:00:00. > 3:59:59That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me and on
:00:00. > :00:20.Victims say they were left in the dark over failure to agree on legacy
:00:21. > :00:38.We think we have been left behind completely. It is shocking.
:00:39. > :00:40.A Shankill pensioner asks why she is being repeatedly targeted
:00:41. > :00:43.Ulster University scientists have made a major breakthrough
:00:44. > :00:48.AP McCoy talks about life after racing at the premiere
:00:49. > :00:54.In just over an hour, Ulster Rugby will kick-off
:00:55. > :00:57.their European Cup campaign against the best team in English rugby.
:00:58. > :01:00.It's a wintry start to the weekend with gales for some
:01:01. > :01:12.and icy conditions developing in places, as well.
:01:13. > :01:14.The First Minister says key documents on the legacy
:01:15. > :01:17.of the Troubles which were part of the inter-party talks should be
:01:18. > :01:22.Victims and survivors have called on politicians to apologise
:01:23. > :01:30.for not including legacy issues in the 'Fresh Start' agreement.
:01:31. > :01:33.Some victims told the BBC today that right up to the last minute
:01:34. > :01:36.they were led to believe something was going to happen, but they were
:01:37. > :01:42.Here's our political correspondent Chris Page.
:01:43. > :01:43.The Troubles left a legacy of misery.
:01:44. > :01:48.More than 3,500 people died and many more suffered dreadful injuries.
:01:49. > :01:53.At the recent inter-party talks, there were discussions
:01:54. > :01:57.on legislation to set up agencies which would examine the past.
:01:58. > :02:02.But politicians didn't reach agreement on that issue.
:02:03. > :02:09.That's not what members of the Victims' Forum expected.
:02:10. > :02:18.It was a mixture of anger and disappointment. Because right up
:02:19. > :02:25.until the very last minute we thought it was going to be a full
:02:26. > :02:30.paper that came out. To think that we have just been left behind and
:02:31. > :02:35.dismissed completely is shocking. We were led right to the water's edge,
:02:36. > :02:40.so to speak. We were getting ready to discuss the finer detail of what
:02:41. > :02:45.we thought was going to be draft legislation on the main issues.
:02:46. > :02:49.Then, out of the blue, we were told it was all off.
:02:50. > :02:54.They want an apology from those who signed the agreement.
:02:55. > :03:01.I feel everybody has let them down. In some centre doesn't matter if one
:03:02. > :03:06.party or another is more to blame for this. At the end of the day,
:03:07. > :03:09.both governments and the parties need to support this. We need to
:03:10. > :03:13.The DUP, Sinn Fein, and the British and Irish Governments are backing
:03:14. > :03:15.the deal, which resolved issues around paramilitary activity
:03:16. > :03:19.The First Minister thinks the key talks documents relating to
:03:20. > :03:24.the legacy of the Troubles should be made public.
:03:25. > :03:31.The victim set should have the opportunity to see what the problem
:03:32. > :03:35.is where. I think it is a lack of respect to the vet them is that they
:03:36. > :03:40.are not given that information. Let's give them all of the
:03:41. > :03:50.information about what the situation is. Sinn Fein blamed the British
:03:51. > :03:56.government. The problem is this term national security, which is being
:03:57. > :03:59.used as a veto. The government has defended its negotiating position.
:04:00. > :04:03.We want families to have as much information as possible that there
:04:04. > :04:07.is a certain amount of sensitive information which it was publicly
:04:08. > :04:12.known would potentially give assistance to terrorists. We simply
:04:13. > :04:16.could not compromise on that. The Secretary of State is planning to
:04:17. > :04:19.meet with thick them soon to discuss their concerns. The recent
:04:20. > :04:23.negotiations have shown once again that there is no issue more
:04:24. > :04:33.contentious or complex than how to deal with the past. Three men have
:04:34. > :04:39.escaped injury in a shooting in west Belfast. They were sitting in a van
:04:40. > :04:44.when a masked man opened fire at around 4:15 p.m.. The police are
:04:45. > :04:48.An 88-year-old woman has been left badly shaken after being attacked
:04:49. > :04:50.by three men who also ransacked her home.
:04:51. > :04:53.They pulled the telephone out of the wall so she couldn't phone for help.
