in place of 7a,000 voices, just 15. well, cardiff can never be empty, not for rugby. right, then. maintaining the limits is always at this sport's challenge. things look worse slowed down but watch irish player peter o'mahony. that kind of contactjust player peter o'mahony. that kind of contact just can't player peter o'mahony. that kind of contactjust can't happen. ireland, down to 14 men in the 14th minute. leigh halfpenny nudged wales in front with the boot, for a while. tackling is safest when it is aimed at the legs. johnny williams, head injury assessed and replaced. remember, it was ireland who were permanently a man down. it was ireland who were dominating the game. just before half—time, a try. but the second half began with george north deceiving the irish

defence, as wales found space. the same corner, and an even better finish from louis rees—zammit. ball, line, flag, done it. five points was the winning margin and welsh relief the winning margin and welsh relief the final emotion. joe wilson, bbc news. the leaders of the premier league manchester city are playing champions liverpool. it's half time at anfield and it's 0—0. earlier — england captain harry kane made a successful return from injury, scoring in tottenham's 2—0 win over west brom. in the other game, wolves v leicester was goalless. rangers — who are the scottish premiership�*s runaway leaders — could only draw at bottom side hamilton today. ross callachan equalised in the last minute of injury time. rangers are still unbeaten in the league and now have a 2i—point advantage over celtic, who have two games in hand. there were shock defeats for both top teams in the women's super league.

chelsea lost to brighton — ending their 33—game unbeaten run. manchester united were beaten 2—0 by reading — theirfirst home defeat for more than a year. united are behind chelsea on goal difference. and british noi dan evans has won his first atp tour title at a warm—up event for tomorrow's australian open. there's more on the bbc sport website. but that's it from me. back to you, mishal. join us again at 10pm but now on bbc one, the news where you are.

hello. now on bbc news, a special edition of witness history, with five extraordinary stories to mark black history month in the us. from washington dc, here's larry madowo. hi, i'm larry madowo. thank you forjoining me

here in washington, dc, for this very special edition of witness history. marking black history month here in the us, we will go back to some important moments in the past from the civil rights era to the present day. coming up, we will hear about the damning 19605 report that told the us it was fundamentally racist. we spend some time at the dance theatre of harlem and we hear from the daughter of an american gi who grew up in germany and has spent her life wrestling with her identity. but first, let's go back to one of the darkest days of the civil rights era. on the 15th of september 1963, the baptist church on 16th street in birmingham, alabama, was packed and ready for sunday service. then a bomb went off and four young girls were killed.

sarah rudolph collins survived but her sister, addie mae, didn't. why would somebody put a bomb on our church and kill a little girl, all of them were angels. first, it was just addie. she was standing across from me at the couch, and that's when cynthia, denise and carole came in the door and that's when the bomb went off. boom! it was the loudest sound i ever heard and it scared me so bad i called out, jesus. i felt a stinging all over my body. glass came and hit my body,

several pieces went in my eye. now that the little girls are buried in the soil of this sick city, it may be that the last real hope of achieving freedom in the land of the free has been buried with them. but it isjust a possibility that the bomb has blasted into white birmingham's conscience and that it could mean the end of the worst evils of segregation. they brought peace to a very evil town. their life was sacrificed for peace. when those girls died they had to look at themselves then, really.

why are we so prejudiced? why do they have so much hate? why would they put a bomb in the church? and after they've seen the killing of these girls, i really believe that they began to see that this was wrong. you don'tjudge us by our colour. we don'tjudge at all. we're supposed to love. that sad sunday in alabama is a shocking example of what black people faced in the 1960s. four years later, riots were erupting all across the us in the so—called long hot summer of 1967. black communities were fed up with poor housing, high unemployment and police harassment. the government set up the kerner commission to investigate the causes of the riots. its finding sent shock waves across america. the shots are coming fast and heavy

here in detroit as the night is again broken by gunfire. from city after city in this tragic summer of 1967 has come news of violence across america. rioting, looting, burning, sniping, killing. the riots and disorders were really frightening. there was a lot of needless deaths, most of those who died were black. and most of them were innocent of any wrongdoing. there was quite a bit of overreaction by the police and the national guard when they came in. we will not endure violence. it matters not by whom it is done, or under what slogan or banner.

and i went into the kitchen and stood almost at attention and i said yes, sir, mr president. and he said fred, i'm going to appoint that commission you've been talking about and i'm going to put you on it. they wouldn't even look at us. one man said, "i can't stand to even look at white people any more." and all of them expressed their feeling that none of you are going to do anything. these people are living in such desperate conditions of poverty. there is such terrible hostility with justification against the police that any random spark could set them off. i wanted people to have, and i think they did,

a real sense of history here that we betterjust tell the truth and don't try to sugar—coat it any or make it sound better. when we got to the point where we were going to say that white racism had created the black ghettos and it was white racism which sustained them, that unnerved some members. no federal agency, no government agency, had ever used the word racism and we said, well, that is what it is and i think it is important to say that because, for a lot of young black kids in the country, we want to say, "you are not crazy. "this system is sort of rigged against you." the kerner commission made a very exhaustive study and spent

