good evening, i'm tulsen tollett and this is your sports news where we start in the premier league. liverpool came out on top in a fiery merseyside derby against everton with a 2—0 win at anfield. joe lynskey was watching. in 2023 liverpool looked around for answers. they came here still without a league win this year. and next in view were they are merseyside rivals.

everton had put hope in a new coach a new approach that goes for goals from set pieces. from that one they came close but within a few seconds they'd be backed into a corner. liverpool got the ball, the blues defence had gone forward for the upper left in the space was mo salah. who's not scored a league goal since boxing day. now like his team, there was a sense of this years lift off. in january liverpool signed the dutch world cup star who was still yet to score. now the near £40 million signing had his first moments in a match that means so much for the defeat for everton keep some in the drop zone. for them this was a night of the few chances and fiery tempers. mo salah almost scored a third at the end buffer liverpool this was comfortable enough. victory in the derby and they hoped a february fresh start.

joe lynsky, bbc news. an 8 month investigation into the chaotic scenes at last year's champions league final between real madrid and liverpool in paris has found that uefa should take primary responsibilty for the failures that almost led to disaster. the report into dangerous overcrowding, ticketing issues and heavy handed policing around the stade de france was commisssioned by uefa. at the time, the governing body blamed liverpool fans with fake tickets, but the report says that is "manifestly innacurate" and has exonerated the fans. they say it's remarkable that no—one lost their life. liverpool say they are disappointed the report was leaked to the media before it was officially released. the supporters reactions saved lives, first and foremost. secondly, that uefa, the french authorities had so many questions to answer. it'll take some time to get those answers. there is no fault on the liverpool fans at all.

theyjust queued up waited,. theyjust queued up waited, were coming out of the ground they wouldn't even open the gates, we had to lift a girl in the wheelchair over the gates. it's disgraceful. the french authorities and uefa it's disgraceful. we know what happened and we keep explaining it. the idea of a league, that will make it difficult for supporters, please. we will keep telling her story, we will keep you in crystal clear about what happened. there is nothing for me in the idea of a malicious leak. sixth tier club darvel produced the cup�*s greatest ever shock in the fourth round when they beat aberdeen, but the dream is well and truly over after losing 5—1 at home to falkirk. despite being 2—0 down at half time a falkirk own goalfrom pj morrison gave the hosts and their fans hope but it wasn't to be as chris mcgowan picked up a second yellow card and the league one side captalised with three goals in ten minutes, this one from aidan nesbitt seeing them through to the quarterfinals where they'll face ayr united. czech footballerjakub jankto has publicly come out as gay — he says he "no longer wants to hide". the midfielder plays for la liga club getafe,

but is currently on loan at sparta prague. until today, adelaide united player josh cavallo was the only openly gay top—flight male professional footballer in the world, having come out last october. 27—year old jankto released this video on social media. i have a job, which i've been doing it as best i can for years with seriousness, professionalism and passion. in freedom, without fear, without prejudice, without violence, only love. i am a homosexual and i no longer want to hide myself. history was made in women's cricket today with several england players being picked in the inaugural premier league auction. natalie sciver—brunt was the joint top—highest overseas pick, with sophie eccleston also securing a six figure deal. alice capsey, sophia dunkley, issy wong, lauren bell

and captain heather knight were also bought in the draw. several of those players starred in england's second game of the t20 world cup in south africa. ireland started well with the bat, but despite being 80 for 2, they slumped to 105 all out — sophie ecclestone taking 3 wickets for 13. set a target of 106 to win, england chased it down. 18 year old alice capsey top scoring with 51 from 22 balls. england eventually winning by four wickets. and hosts south africa thrashed new zealand by 65 runs. chloe tryon top scored for the hosts as they finished their 20 overs on 132 for 6. new zealand never got going and were all out for 67, their lowest total at a t20 world cup. they've lost both their group games. south africa have won one, and lost one. former england men's captain eoin morgan has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. the 36—year—old had already stepped down from the international game

injune, but today in a statement said "after much delibertation i believe that now is the right time to step away from the game that has given me so much over the years". under his guidance, england won the world cup in 2019 and reached the top of the one—day and t20 rankings. that's all the sport for now.

this is bbc news, we'll have the headlines and all the news, straight after this programme.

