0:00:53 > 0:00:57The new method of government in Northern Ireland
0:00:57 > 0:01:02is the freely declared choice of the people of Northern Ireland.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04And for that reason alone,
0:01:04 > 0:01:09it deserves the full support of everyone in Northern Ireland,
0:01:09 > 0:01:15even from those who are against this or any other new arrangement.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23What you must fully appreciate
0:01:23 > 0:01:25is that the people we represent have been stood on,
0:01:25 > 0:01:29they've lost time after time in every round of political negotiations
0:01:29 > 0:01:33that there has been over the last four to five years.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37If Mr Faulkner goes on ahead with power sharing,
0:01:37 > 0:01:41the Unionist party refused in the past to take a stand.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46They along with the SDLP's hands are red with the blood in this province.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48We represent the true principles of Unionism
0:01:48 > 0:01:52and we believe that Mr Faulkner has diverged considerably
0:01:52 > 0:01:56and I think if Mr Faulkner wins, it's the end of the Unionist party.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16The Constitutional Act says that no executive can be formed
0:02:16 > 0:02:20except it has widely accepted in the community.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25Would you be fool enough to say that this Constitution Act is widely accepted in this community
0:02:25 > 0:02:30when it took 40 armoured cars and 1,000 army men and police
0:02:30 > 0:02:32to do what they did today?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13We think it was an explosive device.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16We've called in the army experts
0:03:16 > 0:03:21but we've been hampered for some time with dense freezing fog.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43I think the most important thing is that there is a unity of policy.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53This election is coming at a very, very unfortunate time for Northern Ireland.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57It will not be fought on the issues on which it is being fought
0:03:57 > 0:03:59throughout other parts of the United Kingdom -
0:03:59 > 0:04:03the state of the economy, prices, the miners' strike and all the other issues.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07It will be fought here on the choosing of those who were opposed to the Sunningdale Agreement
0:04:07 > 0:04:14and at the moment, that agreement hadn't had a chance to be accepted by the Northern Ireland people.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17People are still fearful and suspicious and that is why
0:04:17 > 0:04:21our opponents are using it as an issue in this election.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Well, this has been a day of tremendous triumph for the Loyalist coalition in Northern Ireland.
0:04:32 > 0:04:37The followers of Mr Paisley, Mr Craig and Mr West have swept the board in many of the seats.
0:04:37 > 0:04:42They have taken over 50 per cent of the votes already cast.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Of the six seats already declared, they have taken five.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49It looks as if we're going to have nine or ten Loyalist MPs
0:04:49 > 0:04:52coming to Westminster to make problems for the new Prime Minister.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56In the words of one Loyalist to me, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
0:05:37 > 0:05:42There hasn't been one detection or one arrest on either of these roads
0:05:42 > 0:05:44in the entire history of the Troubles.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Does this kind of thing affect your own personal attitude to the British...?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Of course it does. We resent this very much.
0:05:49 > 0:05:54The very fact that they come in there and that I have taken a shovel that they have left in the Republic
0:05:54 > 0:05:57means that they have been in the Republic, violating our territorial boundary.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00And they have absolutely no respect for us.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06That's what you got.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Well, I took it. It wasn't given to me.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11That's a souvenir, or...?
0:06:11 > 0:06:16Well, it's evidence, anyway, that they were in the Republic, inside our territory.
0:06:39 > 0:06:45I've got something to say to Mr Cosgrave,
0:06:45 > 0:06:53to Mr Lynch, to Dr Fitzgerald and the rest of the members of the Dail.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56You shall not rule over us!
0:06:56 > 0:07:02We are saying, "No surrender!" CHEERING
0:07:13 > 0:07:16# A child arrived just the other day
0:07:16 > 0:07:18# He came to the world in the usual way
0:07:18 > 0:07:22# But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
0:07:22 > 0:07:25# He learned to walk while I was away
0:07:25 > 0:07:28# And he was talking 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
0:07:28 > 0:07:32# He'd say, I'm going to be like you, Dad
0:07:32 > 0:07:35# You know I'm going to be like you... #
0:07:35 > 0:07:39There is a responsibility upon the British government and the security forces
0:07:39 > 0:07:43to take every action known to them to deal with this.
0:07:43 > 0:07:48But above and beyond it all, I come back to the responsibility on all of us.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53Let it be clearly understood - the government is going to continue in business in Northern Ireland.
0:07:53 > 0:07:59We're going to work hard to get new industry, to give the shop keepers every assistance they need
0:07:59 > 0:08:03to deal with this. We certainly won't be licked by these bloody murderers.
