'We were bullied out of our home for being different'

Summary: A family with two autistic children say they were driven out of their home as a result of a two-year campaign of bullying, abuse and physical assault. The authorities failed to help them, they say, and mistook the symptoms of autism for aggression and an unwillingness to co-operate. Charlotte Hayward went to see them.

"I'm not bad, rude, hyper or shy, I have Asperger's. What's your excuse?" Lee is reading out to me what's written in pink letters on his black T-shirt. He's also wearing yellow earplugs, sunglasses and a hat. He himself would admit that it's an unusual look, especially in grey, rainy Britain. He says he bought a number of similar shirts because dealing with the police left him very frustrated. "The police were so rude and judgmental and had no idea how to communicate or talk to us," he says. "They just shut us up straight away." Lee is a father. He's got five children, two of whom, like him, have a diagnosis of autism. His wife Penny can't walk very far, and so sometimes she uses a mobility scooter or a wheelchair. They describe themselves as a "bit different". Two-and-a-half years ago they were offered an adapted new home by the housing association, LiveWest - to protect the family's privacy the BBC is not naming where. They were happy to move but problems with neighbours began soon after they arrived. "It started off with antisocial behaviour, and youths would come out and play football but they would come and purposely kick it at the vehicles and the windows. We started getting abuse from the parents, telling us we were odd and weird, and then we started getting blocked in," says Penny, who is currently pregnant with her sixth child. Find out more Listen to Charlotte Hayward's report on the Today programme, on BBC Radio 4, after 06:00 on Monday 6 May Or catch up later online As she talks to me in the calm of the family's cream-coloured living room, her children sit next to her, listening quietly. But it's a difficult and upsetting story to tell, and she has to keep stopping. "Every time we left the property, we got hurls of abuse, footballs kicked in our direction, even some of the youths saying they wanted to kill us." Bricks were thrown at them, she says, and through the windows. "They'd shout at the girls - call them retards. They were harassing my husband doing hand flapping and mimicking his ear defenders." Over the course of two years, Penny made hundreds of complaints to LiveWest and Avon and Somerset Police. The police say these complaints were investigated and that several family liaison officers were assigned to the family, all of whom were rejected. The family says they rejected the officers, because none had the skills required to talk and listen to autistic people. LiveWest, the housing association, said in a statement: "Over a long period of time, there were accusations of hate crime made by the family along with many counter-accusations by local residents. We worked with the police and multi-agencies to investigate all these accusations where no action was taken by the police due to lack of evidence." Adding to the family's sense of being abandoned by people who could have helped them, at the height of the tensions LiveWest revealed that it had accidentally sent sensitive information to the family's neighbours by mistake. Medical information, previous addresses, schooling for the children, mental health assessments. It was a catastrophic data breach and Penny says she was gobsmacked. "I was… I didn't know what to say. 'What do you mean, you've sent them my whole file?'" LiveWest says it has apologised to the family for the error. The abuse culminated in an assault on the couple's eldest son, Harry, who has Tourette's syndrome and autism. It was caught on the family's private CCTV, which shows a handful of people outside the family's house: Harry is leaning forward, perhaps talking, and then someone grabs him, pushes him against a wall and bends him forward over railings. You can't hear much on the short clip, and you can't see what the build-up to this was or know the context. "After the incident the autistic ones were having real severe meltdowns. It really affected them quite badly and of course the two youngest siblings witnessed everything. They were really distressed. We had a six-month-old baby as well. Harry particularly was punching doors and walls and cutting all his hands open, just pure frustration," says Penny. "Three hours after the assault the police came and knocked on the door and I couldn't let them in. I couldn't distress them any more, especially Lee because he wanted to protect his family. So Lee says, 'I'm really sorry you can't come in tonight, we're trying to cope and get this family stable and secure and for an autistic person routine is everything. We said we'll speak to you tomorrow. In the meantime, we've got CCTV for you.'" Avon and Somerset Police wasn't able to give the BBC an interview, but did say that it had been alleged that Harry had pushed someone before he was attacked. When officers asked to review all the CCTV, the family wouldn't co-operate, a spokesman said. That meant that the assault, which would have been treated as part of an affray, couldn't be investigated. The family told me they had not kept the previous CCTV footage. The police say they did arrange a meeting to go through all of the allegations after the assault but that Penny and Lee didn't want to take part. Penny says she didn't feel any of the police officers had an understanding of what autism is. "They made us appear to be unengaging, unco-operative," she says. "We eventually paid an advocate to speak for us. They said we were aggressive, abrupt. If you know anything about autism, communication is the biggest issue." What is 'normal'? Harry, 19, was too distressed to be interviewed, but commented by email: Not long after we moved in, people in the street started to bully me. I started to feel very socially awkward all the time and became a person with very low self-confidence. I got to breaking point and I didn't understand all my emotions. I didn't know how to feel and felt that I didn't deserve to be on this planet where everyone judged me and mocked me. I was subjected to violence and after this I became very depressed and now a year on I am still struggling. I don't like leaving the house. I sit in my room with the lights off and curtains closed with no interest in anything any more. I feel like a stranger in my own home, my own body. I no longer know myself. I feel as someone with autism I am judged and overlooked because of who I am and because I am different. But what is "normal"? Avon and Somerset Police doesn't train its officers specifically to deal with autism. It points out that College of Policing guidance doesn't support condition-specific training, because officers cannot be expected to be "health or social care professionals". But that could be changing. Sgt Adam McCloughlin, the force lead for autism, has been working on a programme that would improve officers' autism awareness. "We know that autistic people are up to seven times more likely to come into contact with the criminal justice system. We know that is most likely as a victim or as a witness, certainly not as a suspect," he says. "There's nothing to suggest that autistic people are more likely to break the law. Policing is one of those occupations where you only really ever tend to meet people in times of stress, when you've done something wrong or something unfortunately has happened. Emotions play a big part in the way autism presents itself. People that the police come across will be in emotional distress." He hopes the training will start this year. "I think that we as an organisation make mistakes every day," he says. "I've seen the complaints from the autistic community. I think the answer to those performance issues is just more awareness and more training. We're not going to do any harm by reframing the way we think about vulnerability and other conditions." Penny and her family felt forced to move to a new home. They tell me that they're safe but despite the police's insistence that they tried to help the family, they feel completely let down. "You go to the police because they are mean to protect you, you go to housing association, they have a duty of care to look after you… We had no family, there was no support network, just absolutely nothing." You may also be interested in: Two brothers on the autistic spectrum were looking for work when one had the idea of opening a comic shop. It turned out to be an inspired choice. Read: The shop where it's OK to be different Illustrations by Katie Horwich

दो ऑटिस्टिक बच्चों वाले एक परिवार का कहना है कि उन्हें बदमाशी, दुर्व्यवहार और शारीरिक हमले के दो साल के अभियान के परिणामस्वरूप अपने घर से बाहर निकाल दिया गया था। अधिकारी उनकी मदद करने में विफल रहे, वे कहते हैं, और ऑटिज्म के लक्षणों को आक्रामकता और सहयोग करने की अनिच्छा के लिए गलत समझा। शार्लोट हेवर्ड उन्हें देखने गए।


Parkinson's disease: Runner Patrick Crossan stays on track despite diagnosis

Summary: Patrick Crossan has been running since he was a teenager.

By Sara NeillBBC News NI In 2014 he turned 50 and it was a big year on and off the track, as a shock diagnosis threatened to derail his running success. "I had noticed training wasn't going well, but my competition was going well," he says. "I ran the Scottish Indoors, Irish championships and the Northern Irish championships and I won them all. "So that was going great, but it was also the year I was diagnosed with Parkinson's." 'Very shocked' It started with a tremor in his hand. "I eventually went to a consultant who diagnosed me with Parkinson's," he says. "I was very shocked. I thought it was an old person's disease. "My first question was 'do I have to give up running?' My consultant said no, you have to keep going." Instead of giving up, Patrick modified his training to suit the condition, which often left him tired and meant he took longer to recover. Patrick's currently training for the European Masters Indoor Athletics Championships in March, alongside other runners who don't have neurological conditions to factor in. Raymond McComb is one of his coaches. "Where the other guys are doing more runs, when we see Patrick is starting to slow up we're cutting back. "So that means it's quality runs rather than quantity. I think that's better as the body will recover much quicker for him," Raymond explains. But there's another problem. One of the symptoms of Parkinson's is freezing - where the person's body just stops. It can happen at any time, including during a race. That's where Cathy Craig, professor of experimental psychology at Ulster University, comes in. She's been studying how and why people move, and her research is helping to keep Patrick on the right track. She explains: "Towards the latter half of his race, often when he was in the lead, Patrick's brain decided it wasn't going to let him move in the fluid, free way that he normally moved throughout the rest of the race. "What we had to do was find a way that would help him understand, hear his movements and then be able to control those movements in a much more fluid way." So to hear himself running, Prof Craig suggested that Patrick use a wrist band with four bells attached to each. They jingle when he runs. "By hearing the sound of your movement, his brain is able to use that information to help to control the next cycle of movement that he has to make," she says. "It acts like a feedback mechanism for the brain that helps him control the quality of his movements." Each footstep triggers the jingle of the bells, which triggers Patrick's brain to tell him to keep moving. Patrick used the bells for the first time on Sunday when he competed in the 60m and 200m sprint at the Scottish National Indoor Masters Championships. There were two more medals to take home, as he came third and second respectively in the events. "Whether I've Parkinson's or not, I'm racing to win," he says. "I'll continue running until physically I can put one foot in front of another. "I've had to adapt due to the Parkinson's, but with the help of people like Dr Craig, new ideas are going to help my career."

पैट्रिक क्रॉसन किशोरावस्था से ही दौड़ रहे हैं।


Why fit unisex toilets in schools?

Summary: Glasgow City Council is the latest local authority in the UK to get caught up in a toileting controversy. The council is planning to fit unisex toilets to three new primaries in the city and some parents have objected strongly. But a number of schools in Scotland adopted unisex toilets several years ago. What's life like on the frontline of school toilet innovation?

