welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: president maduro refuses to allow aid into venezuela. he says the country doesn't need foreign handouts. not everyone agrees. translation: i want this aid to get in because people are dying. mr president, we are dying. families are dying. at least ten people, including teenage players, are killed after a fire sweeps through a building at one of brazil's biggest football clubs. thailand's king denounces his sister's unprecedented bid to try and become prime minister, calling it "inappropriate". and, apple's bug bounty: we'll tell you about the teenage boy who got paid for finding a facetime flaw. hello and welcome.

juan guaido, the venezuelan opposition leader who has declared himself president, is calling on the military to let us humanitarian aid into the country. the first lorries carrying food and medicines have arrived at the colombian border, but venezuelan troops won't allow them in. president nicolas maduro, who has the support of the army, says he won't allow what he called the "cheap show" of false humanitarian aid, and he repeated his accusation that the lorries were part of an american "intervention" plot aimed at ousting him through a coup. this report, from our correspondent orla guerin, contains some flashing images. a convoy that could save lives. lorries full of desperately needed humanitarian aid headed for venezuela at the request of the opposition. they didn't get far, thanks to these containers on the venezuelan side of the border.

president maduro insists there's no humanitarian crisis and no need for foreign help, so the spectacle of venezuelan troops blocking the aid, even as some of their countrymen gathered nearby, begging for help. translation: i'm not hoping for food or anything else for me. i want this aid to get in because people are dying. mr president, we are dying. families are dying. despite the roadblock at the border, the us is promising a great flood of aid. this is a down payment. this isjust a beginning. it's important, it's significant. it will be distributed to venezuelans in venezuela. but it is an effort to respond to 20 years of mismanagement, of corruption. but among president maduro‘s

supporters, no changing the tune. the refrain here is about hugo chavez and the great socialist past. they queued up to sign a petition, refusing aid from the hated us. and from their president, no hint of compromise. "these are historic days," he says, "that could decide between war and peace. we demand the end of us aggression and threats of military intervention". for him, the greatest threat may be hunger among his people. the political landscape could change fast if the opposition manages to get aid into the sprawling slums of caracas. for years now, in areas like this, the poorest have been relying on the government for their survival.

they depend on monthly rations. president maduro is putting food on the table and that ensures a certain loyalty, and the distribution of aid is very tightly controlled. we saw the system in action. it's in the hands of colectivos — local committees loyal to the president. we've been told that maduro supporters are guaranteed basic supplies, but opponents can go empty—handed. nelson diaz stands by the president and is grateful for his government aid. this proud nationalist wants no help from washington. "i don't think we should take it," he says, "because it comes with bad intentions. if they really wanted to help us, they wouldn't interfere with our economy. they want a silent invasion." aid is much needed here, but it has become a weapon

between the government and the opposition, between president maduro and president trump, who is keen to remove him. orla guerin, bbc news, caracas. a train crash in spain has killed the driver and injured more than 90 passengers, three of them seriously. the accident happened when two early evening suburban commuter trains collided, north of barcelona. officials say around 400 people were on board the two trains. an investigation is under way into the cause of the incident. at least ten people have been killed after a fire swept through one of brazil's largest football clubs, flamengo, engulfing one of the player dormitories. the blaze happened at the club's youth team training centre in rio de janeiro. julia carneiro reports. a fire that put an end to young athletes‘ dreams while they slept. firefighters were summoned to the flamengo training ground in riojust after

5:00 in the morning. translation: the place was completely overtaken by flames. we tried as much as possible to locate victims, but all we found were dead bodies. this is what's left of the dormitory. corrugated iron roofs were twisted by the blaze that charred walls and even nearby trees. this was a home for members of the youth team that had come from faraway states or neighbourhoods. families prayed outside the training ground around the black and red flamengo flag. fans left flowers and messages for their golden boys. some could hardly bear the wait, desperate for news on the victims. translation: for rio, the world, for everybody that supports flamengo, the parents of victims, it's so sad. we'll struggle to get over this. translation: flamengo is not just football.

