Viewpoint: Qandeel Baloch was killed for making lives 'difficult'

Summary: The murder of Pakistan's first social media star Qandeel Baloch prompted instant soul searching in the country and made headlines around the world. Her brother has now been sentenced for killing her but the roots of this tragedy can also be traced to the judgement and scorn of her lifestyle in Pakistan, writes journalist Sanam Maher who has followed Qandeel's story for years.

Last Friday, one of Pakistan's most well known murder cases came to a close after three years. The country's first celebrity-by-social-media, Qandeel Baloch, was killed at the age of 26 by her brother in July 2016. It was a so-called honour killing - he felt that the videos and photographs she had been posting online brought disrespect to their family. After he strangled his sister at their home in Multan while their parents slept, Waseem returned to their ancestral village of Shah Sadar Din, a little over two hours drive away, where he made no effort to hide. According to many reports, he was spotted riding around on his motorbike in the village's main market the morning after he killed his sister. He needed people in the village to know what he had done. In the days before the murder, a newspaper had published images of Qandeel's passport, revealing that her real name was not in fact Qandeel but Fouzia Azeem. Her followers learned that she came from a village in rural Punjab, from a house with dirt floors, and she was not, as she had claimed, the daughter of a rich landlord. When I travelled to Shah Sadar Din in October 2016 to report on the murder, I met with villagers who told me that they were disgusted when the news of her true origins broke. "Your sister is singing and dancing in her knickers and you're living a luxurious life with the money she earns," one man told Waseem. "You have no ghairat (honour)." When Waseem was arrested the day after the murder, he was presented at a press conference where journalists asked him why he had killed his sister. "The reason is the way she was coming on Facebook," he replied simply. Attiya Jaffrey, the lead investigator on the case, told me that Waseem confessed to her: "She made our lives very difficult and I had no other solution". Waseem has now been sentenced to 25 years in prison, but five other suspects, including Mufti Abdul Qavi, a cleric, were acquitted. In June 2016, Qandeel publically accused Mufti Qavi of behaving inappropriately with her during a meeting at a hotel. In a press conference held shortly after, she pleaded with the government for protection, saying that she was receiving threatening phone calls and messages, saying she had "exposed" the cleric for what she claimed he truly was: a hypocrite who used Islam to further his interests. When news broke of Qandeel's murder, a television channel asked Mufti Qavi for his reaction. "In the future, before you humiliate the clergy, you should remind yourself of this woman's fate," he warned. On Friday, Mufti Qavi was acquitted of playing any part in her murder and as he exited the court he was showered with rose petals by those who felt it was a step too far to even indict him. However, many others took to social media to voice their dismay at the court's judgement. "It is now proven that a mullah will always escape punishment irrespective of the crime," tweeted journalist Mubashir Zaidi. "This verdict offers an empty, dissatisfying closure," said another journalist, Amber Rahim Shamsi. "The lesson is that the powerful and influential… are never held responsible." When I met Mufti Qavi in 2016, he was at a low point: he had been left out in the cold by his political party (Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf), unceremoniously removed from a religious committee and he was the butt of jokes in the press. The police had been investigating whether Mufti Qavi directly or indirectly, through his supporters, encouraged Qandeel's brother to kill her. In the crush of reporters outside the court on Friday, Mufti Qavi said he had been vindicated. "The prayers of my supporters have been met," he said. "It is a day of justice, of victory." Could one woman's word, I had wondered in our meeting three years ago, threaten a man's privilege and status? I got my answer this Friday - no. "They did not have a single witness who spoke against me," Qavi said. There's no doubt that Qandeel was provocative and indeed many of those who mourn her today drew courage from this at the time. Fatima, a 25-year-old journalist I met in Multan in 2016, told me that she started following Qandeel on social media after she watched a video of her swimming in a pool where men were present. It was a small way to thumb her nose at those who said she was immodest. "She was a baghi (rebel)," Fatima said. Qandeel's photographs and videos became more risqué - for conservative Pakistani society - as her fame grew and hateful comments would follow within moments of her posting them. "If I find this woman alone, I would kill her right on the spot and would hide her haram (forbidden) body," one comment on Facebook read. She confused her critics. How could she continue to behave the way she did? What kind of woman did not feel shame? A man in Shah Sadar Din who sympathised with Qandeel - and did not want me to name him for this reason - told me that when I wrote about her, I should not call this an "honour killing". "This woman was not murdered in the name of honour," he said. "She was murdered because of people's judgement." When Waseem strangled Qandeel, he was trying to silence that judgement. What followed was praise: "Qandeel Baloch was a disgrace to Pakistan," a woman tweeted when news broke of the killing. "She's certainly gonna suffer in hell. Her brother did well." The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated that nearly 1,100 women were victims of honour crimes in the year preceding Qandeel's murder. They had stepped out of line: had a relationship, married of their own free will, had an argument with their husband. Sometimes they were killed because someone merely suspected them of doing these things. If their stories made it to the newspaper, they were usually buried within the pages inside in a small paragraph. But millions had seen Qandeel's transgressions. She had behaved badly, and what was worse, her critics said, was that she didn't seem to care. "Shamelessness and exhibitionism are a scourge in our society, spread through women like her," said Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam religious party. In Shah Sadar Din, there was relief. "One who seems without honour or self-respect can discover it at any time," they said. Qandeel's parents told me that she had promised her brother that she only needed a little bit of time before she quit the work she was doing. If she had, if Waseem had given her that chance, would she have been praised for rediscovering her ghairat (honour)? When the verdict was announced, this is one of the first tweets I saw: "This bitch got exactly what was coming to her." Honour crimes seek to strengthen a social code by brutally punishing those who violate it. The court's verdict on Friday draws a neat line between victim and suspect. Perhaps that is why it feels like it falls short. A parallel justice system exists, a court of public opinion. And there, the question remains: how complicit is this society in this killing? The jury is still out. Sanam Maher is a journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan and the author of the book, A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch.

