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There have been calls for a cross-border public inquiry | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
into allegations of corruption at Nama, the Republic's | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
That comes in the wake of a BBC Spotlight investigation | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
which revealed that, Frank Cushnahan, a senior Nama | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
advisor in Northern Ireland, accepted a ?40,000 cash payment | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
The money was handed over by a property developer | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Here's our economics and business editor John Campbell. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Frank Cushnahan is at the centre of this story. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
An experienced businessman and former banker, he | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
was praised by the DUP this during Stormont | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
committee meetings last year. | :00:49. | :01:01. | |
They nominated him to NAMA, the so-called bad bank. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
NAMA was set up to manage the bad property loans | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
The job was to advise NAMA on the 1 billion | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Those loans were owed to the Irish state by major developers. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Spotlight obtained a recording of Frank | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
Cushnahan doing his own cash deal with one of those | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
In return for his ?40,000, John Miskelly was hoping Frank Cushnahan | :01:23. | :01:52. | |
He wanted to refinance his loans, get out of NAMA | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
and retake control of his properties. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
This would represent a serious conflict of interest | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
He has consistently denied any wrongdoing. | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
In a statement, John Miskelly said... | :02:11. | :02:24. | |
By this stage, NAMA has sold its entire | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Northern Ireland portfolio to an American investment fund. | :02:31. | :02:42. | |
But questions are being asked about Frank Cushnahan's role in that seal | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
Spotlight broadcast tapes of another meeting in which | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Frank Cushnahan encourages John Miskelly to lie | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
if the police should ask him about payments. | :02:51. | :03:10. | |
NAMA was again on the agenda at Stormont today. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
The Finance committee members want more answers. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
There must be no hiding place for anyone, no matter | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
who they are or what position they held or still hold. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
A public enquiry on either side of the | :03:26. | :03:36. | |
border seems unlikely while criminal investigations continue into NAMA | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
We may soon get some fresh information. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
The Republic's spending watchdog has completed an enquiry into whether | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
NAMA Northern Ireland's loan seal achieved value for money. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
That report is expected to be published | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
in the coming weeks. John Campbell, BBC newsline. | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
And there's another chance to see that Spotlight investigation | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
It's also available on the BBC iPlayer. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
The Education Minister Peter Weir has reversed Department of Education | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
Guidance issued to principals and school governors today means | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
that primary schools will now be free to help pupils prepare | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
for the test, as our education correspondent | :04:14. | :04:14. | |
A new school year for primary seven pupils in Belfast has just begun. | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
In the past, their teachers couldn't openly help them prepare but from | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
today, primary schools will be able to supply pupils with practice | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
tests, teachers can carry out practice tests with pupils | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
in class and they can teach towards the tests, | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
We'll be able to sit down and discuss with parents | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
how we will practically implement what a primary seven year | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
If we need to do a test on a Monday afternoon, | :04:52. | :05:03. | |
we can teach from over the next day or two, we have the | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
For other principles, making selection more | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
straightforward, it's a backward step. | :05:10. | :05:10. | |
It's short term and it solves a minor problem. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
We all know parents want the best for their children, | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
everybody wants the best for their children but the best | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
is that their children are getting an education | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
with a shared future for everybody so that you don't have a system | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Unsurprisingly, the minister who visited Victoria | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Transfer tests are based around the curriculum. | :05:31. | :05:44. | |
This is not a major divergence on this basis. | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
There has always been the option of parents to either opt | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
in or opt out and that is something that will be respected in that | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
This is providing a degree of freedom. | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
Peter Weir isn't bring back a state run 11 plus | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
system as that would be an unwinnable battle for hearts and | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
What he's done today will mean that schools | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
and parents will have to | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
decide again on where they stand with academic selection. | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
An asylum seeker who was chased down Botanic Avenue in Belfast | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
and stabbed to death by his friend was the victim of a barbaric attack | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
of particular savagery according to a prosecution lawyer. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
Ahmed Noor who is originally from Somalia but who was living | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
at Agincourt Avenue described himself as "Allah's assassin" | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
after stabbing Mohsin Bhatti repeatedly in the chest, | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
The paranoid schizophrenic told the police it was | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
He said "Allah had sent him to kill the man and his mission | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
was complete and he should be locked away forever." | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
Noor admitted manslaughter on the grounds of | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
diminished responsibility. He's due to be sentenced next week. | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
The world premiere of a film about the relationship | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
between Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness has taken | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson was there. | :06:52. | :07:06. | |
Who said Northern Ireland politics were dull? The ruled out the red | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
carpet for an unlikely film about an unlikely friendship, the one which | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
developed between the Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
A fictional drama based on the | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
real-life relationship that these two former enemies somehow forged. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
I'll tell you why we are here in this godforsaken church. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
The film tries to recreate the surprise | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
there was when Sinn Fein and the DUP finally came together. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
How can we even contemplate doing that? | :07:42. | :07:54. | |
That's the first time you've said we. | :07:55. | :08:07. | |
The actors playing Ian Paisley and Martin | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
McGuinness didn't need to be experts in the peace process but they did | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
need to look the part. How did they do it? | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
I said to my wife, what do you think of the chin? | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
Obviously, they made me taller. All of those little snippets. | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
You try and build a big picture from within | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
rather than something that is a preconceived idea. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
There was less work involved to try to recreate | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
I don't think it was quite necessary but they thought | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
I was familiar with him as a political figure. | :08:51. | :09:02. | |
The main characters are played by a Dublin | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
and a Londoner but the writer was local, novelist Colin Bateman. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
What has the reaction been so far at the Venice Film Festival? | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
We've heard the reviews from the London nationals | :09:12. | :09:25. | |
weren't very good and we felt really down and | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
then Variety came through, which is the biggest | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
review of all, and it was an absolute... | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
The mood is very buoyant and I think we will be | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
breaking open a vintage bottle of Buckfast tonight. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Tonight 's world premiere was more of the champagne occasion for all | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
those involved in the movie that everyone else will have to wait to | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
see it. It may not be released in the cinema until early next year. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
The Paralympics Opening ceremony is currently | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
Nigel Ringland has been to meet some of the local athletes taking part. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
The transformation from Olympic to Paralympic city is complete and | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
despite financial problems in the build-up, and the pre-game | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
ticket sales, Rio will once again play host | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
to the world and while there are no local Olympic medals to cheer, there | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
are plenty of reasons to believe the Paralympics | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
Jason Smyth is double double Olympic champion from Beijing and London. | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
This time, reclassification means he can only go for glory for | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Paralympics Ireland in the 100 metres. | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
There's always that extra pressure to go out and perform as | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
the previous champion and hopefully do the same again. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Jason Smyth's middle-distance runner partner Michael McKillop has | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
three gold medals to his name and Michael McKillop has cerebral palsy | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
and has only one opportunity to add to his collection in the | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Claire Taggar has taken part in her first games | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
and will make a Team GB debut. | :11:04. | :11:04. | |
I'm thrilled to be the first person from Northern Ireland to be | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
representing the sport at the Paralympics. | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
I'm just thrilled and hopeful that in the years to come, | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
people will follow me in the GB pathway and | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
they can experience the | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
success like I have and just lived like this. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
The first to hope for a | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
local medal will come in the swimming pool when 2012 gold | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
medallist Bethany Firth hopes to defend her title. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
The 20-year-old will compete for Paralympics GB and is | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
It was an amazing feeling to have that gold | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
medal around my neck and I really want to do | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
it again and hopefully in Rio will have more | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
And the weather now. Here's Geoff Maskell. | :11:46. | :11:59. | |
After if you mild and muggy days there is a bit of a change in our | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
weather. We go into the next few days with a much more mixed weather | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
ahead of us with some potent weather heading in our direction. Lots of | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
activity in the Atlantic and on Friday there is this area of low | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
pressure dampening things down across Northern Ireland. The change | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
begins overnight tonight. This band of rain will work its way down from | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
west to east with them inch of rain in some spots overnight tonight. We | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
are into some cooler fresher conditions and tomorrow will be a | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
mix of sunshine and some brighter spells. Everything moving in quite | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
quickly driven on by this south-westerly breeze. A marked | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
reduction in the temperatures on today's values. Down by 6 degrees in | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
some places. Highs of 1718 Celsius. In much pressure -- fresher feeling | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
day. These wind arrows are driving these showers and across south-east | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
part of England. They are getting progressively cooler as we head | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
towards the systems. Overnight, the showers continue but by Dawn on | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Friday morning, actually not a bad picture, dry and break to begin with | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
but don't be fooled or venture out without a coat because by the end of | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
the day, it will be a very wet Friday evening. The weekend, | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Saturday is certainly looking like the better day. | :13:26. | :13:28. |