Star Wars toys on show in YouTube unboxing marathon

Summary: Disney is hosting an 18-hour marathon Star Wars toy unboxing.

By Tom EspinerTechnology reporter Toys tied in to the forthcoming release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the latest instalment of the science-fiction juggernaut, are being unwrapped and demonstrated on YouTube. Amateurs have posted unboxing videos onto Google's service almost since its inception. However, Disney's action highlights how the activity is being adopted by the companies that make and sell the goods. Clips of toys being unpackaged and played with have proven to be particularly popular. One of YouTube's most popular channels is FunToyzCollector, a four-year-old account that shows products being held up by an elegantly manicured pair of hands from a variety of angles. It has clocked up more than 7.7 billion views since launching, and this week alone attracted more than 75 million clicks. Its most popular video highlights a Play-Doh tie-in with Disney's Frozen movie, which has gained more than 337 million views alone since July 2014. The Star Wars unboxing event kicked off in Sydney, followed by YouTube broadcasts from around the globe, prior to the release of the toys in shops on Friday. Why on earth would you want to sit and watch people opening boxes of toys for 18 hours? Unboxing videos are undeniably popular - out of the top 25 most viewed YouTube channels five are dedicated to the activity. Along with DisneyCollectorBR, there's It'sBabyBigMouth, which focuses on unwrapping Kinder eggs and building the toys, BluCollection, HobbyKidsTV and another toy-fixated channel - DisneyCarToys. Social media expert Tom Cheesewright says the attraction is partly to do with the vicarious thrill of seeing someone open a brand new product. "There's the first-person hands in front of you - it seems you're there. You're seeing it unwrapped first," he says. For many children it has become the modern equivalent of leafing through a toy catalogue, and the clips can hold more interest than cartoons or other programming. For marketers the idea of having their target audience watching and then rewatching lengthy clips rather than short commercials has obvious appeal. Who watches this stuff? According to Google Consumer Surveys data, 62% of people who watch the videos are those researching a particular product. Its Trends analytics page suggests that people in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are those most likely to search for the term "unboxing". One of the earliest examples of an unboxing video upload is from 2006 when an American gamer unpacked a PlayStation 3 delivered from Japan. It was of interest to others because the console had yet to go on sale in the US. Tech products - especially smartphones - remain a popular topic. But today, clothing, lipstick, food, and even bras also get the treatment. Lingerie firm Adore Me is one company that has taken notice. It recently broadcast a TV advert inspired by the activity which it said was intended to broaden its appeal with "millennials" - people born in the 1980s or later. According to Google, 34% of the views for unboxing videos related to food, electronics, toys and beauty and fashion happen from October to December - in the run-up to Christmas. It would take more than seven years to watch all the videos on YouTube with "unboxing" in the title that were uploaded in 2014, Google says. Where will it end? Unboxing videos can be real moneyspinners. The YouTube clips are often preceded with adverts for other products or have banner ads superimposed, meaning that they can generate millions of dollars revenue for their creators. Last year, Disney paid almost $1bn (£660m) for the YouTube channel network Maker Studios. Later in the year, Maker Studios added five toy review channels to its roster. "Toy-review channels have... become the authority on the hottest toys on the market, as well as one of the fastest-growing genres of family programming online," it said at the time. But their evolution wasn't planned or predictable. "They naturally snowballed," Mr Cheesewright says - and that snowball shows no signs of slowing down.

डिज्नी 18 घंटे की मैराथन स्टार वार्स टॉय अनबॉक्सिंग की मेजबानी कर रहा है।


Canterbury Cathedral's medieval windows on display

Summary: A set of late 12th and early 13th Century stained glass windows are to go on display in Canterbury Cathedral after they were removed for restoration work.

The windows depicting life-size figures representing the ancestors of Christ were high up in the building and could only be viewed from a distance. An exhibition will allow the public to study the windows close up. The medieval glass will be replaced in the Great South Window later this year. The windows were removed from the cathedral to allow work to be carried out on its crumbling stonework. They have returned from exhibitions in the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Visitors to Canterbury Cathedral will be able to see 21 of the 43 surviving windows at close quarters between 18 May and 23 August.

12वीं सदी के अंत और 13वीं सदी की शुरुआत में रंगीन कांच की खिड़कियों का एक सेट कैंटरबरी कैथेड्रल में प्रदर्शित किया जाना है, जब उन्हें बहाली के काम के लिए हटा दिया गया था।


Morecambe fire: Gordon Working Men's Club blaze victims named

Summary: Two men who died in a fire at a working men's club in Lancashire have been named by police.

John McCartney, 60, and 70-year-old Philip Townsend, known locally as Tony, were rescued from the blaze at Gordon Working Men's Club in Morecambe on Wednesday, but died a short time later. Ten fire engines from Lancashire and Cumbria were sent to the blaze. A joint investigation by police, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service and the local authority continues.

लंकाशायर में एक कामकाजी पुरुषों के क्लब में आग लगने से मरने वाले दो लोगों का नाम पुलिस ने लिया है।


Why wild animals do not make good pets

Summary: By all accounts, Terry Thompson kept the tigers, bears, monkeys and other exotic and dangerous wild animals as pets, and he insisted they were happier on his 73-acre (29-hectare) patch of land in rural Ohio than in zoos.

By Daniel NasawBBC News, Washington And as recently as 2008, Thompson said publicly he would never endanger his own animals or his human neighbours by failing to secure them and care for them. "I don't let my animals run loose," he told the Zanesville Times-Recorder newspaper. "I'm not going to put anyone else, including myself and my wife, in danger or put my animals at risk. I take extreme precautions with them and with people who come here." That sentiment apparently went by the wayside on Tuesday, when the eccentric Vietnam veteran, gun enthusiast and pilot cut the fences and opened the gates of the cages at his private menagerie, then shot himself to death as the animals fled. 'Inhumane' As night fell on Tuesday, panicked police shot at least four dozen animals dead, including endangered Bengal tigers, lest the animals attack citizens. The ghastly tally and the mortal risk to the humans in the area shows private citizens have no business keeping wild animals as pets, animal welfare advocates and rescuers say. "They're not pets," said Tim Harrison, of Ohio rescue group Outreach for Animals. "That's the sad part. People get the wrong idea watching television shows. "They teach people the exact wrong thing. It's just not right. It's not right for the animals; it's just not right for the people. You can buy a cobra but you can't buy common sense." At least 75 people have been killed and more than 500 injured by exotic animals kept in zoos or privately since 1990, according to Born Free USA, which tracks reports. "There's a clear danger to the animals themselves," said Adam Roberts, executive vice-president of Born Free USA, a group working to ban private ownership of wild animals. "Often animals kept in private hands are treated inhumanely. They're chained, defanged or declawed. Then there's always the risk of escape and in fact of human injury." Thompson's menagerie was not accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and he was not permitted as an animal exhibitor by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The facility fell short of the requirements for receiving a permit because Thompson reported that he did not receive compensation for showing the animals, said USDA spokesman Dave Sacks. Starved animals "This facility was strictly privately held and privately run and funded," Mr Sacks told the BBC. "Just to have them on his property, as he did in his privately funded sanctuary, that's not a USDA situation." In addition to pleading guilty last year on two counts of possessing illegal firearms - offences for which he served nearly a year in federal prison - Thompson had had at least two run-ins with authorities over animals he kept. In 2008, local prosecutors declined to charge Thompson for animal cruelty after inspectors from the Columbus Zoo and the Muskingum County Humane Society visited his property. "We had several experts out at the Thompson place including a number of veterinarians and even experts from the Columbus Zoo and they found nothing wrong," Muskingum County Prosecutor Michael Haddox told the Zanesville Times-Recorder. "I'm not going to tell you that the animals out there are taken care of like you or I might take care of one of our pets, but there is no-one that can say their conditions are violating any statutes of law." In late 2005, Thompson was sentenced to six months' house arrest following his conviction for cruelty to animals, having an animal at large, and other charges. Police found three cows and a buffalo had died from starvation on farmland he owned, according to a Zanesville Times-Recorder at the time. Thompson had argued in the case that the animals may have already had disease which contributed to their deaths, and that they had consumed contaminated water and feed. Thompson began keeping exotic animals in 1977, when he purchased a lion cub for his wife, Marian, he told the Zanesville newspaper in 2008. He said he had seven veterinarians on call to care for the animals, which he said were more "relaxed without conflict" than animals in zoos. Bear attack "They know they're loved and cared for," he said. "If one of my bears gets a hangnail, I call a certain vet. If a cat sneezes, I call another vet. "I don't use the animals for commerce, so I'm under no regulations like a zoo. But I make sure my animals aren't a threat to the community, either." Following the 2008 inspections, however, local authorities said they were concerned some of the cages were insufficiently secure, and Mr Thompson appeared to have addressed those fears. He always insisted he did not keep the animals for the money, and sometimes obtained them in exchange for firearms. In March, while imprisoned on federal firearms charges, he said in a sworn deposition that had traded guns for a monkey, a leopard and a baby tiger. "I've never sold an exotic animal," he said. "I don't do that for money." Mr Harrison said he once rescued a bear from a man who had obtained it at a young age from Mr Thompson. The bear grew up, became sexually mature and aggressive, and attacked the man. Later, the owner grew ill from cancer and could no longer care for it. "He was actually kind of scared of it," said Mr Harrison, who took the bear to a sanctuary in Colorado. Mr Harrison, who was at the scene in Zanesville, Ohio, observing the rescue efforts on Wednesday, said the escaped animals appeared to be in fairly good condition. But in July, a federal agent who was involved in the firearms case against Thompson said the interior of his house was so cluttered and foul that officials had a hard time searching it for weapons. "The residence was of such a poor environmental condition that it was unsafe for us to breathe the air," said Special Agent James Ash of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, according to a sworn deposition obtained by the BBC. "The location that we would have used to process the evidence was within six feet of the caged monkeys, and we believe that the monkeys contributed to the degradation of the environment of the house."

