tiffany sweeney, bbc news, guyana. the winter the winter olympics.lympics. for the third time in four days, a skiing event has been postponed. the slalom will run on friday now. some action on day five. japan is leading in the men's half pipe snowboarding event. sean wight from america has received the 100th goal in us olympic history. —— gold. in the first month since australia's new law on same—sex marriage was introduced, around 400 couples have married. and today, as it's valentine's day, more weddings are planned. for one couple, the change in the law brought an end to decades of waiting. 0ur correspondent, hywel griffith, reports. coming together in the eyes of the law at last. afterfour decades, bryan and linc said they've always don't like a married couple but the law has never allowed them that privilege until now. our family and friends have been very good and essentially accepted has all the way through but to have it legal and to know that society also acknowledges the relationship is special. they became a couple a week after they first

tiffany sweeney, bbc news, guyana.elebrate mardi gras, the annual parade with dazzling costumes and floats. it is the beginning of lent. christians are supposed to fast or do penance for a0 days before easter. it's that time of the year when thoughts turn to love and romance as people celebrate valentine's day. but not everyone has that certain special someone in their lives. in the philippines, if you're looking for companionship, there is an unusual place you can go, as the bbc‘s tim allman explains. the philippine animal welfare society, the appropriately titled paws, is offering people the chance to enjoy a doggy date. and they called it puppy love. for a small donation, you can spend some quality time with one of the 17th canine casanovas at the shelter in the villa. they want to promote pet adoption and love for animals. some things some of these animals have had precious little of. even among stray dogs and stray animals, with enough love and care, they can be rehabilitated into loving homes. that certainly seem

tiffany sweeney, bbc news, guyana. conway, is here and has been casting an eye over what we know so far. tell us about the figures. what deals have been struck? sky are the big winners tonight. theyed have secured 128 games under this new deal. they will pay £1.2 billion per season for those games. that will extend over a three year period. the company will pay 16% less per match though. a reduction on their current contract. bt, they have secured one of the seven packages available them will show 32 games across saturday lunch times at a cost of £295 million per season. £9 million per match twochlt more packages of games remain. for bank holiday and midweek games. they remain to be sold am they are multiple bidders interested in them, we are told. there is speculation the tech giants, netflix and amazon and facebook they could come for those packages remain we have to wait and see on that. in all, the bt and sky have paid £4.5 billion over three years. it‘s a huge sum, not as much as last time. it will mean that the c

tiffany sweeney, bbc news, guyana.joint visit to scotland, in the run—up to their wedding in may. from edinburgh, our royal correspondent nicholas witchell sent this — there is, of course, quite a lot of flash photography. edinburgh castle and a welcome to scotland on a day when the temperature was barely above zero. a day, then, for a good, warm overcoat and there was meghan markle wrapped up in that very thing. a coat patterned in tartan green and blue. offering a welcome, band of her majesty's royal marines scotland and the regimental mascot of the world regiment of scotland, a shetland pony with sharp teeth. watch harry's left hand. nearly got him! he moved on, ring finger intact, meghan amused. bang went the one o'clock gun and out came the earplugs. as they gazed out on the city, those who came to see them were positive. we got to meet meghan and she is absolutely beautiful. i am so excited for them to be here! they are the future of the royal family. this has been another important introduction on the meghan mar

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that's being built -- >> he figures if i'm in guyana, it really doesn't matter what's said or writtenappy family yes we are ♪ >> it was an escapade that's almost unparalleled in the history of religious movements. they had very little communication with loved ones at home. and naturally there was concern about where they had gone and what was happening out there in the jungle. >> i think that jim jones took his group down there because he was afraid to face the publicity and answer the questions here in this country. >> he was talking integration, he was talking helping people, he was talking better this and better that. >> what about now, what's your impression now? >> my impression now, those are fronts for him. i think he's gone crazy. >> congressman neil ryan started hearing the name jim jones more regularly. and he wanted to expose what he believed was going on down there that was wrong. he thought it was certainly worth inviting members of the press to join him. >> very glad to be here. this is a congressional inquiry. i can tell you right now that whatever the comments are, the

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. >> leticia was born in guyana and raised in london. played a mysterious visitor there in "black mirror." >> don't worry. >> what's next for leticia? >> well we predict big things. she's in ready player one out in march. then back as shuri this spring in marvel's "avengers, infinity war." in the comics shuri eventually becomes the black panther. >> i knew if i was blessed to play this role it would mean a lot. it would be an inspiration to other young women. >> on the rise or what. look out. >> she really is the break out. >> get this. it's not a matter of if, but when this film will hit the $1 billion mark. >> here's another movie out game night stars jason bateman and rachel mcadams. by the way fun and games in real life too. >> we're taking game night up a notch. >> how competitive are you? >> i'm not that competitive. i'm there for the giggles. >> turn. >> and watching people either get too excited about winning or too down about losing. >> in the movie jason and rachel attend a murder mystery party. things go south once they realiz

