been talking to our Dublin correspondent | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
The Chernobyl plant was 30 miles from here. The nuclear disaster | :17:22. | :17:47. | |
there forced a mass evacuation. Including those who left, UK | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
university students in the Ukrainian city of the then Soviet Union | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
learning Russian. Among them was a woman originally from Antrim town | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
but now living in county Wicklow. Julie Bond wasn't told about | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
Chernobyl until two days after it happened. We were in our room and | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
another girl who was with those came in and said there was a nuclear | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
explosion, close the window. The lecturers at university were | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
concerned about is. They got in touch with the government and it was | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
direct orders from Margaret Thatcher. And we got back, we were | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
given a health check at Heathrow Airport. With the told we are fine | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
but he'll be a good idea to get health in five or ten years. In the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
years since Chernobyl, Julie has had a thyroid removed because of cancer | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
and has given birth to three children. One of whom has Down's | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
syndrome. The spite what the medics say, she suspects it all to much of | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
a coincidence. Back then when I have my thyroid removed, the surgeon said | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
that they went able to tell of a thyroid was cancerous and cause by | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
radiation or another reason. The oncologist was dismissive about the | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
Down's syndrome. He said its staff of nonsense. I think medics seemed | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
to be quite quick to say it's nothing. It's great if it's not. The | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
Soviets 30 years ago tried to downplay what happened at Chernobyl. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
Many believe it could be a while yet before we know the true health | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
consequences of the nuclear disaster. | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
We have a new world champion in the world of sport | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
Mark Sidebottom, table tennis is not usually in the headlines | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
but it is today because of one particular young man. | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
There's nothing quite like a bona fides world champion. That is is a | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
clue what's happened here for the first time ever. Belfast has a world | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
champion. Owen Cathcart, press pause on the table tennis. Tell me about | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
it. What was it like? It was unbelievable. Strong tournament and | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
to win a world junior circuit event, be the first person from Ireland, | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
it's unbelievable. The game itself onto a fifth set. Where you | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
confident? I was confident during the match because I led the whole | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
way through. I won the first set and a 21-1 and I won the third set and | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
he won the fourth. I was always having a lead on him so I felt all | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
the pressure was on him and the fifth set. Where'd you get the time? | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
Spain next week, the Czech Republic, China, where how'd you marry this | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
with school? School have been good about it. I have three classes to | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
catch up and do my work that I miss when I'm at the tournament I take | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
books with me and work when I'm at the tournament but that is how I fit | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
it in. Long may it continue. Thank you. We move to rugby. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Ulster have had some bad injury news ahead of Saturday's crucial Pro12 | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Nick Williams has been unsuccessful in his bid | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
to rehabilitate his recent shoulder injury and now faces surgery. | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
That rules him out for the remainder of the season and his playing | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
And winger Tommy Bowe is also unavailable after a mild knee | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
reaction following the recent game against Zebre. | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
Finally, Bethany Firth has just broken the world record in the 200m | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
freestyle in Glasgow to qualify in a third discipline for | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Cecilia Daly has the latest weather details. | :21:32. | :21:43. | |
The sun was out today. It was pretty cold, though. I don't like the look | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
of the forecasts. Lovely blue skies but also some really cold air. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
That's what it's about. There will be lovely sunsets this evening but | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
therein mind if you are out the air originally is in the Arctic. That | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
will be coming to the next they ought to. We're hoping this yellow | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
area will wing its way towards as late in the week, particular for the | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
weekend and we should see temperatures in double figures. The | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
night, it will be very cold. It will also be wintry showers around and as | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
temperatures drop below freezing, lower than what you see on the map | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
in the orchards in county Armagh, there could be patches of snow on | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
the hills and on car windscreens. Hopefully not on the roads but for | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
the early risers it will be wintry. Sleet showers falling, hail around | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
as well. Low temperatures and ice on car winds winds. The sons of very | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
early so any frost and will melt. Lying snow will go as well and there | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
will be sunrises that lovely. Strong sunshine coming once again tomorrow. | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
With that, very cold air and still that cold wind from the north-west. | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
12 more in a way of wintry showers across the East competitor Deibert | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
mostly falling as rain, hail, not the many places in double figures | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
tomorrow. This is the weather watcher picture from this morning. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
You need loads of layers on. Less cold by Thursday but it's a weekend | :23:23. | :23:23. | |
before things start to pick up. | :23:24. | :23:27. |