a couple of million dollars but they recommended that i spend 80 million and i've got no place to get the 80. i can't borrow it, can't tax it, i can't get a tax bill of any kind. doctor martin luther king junior characterised our report this way. he said it is a physician's diagnosis and prediction of death with a prescription for life. well, through inaction and opposition too, of course, it seems america for about 50 years has chosen death rather than life. black lives matter! but i think now with these terrible police killings

and all of the demonstrations and protests that have occurred as a result, there is a change in public opinion and people are opting for life. the kerner commission's findings that america was fundamentally racist would be fundamental even today because systemic racism remains a deeply divisive issue here. ——controversial even today. i am at the martin luther king junior memorial, but what does a civil rights icon have to do with dance? next, the dance theatre of harlem opened its doors to witness history. the company's artistic director, virginia johnson, tells us about how the first ballet school to prioritise black dancers began. it wasn't until i was graduating

from the washington school of ballet that the director came to me and she said, you know, you are going to have a career. you are a really wonderful dancer but you will never be a ballerina because of the colour of your skin. it was following the assassination of martin luther king in 1968 that arthur mitchell decided to set up a dance company for black people in harlem. arthur mitchell was a principal dancer with new york city ballet and he was the first african—american to achieve that level in a major american ballet company. he looked around at this neighbourhood and he said, "these kids don't have a future." education is terrible, the schools are failing, nobody cares about them. they don't have a of breaking this cycle of poverty but if i teach them ballet, i'm going to give them something else to draw from within themselves.

we started with 30 children and two dancers and everybody said i was crazy because i was using a european art form, classical ballet. but i think that is the strongest technical foundation and once you have that technique you can do anything you want. classical ballet is impossibly difficult and it requires focus, it requires self—discipline and it requires perseverance. in two months i had 400 kids, in four months i had 800 kid, so that shows there is a want and need and desire for this. i got to new york in the fall of 1968 and somebody told me that arthur mitchell was teaching a class up in harlem on saturdays and i could go up and take a class and get a little ballet back in my life. and ijoined dance theatre of harlem in the spring of 1969. and right from the start it was magic. see, it is too soft.

he was maniacal. if we were going to do ballet we were going to be the best ballet dancers the world has ever seen. it was extremely difficult and painful, those first years. nothing that we did was right. he was driving us, he was pushing us every minute. to me, ballet is about the elevation of the human spirit. i always say that dancing en pointe is the closest that you can get to flying. there were black people who did not want us to do the white man's art form and there were white people who thought you can't understand it and you don't have the talent or the bodies. we were really fortunate for our first new york performances the big critic from the new york times, clive barnes, said, "this is the most exciting thing in ballet." and so he gave us the little nod and people were saying, "oh, "ok, let's go see them. "let's see if they are any good." ten years after that i would see

young people walking into the studio with a sense of ownership. "of course i can be a ballet dancer." and that was the most beautiful thing in the world to me that they had no question where i had nothing but questions. in a sense, dance theatre of harlem was ahead of its time. so now, yes, there is a desire to bring more diversity to ballet. it is notjust about being perfect on balance in a tutu. that's just a sliver of what ballet can say. the wonderful dancers of the dance theatre of harlem, there. and now you see the collection with martin luther king junior, right? just a reminder you can watch witness history every month on the bbc news channel or you can catch up with all our films and more than 1000 radio programmes on our website. just search for bbc witness history. let's now turn to one of the most

controversial police shootings of the 19905 and this is because the deaths of george floyd and breonna taylor is still fresh in our mind. amadou diallo was a guinean immigrant living in new york city when the police shot him 41 times. his devastated mother told us about the day that changed her family's life forever. i will never forget that day. i collapsed and my daughter was there with me and she held me and said, "mum, i know something is wrong but take it easy." i knew then my life that i had been living before will never be the same. amadou diallo came to the bronx two years ago in search of the american dream. that dream ended here on his doorstep where he was shot down in a volley of 41 bullets that have left their scars. he was unarmed but the officers involved said they thought

he was reaching for a gun. i was devastated. not only because my child was gone but also the way he was killed. all i wanted was to cross the ocean and come to new york and find out why my child would be gunned down like that. amadou was my first born. i had him when i was just 16 years old. he was very shy but he was gentle. anger and disbelief from the community where amadou lived. holding their wallets aloft, they asked how the four officers could possibly have mistaken mr diallo's wallet for a gun. when i arrived in new york i said, you have to take me where my son lived and died. i remember seeing the bullet wounds on the wall. i remember picking up my son's clothes, bringing it to my face just to smell it.

when i came to new york and i saw the outcry and the response of all people of all origin, all religion, all colours. people marching, protesting. i was comforted by that support. it was thousands and thousands of people. that energy was so powerful. i was sitting in the courtroom every day when the verdict was given acquitting all the four officers. i was devastated and i felt betrayed because how can an innocent young man like amadou be killed and be blamed for his own death? because that was the argument in the end.

