:00:08. > :00:24.A Belfast man, one of the six wrongly convicted for the 1974
:00:25. > :00:27.Birmingham pub Mings, says the reopening of the inquests is a first
:00:28. > :00:31.step to finding the truth. The hearings were stopped when the men
:00:32. > :00:34.were arrested. The families of the 21 people who were killed have
:00:35. > :00:38.carried out a long campaign for fresh inquests and have welcomed
:00:39. > :00:43.today's decision by a senior coroner in the city. She said there was new
:00:44. > :00:44.evidence that there had been two missed warnings of potential
:00:45. > :00:47.attacks. 21 people were killed in Birmingham
:00:48. > :00:58.that day in one of the worst attacks And the emotional impact of today's
:00:59. > :01:08.decision was articulated by one of the victims' relatives, who lost a
:01:09. > :01:14.sister in the bombings. Today is... The most seismic day. For all of us.
:01:15. > :01:22.Our fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers... Are looking down, and
:01:23. > :01:25.they are proud. Thousands of people were enjoying an evening out in
:01:26. > :01:32.Birmingham city centre when two bombs exploded. The first blast was
:01:33. > :01:36.in the Mulberry Bush pub at 8.17. Ten people were killed. Ten minutes
:01:37. > :01:43.later, a second explosion, this time in the talk of the town bar. Another
:01:44. > :01:48.11 people died. Seven of the victims were women, 14 were men. More than
:01:49. > :01:51.200 were injured. A warning had been telephoned to a local Birmingham
:01:52. > :01:55.newspaper, but it was said to have been too vague and too late. In the
:01:56. > :01:59.wake of the bombings, there were anti-Irish protests on the streets.
:02:00. > :02:03.An inquest into the deaths began within days, but was suspended when
:02:04. > :02:09.the police charged six Irishmen with the murders. Those men became known
:02:10. > :02:14.as the Birmingham Six. They spent 16 years in prison before being
:02:15. > :02:17.acquitted and released in 1991. The IRA never formally admitted carrying
:02:18. > :02:21.out the attacks, but they worldwide accepted to have been behind the
:02:22. > :02:25.bombings, and this was acknowledged by a former chief of staff of that
:02:26. > :02:29.organisation. Today, one of the Birmingham Six gave his reaction to
:02:30. > :02:33.the latest developers. I am very pleased. It's the first step that
:02:34. > :02:37.has been taken to finding out the real truth behind the Birmingham
:02:38. > :02:42.bombs. There are too many skeletons in the cupboard. They knew and they
:02:43. > :02:47.had advance warning before the bombs went off. 40 years on, and while the
:02:48. > :02:51.West Midlands Police had argued that their power to reopen the inquests
:02:52. > :02:52.had been lost, the Birmingham coroner rejected that argument. She
:02:53. > :03:24.said she has: West Midlands Police in 2016 has
:03:25. > :03:27.nothing to hide. The failings in 1975 of the botched investigation
:03:28. > :03:32.are the biggest failings in the fourth's history and we don't stand
:03:33. > :03:33.aside from that. The families will now seek answers to questions they
:03:34. > :03:37.have been asking for decades. Senior MI5 and MI6 officers have
:03:38. > :03:39.said they have no evidence that intelligence officers were involved
:03:40. > :03:42.in or condoned abuse at the Kincora Three former staff were jailed
:03:43. > :03:47.after at least 29 boys were abused between the late
:03:48. > :03:52.1950s and early 1980s. Will Leitch reports
:03:53. > :04:05.from the Historical Institutional For decades, there have been
:04:06. > :04:08.allegations that people in positions of authority and influence knew what
:04:09. > :04:15.was happening at Kincora and covered it up. And the secret intelligence
:04:16. > :04:20.community knew as well, but allowed it to continue to protect their
:04:21. > :04:24.sources. There was a vice ring for important, high-ranking people. In
:04:25. > :04:29.the past few days, officers from the secret intelligence service, or MI6,
:04:30. > :04:32.and from MI5 have provide statements to the historical institutional
:04:33. > :04:38.abuse inquiry as it begins to examine sexual abuse at Kincora. One
:04:39. > :04:47.of the officers is known simply as SIDS Officer A. The other is the
:04:48. > :04:59.deputy director of MI5. SIS officer A says he has scene:
:05:00. > :05:16.both MI5 and MI6 have agreed to assist the inquiry fully. Where
:05:17. > :05:19.there have been redactions in the documents provided, the inquiry
:05:20. > :05:23.panel has seen the gist of what was redacted before documents are made
:05:24. > :05:27.public. All the documents and evidence from many state bodies will
:05:28. > :05:32.be examined in detail over the next four weeks. The RUC and PSNI, the
:05:33. > :05:36.Northern Ireland Office, the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Defence,
:05:37. > :05:39.social services and so on. But this is the first clear indication of
:05:40. > :05:41.what the secret intelligence community will be saying.