i read somewhere that you've never been to guyana or africa is that still i would i been to africa. they go do some. land with my dog. my family members. in two thousand and eleven breaks off the field and welcome twin daughters to the world. after the goal you school or what are you taking of the girls your daughters they always say you have to school. so how has fatherhood changed. if you change my whole life when you're off to dog was your me whole day changes for you it's not the ball. and how you feel when they were born it's a completely new situation and you. may want to relax and. try to be an i phone and. of course sometimes you also have to say on the small gripe and stuff they do this but i always want to be a young father. very proud of them right you know like i have a son and a daughter it is completely different and girls like it's like. you promised. to do it he would say go make it why. that's what i thought of that because a kid there were there go off as well because the two weeks ago my daughter when i picked her up from school was she's like calling you guys and

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further towards the south and there's been plenty of showers hair particularly over parts of french guyana and into syria now and that's all stretching down through rio more rain to come here does look drier and when it's always there at twenty six . monitored truck one too far i'm sorry you see beta be the new car for. your day to your identity is a commodity and you have to understand where i'm from when it come from our sleeves it's time to reclaim our cyber so we have to give them a something that cannot be sold we are creators we are our lives we are. give us back our data at this time on a jersey. says al jazeera and these are the top stories right now one of syria's last couple held areas eastern ghouta has been under heavy bombardment by government and russian forces more than two hundred fifty people have been killed since sunday. the u.s. says north korean officials decided at the last minute not to meet vice president mike pence during his visit to south korea washington says spends as you can see right there sitting right in front of the north korean leader's sister had been wi

. >> she was born in guyana and raised in london. worked on a couple of wish tv shows as a naive young lesbian in "banana." >> i just stopped in for a quick shot. >> and a mistier your visitor in this show. >> don't worry. >> what's next for leticia? well, we predict pretty big things. she's in steven spielberg's movie out in march. and then in marvel avengers. and then the comic book version, eventually becoming the "black panther." >> i knew if i was blessed to play this role, it would mean a lot, because it would put something into the world that would be of inspiration to other women, other young girls. >> you did it for this woman right here. she is so good. mark my words, she's going to be a huge star. by the way, it's not a matter of if, but when this film will hit, listen to this, the $1 billion mark. it's happening. >> and beyond, everybody. straight ahead, new clues to jen and justin's split. the spread flag we spotted inside their mansion. >>> i'm not a mother hen. i'm still kind of a child. >> count down to kelly clarkson

and one of the things that he did was he represented the country of venezuela against british guyana. while he was in paris for the trials of that, this is the hat that he wore at that time. a different style than you sometimes see. it's not the straight stovepipe hat. it has a concave all the way around it, but he wore this hat around paris. while he was in paris, he spent 25 hours in the courtroom. he filed an 800-page brief. and while he lost the case, he did get international acclaim for the arguments, the legal arguments that he used. here we are with william mckinley. the object that we have for william mckinley is from the william mckinley home in canton, ohio. and william mckinley, it's an ice skate. as a boy, william mckinley was not very interested in sports. however, he did enjoy ice skating. he enjoyed playing marbles. and he enjoyed shooting a bow and arrow. items for william mckinley are hard to come by. his collection was all disbursed. he had no living descendants so most of his things are around and they're hard to come by. so to have an ice skate is a pretty neat thi

he moved hiss people to a compound in guille guyana. their passports were taken away. came over to check on them because these were u.s. citizens. as they were leaving they shot congressman leo ryan and a tv cameraman and a few other people and skroejones then told his pe that this was the end. >> we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. >> it was not really a suicide, it was a mass murder as far as i'm concerned. but when this hit the news and found that almost 900 people lost their lives because they followed this charlatan preacher, that to some degree changed the public opinion about why people do the things they do when they're in these cultic situations. >> the whole country started talking about the question of how can a charismatic person persuade people to act so much against their own self-interests? in this case, kill themselves. that question, rebounded very much to patty hearst's argument. the sla persuaded to become a bank robber and that weighed on jimmy carter to commute her sentence. >> well, this is

maybe into guyana as well further north into the caribbean a slushy fun and dry some lovely sunshine coming through his blue skies spotting sunshine for the most part in least lee wind will still drive those showers over towards central america so nick a regular costa rica maybe panama also seeing some wet weather some of the showers just easing up towards belief but the most is fine and dry kingston getting up to a glorious thirty degrees celsius and we move up into north america and head things that are very different some warmth in place here as well just coming out of the caribbean for the gulf of mexico to the eastern side of the u.s. very heavy rain there making its way across the central areas easing further east but look at new york a high of ninety on wednesday the weather sponsored by qatar and nice. by the scene for us when our on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is almost possible in number happens not because the situation. it's complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that that is choosing between buying medication and

further towards the south and there's been plenty of showers here particularly over parts of french guyana and into syria now and that's all stretching down through rio more rain to come here does look drier and when it's ari's though it's twenty six. monitor the truck quantify i'm value to see data a new car for. your data your identity is a commodity and we have to understand where i'm from or come from us the us it is time to reclaim our cyber selves we have to put in them a something that cannot be sold we are creators we are activists we are. give us back our data at this time on a jersey or once held in one of australia's toughest detention centers now a world renowned surgeon want to win his followers dr moon. as returns to his hometown baghdad to give amputees the hope of walking again at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and i'm rob matheson this is the news our live from coming up in the next sick.