सभी खातों के अनुसार, टेरी थॉम्पसन ने बाघों, भालू, बंदरों और अन्य विदेशी और खतरनाक जंगली जानवरों को पालतू जानवरों के रूप में रखा, और उन्होंने जोर देकर कहा कि वे चिड़ियाघर की तुलना में ग्रामीण ओहियो में अपनी 73 एकड़ (29 हेक्टेयर) भूमि पर अधिक खुश हैं।


Where the Conservative tribes stand on Brexit

Summary: Theresa May faces a daunting task to get her Brexit deal ratified by Parliament after it was rejected by 230 votes. It has not been made easier by the fact that the 118 Tory rebels who voted against her on Tuesday can't agree on an alternative plan.

Does that mean it's dead? Probably in its current form, but Mrs May is clearly not giving up on it just yet. It is on life support until someone can come up with something they can all agree on. Here is a list of where the Tory rebels who voted against Mrs May's deal on Tuesday stood, based on their public statements - and the number who voted for the deal. The BBC's researchers have come up with estimates for how many belong to each group. It is a fluid situation, and some who voted for the deal may now be ready to back other options. It should also be noted that some MPs cited multiple reasons for voting against Mrs May's deal, while others focused more on the alternative deal they would prefer - and seven Tory MPs have been silent, as far as we can tell, on their reason for opposing the deal. Theresa May's deal Number: 202 (includes three Labour MPs and three Independents) Tuesday's vote was backed by 196 Tory MPs, including about 100 on the ministerial payroll. Lest we forget, it would see the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union, with much of the detail of how that would work in practice being worked out after 29 March, when a 21-month transition period would kick in. It also guarantees citizens' rights and commits the UK to paying a £39bn "divorce bill". There is also the small matter of the Northern Ireland backstop, but more of that later. Scrap or time limit the backstop Estimated number: 45 The Irish border "insurance policy" is the poison pill preventing the Democratic Unionist Party from backing Mrs May's deal. Plenty of Conservative MPs want to see it scrapped, although some could get by with a time limit on it. Mrs May would probably drop the backstop in a heartbeat if she thought she could but it is not really in her hands. She would need to convince the EU to agree to it and that seems unlikely right now. The 'better deal' group Estimated number: 39 Former Brexit Secretary David Davis (pictured) has been banging the drum for a Canada-style free trade deal for some time now - and he is not alone. Other ministers who quit the cabinet in protest at Mrs May's deal, including Boris Johnson, are also in the Canada camp. They want Theresa May to use her thumping defeat on Tuesday as a bargaining chip to have one last go at getting a better deal out of Brussels. If she can't manage that, then she should step up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, they argue. Canada has a looser trading arrangement with the EU than the one being proposed by Mrs May but with "zero tariffs and zero quotas" on all imports and exports. Mr Davis wants what he calls "Canada plus plus plus" - the same deal as Canada but extra provision for financial services. Mrs May has always ruled out the Canada option, arguing that it would not solve the Irish border issue. But these MPs think the Irish border issue has been overblown. Leave without a deal Estimated number: 17 A no-deal Brexit is the preferred position of dyed-in-the-wool Eurosceptics such as Sir Bill Cash (pictured), who dismiss fears of economic meltdown as "project fear" and insist Britain could thrive under World Trade Organization rules. Some cabinet members have said there is nothing to fear from a no-deal Brexit, although they say they would prefer a deal. Mrs May has refused to rule out a no-deal Brexit, even though she does not want it to happen. But as things stand, Britain will leave without a deal on 29 March if MPs can't agree on an alternative. Hold another referendum Estimated number: 9 Leading rebels, such as Dominic Grieve (pictured) and Sarah Wollaston, have come out in favour of this option - although more may be waiting in the wings. Mrs May could not have been more clear in her rejection of another referendum. But the decision could be taken out of her hands, if the Labour leadership got behind this option, creating a likely parliamentary majority for it. That's a pretty big "if" as things stand, however. Norway option Only one Tory MP, Robert Halfon, voted against the deal because he prefers the Norway option but other supporters of it voted for Mrs May's deal. MPs who currently support the Norway option, or who have expressed support for it in the past, include Nick Boles, John Stevenson, Kevin Hollinrake, Sir Oliver Letwin and George Eustice. The Norway model is about as close as you can get to the EU without actually being a member state. A softer Brexit that would see the UK remaining in the customs union might be something that a majority of MPs would support, although few Tory MPs have publicly backed it. It would cause anger among Tory Brexiteers but they have lost the ability to get rid of Mrs May in a leadership contest, after last year's failed confidence vote led by Jacob Rees-Mogg. There might also be cabinet walkouts, among the more ardent Brexiteers, but Mrs May has ridden those out before. Update 18 January 2019:This article has been amended to provide more detail on the number of MPs who have backed a Norway option and make it clearer that some MPs may now be ready to back other options.

230 मतों से खारिज होने के बाद थेरेसा मे को अपने ब्रेक्सिट सौदे को संसद द्वारा अनुमोदित कराने के लिए एक कठिन कार्य का सामना करना पड़ता है। यह इस तथ्य से आसान नहीं हुआ है कि मंगलवार को उनके खिलाफ मतदान करने वाले 118 टोरी विद्रोही एक वैकल्पिक योजना पर सहमत नहीं हो सकते हैं।


Obituary: Fenella Fielding

Summary: Actress Fenella Fielding has died at the age of 90 after suffering a stroke.

She was a serious actress remembered for a single, stand-out comic performance. Fenella Fielding survived a violent upbringing to play Ibsen, Shakespeare and Euripides on stage. As an artist, her sheer versatility captivated both Federico Fellini and Noel Coward. This was a woman of wit and wisdom who kept a copy of Plato beside the bed. But, for millions, that serious side is long forgotten. Instead, she will forever be Valeria: the camp vamp star of Carry On Screaming - draped on a divan in a skin-tight dress; her voice oozing with sex appeal and sporting eyelashes like upturned claws. She turned down all future Carry On work but the die was cast. In the public mind, she was the quintessential Sixties femme fatale, delivering double entendres with lashings of false innocence. And sadly, as a performer, her career slowly drifted into obscurity almost as soon as she uttered her most immortal line. Street angel, house devil Fenella Marion Feldman was born in Hackney in 1927 - the youngest child of a Romanian mother and a Lithuanian father. The relationship with her parents was never easy, often strained and occasionally violent. As a toddler, she seemed to speak in gibberish. Her mother and father worried she was failing to develop normal language skills until they chanced upon her in animated conversation with a doll. "I suppose," she later wrote, "I just didn't want to speak to my parents." The young Fenella harboured a burning desire to perform. She took ballet lessons and gave her youthful talent for comedy free rein in the annual end of year show - once memorably cavorting around the stage to the tune of Nobody Loves A Fairy When She's Forty. Other mums and dads, she bitterly noted, showered their children with fresh flowers after each performance; her own parents merely offered up the same basket of artificial blooms, year after year. It was hard not to take it to heart. As she entered her teens, life at home became darker. Her father - who could be charming in public - was a "street angel, house devil", she recalled who "used to knock me about with his fists". To make matters worse, her mother would actually "egg him on". She thought the violence would pass, but it didn't - at least until she threatened to go to the police. She left school at 16 and spent a year at St Martin's School of Art. Her parents were appalled that she might see naked men - or even worse, naked women - in class, which was bound to result in pregnancy and drug addiction. There were rows every morning. Eventually, they forced her to leave. Still wanting to act, Fielding would hang around stage doors in the West End in the hope of brushing against Alec Guinness or Laurence Olivier. She won a two-year scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - which pleased her mother and father greatly until it dawned on them she might actually become an actress. Her mother began turning up at RADA at lunchtime, making a scene and insisting Fielding leave. "Really, darling", she would say, "these common people!" After a while, the school quietly withdrew her funding. She considered going to university but her father told her he'd "rather see her dead at his feet." Instead, she was dispatched to learn shorthand and typing. She found it soul destroying. In misery, Fielding downed 70 aspirin in a suicide attempt but changed her mind at the last minute. She swallowed pints of mustard water to induce vomiting after calling an all-night Boots to ask how to reverse the effects. Beautiful butterfly of comedy Fleeing home, she found digs in Mayfair run by friendly prostitutes. In 1952, she appeared in an amateur production at the London School of Economics alongside Ron Moody - then a mature student - who later found fame as Fagin, in the film version of Oliver! Moody supported her ambition to become an actress, persuading her not to pack it in and train as a manicurist. She changed her name from Feldman to Fielding, pretended to be seven years younger in order to compensate for her late start in show business and began appearing in comedy revues. By the end of the 1950s, she had made a name for herself in the musical Valmouth. It was quirky and, for the time, rather lurid - but Fielding's rave reviews led to an awkward reconciliation with her parents. Her mother turned up at the Lyric Theatre bearing a peace offering of sorts: a whole, fried chicken. Next was Pieces of Eight, a live comedy revue written by the unlikely pairing of Peter Cook and Harold Pinter. Starring alongside her was Kenneth Williams - already firmly established as a household name - who quickly proved to harbour a brittle ego under the thinnest of skins. When one review called Fielding a "beautiful butterfly of comedy", he exploded. Encouraging her to ad lib, he ruthlessly stole her best lines. He became threatening and bluntly warned her not to steal his limelight. When Fielding extemporised the end of one sketch with the line "the last one dead's a sissy", there were hysterics. Williams went white and shrieked that she'd "called me a homosexual in front of the whole audience". "It was awful," she later recalled. "I'd never been so frightened in all my life." Worse was to come as she branched out into film and television. In 1959, she appeared in Follow A Star alongside Norman Wisdom - who she came to loathe. "Not a very pleasant man," she later said. "Hand up your skirt first thing in the morning. Not exactly a lovely way to start a day's filming." Socially, the 1960s could not have been more glamorous. Vidal Sassoon, personally, did her hair and the bohemian journalist Jeffrey Bernard took her on riotous club nights. She would sit and talk long into the night with the flamboyant artist Francis Bacon and the rest of that decade's rakish beau monde. Professionally, there were small parts on television in The Avengers, with Patrick Macnee, and regular appearances on the cutting-edge satire, That Was The Week That Was. Her film appearances included working alongside Dirk Bogarde in Doctor in Love and Tony Curtis in Arrivederci, Baby! On stage, she pursued her love for her first love, drama. The Times newspaper described her performance as Hedda Gabler as "one of the experiences of a lifetime". The great Italian film director Federico Fellini took her to Claridge's and offered to make a film where she starred as six or seven different incarnations of male desire. Unfortunately, she was already booked to do a season on stage in Chichester so she turned him down - to the great disappointment of her agent. Camp vamp Then came the role which made her a legend. Carry On Screaming reunited Fielding with with her old nemesis, Kenneth Williams. The filming took three weeks, made her hugely famous and - in many respects - her career never recovered. She played Valeria - a thinly disguised Morticia Addams - with every ounce of camp vamp she could muster. Her wig was huge, her eyelashes incredible and her red dress was so tight she was completely unable to bend in the middle. Every scene was done in a single take and, of course, she is remembered for just one. Reclining on a chaise longue, Fielding entices Harry H Corbett towards her. The eyes flutter and the voice purrs. "Do you mind if I smoke?" she inquires seductively - before vast quantities of dry ice envelope them both. Half a century later, children would still shout that line at her in the street. She politely declined all invitations to appear in future Carry On films - including Carry On Cabby - partly in an attempt to avoid being typecast by the success of the first. But, for the rest of her life, she struggled to escape Valeria. The offers dried up and her on-screen career quietly slid away. She did Morecambe & Wise Christmas specials and some voice work for both the cult hit series, The Prisoner, and a Magic Roundabout project - Dougal and The Blue Cat. But she didn't make another film for almost 15 years. Fielding was rarely completely out of work. She continued on stage - with a string of well-reviewed provincial shows - in which she didn't have to play "either a Lady or a Tart". But, eventually, she struggled for money and was forced to go to the social security office to claim benefits - an experience she found demeaning. She never married, despite a string of interested male admirers. One possible future husband died, another couldn't get over his alcoholism and had to be abandoned. For 20 years, she maintained two separate lovers and managed to prevent them ever meeting. "I loved them both," she wrote but decided on "never committing; never having a marriage that could have gone awful". Politically, she was on the left - despising Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s and refusing to help her older brother Bas when he stood for election under the Conservative banner. But they remained close and she was proud of him when, without her help, he became an important figure in the party and eventually entered the House of Lords. Latterly, there was work with Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in Guest House Paradiso and a role as an eccentric granny in the gritty teenage drama, Skins. But, for Fenella Fielding, her best work always took place on stage. At the age of nearly 90, the Financial Times described her performance in Euripides' The Trojan Women as "unbearably moving... at the extreme limits of pathos". For most of the rest of us, however, she is preserved in memory as the camp vamp of Carry On legend. She will forever be "England's First Lady of the double entendre" with a velvety voice and silvery twinkle in her eye. She was resigned to that professional fate. The autobiography she published in 2017 - inevitably entitled "Do You Mind If I Smoke?" - has little shred of bitterness or regret. The only thing that rankled was when she met fellow actors - and there were many - who'd been asked to do adverts with a "Fenella Fielding-like" voice. "Bloody cheek," she would say with perfect comic timing. "Why didn't they ask me?"

