Offered some escapism from the virus thats dominated our lives for so long. Here In The Dark inside a hole in my heart. Many hope the way in which this event has been made possible could help to make live entertainment a reality around the world once again. Anna holligan, Bbc News, rotterdam. By dancing on my Own. The Lead Singer of eurovision� s winning Group Maneskin has said he will undergo a voluntary drugs test, after footage from last nights show prompted speculation that he may have been taking drugs. Eurovision has released a statement in which it says its aware of the claims. Damiano david and the band have strongly refuted the allegations. Theyve now returned to italy where the test will take place. Now its time for a look at the weather with nick miller. Hello. Yet more Rain Spreading East across the uk today. Will eventually reach those easternmost areas. A largely dry day as we get onto the evening. Within the area of rain, heavy bursts. Clearing from Northern Ireland to sunny spells and scattered showers, parts of wales and south West England brightening up as we get into the evening. Another rather cool day. Quite a windy day, strengthening southerlies along the South Coast of england and wales, May Gust around 50 mph in some spots. Rain clearingovernight, still in Northern Scotland if you heavy showers. Cold enough and clearing up in Northern Ireland for A Touch Of Frost in the coldest rural sports here. There will be some Start Tomorrow with a dry and sunny spell, and a day of rain across northern and Western Scotland pushing dOwn into Northern Ireland. It will still be quite blustery, and some of the showers and winds could be gusty. It is still cool and as the week goes on it slowly turns drier and a little warmer. Hello this is Bbc News with martine croxall. The headlines a Mountain Cable Car has plunged to the ground in northern italy, killing at least 13 people. Two injured children have been airlifted to hospital. Two doses of the main covid vaccines used in the uk are found to be highly effective against the indian variant of the virus. Government ministers deny claims, by the former dOwning Street Adviser Dominic Cummings, that they pursued a policy of Herd Immunity in dealing with the coronavirus in the early part of last year. The former Bbc Journalist Martin bashir defends his Panaorama Interview with princess diana, but apologises to Princes William and harry. Zero point. And Nil Point for the uk at eurovision, as italy wins the big prize. Now on Bbc News, transgender teen, andi bernabe, documented his life for the bbc for a year, capturing the most formative moments of hisjourney through young adulthood. From coming out to moving to college in a pandemic, andi navigates the highs and lows of becoming who hes always been. Falling over myself. Thats all right. My name is andi bernabe. This journey didnt start when i found out what the Word Transgender that was. Honestly, it started when i was born. Coming to terms with my identity felt like trying to deny a part of myself that i thought would never be reality. I kind of felt like a someone put a cap on a volcano and i wasjust sitting on top of that volcano, not trying to let that cap go. But in The End the volcano exploded. I want to be referred to as andi from now on. I was just mostly scared of the people around me, what they would think. Im so happy after the volcano exploded, all these flowers and trees and life flourished because the ground was, like, re nourished. But, you know, its not all peaches and cream, sunshine and lollipops. Things didnt go as planned. I cant live like this any more. Fear really does do something to a person. This is my story. Ah this is who i am. I actually was born in queens, new york. I was there for five years until we moved straight from there to texas, and we havent moved anywhere ever since. As a kid, i definitely wore a lot of boyish clothes. I did not enjoy wearing skirts, dresses, all that. Maybe that was early symptoms of my dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is the Discomfort And Distress in individuals whose Gender Identity is different from what they were assigned at birth. I didnt even find out what lgbtq even meant until my Middle School years, when i had access to the internet through my phone. No adults ever taught me about it or told me anything about it. Bisexual, transgender, queer. Overlapping voices. Repelled by the mere notion of homosexuality. Gay couples on the steps of city hall. And every day it gets better. Being here in texas, its part of, like, the Bible Belt so theres a lot of conservative people here that maybe dont agree with the lgbtq lifestyle. In early school days, like, elementary to Middle School, they dont really teach you a lot, you know, only about the Reproductive System and Safe Sex between