:00:00. > :00:00.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:07. > :00:11.Another homeless man has died in Belfast City Centre this evening.
:00:12. > :00:15.The man was found in a shop doorway in the city centre.
:00:16. > :00:27.It was here on Belfast high street, a homeless man was found dead in a
:00:28. > :00:32.doorway earlier this evening. The man is believed to have been in his
:00:33. > :00:36.late 40s, or early 50s, and was known to homeless charities in the
:00:37. > :00:41.city will stop one volunteer who I spoke to is visibly upset and stop
:00:42. > :00:46.she said that he had been working with them for within two years. This
:00:47. > :00:49.man is the third homeless person to have died on the streets of Belfast
:00:50. > :00:55.in three weeks. All the deaths have been discovered within 250 metres of
:00:56. > :01:00.this spot. And a short distance up a road, homeless charities were busy
:01:01. > :01:05.handing out stew, tea, and coffee, and warm clothing. One man was very
:01:06. > :01:09.grateful of the help. Where will you spend the evening to mark in my
:01:10. > :01:13.sleeping bag. These people are good, the diverse food and clothing.
:01:14. > :01:17.Leaving with everything a bag to find a sheltered spot. They will be
:01:18. > :01:19.freezing tonight, as temperatures are expected to fall well below
:01:20. > :01:21.zero. Armed police held a gun to a man's
:01:22. > :01:25.head during a raid on a house They were targeting the property
:01:26. > :01:28.at Aspen Walk in Twinbrook in the early hours of this morning
:01:29. > :01:44.after a 41-year-old man was shot In the middle of the night, in the
:01:45. > :01:50.middle of the street, armed police officers focus on one house. One by
:01:51. > :01:54.one, those inside came out, the police didn't know if they had guns
:01:55. > :01:59.or not, they were taking no chances. A police weapon was pointed to the
:02:00. > :02:03.head of one man. The first to leave the house in Twinbrook was a woman.
:02:04. > :02:07.She wasn't arrested, but she doesn't want her identity reveals. This
:02:08. > :02:14.afternoon, she told me about the police raid. They told us up to put
:02:15. > :02:19.the hands in the air, and to walk out one at a time and drop your
:02:20. > :02:23.weapons and all, and I was the first one to walk out, and I was really
:02:24. > :02:27.afraid, and I was really, really, really frightened. So frightened. I
:02:28. > :02:31.was fighting for my husband, because they are going with a big gun right
:02:32. > :02:35.in his face, come towards me, walks me will with your hands on your air.
:02:36. > :02:39.Then we'll out the door, they were shouting get out, armed response,
:02:40. > :02:43.everybody out. He told me to put my weapon down, which was my mobile
:02:44. > :02:48.phone. There were no guns in the house? No, no guns in my house.
:02:49. > :02:54.Police had been investigating a shooting in the area. A 41-year-old
:02:55. > :03:03.man had been shot in the leg. It all happened around midnight. The
:03:04. > :03:09.shooting was in the Stronger in Europe area. This house was half a
:03:10. > :03:14.mile away. Was the reaction of the top of Sun has suggested? Some might
:03:15. > :03:18.say, but we have to remember that there were weapons used in the
:03:19. > :03:23.incident last night, so the police could have felt that the appropriate
:03:24. > :03:31.response was taking given that the evidence of the event. Two men have
:03:32. > :03:33.been arrested. One aged 25, the other aged 35.
:03:34. > :03:36.The inquest into the death of Arlene Arkinson has heard
:03:37. > :03:39.convicted child killer Robert Howard was seen near a forest carrying
:03:40. > :03:45.It was claimed in a police inteligence document that a taxi
:03:46. > :03:50.One of the last people to see the Castlederg teenager alive told
:03:51. > :03:54.the court she "knew in her heart and soul" her friend was dead.
:03:55. > :04:09.Arlene Arkinson disappeared in 1994, after a night out in County Donegal.
:04:10. > :04:11.Her body has never been found. The 15-year-old was last seen with
:04:12. > :04:15.convicted child killer Robert Howard. It partially blacked out
:04:16. > :04:19.police intelligence document was read to Belfast coroner 's Court
:04:20. > :04:23.today. In it, a taxi driver claimed he drove Howard and his then
:04:24. > :04:29.partner, Patricia Quinn, to a forest, and they will told him they
:04:30. > :04:32.were going fishing for them they had a spade and a bag with them.