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up, what can viewers expect now thatjournalists will be able to report on what happens infamily courts? and do we need to be told what the phrase "cabinet reshuffle" actually means? first, the number of people killed in monday's earthquakes in turkey and syria has been rising all week with compelling and distressing images of the destruction caused shown on television. one of the first on the scene was the bbc�*s middle east correspondent anna foster, who reported on monday's news at ten using just her mobile phone from the town of 0smani, 80 miles from the epicenter. wherever you look in this city, you can see where shop fronts have collapsed. there is broken glass. and of course, there is darkness, complete darkness everywhere, apart from the lights of the mobile phone

that you can see me by. and this is the scene that has been replicated across southern turkey. lighting there came courtesy of a taxi driver named birken via his mobile phone, and anna foster later tweeted these pictures of the two of them at work. broadcasting in those conditions is a considerable challenge, and viewers expressed theiradmiration, including jules, who posted this. but in the days following, there were criticisms of some of the bbc�*s coverage, particularly a report on wednesday's evening news bulletins, which, despite a warning of harrowing images to come from the presenter beforehand, upset janet georgio.

janet crabtree agreed. .. we discussed last week a review into the bbc�*s economics coverage. one of these findings was that many viewers find the output incomprehensible and some of the terminology used mystifying. simpler language and more explanation appear to be the answer, and notjust in the area of economics. but some members of the audience think that can be taken too far. take these lines seen on the bbc news website on tuesday.

clive cousins read that and this was his reaction. i'm wondering what the bbc thinks of its audience. whether they think we have any intelligence at all. in recent days, reporters on the website, on the news website have felt it necessary to explain that the cabinet is rishi sunak�*s group of most senior ministers. and that inflation is the rate at which prices are rising. given that inflation has been in the news daily for several months now, is it really necessary? where will this end? will they soon be telling us that apples are a crispy green fruit, for example? please give us some credit for some modicum of intelligence. one of the moves in that government reshuffle was the appointment of lee anderson to the post of deputy chairman

of the conservative party. here are two political correspondents, nic erdely and ben wright, talking about mr. anderson on thursday. anyone who works around here would tell you that lee anderson is no stranger to controversy. he has said several controversial things from criticising the users of food banks, as you as you heard there, to remarks about the england football team taking the knee. references like those to controversy and the description of mr. anderson is controversial caught the attention of tina stowell, a conservative peer who chairs the communications committee in the house of lords and used to work at the bbc. she tweeted. .. but russjones thought

that was absolute hogwash. controversial or not. in an interview on wednesday on bbc radio nottingham, lee anderson tried to turn the tables on presenter verity cowley. there is a worry by some that you are you know, you might be a bit dishonest. no, not really. i mean, if you ever told a lie about it. but we're not here to talk about me. we're here to talk about you. no, no, no, no, no, no. ask the question. you ever told a lie? the mp asked the presenter ten times if she'd ever told a lie and ended by asking for the whole ten minute interview to be played in full. as he said, he didn't trust the bbc to cut it down fairly or else not to be played at all. radio nottingham did run the whole

interview, which also appeared on the bbc website to the approval of andy brockman. 0vernight on sunday, the bbc news channel reported on the grammys, the music industry's annual awards ceremony in los angeles. here's the headline. they ran in one of their half hour bulletins in the small hours of monday morning. and beyonce�*s big night, she gets ever closer to winning the most grammy awards of all time. that picture, of course, was not of the singer beyonce, but the actress viola davis, another award winner that night. this isn't the first time the bbc has mixed up two famous people of color. and mary anderson commented... you know, they think we all look alike.

bbc news posted this statement... now, the uk has always been much slower than the united states in opening up its legal processes tojournalists and camera crews. things are changing, though, with limited filming in crown courts permitted since 2020 as it is in the supreme court and the court of appeal. and last week saw the start of a pilot scheme whereby some reporting will be allowed of what happens in family courts, a part of the justice system, which involves at least half a million people a year. one of the journalists who is going to be taking advantage of the new scheme is the bbc�*s sanchia berg, who's been reporting

extensively on the family courts over her career, and shejoins me now. thank you so much for coming on newswatch, sanjay. thank you so much for coming on newswatch,. why is it so important forjournalists to report from family courts? well, judges say that now we no longer have the death penalty. in england and wales, the family courts retain the most drastic powers of any court because they can take action to separate a child forever from its birth family, from its parents, through adoption. and they can also make a serious impact on family lives by taking children away, putting them into care. and they also make these critical decisions in what are called private law cases where parents are separating. they can't agree on where the children should go and the court will decide where they go. so as you said, they involve hundreds of thousands of people every year. but until now, reporters haven't been allowed in. so there's been very little scrutiny. 0ccasionally, very exceptionally, we've been able to report cases. but this pilot in three court centres, leeds, cardiff and carlisle, should allow us to follow cases in an entirely different way. and of course, the other big thing

about these family courts and care cases particularly, is there have been a number of really high profile, awful child deaths that have hit the headlines. i'm thinking about star hobson, for example, and arthur lupino. hughes and child protection is something that we should be able through this pilot to see much more closely. and a couple of the authorities involved in those cases, some of the highest profile child deaths are actually in this pilot. so, will there be stories that you haven't really been able to report before that you might now have access to? yes. and what it means is that we can actually follow these cases step by step. we can report what happens in court. we have access to the evidence gathered by social workers, the reasons why they say the children should be taken into care. we can talk to families. we can describe what happens in court. all these are new and they are just in these three pilot centres. will audio or cameras be allowed in at all to record anything?

