Theresa May's cabinet: Who's in and who's out?

Summary: Theresa May has reshuffled her cabinet following the resignations of International Development Secretary Priti Patel and Defence Minister Sir Michael Fallon.

Here is a guide to who holds the key positions. November 2017 reshuffle International Development Secretary - Penny Mordaunt Penny Mordaunt replaced Priti Patel on 9 November, after Ms Patel resigned in the wake of disclosures that she had held a series of unofficial meetings with senior Israeli figures. Ms Mordaunt was previously minister of state for disabled people at the Department of Work and Pensions. She was minister for the armed forces under David Cameron, and had been considered a contender to replace Sir Michael Fallon as defence secretary. Penny Mordaunt, elected to parliament in 2010 as MP for Portsmouth North, is also known for her strong support of Brexit. Defence Secretary - Gavin Williamson Chief whip and key Theresa May ally Gavin Williamson replaced Sir Michael Fallon on 2 November, after the former defence chief resigned amid allegations over his past conduct. The appointment is Mr Williamson's first cabinet post. The MP for South Staffordshire was elected to parliament in 2010, and was previously an aide to David Cameron. Appointed June 2017 Prime Minister - Theresa May Theresa May remained prime minister despite losing her majority in the 8 June general election, which she had called seeking a mandate for Brexit. Mrs May became the UK's second female prime minister in 2016, after David Cameron resigned in the wake of the EU referendum result. She had previously been home secretary for six years. The Theresa May story First Secretary of State - Damian Green Damian Green is effectively Theresa May's deputy. He was promoted to a new role the prime minister did not have in her first cabinet - that of first secretary of state. He also replaced Ben Gummer as minister for the Cabinet Office after Mr Gummer lost his seat in the election. Mr Green was formerly work and pensions secretary, and is a long-term friend and ally of Theresa May. The role - which was previously held by George Osborne and, under Labour, Peter Mandelson - gives Mr Green seniority over other cabinet ministers. Chancellor of the Exchequer - Philip Hammond Philip Hammond remained chancellor of the exchequer after the June election. He was foreign secretary under David Cameron from 2014 to 2016, having previously served as defence secretary and transport secretary. Mr Hammond, 61, is seen at Westminster as the ultimate safe pair of hands steering Britain's economy through the post-Brexit period ahead. Sometimes mocked as "box office Phil" for what some see as his dull delivery, he forged a reputation in the shadow Treasury team as the Tories' public spending "axeman". Foreign Secretary - Boris Johnson Another familiar face kept his job at the Foreign Office after the election. Despite hints from some of the newspapers that Boris Johnson, 52, seeks the top job, he has categorically dismissed such claims. In the wake of June's shock election result, Mr Johnson said that while the public would be wondering about the future of the current government, Mrs May had got the biggest Conservative mandate anyone had achieved for decades. "I'm going to be backing her, and absolutely everybody I'm talking to is going to be backing her as well." Home Secretary - Amber Rudd Amber Rudd remained home secretary despite only narrowly holding her seat as MP for Hastings and Rye in June. During the election campaign, she stood in for the PM in the BBC's televised debate. Ms Rudd was previously energy and climate change secretary, a position she held for just one year. The former investment banker, venture capitalist and financial journalist, aged 53, decided to enter politics in her 40s in order to get "a grip on her life". Secretary of State for Exiting the EU - David Davis David Davis kept his job of secretary of state for exiting the European Union - or "Brexit secretary". The role was created in July 2016 to take the lead in negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. A veteran Eurosceptic, he had previously held the positions of Conservative party chairman and shadow deputy prime minister. Between 2003 and 2008, he was the shadow home secretary under both Michael Howard and David Cameron. Mr Davis, 68, lost to David Cameron in the 2005 Tory leadership contest. Secretary of State for International Trade - Liam Fox Liam Fox, 55, continues as the secretary of state for international trade. He was made secretary of state for defence in 2010 but resigned in 2011 over allegations he had given a close friend, lobbyist Adam Werritty, access to the Ministry of Defence and allowed him to join official trips overseas. Mr Fox stood in the 2016 leadership race against Theresa May, but was eliminated in the first ballot after winning the support of just 16 MPs. Justice Secretary - David Lidington Former Leader of the House of Commons David Lidington was appointed justice secretary in June 2017, replacing Liz Truss. He had been Europe Minister since 2010, but moved across to aid the smooth running of the Commons in 2016. The Cambridge history graduate and father-of-four has been MP for Aylesbury since 1992. He previously worked for BP and mining firm Rio Tinto. Leader of the House of Lords - Baroness Evans Baroness Evans of Bowes Park remained in post as the leader of the House of Lords. When appointed in 2016, it was her first ministerial role since being ennobled by David Cameron in 2014. She attended London's Henrietta Barnett School and Cambridge University before becoming deputy director of the Conservative research department, deputy director of the Policy Exchange think-tank and chief operating officer of the New Schools Network - the organisation which ran Michael Gove's free schools programme. Health Secretary - Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Hunt kept his job despite the problems within the NHS. He took over the health portfolio following a cabinet reshuffle in 2012, and at the time described the appointment as the "biggest privilege of my life". But in a tweet he admitted there were "challenges ahead, but also huge opportunities to make our NHS even better". In 2015 Mr Hunt was locked in a battle with the British Medical Association over a new contract for junior doctors, which led to a series of strikes. Education Secretary - Justine Greening Justine Greening kept her roles as education secretary and minister for women and equalities. She is part of the most diverse Parliament yet as she openly defines herself as a lesbian. At London Pride in 2016, the 48-year-old announced in a tweet she was in a same-sex relationship, saying "I campaigned for Stronger In but sometimes you're better off out!". Ms Greening replaced Nicky Morgan at education in 2016, leaving her international development secretary post, which she was promoted to in 2011. She has been MP for Putney since 2005. Transport Secretary - Chris Grayling Chris Grayling remains as transport secretary in Theresa May's cabinet. The former Leader of the House has been dealing with Southern Rail's disrupted services, the question of Heathrow's third runway and the high speed rail link, HS2. He also served as shadow transport secretary from December 2005 to 2007. Culture Secretary - Karen Bradley Karen Bradley kept her role as Culture, Media and Sport Secretary. She had been working with Theresa May as a Home Office minister since 2014. She was first elected MP for Staffordshire Moorlands in May 2010. Environment Secretary - Michael Gove Michael Gove made a comeback in June 2017, with the prime minister bringing him back into cabinet by appointing him environment secretary. In the 2016 reshuffle he was sacked as justice secretary after serving as David Cameron's education secretary and chief whip in the Tory-Lib Dem coalition. Despite campaigning alongside Boris Johnson for Brexit, he withdrew his support for Mr Johnson to be Conservative leader and prime minister following the referendum, choosing instead to stand himself. He was eliminated in the final round of voting by MPs, coming third. Work and Pensions Secretary - David Gauke David Gauke became work and pensions secretary in June 2017. He was previously the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who attends cabinet but does not have a ministerial role. Mr Gauke has been the MP for Hertfordshire South West since 2005. He is a qualified solicitor and worked for a leading City firm until he was elected. Communities Secretary - Sajid Javid Sajid Javid retained his job as secretary of the department for communities and local government. He held this position in 2014 before being appointed to business secretary a year later. A former managing director of Deutsche Bank, Mr Javid has been MP for Bromsgrove in Worcestershire since 2010. He stood on a "joint ticket" with Stephen Crabb for the leadership election, hoping to be chancellor if Mr Crabb had become PM. Northern Ireland Secretary - James Brokenshire James Brokenshire continues as the Northern Ireland Secretary. He previously worked with the PM at the Home Office, where he was immigration minister. From 2011 to 2015, he served as security minister at the Home Office with responsibility for domestic national security and counter-terrorism. This included supporting the home secretary with oversight of the work of MI5 and the national police counter-terrorism network. Mr Brokenshire's responsibilities also included the government's counter-terrorism strategy and he was part of the prime minister's "extremism taskforce". He also led negotiations with the Jordanian government to secure the deportation of the radical cleric Abu Qatada. Welsh Secretary - Alun Cairns Alun Cairns, MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, remained in his cabinet role as secretary of state for Wales. The 46-year-old, who was born in Swansea and is a graduate of the University of Wales, Newport, was elected in 2010. He worked in banking for a decade before his election to the Welsh Assembly. Scottish Secretary - David Mundell David Mundell will continue as secretary of state for Scotland. He is one of 13 Scottish Conservatives to be in Parliament after the June 2017 snap election. Former prime minister David Cameron first appointed Mr Mundell to the post when he held his Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale seat for the third consecutive election in 2015. In January 2015, Mr Mundell became the first openly-gay Conservative cabinet secretary. Conservative Party chairman and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - Patrick McLoughlin Patrick McLoughlin remains as the Conservative Party chairman and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He left his role as transport secretary in 2016, but has been an MP since 1986. The former miner also served as chief whip after being appointed to the role in David Cameron's first cabinet. Business and Energy Secretary - Greg Clark Greg Clark kept his job as secretary of state of business, energy and industrial strategy following the election. The role, when it was created by Labour's Gordon Brown, was originally called the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Last year, it was merged into the new department and lost the "climate change" part of its name. Environmentalists immediately expressed concern that the reshaping of departments showed the government was downgrading climate change as a priority. Also appointed, June 2017

अंतर्राष्ट्रीय विकास सचिव प्रीति पटेल और रक्षा मंत्री सर माइकल फॉलन के इस्तीफे के बाद थेरेसा मे ने अपने मंत्रिमंडल में फेरबदल किया है।


Pakistan bomb kills two outside Iran's Peshawar consulate

Summary: Two Pakistani security guards have been killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside the Iranian consulate in the city of Peshawar, police say.

The blast in the University Town area left about 10 others injured. Reports said the bomber blew himself up after being stopped at a security post. A group allied to the Pakistani Taliban claimed the attack, saying it would attack Shias everywhere. Sectarian violence is on the rise in Pakistan but attacks on Iranian targets are rare. Neighbouring Iran, which is predominantly Shia, condemned the bombing. Its foreign ministry urged regional countries to co-operate closely to combat the "spread of terror acts and extremism".

पेशावर शहर में ईरानी वाणिज्य दूतावास के बाहर एक संदिग्ध आत्मघाती बम विस्फोट में दो पाकिस्तानी सुरक्षा गार्ड मारे गए हैं।


West Kent and Ashford College enters administration

Summary: A college with two sites in Kent has been placed into administration.

