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A radical plan by Northern Ireland's most senior judge to deal | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
with inquests into controversial Troubles-related killings | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
The Stormont Executive failed to sign off | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
The Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan wanted funding for a five | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
year programme to hear the inquests, but a proposed bid for the money | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney has | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Dozens of outstanding legacy inquests were main to be heard. -- | :00:36. | :00:48. | |
remain to be heard. They include some of the Troubles's is | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
controversial killings with security force involvement and collusion | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
allegations. The Lord Chief Justice announced three years ago a plan to | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
deal with the inquests for the victims. He said all inquests would | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
be heard in five years. Among those was the daughter of one of those | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
killed in Barry Murphy in 1971. The Lord Chief Justice was very | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
positive. He gave that family in that they come home. The rest of the | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
valley firm of the families too. The plan is now on hold. The BBC has | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
established at the Department of Justice spoke Declan Morgan about | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
his plan and then submitted to papers on the issue to the Stormont | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Executive in March. The papers included a proposal to ask the | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
Secretary of State to release more than ?10 million of funding stop the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
government had promised its to do with the past. But the issue was an | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
included on the agenda for discussion at the last meeting of | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
the Executive in March. The discussion, no agreement, no | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
funding. Last week, the judge in charge of the coroner's cord broke | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
the news in a letter to legal teams representing the families. Mr | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
Justice Cockburn submitted the letter last month. He said the Lord | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Chief Justice is still awaiting a decision. As a result the letter | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
said it's all clear -- unclear when Sir Declan's plan can be | :02:25. | :02:25. | |
implemented. The Lord Chief Justice is understood to be disappointed by | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
the Executive Mike 's failure to act on the present. This man's son was | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
with him on the day he was killed. He is now seriously ill in hospital | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
and this delay fears that he will now load longer see the outcome. I | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
promised him before he died that the case would be close, and I now feel | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
if I'm letting him down because of what I have promised him. He's not | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
going to see what he is fighting for four Justice, for his dad. Under the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
sector's rules, the funding proposal needed agreement of the for deputy | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
ministers. Several pros have told the ministers that First Minister | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Arlene Foster blocked its inclusion. In a statement this afternoon the | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
DUP said that the proposal would have impacted on the proposal of the | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Executive to address the needs of the victims. The new executive with | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
the addressing the issue next week after it is formed. It is said that | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
the British Government has a responsibility to fund the legacy | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
request, according to Sinn Fein. A 34-year-old man has pleaded | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
guilty to the manslaughter Margaret Evans, who was known | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
as Margo, was found dead in June 2014 at the house she shared | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
with her son. Alun Kinney Evans had previously | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
denied murdering her but today he changed his plea to admit | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
manslaughter on the grounds The final televised debate | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
of the assembly election campaign has taken place involving | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
the five main parties. The DUP's Arlene Foster, | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, Mike Nesbitt of the UUP, | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Colum Eastwood of the SDLP, and the Alliance Party's | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
David Ford all took part. They discussed a series of issues | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
including who should be First Minister, hospital waiting | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
lists, the past and Our political correspondent | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
Stephen Walker watched the debate. In the BBC's Studios, politicians | :04:28. | :04:44. | |
from the five main parties were put through their paces by audience | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
members and presenter Noel Thompson. It was the issue of who should be | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
First Minister that brought the first clash. Between Mike Nesbitt | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
and Arlene Foster. What Arlene has is a five word plan, do not mention | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Peter Robinson. I have... I have a 1-point plan, though. The Ulster | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Unionist 1-point plan is make it work. Make Stormont work. That is | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
what I'm hearing. I would like to come back on that. Busy Mike has | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
different versions of the letters because we've sent three different | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
letters... That is version four, and that is version three. That's talk | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
about that. Unlike Mike Nesbitt, I remember the bad old days of | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
pushover unionism. I remember what it was night in 1998 when we had a | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
connection to the IRA. I remember what happened on the issues of | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
prisoner... David Ford said the ultimate Oliver Houston the First | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Minister was about trying to frighten people. It is rather sad | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
that it is now the third election in the road in the DUP's campaign has | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
been based on the politics of fear, not looking forward, but looking | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
back, and the first question you asked, we get this discussion, | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
looking back to what happened in the bad old days not looking forward to | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
the future, not looking about growing our country, building a | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
united community, not looking to meet needs for the children to stop | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
emigrating to stop just days who's biggest and he was not. Tension | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
between Martin McGuinness was on display -- between him and Colin | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
eastward. Column really doesn't know what he wants to do because on the | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
one hand he is telling people that he is fighting this election on the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
basis of being a government, but on the other hand he is saying... The | :06:35. | :06:46. | |
people will speak! With all of the challenges that we face and the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
reality that we had to negotiate the trees as a programme for government | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
with the needs of government. People. David Ford. Not like the | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
south, by the way, where they have used to go into government. The | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
leaders also faced persons in the past and the economy. This debate is | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