अभिनेत्री फेनेला फील्डिंग का 90 वर्ष की आयु में स्ट्रोक से पीड़ित होने के बाद निधन हो गया है।


Headingley Arc bar fight: 21 men sentenced

Summary: Twenty-one men involved in a mass bar brawl where glasses and chairs were used as weapons have been sentenced.

CCTV captured the fight at The Arc in Headingley, Leeds, in the early hours of Sunday, 17 February last year. It showed one man having a chair thrown at his head and glasses being smashed during the disturbance. At Leeds Crown Court, six were jailed, two got suspended sentences and 13 received community orders. All 21 had previously pleaded guilty to affray. Those jailed and given suspended sentences were:

एक सामूहिक बार विवाद में शामिल 21 लोगों को सजा सुनाई गई है जहां चश्मे और कुर्सियों का उपयोग हथियारों के रूप में किया गया था।


Clevedon's Marine Lake restoration work begins on site

Summary: Work has begun de-silting Marine Lake in Clevedon in the first phase of plans designed to restore the lake and surrounding area.

The project includes a restored promenade, strengthened sea wall, paddling area and better access for water sports. The design for the revamped lake has been awarded a grant of £800,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Construction is due to be finished by the end of August. Marine Lake opened in 1929 and was a huge draw for visitors before cheap overseas package holidays became popular in the 1960s. In 2004, a community partnership was established and since then the lake has been used for sailing, canoeing, open water swimming and model boat sailing.

झील और आसपास के क्षेत्र को बहाल करने के लिए बनाई गई योजनाओं के पहले चरण में क्लीवडन में समुद्री झील से गाद निकालने का काम शुरू हो गया है।


Derby death: Woman arrested on suspicion of murdering man

Summary: A 47-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who was found dead at a property in Derby.

Officers were called to Manchester Street at about 13:10 GMT on Saturday where the man's body was found, Derbyshire Police said. Two men, aged 24 and 33, have also been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. A cordon is in place at the scene and officers are carrying out inquiries in the area. The force said detectives would like to hear from anyone who has information about what may have happened. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.

डर्बी में एक संपत्ति में मृत पाए गए एक व्यक्ति की हत्या के संदेह में एक 47 वर्षीय महिला को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


PlayStation 5: Sony reveals first details of next-gen console

Summary: Sony has finally released the first details about its next PlayStation console.

Gamers have been waiting patiently to find out any information about PS4's replacement, but until now details have been kept firmly under wraps. Now Sony's system architect Mark Cerny has released information about what the "next-gen console" will look like. In an interview with Wired, he reveals it will be much faster, more powerful and include improved audio. But don't expect to be able to buy one in 2019 - you'll have to wait until at least next year to see it on shelves. Below, we outline all the new details we know about the PlayStation 5 so far, as well as the questions we still want answered. Much faster loading times Good news for avid PlayStation users - the new console will include a high-speed solid-state hard drive (SSD). While that won't mean much to a lot of people, the point of the SSD is to dramatically reduce things like loading times - which will make everyone's gaming experience a bit better. For example, when playing Spider-Man on a PS4 it can take 15 seconds to fast travel between different locations. Cerny gave Wired a demonstration that showed the same task taking just 0.8 seconds on the new machine. "No matter how powered up you get as Spider-Man, you can never go any faster than this," he says about the PlayStation 4. "That's simply how fast we can get the data off the hard drive." Improved audio Another big focus for the next-gen console is 3D audio. Cerny tells Wired that as a gamer himself he was left frustrated that there wasn't much change in audio between PS3 and PS4. "With the next console the dream is to show how dramatically different the audio experience can be," he says. PS5 (which isn't the official name of the new console) will see gamers being immersed in audio from above, behind and from the side, according to Cerny, and will be experienced best through headphones. Enhanced visual experience The next PlayStation supports ray-tracing graphics - the first time a game console has ever managed graphics like it, Cerny says. They're usually used in Hollywood special effects, and occasionally in high-end processors. It means users of the next-gen PlayStation will receive much better, and more realistic, visuals. It's also worth noting that while the PS5 will have all of these improvements, you don't need to worry about compatibility with PS4 games. The new console will still take physical discs, and gamers can still play PlayStation 4 games on the new console. What we don't know All the details that have been released so far are about hardware. We still don't know: Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.

सोनी ने आखिरकार अपने अगले प्लेस्टेशन कंसोल के बारे में पहला विवरण जारी कर दिया है।


Do massive dams ever make sense?

Summary: A new report from researchers at Oxford University argues that large dams are a risky investment - soaring past projected budgets, drowning emerging economies in debt and failing to deliver promised benefits. Do they ever really make sense?

By Lauren EverittSan Francisco A peek over the edge of the Hoover Dam's 60-storey wall is enough to send shivers down anyone's spine. Constructed from enough concrete to pave a motorway from New York to San Francisco - this colossal barrier is touted as a symbol of man's mastery over nature and a marvel of 20th Century engineering. The dam was credited with helping jump-start America's economy after the Great Depression, reining in the flood-prone Colorado River and generating cheap hydroelectric power for arid south-western states. Even more miraculously, the Hoover Dam was completed two years ahead of schedule and roughly $15m (£9m) under budget. But for megadam critics, the Hoover Dam is an anomaly. The Oxford researchers reviewed 245 large dams - those with a wall height over 15m (49ft) - built between 1934 and 2007. They found that the dams ran 96% over their approved budgets on average - Brazil's Itaipu dam suffered a 240% overrun - and took an average of 8.2 years to build. In the vast majority of cases, they say, megadams are not economically viable. But after a two-decade lull, large dams are once again being trumpeted as a ticket to prosperity. Countries from China to Brazil, via Pakistan and Ethiopia, are rushing to erect them. With world electricity consumption expected to grow by more than 56% between 2010 and 2040, according to the 2013 International Energy Outlook report, hydropower is a tempting option. More than 90% of the world's renewable electricity comes from dams, according to the International Commission on Large Dams. Andy Hughes of the British Dam Society points to Laos and Vietnam as shining examples of dam-building countries that have harnessed hydropower. "They're building dams, they're generating hydropower, and then they export that power to other countries, so it's a big cash crop for them," he says. But Bent Flyvbjerg, principal investigator for the Oxford University dam study, says dams "are not carbon neutral, and they're not greenhouse neutral". The vast quantities of concrete required to construct leave an enormous carbon footprint, he says. Furthermore flooded vegetation under the reservoirs produces methane, a greenhouse gas roughly 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, he says. His argument is not with all dams though, but with megadams. "We don't accept that it's a discussion of hydropower from large dams versus fossil fuels. We would like the discussion to be about hydropower from large dams versus hydropower from smaller hydropower projects," he says. Others, such as Peter Bosshard of environmental campaign group International Rivers, say climate change threatens to alter weather patterns in unpredictable ways. "So if you put all your energy eggs in one big dam, you're taking a big risk because you don't know what future rainfall patterns will be over time," he says. The cost of these behemoths is the main focus of the Oxford study. Flyvbjerg says he expects the $14.4bn (£8.7bn) price tag for Brazil's Belo Monte dam to surge to $27.4bn (£16.5bn), outweighing any benefits, and saddling the country with a mountain of debt. At least Brazil's economy is robust. For many emerging economies, massive dams spell disaster, Flyvbjerg says. Some countries take out large loans - often in foreign currency, making them vulnerable to exchange rate fluctuations - and when dams don't deliver the promised benefits, these nations take a huge hit. "It's like a bull in a china store - these projects are way too big and way too risky to be taken on by the most fragile economies in the world," he says. Even when a dam project is overrunning and costs are soaring, governments are reluctant to scrap them he points out. "A dam is really a useless asset if it's not completely finished. Even if it's 99% finished, you can't use it - it's either on or it's not," Flyvbjerg says. But Andy Hughes says dams have many upsides. Critics should ask themselves a number of questions, he says: "How else would one generate power, how else would one give people clean water to drink, how else would one irrigate farms, how else would one treat sewage?" And dams create employment. The Belo Monte hydroelectric dam project is projected to create work for an estimated 20,000 people He says they can play an important role in mitigating climate change. During drought conditions, the reservoirs provide drinking water and irrigation. During wetter periods they're key for flood protection. In fact, Hughes predicts an upswing in dam building after severe flooding across the UK in the winter just gone by. Julia Jones, an Oregon State University hydrologist, says this chimes with her study of dams in the Columbia River basin in the Pacific Northwest. "There's been a net increase in the availably of water during scarce times and the protection of places during flooding times, which is exactly what the dams were intended to create," she explains. "That suggests that there is resilience and that there may be capacity large enough to deal with future climate change." But it all depends on how big the impact of climate change is, she notes. The real benefit of dams may simply boil down to perspective, according to Jones. "It all depends on who's at the table," she says. "There has been a lot of controversy for half a century or more about the larger context in which these projects are constructed - that is, who loses their livelihoods, who gains from the construction of the dam and the environmental benefits and costs." For Hughes, it's more of a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't trap. "My view is that dams can never win. If we build a dam, we get criticised, but once the dam is built people say, 'Well, what was all the fuss about? Isn't this a beautiful setting for walking around the lake and picnics?' But try and demolish a dam, and you get criticized for damaging that beautiful environment. So it's a no-win exercise, I'm afraid." Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook

ऑक्सफोर्ड विश्वविद्यालय के शोधकर्ताओं की एक नई रिपोर्ट में तर्क दिया गया है कि बड़े बांध एक जोखिम भरा निवेश है-पिछले अनुमानित बजट में वृद्धि, उभरती अर्थव्यवस्थाओं को कर्ज में डुबोना और वादा किए गए लाभों को पूरा करने में विफल रहना। क्या वे वास्तव में कभी समझ में आते हैं?


The Japanese women who married the enemy

Summary: Seventy years ago many Japanese people in occupied Tokyo after World War Two saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless - and then faced a big struggle to find their place in the US.

By Vanessa BarfordBBC News, Washington DC For 21-year-old Hiroko Tolbert, meeting her husband's parents for the first time after she had travelled to America in 1951 was a chance to make a good impression. She picked her favourite kimono for the train journey to upstate New York, where she had heard everyone had beautiful clothes and beautiful homes. But rather than being impressed, the family was horrified. "My in-laws wanted me to change. They wanted me in Western clothes. So did my husband. So I went upstairs and put on something else, and the kimono was put away for many years," she says. It was the first of many lessons that American life was not what she had imagined it to be. "I realised I was going to live on a chicken farm, with chicken coops and manure everywhere. Nobody removed their shoes in the house. In Japanese homes we didn't wear shoes, everything was very clean - I was devastated to live in these conditions," she says. "They also gave me a new name - Susie." Like many Japanese war brides, Hiroko had come from a fairly wealthy family, but could not see a future in a flattened Tokyo. "Everything was crumbled as a result of the US bombing. You couldn't find streets, or stores, it was a nightmare. We were struggling for food and lodging. "I didn't know very much about Bill, his background or family, but I took a chance when he asked me to marry him. I couldn't live there, I had to get out to survive," she says. Hiroko's decision to marry American GI Samuel "Bill" Tolbert didn't go down well with her relatives. "My mother and brother were devastated I was marrying an American. My mother was the only one that came to see me when I left. I thought, 'That's it, I'm not going to see Japan again,'" she says. Her husband's family also warned her that people would treat her differently in the US because Japan was the former enemy. More than 110,000 Japanese-Americans on the US West Coast had been put into internment camps in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attacks in 1941 - when more than 2,400 Americans were killed in one day. It was the largest official forced relocation in US history, prompted by the fear that members of the community might act as spies or collaborators and help the Japanese launch further attacks. The camps were closed in 1945, but emotions still ran high in the decade that followed. "The war had been a war without mercy, with incredible hatred and fear on both sides. The discourse was also heavily racialised - and America was a pretty racist place at that time, with a lot of prejudice against inter-race relationships," says Prof Paul Spickard, an expert in history and Asian-American studies at the University of California. Luckily, Hiroko found the community around her new family's rural farm in the Elmira area of New York welcoming. "One of my husband's aunts told me I would find it difficult to get anyone to deliver my baby, but she was wrong. The doctor told me he was honoured to take care of me. His wife and I became good friends - she took me over to their house to see my first Christmas tree," she says. But other Japanese war brides found it harder to fit in to segregated America. "I remember getting on a bus in Louisiana that was divided into two sections - black and white," recalls Atsuko Craft, who moved to the US at the age of 22 in 1952. "I didn't know where to sit, so I sat in the middle." Like Hiroko, Atsuko had been well-educated, but thought marrying an American would provide a better life than staying in devastated post-war Tokyo. She says her "generous" husband - whom she met through a language exchange programme - agreed to pay for further education in the US. But despite graduating in microbiology and getting a good job at a hospital, she says she still faced discrimination. "I'd go to look at a home or apartment, and when they saw me, they'd say it was already taken. They thought I would lower the real estate value. It was like blockbusting to make sure blacks wouldn't move into a neighbourhood, and it was hurtful," she says. The Japanese wives also often faced rejection from the existing Japanese-American community, according to Prof Spickard. "They thought they were loose women, which seems not to have been the case - most of the women [in Toyko] were running cash registers, stocking shelves, or working in jobs related to the US occupation," he says. About 30,000 to 35,000 Japanese women migrated to the US during the 1950s, according to Spickard. At first, the US military had ordered soldiers not to fraternise with local women and blocked requests to marry. The War Brides Act of 1945 allowed American servicemen who married abroad to bring their wives home, but it took the Immigration Act of 1952 to enable Asians to come to America in large numbers. When the women did move to the US, some attended Japanese bride schools at military bases to learn how to do things like bake cakes the American way, or walk in heels rather than the flat shoes to which they were accustomed. But many were totally unprepared. Generally speaking, the Japanese women that married black Americans settled more easily, Spickard says. "Black families knew what it was like to be on the losing side. They were welcomed by the sisterhood of black women. But in small white communities in places like Ohio and Florida, their isolation was often extreme." Atsuko, now 85, says she noticed a big difference between life in Louisiana and Maryland, near Washington DC, where she raised her two children and still lives with her husband. And she says times have changed, and she does not experience any prejudice now. "America is more worldly and sophisticated. I feel like a Japanese American, and I'm happy with that," she says. Hiroko agrees that things are different. But the 84-year-old, who divorced Samuel in 1989 and has since remarried, thinks she has changed as much as America. "I learned to be less strict with my four children - the Japanese are disciplined and schooling is very important, it was always study, study, study. I saved money and became a successful store owner. I finally have a nice life, a beautiful home. "I have chosen the right direction for my life - I am very much an American," she says. But there is no Susie any more. Only Hiroko. The full documentary Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight will air on BBC World News this weekend. Click to see the schedule.

सत्तर साल पहले द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध के बाद कब्जे वाले टोक्यो में कई जापानी लोगों ने अमेरिकी सैनिकों को दुश्मन के रूप में देखा। लेकिन हजारों युवा जापानी महिलाओं ने फिर भी जीआई से शादी की-और फिर अमेरिका में अपनी जगह खोजने के लिए एक बड़े संघर्ष का सामना करना पड़ा।


Myth-busting the Christmas adverts

Summary: Welcome to the world of Christmas adverts, where it's always snowing, the turkey's never overcooked, and the trees never shed their needles.

