:00:00. > 3:59:59into the Russian speaking areas. Now on BBC One it is time for the news
:00:00. > :00:10.where Good evening. A paralympic
:00:11. > :00:12.power-lifter has been given a suspended sentence for sexually
:00:13. > :00:16.assaulting two girls and a woman when he was in Antrim ahead of the
:00:17. > :00:20.London Games. Omar Sami Qaradhi from Jordan had been training at a
:00:21. > :00:23.leisure centre in the town in August 2012. His trial had been due to
:00:24. > :00:35.start today but he changed his plea to guilty. David Maxwell has the
:00:36. > :00:39.details. Omar Qaradhi is unlikely to return to Northern Ireland after
:00:40. > :00:44.today. The power lifter came to Antrim in August 2012 to prepare for
:00:45. > :00:48.the London Games. But he and two team-mates were sent back home after
:00:49. > :00:52.they were arrested for sexual assaults. Charges against the two
:00:53. > :00:58.others were later dropped. Only Omar Qaradhi had to return from Jordan to
:00:59. > :01:02.face trial. Yesterday the 33-year-old pleaded not guilty
:01:03. > :01:05.before a jury was sworn in, here at Antrim Crown Court. But today,
:01:06. > :01:11.before any evidence was heard, his lawyer asked for the charges to be
:01:12. > :01:15.read again via a translator he changed his plea to guilty, on all
:01:16. > :01:21.charges. The jury was then dismissed and the judge heard the facts of the
:01:22. > :01:25.case. The prosecution said that in two separate incidents in the Antrim
:01:26. > :01:29.area Omar Qaradhi touched girls aged 14 after persuading them to have
:01:30. > :01:33.their pictures taken with him A third incident he touched a
:01:34. > :01:37.therapist during a physio sessions before passing sentence the judge
:01:38. > :01:41.heard from his legal team. In his closing remark, the judge said he
:01:42. > :01:46.had taken into account the detrimental impact of the assaults
:01:47. > :01:50.on the victims, but he noted the offences were opportunistic and low
:01:51. > :01:54.level. He also recognised the loss that Omar Qaradhi has suffered due
:01:55. > :01:58.to his actions. The judge said he could not lose sight of the fact
:01:59. > :02:04.Omar Qaradhi had been welcomed to Antrim. Hospitality he he had
:02:05. > :02:08.abused. He he said by his actions he brought distress to his victim,
:02:09. > :02:12.shame to his fellow team-mates and denied Jordan the real possibility
:02:13. > :02:18.of winning a gold medal. The young said he was satisfied the threshold
:02:19. > :02:22.for custody was passed in this case. He sentenced Omar Qaradhi tost
:02:23. > :02:27.months imprisonment suspended for two years, he will be put on the sex
:02:28. > :02:30.offenders register for ten years and will have to give notice to the
:02:31. > :02:36.police if he wants to return to the UK in that time.
:02:37. > :02:39.Members of a loyalist flute band have been cleared of defying a ban
:02:40. > :02:43.on them marching past a Catholic Church in Belfast two years ago. The
:02:44. > :02:46.seventeen band members from the Young Conway Volunteers had been
:02:47. > :02:49.charged with failing to comply with a Parades Commission ruling, banning
:02:50. > :02:52.them from walking past St Patrick's in August 2012. A judge at Belfast
:02:53. > :02:55.Magistrates Court dismissed the case, saying it couldn't be proved
:02:56. > :03:06.that the band members knew about the determination.
:03:07. > :03:10.The High Court's been told that a man who was punched and stamped on
:03:11. > :03:13.more than a week ago is yet to regain consciousness. Conor Lewsley
:03:14. > :03:16.was allegedly hit 16 times during the attack on the Antrim Road in
:03:17. > :03:19.Belfast. 23-year-old Ben Cullinan from Glenville Park, Newtownabbey is
:03:20. > :03:32.charged with attempting to murder Mr Lewsley. He was refused bail at
:03:33. > :03:36.today's court hearing. Belfast City Council has been asked
:03:37. > :03:39.to refer the wearing of football tops and scarves by councillors in
:03:40. > :03:41.the chamber to the Equality Commission. Sinn Fein have written
:03:42. > :03:45.to the council's chief executive asking for the move after the DUP's
:03:46. > :03:48.Ruth Patterson wore a Linfield scarf at last night's monthly meeting. In
:03:49. > :03:51.a statement, the council said there was nothing in its standing orders
:03:52. > :03:55.about the dress code of councillors at meetings, but that council staff
:03:56. > :04:01.are not allowed to wear such clothing in the workplace.
:04:02. > :04:03.A Czech national has been refused bail on charges of controlling
:04:04. > :04:07.prostitution and concealing criminal property. Josef Elias, who is 51 and
:04:08. > :04:10.with an address in England, was arrested Belfast last November. It
:04:11. > :04:13.followed the discovery of two women in a townhouse in south Belfast. The
:04:14. > :04:17.landlord reported finding the women in the house to the police and that
:04:18. > :04:21.there were signs it had been used as a brothel.
:04:22. > :04:24.The Health Minister has been speaking to the Assembly after a
:04:25. > :04:27.police operation which investigated allegations that animals were being
:04:28. > :04:29.illegally slaughtered at a farm in South Armagh. Police officers and
:04:30. > :04:32.officials from several other agencies were involved in searches
:04:33. > :04:35.in yesterday. Newry and Mourne Council has said there is no
:04:36. > :04:39.evidence at this stage that meat from the farm had been placed on the
:04:40. > :04:51.market. Edwin Poots said it was important to let the investigation
:04:52. > :04:54.take its course. This is not a large-scale operation in the first
:04:55. > :04:59.instance, and we shouldn't be blowing this out of proportion, that
:05:00. > :05:03.this is something which is common practise, where ever there isn't
:05:04. > :05:10.evidence, that that is the case. We became aware of an activity that was
:05:11. > :05:16.a course of action taken yesterday, it is now in the public domain as it
:05:17. > :05:19.A newly discovered official document has revealed what officials here
:05:20. > :05:23.were worried about during the Cold War amid fears of a nuclear attack.
