05/03/2017 BBC Newsline

The DUP's Simon Hamilton has voiced his support for party leader

Arlene Foster after the DUP's vote share fell in the Assembly election.

The former economy minister told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme,

Mrs Foster has the support of the party.

Meanwhile Sinn Fein have repeated that they will not support

Arlene Foster becoming First Minister until the RHI

inquiry has investigated her role in the scheme.

Here's our Political Correspondent Stephen Walker.

Tomorrow successful candidates will make this journey.

They will familiar landmarks and it will all seem as if nothing has

But make no mistake, the political landscape

Negotiations now begin to try and put a power-sharing

Today in the Sunday Politics studio, the difficulties

Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd repeated his party's position

that they will not support Arlene Foster as First Minister

before the report on the RHI scheme is made public.

If the DUP decide after the talks that take away silly next couple of

weeks, that they are going to nominate Arlene Foster as joint

First Minister, Sinn Fein will not support that nomination -- after the

deed talks that take place in the next couple of weeks.

So what of Arlene Foster and her position as DUP leader?

The party once had 38 seeds, now it is down to 28.

She has my full support, she has the support of the party

and most importantly of 225,000 people.

Across Northern Ireland who voted for the DUP and increased their

mandate. The SDLP said they have not ruled

out returning to the executive but the conditions must

be right, they said. We were up for going into the

government in May, but we are not going to take scraps are not have

any say in the programme. Things would need to change? Things would

absolutely need to change. And the Alliance Party want

commitments, as well. We are quite happy to sit in

opposition and to do that job effectively, to be clear.

However, independent Claire Sugden said she would serve

None of us could have foreseen what happened three months ago.

At the end of the day I became justice minister and that really

benefited me locally within my constituency and hopefully it will

benefit me moving forward. If I'm offered the opportunity I would like

to finish the job I've started and that remains the case.

Wounded after the election, the Ulster Unionists must decide

if they want opposition or government,

and then there is the issue of who leads their party

You would have a lot of work to do if you are taking over the reins

from Mike Nesbitt. It was a very disappointing performance.

I can't argue with coming back with ten seats.

Already the Secretary of State James Brokenshire has been

in contact with the parties and he says he's not contemplating

Under the law, the Executive has to be formed within three weeks.

Not for the first time, the clock is ticking at Stormont.

Stephen Walker, BBC Newsline, Parliament buildings.

A woman who was rescued after her kayak capsized

in County Antrim says she's extremely lucky to be alive.

The fire and rescue service have described her rescue as one

of the most difficult they've had to carry out.

A dramatic rescue captured on camera by the Northern Ireland Fire

Water levels were high and the flow was fast.

Anything but normal, the rescue service has said.

The woman was trapped for over an hour whilst rescue

Remarkably, she is back at the scene this afternoon.

In one piece, bar a sore leg, she checks on her kayak.

I would have drowned if I haven't got my head above water at that

sign. Initially it was just like -- hadn't got my head above water at

that sign. It was only the force of the water which kept me up.

The operation, which has been described as very difficult,

involved all the emergency services and various rescue teams.

Actually dealing with the incident in order to release her proved very

difficult because in effect we had to get our people downstream of the

canoe and we had to exert tremendous effort against the flow of water, to

create some space. Believed to be on land,

she says it will be awhile before Sport and Slaughtneil have won

the All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship by beating Sarsfields

1-10 to 11 points at Croke Park. Cassady, 13 sisters playing today,

lost her father late last year, man who coached and promoted the club.

Today she lifted the ultimate prize in her sport. In Slaughtneil there

is no church in a restaurant, no pub, pretty much nothing, apart from

they are the best GAA club in Ireland. With time running out on

one point between them it was another one of those Cassady

players, who struck this point over the bar. The whistle followed, and

tomorrow this small place will be in many of the newspapers. The girls

walked off the pitch today knowing they are the most accessible team in

the history of the club -- the most successful.

Let's get a look at the weather forecast

Most of the showers were confined to the south-east and the many it was

the better day of the weekend and tomorrow we get off to a dry start.

It is going to be a changeable week, every day, it spells of rain coming

in accompanied by brisk winds. The winds are staying like tonight,

though. It will be dry inland with clear spells and quite cold, as

well. Temperatures down to freezing, giving a slight frost and a few icy

patches and maybe a few patches of fog. Tomorrow we have rain arriving,

not until later on, though, and for most of us it is a bright and cold

start and you might want to leave extra journey time because of the

frost. Sunshine in the morning, sunshine and showers for many parts

of the country, pushing into the East of Scotland, cloudy across the

Republic and towards the south-west, the rain turning into showers and

then we cast our eyes to the West with another batch of rain moving to

the west of Ireland. Late in the opening. Also edging into Northern

Ireland and temperatures will fall as the cloud gathers to bring rain

and also hill snow possibly, as well. In the rest of the week, after

blustery showers tomorrow night, Wednesday will turn drier for time

but the next weather system is coming Thursday and once again wet

and windy. From everyone on the programme,

enjoy your evening.