:04:54. > :04:56.This isn't the first time we have reported on this Belfast
:04:57. > :05:09.after two men had broken into her home off the Shankill,
:05:10. > :05:12.Today, community worker Ian McLaughlin told me it's
:05:13. > :05:19.This time, just before 7.00pm, allegedly three men entered her
:05:20. > :05:25.She was slapped around the face several times and I think that
:05:26. > :05:28.when she fell she either squealed or screamed very loudly, which perhaps
:05:29. > :05:31.upset these people and they left the house with her purse and her
:05:32. > :05:38.But these aren't the only times Josie Hamilton has
:05:39. > :05:43.She was once robbed while walking along this stretch
:05:44. > :05:50.A man even came to her door claiming he was returning money that had been
:05:51. > :05:53.stolen from her, but she was robbed again.
:05:54. > :05:56.In fact, her neighbour believes she has been robbed around five times
:05:57. > :06:02.Her neighbour Marie didn't want to appear on camera.
:06:03. > :06:04.She helped Josie in the moments after the robbery and
:06:05. > :06:12.What kind of a state is she in today, Marie?
:06:13. > :06:20.She's just crying and she's just sitting staring you know - she's
:06:21. > :06:29.just saying why are they doing that to me? Why is this happening to me
:06:30. > :06:32.I don't know these people - any money i've had I saved - and she
:06:33. > :06:36.says I worked hard for my money when she was younger much younger -
:06:37. > :06:43.and anything that she has she saves for her daughter,
:06:44. > :06:45.her grandchildren, her great grandchildren, her funeral.
:06:46. > :06:48.Despite what has happened - Josie told her neighbour that she
:06:49. > :06:53.A senior judge has appealed for an end to a dispute between
:06:54. > :06:56.defence lawyers and the Department of Justice over legal aid fees.
:06:57. > :06:59.The row has led to delays in more than 500 court cases,
:07:00. > :07:01.involving charges ranging from murder to drink driving.
:07:02. > :07:09.Our Home Affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney reports.
:07:10. > :07:16.New barristers at the start of the new legal year. For months now, many
:07:17. > :07:18.of their senior colleagues and solicitors had been refusing to work
:07:19. > :07:26.as defence lawyers on solicitors had been refusing to work
:07:27. > :07:31.bid to have new legal aid rules which resulted in lower fees being
:07:32. > :07:36.declared unlawful, but the judge said the new rules do not provide
:07:37. > :07:40.fare pay the defence solicitors in some criminal cases. He also urged
:07:41. > :07:45.the Department of Justice to speedily rectified the situation.
:07:46. > :07:48.One of Northern Ireland's pussy nude judges, Lord Justice Wear, today
:07:49. > :07:53.entered the fray. He said the dispute meant defendants charged
:07:54. > :07:59.with what are often serious offences are unable to access the expert
:08:00. > :08:03.legal advice they require and are, quite understandably, reluctant to
:08:04. > :08:08.proceed without that advice. He said the dispute has resulted in a
:08:09. > :08:11.significant and growing backlog. It has been revealed there is now a
:08:12. > :08:18.backlog of just over 530 criminal cases involving nearly 630
:08:19. > :08:22.defendants. Speaking to barristers and solicitors during the review
:08:23. > :08:27.court hearing to assess process and serious criminal cases, Lord Justice
:08:28. > :08:30.Wear said defendants were increasingly concerned that the
:08:31. > :08:35.delay. He said judges did not want to become involved in the dispute
:08:36. > :08:40.but could see clearly the increasing adverse effect that was happening.
:08:41. > :08:43.Lord Justice Wear said it wasn't everyone's interests for everyone
:08:44. > :08:46.involved to do their very best to bring the matter during conclusion.
:08:47. > :08:48.27 people have been arrested during an anti-crime operation
:08:49. > :08:52.Six of the arrests were for drugs offences
:08:53. > :08:57.20 properties were searched during the operation,
:08:58. > :09:11.which happened yesterday, and there were 143 stop and searches.
:09:12. > :09:24.Still to come. The berry singer songwriter Soak is up for the
:09:25. > :09:30.Mercury Prize award tonight. -- the dairy singer.