West Kent and Ashford College (WKAC) applied to be placed in administration earlier this month. The application was approved at the High Court as WKAC said it looked to "secure the long-term future of further education for the communities it serves". WKAC says all courses will continue as normal and students should still apply to enrol for 2019. A petition for WKAC - which is part of the Hadlow Group - to be placed into administration was filed at the Business and Property Courts on 6 August. In July the Further Education Commissioner had recommended East Kent College Group should take on WKAC's facilities in Ashford, while North Kent College should take on WKAC's facilities in Tonbridge. 'Long-term solution' WKAC chair Martin Doel said: "While finances have been stabilised over recent months, the college is faced with exceptional outstanding liabilities and would be insolvent without external support. "Entering education administration would provide the college with an effective means of implementing the recommendations in the Further Education Commissioner's Options Review, which are aimed at obtaining a long-term sustainable solution for the existing provision offered by the college." A Department for Education spokesperson said: "Following a request from West Kent and Ashford College, the college has been placed into education administration. "The ESFA (Education and Skills Funding Agency) will continue to work closely with the administrators and with West Kent and Ashford College to minimise disruption to staff and students, and to deliver a longer term solution to protect the provision of further education in Kent." Earlier this year Hadlow College, also part of the Hadlow Group, was placed in administration. The college's executive and deputy executive resigned as the Further Education Commissioner launched an investigation into financial irregularities. Follow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.

केंट में दो स्थलों वाले एक कॉलेज को प्रशासन में रखा गया है।


Junior doctors plan protests - trouble at hospital mill?

Summary: Junior doctors are planning a street protest and their representatives are meeting to consider possible further action. Those in the medical profession on social media are in overdrive. Employers, in turn, accuse the doctors' union the British Medical Association of walking away from the negotiating table. So what's going on in this usually staid and conformist profession?

Hugh PymHealth editor@bbcHughPymon Twitter Junior doctors in England are outraged by what they say is a new contract which involves pay cuts of up to 30%, with overtime rates being scrapped for work between 7am and 10pm on every day apart from Sunday. They argue that after years of training and student debt this is a kick in the teeth which could result in a flight to medical jobs abroad or other professions. One has written to the BBC with a bleak view of the impact of the contract changes on the profession: "The issue of cutting junior doctors' wages and increasing hours is the latest example of the Government pushing the service to the brink. As medicine is a globally transferable skill, more and more doctors will choose to work abroad instead of working for the life-crippling NHS." Junior doctors' representatives at the British Medical Association will meet this weekend to discuss their next move. A ballot on industrial action has not been ruled out. Next week a group of junior doctors under the banner 'Save Our Contracts' plan to demonstrate outside a meeting to discuss the proposals convened by NHS Employers. Its too early to judge whether there will be a ballot for action, let alone whether doctors would vote in favour. One junior doctor who contacted me gave this view of the mood amongst hospital colleagues: "There are already rumours and rumblings about the need for industrial action. This is a decision that no medic will take lightly, but I suspect that the government has pushed an already over-whelmed work force to the brink." In an open letter to trainees, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has pledged its support for the junior doctors' case. The letter, with a stance surprisingly strident for a Royal College, states that "the imposition of this new contract, as currently presented, will adversely affect recruitment, retention and the morale of our trainee workforce." The background to this dispute is complex. Back in 2012, the Department of Health called for changes to a junior doctors' contract which dated back to the late 1990's. The British Medical Association agreed to discuss terms and conditions for their members. After two years of talks, negotiations broke down. In August this year, the BMA refused to go back to the negotiating table, accusing the Government of a "heavy-handed" approach, and ministers then said a new contract would be imposed. The Scottish and Welsh administrations, however, have said they will continue with current arrangements. The employers argue that they are ready to negotiate based on principles drawn up by the doctors' and dentists' pay review body. Sources say by walking away from talks the BMA has passed up on the opportunity to get a reasonable deal for members. They deny there are any firm plans involving 30% pay cuts. The BMA says the sticking point is over the employers' refusal to budge on classifying Saturday shifts in the same way as weekday ones. The case for contract reform is that there are inconsistencies in a highly complex system which can result in varied working hours in different trusts. For the most recently qualified junior doctors, basic pay is around £23,000 a year. There is a 50% annual top up for those who work one weekend in six but that applies both to those who are on call at home and those who spend both Saturdays and Sundays at work. This top up, known as banding, also involves an obligation to work unsocial hours at other times of the week. Some junior doctors are required to work one weekend in four to qualify for the 50% banding with a number even having to do one in two or three. Others receive a 20% banding payment, again, depending on their working hours schedule. A more transparent system and with payment linked to responsibilities is what the employers' claim to be seeking. This would involve higher basic rates of pay than now, which would mean higher pension entitlements. While they acknowledge some doctors would lose out, they argue that some would gain. NHS Employers is now planning a roadshow, putting the case for reform at a series of meetings with junior doctors. The organisation hopes that the rank and file may be more open to the idea of change than the BMA representatives. But these may be stormy sessions with the two sides apparently some distance apart.

जूनियर डॉक्टर सड़क पर विरोध प्रदर्शन की योजना बना रहे हैं और उनके प्रतिनिधि संभावित आगे की कार्रवाई पर विचार करने के लिए बैठक कर रहे हैं। सोशल मीडिया पर चिकित्सा पेशे में शामिल लोग ओवरड्राइव में हैं। नियोक्ता, बदले में, डॉक्टरों के संघ ब्रिटिश मेडिकल एसोसिएशन पर बातचीत की मेज से दूर जाने का आरोप लगाते हैं। तो इस आम तौर पर स्थिर और अनुरूप पेशे में क्या हो रहा है?


Doncaster A1 crash: Teenage girl seriously hurt

Summary: A 13-year-old girl was left seriously hurt when the truck she was travelling in crashed down an embankment of the A1 in South Yorkshire.

Police said the Iveco flatbed truck was travelling north near Doncaster when it left the carriageway at about 11:00 BST on Friday. The teenager was taken to hospital and the driver was uninjured. Anyone with dashcam footage, or who saw what happened, is urged to contact police. Follow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.

एक 13 वर्षीय लड़की गंभीर रूप से घायल हो गई जब वह जिस ट्रक में यात्रा कर रही थी, वह दक्षिण यॉर्कशायर में ए1 के तटबंध से टकरा गई।


Locals split over impact of Donald Trump's golf course at Menie

Summary: Donald Trump is not known for subtlety.

By James CookScotland Correspondent, BBC News With trademark hair and trademark chutzpah, he strides onto his golf course at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire. "How's it looking?" I ask him. "The greatest in the world," is his simple reply. And, sculpted from shifting sand dunes, the course is impressive. But plans for a hotel and hundreds of homes on the site, near the village of Balmedie, north of Aberdeen, are on hold. The tycoon says he won't build them if a windfarm is constructed just offshore. He has support from some of his neighbours. One woman, who didn't want to be named, told me that she liked the golf course. It had put up the price of her house, and she didn't care for the wind farm. But at least one man looking down over the dunes reckons the American has a cheek. David Milne lives in an old coastguard station, Hermit Point. It used to be a lonely building perched high above the dunes with, naturally, an amazing view. No more. The vista has been blocked by a line of Trump's trees - sitka spruces - which were planted, says the tycoon, to "beautify" the course. "It's just an example of arrogance and selfish inconsistency," says Mr Milne of Mr Trump. "He has destroyed an area of outstanding natural beauty, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and now he's arguing about something that's a mile away and will barely be visible." How visible is a matter of perspective. If the wind farm is approved there will be 11 turbines, to be used as a testing ground for the latest technology. According to its Swedish developers, Vattenfall, the nearest turbine will be around a mile-and-a-half offshore and around two-and-a-half miles from Mr Trump's land. David Rodger of Vattenfall insists the golfers won't mind. "We very much believe there is room for both projects," he tells us, looking out over the North Sea from the top of the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre tower. The firm wants to be "good neighbours" with the Trump Organisation, he insists. Nonetheless, Mr Rodger points out that the project was first suggested in 2004, some time before Donald Trump began his battle to build nearby. And Vattenfall (waterfall in Swedish) has won praise from an unlikely source. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds say they have found the company willing to engage with their concerns about the wind farm. On the dramatic sand dunes to the south of the golf course, the charity's area manager for north east Scotland, Ian Francis, scans the sky with his binoculars. Overhead is the sweet song of a skylark. The landscape is like a wild, untamed playpark of towering dunes, pristine sand and spiky grasses. This is what the Trump land looked like before the development began. It is, claims Mr Francis, the only such stretch of coastline in Britain and much of it, he says, has already been destroyed. "The damage has been done, regardless of whatever happens now." Mr Francis doesn't sound that keen on windfarms either. But Vattenfall appear to be winning him round. "The development has changed enormously over the eight or nine years that this has been brewing up," he says. "There's been a lot of dialogue... and we are hopeful that we can find a solution to the 11 turbines which are proposed at the moment that means that we are fairly sure the impacts on birds will be minimal." This, he notes, contrasts with the approach of the Trump Organisation. Back at the course, Donald Trump himself is on bullish form as he tells me he'll start phase two of the development "as soon as the windfarm idea is killed". But what if that doesn't happen and the windfarm gets the go-ahead? "Well I'll have to make a determination at some time, but this is a much bigger project in total than the windfarms and frankly if they do it and they destroy Scotland they will have committed a terrible error," he responds. As he left the course, he had some advice for the reporters. "Remember, Trump's a nice guy." Maybe, but some here would beg to differ.

डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प सूक्ष्मता के लिए नहीं जाने जाते हैं।


Work to shut down TV in the Channel Islands

Summary: All analogue television services in the Channel Islands is to be shut down to allow work for the digital switchover to take place.

BBC One and Two, ITV and Channel 4 will be unavailable between 0120 and 0600 BST on Tuesday and Wednesday. Engineers will shut down the existing service to test the new transmitters at Fremont Point in Jersey, the islands' main transmitter. The islands are due to switch to digital television on 17 November.

