:00:00. > :00:07.Good evening. Here on
:00:08. > :00:10.In an unusual move today Sinn Fein assembly members joined others
:00:11. > :00:14.in giving a round of applause to Peter Robinson at the end of his
:00:15. > :00:18.Last week Mr Robinson said he intended to retire as DUP leader
:00:19. > :00:20.and First Minister, early in the New Year.
:00:21. > :00:36.Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon.
:00:37. > :00:45.Questions to the First Minister. He is not retiring quite yet, but
:00:46. > :00:51.after seven and a half years this was Peter Robinson's final question
:00:52. > :00:55.Time. Peter Robinson transcends three
:00:56. > :01:00.generations of my family. My grandfather was a founding member
:01:01. > :01:04.like him. I think him for the legacy he has left us, and left Northern
:01:05. > :01:07.Ireland more secure than ever in the union.
:01:08. > :01:11.It was enough to make even a politician blush.
:01:12. > :01:16.I'm grateful for the comments. It has been something of a surreal
:01:17. > :01:21.experience, is almost as if one were dead and listening to the obituary,
:01:22. > :01:29.but I am still I hope very much alive.
:01:30. > :01:35.The reference to three generations is another way I suppose of saying,
:01:36. > :01:41.Peter, you're very old! Thank you very much, time is up,
:01:42. > :01:45.best wishes, First Minister. From the DUP benches, began a round
:01:46. > :01:49.of applause. Then a standing ovation, joined by
:01:50. > :01:56.Sinn Fein, that brought the Ulster Unionists.
:01:57. > :01:58.The Commons is tonight debating a bill which will transfer
:01:59. > :02:00.the implementation of welfare reforms from the Assembly
:02:01. > :02:04.The move was part of the 'Fresh Start' deal announced
:02:05. > :02:08.by the DUP, Sinn Fein and the two governments last week.
:02:09. > :02:11.The bill is expected to be passed by MPs later tonight and will be
:02:12. > :02:15.The SDLP's Mark Durkan criticised the way the bill was
:02:16. > :02:29.From Sinn Fein, we now have a Parliamentary procedure where things
:02:30. > :02:34.were rushed through in the Assembly the other day, and that is the
:02:35. > :02:40.Assembly's legislative consent motion, and now the rights of
:02:41. > :02:45.tabling amendments with a view to them being voted upon are being
:02:46. > :02:49.suppressed by this programme motion. We have to get a move on with
:02:50. > :02:53.implementation. We do not want the agreement to suffer the same fate as
:02:54. > :03:00.the Stormont house agreement where implementation became stalled at an
:03:01. > :03:02.early stage. We know -- we have to do all we can to move forward with
:03:03. > :03:05.implementation. Within the last few minutes the Bill
:03:06. > :03:12.has just been passed. You can hear more tomorrow morning
:03:13. > :03:21.on BBC Radio Stoke. -- Ulster.
:03:22. > :03:24.Pupils at a school in Omagh were sent home early today
:03:25. > :03:26.when it was discovered there'd been break-in overnight.
:03:27. > :03:28.Drumragh Integrated College was extensively damaged by the thieves.
:03:29. > :03:30.Our south west reporter Julian Fowler has more.
:03:31. > :03:34.Two men armed with a Stech hammer and cruel barb look into the school
:03:35. > :03:37.last night, they smashed doors and ransacked offices.
:03:38. > :03:40.The thieves cut through a fence and broke the glass and an external
:03:41. > :03:48.door. They also cut the telephone line and
:03:49. > :03:51.put the alarm system out of action, smashing the external sirens.
:03:52. > :03:58.The break-in was discovered when staff arrived this morning. The 650
:03:59. > :04:01.pupils returned up as normal had to be sent home.
:04:02. > :04:06.Some of those young people would be a level and GCSE students who needed
:04:07. > :04:11.to come in and work this morning on controlled assessment.
:04:12. > :04:16.We had a parents evening scheduled. -- parents' evening.
:04:17. > :04:22.The selfish inconvenience of all this is breathtaking really.
:04:23. > :04:27.Classrooms full of computer equipment were left untouched, and
:04:28. > :04:29.for all the damage caused, that was taken.
:04:30. > :04:34.As forests we know, no pupil's work has been cut -- touched.
:04:35. > :04:40.-- as far as we know. As for as we know, they must have
:04:41. > :04:46.been looking for money. But we keep no money on site, so it
:04:47. > :04:50.is a pointless exercise but it has caused a lot of disruption and
:04:51. > :04:53.inconvenience for a lot of people. The police are examining CCTV
:04:54. > :04:59.footage and have appealed for anyone who noticed suspicious activity
:05:00. > :05:02.around the school at the weekend to contact them.
