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A reminder of the day's main story... The | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
An under-car bomb explodes outside the home of a police officer | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
My colleague goes to work every morning with the sole aim of working | :00:22. | :00:38. | |
to prevent harm in the community. Clubrooms at Healy Park GAA ground | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
in Omagh are badly damaged The RHI Controversy - | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
the Economy Minister is accused of using those who get the subsidy | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
as a political football. The Craigavon-based firm Almac tells | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
MPs it might have to move some work to the Republic | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
as a result of Brexit. Northern Ireland's population is | :00:55. | :01:08. | |
more diverse than ever before. This evening I focus on the newcomers | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
from eastern Europe. Join me and a little bit of Lithuania in the | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
spring. A very wet and very | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
windy night to come We'll have 12 hours of persistent | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
and at times heavy rain with strong A bomb's exploded outside the home | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
of a police officer in Londonderry. It happened as the army | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
tried to defuse it. It's thought the bomb may have | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
been an under-car Our northwest reporter | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
Keiron Tourish is at the scene. Tara, the scene here in Culmore is | :01:40. | :01:54. | |
still cordoned off this evening as the security operation continues. | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
One thing is clear and that is a message from the most senior police | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
officer in the North West, who believes we could easily have been | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
dealing with a major tragedy. The police say an Army bomb disposal | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
experts were in the process of making the bomb sites outside the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
home of a serving police officer when it went off. The district | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
commander was scathing in his condemnation. My colleague is | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
someone who gets up every morning and goes to work with the sole aim | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
of ensuring the safety of the community and working to prevent | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
harm. That is in sharp contrast to the individuals who left a viable | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
explosive device in a residential area with kids and families going to | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
school. The dangers don't need to be explained in depth. My colleagues in | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
the major investigation team have started an investigation and we | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
believe that violent dissident republicans are responsible for this | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
attack. It was found at the home of the police officer at Ardanlee in | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
the Culmore area of the city. It's understood the device was discovered | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
around breakfast time when many children were being taken to school | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
and others weren't leaving for work. A major security operation was put | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
in place and a number of homes were evacuated. The police later extended | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
the cordon. Local people were shot, given the quiet residential nature | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
of the area. Lots of families and children, it's typical of young | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
families. Nothing like this that I have heard happening. I hope it | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
doesn't go back to the old days. Nice and peaceful around here and | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
great for kids growing up. The Policing Board condemned those | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
responsible and said the officer had a lucky escape. We do know that | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
there are dozens of homes in this part of Culmore and detectives have | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
issued an appeal for information. They are keen to hear from anyone | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
who noticed suspicious activity last night or this morning to come | :04:17. | :04:17. | |
forward. A 27-year-old man has | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
appeared in court charged with the manslaughter of Conan | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
Anderson. The 22-year-old died | :04:22. | :04:22. | |
in hospital at the weekend. Conan Anderson, from the Short | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
Strand in Belfast, was a student He suffered head injuries | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
in an incident during a night out Detectives believe it happened | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
at Arthur Lane in the early hours Today at Belfast Magistrates' Court, | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
27-year-old Lawrence Dowie appeared in court accused | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
of his manslaughter. Lawrence Dowie said nothing during | :04:50. | :05:02. | |
the brief hearing. A police officer told the court he believed he could | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
connect him to the charge. He said the accused presented himself | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
voluntarily to Musgrave police station and told the court that | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Larne still we had been threatened and that police are taking the | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
threat seriously. The district judge ordered that neither Larne still | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
we's photograph nor his address can be published. | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
A defence lawyer stressed that the threat had nothing to do | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
with the deceased or anyone associated with him. | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Lawrence Dowie was released on bail and will appear again | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
A clubhouse at the Tyrone GAA county grounds has had to cancel activities | :05:32. | :05:44. | |
after what it described as a despicable attack | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Significant damage was caused to the clubrooms at St Enda's GAA | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Here's our south-west reporter, Julian Fowler. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
The damage left following an overnight robbery. | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
The smell of the drilling equipment used to remove the safes bolted | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
This office is just one of the rooms ransacked by burglars. | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
Every locked door in St Enda's GAA club rooms | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
A lot of people would see this as a large town club, | :06:13. | :06:32. | |
but we are just like every GAA club, the more | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