डिजिटल बदलाव के लिए काम करने की अनुमति देने के लिए चैनल द्वीप समूह में सभी एनालॉग टेलीविजन सेवाओं को बंद कर दिया जाना है।


Viewpoints: How to defeat Islamic State

Summary: UK Prime Minister David Cameron has set out his strategy for Britain to join other countries in carrying out air strikes against the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

A US-led coalition began launching air strikes on IS targets in Iraq in August 2014 and in Syria a month later. In the wake of the recent Paris attacks, France stepped up its air campaign against IS and now Germany plans to deploy Tornado reconnaissance jets to help the French effort. But are air strikes the best way for the West to take on the militant group? If not, what would be a better approach? Here, several experts give their views. Troops on the ground General Lord Richards, former head of the British Armed Forces. The events in Paris have reinforced my view that... it's very important that we seize back the initiative and the only way we can do that is ultimately by defeating them on the ground and that requires an army. Generating that army in a timely manner I think is now the issue for the world community. The sort of army that was created to destroy Saddam Hussein's army in 2003 would carve through IS in a matter of days. Clearly, and for understandable reasons, the West don't want to put their boots on the ground, not in any numbers, therefore you have got to try to trade some alternative means of doing it. I think there's going to be a renewed focus on whether or not Western armies working with Arab allies shouldn't be deployed. We're talking not as big as was required to defeat Saddam Hussein but still nevertheless a sizeable army. So around 100,000 is a figure that I've sort of played around with. It's got to be confident, it's got to be what we in the military call "all arms", so artillery, armour, sappers, infantry and without doubt a lot of air power - and the ability to use that air power accurately and decisively. As everyone now knows, despite the occasional sort of early claim that it would win the day, air power alone will never win wars. It is a critical part of the panoply of war, but you ultimately need to occupy the ground in order to decide the outcome. General Richards was speaking to BBC World Service's The Inquiry. Military operation and political solution Dr Victoria Fontan is a doctoral candidate in War Studies at King's College London, and is the director of the Centre for Peace and Human Security at The American University of Kurdistan. There seems to be a consensus that stepping up air strikes against IS is a good thing, yet we should not forget that there have been more than 8,000 US air strikes alone since the international reprisals against IS started in August 2014. Where are the results? To date, IS does not show major signs of weakness. I don't think that stepping up air strikes alone will defeat the group. At best it will make IS retreat to a smaller territory and dissolve part of its frontline. Should this happen, acts of terrorism will increase and the potential sources of danger will no longer be as tangible as they are now, with clearly established frontlines. At worst, should areas under IS control be plundered Dresden-style, with massive civilian casualties, air strikes will heighten the popular support for IS and hence be highly counter-productive. The solution to defeat IS is not more of the same. It is a combination of air strikes and political talks to resolve Sunni-Shia divides, as well as an empowerment of local troops like the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq, who have successfully been facing IS along a 1,200km frontline since August 2014. The Peshmerga have retaken the city of Sinjar recently - they should be supported to continue on their tracks. Multi-faceted approach focusing on underlying causes Maha Yahya is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center. An effective anti-IS strategy has to engage with the root causes of its continued survival and growth. To grow, IS is exploiting expanding Sunni disenfranchisement. The bulk of IS commanders and supporters [in Iraq] are either former Baath army officers, ostracised by the 2003 de-Baathification programme and dissolution of the Iraqi army, or members of Sunni tribes tormented by the governments of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. In Syria, the regime's campaign against Sunni areas perpetuated a refugee crisis rather than wholesale support for IS. IS is also tapping into a general crisis of citizenship and malaise with dysfunctional Arab governments. Indeed, it is experiences of injustice and abuse by authorities, and not poverty, that are driving disenfranchised individuals toward radical extremist ideology. Meanwhile in Europe, IS is building on a different crisis of identity and citizenship - particularly for second and third generation citizens of Arab descent. A serious approach to combating IS requires a multi-faceted strategy. It needs political consensus building amongst the international and regional players involved in the Syrian conflict, including Turkey, Russia and the US, and concerted focus more on these underlying causes. While some military operations may be necessary, the focus should be less on the reactive security-first approach that on its own offers no long-term solution, whatever tactical victories it may achieve. Challenging the world view of IS begins by openly recognising that this is not a clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, but a monstrous projection of the tremendous imbalances of our world today. In Europe, this means embracing refugees fleeing the very horrors visited by IS on Paris earlier this month and addressing the sense of exclusion and alienation, among other factors, that are driving thousands of its own citizens to join Isis. In the Arab region, it means engaging with the root causes for IS's emergence by tackling the political and socio-economic exclusion of Iraqi Sunnis, addressing the complex Syrian conflict without maintaining the presidency and working to end the regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran that is fuelling much of the current strife. Get the Sunni tribal leaders onside Ali Khedery was the longest serving US official in Iraq from 2003 to 2010. He is now chairman and chief executive of the consultancy Dragoman Partners. There was much scepticism in the West that tribal leaders were a viable partner to work with to defeat al-Qaeda in Iraq. [But] I was at the table in those secret negotiations in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and I personally made those assurances: "Look, stop fighting us, let's fight al-Qaeda together, we will train you, we will provide you with intelligence, we will provide you with weapons. And then in return for defeating al-Qaeda together, we will help you reintegrate into the political process and then you can participate in your democracy." And sure enough, they fulfilled their promises, we fulfilled ours to a certain extent, they won the 2010 national elections in Iraq, but then both Tehran and Washington betrayed them and brought Nouri al-Maliki back to power. For the last five years or so, under Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq and under President Assad in Syria, the Sunni tribal leaders of both countries, and there are many of them, again faced policies of discrimination or ethnic cleansing or racial abuse by both Baghdad and Damascus. So they viewed radical Sunni groups like al-Qaeda or IS as liberators or alternatives to the sectarian central governments. But as we saw after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when the Sunni tribes did the same thing, eventually they turned on each other and the Sunni tribes viewed al-Qaeda in Iraq as really a scourge more than anything else. So we're starting to see the same thing now. What you're seeing, with the breakdown of national identities and national governments, is that the tribes are proving to be among the only viable means of social order. So it's very important that if we re-engage with the tribal leaders again, and make these same promises that this time we need to keep, that they will be able to lead their societies, that they actually have a fundamental human right of self-determination. Ali Khedery was speaking to BBC World Service's The Inquiry. Talk to IS directly Padraig O'Malley is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston who specialises in the problems of divided societies. When he was on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela absorbed himself in Afrikaans, Afrikaner culture and literature, studied their value systems and modes of behaviour, and engaged Afrikaner officials sent to speak with him in endless hours of talk. Why? Fellow Islanders asked - this total preoccupation with Afrikaners - they were, after all, the enemy? That, Mandela responded, is the point. Before you negotiate with your enemy, you must understand him, you must talk with him. In our situation, IS is the enemy and all sorts of grand coalitions are being put together to bomb it out of existence. No matter that we keep telling ourselves that no amount of bombs alone will do the job, that in the end there will have to be boots on the ground and that no partner in any coalition is willing to supply the necessary boots. Do we really understand IS? From the incessant flow of articles, analyses, "expert discussions", and books expounding on it, each with a different interpretation of what motivates it, where it draws its value system from, the evolution of its antecedents, what it means when it says it wants to establish a caliphate, what accounts for the skill of its combat "troops" and sophistication and slickness of its video propaganda, why there is never a shortage of youngsters eager to dress themselves in suicide belts and the ceaseless flow of recruits by some counts from 80 countries, it would seem that we should comprehensively understand the phenomenon. But the punditry comes from armchairs, not from life within the caliphate itself. Hence one interpretation falls over or contradicts another, some emphasise one hypothesis, and some offer another. All have one distinguishing feature: the absence of direct contact with a broad swath of IS's disciples or, more importantly, its leaders. And the fact is that until we find some means of talking directly to the enemy we will never understand it and hence never come up with the proper mix of policies to deal with it. In other words, there has to be direct contact. In a world of back channels, where sophistry substitutes for truth, the covert the new norm and the clandestine has pushed transparency aside, this is not an impossible task. Has there ever been an "enemy" in history we have not found a way to talk to? The Nazis? The Soviets? To mention just two that posed a far greater threat to human existence, a savagery in their disregard for human life that makes IS look like the Boy Scouts, whose victims are counted in the tens of millions. Is it that we need an "enemy"? Or does the enemy need us? Only one way of finding out. Talk.

ब्रिटेन के प्रधानमंत्री डेविड कैमरन ने सीरिया में तथाकथित इस्लामिक स्टेट (आईएस) के खिलाफ हवाई हमले करने में अन्य देशों के साथ शामिल होने के लिए अपनी रणनीति निर्धारित की है।


Man on murder charge after Ystrad Mynach body find

Summary: A man has been charged with murder after a woman's body was found at a house in Caerphilly county.

Police were called to Nelson Road, Ystrad Mynach, at about 17:45 BST on Tuesday, 3 May. The victim has been named as 75-year-old Iris Owens. Gwent Police said a 47-year-old man has been charged with murder and appeared before magistrates in Newport on Saturday.

कैर्फिली काउंटी में एक घर में एक महिला का शव मिलने के बाद एक व्यक्ति पर हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


All schools in Flintshire to have 20mph zones outside

Summary: All schools in Flintshire will have a 20mph speed limit outside after the county council was given the go-ahead by the Welsh government.

Work to put up new signs will begin in the next few days and will be finished before schools reopen after the summer holiday. The council's deputy leader, Bernie Attridge, said: "This is a major step forward in protecting the safety of our children." The move will cost about £50,000.

वेल्श सरकार द्वारा काउंटी परिषद को मंजूरी दिए जाने के बाद फ्लिंटशायर के सभी स्कूलों के बाहर 20 मील प्रति घंटे की गति सीमा होगी।


Hottest November day: In pictures

Summary: It might be November but for some it certainly has not felt like it. On Sunday, the UK's November temperature record was broken, with 22.4C (72.3F) being reached in mid Wales.

By Rozina SiniBBC News Here is a selection of your pictures of the warm weekend. Helen Cocksedge took this photo at around 11:00 in Norwich. She said: "The morning had been quite foggy but by the time these were taken, the sun had started to burn through, creating some spectacular results." This photo of beautiful autumn leaves was taken by Helen Niblock at Bowood House in Wiltshire. In Anglesey, Janet Collins enjoyed a Sunday afternoon drink with her dog. The view (below) was quite impressive, she said. On Twitter @Stucoulden sent this picture which he took on his way home in rural Hertfordshire. This photo of the Sunset in Ceredigion where the hottest temperature had been recorded today was taken by student Joseph Lynch.

