06/03/2017 BBC Newsline

The DUP leader Arlene Foster has denied newspaper reports of a revolt

After an Assembly election in which some big DUP

names lost their seats, a delegation was at Stormont

for a series of meetings including one with Sinn Fein.

The parties have just three weeks to reach an agreement

The first crunch issue is over the DUP's choice for First Minister.

Sinn Fein say they cannot support Arlene Foster returning

to the position while there's an inquiry into the renewable heat

He may be big news here but Gerry Adams has

He's called Gerry Adams, he leads a party called Sinn Fein.

Selfies come with success and this was Sinn Fein's day as they paraded

their 27 MLAs including some well-known and new faces.

As the new MLAs found their way around, just down the road at

Stormont House, meetings aimed at forming an executive began in

The DUP were first in meeting James Brokenshire.

I think this is the biggest vote ever cast for any party in an

It would be a perverse thing to say as a result of

that, that someone should step aside.

Arlene Foster is the leader of the DUP and the people will decide who

The people have given a resounding mandate and endorsement

There is no revolt at all in the party?

No, there is no revolt, I have had a very good meeting today

I will meet with my full team tomorrow morning

I have talked to a lot of colleagues as well

Sinn Fein also met the Secretary of State

and made it clear that times have changed politically.

The people have had their say, the political landscape has shifted.

This is not Groundhog Day, this is not

People want equality for all, they want respect

The Alliance Party said if there was a political

will to find agreement across the parties, it

could be found but insisted that they would not join an

The depth of the bitterness between the lead parties

is as extreme as it has been for some time.

Careers have ended and some have just begun.

There are issues of personalities and the leadership of the DUP and

the UUP and theis election poses a whole series of questions about

power-sharing and the future of unionism and nationalism.

For the first time, there is no unionist majority

The DUP and the Ulster Unionists were the parties worst hit in terms

There is some flash photography at the start of this report from BBC

The loss of seats, the loss of the big names and in Mike

Nesbitt's case, the loss of the Ulster Unionist Party leadership.

When all the votes had finally been counted,

the numbers were not what

Here is the state of the parties in the new

The DUP, the largest party, with 28 seats, but they are only one

ahead of Sinn Fein who have 27 seats.

In the last assembly, they were ahead

This assembly is smaller than the last one.

Sinn Fein lost one, People Before Profit

didn't lose any and neither did the Alliance Party.

Ten DUP seats and six Ulster Unionist seats.

It means for the first time in the history of

Stormont, there is no overall unionist majority in the chamber.

They have 40 seats out of 90, that is less than 50%.

So what are the implications of the election result?

I think the 3rd of March was a bad day for unionism.

We have no majority in Stormont for the first

But I think we need to look at it as a wake-up call as to the

future, how unionism positions itself and is fit for purpose.

So, is unionism's difficulty Sinn Fein's

It certainly has given a boost to nationalists and

republicans and I dare say that pressure for a border poll will

increase in the foreseeable future although I don't think one should

overreact in the sense that our constitutional status here in

Northern Ireland is going to change in the very short run.

In the old Stormont parliament, a chamber

without a unionist majority was unthinkable.

John Taylor, seen here on the left, is still involved in

Today he said he was not concerned about last week's

He said Sinn Fein and the SDLP still have a lot of

Are you really telling me you're not worried

The election may be over but the analysis

of what it all means is only just beginning.

CCTV footage showing the moment a gunman opened fire on a petrol

station in north Belfast injuring a police officer, has been broadcast

in an effort to track down those behind the attack.

The footage shows the police officer running across the forecourt

of the garage on the Crumlin Road in January.

A number of customers were also there at the time.

The officer was shot at least twice in his right arm by an AK47 rifle.

It's thought a bullet-proof vest may have saved his life.

Photographs of the red Audi car used in the attack were also broadcast.

Speaking anonymously to the BBC's Crimewatch programme

which aired earlier tonight, the officer said he thought

I felt something hit me, everything slowed down.

I didn't feel any pain but I ran for cover. Everything slowed down.

Blood was pouring out and I thought that was

I thought I was going to die in that forecourt.

Sport - the Slaughtneil GAA club have been celebrating

their first All-Ireland senior club camogie title.

They beat Sarsfields of Galway at Croke Park.

The team returned from Dublin to a rousing welcome home.

It could be the first of a remarkable double for the club

if their senior football team can also win their All-Ireland final

But, for now, it's all about the camogie team

All of our supporters and family and friends

here to welcome us, as all

Ireland Champions, we have to keep saying it to believe it.

The weather is next. It's quite a chilly night with

temperatures falling below freezing allowing for some frost to develop

and possibly the odd stretch of ice as well. Started tomorrow but

overall, a dry day and to receive more rain coming in the Atlantic.

Some frost at their first thing but once the sunshine comes, it will

burn away and many will bus will enjoy the sunshine. If you're

travelling tomorrow, it will be a downhill spiral across Ireland as

that next area of rain pushes in. Eventually it will make its way

across the Irish Sea affecting parts of Wales and the south-west of

England. But for much of Britain, some good amount of sunshine. By the

middle of the Apted, the rain will have taken over much of Ireland and

for us, it will be an East, West split. Is the area is staying dry

but the real eventually reaches here too. A wet end to the day with highs

of seven or 8 degrees. Bandolier is milder air so tomorrow will not be

as chilly with temperatures overnight at seven or 8 degrees.

Wednesday, apart from the old Shah, a largely dry picture. Temperatures

up to 11 or maybe 12 degrees. We hold the higher temperatures and the

end of the week. Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am

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