:00:07. > :00:11.Good evening, welcome to BBC Newsline.
:00:12. > :00:14.The DUP's Simon Hamilton has voiced his support for party leader
:00:15. > :00:16.Arlene Foster after the DUP's vote share fell in the Assembly election.
:00:17. > :00:19.The former economy minister told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme
:00:20. > :00:22.Mrs Foster has the support of the party.
:00:23. > :00:25.Meanwhile, Sinn Fein have repeated that they will not support
:00:26. > :00:27.Arlene Foster becoming First Minister until the RHI
:00:28. > :00:30.inquiry has investigated her role in the scheme.
:00:31. > :00:37.Here's our Political Correspondent, Stephen Walker.
:00:38. > :00:41.Tomorrow, successful candidates will make this journey.
:00:42. > :00:44.They will familiar landmarks and it will all seem as if nothing has
:00:45. > :00:50.But make no mistake, the political landscape
:00:51. > :00:55.Negotiations now begin to try and put a power-sharing
:00:56. > :01:03.Today in the Sunday Politics studio, the difficulties
:01:04. > :01:13.Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd repeated his party's position
:01:14. > :01:15.that they will not support Arlene Foster as First Minister
:01:16. > :01:17.before the report on the RHI scheme is made public.
:01:18. > :01:20.If the DUP decide after the talks that take
:01:21. > :01:21.place in the next couple of
:01:22. > :01:24.weeks, that they are going to nominate Arlene Foster as joint
:01:25. > :01:26.First Minister, Sinn Fein will not support
:01:27. > :01:29.If the DUP decide, Sinn Fein will not support that nomination.
:01:30. > :01:32.So what of Arlene Foster and her position as DUP leader?
:01:33. > :01:34.The party once had 38 seats, now it is down to 28.
:01:35. > :01:37.She has my full support, she has the support of the party
:01:38. > :01:39.and most importantly of 225,000 people
:01:40. > :01:41.across Northern Ireland who voted for the DUP and
:01:42. > :01:47.The SDLP said they have not ruled out returning to the Executive,
:01:48. > :01:49.but the conditions must be right, they said.
:01:50. > :01:51.We were up for going into the
:01:52. > :01:54.government in May, but we are not going to take scraps and not have
:01:55. > :02:07.Things would absolutely need to change.
:02:08. > :02:09.And the Alliance Party want commitments, as well.
:02:10. > :02:12.We are quite happy to sit in opposition and to do that job
:02:13. > :02:17.If the Executive is willing quite happily to sit in opposition.
:02:18. > :02:19.However, independent Claire Sugden said she would serve
:02:20. > :02:26.Wounded after the election, the Ulster Unionists must decide
:02:27. > :02:27.if they want opposition or Government,
:02:28. > :02:30.and then there is the issue of who leads their party
:02:31. > :02:41.You would have a lot of work to do if you are taking over the reins
:02:42. > :02:44.It was a very disappointing performance.
:02:45. > :02:46.I can't argue with coming back with ten seats.
:02:47. > :02:49.Already the Secretary of State, James Brokenshire, has been
:02:50. > :02:51.in contact with the parties and he says he's not contemplating
:02:52. > :02:56.Under the law, the Executive has to be formed within three weeks.
:02:57. > :03:05.Not for the first time, the clock is ticking at Stormont.
:03:06. > :03:08.A woman who was rescued after her kayak capsized
:03:09. > :03:10.in County Antrim says she's extremely lucky to be alive.
:03:11. > :03:12.Hannah Birt's dramatic rescue was captured on camera
:03:13. > :03:15.by the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, who say it's one
:03:16. > :03:17.of the most difficult rescues they've had to carry out.
:03:18. > :03:34.got my head above water at
:03:35. > :03:45.It was only the force of the water which kept me up.
:03:46. > :03:48.Actually, dealing with the incident in order to release her proved very
:03:49. > :03:50.difficult, because in effect, we had to get
:03:51. > :03:51.our people downstream of the
:03:52. > :03:55.canoe and we had to exert tremendous effort against the flow of water to
:03:56. > :03:58.Sport and Slaughtneil have won the All-Ireland Club
:03:59. > :04:02.by beating Sarsfields 1-10 to 11 points at Croke Park in Dublin.
:04:03. > :04:03.The teams of the townland in County Londonderry
:04:04. > :04:07.games and today's win means that this team is the most
:04:08. > :04:10.Slaughtneil will try to complete a remarkable double
:04:11. > :04:16.as their footballers play in the St Patrick's day final.
:04:17. > :04:27.Let's get a look at the forecast for the week ahead, here's Angie.
:04:28. > :04:33.Most of today's show was confined to these health is done for many was
:04:34. > :04:39.the better day of the weekend. The new week begins dry, be deceptively
:04:40. > :04:43.so. That is quite a changeable week. There will be spells of rain moving
:04:44. > :04:48.through and it will also be quite windy. But at least the winds are
:04:49. > :04:52.light tonight. A pew showers towards the north and west, inland as well,
:04:53. > :04:58.dry and cold, temperatures at freezing, so that will lead to frost
:04:59. > :05:04.and icy patches and one or two macro fog. Tomorrow, we will see rain
:05:05. > :05:12.around, but it is a bright, cold store without frost. But some lovely
:05:13. > :05:16.sunshine around and generally a mixture of sunshine and showers.
:05:17. > :05:20.Some blustery showers coming off the North Sea and elsewhere, there are
:05:21. > :05:24.more scattered and mainly light showers. Cloudy across the Republic,
:05:25. > :05:28.spells in the south-west and they will be clearing away and turning
:05:29. > :05:37.showery. Casting out to the west, another batch of rain are moving in.
:05:38. > :05:40.That is extended towards others. Temperatures away - 9 degrees. They
:05:41. > :05:46.will fall away as the rain approaches. Some hill snow likely.
:05:47. > :05:52.The rest of the week, unsettled. Low-pressure moving in. The gap into
:05:53. > :05:57.Wednesday before the next with a system that runs in four Thursday.
:05:58. > :06:02.It will turn wet and windy across many parts of the country as we go
:06:03. > :06:08.through Tuesday. The rain moves in and it clears away later and mild
:06:09. > :06:11.air comes in behind it and bright spells for eastern areas showers
:06:12. > :06:16.toward the north and west. But even there some bright intervals. As we
:06:17. > :06:20.head toward Thursday, the next weather system will be knocking on
:06:21. > :06:24.the door. Clouds will gather and once again, spells of rain and quite
:06:25. > :06:29.brisk wind. Quite a changeable week coming up.