touch with me. blackpool s jake daniels becomes the first current male professional footballer in more than 30 years to come out as gay. now ijust do feel like i m ready to be myself, be free and just be confident with it all. lying all the time is not what i wanted to do, and it has been a struggle. football manager wayne rooney is due to give evidence in his wife s libel trial, dubbed wagatha christie , as the multimillion pound case enters its final days at the high court. hello and welcome to bbc news. the foreign secretary liz truss is expected make a statement to parliament today, paving the way for making changes to the post brexit trading arrangements for northern ireland, known as the protocol. one of the main parties, the democratic unionists is refusing to enter power sharing at stormont unless the existing protocol is changed or scrapped. devolution in northern ireland mean nationalists and unionists have to agree to share power for a governemnt to be formerd. ir
we re joined now by our correspondent charlotte gallagher at stormont. first of all, a daily reminder that many politicians are elected to sit there at stormont, although there is not a functioning government, and they are happy with the protocol. they are indeed, anita. sinn fein are happy to work with the protocol alliance, who are now the third largest party here at stormont. they have said they think there are some issues with it, but they are happy to work with it. even they are happy to work with it. even the ulster unionists party is a look, we need to get back to government, they are not happy with the protocol, but they think they need to be working in parliament and they can t simply not go back to work because they are not happy with this border in the irish sea. the dup, however, they are the stumbling block. they say they simply cannot return to work unless the protocol is gone. they are also saying they are not happy with promises from