यह नवंबर हो सकता है लेकिन कुछ लोगों के लिए निश्चित रूप से ऐसा महसूस नहीं हुआ है। रविवार को, यूके का नवंबर का तापमान रिकॉर्ड टूट गया था, जिसमें मध्य वेल्स में 22.4C (72.3F) तक पहुँच गया था।


Scrapyard destroyed in Dundry oil tanker fire

Summary: Residents were warned to keep their windows shut earlier after a large fire broke out at a scrapyard near Bristol.

Avon Fire and Rescue said the blaze destroyed a workshop full of scrap vehicles at the yard in Dundry. At its peak, 60 firefighters from 10 crews were at the scene and a large plume of smoke from the blaze could be seen across much of Bristol. Fire crews extinguished the blaze by about 13:00 BST. Related Internet Links Avon Fire & Rescue Service

ब्रिस्टल के पास एक कबाड़खाने में आग लगने के बाद निवासियों को अपनी खिड़कियां बंद रखने की चेतावनी दी गई थी।


Glasgow School of Art dog project to help with dementia

Summary: A group of students have joined forces with Alzheimer Scotland to train dogs to help people with dementia.

The Glasgow School of Art idea has won a Design Council competition. The Council has been working with the UK Department of Health to find solutions to major health problems. A number of puppies have been identified to be trained to help around the home, raise the alarm in an emergency and remind people to take their tablets. Alzheimer Scotland is now trying to secure funding for a pilot project and find suitable couples who will work with the dogs to see how they might help people live with dementia.

डिमेंशिया से पीड़ित लोगों की मदद के लिए कुत्तों को प्रशिक्षित करने के लिए छात्रों का एक समूह अल्जाइमर स्कॉटलैंड के साथ सेना में शामिल हो गया है।


Cheltenham bus roof ripped off in bridge crash

Summary: A double-decker bus has had its roof completely ripped off after being driven under a bridge in Cheltenham.

No passengers were on board the vehicle and the driver escaped uninjured from the crash which happened at 07:10 GMT. As a result, Hyde Lane has been shut in both directions and will remain closed until debris has been cleared away. The bus operator Swanbrook runs several services throughout the county, including commercial ventures and special services for schools. Related Internet Links Gloucestershire Police Swanbrook

चेल्टेनहैम में एक पुल के नीचे से गुजरने के बाद एक डबल डेकर बस की छत पूरी तरह से उखड़ गई है।


Cold-call firms flout rules that block telemarketers

Summary: It is the scourge of the dinner hour. The cold call from a telemarketer just as the family is sitting down to eat. But secret filming by the BBC's Panorama programme found that some firms are not just bending the rules meant to protect people, they are tearing up the rule book entirely.

Tony Clark's home phone number is ex-directory. The 64-year-old has also signed up to a scheme designed to block most cold calls from telemarketing firms - known as the Telephone Preference Service. The problem is that the calls just keep coming - and coming. Mr Clark says salespeople from one firm in particular were very persistent in ringing. They said they were given his details by the Industrial Workers' Register. They were convinced that he needed to sue his employer for compensation related to industrial deafness. The trouble is, Tony Clark has been self-employed for 35 years and the Industrial Workers' Register does not exist. "I'd like to know how they know about me, how they got my details," he said. No penalties Panorama went undercover to the firm that was cold-calling Mr Clark. It is based in Bury just outside Manchester, and is called Central Claims Group. Its website states that it specialises in accident compensation claims. Secret filming in March of this year revealed employees telling people they were from the Industrial Hearing Clinic, which also does not exist. They said they had been referred by trade unions. As to where they were getting the phone numbers, the secret filming found that employees were ripping pages out of the telephone directory. The rules require companies to cross-check their databases to ensure people who have asked not to be contacted are not targeted. An employee was also recorded saying that they did not give the real name of their employer when they cold-called because it then left them vulnerable to complaints. In a statement, Central Claims Group said it took its legal and regulatory obligations very seriously and did not condone the lapses filmed by Panorama. It said anyone behaving in the way Panorama filmed in March would be dismissed. It added that since the filming, it had taken extensive measures to address the failings and that it had bought in legally acceptable data as a basis for contacting potential customers. Like 17.5m other people in the UK, Mr Clark had signed up to the TPS to block cold-calling by UK-based firms. The scheme is run for the government regulator by the Direct Marketing Association. The association's spokesman said it had seen a dramatic increase in complaints from members of the public unhappy about being cold-called by telemarketing firms. Mike Lordan from the association said some firms simply chose to ignore the rules. "We have no powers of enforcement - enforcement sits with the information commissioner," he added. Mr Lordan said his association sent between 1,000-2,000 complaints to the commissioner's office each month, yet no penalty fines had been imposed in at least 18 months. A spokesman for the Information Commissioner's Office said that until this year, it did not have suitable legal powers to act. And even now that it had the power to impose fines of up to £500,000, enforcing the rules was not easy given the vast amounts of money that companies which flouted the rules stood to make. Simon Entwisle, director of operations for the Information Commissioner's Office, said: "At the moment we definitely are trying to take action against these individuals. We have only had the power to issue the fine since the end of January, so it's early days yet. The other thing I have to say is there's a lot of money to be made in this particular sphere." 'Computer problem' Even if people have signed up for TPS, there is another cold-call danger that lurks in the form of websites that people may have visited. Richard Lloyd from Which? Magazine said people were ticking a box giving companies consent to contact them when they browsed websites, creating a loophole for cold-calling companies. "Even if you have signed up to the Telephone Preference Service now, it won't make a jot of difference to those companies that are buying and selling that information you gave to that website maybe years ago." And while many of the companies across the UK that break the rules on cold-calling are at least offering legitimate products, others have fallen victim to scams. Pamela Warner, a retired lecturer, was cold-called by a firm in India that claimed to be approved by software giant Microsoft. The man said he had spotted a problem on her computer which he would fix, for a fee. "He just kept on and on intimating that he knew there was something wrong with the computer and he got quite bullying actually and sort of saying that he was trying to help me all the time," she said. The experience left her £120 out of pocket - plus an extra fee to a legitimate firm to make sure her computer was safe to use. "It's left me feeling so vulnerable, and quite frightened of what might well still be on it." Panorama: Call Centres Undercover, BBC One, Monday, 2 July at 20:30 BST and then available in the UK on theBBC iPlayer.

यह रात के खाने के समय का अभिशाप है। एक टेलीमार्केटर की ठंडी कॉल जैसे ही परिवार खाने के लिए बैठा है। लेकिन बीबीसी के पैनोरमा कार्यक्रम द्वारा गुप्त फिल्मांकन में पाया गया कि कुछ कंपनियां न केवल लोगों की सुरक्षा के लिए नियमों को मोड़ रही हैं, बल्कि वे नियम पुस्तिका को पूरी तरह से फाड़ रही हैं।


Pfizer: The making of a global drugs giant

Summary: Perhaps most famous for developing erectile-dysfunction drug Viagra, aka the "blue pill", US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer is one of the world's biggest companies - and it has dominated the headlines for the past few weeks. It has a market worth of approximately $186bn (£110bn), and made revenues of $51.6bn last year - almost matching the amount brought in by tech giant Google.

The company already has a huge presence in the UK - it is one of the major suppliers of medicines to the NHS - but Pfizer recently made a bid to buy British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca for £63bn. If approved, it would be the biggest takeover of a UK company by a foreign firm in history. But how did Pfizer become the global force it is today? Early days Pfizer was founded by two German immigrants as Charles Pfizer & Company in Brooklyn, New York in 1849, financed with a $2,500 loan from one of their fathers. Pfizer was a chemist, and his cousin Charles Erhart, a confectioner. The cousins' first product, a form of santonin used to treat intestinal worms - a common complaint at the time - was an immediate success. Erhart, using his confectionary skills, added almond-toffee flavouring to the medicine, to make it more palatable. 1860s: Demand for painkillers, preservatives and disinfectants soared during the US Civil War (1861-65), leading to one of Pfizer's first big successes. The company expanded production to help meet the needs of the Union Army. Soldiers carried tartaric acid, developed by Pfizer, in their battlefield kits, and used it to treat wounds. Drugs manufactured included iodine, morphine and chloroform, which, in addition to medicinal applications, were also used in the emerging field of photography. Pfizer's revenues doubled by 1868. Late 1800s: Pfizer began manufacturing citric acid just as drinks such as Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper and Pepsi-Cola - which all used citric acid as an ingredient - started to become popular. Citric acid soon became Pfizer's main product and the launch pad for its growth in the decades to follow. Charles Erhart died in 1891, and the eponymous Pfizer gained full control of the burgeoning firm, which would remain privately held until 1942 - when 240,000 shares were offered to the public. 1940s: Pfizer was the first company to discover a way to mass-produce the antibiotic drug penicillin - following its discovery by British scientist Alexander Fleming (pictured above) in 1928. Heeding a plea from the US government, Pfizer began supplying penicillin to Allied forces in World War Two. Most of the penicillin carried by soldiers on D-Day was developed by the drugs firm. The company's first foray into the UK market followed a decade later when it opened a fermentation plant in England in 1955. 1990s to 2000s: Pfizer launched anti-erectile dysfunction drug Viagra in 1998. Hailed as a "miracle drug", Viagra has been a reliable source of income for 15 years, with sales in the US alone in 2012 of $2bn. In the 21st Century, Pfizer acquired many other pharmaceutical companies, including Warner-Lambert in 2000 for $110bn, followed by Pharmacia in 2003 and Wyeth in 2009. In 2004, Pfizer was added to the Dow Jones stock index, which tracks the 30 biggest publicly listed companies in the US.

शायद इरेक्टाइल-डिसफंक्शन दवा वियाग्रा, उर्फ "ब्लू पिल" विकसित करने के लिए सबसे प्रसिद्ध, अमेरिकी दवा कंपनी फाइजर दुनिया की सबसे बड़ी कंपनियों में से एक है-और यह पिछले कुछ हफ्तों से सुर्खियों में है। इसका बाजार मूल्य लगभग 186 बिलियन डॉलर (110 बिलियन पाउंड) है, और पिछले साल इसने $51.6bn का राजस्व अर्जित किया-लगभग तकनीकी दिग्गज गूगल द्वारा लाई गई राशि से मेल खाता है।


Singles Day: How China's Alibaba wants to change shopping

Summary: Chinese internet conglomerate Alibaba singlehandedly created the world's biggest online shopping event known as Singles Day. Now it's looking to change how people shop, but this is not without its challenges, reports the BBC's Tessa Wong.

