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Unionists walk out of talks after the Parades Commission bans | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
an Orange Order parade past Ardoyne on the 12th. | :00:21. | :00:32. | |
To go into discussions on the basis there will be no parade, that is not | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
the way forward. The new Chief Constable calls | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
for calm We'll be reporting from Stormont, | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Ardoyne and speaking live to Also coming up | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
on tonight's programme: A task force says | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
our housing market is dysfunctional Preserving the past | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
but looking to the future. Join me at the Ulster Folk | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
and Transport Museum And thankfully, | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
it's not raining yet here at the Ulster folk and Transport Museum but | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
there is wetter weather on the way. The political talks are over | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
and they'd hardly even started. Discussions about parades, flags | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
and the past began yesterday and were due to last six days but today, | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
the unionist parties walked out. The determination by the | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Parades Commission not to allow Orangemen past the Ardoyne shops | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
on the homeward leg Shane Harrison reports | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
on today's political fallout. Stormont this morning and day two at | :01:39. | :01:54. | |
the talks aimed at resolving differences. Inside a committee | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
room, the different delegations met to discuss the issues. But within 20 | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
minutes, the two main Unionist parties walked out after learning | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
that the parades commission had ruled the Orange parade could not go | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
past the Ardoyne shops. It's been a very difficult morning. The | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Commissioner set a very dangerous precedent, the most dangerous of | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
dangerous. He stated that violence pays. A lot of people feel hurt. The | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
Alliance leader and Justice Minister was very far from being impressed. I | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
am horrified and disgusted by the behaviour of the UPI Ulster | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Unionist. They talked about the importance of these talks to resolve | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
the outstanding commission -- outstanding issues and they have | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
walked out. In doing so, they have left us in further problems. The two | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
main parties both called for calm and for leadership. Being difficult | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
and angry will not help us in any shape or form and we want to see... | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
Make sure the next two weeks pass off peacefully in a way that doesn't | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
damage a city and community. Let's face the reality. But if everybody | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
within society who want the peace process to succeed comes together | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
and makes it clear that violence can have no part whatsoever in how we go | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
forward, that would be a good start. The two main Unionist parties | :03:49. | :03:58. | |
at Stormont say they want to see a peaceful and lawful reaction to the | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
parades commission ruling but the First Minister had this to say about | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
the future of devolution. Institutions have been put under | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
threat by the behaviour of the parades commission and those who | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
threaten it. It is up to us to seek a peaceful response and we trust the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
people will recognise the importance of having respect and tolerance for | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
the expression of our tradition and that violence will no longer be | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
allowed to be the determining factor when decisions are taken. The | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
parties have said there will be a graduated response to the rulings. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Tomorrow's meeting in Dublin has now been | :04:40. | :04:40. | |
The Parades Commission ruling that the Ligoneil Lodges are not allowed | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
back up the Crumlin Road on the 12th of July has enraged | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
It's also raised tensions in the interface area around Ardoyne shops. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
The lodges are allowed down the road on the 12th morning but once again, | :04:54. | :05:08. | |
they are not allowed to parade back up this stretch of road in the | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
evening. Last year, protests led to loyalist violence. However, in | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
evening. Last year, protests led to previous years, there were violent | :05:21. | :05:36. | |
evening. Last year, protests led to democratic system and I think it | :05:37. | :05:36. | |
will affect how the institution democratic system and I think it | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
system. The commission said there had been significant progress from | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
the Orange order on its approach to this particular parade. However, it | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
also said some had called for protest resulting in violence and | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
that had undermined the progress that was made. I am dismayed. I | :06:01. | :06:12. | |
can't see how democratic parades can take the threat of extremists | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
can't see how democratic parades can democracy. It just shows the threat | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
of violence wins over democracy. The whole community is disgusted and | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
saddened. The previous commission named the route map. Unfortunately, | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
the Orange didn't engage in any sustained a consistent way. | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
Communities and groups have decisions make. I need to be clear. | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
We will uphold the rule of law and the parades commission | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
determination. The parades commission took the view that the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
potential for public disorder outweighed the significance of the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
12 parade being allowed back up the road. Today's rolling boil increased | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