but we are just like every GAA club, the more money we can raise is | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
There is no profit making here, it is all volunteerism. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
It has a large impact on not only events and activities but also | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
equipment and playing gear and everything, buses, transport, | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
The thieves cut open two gates and broke through a fire escape | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
As well as safes, bottles of spirits and tills were taken from the bars | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
along with club equipment used by some of the 33 teams, including | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
We just have to gather ourselves again and build this great club. | :07:00. | :07:18. | |
The club has cancelled all indoor activities for its youth players | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
as well as social events scheduled to take place this week. | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
Volunteers are now helping to clear up the damage in time for a couple | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
of big matches on Sunday, when 10,000 people are | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
The Economy Minister Simon Hamilton has been accused of using firms | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
getting RHI subsidy as a political football. | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
A barrister told a court his plan to release the names was an attempt | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
to deflect from claims that "DUP cronies" had benefited | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Here's our agriculture and environment | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
The case was made that the push for publication of the names was little | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
A barrister for the boiler owners said there'd been claims | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
what he called DUP cronies had benefitted. | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
I signalled my intention to publish the names. | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
The DUP Economy Minister Simon Hamilton's drive for the release | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
of the names was an attempt to spread the political pain. | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
Gerald Simpson, QC for the boiler owners, said far from being about | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
transparency as Mr Hamilton cleared -- claimed, it was simple political | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
point scoring, tit-for-tat politics, Mr Hamilton essentially saying there | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
had been criticism of the DUP, now let's see how many of your people | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
are in the scheme. The court was told Mr Hamilton had | :08:47. | :08:47. | |
persisted in the face of civil service advice that publication | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
was a breach of data protection. Boiler owners feared a media frenzy, | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
and public criticism culminating The majority of more than 800 firms | :08:54. | :09:06. | |
written to by the Department seeking permission to publish their names | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
had objected, hardly surprising given the stigma that had grown up | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
around the scheme. The feeling these people were being treated as | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
scapegoats and a political football. The Department for the Economy | :09:19. | :09:19. | |
will give its version tomorrow. A court decision on the naming | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
is expected before the election. You're watching BBC Newsline - | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
still to come before 7pm: We're in Dublin, where the | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, is addressing his own TDs about his future. | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
The Prime Minister has attacked those she claims have made | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
a business of dragging soldiers through the courts over incidents | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
which happened in Northern Ireland, saying it's "absolutely appalling." | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
But her remarks have been criticised by a victims group. | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
The PSNI say killings involving former soldiers make up around 30% | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
of the more than 100 being looked at by their legacy | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
But the Secretary of State recently claimed inquiries | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
into killings during the Troubles were disproportionately focused | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Today the Prime Minister joined the argument. | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
As I have made clear, I think it is absolutely appalling | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
when people try to make a business out of dragging our brave | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
In the case of Northern Ireland, 90% of deaths were caused | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
by terrorists and that is essential that the justice | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
It would be entirely wrong to treat terrorists more favourably | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
than soldiers or police officers and that is why, as part | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
of our work to bring forward the Stormont House Agreement Bill, | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
we will ensure that investigative bodies are under a legal duty to be | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
fair, balanced and proportionate so our veterans are not | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
unfairly treated or disproportionately investigated. | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
It was not enough for one of her MPs. | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
There is no prospect of new credible evidence coming forward against our | :11:02. | :11:11. | |
veterans of the Troubles up to 40 years after the event, yet people | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
are starting to use the same techniques in Northern Ireland | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
against them as were used against veterans of Iraq. Surely the answer | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
has to be a statute of limitations preventing the prosecution of | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
veterans to do with matters that occurred prior to the date of the | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
Belfast Agreement. That's not going to happen, | :11:33. | :11:33. | |
according to campaigners. There isn't going to be a statute of | :11:34. | :11:45. | |
limitations, there is no limitation for killings and criminal activity | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
that the British Army were engaged in during the conflict, and | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
presenting soldiers who killed women and children and civilians, | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
presenting them as victims when they killed someone is grotesquely | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
offensive to the many hundreds of families who have been bereaved by | :12:04. | :12:04. | |
British soldiers. The way forward is never easy | :12:05. | :12:05. | |
when we're looking back. Almac, the Craigavon-based | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
pharmaceutical firm, has told MPs that it might have | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
to move some work to the Republic The company said its decision to buy | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