:09:31. > :09:33.A new discovery by scientists at the Ulster University is being
:09:34. > :09:36.hailed as a global breakthrough in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
:09:37. > :09:39.It's one of the most serious forms of cancer and only 4% of those
:09:40. > :09:43.This new treatment makes use of bubbles and sound waves to
:09:44. > :09:59.This is the front line of the battle against pancreatic cancer. Despite
:10:00. > :10:05.much scientific research, low survival rates have not improved in
:10:06. > :10:10.for decades. It is ethical to detect early and difficult to treat. The
:10:11. > :10:16.satisfactorily as a pancreatic surgeon is that quite often we are
:10:17. > :10:22.only able to carry out surgery to take the cancer away completely in
:10:23. > :10:27.about 20% up to 25% of those who have surgery. Scientists here
:10:28. > :10:33.believe they have had a breakthrough, targeting the tumour
:10:34. > :10:37.is key. Traditional therapies like radiotherapy or chemotherapy
:10:38. > :10:42.sometimes destroy good tissue, but this therapy uses Bubbles hundreds
:10:43. > :10:46.of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair to tackle the
:10:47. > :10:50.cancer. The bubbles are alluded to the core with oxygen and to the
:10:51. > :10:54.outside of the bubble we attach a non-active drug. We can focus the
:10:55. > :11:00.ultrasound at the pancreatic tumour, burst the bubble at the site,
:11:01. > :11:03.release the oxygen and activate the drug dealing to the tumour reduction
:11:04. > :11:08.effect. Scientists believe that reduction could be five times more
:11:09. > :11:12.effective than current therapies. This treatment is not available yet
:11:13. > :11:14.but it is hoped it will be soon. The first trials are a Jew to take place
:11:15. > :11:31.in 2017. -- are due to take place. A pair of otters have been spotted
:11:32. > :11:34.playing in the shadows recently, that is coming up.
:11:35. > :11:36.One of the most prestigious music awards
:11:37. > :11:39.is up for grabs tonight and in the running is Soak, the 19-year-old
:11:40. > :11:42.She's on the shortlist for the Mercury Prize,
:11:43. > :11:46.which is awarded to the best British or Irish album by an independent
:11:47. > :12:00.This report from our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish.
:12:01. > :12:03.Bridie Monds-Watson, or Soak as she's known on stage, has had a
:12:04. > :12:08.She left a local band to become a solo artist
:12:09. > :12:24."Before We Forgot How To dream" released this summer that's had the
:12:25. > :12:43.All my songs are about things that I have experienced. When every GUI on
:12:44. > :12:48.stage it is like the songs that you wrote alone you're sharing with
:12:49. > :12:52.people and that leads to very vulnerable. It is nice that I am
:12:53. > :13:00.able to share that the motion with other people and get something out
:13:01. > :13:07.Undertones member and BBC Producer Michael Bradley
:13:08. > :13:09.remembers a talented unassuming 15-year-old performing at
:13:10. > :13:25.Nye days there are so many singers I'd hair, and so many great singers
:13:26. > :13:39.and good musicians, that the rise above all that is a serious feat for
:13:40. > :13:44.somebody so young. Soak's short listing for this music award is a
:13:45. > :13:49.long way from the humble beginnings here along the banks of the River
:13:50. > :13:54.Foyle were she played the small, intimate venues. Her family say they
:13:55. > :13:58.are thrilled and delighted with the progress and the music critics say
:13:59. > :14:03.she is a talented treasure. No one here disagrees with that. The best
:14:04. > :14:07.It's not that often you get to spot one of our rare protected species,
:14:08. > :14:10.so you can imagine the delight of two countryside rangers
:14:11. > :14:12.when a couple of otters trotted up to within
:14:13. > :14:15.a couple of feet of them and spent an hour snuffling around nearby.
:14:16. > :14:19.Our Agriculture and Environment correspondent Conor Macauley
:14:20. > :14:26.They are building a wildlife hides inside the shores of Strangford
:14:27. > :14:31.Lough. It is an area rich in birds and mammals life which is managed by
:14:32. > :14:33.The National Trust. Two of its countryside Rangers were doing some
:14:34. > :14:43.work along the shore when a within a few feet of them. They sat
:14:44. > :14:45.still hands for about 60 minutes watched as the two young otters, one
:14:46. > :14:51.male and one female, watched as the two young otters, one
:14:52. > :14:52.the mud flats right in front of them. Otters need to
:14:53. > :14:57.the mud flats right in front of their body weight every day. They
:14:58. > :15:01.would have been scavenging the shore looking for anything they
:15:02. > :15:02.would have been scavenging the shore find. Hunger would have driven them
:15:03. > :15:10.to ignore the humans. They came very close to
:15:11. > :15:15.to ignore the humans. They came very not mind
:15:16. > :15:23.to ignore the humans. They came very I have never personally had a
:15:24. > :15:26.to ignore the humans. They came very to see a wild otter light. This was
:15:27. > :15:31.something very inspiring. Otters were almost wiped out by pollution
:15:32. > :15:34.here back in the 1970s. A combination of water quality and
:15:35. > :15:37.conservation work and they are on their way back.