it's a passion that involves a whole range of feelings — for the club, its history, and mainly for the kids that have trained here since childhood to become great players. one by one, the ten young men killed were identified, aged 14—16. these young athletes were at the beginning of promising careers, having faced fierce competition to make this far, into flamengo and its famous ninho do urubu training ground, or vulture's nest — a reference to the mascot of brazil's most popular football club. most of the club's facilities had recently been modernised, but the youth dormitory was still being renovated, and the young athletes were sleeping in an older lodging that burst into flames. police are investigating what caused the fire and whether an air—conditioning unit triggered the blaze. rio city hall said the area hit had not been licensed as a dormitory, but rather as a car park. flamengo has not yet responded to this, and has declared

itself in mourning. football clubs and players from across the world have expressed their shock and solidarity under the hashtag #forcaflamengo, including some of the country's biggest stars, like pele, neymar, and zico, whose career started in flamengo. translation: these were boys with dreams and goals, many of them playing to help their families, and then, a tragedy like this. i pray to god that he can give some comfort to the families of these boys. brazil's passion for football has turned into mourning for those gone too soon. julia carneiro, bbc news, rio de janeiro. let's get some of the day's other news: a mass murderer has been given a life sentence for murdering and sexually mutilating eight gay men in toronto. bruce mcarthur pleaded guilty to the killings committed over a 7—year period from 2010 in canada's largest city. a 16—year—old boy has been pulled

alive from the rubble of a apartment block in istanbul two days after it collapsed. turkish officials say 14 people have died. rescue teams have been working round the clock to try to find survivors. in greece, parliament has formally approved the country's northern neighbour joining nato under the name north macedonia. it marks the end of a 27—year dispute between athens and the former yugoslav republic. macedonia will take the final steps to complete its name change in the coming days. in a rare intervention in thailand, king vajiralongkorn has denounced his sister's unprecedented bid to run for prime minister in the upcoming elections. in a statement, he described princess ubolrata na mahidol‘s nomination as "inappropriate". the election is scheduled for march and is seen as the first chance for thailand to return to democracy after five years under military rule. adnan rasool is from the department

of political science at georgia state university. of course is a real interest in thai politics, it is fairly extraordinary in thailand to see this kind of open dialogue, almost warfare, between members of the royal family. hello. starting off, thank you for having me on on this. it is unprecedented, given the fact and ex— princess is running for elections to the highest office on the land. and the king coming out so clearly and stating categorically that the royal family does not support this action, moreover, this is something that looks bad on the royal name and even though princess ubolrata na looks bad on the royal name and even though princess ubolratana mahidol has given up her titles, she is still considered part of the royal

family, she carries herself as part of the royal family, and that kind of the royal family, and that kind of gives a negative connotation to the royal family given the fact that the royal family given the fact that the late king was seen as the garter king and there is a certain amount of neutrality that is associated with the royal family. as you say, the royal family is known to be very much neutral in thailand so was this bad judgement of the princess's part? you could partly say that but more than that, this seems to be a shotin more than that, this seems to be a shot in the dark sort of hail mary pass for thaksin shinawatra's party which is currently in its current reiteration of the thai raksa chart. they wanted a candidate who would be ha rd to they wanted a candidate who would be hard to disqualify or criticise. it is nearly impossible under the laws to criticise the royal family or any

member of it and they have taken these measures against people who have done so so there is a sense of thai raksa have done so so there is a sense of thai ra ksa chart have done so so there is a sense of thai raksa chart party, the shinawatra led party using the law against the military led political party that they are running against in the elections. i appointing or nominating the former princess as their candidate. sorry we don't know whether the princess will be allowed to run at the moment. but in terms of the opposition party, they are aligned with former prahran mr shinawatra, was this a fatal mistake, will it cost them, or is it a stroke of genius? we are formally came out, it seemed like a stroke of genius, this would be in the political scene, but the more you look into it and the more you kind of look into the deeper meanings of

