the road to the nfl is well travelled, but littered with pitfalls and broken dreams. typically, thatjourney begins age five or six and encompasses high school and college, before a select few reached the promised land. efe obada s route wasn t like many who ve gone before, but then again, his story is farfrom typical. hisjourney to america s biggest show began age 20. far from the glitz and glamour in south london. one of my friends, josh hastings, played american football for the warriors and he saw my size. we were similar built. we went to college together. and at the time, he was, he was very skinny. he s very modern. and when i saw him again, you know, he had some size on him. and he told me that he was playing american football and i would be a good fit. so i went down and i thought nothing of it. like, honestly, it was the first time seeing helmets and pads and all these things. it was very strange. like i never saw. i ve never seen anything like that in south london.
that i have been sent. prince harry and meghan s team say they have been invited to the king s coronation, but won t confirm whether the royal couple will attend. this year s oscars feature a record number of nominees of asian heritage. we ve been speaking to one hopeful about their special recognition. i was just hoping that the movie gets finished and that people watch it and so the fact that we have come all the way this far has been so exciting. hello there. very warm welcome to the programme. we begin our coverage today with the story of a huge fire in bangladesh which has destroyed about 2,000 shelters at a rohingya refugee camp in the south east of the country. officials say the blaze has been brought under control but around 12,000 people have been left homeless at the camp in cox s bazar and have nowhere to go. 0ur correspondent anbarasan ethirajan reports. the bamboo shelters of rohingya refugees in cox s bazar district are no match for the raging blaze. residents r
twitter hasn t responded to the claims. now on bbc news the travel show. this week on the show. keeping it caribbean. 75 years on we celebrate the windrush generation. it is a proper melting pot. a little cake! around the world in seven days, we follow one man s incredible journey. the wind really makes it bite. it is cold when the wind blows. and we re in new york, asking if the american dream had a sound, could this be it? we start this week in brixton, a part of south london that has become the go to full caribbean british culture from food to fashion and art. but it hasn t always been like this. after the second world war, britain was decimated, and so thousands of people from commonwealth countries were invited here to fulfil labour shortages. i m here in windrush square which was named after one of the first ships to bring almost a thousand people from the west indies to britain. the boat became a symbol for a generation of people who settled here from 1948 and 1971,
are bullying and harassing people still allowed on the platform? i would like him to read some of the messages that i have been sent. prince harry and meghan s team say they have been invited to the king s coronation, but won t confirm whether the royal couple will attend. this year s oscars feature a record number of nominees of asian heritage. we ve been speaking to one hopeful about their special recognition. i was just hoping that the movie gets finished and that people watch it and so the fact that we have come all the way this far has been so exciting. hello there and welcome to the programme. we begin today s show in bangladesh, where a huge fire has destroyed about 2,000 shelters at a rohingya refugee camp in the south east of the country. officials say the blaze has been brought under control but around 12,000 people have been left homeless at the camp in cox s bazar and have nowhere to go. 0ur correspondent anbarasan ethirajan reports. the bamboo shelters of rohingy
welcome to bbc news. i m rich preston. our top stories: a fire at a rohingya refugee camp in bangladesh destroys shelters, leaving thousands of people homeless. explosions clashes between greek police and protesters angry at last week s fatal train crash. the prime minister asks forforgiveness. the government needs to change the way they think. they need to start caring about our lives. this must never happen again. a bbc investigation uncovers evidence that twitter is no longer able to protect users from trolling following lay offs and changes under elon musk. why are these accounts that are bullying and harassing people still allowed on the platform? i would like him to read some of the messages