straight couples. And, literally, thats it. No gay stuff. Nuh uh. Thats. You cant, you shouldnt, you cant do that. My dysphoria started to manifest around the start of freshman year, id say. Its just a really uncomfy feeling that, like. It feels like its like clawing at the back of my Neck And Itjust wont go away. At the time, my hair was about, like, this to this long. It was, like, really long. It was really heavy and it was actually causing me neck pain. So, i was like, huh, i want to get my hair cut. I would use that reasoning almost as, like, a Cover Up Excuse for, deep dOwn, why i actually really wanted my hair cut. Over time, the feeling got stronger and stronger, then i started realising, i think Theres Something different here at play. Basically, i got it all chopped off. When we went inside the car, i immediately started, like, bawling. Im so happy ive wanted this for so long this feels better than i ever expected. When i finally, like, realised why ifelt like that, it, like. It was, like, a light bulb explosion. It was like, oh my god, it got me so excited. It was probably the Big Changing Moment to make me realise, yeah, no, im probably. Probably tra nsgender. I want to officially say hey, i want to be referred to as andi from now on. If you guys have any questions at all, feel free to swipe up and ask me, i will be glad to answer. I was scared, obviously, that some people might not think that its ok, especially the adults, but i felt like, happy. Like, really happy. The night before my birthday, i kind of was awake the entire time. I remember walking in the school and thinking, oh, my god, im an adult now, i am a legal adult. It is my birthday, i am 18. Then i got a text from my friend, bella, and she was like, hey, can you come up to the Choir Room real quick . She doesnt get upset much, so, like, ithought it was a serious problem. When everything was ready, i brought him upstairs, and someone was videoing. I was greeted with the entire room filled with a bunch of people, yelling. Surprise happy birthday to you she spun me around after they stopped singing happy birthday, and then she said, so, since youre, like, a legal adult now, we kind of raised enough money for you to change your name. In my head, i was like. A sensory overload. And ijust, as you can see in the video, completely broke dOwn. And started crying. Looking back on it makes me so extremely happy, honestly. I didnt have to pay to be comfortable with My Name on paper and my legal name, so why should andi have to . The video went viral. Andi just has so many people who love him and support him, it wasnt a difficult task to get the money raised for him, rather than having him have that burden himself. I feel like two completely separate people in my existence from years ago to now. Thats the thing, i was always the same person, but to me, mentally, it felt like two different people that ive lived through. My family, we have talked about my identity and all that, but theyre generally, like, ok now. At first, they werent. Not everythings, you know, perfect in this world, but thats totally fine. Theyre, like, ok now. Now, the story behind this i actually had a different Cardboard Sign taped to my door with my dead name, but i was like, you know what . Lets change that. So i did. Welcome these are my paintings that i have done. This is my most recent painting, that im very proud of. Now, pertaining to my whole trans journey, ive been trying to, like, take a Selfie Picture of myself with my polaroid on every single one of my birthdays. Thats the shortest my hairs ever been before i actually cut it, and thats a year after. These plaques are probably the most important plaques that i will ever Own. Theyre from my all state days, my all State Choir days. It was just one huge choir of all the best singers in texas. And ive done that three times the third time, i actually got to put My Name, like, my Name Name on my plaque. The infamous Birth Certificate that i got when my friends gave me 300 to change My Name. This is my closet. A lot of colours. And, yeah, that thats my room its pink. Its very pink. Yeah, it sucks. But thats ok, because im going to be moving out, anyways. Im going to miss High School, im going miss High School a lot. I think the thing im going to miss the most isjust, like, having so many friends and connections with everyone. But i am looking forward to the next stage of my Life And Everything thats going to be happening next. Its going to be really exciting, im really excited. I have less than two weeks now till moving day. All the stuff im going to need. Ah its so cool, its my Own card. Its a debit card, wow. Im excited to move out of my Parents House and into college, where i canjust be myself. At home, my family still uses my deadname and misgenders me. Being deadnamed