0:08:03 > 0:08:08At Old Trafford, Manchester United striker George Best failed to turn up for a training session.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Immediately, rumours have started that Best's turbulent career
0:08:12 > 0:08:14with Manchester United has finally come to an end.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16But United say they are expecting him
0:08:16 > 0:08:18to turn up for training tomorrow.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Have you got room for one more? Aye, you can sit on my knee!
0:08:40 > 0:08:42THEY LAUGH
0:08:46 > 0:08:49You're all right. Before they started the taxi service,
0:08:49 > 0:08:51how often did you use to go by taxi?
0:08:51 > 0:08:52We didn't.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Before this? Yes.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59It was always bus we went by. You never went by taxi?
0:08:59 > 0:09:01No. You didn't get a taxi then for two bob.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05Sorry? Sorry? You didn't get a taxi then for two bob.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08This must be about the cheapest taxi service in the world.
0:09:08 > 0:09:09Aye, definitely.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12You can get very cosy in a taxi, can't you? Yes, you can!
0:09:12 > 0:09:13THEY LAUGH You can.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Oh, god, you can, can't you?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18You can get five of us in a taxi, can't you? Yeah.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24# Make the same mistakes, yes, they do... #
0:09:24 > 0:09:28The footballer, George Best, has been arrested and charged with
0:09:28 > 0:09:31stealing a fur coat from the London flat of the reigning Miss World,
0:09:31 > 0:09:3319-year-old Marjorie Wallace.
0:09:33 > 0:09:41# Make the same mistakes as me and you... #
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Well, what has been asked for is a declaration of intent.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09That is that the British government should set a date
0:10:09 > 0:10:13by which Britain would have completed disengagement from Ireland.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15A date over a period of years
0:10:15 > 0:10:19for a planned, a phased and an orderly withdrawal from Ireland.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Late appeals by trade union and church leaders
0:10:36 > 0:10:38and by some politicians failed to prevent the strike,
0:10:38 > 0:10:41the consequences of which were widespread power cuts.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44Some factory workers joined the strike.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Others, at factories unable to generate their own power,
0:10:46 > 0:10:50had to be sent home as the power cuts began to take effect.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01The people in the factories of Ulster
0:11:01 > 0:11:04showed quite clearly yesterday that they didn't want to take part
0:11:04 > 0:11:08in this strike. They wanted to be at work. They turned up at work.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Then they were told, "If you don't clear off, your cars will be burned",
0:11:11 > 0:11:15for instance, at one factory. There was widespread intimidation.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24There was no plan on behalf of the Ulster Workers' Council
0:11:24 > 0:11:30for any form of intimidation or indeed for the road blocks that we have seen in the province today.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34We feel that in such a situation,
0:11:34 > 0:11:39that a group of workers, no matter how honourable their intentions,
0:11:39 > 0:11:44cannot really be held responsible for the behaviour of the community at large.
0:11:52 > 0:11:58No negotiations with industrial, sectarian action for political purposes.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07The barricades that were initially going across were not manned
0:12:07 > 0:12:10and we were able to remove those fairly simply and swiftly.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12The major barricades that were manned,
0:12:12 > 0:12:16we were able to get them dismantled by the locals themselves
0:12:16 > 0:12:20without any recourse to violence whatever. How did you negotiate that?
0:12:20 > 0:12:24By pointing out that it was to the benefit of both sides
0:12:24 > 0:12:28to get the roads open without any recourse to violence.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Successive governments here in Dublin have been worried for some time
0:12:46 > 0:12:48that the violence of the north could move south.
0:12:48 > 0:12:53There have been bombs here before, but nothing of the scale of yesterday's.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25If the Secretary of State decides that the army must attempt to keep
0:13:25 > 0:13:28the electricity supply working in Northern Ireland,
0:13:28 > 0:13:32we will whole-heartedly carry out that instruction to the best of our ability.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50There was a latent sympathy for some of the objectives of the strikers,
0:13:50 > 0:13:51if not for their methods.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55# The marching band came down along Main Street
0:13:55 > 0:14:00# The soldier blues fell in behind... #
0:14:05 > 0:14:07# ..Waiting to go and join the line... #
0:14:07 > 0:14:14I came to assure our colleagues here, our mates in Northern Ireland on the trade union movements,
0:14:14 > 0:14:18that they have the support of the British TUC in the standard they've been taking
0:14:18 > 0:14:22throughout the disturbances and at this particular time.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27# Billy, don't be a hero... #
0:14:33 > 0:14:38# ..Billy, don't be a hero. Come back and make me your wife... #
0:14:38 > 0:14:42The people on this side of the water, British parents,
0:14:42 > 0:14:47have seen their sons vilified and spat upon and murdered.