Every year on 11 November, millions in China and across Asia engage in a massive shopping spree online. Many visit Tmall and Taobao - Alibaba's answers to Amazon. Traditionally customers do their shopping on their websites and mobile apps. But this year Alibaba appears to be piloting several new concepts aimed at changing the way people shop. Virtual reality One highlight is the Buy+ virtual reality (VR) experience. Customers either use a VR headset or buy a 1-yuan (12p, $0.15) cardboard frame - similar to Google Cardboard - to slot in their smartphones and explore virtual replicas of stores such as Macy's and Costco. Those with headsets can "walk" around the shop, "pick up" items to examine them virtually, and make instant purchases by staring at floating buttons. Observers say VR shopping could take off as it gives online shoppers a more immersive experience - and Alibaba is the first to do it in a big way. "If brands could do it themselves, it would encroach on Alibaba's eco-system. So this way the company is pre-empting that and building their own VR mall to keep these brands in their eco-system," says Jack Chuang of OC&C Strategy Consultants. But there is one big problem - the lack of affordable hardware. Not everyone can afford expensive headsets, and smartphones, while widely used, offer a limited and sub-par VR experience. Augmented reality and gamification Like in previous years, Alibaba has been holding online contests and giveaways of vouchers known as "red packets" in the lead-up to 11 November. This year it's also using augmented reality - the same technology behind the hugely popular game Pokemon Go. Using a game within the Tmall app, shoppers "capture" Tmall's cat mascot at participating shops and restaurants to unlock and win "red packets". Gamifying shopping, where customers have to make repeat visits to win rewards, helps to "lock" customers into particular retailers, says Andrew Milroy of Frost and Sullivan. "Pokemon Go has done a lot to accelerate the acceptance of augmented reality and gamification. Both will do well and can be expected to be widely used by online retailers over the next few years." But shoppers may soon grow tired of the novelty factor. Mr Chuang points to the steep drop-off of players of Pokemon Go several months after its launch, and says businesses will have to figure out how to use augmented reality in more complex ways. First mover advantage Alibaba has also made livestreaming introductions to foreign retailers for Chinese consumers, and held an "interactive television" event with its lavish countdown show on Thursday night featuring celebrities like Kobe Bryant and OneRepublic. Observers say such attempts to innovate show Alibaba is intent on getting first mover advantage, and these new ways of shopping are likely to take off in Asia first, where the company is aggressively expanding. "Asian countries like China, Japan, South Korea have more experience leapfrogging technology and their consumers are more willing to adopt these new technologies. But there's nothing to stop them from spreading to other countries as well," says Mr Chuang.

चीनी इंटरनेट समूह अलीबाबा ने अकेले दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा ऑनलाइन खरीदारी कार्यक्रम बनाया जिसे एकल दिवस के रूप में जाना जाता है। अब यह लोगों की खरीदारी के तरीके को बदलने की कोशिश कर रहा है, लेकिन यह इसकी चुनौतियों के बिना नहीं है, बीबीसी की टेसा वोंग रिपोर्ट करती है।


Blue Monday: Mountain hare pictured in Cairngorms

Summary: One of the UK's most elusive animals has been photographed sunning itself on a wind-sculpted snowy hillside in the Cairngorms.

Mountain hares change colour from brown to white to better camouflage themselves against winter snow. Also known as blue hares, they are found in the Scottish Highlands, parts of Derbyshire and throughout Ireland. The hare in the Southern Cairngorms was photographed by Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service on Monday. Foxes, stoats and raptors prey on young mountain hares. Conservationists have also been concerned about the impact of climate change on the species.

ब्रिटेन के सबसे मायावी जानवरों में से एक कीयर्नगोर्म्स में एक हवा से तराशी गई बर्फीली पहाड़ी पर खुद को धूप देते हुए फोटो खिंचवाया गया है।


Kensworth: Two men charged with murder after woman's body found

Summary: Two men have been charged with murder after a woman was found dead at her home in a village.

Firefighters discovered her body at an address in Plewes Close, Kensworth, Bedfordshire, at about 12:30 BST on Friday after an alarm went off. Habib Jackson, 31, of Dunstable Road, Toddington, and Christopher Hayward, 30, of Fensome Drive, Houghton Regis were arrested on Saturday. They will appear before magistrates in Luton later. Detectives are continuing to carry out enquiries in the village, Bedfordshire Police said.

एक गाँव में एक महिला के उसके घर पर मृत पाए जाने के बाद दो लोगों पर हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Brexit: Hugo Boss and Zalando suspend NI deliveries

Summary: Some online retailers are suspending delivery to Northern Ireland.

By John CampbellBBC News NI Economics & Business Editor The move is to give them time to adapt their systems to the new Irish Sea border, which begins operating in January. Zalando, a clothes retailer, stopped delivering on Friday. It said this was "in preparation for new requirements from our carrier partner in the region." Fashion brand Hugo Boss said delivery to NI would be temporarily unavailable It said this was "due to system upgrades" and there would be no deliveries from 23 December until 7 February. The issue facing companies is that, from January, commercial goods entering NI from GB will need a customs declaration. In theory, that means every parcel will need its own declaration though the government is working with delivery firms to find a way to minimise the impact of these changes. On Monday the furniture and homeware firm made.com told customers it would no longer be shipping to Northern Ireland. It said it had been "working hard" to find a way to continue deliveries but had been unable find a solution. Last week, Amazon warned Northern Ireland customers they could face delays and unavailability of some products when the Irish Sea border starts operating. The delivery firm, DPD Ireland, says it will be temporarily suspending its collection service from Great Britain into Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland from 23 December. The company said it would only affect a small part of their business and not parcels travelling from Northern Ireland to Great Britain. Parcels to the EU will be routed directly "avoiding congestion we are already seeing at Dover and Calais". Another firm, Parcel Motel, which uses a "virtual address" in County Antrim allowing shoppers in the Republic of Ireland to avoid added costs through international shipping restrictions, is also suspending that service. In a statement it said: "As of 31 December, our virtual address services in the UK will be temporarily suspended, until such time as a final Brexit decision has been implemented and our services have been adapted to meet the new requirements. "As a result, all parcels crossing the new border between Britain and Ireland will be subject to customs formalities affecting the cost and transit time of your shipment." Parcel Motel said it was working on a new offering to meet post-Brexit requirements and will consider the reintroduction of the service. Online plant retailers face particular difficulties from the sea border as they face new certification requirements for their products as well as customs declarations. Last week Sienna Hosta, a specialist plant nursery in Surrey, told customers it would no longer sell to Northern Ireland by mail order. On Twitter it said this was because: "New rules would mean Northern Ireland is essentially treated as an EU country so would require the same plant health checks etc., which for large orders are possible but small orders make it too expensive. We wish this wasn't the case." Formal Agreement The UK and European Union had previously announced a formal agreement on how the new Irish Sea border would operate in January. Separate negotiations to reach a post-Brexit trade deal are still taking place. A special deal for Northern Ireland, known as the protocol, formed part of the Withdrawal Agreement which took the UK out of the EU earlier this year. The protocol will keep Northern Ireland in the EU single market for goods even as the rest of the UK leaves it at the end of this month. The two sides had been negotiating on how the protocol should be implemented.

कुछ ऑनलाइन खुदरा विक्रेता उत्तरी आयरलैंड में वितरण को निलंबित कर रहे हैं।


Wales' tallest building will be built in Cardiff

Summary: A 42-storey student accommodation will be Wales' tallest building after Cardiff council planners gave it the go-ahead.

Standing more than 132m (433 ft) high, the building south of John Lewis will be home to around 450 students. It will be taller than Swansea's Meridian Tower, which is the current highest at 107m (351ft). Council planners approved the move on Wednesday and the building is due to be completed in summer 2018. It will have a shop or cafe at ground level, and a "sky lounge" available for hire.

कार्डिफ परिषद के योजनाकारों द्वारा इसे आगे बढ़ाने की मंजूरी दिए जाने के बाद 42 मंजिला छात्र आवास वेल्स की सबसे ऊंची इमारत होगी।


Searching for the sublime: The man who paints in the ocean

Summary: From Hokusai's The Great Wave to Turner's Storm at Sea, many a painter has produced a seascape. Less common though, is the method Peter Matthews uses - he effectively lets the ocean do the work for him.

By Bethan BellBBC News Along with conventional materials such as paint, pencil and charcoal, he also lists "earth", "water from the Atlantic" and "rust". Matthews shows at galleries across the world - where his work sells for thousands of pounds. He says his moment of inspiration was a near-death experience he had while surfing alone in Mexico in 2007. The waters turned wild, he lost the tethering line to his surfboard, and he was "floundering in the ocean with a gut-wrenching sense of fear, being completely at the mercy of the ocean". Although he managed to get safely back to the beach, he describes his "epiphany moment" of realising he could create his pieces "while physically in or with the sea". He exchanged surfboard for drawing board and, from the Cornish coast to the Hawaiian swell, started immersing himself in the ocean for hours - sometimes days - at a time. He keeps the tools of the trade - some charcoal pencils and gel pens - in his hat, and drifts about with a piece of paper pinned to a wooden board, scribbling on it as he bobs in the waves. You might also like: A Christmas of solitude and silence The man who's been hands-on with priceless art for 40 years Heathrow's death sentence for villages He will often enter the water at first light and crawl out in the evening, spending the night in a tent on the beach. And while he sleeps, the water continues to work for him - he leaves his drawing in a rock pool, so it will remain soaked in seawater and change overnight. He recently spent weeks sewing pieces of canvas together while sitting alone on a rock in Cornwall. The paintings he joined were created in two oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific. He says each painting is made up of "two different parts of the world, ocean experiences and experiences of being out in nature, moving nomadically from place to place, in search of the sublime". Matthews, who was born in Derby, spent days wandering around fields, along river banks and exploring the woods of Derbyshire. He was usually alone on his childhood ramblings and is still attracted to solitude, something he calls the "mysterious and omnipresent call of the wild". That's all very poetic, but what does his work actually look like? It's difficult to pin down. Some are almost cartographic, like a stained and blurred map of nowhere. Others bear a series of scrawled words, perhaps the ramblings of the Roman sea god, Neptune. Waterlogged, fragile and scratched, strangely compelling, they are the result of countless hours of watching and drifting, translating or transcribing a watery monologue. There are practical issues to deal with when it comes to this peculiar working regime. Occasionally, especially during storms, paintings or drawings have been lost to the ocean. There is a place in Cornwall where Matthews buried some paintings, only for a landslide of mud to cover them. He never did find them. These losses, though, are not the disasters they might seem. For Matthews, "the work still exists, it is still in motion, in process". "I feel a deeply emotional contact with the universe when I see a drawing on paper slowly drift downwards to the bottom of the ocean, such as when a rogue wave breaks... and it takes the paper off the battered plywood board and I am just a witness to the forces of nature." More prosaically, prolonged exposure to the elements has led to hypothermia. Sunstroke, jellyfish stings, razor-sharp rocks and coral all have their challenges. He has to deal with "the epic unpredictability of the weather," high tides and rogue waves. He has suffered snake, insect and wild dog bites. Even finding shelter, food and fresh water can be difficult in some hard-to-reach places as he treks out alone, carrying all his equipment. Despite working all over the world, there is a particular, secret, place in Cornwall to which Matthews feels the most deeply connected, returning there to work for about a decade. "It has become a place where I can really feel my ancestral roots," he says. From time to time, people out walking the south-west coast path will stop and watch as he works. "They're no doubt thinking 'what I am doing?' as I bob up and down in an old wetsuit clutching onto a piece of plywood with a piece of paper nailed to it." Bemused onlookers do not seem to matter to Matthews. As he says, he is all about "finding a position in time, space and life". "It is that path and communion, that personal dialogue along that path to seek and to find that I am entranced by. "Perhaps that sounds religious in some ways, and in a lot of ways, it is."