पाकिस्तान के पहले सोशल मीडिया स्टार कंदील बलोच की हत्या ने देश में तुरंत आत्मा की खोज को प्रेरित किया और दुनिया भर में सुर्खियां बटोरीं। उसके भाई को अब उसकी हत्या के लिए सजा सुनाई गई है, लेकिन इस त्रासदी की जड़ें पाकिस्तान में उसकी जीवन शैली के फैसले और तिरस्कार से भी मिल सकती हैं, पत्रकार सनम मेहर लिखते हैं, जिन्होंने वर्षों से कंदील की कहानी का अनुसरण किया है।


Kenya's Dream City nightclub in Kisumu hit by deadly fire

Summary: At least two people have been killed in a fire which swept through a popular nightclub on the outskirts of Kenya's lakeside city of Kisumu, police say.

The number of dead could rise as many people are feared trapped in the building, police told the BBC. Fire-fighters were still battling the blaze four hours after it started on the first floor, local media report. Police suspect that an electrical fault caused the fire at the Dream City nightclub, which also has guestrooms. Rescue workers pulled out two charred bodies from burnt rooms, Kisumu county police commander John Kamau said. Four people were safely evacuated from the building, he added. Others escaped after jumping out of windows, Kenya's privately owned Daily Nation newspaper reported. The 12 guest rooms were fully occupied when the fire started at about 04:00 local time (01:00 GMT), it added.

केन्या के झील के किनारे स्थित शहर किसुमु के बाहरी इलाके में एक लोकप्रिय नाइट क्लब में लगी आग में कम से कम दो लोगों की मौत हो गई है।


New £22.3m third Don crossing opens in Aberdeen

Summary: The third Don crossing in Aberdeen opened to the public on Thursday afternoon, following months of delays.

The £22.3m Diamond Bridge linking Danestone and Tillydrone is aimed at easing congestion. It was supposed to be completed late last year but issues with re-routing underground utilities caused a series of delays. A worker also died in an accident on the site. The Diamond Bridge name was chosen by local schoolchildren.