By Vanessa Barford & Gerry HoltBBC News Magazine Every year, some of Britain's biggest retailers turn TV commercial breaks into a winter wonderland. We all know it's a long way from reality, but it still looks like a nice place to visit - so just how far away is it? It always snows Picture the scene. Snowflakes flutter gently from a pale sky on to a glistening winterscape below, where woollen-clad, rosy-cheeked children build a perfectly rounded snowman. This is the wondrous scene depicted in many a Christmas advert - and this year is no different. Take the John Lewis advert, featuring aforementioned snowman and kids, with snow-girlfriend thrown in for good measure. But how realistic is a white Christmas day? Not very. Met Office records suggest there has only been a widespread covering of snow four times in the past 51 years - but a snowflake has fallen on Christmas day 38 times. So, we can probably expect more than half of all our Christmases to be white-ish. BBC weather producer Sara Thornton says it is too early to say if we will see snow this Christmas: "In some parts of the UK, you are statistically more likely to see a white Good Friday than a white Christmas day. "As romantic as these Christmas adverts are, some children will never have seen snow falling on Christmas day." Mums do everything This year's Morrisons advert depicts a mother grimly contemplating the many tasks she has to complete before the big day - wrestling the turkey, peeling a hillock of brussels sprouts, entertaining an entire neighbourhood's worth of relatives. But just when you think mum's about to start looking for cheap flights to Tenerife, she manages a wan smile and says, "But it's Christmas, and I wouldn't have it any other way." Asda also focuses on a frazzled-looking mum, whose reward for single-handedly masterminding festivities, is a rather uncomfortable-looking pouffe at the dinner table. "Behind every great Christmas there's Mum," says the voiceover. Sexist? The Asda campaign has attracted 191 complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority. Writing in the Independent, Becca Day Preston calls the advert "insultingly retrograde and simplistic". But are these campaigns simply reflecting the fact that, actually, mums do most of the work at Christmas? Asda has apologised for any offence: "Our ad depicts what many of the 16 million mums who shop in Asda tell us they feel, and is intended to be light-hearted and fun and in the main that's how it's been received." Siobhan Freegard, founder of Netmums, says the supermarkets have got it spot on. "When it comes down to it, in the majority of homes it is the mum who is in overall control of Christmas," she says. Mums discussing the ads on the Netmums forum "appreciate the recognition", she says. But Tom Herbert, a fifth-generation baker and father of four, doesn't like the way husbands and fathers are always portrayed as incompetent and lazy. He says Christmas is a family effort among his relatives and friends. "All the men I know - pretty much without exception - love the whole feast and getting together thing. I don't know any guy that can sit on his bottom and watch the telly while their other half does all the cooking. "It's a missed opportunity if it's just left to one person. The more collaborative it is, the more fun for everyone." Everyone is happy Christmas adverts are full of smiles, friendly faces, laughter and joy. It's as if everyone is united in harmonious celebration. If only. Relate says 68% of people expect to row over the holidays, with 39% citing Christmas day as the time they are most likely to have a bust up. Childline received almost 50,000 calls for help from children and young people in the 12 days from 24 December to 4 January last year and the Samaritans expects about 193,000 people will call this Christmas. But of the more trivial spats, Arthur Smith, star of TV's Grumpy Old Men, says it's a "fiction" that everyone gets along at Christmas. "There is this idea that it's all about everyone having fun together. But people are financially stretched and can't afford the present the missus wants, the Christmas tree won't fit in the house, and there's plenty of flying crockery at lunch." And Stuart Prebble, the author of Grumpy Old Christmas, says the season "is an excellent time for those of us whose lives are not picture-book perfect to be reminded that everyone other than us is happy, fulfilled, balanced and contented". And Christmas ads are the media equivalent of those excruciating round-robin letters, he says: "'Freddie has just got a first, we've just come back from the Maldives, Melanie has just discovered a cure for cancer, and James has won a Nobel prize." Nobody spends Christmas alone To some, Caroline Sullivan's Christmas Day might sound too depressing for words. The music journalist spends it alone, starting the day with an indulgent cooked breakfast, then later a special, dutifully prepared lunch, and perhaps a nice walk. "It's a day of complete indulgence. I don't have to talk to anybody or do anything I don't want to do. I get to do all of things that I don't get a chance to do during the rest of the year because I'm either too busy, or too conscientious to spend an entire day sitting on the sofa reading," she says. "A lot of people don't think that's a fun way to spend Christmas - but to me it's bliss." The charity Friends of the Elderly says 500,000 elderly people will spend Christmas alone this year, while those from broken families can expect to face yet another year of divvying their time up between various relatives. And spare a thought, too, for the 35,000 British military personnel who will spend Christmas serving abroad, without their families. Author Will Self writes about a Christmas he spent alone as a 20-year-old student after his parents separated. "I like to think I understood that very day... that deliberately being alone on Christmas Day was a bad move; that it was tempting fate to toy with isolation." Sullivan says it might not be for everyone but it's worth a try: "I always say to friends 'Do it, be on your own.'" Everyone has a real Christmas tree If the plethora of pine needles in this year's Christmas adverts is anything to go by, everyone wants a little piece of Norwegian forest in their living room. There are bauble-decorated trees in the Boots, Argos and Matalan ads, magic trees in the Coca-Cola campaign, and then there's the Iceland ad, where a young girl isn't exactly rockin' around a Christmas tree, but has a distinct spring in her step as she walks through what is almost a forest of them. Even the John Lewis advert has the snow woman's hair made of pine needles. But only a fifth of people will buy a real Christmas tree this year, according to Which? Nearly 50% plan on having a "realistic" artificial tree, and 19% favour a "coloured artificial tree". Of course for some people, it's got to be the real deal. Harry Brightwell from the British Christmas Tree Growers Association, says between six and eight million real Christmas trees are sold in the UK every year. They are part of the tradition, and purchasing them is a "family outing that signifies the start of Christmas". But Stuart Prebble thinks there is nothing particularly festive about uprooting "millions and millions of innocent spruces". "The needles start dropping the moment you've paid for it, you can't get it in the car, and when you do, you'll be picking the pine out of your upholstery for the next year. "You always buy one that's too big for your house. And what do you do with it when you've finished with it - throw it over the balcony?" Everybody loves their presents Wendy Mitchell, of the Charity Retail Association, says that although charity shops do not hold figures on donations through the year, there is usually "an uplift" after Christmas, often because of unwanted gifts. Martin Lewis, of MoneySavingExpert.com, suggests a radical solution to not getting what you want - banning Christmas presents. "Across the country people are growling at the enforced obligation to waste money on tat they can't afford, for people who won't use it. Festive gift-giving has lost its point, risks doing more harm than good, misteaches our children about values and kills the joy of anticipation of what should be a joyous time," he writes in the Daily Telegraph. The Mothers' Union suggests parents could ditch Christmas lists for their children. "The majority of parents we spoke to, said that Christmas lists create disappointment for children if they do not receive all the gifts that they have asked for," says Reg Bailey, the charity's chief executive. People give to charity at Christmas Waitrose has gone out on a limb this year, shunning the familiar all-singing-all-dancing Christmas advert for something much more simple. It says its stripped-back TV advert, which features Delia Smith and Heston Blumenthal "in an empty studio, with just a three foot high Perspex fixture and some green plastic tokens as props" will save £1m, which the company will donate to good causes instead. Both Delia and Heston have waived their appearance fees. The pared-down ad has been broadly welcomed by charities, as Christmas is a critical time for fundraising. The Charities Aid Foundation says donations go up by 19% in December. Prof Cathy Pharoah, co-director of the Centre for Giving and Philanthropy, cites a 2009 Economic and Social Research Council report which suggests a 5% rise in the number of people who give in December, although the size of gifts, on average, stays the same. The biggest increase is among 25-34-year-olds - up from 40% to 48% in December - and the over-65s. Families on lower incomes are also particularly charitable at Christmas. Although people tend to donate more to charities, she says it is not the most significant way people increase their spending at Christmas. Gifts for other people, and spending on alcohol and tobacco, top their list of priorities. "It's not a myth that people are giving, but there are limits to our additional generosity." But is Waitrose's no-frills approach really that cheap? "Any fool knows that the most expensive part of any advertising campaign is buying those multimillion pound slots on prime time television," says The Times's Giles Coren. "The incidental costs of dressing a set barely show up on the balance sheet." Waitrose says the campaign is "absolutely genuine" and the £1m will make a "meaningful difference" to hundreds of charities all over the country. You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook

क्रिसमस विज्ञापनों की दुनिया में आपका स्वागत है, जहाँ हमेशा बर्फबारी होती है, टर्की कभी भी ज़्यादा नहीं पकती है, और पेड़ कभी भी अपनी सुइयाँ नहीं छोड़ते हैं।


The mountain girls making bras for Europe's chests

Summary: Few people give much thought to where what they wear beneath their clothes really comes from, and so it was for Elizabeth Gowing, until a recent visit to an underwear factory run by women in northern Albania.

Bras slither from a table, a heap of knickers are piled in a corner. Am I in a brothel? A teenager's bedroom? When I came to Albania I was warned there was an underworld I might all too easily find myself in, but this is nothing like I was expecting. It's an airy, well-lit industrial unit where 40 workers are intent on combining the intimate details that make up the perfect undergarment. One table blooms with the padding for bra cups. A sack nearby spills teeny pink rosettes to be sewn on as decoration. Large industrial bobbins of demure white cotton spin and blur like thought bubbles above the heads of the women bent over their machines. One woman is inspecting knicker elastic in a way that in any other context might be considered highly inappropriate. She is one of over 3,000 people employed in the textile industry in this northern Albanian city. Beneath its imposing Illyrian, then Roman, then Venetian castle, Shkodra has a distinguished literary past. But despite its high-culture heritage and the reputation for intellectualism in the town's tree-lined boulevards, it now majors in producing underwear. Shkodra has a long tradition of devout Catholicism and this cultural link with Italy strengthens the relationship with Albania's main customer. Mirela, the owner of the factory I'm visiting, speaks Italian fluently - a legacy of the close, if sometimes uncomfortable, relationship between Albania and its neighbour across the Adriatic. When the country was occupied by Mussolini, Italian was an official language. Later, during the Communist period in Albania, radios were secretly tuned to Italian channels to hear news of the wider world, so to learn Italian was a way out. In a different way that is still true today. Mirela says the Italian label she works for subcontracts to six so-called fason, or piecework, factories like hers. They are not the only firm with contracts here, and for this company alone annual production across Shkodra is 16 million garments - enough in itself to support the chests of most of Italy's women. I am suddenly uncomfortably aware of the hands that my underwear has passed through and I ask Mirela more about the people who work here. "Ninety-five percent of them are women," she says, and adds with a laugh: "Men can't see themselves doing this kind of work." More than half of Albania's fason businesses are female-owned like this one. Find out more Mirela herself is a 43-year-old with an MSc in economics and 22 years in the industry. She's scathing about those who don't try to work their way out of poverty. "We know that it's better to take home something than nothing," she insists. I'm at the factory out of normal working hours but production is still going on. Mirela talks proudly about how the women working through the evening are making a significant contribution to the economy - textiles are the country's second largest export, after minerals, and the Albanian fasons supply international brands such as Bata and Zara. Nevertheless, staring at the luxurious lingerie being constructed around me, I remember that last year Oxfam ranked Albania as 149th out of 152 countries for social inequality. Wages are low, admits Gjergji Gjika, head of the chamber of commerce. He says that there are nearly 76,000 people employed in fason work across Albania and that it's often women newly arrived in town from the harsh life of the mountain villages who make up the labour force for the industry. Mirela says it's a struggle to find a permanent workforce as more families emigrate, with women following the pieces that they've made up, and travel to the bright lights of major European markets. There are posters of these distant paradises stuck to the walls in her factory, as backdrops for models posed in beautifully assembled lingerie. The temperature here is low enough for the workers to be hunched over in fleece jackets during my December visit to the factory - a chilly time of year in northern Albania - but the models are never goose-pimpled, just bathed in eternal sunshine. Shkodra sits in the lee of the vast "Accursed" mountains and that night I look up at these Albanian Alps, the start of the Via Dinarica hiking mega-trail leading north all the way to Slovenia and the EU. They're a mighty limestone bulk where it would be hard to scratch a living. I undress with new care, thinking of all the mountain girls and the tough businesswomen who clothe us, building up their own dreams, piece by fragile piece. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.

