09/02/2016 BBC Newsline

The DUP says it has asked the Health Minister to set up

a working group to look at the issue of fatal foetal abnormality.

Tomorrow Assembly Members will vote on whether to make abortions

At the moment it is only permitted if a woman's life is at risk there

is a risk to her mental and physical health.

Our political correspondent Gareth Gordon is in our newsroom.

Why his the party acted upon it now? Tomorrow there will be a vote in a

series of proposed amendments to the Justice Bill one of which if past

would make abortion illegal. In the case of women like Sarah Ewing who

were told that the foetus they were carrying had fatal foetal

abnormality, it is a highly sensitive issue, politically, the

big question has been what the largest party with side to do. But

they bring a petition of concern? It would effectively block the move.

All would they allow a free vote for each MLA? In the end they did

neither. They have said they will vote on Maas against the move. So it

probably means that it is beaten. -- en masse.

They want a working group set up to look at the whole issue in the

round. Why? They say it cannot be dealt with in

haste without appropriate scrutiny and the Justice is not the way to

deal with it. A law made in haste is often bad law. They know they cannot

leave it there. So they have asked Simon Hamilton to set up a working

group, including clinicians, people with legal background, and the idea

is to come up with recommendations as to how the issue can be dealt

with. Including, if necessary, draft legislation. The working group has

been given six months to report. It must be set at this moment that

would be that comes up with, finding a way forward, which the majority of

people can agree with, will be very difficult.

The First Minister has spoken of the difficulties she has

experienced with the Deputy First Minister because of his graveside

oration at the funeral of the man who, she believes,

But Arlene Foster has said she will work with Martin McGuinness

because as she puts it "the past is the past".

Mrs Foster was interviewed for tonight's BBC

It is quite difficult. If you talk to Martin McGuinness now he will

say, and I heard him say just recently, that unionist Art not the

enemy, the enemy is poverty, unemployment. And that is fine. But

it does not take away from the fact that he thought it appropriate to

speak at the funeral. Of a man who had been responsible for murdering

many people in County Fermanagh. And you can see Spotlight

here on BBC 1 after this news. Extra tickets have been allocated

to Northern Ireland fans for the football team's first

European Championship game Fans who were on a priority list had

complained to the Irish Football Association that they had not

received tickets for The supporters were dancing in the

streets when the Northern Ireland qualified for their first major

championship in 30 years. In the wake of the victory over Greece at

Windsor Park all that was in the minds of the supporters was

travelling to France and getting tickets for the matches. The

football Association but a loyalty points system in place to favour

those who had been to the most qualifying games in the run-up the

finals. But when Uefa announced ticket allocations this morning it

was clear something had gone badly wrong.

The issue is about how the scheme has been implemented, or not. That

is something that Uefa must answer. Because they are the people who are

responsible for allocating tickets and they should have implemented the

scheme properly. Good luck to anybody who has got a

ticket but for the rest of us fans, go to be home and away matches, is

soul destroying. More than 29,000 tickets were

allocated for Northern Ireland's three games. Carl McClane is a local

councillor as well as a football supporter. He had not registered for

any loyalty point but got all of the tickets he applied for.

I salute the delighted to be going but it is unfair to the people who

have shown a more loyal to the me over the last 20 years and have been

let down today. By lunchtime the IFA had been

inundated with calls from angry supporters who missed out. By early

this evening News came through that Uefa were making more tickets

available for the Poland game, which may go some way to dampening the

anger of those supporters who lost out.

Have almost 1000 extra tickets on top of what we had this morning,

they will go to those people who currently are disappointed, but are

our top priority people, in our priority scheme. They must certainly

deserve to get kits. Some joy for those disappointed fans

but even with extra tickets for the Poland game there will still be some

20,000 Northern Ireland supporters who will not get a seat at the

matches in France. A new permanent armed police unit

for Dublin is being set up by the Gardai following the second

fatal shooting in the city The latest victim

was killed last night. It's thought in retaliation

for the killing of a man at a city Our Dublin correspondent

Shane Harrison reports. The remains of Edward Hutch leave

the scene of the murder. Locals say there is a sense of foreboding and

fright. It is sad that two men have lost

their lives in the last three days. This area is actually numb, there is

a dark cloud hanging over it. He was a hard-working guy, a taxi driver,

late 50s, very quite individual, he went about his business and to my

knowledge was not a player in serious crime.