:05:03. > :05:04.Work is now under way to reconnect the phone lines and repair of the
:05:05. > :05:06.damage. This girl is expected to reopen to
:05:07. > :05:11.pupils tomorrow. With a security lockdown continuing
:05:12. > :05:14.in Brussels, people there who are from Northern Ireland have been
:05:15. > :05:16.describing the atmosphere. The Belgian capital is
:05:17. > :05:34.on the highest level of terror Soldiers on the streets, the Metro
:05:35. > :05:37.closed. The main square deserted. Brussels went into lockdown as raids
:05:38. > :05:42.were carried out across the city. As detectives continue their hunt for
:05:43. > :05:49.the suspect in the Paris attacks, the police and army presence is to
:05:50. > :05:54.be strengthened further. This man is wondering how long it will last. --
:05:55. > :05:59.this man who works in Brussels. We are on the third day of a
:06:00. > :06:04.security alert, people have been advised not to go to work. We had an
:06:05. > :06:10.announcement from the police late last night to say that they had
:06:11. > :06:14.conducted a major police operation in the city centre but we have no
:06:15. > :06:18.more news as to when -- if things will return to normal.
:06:19. > :06:23.It is quite unnerving. In my neighbourhood, about a ten minute
:06:24. > :06:31.walk from the city centre, there was about a five-minute walk away from a
:06:32. > :06:33.place a large police operation this evening, and the police cordoned off
:06:34. > :06:38.a number of streets and conducted a number of roads, so during that
:06:39. > :06:43.background I could hear police sirens and helicopters flying
:06:44. > :06:46.overhead. During the operation 16 people were
:06:47. > :06:50.arrested in 22 raids. For a Belgian now living in Belfast
:06:51. > :06:55.far from home, seeing the capital city at the highest terror alert is
:06:56. > :07:00.-- is hard. The last time you would have seen an
:07:01. > :07:04.armed police presence in the streets of Brussels would have been at a
:07:05. > :07:08.time when there were a lot of tensions between the two main
:07:09. > :07:12.communities of Belgium, namely the Flemish and the wallowing.
:07:13. > :07:17.But he believes the situation is not unexpected.
:07:18. > :07:21.There has been a lot of problems in Belgium brewing for many years, many
:07:22. > :07:29.decades, and whenever I heard it mentioned that some of the
:07:30. > :07:32.terrorists came from the area, part of me was not surprised.
:07:33. > :07:44.Belgian remains under alert. The DUP MP Ian Paisley is to make
:07:45. > :07:48.a donation to charity as part of a settlement reached in
:07:49. > :07:50.defamation proceedings brought by She brought defamation proceedings
:07:51. > :07:53.against Mr Paisley over an interview he gave
:07:54. > :07:55.about the closure of Gallagher's The High Court has been told that
:07:56. > :08:01.a man facing trial for burglary offences claimed his electronic
:08:02. > :08:04.ankle tag was chewed off by his dog. Jamie Toland of Slemish Way
:08:05. > :08:06.in Lisburn is accused of removing Now here's Angie Phillips with
:08:07. > :08:25.the weather forecast. After a cold weekend and a frosty
:08:26. > :08:29.start in places again this morning, you will find temperatures less cold
:08:30. > :08:34.as we go through the rest of the week, unfortunately it will be
:08:35. > :08:39.pretty unsettled at times. Quite the last Tory wins at times as well.
:08:40. > :08:43.Tonight, after a brief lull in the wind we will see it picking up
:08:44. > :08:53.during the night, bringing quite a few showers. But no frost in the
:08:54. > :08:57.forecast. A blustery day tomorrow, and from the word go there are going
:08:58. > :09:04.to be showers, quite a few rattling in on that blustery wind to
:09:05. > :09:11.Northwest wind. They are also edging across the topic of Ireland and
:09:12. > :09:16.western Scotland. -- the Republic of all. The best of any drier, brighter
:09:17. > :09:20.weather for eastern Scotland, the east and south-east of England once
:09:21. > :09:24.rain clears, and temperatures are little bit up in those south-eastern
:09:25. > :09:29.parts compared to yesterday. For more than all come the afternoon,
:09:30. > :09:33.temperatures get up to around 9 degrees, but that gusty wind will
:09:34. > :09:37.make it feel colder. Still plenty of showers rattling through, which at
:09:38. > :09:44.times could lead to more prolonged spells of rain. The best of any
:09:45. > :09:48.drier spells towards -- sports towards the South East. Still some
:09:49. > :09:52.showers on Wednesday, but easing. Another wet and windy spell on
:09:53. > :09:55.Friday. We will be back at 6:25am in the
:09:56. > :10:00.morning. Good night.