एबरडीन में तीसरा डॉन क्रॉसिंग महीनों की देरी के बाद गुरुवार दोपहर को जनता के लिए खोल दिया गया।


German pigeon flashed by speed camera goes viral

Summary: It was a quiet afternoon in Bocholt in western Germany when a pigeon broke the calm and the speed limit, flying down a residential street at 45km/h (28mph) in a 30km/h zone.

A mobile speed camera flashed as soon as the pigeon flew past. Authorities in the town, a short distance from the Dutch border, published the picture last week, and it has since gone viral. Under normal circumstances the penalty for speeding would be €25 (£21;$28). The bizarre event took place in February but Bocholt town hall's Facebook account said it had taken some time to assess the pictures. The town said that even with a 3km/h margin allowed in speeding cases, the pigeon had been going 12km/h too fast and was "on a collision course with vehicles and pedestrians". One local said it was clearly a racing pigeon, while another suggested an appropriate punishment would be community service as a carrier pigeon. The Bocholt Facebook page said philosophically: "Whether and, above all, how the fast bird can and will pay its €25 on-the-spot fine remains to be seen."

पश्चिमी जर्मनी के बोचोल्ट में यह एक शांत दोपहर थी जब एक कबूतर 30 किमी/घंटा क्षेत्र में 45 किमी/घंटा (28 मील/घंटा) की गति से एक आवासीय सड़क पर उड़ते हुए शांति और गति सीमा को तोड़ दिया।


Attempted murder arrest after Buxton fight stabbing

Summary: A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after another man was injured in a fight.

The 28-year-old was found with a stab wound to his chest after police were called to a disturbance in Fairfield Road in Buxton, Derbyshire, on Thursday afternoon. Derbyshire Police said he remained in hospital at the weekend and was recovering. A 26-year-old man was later arrested in Liverpool. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.

लड़ाई में एक अन्य व्यक्ति के घायल होने के बाद हत्या के प्रयास के संदेह में एक व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Michael Cohen: Why the raid on Trump's lawyer is a big deal

Summary: The FBI has raided the office, home and hotel room of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's long-time personal lawyer, business adviser and fixer-of-uncomfortable-problems. Now Mr Cohen himself has become the uncomfortable problem, with no easy fix in sight.