:05:42. > :05:45.Two former executives of the failed Anglo Irish Bank have been found
:05:46. > :05:49.guilty of conspiracy to defraud following the longest trial
:05:50. > :05:53.It's not known when they'll be sentenced.
:05:54. > :05:57.John Bowe and Willie McAteer misled depositors, lenders and investors
:05:58. > :06:01.by making the bank's corporate deposits look larger than they were.
:06:02. > :06:05.Willie Ateer has previously been convicted of making loans designed
:06:06. > :06:08.to illegally prop up the bank's share price.
:06:09. > :06:11.Anglo was nationalised in 2009 and has cost the Republic's
:06:12. > :06:19.The jury are still considering their verdicts on two other bankers.
:06:20. > :06:23.Martin McGuinness says his visit to a battlefield
:06:24. > :06:26.in Belgium today is part of a journey towards reconciliation.
:06:27. > :06:28.The deputy first minister laid a wreath at Messines,
:06:29. > :06:31.where more than 40,000 men lost their lives in
:06:32. > :06:39.Our political correspondent Gareth Gordon sent this
:06:40. > :06:52.Martin McGuinness's journey has brought him to some unlikely
:06:53. > :06:57.destinations. This was another. The former IRA commander laid a wreath
:06:58. > :07:01.to soldiers who had died for Britain. Irishmen, but Irishmen who
:07:02. > :07:06.lay down their lives for his old enemy nonetheless. The former Prime
:07:07. > :07:12.Minister of the north of Ireland's father lost his life in the First
:07:13. > :07:17.World War. I now have his office in Stormont Castle. I think that shows
:07:18. > :07:23.how things have changed over the course of many decades, how many
:07:24. > :07:28.unimaginable things have occurred and how they have all contributed
:07:29. > :07:34.to, I hope, driving the peace process forward and what I think is
:07:35. > :07:37.the next phase of our peace process which is one of reconciliation.
:07:38. > :07:42.Martin McGuinness says he knows there are those at home on both
:07:43. > :07:45.sides who will resent this visit for different reasons, but he says he is
:07:46. > :07:52.prepared to leave that to the court of public opinion. Mr McGuinness was
:07:53. > :07:55.in Belgium at the invitation of a man who someday wants to see his
:07:56. > :08:00.part of the country, Flanders, go its own way. I believe in peace and
:08:01. > :08:09.dialogue must I am not a separatist, I am a Federalist. This is the
:08:10. > :08:12.solution to a problem in Belgium. I appreciate that there is a peace
:08:13. > :08:18.process in Northern Ireland, that the war has ended and there is now a
:08:19. > :08:23.dialogue and that all the parties are working together to create
:08:24. > :08:28.welfare for Northern Ireland. And here, where the sweet poet sleeps, I
:08:29. > :08:34.hear the songs he left unsung, when winds are fluttering the flowers,
:08:35. > :08:39.and some bells are. This poem was written by an Irish nationalist
:08:40. > :08:44.turned British soldier Francis Leftwich, killed in action in 1970.