0:14:47 > 0:14:52British tax payers have seen the taxes they have poured out
0:14:52 > 0:14:54almost without regard to cost -
0:14:54 > 0:15:01over ?300 million a year now, with the cost of the army operations on top of that -
0:15:01 > 0:15:03going into Northern Ireland.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07They see property destroyed by evil violence
0:15:07 > 0:15:11and are asked to pick up the bill for rebuilding it.
0:15:11 > 0:15:16Yet the people who benefit from all this now viciously defy Westminster,
0:15:16 > 0:15:20purporting to act as though they were an elected government.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25People who spend their lives sponging on Westminster and British democracy
0:15:25 > 0:15:28and then systematically assault democratic methods.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Who do these people think they are?
0:15:47 > 0:15:50We have therefore offered our resignations
0:15:50 > 0:15:54to the Secretary of State and have advised him to explore at once
0:15:54 > 0:15:57the possibility of constructing a new administration
0:15:57 > 0:16:02on a basis which will command general public confidence.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06We have secured the downfall of tyranny.
0:16:06 > 0:16:10We have established that the will of the people must prevail.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17# Waterloo
0:16:17 > 0:16:20# Couldn't escape if I wanted to... #
0:16:20 > 0:16:27I tired as no man has ever tried in my political generation
0:16:27 > 0:16:29to sell the policies that I believed to be right.
0:16:29 > 0:16:34And one of them was all the policies involved in the Sunningdale Agreement.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42In no way will we submit to the fascist attitude,
0:16:42 > 0:16:44which has been expressed here in the last nine days,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47to bring down the Northern Ireland Executive
0:16:47 > 0:16:50and indeed which stands for an ascendancy position
0:16:50 > 0:16:52of one section of this community over the other.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01What we want is simply to have elections.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05When those elections are held, then all the elected representatives,
0:17:05 > 0:17:07no matter what their colour or creed may be,
0:17:07 > 0:17:12should sit down around the table with Dublin excluded and London excluded
0:17:12 > 0:17:15and Ulster men themselves should find a way.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Power sharing was the right thing to attempt
0:17:27 > 0:17:31and power sharing will, in the end, be the way out of this problem.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02If you are not prepared to govern Northern Ireland
0:18:02 > 0:18:06like any other part of the United Kingdom,
0:18:06 > 0:18:12then let the Ulster people do the job for themselves.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:18:19 > 0:18:22# ..So we're guilty one and all
0:18:22 > 0:18:26# Round the world the truth will echo Cromwell's men are here again
0:18:26 > 0:18:30# England's name again is sullied in the eyes of honest men
0:18:30 > 0:18:32# Armoured cars and tanks and guns
0:18:32 > 0:18:35# Came to take away our sons... #
0:18:54 > 0:18:57There's a photograph of a minute child.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01He's probably doing it because he's seen everybody else do it.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04There's a little girl. She really looks as if she's enjoying it.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09She probably is. It's their local cowboys and Indians...
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Colonel Mike Thorn, Commander of the Second Anglians.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Again, a charming face.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Doing a very naughty thing, though.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20# Knick knack, paddy whack, now you're standing back to back
0:19:20 > 0:19:24# Knick knock on the door Bump your baby a little more
0:19:24 > 0:19:29# Knick knack, feeling fine... #
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Me and Emmet through a stone. It hit the side of the Jeep.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36And I threw in the bag, and they shot a rubber bullet
0:19:36 > 0:19:39and my mate pulled me down and if he hadn't had pulled me down,
0:19:39 > 0:19:41I'd have got it in the head.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44What would have happened if you'd been hit in the head?
0:19:44 > 0:19:46I don't know. You might have died.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49When you throw stones, why do you throw them?
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Cos we hate.
0:20:03 > 0:20:08SONG: "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us"
0:20:45 > 0:20:49Civil war is the last thing we want, because nobody will gain nothing from it.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51It's an impossible situation.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54The strange thing about the whole thing is,
0:20:54 > 0:20:58there's very few outside the working class populations
0:20:58 > 0:21:00in Milltown Cemetery or City Cemetery.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03MUSIC: "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas
0:21:23 > 0:21:26That's right. Have you got anything on the condition of the man?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29But it is hard, is it?
0:21:29 > 0:21:31He is dead.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Which hospital is it?
0:21:37 > 0:21:40About half an hour ago, a report was phoned in here
0:21:40 > 0:21:43that two armed men went into a local bakery
0:21:43 > 0:21:45and we've had an assassination attempt.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48Now, our information at this point in time is
0:21:48 > 0:21:50that the man is dead. That is unofficial.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53One way or another, we shall confirm that before six o'clock.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Right off the reel, there is a very good, strong story.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59An unfortunate story of violence, but this is Ulster.