होकुसाई की द ग्रेट वेव से लेकर टर्नर के स्टॉर्म एट सी तक, कई चित्रकारों ने एक समुद्री दृश्य तैयार किया है। हालांकि, पीटर मैथ्यूज द्वारा उपयोग की जाने वाली विधि कम आम है-वह प्रभावी रूप से समुद्र को अपने लिए काम करने देता है।


Why is gin and tonic getting pricier?

Summary: Whether it's the inflated entry price of a club or the double fare in the taxi home, New Year's Eve can be an expensive night. And it turns out the drinks are getting pricier too - particularly the gin and tonic.

By Daniel WainwrightBBC News Data released to BBC News shows the price of the average bottle of gin has risen by about a quarter in the past five years, with the accompanying tonic water also rising. According to prices held by MySupermarket, spirits including whisky, rum and vodka are all more expensive than they were five years ago, but it is gin that has risen the most. A 700ml bottle of gin costs an average of £23.06, compared with £18.91 five years ago. Its most common mixer, tonic water, is also up 18% over the same period. Experts say the growth in the popularity of gin, which has seen a rise in the number of distilleries and brands on the market, is driving the growth in price. However, they say people are also drinking less but "drinking better" and are prepared to go for quality over quantity. Despite its popularity and reports of queues outside supermarkets earlier in the year, prosecco is slightly cheaper on average than in 2016, and only a little more expensive than it was in 2012. The Spanish sparkling wine cava is one of few drinks to have got a little cheaper as well in the past year, while champagne has risen 10%. Why is gin getting more expensive? A total of 96 new distilleries opened in the UK in 2015 and 2016, according to HMRC, taking the total to 273, more than double 2012's 128. Instead of this increased supply sending the price of gin downwards, the opposite has happened. The rise in the price of gin is down to a combination of people's changing tastes and "better marketing", according to one distiller. James Chase of the Herefordshire-based Chase Distillery said people were becoming more "discerning". "Over the last few years we've seen people drinking less, but drinking better," he says. "You can see people taking more of an interest in what they eat and drink, to the extent that we have seen a huge increase in distillery tours." Prices of botanicals - key ingredients in gin - have risen due to currency and exchange rates as well as growth in demand, he adds. "However, for most the cost of production is still what it was five years ago," Mr Chase says. "There's just more marketing nous which means some are putting the price up." Distillers are also bringing new and different varieties on to the market. These more expensive gins, which can cost about £35 a bottle, push up the price of the "average" bottle on the supermarket shelves. What are botanicals? Botanicals are the berries, fruits, seeds, herbs and roots that give gin its flavour. Juniper berries are the most common. Coriander is another key ingredient as is the angelica root. Then there are gins flavoured with cucumber, pink grapefruit and sloe berries. "There are a lot of artisanal gins around the £35 mark," says Vhari Russell of the Food Marketing Expert. "There are different flavours, from cucumber to rhubarb, which people are trying out in cocktail bars. "Things have moved on a long way from the basic gin with tonic, ice and a slice." Matt Sharp, who runs The Gin Vault in Birmingham, agrees. The bar opened in mid-2016 with 28 different types of gin. Now it stocks 220 varieties. "My biggest seller is rhubarb gin with ginger ale," he says. "Gin's never gone out of fashion, but it has become very popular more recently. "People are trying peppery gins, with a bit of spice. We'll add a slice of orange, a little bit of honey and some chilli flakes. It's fantastic." Customer Colin Reeder, enjoying an after-work drink with colleagues, says: "When I started drinking gin it was the martini with the olive. Very James Bond. "It was either that or you'd have it with orange or pineapple, which was disgusting. It's come back into fashion but I've no idea why. It's like LPs and vinyl, they're all coming back again." His colleague Nivedita Bandit, on secondment with the team from Mumbai, adds: "I don't know why it became so popular." Damian Danieluk has a theory. He believes gin offers more opportunities to experiment with flavours than many other spirits. "It's very versatile", says the the 37-year-old, who works in manufacturing automation sales. "You can infuse it with so many different flavours." The Wine and Spirits Trade Association says there is "no sign" of the British public tiring of new gins. Bar manager Matt adds: "It won't slow down for a good few years yet. "If anything it is just going to get bigger and bigger." Price data from MySupermarket included averages for Tesco, Sainsbury's Morrisons, Asda and Waitrose.

चाहे वह किसी क्लब के बढ़े हुए प्रवेश मूल्य की बात हो या टैक्सी घर में दोगुना किराया, नए साल की पूर्व संध्या एक महंगी रात हो सकती है। और यह पता चला है कि पेय भी महंगे हो रहे हैं-विशेष रूप से जिन और टॉनिक।


Remembering Joe Strummer 10 years on

Summary: In the early hours of the 23rd of December 2002 , I took a call telling me that Joe Strummer had died. After the conversation, I lay in bed for a while not quite believing what I'd heard.

By Gideon CoeBBC 6 Music presenter I didn't have a reliable internet connection, or any other way of confirming the news. It wasn't reported in the early bulletins that morning. Arriving earlier than usual at our offices in BBC 6 Music, I logged onto his website where a picture was captioned "Joe Strummer 1952-2002". Much of that day on 6 Music was punctuated by friends, colleagues and bandmates talking about his legacy. Contributors included Jake Burns, who formed his band Stiff Little Fingers in March 1977, some months before The Clash played in his native Belfast. "The Clash's big influence on us was showing us there was more to punk rock than the initial 'shock value,'" he told me. "It was thanks to them we saw the direction we could, and should, take." Of course this influence wasn't just down to Joe Strummer. Every band he played with - The 101ers, The Clash, The Mescaleros - was fuelled by, and reliant upon, the input from each member and the chemistry between them. But Strummer was central to these bands: In the middle of the stage, usually the taking lead vocal, his leg pumping up and down while he hammered the life out of his Telecaster. The Clash left a huge legacy in terms of the groups and musicians that they influenced. Every time I try to name them, the list becomes unwieldy - but it includes Manic Street Preachers, U2, Moby, Aztec Camera, Green Day, Public Enemy and Billy Bragg. You can't necessarily hear The Clash's music in those artists, but the key legacy for any band is the ability to inspire others. Strummer sang about being in a "Garageband" and he undoubtedly motivated many thousands of others to do the follow the same path. It's important to realise what a musical magpie he was. Influences, ideas, lyrical and musical phrases were harvested from many sources and from many different genres of music. Running through the bands of which he was a part, you can hear blues, reggae, ska, rap, rock and roll, African beats, Balkan beats... you name it. Not all of those influences were down to Joe in particular but, if any upcoming band or musician can listen to his music and then endeavour to be as curious and as musically open-minded as he was, then that's another huge part of his legacy. As well as their music, The Clash also had a swagger which inspired bands. The Redskins said they wanted to sing like the Supremes and walk like The Clash. And Billy Bragg told the NME in 1984: "When a folk club artist goes out with his guitar, he might think he's James Taylor or Bob Dylan. When I go out, I still think I'm The Clash." Another lesson he learned from Strummer was about using music to convey a political message. "[He] was the driving force who helped give punk its 'political edge,'" Bragg told the BBC in 2002. " have a great admiration for the man. His most recent records are as political and edgy as anything he did with The Clash. "His take on multi-cultural Britain in the 21st century is far ahead of anybody else." Strummer's legacy has been underpinned since his death by Strummerville - the Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music. A registered charity, it seeks to offer support and resources, such as performance and rehearsal spaces, to musicians who would not normally have them. If there is one tangible defining, example of his influence then it's through the work of Strummerville. There are other celebrations of his life, though, such as from the Canadian Radio station which plays nothing but his music each year on the 22nd of December. Meanwhile in the UK, Class 47 Locomotive 47828 was renamed the Joe Strummer in 2005. And quite a few children are growing up with Strummer as a middle name. Most of all, people still listen to his records. Everyone has their favourites but, personally, I'd recommend all of the Clash's output up to and including This Is England. Sandinista! - a sprawling three-disc masterpiece - will always hold a special place for me. Then there's his wonderful soundtrack for the Alex Cox movie Walker, and his somewhat overlooked solo LP Earthquake Weather. Added to these are the records he made with the Mescaleros. One comfort that can be drawn from his passing at such an early age is that he did so shortly after making some of the best recordings of his life. My son is seven and inherited my old portable music-listening device. Some days later he asked me to teach him the words to Safe European Home by The Clash. I think we can be sure that Strummer's music will prove to be influential long after we've gone.

23 दिसंबर 2002 के शुरुआती घंटों में, मैंने मुझे फोन किया कि जो स्ट्रमर की मृत्यु हो गई है। बातचीत के बाद, मैं कुछ समय के लिए बिस्तर पर लेटा रहा जो मैंने सुना था उस पर मुझे विश्वास नहीं हो रहा था।


Summary: In the mid-1980s prison officers at HMP Peterhead had to wear body armour at all times after a series of riots and hostage-takings. The new HMP Grampian, situated next to the old jail, wants to bring a very different approach to incarceration.

