:00:20. > :00:37.MLAs have been debating an amendment which would allow them to make
:00:38. > :00:40.exceptions in cases of comedy VDU P, who oppose it, have developed a
:00:41. > :00:43.working group on the issue. The latest I am joined from Stormont
:00:44. > :00:46.by our Political Correspondent. What is the latest? There are few more
:00:47. > :00:48.difficult or sensitive issues facing politicians here. Not surprisingly
:00:49. > :00:51.it has been a passionate debate, and emotive debate, and after four
:00:52. > :00:54.hours, just over four hours, it is not quite over yet. We have not got
:00:55. > :00:56.a result. But the issue is the question of whether the law in
:00:57. > :01:05.Northern Ireland should be changed to allow abortions in the cases of
:01:06. > :01:09.fatal foetal abnormality. If we are to continue to fail women in
:01:10. > :01:18.Northern Ireland in this there we are up to getting our duties as
:01:19. > :01:25.representatives. A traumatic journey for women to England is becoming a
:01:26. > :01:29.shame on Northern Ireland. Looking elsewhere for sport and health makes
:01:30. > :01:32.this worse. VDU P already made it clear they
:01:33. > :01:37.opposed the amendment. What have they been saying? They say
:01:38. > :01:41.it is too rushed. And that last night they said they would ask the
:01:42. > :01:44.health minister to set up a working group involving clinicians and
:01:45. > :01:48.people with legal backgrounds to work some recommendations for the
:01:49. > :01:52.future as to how the issue might be addressed. Here is the junior
:01:53. > :02:00.minister. I have not had the village of
:02:01. > :02:08.bringing a child into this world. But I can empathise with all my
:02:09. > :02:13.heart, the wished for, they longed for, can so quickly turned to
:02:14. > :02:23.tragedy. The way forward that we are proposing is a compassionate one.
:02:24. > :02:26.The working group will be set up by the end of this month but will not
:02:27. > :02:32.report for six months, according to Sinn Fein, that is too long.
:02:33. > :02:37.They have said they are sporting a commission which will report in six
:02:38. > :02:45.months. What about the plight of women in the here and now? What
:02:46. > :02:54.about the woman who are pregnant as a result of rape? Or women who are
:02:55. > :03:01.faced with fatal foetal abnormality? We have still not had a vote but the
:03:02. > :03:05.feeling is that with the DUP opposing, and the SDLP opposing, and
:03:06. > :03:06.various others, it is likely, though not certain, but this is not the end
:03:07. > :03:08.of the issue. Sinn Fein has made a formal
:03:09. > :03:10.complaint to the Assembly Commissioner for Standards
:03:11. > :03:12.following an incident involving the DUP MLA Jim Wells
:03:13. > :03:15.in the Assembly chamber last night. It's the second complaint
:03:16. > :03:18.against him in as many days after he was recorded making alleged
:03:19. > :03:21.sexist comments during last week's Our political editor
:03:22. > :03:34.Mark Devenport reports. It happened last week at a session
:03:35. > :03:39.of the Public Accounts Committee. The microphone up whispered comment
:03:40. > :03:44.from Jim Wells. He said he was scared out of his whip is when a
:03:45. > :03:45.female civil servant, who reminded him of Arlene Foster, entered the
:03:46. > :04:05.room. Then this quip... He described it as a
:04:06. > :04:14.self-deprecating joke, but on social media many criticised him, including
:04:15. > :04:17.Sinn Fein's Megan Fearon, who described the comments is disgusting
:04:18. > :04:22.and showing contempt for women. Late last night the MLA was leading the
:04:23. > :04:27.assembly chamber when on the opposite side, Mr Wells quickly rose
:04:28. > :04:32.from his seat and appeared to confront her at the door before he
:04:33. > :04:36.left. Her party colleague saw what was happening and moved to
:04:37. > :04:39.intervene. Still Wells said he warned her the comments with the
:04:40. > :04:46.sanitary. Tonight, Sinn Fein said they make a formal complaint to the
:04:47. > :04:50.standards commissioner, saying the complaint is on the grounds of
:04:51. > :04:51.equality, respect, and good working relationships between MLAs.
:04:52. > :04:53.The scramble for tickets by Northern Ireland fans
:04:54. > :04:55.is continuing after many loyal supporters lost out yesterday.