बहुत कम लोग इस बात पर अधिक विचार करते हैं कि वे अपने कपड़ों के नीचे जो पहनते हैं वह वास्तव में कहाँ से आता है, और इसलिए यह एलिजाबेथ गोइंग के लिए था, जब तक कि हाल ही में उत्तरी अल्बानिया में महिलाओं द्वारा संचालित एक अंडरवियर कारखाने की यात्रा नहीं की गई थी।


Beer-carrying man rescued from the sea at Redcar

Summary: A man carrying a glass of beer has been rescued from the sea, prompting a warning from the RNLI about the danger of drinking around water.

The alarm was raised when he was spotted with his drink, fully-clothed and chest-deep in the surf off Redcar. A UK Coastguard patrol and the Redcar RNLI lifeboat were called to the scene, just before 16:00 BST on Saturday. They managed to persuade him to wade back to the shore, where he was met by the police and given suitable advice. The RNLI warns that about one in eight coastal deaths in the UK involve alcohol. Dave Cocks, from Redcar RNLI, said: "All too often we hear of people who drown despite never intending to enter the water. "Slips, trips and falls are common and many alcohol-related accidents begin near, rather than in, the water."

एक गिलास बीयर ले जा रहे एक व्यक्ति को समुद्र से बचा लिया गया है, जिससे आर. एन. एल. आई. ने पानी के आसपास पीने के खतरे के बारे में चेतावनी दी है।


Has Gujarat moved on since 2002's riots?

Summary: "It was a blot on the state. It was deplorable," says Jay Narayan Vyas, a senior minister in the government of Gujarat, which exactly 10 years ago saw some of the worst religious rioting in India since Independence.

Soutik BiswasDelhi correspondent "But Gujarat has moved on. Nobody is concerned [about the riots any more] except the media and NGOs. Today, it's a bad dream." We are sitting in Mr Vyas's home on a balmy Ahmedabad afternoon. A fan heater warms the room. His BlackBerry is charging, and a cassette of sacred Hindu chants lies by the side of a Bose sound system. A supplicant comes into the room and leaves behind some papers. Mr Vyas is a 65-year-old bureaucrat-turned-politician whose website describes him variously as an "innovative moderniser" and "an expert enlighten globe with excellent solutions (sic)". The engineering graduate from the elite Indian Institute of Technology is also a "scholar, analyst, academician, administrator, manager and public life functionary". Mr Vyas, more crucially, is a spokesman for the Narendra Modi-led BJP government in the state. 'Over-emphasised' It is not an easy job. Night after night, on news television, he gamely defends Mr Modi and his government against unrelenting allegations of not having done enough to stop the anti-Muslim riots that followed the burning of a train carrying Hindu pilgrims. More than 1,000 people, mainly Muslims, died because the government, many believe, failed to protect them. Ten year after the riots, facing the inevitable question that continues to haunt his government, Mr Vyas puts up a swift defence. "We have come out of 2002. The event is over-emphasised, it's blown beyond proportions. Let us leave it behind and look ahead," he says. So we leave the riots behind and move ahead. Under Mr Modi's stewardship, Mr Vyas tells me, Gujarat has been recording scorching double-digit growth, prompting even The Economist magazine to call it India's Guangdong. Its manufacturing-driven, job-intensive economy, many believe, is touted as a model for the Indian economy. I am walking briskly into the present and future now with Mr Vyas. Gujarat, he says, produces 35% of India's pharmaceuticals, 60% of its salt, 90% of its soda ash, a sixth of its cement, and a third of its cotton. It has Asia's largest milk-processing unit. Its 21 ports handle a quarter of the cargo in India. It even produces 10% of the world's denim. In an energy-starved country, Gujarat boasts round-the-clock power, thanks to some smart reforms by Mr Modi's government. Farm output is growing at nearly seven times the Indian average. Not surprisingly, Mr Vyas proudly tells me, Gujarat's growth has been in the double digits for a decade now. It is one of India's leading industrialised states. "Economic growth in Gujarat," he says, "is because of the state's ethos, culture, enterprise, give and take, large heartedness and the fact that it is accepting of everybody." This is possibly the irony of Gujarat. Openness and a breezy mercantile spirit come naturally to the people of a state which has nearly a quarter of India's coastline. But it's also a state which has seen seven major religious riots between Hindus and Muslims since 1969, when 630 people died in five days of fighting in Ahmedabad. Gujarat also has the highest per capita rate of deaths in communal incidents, at around 117 per million of urban population. Religious violence here coexists with a high literacy rate. Ghettoised The 2002 riots were obviously the worst. More than 1,000 people, according to the government's own estimate, were killed. Property worth nearly $60m (£38m) was destroyed. An estimated 200,000 people were displaced. Ten years later, around 25,000 of them still languish in relief camps - this, in a state which won international plaudits for rehabilitating victims of a massive earthquake in 2000. Many have moved into newer ghettos. Ahmedabad is the most ghettoised city in India. So is it easy for Gujarat's minorities to forget 2002 and move on, I ask Noorjehan Abdul Hamid Dewan, a 38-year-old woman, who lives in Johapura, Ahmedabad's biggest Muslim ghetto? During the riots, Noorjehan risked her auto-rickshaw driver husband's ire to come out of purdah to help survivors in a relief camp in her neighbourhood. Since then she has been working tirelessly with them. "How can people forget the riots and move ahead?" she asks. "People don't forget. They simply remain quiet in fear. We haven't forgotten a thing. We want justice and we will keep fighting for it." This is a difficult task in what political scientist Christopher Jaffrelot calls the "dysfunctional" justice system in Gujarat. If you are poor, fighting for justice can wear you out, rob you of your daily wage, and force you to cave in and compromise with the perpetrators of the violence in exchange for a little money. This is one of the ways you "move on". Social activist Harsh Mander calls such compromises a "mode of survival for victims, in their highly unequal battle to rebuild their lives after mass violence". The other way to move on is to have faith in a broken judiciary, and keep hoping that some justice, however incomplete, will happen. Activists point out how more than 2,000 cases of violence were closed within months of the riots because of partisan investigating agencies and prosecutors and brazen intimidation of witnesses, even earning the opprobrium of the Supreme Court. It was only in 2006, after the Supreme Court stepped in and ordered the reopening and a re-investigation of nearly 1,600 of these cases, that some hope was rekindled. Complaints were lodged, more than 40 police officers involved in the riots indicted and more than 600 people arrested for violence. Two years later, the Supreme Court appointed a special team to investigate half a dozen key cases of violence. It also asked a trial court to decide whether Mr Modi should be probed in one of the cases. Even this intervention has had its share of problems - half of the investigators were selected from the already discredited local police force, for example. Moving on A few trials have been completed - in two major cases over the burning of the train in Godhra and an episode of violence in Sardarpura - among the 151 towns and 993 villages which were convulsed by riots - 11 people have been sentenced to death and 51 others sentenced to life in prison. "Justice," says activist Gagan Sethi, has been "exceedingly slow." Justice may be elusive, but Muslims, who comprise fewer than 10% of Gujarat's population, have moved on in their own small, meaningful ways in a state which many say does not do much to support them. More and more Muslims are sending their children to schools and colleges. In 2002, there were 200 Muslim educational trusts in Gujarat. Now, there are more than 800. "The reaction of the Muslim community has been very positive," says social scientist Achyut Yagnik. "Muslim women are also talking about more education. It's all about moving forward with education." He is right. Everywhere I went, Muslim men and women spoke about the importance of education. In Godhra, I met telecommunications engineer Mohammed Yusuf, 51, who spent a year in prison after being falsely implicated in bomb attacks. He is a soft-spoken man with a flowing beard. "For long, we have lived as frogs in the well. Now we need to get out, educate and inform ourselves, know what our rights are, find our place in the world and defend our rights," he says. Ten years. More than 1,000 lives lost. Broken lives. Scant justice. But in Gujarat's frayed social fabric, hope still beckons.

गुजरात सरकार में एक वरिष्ठ मंत्री जय नारायण व्यास कहते हैं, "यह राज्य पर एक धब्बा था। यह निंदनीय था", जिसने ठीक 10 साल पहले स्वतंत्रता के बाद से भारत में कुछ सबसे खराब धार्मिक दंगे देखे थे।


Yemen war: What will the new year hold?

Summary: ''I sincerely hope that we are living the beginning of the end of one of the biggest tragedies of the 21st Century,'' reflected a beaming UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the end of a week of Yemen peace talks in a secluded Swedish castle.

Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent@bbclysedouceton Twitter In front of the world's cameras, Yemeni rivals smiled too, shaking hands, with a bit of help, from the UN chief. ''I told the UN Secretary General there is no need for him to help bring us closer," Yemen's Foreign Minister Khalid al-Yamany later posted on his Twitter account about this crucial clasp. ''This is my brother, despite his coup against the state, and the destruction of the homeland which caused this human tragedy.'' As 2018 drew to a close, the image of a Yemeni government minister and a senior Houthi official shaking hands on a deal, which included a surprising ceasefire in the strategic port city of Hudaydah, shot like an electric current around the world. The process, led by the UN's third Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths, marked the most significant breakthrough in five years of talks. ''Have you seen the video of the handshake?'' exclaimed a Yemeni friend, who added a bright happy emoji to her post sent on the WhatsApp messaging service. Congratulatory statements cascaded from a multitude of aid agencies who'd been sounding the alarm for months about the world's worst humanitarian crisis becoming, unimaginably, even worse. But behind this Swedish moment, which provoked a rare hashtag of #Hope on social media, lies deep distrust. It still keeps warring sides and their backers a long way from peace. No sooner did the talks end, the Houthis described the Yemeni government as the ''UAE-Saudi controlled delegation.'' And Yemeni government officials privately accused their rivals aligned with Iran of negotiating in bad faith. The "immediate ceasefire'' in Hudaydah was soon broken. The truce is now largely holding, but imperfectly so, with each side accusing the other of violating it. No one expects it to be smooth, simple, or straightforward. The news from Sweden was exceptionally good. In part, that's because any news from Yemen has been extraordinarily bad. It happened because of a new international focus on Yemen's dire plight. It was present inside the sprawling Swedish castle and on phone lines to capitals which can make all the difference on the battlefield. ''We were blessed,'' a senior UN official tells me with palpable relief. And discussions between Yemeni enemies brought them a bit closer. ''We ate together, talked together, and we created a bit of warmth by sharing jokes about the cold weather,'' a member of the Yemeni government delegation explains. Other breakthroughs included the mechanics of a mass prisoner exchange which, if implemented, will bring joy and relief to thousands of families. An ''understanding'' was also reached to discuss a punishing siege on the south-western city of Taiz. But, as Peter Salisbury of the International Crisis Group points out, the agreements reached in Stockholm "reflect a strong humanitarian impulse rather than strategic calculations." There was no consensus in Stockholm on the parameters of a road map towards peace. The UK's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt admits that while "there was light at the end of the tunnel, Yemen was still very much in the tunnel.'' The political wrangling at the UN Security Council over the resolution passed to underpin the agreements was all too familiar. Iran's involvement in this conflict continues to be the principle preoccupation of the Saudi-led coalition. "The US administration clearly sees the Iran dimension," an Arab foreign minister emphasises with satisfaction. A major litmus test will be the critical ceasefire in the port city of Hudaydah, the vital lifeline for humanitarian aid which helps feed nearly two-thirds of Yemen's population. A United Nations Redeployment Committee is now on the ground, headed by a UN military expert, the former Dutch general Patrick Cammaert, and includes members from the warring sides. The language in this imperfect last-minute deal was necessarily vague. It's already being interpreted in conflicting ways. The agreement says ''local security forces'' will assume control once the Houthis pull out of the main port as well as two others, followed by a ''mutual withdrawal'' of Houthi fighters as well as pro-government forces now massed just a few miles outside Hudaydah. Houthi officials are insisting some of their forces and civil servants will fill the vacuum. The Yemeni government is making clear it wants its own ministries to take charge. Discussions are also underway in countries not directly involved in this conflict about providing observers for a de-militarised zone around this strategic area. "The establishment of a ceasefire in Hudaydah is a crucial first step toward averting outright famine in Yemen and perhaps even toward ending the war," says Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group, "yet the good intentions of the fighting parties should not be taken for granted." "This is why it is critical that there be a strong UN-led monitoring mechanism with full international backing. In Yemen's war, there are spoilers galore." he says. Other eyes will be on this too. ''The Americans have given us guarantees they will use their satellite technology to ensure the Houthi withdrawal takes place,'' an Arab official in the Saudi-led coalition tells me. Enhanced US engagement in this process has been pivotal. The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October has concentrated minds in Washington on its relationship with the kingdom, including its military support in Yemen. As anger mounted in the US Congress, both Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis called for a ceasefire and a commitment to the Stockholm process. Then, in the last 36 hours of talks, Secretary Mattis and other senior officials were on the phone to the Saudi and Emirati capitals. What had been a growing sense that a major assault on Hudaydah was all but inevitable shifted to a new focus on a truce. "The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, intervened personally at least three times to put pressure on the Yemeni government delegation,'' one Western source disclosed about the involvement of the kingdom's de facto ruler, who is regarded as the architect of its war in Yemen. On the ground, the UAE-led forces around Hudaydah had all but encircled this coveted stretch of land on the Red Sea coast. But the UAE knew what could be next - months of bloody street-to-street fighting against well-entrenched Houthi fighters and horrific headlines which would intensify outrage in the new US Congress and beyond over the human cost of this conflict. "The ceasefire isn't the same as a knockout blow but it's definitely the next best thing," an Arab diplomat in the coalition tells me. And, rather hopefully, he adds, "this will now be a Yemeni process which takes pressure off the coalition." Observers believe the Houthis also knew it was only a matter of time before they lost Hudaydah militarily. The ceasefire also offered them a way out. The next round of talks, set for late January, will be tougher. Yemen's year ends with less pessimism, even if a new one is certain to start with more surprises as well as setbacks.

"मैं ईमानदारी से आशा करता हूं कि हम 21वीं सदी की सबसे बड़ी त्रासदियों में से एक के अंत की शुरुआत में जी रहे हैं", एक सुनसान स्वीडिश महल में यमन शांति वार्ता के एक सप्ताह के अंत में संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासचिव एंटोनियो गुटेरेस ने मुस्कुराते हुए कहा।


24 photographers document 24 hours

Summary: Sixteen years ago, a group of 24 photographers set out to document every hour of New Year's Day, every year, for 24 years.

This year, their work has been curated by American photojournalist Ed Kashi and is on show in Soho Square, London, from Sunday, 24 February, until 19 March. "To capture life in a 24-hour period, especially what life is these days, presents a great challenge," says Kashi. "The visual representation of this concept has been poignantly, and in some cases poetically, reflected in this set of images. "The variety of situations, people and atmospheres give a vibrant and visually dynamic feeling to the times we're living in." You can see more of this year's work on the project website.

सोलह साल पहले, 24 फोटोग्राफरों का एक समूह 24 वर्षों के लिए हर साल नए साल के दिन के हर घंटे का दस्तावेजीकरण करने के लिए निकलता था।


Social distancing: Could one metre rule boost NI hotels?

Summary: Bill Wolsey knows something about trading in times of adversity.

By John CampbellBBC News NI Economics & Business Editor He opened a £16m extension to his flagship Merchant Hotel in 2010, a time when Northern Ireland was mired in a gruelling recession. He worked through that and was ultimately able to grow his business. Now he's worried about how the entire hotel sector is supposed to operate in a time of social distancing. Hotels in Northern Ireland got a target reopening date this week - 20 July. As it stands they will have to operate using two metre social distancing. "If it's two metres, we are going to be operating at roughly 40% - 50% capacity,"says Mr Wolsey. "If it's one metre it's going to be around 70% capacity. The difference is huge. We're hoping Stormont is going to look at the one metre. "We're not irresponsible people. We can be given the opportunity to do this and there's evidence to show it's safe." The World Health Organization says that a distance of 1m is safe. Some countries, such as France and Denmark, have adopted this guidance while others, including the UK, have gone further. The Stormont Economy Minister Diane Dodds is open to moving the Northern Ireland guidance to one metre. This week she said it was something the Executive will "have to give thought to". "I have listened to and understand the arguments and I understand that people must make their businesses viable," she told the BBC. "Right across Europe there are different views on this. "Some countries like the UK and Republic of Ireland have adopted a two metre rule, some Scandinavian have adopted a one metre rule. "We've got to do what's right for Northern Ireland, what's right for people's lives and safety and what's right to help us get business up and running." She will now have to make her argument at the Executive table. Hospitality staff will need to be persuaded too. Trade unions are suspicious. Neill Moore, the Unite hospitality organiser, says an attempt is being made to bounce the Executive into shifting its position. "There is no possible health-science basis for eroding this protection - it is a demand designed to increase profit at the cost of lives and must be resisted." 'Powerful intervention' Into this debate came a new study published in The Lancet medical journal. It is a review and meta-analysis of more than 170 existing pieces of research. It found that social distancing is a powerful intervention for reducing the spread of coronavirus. It suggests that if a person has Covid-19, standing close to them results in a 13% chance of infection. But with one metre social distancing the risk of infection goes down to 2.6% while increasingly the distance to two metres halves the risk again to 1.3%. The study concludes: "The results of our current review support the implementation of a policy of physical distancing of at least 1m and, if feasible, 2m or more." The key part of that sentence may the words "if feasible." Does it just mean practically feasible or will economic feasibility be considered too?

बिल वोल्सी प्रतिकूल समय में व्यापार के बारे में कुछ जानते हैं।


PM sticks to script as Boris Johnson enters election fray

Summary: Presenter: "Do you know what a mugwump is?"

Laura KuenssbergPolitical editor@bbclaurakon Twitter Theresa May: "What I recognise is that what we need in this country is strong and stable leadership." It's probably fair to say that this is not the stuff of epic election moments - those times that have shaped all our destinies; moments when the country asks itself, truly, who governs?; days when suddenly, a leader, a party's fate is decided. Theresa May, it's also probably fair to assume, did not dream of that question being put to her, nor of having to provide an answer, and, slightly robotically, grimly stick to her prepared script come hell or high water, rather than echo the colourful copy of her foreign secretary. Nor perhaps, was Boris Johnson's first big day out on the campaign trail designed to land the prime minister with questions tonight about her intentions for Syria. Would she just do Donald Trump's bidding if asked to help in another attack? Hypothetical questions she resolutely refused to answer at a rally of the party faithful in Yorkshire. Yet few in Tory HQ will be weeping at the product of Boris Johnson's arrival in this campaign, whether it is his Victorian insult hurled at Jeremy Corbyn, which will have upset some voters, (we heard that sentiment that the Tories were "bullying" Mr Corbyn on the trail in Essex), nor his admission that it would be "very difficult" for the UK to refuse Donald Trump. Whether it was the accidental or deliberate howls of not one, but two dead cats today, the foreign secretary's productive morning attracted yet more attention to one of the issues the Conservatives believe is most dangerous for Jeremy Corbyn. His attitudes towards security and defence, long held, and central to his core supporters, are, the Tories believe, one of his greatest vulnerabilities in this campaign. For floating voters, or many traditional Labour voters, the Tories will have been only too glad to create as much noise as they can.

प्रस्तुतकर्ताः "क्या आप जानते हैं कि मगवंप क्या होता है?"


Converted Monmouth chicken coop up for architecture prize

Summary: A run-down chicken coop which was transformed into a four-bedroom holiday home has been nominated for an architecture prize.