and being mispronouned is a lot more serious, a lot more on a deeper level thanjust, you know, the obvious. So, when you do get misidentified like that, its a slap in the face every single time it happens. I understand where they come from, when theyve never had a really close interaction with a trans person, and now their kid is one, so i can take the liberty to be like, 0k, like, i get it. Todays the day. Ah oh, my gosh. Oh, my god, oh, my god, oh, my god ok, so, im kind of teary eyed because ijust said goodbye to my parents. But this is it, im here. Im fine. Im just really excited, and this is all so new, so. This is really exciting. Later on, im going to be watching a movie with friends, so thats nice. Im going to freshen up first because ive been sweaty all day. Yeah, this. This is it. First day of college classes. My First Class is japanese, and im really excited and thats an in person class, so i get to go to the language building. Yay ijust got groceries for the first time and i legit forgot my card, so thats fun. I tried to get up, and i hit my head. Really hard. I love adulting im waking up early, im being productive. This is weird, i dont know, new environment. Ok, i dont even know where to begin. Long story short i wasnt getting messages because my Student Email changed from my deadname to my actual name. So i had to re log in with my new email, and it finally got changed. Now ijust have to get my id changed, which i. I dont know how. One step at a time. My name is still not andi, legally. The only reason why is, i have such an innate fear of changing it because of, like, how my parents are going to react. Theres only so much that i can do to socially transition. I can cut my hair as short as i want, i can wear as much masculine clothing as i want, but thats all that i could do by myself. Ifeel more dysphoric now than i did before. The more that i know that ive been, physically, this way for as long as i have is breaking me dOwn the more that time passes. Sometimes you cant even get up in the day, because you just feel extremely dysphoric. Despite all of the really bad stuff that ive been experiencing, ever since coming to college, its done so much good for me, because, obviously, people have been meeting me as andi. They have never knOwn me before i came out, and this is literally theirfirst impression of me. For the past few months four months, i believe ive been dating someone. We met online, met over tinder, of course. He actually took the liberty to go and do research about being trans and, like, how it affects someone. It takes that one little Storm Cloud away from the rest of my giant thunderstorm. Its just one little thing i dont have to worry about any more. Christmas time in the bernabe household is. Fun in every other sense, but its outweighed by the fear of what im going to have to wear. Hello, it is currently Christmas Morning on this beautiful day, on this bike that im low key Too Short for. Merry christmas, happy new year. Before, my family would take Christmas Pictures every single year. We would dress up fancy in the theme of whatever the Christmas Decorations were. Every year before this one, i would wear a dress. But this year, this year was so different because i wore a suit. In any other circumstance, i dont think i would be able to, but because our Christmas Decorations were pink for 2020, it gave me the perfect opportunity to be like, hey, mum, can i wear my Pink Suit for these Christmas Pictures, because its perfect and its perfect and everything . She also agreed. She was like, yeah, sure, you can wear that. Like, its notjust perfectly. And im like. I really felt, like, normal. Like, it wasnt an argument, it wasnt like a thing i had to spend weeks convincing. It just. Itjust happened. These are like the special moments that people talk about when they think about theirfamily, and now i have one of those, so its its really cool. Its my 19th Birthday Today its been literally exactly a year since when my friends surprised me with the gift that they gave me. A year later, and My Name is still not legally andi. Fear really does do something to a person. Im in college, i obviously cannot pay this myself at the moment. I dont have a job, im trying to look for one, and so im currently depending on my parents to pay my tuition and things like that. Theres a possibility that they might not do that any more if i get my Name Changed. Or theres a possibility to where theyre going to ask me to have it changed back. So, Today Is The Day that im going home. Its currently like 6 00 something in the morning, and i am so exhausted. I think this weekend, im going to specifically bring up the topic of testosterone. Because i am at the age where i can go do that by myself. Im really nervous, honestly. It might get emotional, the conversation, but