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The First Minister Peter Robinson is facing criticism | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
after he defended the north Belfast Pastor who made controversial | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
A spokesman for the local Muslim community said Mr Robinson's remarks | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
The pastor delivering his controversial sermon ten days ago. | :00:20. | :00:42. | |
Peter Robinson has attended the church in the past and says he will | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
do so again. The First Minister defended the remarks of the pastor | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
on Islam and said that the pastor had not an ounce of hatred in his | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
bones. When you are preaching a sermon, you are not defining a legal | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
document where you enter all the conditions and qualifications, you | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
are taking a broad stroke at issues, and therefore you have to ask, what | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
do you not trust that those who follow Islam are doing? I would not | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
trust them in terms of those who have been involved in terrorist | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
activities, I don't trust them if they are fully devoted to Sharia | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
law, and would not trust them for spiritual guidance. What I'd trust | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
them to go down to the shops for me? Of course I would. I would trust | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
them with day to day activities. The comments provoked a strongly worded | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
response from the quality commission. When the First Minister | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
entered into the debate, we expected him to say that what the pastor said | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
about Muslims not being able to be trusted, that should have been | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
challenged, and when he did not, we were disappointed. His partner in | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
government, the deputy First Minister, called on Peter Robinson | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
to show leadership by promoting equality, tolerance and mutual | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
respect for all. Peter Robinson responded on Twitter, saying he | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
would not take lessons in tolerance from what he called a self-confessed | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
leader of a bloody terrorist organisation. Rather ironically, the | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
two men have officially welcomed the Turkish ambassador to Britain, who | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
was opening a new consulate in Belfast today. A diplomat from the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
country with an overwhelmingly Muslim population. Muslims here feel | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
badly let down by their First Minister. An unfortunate comment. He | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
is supposed to represent all the people of Northern Ireland, and we | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
feel as a Muslim community part of this country, so he is representing | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
us, and his comment definitely is not helpful. It really hurt and many | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
people have taken offence. The sermon continues to reverberate. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Tonight, the pastor arrived at the BBC studios in Belfast to take part | :03:06. | :03:06. | |
in a television programme. And there will be more | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
on that story on Good Morning Ulster tomorrow when the former | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Pakistani High Commissioner to The union that represents police | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
officers here has criticised the response of the PSNI's command team | :03:17. | :03:29. | |
to loyalist violence last summer. The Police Federation that | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
more should have been done Our Home Affairs Correspondent | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
Vincent Kearney reports. Police officers spent much of last | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
summer in the front line and in the firing line. The union that | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
represents today that their commanders should have done more to | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
protect them. 120 officers have been injured on duty. As a result, many | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
of the flag protests orchestrated... That is a shocking | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
statistic. Almost a quarter of a front-line officers injured. The | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
Police Federation has launched a formal complaint, claiming that | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
operational commanders failed in their duty of care to officers | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
assigned him to deal with violent street disorder. Those in command | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
who did their need to understand that the safety of officers is being | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
jeopardized while those same officers struggled to prevent | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
anarchy on our streets. He said that water bullets should have been | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
deployed sooner to the tech officers, but the Chief Constable | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
said that that could not have -- that could have made the situation | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
worse, and he said that police commanders did not do enough to | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
protect those in the front line. I am determined that we will do | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
everything we can for the safety of our colleagues. We have a strong | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
track record of doing that. We will make sure we explore every | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
possibility and eye will welcome the Health and Safety Executive here, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
because when Officer injured is one too many. Matt Baggett will soon | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
step down as Chief Constable. Terry Spence today spoke of the challenges | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
of replacing him. The task any Chief Constable will face is nothing short | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
of monumental. He or she will have to do mistreat streetwise awareness, | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
be able to resist undue political pressure, fight all corners of | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
resources, and to be able to make tough calls when it comes to tackle | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
-- tackling disorder. The successor will be chosen tomorrow, and three | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
candidates will be interviewed. He Chief Constable is regarded as one | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
of the most difficult jobs in UK policing. The identity of the next | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
person to hold up that position is expected to be known tomorrow | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
evening. A man has been stabbed in | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
East Belfast. The police say that he was attacked | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
around half past three this He has been taken to hospital | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
for treatment to his injuries. More than 100 jobs are to go | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
at Northern Ireland Electricity. Consultations are underway with | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
staff about voluntary redundancies. The company says it needs to cut | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
costs after it was prevented A Stormont Minister | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
in the mid 1960s believed that nuns in Londonderry were saving the state | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
money by caring for children The Historical Institutional Abuse | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
Inquiry was today shown letters between the government of the time | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
and the Sisters of Nazareth. Kevin Sharkey reports | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
from Banbridge. These are the final days of the | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
public hearings at the two homes run by the nuns, and this morning, the | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
inquiry was presented with historical correspondence between | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
the Sisters of Nazareth and state bodies. The letters that with an | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
application for a grant in the 1960s to carry out building improvements. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
They revealed that the government was seeking details before approving | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
funding. Central to the application at the time was the home affairs | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
minister. In his memo, written in 1964, he said, it could be safely | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
assumed that at voluntary homes where there is available, quite a | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
large number of children would have to be accommodated by the welfare | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
authorities at a much greater expense. He also said that the | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
standards felt well greater -- well below what his department expected. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
The inquiry is now hearing closing statements at the end of the public | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
hearings into the two former homes. This inquiry is dealing with events | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
in 1922. Today, the health and social... It was the 1980s before | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
sex abuse was identified in signposted. It was 1988 before | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
guidelines were published to residential homes. The Council for | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
the board also said that any attempt during that period to admit children | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
into state care would have been regarded as significant state | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
interference into the private lives of the families and arrangements | :08:15. | :08:15. | |
And now for a look ahead at the weather, here's Geoff Maskell. | :08:16. | :08:27. | |
We have a change in the weather overnight tonight. Rain is starting | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
to move its way in from the East Coast and we have some cloud | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
thickening things up overnight. That means it is going to be a reasonably | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
mild night. Tomorrow, a very different feel. Cloudy and drizzly | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
picture as we go through the day. The worst of the rain will clear out | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
of the way through the morning, but the result persists as we go through | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
the day, and that will have an impact on the temperatures. What is | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
driving that is this low pressure system as it sinks down through the | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
rest of the UK. We will get the weather Tron and that will have an | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
impact on the temperatures. What is driving that is this low pressure | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
system as it sinks down through the rest of the UK. We will get the | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
weather run -- rain across Wales. It could be warmer for London in the | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
South East. As we go into Thursday afternoon, it is a drizzly, murky | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
kind of afternoon. There will be a few brighter spells in there by the | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
time you get to Friday. Friday is going to be a much better day. Still | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
not a lot of sunshine around, but certainly a better day. By the time | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
we cast our eyes to the weekend, I think that today is going to be the | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
pick of the weekend. Not a lot in the way of brightness, but | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
certainly, the temperatures are on the up, so picking up once we head | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
towards this weekend. You can keep up to date with | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
News Online and follow this | :09:54. | :09:59. |