:15:38. > :15:45.Here's Thomas Niblock. and the Ulster rugby team's European
:15:46. > :15:47.It's 176 days until the European Champions Cup final and
:15:48. > :15:50.if Ulster have any ambition in making it to the final, then,
:15:51. > :15:53.realistically, they have to beat Saracens at home tonight.
:15:54. > :15:56.The bad news is that Saracens are top of the English Premiership
:15:57. > :15:59.The good news, however, is that Irish international Iain Henderson
:16:00. > :16:18.Stepping in just in time for the start of Ulster's European campaign.
:16:19. > :16:21.The Irish international will make his 50th Ulster appearance against
:16:22. > :16:27.the English champions, opponents Ulster in the all too well. They are
:16:28. > :16:31.always tough, whether we play over their order over here, they always
:16:32. > :16:41.give us a good crack. They are well organised team and what they once.
:16:42. > :16:42.They are well led by Owen Farrell at number ten. Leading from
:16:43. > :16:46.They are well led by Owen Farrell at is Rory Best, who has
:16:47. > :16:49.They are well led by Owen Farrell at winning side just once after losing
:16:50. > :16:54.five of their last six meetings against Mark McCall's side. They
:16:55. > :17:01.have been here the last couple of years and managed to win. For us, it
:17:02. > :17:03.is all about making sure that we are prepared because you need to be at
:17:04. > :17:08.the top of your game every prepared because you need to be at
:17:09. > :17:10.seen in the past, if you lose a couple of games early on, there is
:17:11. > :17:14.massive pressure couple of games early on, there is
:17:15. > :17:17.afford any slip-ups. Neither team can take their eye off the ball at
:17:18. > :17:21.the Kingspan Stadium tonight. There will be live coverage of
:17:22. > :17:24.Ulster against Saracens on BBC Radio Croke Park in Dublin is the venue
:17:25. > :17:29.for this year's International Rules Two years ago, a weak Australian
:17:30. > :17:32.side were humiliated, beaten by 79 points, but the
:17:33. > :17:35.tourists have arrived determined to make up for the 2013 embarrassment
:17:36. > :17:49.with their strongest side ever. It is the best of the best. We
:17:50. > :17:57.should the seriousness of it last year. We came to play last year. We
:17:58. > :18:02.have been encamped for two weeks and the boys are very serious thinking
:18:03. > :18:09.to do the same thing. The Irish boys, they are the same. We are a
:18:10. > :18:14.proud nation. All the sports teams, they carry that pride on their
:18:15. > :18:17.chest. They were hurt, they were disappointed by what happened, but
:18:18. > :18:24.today is a new day and a new challenge for us. The bigger the
:18:25. > :18:25.challenge they bring, the more we have to match that.
:18:26. > :18:28.There will be live coverage on BBC Radio Ulster MW and online
:18:29. > :18:30.of Ireland against Australia tomorrow evening.
:18:31. > :18:34.Now, the curtain will come down on the international road racing
:18:35. > :18:37.season when the Macau Grand Prix gets underway in the Far East.
:18:38. > :18:39.Northern Ireland's Lee Johnston will start on the third row of the grid.
:18:40. > :18:51.The Macau Grand Prix is regarded as the most challenging motor cycle
:18:52. > :18:58.race in the world. Our unique street circuit where the top row grifters
:18:59. > :19:05.will battle it out tomorrow. I will be trying as hard as I did at the
:19:06. > :19:13.north-west, the TT just the rest. Everybody will drive hard. I am
:19:14. > :19:16.looking forward to it. There is no reason why we can't do well here. As
:19:17. > :19:20.Lee Johnston did at the reason why we can't do well here. As
:19:21. > :19:24.Prix when he won a hat-trick earlier this year, but he is determined to
:19:25. > :19:30.secure more international success. It is massive, especially at this
:19:31. > :19:36.side of the world. It is nice to win races at home, obviously, but this
:19:37. > :19:39.opens up a whole other shop window. If you look at the list of names,
:19:40. > :19:45.the people that have won it from Grand Prix riders and everything, so
:19:46. > :19:50.would definitely be nice. If he is to win, Johnson will have to be
:19:51. > :19:55.Martin Jessop, who is in pole position. Just two riders from
:19:56. > :20:01.Northern Ireland have won this Grand Prix, Robert Dunlop and Philip
:20:02. > :20:04.McCallum, almost 20 years ago. Now Lee Johnston from County Fermanagh
:20:05. > :20:06.has the chance to write his name into the record books.
:20:07. > :20:11.Last night saw the premiere in Dublin of a new documentary
:20:12. > :20:14.movie about this man, AP McCoy, and his final two years as a jockey.
