02/03/2017 BBC Newsline


02/03/2017

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 02/03/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Voting in Northern Ireland's Assembly election ended just

:00:00.:00:08.

The electoral authorities believe that turnout will be up

:00:09.:00:13.

on last year's figure, which was slightly below 55%.

:00:14.:00:16.

It was the election and no unexpected. But for the second time

:00:17.:00:31.

in a year, but said at polling stations across Northern Ireland.

:00:32.:00:36.

They opened at 7am and closed at 10pm. The future of devolved

:00:37.:00:41.

Government here may be uncertain, but if and when the new Assembly

:00:42.:00:45.

sets, it will look very different. That's because the number of seats

:00:46.:00:50.

has been reduced to save costs. There was 108 previously, but that's

:00:51.:00:57.

990. The number of candidates is Dan too, 228 people stood. -- that's

:00:58.:01:07.

down to 90. The leaders of the parties were among the early voters.

:01:08.:01:11.

The Ulster unionist leader and the Alliance we don't know me long both

:01:12.:01:17.

voted in Belfast, while the SDLP leader Colum Eastwood voted in the

:01:18.:01:21.

north west. Today's bad weather doesn't seem to have put people off

:01:22.:01:25.

heading to the polls. In fact, indications are that turnout may be

:01:26.:01:31.

up. Some sources say by as much as five percentage points. A lateral

:01:32.:01:35.

authorities say staff had been busy in all areas. Now that the polling

:01:36.:01:41.

stations how close, ballot boxes are being moved to counting centres such

:01:42.:01:44.

as this one right across Northern Ireland. They will stay open

:01:45.:01:48.

overnight and counting will begin at 8am tomorrow.

:01:49.:01:50.

There'll be more on the election on The View just after this programme.

:01:51.:01:53.

Yes, Tara - and with me tonight are the former DUP

:01:54.:01:56.

and Sinn Fein MLAs David McIlveen and Daithi McKay, and they - along

:01:57.:01:59.

with three expert commentators - will give us their best judgments

:02:00.:02:03.

And the mentalist David Meade gives his verdict on how

:02:04.:02:09.

the parties have fared at maximising their messages.

:02:10.:02:11.

That's all coming up in a few minutes here on BBC1.

:02:12.:02:15.

And Mark and I will be here with the results

:02:16.:02:17.

as they come in during a special election programme tomorrow.

:02:18.:02:20.

A man wanted in connection with the murder of prisoner officer

:02:21.:02:27.

David Black in 2012 has been arrested in the Republic as part

:02:28.:02:31.

of a joint operation involving the PSNI and the Gardai.

:02:32.:02:35.

40-year-old Damien McLaughlin, from Ardboe in County Tyrone,

:02:36.:02:38.

He was on bail on charges connected to Mr Black's killing and had been

:02:39.:02:44.

He was detained in Donegal under a European Arrest Warrant

:02:45.:02:50.

and is expected to appear at Dublin's

:02:51.:02:52.

A 59-year-old man was also arrested in Donegal and a 47-year-old woman

:02:53.:02:59.

Northern Ireland's Government has failed to pro-actively lead

:03:00.:03:06.

the planning, development and growth of integrated education.

:03:07.:03:10.

That is one of the findings of a report commissioned and just

:03:11.:03:13.

published by the Department for Education.

:03:14.:03:16.

Earlier, I asked our education correspondent Robbie Meredith why

:03:17.:03:20.

It was originally commissioned by John O'Dowd back in January last

:03:21.:03:32.

year, then it was delivered to his successor as Education Minister,

:03:33.:03:37.

Peter Weir, in November. Peter Weir was going to publish it, but the

:03:38.:03:43.

election complicated things. Protocol said he couldn't publish it

:03:44.:03:48.

during the campaign, said he's waited right until the end of

:03:49.:03:51.

polling day. This is essentially his final act in his term of office.

:03:52.:03:56.

What is the report what the cricketer to commit to?

:03:57.:04:02.

It is a big reports, it was the departments to committing to

:04:03.:04:05.

promoting integrated education in many ways. Tackling what it calls

:04:06.:04:10.

the issue of Aricept and costly schooling. This is the should be

:04:11.:04:15.

commitment to increase the number of pupils and integrated schools and

:04:16.:04:18.

suggests a number of ways to do this. It says, interestingly, that

:04:19.:04:24.

teachers should no longer be exempt from employment regulations. It says

:04:25.:04:31.

this would end the situation where Protestant and Catholic teachers end

:04:32.:04:36.

up teaching in respect of domination all schools. A lot of people say

:04:37.:04:45.

they want integrated education, but only 7%pupils are educated and

:04:46.:04:49.

integrated schools. Some number of people who spoke to the first said

:04:50.:04:53.

that when they were registering the child's birth, they should say then

:04:54.:04:56.

whatever school they want the child to go to, as this would show that we

:04:57.:04:59.

need more integrated schools, and then we could plan for that. But the

:05:00.:05:04.

authors said there could be difficult to administer, wouldn't be

:05:05.:05:10.

feasible to make school planning decisions based on preferences

:05:11.:05:16.

stated 45 years back. -- four or five years back.