By Christopher SleightBBC Scotland news Most young people have a degree of anxiety about going to the toilet at school, says head teacher John Devine. "I think if you add to that the fear that there might be a group in there who are up to no good, that increases the anxiety level," he says. Mr Devine is head of Breadalbane Academy in Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross, a five-year-old building that uses a radically different layout for the toilets in the secondary school on the campus. Instead of traditional boys and girls toilets with partially-enclosed cubicles in a closed off sometimes intimidating space, the academy uses full-enclosed cubicles that open into a public washbasin area. Breadalbane Academy doesn't go full unisex - the cubicles are labelled male and female - but the washbasin area is mixed. "On balance, it's slightly less intimidating for young people to use these toilets," Mr Devine tells the BBC. He has been teaching for 25 years and says these toilets are a great improvement on other schools he's taught at, with virtually no vandalism and one less space where pupils can be bullied. All prospective parents are shown the toilets if they're given a tour of the school, but Mr Devine says their design has proved uncontroversial. "It's not an issue here - I've never had a concern about it expressed to me." In the UK, unisex toilets are a relatively recent invention. One of the first schools to try it was a secondary school in Stockport, near Manchester, in 2000. The head teacher there at the time, John Peckham, argued that unisex cubicles opening into a public washbasin area would prevent bullying, vandalism and smoking. Sexual liaisons There were many critics of the plan, not least UK government's Department for Education which ruled that "the time is not right for the introduction of unisex toilets in our schools", saying they were technically illegal. Parents also expressed concerns about young people being too embarrassed to use unisex toilets - or, somewhat on the other end of scale, that the cubicles could be used for sexual liaisons between pupils. However, Mr Peckham was actually just a bit ahead of the times, as seven years later the Department for Education and Skills issued guidance encouraging all new schools to fit unisex toilets - with the main driver being that it cut down on bullying. The recommendation only applied to new or refurbished schools being built in England, but some Scottish local authorities have also adopted the ideas in their guidelines. Unisex toilets are mentioned in a 2013 document complied by Perth and Kinross, Angus, Dundee and Fife councils which outlines various options when building new schools. For toilets, it recommends "open plan unisex toilet with central fountain handwash" as a way of reducing concerns around vandalism and ensuring there are enough toilets for both sexes. But there is another motivation - aside from school cleaners desperately seeking the end of soggy toilet paper stuck to ceilings - and that's cost. Unisex toilets with this design are often cheaper to build and maintain. Or, as the document puts it: "Commonality of sanitary provision offers a good opportunity to optimise costs and provide a consistent layout with repetitive detailing which reduce construction costs and help improve quality." Glasgow City Council says it decided to fit them to three new schools after consulting parents, pupils and staff. The main aim is to "help improve behaviour and reduce bullying and vandalism" - which the authority says had been observed anecdotally in other areas of Scotland that have fitted unisex toilets in schools. And there is another important aspect to the toilet debate. Gender identity LGBT groups say it is vital that gender stereotypes are not imposed on children primary or secondary schools - and unisex toilets can help with this. "Transgender children and young people in particular tell us that they can feel uncomfortable using school toilets as they worry about being bullied or they are forced to use a toilet that doesn't fit with their identity," says Cara Spence from LGBT Youth Scotland. "Some young people tell us that they go home to use the toilet or refuse to drink during the school day - so there are clear implications for their attendance, attainment and wellbeing." Ms Spence urges that cubicles are made "as private as possible" and adds that any measure that might increase the safety of a pupil who fears being bullied is a good thing. At Breadalbane Academy, where Mr Devine has been in charge of 700 pupils aged 2-18 since 2015, the crucial element for him is giving pupils choice. As well as the two schools and nursery on campus, there are other areas open to the public that have traditional male and female toilets. "There are other options on the campus for young people. Giving them choice is really important," he says. "We owe it to young people to fulfil what they want."

ग्लासगो सिटी काउंसिल ब्रिटेन में शौचालय विवाद में फंसने वाला नवीनतम स्थानीय प्राधिकरण है। परिषद शहर में तीन नए प्राथमिक विद्यालयों में यूनिसेक्स शौचालय लगाने की योजना बना रही है और कुछ माता-पिता ने कड़ी आपत्ति जताई है। लेकिन स्कॉटलैंड के कई स्कूलों ने कई साल पहले यूनिसेक्स शौचालयों को अपनाया है। स्कूल शौचालय नवाचार के मोर्चे पर जीवन कैसा है?


Rio car death: Decision on King's Lynn roads in summer

Summary: West Norfolk Borough Council is to set up a special group to decide if roads are safe to open during events after a three-year-old boy was killed.

Rio Bell, from Lowestoft, Suffolk, died on 15 February after he was hit by a car at King's Lynn annual Mart fair. The council is also to carry out an inquiry into the death in the summer after which a decision will be made. A petition has been given to the council asking for road closures during future fairs.

वेस्ट नॉरफ़ॉक बरो काउंसिल यह तय करने के लिए एक विशेष समूह का गठन करने जा रही है कि तीन साल के लड़के के मारे जाने के बाद होने वाली घटनाओं के दौरान सड़कें खोलने के लिए सुरक्षित हैं या नहीं।


Gurinderjit Rai death: Man arrested over shotgun murder

Summary: A man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder after a father was found shot dead in a car.

Gurinderjit Rai's body was discovered in a car parked in a layby in Shepherds Farm Lane, Corhampton, Hampshire, on 13 July. Police believe the 41-year-old, from Eastleigh, was killed in a targeted attack. A 51-year-old man from south Wales was arrested and released on bail pending further inquiries. A total of 12 people have been arrested in total as part of the investigation, Hampshire Constabulary said.

एक कार में एक पिता की गोली मारकर हत्या करने के संदेह में एक व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Banksy gorilla artwork in Bristol partially restored

Summary: A work by street artist Banksy which was painted over on a Bristol building has been partially restored.

The gorilla in a pink mask stencil had been on the wall of the ex-North Bristol Social Club in Eastville. But the new owner of the building, Saeed Ahmed, had never heard of Banksy and had the wall whitewashed. It has not been revealed how the artwork was restored. Mr Ahmed, who had apologised for whitewashing it, was unavailable for comment.

सड़क कलाकार बैंक्सी का एक काम जिसे ब्रिस्टल की एक इमारत पर चित्रित किया गया था, आंशिक रूप से पुनर्स्थापित किया गया है।


Arnab Goswami: India's most loved and loathed TV anchor

Summary: Arnab Goswami, arguably India's most controversial TV anchor, became the story when he was arrested recently over a suicide case. He denies the charges and has been granted bail, but the case only adds to his polarising personality, reports BBC's Yogita Limaye.

"In a country where 80% of the population is Hindu, it's become a crime to be Hindu," Arnab Goswami declared on the prime time show of his Hindi language TV station Republic Bharat in April. "I ask today that if a Muslim cleric or Catholic priest had been killed, would people be quiet?" He was speaking about an incident where two Hindu "godmen" travelling in a car, and their driver, were lynched by a mob. Police said the men had been mistaken for child kidnappers. The attackers and victims were all Hindu. But for nearly a week, the Republic network ran programmes claiming the victims' Hindu identity was a motive for the crime, echoing an unfounded theory floated by some members of India's governing Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). This, critics say, is the real danger of Mr Goswami's brash, cacophonic and often partisan coverage. They believe viewers of his network are being drip-fed false information, divisive and inflammatory views, and propaganda for the Hindu nationalist BJP - its six years in power have been linked to the increased marginalisation of India's 200 million Muslims. Mr Goswami and Republic TV didn't respond to the BBC's request for an interview, or answer questions about allegations of airing fake and inflammatory news, or partisanship towards the BJP. A contentious style Mr Goswami is certainly not the first to adopt this manner of coverage but he has made it louder and more aggressive than ever before. The tone is often polarising, tapping into India's religious fault lines. In April, for instance, he falsely accused a Muslim group Tablighi Jamaat for violating lockdown orders, and called on India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "lock up their leadership". In the early days of the pandemic, the group's gathering in Delhi was linked to at least a 1,000 covid cases across the country. The event's organisers insisted the congregation had been held before the government imposed a lockdown, a claim which has now been upheld by many courts in India. But misleading broadcasts by Republic and other networks triggered Islamophobic reactions on social media. "If there is one culprit for what we are going through as a nation in an aggravated manner, like it or not, it is the Tablighi Jamaat," Mr Goswami said in one of his many contentious segments. In July, the network turned its lens on the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who police said had killed himself. But Singh's family registered a police complaint against his girlfriend, actress Rhea Chakraborty, alleging abetment to suicide. Ms Chakraborty has denied the charges, but they have sparked a relentless wave of vitriolic and misogynistic coverage - Republic ran a campaign calling for her to be arrested on charges of abetting Singh's suicide and displayed hashtags on screen like #ArrestRheaNow. "A comparison that people love to make in India is between Republic TV and Fox News, but I think that is a bit misplaced," says Manisha Pande, executive editor at Newslaundry, which runs a weekly critique of Indian news media. "While Fox News is seen as partisan and pro-Trump, Republic TV is outright propaganda and it often spreads misinformation in service of the current national government." "What Republic does is it sort of demonises people, often people who don't have the power to fight back, whether it's activists, young students, members of minority communities, or protesters." The fans and the critics Republic claims it's India's most-watched news network, an assertion that was widely believed because of the numbers the channels racked up on television ratings platforms. But the figures are now disputed and Mr Goswami and Republic are being investigated for rigging them, an allegation they have denied. But it's clear that Mr Goswami has a large and ardent following. "The first channel I switch on when I get home at night is Republic. Arnab Goswami is very bold and attempts to tell the truth to the public," says Giridhar Pasupulety, a financial consultant. When asked if he was bothered by allegations that Republic runs fake news, he said: "I don't believe that. He only tells us the truth after investigation." "It's a kind of flashy journalism, but it's required to get the message across. It's kind of a show business as well. Ignore the flashiness and look at the information being given, which is different to what other channels are showing," says Lachman Adnani, an accountant. Author Shobhaa De believes this kind of influence is dangerous. "We need better scrutiny, more checks and balances in place. We certainly can do without this brand of hectoring and untruth, trying to pass off as 'investigative journalism'," she says. How it all began Mr Goswami was born in the north-eastern state of Assam. The son of an army officer, he graduated from Delhi University and then earned a scholarship for a master's programme at Oxford University. He started his career at The Telegraph newspaper in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), before joining NDTV, which was among the first private news channels in India. Former colleagues remember him as a balanced presenter who steered dignified debates. It was after he moved to the channel Times Now, which launched with him as its main face in 2006, that his on-screen persona evolved into what it is today. He tapped into the pulse of India's middle class, which was angry at the then Congress party-led government for security failures during the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and for corruption scandals. He quickly became a household name in urban India. At Republic, which he founded in 2017, Mr Goswami became even more strident and partisan. In 2019, he also launched a channel in the Hindi language, extending his popularity beyond cities. Ms De used to participate in Mr Goswami's programmes. "I appeared frequently on his shows as a panellist at a time when he had credibility as a journalist," she says. "I stopped when I lost respect for him as an unbiased professional doing his job. He has been out of line on several fronts, and there are serious questions about his integrity these days." Mr Goswami was recently arrested over the death of an architect who designed his studio. He and Republic TV network deny allegations that they owed money to the architect. Many believe he was targeted because of his strident criticism of the Maharashtra government, led by the Shiv Sena, an estranged former ally of BJP. Mr Goswami's political clout became evident when several BJP ministers came out in his support, calling his arrest an attack on press freedom in India. It was a striking claim because dozens of journalists over the past few years have been arrested or detained in states governed by the BJP. Many have been slapped with charges such as terrorism and sedition. But party leaders and ministers have not spoken up on their behalf. India now ranks 142 out of 180 countries on the press freedom index released by Reporters Without Borders - it dropped six places over the past five years. In an interview to Gulf News in 2018, Mr Goswami was asked about bias towards the BJP. "This is an unverified complaint. In fact, we are the most robust in our criticism of the BJP on issues when it needs to be criticised," he said. Last week, Mr Goswami was released after seven days in custody. His return to his newsroom was broadcast live on his network with the hashtag #Arnabisback prominently displayed. His team greeted him with applause and cheering. "They are going after us for our journalism," Mr Goswami proclaimed in a dramatic speech. "I will decide the boundaries of our journalism." "What Republic does cannot be called journalism," says Ms Pande. "It's just good reality TV. But he's successfully able to colour people's opinions. And that's troubling in a democracy." Additional reporting by Aakriti Thapar Read more stories by Yogita Limaye

