:00:14. > :00:21.The headlines on BBC Newsline: The known dissident republican
:00:22. > :00:27.A soldier tells a court he can't recall the day he shot
:00:28. > :00:34.A former IRA man hits out as the police launch another legal
:00:35. > :00:47.Everybody seems to be thinking that the war is over and if the war is
:00:48. > :00:48.over then why is the PSNI still intent to get them.
:00:49. > :00:50.The family of this 95-year-old veteran say it's time
:00:51. > :00:59.We meet the young table tennis sensation whose back on his home
:01:00. > :01:00.turf. And the cold Arctic air is with us
:01:01. > :01:03.for at least another 24 hours. I'll be back with a full forecast
:01:04. > :01:11.later in the programme. The County Tyrone man
:01:12. > :01:13.shot dead in Dublin last He was 34 and known
:01:14. > :01:18.to the Gardai for being involved Michael Barr had appeared in court
:01:19. > :01:24.on IRA membership charges. He was one of two men shot dead
:01:25. > :01:28.in the city last night. The killings are said
:01:29. > :01:30.to be unrelated. Our Dublin Correspondent
:01:31. > :01:42.Shane Harrison reports. Another Dublin murder scene. Once
:01:43. > :01:48.again in the north inner city. Last night around half past nine, two
:01:49. > :01:52.gunmen described as skinny and wearing masks entered the Sunset
:01:53. > :01:56.house pub near Croke Park and fired a number of shots. They and their
:01:57. > :02:01.getaway driver escaped in a silver Audi that was later found burnt out
:02:02. > :02:08.in junk and. The murdered man was originally from county Tyrone and
:02:09. > :02:12.had been living in the area. He was known to guard as a dissident
:02:13. > :02:17.republican. He had appeared before the anti-terrorist special criminal
:02:18. > :02:20.escort charge of membership of a unlawful organisation and handling
:02:21. > :02:24.stolen property. Last week detectives investigating one of the
:02:25. > :02:30.murders Eddie Hutch kinaesthetic him began out feud raided his home. The
:02:31. > :02:36.feud has so far claimed the lives of five men. The first and I -- in
:02:37. > :02:41.Ireland was David Byrne murdered at the boxing way in. It widely
:02:42. > :02:43.believed another dissident from county Tyrone was one of the
:02:44. > :02:48.murderers and that dissident is provided some of the weapons for the
:02:49. > :02:52.hutch gang. At a news conference this morning, Gardai said that at
:02:53. > :02:55.this early stage of their investigation they were keeping an
:02:56. > :03:00.open mind about who was responsible for last night killing. Obviously we
:03:01. > :03:08.will be looking closely at possible links between this murder and
:03:09. > :03:13.previous murders in the area. That will be one line of inquiry. Another
:03:14. > :03:18.line of inquiry will be in relation to dissident activity. Those in the
:03:19. > :03:24.area willing to talk on camera spoke of a sense of fear in the community.
:03:25. > :03:33.Don't get involved. Just keep yourself. They goes on. What else
:03:34. > :03:39.can I say? It's a gangland staff and that's it. In an unrelated murder, a
:03:40. > :03:43.37-year-old man was shot dead in a house in Condor can in the west of
:03:44. > :03:45.the city around midnight. Once known to gardai, he had not been involved
:03:46. > :03:48.in criminality for years. A man has been found
:03:49. > :03:50.dead following a house The blaze at Barrack Street
:03:51. > :03:55.in Coalisland was already out when firefighters reached
:03:56. > :03:57.the scene at midday. The police are investigating
:03:58. > :04:14.the cause of the fire and the man's A construction firm in Newtownabbey
:04:15. > :04:19.has been placed into administration. Upwards of 50 jobs could now be
:04:20. > :04:20.lost. In a statement, the company said it was profoundly disappointed
:04:21. > :04:21.by the announcement. The soldier who fired a rubber
:04:22. > :04:24.bullet which killed an 11-year-old child 44 years ago has told
:04:25. > :04:27.an inquest he has no concerns about his conduct
:04:28. > :04:31.or actions that day, Under the name Solider B,
:04:32. > :04:37.he has been giving evidence at the inquest into the death
:04:38. > :04:40.of Frank Rowntree. The child was injured near Divis
:04:41. > :04:55.Tower in Belfast in April 1972. 11-year-old Frank Rowntree died two
:04:56. > :04:59.days after being struck at close range by a rubber bullet. Today his
:05:00. > :05:03.family got here the voice of the man they believe pulled the trigger.