he moved his people to a compound in guyana. their passports were taken away.oing on there because these people were u.s. citizens. as the congressman were leaving they went and shot congressman leo ryan and a tv camera man and a few other people. and jones then told his people that this was the end. >> we didn't commit suicide. we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. >> it was not really a suicide. it was a mass murder as far as i'm concerned. but when this hit the news and people saw that over 900 people lost their lives because they followed this charlitain preacher, it changed people's view of why people do what they do when they're in these cultic situations. >> people in the country started talking about the question of how can a charismatic person persuade people to act so much against their own self-interest. in this case, kill themselves. that question redo yunded to he question because they persuaded her to become a bank robber and in that environment jimmy carter was weighing the decision about whe

with and the movie hopes to do the same thing these are some of the scenes that we saw in cinemas in guyana south africa and also nigeria people lining up in long queues decked out in traditional african taia some scenes celebrating as well. and we've also seen a lot of praise online about the film people using the hash tag what black panther means to me and what kind of a now jesse says that the film is a chance to see an african country develop grow and thrive without the influence of whites colonialism and the tasha says that if you don't understand the power of representation imagine growing up never seeing a superhero who looks like you and others consider the american side of the story jamil says that the film proves to hollywood that african-american narratives have the power to generate profits from all audiences and more important that making movies about black lives is part of showing that they do matter. and there were others that also sent in their thoughts online here's what they had to say this movie provides a feeling of important across the world people for a reason african

further towards the south and there's been plenty of showers here particularly over parts of french guyana and into syria that's all stretching down through rio more rain to come here doesn't dry room one is always there twenty six. a unique poor trait of a small gulf nation living under siege but maybe this friend was a target sent that pain to be forced to leave would just be all and then gains by the celeb it has given us the desire to carry on with our lives and be creative maybe other turndowns it's not a marriage barbara business. has become more united. beyond the blockade at this time on al-jazeera. and monday put it well on i j z the u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. you're watching

feelings be known when they have an old good alternative to two mr non-god who are also i'm from guyana and when one president died and a young vice president took over we thought i thought he could be and he didn't know the ropes well but buddy who won and so may well be that the death of mr tangere i there will be some kind of sympathy for m.d.c. as well as their father some may want to see the back of the whole zanu p.f. . we see what does happen so the interesting times for zimbabwe in the coming weeks and months leading up to that selection for the moment the acquitted thanks so much for joining us from washington d.c. now the saudi television news station surrendered its rights to broadcast in the united kingdom although the reasons for the move remain unclear qatar had fully complained to the u.k. television regulator ofcom of the airing of fake quotes attributed to the gulf states last may out of the u.a.e. based sky news arabia analyzed and condemned a speech published online which stated turned out to have been created by hackers shortly afterwards for arab countries began a b

moment the satellite picture is showing them here is stretching from brazil all the way through french guyana into syria now and then all the way down into bolivia perigal i and into the thought impossible zillah's well this whole region is going to see yet more shop showers as we head through the next few days generally to the south of all about there's a better chance of getting away with a dry day but it's not completely dry still a few bits and pieces of cloud around and a few showers bubbling up as well thirty two degrees will be the maximum a when it's ari's during the day on sunday but then it will drop to around twenty nine as we head into monday before the towards the north and there's also been a few showers here but actually the showers a fairly subdued at the moment so the winds are bringing in a fair amount of cloud on to the east coast of many of the caribbean islands and we often want to showers a most of those showers a hair over parts of jamaica and then stretching await further towards the west as well so we'll see a couple of them perhaps around the temp and into and a bit

it also places a significant burden on guyana and curacao and aruba and trinidad tobago. it is having a significant impact on those countries. those countries recognize they have to deal with this humanitarian crisis. >> certainly very destablizing to many of our allies and friends in that area. i would like you to comment, if you would, on the involvement of cuba in venezuela. things that i have read, there are commentators who believe that, that there are hundreds to perhaps thousands of cuban troops in venezuela. some have said this is a play you right out of the old castro playbook. what is your assessment of cuban influence in venezuela and how is that contributing to the instability that we're seeing? >> senator, i think we've read some of the same, the same documents, both open source and other. i think, and when i talk again with my counterparts in the region they have been quick to share that we see significant presence of cuban advisors to the security forces that continue to prop up the maduro regime. so i think it is a matter of concern. >> thank you. apprecia