अर्नब गोस्वामी, यकीनन भारत के सबसे विवादास्पद टीवी एंकर, कहानी बन गए जब उन्हें हाल ही में एक आत्महत्या मामले में गिरफ्तार किया गया था। उन्होंने आरोपों से इनकार किया है और उन्हें जमानत दे दी गई है, लेकिन मामला केवल उनके ध्रुवीकरण व्यक्तित्व को जोड़ता है, बीबीसी की योगिता लिमये की रिपोर्ट।


Justin Bieber is added to MTV European Music Awards

Summary: Justin Bieber is the final artist to be added to the line-up for this year's MTV European Music Awards (EMAs) in Belfast on Sunday 6 November.

The Canadian pop star joins girlfriend Selena Gomez, who is hosting the event. David Guetta, Lady Gaga, Coldplay and Red Hot Chili Peppers will also perform at the city's Odyssey Arena. The surviving members of Queen are also expected on stage for a special performance and to receive the global icon award. Lady Gaga was the big winner in 2010 and also leads this year's nominations with six nods including best live act, pop artist and best female. She's followed by Katy Perry and Bruno Mars who have both picked up four nominations. Adele, Justin Bieber and Thirty Seconds To Mars also have nods. Justin Bieber has been shortlisted in three categories.

जस्टिन बीबर रविवार 6 नवंबर को बेलफास्ट में इस साल के एमटीवी यूरोपीय संगीत पुरस्कारों (ईएमए) के लिए लाइन-अप में जोड़े जाने वाले अंतिम कलाकार हैं।


Migrant crisis: The smugglers' route through Hungary

Summary: Do you see the migrants as victims or criminals, I ask Lt Col Zoltan Boross of the Hungarian police. Chief commander in the war against illegal migrants for the past 23 years, he stares over my head at a map of south-eastern Europe scarred by the thick brown arrows which migrants leave on the orderly geography of police forces. "I see them as witnesses against the smugglers," he says.

By Nick ThorpeBicske, Hungary The migrant route across Hungary has reopened this year, as borders through the Balkans to Austria have become harder to cross. At least 12,000 migrants have broken through the infamous razor wire fence on Hungary's southern border with Serbia this year. Most are caught within hours by the army of policemen and soldiers patrolling the Hungarian side. Some are put on trial for illegal border crossing, but because Serbia is still not accepting deportations from Hungary, most are eventually placed in one of three open camps: at Bicske to the west of the capital Budapest, further west at Vamosszabadi or at Kormend, near the border with Austria. And there they make contact with the smugglers again, or the smugglers make contact with them. "Unfortunately most tell fairy tales," says Lt Col Boross. "They think if they give evidence, they won't get help from the smugglers' networks later, to travel on. "So we look especially for those who have been hurt by smugglers, who have been cheated by them, or hurt in other ways." There are 110 police officers in six departments dealing with migration at the National Bureau of Investigation. Last year, they put 1,000 human traffickers on trial. Another 3,500 asylum seekers have been allowed into Hungary through two transit zones built into the fence on the Serbian border, at Roszke and Tompa. These are mostly women, children, and the elderly. judged as vulnerable by the Hungarian immigration officers working from small booths numbered one to 50 in the transit zones. They are sent directly to the same camps, without the intervening unpleasantness of detention. 'Message to Brussels' Down the road from the Biscke camp, in the entrance hall of a Tesco supermarket, Afghan migrants queue at a Western Union money-transfer office. The bored-looking Hungarian men behind the counter dispense money grudgingly, or sometimes refuse it because of a misspelt name. Shoppers and security guards eye the scene suspiciously. Two local teenagers try, unsuccessfully, to sell a tablet with a broken screen to the Afghans. Giant, government-sponsored posters went up all over Hungary this week, calling for a message to be sent to Brussels. They refer to a September referendum called by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz government against what it calls "compulsory quotas" - the relocation of asylum-seekers from Greece and Turkey. The Budapest government is particularly incensed by the steep "solidarity tax" the European Commission plans to impose on countries that refuse to take refugees allotted to them. On the Serbian side of the border at Roszke, a small camp of tents and makeshift shelters has sprung up. Most migrants here say they are new arrivals from Turkey who made the hazardous land route across Bulgaria into Serbia, since the border between Greece and Macedonia was closed. They then carried on north to the Serbian town of Subotica, either by bus or with the help of smugglers. Elyassin, a 17-year-old Afghan boy, claims he and his companions were beaten by Hungarian police on the Serbian side, before they even reached the fence. Each night, they try to cross again. Down the road, Said and Fatima, Christians from Iran, say they have no choice but to cross the fence, get caught, then escape from an open camp. They have no chance of getting in legally through the transit zone, because they have no children. A police car in the dark-green livery of the border police and customs authority cruises slowly through the Tesco car park at Bicske. A woman in pink tracksuit trousers, who speaks both Hungarian and Farsi, is deep in conversation with a group of Afghans. At the chief commander's office I ask Lt Col Boross whether Hungary's closed borders are merely pushing more people into the hands of the smugglers. "The truth lies on both sides," he accepts. "The fence has been effective. But every country tries harder to stop people coming in than going out."

क्या आप प्रवासियों को पीड़ितों या अपराधियों के रूप में देखते हैं, मैं हंगरी पुलिस के लेफ्टिनेंट कर्नल जोल्टन बोरोस से पूछता हूं। पिछले 23 वर्षों से अवैध प्रवासियों के खिलाफ युद्ध में मुख्य कमांडर, वह दक्षिण-पूर्वी यूरोप के नक्शे पर मेरे सिर पर घूरता है जो घने भूरे रंग के तीरों से घिरा हुआ है जो प्रवासी पुलिस बलों के व्यवस्थित भूगोल पर छोड़ जाते हैं। "मैं उन्हें तस्करों के खिलाफ गवाह के रूप में देखता हूं", वे कहते हैं।


School closures in Scotland

Summary: Heavy snow has been forecast for eastern, central and southern Scotland on Tuesday 19 March.

More than 100 schools have been forced to close, with several more partial closures. Online information sources are available below, or you can check with your local authority or child's school. Information may be subject to change.

मंगलवार 19 मार्च को पूर्वी, मध्य और दक्षिणी स्कॉटलैंड के लिए भारी बर्फबारी का पूर्वानुमान लगाया गया है।


From bone marrow transplant to winning medals

Summary: Tens of millions of chronically ill people around the world rely on repeat prescriptions, but getting the drugs they need can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. Now apps, automation and home delivery services are making their lives easier.

By Matthew WallTechnology of Business editor When Melissa Fehr came home from hospital after undergoing a major bone marrow procedure, she says she was carrying "two enormous bags of medication". There were drugs to guard against infection, and other drugs to combat the side effects of other drugs, she says. A bout of shingles was "horrible ... it was just constant pain, so I was prescribed five or six different pain killers", she says. "It was at that point I realised I needed an app to manage things, because some of them were five times a day, some were three times a day, some were within an hour of eating, some were 'you can't eat'...it was all over the place." So she went online and found an app that gave her an alert every time she needed to take one of her medications and recorded each time she took something. "I've been using it for years," she says. But an added complication was getting doctors to sign off repeat prescriptions and then going to the pharmacy to fulfil the order. She would often have to do this in person each time, despite having the same prescription each month. Even surgeries that had electronic prescription capability would sometimes fall down on their communications when the prescribing doctor went on holiday, says Ms Fehr. This was frustrating and wasted a lot of her time. Now the revamped Echo app keeps tabs on her medications consumption, automatically re-orders the drugs for her and sends them to her by post. "It's been an absolute life-saver," she says. Seven years after the transplant operation Ms Fehr, who was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania but now lives in London, is running marathons and recently won several medals at the World Transplant Games. Stephen Bourke, who founded Echo along with partner and chief executive Sai Lakshmi, says there are at least 50 million unnecessary GP appointments each year. "It's all about reducing paperwork," says Mr Bourke, who also needs regular prescriptions for his own anti-anxiety medicine. "My doctors don't need to see me for a repeat prescription - it's a waste of time if they do," he says. Online pharmacies such as Pharmacy2U, LloydsPharmacy and Boots will also handle repeat prescriptions and send the drugs to your home, but Mr Bourke says there are very few services that also help patients manage how they take the medicines. "Research shows that around a third to half of all medications are not taken as directed - it's a big problem," he says. "We turn these directions into reminders that people can understand using natural language processing; we get rid of all the irrelevant stuff." And not all pharmacies deliver, so the app acts like a one-stop-shop for all a patient's repeat prescription needs, says Mr Bourke. More Technology of Business Innovation in this area is being helped by the UK National Health Service's (NHS) Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), which has been rolled out over the last few years. It enables doctors to send prescriptions direct to pharmacies electronically without any need for paper. So far, approaching 6,900 GP [general practitioner] practices and 11,700 pharmacies have signed up, and nearly 1.3 billion items have been dispensed and claimed to date, says NHS Digital. More than half of all prescriptions issued in England are now done electronically. "The EPS messaging system is embedded into the prescribing and dispensing systems used by doctors and pharmacies and these systems work seamlessly together," says Richard Ashcroft, programme director, digital medicines at NHS Digital. "Eventually EPS will remove the need for most paper prescriptions." Patients have to make fewer trips to pharmacies and wait for less time when they're there, while a doctor's practice saves an average of 80 minutes a day not having to write out repeat prescriptions, says NHS Digital. Such efficiencies have saved the NHS £137m; doctors' practices £328m; pharmacies £59m; and patients £75m, between 2013 and 2016, NHS Digital says. But start-ups like Echo and others face formidable competition from established players such as Emis and TPP, which dominate the software market for doctors in England, as well as from the big retail pharmacy chains. "We think there needs to be more competition," says Mr Bourke, whose app has been downloaded more than 45,000 times. In the US, around 40 million adults take more than five prescription medications a day, says PillPack chief executive TJ Parker. So his company spent three-and-a-half years building a platform, PharmacyOS, to handle every aspect of the repeat prescription process: prescribing, dispensing, delivering, billing, handling insurance claims, as well as pill-taking monitoring. "We always made the promise that we'd make this really simple and easy," says Mr Parker. While large retail pharmacies like Walgreens, Boots, and Walmart now offer same-day delivery of medicines in the US, "they aren't offering an end-to-end service like us", he says. PillPack is now making about $100m in revenues, says Mr Parker, who adds that the PharmacyOS platform will enable the company to expand from serving "tens of thousands of customers, to millions". Rivals like Phil.us are also providing competition in this area. The good news for the millions of patients on repeat prescriptions around the world is that innovative tech is at least making one aspect of their lives that bit easier.

दुनिया भर में लाखों दीर्घकालिक रूप से बीमार लोग बार-बार दिए जाने वाले पर्चे पर भरोसा करते हैं, लेकिन उन्हें आवश्यक दवाएं प्राप्त करना एक समय लेने वाली और निराशाजनक प्रक्रिया हो सकती है। अब ऐप, स्वचालन और होम डिलीवरी सेवाएं उनके जीवन को आसान बना रही हैं।


Covid-19: Rock climbers sent home by police after 100-mile drive

Summary: Two rock climbers who drove more than 100 miles (160km) to scale cliffs have been sent home by police for breaking lockdown rules.

The climbers told officers their journey from London to Portland, Dorset, was for their "daily exercise", police said. Another pair from Southampton were also found at the cliffs near Wakeham earlier, officers added. Police said all four climbers were given advice but were not fined. The force added that it would fine rule-breakers in future. Government guidance imposes legal restrictions on exercise during the lockdown, although its recommendation that people stay "local" has no legal force. Related Internet Links Dorset Police

चट्टानों पर चढ़ने के लिए 100 मील (160 किमी) से अधिक की दूरी तय करने वाले दो पर्वतारोहियों को पुलिस ने लॉकडाउन नियमों को तोड़ने के लिए घर भेज दिया है।


Berkshire river body believed to be missing man

Summary: A body recovered from a river is believed to be that of a man who went missing nearly three months ago.

The body was found at Charvil, Berkshire. The family of Alexander Stern, 36, who was last seen in Sonning on 11 January, have been informed. They told officers they wished to "express their gratitude to the community for their support throughout this difficult time". The death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious. CCTV footage showed Mr Stern had been at the Bull Inn before he went missing.

माना जा रहा है कि एक नदी से बरामद शव एक व्यक्ति का है जो लगभग तीन महीने पहले लापता हो गया था।


Bishop Grosseteste University sent 'suspicious package'

Summary: Parts of Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln were evacuated earlier following the discovery of a "suspicious package".

Lincolnshire Police said a bomb disposal team was called to deal with the item, which was believed to have arrived by post. The package was later declared safe by experts, the force said. The university said it evacuated parts of its campus to ensure the safety of staff and students. On Thursday, a controlled explosion was carried out in the mailroom at the University of Glasgow. Bomb disposal officers detonated a suspect package found there on Wednesday morning.

एक "संदिग्ध पैकेज" की खोज के बाद लिंकन में बिशप ग्रोसेटेस्टे विश्वविद्यालय के कुछ हिस्सों को पहले ही खाली करा लिया गया था।


Himalayan balsam weed growth slowed in Dorset

Summary: "Plant pulling" by a team of volunteers is helping to slow the spread of a destructive species in Dorset, a charity has said.

Last year the county's wildlife trust appealed for help to stop the spread of the Himalayan balsam which was said to be "causing havoc" on riverbanks. Results suggest there has been less re-growth of the plant in areas targeted by the trust. Ecology students have helped the public in identifying and removing plants. The plant is "destructive if left to bloom" as it "elbows out" native wildflowers, the charity said. The Royal Horticultural Society said the Himalayan balsam was introduced to the UK in 1839, is found on riverbanks and wasteland and is a "major weed problem". Each plant can produce up to 800 seeds which "explode" and travel up to 22ft (7m) away.

स्वयंसेवकों की एक टीम द्वारा "प्लांट पुलिंग" डोरसेट में एक विनाशकारी प्रजाति के प्रसार को धीमा करने में मदद कर रहा है, एक दान ने कहा है।


How dangerous are phone chargers?

Summary: A fire which killed five people in a house in Sheffield was most likely caused by an "electrical fault involving a faulty charging device", investigators say. But what risks do chargers pose? And what can you do to minimise these?

Mobile phones, mp3 players, laptops, tablets, e-readers. The variety and number of mobile electronic devices that need charging is increasing all the time. The biggest risk posed by chargers is the availability of cheap generic options online, according to fire and safety experts. Chargers on auction sites are considerably cheaper than their branded counterparts but there is no guarantee they meet EU and UK safety standards. Unofficial iPhone chargers are available on eBay for less than £1, whilst the total cost for a power adapter and USB from the online Apple store is £30. Charity Electrical Safety First recently commissioned tests looking at the safety of chargers bought from online trading and auction sites. It found that half had been wired using "sub-standard components" and none met with the safety requirements of the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations Act 1994. Some such chargers are bought online by individual customers. Others are bought en masse and end up being sold in markets and other small retail outlets, says Mark Gardiner, joint lead officer for product safety at the Trading Standards Institute (TSI). Supermarkets and established retailers go through official channels, so do not face the same problems. They can trace their supply chain and cancel orders if there are faults. Battery overheating A central part of the safety concerns experts have with products bought online focuses on generic chargers - advertised as being compatible with a number of devices. Mr Gardiner says that because different devices require different levels of charge, generic chargers run the risk of putting too much energy into a device, causing the battery to overheat. Branded chargers are less likely to cause that problem because they are specifically designed for each particular device, Mr Gardiner said. He adds that they are the most reliable in safety terms. Philip Le Shirley, product safety adviser for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), says consumers should use the charger supplied with a product wherever possible. If they cannot, they should only buy approved products. He advises customers to: Overnight charging People should also avoid leaving devices to charge unattended, especially overnight, Mr Gardiner warned. And it is important to think about where items are being left whilst they charge, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said. For example, if a product is charged on a flammable surface, that increases the chance of a fire spreading. They also warn against overloading sockets. Although strip adaptors are safe, they can only take a total of 13 amps. All this comes as the European Commission backs plans to make mobile phone chargers to a common standard - a plan backed by manufacturers including Nokia, Apple, Samsung and Research In Motion. It is likely that this would coincide with changes that would mean all chargers require the same input of power.

जांचकर्ताओं का कहना है कि शेफ़ील्ड में एक घर में आग लगने से पांच लोगों की मौत हो गई, जो संभवतः "एक दोषपूर्ण चार्जिंग उपकरण से जुड़ी बिजली की खराबी" के कारण हुई थी। लेकिन चार्जर क्या जोखिम पैदा करते हैं? और आप इन्हें कम करने के लिए क्या कर सकते हैं?


London buses to offer NFC contactless card payments

Summary: London buses are to start accepting contactless payments from Thursday.

Passengers on the city's 8,500 vehicles will be able to buy tickets by swiping a credit, debit or charge card by an NFC (near field communication) reader. Transport for London follows Stagecoach which began installing NFC equipment on its buses in 2009. TfL also operates the Oyster smartcard scheme which uses an earlier RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology. The buses' Oyster card readers have been upgraded to be compatible with both types, Smartphones that can mimic contactless cards should also work with the equipment, However, users are being warned to be careful about swiping their wallet against readers if they own more than one NFC-enabled card. "If you present two cards together, the reader will normally reject them both," an email to Oyster card users said. "But there is a small possibility of payment being taken from a card which you did not intend to use." TfL said it planned to introduce the technology to the London Underground Tube system at a later point. Uneducated about NFC The Oyster card touch-and-go system was first introduced in London in 2003 to help speed up passage through Tube gates and bus doors. Dozens of other towns and cities in the UK have since introduced similar systems. However, other types of contactless payments have been slower to take off despite Barclaycard issuing the first such credit card in the UK in 2007. One expert suggested TfL's move might change that. "There are now more than 23 million contactless cards in the UK," Windsor Holden, research director at Juniper Research told the BBC. "But surveys that we've seen suggests only a very small minority of card holders are aware that they have an NFC-enabled card. "Projects like this bus scheme are absolutely critical if the public is to be educated about the use of these cards as having them isn't enough - it's knowing how to use them, feeling confident about the security involved and then wanting to use them more." TfL will announce more details about its NFC proposals on Thursday.

लंदन की बसें गुरुवार से संपर्क रहित भुगतान स्वीकार करना शुरू कर देंगी।


Christina Rees to stand for Labour in Neath constituency

Summary: Bridgend councillor Christina Rees has been picked to succeed MP Peter Hain as the Labour candidate for Neath.

Ms Rees was selected from an all-woman shortlist drawn up after the former Welsh Secretary said he would stand down at the 2015 general election. Members of Neath Labour Party made their decision on Saturday. The other two candidates were Karen Wilkie, deputy general secretary of the Co-operative Party, and Mabel McKeown, a former aide to Harriet Harman.

ब्रिजेंड पार्षद क्रिस्टीना रीस को नेथ के लिए लेबर उम्मीदवार के रूप में सांसद पीटर हेन की जगह लेने के लिए चुना गया है।


Jersey Police start road safety strategy

Summary: A Jersey Police campaign will focus on the most significant causes of injuries in crashes on the island's roads.

Operation Road Runner will zero in on the "fatal four" of speeding, drinking and driving, using mobile phones and not wearing seat-belts. Ch Insp John Sculthorp said they were the biggest contributory factors in fatal and serious injuries. He said the force wanted to get the message across to drivers, motorbike riders, cyclists and pedestrians.

एक जर्सी पुलिस अभियान द्वीप की सड़कों पर दुर्घटनाओं में चोटों के सबसे महत्वपूर्ण कारणों पर ध्यान केंद्रित करेगा।


Aberdeen FC: 'Fresh negotiations' over new stadium as loss reported

Summary: Fresh negotiations have taken place with the city council to end the impasse over Aberdeen FC's proposed new stadium, club chairman Stewart Milne has said.

The Dons have planning permission for a site at Loirston Loch. However, the move was put on hold when plans for an adjacent training academy were turned down. Speaking after the club's AGM on Monday, Mr Milne said the new stadium remained on the agenda. 'Sound position' The AGM heard an annual report which showed a £1.4m loss for the year to June, a drop in turnover, and rising wages. Mr Mile said: "I think we have the club in a fairly sound position. "It has been a very challenging period for Scottish football, in a very difficult environment."

क्लब के अध्यक्ष स्टीवर्ट मिल्ने ने कहा है कि एबरडीन एफसी के प्रस्तावित नए स्टेडियम पर गतिरोध को समाप्त करने के लिए नगर परिषद के साथ नई बातचीत हुई है।


K-Dogg: Fourth arrest over racist attack on musician

Summary: A fourth man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was hit by a car.

The victim, a 21-year-old musician known as K or K-Dogg, was walking to the bus stop from his job at Southmead Hospital on 22 July. Police said it was being treated as racially-aggravated due to the language used by the car occupants. The 23-year-old man was arrested on Monday and released under investigation. Three other men, two aged 18 and a 22 year old, have also been released under investigation. A fundraising page to help the musician has raised more than £55,000 - 10 times its original target.

एक व्यक्ति को कार से टक्कर मारने के बाद हत्या के प्रयास के संदेह में चौथे व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


His name was Henry Summers - but who was he?

Summary: When I heard the story of an elderly man who had lain undiscovered in his flat for three years I wanted to know more about who he was.

By Denise MinaAuthor It began with an urban horror story. In June 2015 police in Edinburgh were called by a GP because an elderly patient named Henry Summers had not been seen for several years. The police went to Henry's address in Leith, one of the most densely populated areas in Scotland. They went to the door of his top-floor flat on Easter Road and knocked but got no answer. The police called a locksmith but he couldn't open the door because the hinges had fused as it hadn't been opened for years. When the police knocked the door down they found a mountain of mail in the hall and Henry Summers was inside, dead. He had been dead for three years, undiscovered, because all of his bills were paid by direct debit. A few years before that a woman had been found dead in Edinburgh, undiscovered for five years. The media were full of recrimination and finger pointing. I used to work with old people and had seen this before. It's easy to de-personalise older people. We talk about parents and pensioners as if they are conversation-starters about social issues. But the way someone dies isn't a summary of their whole life. Who was Henry Summers? A year after his body was found, I wanted to find out who Henry Summers had been during his 80-something years of life. My detective work was for a BBC Radio Scotland documentary and it began with the reports of the incident in the local papers. Journalist John Connell had interviewed neighbours at the time the body was discovered. They told him they had last seen Mr Summers three years earlier in 2012. They saw him being stretchered out of his house into an ambulance. He was wearing an oxygen mask and looked very grey. The neighbours didn't know that Henry had been discharged and returned to his home. Later, one of the neighbours knocked on the door. He opened Henry's letterbox and smelled what he assumed was food going bad. They said Henry kept himself to himself but was very dapper, always wore a blue jacket and a flat cap and he used to whistle as he was coming up the stairs. Then a twist: a man came forward and said that the man found dead in the flat in Easter Road could not possibly be Henry Summers. Henry Summers of Easter Road was his father and had died and been cremated in 2012. 'Unfathomable coincidence' My Henry was 10 years younger than the man's father. This meant that two men with the exact same name had lived in the same street and died in the same year. It sounds like an unfathomable coincidence - but it wasn't. Later, once we knew who Henry was, it would make perfect sense. I went to Easter Road and asked in the local café, the pub, newsagents. The police wouldn't release a photo of Henry so it was difficult to know if they were remembering our Henry. Some people thought they'd seen him but he was variously reported as being in his 60s and his 90s. Some said he stood at the bus stop every morning, caught the number 35 and then came back on it in the afternoon. He bought milk and newspapers every day too but the shopkeepers had changed in the three years since he was last seen. He was a difficult man to find. Funeral paid for I had assumed that Henry had been forgotten and would have been buried by the city council. Public health funerals often happen when a person has died alone and impoverished. I was completely wrong. In fact, Henry's funeral had been organised and paid for and an obituary had been printed in the paper. I wrote, via the crematorium, to the person who paid for the funeral but they wanted to remain anonymous. I also assumed that Henry's flat was rented, perhaps the landlord would know him, but Henry owned his flat outright. He had bought it in 1970 and paid his mortgage off completely in just four years. It was £1,500. Where on earth did he get that money from? Was he from a rich family? I was stuck so I went on BBC Radio Scotland's Kaye Adams programme to ask for information. Left intestate The documentary team were contacted on Facebook by people who thought they had seen a man matching his description in the Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre. He was there regularly, reading the paper, quite content, they said. The number 35 stops there so it seemed credible. In the meantime, I tried to trace the person who inherited Henry's flat. In Scotland, any property left intestate is dealt with by the National Ultimus Haeres Unit. National Ultimus Haeres Unit DEATHS REPORTED 01 JULY 2015 SUMMERS, Henry, d.o.b: 16/03/1929: place of birth: Leith, who resided at Flat 3F3, 300 Easter Road, Edinburgh , EH6 8JT and who died at Flat 3F3, 300 Easter Road, Edinburgh , EH6 8JT, on 24/06/2015. NUHU/113/15 - POSSIBLE RELATIVES TRACED They list unclaimed property online so that any claims can be filed. Henry's flat had been claimed but they couldn't tell us who the beneficiary was. I contacted expert genealogist Dr Bruce Durie and using the Land Register and the census he solved the mystery of the two Henrys. Our Henry was born in 1929 and had lived and worked in Leith all of his life. He was an only child and lived with his parents, nursing his fragile mum until her death. After that he moved from a flat in Thorntree Street just round the corner to the flat in Easter Road. Here was the answer: Henry's dad, one of nine children, was brought up at several addresses in Couper Street, Leith. This street was populated almost entirely by households by the name of Summers. Most of those families, probably relations, had children named Henry. The name 'Henry Summers' was as much a part of Leith as rope and drink. Demographics changed The only reason I didn't know that was that Leith has changed so much over the past 40 years. It is gentrified now, the docks have shut, the demographics changed and the vast Summers family have mostly left. My Henry was a ships' carpenter, according to his death certificate. This was an extremely skilled job with a long apprenticeship. Henry's family were labourers, so he had done well for himself. They must have been very proud of him. The mystery of the mortgage remained. Maritime historian Dr Eric Graham speculated that Henry might have been a whaler or worked long haul. Those ships would go around the world for months at a time and ships' carpenters could be paid a lump sum at the end of the voyage. His name was Harry It was all guesswork but then our original radio programme was broadcast and suddenly Henry came alive again. His old pals heard it and contacted us, or the newspapers carrying stories about him. He wasn't even known as Henry, everyone called him Harry. Harry, it turned out, was a great laugh. He was a Hibs fan, a brilliant carpenter and an angler. His old gaffer told us Harry was plagued by a mysteriously intermittent case of lumbago, which only ever flared up when he couldn't be bothered doing a particular job. His work pal, Andy, contacted us. They worked together at George Brown's in Leith all the way through the 1970s. Andy saw the obit in the paper and went to Harry's funeral. He said Harry was a gent. In the 1940s and 1950s, when Harry first started work, men in the high trades would wear a shirt and tie underneath their overalls. Harry still did this in the mid-90s. We heard that Harry was a good guy who didn't like sexist jokes, which was unusual in the docks in the 70s. Another old work pal, Robert, remembered that Harry would pop in to see the guys after he retired to regale them with his latest adventures. Harry was a confirmed bachelor, an only son and came across as bit of a mummy's boy, in a really nice way. He was teetotaller when Robert knew him but their gaffer, Fred, told stories about Harry's wilder days when they would all laugh and Harry would laugh along with them. Fred was a whaler and Robert never heard them speaking about whaling together, so he thought Harry probably hadn't done that. He didn't think he had ever been abroad. Assistant manager at George Brown and Sons, Steve McIntosh, knew him well. Harry had retired in the late 90s and loved river fishing for trout. He was off every weekend to the Tweed and Dalkeith. Harry didn't like drydocking the boats in winter or the rain, Steve said. If Harry knew a boat was coming in and the weather was rotten, he'd call in sick with lumbago, an unusual condition for someone as active as Harry. Very unusual in avid river fishermen. Extraordinarily skilled Steve said they wouldn't tell Harry the boat was coming in but Harry would have his revenge: if he knew they'd tricked him he'd call in sick the next day. Despite this Harry was worth keeping on because he was so good at his job, extraordinarily skilled and meticulous. It emerged that as well as the shipyard, he had been part of a team who "re-roped" the stage sets at the Churchill and Playhouse theatres in Edinburgh. When Harry retired he used his bus pass to go anywhere - Galashiels, Berwick, Kirkcaldy. The last time Robert saw Harry was in the St James shopping centre in Edinburgh city centre. He was fit and active going for a bus. Robert asked him where he was going and Harry said he didn't know. He was going to jump on any bus and that would be his destination for the day. Harry's physiotherapist got in touch. Rona ran an exercise group for people with heart conditions and Harry always stood at the back with the other guys. They all started at the same time. The group would go for an annual day out at the Botanic Gardens and she also remembers Harry at their Christmas Ceilidh. When he stopped coming they were worried about him but Rona bumped into him and he explained he was having trouble with sore feet. He never returned to the class but was spotted out and about, on the bus and at the bookies. At the physio class Harry and another man would swap stories about the bookies, how lucky or unlucky they had been. The mystery of the mortgage remained until we heard this. Harry was a gambler. Maybe Harry just got lucky. His Name was Henry will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland at 13:30 on Wednesday and will be available on the iplayer.

जब मैंने एक बुजुर्ग व्यक्ति की कहानी सुनी जो तीन साल से अपने फ्लैट में अनजान पड़ा हुआ था तो मैं उसके बारे में और जानना चाहता था कि वह कौन था।


Wet summers 'hit' otter survey work in Scotland

Summary: Wet summers hampered efforts to accurately survey for otters in Scotland, a new report has said.

Scientists looked for evidence of the animals at 44 Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and assessed 34 to be in a "favourable condition". However, in the report for Scottish Natural Heritage, they said during the survey work in 2011 and 2012 flooding affected some of the sites examined. The scientists said it highlighted the need for regular monitoring. Since studies in 2003-04 otters were thought to have declined slightly, according to the report. The mammals had previously been rising in numbers since the mid 1980s.

एक नई रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि गीली गर्मियों ने स्कॉटलैंड में ऊदबिलाव के सटीक सर्वेक्षण के प्रयासों में बाधा डाली।


Royal visit round-up: Duke and Duchess of Sussex in Morocco

Summary: Short on ceremony, long on substance. That's the verdict of BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's official visit to Morocco. Every event, he says, was designed to fit with their passions and promote their causes. Here are some of the best pictures of them during the three-day trip.

The visit is the couple's last before their baby is due to arrive in April or May and the duchess was inundated with good wishes at every turn. She was given a traditional henna tattoo - designed to bring her unborn child good luck - by a student at the Education For All centre in the Atlas mountains. The centre provides classes for girls from rural areas whose families cannot afford their education. The duke and duchess also watched mixed-sex teams at the education centre play five-a-side football - and Meghan chatted, in French, to one of the goalkeepers. She later told the students: "We are very proud of all of you. You are such good role models." The duchess received a traditional rosewater greeting at a reception at the British ambassador's residence. She used her speech at the event to spread a message of female empowerment, telling the audience: "Women have to challenge everywhere in the world." There were lighter moments on the trip too. The couple sampled some Moroccan cuisine, cooked by Moha Fedal, who hosts the North African nation's version of MasterChef. He told them: "Come with your baby and I will cook for all three." At the same event, children made Moroccan pancakes using a recipe from a cookbook launched by Meghan to support families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. On their final day, the royal pair visited an equestrian centre to learn more about the country's efforts to use horses in therapy for children with special needs. There they met Ekram, aged 20, who has Down's Syndrome. She told them: "I love the connection with the horses, it already makes me feel relaxed and more confident." Meghan replied: "Wow, you're very impressive. What an accomplished lady." The visit ended with a tea ceremony hosted by King Mohammed VI at a royal palace in Sale, near Rabat. Prince Harry presented the Moroccan monarch with a letter from the Queen. All pictures subject to copyright.

समारोह में संक्षिप्त, सार पर लंबा। ड्यूक और डचेस ऑफ ससेक्स की मोरक्को की आधिकारिक यात्रा पर बीबीसी के शाही संवाददाता जॉनी डायमंड का यह फैसला है। वे कहते हैं, हर कार्यक्रम को उनके जुनून के साथ फिट होने और उनके कारणों को बढ़ावा देने के लिए डिज़ाइन किया गया था। यहाँ तीन दिवसीय यात्रा के दौरान उनकी कुछ बेहतरीन तस्वीरें दी गई हैं।


Why do some job adverts put women off applying?

Summary: Words matter. And the way we use them in job adverts can dictate whether or not people bother to apply. This is a big problem if you're a business trying to recruit more women and ethnic minorities into your workforce. So can tech help remove these unconscious biases?

By David SilverbergTechnology of Business reporter A job description that uses the phrase "We're looking for someone to manage a team" may seem innocuous enough. But research, based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of job ads, has shown that the word "manage" encourages more men than women to apply for the role. Changing the word to "develop" would make it more female-friendly, says Kieran Snyder, chief executive of Seattle-based Textio, an "augmented writing software" company. Textio uses artificial intelligence to pore over job descriptions in real time, highlighting any terms that could come across as particularly masculine or feminine. The software then suggests alternatives. "We don't explain why this or that phrase excludes women," says Ms Snyder. "We just provide the data and the company in question can come up with their own theory on why that sentence doesn't work." When Australian software giant Atlassian used Textio's software for its job-ad copy, the results were striking. It saw an 80% increase in the hiring of women in technical roles globally over a two-year period. "We wanted to create a work culture where diverse ideas get shared," says Aubrey Blanche, Atlassian's global head of diversity and belonging. She says Textio taught her company to avoid terms such as "coding ninja" - a common phrase in Silicon Valley job ads. "These words send a message to women that these are hostile work environments for female staffers," says Ms Blanche. And the word stakeholder apparently "serves as a signal to people of colour that their contributions may not be valued", adds Ms Blanche. "We don't know why, but this is what the data shows." Back in 2011, researchers from Canada and the US found that job posts using more masculine wording "led women to have a lower sense that they would belong in the position or company than the same ads using more feminine wording," the report stated. The researchers also found that gender preferences can be conveyed subtly through words such as "competitive," or "leader", usually associated with male stereotypes, while words such as "support" and "interpersonal" are associated with female stereotypes. Building on this kind of research, another recruitment tech company, TalVista, assesses job descriptions and highlights "discouraging" terms in red and "inviting" terms in green, assigning an overall thumb up or thumb down score to the text. For example, replacing a word such as "build" with "create" achieves a better overall score, the company says. "Diversity and inclusion are always critical for talent acquisition," TalVista chief executive Elaine Orler says. "But when a job post uses words like 'strong' or 'dynamic' many candidates are repelled but they don't know why; it's in their unconscious bias but they can't pinpoint why." Tech firm Applied also offers gender-balancing advice for job ads and a tool that scores the overall reading age of the ad. "It's remarkable the number of job descriptions that are written with the same density and complexity as a Harvard Law Review article when you definitely don't need a PhD to do the job itself," says Applied chief executive and co-founder Kate Glazebrook. Applied numbers the UK government, Transport for London, Hilton Hotels and Penguin Random House among clients who've benefited from more inclusionary language in their job ads. Even the format of a job ad can make a difference. Textio's analysis reveals that ads with lengthy bullet points detailing the role's responsibilities will face a drop-off in women applying for the job. All this matters because a more diverse workforce has been shown to foster a wider variety of ideas and improve a company's profitability, recent research has shown. Companies boasting the most ethnically diverse executive teams are 33% more likely to outperform their peers, according to McKinsey & Company. More Technology of Business And those with the most gender-diverse boardrooms are 15% more likely to enjoy above-average profitability than companies with a more homogenous make-up, it found. One report by US economists found that moving from an all-male or all-female office to one split evenly along gender lines could boost revenue by roughly 41%. Dr Wendy Hirsh, principal associate at the Institute for Employment Studies in Sussex, remarks: "There is a growing awareness in the UK to be inclusive. Employers realise, with the rise of a skill shortage here, that if you skew a job ad to only one group of applicants, you could be missing out on some very talented workers." Data analytics and machine learning have certainly enabled far greater scrutiny of the language we use in recruitment, with decisions based on hard evidence rather than hunches. But as helpful as these writing services may be, some human resources (HR) experts caution against their overuse. William Tincup, an HR tech consultant and president of recruitment news outlet RecruitingDaily.com, says editing these job ads so thoroughly "could water them down and make them so vanilla no one feels emotionally attached to them. "You don't want applicants to get bored by the text." Dr Hirsh points out that where a job post is listed can also make a big difference to who applies. For example, if the post is announced on social media, those who aren't on those networks, most likely older candidates, may not even see it, she says. "Going to a specialist recruitment agency to post the job will also rule out those who don't know about that agency," she adds. But despite his reservations, Mr Tincup welcomes services such as Textio and Applied. "They're trying to solve a problem that hasn't exactly been solved, because these days so many people just cut-and-paste job descriptions, from one to the next."

शब्द मायने रखते हैं। और जिस तरह से हम नौकरी के विज्ञापनों में उनका उपयोग करते हैं, वह यह निर्धारित कर सकता है कि लोग आवेदन करने के लिए परेशान हैं या नहीं। यदि आप अपने कार्यबल में अधिक महिलाओं और जातीय अल्पसंख्यकों की भर्ती करने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं तो यह एक बड़ी समस्या है। तो क्या तकनीक इन अचेतन पूर्वाग्रहों को दूर करने में मदद कर सकती है?


Camp Bestival preparations at Dorset's Lulworth Castle

Summary: Recent flooding has already seen one South Coast music festival descend into a sea of mud and traffic chaos this summer, but the founder of Camp Bestival in Dorset has vowed his revellers will not suffer the same experience.

Up to 30,000 people are expected to attend the fifth Camp Bestival music and arts festival at Lulworth Castle in East Lulworth, which begins on Thursday. Festival founder Rob Da Bank said he had only been "slightly concerned" about two small fields on the 220-acre (89 hectare) site at the height of the recent bad weather. Heavy rain left the Isle of Wight Festival's main car park waterlogged in June and hundreds of cars were unable to enter the site, bringing the island to a standstill. 'Contingency plans' Rob Da Bank said: "The most important thing is to ensure people can get on and off the Camp Bestival site. "If there is heavy rain - and we've only ever been slightly concerned about two small fields recently - we will ensure we have all the correct contingency plans in place. "We'll organise alternative routes in and out and we'll relocate car parks to more solid ground if needed." Camp Bestival is the single biggest event held at Lulworth Castle, which is run as a tourist attraction. Paul Pinnock, manager of the castle and park, said: "Luckily the site drains extremely well because it is on high ground which is made up of a lot of chalk - so rainwater filters through and away." Mr Pinnock said a traffic management plan had already begun which this year included a new road on to the site. "It's very substantial and can be extended if necessary," he said. He said trackway was being laid to help cars and heavy production vehicles enter the festival ground more easily. "The show will go on and it will be very accessible but we cannot predict the weather so people need to come prepared," he said. The four-day event was granted a five-year license by Purbeck District Council in 2010. Earth Wind and Fire, Kool and the Gang and Hot Chip will headline this year's festival.

हाल की बाढ़ ने पहले ही एक दक्षिण तट संगीत समारोह को इस गर्मी में मिट्टी और यातायात की अराजकता के समुद्र में उतरते देखा है, लेकिन डोरसेट में कैंप फेस्टिवल के संस्थापक ने कसम खाई है कि उनके प्रशंसकों को ऐसा अनुभव नहीं होगा।


Ahmadreza Djalali: The Swedish-Iranian doctor on Iran's death row

Summary: It was supposed to be just another regular work trip - two weeks in Tehran and then back home to Stockholm. Four years on, Vida Mehran-nia still regrets not saying what she calls a "proper goodbye" to her husband.

By Kawoon KhamooshBBC World Service Ahmadreza Djalali, a doctor with expertise in emergency medicine, was sought after by the authorities in Iran where he regularly hosted seminars and gave lectures. But something made Vida phone him on his way to the airport in 2016 to wish him a safe journey. "Even two weeks apart was too much to bear," she tells me over a cup of coffee in a central Stockholm cafe. She cannot meet me at home as her younger son does not know his father is a prisoner in Iran. He still thinks his dad is away on a work trip. It's four years since the doctor, who has since become a dual Swedish-Iranian national, was arrested by Iran's intelligence service. He was later sentenced to death for, Iran says, passing on classified information to Israel's Mossad intelligence agency to help them assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists. His lawyer said his confession was obtained by torture. On 24 October, Ahmadreza was moved to solitary confinement in section 209 of Evin prison, one of Tehran's largest and where most political prisoners are held. On 1 December, he had a short phone call with his family where he said he was being transferred to death row. Vida raised the alarm that the Iranian authorities were getting ready to execute her 45-year-old husband. "He was extremely desperate and asked me to help and prevent his execution and save his life," she tells the BBC. "He feels so feeble because he thinks he can't do anything and he has no power to save himself, stuck alone in a cell." He then spoke to their daughter, who is 18 years old. "She has been crying and calling all politicians and human rights activists to save her father's life," says Vida. "It is so difficult and we are all suffering so much. Nobody can imagine what we have been through. It is like torture." And the toll on the family is immense. "My youngest son was only four when Ahmadreza went to Iran, he is now eight years old," says Vida. "He always asks about his dad and remembers when his father put him on his shoulders and they had a lot of fun." Ahmadreza moved to Sweden in 2009 for higher education. His family joined him a year later after he was accepted for a PhD at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute. They then moved to Italy where he did a postdoctoral degree and returned to Sweden in 2015. The family had a simple life until Ahmadreza's fateful trip to Iran. In 2018, Sweden gave Ahmadreza citizenship while he was in prison. Some in Iran said this proved he has been "an asset to the west". His wife rejects this and says they already had a permanent resident permit after Ahmadreza completed his PhD. He was a respected scientist in Sweden who researched how to make hospitals and regions disaster-proof. His photo is still on the notice board at the Södersjukhuset hospital where a branch of Karolinska institute is based, beside the title of his PhD thesis: Preparedness and Safe Hospitals: Medical Response to Disasters. He kept in touch with his PhD supervisor, Professor Lisa Kurland. They were supposed to have a research meeting in April 2017, but he never turned up. "For him not to be there and not to show was completely out of character and just that made me wonder [whether] something had happened," says Lisa Kurland, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Karolinska Institute. "I actually did ask him pretty much before and after every visit if it was safe for him and he said it was." When Ahmadreza was arrested in Iran, his family initially told friends and fellow researchers that he was involved in a car accident and was in hospital there. They thought this would help get him released, but to no avail. Then they decided to go public. Lisa says it was an "unimaginable shock" when she heard he had been sentenced to death. "I remember his passion that he wanted to make a difference," she says. "He wanted to use scientific tools and methodology to get a PhD but also through these scientific tools, help the people in Iran." Ahmadreza's friends and colleagues have shared photos with me showing him giving seminars across Europe and in Iran. Katarina Bohm and Veronica Lindström, both associate professors at the Karolinska Institute, shared desks with Ahmadreza. They describe him as a "polite, humble and decent person" who always talked about Iran and how he wanted to visit universities there "to share his knowledge and help people" despite the political situation. In 2017, 75 Nobel prize winners wrote an open letter to the Iranian authorities asking for Ahmadreza's immediate release. Two weeks ago, 150 Nobel Laurates send another letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, asking him to intervene and release the doctor. Last month, Amnesty International asked Iran to halt his execution. The Swedish foreign minister has also spoken to her Iranian counterpart and asked for the death sentence to be halted. However, Iran rejected Sweden's appeal and warned against "all interference". The list of foreign nationals and dual citizens Iran has detained for spying is long. Human rights groups accuse Tehran of using them as pawns to gain concessions from foreign governments. Just last month, Iran released a British Australian lecturer serving a 10-year sentence for spying in exchange for three Iranian prisoners. Ahmedreza dedicated his PhD thesis to the people of Iran, writing on the first page: "To the people killed or affected by disasters around the world especially the people of the Bam city in Iran." In 2003, an earthquake in Bam killed at least 26,271 people. He never thought his degree in emergency medicine could lead to death row. His wife says all he ever wanted to do was save lives and prevent the repeat of such disasters. Ahmadreza's daughter has followed in her father's footsteps and is now enrolled at the same university where her father defended his PhD. It's bittersweet for Vida, who has supported her daughter amid the huge absence in their lives. "When she finished high school with top scores her father wasn't with her to celebrate," Vida says through tears. "When she got accepted at the Karolinska institute and like her father she chose medicine again, her father wasn't there." You may also be interested in:

यह बस एक और नियमित कार्य यात्रा होनी चाहिए थी-तेहरान में दो सप्ताह और फिर स्टॉकहोम वापस घर। चार साल बाद, विदा मेहरान-निया को अभी भी अपने पति को "उचित अलविदा" नहीं कहने का पछतावा है।


Marvel get its first official Chinese superheroes

Summary: The first ever Chinese superheroes have officially entered the Marvel universe.

Aero and Lin Lie are just two of a batch of Chinese characters making their debut in graphic novels this week. Co-authored by Marvel and NetEase, one of China's biggest online comic platforms, they are a clear push by Marvel to attract more fans across the lucrative Chinese market. We may even see them interacting with Marvel heroes like Hulk and Iron Man. Who are these new superheroes? Lin Lie is the main protagonist in one of the new comics, which loosely translates as Warriors of Three Sovereigns. The story revolves around the 18-year-old boy who picks up an ancient sword to fight against Chiyou - a reincarnated villain intent on destroying mankind. The second comic, which translates to Cyclone, features Aero also known as Lei Ling - she's an architect by day, who happens to be able to control air currents. By night, she uses her superpowers to save her city from various villains. Will we see them alongside classic Marvel characters? There's no official confirmation, but if you look closely there's an Easter egg in the first issue of the Warriors of Three Sovereigns - a picture of Iron Man's mask can be seen in Lin Lie's room. A sign Tony Stark and his Avenger colleagues could show up some time? How did the collaboration come about? Marvel first announced last year that it would be working with NetEase - one of China's biggest gaming and tech companies - to create its first ever Chinese superheroes. Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief CB Cebulski had then said to AFP that the superheroes would be "heavily based on Chinese culture and mythology, but set in the modern world". But it isn't just the superheroes that are Chinese. Artists and story writers from China were also heavily involved in bringing the creation to life. Economically, the collaboration makes a lot of sense - Marvel has a huge fan base in China. "It's a way to help Marvel reach more of the China market," Robert Koepp, director of the Economist Corporate Network told the BBC. "Disney [who own Marvel] must think there is a lot of untapped market potential [in China]." And the fans also translate into real life. On Weibo, China's biggest social media site, Marvel's page has more than 3.5 million fans. How has reception been? Pretty good. Warriors of Three Sovereigns has already been read more than two million times since its release. Cyclone just in at just under 750,000 on NetEase. "We finally have Chinese superheroes," said one commenter on NetEase. "We've made it." "Maybe one day they'll be able to fight alongside The Avengers," another added. For now, the comics are only available in Chinese and on NetEase's Comics website - the online comic platform, which already hosts other Marvel comics including Captain America and Spiderman. According to a statement by NetEase, the characters are meant to appeal to more than just a Chinese audience, with the company saying it hoped they would "promote the diversity of the Marvel universe."

पहले चीनी सुपरहीरो ने आधिकारिक तौर पर मार्वल ब्रह्मांड में प्रवेश किया है।


Inside North Korea's Western-funded university

Summary: In the heart of North Korea's dictatorship, a university - largely paid for by the West - is attempting to open the minds of the state's future elite. The BBC's Panorama has been granted unique access.

By Chris Rogers and Marshall Corwin BBC Panorama Entering the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, it is immediately clear this is no ordinary academic institution. A military guard salutes us as our vehicle passes through the security checkpoint. Once inside the campus we hear the sound of marching and singing, not more guards but the students themselves. They are the sons of some of the most powerful men in North Korea, including senior military figures. "Our supreme commander Kim Jong-un, we will defend him with our lives," they sing as they march to breakfast. "Patriotism is a tradition," explains a 20-year-old first-year student. "The songs we sing as we march are in thanks to our Great Leader." There are 500 students here - dressed smartly in black suits, white shirts, red ties and black, peaked caps with briefcases at their sides. They are all hand-picked by Kim Jong-un's regime to receive a Western education. The university's official aim is to equip them with the skills to help modernise the impoverished country and engage with the international community. All classes are in English and many of the lecturers are American. This is remarkable because North Korea has isolated itself from the outside world for decades and the US is its hated enemy. After 18 months of negotiations, we have been given unique access to the students - though we are constantly monitored. The students explain they are warming to Americans - if not the US government. ''Of course at first we were nervous, but we now believe American people are different from the US," says one student. "We want to make good relationship with all countries," adds another. The founder and president is Dr James Chin-Kyung Kim. The 78-year-old Korean-American Christian entrepreneur was invited by the regime to build a university based on a similar one he had opened in northern China. He raised much of the £20m it cost from American and South Korean Christian charities. "I am full of thanks to this government - they accepted me. They fully trust me and have given me all authority to operate these schools. Can you believe it?" It is hard to believe - human rights groups say North Korean citizens found practising Christianity are persecuted. Inside every classroom, portraits of North Korea's brutal dictators take pride of place above the whiteboard. Lecturer Colin McCulloch gives his time for free. Some of the other 40 lecturers are sponsored by Christian charities. Mr McCulloch has moved from Yorkshire to teach business to the regime's future elite. He splits the students into groups and tells them to form their own fantasy companies and compile their profit projections. In a country where the supply of all goods is controlled by the regime, the concept of a free market is new to the students. "I'm sure the leaders and the government here recognise they need to connect with the outside world," Mr McCulloch tells us. "It's not possible to be a totally hermetic, closed economy in the modern age." The university's foreign lecturers are up against a lifetime of propaganda and conditioning - and almost complete isolation from the rest of the world, as we discover when American Erin Fink invites us to take part in her English class. "It will be good for you to listen to these guys because their accent is very different from my accent - they speak British English," she explains to her first year undergraduates. They tell us they like a North Korean girl group called the Moranbong Music Band, one of Kim Jong-un's latest propaganda tools. When we mention Michael Jackson, we get a room full of blank faces. We try again. "Raise your hands if you've heard of Michael Jackson." Not a single arm goes up. You might have thought students would have found out about Michael Jackson from the Internet - unlike most of North Korea it is available at the university. But in the computer room a female minder censors all internet access. It is strictly no email, no social media, and no international news. In North Korea, only absolute devotion to the supreme leader, and praise of all things North Korean, is permitted. According to human rights groups, that devotion is the result of conditioning from birth - and fear of execution or imprisonment in inhumane labour camps. "The key question is whether the university is training those young Koreans most likely to change the country in a positive way, or those most likely to perpetuate the current regime," says Greg Scarlatoiu of the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. "If the price to pay for being allowed to establish a presence inside North Korea is ignoring the country's egregious human rights violations, I will say that price is too high." Lord Alton chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea and is a patron of the university. He hopes the experiment could kick-start more fundamental change and alter the mindset of a generation. "You have to start somewhere. This isn't an excuse for appeasement, which I'm totally opposed to. "This is a form of engagement in order to try and change things." But are the students actually interested in embracing change? Even during the guarded conversations that we are allowed, it is clear some students are keen to connect with the outside world. "We are learning foreign languages because foreign language is the eye of scientists," says one undergraduate. "And learning a language is learning a culture. I want more of that." Panorama: Educating North Korea, BBC One, Monday 3 February at 20:30 GMT and then available in the UK on the BBC iPlayer.

उत्तर कोरिया की तानाशाही के केंद्र में, एक विश्वविद्यालय-जिसे बड़े पैमाने पर पश्चिम द्वारा भुगतान किया जाता है-राज्य के भविष्य के अभिजात वर्ग के दिमाग को खोलने का प्रयास कर रहा है। बीबीसी के पैनोरमा को अद्वितीय पहुंच प्रदान की गई है।


Couple escape 'unhurt' after petrol bomb attack on house

Summary: A couple, aged in their 50s, have escaped "unhurt" after a petrol bomb was thrown through the front window of their County Antrim home.

It happened in Ardclinis Gardens in Larne at about 03:00 GMT on Tuesday morning. The petrol bomb ignited when it was thrown and the sound of breaking glass woke the couple up. They managed to put out the flames and call the emergency services, the PSNI said. Police are appealing for information.

अपने काउंटी एंट्रिम घर की सामने की खिड़की से एक पेट्रोल बम फेंके जाने के बाद 50 वर्ष की आयु के एक जोड़े को कोई नुकसान नहीं हुआ है।


Six myths about living with dyslexia dispelled

Summary: Dyslexia can cause problems with reading, writing and spelling.

By Rick KelseyNewsbeat reporter It's a learning difficulty which affects somewhere between one in 10 and one in 20 people in the UK to some degree. Although it's a lifelong problem it doesn't affect people's intelligence. It comes after a woman from London with dyslexia won a disability discrimination case against her employer Starbucks. She was accused of making false documents because she took incorrect temperature and time readings. So what are the myths? Newsbeat spoke with NHS choices and The British Dyslexia Association. You can't spell... You can, it's just more difficult. Teachers can use "phonological skills", which is the ability to identify and process word sounds. The NHS choices website has advice on managing the condition. You're thicker than other people... Not true at all. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty. Unlike a learning disability, intelligence isn't affected. You can be just as clever as your friends. You can't do some jobs like be a doctor or a journalist... You can do if you want to. You have to do things differently, but there are no restrictions on what you can and can't do. The earlier you get help the easier it will be. You can't add up... That is not dyslexia but something called dyscalculia. It's common for people to have both. Dyscalculia sees people having problems processing numbers and doing adding up or times tables. It can be worked out by doing a test. Playing an instrument just won't happen... Sight-reading music can be an issue but it is resolvable. It can be important for some dyslexic musicians to get a whole picture of a piece before working on it in detail. If text or music seems to swirl around, something called "visual stress" could be a problem. Dyslexics are low achievers... Not way. There are numerous well known and well respected people with dyslexia including inventors, artists, authors and actors. The likes of Richard Branson, Jennifer Aniston, Orlando Bloom, Leonardo da Vinci, Paloma Faith, Steve Jobs and Steven Naismith all have/had dyslexia. For more stories like this one you can now download the BBC Newsbeat app straight to your device. For iOS go here. For Android go here.

डिस्लेक्सिया पढ़ने, लिखने और वर्तनी में समस्या पैदा कर सकता है।


Chinese deities flown on business class to Malaysia

Summary: Images of three revered Chinese deity statues went viral on social media after they were seen travelling in business class on a flight from China's port city of Xiamen to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. But what is the story behind it?

Who are the divine passengers? The first was the Chinese sea goddess Mazu (also known as Matsu), widely worshipped in southern China as well as countries with large Taoist and Chinese Buddhist communities such as Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan. She is a patroness of the sea and is believed to protect fishermen and sailors. The other two statues are Qianliyan and Shunfeng'er, heavenly guardians of the goddess. Qianliyan is known for his powers of far-sightedness while the demon Shunfeng'er possesses the incredible ability to hear all sounds carried by the wind, a role believed to aid sailors and passing ships from advancing storms. Why were they in business class? The three statues were sent to Malaysia and Singapore as part of an inaugural cultural exchange tour to pay tribute to the sea goddess and celebrate a festival in her name. It was organised by the Meizhou Mazu Ancestor Temple in China. Photos being widely circulated on Chinese social media showed the statues leaving their coastal temple home and "checking in" at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport. "How did she get through security checks?" asked amused user Tong Huichun on the popular WeChat messaging app. "It's normal for Mazu to give a tour. It's too far away so she's taking a flight. Taking a boat will take too long," said another WeChat user Gong Chang. Temple staff told BBC News that the religious statues were escorted by "a delegation of more than 130 people" and brought onto a Xiamen Airlines flight heading to Kuala Lumpur International Airport. They flew in comfort in business class, on tickets costing 2,091 yuan (£237) each. With assistance from airline staff, devotees fastened the sacred statues into first row seats and "widened" them to allow more space. Taking turbulence into consideration, the statues' feet were firmly fixed onto the seats with special harnesses. "This is basic respect we have for the culture of Goddess Mazu," said a spokesperson who received the statues in Malaysia. "They were also more than 6ft high, so they had to fly business class." They even had special passports, which staff from the temple said were a "special courtesy" provided by the airline. Journey to the South: Where were they travelling from? The statues came from a sacred sea temple located off the shores of Fujian province, known to its worshippers as being the birthplace of goddess Mazu. They travelled more than 2,800km to another temple, the Thean Hou Chinese Temple in Malaysia. Temple staff highlighted the importance of their voyage. "This is the body of our divine goddess, a symbol of Chinese folk culture," a representative told BBC News, adding that processions were held to celebrate the statues' safe arrivals. All three statues have made their way to neighbouring Malacca city and are on their way to Singapore. They will then return to their home in China.

चीन के बंदरगाह शहर ज़ियामेन से मलेशिया की राजधानी कुआलालंपुर के लिए उड़ान में बिजनेस क्लास में यात्रा करते हुए देखे जाने के बाद चीनी देवताओं की तीन प्रतिष्ठित मूर्तियों की तस्वीरें सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हो गईं। लेकिन इसके पीछे की कहानी क्या है?