:05:04. > :05:07.They couldn't actually see the former company Sergeant Major.
:05:08. > :05:12.Soldier B gave evidence by video link and after a ruling by the
:05:13. > :05:15.coroner the chairs for the Rowntree family were moved across the
:05:16. > :05:20.courtroom where he can see his face on the screen. His face was visible
:05:21. > :05:24.only to the coroner, legal representatives and courtroom staff.
:05:25. > :05:28.He said he did couldn't recall the specific event of 44 years ago. He
:05:29. > :05:31.said they become jumbled. Asked about his conduct on the day, he
:05:32. > :05:42.said... He agreed he later had a child had
:05:43. > :05:51.been killed. Talking of dealing with riots he
:05:52. > :06:01.for members of the Rowntree family, the evidence was hard listening.
:06:02. > :06:08.Very upsetting. It's as if we're not going anywhere. We just digging
:06:09. > :06:14.their heels in every time. Can even see him on the video link. Soldier B
:06:15. > :06:18.later denied making up his statement in 1972 as a cover story. It also
:06:19. > :06:22.became clear during his evidence that he had arrived in the witness
:06:23. > :06:27.box still wanting confirmation of what the inquest has been hearing
:06:28. > :06:29.from the very start, that it was his shot, his rubber bullet that had
:06:30. > :06:33.killed Frank Rowntree. Lawyers acting for a former IRA
:06:34. > :06:37.member are taking legal action to prevent his interviews
:06:38. > :06:40.in the Boston College project Anthony McIntyre was one of the main
:06:41. > :06:46.researchers in the Troubles His legal team says the request
:06:47. > :06:50.by the Public Prosecution Our Home Affairs Correspondent
:06:51. > :07:05.Vincent Kearney reports. Anthony McIntyre regrets ever
:07:06. > :07:10.becoming involved in a Boston tapes project. A number of former IRA
:07:11. > :07:14.members and loyalist paramilitaries recorded interviews about their
:07:15. > :07:18.activities during the troubles. They did is on the basis of the material
:07:19. > :07:23.will be kept under lock and key until they were dead. In recent
:07:24. > :07:27.years, the PSNI has successfully taken legal action to gain access to
:07:28. > :07:33.some of the tapes. Now the police are going after Anthony McIntyre. I
:07:34. > :07:40.see this as an attempt to force me to become a witness against people
:07:41. > :07:45.that they allege I interviewed or to reveal the contents and identities
:07:46. > :07:50.of those who I have interviewed. There are no circumstances under
:07:51. > :07:55.which will be doing that. Anthony McIntyre live now listen dropped and
:07:56. > :07:58.no longer lives in Northern Ireland because he fears that being
:07:59. > :08:02.arrested. He served 18 years in prison for IRA offences and insist
:08:03. > :08:09.the police have questioned him about the issues listed in a subpoena.
:08:10. > :08:14.Everybody seems to be agreed at the war is over and if the war is open
:08:15. > :08:16.why is the British state still intent on taking prisoners? A
:08:17. > :08:22.subpoena seeking copies of interviews he recorded about his IRA
:08:23. > :08:26.activities were served by a lawyer for the British government. They
:08:27. > :08:30.acted after the PSNI used an international treaty to seek
:08:31. > :08:34.assistance. A representative of the college has been ordered to appeal
:08:35. > :08:39.in court in Massachusetts next Friday to provide the material
:08:40. > :08:43.presented but Anthony McIntyre's legal team says that request was
:08:44. > :08:47.unlawful. The application for this Pina has to be granted on to basis.
:08:48. > :08:51.Firstly there has to be some evidence of the commission of some
:08:52. > :08:57.offence and secondly there has to be an ongoing inquiry or investigation.
:08:58. > :09:01.In this instance there is no evidence basis of any of that. In
:09:02. > :09:05.the absence of that we say this points to a fishing exercise and we
:09:06. > :09:10.say it doesn't stand up in a court. The research is legal team are given
:09:11. > :09:12.the PPS until five o'clock today to withdraw its request for
:09:13. > :09:17.international assistance but didn't do so. The lawyers will lodge papers
:09:18. > :09:23.of the High Court seeking an emergency review of the legality of
:09:24. > :09:27.the request. What began as a secret project about Northern Ireland's
:09:28. > :09:33.past is now scheduled to be the subject of a secret hearing and an
:09:34. > :09:37.American next week. Those involved mind corporate in police
:09:38. > :09:45.investigations no matter what the outcome.
