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into the Russian speaking areas. Now on BBC One it is time for the news | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
where Good evening. A paralympic | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
power-lifter has been given a suspended sentence for sexually | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
assaulting two girls and a woman when he was in Antrim ahead of the | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
London Games. Omar Sami Qaradhi from Jordan had been training at a | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
leisure centre in the town in August 2012. His trial had been due to | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
start today but he changed his plea to guilty. David Maxwell has the | :00:24. | :00:35. | |
details. Omar Qaradhi is unlikely to return to Northern Ireland after | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
today. The power lifter came to Antrim in August 2012 to prepare for | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
the London Games. But he and two team-mates were sent back home after | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
they were arrested for sexual assaults. Charges against the two | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
others were later dropped. Only Omar Qaradhi had to return from Jordan to | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
face trial. Yesterday the 33-year-old pleaded not guilty | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
before a jury was sworn in, here at Antrim Crown Court. But today, | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
before any evidence was heard, his lawyer asked for the charges to be | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
read again via a translator he changed his plea to guilty, on all | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
charges. The jury was then dismissed and the judge heard the facts of the | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
case. The prosecution said that in two separate incidents in the Antrim | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
area Omar Qaradhi touched girls aged 14 after persuading them to have | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
their pictures taken with him A third incident he touched a | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
therapist during a physio sessions before passing sentence the judge | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
heard from his legal team. In his closing remark, the judge said he | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
had taken into account the detrimental impact of the assaults | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
on the victims, but he noted the offences were opportunistic and low | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
level. He also recognised the loss that Omar Qaradhi has suffered due | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
to his actions. The judge said he could not lose sight of the fact | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Omar Qaradhi had been welcomed to Antrim. Hospitality he he had | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
abused. He he said by his actions he brought distress to his victim, | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
shame to his fellow team-mates and denied Jordan the real possibility | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
of winning a gold medal. The young said he was satisfied the threshold | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
for custody was passed in this case. He sentenced Omar Qaradhi tost | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
months imprisonment suspended for two years, he will be put on the sex | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
offenders register for ten years and will have to give notice to the | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
police if he wants to return to the UK in that time. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Members of a loyalist flute band have been cleared of defying a ban | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
on them marching past a Catholic Church in Belfast two years ago. The | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
seventeen band members from the Young Conway Volunteers had been | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
charged with failing to comply with a Parades Commission ruling, banning | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
them from walking past St Patrick's in August 2012. A judge at Belfast | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Magistrates Court dismissed the case, saying it couldn't be proved | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
that the band members knew about the determination. | :02:56. | :03:06. | |
The High Court's been told that a man who was punched and stamped on | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
more than a week ago is yet to regain consciousness. Conor Lewsley | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
was allegedly hit 16 times during the attack on the Antrim Road in | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Belfast. 23-year-old Ben Cullinan from Glenville Park, Newtownabbey is | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
charged with attempting to murder Mr Lewsley. He was refused bail at | :03:20. | :03:32. | |
today's court hearing. Belfast City Council has been asked | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
to refer the wearing of football tops and scarves by councillors in | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
the chamber to the Equality Commission. Sinn Fein have written | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
to the council's chief executive asking for the move after the DUP's | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Ruth Patterson wore a Linfield scarf at last night's monthly meeting. In | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
a statement, the council said there was nothing in its standing orders | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
about the dress code of councillors at meetings, but that council staff | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
are not allowed to wear such clothing in the workplace. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
A Czech national has been refused bail on charges of controlling | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
prostitution and concealing criminal property. Josef Elias, who is 51 and | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
with an address in England, was arrested Belfast last November. It | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
followed the discovery of two women in a townhouse in south Belfast. The | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
landlord reported finding the women in the house to the police and that | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
there were signs it had been used as a brothel. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
The Health Minister has been speaking to the Assembly after a | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
police operation which investigated allegations that animals were being | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
illegally slaughtered at a farm in South Armagh. Police officers and | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
officials from several other agencies were involved in searches | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
in yesterday. Newry and Mourne Council has said there is no | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
evidence at this stage that meat from the farm had been placed on the | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
market. Edwin Poots said it was important to let the investigation | :04:40. | :04:51. | |
take its course. This is not a large-scale operation in the first | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