tensions once again in an already volatile interface area. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
So should we be surprised that the DUP and Ulster Unionists walked | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
out of the talks over the issue of the Ardoyne parade? | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
Perhaps not, given a number of joint statements in recent days | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
indicating a growing frustration and solidarity across the unionist | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
While the political parties were in storm on discussing flags, parading | :07:25. | :07:38. | |
and the past, it seems it was a storm on discussing flags, parading | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
march in north Belfast that was at the front of their minds. As soon as | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
the ruling came in, the parties released a statement, making it | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
clear this was an issue they would be discussing in recent weeks. The | :07:52. | :08:04. | |
statement came from that D U P, the UUP, the TUV, the PU P and the UPI | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
grams. The joint statement says, we have found ourselves together to | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
defend our community and culture. As things now stand, it seems the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Unionists are not talking to nationalists and republicans, just | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
to each other, but what has brought them together? Peter Robinson, for | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
the first time in a number of years, no longer speaks for the | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
majority. They do have the PU P who did well, and Robinson clearly feels | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
he is not strong enough to do this by himself, so they have brought | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
everyone into the tent. The Assembly is in recess. Political talks appear | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
to be over and there appears to be no further Unionist contact so it is | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
hard to say what will change and there is barely more than a week | :09:07. | :09:07. | |
until the 12th of July parades. With me now is the North Belfast MP, | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Nigel Dodds. You have called for a peaceful and | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
lawful response but that is easier said than done. You were injured | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
trying to appeal for calm. We are in a very serious and difficult | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
situation and that is why all the Unionist parties have come together | :09:33. | :09:44. | |
to issue a call for calm. We need to channel the rightful anger and | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
frustration of people against this ludicrous decision. We are trying to | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
send a message out to people very strongly: Yes, the commission has | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
rewarded violence, it has trampled the rights of Unionist people down | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
in the face of violence but we want to respond to that in a strong way | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
through political response, protest, action at every level, but to do so | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
in a peaceful, democratic way. You pull out of talks which surely would | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
have been the democratic future of trying to find a resolution. It's | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
very difficult to engage in talks with people who have talked about | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
catastrophic consequences if the Orange are allowed to return home. | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
Parties in the Nationalist camp have talked about catastrophic | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
consequences, people threatening to bring people out on the street. The | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
parades commission itself decided that the threat of disorder and | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
violence trumped everything else. It's very difficult to see a | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
positive way forward. Out on the streets, in relation to this | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
parade, there is no respect for Orange culture with the Unionist | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
tradition. Some people might be surprised that the statement | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
includes these parties. Police have talked about them still being | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
involved in a wide range of criminal activity, blamed for serious rioting | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
and an ongoing operation told today by the new chief constable to tackle | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
UVF crime in east Belfast and yet you are aligning yourself with all | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
of those parties linked. They have a mandates and Sinn Fein... I would be | :11:43. | :11:55. | |
looking forward to be -- to the BBC putting forward their activities. | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
Are those going to be protests right across Northern Ireland? What we | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
would do is come together as a Unionist community and family. That | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
is what we're doing in to prevent violence. We would urge everybody to | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
remain calm, follow through a plan of action which will involve | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
peaceful protests, Unionist leaders and parties of all persuasions | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
coming together. That response will roll-out. As a first step, we will | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
not engage with people about parades, flags and the past who are | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
not sincere, hypocritical and hiding behind the threat of violence. Is | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
this political leadership? It is. The tension and trouble on the | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
streets have been caused by the parades commission, which is | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
rewarding violence. Two years ago, shots were fired. If you let me | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
finish for a minute and don't enter me, please. The parades commission | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
have rewarded violence. Two years ago, dissident republicans came out | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
and shot the police. They are stoking up tension. Instead of | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
rewarding engagement and good behaviour, they are rewarding bad | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
behaviour. Don't in our community respond like that. Respond in a | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
political way. That is the graduated response we are talking about. Is | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
this a sign of things to come in terms of elections in the future? I | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
am glad to see the United Unionist approach on this issue. On serious | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
issues, when we are confronted with the threat of violence and a lack of | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