Anthony ZurcherNorth America reporter@awzurcheron Twitter There's basically no precedent for this sort of action in modern US presidential politics. And Mr Trump's response on Monday afternoon - an unprompted, extended tirade that used the word "disgrace" or "disgraceful" nine times - hints that the president is concerned… and angry. Here are a few reasons why the Cohen raid is a significant development in the ongoing presidential investigations - and a growing headache for the White House. The man under the microscope Fifty-one-year-old New Yorker Michael Cohen has a law degree, but his past duties for Mr Trump were not typical attorney obligations. While he did provide counsel, he also was one of the Trump Organization's lead negotiators on foreign business dealings, the man who would send threatening legal letters to Trump critics and - at least in the Stormy Daniels episode - someone who would arrange to keep potentially embarrassing information about Mr Trump under wraps. "They say I'm Mr Trump's pitbull, that I'm his right-hand man," Mr Cohen said in 2011. "What I am is a loyal employee. I like the man a lot." In other words, Mr Cohen - although he severed his ties with the Trump business organisation in 2017 - has been deeply embedded in the Trump world for roughly a decade. If he is under legal scrutiny, it could open a vast window into the inner workings of the president's business empire. His real estate dealings in Russia had already attracted the attention of special counsel Robert Mueller's team, and he was featured prominently in the now-notorious Christopher Steele dossier. Even if the search leads nowhere, federal agents scrutinising a presidential lawyer's business is still a remarkable development. At the moment, however, there's no telling what law enforcement's efforts on Monday could turn up. A second investigation The issue isn't just what happened - federal investigators reportedly collecting documents and related information about Mr Cohen's tax records, business dealings and six-figure payment to secure the silence of Daniels, an adult film star who says she had an affair with Mr Trump. It's also who is doing the investigating. According to media reports, the search was the result of information originally discovered by Mueller's investigation, but his office wasn't involved in the search. Instead, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein instructed the Mueller team to refer the matter to the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, which requested and executed the warrant. Geoffrey Berman has served as the acting US attorney for the Southern District for more than a year, after Mr Trump fired his predecessor, Preet Bharara. He's a long-time Republican donor, including to Mr Trump's presidential campaign, and has reportedly recused himself from the investigation. Because this is being handled by his office and not the special counsel, however, any move Mr Trump makes against Mr Mueller will have no impact on this inquiry, which appears to be focused on whether the payment to Daniels - and perhaps other women who have alleged romantic involvement with Mr Trump - violated tax, banking or campaign finance laws. Mr Cohen says he made a $130,000 payment to Daniels in October 2016 out of his own funds in exchange for her silence. If that turns out not to be the case, or if the payment is considered to be the equivalent of campaign contribution, it could run afoul of federal disclosure rules. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards faced criminal prosecution in 2011 for undisclosed campaign payments he made to a former mistress. In other words, this is not an academic consideration. Privilege threatened The FBI-conducted raid of Mr Cohen's property isn't a garden-variety search, either. Because Mr Cohen is the president's personal attorney, federal investigators had to comply with extra safeguards to avoid infringing on a client's right to confidential legal counsel. Top-level Justice Department officials had to approve of the move, and extra personnel were involved in the process to ensure that "privileged" communications between Mr Cohen and his clients, including Mr Trump, were not disclosed to the investigatory team. The sensitivity of the search was probably on the president's mind on Tuesday morning when he tweeted, "Attorney-client privilege is dead!" The lawyer protections aren't iron-clad, however. There are exceptions to the rules, such as in cases where the lawyer is discussing topics outside the realm of agreed legal representation or the parties are involved in committing or concealing criminal activity. If investigators conclude there is reason to believe that Mr Cohen's payment to Daniels violated banking, tax or campaign finance laws - and is able to convince a judge to concur - then material related to that act, even if it includes otherwise protected communications, could be admissible in court. A storm is brewing During a meeting with his military advisers on Monday the president embarked on extended remarks about what he viewed as the impropriety of the Cohen search. He called his lawyer a "good man" and claimed that law enforcement "broke into" his office. Mr Cohen told CNN that FBI agents "were extremely professional, courteous and respectful". Mr Trump reiterated that the investigations - including, presumably, the one involving Mr Cohen - were a "witch hunt". He again questioned the impartiality of those investigating him, asserted that there was no evidence of "collusion" between his campaign and Russia, and said Democrats should be the focus of scrutiny. He called the investigation an "attack on our country" and "on what we all stand for" and entertained the possibility of firing Mr Mueller, as "many people" are saying he should do. "So we'll see what happens," the president said. The most significant development out of the Cohen raid, then, is what it could set in motion. The president relied on many of his worn phrases - "many people are saying" and "we'll see" - that have, in the past, hinted at future action. He has reportedly considered firing Mr Mueller in the past. Would the special counsel's role in all this be enough to push the president over the top? Mr Trump again took swipes at his own attorney general and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - himself a past target of presidential ire - who approved the New York office's raid. Could their positions be in jeopardy? In a Russia investigation that has moved by increments over the past few months, the Cohen search represents a stunning development. There's a new front in the political and legal warfare, and a new series of exposures for the president and those closest to him. Even if the president decides to act, however, the scope of the inquiry - and the potential damage that could result - just became much more challenging to contain. More from Anthony:

एफ. बी. आई. ने डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प के लंबे समय से निजी वकील, व्यापार सलाहकार और असुविधाजनक समस्याओं को ठीक करने वाले माइकल कोहेन के कार्यालय, घर और होटल के कमरे पर छापा मारा है। अब श्री कोहेन स्वयं असुविधाजनक समस्या बन गए हैं, जिसका कोई आसान समाधान नजर नहीं आ रहा है।


The Balkans on film, 25 years since the Dayton Agreement

Summary: December marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the international peace treaty known as the Dayton Agreement, which brought an end to nearly four years of conflict in former Yugoslavia. Since then Scottish photographer Chris Leslie has been visiting the Balkans and capturing how its people and places have changed.

