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The PSNI has broken up an organised crime gang operating out of a luxury | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
apartment block in the centre of Belfast. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Today, three of the gang from South East Asia were jailed | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
for their part in a UK-wide drug smuggling and distribution network. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
This is one of the gang entering the apartment building | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
carrying a holdall with 15 kilograms of cannabis. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
He is just one part of what the police call a major network. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
They operated out of this apartment building. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
The police investigation began in October 2014 when they became | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
aware of suspect packages being posted to Northern | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
The inquiry, codenamed Operation Carhold, | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
involved the PSNI, the South Yorkshire Police, | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
the Metropolitan Police and the National Crime Agency. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
The drugs and subsequent money-laundering involved | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
When detectives swooped on the apartment in the Oval Tower | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
they seized ?560,000 worth of herbal cannabis, | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
smaller quantities of other drugs, cash and equipment used | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
There were sieges in other parts of Northern Ireland including | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Vehicles were also impounded and bank accounts frozen | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
We started our investigations with the money trail | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
so we will identify quite quickly that cash deposit have been made | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
to a number of accounts in Great Britain, one | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
of whom was a young female student who had received over ?60,000 | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
in a matter of months deposited into her account. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
That is always going to focus our interest. | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
Clearly somebody that's been used to try and stay under the radar | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
in terms of laundering money from the illegal drugs | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
Last week two Asian women were given suspended sentences | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
The police say this multi-agency inquiry has succeeded in taking down | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
a UK-wide drug smuggling and distribution network. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
A veteran republican is to stand trial for alleged involvement | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
She was kidnapped, killed and buried by the IRA in 1972. | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
Her remains were only found decades later. | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
79 year old Ivor Bell of Ramoan Gardens in Belfast | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
is charged with soliciting the murder of the west | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
It's a killing that continues to shock. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Wrongly accused of being an informer, Jean McConville | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
was dragged from her home, shot in the head and secretly buried. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Decades later, the IRA admitted murdering the mother of ten. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
In 2003, her remains were found on a beach in County Louth. | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
Today, Ivor Bell, seen here on the right, was told he'll | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
The veteran republican faces two charges of soliciting the murder. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
During the short hearing, Ivor Bell stood alone in the dock | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Asked if he had any reply to the charges, he said no. | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Asked if he wanted to call any witnesses at this stage, | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Watching on, six of Jean McConville's children. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
The judge made reference to the Boston tapes, | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
recordings of interviews with loyalists and republicans | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
carried out for an American oral history project at Boston College. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
It's alleged that Ivor Bell was one of a number of interviewees, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Some recordings were secured following a transatlantic court | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
battle and the judge said today they could be admitted as evidence. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
The district judge says that following a preliminary inquiry last | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
week she was satisfied the standard of proof had been met | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
and there was sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to trial. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Ivor Bell was released on continuing bail, the date of his trial is yet | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Soldiers, their families and politicians have all been | :04:18. | :04:27. | |
giving their reaction to the Iraq inquiry but what about | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
The Chilcot Report found 150,000 civilians were killed | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
I've been to meet some people now settled in Belfast. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Yossama and his wife are doctors from Baghdad. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Both were studying at university when the war began in 2003. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
The couple and their two-year-old son were forced to flee | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
I asked them how Iraq had changed since the invasion. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
The situation became worse than Saddam in 2003 | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
and because of the Americans who decided to begin | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
They said chemical weapons and nuclear weapons but until now | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
there is no clue that the Americans and Britain found any | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
His wife says she can't forget the terror and devastation | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
The sounds of the bombs was very terrible and all of | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
We are afraid from everything and we don't know what will happen. | :05:37. | :05:46. | |
Are you angry about what happened during the war? | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Actually, yes, because after the war everything is destroyed in Iraq. | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
Before that, we are also not living well but we are safe. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
So you think the war made the situation in Iraq much worse. | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
Yes, because every day is 50 people killed because of the bombs | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
and the terror groups that can easily come up | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Fellow Iraqi Rachid has lived here for much longer but he too | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
feels anger about the consequences of the war. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
If you compare it to what's going on today, | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