:09:46. > :09:48.The family of a 95-year-old man who fought in World War II has
:09:49. > :09:50.called for his bravery to be recognised by the French
:09:51. > :09:55.government with the award of the Legion d'Honeur.
:09:56. > :10:02.George Rogers was one of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers
:10:03. > :10:09.who fought at Dunkirk in 1940 and were evacuated. Lisa McAllister has
:10:10. > :10:14.been to meet the veteran. Home from the hell that is Dunkirk. According
:10:15. > :10:21.to many Dunkirk veterans, hell was an understatement. Among the 330,000
:10:22. > :10:26.soldiers rescued from the beaches, was George Rogers, a young rifleman
:10:27. > :10:30.from the Shankill area of Belfast. He's already been awarded a number
:10:31. > :10:35.of medals for bravery and now his family are keen that he receives the
:10:36. > :10:44.Lee John d'honneur. -- Legion d'honneur. It's a lovely thing. I'd
:10:45. > :10:50.love to see one. Who knows? George 's family has applied to the MoD for
:10:51. > :10:53.the award and BBC understands it is considering placing George on a
:10:54. > :10:58.priority list given his age and ill-health which would then be
:10:59. > :11:02.submitted to the French authorities. He deserves to be recognised by the
:11:03. > :11:09.Ministry of Defence. If they move a bit quicker and get this sorted out
:11:10. > :11:15.because I all is almost 97 years of age. He hasn't got too many days
:11:16. > :11:21.left. We just fight on the season and the oceans. On the air. We shall
:11:22. > :11:25.fight on the beaches as we fought emblazoned on Dunkirk. George 's war
:11:26. > :11:28.didn't Dunkirk will stop you went to Burma twice where he was seriously
:11:29. > :11:41.injured when a grenade exploded in his face. Took my nose. In my
:11:42. > :11:57.stomach and all. You're lucky to be alive! Staying free! If I could go
:11:58. > :12:04.back again, I would go back tomorrow. I'll go back tomorrow. I
:12:05. > :12:05.loved it. For George and many like him, the Dunkirk spirit never left
:12:06. > :12:10.them. Now, two weeks ago, we reported
:12:11. > :12:13.on the theft of a number of World War I medals from a house
:12:14. > :12:16.in north Belfast. They were described
:12:17. > :12:19.as of great sentimental value. Well, those medals have been
:12:20. > :12:20.returned. They were awarded to
:12:21. > :12:22.McIntyre Shields Pelan, a sapper in the Royal Engineers
:12:23. > :12:24.who fought at the Last night, the medals were left
:12:25. > :12:28.outside the home of his grandson who said their return
:12:29. > :12:35.restored his faith in human nature. Still to come on the programme:
:12:36. > :12:39.Remembering the Chernobyl disaster, we hear from the Antrim woman
:12:40. > :12:52.who was there at the time. Ahead of the Assembly election,
:12:53. > :12:55.we've been with the main party leaders as they relax away
:12:56. > :12:57.from the campaign trail. This evening, BBC Newsline's Mark
:12:58. > :13:00.Simpson joins the Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt
:13:01. > :13:23.practising his golfing skills. Oh, yes. Oops. Why did you hit it
:13:24. > :13:28.out there? This was your idea. Why golf? I used to play a lot as a
:13:29. > :13:34.juvenile and it's relaxing to come hit a bucket of all is. I don't have
:13:35. > :13:39.time any more to play a round of golf but half an hour on the driving
:13:40. > :13:42.range at the weekend is great. You were a journalist for 20 years. You
:13:43. > :13:50.know what the media are thinking. If you were me, what would you ask Mike
:13:51. > :13:55.Nesbitt? I would say the Mike Nesbitt, how do you feel about the
:13:56. > :14:00.election? Are you in good spirits? You know how the media works. We
:14:01. > :14:07.look for issues will be answer. The executive, will you be in it or out
:14:08. > :14:12.of it? We are looking at a mandate to go into negotiations and at the
:14:13. > :14:16.end of that you make a decision. If you look at your election
:14:17. > :14:19.priorities, one of them is improving mental health. I can't imagine any
:14:20. > :14:27.other Ulster Unionist leader has done that. Why? Poor mental health
:14:28. > :14:31.came to my front door over 20 years ago when Linda was diagnosed as
:14:32. > :14:36.clinically depressed so that put it on our radar. She has done
:14:37. > :14:40.phenomenal work in tackling the stigma and the frustration is ever
:14:41. > :14:43.and agrees. There's an issue. There's interventions that we know
:14:44. > :14:49.about that we could afford and yet were not doing it. You mentioned
:14:50. > :14:53.your wife. Another former TV presenter. We thought she would have
:14:54. > :14:59.been in politics by now. She not go to give it a go? I doubt it. She has
:15:00. > :15:05.on. She's an lecture at Belfast met. You could be in the new Mr and Mrs
:15:06. > :15:09.Clinton. That is properly one of the factors that put off. We never see
:15:10. > :15:15.each other and that's why the marriage is going so well.