:08:45. > :08:49.There were many like him, the great grandfather of one of Martin
:08:50. > :08:52.McGuinness's closest advisers for one. More and more Republicans have
:08:53. > :08:56.been coming forward. They tell me and others that their elders were
:08:57. > :09:01.also killed and are also buried here. So this is part of our shared
:09:02. > :09:07.and complicated history. Tomorrow, Mr Begin it will go to the Sam,
:09:08. > :09:09.hallowed ground for Unionists, where so many of their forefathers died
:09:10. > :09:11.100 years ago. A 30-year-old man is still being
:09:12. > :09:14.questioned in connection with the murder of a pensioner
:09:15. > :09:18.in Bessbrook last year. 73-year-old Eugene Carr died
:09:19. > :09:21.in hospital after being attacked House searches have
:09:22. > :09:24.also been carried out A former Sinn Fein Assembly Member,
:09:25. > :09:30.Phil Flanagan, has lost his legal battle over insurance
:09:31. > :09:33.for a libel case. His insurer, AIG, had refused
:09:34. > :09:37.to cover him when he sent a message on Twitter falsely implying
:09:38. > :09:41.the Ulster Unionist MP Today, a judge ruled that AIG
:09:42. > :09:48.was entitled to withhold cover because Mr Flanagan knew
:09:49. > :09:52.the remark was defamatory. He also ordered Mr Flanagan
:09:53. > :09:55.to pay the legal costs The DUP's Brian Kingston has been
:09:56. > :10:00.elected Belfast's new Lord Mayor. He takes over from Sinn Fein's Arder
:10:01. > :10:04.Carson. Councillor Mary Ellen Campbell
:10:05. > :10:06.from Sinn Fein will serve Carl Frampton has criticised
:10:07. > :10:13.a ruling by boxing's governing body that professionals can compete
:10:14. > :10:17.in the Olympic Games in Rio. The Belfast man said amateur and pro
:10:18. > :10:21.boxing were "two different sports - it's like comparing
:10:22. > :10:22.badminton to tennis". Other local boxers who are heading
:10:23. > :10:39.to Rio gave their reaction I love it. It does take away the
:10:40. > :10:45.amateur status from amateur boxing. But I think they were trying to get
:10:46. > :10:51.away from that anyway. It is the only sport in the games which has
:10:52. > :10:57.remained amateur. If professionals come into the scene, it would not
:10:58. > :11:03.bother me. Manny Pacquiao would be in my weight division. It kind of
:11:04. > :11:08.ruins amateur boxing. That is the pinnacle of amateur sports, getting
:11:09. > :11:11.into the Olympics. Don't mix it. Doesn't make it as interesting. Or
:11:12. > :11:13.it is interesting, but not serious. A look ahead to tomorrow
:11:14. > :11:29.evening's BBC Newsline now. Come on, you boys in green! As the
:11:30. > :11:32.countdown continues to the euro is, what do Republic of Ireland fans
:11:33. > :11:37.think about Northern Ireland? Let's not comment. Next question. We wish
:11:38. > :11:41.both sides to do well. No problem. More from Mark Simpson on BBC
:11:42. > :11:44.Newsline here on BBC One at 6.30. We've had lovely weather today
:11:45. > :11:46.and for the past few days. It looks like this settled spell
:11:47. > :11:57.is set to continue. It has been a flaming Star to June,
:11:58. > :12:02.with temperatures up to 22 degrees. It will stay dry and warm over the
:12:03. > :12:06.next few days, at least in most places. Still more sunshine to come
:12:07. > :12:10.as well. Saturday will bring more cloud and perhaps a few showers, but
:12:11. > :12:15.they will not amount to much and the sunshine will be back on Sunday. It
:12:16. > :12:21.is dry tonight and mostly clear. Temperatures will continue to fall
:12:22. > :12:25.away, maybe a bit lower than this in some rural areas, which may lead to
:12:26. > :12:30.early morning mist and fog. But the sun is up so early that it will burn
:12:31. > :12:34.off very quickly and by and large, we are looking at another warm and
:12:35. > :12:39.sunny day. Maybe a little child for a time over Belfast and County Down,
:12:40. > :12:47.but that will quickly disappear. The best of the weather will be in the
:12:48. > :12:50.Republic of Ireland. At least it is dry across central and eastern areas
:12:51. > :12:52.of England compared to the last couple of days, although
:12:53. > :13:01.temperatures will still be on the cool side. Temperatures could reach
:13:02. > :13:06.up to 21, a bit lower than today, but still a lot of strong sunshine,
:13:07. > :13:10.although it is cooler towards the north coast because of the breeze
:13:11. > :13:16.coming in off the sea. Mr MacLeod clear again on Friday to leave a
:13:17. > :13:23.fine and warm day. -- mist and cloud clear again on Friday. Sunny skies
:13:24. > :13:24.are back again on Sunday in time for the Derry marathon.
:13:25. > :13:28.Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25 in the morning during Breakfast