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for the White House? Join me now on BBC Two or | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The government and Stormont Executive have been told they've 14 | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
days to agree to fund inquests into some of the most controversial | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
killings of the Troubles or face court action. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
The warning comes two weeks after Northern Ireland's most senior | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
judge called for urgent action on the issue and said there's | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
a legal obligation to ensure the inquests are heard. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports. | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
They came from different backgrounds, Catholics and | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
Protestants, relatives of more than 30 people killed during the Troubles | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
still waiting for inquest to be held to establish what happened. They | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
joined in protest at Stormont today and spoke with one voice. Demanding | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
that the government releases the funding needed for inquests into the | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
killings of their loved ones. They included Nichola Baxter seen her | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
with her cousin, who was shot dead by the UVF 11 years ago. I come from | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
unionist background, we are awaiting 11 years for an inquest and a death | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
certificate. Simple things that the law says we are entitled to as | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
families, answers that we are not getting and it is the same for | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
everyone. Standing alongside her, 38, whose brother was shot dead by | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
soldiers at what has become known as the Ballymurphy massacre -- Rita | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
Bonner. She should meet us. She has never said she would meet us and I | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
think she needs to be doing more to release even the funds for everyone, | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
not just our inquest, it is everyone's. Earlier this year, | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Northern Ireland 's most senior judge as the Stormont Executive to | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
back a request for ?10 million in funding for a five-year plan to hear | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
all legacy inquest. The Lord Chief Justice wanted the money released | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
before an overall agreement is reached on how to deal with the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
past. But the request was blocked by First Minister Arlene Foster. This | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
month, Sir Declan Morgan said he was hugely disappointed and said that | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
dealing with the inquest was a legal obligation. The pressing need to | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
make progress has been recognised by the committee of ministers at the | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Council of Europe which in its last report in June said that it was | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
critical of the United Kingdom authorities and said they should | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
take all necessary measures to ensure that the legacy system is | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
properly resourced and staffed to enable effective investigations to | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
be concluded. Earlier this month, speaking to the BBC at a meeting of | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
the British Irish Association in Oxford, the Secretary of State | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
insisted it is the responsibility of Stormont to do with the issue. It is | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
for the Executive effectively to consider those issues and make a | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
proposal in essence to seek funding from the UK Government around this. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
I think they are considering these carefully. Lawyer representing the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
families who took part in the protests accused the government of | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
breaching international law. Very clearly there is a breach on the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
human rights legislation in this. I would ask the Secretary of State to | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
read the Council of Europe report which states it is the obligation of | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
the UK Government and I would ask him to read the statement that the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
Lord Chief Justice issued in September which outlined the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
obligations of the UK Government. He handed a letter to an official | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
representing the Secretary of State warning that legal action will be | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
launched in funding for the inquest is not released within 14 days. The | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Stormont Executive and the Department of Justice received | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
similar letters. Vincent Kearney, BBC Newsline. | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
A man's died after a fire in an ambulance in County Kildare. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
He was a patient inside the vehicle when it burst into flames at | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
The ambulance with an elderly man on board pulled up outside Naas | :04:01. | :04:13. | |
hospitals Accident and Emergency department at half past one this | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
afternoon. An explosion was then heard and the ambulance burst into | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
flames. Two paramedics tried in vain to rescue the man inside, but he was | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
pronounced dead at the scene after Fire Service workers had managed to | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
put out the fire. According to the health service Executive, the fire | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
had caused the man's death. I am sorry to have to tell you that the | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
patient's death was a direct consequence of the fire. If the fire | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
had not occurred, then he would have not died. Our sympathies are very | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
much with the family at this time it is a very tragic loss and the staff | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
here at Naas General Hospital and the ambulance personnel did | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
everything that they could to save him, but it was not possible. The | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
two emergency service workers who attempted to save him sustained | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
minor injuries. What caused the explosion, fire and death of a man, | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
is now the subject of two separate investigations. One by the HSE and | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
won by the Gardai and those investigations are looking at | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
whether or not the oxygen supply on the ambulance may have been what | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
caused the explosion. It does appear that the fire started towards the | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
rear of the ambulance, in other words it does not appear that this | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
was related to the engine. We are currently without prejudicing an | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
outcome, we are focusing our concerns or our actions on the | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
possibility and I stress that it is a possibility, but this was an | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
oxygen related incidents, and a safety action notice is being issued | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
to all personnel. Forensic tests will now try to ascertain what was | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
behind this tragic accident. Two women, including | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
one from Londonderry, have been killed in a car | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
crash in Donegal. It happened yesterday afternoon | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
outside the town of Ballybofey, The victims were 38-year-old mother | :06:05. | :06:05. | |
of three Maria Wallis, originally from Derry, | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
and 19-year-old Kiara Baird It's believed the car | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
they were travelling in lost control An Air Ambulance service | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
for Northern Ireland which was announced to some fanfare | :06:15. | :06:26. | |
in the Spring is unlikely to be The BBC understands that several | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
major issues including staffing It's also emerged that work | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
to make a brand new helipad at the Royal Victoria Hospital | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