:15:16. > :15:25.It moved left to right, that kind of sums you up. Very good! You have
:15:26. > :15:30.brought the party towards the right. I'm not sure. I look at policy in
:15:31. > :15:34.their own right. I make a decision. I would have thought some of our
:15:35. > :15:40.policies are pretty left-wing, with centre-right and other issues. Final
:15:41. > :15:44.question, it's about sport. You're a sports fan. The cover two World Cups
:15:45. > :15:50.with Northern Ireland. Will you also be cheering on the Republic at the
:15:51. > :15:55.Euros? My primary interest is Northern Ireland doing well and
:15:56. > :15:59.coming out of the group but I'm a Unionist and I British but I also
:16:00. > :16:05.have Irish within me and I'm proud to be an Irishman and it part of my
:16:06. > :16:08.identity so I hope they do well and I hope Northern Ireland do well.
:16:09. > :16:13.Wouldn't it be fantastic if they both came out of the group and where
:16:14. > :16:18.to meet in the knockout stage. On that note, Mike Nesbitt, thank you.
:16:19. > :16:21.Ards Football Club says one of its players is in hospital
:16:22. > :16:23.with a fractured skull after an assault in Belfast city
:16:24. > :16:27.The club has reported that Gary Warwick was making his way
:16:28. > :16:30.home from a nightclub when he was attacked
:16:31. > :16:33.The team's manager says the club is sickened
:16:34. > :16:44.We'll get the guy and will be there for him and as I say the main thing
:16:45. > :16:48.for us now is the make sure he gets well soon and hopefully fingers
:16:49. > :16:52.crossed he can get into out and get him to the game on Saturday and
:16:53. > :16:57.finish off what he's been working so hard for these last couple of years
:16:58. > :17:00.in the joint and maybe get him a trophy. That's the plan. We'll be
:17:01. > :17:03.trying our utmost to make that happen.
:17:04. > :17:06.30 years ago today, there was an explosion and fire
:17:07. > :17:08.at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine.
:17:09. > :17:10.The meltdown was the worst nuclear disaster in history.
:17:11. > :17:12.There were 31 deaths among clean-up workers but thousands more deaths
:17:13. > :17:18.One of those who had to leave the area at the time
:17:19. > :17:21.Julie Bond has been talking to our Dublin correspondent
:17:22. > :17:47.The Chernobyl plant was 30 miles from here. The nuclear disaster
:17:48. > :17:52.there forced a mass evacuation. Including those who left, UK
:17:53. > :17:56.university students in the Ukrainian city of the then Soviet Union
:17:57. > :18:01.learning Russian. Among them was a woman originally from Antrim town
:18:02. > :18:03.but now living in county Wicklow. Julie Bond wasn't told about
:18:04. > :18:10.Chernobyl until two days after it happened. We were in our room and
:18:11. > :18:16.another girl who was with those came in and said there was a nuclear
:18:17. > :18:19.explosion, close the window. The lecturers at university were
:18:20. > :18:22.concerned about is. They got in touch with the government and it was
:18:23. > :18:26.direct orders from Margaret Thatcher. And we got back, we were
:18:27. > :18:30.given a health check at Heathrow Airport. With the told we are fine
:18:31. > :18:35.but he'll be a good idea to get health in five or ten years. In the
:18:36. > :18:39.years since Chernobyl, Julie has had a thyroid removed because of cancer
:18:40. > :18:44.and has given birth to three children. One of whom has Down's
:18:45. > :18:50.syndrome. The spite what the medics say, she suspects it all to much of
:18:51. > :18:59.a coincidence. Back then when I have my thyroid removed, the surgeon said
:19:00. > :19:03.that they went able to tell of a thyroid was cancerous and cause by
:19:04. > :19:05.radiation or another reason. The oncologist was dismissive about the
:19:06. > :19:12.Down's syndrome. He said its staff of nonsense. I think medics seemed
:19:13. > :19:19.to be quite quick to say it's nothing. It's great if it's not. The
:19:20. > :19:24.Soviets 30 years ago tried to downplay what happened at Chernobyl.