a factory in Dundalk was a direct Here's our economics and business | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
editor John Campbell. Almac is one our biggest and most | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
important local firms. A major part of its business is | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
making products and running trials For those products to be | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
distributed in the EU, But it's not clear how the rules | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
will change for UK-made Almac's customers made it plain | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
that just waiting to see Our acquiring of premises in | :12:46. | :13:03. | |
Dundalk, we made that decision two weeks after the Brexit about because | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
we couldn't wait, and we were asked by customers, and these are major | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
pharmaceutical companies, what is your solution to the EU offering? We | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
could not say wait and see. It may be that ultimately the Brexit | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
deal will mean the rules will stay But if they don't, that will mean | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
more work for the Dundalk operation. We have no desire to change our | :13:23. | :13:35. | |
commercial base as Craigavon from an investment perspective and a | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
staffing perspective, it would be the wrong thing to do, but we have | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
to respond to customers needs and at the facility allows us room to do | :13:45. | :13:45. | |
that if we have to. Aside from these worries | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
about regulations, Almac also warned that intrusive customs checks | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
will be very bad for business. If there is a hard border and checks | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
at that border, any issues which caused those products to be delayed | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
or opened, whether it is a rougher jury to draw on a lorry were seals | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
tampered within the product, will lead us into an uncompetitive | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
situation. Our customers will not tolerate that. | :14:17. | :14:17. | |
Almac reiterated that Craigavon will remain at the centre | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
But like so many businesses, it faces a period of uncertainty | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
and not much in the way of political guidance. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
The SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has warned the "the very idea of | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
power sharing" is at stake in the Assembly election. | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
He was speaking at the launch of his party's manifesto | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Our political correspondent Enda McClafferty was there. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
As venues go, it was a fitting location for the launch | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
As much of the talk inside was about the political spinning | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
And we didn't have to wait too long for the first jibe. | :14:54. | :15:05. | |
I've got man flu. LAUGHTER ??Transmit | :15:06. | :15:14. | |
Man flu has become the latest campaign buzzword. | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
And Colum Eastwood used another one when setting | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
40,000 patients wait over a year for their first outpatient appointment. | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
It is a disgrace that crocodiles have been mentioned more in this | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
election than the crisis in our health service. | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
And health featured at the very top of party's manifesto pledges - | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
promising an emergency health budget. | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
The SDLP is fielding 21 candidates with some familiar | :15:40. | :15:57. | |
But their leader warned it may be some time before those | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
He said the election marked a critical moment for power sharing. | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
If Direct Rule is the result delivered by Arlene and Michelle, | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
it will take a long time to bring back our devolved institutions. | :16:13. | :16:26. | |
As we enter into the final stretch of this election, it is that idea of | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
power-sharing that is now at risk. Colum Eastwood's big challenge is | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
not delivering on the challenges in his manifesto at convincing the | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
80,000 SDLP supporters who have stopped rooting for his party, | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
because he knows that without them his chance for change will not | :16:49. | :16:49. | |
happen. The Fine Gael parliamentary party | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
has been meeting this evening with the expectation | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
that the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, will give some form of indication | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
that he will stand down shortly after meeting President | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
Trump next month. It follows the controversy last week | :17:01. | :17:01. | |
over his government's handling For the latest we're | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
joined now by our Dublin Shane, what's the latest? The Fine | :17:05. | :17:18. | |
Gael parliamentary party meeting of senators and TDs was going on until | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
a short time ago and without giving a detailed time frame Enda Kenny is | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
believed to be telling them he will stand down shortly after returning | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
from Washington and the St Patrick's Day ritual of giving the American | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
president a bowl of shamrock. He will return to a country getting | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
ready for Brexit negotiations and it is expected there will be a meeting | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
of heads of government at the end of March or in April were EU leaders | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
will come up with their opening positions for those negotiations. I | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
suspect Enda Kenny will be Taoiseach at the time of that meeting, if only | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
because of the time it will take the Fine Gael electoral college to | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
choose a successor, but if a perception grows that he is trying | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
to drag out his period as Taoiseach, a motion of no-confidence in his | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
leadership can be expected at a future Fine Gael party meeting. | :18:19. | :18:19. | |
We've seen a rise in the number of people from countries all over | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
the world settle in Northern Ireland. | :18:23. | :18:23. | |
What's being done to help families maintain links | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
Welcome to Lisburn, or should I say a little piece of litter when you're | :18:26. | :18:41. | |