how his candidacy has to be approved by the election commission by next friday, it seems like a shot in the dark it is about to go really, really badly for the thai raksa chart party, backed by thaksin shinawatra. the problem is any candidate has to be endorsed by the election commission and one of the smaller pyron military party that is ready challenge the idea that by appointing a former royal as their prime ministerial candidate, thai ra ksa chart prime ministerial candidate, thai raksa chart party is trying to bring a bad name on the monarchy, hence they are trying to break the legislative laws in thailand. the election commission is to rule on it by next friday so expect that ruling to decide how badly this goes for the shinawatra backed thai raksa chart. we will keep an eye on that. thank you so much. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: i take a tip from the fishes — never bite unless the bait is good. acclaimed as one of britain's greatest actors, albert finney dies

at the age of 82. there's mr mandela. mr nelson mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new south africa. iran's spiritual leader ayatollah khomeini has said he's passed a death sentence on salman rushdie, the british author of a book which many muslims say is blasphemous. the people of haiti have flocked to church to give thanks for the ousting of their former president, 'baby doc' duvalier. because of his considerable value as a stallion, shergar was kept in a special secure box in the stud farm's central block. shergar was driven away in a horse box the thieves had brought with them. there stepped down from the plane a figure in mourning. elizabeth ii, queen of this realm

and of all her other realms and territories. head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: president maduro refuses to allow aid into venezuela. he says the country doesn't need foreign handouts. opposition leaderjuan guaido has called on the military to allow the aid in. at least ten people, including teenage players, are killed after a fire swept through a building at one of brazil's biggest football clubs. it's often said that if you need help with technology it's worth asking a teenager. well, one 14—year—old from arizona has given a bit of help to one of the world's biggest companies — the technology giant apple. 14—year—old grant thompson discovered a major security flaw in apple's facetime app while playing fortnite. he told the company and has now been

paid a "bug bounty". from seattle we can speak to brandon falk, who's a security researcher at gamozo labs. thank you for your time. how unusual is that for someone to discover a flaw in this way and be rewarded for it? it is a common thing for people to come across these bugs and report them to accompany, a lot of companies are spinning up these new bug bounty programmes which is allowing them to pay people for these, or at least have some way of handling these things as they come in. it is definitely a growing industry more and more, especially with younger kids finding these bugs and reporting them. from what i understand of grand thomson, he kind of sound —— grant thomson, he kind of sound —— grant thomson, he kind of found the bug coincidentally

rather than having some special coding knowledge. there is an industry springing up around this where people with specialist knowledge are actively trying to find flaws in be paid for them. absolutely. there are people who almost do this full—time, or definitely do it full—time. with a lot of large companies spinning up these programmes and government spinning up these different programmes to pay for these bounties, more and more people are stepping up and being able to make a bit of money here and there. if you are younger especially you can make are younger especially you can make a full—time career out of that. are younger especially you can make a full-time career out of that. is there a negative side to this, companies could almost be held to ransom? absolutely. it can get very difficult for companies as they have to staff in some ways, that can handle these reports, and have some budget to pay these people. if they don't have a programme of that sort you can have people may be taking these bugs to the black market where they can be used by organised crime or different criminal enterprises.

why doesn't take people external to a company that find flaws? shouldn't people be hired by companies to look at their own programmes to find problems that will affect their customers? yeah. if companies have the ability to hire departments that can handle a try and find these bugs internally, that is great. a lot of large major companies do this actively. i do security research for actively. i do security research for a large company. but the smaller companies with 6—10 developers it is very difficult to justify the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to pay these people to find bugs in their own software. all right, thank you very much for putting us in the picture with all of that. workers begun in the italian city of generalised to dismantle what is left of the motorway bridge which collapsed in august of last year. ——genoa.