Between 1992 and 1995, the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina claimed more than 100,000 lives and made around two million people homeless. To bring an end to the bloodshed, the Dayton Peace Agreement was officially signed by the presidents of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia in Paris on 14 December 1995. The agreement came after 21 days of negotiation at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, and was driven by US President Bill Clinton and his team. "No-one outside can guarantee that Muslims, Croats and Serbs in Bosnia can come together and stay together as free citizens in a united country sharing a common destiny," President Clinton said at the time. "Only the Bosnian people can do that." The former Yugoslavia was a Socialist state created after German occupation in World War II and a bitter civil war. The federation of six republics brought together Serbs, Croats, Bosnian Muslims, Albanians, Slovenes and others under a comparatively relaxed communist regime. The leadership of President Josip Broz Tito successfully suppressed tensions until his death in 1980. Without Tito, there emerged calls for more autonomy within Yugoslavia by nationalist groups, leading to declarations of independence in Croatia and Slovenia in 1991. The Serb-dominated Yugoslav army lashed out, first in Slovenia and then in Croatia. Thousands were killed in the conflict in Croatia which was paused in 1992 under a UN-monitored ceasefire. Bosnia was next to try for independence. Bosnia's Serbs resisted and war ensued with over a million Bosnian Muslims and Croats driven from their homes in ethnic cleansing. The capital Sarajevo was besieged and shelled. After Nato bombed the Bosnian Serbs, Muslim and Croat forces made gains on the ground and ended the war. The Dayton Peace Agreement divided Bosnia into two self-governing entities, a Bosnian Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation lightly bound by a central government. The Dayton Agreement may have brought peace to the Balkans, but huge numbers of people were displaced and unemployed. Bafta-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Chris Leslie, from Scotland, has been visiting the Balkan region for nearly 25 years, documenting the war-ravaged towns and cities of former Yugoslavia. In a new photographic book, A Balkan Journey, Leslie reflects on how the landscapes and people of post-war Balkans changed since the Dayton Agreement. In 1996, Leslie volunteered with an NGO to work in the war-torn town of Pakrac in Croatia, to help run a project that taught children black and white photography. "Pakrac itself was in ruins - estimated to be 85% destroyed during the war with tension and divisions still high," he says. "A sense of menace and a low-lying level of stress permeated life in the town. "Sporadic explosions could still be heard as animals set off landmines in the surrounding fields, a handy reminder not to venture off the pathways or beaten track." During his visit, Leslie spent time with Ljuba Gajic (below), an 80-year-old Serb woman who lived alone in a small, partially destroyed house. Unlike her family and friends who were fearful of living in a newly-independent Croatian state, Ljuba had chosen to stay in Pakrac with her six chickens, three cats and dog called Jonny. When Leslie came to leave Pakrac in November 1996, he shared a tearful goodbye with Ljuba. "Ljuba poured us all one final plum brandy and with tears rolling down her cheeks, she clasped my face towards her and said I was like a son to her. "Then in the same breath she swore at the then Croatian president for ruining her life and shook her fists in the air." Inspired by the work he had done in Pakrac, Leslie travelled to Sarajevo in 1997 to set up his own photo project for children: the Sarajevo Camera Kids. Using donated equipment from Scotland, he set up a darkroom in the basement of an orphanage. He was soon overwhelmed with interest. "Children ran freely around their playgrounds and streets and photographed anything and everything that interested them. "[It was] a creative outlet for these kids who had dealt with a near lifetime of war and siege." Leslie worked on the project for three consecutive summers. In 1998 he met Una Mesic, 24 (below). "Can we talk about justice?" she asked him. "It's hard to talk about justice for all those families who lost their loved ones, their friends. "There are a lot of mothers in Bosnia still searching for the bones of their children. "There is no point talking about buildings, infrastructure, the economy - these are all possible to rebuild, but it's impossible to bring back those we lost." In 2004, Leslie visited Kosovo after the 1999 Kosovo war. "I saw a landscape in ruins. "A third of its housing stock - 120,000 homes - had been destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. "Homes in the former Yugoslavia did not just suffer damage as a result of war - they were intentionally destroyed, dynamited, and sometimes booby-trapped so no-one could ever return." Leslie visited Sarajevo again in 2015 to document the 20th anniversary of the Dayton Agreement. He spoke to student Kerim Rozajac, 20 at the Underground Nightclub in downtown Sarajevo. Kerim told Leslie: "A lot of people in Bosnia are considering peace as something unusual and special, thus accepting every kind of injustice from the government." On the same expedition, Leslie met Bozo Jevric, 62, who served as a Bosnian Serb soldier. "The best thing about Dayton was that I could give up my gun," said Bozo. "War is in the past and our future is working together. "It's the only way our village will survive." Leslie's most recent trip to Sarajevo was in 2018. "The city now puts on a brave, bold, cosmopolitan face, a modern European tourist destination like any other," he says. A Balkan Journey is funded by Creative Scotland.