respect to our traditions, it is incumbent on leaders to come | :14:04. | :14:04. | |
together and welcome it. Those are | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
the political developments today. Let's get some analysis now | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
from our political correspondent, No Unionist set talks. Was this a | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
surprise? Not at all. was half expecting this to happen. | :14:12. | :14:34. | |
In some ways, it was very easy to walk out of those talks. They won't | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
being facilitated by the former US diplomat. There was low risk pulling | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
out of them. I don't think unionism is in any mood to compromise. UKIP, | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
when their boat was added in, the total was 100,000. One do you | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
when their boat was added in, the believe source said that was the | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
votes they should have got. We are trying to get | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
votes they should have got. We are about this response. What is your | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
reading of it? They are not telling us everything but we heard tonight | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
we have talk of protests, we have this walk-out, we heard Peter | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
Robinson didn't rule out pulling out when he was asked. It is something | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
he has threatened before. He did that a few months ago. The executive | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
is already in crisis over welfare reform and the budget and there are | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
whispers, looking ahead, that unionism is very nervous about | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
2016. Then like men scenario is Martin McGuinness becoming First | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
Minister. It's a strategy which may backfire very badly. | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
And there'll be more on this story on The View tonight here on BBC One | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
Join me at the Ulster folk and transport Museum where I speak to | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
some of the people who bring this place to life. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Our housing market remains dysfunctional | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
and poses a risk to economic recovery, a report has concluded. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
The taskforce, backed by Stormont, was appointed by the Social | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
Development Minister to look at the impacts of the housing crash. | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Our economics and business editor, John Campbell, reports. | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
This is one of hundreds of people who faces losing his home this | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
year. His wife became ill and couldn't work. They fell behind on | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
payments. He told me what to do. I thought I could still get a deal. I | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
got it down to 1089 over the phone and we couldn't afford that. We | :17:07. | :17:16. | |
cancelled the mortgage. Last year, 3700 repossession cases started at | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
the High Court, almost exactly the same number as in 2008. It | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
illustrates just how long the crash has been hitting our economy. And | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
the task force worn it is not over yet. It found the rate of | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
repossessions would have been higher if banks had taken a harder line on | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
fears more people could be pushed over the edge when interest rates | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
rise. Clifford Smiley has a different problem. He is deep in | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
negative equity. His house is worth less than his mortgage. 70,000 | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
households could be the same position but Clifford too worried. | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
It does annoy you that you bought it at that high price and is worth | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
probably half what you bought it for but as I said, I bought it as a home | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
and I didn't buy it to make any quick money. But negative equity has | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
wider effects. Because you can't delete your mortgage by selling your | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
house, you can't move, reducing the number of transactions and the task | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
force says that means our housing market is dysfunctional. Some parts | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
of the market are walking OK. This development is attracting plenty of | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
first-time buyers but the task force says that in general terms, the | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
problems and has identified pose risks to economic recovery. Now they | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
are starting more work to see what can be done about it. | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
It's likely you've visited it at least once | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
The Ulster Folk and Transport is celebrating its 50th birthday. | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
The Transport area houses one of the best rail galleries in Europe but | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
it's the folk museum part of the site that's marking its half century | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
and Donna is there for us this evening in the specially built town. | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
You won't find it on a road map but it's at the heart of the folk museum | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
which, for the past five decades, has taken us as far back as 100 | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
years ago when our ancestors? daily lives were a lot different, a time | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
when there were no mobile phones, no computers, | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
This place preserves the architectural part of | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
our history and educates us about traditional skills and crafts. | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
Earlier, I took a walk around to speak to some of the | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
The first one is in the Drapery Shop, which is just down there. | :19:36. | :19:54. | |
You are the woman behind all the fantastic costumes that the visitor | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
guides were and many of the costumes are here, how important is it that | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
they are authentic? Very important. The importance has to be on the | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
authenticity of the costume. Competitor -- compared to today, the | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
costumes are heavier and more restrictive. It's very modest as | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