:04:56. > :04:57.Today the Irish Football Association insisted the fans should
:04:58. > :05:21.Many fans were so confident of getting tickets for France they had
:05:22. > :05:25.already booked flights, hired cars, and hotels. Only to find out
:05:26. > :05:31.yesterday they did not get any match tickets. Supporters like Roy McKie,
:05:32. > :05:37.a regular for over 40 years. Disappointed, but at. Annoyed.
:05:38. > :05:42.Four members of his family applied, only to got them. But they are all
:05:43. > :05:46.still going to France together. The reason I am going is because the
:05:47. > :05:50.flights are paid for. The accommodation is paid for. The cars
:05:51. > :05:55.are paid for. And my son put it down as a driver of one of the cars.
:05:56. > :06:01.So you have to go! I have to go!
:06:02. > :06:04.Of course, there were winners as well as losers, I spoke to one
:06:05. > :06:09.supporter who was embarrassed that the amount of tickets he got, having
:06:10. > :06:12.undergone 21 qualification game at Windsor Park, he applied for, and
:06:13. > :06:18.got, tickets to all three group games in France, in fact, he got to
:06:19. > :06:22.tickets for each. Here is a copy of the e-mail he got. As well as two
:06:23. > :06:26.tickets for the group matches he has been guaranteed tickets for any
:06:27. > :06:32.match as Northern Ireland might play in the knockout stages. But it has
:06:33. > :06:38.all come at a price. More than 1500 euros upfront. Around ?1200. It
:06:39. > :06:41.appears that how much money supporters have been prepared to
:06:42. > :06:46.spend has been important, not just the number of matches they have been
:06:47. > :06:49.to in recent years. But the IFA say that the most loyal supporters
:06:50. > :06:55.should get tickets soon in an extra allocation made available by Uefa.
:06:56. > :07:00.They are in limbo at this point. I would ask them to have a small
:07:01. > :07:03.amount of patience, wait, we will check all the data, make sure we get
:07:04. > :07:07.all the right names into the system, and we will get Uefa to contact them
:07:08. > :07:11.in the near future so they get access to the new ticket portal.
:07:12. > :07:14.That should happen before the end of this month. As for Republic of
:07:15. > :07:15.Ireland supporters, their long-awaited ticket news should on
:07:16. > :07:17.Friday. Gardai say they are making progress
:07:18. > :07:19.in their investigations into the recent
:07:20. > :07:21.suspected gang murders. They have identified some of those
:07:22. > :07:24.who carried out Friday's murder at the boxing weigh-in
:07:25. > :07:26.and they believe those who murdered a taxi-driver on Monday night left
:07:27. > :07:29.may have left DNA evidence in the get-away car
:07:30. > :07:31.they failed to set on fire. Our Dublin correspondent
:07:32. > :07:47.Shane Harrison reports. Crumlin in Dublin South inner city.
:07:48. > :07:52.Not a very well off area. Long associated with drugs and crime. The
:07:53. > :07:57.vast majority of people here are honest, law-abiding citizens. There
:07:58. > :08:01.is a tiny minority. It is perhaps an unlikely starting point for a global
:08:02. > :08:10.drug empire worth tens of millions of pounds. This man led the Crumlin
:08:11. > :08:14.gang. Also known as Dapper Don, he is now based in Marbella, Spain. He
:08:15. > :08:19.is said to have extraordinary personal wealth. It was a shooting
:08:20. > :08:26.in Spain last September that prompted this outbreak of violence,
:08:27. > :08:31.and exposed deep divisions. This man was a member of the gang, but it is
:08:32. > :08:39.believed they killed him, suspect he was a police informant. Gary Hutch
:08:40. > :08:44.was also a nephew of this man, known as the monk, he was a notorious
:08:45. > :08:51.criminal in the 1980s and 1990s, but now says he has retired from crime.
