emma vardy, bbc news, derry. first international player in the men's game to come out as gay. in a video posted on twitter, he said he no longer wanted to hide himself and hoped his coming out would encourage others. players from around the world have expressed their support. the bbc�*s tim allman has the story. hi, i'mjakubjankto. i'm like everybody else. i have my strengths. i have my weaknesses. he's been playing professional football for nearly ten years. in that time, he suffered plenty of defeats. he celebrated his share of victories. now, jakubjankto is taking on a whole new challenge off the pitch. i'm homosexual, and i no longer want to hide myself. the czech international, who plays for sparta prague, says he wants to encourage others. not easy in a sport where homophobia has long been an issue. but as soon as he made his announcement, other players gave him their backing. translation: | think - everyone is free and i have no problem with that. i have no prejudice. and all forms of discrimination, homop

emma vardy, bbc news, derry.tering the earth's atmosphere above the english channel. the three—foot meteoroid created this stunning shooting star effect. known as an airburst, it's just the seventh time in history that an asteroid's impact has been predicted in advance. that's all for now. stay with bbc world news. hello. a valentine's day of wardrobe dilemmas on the way for some of you. frosty and the place is foggy start. but by the afternoon spring like warmth 60 to 70 degrees possible in northwest wales well above the eight degree average for this stage in the month, but not quite as warm as our warmest valentine's day recorded in 1998. so why the warmth? well, we're on the western side of this massive area of high pressure, keeping things dry across much of europe, because on the western side, we've got a suddenly wind developing. but before that really gets going, most notably in western areas where temperatures above freezing. elsewhere, a frosty start to the day, minus four, minus five in one or two spots

emma vardy, bbc news, derry.ining why the us military has shot a series of objects out of the sky over us territory in recent weeks, including a suspected spy balloon from china. emily harding is deputy director and senior fellow of the international security programme at the centre for strategic and international studies. she told me we have to keep an open mind about the flying objects. it's important to separate what we know and will know a little bit about. but we know definitively about the south carolina that it was large, high altitude and was carrying a payload and had significant intelligence correction capabilities but for the other objects we know about the bill. they were operating at a lower altitude and that they were different shapes and sizes and were operating much further north. but we do not know yet is created them. launch them. all kinds of payloads they may have been carrying. shallot —— know a lot more was they have been researched. it know a lot more was they have been researched.— been re

emma vardy, bbc news, derry.dio 4. the podcast is called "buried" and it's available on bbc sounds right now. in football, jakub jankto of the czech republic has become the first current international player in the men's game to come out as gay. the 27—year—old midfielder for sparta prague made the announcement on twitter. he said he "no longer wants to hide". cricket, and england beat ireland by four wickets to make it two wins from two in the women's t20 world cup. jo currie reports. as the england players took to the field in the western cape, many were waiting to hear if they'd been offered big money deals in the new women's premier league in india. the focus for now, though, was on ireland who won the toss, opted to bat and quickly made their intentions clear. at times they rode their luck. commentator: i think it's been put down. - and their impressive early pace was only interrupted after a potential snake was spotted near the stumps. the snake, quickly identified as a malfunctioning mic cable, was fixed a

while one part of the village, gorelovo , the second, the derry levande team dispersed people to schoolted on the site of a modern residential building. this school has become a common grave for fellow villagers. the fateful monday, june 15 , forty-second year, is the common date of death by their names on memorial plaques. near the chapel it was built on the site of a residential building where oleg's grandfather cadense lived. after burning e village the next day my grandfather's father is my father's father. it means that he who remained lived was in the village, at that time he found among the charred bodies. he tried to bring his son vasil to the cemetery from this owl barn about 50 meters away and he could not carry him. it crumbled in his hands. but the revenge of the punisher did not end with the destruction of the borak. they did not try to ambush the guerrillas to fight the armed men. much easier and safer to fight peaceful unarmed population, in order to turn this zone into a scorched desert, liquidation was subject to liquidation for the nearby village a week after the destr