There is not a single hospital built. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Definitely under Saddam Hussein life was better for ordinary people. | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
Today we are losing 100 people every day, car bombs, | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
killings, definitely we were better off without this war. | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
A banner glorifying the loyalist killer Billy Wright has been | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
reported to the PSNI after it appeared on a lamppost close | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
The police say they're investigating the sign at Eastvale | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
It shows the late LVF leader and a quotation attributed to him. | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
The SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone described the banner | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
A boy who travelled halfway around the world for treatment for epilepsy | :07:17. | :07:32. | |
1's body has been found in Carrickfergus. It is understood a | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
crime is not expected. A boy who travelled halfway around | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
the world for treatment for epilepsy eight years ago is facing | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
a new health threat. BBC Newsline followed Billy Caldwell | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
and his mum Charlotte After several years of stability, | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
his seizures have started again and his family has been told | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
he will have to wait up to nine months to access specialist care | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
in the UK. Julian Fowler has been | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
speaking to them. After Billy Caldwell was born, | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
doctors at the Royal This month he will celebrate | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
his 11th birthday. He can now walk, swim and ride | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
horses and goes to a special school. These are the good times, | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
but in recent weeks his seizures We're watching them praying | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
and hoping, it's heartbreaking because I know that one of them can | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
kill him and it can happen just His condition had been under | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
control following two years Charlotte says Billy needs a full | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
review of his condition but he can't get the medical help | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
he needs at home. We tried accessing centres set up | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
within England to treat children with epilepsy and there is a six- | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
to nine-month waiting Charlotte says Billy and other | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
children like him The children that have the condition | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
and epilepsy, they're Because of the waiting lists, | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
there is no access and if they don't die the seizures are actually | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
regress in them and depleting them and their quality | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
of life is affected. Charlotte wants the health service | :09:03. | :09:03. | |
to treat epilepsy with the same urgency as other | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
life-threatening illnesses. She believes the specialist care | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
available in America Northern Ireland and Republic | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
of Ireland football fans were tonight awarded the prestigious | :09:10. | :09:46. | |
Medal of the City of Paris for their As BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
reports, they've been hailed The Maher of Paris handed out the | :09:53. | :10:05. | |
awards, one of the highest honours in France. The Maher 's office gives | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
the reason that it was for good sportsmanship and for our excellent | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
behaviour. I think we got at award for being ourselves and just for | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
being an advance. I think as fans we won the Euros and the team did as | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
proud as well. Representing the republic 's fans was Jamie Monaghan | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
from county love. He went all four of their matches and travel more | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
than 1000 miles. His dad said it was a proud day for the family and for | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Ireland. Half of the -- and a half of the Irish supporters are applied | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
to thank the people of Paris. It is an honour for the country because we | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
do like a party. The party may now be over but the fans in green still | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
have something to celebrate. And Mark will present a special BBC | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Newsline programme tomorrow night capturing the adventures | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
of Northern Ireland football Residents of a County Fermanagh | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
village have expressed anger after five cygnets were knocked | :11:06. | :11:20. | |
down and killed. A child eyewitness says | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
she saw a car running down A vet who arrived at the scene | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
shortly after the incident at Lisnarick near Irvinestown says | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
he was upset by what he found. The cygnets and their mother, | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
pictured earlier today, had recently become | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
a familiar sight. Locals have described the offence | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
as a heartless act. Football, and Cliftonville | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
are through to the next round of the Europa League | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
after a 2-0 win over FC It was disappointing news however | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
for Linfield and Glenavon Linfield drew with Cork City 1-1 | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
but lost on aggregate 2-1, while Glenavon lost | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
6-0 to KR Reykjavik. The weather forecast | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
now with Geoff Maskell. It's been a nice day. Temperatures | :11:56. | :12:11. | |
of 20 degrees. Overnight, rain. Cloud cover. It'll help keep mild. | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
Double figures. Friday, not too bad. Do I | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
try and bright, rain over England. Humid conditions. Behind it, a nice | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
day across much of the UK and Ireland. Temperatures will be up to | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
19 or 20 degrees. The odd shower. For most, things will be dry. In the | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
evening, rain. Saturday will be unsettled. Low pressure heading in | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
our direction. Looking as if it will be dry and then showers arriving. | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
The outlook, rain, heavy at times, strong breeze, low-pressure, warm | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
moist air from the self West. Not until late on Sunday and into Monday | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
that the breeze will come around. We will have fresher weather. Until | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
then, warm and humid. Dip into a summer of | :13:29. | :13:47. | |
amazing live music, | :13:48. | :13:51. |