:05:17.:05:17.

The Foods Standard Agency has warned of the risks posed

:05:18.:05:20.

by venison from deer which has been illegally hunted.

:05:21.:05:22.

A carcass can be worth up to ?200 to the poachers if they can get it

:05:23.:05:26.

The police are stepping up patrols to counter

:05:27.:05:29.

Our agriculture and environment correspondent Conor Macauley joined

:05:30.:05:32.

And we've joined a PSNI patrol on the lookout for poachers.

:05:33.:05:40.

They're using the engine of the vehicle to power strong lamps.

:05:41.:05:44.

The animal is almost paralysed in the beam of light and then

:05:45.:05:46.

99% of the time through the head, because they are mindful

:05:47.:05:57.

that they want to protect the meat, which will affect the price.

:05:58.:06:01.

All that cover where they'll be, and that's

:06:02.:06:07.

It happens at night in isolated areas, often close to the border.

:06:08.:06:17.

In our area, they would get it right away and take it south.

:06:18.:06:20.

And that reduces the opportunity for us to detect them.

:06:21.:06:22.

As an illustration of the danger of firing blindly into the dark,

:06:23.:06:29.

this is a metal plate into which a couple of rounds have

:06:30.:06:32.

been fired, similar to those used to take down a deer.

:06:33.:06:37.

This is 1/8 inch of solid steel, and the rounds have

:06:38.:06:41.

If you miss, you really don't know what's behind that animal and how

:06:42.:06:51.

What I can tell you it can go another mile and a half.

:06:52.:06:59.

In that line of fire, how many victims could there be.

:07:00.:07:03.

Other animals or, even worse, human beings?

:07:04.:07:06.

In order not to be caught with the rifle and the deer

:07:07.:07:11.

together, poachers will sometimes gut the animal and string

:07:12.:07:14.

it up in a tree to be returned for the next day.

:07:15.:07:18.

And that has implications for human health.

:07:19.:07:21.

There are strict legislation and rules, legitimate suppliers

:07:22.:07:26.

of meat in the industry know how do that.

:07:27.:07:31.

These guys who were out shooting deer aren't doing that.

:07:32.:07:35.

They are looking to make a quick buck, get it into the

:07:36.:07:38.

food chain and our concern is, because they're doing it that way,

:07:39.:07:41.

You see them at the edge of darkness.

:07:42.:07:45.

Dusk would be one of the most likely times to see deer around.

:07:46.:07:49.

Anecdotally, there are far fewer now than during the Troubles.

:07:50.:07:53.

Then, the risks involved in taking even a legally held firearm out

:07:54.:07:56.

It seems that deer are an unwitting victim of the political process.

:07:57.:08:09.

Now with the weather forecast, here's Geoff Maskell.

:08:10.:08:15.

Good evening. We had sunshine this morning, a commodity in short supply

:08:16.:08:24.

over the next couple of days it's all down to this developing area of

:08:25.:08:28.

low pressure that will spend the next few days tracking north along

:08:29.:08:31.

the Irish Sea. It means for us some wet and windy

:08:32.:08:35.

weather. That started overnight tonight, gradually pushing away,

:08:36.:08:39.

leaving clearer skies in the north and west. A chance of frost there in

:08:40.:08:44.

the morning. Actually start to the day on Friday before more rain moves

:08:45.:08:49.

in, spreading to all parts as we go through the day. That's being driven

:08:50.:08:54.

by this area of low pressure, gradually through the day we will

:08:55.:08:57.

see that rain pushing end. It will be wet and cold, six to Greece, also

:08:58.:09:04.

a breeze from the east too. The wind is swirling around, the best

:09:05.:09:09.

brightness to be found across the north of Scotland. For the rest of

:09:10.:09:14.

the British Isles, that wind swirling around. The warmest

:09:15.:09:18.

temperatures to be found below that weather front. For us, that rain

:09:19.:09:23.

moves then, continuing overnight, Friday into Saturday morning, a bit

:09:24.:09:28.

of a soggy start to the weekend. It will brighten up a little bit as we

:09:29.:09:34.

go through the day on Saturday. If the low follows the course we're

:09:35.:09:38.

expecting over the next few days. Again, not very warm, 6 degrees the

:09:39.:09:43.

temperature. On Sunday, sunshine winning out over the showers, but

:09:44.:09:47.

and unsettled picture for the next few days.

:09:48.:09:48.

Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am during Breakfast, here on BBC One.

:09:49.:09:53.

You can also keep updated with News Online.

:09:54.:09:55.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS