Tata Steel 'set to cut 1,200 jobs'

Summary: Tata Steel is to announce 1,200 UK job cuts next week.

By Chris JohnstonBusiness reporter The firm is expected to significantly reduce the workforce at its Scunthorpe steel plant, which employs 4,000 people and is one of the UK's biggest. Tata may also cut jobs in Scotland, at Clydebridge in Cambuslang and Dalzell in Motherwell. The company declined to confirm the job cuts, but said it had been facing challenges in the UK such as a surge in steel imports, and the strong pound. A spokesman said: "We've made a number of structural changes to our UK business over the last months and years to make us more competitive. Like all companies we continue to review the performance of our business." Tata employs about 17,000 people in the UK. 'Life changing' By Phillip Norton, BBC News reporter in Scunthorpe The Tata steel works is at the very heart of this community. For generations, the night sky has glowed over Scunthorpe, illuminated by the production of molten metal below. There's concern here not only for the plant which dominates the northern Lincolnshire skyline, but for all the businesses and industry which feed into, and rely on Scunthorpe steel. One man told me that without steel, the town would be crippled. Wives, mothers, brothers and husbands - almost everyone in this town knows someone connected to the plant. "If this announcement comes true," one shopper said, "It will be life changing for Scunthorpe." But there has also been a feeling of reluctant acceptance - that since the closure of the Redcar plant was announced, bad news may have been lurking on the horizon for Scunthorpe. The question now is just how bad that news could be for steel production in this town. And just how Scunthorpe will cope with the blow. 'Crisis point' Tony Gosling, a steelworker in Scunthorpe and a Labour councillor, said the job cuts would be "absolutely devastating". "This area is still heavily dependent on the steel industry - a lot of the other small manufacturing companies all rely on it," he said. It is the second blow to the UK steel industry this week and follows SSI's decision to close its blast furnace and coke ovens in Redcar. Unions have called on ministers to take urgent action to save the UK steel industry, while John Cridland, CBI director-general, called on the government to work with businesses on a long-term industrial strategy. Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke said the steel industry was at crisis point. "Ministers need to start by keeping the coke ovens at Redcar burning and supporting the wider steel industry through these turbulent times, so that British industry can benefit from major infrastructure projects, such as HS2," he said. Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community union, said it would seek talks with Tata Steel to discuss ways that jobs could be saved. "This is yet another blow to our steel communities and demonstrates the precarious state of the UK steel industry and emphasises the need for government action," he said. Business Secretary Sajid Javid chaired a steel summit involving unions, business leaders and ministers in Rotherham on Friday that was organised following the SSI closure. Mr Javid said that the steel industry globally was facing one of the most difficult times in its history. "There is no magic bullet and we can't change the price of steel, but we can forensically work through all of the challenges we know the industry is facing to see what solutions there might be," he said. Analysis By John Moylan, BBC industry correspondent The crisis in the steel industry is the first major test of the government's industrial policy. Ministers are under pressure to intervene and for many, Friday's steel summit won't go far enough. The government blames the dramatic collapse in global steel demand and prices. However, the industry points to issues closer to home - high energy prices and crippling business rates - where the government could help. If it doesn't, they fear the tide of job losses will continue. Gareth Stace, director of UK Steel, said: "There is very little time before we start to see more job losses and companies facing intolerable pressure." "We are cautiously optimistic that the urgent recommendations we have made - from compensation to cut the cost of energy to tackling unfair dumping of steel by China - are all now at the top of the Secretary of State's to-do list." Sale talks Tata had been in talks for more than a year about selling the Scunthorpe plant to the Geneva-based Klesch Group until they collapsed in June. Its chief, Gary Klesch, told the Financial Times that he abandoned the deal because the UK government had taken no steps to stop Chinese companies dumping cheap steel on the UK market. "No one seems to care ... If it was important to [the government] to ensure those jobs were saved they would figure it out."

टाटा स्टील अगले सप्ताह ब्रिटेन में 1,200 नौकरियों में कटौती की घोषणा करेगी।


Billingborough cash machine thieves fled empty-handed

Summary: Would-be thieves fled empty-handed when a cash machine fell from a getaway car after being stolen from a village shop.

The attempted robbery took place at the Co-op store in Billingborough, near Sleaford, in the early hours. Lincolnshire Police said a stolen digger was used to remove the machine, which was then loaded into a waiting getaway car. But as it sped off, the machine fell into the road and was left behind, the force said. Officers have appealed for anyone with information about the incident, which happened at about 04:00 BST, to get in touch. Follow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.

गाँव की एक दुकान से चोरी होने के बाद एक कैश मशीन भागने वाली कार से गिरने पर चोर खाली हाथ भाग गए।


Hillsborough papers: Bishop of Liverpool on role chairing panel

Summary: "On my desk in my study I have a photograph of the stadium on the day, I have the names of all the 96 and I put those there at the very beginning to remind me each day of the importance of the task."

For nearly three years the Bishop of Liverpool the Right Reverend James Jones has chaired the Hillsborough Independent Panel. The group was tasked with examining 450,000 pages of previously unseen documents detailing events surrounding the UK's worst sporting disaster. Bishop Jones, speaking at a BBC religion and ethics festival in Salford, said he was acutely aware of the significance and potential impact of what they were about to reveal. Even so, when Hillsborough families were given the report, three people fainted in distress at the scale of the cover-up. He said: "We felt immediately our responsibility to enable the families to receive it with dignity, because we knew how traumatic this information would be. 'Unresolved grief' "A huge amount of attention was given not just to [the disclosure], but the whole process of the families absorbing and assimilating this distressing material. "I said to the families that their comfort, their security, their dignity had been uppermost in our minds in planning that day." Bishop Jones said there were two key reasons why he decided to accept the offer of chairing the panel, which was set up in January 2010. He said: "The more I have worked with the panel, in consultation with the families, the more their pleas resonated with two fundamental aspects of my own faith and ethics. "First, the call to heal the broken hearted and secondly, the plea to grant justice to those who are denied it." Despite undergoing a heart bypass operation in 2011, Bishop Jones said he was determined to see out his responsibility, chairing all but three of the 40 panel meetings. "The first question I asked the consultant was, 'would I still be able to do Hillsborough?' And I am delighted to say the answer was yes." 'Dignified determination' The panel was established by Andy Burnham MP, who was then Health Secretary under the Labour government. As power shifted to the coalition, Bishop Jones revealed he had to be "robust" in convincing MPs to continue the public funding to allow the panel to continue. "I said that if you did not know 21 or 22 years on how and why your child died, your grief would be unresolved." But it was meeting the Hillsborough families for the first time, he said, that was the driving force behind the panel's work to search for the truth. "At this point, their dignified determination made a huge impact upon me personally and upon all my colleagues and that almost provided the glue that bound us together in our common purpose to achieve this work. "When you hear how they have been treated in the past, I found that very hard to hear." The panel's work is not yet over, despite its report being presented to the families and published online. It will continue to work until the end of September so there is support for the families following the report's publication.

"अपने अध्ययन में अपनी मेज पर मेरे पास उस दिन स्टेडियम की एक तस्वीर है, मेरे पास सभी 96 के नाम हैं और मैं उन्हें हर दिन मुझे कार्य के महत्व की याद दिलाने के लिए शुरू में ही वहाँ रखता हूँ।"


Alun Cairns peddling smears about Plaid Cymru, says Leanne Wood

Summary: The leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood has accused the Welsh secretary of peddling "myths and smears", after he claimed members of her party had broken the law over migration into Welsh-speaking communities.

Alun Cairns made the comments on the BBC's Question Time programme. During the fractious exchange with Ms Wood he said it "wasn't so long ago" that "cottages were being burned down". Ms Wood called for the "outrageous" comments to be withdrawn. The Wales Office declined to respond to her criticism of the secretary of state. Plaid Cymru leader in Westminster Hywel Williams said Mr Cairns should consider his position. Speaking to BBC Wales, he said: "I think he should apologise and consider whether he really is up to the job. "I'm not calling on him to resign. It's a matter for him - is he really up to it?" Labour AM David Rees also called for Mr Cairns to apologise. He tweeted that the Welsh Secretary should "withdraw" his allegation. "Unacceptable comments from any politician," he said. Mr Cairns had told the programme, as recorded in Neath on Thursday evening, that Ms Wood "seems to be very open to immigration into the UK but if it goes into Welsh-speaking communities then she's got something very serious to say". Ms Wood challenged him, saying: "What are you talking about? Give me a quote, quote me." The cabinet minister continued, saying "when there's a migration into Welsh-speaking communities, the integration in those communities, and I'm a passionate Welsh speaker... isn't necessarily as it is and many of your members have taken direct action in the past, many have broken the law to that effect". "I would hope that you'd condemn them bearing in mind the standpoint you're taking now," he said. Ms Wood protested: "Who are you talking about? What are you talking about?" 'Distorting history' The Conservative MP for Vale of Glamorgan replied that there were "communities in Wales where there are nationalist activists that take direct action against people who come in". Mr Cairns added: "It wasn't so long ago that some of the cottages were being burned down." Ms Wood said that was "nothing to do with Plaid Cymru", calling the comments "outrageous". On Friday, Ms Wood accused the Welsh secretary of "distorting history with smears and insinuation", saying he was "in denial over the divisive rhetoric coming from numerous voices in his own Tory party". "The secretary of state for Wales is guilty of peddling the exact sort of myths and smears which breed hostility and turn people against each other," she said. "Such comments and insinuations are not what you would expect from a government minister. If he had any integrity, he would withdraw what he said." Defending her party, Ms Wood said that "Plaid Cymru is an outward-looking and internationalist party" and that since the referendum "we have challenged the Westminster establishment's lurch to the right as well as growing casual racism". Over a period of 12 years from 1979, what became known as the Meibion Glyndwr Welsh holiday homes arson campaign saw 228 attacks. One person was convicted of sending fire bombs through the post in 1993. The campaign came to an end in the early 1990s.

प्लेड साइमरू लीएन वुड के नेता ने वेल्श सचिव पर "मिथक और धब्बा" फैलाने का आरोप लगाया है, जब उन्होंने दावा किया कि उनकी पार्टी के सदस्यों ने वेल्श भाषी समुदायों में प्रवास पर कानून तोड़ा था।


Public hearing over plans for former Aberdeen city council HQ

Summary: A public hearing will be held into controversial plans for the redevelopment of the site of the former Aberdeen city council headquarters.

Developers Muse want to build a hotel and office complex on the city centre site following the demolition of St Nicholas house. The £107m plan also includes building shops and restaurants. The public hearing will take place at Aberdeen Town House on 28 August. In 2011, more than 1,000 council staff vacated the 14-storey St Nicholas House building, erected in 1968, for the newly-refurbished Marischal College building.

पूर्व एबरडीन नगर परिषद मुख्यालय के स्थल के पुनर्विकास के लिए विवादास्पद योजनाओं पर एक सार्वजनिक सुनवाई आयोजित की जाएगी।


'Pray for Mogadishu' is not trending, but Somalis are mobilising

Summary: What usually happens on social media after a terrorist attack? A hashtag circulates beginning with "Pray for..." or "I am...". Users share images of the carnage, and people express an equal measure of sadness and defiance.

By Rozina SiniBBC UGC and Social News But after deadly attacks on Saturday in Mogadishu, which claimed at least 281 lives, some social media users have been asking where the solidarity for Somalia is, and why there are no trending hashtags like those which have emerged after attacks in the US and Europe. Saturday's truck bomb was the deadliest terror attack in Somalia since the Islamist al-Shabab group launched its insurgency in 2007. Some bodies were burnt beyond recognition. Of those who were identified, one of the victims was Maryam Abdullahi, a medical student who was due to graduate the next day. Her father had flown to Mogadishu to attend her graduation but instead witnessed her burial. Heartbreaking stories like this are not dissimilar to those shared after violent attacks and natural disasters around the world when people lose their lives. Khaled Beydoun a professor of Law in Detroit, criticised the depth of media coverage in a social media post which has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook and more than 6,000 times on Twitter. "I hate comparing human tragedies, but the mainstream media makes you do it," he posted on Facebook. "There are no slogans claiming 'we are Mogadishu' and no catchy images floating around social media demonstrating solidarity." He is not alone in having this view. Between Saturday, when the attack took place, and the early hours of Monday morning the hashtag #IAmMogadishu had generated little over 200 tweets, but by Tuesday there were more than 13,000 tweets as social media users expressed their frustration over the lack of media attention the attacks were given. A number of vigils have been organised by Somali communities across the UK and US, including one on Tuesday organised by Kings College London's Somali society and assisted by UCL's Somali Society. Abdulkadir Elmi the President of the UCL Somali society said: "The main purpose of tonight is to show unity among young British Somalis. "Due to the lack of global solidarity we just want to show that there are people who do stand with Somalia." Despite the perceived lack of Western solidarity with Mogadishu on social platforms, Somalis themselves have been using the power of social media to mobilize support for charity efforts. Gurmad252 - it's name is a reference to "support" or "back up" - is a website established with the backing of the Somali authorities by volunteers, and the families of the victims to track and identify the missing on social media. A GoFundMe page was also set up by a Swedish Somali for funds to pay for a free ambulance service to help the affected. It has already reached its initial target of 100,000 Swedish krona (£9,351, $12,334). Many have also used the hashtags #weareone and #gurmadqaran to share details of charitable efforts, but the task of raising awareness on the internet is not easy in a country which was one of the last in the world to go online and where internet usage is still relatively low.

आतंकवादी हमले के बाद आमतौर पर सोशल मीडिया पर क्या होता है? एक हैशटैग "प्रार्थना करें"... या "मैं हूँ"..... से शुरू होता है, उपयोगकर्ता नरसंहार की तस्वीरें साझा करते हैं, और लोग समान रूप से दुख और अवज्ञा व्यक्त करते हैं।


Escort agency: Camden man accused of controlling prostitution for gain

Summary: A man has been charged in connection with the prostitution of vulnerable females and children, following an investigation into an escort agency.

Nurruzaman Shahin, 38, of North Villas, Camden, was one of three men held in raids in Camden, Holborn and Hanwell. He is accused of six counts of controlling prostitution for gain and one count of arranging and facilitating the sexual exploitation of a child. Mr Shahin will appear at Stratford Magistrates' Court later. The Met Police said the two other men, aged 28 and 46, were released under investigation. Related Internet Links HM Courts & Tribunals Service

एक एस्कॉर्ट एजेंसी की जांच के बाद, एक व्यक्ति पर कमजोर महिलाओं और बच्चों की वेश्यावृत्ति के संबंध में आरोप लगाया गया है।


In numbers: Who is the most successful James Bond?

Summary: Daniel Craig has signed up for a fifth James Bond film - but how does he compare to the actors who played the iconic spy before him?

Roger Moore has starred in the most films, but Sean Connery's outings made the most money at the US box office, if the figures are adjusted for inflation. Connery's films were also more acclaimed by critics - although Daniel Craig isn't far behind when the reviews are ranked. From the archive: James Bond at 50 - Cars, catchphrases and kisses This counts official Eon-produced Bond films only, so does not include the original Casino Royale, and Never Say Never Again.

डेनियल क्रेग ने पांचवीं जेम्स बॉन्ड फिल्म के लिए साइन अप किया है-लेकिन वह उन अभिनेताओं से कैसे तुलना करते हैं जिन्होंने उनसे पहले प्रतिष्ठित जासूस की भूमिका निभाई थी?


Mexican marijuana activists on a high after Supreme Court ruling

Summary: Armando Santacruz is an unlikely poster boy for pot-smoking. He is a prominent businessman with a chemicals company listed on the Mexican stock exchange, but is just as comfortable lining up international trade deals as he is about weighing up the pros and cons of Mexico's marijuana market.

By Katy WatsonBBC Mexico and Central America reporter While Mexico has been fighting its war on drugs in recent years, clamping down on cartel activity in an effort to stem the trade north to the US, Santacruz has been fighting a parallel battle. When he is not in the boardroom, he spends his time working with Mexico Unido Contra la Delincuencia (Mexico United Against Crime), a non-governmental organisation working to improve security and justice in the country. It also, controversially, argues for the legalisation of marijuana. Santacruz points out that about 60% of the people in federal prisons in Mexico are serving time for drug crimes. Of those, some 60% are in for marijuana offences with the rest there for crimes relating to other drugs. If marijuana was legalised, there would be far fewer people locked up in an environment that often just fuels crime instead of solving it. Too much money and effort is spent on chasing after small drug users, says Santacruz. Mexico has far bigger problems on its hands and time would be better spent focusing on tackling extortion, kidnap and rape. Cannabis club Along with three other activists, Santacruz formed a small club called the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Personal Use (SMART, in Spanish). They began their campaign in 2013, seeking permission to grow plants for recreational use. The argument they used in the Supreme Court battle was based on human rights and freedom of choice. And it was an argument that obviously convinced the Supreme Court - on Wednesday, it voted 4-1 that prohibiting people from growing the drug for consumption was unconstitutional. Santacruz was more pragmatic, seeing the vote as "historic" and looking to the future. "Congress in this country can no longer ignore that this is happening and that it doesn't have to do anything," he told me after the vote. "Congress will have to address the problem because you can't have laws that are unconstitutional and at the same time not do anything about it." The ruling though does not mean that marijuana is now legal. It simply means that the four plaintiffs who brought the case are able to grow and smoke their own marijuana. In order for any law to be changed, the Supreme Court would first have to vote in favour four more times on a similar case. But experts see this as the first step in what could lead to the legalisation of the drug. Anyone who wants to use the same criteria to ask for the same rights now has a precedent. Santacruz also foresees possible class action lawsuits, which would bring thousands of people to demand the same rights. Liberalisation fears In a country ravaged by drug violence that has killed an estimated 100,000 people since 2006, the ruling sits awkwardly among some. There is a fear that liberalising drugs policy could lead to more violence. "There is far less drug use in Mexico than in the US," says Dr David Shirk, director of the Justice in Mexico project at the University of San Diego. "There's also a more socially conservative outlook for drug use in Mexico and as much as it's a place for making and moving drugs, it's not been traditionally a place where drugs are widely consumed." While more than 50% of people in the US believe that marijuana should be legalised, in Mexico a recent poll (in Spanish) suggested that just 20% of people support legalisation while 77% oppose it. Marijuana in Mexico But Santacruz, who believes small-time drug trafficking generates violence in Mexico, is adamant that decriminalising marijuana would help reduce that violence. "The struggles are directly proportional to the value of the [black] market [for drugs]," he says. "So with that market losing value, it can also decrease violence generated by the fight for those markets." Lost profits Much has been talked about the economic effects of legalisation and the impact on cartel activity. But with Mexico supplying so much to America, any laws that are passed in Mexico will only go so far in influencing the international market. "Much of the marijuana produced by the Mexican drug trafficking organisations is exported to the US," says Beau Kilmer, co-director at the RAND Drug Policy Research Center in California. "If Mexico legalised marijuana production for domestic consumption and exports to the US remained illegal, there would still be incentives for organisations to smuggle marijuana to the US." One thing everyone agrees on is that legalisation would reduce the profitability. As one expert put it, if everyone can become a small-time smuggler because they can grow marijuana, cartels will have to start competing with Joe Bloggs off the street. "Cartels will stop growing marijuana bit by bit and they'll concentrate on growing heroin, as is happening in Guerrero," says Raul Benitez-Manaut of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. "That means that violence will continue." Never mind the arguments against, the activists who have been campaigning for changes can be happy with Wednesday's result. Santacruz likens the vote to placing a wedge in a small crack. "The hardest thing was to create that crack and that's been done."

अरमांडो सांताक्रूज़ पॉट-स्मोकिंग के लिए एक अप्रत्याशित पोस्टर बॉय है। वह मैक्सिकन स्टॉक एक्सचेंज में सूचीबद्ध एक रसायन कंपनी के साथ एक प्रमुख व्यवसायी है, लेकिन अंतरराष्ट्रीय व्यापार सौदों को तैयार करने में उतना ही सहज है जितना कि वह मेक्सिको के मारिजुआना बाजार के फायदे और नुकसान का वजन करने के बारे में है।


Bollywood-backed Indian ballet prodigy finds feet in London

Summary: Four years ago, 17-year-old Kamal Singh, was just finishing school and taking his first ballet class. Now 21, the son of a rickshaw driver has become the first Indian dancer to win a place on the English National Ballet School's professional trainee programme.

By Victoria LindreaArts and entertainment reporter Living in Chelsea - a world away from his family and home in Vikaspuri, Delhi - Kamal spends his days, masked and socially distanced, training in a dance studio in Battersea with just 12 other students. They all share the dream of joining a major international ballet company and making it to the role of principal - of treading in the footsteps of Nureyev and Fonteyn. For Kamal, none of it would have been possible without the support of his teacher, Argentine dancer Fernando Aguilera - and a dusting of Bollywood star power. "When I heard I had got a place at the English National Ballet school I was so happy, but at the same time, I was a little sad because I knew my father could not pay the fees," recalls Kamal. "But my teacher tells me not to worry about the money, to just focus on the ballet - and dance." From the moment Kamal walked into one of his free trial classes at the Imperial Fernando Ballet Company in Delhi, Aguilera knew he had discovered an exceptional talent. But the teenager could not afford to study ballet. His home was two hours away from the ballet school. His father works two jobs, and all hours, to support his family. Luxuries - like ballet tuition - were not an option. So it fell to Aguilera to convince Kamal's parents - and find a way forward. Over three intense years of training, he provided Kamal with free tuition, a room in his home in Delhi and, ultimately, helped raise the fees that would allow Kamal to travel to London to take up his place at the prestigious English National Ballet school. Fees for the year-long course at the ballet school cost £8,000, and then there are living expenses. It was out of Kamal's reach - until the pair turned to crowdfunding. Their chosen crowdfunding platform, Ketto, was co-founded by Bollywood actor Kunal Kapoor, who - in turn - used his star power and social network on the young dancer's behalf. It prompted friend and fellow Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan to pledge £3,200 to the fund. In a matter of weeks, Kamal's fund had reached £18,000. Today, almost £21,000 has been donated. And the money is still coming in. "I have received a lot of support from the Indian community," says Kamal. "My maestro has a lot of new students who want to study ballet in India, after seeing my news. They really got inspired. "I am hoping with my achievements, more people in India will chose ballet as a career." Until now, international Indian ballet stars have been a rarity. "Talent sometimes can be hidden in places where you never think of," says Viviana Durante, a former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet and artistic director at the English National Ballet School. She selected Kamal for the programme - based solely on his online application - and has been impressed by his focus and versatility in class. "Indian dancing is actually quite close to classical ballet - in the way they express themselves with their hands, and their upper body and their arms," she observes. "It's up to us to make ballet more available to other cultures, to educate them and embrace them into our world. "You need dancers who bring their own stories, their own culture - it makes it exciting. "Dance is a language that we all speak. Money should not come into it." Bollywood inspiration Kamal describes his first glimpse of ballet - less than five years ago - as "a turning point". "Right from the beginning, I always wanted to do something different," says Kamal. "I wanted to dance, but my parents were not taking me seriously. "Then, four years ago, I saw the Bollywood movie ABCD (Any Body Can Dance) and I saw ballet for the first time. It was a turning point." The young Kamal marvelled at "boys lifting girls with one hand and catching them... the jumping, the turning, the en pointe". "Ballet requires you to work every muscle. It requires strength and stamina. Every day you have to work out. Every day you have to practise. "In my mind, there is no comparison to ballet." It's been a month since Kamal arrived in London and the misty November nights are drawing in. His rigorous training follows a strict schedule, interrupted only by long walks around the capital, trips to the shops to seek out his favourite Indian foods and catching up with his family on WhatsApp. He lives alone, but insists he is not lonely. "Ballet is not for everybody. It's for those who are smart - physically - but most of all, mentally. Anybody can learn the techniques. But often it's about keeping your head - and positivity." Durante, who teaches Kamal, agrees: "You train the dancer, but you're actually training the person - you are helping the person to grow and to be the best of themselves. "The stakes are high and you have to do your best to stay optimistic. You have to be very resilient. "It's not an easy career - it's a short career - but it's very addictive. Once you start you don't want to let it go." This year, there are only three boys on the English National Ballet trainee programme, and all come from somewhere where ballet was not an obvious, or easy, career choice. Fellow student Joel Kioko shares Kamal's determination to succeed - after an equally difficult start, growing up in Kenya. Joel, 20, is longing to take his place in a ballet company. Having already studied at the English National Ballet School for three years, he says the trainee programme is about "perfecting his craft". "What I really want at the end is to get out of 2020 - and have a job. I want to be a ballet dancer so badly!" He, like Kamal, relies on the support of a private sponsor to pay for his studies. He can rarely afford to travel home and misses family gatherings in his village, the food and the sunshine. He believes the costs involved in becoming a ballet dancer - and race - are still barriers to success. "It shouldn't be that expensive for someone to take a class. It's so expensive. And then you have to get a leotard or some ballet shoes... I have seen this, when I am back at home in Kenya, teaching. "There is so much needed to get that one kid in class. And then you put them in that class and they look in the mirror, and it's only them - the whole class is different. "You have to be tough-minded." For Jose Hurtardo, 20, ballet runs in the family: both his parents were dancers and his younger brother is attending the same Mexican ballet school where he himself trained. "My first class was when I was five years old, but I already knew everything because that's basically all we talked about in my family!" Even so, his parents thought a career in ballet was "too hard" - and he relates being picked on at school where football was king. He too is supported by scholarships and sponsorship - but he is convinced the ballet world is "definitely changing". "I am a boy, I'm Mexican. Joel is a black guy from Africa. Kamal is from India - it's crazy how we all get to do ballet now. "I feel really supported. And I can dance, every day."

चार साल पहले, 17 साल का कमल सिंह, अभी-अभी स्कूल की पढ़ाई पूरी कर रहा था और अपनी पहली बैले क्लास ले रहा था। अब 21 साल का, एक रिक्शा चालक का बेटा, इंग्लिश नेशनल बैले स्कूल के पेशेवर प्रशिक्षु कार्यक्रम में जगह जीतने वाला पहला भारतीय नर्तक बन गया है।


What do Chinese leaders do when they retire?

Summary: China's newly-retired president, Hu Jintao, will probably never write a gossipy bestseller chronicling his time in Beijing. And the country's outgoing premier, Wen Jiabao, isn't expected to embark on a lucrative speaking tour once he leaves office.

By Celia HattonBBC News, Beijing Top politicians from other countries often engage in charitable or diplomatic work when they retire. But in China, there's an unspoken rule that Chinese leaders should step out of the public spotlight when they step down from office. The very concept of retirement is relatively new in the world of Communist politics. For decades, cadres were expected to follow an old party slogan by "working for the revolution with their last breath and last drop of blood". In 2002, then-President Jiang Zemin tried to clear the ranks at the top of the party by instituting retirement age limits: 68 for top leaders and 65 for senior level officials. That rule has been followed with varying degrees of success. Mr Jiang himself delayed his own retirement. He stayed on as the chairman of China's military for two years until 2004 after relinquishing his other positions to his successor, Hu Jintao. Just this week, the governor of China's Central Bank, Zhou Xiaochuan was allowed to remain in his role past the age of 65. It's thought that Chinese leaders wanted Mr Zhou to continue his successful economic reforms, so they bent the rules to allow him to stay. 'Meddling' The decision was unpopular with users of weibo, China's version of Twitter. "Zhou is not a saviour, and he's not God!" one typical poster complained. "New talents emerge in every generation, and it's the rule of nature to replace the old with the new." Many Chinese citizens have also been clear in their demand for former Communist cadres to stop meddling in current affairs. "The last thing we want is to see retired leaders using their political power to serve their private needs behind the scenes, intervening with reform and social progress," says Wu Zuolai, a popular blogger and scholar at the Chinese National Academy of the Arts. Those demanding a clear line between current and former leaders focus most of their anger on - who else? - former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin. According to China's state-run media, Mr Jiang vowed to do nothing but work as a university lecturer after retirement. Instead, he became famous for his active role in back-room party politics. Last year was a particularly busy one for Mr Jiang, 86, as he pushed to secure plum appointments for his protégés ahead of last November's Communist Party leadership transition. Mr Jiang's office inside Zhongnanhai, the central Beijing compound where the country's elite politicians live and work, was only closed late last year, after China's new Communist Party leader Xi Jinping had come into power. Some believe retired leaders have no choice but to stay involved in politics because they must ensure the party will not prosecute them for past misdeeds. However, there is little chance this would actually happen, says Steve Tsang, professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. If possible, the Communist Party would avoid opening a Pandora's Box of unnecessary strife by attacking a politician who is no longer in power. 'Controlling history' Some ageing leaders might yearn to retire in peace, but they are pushed to stay involved in political affairs by those who benefit from their influence. Even if Hu Jintao wanted to enjoy a life of peaceful seclusion in retirement, Steve Tsang explains, the officials who followed him up the ranks of China's Communist Youth League will push him to stay involved ahead of the next party power transition in 2017. "Those people will have a vested interest to make sure Hu Jintao is not completely out and won't fade into retirement fully," Dr Tsang says. "They want to be sure that the Youth League remains a fully coherent power block." Behind the scenes, retired leaders are busy but one rule is clear: they are expected to stay away from the country's history books. Some politicians might be tempted to write memoirs of their time in office, but the Communist Party will discourage their personal accounts from entering the public record. "You're not going to get it published unless it has received official permission for publication, which means it will be very, very heavily vetted," says Dr Tsang. Even the most senior former leaders cannot escape China's censors. Li Peng, who acted as China's premier from 1987 to 1998, is thought to have written a relatively conservative explanation of his involvement in 1989's Tiananmen Square crackdown. However, it was banned from publication. Another former premier, Zhao Ziyang, was forced to smuggle his account of the Tiananmen events to a publishing house in Hong Kong. "History is far too important a matter to be left to former presidents or former premiers," Mr Tsang explains. "History is something which the party must maintain very careful control over. After all, the party has a monopoly on the truth. Controlling history is a way of monopolising the truth." As former leaders feel their way through the gilded cage of retirement, they can gather strength in the knowledge that soon, their ranks will swell. Five of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the elite group which steers the Communist Party, are set to step down in 2017. Perhaps, by that point, Zhou Xiaochuan, the industrious bank governor, will be ready to greet them.

चीन के नव-सेवानिवृत्त राष्ट्रपति, हू जिंताओ, शायद कभी भी बीजिंग में अपने समय का वर्णन करते हुए एक गपशप बेस्टसेलर नहीं लिखेंगे। और देश के निवर्तमान प्रधान मंत्री, वेन जियाबाओ के कार्यालय छोड़ने के बाद एक आकर्षक बोलने वाले दौरे पर जाने की उम्मीद नहीं है।


Storm over 'pride in WW2 soldiers' remarks in Germany

Summary: A candidate of Germany's right-wing nationalist party has said the country should "be proud of" its soldiers in both world wars and people should no longer "reproach" Germans for World War Two. Alexander Gauland's words have been met with some scorn. What pride are Germans likely to muster for the Wehrmacht?

By Nalina EggertBBC News Germany is "very devoted to a discussion of its past", Andrew Cohen, a Canadian journalist and professor, tells the BBC. "I have not seen a country anywhere that is as committed to a frank and painful discussion of its history as Germany is." Making a Nazi salute or denying the Holocaust in Germany could land you in jail - alongside swastikas and other Nazi symbols they are illegal. And the country takes pains to make sure the horrors of World War Two are remembered, respectfully, with a view to preventing them happening again. Cities are full of sites dedicated to the Holocaust, from big museums and concentration camp memorials to tiny plaques in the ground, the size of cobblestones, that you may notice by chance when in the middle of something else. Some have said it is too much - a decade ago already Der Spiegel published an article decrying the "mania for commemoration" and quoting the essayist Wolf Jobst Siedler saying: "If the Germans were once the greatest sinners, they now apparently want to be the greatest penitents." 'Willing instrument' The army (Wehrmacht) did not run the concentration camps - that was the role of the SS. But it committed atrocities of its own including shooting thousands of Polish people. "The mainstream approach is that the Wehrmacht was a willing instrument of the Nazi perpetrators as an institution," says Michael Wolffson, an Israeli-German historian at the University of the Armed Forces in Munich. "Many things are commemorated - resistance to the Nazis, victims such as Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals - but not the Wehrmacht." Does he think Germany should regain pride in its army of the time? "Any generalisation is stupid," was his reply. What sparked the conversation? A video emerged of Alexander Gauland, a candidate for the right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which is expected to gain seats in the national parliament for the first time at elections next weekend, speaking to supporters. He said "no other people" in Europe had dealt as clearly as the Germans with a "wrong" past, and the 12 years when the Nazi party ruled Germany (1933-1945) "no longer affect our identity". "We have the right to take back our country and our history," he said. "If the French are rightly proud of their emperor and the Britons of Nelson and Churchill, we have the right to be proud of the achievements of the German soldiers in two world wars," he said. Germany's justice minister tweeted that the statements showed the AfD was on the extreme right. Newspapers reported the statements as a "provocation" and said they "made one catch one's breath" (articles in German). For German writer Marcel Krueger, the statement is "a bit strange". "I don't think anyone perceives anything the German army did then as positive," he says. Many children of the post-war generation felt a strong sense of guilt over what their parents had done. Mr Krueger says that has changed. For his generation "it's about looking at it from a neutral space". "The lessons from the past, as horrible and bad as they are, need to be confronted and understood." 'Never forget' But Amy Iman Zayed, someone detached from this controversy because her parents are Egyptian, has noticed guilt among her classmates. In the mandatory classes about World War Two, she saw that her friends would "sound and look embarrassed as if it was them or their parents who did all these terrible things". "And sometimes someone would say: 'But what do I have to do with it?' "And the teachers would be really upset and give them a hard time. They would say stuff like: 'You should never forget what happened so it never happens again, and although you yourself have nothing to do with it we need to remind ourselves what could happen.'" Mr Cohen, the Canadian who admires Germany's willingness to grapple with its past, says: "The story of post-war Germany has been one of guilt, a search for an act of redemption." Some saw that act in Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to welcome hundreds of thousands of refugees to the country. But that decision in itself has fanned the flames of right-wing nationalism. The German language has many great long words and of course there is one that is instructive here. Vergangenheitsbewältigung - or coming to terms with the past - describes the struggle with a problematic recent history.

जर्मनी की दक्षिणपंथी राष्ट्रवादी पार्टी के एक उम्मीदवार ने कहा है कि देश को दोनों विश्व युद्धों में अपने सैनिकों पर "गर्व" होना चाहिए और लोगों को अब द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध के लिए जर्मनों को "बदनाम" नहीं करना चाहिए। अलेक्जेंडर गौलैंड के शब्दों को कुछ तिरस्कार के साथ देखा गया है। वेहरमाच के लिए जर्मनों को क्या गर्व होने की संभावना है?


When hippy squatters took over a Piccadilly mansion

Summary: Fifty years ago police stormed across a makeshift drawbridge to evict hundreds of squatters from a prestigious Mayfair address. The three-week-long occupation of 144 Piccadilly had symbolised the stand-off between mainstream society and 1960s counter-culture and made headlines around the world.

By Mariam IssimdarBBC News By the time several hundred "unwashed Hippies" decided to make it their home, the 100-room mansion in London's West End had stood empty for years. While squatters had been taking over derelict properties in central London for years, this was a prime address in the heart of establishment London. Next door to 144 was another mansion where the Queen had spent the first five years of her childhood. After a decade in which rock music, drug-taking and radical political ideas had become increasingly prevalent, to some the occupation symbolised the final breakdown of society. Reporters on a British Pathé newsreel from the time refer to the squatters as "scroungers and drop-outs" who "thought they could snub the conventions of decent society… doing the real homeless a disservice". "It sort of dramatised a lot of the public's fears about the counter-culture, the alternative society," says Phil Cohen, now an emeritus professor at East London University but then the squatters' leader and known as "Dr John". "It was something that was beyond their control, and [represented] a whole generation of people who were against their society." The squat was the culmination of an alternative movement that had, for several years, taken advantage of the capital's large number of empty properties. The demolition of war-damaged properties and general slum clearances had created a housing shortage. At the same time, there were areas of planning blight as owners deliberately left properties empty until their development value increased. The law at the time allowed disused buildings to be used as emergency shelter for the homeless. Squatters would make the most of this legal leeway, moving on to another property - often around the corner - if the bailiffs arrived. A "derry" - slang for a derelict building - offered an option to young people seeking an alternative to the "taxpaying nine-to-five" lifestyle, says Prof Cohen. To protect themselves against the threat of eviction, some decided to organise. The resulting group became known as the London Street Commune (LSC). It was the LSC that broke into 144 Piccadilly in September 1969. They barricaded the doors and installed a makeshift drawbridge through a ground-floor window over the dry moat that surrounded the building. Word spread and hundreds of young people who hung around the West End, including runaways, ex-borstal kids, rent boys and drug dealers, moved in. The house soon became known as "HippyDilly". "It was an extraordinary place - it was palatial," says Prof Cohen. The squatters would sleep in the mansion's extensive servants' quarters, while house meetings were held in one of the two large ballrooms. Inside, there was a degree of organisation. People would be tasked with various roles, including sourcing food from sympathetic catering staff at nearby restaurants and hotels. As fascination and media coverage grew, onlookers would turn up, with some chanting: "Monkeys, get back to the zoo." Newspaper reporters were an almost constant presence outside. Gangs of skinheads would also gather but were faced by the squatters' "security" - Hells Angels stationed at the mansion's drawbridge. Eddie Doughton, a 19-year-old anti-war poet who had quit his job at the Admiralty after realising he was "part of the war machine", was among the residents. He remembers it as "a good place to kip" that became "way bigger than it was supposed to be". "Famous people were coming and going in legion numbers," he adds. "They just wanted to be seen to be hip. Actor Oliver Reed floated in, got his picture taken, then left." Many of those squatting were motivated by radical politics, but some were more interested in partying and staying somewhere rent-free. "We were a bunch of stoners, mate - Phil [Cohen] was the agitprop," says Richie Gardener, another squatter who went on to be a roadie for the likes of Paul McCartney and Nina Simone. Now 67 and living in Hay-on-Wye, on the Powys-Herefordshire border, he says his time in squats was the making of him. "You walk away from the streets knowing you are going to be OK, you can survive anything." Prof Cohen agrees many just wanted to "enjoy their puff and their music", but he maintains the squat had a political aim. "We were acting as sort of urban guerrillas," he says. "The city could belong to us, belong to everybody, it didn't just belong to the rich." He would tell reporters stationed outside that the group wanted to become a "real people's forum, a resistance movement against all the institutions, like the family, schools, detention centres, borstals". However, the scale and location of the squat led to a media-organised moral panic, he says. "There was the idea that your property was no longer sacrosanct. Actually, I remember one of the newspaper headlines - 'What to do if hippies come to your house tonight'. "Somehow there was this new generation that had come out of nowhere. It was outside the family, it was even hostile to the notion of the family. "It couldn't be controlled and your own kids could run away and join us." So, on 21 September, after the squatters had ignored an eviction order and remained inside the mansion for three weeks, 144 Piccadilly was successfully raided by police. Officers persuaded the squatters' security to allow them over the makeshift drawbridge to attend to "an ill pregnant woman inside". Once inside, they let their fellow officers in and the house was soon under the control of the authorities. "There was rubbish everywhere. People had written on the walls and things like that," says Graham Harris, the Under-Sheriff of London, who went into the building after the police stormed it. The occupants, most of whom decided not to resist, were evicted. Despite all the arrests, very few were charged. Prof Cohen and other LSC members moved into another squat, about a mile away, on Endell Street. He later returned to his studies at a university in London. A luxury hotel now stands in the place of 144 Piccadilly, which was demolished in the 1970s. The LSC revolution may not have come about, and widespread squatting is also a thing of the past, but the issues around the availability and affordability of housing have not gone away. Previously a civil matter, in 2012 it became a criminal offence to squat in residential properties. Prof Cohen, who eventually rented a housing association flat where he still resides, says squatting is not a viable option for today's homeless. "People who become homeless are, on the whole, isolated. They don't have the same kind of support structures, the same kind of network that would enable them to take collective action. "It's much, much more difficult now. The whole thing has been criminalised."

पचास साल पहले पुलिस ने एक प्रतिष्ठित मेफेयर पते से सैकड़ों अतिक्रमणकारियों को बेदखल करने के लिए एक अस्थायी पुल पर धावा बोल दिया था। 144 पिकैडिली पर तीन सप्ताह तक का कब्जा मुख्यधारा के समाज और 1960 के दशक की प्रतिसंस्कृति के बीच गतिरोध का प्रतीक था और दुनिया भर में सुर्खियां बटोर रहा था।


Express bus service for Cardiff Airport launched

Summary: A new express bus service has been launched to Cardiff Airport.

The service will run every 20 minutes between the airport in the Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff city centre from early morning until late at night. The airport was bought by the Welsh government for £52m in March and this is the latest move to reverse a slump in passenger numbers. A bus shuttle from Cardiff and Swansea to rivals Bristol Airport is already in operation. Cardiff Airport has already invested £500,000 in a facelift to promote Welsh culture and heritage. And there have been hints at discussions to draw large airlines back to Cardiff, where annual passengers numbers slipped below the one million mark. Timetables The Welsh government, which bought the struggling airport and installed a new senior management team, has now stepped in to improve transport links for passengers. The new bus service, which is co-funded by Vale of Glamorgan council, follows last month's decision by Cardiff Bus to scale back its own four-times a day service. An adult return ticket will cost £8 or £5 for single. Cardiff Bus has dropped the Sunday X91 service as part of the company's review of its timetables. Transport Minister Edwina Hart made the announcement on Monday. An express bus to rivals Bristol Airport has been running from south Wales since March, calling at Swansea, Cardiff and Newport. Potential Graham Morgan, director of South Wales Chamber of Commerce, said the shuttle was " warmly welcomed". He added: "The difficulty experienced by commuters in linking their journeys between the two sites has long been cause for complaint, and a shuttle bus will go some way to addressing this." But Mr Morgan said there was still more that needed to be done. He said: "In particular, we would like to see the proposals by Western Gateway to turn Cardiff Airport into a Heathrow Hub with high speed rail linking the two given some serious consideration. "The testing of British Airways' A380 superjumbo today demonstrates the airport's potential for handling long haul flights and helps further the case for this approach." Significant inward investment was needed, he added.

कार्डिफ हवाई अड्डे के लिए एक नई एक्सप्रेस बस सेवा शुरू की गई है।


What now for UK-France security relations?

Summary: RAF helicopters to Mali, French troops to Estonia, spy chiefs sharing intelligence. When it comes to defence and security, the Anglo-French entente cordiale has rarely been closer as their political leaders meet for their annual summit.

By Frank GardnerBBC security correspondent Building on the Lancaster House agreement of 2010 between the two countries' then leaders, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy, a landmark summit is now being held between Theresa May and President Macron of France. With the UK's looming departure from the EU, Brexit, trade and migration will inevitably feature in their discussions. The French president has been pushing for Britain to accept more migrants from Calais and to pay more towards the upkeep of the two countries' joint Channel border controls. Historically, this annual summit has always been about security and this year is no exception. The continuing threat from the Islamic State group, the conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan and West Africa, Russia's actions in the Baltics and Ukraine and the emergence of transatlantic differences over certain key issues such as Iran, are all reminders of the need to shore up bilateral ties between London and Paris, ahead of Brexit. Britain may be leaving the EU but it will remain a heavyweight partner for France when it comes to security issues. French political analyst Dominique Moisi says: "We are close allies and we are rivals - and precisely because the UK is leaving the EU we may be even more rivals. "But the international context forces us to come closer to resist terrorism because of the vacuum left by the US." So, what are the defence and security issues up for discussion at Sandhurst? Counter-terrorism Britain and France have an incredibly close partnership in confronting the shared threat of terrorist attacks inspired or directed by so-called Islamic State. So close, in fact, that this is the first ever meeting of "The Quint" - the heads of all five British and French spy agencies, both domestic and foreign. They will be discussing, among other things, the lessons learnt from last year's terror attacks in Manchester, Barcelona and London. There is a permanent 'open door' for French intelligence officers who need to visit MI5 headquarters at Thames House in London and a similar arrangement exists for British case officers visiting France's equivalent, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI). MI5 officers were rushed to Paris in the wake of the 2015 Bataclan attack to help follow up intelligence leads and glean any possible lessons. As well as bilateral links like this, the primary mechanism for sharing intelligence between European partners is the Counter Terrorism Group (CTG). Heads of European agencies meet at least once a year, their subordinates more often. The concern over Brexit has long been the risk that Britain could be denied access to certain EU bodies, such as Europol. In fact, say insiders, the business of counter-terrorism is likely to continue as usual. Sir Julian King, EU Security Commissioner in Brussels, told me in October that the terrorist threat facing all of Europe was so great that no-one wanted to take any risks by reducing counter-terrorism cooperation with London. Theresa May, who was Home Secretary for six years until she became PM in 2016, will be keen to see this intelligence-sharing with Paris maintained and even increased. Lord Peter Ricketts, who was both national security adviser and then UK ambassador to Paris until 2016, says Anglo-French co-operation has improved dramatically since 2000. "From what I saw as ambassador in Paris, the two counter-terrorism communities and law enforcement communities are now finding they've got things to learn from each other so it is not nearly as polarised as it was 15 years ago," he said. Defence Despite recent UK defence cuts, Britain and France remain far ahead of other European nations when it comes to deploying combat forces overseas. In Mali and other Saharan nations, French forces have been battling a jihadist insurgency for five years. They've asked for British help, and now they are about to get it. Britain is to send three RAF Chinook transport helicopters to support the French operation in Mali, along with 50-60 support staff. French political analyst Dominique Moisi says: "France wants to share responsibility with other European powers, convincing them that the Sahel is becoming a primary objective in the fight against terrorism, as it is receding in Syria and Iraq after the defeat against ISIS." As if by way of return, France is to send troops to join the UK-led battle group in Estonia where 800 British soldiers are helping to guard Nato's eastern flank with Russia. This is all part of a growing military alliance between Europe's only two nuclear powers and permanent members of the UN Security Council. The two nations are working on a joint Unmanned Aerial System for future drones. A French Brigadier was put in charge of a UK division for two months while a British Army Brigadier did the same in France. Joint exercises are being held with a view to building up a combined intervention force of 10,000 troops by 2020. There is a precedent for that, which did not end well: Libya. The Nato air campaign in 2011 was initially successful, driving back the forces of Colonel Gaddafi which threatened to massacre the residents of Benghazi. Mr Cameron and Mr Sarkozy were briefly feted as saviours of that North African nation. Thereafter Libya deteriorated into chaos, and Western nations were reluctant to get drawn into any kind of occupation role after the experience in Iraq. So the end-result of any future interventions, whether in the Middle East, Asia or Africa, will need to be very carefully thought out. Intelligence The cross-channel co-operation on domestic counter-terrorism is matched to some extent by the links between MI6 and its French counterpart, the DGSE. The UK's closest intelligence-gathering partner remains the US but it also has strong bilateral arrangements with France, Germany, Spain and other European nations' agencies. A former British intelligence officer says that old Anglo-French rivalries overseas had given way to shared goals. He said there was a common desire for Britain's expertise, such as in cyber, to remain accessible to European agencies after Brexit, effectively ring-fencing intelligence and counter-terrorism from ongoing arguments in other areas such as trade and migration. There is Brexit, says a Whitehall insider, and then there is security.

माली में आर. ए. एफ. हेलीकॉप्टर, एस्टोनिया में फ्रांसीसी सैनिक, खुफिया जानकारी साझा करने वाले जासूस प्रमुख। जब रक्षा और सुरक्षा की बात आती है, तो एंग्लो-फ्रांसीसी गठबंधन शायद ही कभी करीब रहा है क्योंकि उनके राजनीतिक नेता अपने वार्षिक शिखर सम्मेलन के लिए मिलते हैं।


Murder charge after woman's body found in Derby house

Summary: A man has been charged with murdering a woman whose body was found at a house in Derby.

Sohbia Tabasim Khan, 37, was found dead inside her home in Pear Tree Crescent, Normanton, at 21:50 BST on Saturday. Ataul Mustafa, 35, of the same address, was arrested and is accused of her murder. Mr Mustafa appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on Monday and is due at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday.

एक व्यक्ति पर एक महिला की हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है जिसका शव डर्बी में एक घर में मिला था।


Man in hospital after reported shooting in Camden

Summary: A man was taken to hospital after being shot in north London.

Metropolitan Police officers were called to the Queens Crescent and Prince of Wales Road area of Camden at just before 19:40 BST on Monday. An eyewitness said she heard "several gunshots" in the area. The condition of the man, who is in his 30s, is not life-threatening, a Met spokesman said, confirming an investigation was under way. Foyezur Miah who runs of the Queen's Crescent Community Association (QCCA), said two of his volunteers were serving Iftar meal packages at about 19:30 when the victim staggered into the centre with bleeding to his upper thigh area. Mr Miah said it was a frightening situation for his volunteers who acted very quickly to call 999. The centre has a bleed kit which it purchased following the nearby death of Calvin Bungisa in Gospel Oak, a year ago. People who came to the centre following the gunshots applied the bandages before the ambulance an police arrived a few minutes later. "I'm quite taken aback about the situation. Despite the coronavirus pandemic there are still people out there still set in their ways to inflict harm onto others," Mr Miah added. Despite the shooting, Mr Miah said they would resume serving meals to the whole community. "We're going to make sure that everyone who wants our hot meals gets them," he said. The community centre has been serving needy and vulnerable people locally for 20 years.

उत्तरी लंदन में गोली लगने के बाद एक व्यक्ति को अस्पताल ले जाया गया।


Christ's Hospital School teacher charged with indecent assault

Summary: A former teacher at a boarding school has been charged with indecently assaulting a pupil 42 years ago.

Roger Martin, 82, of Palgrave Rd, Great Dunham, King's Lynn, was a member of staff at Christ's Hospital in Horsham, West Sussex. He is accused of assaulting a 10-year-old boy at the school between September and December 1976, Mr Martin has been summonsed to appear at Crawley Magistrate's Court on Wednesday to answer the charge. Related Internet Links HM Courts Service

एक बोर्डिंग स्कूल के एक पूर्व शिक्षक पर 42 साल पहले एक छात्रा के साथ अभद्र व्यवहार करने का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Coronavirus: The British-Pakistani doctors saving lives in both countries

Summary: From his laptop at his home just outside London, Dr Tahir Akhtar is helping treat a coronavirus patient in Lahore, Pakistan. Via a video link, a doctor there shows Dr Akhtar around the intensive care unit at the city's Jinnah Hospital.

By Secunder KermaniBBC News Dr Akhtar is an intensive care unit consultant in Britain's National Health Service, and has helped lead the response to Covid-19 in Essex, where he lives. Now, in his free time, he is using telemedicine software to share his experiences with counterparts in his country of birth, Pakistan - advising doctors on the best way to treat their patients. "We are very proud of the NHS service we are giving here," Dr Akhtar said. "And because of our relationships both in medicine and otherwise, it was very important for us to help our colleagues and to help the people of Pakistan." Dr Akhtar told the BBC the huge number of coronavirus cases meant that even in the UK it was not possible for intensive care doctors alone to treat seriously ill patients - doctors from different specialties also had to be drafted in. In Pakistan, the difficulties would be amplified, he said, making it useful for those doctors to have "someone they can talk to, someone they can take advice from". Dr Muhammad Ashraf Zia, who heads the Covid-19 ICU in Jinnah Hospital, told the BBC it was "very useful" to exchange ideas with Dr Akhtar - even though he is a senior doctor himself, as coronavirus is such a new disease. He said his team had begun using certain medicines to treat patients that they previously had not, and they were now producing "very good results". There have been about 250,000 coronavirus cases and 5,000 deaths recorded in Pakistan. That's substantially lower than in Britain, where more than 44,000 people have died, even though it is likely fatalities in Pakistan have been undercounted. However, Pakistan has far fewer doctors per capita than the UK, and at times hospitals there have been stretched. According to the World Health Organization, there are under 10 medical doctors per 10,000 of the population in Pakistan, about three times fewer than in the UK. Dr Suhail Chughtai, another UK-based doctor of Pakistani origin, built the telemedicine software used to connect to the intensive care unit in Lahore. The software allows doctors to talk via video link and exchange copies of case notes as they speak. His aim was "to plug the gap" in Pakistan caused by a relative lack of intensive care specialists, by "importing" those doctors from the UK via telemedicine, he said. Dr Chughtai has also created a number of other similar projects. One, run in conjunction with the government in Punjab province, allows doctors in the UK, Ireland, US and Pakistan to hold free virtual consultations with coronavirus patients - meaning they don't need to risk travelling to a hospital or clinic and infecting others along the way. Doctors in the four countries have carried out 35,000 consultations since March, with members of the Association of Pakistani Physicians in the UK among those offering their services. And another recently launched project aims to connect patients visiting rural health clinics in Punjab with centralised teams of doctors in more urban centres. Dr Chughtai sees such schemes as the future of medicine. "Where a doctor and patient can speak the same language, we can create a bridge no matter where they are, through telemedicine," he said. There are other groups of British-Pakistani doctors also spending their free time trying to boost healthcare capacity in Pakistan. The "Midland Doctors" charity was set up in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Pakistani-administered Kashmir in 2005, and established a hospital in the city of Muzaffarabad. Now, the charity's members in Britain have been using their expertise to offer online training to doctors in Pakistan, as well as holding "virtual ward rounds" of critical care units, said one member, Dr Farhan Rashid. He said that because the UK's coronavirus peak was well ahead of Pakistan's, the doctors were able to offer valuable lessons to their counterparts in Pakistan. Dr Chughtai, who founded a number of the telemedicine portals, said that many British-Pakistani doctors were keen to engage. "They love the UK, but they also want to give back to the country they came from," he said.

लंदन के बाहर अपने घर पर अपने लैपटॉप से, डॉ. ताहिर अख्तर लाहौर, पाकिस्तान में एक कोरोनावायरस रोगी का इलाज करने में मदद कर रहे हैं। एक वीडियो लिंक के माध्यम से, वहाँ का एक डॉक्टर डॉ. अख्तर को शहर के जिन्ना अस्पताल में गहन देखभाल इकाई के आसपास दिखाता है।


More choice over Jersey maternity benefits

Summary: Women in Jersey have been given more flexibility over when they start their maternity allowance period.

The States of Jersey has approved changes to the maternity benefit legislation to start on 1 January 2015. Currently, women can only claim the full 18 weeks' worth of benefit if they stop work at least six weeks before their baby is due. Under new legislation women are able to work up to their due date if they choose to, without losing benefits.

जर्सी में महिलाओं को अपनी प्रसूति भत्ता अवधि शुरू करने पर अधिक लचीलापन दिया गया है।


Anthony Boyd denies murdering Robert Eacock in Hereford

Summary: A 22-year-old has denied murdering a man who was fatally stabbed in Hereford city centre.

Robert Eacock, 33, died in hospital from a single stab wound after he was attacked in Commercial Street on 1 February. Anthony Boyd, of Willenhall, West Midlands, was arrested on 16 February and has been charged with his murder. He pleaded not guilty at Worcester Crown Court and will stand trial on 17 July.

एक 22 वर्षीय युवक ने हेयरफोर्ड शहर के केंद्र में एक व्यक्ति की हत्या से इनकार किया है, जिसे घातक रूप से चाकू मार दिया गया था।


'Not Disneyland': Dutch hit back at 'over-tourism'

Summary: Two tourist coaches career along the narrow winding road past a human-sized yellow clog. Bus after bus queues to drop off its eager passengers, creating tailbacks down the rolling dykes as far as the eye can see.

By Anna HolliganBBC News, Kinderdijk, The Netherlands Nineteen windmills occupy the village of Kinderdijk near Rotterdam. A quintessential structure of Dutch iconography, this is one of the most photographed destinations in the Netherlands. Filing out into the misty rain, the tourists pop open their scarlet umbrellas expectantly and a tour guide brandishes a red marker sign in the drizzle, explaining the significance of this unique Unesco-recognised site. Constituting a masterpiece in water management, the mills once drained the water from the land, preventing flooding since around 1740. But this is not a museum, the mills are full of life. And some residents who live in the mills have had enough. They have created postcards inviting the tourists to consider the impact of their visits. Trampling through the tulips "I have many, many bad experiences with the tourists," says Johan Velthuizen, a 56-year-old robot programmer. He's lived in Kinderdijk his whole life and runs the "liveability" local action group that's been petitioning the mayor to better manage the mass tourism. "They run through my garden with their whole families. We're sitting drinking tea in the sunshine, then we look up and there's a Chinese family trampling through my flowers. "To start with it was just tourists from the US or the UK, now it's China and Japan. They have so many millions of people, they all want to come to have their photo with a windmill." Over-tourism and what to do with it Buses block roads, cars commandeer designated disabled parking spots and tourists with no experience of cycling are encouraged to hop on the saddle to experience the fully immersive Dutch experience. Videos posted by Johan's team demonstrate some of the issues created by "overtourism" in what used to be a quaint Dutch village now suffering from its very nature. A decade ago, this place was barely known beyond the dykes. The council has sought to minimise disruption by banning coaches and camper vans from the centre of Kinderdijk, building new parking facilities on the outskirts of the village and conducting intensive checks on cars that have resulted in an almost doubling of fines between 2017 and 2018. "I produce some coffee mugs and coasters for a hobby," Mr Velthuizen complains. "But the tourists are just coming to take photos not to spend anything; they get all their food on the cruise ships." For all his frustration, he disagrees with a recent initiative by local millers to hand out postcards to tourists that suggest their presence is part of the problem. The postcards convey a a simple message: "We've lived here for centuries. We get 600,000 tourists a year and there are 60 of us. Ratio 10,000:1 #overtourism" Although intended to be posted to friends to ward off other potential visitors, the postcards are perhaps more likely they will be kept as souvenirs. Local miller and Instagram enthusiast Peter Paul Klapwijk makes the point: "It's a world heritage site, not Disneyland. And it should be treated as such." And yet, it costs €20,000 (£17,000; $23,000) a year to keep a mill turning so the tourism income that comes from the Kinderdijk heritage foundation that runs the site is a vital source of funding. "We are part of the heritage," says Mr Klapwijk. "We don't hate tourists but the heritage foundation treats us like the goose that laid the golden egg." 'We just need rules' Entry tickets cost €8 per adult and hundreds of cruise ships dock near by every year, providing an estimated €4m for the foundation. Most of the money is reinvested into maintaining the site but residents complain they are frozen out of council consultations and do not see any benefit from accommodating the tide of tourists. They've launched numerous court cases to try to protect their property and prevent the attraction from being expanded. "You can't stop it. We just need rules. The tourists used to just come in the summer and stop in October, now it's all year," Johan Velthuizen complains. The solution for miller Peter Paul Klapwijk is to create a connection with visitors to give them a greater understanding of residents' lives. Now when he spots a tourist training a long lens on his family home, he invites them over for a chat.

दो पर्यटक कोच संकीर्ण घुमावदार सड़क के साथ एक मानव आकार के पीले धब्बे से गुजरते हैं। बस की कतारों के बाद बस अपने उत्सुक यात्रियों को छोड़ने के लिए, जहाँ तक आंख देख सकती है, रोलिंग डाइक के नीचे टेलबैक बनाती है।


Covid lockdown anniversary: Wales remembers those lost to virus

Summary: Doorstep vigils have taken place across Wales and historical buildings have been lit up yellow to remember those who have died from Covid-19.

By Zara Morgan & Chris WoodBBC News People were asked to light up their homes on the one-year anniversary of the start of the first UK lockdown. A minute's silence at noon was followed by a ceremony at the Senedd led by the first minister and party leaders. More than 125,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, with more than 7,500 of those deaths in Wales. The Wales National Coronavirus Commemorative Event, presented by BBC News presenter Huw Edwards, was held to remember those who have died with Covid-19 and pay tribute to health and care workers. The event featured a series of videos by the Welsh government and heard from political leaders, poets and singers. Earlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford joined colleagues to observe the minute's silence on the steps of the Welsh government's offices in Cathays Park, Cardiff. He said Wales "came together as a nation" during the "darkest times" of the coronavirus pandemic and that it was right to focus on the "huge loss of life". "Our thoughts are with all the families who are mourning the loss of a loved one," he said. "Over the last year, we've heard too many sad stories. "But we've also heard inspiring tales of resilience, bravery and determination from every part of Wales as communities have support each other. "And our everyday heroes - from bus drivers and shop workers to intensive care nurses and teachers - keeping on keeping us safe." He said the anniversary was taking place "with a sense of hope". "Our fantastic vaccine programme is protecting thousands of people every day and we're relaxing the restrictions we have lived with for so long," he continued. "As the first shoots of spring appear, we can all have real hope that this year will be so much better than the last." Speaking during First Minister's Questions in the Senedd, the Conservative group leader in the Welsh Parliament, Andrew RT Davies, said it was right that the grief families must be feeling across the whole of Wales was "reflected today by all members of the Senedd, but also of all communities across the length and breadth of Wales". "But we've also seen huge acts of kindness that have been so inspirational, both community spirited, kindness and compassion combined, that has carried many people through this crisis," he said. Before the minute's silence earlier, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: "Today, one year on, my thoughts are with all who have lost loved ones to this terrible virus that changed all of our lives forever." So far in the year since the pandemic began, there have been 6,123 more deaths in Wales than we would normally have expected to see, according to latest data from the Office for National Statistics. Deaths involving Covid make up 19.6% of all deaths in Wales, slightly fewer than the proportion in England. The Covid-19 Families Wales group - which supports about 1,300 people who have lost loved ones - asked for monuments to be lit up in tribute. "We offer free counselling, but also support people by saying 'we know how you feel'," said Andrea Williams who helped set the group up. "If someone says 'I can't sleep', someone else may reply that they're going through the same thing. "Other people may say 'I feel guilty, I shouldn't have sent him to hospital'. It's all the questions that go around your head." 'We are going to light up Wales to remember' Mrs Williams, from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, helped set up the group after losing her husband Mark, 58, at the start of the pandemic. She said: "He was fit and well, and a kayaker. The media message wasn't right (at the start of the pandemic), saying it was mainly old and overweight people. "It has helped me, and others in the group, knowing others feel the same. "We are taking everything at our own pace and we are going to light up Wales to remember." Yellow hearts "My dad isn't coming back so that's what's been really, really hard," said Bethan Hayes, who lost her 59-year-old father Keith to Covid in January. "He really was my world, my best friend," said the 29-year-old from Barry. "Since this has happened, my world's just been torn into two." She is calling on people to take part in the day of reflection with yellow hearts. "I really do think this initiative is amazing," she said. "I want the yellow heart to now be like the new symbol... so when we look at the rainbow, we see that's about the NHS and positivity and hope." Kirsty Fox-Smith, from Rogerstone, Newport, has been making yellow hearts for members of the Covid-19 Families Wales group after losing her dad, Andrew Payne, 58, in January. Mr Payne had a number of health issues after having a kidney transplant and diabetes, and told his family he was in the "prime box" if he caught it. However, they vowed to make sure he did not, which made it a shock when he died. "Every window upstairs [in my house] that faces on to the road has hearts, which light up every day," Mrs Fox-Smith said. "Every neighbour on the whole row, eight houses, have yellow hearts as well. Dad lived on the same estate and everyone is gutted." Rhondda Cynon Taf has been the worst hit local authority in Wales, with 339.8 deaths per 100,000 people compared with a rate of 196.4 across the country. Tonyrefail has been particularly badly affected, with it having the most deaths of Wales' 400 localities, and is second overall once population is taken into account. But adversity has brought the community together, with resident Dawn Parkin saying: "They have all come together like a territorial army. I'm an Army officer, and they really have been like troops on the ground." When Covid hit and the community centre closed, her garage became the local foodbank helping hundreds, before people started donating clothes, prams, anything for those who could not get out. Residents then started coming up with ideas to keep spirits up - such as a Tonyrefail Bake Off competition, and cooking nights, where people would all buy the same ingredients and create meals at home following the same instructions. It has helped keep spirits up, with funeral director Huw Parkman saying at the peak of the outbreak he would have up to 20 services a week to organise. 'Some funerals would've had several hundred there' "Some of these funerals would've had several hundred people there," he said. "The death of a person in their 40s and 50s could be the hardest ones, because only immediate family could go, which can leave loved ones behind." James Thomas' burger van Beefy's Baps did not qualify for any government grants as it is a relatively new business, so instead, he decided to focus his energies on helping people. "It spiralled and I was soon covering all of Tonyrefail and Gilfach Goch," Mr Thomas said. "About 3,600 meals we've given for free, including in local nursing homes." In total, he has helped raise £16,000 in donations, which funded selection boxes for children at Christmas, £3,000 for homeless charities, plus Easter eggs for children's charities. "It's really important for the older people who weren't getting to see anyone. Speaking to some, they were saying it [lockdown] didn't make any difference as they weren't seeing anyone anyway. But for others it made a massive difference," he added. "It's been bad in a lot of ways with a lot of deaths. A lot of people I know have died, but a lot about it [how people have come together] has been really good. "I keep thinking 'are we going to stop' [with the free meals], but we just can't." 'The lucky ones' Meanwhile, two communities in north Wales - Llandudno Junction South and Llasanffraid Glan Conwy, and Rhyl South West - have registered no deaths at all with Covid during the past 12 months. Luck and following lockdown rules has helped keep the virus out of Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, according to local pub and cafe owner Sylvia Hughes. "We've been one of the lucky ones, on the whole," said Ms Hughes, who runs the Cross Keys pub and Caffi Llan in the village. "It is partly down to how well most people have complied with rules in the village, like no mass parties or gatherings. "We've had the odd little Covid incident but nothing major." However Ms Hughes said the restrictions were "a nightmare" for her businesses and many were hoping for "normality" soon. Sharon Hutton owns the Sunrize tanning salon in Rhyl South West, and said she felt "everyone had really come together" throughout the lockdowns. "Housing estates were doing social distancing bingo on drive ways at one point, people organising zoom calls and virtual quizzes - everyone has been trying to be as united as possible," she said. The 58-year-old said while it had been "frustrating" as a salon owner, she had seen new interest from customers who want to "feel good" and "get back to normality". She said phone calls with customers showed many people were "itching" to get out into the town again. So where does Wales stand one year on? Two weeks ago, Wales passed the threshold for "trigger" figures for a lockdown, with its case rate and test positivity rate. Currently Wales has an average weekly case rate of 42 per 100,000 people in the population - below the 50 cases threshold, and its lowest point since 17 September last year. Confirmed and suspected cases are down to a fifth of Wales' record levels in late December and back to numbers last seen in September. The number of people who have received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine now stands at 1,273,186 - a rise of 14,417 on the previous day. Of that total, 346,058 people have now had a second dose. Latest figures show there were no new Covid admissions in both Cwm Taf Morgannwg and Swansea Bay hospitals on Monday. The number of Covid patients in hospital beds in Wales stands at 749, according to NHS Wales figures - and the daily average is the lowest since 21 October. Wales' local authority with the highest case rates for the seven-day period up until 18 March remains Merthyr Tydfil at 111 cases per 100,000, although it has fallen from 121 the previous day. The lowest case rates are seen in Ceredigion (11), Monmouthshire (down from 15.9 to 13.7) and Powys (15.1).

पूरे वेल्स में दरवाजे की चौकसी की गई है और कोविड-19 से मरने वालों को याद करने के लिए ऐतिहासिक इमारतों को पीले रंग से रोशन किया गया है।


Greta Thunberg, the climate campaigner who doesn't like campaigning

Summary: It sounds like a year off made in heaven.

Justin RowlattChief environment correspondent@BBCJustinRon Twitter How about you take Arnold Schwarzenegger's electric car on a road trip around America? Maybe stop off along the way to tell the world's most powerful people how they can put the world to rights. You might want to address hundreds of thousands of adoring admirers at a few giant rallies. And don't forget to schedule in some epic scenery. Oh, and while you are about it, why not sail across the Atlantic on one of the fastest racing yachts ever made? That is what Greta Thunberg has spent last year doing, but the teenage climate campaigner doesn't seem to have enjoyed it much. I don't think she is being a brat. I believe Greta knows how unique and special her life has been and how privileged she is. The world's most famous climate campaigner just doesn't actually like campaigning very much. "I am in this because I want to be," she tells me. "And that's not because I think it's fun. That's not because I enjoy the attention. It's because I want to make a difference." Think about her demeanour. She's not your usual public figure. She usually looks a bit tense and uncomfortable and rarely seems to be enjoying herself. Donald Trump was on to something when he teased her in a tweet saying, "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future." And ironically the fact she doesn't like all the attention makes her an even more curious and captivating figure for us all. I've now had two long conversations with the activist. We met in person on the deck of Malizia, the yacht that whisked her across the Atlantic. That was in September last year. Then a couple of weeks ago I had a virtual encounter with Greta for a television interview. She was in her flat in Stockholm, I was in a greenhouse in Kew Gardens. I asked her about that speech. You know, the "How dare you!" one. I'm sure you remember it. It was a coruscating attack on world leaders that echoed across the world in endless social media posts and newspaper headlines. "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," says Greta, her voice shaking with emotion, apparently on the verge of tears. "And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!" She describes taking the subway home from the UN that evening. She says she could see people watching the speech on their phones. "Some come forward to congratulate me, someone suggests we should celebrate," she recalls. "But I don't understand what their congratulations are for, and I understand even less what we're supposed to be celebrating," says Greta. "Yet another meeting is over. And all that is left is empty words." If it is all so thankless, why on earth does she bother? The answer to that question is, of course, bound up in her own psychology. Greta says she feels compelled to act on climate. "Many people seem to be able to see the climate crisis and say like, 'Yeah, it's really important,' and then just go on with their everyday lives. I cannot do that." She believes this compulsion is a result of her autism, which she describes as her "superpower". "I'm very stubborn," she tells me. "If I'm committed to something I go all in." The fact that she doesn't see her activism as an act of volition, "a choice", is crucial to understanding her. "I don't like this attention," she says. "If I were to choose I would just be like everyone else and continue studying because that's what I enjoy doing the most." "But since this is such an extraordinary situation, we have to do things that we might not always find very comfortable." I've travelled all over the world for the BBC and seen evidence of climate change everywhere. It's the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. Tackling it means changing how we do virtually everything. We are right to be anxious and afraid at the prospect, but I reckon we should also see this as a thrilling story of exploration, and I'm delighted to have been given the chance of a ringside seat as chief environment correspondent. The iconic image of Greta Thunberg is that picture of a schoolgirl with pigtails protesting alone outside the Swedish parliament, her "Skolstrejk for Klimatet" poster by her side. Once again, she doesn't feel the lonely vigil was something she actively chose. She tells me she tried working with other people, joining existing organisations, but it didn't go well. "I was too bad at socialising, I just hated making small talk and constantly being around so many people." She decided to do something by herself, and came up with the school strike idea - unwittingly creating what has become a global brand. She articulates her message very clearly, there is no doubt about that. But what makes Greta unique is the paradox of the vulnerable-looking young girl speaking her version of truth to the most powerful people on earth. It explains why she has been such a potent advocate for the climate cause. And she is certainly that. Greta Thunberg has done more to galvanise action on the issue than any other single individual in the last year. But she constantly laments the lack of global progress on climate and tells me she is stunned by how little world leaders understand about the issue. Their level of knowledge is, she says, "very, very low. Much lower than you would think." When we first spoke, I asked whether she is ever afraid that she will end up like Cassandra, the figure from Greek mythology. Cassandra was cursed to be able to see into the future but for everyone to disbelieve her prophecies. Greta Thunberg said she had no such fears. "Many people listen to me", she said. "I don't beg to be heard. I just beg for the scientists to be heard." She believes the message that individual action can make a difference is getting through. She talks about a "social tipping point" having been passed, not just on climate but on race, gender and other social justice issues. "People are starting to realise that we cannot keep looking away from these things," she says. "We cannot keep sweeping these things under the carpet." And Greta does get some pleasure from her efforts to get the world to take climate change seriously. She told me that campaigning lifted her out of a period of deep depression during her early teens. "It makes me feel good that I'm not alone in this fight," she told me as we bobbed on the deck of the racing yacht that was about to whisk her across the Atlantic. "It feels like my life has some kind of meaning lately and I feel that what I am doing is meaningful." She is also delighted that so many autistic people have felt empowered by her decision to speak publicly about living with the condition. Greta's incredible year off - she calls it a sabbatical - will be over in just a couple of weeks' time. The 17-year-old is looking forward to going back to school, she has three years of studies left. And you won't be surprised to hear she says she won't stop campaigning any time soon. Illustration by Jessica Sherwood

यह स्वर्ग में एक साल की छुट्टी की तरह लगता है।


Syria war: Why now, what happened, what next?

Summary: The US has carried out a missile strike on a Syrian air base in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in Syria, that was carried out earlier this week.

By Jonathan MarcusDefence and diplomatic correspondent We asked for your questions on the strike and the BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus has answered some of the most popular ones. What happened? Russia was warned ahead of the attack and reports suggest that several Syrian aircraft were indeed destroyed on the ground. The focus of the US cruise missile attacks was on aircraft, runways and infrastructure. It was not intended to cause massive loss of life among the Syrian military, though at this stage we have no reliable estimate of casualties. The Russians have said none of their personnel at the base were killed. Cruise missiles are a stand-off weapon launched from warships, submarines or aircraft. In this case, the missiles were launched from two US destroyers. They are highly accurate, though like all weapons systems they can of course go wrong. They carry a reasonably small warhead, the equivalent of a single bomb. Was it legal? The US clearly believes that a sarin-like agent was used in the attack earlier this week, that it was delivered by Syrian aeroplanes and that those military aircraft were based at the location that was hit by the US cruise missiles. While Syria, backed by its ally Russia, insist that they were not involved, it has a track record of using chemical munitions. In 2013, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime mounted a chemical attack using the nerve agent sarin on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus. The then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the attack as a war crime. Following that attack, much of Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons was removed. But there have been numerous claims of the use of chlorine gas, some of which have been substantiated by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - the international body responsible for implementing the ban on such weapons. Legality is a difficult question. The US is not at war with the Syrian regime - though it disputes its legitimacy. The US contention may be that the Syrian regime has committed a war crime and that the US has a legitimate reason to act to protect Syrian civilians from this kind of atrocity. Why now? Many might say that Syrian civilians are being killed every day by conventional weapons and that this does not draw a US response. Certainly, though, in the West chemical weapons produce a particular horror and they are banned by international convention. Syria belatedly agreed to this convention when it was forced to give up its chemical weapons after the 2013 sarin attack. It is the use of a much more deadly nerve agent (and not the industrial chemical chlorine) that makes this attack cross a red line. But what if chlorine is used again in the future? Will the US act then? I do not think this is linked to President Trump's domestic approval ratings, which some polls place as low as 35%. He has decided to act resolutely to enforce a prohibition on the use of chemical weapons, which President Obama failed to do in 2013. In doing so he has marked his distance from his predecessor, demonstrating that there is a new man in the White House. What about Russia? Russia has responded swiftly by condemning the attack and has insisted that it was actually being planned before the chemical incident earlier this week. It has also suspended an agreement with the US under which military officers from both sides consulted to avoid incidents in Syrian airspace between their aircraft. Russia's backing for the Assad regime goes back to the 1960s, when the current president's father led Syria. It is Moscow's only major ally in the region. There is a small Russian naval facility there which is being modernised, as well as the air base from which Russia mounts its own air operations. Syria gives Russia a foothold in the region which remains of strategic importance to Moscow. What next? The scope and method of the strikes suggests that this was a limited punitive attack, not a move from the US to intervene in Syria's civil war. It strongly bears the hallmarks of President Trump's key military advisers, who are seen as being tough but also realistic about what military force alone can achieve. It is hard to see what response the Syrians may take. There could be worries that their Iranian allies may pursue some kind of reprisal. Iranian-backed militias operate in Iraq where US forces are engaged in combat against so-called Islamic State. This is not going to significantly alter the balance of power in Syria, where President Assad is well entrenched in a significant part of the country. Further US strikes are unlikely unless sarin is used again. But it will shape the future US-Russia relationship. For Moscow, President Trump has been very much an unknown quantity. President Vladimir Putin had hoped that he might find a willing partner in the new US president. In the event, the Trump administration looks in some ways much more like previous US administrations - highly sceptical about Moscow and what it is trying to achieve in the world. Notwithstanding this, there are many problems where progress can only be made if the US and Russia work together. Syria may be one of them. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to meet his Russian counterpart soon. The Russians will now have a better idea of who they are dealing with. Produced by Chris Bell, UGC and Social News team

अमेरिका ने सीरिया में विद्रोहियों के कब्जे वाले एक शहर पर संदिग्ध रासायनिक हथियारों के हमले के जवाब में सीरियाई हवाई अड्डे पर मिसाइल हमला किया है, जो इस सप्ताह की शुरुआत में किया गया था।


Food allergy alert service begins in Scotland

Summary: A new alert service has been set up for people with food allergies.

Backed by the official watchdog Food Standards Scotland (FSS), it will send out text and email messages about missing or incorrect food labelling regarding allergens. Those signing up can configure the service to any of 14 major allergens which are listed on packaging. In the past year there have been 86 allergy alerts for food and drink products in Scotland. FSS head of food crime and incidents unit Ron McNaughton said: "Food allergies can significantly impact people's quality of life, and Food Standards Scotland is here to make sure people with food allergies or intolerances have the information they need to make informed choices. "We work closely with local authorities, food businesses, and the Food Standards Agency to make people in Scotland aware of any allergen information issues and we'd urge anyone with a food allergy in Scotland to sign up for tailored food allergy alerts by text or email. "People can access the new service from the foodstandards.gov.scot homepage."

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