:00:08. > :00:09.Good evening and welcome to BBC Newsline.
:00:10. > :00:13.The DUP Leader Arlene Foster said she intends to engage with Irish
:00:14. > :00:19.speakers in a move to better understand the language.
:00:20. > :00:21.Her comments come as talks aimed at restoring devolution failed
:00:22. > :00:27.The Secretary of State has paused the process and says
:00:28. > :00:30.if there is no deal by early May, he will either call another election
:00:31. > :00:33.Meanwhile Downing Street has confirmed that the Prime Minister
:00:34. > :00:36.discussed the political situation here in separate phone
:00:37. > :00:38.calls with Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill.
:00:39. > :00:49.Here is our Political Correspondent, Stephen Walker.
:00:50. > :00:55.Tonight in an East Belfast hotel Arlene Foster briefed her party
:00:56. > :01:05.colleagues on the talks process. In the audience were DUP MPs, MLAs, in
:01:06. > :01:10.Stormont it has been busy with tourists but Assembly members are
:01:11. > :01:14.having to wait. Today at lunchtime that DeLay got longer when the
:01:15. > :01:18.Secretary of State paused the talks. He said although further progress
:01:19. > :01:41.has been made: That means either a second election
:01:42. > :01:44.or a return to decision making from Westminster.
:01:45. > :01:46.One of the stumbling blocks as Irish language. Today Arlene Foster made
:01:47. > :01:55.this statement. For our part we do want to respect
:01:56. > :01:58.and indeed better understand the language and culture
:01:59. > :02:01.which we are not a part of. And to that end, over the next
:02:02. > :02:03.short period of time, I do intend to listen,
:02:04. > :02:05.to engage with those from the Gaelic Irish background,
:02:06. > :02:13.those without party political baggage, or indeed demands,
:02:14. > :02:15.but people who genuinely love the Irish language and
:02:16. > :02:28.don't want to use it as Earlier it was obvious just how
:02:29. > :02:35.important Sinn Fein see this issue. If you are a Scots Gaelic Speaker
:02:36. > :02:44.you have a Scots Gaelic act, a Welsh Speaker, a Welsh act, if you lived
:02:45. > :02:52.here, as a sign of you British list you do not have a language act.
:02:53. > :02:55.Other parties have a sense of time standing still.
:02:56. > :02:57.Sometimes when you are sitting around a table discussing issues
:02:58. > :02:59.it is almost like Back to the Future.
:03:00. > :03:01.Discussing matters today, the exact same issues three
:03:02. > :03:08.Others see this lack of progress is not acceptable.
:03:09. > :03:12.I don't know how I can look at the public when I meet them over
:03:13. > :03:14.the next couple of days, when once again we have
:03:15. > :03:22.If the parties cannot make a deal the focus will switch to London.
:03:23. > :03:26.This week the Prime Minister reiterated support for devolution in
:03:27. > :03:30.phone calls to Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster.
:03:31. > :03:36.Another deadline has come and gone. James Brokenshire has made it clear
:03:37. > :03:39.there will not be another Good Friday Agreement Mach two. Instead
:03:40. > :03:41.he says, do a deal by early May or face another election, or direct
:03:42. > :03:48.rule. In a statement a short time ago,
:03:49. > :03:51.Janet Muller from the Irish language advocacy group,
:03:52. > :03:54.Pobal, said it would gladly accept Arlene Foster's invitation to meet
:03:55. > :03:56.with Irish speakers, and had written to her to arrange
:03:57. > :04:02.a meeting. Police are treating an overnight
:04:03. > :04:05.attack on the home of a Polish A brick was thrown into the house
:04:06. > :04:12.and landed in a baby's cot. The child was in the parents'
:04:13. > :04:15.bedroom and no one was injured. An attack that could have
:04:16. > :04:28.left his baby seriously injured. This morning, smashed glass
:04:29. > :04:30.was still lying throughout this Bricks were thrown to the front
:04:31. > :04:36.and rear of the house Broken glass landed in the baby's
:04:37. > :04:43.cot but she was sleeping The couple are originally
:04:44. > :04:47.from Poland and police are treating Certainly at this stage
:04:48. > :04:51.we are treating it as Behind every statistic
:04:52. > :05:12.there is a person and a victim. In this case a very frightened
:05:13. > :05:15.family. This attack happened
:05:16. > :05:16.just before 2:30am. The young couple and the baby
:05:17. > :05:19.girl were asleep inside. They've lived here for just over
:05:20. > :05:21.a year and neighbours have described them as quiet,
:05:22. > :05:30.kind and hard-working. People here are hard-working
:05:31. > :05:44.and will give these Police are appealing
:05:45. > :05:48.for information. A former investigator
:05:49. > :05:50.with the Police Ombudsman's Office has been arrested as part
:05:51. > :05:52.of an investigation into the alleged theft
:05:53. > :05:54.of sensitive security documents. It is understood the documents
:05:55. > :05:57.contained information which the police and the security
:05:58. > :06:00.service MI5 believe could put The BBC understands
:06:01. > :06:06.they were released to lawyers without authorisation
:06:07. > :06:08.from the Ombudsman or the PSNI. A 69-year-old man was arrested
:06:09. > :06:18.in Dartford in Kent on Sunday after the PSNI conducted a joint
:06:19. > :06:22.search with local police. It is understand the man retired
:06:23. > :06:25.from the ombudsman's office a number of years ago and the documents
:06:26. > :06:28.do not refer to any case A statement said they were alerted
:06:29. > :06:38.to the theft last week. A spokesman said that the material
:06:39. > :06:41.came to light during legal proceedings not connected