thats ok. This is nothing that i havent talked about before. So its not like its anything new. Like, hello, im trans, out of nowhere. But, yeah, well see how it goes. The main point within the conversation that we had that weekend was that she does not feel comfortable with me making big decisions, like getting my Name Change or starting testosterone or getting my surgery, until i am mature. I one Day Hope that my mum realises, oh, shoot, this is serious. This is real. This is a valid thing that my child is going through, and im now realising that this is really important to them and that i need to be a supportive parent and help my kid be happy. Its not the last time that were going to have this conversation, thats just going to be a constant, constant thing thats going to be happening, thats probably never going to stop happening. Its taken me a while to accept the fact that things just dont go as planned, and you just got to keep going despite that. Im finallyjust at the point where i can look back at myself and realised that ive become a lot more of myself. Im so glad that i didnt give up when i really, really, really wanted to because now im here. This is my story and this is who i am, and im honestly so glad that you all have, you know, come along with this ride with me and watched myjourney this past year. And i just wanted to say thank you. Hello. In case you havent seen enough of it so far this month, yes, more rain is pushing across the uk at the moment. In Northern Ireland weve been seeing some heavy bursts of rain. Actually, they are one of the few places to brighten up today, although therell still be a showers around. As this area of low pressure shoves the rain further east to those eastern parts that are staying dry for large parts of the day, will get in as we go through this evening. So here is the progress of the rain as we get on into the start of the evening as it moves slowly eased. It will have some quite heavy bursts in itjust before it begins to clear away, for example, from parts of wales as we go on into the evening. Heavy showers following the rain into Northern Ireland. Some hazy brightness to the east before the persistent rain gets in but therell be a few showers on another really quite cool day and an increasingly windy day along the South Coast, round the coast of wales as well, gusts up to around 50 mph or so. So this evening, the rain continues to spread across those areas that have had some dry weather today. Before clearing away, though, a wet night in Northern Scotland. Behind the rain, further heavy showers to wales and the south west. Showers easing in Northern Ireland, the coldest, rural spots here well see A Touch Of Frost going into the morning. Now, some places starting sunny tomorrow, continuing with Rain In Northern and Western Scotland pushing dOwn across Northern Ireland. Heavy and perhaps thundery showers spreading east across england and from wales, where we are going to see some hail mixed in with some of these as well. Low pressure is still very close by and it will be into tuesday as well, so itll stay quite breezy out there monday and into tuesday. The wind is coming dOwn from the North Or North west so there no great warmth in those although there will be sunny spells around, but some heavy and possibly thundery showers from scotland dOwn through northern and eastern parts of england. A few showers elsewhere, the chance for a little rain towards parts of cornwall and devon. Low pressure is beginning to move away as we go into wednesday but still close enough to send dOwn a weak Weather Front across eastern parts on wednesday with cloud and some outbreaks of rain. There is a chance of catching a shower that could be heavy elsewhere, but fewer showers around. More in the way of sunny spells to come and temperatures on wednesday actually just a degree also higher if you are away from that Cloud And Rain towards the east. That is a sign of things to come as we get on through the rest of the week and into the weekend. Pressure will be higher, promising something drier and a little warmer. This is Bbc News. The headlines at five a Mountain Cable Car has plunged to the ground in northern italy, killing at least 13 people. Two injured children have been airlifted to hospital. Two doses of the main covid vaccines used in the uk are found to be highly effective against the indian variant of the virus. Government ministers deny claims by the former dOwning Street Adviser Dominic Cummings that they pursued a policy of Herd Immunity in dealing with the coronavirus in the early part of last year. The former Bbc Journalist Martin bashir defends his Panaorama Interview with princess diana, but apologises to Princes William and harry. Zero points. And Nil Points for the uk at eurovision, as italy wins the big prize