the structure will be replaced by a new bridge of a different design. caroline rigby has more. it is the demolition project described by the country's is what minister as an image of the country's revival. thousands of tons of steel and concrete were removed from genoa's bridge to make it lighter after a crane began to move the first section to the ground. decked out in a red hardhat, the italian prime minister looked on. translation: it is an important day goes this is the first step of a partner i hope will be the quickest possible. what we can say today, and i spoke with all the demolition companies, is that the new bridge will be up i the end of the year. the deconstruction process is expected to last around six months, and engineers will draw on heavy machinery previously used to write the cost of concordia cruise liner,

which capsized off a skinny in 2013. a new bridge will be built in place of the existing structure, designed by the renowned architect renzo piano. it is likely to be one of the most expensive in europe with a cost of more than 200 million euros. it will feature 43 lamps in memory of the victims of last august's disaster and is expected to be opened to traffic by april of next year. almost six months on from the partial collapse of the city's viaduct, any in the city are still reeling. but as investigations continue into the cause and accountability, the authorities hope demolition of the old bridge and construction of the new will help residents to move on from what happened. a gunman who killed six members of a mosque in a mass shooting in quebec two years ago has been sentenced to life in prison.

alexandre bissonnette pleaded guilty to six counts of first degree murder. the attack was described at the time as a terrorist incident, but it later emerged that bissonette had mental health problems. a political scandal in the american state of virginia has intensified, with a second woman coming forward to accuse the deputy governor of sexual assault. justin fairfax has faced growing calls to step down, after a university classmate claimed he raped her nearly two decades ago. lawyers say her account is similar to that of dr vanessa tyson, who says fairfax assualted her in 200a. he has denied both allegations. what has by the teliana conway says a woman assaulted her in front of her daughter at last year stop this conway says the woman was screaming her head off as she grabbed her from behind. —— kellyanne conway. she denies charges of second—degree assault and disorderly conduct. she is due to stand trial in march.

earlier we spoke to a north america correspondence peter bowes who has been following the story. well, the details have really onlyjust emerged, kellyanne conway has been talking to us media outlets, explaining what has happened back in october of last year when she was in this washington, dc area restaurant, she had her teenage daughter with her, when she says that she was approached by someone from behind. who grabbed her, the woman she says was screaming her head off, according to kellyanne conway. she says her teenage daughter managed to capture some of this on video. the police were called, although she said the woman had actually left the restaurant by the time the police arrived. they clearly meant to catch up with her later. she was arrested and has been charged, and will go on trial next month. she denies the allegations, in fact, her lawyer has said that she did not assault ms conway and she was exercising her first amendment right to express her personal opinions.

described as one of our greatest actors, albert finney has died after a short illness. he was 82. he began his career at the royal shakespeare company, before forging a reputation as one of britain's leading screen stars, in films such as saturday night and sunday morning, tom jones, and erin brockovich. will gompertz looks back at his life. don't let them bastards grind you down — that's one thing i've learned. albert finney was one of the original angry young men, appearing in a raft of kitchen—sink dramas depicting the everyday realities and frustrations of working—class life. i could get through in half the time if i went like a bull, but they'd only slash me wages — so they can get stuffed. he helped redefine british film and theatre in the early 1960s and leaves a lasting legacy. he's the godfather of us all. he's the person who made me believe i could do it because he was from salford, my parents knew his family. me dad told me, you know, his dad was a bookie in salford, my dad probably had a bet. by 1963, he was being talked about as the next laurence olivier, to whom he would allude when playing the role of a fading actor manager