in Lisburn. I'm in a restaurant owned by Edouard R. Why did you come | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
to Northern Ireland? First time for holiday and then staying here until | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
now. You set up a business here. What demand is therefore a | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
Lithuanian restaurant? Nobody had before that the Winnie and food we | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
tried to do something, that was my first dream. About 40,000 people | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
from eastern Europe are now living in Northern Ireland. Initially the | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
newcomers were men and work in the agri-food and engineering sectors | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
but now families have come, bringing their language, food and culture. In | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Armagh, children's whose parents were born in Bulgaria are taking | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
extra language classes but as Gordon Adair discovered, the language is | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
not English. It's Saturday morning, but for these children from newcomer | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
families, it's just another school day. There are not here to cram in | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
extra English lessons, in fact these Bulgarian children are here to learn | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Bulgarian. Every Saturday for about five hours, these children study the | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
language, culture and history of land which is fast becoming not so | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
much their home as their parents'. They are integrating, going to local | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
schools and learning by curriculum, but at the same time they come on | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Saturdays and burnt their own language because that is the only | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
way to keep their national identification. So they don't forget | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
who they are and where they are coming from, it doesn't matter they | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
live in Northern Ireland, their roots are Bulgarian. It's important | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
to know your language and where you are from. This is my own country, | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
that is important to me. Often children start to lose their | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
language after the first year. If they decide to go home in future, | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
especially now when Brexit is coming, they have to have Bulgarian | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
in place and be able to go back and study in a normal school in | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Bulgaria. So for these children things are very different than they | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
were for their parents. They felt like strangers in a strange land | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
arriving here as migrants. These children who were born here clearly | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
feel Northern Ireland is as much their home as Bulgaria. I am here | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
with the lady who was born in lift the Winnie and came here when she | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
was 16. You are an interpreter. In regards language from people who | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
come from eastern Europe, what difficulties do they have? | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
Difficulties in day to day tasks, owing to the banks, dealing in | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
health centres, hospitals, they may be told they have some serious | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
illnesses and they usually look at the Doctor blankly and don't | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
understand what they are talking about. Brexit is a worry for many | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
Eastern European 's and tomorrow I will be in Dungannon, where there is | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
a conference discussing the issues around Brexit. That is on tomorrow's | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
Newsline. As the weather is about to take a | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
turn for the worse. There is some work being done on a County Down | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
farm. Rambo the labrador was helping his owner with some ploughing on a | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Seaford farm. You can see more on our Facebook page. Geoff, how much | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
do we have to brace ourselves? We have Storm Doris on the way, the | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
fourth named storm of the winter but I don't think we will see the worse, | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
we do have weather warnings in place for rain and strong winds across | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
parts of Northern Ireland tomorrow. That rain has already started and it | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
will sit over us for about 12 hours overnight and tomorrow morning, and | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
we will hold onto that cold wet and windy theme through Thursday. I | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
don't think Northern Ireland will see the worst of it, that will be | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Scotland where we could see four or five centimetres of snow across the | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
Central Belt and into Edinburgh, further south we have stronger winds | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
across North Wales and central England, so we have a mist of | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
warnings in place for rain and snow across Northern Ireland and Scotland | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
and then this big area of warning for Wales and England, including | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
this amber zone where the worst damage is affected, so if you are | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
planning a trip across the water tomorrow, there could be disruption. | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
We have strong winds coming in is that Northwest breeze is funnelled | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
into the North Channel, so that could make driving challenging in | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
the morning. Through the day there could be some brightness, some | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
wintriness in the showers and raw feel to the day, top temperatures of | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
six or seven but feeling better in the breeze. Overnight things start | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
to clear a little and the temperatures will drop away, so by | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
Friday morning the risk of some icy patches, a chilly start to the day | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
on Friday before more rain arrives during the day to spread into old | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
parts, so we keep that unsettled theme. Towards the weekend we will | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
start to draw the breeze out of the north-west, so as these fronts come | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
through it draws in some more Mander, so it will still be wet and | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
windy but at least come Saturday the temperatures will be in double | :24:55. | :24:55. | |
figures. | :24:56. | :24:58. |