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A Belfast man, one of the six wrongly convicted for the 1974 | :00:08. | :00:24. | |
Birmingham pub Mings, says the reopening of the inquests is a first | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
step to finding the truth. The hearings were stopped when the men | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
were arrested. The families of the 21 people who were killed have | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
carried out a long campaign for fresh inquests and have welcomed | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
today's decision by a senior coroner in the city. She said there was new | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
evidence that there had been two missed warnings of potential | :00:44. | :00:44. | |
attacks. 21 people were killed in Birmingham | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
that day in one of the worst attacks And the emotional impact of today's | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
decision was articulated by one of the victims' relatives, who lost a | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
sister in the bombings. Today is... The most seismic day. For all of us. | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
Our fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers... Are looking down, and | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
they are proud. Thousands of people were enjoying an evening out in | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Birmingham city centre when two bombs exploded. The first blast was | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
in the Mulberry Bush pub at 8.17. Ten people were killed. Ten minutes | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
later, a second explosion, this time in the talk of the town bar. Another | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
11 people died. Seven of the victims were women, 14 were men. More than | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
200 were injured. A warning had been telephoned to a local Birmingham | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
newspaper, but it was said to have been too vague and too late. In the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
wake of the bombings, there were anti-Irish protests on the streets. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
An inquest into the deaths began within days, but was suspended when | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
the police charged six Irishmen with the murders. Those men became known | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
as the Birmingham Six. They spent 16 years in prison before being | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
acquitted and released in 1991. The IRA never formally admitted carrying | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
out the attacks, but they worldwide accepted to have been behind the | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
bombings, and this was acknowledged by a former chief of staff of that | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
organisation. Today, one of the Birmingham Six gave his reaction to | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
the latest developers. I am very pleased. It's the first step that | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
has been taken to finding out the real truth behind the Birmingham | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
bombs. There are too many skeletons in the cupboard. They knew and they | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
had advance warning before the bombs went off. 40 years on, and while the | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
West Midlands Police had argued that their power to reopen the inquests | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
had been lost, the Birmingham coroner rejected that argument. She | :02:52. | :02:52. | |
said she has: West Midlands Police in 2016 has | :02:53. | :03:24. | |
nothing to hide. The failings in 1975 of the botched investigation | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
are the biggest failings in the fourth's history and we don't stand | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
aside from that. The families will now seek answers to questions they | :03:33. | :03:33. | |
have been asking for decades. Senior MI5 and MI6 officers have | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
said they have no evidence that intelligence officers were involved | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
in or condoned abuse at the Kincora Three former staff were jailed | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
after at least 29 boys were abused between the late | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
1950s and early 1980s. Will Leitch reports | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
from the Historical Institutional For decades, there have been | :03:53. | :04:05. | |
allegations that people in positions of authority and influence knew what | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
was happening at Kincora and covered it up. And the secret intelligence | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
community knew as well, but allowed it to continue to protect their | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
sources. There was a vice ring for important, high-ranking people. In | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the past few days, officers from the secret intelligence service, or MI6, | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
and from MI5 have provide statements to the historical institutional | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
abuse inquiry as it begins to examine sexual abuse at Kincora. One | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
of the officers is known simply as SIDS Officer A. The other is the | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
deputy director of MI5. SIS officer A says he has scene: | :04:48. | :04:59. | |
both MI5 and MI6 have agreed to assist the inquiry fully. Where | :05:00. | :05:16. | |
there have been redactions in the documents provided, the inquiry | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
panel has seen the gist of what was redacted before documents are made | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
public. All the documents and evidence from many state bodies will | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
be examined in detail over the next four weeks. The RUC and PSNI, the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Northern Ireland Office, the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Defence, | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
social services and so on. But this is the first clear indication of | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
what the secret intelligence community will be saying. | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Two former executives of the failed Anglo Irish Bank have been found | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
guilty of conspiracy to defraud following the longest trial | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
It's not known when they'll be sentenced. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
John Bowe and Willie McAteer misled depositors, lenders and investors | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
by making the bank's corporate deposits look larger than they were. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Willie Ateer has previously been convicted of making loans designed | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
to illegally prop up the bank's share price. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Anglo was nationalised in 2009 and has cost the Republic's | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
The jury are still considering their verdicts on two other bankers. | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
Martin McGuinness says his visit to a battlefield | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
in Belgium today is part of a journey towards reconciliation. | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
The deputy first minister laid a wreath at Messines, | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
where more than 40,000 men lost their lives in | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Our political correspondent Gareth Gordon sent this | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
Martin McGuinness's journey has brought him to some unlikely | :06:40. | :06:52. | |
destinations. This was another. The former IRA commander laid a wreath | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
to soldiers who had died for Britain. Irishmen, but Irishmen who | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
lay down their lives for his old enemy nonetheless. The former Prime | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Minister of the north of Ireland's father lost his life in the First | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