. >> in 1990, the execution-style murder of greg smart shattered this close-knit town of derry, new hampshirepam, who worked at a local high school, seemingly grieving for her newly wed husband. but authorities soon discovered she'd been having an affair with a teenaged student, william, or billy flynn. >> there were two major issues in this case. number one is all of the boys turning on her. and number two is the audiotape. >> yeah, i know you're going to on the witness stand. he's going to put you on there, and he'll say did pam do it? >> she is like the mafioso is a boss who isn't there necessarily when the hit occurs but who has ordered the killing. >> all four teenaged accomplice, including her former lover, who pulled the trigger, have long since been released. only smart remains behind bars. why do you deserve release from prison? >> well, i don't know if i would characterize it as deserving it. i am asking for mercy and compassion. i spent 32 1/2 years in prison. when will enough be enough? i've been pretty much the epitome of rehabilitation. >> just listen to her heart saying look, i

man has been arrested in san jose in connection with a string of robberies. 22 year old brian val derry was taken into custody on robbery, grand theft and assault with a deadly weapon after a thorough investigation, including the use of automated license plate reader canberra's the suspect was identified for a string of robberies that happened in the cities of san jose and santa clara. what happened in the parking lot of the big of the bay one? oh one casino on january 5th, another at the matrix casino on january 23rd. they area. public transit is in trouble as we've been reporting ridership is still lagging three years now into the pandemic, and with federal aid running out well, agencies are at a crossroads. the metropolitan transportation commission held the hearing today on public transit. slow comeback. tom baker monitor that meeting and joins us now with the outlook and also potential solutions. stop no other way to say it, then on roads, rail and water. local transit is heading for a reckoning. billions in federal pandemic relief funds kept beria transit systems operating over th

household names and this is a significant barrier roadblock for producers and for example in minnesota derry including groups like the co-op they make cheese like parmesan, asiago, fontina, which would face unfair barriers if they try to export these products to the eu or other countries that are influenced by the eu stands on geographical implications and in the u.s. mca we had hard-fought provisions around this issue that forced mexico for example to not restrict access to products, so can you tell us how you and your colleagues at ustr are building upon those efforts and update us on what your strategies are and what more you think we need to do in this area? >> thank you senator smith. i have yet to see the math so at times it's to restrict our trade which is a large concern to in n particular dairy producers. we have a multiple pronged approach to try to address this. first working with countries who are either engaging in negotiations with the eu or have concluded negotiations to articulate our concerns to make sure they understand the market access that we currently have and how that

is that referenda should be about the actual individual and actually i only learned from watching derrythere was referendum ireland was the referendum in ireland it wasn't i, i was watching it and i was like, it's so weird. no like right or wrong, left or like right or wrong, left or like people individual like people had individual feelings weren't feelings about it that weren't along a party line. and along a specific party line. and i in scotland much i think in scotland it's much the not like brexit the same, it's not like brexit where it was young people where it was like young people want stay, not young want to stay, not young people want to stay, not young people want leave . oh, i didn't want to leave. oh, i didn't vote . and it's supposed to be the night of love. it would be nice to be jesus. rebecca you know, all of young brexiteers like me to hook me up and they love my point is that it would be really nice bill to have a referendum actually about the issue not about culture war thing that we seem to make all referenda about look you used to be look amend it you used to be o

is that referenda should be about the actual individual and actually i only learned from watching derrythere was referendum ireland was the referendum in ireland it wasn't i, i was watching it and i was like, it's so weird. no like right or wrong, left or like right or wrong, left or like people individual like people had individual feelings weren't feelings about it that weren't along a party line. and along a specific party line. and i in scotland much i think in scotland it's much the not like brexit the same, it's not like brexit where it was young people where it was like young people want stay, not young want to stay, not young people want to stay, not young people want leave . oh, i didn't want to leave. oh, i didn't vote . and it's supposed to be the night of love. it would be nice to be jesus. rebecca you know, all of young brexiteers like me to hook me up and they love my point is that it would be really nice bill to have a referendum actually about the issue not about culture war thing that we seem to make all referenda about look you used to be look amend it you used to be o

— north yorkshire, my neighbour is a derry farmer, it's a rural agricultural part of the world, muchleaving the eu as we can redesign all our— leaving the eu as we can redesign all our agricultural schemes, i can see some — all our agricultural schemes, i can see some nodding from our farming representatives in the audience and that's— representatives in the audience and that's what— representatives in the audience and that's what we have done. we can make _ that's what we have done. we can make sure — that's what we have done. we can make sure ourfarming that's what we have done. we can make sure our farming schemes really work for— make sure our farming schemes really work for british farmers, it supports _ work for british farmers, it supports things we want them to do and importantly improves for security— and importantly improves for security and does that in an environmentally sustainable way. that is _ environmentally sustainable way. that is the journey we are on, there are opportunities for us to grow far more _ are opportunities for us to grow far more here — are opportunit