:20:15. > :20:17.Being AP follows the 20-time champion jockey as he battles back
:20:18. > :20:19.from injury and then arrives at the difficult decision to retire.
:20:20. > :20:23.McCoy has spoken to Mark Sidebottom, who asked what he made of life
:20:24. > :20:30.on the red carpet compared to that in the saddle.
:20:31. > :20:38.I would much rather be riding, all right. The film was something I was
:20:39. > :20:41.Asta Diakite years ago and they nearly did it because of Archie, my
:20:42. > :20:46.little boy, because he never remembered me riding. I did not
:20:47. > :20:59.think we would ever get to see it in a cinema, but there you go! He has
:21:00. > :21:04.taken 18 championship jockey titles, AP McCoy. Does this get to the
:21:05. > :21:10.essence of AP McCoy? They were with me for the best part of two years, I
:21:11. > :21:18.think. Nearly 200 hours of filming. They spent a lot of time in my home,
:21:19. > :21:20.in my life, in my car, so they did not have great material to work
:21:21. > :21:26.with, but I think the did the best they could with that. I am still
:21:27. > :21:31.unsure, what drives you more, the fear of losing or the drug of
:21:32. > :21:35.winning? I don't know. I have been asked a lot of times. I used to
:21:36. > :21:40.think when I went home at night after having a good day, if I had
:21:41. > :21:45.had four or five winners, I used to go to bed thinking I was really
:21:46. > :21:50.happy, but by the time a get to sleep I was worried that may happen
:21:51. > :21:57.again. There was a fear. Maybe it was the fear. How comfortable are
:21:58. > :22:00.you with your own celebrity? I get the impression that for you it has
:22:01. > :22:09.always been about success and not about fame. All I ever wanted to do
:22:10. > :22:13.was ride horses. When I was lucky to do that all they ever wanted to do
:22:14. > :22:21.was win. I was never bothered what people thought, to be honest. In a
:22:22. > :22:25.way I am not very proud to admit, I was always very wrapped up in my own
:22:26. > :22:29.little world and never cared what was going on outside that. I think
:22:30. > :22:36.that is probably what kept me going for 20 years, living in my own
:22:37. > :22:41.little world help me do that. -- helped. It is a fabulous film.
:22:42. > :22:44.More wintry weather is in store for the weekend.
:22:45. > :22:54.Angie Phillips has her latest forecast.
:22:55. > :22:59.The cold air is well and truly digging in at the moment. That is
:23:00. > :23:05.how we start the weekend. It will be bitterly cold with that winds and
:23:06. > :23:09.there are more wintry showers in the forecast. Sunday doesn't like a
:23:10. > :23:14.slightly better day, dryer and a bit brighter, but it will feel cold.
:23:15. > :23:18.Today, the cold air has been sinking its way southwards. The white
:23:19. > :23:23.lines, they will continue to get closer together. It is certainly
:23:24. > :23:28.going to be a blustery evening with sleet and snow showers. Many
:23:29. > :23:33.blizzard continuance -- conditions are likely. If you're heading to the
:23:34. > :23:37.Kingspan Stadium he will certainly needs your thermals on against the
:23:38. > :23:43.wind chill. We have a weather warning in place for the night for
:23:44. > :23:47.wind. Deals or severe gales are likely, particularly in the north
:23:48. > :23:53.and east. Gusts up to 60 miles an hour on the coast. They eventually
:23:54. > :23:59.will drive the sleet and snow showers southwards, leaving a
:24:00. > :24:01.dusting over the hills. With temperatures falling away back to
:24:02. > :24:06.freezing or slightly below overnight, it could lead to icy
:24:07. > :24:11.conditions for tomorrow morning. It'll be very unpleasant on the
:24:12. > :24:16.roads in places. To take extra care. So, and icy start to the weekend for
:24:17. > :24:21.some and we will still have a bitter wind blowing through tomorrow. More
:24:22. > :24:25.wintry showers to come for a time as well. They will start to move in
:24:26. > :24:28.from the north and west. It will be held wintry mix. They
:24:29. > :24:29.from the north and west. It will be later in the morning and we will get
:24:30. > :24:33.brighter spell for a time before later in the morning and we will get
:24:34. > :24:37.more showers coming in the afternoon, but this time they will
:24:38. > :24:44.mostly be following as rain. It will feel cold with highs of only five or
:24:45. > :24:48.6 degrees. In the tomorrow night, blustery winds but still breezy and
:24:49. > :24:54.calls with showers around. Sunday doesn't dryer and brighter.