well, always up to the neck, arms covered. New visitor guides would | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
find it different. There is no lycra or stretchy fabric, so it is a | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
little bit different. You are here at the discovery farm. What a fine | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
looking specimen you have here! How important was the pig in the days of | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
farming 100 years ago? Very important. One of the pigs would | :20:49. | :20:58. | |
have gone off the slaughter, one would have stayed on the farm for | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
meat. You will see an awful lot of equipment and carts around the | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
place. That is where I am going to do next. If I can interrupt you, as | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
well as refurbishing, you are making an awful lot here. Describe what you | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
create. This is 19th-century blacksmithing. These are the | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
bellows, the fire. We are making farming implements. All the types of | :21:33. | :21:42. | |
things that farmers would have made. We are working with the construction | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
industry training board in Belfast. We are not only working in the past, | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
we are working in the future as well. Just a flavour of some of the | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
things you can see when you walk around the folk Museum here today. | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
With me now is Dr Jim McGreevy, director of Collections | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
and Interpretation, National Museums, Northern Ireland. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
When you look towards the future, what do you see? What I would want | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
to see is respect and continuation of the legacy that our predecessors | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
left us, a very rich cultural legacy, a legacy that creates so | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
many opportunities and contributions to tourism. Obviously, we operate | :22:39. | :22:48. | |
within a very tight financially challenged situation and given that, | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
I would imagine that we are looking more towards enrichment of what we | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
have already developed as opposed to major expansion. Do you mean more | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
shops, cottages? Not necessarily. We have already developed quite a broad | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
representation of types of buildings have already developed quite a broad | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
trades, crafts and so on. I am have already developed quite a broad | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
thinking more of developing opportunities that those provided. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
One thing we fill very strongly about is putting people at the | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
centre, and from that point of view, one of the major step changes we | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
would like to see is improving our facilities and developing | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
would like to see is improving our visitor centre. No one is here at | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
the moment. But I saw plenty of visitors today. Over the past 50 | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
years, has that profile of the visitor changed? It has. We have a | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
very strong local visitor base. We also have a lot of interest from the | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Republic of Ireland and further afield. As many attractions have | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
seen in recent years, we have benefited from the piece, but also, | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
are offering is much richer. The programmes we are building are | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
are offering is much richer. The richer and more diverse. Come back | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
to us, where Angie will have the weather forecast. I wonder what the | :24:31. | :24:31. | |
weather was like 50 years ago today? Disgraceful, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
disgusting and embarrassing. Just some of the reaction | :24:36. | :24:36. | |
Garth Brooks fans have been giving us after news that two | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
of his upcoming Croke Park concerts Dublin City Council has given | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
permission for the first three shows to go ahead but not those on Monday, | :24:43. | :24:59. | |
July 28th and Tuesday 29th. It said the level of disruption to | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
residents would be unacceptable. Aiken Promotions, who are organising | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
the concerts, said it's "very They say a further announcement | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
on the two shows is expected There's been | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
a heated reaction to the news on Be sure to leave us your comments | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
if you've been affected. Back to Cultra now and to Angie for | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
the weekend weather forecast. Not an awful lot of sunshine. But it | :25:30. | :25:51. | |
has been quite warm today. 21 degrees in sheltered parts of South | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
down. I have also had a look back to this day 50 years ago. Not too | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
dissimilar. Similar temperatures. It was dry, maybe a bit more sunshine, | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
though. That brings us on to the satellite picture. You can clearly | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
see the cloud. It brought a few spots of rain in places. But that | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
will fizzle away, so for most of us, a dry evening. But then things start | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
to change. The wind will pick up from the south, the cloud will | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
thicken up to bring spells of rain. But it will not be a cold night. | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
Quite a muggy and warm night. Into tomorrow, eventually, some places | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
will see an improvement, but for many of us, not a grey day. Through | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
the morning rush hour, some places will get heavy and persistent spells | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
of rain. It will not be too pleasant. Once that rain sets in, it | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
looks as though it could well linger across parts of the East. But drier | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
weather will follow in from the West and even a hint of something | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
brighter. Temperatures tomorrow around 16 or 17 degrees. With that | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
weather front, we're not out of the woods. Low-pressure moves in so | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
still unsettled. If you get those showers, you will know about it. | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
Some will be heavy and fun to read. | :27:35. | :27:37. |