Martin Hall renovated the shed in Monmouth after seeing its potential due to the views of the Black Mountains. The £275,000 renovation is now up for the gold medal for architecture at the National Eisteddfod. Architects Hall and Bednarczyk said the barn was "abandoned for several decades and in a rundown state". The gold medal recognises architectural excellence and the winner will be announced during the festival in August.

चार कमरों वाले हॉलिडे होम में बदल दिए गए चिकन कूप को वास्तुकला पुरस्कार के लिए नामित किया गया है।


New Horizons: Agonising wait for news from Ultima Thule

Summary: I suspect it's not that unusual to wake on New Year's Day still wondering about what happened the night before, but it's not exactly what you'd expect the team behind a Nasa spacecraft gathered at mission control to do.

By Dr Chris LintottBBC presenter, The Sky at Night Nonetheless, that's the story of two very different celebrations that happened here at Maryland's Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) over the last day or so. I'm writing this from the heart of the New Horizons mission, which just after midnight local time last night flew just 3,500 kilometres away from the icy surface of a rock nicknamed Ultima Thule. There was a bit of a party here last night, and accompanying the team at mission control was everyone from scientific celebrities - Walter Alvarez, discoverer of the K-Pg boundary (formerly known as the K-T boundary) that provided evidence of the asteroid impact that did for the dinosaurs - to, well, actual celebrities. Dr Brian May is officially part of the New Horizons team, and drew quite a crowd to his briefing. As the countdown to the flyby reached its climax, the crowd went as crazy as any New Year crowd would as the fireworks lit up the night sky. Few of those assembled slept well though, without confirmation that the spacecraft was safe. It reminded me of a similar moment in the same place in July 2015, as the world watched as New Horizons flew past Pluto. Then, as now, the team celebrated while knowing that they had to wait to see if their plucky spacecraft had survived its encounter. A debris detection effort preceded both encounters, but with the craft moving at 14km/s, even a collision with something the size of a pea could be fatal. New Horizons can't talk to Earth and point to take observations at the same time, and so only after a post-flyby signal is received can the team really relax and begin to anticipate the scientific bonanza heading their way. This morning's celebration was the real one. There was a brief delay as the mission operations manager, Alice Bowman (MOM to the team) waited for the signal from the ground station in Madrid to confirm that all is well. It is - and the first decent images of Ultima Thule are likely already on their way back to Earth from the spacecraft. We'll get to see them in the next couple of days, and it will take 20 months or so to get all the data back to Earth, but as ever at big space events I'm left thinking about the human contribution to these robotic missions. Some of the New Horizons team have been working on the mission since the early 1990s, and others will have careers that depend on a successful return of data from this flyby. All are anticipating a couple of sleepless nights as they struggle to make sense of a world that until now has been visible only as a couple of pixels. Scattered amongst the crowd are those who will carry on New Horizons' legacy - I've spotted team members from Nasa's Osiris-ReX spacecraft which entered orbit around the asteroid Bennu yesterday, and the leaders of upcoming missions to a strange metal asteroid called Psyche and to the trojan asteroids that share an orbit with Jupiter. Wherever we've explored in the Solar System, we've found the unexpected. As we wait for our close up look at Ultima Thule, it's hard not to get excited about what happens next. The BBC's Sky At Night programme will broadcast a special episode on the flyby on Sunday 13 January on BBC Four at 22:30 GMT. Presenter Chris Lintott will review the event and discuss some of the new science to emerge from the encounter with the New Horizons team.

मुझे संदेह है कि नए साल के दिन अभी भी यह सोचकर जागना असामान्य नहीं है कि पिछली रात क्या हुआ था, लेकिन यह ठीक वैसा नहीं है जैसा आप मिशन नियंत्रण में एकत्र नासा अंतरिक्ष यान के पीछे की टीम से करने की उम्मीद करते हैं।


Bloodhound Diary: Newquay is go!

Summary: A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will first mount an assault on the world land speed record (763mph; 1,228km/h). Bloodhound should start running on Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa, in 2018.

By Andy GreenWorld Land Speed Record Holder Bloodhound is Go! That's the phrase we've been waiting for and now the dates are confirmed: we'll be blasting the car down the runway at Newquay in Cornwall at the end of October. We've picked three separate events to show off the car. The best day (if you can make it) is 26 October, which will be the car's first-ever public runs. This is the VIP and media day, and we're giving all our 1K Club Gold Members the chance to join our other VIPs, to say thank you for their support (if you want to come and you're not a member already, then fear not, there's still time to sign up here). The public day is 28 October, which will give everyone the chance to come along and see the fantastic support we're getting from Cornwall Airport Newquay, as we run the world's most advanced straight-line racing car along their runway. Finally (and perhaps most importantly), we're having a schools' day on 30 October, as we bring Bloodhound's "Engineering Adventure" to life for future engineers in the most exciting way possible. If your school wants to come along, then keep an eye on the Bloodhound website, as tickets will be released shortly. At the Bloodhound Technical Centre right now, there's a lot of work going on to get the car ready for its first test runs and our first public "show". To keep it simple, the car will be running with the jet engine only, as the rocket system isn't ready yet (we don't need it for runway testing). There's still a long list of work to get the car ready for Newquay. The task list is a logical one, starting with lower-chassis assembly, then fitting the front and rear suspension, and the final installation of the cockpit and systems will be completed while the upper-chassis is being assembled. The lower-chassis is already being finished off, with the installation of the "rocket tunnel" as the last major piece of structural work on the car. But hang on a minute, I've just said that we won't be using the rocket this year, so why are we fitting the titanium "tunnel" that the rocket sits in? There's a simple explanation. The tunnel is a structural part of the car, adding torsional stiffness (in other words, reducing the tendency to twist) in the lower-chassis. After a lot of folding, drilling and riveting, the tunnel is now fully installed, some two weeks ahead of schedule - a great start by the workshop team. While the chassis is being built up, the car's systems (electrics, electronics, sensors and so on) are being tested off the car before installation. Let's not underestimate the scale of the task involved. With all of the power, control and sensor connections included, there is an estimated 50km of wiring in the car. Given that the longest cable in the vehicle is less than 10m long, that's over 5,000 (and probably more like 10,000) individual wires, all of which need connecting to the right places at both ends, and all of which need testing. I'm in awe of the fact that the systems team is on top of all this work. We've got a few weeks' more work to do before starting the in-car systems testing and "integration". Essentially, integration means checking that all the parts are playing nicely together, including making sure that they are all talking to the cockpit, of course: my job as driver is critically dependent on getting all of this right. Once the car is fully assembled and "workshop-tested", we'll aim to move down to Newquay by the start of October. So what's going to happen when we get to Newquay and how fast will the car go when you come to see it run? The peak speed on the runway will depend on several things that we need to find out during our October test sessions, before the high-speed public runs at the end of the month. The first thing we need to know is how the jet engine performs at slow speed. Bloodhound's jet air intake (the big upside-down mouth that sits just behind the cockpit) is optimised (i.e. it is the right size) for around 850mph, while jet aircraft like the Typhoon have a complex "variable geometry" intake, which opens wide at low speed and reduces size as the jet accelerates to supersonic speeds. For simplicity, Bloodhound has a fixed intake, designed to give maximum power (and minimum drag) at supersonic speeds, so it is deliberately made fairly small. This means that at very slow speeds, the intake will not be able to feed the EJ200 jet engine with all the air it needs, so we are likely to be power-limited until the car is well over 100mph. Thanks to Rolls-Royce, we've got a very detailed model of the airflow into the jet intake, but with complex real-world factors like turbulence, which is nearly impossible to model precisely, we need to do some testing to get exact numbers. Once we've tested the intake, we'll know how quickly we can accelerate the car. That's only half the challenge though, as we have to stop the car again before reaching the other end of Newquay's 1.7-mile runway. That means measuring the precise grip of the high-speed aircraft tyres (which were not designed for a 5-tonne, jet-powered car) and measuring how much energy the brakes can absorb. AP Racing bench-tested the brakes for us some time ago, but now we need to know how they perform in the real world, with aerodynamic drag and brake cooling effects added in. When we add together the engine intake limits, the acceleration distance, braking distance, brake energy limit, and so on, we'll come up with a maximum speed for runway runs. We've announced an intention to do "up to 200mph". How fast do I think we can go? Here's the bit where I risk embarrassment by taking a guess. With a bit of luck, I think we'll be able to reach just over 200mph on the runway at Newquay. Want to find out? Come and watch! Another key part of Newquay testing will be the data logging and analysis, making sure it's all working before we go to South Africa next year. Our aerodynamics guru, Dr Ben Evans, is already busy at Swansea University getting his analysis tools ready to crunch the data from nearly 200 pressure sensors fitted to Bloodhound. Talking of data, we had some more very good news this month, with the signing of a deal that will allow us to stream the car's video and data to a global audience. Our new partner is aiming to announce the partnership in a few weeks' time, so watch this space. This is an exciting announcement for us, as it is a key part of our global "Engineering Adventure". It means that we can now interact with the largest audience in history for a live science experiment, as we develop the technology of the world's fastest car. In the meantime, we already have tens of thousands of young (and not-so-young) students involved in our model rocket car competitions across the UK. The national finals occurred at the end of June. If building and launching their own rocket cars wasn't exciting (and challenging) enough, the rules require each car to contain a BBC micro:bit data logger, which the students have to programme themselves. By the time they see Bloodhound running in the desert, they'll all be experts - which is of course the whole idea.

एक ब्रिटिश टीम एक ऐसी कार विकसित कर रही है जो 1,000 मील प्रति घंटे (1,610 किमी/घंटा) तक पहुंचने में सक्षम होगी। एक यूरोफाइटर-टाइफून जेट इंजन को बोल्ट किए गए रॉकेट द्वारा संचालित, वाहन पहले विश्व भूमि गति रिकॉर्ड (763 मील प्रति घंटे; 1,228 किमी/घंटा) पर हमला करेगा। ब्लडहाउंड को 2018 में उत्तरी केप, दक्षिण अफ्रीका में हक्सकीन पैन पर चलना शुरू करना चाहिए।