unfortunately, after amadou, so many people fell victim to the same police brutality. my mission was the amadou diallo foundation. the goal of the foundation is education, racial healing and to bring police and community relations awareness. i started the foundation in 2001 and since then we have given scholarship to african students who were also struggling like amadou, so that helped to heal me a little bit. i don't want anyone to forget who my child was. i want him to be remembered by the life he lived, not the way he died.

amadou diallo's death was almost two decades before black lives matter or george floyd. so much has changed in america since then and so much has remained the same. and for ourfinalfilm we are heading to post—war germany. ika hugel—marshall was the daughter of a white german mother and an african—american gi. as a mixed—race so—called occupation baby, ika's story shows how the racism she faced growing up led to years spent grappling with her identity. translation: when i was a child people would scratch my face - with a scrubbing brush to show other children that it wasn't chocolate on my face. obviously, as a child, i couldn't figure out why this was happening to me. ijust wanted to be white,

to have the feeling of belonging and be like the others. following defeat in 1945, germany found itself once again occupied by allied troops. the americans brought with them black gis who remained stationed in germany for some time after the war. inevitably bonds were formed and in some cases children followed, born into an all—white environment and having no contact at all with black people. my father came to germany because he was an american soldier. he was sent back home early because he became ill. all children born to african—american fathers were identified as occupation babies. when i was six and a half my mother took me to the children's home. i've never blamed her because i know that she was under a lot of pressure.

i felt as if i was worth so much less than the other children there. i was hit, locked up in rooms and when i was ten they tried to drive the devil out of me. i had to kneel down in front of a chair. all the windows were closed and i had to repeat, "jesus is the victor." then the shutters were opened so the devil hiding inside of me could fly out of the window. i was worth so little that if they could get the devil out of me then i would be worth a little bit more. that is how i felt. i never thought about my father when i was growing up

but when i was 18 i felt i would like to meet him. i tried to get in contact using an old address my mother had. but the letter came back. i met audre lorde in germany in the 1980s. she was an african—american writer and she impressed me as an older black woman. she was very important to me. she told us that as afro—germans we should no longer be silenced in this society. it was something really special because it made me realise that others had experienced the same things as me.

getting to know him really healed me. suddenly i could feel proud of myself and walk tall. i had arrived where i had always wanted to be and that's how i still feel today. what a great story to end on there about overcoming racism and prejudice. that is all we have time for this month. the witness history team will be back next month with more stories to make you sit up and listen. but for now thank you forjoining me here in washington, dc. goodbye.

hello, there. i suspect we are going to be talking about the feel of the weather over the next few days. the cold air has arrived. it took its time. first thing this morning across suffolk it was wet snow and sleet. given a couple of hours and this was the story in kent with the snow starting to accumulate now. there are two reasons for this cold weather, it is cold air coming out of scandinavia across that cold north sea and that is going to dominate for the next few days. we have the remnants of storm darcy causing disruption with blizzard—like conditions across northern europe and the tail end of that weather front enhancing the risk of snow across parts of east anglia

and down to essex and kent. this has been the story over the last few hours. the met office continues to have an amber weather warning in force, and that will stay until lunchtime on monday. we could see significant accumulations developing, 25 centimetres plus. blizzard—like conditions here with strong and gusty winds making it feel bitingly cold, but it will be a cold story right across the country. windy conditions driving further snow showers in across eastern england and eastern scotland, sheltered western areas should escape the worst of those and keep some sunny spells, but the temperatures perhaps only likely to peak at a maximum of 4 degrees, and when you add in the strength and direction of the wind, it is going to feel more like —4 degrees. moving out of sunday into monday, not that much in the way of significant change. we have still got that keen easterly wind, plenty of isobars on the charts driving in some snow showers. what may happen as we go through monday, we could see some funnelling of snow showers, organised bands of snow

showers, snow accumulations will start to develop. the further west, you will see the best of the central sunshine with a little more shelter, but again it will not be a very warm day by any means, and still when you add in the wind, it is going to feel bitterly cold. that is the story on monday. into tuesday, hopefully the isobars will open a little across england and wales and the snow showers drift further north and east. keep an eye on the weather front into the south—west, might bring some snow into the channel islands and the isles of scilly. as we go through the week, hopefully things get a little quieter and a little less cold.

this is bbc news, the headlines at 6... 12 million people in the uk have now received a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, but the government says it has no plans to introduce vaccine passports. of course, you have the evidence that you have been vaccinated held by your gp. and if other countries require you to show proof of that evidence, then that is obviously up to those countries. the oxford—astrazeneca vaccine offers limited protection against mild disease caused by the south african variant of covid—19, but scientists say it will still help to beat the pandemic. we may not be reducing the total number of cases, but there's still protection, in that case, against deaths, hospitalisations and severe disease. a himalayan glacier collapses sending a wall of water and rock

down river in northern india. at least nine people have died and officials say up to 200 people