:05:24. > :05:37.Should be. As Andy West reports, it was a real bread and butter issue.
:05:38. > :05:42.1953 and the early paranoid days of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear
:05:43. > :05:45.attack seemed very real, and in Belfast preparations were made for
:05:46. > :05:53.surviving a nuclear bomb. One of the pry or to -- priorities
:05:54. > :05:56.might seem naive but this previously confidential document uncovered in
:05:57. > :06:02.the archive office of Northern Ireland proves that of all things a
:06:03. > :06:06.bread shortage was a very real concern We were all surprised there
:06:07. > :06:10.was such a focus on bread after an atomic blast. Again I think it
:06:11. > :06:15.highlights the naivety of the time, the paranoia of the times and the
:06:16. > :06:19.thought, I suppose the concept of duck and cover. Everything would be
:06:20. > :06:24.right after the event, and we would continue as normal.
:06:25. > :06:28.The file titled the emergency bread exercise, is a vision of
:06:29. > :06:35.destruction. Detailing a world where bakeries have been turned to rubble,
:06:36. > :06:38.destroying vital sup ploys. -- supplies. Life-and-death
:06:39. > :06:46.decisions would have been taken in places like this. A bunker near the
:06:47. > :06:48.Malone Road, it was built for elite Government officials to shelter
:06:49. > :06:53.during any nuclear war The problem was that bread in those days was
:06:54. > :06:57.distributed daily, by a series of bread cart, bread vans brought the
:06:58. > :07:05.bread to outer Belfast, inner Belfast. People relied on the bread
:07:06. > :07:08.server, so in many ways this shows a dark period where the Stormont
:07:09. > :07:13.Government were living with the ever present danger of nuclear war. The
:07:14. > :07:16.perof this file would seem to prove who matter what other criticisms
:07:17. > :07:21.could be levelled at their preparations for the unthinkable,
:07:22. > :07:29.officials weren't just concerned with protecting the upper crust.
:07:30. > :07:34.On BBC Newsline tomorrow we have another report in the series marking
:07:35. > :07:38.the sevenriry of the outbreak of the fur we are looking at some the
:07:39. > :07:43.lesser known stories linked to conflict. Tomorrow we find out how
:07:44. > :07:48.35,000 German rifles were landed in Laugharne but the Ulster Volunteer
:07:49. > :07:52.Force, who went to fight and die alongside the Irish volunteer force
:07:53. > :07:55.in the trenches. And some sports news just in,
:07:56. > :07:58.Linfield have beaten Crusaders in the County Antrim Shield at the
:07:59. > :08:01.Ballymena Showgrounds. The match was decided on penalties after it
:08:02. > :08:04.finished goaless after extra time. The win means David Jeffrey equals
:08:05. > :08:07.Roy Coyle's record for the most number of trophies won in Irish
:08:08. > :08:10.league history. And in tonight's other game, Glenavon beat
:08:11. > :08:18.Warrenpoint Town by two goals to one in the Danske Bank Premiership. T
:08:19. > :08:19.and die alongside the Irish volunteer force in the trenches.
:08:20. > :08:22.and die It is cold, but dry, clear spells
:08:23. > :08:26.will cloud over as we go through the night and any fog and mist will
:08:27. > :08:29.lift. Temperatures by morning sitting at two or three degrees. Now
:08:30. > :08:33.we have plenty of bright and sunny weather today. Not much on offer
:08:34. > :08:38.tomorrow. It is cloudier picture right through the day and it will be
:08:39. > :08:42.damp at time, the damp weather most likely in parts of the north and
:08:43. > :08:45.west at fist. The south-east bearing better but here there will be
:08:46. > :08:49.outbreaks of rain. The most of the rain tomorrow will be across western
:08:50. > :08:52.areas of Scotland, here we have a weather warning in force, 30
:08:53. > :08:56.millimetres in some place, maybe more over the higher groan, that
:08:57. > :09:01.will combine with melted snow, so there maybe some flooding. It will
:09:02. > :09:06.be a cloudy and damp picture in Ireland but for England and parts of
:09:07. > :09:11.Wales brightening up with sunshine. Temperatures getting up into the low
:09:12. > :09:14.teens. So if you are out and about in Northern Ireland, you will want
:09:15. > :09:17.to keep the umbrella handy just in case. We expect light rain and
:09:18. > :09:21.drizzle. Not all the time, there will be dry spells in between, but
:09:22. > :09:24.not much brighter weather or sunshine on offer. Despite the
:09:25. > :09:29.cloudy and damp condition, temperatures will still reach eight
:09:30. > :09:33.or nine degrees. Thursday may get off to a promising start. I won't
:09:34. > :09:36.stay that way through the day. We expect more rain again, especially
:09:37. > :09:40.towards the north and west. Temperatures still getting up to ten
:09:41. > :09:45.or 11 degree, not bad at all for the time of year. For the time being, it
:09:46. > :09:52.looks as though fried will be dry with showers in the forecast. That
:09:53. > :09:57.is it. Newsline is back at 6.25 in the morning, during Breakfast. From
:09:58. > :10:00.me, enjoy the rest of your night. Take care. :