:19:25. > :19:27.Many believe it could be a while yet before we know the true health
:19:28. > :19:31.consequences of the nuclear disaster.
:19:32. > :19:33.We have a new world champion in the world of sport
:19:34. > :19:37.Mark Sidebottom, table tennis is not usually in the headlines
:19:38. > :19:44.but it is today because of one particular young man.
:19:45. > :19:54.There's nothing quite like a bona fides world champion. That is is a
:19:55. > :20:00.clue what's happened here for the first time ever. Belfast has a world
:20:01. > :20:05.champion. Owen Cathcart, press pause on the table tennis. Tell me about
:20:06. > :20:13.it. What was it like? It was unbelievable. Strong tournament and
:20:14. > :20:17.to win a world junior circuit event, be the first person from Ireland,
:20:18. > :20:21.it's unbelievable. The game itself onto a fifth set. Where you
:20:22. > :20:26.confident? I was confident during the match because I led the whole
:20:27. > :20:29.way through. I won the first set and a 21-1 and I won the third set and
:20:30. > :20:34.he won the fourth. I was always having a lead on him so I felt all
:20:35. > :20:40.the pressure was on him and the fifth set. Where'd you get the time?
:20:41. > :20:44.Spain next week, the Czech Republic, China, where how'd you marry this
:20:45. > :20:51.with school? School have been good about it. I have three classes to
:20:52. > :20:55.catch up and do my work that I miss when I'm at the tournament I take
:20:56. > :20:59.books with me and work when I'm at the tournament but that is how I fit
:21:00. > :21:04.it in. Long may it continue. Thank you. We move to rugby.
:21:05. > :21:07.Ulster have had some bad injury news ahead of Saturday's crucial Pro12
:21:08. > :21:10.Nick Williams has been unsuccessful in his bid
:21:11. > :21:13.to rehabilitate his recent shoulder injury and now faces surgery.
:21:14. > :21:16.That rules him out for the remainder of the season and his playing
:21:17. > :21:19.And winger Tommy Bowe is also unavailable after a mild knee
:21:20. > :21:25.reaction following the recent game against Zebre.
:21:26. > :21:28.Finally, Bethany Firth has just broken the world record in the 200m
:21:29. > :21:31.freestyle in Glasgow to qualify in a third discipline for
:21:32. > :21:43.Cecilia Daly has the latest weather details.
:21:44. > :21:53.The sun was out today. It was pretty cold, though. I don't like the look
:21:54. > :21:59.of the forecasts. Lovely blue skies but also some really cold air.
:22:00. > :22:03.That's what it's about. There will be lovely sunsets this evening but
:22:04. > :22:08.therein mind if you are out the air originally is in the Arctic. That
:22:09. > :22:13.will be coming to the next they ought to. We're hoping this yellow
:22:14. > :22:16.area will wing its way towards as late in the week, particular for the
:22:17. > :22:22.weekend and we should see temperatures in double figures. The
:22:23. > :22:25.night, it will be very cold. It will also be wintry showers around and as
:22:26. > :22:29.temperatures drop below freezing, lower than what you see on the map
:22:30. > :22:36.in the orchards in county Armagh, there could be patches of snow on
:22:37. > :22:42.the hills and on car windscreens. Hopefully not on the roads but for
:22:43. > :22:46.the early risers it will be wintry. Sleet showers falling, hail around
:22:47. > :22:52.as well. Low temperatures and ice on car winds winds. The sons of very
:22:53. > :22:57.early so any frost and will melt. Lying snow will go as well and there
:22:58. > :23:03.will be sunrises that lovely. Strong sunshine coming once again tomorrow.
:23:04. > :23:07.With that, very cold air and still that cold wind from the north-west.
:23:08. > :23:13.12 more in a way of wintry showers across the East competitor Deibert
:23:14. > :23:17.mostly falling as rain, hail, not the many places in double figures
:23:18. > :23:22.tomorrow. This is the weather watcher picture from this morning.
:23:23. > :23:23.You need loads of layers on. Less cold by Thursday but it's a weekend
:23:24. > :23:27.before things start to pick up.