05/03/2017 BBC Newsline


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Good evening, welcome to BBC Newsline.

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

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

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

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Mrs Foster has the support of the party.

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Meanwhile, Sinn Fein have repeated that they will not support

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Arlene Foster becoming First Minister until the RHI

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inquiry has investigated her role in the scheme.

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Here's our Political Correspondent, Stephen Walker.

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Tomorrow, successful candidates will make this journey.

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

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But make no mistake, the political landscape

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Negotiations now begin to try and put a power-sharing

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Today in the Sunday Politics studio, the difficulties

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

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that they will not support Arlene Foster as First Minister

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before the report on the RHI scheme is made public.

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If the DUP decide after the talks that take

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place in the next couple of

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

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First Minister, Sinn Fein will not support

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If the DUP decide, Sinn Fein will not support that nomination.

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

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

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

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and most importantly of 225,000 people

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across Northern Ireland who voted for the DUP and

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The SDLP said they have not ruled out returning to the Executive,

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but the conditions must be right, they said.

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We were up for going into the

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

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Things would absolutely need to change.

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And the Alliance Party want commitments, as well.

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We are quite happy to sit in opposition and to do that job

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If the Executive is willing quite happily to sit in opposition.

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However, independent Claire Sugden said she would serve

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Wounded after the election, the Ulster Unionists must decide

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if they want opposition or Government,

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and then there is the issue of who leads their party

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

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It was a very disappointing performance.

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

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Already the Secretary of State, James Brokenshire, has been

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

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

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

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A woman who was rescued after her kayak capsized

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

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Hannah Birt's dramatic rescue was captured on camera

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by the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, who say it's one

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

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got my head above water at

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

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

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difficult, because in effect, we had to get

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our people downstream of the

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

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Sport and Slaughtneil have won the All-Ireland Club

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by beating Sarsfields 1-10 to 11 points at Croke Park in Dublin.

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The teams of the townland in County Londonderry

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games and today's win means that this team is the most

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Slaughtneil will try to complete a remarkable double

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as their footballers play in the St Patrick's day final.

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Let's get a look at the forecast for the week ahead, here's Angie.

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Most of today's show was confined to these health is done for many was

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the better day of the weekend. The new week begins dry, be deceptively

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so. That is quite a changeable week. There will be spells of rain moving

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through and it will also be quite windy. But at least the winds are

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light tonight. A pew showers towards the north and west, inland as well,

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dry and cold, temperatures at freezing, so that will lead to frost

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and icy patches and one or two macro fog. Tomorrow, we will see rain

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around, but it is a bright, cold store without frost. But some lovely

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sunshine around and generally a mixture of sunshine and showers.

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Some blustery showers coming off the North Sea and elsewhere, there are

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more scattered and mainly light showers. Cloudy across the Republic,

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spells in the south-west and they will be clearing away and turning

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showery. Casting out to the west, another batch of rain are moving in.

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That is extended towards others. Temperatures away - 9 degrees. They

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will fall away as the rain approaches. Some hill snow likely.

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The rest of the week, unsettled. Low-pressure moving in. The gap into

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Wednesday before the next with a system that runs in four Thursday.

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It will turn wet and windy across many parts of the country as we go

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through Tuesday. The rain moves in and it clears away later and mild

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air comes in behind it and bright spells for eastern areas showers

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toward the north and west. But even there some bright intervals. As we

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head toward Thursday, the next weather system will be knocking on

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the door. Clouds will gather and once again, spells of rain and quite

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brisk wind. Quite a changeable week coming up.

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