:06:42. > :06:44.to the office. The ombudsman asked the police
:06:45. > :06:48.to begin a criminal investigation into how and when this happened,
:06:49. > :06:50.and also informed the Meanwhile Steve Martin,
:06:51. > :07:05.of PSNI confirmed that a man has been
:07:06. > :07:07.arrested as part at the centre of this inquiry
:07:08. > :07:29.as regarded as historic. While we do not know the precise
:07:30. > :07:33.details of what is in them the PSNI has suspended the release of any
:07:34. > :07:35.further sensitive materials with the Ombudsman's Office
:07:36. > :07:37.until the review of security Questions are being asked about why
:07:38. > :07:46.a company which owns a dam on the outskirts of Belfast drained
:07:47. > :07:48.most of it last week. The company says it did it
:07:49. > :07:52.on the advice of a Government agency which told it to reduce
:07:53. > :07:54.the risk of flooding. Our Agriculture and
:07:55. > :07:57.Environment correspondent The dam has been in private
:07:58. > :08:06.ownership for years. But the public has
:08:07. > :08:09.always had access. Last Friday a digger was used
:08:10. > :08:12.to breach the retaining wall allowing most of the water to flow
:08:13. > :08:17.into an adjoining river. You can see the level
:08:18. > :08:21.where the water used to come up to, When that retaining wall
:08:22. > :08:27.was breached thousands of gallons of water flowed out of here,
:08:28. > :08:30.draining this lake overnight. Locals claim that impacted
:08:31. > :08:32.waterfowl, including ducks The water would have went
:08:33. > :08:39.right out to the edge, right far back to those reeds,
:08:40. > :08:42.it would have come up there. Wild birds, their eggs
:08:43. > :08:47.and nests are protected The PSNI said there
:08:48. > :08:52.was an investigation This afternoon representatives
:08:53. > :09:04.from several political parties turned up to see
:09:05. > :09:10.the situation for themselves. I want to see if we can get
:09:11. > :09:17.the sluice gate put back on. The local MP spoke to a property
:09:18. > :09:31.developer that he believes He said there was concern this
:09:32. > :09:34.reservoir was not safe, and there was a risk to people's houses.
:09:35. > :09:35.New laws have thrown up unintended consequences,
:09:36. > :09:37.including difficulty of getting planning permission for sites
:09:38. > :09:40.downstream of dams and reservoirs that have not been surveyed
:09:41. > :09:57.and do not have a safety certificate.
:09:58. > :10:00.This held water that came at flood times and now it will not
:10:01. > :10:05.The company that owns the dam said a survey has been carried out
:10:06. > :10:07.and they had been told by the Rivers Agency
:10:08. > :10:11.to take steps to reduce the risk of flooding.
:10:12. > :10:22.The concern of locals now is to stem the flow of water in the short term.
:10:23. > :10:25.Carl Frampton has told BBC Newsline he has several options for his next
:10:26. > :10:28.fight as talks continue to tempt a high profile opponent to Belfast.
:10:29. > :10:35.Among them, is the possibility of a non world title bout this summer.
:10:36. > :10:38.Immediately after his defeat in Las Vegas Carl Frampton insisted
:10:39. > :10:41.that his next fight would be in his home city.
:10:42. > :10:44.He wanted a rematch with Leo Santa Cruz,
:10:45. > :10:52.while Welshman Lee Selby was also viewed as an attractive option.
:10:53. > :10:55.I am not optimistic on either one but there are other names
:10:56. > :11:07.We will get something announced pretty soon.
:11:08. > :11:10.The position I am in at the minute, I will not fight a mug.
:11:11. > :11:20.Doesn't need to be a world title fight? It does not.
:11:21. > :11:24.Sometimes it is difficult to fight for a world title straight off
:11:25. > :11:28.the back of a loss but it needs to be a big fight and it will be.
:11:29. > :11:31.Has it been difficult to try to tempt people here?
:11:32. > :11:36.He told people he would come to Belfast but that was not to be.
:11:37. > :11:38.That is the way things happen in this game.
:11:39. > :11:43.I am a big draw, I sell a lot of tickets, that brings big
:11:44. > :11:46.A Santa Cruz trilogy fight remains the long-term goal
:11:47. > :11:51.but Carl Frampton might have to wait.
:11:52. > :12:02.Now here's Angie Philips with the weather forecast.
:12:03. > :12:09.Details in the forecast difficult to pin down. There will be areas of
:12:10. > :12:13.cloud and eight a few showers. If you show us through the course of
:12:14. > :12:21.tonight towards the north and parts of the West. In line it is dry with
:12:22. > :12:29.some clear spells. Quite cool. The odd pockets of crass frost. Tomorrow
:12:30. > :12:36.the cloud becomes an issue once again. A cool start but a bright one
:12:37. > :12:41.with a view consists of sunshine. Through the morning we see cloud
:12:42. > :12:47.rolling in from the West. Not just into Northern Ireland, into the
:12:48. > :12:51.republic well. Morsel towards northern and Western Scotland, quite
:12:52. > :12:55.breezy, more frequent showers, if you drifting down to wards the
:12:56. > :13:04.north-west of England. Further south and East it is mainly dry. It is a
:13:05. > :13:08.cloudy afternoon for Northern Ireland. That cloud will be thick
:13:09. > :13:11.enough in places to produce patchy rain particularly towards the north
:13:12. > :13:20.and parts of the West. Not amounting to a great deal. Still a fair amount
:13:21. > :13:23.of dry weather around. As we head towards Good Friday and Saturday a
:13:24. > :13:26.fair amount of cloud and some bright spells. If you showers as well.
:13:27. > :13:30.Patchy rain for Easter Sunday perhaps.