Any believe he was an easy target murdered because of his surname. A

gang shot him dead in the hallway of his apartment because he was the

uncle of Gary, murdered in Spain five months ago, and the brother of

Cherry, a one-time notorious criminal. With authorities promising

more money in a fight against cruel gangs and paramilitaries, the

commissioner tonight was not categoric about who was responsible.

It is early stages and important we keep an open mind and follow all

avenues of enquiry. There is painstaking work going on. All

claims of responsibility, any lines of enquiry, will be followed

through. We have had claim and counterclaim.

It is still under investigation and like all other lines of

investigation have to be taken very seriously and will be pursued as a

line of investigation. Gardai Have been criticised for the

lack of intelligence regarding last Friday's attack, and the fears of

retaliation growing, and appeals for calm, parts of Dublin remain on

edge. The Ulster Unionist Tom Elliott

is to contact the Lord Chief Justice over the way comments he made

about a benefits cheat The MP for Fermanagh

and South Tyrone says he provided a statement about an Enniskillen man

who was convicted yesterday But Mr Elliott insists he did not

make a character reference. Here is our Political

Correspondent Stephen Walker. Clive Millar, a former soldier from

Enniskillen claimed housing benefit whilst owning properties in Spain.

He got income support despite having more than ?280,000 in his bank

account, and was overpaid almost ?40,000 in benefits between

2002-2010. Yesterday he was given a suspended jail sentence. The court

heard that his legal team had a reference from an esteemed source

which spoke glowingly of his work in the voluntary sector. Ulster

Unionist Party Peak, Tom Elliott, is not sure if he is the esteemed

source referred to, but he said he did provide a statement, but insists

it was not a character reference. He confirmed that I knew him. It was

what I was asked, if I knew him. I knew him in the context of coming to

me with constituency issues and being a member of not specify which

-- a member of organisations, I did not specify any organisations, and

took the step of writing to the judge to let him know it was not a

character reference in case it would be used as such, I wrote to the

judge to inform him of that. Tom Elliott now intends to take the

matter further. I will take it up with the Lord

Chief Justice and try to address the issues in the community, but

certainly I will have concerns is that simple acknowledgement, or

answering the question, to confirm that any the person, was taken as a

reference. Clive Millar admitted four charges

of failing to declare a change of circumstances to the Social Security

agency. Two charges of money-laundering were left on the

books. The judge sentenced the 47-year-old to 12 months imprisoned,

suspended for two years. Sinn Fein are to meet next week

to select a fourth candidate in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone

constituency for May's Assembly A team of three men including

the sitting MLA in the area Phil Flanagan was

selected last month. That resulted in the former MP and

Stormont Minister Michelle Gildernew Next week's meeting gives her

the opportunity to be selected The former Ireland and Lions rugby

captain Paul O'Connell has announced his retirement

from the game. He has been recovering

from a serious injury suffered at the World Cup last year and it's

now forced him to retire The current Ireland captain is one

of O'Connell's biggest admirers. I suppose the biggest thing for me

is that he probably is one of the players in world rugby that I have

the most admiration for, in terms of what he has done. As much as

anything, how he went about it. He really is, I suppose, what rugby is

all about. It is quite chilly with temperatures

below freezing in a few places. That will allow Frost to develop. Pockets

of fog by morning. Quite windy on the Antrim coast. Inland, wins not

quite as strong. You will want to defrost your car windscreens

tomorrow morning, otherwise, not a bad day. Amounts of sunshine. There

will be scattered showers to begin with. Sleet and snow over high

ground. But it is not a bad picture given recent weather. Plenty of dry,

sunny weather, scattered showers here and there. They didn't breezy

with temperatures on average reaching the high single figures.

Northern Ireland, we can expect highs of seven Celsius, 20 of dry

and sunny weather through the afternoon. The clear sky tomorrow

evening allows for a very chilly night with temperatures falling into

minus figures in the countryside, a chilly start. Overall, another good

day. Cloud coming from time to time. Plenty of sunshine also.

Temperatures again between five and six Celsius for most of us. Friday,

it looks as though it will be largely dry and settled but another

system is approaching from the Atlantic which may change things. We

will keep you up today. Good night. We are back at 6:25 a.m.. You can

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