दिसंबर डेटन समझौते के रूप में जानी जाने वाली अंतर्राष्ट्रीय शांति संधि पर हस्ताक्षर करने की 25वीं वर्षगांठ का प्रतीक है, जिसने पूर्व यूगोस्लाविया में लगभग चार साल के संघर्ष को समाप्त कर दिया। तब से स्कॉटिश फोटोग्राफर क्रिस लेस्ली बाल्कन का दौरा कर रहे हैं और यह कैद कर रहे हैं कि इसके लोग और स्थान कैसे बदल गए हैं।


Why IT needs to be real-time (and must not be secretive)

Summary: Each week we are asking chief technology officers and other high-profile tech decision-makers three questions.

Answering today is Dr John Bates, chief technology officer of Progress Software, a company that specialises in real-time computing and provides business software infrastructure to more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100 companies. Progress Software is a US firm based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and employs 1,800 people. It's annual results are imminent, but during its most recent financial year the company made a $46.3m profit on a turnover of $515.5m (£330.1m).

हर हफ्ते हम मुख्य प्रौद्योगिकी अधिकारियों और अन्य हाई-प्रोफाइल तकनीकी निर्णय निर्माताओं से तीन सवाल पूछ रहे हैं।


Mistaken identity: From wrong Guy to Obama for England

Summary: A police community support officer recently had to beat a hasty retreat from a horde of middle-aged women who believed he was a stripper. The group, celebrating a 50th birthday at a social club in Wiltshire, was reportedly "wild with excitement" as the uniformed PCSO Mike Ober poked his head round the door to make sure nothing untoward was going on. Fortunately for the lusty ladies, the real artiste passed Mr Ober in the doorway as he left and, in the tried and tested way of strippers, Mr Ober was not only able to keep his hat on but the rest of his uniform as well.