in Belfast fit for purpose When it comes to major trauma, Time | :06:40. | :06:58. | |
matters. Air ambulance like this one improve patient prospects in other | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
UK regions, but Northern Ireland does not have one. At this years | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Northwest 200, rider Ryan Farquhar had to rely on the police helicopter | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
to transfer him to Belfast after he was seriously injured. But a major | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
announcement by the former Minister Simon Hamilton promised a dedicated | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
air ambulance would be operational by the end of this year. That is | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
beginning to look unlikely. The BBC understands that issues holding up | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
progress include staffing, hangar facilities and issues with the new | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
critical care building at the Royal Victoria Hospital. This building | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
only opened last year and it cost over ?150 million. A helipad was | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
built on the roof but it turns out it is not suitable for air ambulance | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
use and making it fit for purpose could cost up to ?800,000 and take | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
nine months. I am concerned about the issue of the helipad and I am | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
concerned that there seem to be a lot of other issues that have not | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
been resolved. Before the election we had talk of a tribute to the late | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
Doctor John Heinz, if we are to have a tribute, it has to be a properly | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
functioning service for the benefit of the people of Northern Ireland. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Corks can turn slowly, you can get frustrated, but I am trying to apply | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
pressure to ensure that this facility is in Northern Ireland as | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
soon as possible, to help and assist the people of Northern Ireland. In a | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
statement, the Department of Health said that the Minister will announce | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
when the service will start after she has received advice from the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Chief Medical Officer on the clinical and patient safety aspects | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
of the service. It went on to say, whilst a functional rooftop pad at | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
the Royal Victoria Hospital would offer significant | :08:46. | :08:59. | |
advantages, the service could begin operation without it. When it | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
arrives, the air ambulance will speed up a trauma victims journey to | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
critical care, but for now the concern is the speed of progress in | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
getting a service here off the ground. David Maxwell, BBC Newsline. | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
There's a new warning this evening about the potentially deadly risk | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
posed to young children by button batteries - the sort found | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Doctors at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children say | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
they've seen a rise in the number of toddlers swallowing them. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson has been speaking to one of the doctors. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
They are lithium button batteries. They are in lots of household items, | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
remote controls, kitchen scales, scales in bathrooms, they are very | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
common and they are in children's toys. They look quite innocuous, | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
they could choke a child which is a potential risk. What actually | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
happens to the battery inside the body? If these are studied the drug | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
swallowed or put up the nose or in the year, because a chemical | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
reaction and caustic soda is released. Everyone knows what that | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
does, it cleans out drains, so can you imagine what it does to your | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
oesophagus or pallet? We had a little girl called Ava and this is | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
her x-ray, the battery was in her gallop for about three weeks. She | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
had life-threatening breathing difficulties, it had eroded her | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
oesophagus, it was placed up against windpipe and she had a narrow | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
windpipe to breathe through. Our surgeons removed it under | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
anaesthetic, it was wedged into her oesophagus, buried into the tissues | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
and took a huge amount of effort to remove it. Some children are not so | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
fortunate. We have had other children in this hospital who have | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
been referred to great Ormond has it all and the battery has | :10:39. | :10:53. | |
completely their pallet and they have life-changing injuries, also | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
some children die because they have swallowed button batteries. They | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
rode through a main vessels and they bleed to death -- Great Ormond | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
Street Hospital?. What would you say to parents watching? I would say to | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
any carer or childminder or anyone who looks after children, | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
particularly toddlers, because toddlers learn and explore the world | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
through their eyes, if you have remote controls, kitchen scales, | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
weighing scales in bathroom, anything with a button battery, keep | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
it away from small children. Mark Simpson, BBC Newsline. | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Now to what's coming up straight after this programme on The View - | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Thanks Jo - and tonight we're looking at the promise | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
of the Ulster Unionists and SDLP to deliver a strong opposition | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
against the DUP-Sinn Fein administration. | :11:33. | :11:33. | |
Have the watchdogs bared their teeth yet? | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
We've all four parties live in the studio straight | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
We have had some lively showers through this evening | :11:38. | :11:49. | |
and the first part of tonight and they will gradually clear | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
to the east leaving us with dry conditions and clearing skies. | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
That will see the temperatures drop away, last night we were down to 0.5 | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
degrees and we could get to a similar level to night. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
It means that there will be the chance of a bit of mist to begin | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
with but for most people quite a bright morning. | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
The difference is that those bright skies will not last as long tomorrow | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
You will start to see the cloud filling in and behind | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
that the showers working their way in from the west. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
We will not see the bulk of the rain through the day on Friday. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
That is focused more to the north and west of us but it shows | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
what a different day that Scotland and Ireland are having tomorrow | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
There, it is much warmer and brighter conditions especially | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
For us, we do not really see the bulk of the rain until the early | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
By the time we are looking out the window on Saturday morning it | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
Quite a wet and windy start to the weekend, that rain sitting | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
It will brighten up by evening time and we are then into some cooler air | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
and once that front comes through it is a much cooler air mass | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
and at this time of year you will notice the change quite sharply. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
Saturday is the day for the inside jobs, | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
come Sunday it will be brighter, drier but markedly cooler, | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at six twenty five in the morning | :13:12. | :13:21. | |
You can also keep updated with News Online. | :13:22. | :13:25. |