By Steven BrocklehurstBBC Scotland news website Victorian prison conditions, rooftop protests, riots and hostage-taking gave HMP Peterhead a mythical status. It became known as Scotland's hardest lock-up, dubbed by many as the "hate factory". The history of the prison, on the Buchan coast, 30 miles north of Aberdeen, dates back to 1888. The jail was built to provide workers for the quarries which would be supplying granite blocks to construct the breakwater to protect the fishing fleet in the town's harbour. The sea walls were built using stone produced from the hard labour of the tough men who first inhabited Peterhead prison. In those days, prison was designed for punishment and was stocked with its own supply of whipping implements such as cat-o'-nine-tails and birch rods. The prison officers carried cutlasses. In the early years of the 20th Century Peterhead welcomed its first political prisoner - Red Clydesider John Maclean - who was jailed for sedition during World War One. He died at the age of 44, and blamed his deteriorating ill health on the conditions he had suffered in the north east jail. If the conditions were considered poor in the early 1900s, its reputation did not improve as the years wore on. The cramped Victorian building was enveloped by the chill winds from the North Sea and inmates spent most of their time in tiny cells with little recreation or rehabilitation. And difficulties with adapting the building meant it was not possible to upgrade the cells to provide internal sanitation. Prison historian Robert Jeffrey tells a BBC Scotland documentary on the prison the fact that "slopping out" lasted so long was "disgraceful". Mr Jeffrey says: "Taking prisoners in groups of around of 20, who have spent the night sitting on tin cans in their cells, downstairs to sluice all that out. It is out of the dark ages." Slopping out ended across the prison service in 2007, except for Peterhead where they used chemical toilets. It was just one part of the system that inmates claimed pushed them over the edge. Visiting was another sore point. Prisoners, who were mainly from the central belt, said the distance made it difficult for their families to get there. Peterhead was a powder keg and in November 1986 it finally blew. Fifteen prison officers were assaulted when the trouble started and one of them, John Crossan, was taken hostage for four days. From the roof, prisoners demanded to speak to Daily Record reporter Ian Cameron. He recalls: "The young prison officer who they had taken hostage, they were threatening to throw him off the roof. I couldn't have lived with that so I had to go." 'Eyes like gobstoppers' Mr Cameron interviewed riot leader Andrew Walker, a former soldier who had gunned down three of his colleagues in a botched payroll robbery. "He started talking about his wife and kids and the difficulties of coming up from the Borders," he says. "He wanted transferred to the south. I was looking at his eyes, when he was angry they were like gobstoppers." After their chat, the Daily Record reporter asked Walker to hand over the prison guard and, to his surprise, he did. More than £250,000 of damage was caused when prisoners set fire to A-hall during the riot. The main culprits received an extra 10 years on their sentences. It was no deterrent to further trouble. Less than a year later, Peterhead hit the headlines once again. This time the response from the authorities was devastating. About 50 convicts went on the rampage and two officers in D-hall were taken hostage. One of them, Jackie Stuart, who is now 83, told BBC Scotland: "They brought us out and made us lie on the floor with out heads under the bed. They started beating us with table legs. "That carried on for a while then somebody shouted that was enough. We were pretty badly injured." The hostage-takers let Bill Florence go because of his injuries but Jackie Stuart was paraded on the roof in front of the media. There was a genuine fear his life was in danger. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took the controversial decision to send in the SAS. At 05:00 they blew their way in with CS gas, stun guns and grenades and rescued officer Stuart. Former inmate Willie Leitch recalls that the entire operation was completed in just two minutes. Historian Robert Jeffrey says: "They were back in their 4x4s and back to Herefordshire. One of them said he had enjoyed a second breakfast when he got back. "It was really a very clinical, frightening strike." Something had to change at Peterhead. A different approach to prison management was needed and a new governor, Andrew Coyle, was brought in from Greenock Prison in 1988. Mr Coyle says: "Shortly before I went there the Secretary of State sent for me and said 'governor, I have got only one instruction for you' "'Get Peterhead off the front pages'." The SPS located all those who had been involved in riots and hostage-taking at Peterhead in an attempt to stabilise the entire prison estate. The 60 inmates involved were initially held in "lockdown" under prison rule 36 which meant the governor had to visit each one every day. Mr Coyle says: "The prisoners were all locked up in isolation. Many of them refused to wear clothing. "They were clothed only in blankets, they themselves and their cells were covered in excrement. It was a terrible situation for staff and for them." The daily clothing of the prison officers was riot gear - helmets, body armour and shields. Mr Coyle says: "Staff would say: 'When I get up in the morning I have got a sickness in the pit of my stomach because I know I have got to put on all this body armour and go down to that terrible hall'." The situation could not continue. Sex offenders Since most of the high security inmates were from the central belt, the SPS moved them to Shotts in Lanarkshire. But what to do with Peterhead? "There was no moment when the strategic decision was made to move all sex offenders to Peterhead," says former governor Coyle. "It happened incrementally. The staff at Peterhead gained an expertise in managing sex offenders." The former governor says that this was the only reason Peterhead was kept open. The prison became a centre of excellence in the treatment of sex offenders through its pioneering STOP programme. And by 2002, when the SPS wanted to close Peterhead, the people of the town marched against the closure and won. However, the sex offenders were removed from Peterhead in 2011 and last year the prison finally closed its doors. The new HMP Grampian, which opened in March 2014, is a state-of-the-art prison which is designed to be "community-facing", taking inmates from the north east of Scotland and focusing more on rehabilitation and giving them skills. It is the first time in Scotland that men, women and young offenders have been housed in the same jail. The prison cells are much larger than those in Peterhead and, as well as including a toilet, they also have an en suite shower. There is a sports hall, classrooms and workshops for the inmates to use but the problems of the old jail seem to be haunting the new HMP Grampian. In its first eight months there have been a series of incidents. In the most serious, about 40 prisoners went on the rampage and, in an echo of 1980, officers wore riot gear to quell the trouble. Are these teething problems? Does the community-facing approach just need time to work? Former Peterhead inmate Johnny Steele says: "At the end of the day a jail is still a jail regardless of what is available to the prisoners inside, whether that be TVs, swimming pools or whatever. It is still a prison. "What society needs to know is that the more help that people get in the prison the better it will be for when they eventually get released again." HMP Grampian: Transforming Scotland's hate factory is on BBC Two Scotland at 21:00 on Sunday 16 November and will be available on the iplayer afterwards.

1980 के दशक के मध्य में एच. एम. पी. पीटरहेड के जेल अधिकारियों को दंगों और बंधक बनाने की एक श्रृंखला के बाद हर समय शरीर के कवच पहनने पड़ते थे। पुरानी जेल के बगल में स्थित नया एच. एम. पी. ग्रैम्पियन कैद के लिए एक बहुत ही अलग दृष्टिकोण लाना चाहता है।


Existing retailers to leave planned Ikea site in Calcot by 2014

Summary: A site proposed as the location for a new superstore will be cleared of existing retailers early next year, paving the way for construction.

Ikea would not confirm when construction on the site would start, but said it would be after retailers left the Calcot site in January and the empty units were demolished. People living near the site in Pincents Lane have concerns about traffic. The proposed site is close to Junction 12 of the M4, near Reading. Theale residents say it will make travelling through the town difficult. Pamela Bale, of West Berkshire Council, said the effects of the extra traffic would be mitigated. She said the access to Pincents Lane Retail Park would be widened from Sainsbury's to the proposed store, and Ikea would fund improvements to the A4 as a planning condition for the development.

एक नए सुपरस्टोर के लिए स्थान के रूप में प्रस्तावित स्थल को अगले साल की शुरुआत में मौजूदा खुदरा विक्रेताओं से हटा दिया जाएगा, जिससे निर्माण का मार्ग प्रशस्त होगा।


Coronavirus: Five of the countries most at risk from famine in 2020

Summary: As deaths caused by coronavirus around the world continue to rise, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the world faces a possible "hunger pandemic" as the number of people most in need of food could almost double this year.

At the end of 2019, 135 million people were living with "acute hunger". But with many countries around the world enforcing quarantine, that number is likely to rise to 265 million, the WFP says. "Before the coronavirus even became an issue, I was saying that 2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since World War Two for a number of reasons," WFP executive director David Beasley said on Tuesday. The organisation, which received $8.3bn (£6.7bn) in 2019, now needs between $10-12bn to sustain its operations for this year. So which countries are most at risk? Yemen Even before the war in Yemen began, the country was the poorest in the Arab world. But since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the conflict against Yemen's Houthi rebels in 2015, the country's humanitarian situation has deteriorated still further. "As conflicts become longer, more and more people become vulnerable", the WFP's Chief Economist and Director of Research, Assessment and Monitoring Division, Arif Husain, told the BBC. "In 2016 in Yemen, we were maybe assisting three or four million people. Today that number is 12 million." To make matters worse, the WFP said earlier this month it would halve aid to Houthi-controlled areas, over concerns voiced by some countries that the rebels were obstructing aid deliveries. Yemen reported its first confirmed case of coronavirus earlier this month, with aid agencies warning that the disease could quickly overwhelm the country's weakened health systems. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) After more than a quarter of a century of armed conflict in parts of the country, the DRC is the world's second-largest hunger crisis, according to the WFP. More than 15% of the country's population are classed as "severely food insecure" - meaning that they are among 30 million people in war zones around the world who are almost completely dependent on aid. Almost $2bn is needed to secure the food supply for these populations in next three months alone, Mr Husain said. "Those were the worst-affected people and now they're in even more trouble," he said. The DRC also has 5 million internally displaced people and over half a million refugees from neighbouring countries. In addition to the heightened risk faced by anyone living in war zones, displaced people are even more vulnerable during the coronavirus outbreak because they often lack basic hygiene facilities needed to help stop the spread of disease. Earlier this month the spokesman for the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, warned that ongoing violence in the DRC was threatening efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus there, which has so far mainly affected the capital Kinshasa. Venezuela Unlike the other countries on the list, Venezuela's hunger has not been caused by conflict or environmental factors, but rather by economic hardship. Although Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, hyperinflation in the country reached 200% in January last year, leaving a third of its people in need of assistance. The difficulties have been compounded by a mass exodus of health workers, according to WFP. And the problems don't end there - around 4.8 million people (or 15% of the population) have left Venezuela in recent years, and hundreds of thousands of these migrants are facing food insecurity in neighbouring countries. South Sudan The world's youngest country only gained independence from its northern neighbour, Sudan, in 2011. The move was meant to mark the end of a long-running civil war, but the country descended into violent conflict after just two years. The WFP warns that hunger and malnutrition in South Sudan are at the most extreme levels since 2011, with almost 60% of the population struggling to find food every day. Making the situation worse, swarms of locusts which had destroyed crops across East Africa arrived in South Sudan earlier this year. "If Covid[-19] was not a story right now, desert locusts would be the biggest story," according to Mr Husain. And as one of the most oil-dependent countries in the world, the country is likely to be hit hard by falling oil prices. The country has now recorded four cases of coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University. Afghanistan Another country ravaged by conflict, Afghanistan had suffered almost two decades of war when the US invaded in 2001. Eighteen years later, more than half of the population lives below the poverty line, and over 11 million people are classed as severely food insecure by the WFP. According to Afghan government figures there have been over 1,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. While the numbers appear low, the country has limited access to testing and the health system has suffered under decades of conflict. There are also fears that the virus could have spread after more than 150,000 Afghans returned from virus-stricken Iran during March, while tens of thousands of others returned from Pakistan. ...and the new 130 million In addition to areas affected by war, environmental issues or economic crises, many more low- and middle-income countries are likely to be affected by job losses and other economic difficulties caused by the spread of coronavirus in the coming months. The problem will be made worse by similar economic pressures in countries across the world, meaning that remittances, or money being sent back from relatives abroad, will fall in these countries. "The most important thing is an affordable treatment which must be available to everyone across the world," Mr Husain said. "But until we get to that point, we need to make sure we do everything in our power to save lives and protect livelihoods."