instance, and we shouldn't be blowing this out of proportion, that | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
this is something which is common practise, where ever there isn't | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
evidence, that that is the case. We became aware of an activity that was | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
a course of action taken yesterday, it is now in the public domain as it | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
A newly discovered official document has revealed what officials here | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
were worried about during the Cold War amid fears of a nuclear attack. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Should be. As Andy West reports, it was a real bread and butter issue. | :05:24. | :05:37. | |
1953 and the early paranoid days of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
attack seemed very real, and in Belfast preparations were made for | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
surviving a nuclear bomb. One of the pry or to -- priorities | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
might seem naive but this previously confidential document uncovered in | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
the archive office of Northern Ireland proves that of all things a | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
bread shortage was a very real concern We were all surprised there | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
was such a focus on bread after an atomic blast. Again I think it | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
highlights the naivety of the time, the paranoia of the times and the | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
thought, I suppose the concept of duck and cover. Everything would be | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
right after the event, and we would continue as normal. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
The file titled the emergency bread exercise, is a vision of | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
destruction. Detailing a world where bakeries have been turned to rubble, | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
destroying vital sup ploys. -- supplies. Life-and-death | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
decisions would have been taken in places like this. A bunker near the | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
Malone Road, it was built for elite Government officials to shelter | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
during any nuclear war The problem was that bread in those days was | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
distributed daily, by a series of bread cart, bread vans brought the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
bread to outer Belfast, inner Belfast. People relied on the bread | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
server, so in many ways this shows a dark period where the Stormont | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
Government were living with the ever present danger of nuclear war. The | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
perof this file would seem to prove who matter what other criticisms | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
could be levelled at their preparations for the unthinkable, | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
officials weren't just concerned with protecting the upper crust. | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
On BBC Newsline tomorrow we have another report in the series marking | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
the sevenriry of the outbreak of the fur we are looking at some the | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
lesser known stories linked to conflict. Tomorrow we find out how | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
35,000 German rifles were landed in Laugharne but the Ulster Volunteer | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Force, who went to fight and die alongside the Irish volunteer force | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
in the trenches. And some sports news just in, | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Linfield have beaten Crusaders in the County Antrim Shield at the | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
Ballymena Showgrounds. The match was decided on penalties after it | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
finished goaless after extra time. The win means David Jeffrey equals | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Roy Coyle's record for the most number of trophies won in Irish | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
league history. And in tonight's other game, Glenavon beat | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Warrenpoint Town by two goals to one in the Danske Bank Premiership. T | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
and die alongside the Irish volunteer force in the trenches. | :08:19. | :08:19. | |
and die It is cold, but dry, clear spells | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
will cloud over as we go through the night and any fog and mist will | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
lift. Temperatures by morning sitting at two or three degrees. Now | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
we have plenty of bright and sunny weather today. Not much on offer | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
tomorrow. It is cloudier picture right through the day and it will be | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
damp at time, the damp weather most likely in parts of the north and | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
west at fist. The south-east bearing better but here there will be | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
outbreaks of rain. The most of the rain tomorrow will be across western | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
areas of Scotland, here we have a weather warning in force, 30 | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
millimetres in some place, maybe more over the higher groan, that | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
will combine with melted snow, so there maybe some flooding. It will | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
be a cloudy and damp picture in Ireland but for England and parts of | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Wales brightening up with sunshine. Temperatures getting up into the low | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
teens. So if you are out and about in Northern Ireland, you will want | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
to keep the umbrella handy just in case. We expect light rain and | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
drizzle. Not all the time, there will be dry spells in between, but | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
not much brighter weather or sunshine on offer. Despite the | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
cloudy and damp condition, temperatures will still reach eight | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
or nine degrees. Thursday may get off to a promising start. I won't | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
stay that way through the day. We expect more rain again, especially | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
towards the north and west. Temperatures still getting up to ten | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
or 11 degree, not bad at all for the time of year. For the time being, it | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
looks as though fried will be dry with showers in the forecast. That | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
is it. Newsline is back at 6.25 in the morning, during Breakfast. From | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
me, enjoy the rest of your night. Take care. : | :09:58. | :10:00. |