:08:52. > :08:54.The killing last Friday at a boxing promotion in Dublin was believed to
:08:55. > :09:05.be a direct retaliation for the killing. David Byrne, a close tenant
:09:06. > :09:09.of Kinahan was murdered, and for others injured. Within days, the
:09:10. > :09:14.cycle of retaliation claimed another victim. And this is another uncle of
:09:15. > :09:19.Gary, killed on Monday night. Few believe he was a gang member. The
:09:20. > :09:24.widespread suspicion being that he was murdered simply because of his
:09:25. > :09:30.surname. This afternoon, flowers from David Hearn's family outside
:09:31. > :09:35.the Regency hotel where he was murdered. A Belfast on crime
:09:36. > :09:41.correspondent said the amount of money one gang leader is making is
:09:42. > :09:47.enormous. A senior anti-drug official told me
:09:48. > :09:51.that Kinahan was the Manchester United of drug dealing. He has
:09:52. > :09:54.things with Colombian cartels. He is that big that he can pick up the
:09:55. > :09:59.phone and talk to people in Colombia. He is absolutely massive.
:10:00. > :10:04.He has a fortune worth tens, if not hundreds of millions of euros.
:10:05. > :10:10.With such a financial killing to be made the murders are perhaps not
:10:11. > :10:14.surprising. And with armed Gardai on the street the suspicion is there
:10:15. > :10:17.will be more fatalities in what is increasingly becoming personal.
:10:18. > :10:20.Until the last few days the number of gangland killings had been
:10:21. > :10:25.falling dramatically, and it is widely believed that Kinahan ordered
:10:26. > :10:31.an end to all the future because they were hampering the making of
:10:32. > :10:33.money. So the question now is, why the current killings? Are any
:10:34. > :10:38.younger, more reckless generation taking over, in both camps? With
:10:39. > :10:44.jewels still to take place parts of the city are living in fear and
:10:45. > :10:47.dreading the next few days. -- with two funerals still to take place.
:10:48. > :10:50.A coroner has told the West Midland's police to provide a list
:10:51. > :10:52.of evidence in connection with the 1974 Birmingham pub
:10:53. > :10:54.bombings which has been lost or destroyed .
:10:55. > :10:56.21 people were killed when two bombs exploded at two pubs
:10:57. > :11:00.The Coroner is deciding if inquests should be held.
:11:01. > :11:02.The police are against resuming the inquests but victims relatives
:11:03. > :11:05.and one of those wrongly convicted of the bombings want
:11:06. > :11:09.With just two weeks to the General Election
:11:10. > :11:12.in the Republic, our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell
:11:13. > :11:15.has been in Dublin to look at the state of the Irish economy.
:11:16. > :11:19.He's been speaking to people working with those on the margins of society
:11:20. > :11:22.and to business people behind major projects on both sides
:11:23. > :11:37.It is palpable. And it is very exciting at the moment. However, I
:11:38. > :11:38.would say that there is a real nervousness as to whether it will
:11:39. > :11:54.last. It is going to be clear in places
:11:55. > :11:59.throughout the course of tonight, particularly in land and in eastern
:12:00. > :12:04.areas. Temperatures will drop toward freezing, may be lower in some rural
:12:05. > :12:10.spots. We are looking at Rost, mist and fog. And the threat of cloud
:12:11. > :12:15.feeding in showers overnight, particularly over the hills. There
:12:16. > :12:18.is the risk of a few icy patches. Tomorrow, generally speaking, a good
:12:19. > :12:24.deal of dry weather, still some bright spells around. Eventually
:12:25. > :12:28.more cloud than we had today. And with the fog patches in the morning,
:12:29. > :12:34.there could be visibility issues, it could take some time to clear. Still
:12:35. > :12:39.some showers towards the north-west. Fog will be stubborn to clear across
:12:40. > :12:44.the Republic of Ireland but once it does, dry and bright. Variable cloud
:12:45. > :12:52.across the rest of written. -- Britain. It could be quite brisk,
:12:53. > :12:55.the wind, but elsewhere, mainly spells of sunshine, though not
:12:56. > :13:01.particularly warm. Northern Ireland, the afternoon, more cloud than this
:13:02. > :13:07.afternoon, still a few bright spells, and apart from the odd
:13:08. > :13:10.shower, mainly dry with temperatures at 5-6dC. Friday, it also looks dry
:13:11. > :13:16.and chilly but the trees with pick-up. The threat of rain on
:13:17. > :13:17.Saturday, the main thing through the weekend is it is very cold, with
:13:18. > :13:19.strong winds. Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am
:13:20. > :13:22.in the morning during You can also keep updated
:13:23. > :13:26.with News Online.