विश्व खाद्य कार्यक्रम (डब्ल्यू. एफ. पी.) ने चेतावनी दी है कि दुनिया एक संभावित "भूख महामारी" का सामना कर रही है क्योंकि इस साल भोजन की सबसे अधिक आवश्यकता वाले लोगों की संख्या लगभग दोगुनी हो सकती है।


Q&A: China's newspaper industry

Summary: A protest by a newspaper may go unnoticed in some countries, but one in China over censorship captured headlines around the world.

Employees of Southern Weekly, a Guangdong based newspaper also known as Southern Weekend, staged a protest and asked for the top propaganda official to step down. The dispute was later resolved but the tussle over press freedom has shone a spotlight on the industry as a whole.

एक समाचार पत्र द्वारा विरोध कुछ देशों में किसी का ध्यान नहीं जा सकता है, लेकिन चीन में सेंसरशिप पर एक ने दुनिया भर में सुर्खियों में कब्जा कर लिया।


Belfast International Airport: Man charged with endangering plane safety

Summary: A man is to appear in court charged with endangering the safety of an aircraft on a transatlantic flight.

He was travelling on a United Airlines flight from Rome to Chicago on Saturday that was diverted to Belfast International Airport. The 42-year-old, who has dual US-Italian nationality, has also been charged with disruptive behaviour on board an aircraft and common assault. He is due to appear before Coleraine Magistrates Court on Monday. The plane resumed its journey on Sunday afternoon.

अटलांटिक पार उड़ान पर विमान की सुरक्षा को खतरे में डालने के आरोप में एक व्यक्ति को अदालत में पेश होना है।


UK gun crime: Should police retry gun sensor technology?

Summary: San Francisco is scaling up its use of an intelligent gunshot sensor system - but when the same scheme was trialled in the UK it was abandoned after two years. However, the technology of the sensors has improved, so is it time to retry the system?

By Ed RamBBC News It sounds like a no-brainer. A tried and tested network of listening sensors are placed around a city and can instantly pinpoint where a gunshot has come from within seconds of the weapon being fired. ShotSpotter promises to save police having to hunt door-to-door in the vague vicinity of a blast. It analyses the way the sound waves from the gun firing radiate out reaching microphones at slightly different times. Its maker SST says it can distinguish the sound of a bullet being fired from fireworks and other types of explosion, count how many shots were fired and even deduce how many gunmen were involved. San Francisco is scaling up its use of the tech - and it's also been deployed in Miami, Boston, Puerto Rico and Rio de Janeiro. But an effort to use it to combat gun crime in the UK was abandoned when authorities in the city of Birmingham reported "technical difficulties". So, what went wrong - and would it be worth reconsidering? Privacy concerns In December 2010, West Midlands Police were optimistic about what the innovation could achieve. The cost of investigating a single murder could run to £1m. By contrast, installing the system cost £150,000 and a further £21,000 a year to maintain. "We're delighted to be the first city in the UK to secure this technology," said Ch Supt Chris McKeogh at the time. Some residents expressed concern that their conversations might be picked up - a previous effort to install hidden CCTV cameras in the city had proven controversial and had to be abandoned - but the police assured them this would not happen. But just 20 months later ShotSpotter was judged to be a second failure. In August 2012 West Midlands Police said of 1,618 alerts produced by the system since November 2011, only two were confirmed gunfire incidents. What's more, the force added, ShotSpotter had also missed four confirmed shootings. Its conclusion was that resources would be best spent elsewhere. Ch Supt Clive Burgess said the system had "struggled to work" and that in future officers would instead focus on day-to-day community policing, anti-gun education programmes and the work of the counter-gang task force. Air gun problem Now that the dust has settled, SST is willing to discuss what went wrong. James Beldock, the firm's senior vice president of products, said the figures quoted two years ago were misleading. "There were only two cases of an actual firearm shooting being missed [by SST] over an 18-month period," he said. "The other two were air guns, which ShotSpotter is explicitly not designed to detect." He acknowledged there were "technical problems", which caused the system to be less accurate than normal, but suggested this could have been avoided if the city had been more committed to the idea. "SST originally proposed a density of ShotSpotter sensors of approximately 10 per square kilometre," he said. "Such sensor densities are standard for our international deployments - Brazil, South Africa, Panama, etc. "Unfortunately, budget constraints pushed West Midlands Police to reduce that density. We take partial responsibility for permitting the budget to drive the decision, along with West Midlands Police." The firm had learnt from this mistake and made other changes to improve the system. SST staff now monitor all the sensors deployed worldwide through a central base in the US to confirm the cause of each explosion, rather than leaving such a judgement to local law enforcers on the ground. And a new generation of sensor - with approximately 10 times the processing power - has now been introduced, Mr Bedlock said. Even so, Birmingham - and other UK cities that eyed ShotSpotter - might be wise to remain reticent. ShotSpotter is optimised to handle the very specific noises, frequencies and decibel levels created by conventional weapons. But while such weapons may be relatively easy to come by in the US and parts of Latin America, they are less common in the UK. As a result, criminals in Britain often resort to other types of firearms, including ones that shoot pellets and electric stun guns. A review of the 22 injuries caused by guns in Birmingham's west and central areas between April 2011 and March 2012 reveals that the majority were the result of air-rifles and BB air guns. "A higher sensor density might permit such modified weapons to be detected, but the economic equation would, again, need to be reviewed," said Mr Bedlock. It's not impossible that ShotSpotter will return to the UK. The Home Office notes that it is "down to each regional police force" as to whether it invests in the equipment. But for now it seems this is one instance where the traditional trumps cutting edge tech - at least where British cities are involved. Watch more clips on the Click website. If you are in the UK you can watch the whole programme on BBC iPlayer.

सैन फ़्रांसिस्को एक बुद्धिमान गन शॉट संवेदक प्रणाली के अपने उपयोग को बढ़ा रहा है-लेकिन जब ब्रिटेन में इसी योजना का परीक्षण किया गया था तो इसे दो साल बाद छोड़ दिया गया था। हालाँकि, संवेदक की तकनीक में सुधार हुआ है, इसलिए क्या यह प्रणाली को फिर से आज़माने का समय है?


Nicola Payne disappearance: Parents' anguish goes on

Summary: "I have a special time of the day where I sit and I think about Nicola. I even talk to her picture and I always think about her," says Marilyn Payne of her daughter who went missing in Coventry 21 years ago.

"When I go to Ascot I sit and ask Nicky's permission to put make up on because I don't like going to big dos." Ms Payne was 18 when she went missing in the Henley Green area on 14 December 1991. She had a six-month old son at the time. "I don't like going to parties and I'm in bed for 10 on New Year's Eve. I cannot see the point in celebrating something when I haven't got the person I want there. "That's how I handle it." No-one has ever been charged in connection with the case and on the 21st anniversary of her disappearance, West Midlands Police has renewed its appeal for two men spotted near the area in Henley Green where she was last seen. 'End our misery' The force's investigating officer, Det Insp Martin Slevin, said: "During the past few months a full investigative review of the inquiry into Nicola's disappearance has taken place. "We have been able to apply modern investigative strategies to what is a 21-year-old investigation. "This fresh review has identified several potential lines of inquiry." Hopes were raised in June when police dug up an area near Purcell Road in the city. But no remains were found and two men arrested at the time of the dig were released. Ms Payne's father John said dealing with the unanswered question of what happened gets harder every year, but he remains optimistic. Mr Payne said: "I think something will happen this time. "They're saying that they're reading all the statements again and there are lines that don't add up. "They're trying to put those bits together now. "Somebody in that area knows what happened. All I would say is, put us out of our misery. 'Life sentence' Mr Payne's wife Marilyn said being without her daughter, who she has always feared is dead, really hits home around the festive period. "We've got great-grandchildren who don't understand," Mrs Payne continued. "They're all excited about Christmas. "I can't be bothered to put decorations or the tree up. "We just try and do what we can and then have our own quiet time and talk through who we wish could be there. "There's not a day goes by that I don't sit and have her in my thoughts. "Whoever's guilty of this has had 21 years freely enjoying their life and we've had 21 years of a life sentence. "It never leaves you."

21 साल पहले कोवेंट्री में लापता हुई अपनी बेटी के बारे में मर्लिन पायने कहती हैं, "मेरे पास दिन का एक विशेष समय होता है जब मैं बैठती हूं और निकोला के बारे में सोचती हूं। मैं उसकी तस्वीर से भी बात करती हूं और हमेशा उसके बारे में सोचती हूं।"