0:21:59 > 0:22:04Studio and George. 24 is yours, George.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Cue him.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Election nominations - 43 will fight...
0:22:07 > 0:22:10APPLAUSE
0:22:15 > 0:22:20We are facing men who set out - all of them -
0:22:20 > 0:22:25supposing that they knew and have discovered that they didn't know.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Have discovered... APPLAUSE
0:22:28 > 0:22:34Have discovered that what they attempted and what they forced down the throats of the Ulster people
0:22:34 > 0:22:38only ended in failure and shame and in the continuance
0:22:38 > 0:22:42and intensification of what they claimed to cure.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44# Well, they don't care
0:22:44 > 0:22:49# No, no, no, no, so, Come join the revolution... #
0:22:56 > 0:22:57# ..It's a teenage rampage
0:22:57 > 0:23:02# Turn another page on the teenage rampage now... #
0:23:04 > 0:23:08After last night's fires, riots and attempted escapes,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10the Maze prisoners, all 1,400 of them,
0:23:10 > 0:23:13must be behind tighter security than ever before.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Every road is blocked leading into the area
0:23:15 > 0:23:18and virtually everyone is turned away.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29MUSIC: "Sad Sweet Dreamer" by Sweet Sensation
0:23:54 > 0:23:57# Happy birthday to you
0:23:57 > 0:24:04# Happy birthday dear Graeme Trafford Stepney Young James Buchan Holton
0:24:04 > 0:24:08# Graham Kidd Morgan Macari Anderson Moore McKittrick
0:24:08 > 0:24:12# Happy birthday to you! #
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Barry's a friend of mine - Barry Fry, the manager,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35and he asked if I fancied a couple of games for them.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39I didn't see any reason why not. What kind of training have you done for today's game?
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Nothing special. I still train anyway, whether I play or not.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45I've had two full-scale practice games last week.
0:24:45 > 0:24:49Can we expect to see you back playing regularly for Dunstable?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Well, I don't know. I've only signed for two games.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55So, anything after that's got to be discussed.
0:25:09 > 0:25:14I feel sorry for anybody that has got to use this method
0:25:14 > 0:25:16to achieve their political ends.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25All day and through the night,
0:25:25 > 0:25:28medical teams at three of the city's main hospitals
0:25:28 > 0:25:31have been coping with the injured - nearly 200 of them.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Some of them gravely ill.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38I was just standing with about four friends
0:25:38 > 0:25:43and there was the flash and the blast, which seemed to,
0:25:43 > 0:25:45you know, just go on and on.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51And after that, there were just things flying all over the place.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53What were you thinking at the time?
0:25:54 > 0:25:58I was just thinking, "God, help us."
0:26:04 > 0:26:08First, we should deal with this threat in every way we possibly can.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12And that's why I announced in the House of Commons this morning
0:26:12 > 0:26:14that I shall be making proposals on Monday
0:26:14 > 0:26:17for emergency legislation next week.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21# And pain was the price you paid... #
0:26:21 > 0:26:24What I think is tremendously important is,
0:26:24 > 0:26:29this should not be allowed to create a division between the community as a whole
0:26:29 > 0:26:33and the very large law abiding community of Irish origin
0:26:33 > 0:26:37here in Birmingham and in other cities,
0:26:37 > 0:26:39because I know the overwhelming majority of them
0:26:39 > 0:26:41hate and deplore what's happened
0:26:41 > 0:26:44as much as everybody else does in the county.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48MUSIC: "The Air That I Breathe" by The Hollies
0:27:06 > 0:27:11These men will all appear tomorrow morning at the Birmingham Magistrate.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24The six who are accused of murder after the explosions last week in Birmingham
0:27:24 > 0:27:26all appear to have bruises to their faces.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34MUSIC: "Lonely This Christmas" by Mud
0:27:53 > 0:27:56When there is a genuine cessation of violence,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59that people are saying, "We're going to act politically
0:27:59 > 0:28:04"and not act politically for a short while and then we will go back to violence",
0:28:04 > 0:28:07when I am sure that people are acting politically,
0:28:07 > 0:28:09a great deal can happen.
0:28:09 > 0:28:15# It'll be lonely this Christmas without you to hold... #
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0:28:46 > 0:28:48Winning a seat in the Assembly elections
0:28:48 > 0:28:49takes drive and dedication...
0:28:49 > 0:28:53Politics is an all-consuming kind of a role.
0:28:53 > 0:28:54..strong beliefs...