:04:33. > :04:36.Patricia and his daughter, who was giving evidence today, said oh my
:04:37. > :04:41.God, no. Donna Quinn sobbed as she said she believed Robert Howard had
:04:42. > :04:44.killed her friend. Donna Quinn said she had no doubt who killed her,
:04:45. > :04:47.that he had sexually abused her and killed her. She said that she had
:04:48. > :04:52.known within a week that something was badly, badly wrong. Counsel for
:04:53. > :05:00.the Arkansan family said the Mrs Quinn had offered Arlene to Howard
:05:01. > :05:05.as a sacrificial lamb. Mrs Quinn broke down sobbing. She said do you
:05:06. > :05:08.not think I have suffered? She is was my best friend and I miss her
:05:09. > :05:12.every day of the week. Donna Quinn confirmed that the day after Arlene
:05:13. > :05:16.disappeared she asked Howard if he had sex with the teenager. She asked
:05:17. > :05:20.him because she is that was the way Howard was. He said he would go to
:05:21. > :05:26.hell for the damage he had caused and that she was just glad he was
:05:27. > :05:27.dead. She had no idea what he had done with the teenager but my body.
:05:28. > :05:28.The inquest continues. Now, the EU referendum
:05:29. > :05:31.and the Stronger in Europe campaign had its Northern Ireland launch
:05:32. > :05:34.today, but things didn't go quite as planned, as our political
:05:35. > :05:45.correspondent It's pitched as the most important
:05:46. > :05:49.vote in a generation and this was the Northern Ireland of the Stronger
:05:50. > :05:55.in Europe campaign. But something was missing. The former Labour Mr
:05:56. > :05:58.Allen Johnson was to be here but had to withdraw at the last moment
:05:59. > :06:01.because of illness, which is a pity for the organisers, because as
:06:02. > :06:06.launches go, this was as low-key as they come. Of course, here in the
:06:07. > :06:10.place where the Titanic was built, they know that big launches aren't
:06:11. > :06:13.everything. God is unfortunate that Alan Johnson is ill but I'm here
:06:14. > :06:19.today with one of our political champions, and the Shadow Secretary
:06:20. > :06:23.of State for Northern Ireland, and we are here together talking to
:06:24. > :06:26.businesses, talking to voters, understanding why Northern Ireland
:06:27. > :06:30.is stronger, safer, and better off as part of the European Union than
:06:31. > :06:34.it would be on its own. Close by at Queens University, both sides of the
:06:35. > :06:40.argument could be heard at a debate called Owning Our Future. Northern
:06:41. > :06:46.Ireland can stay in Europe and survive. -- cannot stay in Europe
:06:47. > :06:50.and survive the momentum is with the get out. Go and leave the United
:06:51. > :06:54.Kingdom. That momentum is there now, and it will grow and grow. It is
:06:55. > :06:57.looking like a very long campaign indeed.
:06:58. > :06:59.Across the border Friday is Election Day and so far it seems
:07:00. > :07:02.no party will get a clear overall majority of seats.
:07:03. > :07:09.Our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison reports.
:07:10. > :07:17.When TDs gather in the Dail and marched the 10th -- on March ten,
:07:18. > :07:21.opinions polls suggest the party will have an overall majority. That
:07:22. > :07:27.is not stopping politicians canvassing for ever see last about
:07:28. > :07:34.stop I'm just coming around to hope to sway due to support me. We are
:07:35. > :07:41.still considering for the I know. This man is standing for Fianna Fail
:07:42. > :07:44.in Dublin Bay north. As the outgoing Cabinet minister charged with
:07:45. > :07:50.creating employment, he is adamant that his party and Fianna Fail
:07:51. > :07:55.cannot do business because of what he says Fianna Fail's bad policies
:07:56. > :08:02.that led to the banking crash, that cost the taxpayer six to 4 billion
:08:03. > :08:07.euros, and 300,000 lost jobs. We are not going to allow Fianna Fail to
:08:08. > :08:10.come through the back door into government we believe that Fine Gael
:08:11. > :08:13.and labour have delivered a sustainable platform and will
:08:14. > :08:19.continue to deliver strong growth and we can use that to solve many
:08:20. > :08:22.people' problems. Both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have their origins in
:08:23. > :08:27.the Irish Civil War and in the original Sinn Fein party. Michael
:08:28. > :08:31.Collins, who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty, that created the
:08:32. > :08:37.Irish free State, is a finny coil hearing, while the man who opposed
:08:38. > :08:43.it sounded Fianna Fail. Both artists separatist parties. The two current
:08:44. > :08:48.leaders insist there will be no grand coalition. If former Fianna
:08:49. > :08:53.Fail minister doesn't rule it out however given the current opinion
:08:54. > :08:56.polls and what he calls the need for political economic stability. Well,
:08:57. > :09:01.I believe that it will fall to Fianna Fail, one way or another, if
:09:02. > :09:05.they are behind Fine Gael, they may have to help Fine Gael to four down
:09:06. > :09:11.government, a stable government that is. A former Fianna Fail Cabinet
:09:12. > :09:14.minister will hope that Labour supporters will turn her to the Dail
:09:15. > :09:22.after rejecting her in the last election. Can you help me? We will
:09:23. > :09:25.do our best. We will do our best. She detects a change in the mood in
:09:26. > :09:28.the two great parties of Irish politics. She has reservations about
:09:29. > :09:32.joining forces. There are many people on the doors saying leave the
:09:33. > :09:36.Civil War find you and come together. The difficulty I have with
:09:37. > :09:40.that is that it leaves the door open for Sinn Fein to be not only be the
:09:41. > :09:44.major opposition party this time but to be the government in waiting for
:09:45. > :09:47.the time after, and that is not in the best interests of the country.