World War. I now have his office in Stormont Castle. I think that shows | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
how things have changed over the course of many decades, how many | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
unimaginable things have occurred and how they have all contributed | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
to, I hope, driving the peace process forward and what I think is | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
the next phase of our peace process which is one of reconciliation. | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
Martin McGuinness says he knows there are those at home on both | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
sides who will resent this visit for different reasons, but he says he is | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
prepared to leave that to the court of public opinion. Mr McGuinness was | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
in Belgium at the invitation of a man who someday wants to see his | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
part of the country, Flanders, go its own way. I believe in peace and | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
dialogue must I am not a separatist, I am a Federalist. This is the | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
solution to a problem in Belgium. I appreciate that there is a peace | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
process in Northern Ireland, that the war has ended and there is now a | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
dialogue and that all the parties are working together to create | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
welfare for Northern Ireland. And here, where the sweet poet sleeps, I | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
hear the songs he left unsung, when winds are fluttering the flowers, | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
and some bells are. This poem was written by an Irish nationalist | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
turned British soldier Francis Leftwich, killed in action in 1970. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
There were many like him, the great grandfather of one of Martin | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
McGuinness's closest advisers for one. More and more Republicans have | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
been coming forward. They tell me and others that their elders were | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
also killed and are also buried here. So this is part of our shared | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
and complicated history. Tomorrow, Mr Begin it will go to the Sam, | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
hallowed ground for Unionists, where so many of their forefathers died | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
100 years ago. A 30-year-old man is still being | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
questioned in connection with the murder of a pensioner | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
in Bessbrook last year. 73-year-old Eugene Carr died | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
in hospital after being attacked House searches have | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
also been carried out A former Sinn Fein Assembly Member, | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
Phil Flanagan, has lost his legal battle over insurance | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
for a libel case. His insurer, AIG, had refused | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
to cover him when he sent a message on Twitter falsely implying | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
the Ulster Unionist MP Today, a judge ruled that AIG | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
was entitled to withhold cover because Mr Flanagan knew | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
the remark was defamatory. He also ordered Mr Flanagan | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
to pay the legal costs The DUP's Brian Kingston has been | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
elected Belfast's new Lord Mayor. He takes over from Sinn Fein's Arder | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Carson. Councillor Mary Ellen Campbell | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
from Sinn Fein will serve Carl Frampton has criticised | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
a ruling by boxing's governing body that professionals can compete | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
in the Olympic Games in Rio. The Belfast man said amateur and pro | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
boxing were "two different sports - it's like comparing | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
badminton to tennis". Other local boxers who are heading | :10:22. | :10:22. | |
to Rio gave their reaction I love it. It does take away the | :10:23. | :10:39. | |
amateur status from amateur boxing. But I think they were trying to get | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
away from that anyway. It is the only sport in the games which has | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
remained amateur. If professionals come into the scene, it would not | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
bother me. Manny Pacquiao would be in my weight division. It kind of | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
ruins amateur boxing. That is the pinnacle of amateur sports, getting | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
into the Olympics. Don't mix it. Doesn't make it as interesting. Or | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
it is interesting, but not serious. A look ahead to tomorrow | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
evening's BBC Newsline now. Come on, you boys in green! As the | :11:14. | :11:29. | |
countdown continues to the euro is, what do Republic of Ireland fans | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
think about Northern Ireland? Let's not comment. Next question. We wish | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
both sides to do well. No problem. More from Mark Simpson on BBC | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Newsline here on BBC One at 6.30. We've had lovely weather today | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
and for the past few days. It looks like this settled spell | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
is set to continue. It has been a flaming Star to June, | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
with temperatures up to 22 degrees. It will stay dry and warm over the | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
next few days, at least in most places. Still more sunshine to come | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
as well. Saturday will bring more cloud and perhaps a few showers, but | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
they will not amount to much and the sunshine will be back on Sunday. It | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
is dry tonight and mostly clear. Temperatures will continue to fall | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
away, maybe a bit lower than this in some rural areas, which may lead to | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
early morning mist and fog. But the sun is up so early that it will burn | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
off very quickly and by and large, we are looking at another warm and | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
sunny day. Maybe a little child for a time over Belfast and County Down, | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
but that will quickly disappear. The best of the weather will be in the | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
Republic of Ireland. At least it is dry across central and eastern areas | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
of England compared to the last couple of days, although | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
temperatures will still be on the cool side. Temperatures could reach | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
up to 21, a bit lower than today, but still a lot of strong sunshine, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
although it is cooler towards the north coast because of the breeze | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
coming in off the sea. Mr MacLeod clear again on Friday to leave a | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
fine and warm day. -- mist and cloud clear again on Friday. Sunny skies | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
are back again on Sunday in time for the Derry marathon. | :13:24. | :13:24. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25 in the morning during Breakfast | :13:25. | :13:28. |