in the dresser and parody when among friends. we were all walking around as sir lawrence walked around in the film, with a limp and a hump, and a kind of deformed strange left hand. and we used to be pressing the elevator button to get to your class, saying, (as olivier/richard iii:) i must take the lift... to fencing! he turned down the opportunity to play the lead in the film lawrence of arabia, choosing instead the title role in tom jones, an 18th—century romantic adventure. albert finney had arrived. an international star of stage and screen with an eye for the ladies and the talent to take on a wide range of roles. don't be so daft, lottie. from directing and starring in charlie bubbles, to playing agatha christie's hercule poirot. we now come to my own reconstruction of the night of the murder. when people look back at the gallery of his roles in the movies, people will always celebrate the versatility, the power,

the humour, the humanity. a0 years after his film career began, a new generation of film directors discovered his remarkable screen charisma, casting him as a gruff lawyer in erin brockovich... and you and me are going to make them pay for it. ..and an even gruffer churchill in the gathering storm. at 35, i was home secretary. at 37, first lord of the admiralty, and at 50, chancellor of the exchequer. doing pretty well. not bad. now look at me. albert finney never forgot his roots. he refused a knighthood because he considered it "snobby". above all though, he was a serious actor. a rare performer, such that, if he was in something, you would pay attention. albert finney who's died, at the age of 82. stay with us on bbc news. hello there.

storm erik still not done with us yet, there is more wind to come, in fact it looks like we could see some very gusty conditions through the early part of this morning. storm erik passes to the north of the uk with a swathe of 60—70 mph gusts for northern ireland, southern scotland and northern england first thing on saturday, gradually those winds will turn light into the afternoon. this swathe of potentially damaging, disruptive winds will affect the northern half of the country for a while this morning, some heavy rain and snow on the tops of the pennines and the scottish hills, further south some blustery showers, we will start the day with temperatures of around 6—8 degrees. a windy start this morning, further heavy pulses of rain, but eventually the rain becomes confined to the north—east of scotland and the northern isles of scotland, as storm erik continues to pull away into the north sea. further south there will be plenty of sunshine, a few showers across western areas, and a good deal of dry weather across eastern areas.

it will be a gusty day, those winds gradually easing down into the afternoon. temperature wise, england and wales are seeing double figures again, 10—11 celsius, closer to 7—9 across scotland and northern ireland. something a little bit fresher there. there could be some disruption from the winds through today, particularly early on, keep tuned in to the latest weather forecast and bbc local radio for the latest updates. storm erik pushes off in towards scandinavia, we look to the south, this next feature could bring a spell of very wet weather to southern parts of the country on saturday night, maybe on sunday some strong winds, but the strongest winds will be across the channel into the near continent. we could see some snow over the higher ground of wales for a while, but slowly this rain will ease away through sunday, it could hang back to east anglia and the south—east. colder air will be pouring south eastwards behind it, these showers across northern areas will be turning increasingly wintry as temperatures back into single figures for all of us. we will have showery burst of rain through saturday into sunday night, and then we see a ridge of high pressure building

in which will settle things down but it will feel cold as we start monday off on a cold note. a little bit of frost around. but we have this ridge of high pressure which should see a good deal of dry weather, winds lighter than we have had for the past few days. temperatures 5—9 degrees, so it will feel a little chilly to how it has felt at the start of the weekend. high pressure building in next week, temperatures will come down considerably, with dry weather and the return of chilly nights. this is bbc news. the headlines: the venezuelan opposition leader and self—proclaimed president juan guaido has called on the military to let us humanitarian aid enter the country. trucks carrying food and medicines donated by the us have arrived in a colombian border town, but have been blocked from entering venezuela by soldiers. local authorities in rio dejaneiro say they have detected a series of irregularities at a training centre for one of brazil's most

popular football clubs, flamengo, where a fire killed at least ten people. youth players aged between 1a and 17 are among the dead. the king of thailand has denounced his sister's candidacy for prime minister, saying that such a move is inappropriate and unconstitutional. he said his elder sister would not be allowed to run for office because it was against tradition, even if she'd given up her official royal title. now on bbc news, it's time for a look back at the week in parliament.