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Good evening and welcome to BBC Newsline. | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
The head of the Olympic Council of Ireland, | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
Pat Hickey, has stood down temporarily after being arrested | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
The 71-year-old was detained by the police in Rio De Janeiro. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
More than one thousand tickets for blue ribbon events were seized | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
last week including some for the Opening Ceremony | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
As head of the Olympic Council of Ireland, mist or Pat Hickey is | :00:26. | :00:38. | |
regarded as the most powerful man in Irish sport. His arrest happened | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
this morning before 7am at his hotel. It is part of a Brazilian | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
police investigation into illegal Olympic ticket sales. Pat Hickey is | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
expected of being involved in a scheme to sell tickets for higher | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
than their face value. Police have confirmed that the 71-year-old was | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
taken to hospital after his arrest as a precaution. And Brazilian | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
police also reported today that when they went to his room, his wife | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
answered the door and said that her husband had already left for | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Ireland. But after a thorough search of the hotel, they in an adjacent | :01:12. | :01:27. | |
room, believed to belong to the sun. They seized his passport, | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
accreditation and airline ticket. The Irish sports Minister is here in | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Rio and this is what he had to say today. -- is here in Brazil. I am | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
going home now so that I can discuss with the minister asked eight and | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
the Attorney General, the Cabinet colleagues and officials the best | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
way forward. The inquiry should be envisaged, it is probably no longer | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
relevant, events have overturned that. But we are absolutely | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
determined that we will set up an inquiry to find out what happened. I | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
do not know what the best form of inquiry is. Events are moving too | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
fast. But we will decide that over the next few days. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
Has decided to temporarily stand aside from his post and all Olympic | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
functions until this matter is resolved. The IOC, the governing | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
body of the Olympic Games, was caught slightly on the hop today but | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
a spokesman did say they will fully cooperate with police. They have | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
faith in the police investigation but until they receive evidence of | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
any wrongdoing, the assumption of his innocence prevails. | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
The Olympic boxing federation is to drop a number of judges | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
and referees for poor decision making in Rio. | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Meanwhile it's been revealed that boxer Vladimir Nikitin | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
who defeated Ireland's Michael Conlan | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
in controversial circumstances yesterday is out of his | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Two sisters from Belfast have settled sexual harassment claims | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
Kirstie and Courtney McKeever complained about the behaviour | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
They agreed settlements of 14 and 16 thousand pounds. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Kirstie and Courtney McKeever were both teenagers when they started | :02:55. | :03:06. | |
working at a KFC restaurant. But they resigned, saying a mild | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
colleague had sexually harassed them and made working their impossible. | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
-- saying a mild colleague. Courtney spoke about what they had to endure. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
On a few occasions, both of us came home crying because of the things he | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
said to us. It made me feel like he had power over me because Egypt had | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
just another ruler or shifted ever, every opportunity you got. I just | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
got fed up with that and said it was too much and I just walked out and | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
didn't ever go back. And then I made a complaint and got legal advice. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
KFC say that after they heard about the allegations they investigated. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
And then take action. As a result, the employee at the centre of the | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
complaints was dismissed. The equality commission praised the two | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
sisters for speaking out about what happened to them. These were young | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
men like any teenagers, just working a part time job to get money | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
together. They had to leave their jobs. Of unacceptable that sexual | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
harassment still, regrettably, forms part of many working women's lives. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
The case was settled out of court at a total cost ?30,000. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
A stretch of road between Belfast and Londonderry is to be upgraded | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Work is due to begin in October on nine miles of the A6 between | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
As Will Leitch reports the construction will be on two | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
sections of road either side of the bypass at Toomebridge. | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
Rush-hour on this road, even with the bypass nearby. But for 18 days | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
on board users taking this route everyday, shorter journeys are | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
inside. The mock-ups sure the driving experience after work, | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
starting this October, and taking four years and ?160 million. Plans | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
for the schemes date back 13 years but for some indefinite construction | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
schedule is good news. There was a bit of ambiguity during the summer | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
months here that it may fall off the table, so I think that removes any | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
uncertainty and we do now know something is going to start later | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
this year. Of course, we still have to be sure that the contract is | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
there remains the concerns of some of the landowners and make sure | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
whatever accommodation works can be done to accommodate them so that | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
this is a win-win for everybody. Unlike some other road improvement | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
schemes, this one will not be following so much of the existing | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
route. And that means miles of new dual carriageway through open | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
countryside. Early preparatory work before full construction has already | :05:39. | :05:39. | |
begun. Unemployment here's fallen | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
to its lowest level in eight years. Those claiming unemployment related | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
benefits has decreased The jobless total is | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
now just over 36,000. Young people starting university | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
or college this Autumn are being urged to get | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
a vaccine against meningitis. The Public Health Agency says | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
the jab will help protect against meningitis W in particular, | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
a strain that's on the increase. People between the age of 18 to 25 | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
are being asked to go If you got it at school, | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
you do not need to get it again. Tomorrow is a very important day for | :06:07. | :06:21. | |
some young people in Northern Ireland, they are getting a liberal | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
fault under very excited about going to college. Last year, they would | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
have received a letter from their GP offering them the immunisation but | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
during exam time I have been too busy to go to get it so I am asking | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
them now to plan for college but also to remember to protect | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
themselves against this serious protection. On your GP to get an | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
appointment to get your vaccine. Just time for a look | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
at the weather prospects now - here's Cecilia Daly | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
with the details. Hello. There will be some men around | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
her neck, warm night as well. Temperatures staying in the team | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
that most places. Humid, mist and more, low cloud around. Mikey around | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
part of the coastline first thing tomorrow. But it will improve as the | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
morning goes on. Some rain to begin with but mid to late morning most of | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
that wet weather starts to ease away northwards. Skies will start to | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Britain as well. We will see some sunshine breaking through across the | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
Republic of Ireland in the afternoon. Some dry and fairly | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
bright weather with some sunshine across many parts of Britain, but | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
there will be dribs and drabs of rain over parts of Wales and | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
south-west England, which should ease away later in the day. Top | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
temperatures tomorrow, when the sun comes out, 19, 20. We may even see | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
21 degrees summer, so still quite warm and a lot of places will have a | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
dry afternoon, with the best of the weather to come towards the evening. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
It is all change on Friday. An unusually deep area of low pressure | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
will bring both heavy rain and strong winds at times on Friday. And | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
to begin with this weekend. Fortunately it will eventually | :07:54. | :07:54. | |
improve on Sunday. | :07:55. | :07:57. |