no, not at all. not at all. this is still in some ways, you know, a very closed environment. so we are the only people, in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children's guardian from the court advisory service cafcass, who will be in the court centre. if participants know that reporters are there, might it somehow distort the legal process? well, you would think that's a possibility. and unfortunately we haven't done a controlled experiment with this and spent time in these courts beforehand to judge whether it's different. but certainly when it comes to disturbing the normal process of the court, it doesn't seem like our presence has had that kind of impact. we know that there won't be any audio or filming in these family courts, but more generally, is the legal system opening up to broadcasters? well, certainly there's now the broadcasting of sentencing in criminal cases,

which is quite significant. and there are certain other steps that the courts have been taking, to try to make it easier for the press to do their work. i think certainly within thejudiciary, there is a sense that open justice is a really important principle, thatjustice has to be seen to be done as well as being done. but as i'm sure you've discussed on this programme, the other side of the coin is that a lot of media organisations lack the staff, lack the resources to send in court reporters, no matter how much thejudiciary might like to see them in there. thank you so much. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media email newswatch at bbc.co. uk or you can find us on twitter at newswatch bbc. you can call us on 03700106676 and do have a look at previous interviews on our website, bbc.

co.uk newswatch. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello. the weather behaved itself on monday. it was a mostly sunny day across the uk, let's see how it's looking over the next few days. for most of us, it's going to be dry, certainly dry across much of england and wales. scotland is a slightly different story. it could turn really wet and blustery towards the end of the week. but this is what we've got right now. high pressure in charge of the weather across europe. we're on the edge of the high pressure, and that means that the southerly winds are drawing in mild air over us and, with that, a fair bit of cloud to northern ireland and western scotland through the course

of tuesday but elsewhere, it should be a bright if not sunny day, the sunnier skies further towards the east. and temperatures will be up to around 13 degrees, so relatively mild for the time of year. and this is the following night, so tuesday into wednesday. notice how that weather front approaches and rain sweeps into northern ireland and western parts of scotland. so this is early in the morning on wednesday. it's frost free, generally speaking, and actually quite mild across western parts of the uk. now, the reason why the weather fronts are pushing in is because this area of high pressure which is over us right now will be moving towards the east of europe and it basically opens up the doors for the weather fronts to sweep in, but they will continue to push in relatively mild air in our direction, so for as long as we have these south—westerlies, it's going to stay quite mild. so that weather front, as it sweeps across the uk — i say sweeps, it'll sort of gradually move across the country — should rain itself out and hardly any rain expected, in fact, in the south, but temperatures could still get up to around 1a degrees or so. then wednesday into thursday and friday, the weather starts to turn more unsettled. so, infact, rather cloudy,

some outbreaks of rain possible. i don't think this is going to be particularly heavy, just spits and spots here and there and, actually, so far in the last month or so, there has been very little rain across the south of the uk, so a little dose of rain on the way. friday — a different picture altogether. a big low pressure will sweep towards us and a risk of widespread gales across the country. across scotland, the possibility of 60, even 70mph winds from this low pressure, but it's still some way off so details will change, but really quite blustery right across the board. but with this low pressure, also relatively mild air to the south, so it's never going to be cold. the colder air will be in place across the far north of the country, but further south, it should be relatively mild. so widespread gales or at least a possibility not a certainty on friday. here are the temperatures — around about 1k degrees in the south, i think double figures at least pretty much across the board on friday.

how about next weekend, so saturday? it looks as though cloud will continue to sweep in off the atlantic, outbreaks of rain are possible, but look at this — still really mild. it's these mild south—westerlies that keep drawing in that subtropical air, and then further ahead, so from sunday, monday and into tuesday, it does look as though the low pressure will once again be replaced by high pressure, so things should settle down once more. let's have a look at the summary, then, from this wednesday onwards. so, across some parts of the country, that weather front approaches, we get some rain, but i don't think that rain should reach london, if any at all, until around about thursday. that's it from me. bye— bye.

welcome to newsday — reporting live from singapore — i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... the us defends its decision to shoot down unidentified flying objects. washington and beijing accuse each other of aerial espionage. we were able to determine that china has a high altitude ballon programme for intelligence collection that is connected to peoples' liberation army. one week on — and the death toll from the earthquakes in turkey and syria reaches 37,000 — and that number's expected to double. everything we had was here. even my children are crying now, they are saying, "mum, everything is gone." "0ur childhood is gone." we'll also be reporting from a hospital in southern turkey —— where staff are overwhelmed by the scale of the tragedy.

and — new zealand declares a national state of emergency