over and the election campaign now enters its final hours. Voting is on | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Thursday and counting begins on Friday, but it's likely to be | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Saturday before we start to get a glimpse of what the new assembly | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
looks like. Stephen Walker, BBC newsline, and the leader' debate in | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
Belfast. Two people remain in a critical | :07:31. | :07:31. | |
condition in hospital The crash which involved three cars, | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
happened on the Collin Road between Ballyclare and Ballymena | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
yesterday evening. The double killer Hazel Stewart has | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
been denied legal aid for her attempt to keep police | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
pension benefits given to her after the death | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
of her first husband, Stewart is serving a minimum | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
18-year jail sentence for murdering the police officer | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
and Lesley Howell, the wife The National Crime Agency is seeking | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
a court order to make The fallout has continued over | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
a tweet posted by the Sinn Fein president at the weekend | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
in which he used the 'N' word. He apologised and said he was trying | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
to compare the plight of US slaves to the treatment of | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Irish nationalists. Today the DUP leader Arlene Foster | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
said his social media message was a massive test of leadership | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
for Sinn Fein. Our political correspondent | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Enda McClafferty reports. Even by his own admission, Gerry | :08:33. | :08:44. | |
Adams lives life on the edge when it comes to Twitter. But this latest | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
tweet is one he went to go away. The Sinn Fein president has hoped his | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
apology yesterday for using the N word would draw a line under the | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
controversy, but today his political opponents upped the ante. What is | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
does is call into question once again Gerry Adam's leadership of | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Sinn Fein, and Gerry Adams' fitness to be a political leader in Ireland | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
in this day and age. In any other political artsy in the other country | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
the world in any dramatic Arctic society, anyone trying to defend | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
remarks like this, it is usually the end of their political career. The | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
DUP leader Arlene Foster were those that Foster suggesting Sinn Fein | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
needed to do more than except what was a half-hearted apology. This is | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
a big challenge for the Sinn Fein leadership, it is a similar service | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
to one faced by Jeremy Corbyn faced in the Labour Party with | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
anti-Semitic behaviour in the Labour Party, and Gerry Adams needs to set | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
up to this issue, as the Sinn Fein, and everyone is watching how they | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
deal with it. But in response, the Sinn Fein said unlike the DUP they | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
have been unequivocal in word and stayed in their opposition to racism | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
and they described Arlene Foster's remarks as a cheap political swipe. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Jerry's human just like the rest of us, is just an honest mistake, I | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
think that Gerry Adams's credentials in standing up for people | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
marginalised and discriminated in society, right across, suggests to | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
me that on this occasion this was an aberration. It was something that no | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
doubt Gerry regrets. The bigger concern for Sinn Fein might be the | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
controversial treat coverage in the US stop it has been covered by some | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
of the big news organisations. I think it will do Northern Ireland | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
damage in America, and we look to America for inward investment, to | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
create jobs and wealth that I want for people of northern Ireland. In | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
explaining why he wants to draw a comparison between the plight of | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
slaves in America and the Irish nationals here, Gerry Adams claimed | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
he was a founding member of the civil rights movement. But not | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
according to the commentator Brian Feeney. In 1964 he was 18, and | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
everyone knows who the family members were. He set up the Civil | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Rights Association. Gerry Adams was involved in protests about housing | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
and associations and flats and joined the association, but | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
certainly wasn't involved in founding the Civil Rights | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
Association. The Sinn Fein president went back on Twitter this morning, | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
telling his 100,000 plus followers of his media engagements today. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
There seems to be one tweet still missing from his account, which will | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
follow him for longer than you might like. | :11:46. | :11:45. | |
Angie Phillips has the latest weather forecast. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Hello. Good evening. After a couple of bright showery days we have a | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
little bit of a change on the way for tomorrow, but staying mainly dry | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
tonight, initially with some clear spells but tonight a little bit more | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
of a breeze from the south and abysmal cloud starting to edge in. | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
At least that means it won't be too cold, maybe around four or 5 degrees | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
or so in the countryside. Through tomorrow it is a slightly different | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
day. Cloudier skies very last couple of days, the breeze picking up | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
against them and for some of us a little bit of rain in the forecast | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
as well. In the morning, still not too bad. There will be a fair amount | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
of cloud, but Sunrise held at this point in time, but the breeze | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
continuing to pick up. That is ahead of a weather front pushing in to the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
west of Ireland and west of Scotland, becoming quite naturally | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
in places as it does but there will be probably some persistent bursts | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
to the north-west. Clouding over towards the north of England, | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
north-western parts of Wales but other than that it is dry in the | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
west of England and Wales -- rest of England and Wales. Decent averages | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
as well, light winds, highs of ageing in the south-east. Northern | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
Ireland, the afternoon, the rain starts to get its way in the west, | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
mainly light, and it continues to push its way eastwards later in the | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
day, becoming even more patchy, so part of the east may not see it at | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
all. Even then, only a few spits in spots. Fairly most averages, 13 | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
degrees will stop things improve, the fund moves away and on Thursday | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
and Friday we are back to dry weather, variable a crowd, and some | :13:21. | :13:21. | |
brightness around as well. Our next BBC Newsline | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
is at 6:25am in the morning You can also keep updated | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
with News Online. | :13:31. | :13:31. |