:09:48. > :09:49.Nevertheless, something you might be constructed once the votes are
:09:50. > :09:50.counted. The family of former hunger striker
:09:51. > :09:53.Bobby Sands say they weren't consulted over the accuracy
:09:54. > :09:55.of a book published about him. The Arts Council has been criticised
:09:56. > :10:11.for funding the publication. 35 years after his death on a hunger
:10:12. > :10:15.striker Bobby Sands remains as controversial in print as he was in
:10:16. > :10:19.prison. And his story is still prompts very different
:10:20. > :10:25.interpretations. Controversial two is the arts Council 's decision to
:10:26. > :10:29.award national lottery funding of over ?5,000 to the publishers of
:10:30. > :10:34.Bobby Sands freedom fighter. A move which has been condemned by a number
:10:35. > :10:39.of Unionists, including a former culture minister. It is a book that
:10:40. > :10:46.glamorises IRA terrorists, that glamorises the IRA, that endorses a
:10:47. > :10:51.Sinn Fein IRA narrative. Described by the arts Council as a graphic
:10:52. > :10:56.novel, Bobby Sands freedom fighter has received a more favourable
:10:57. > :11:00.response from fellow republicans. It is appropriate that money should be
:11:01. > :11:04.used in this way to educate people, and to tell people about the past.
:11:05. > :11:05.Defending its decision to help finance the book, the arts Council
:11:06. > :11:23.says: but the arts Council has chosen not
:11:24. > :11:26.to do and into the debate on the book 's content, saying it does not
:11:27. > :11:32.interfere with editorial content, nor draw a line with between content
:11:33. > :11:40.chosen between publishers which may break cover Sue. -- provoke
:11:41. > :11:42.controversy. The book about Bobby Sands may prove to be the most
:11:43. > :11:43.incendiary. A very cold night ahead.
:11:44. > :11:55.Here's Barra with the forecast. Hello. It's certainly a night for
:11:56. > :12:00.the double tog duvet, possibly the thermals to, as temperatures wildly
:12:01. > :12:04.fall below freezing, with a weather warding issued for coastal counties.
:12:05. > :12:08.We may see a slight dusting of snow over high ground areas but overall a
:12:09. > :12:13.mainly dry night, but quite chilly. Cabbage across the board fall below
:12:14. > :12:19.40 degrees. It could reach minus seven or 8 degrees. Tomorrow morning
:12:20. > :12:26.it would be worth giving yourself more time to defrost Carwyn
:12:27. > :12:32.windscreen -- the car windscreen tomorrow, as it will be icy.
:12:33. > :12:35.Tomorrow, the blues leave the map and the temperature rises a little
:12:36. > :12:40.bit. A similar weather system is sitting across Britain, so if you
:12:41. > :12:44.travel tomorrow, it will be the same most of the places you go. Plenty of
:12:45. > :12:47.dry weather, good amount of sun, light winds. Temperatures across the
:12:48. > :12:51.board questioning at times, between the midst to perhaps I single
:12:52. > :12:54.figures in perhaps some southern areas. For the second part of the
:12:55. > :12:58.afternoon you can expect plenty of dry weather, up good amount of
:12:59. > :13:02.sunshine to as the skies stay clear, but because of that it will be
:13:03. > :13:07.chilly again stop temperatures again fall below freezing, giving as a
:13:08. > :13:11.chilly frosty start on Friday. Friday is shaping up to have a
:13:12. > :13:15.little bit more cloud around, dry in the north, with some damp weather
:13:16. > :13:17.coming in from the south later on. As we look ahead towards the
:13:18. > :13:20.weekend, very little is changing in the forecast.
:13:21. > :13:23.Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25 in the morning
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