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00:00good afternoon this bank holiday monday russia has confirmed that one of its helicopters with

00:11five people on board has been shot down over the syrian province of idlib russia's interfax news

00:17agency said the crew had been returning to its base after delivering aid to the besieged city

00:23of aleppo when it was brought down these pictures are said to show the wreckage of the helicopter

00:29around 40 kilometers from aleppo where rebel groups are involved in an offensive to break a

00:34government siege on rebel-held parts of the city according to activists resident residents are

00:40burning tires to create what they describe as a smoke curtain against aerial attacks turkey's

00:48state-run news agency is reporting that special forces have arrested 11 soldiers who were involved

00:53in an attempt to capture president tayyib erdogan during last month's veil coup

01:01in a area near marmaris the arrests followed the dismissal of almost 1400 members of the armed forces

01:09tens of thousands of people have been detained dismissed or suspended from the military judiciary

01:15civil service and education accused of involvement in trying to overthrow the government

01:19in afghanistan the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on a compound in kabul

01:26in which a police officer was killed and several others injured police say the attack began when a

01:33truck bomb went off outside the building which houses foreign contractors a number of assailants then

01:39entered the compound and a gun battle involving troops and police went on for several hours

01:44cases here a man has been charged with a number of road traffic offenses at a special sitting of

01:51cavin district court a child was in the back of the car when it was taken from the diamond in clonus

01:57on saturday evening she was found safe and well about four miles away and the car was located in a

02:03different location the 34 year old man from cavin was remanded in custody and is to appear at harristown

02:09district court on friday a man in his 20s has died following a car crash in county cavin he was a

02:17passenger in a car which crashed into a wall at station road coote hill yesterday evening the driver

02:23of the car and a second passenger also in their 20s were taken to hospital age action is calling on

02:30the government to protect workers who have to retire at 65 but who don't qualify for the state pension until

02:36they reach 66 years of age the group says people should be allowed to work longer or claim the state

02:42pension when they retire it's a real shock to the system it's real blow to their self-esteem they've

02:48worked their entire lives and at the age of 65 they're told you have to go on the dole it's job

02:52seekers benefit they're supposed to be looking for work that's inherent in the title but instead they're

02:56being told no we'll turn a blind eye to that you won't have to look for work you just claim the dole for

03:00a year and then you get your state pension it's a huge huge gap and it's affecting a lot of older

03:05people and it's affecting their incomes in the u.s two people have died following severe flash flooding

03:10in maryland people were rescued from cars in ellicott city after heavy rain left streets impassable

03:18about six inches of rain fell in just two hours on saturday night destroying dozens of homes and

03:24businesses this year has already seen many events marking the centenary of the easter rising and the

03:31battle of the somme most focused on the political fallout which followed but a new exhibition in

03:36belfast looks at how arts and culture developed throughout this time creative centenaries at

03:43the austral museum in belfast is a hands-on interactive installation using photographic audio and video

03:49archive material to show how as the easter rising and the first world war changed the course of history

03:55in 1916 the creative arts and innovation were still able to flourish this is an historical treasure trove

04:03of material mixing sketches and diaries of a nurse from newrie who served on the western front with a

04:10war rug by the dublin artist jim ricks there's different ways to look at 1916 so we try to look

04:15at it from some of the themes that were happening around that time so people visitors to the exhibition

04:19will get to see some of that really rich archive content there's also some art installations here some

04:23of which will be seen for the first time as well and it's really very much about about looking at

04:281916 from a different perspective this exhibition aims to show how war whether it be the easter rising

04:34or the battle of the somme can be a powerful catalyst for change in politics technology and society in

04:41general we all know the importance of the easter rising and the battle of the somme their significance

04:48reverberates right down the years to today and it influences the present in many ways and even our

04:54future but this exhibition uh situates those events within a sense of what else was happening at the time

05:02the various influences at work war is a tremendous catalyst for change it drives change in terms of

05:12society and also politically in terms of technology and this exhibition really captures all of that

05:20and i think that's what makes it uh unusual and and different brendan wright rte news belfast

05:30in sports news jimmy walker has won the final golf major of the year the us pga championships in new jersey

05:37the american led from start to finish but this 18th hole eagle from world number one jason day meant

05:43walker needed to power the last to win and walker held his nerve to finish on 14 under and win his first

05:49major title ireland's podrick harrington was six under par in a tie for 13th place and that's the lunchtime news

05:58goodbye for now

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