By Bethan BellBBC News BBC News looks at some other cases of mistaken identity. 'The wrong Guy' In 2006, Guy Goma appeared on the BBC News Channel - then called News 24 - in place of an IT expert after a mix-up in a reception area at Television Centre. Mr Goma was actually waiting to be interviewed for an IT role at the corporation. But he was understandably puzzled and a little put out that the questions he faced in an interview for the job of data support cleanser were about the Apple v Apple court case. The confusion occurred when a producer went to collect the expert from the wrong reception area. The producer asked for Guy Kewney, editor of Newswireless.net, who was booked for the programme. After being pointed in Mr Goma's direction by a receptionist, the producer - who had seen a photo of the real expert - checked: "Are you Guy Kewney?" Mr Goma, an economics and business studies graduate from Congo, hesitatingly said he was. One of the best elements of the whole affair was Mr Goma's look of appalled astonishment when he was announced live on air as an IT expert. Assuming this was an interview situation, he rose to the challenge and bravely gave his opinion. At the time, his story was tipped to be made into a film, but it was never clear whether he got offered the job. 'The wrong sort of pirate' Members of a Devon Women's Institute got into the sprit of things in 2013 when they donned eye patches and shouldered parrots to welcome a speaker about piracy. Unfortunately, the good people of Parkham WI had got the wrong end of the stick and guest Colin Darch was not a swashbuckling marauder of the high seas, but had been held hostage for 47 days in 2008 by Somali pirates. But Mr Darch took it all in good spirits. "It didn't bother me. They had all made an effort. Most of them seemed to be wearing false moustaches and funny hats, it looked like a rehearsal for Pirates of Penzance". WI treasurer Steph George said: "He was such a good sport, but we won't be dressing up again for a while." Harriott v Henry ITV apologised for showing a news item about Sir Lenny Henry receiving a knighthood which featured footage of TV cook Ainsley Harriott. The gaffe, which was blamed on a production error, was picked up by a number of viewers. Another case of mistaken identity was suffered by Labour MP David Lammy, who was the subject of a story about the party's leadership. Local newspaper the Tottenham and Wood Green Independent published a picture of former president of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio underneath the headline: "MP David Lammy considers taking Ed Miliband's job as Labour leader". Mr Lammy took it with good humour and tweeted a picture of the imposter with the message: "If anyone knows who this guy is please let him know he's now the MP for Tottenham". Dropping a bombshell A BBC radio reporter was held to the ground and searched by police under the Terrorism Act after his transmitter equipment was mistaken for a bomb. Five officers forced Max Khan - who was wearing a backpack with protruding wires and aerials - to his knees and held him face down, in Stoke-on-Trent in 2008. Mr Khan had been covering a story about a recently-removed Post Office, with his portable equipment enabling him to broadcast from the spot. Staffordshire Police, whose officers had previously arrested a man after mistaking his MP3 player for a gun, later apologised. Playing centre-Barack for England? Unofficial England World Cup mugs released ahead of the 2014 tournament bore the smiling yet determined faces of the team - apart from defender Chris Smalling, who was bizarrely replaced by US president Barack Obama. Manufacturers made the mistake when sourcing royalty-free pictures of each England squad player to use on the mugs. The person given the task admitted he was "more of a rugby fan" and was a little fuzzy about what Smalling looked like. Bosses did not spot the Manchester United player had been replaced by one from the White House, and signed the order off. When the Dorset manufacturers realised their mistake, the crockery - which had been destined for market stalls across the land - was instead snapped up at a bargain price by Hampshire company, Wholesale Clearance UK. The Italian job Peter Hamkin was arrested in 2003 by Italian police investigating the murder of a young woman. They had found his DNA details on an international database and wanted him extradited to Italy in connection with the shooting of Anna Lisa Vincentini in Tuscany, in August 2002. But, Mr Hamkin had never been to Italy, and an extradition hearing was not only told he had more than 20 people prepared to say he was in Liverpool on the day of the murder, but had documents that proved he was in the UK at the time. Eventually, Interpol discovered it had made a mistake in the matching procedures related to his DNA profile. "I was a prisoner in my own home, constantly on the edge thinking the Italian police were going to arrive to take me away," Mr Hamkin said. Erinsborough United? And perhaps the oddest of all - when current manager of Manchester United, Louis Van Gaal was just a twinkle in the Premier League team's eye, an Australian newspaper confused the then-Holland manager with a character from TV soap Neighbours. An article about Van Gaal - dubbed "Goal" in the headline - was accompanied by a photograph of Ian Smith - who plays Harold Bishop. After all, Mr Bishop does have managerial skills - he ran the coffee shop in fictional Erinsborough for a good few years.

एक पुलिस सामुदायिक सहायता अधिकारी को हाल ही में मध्यम आयु वर्ग की महिलाओं की भीड़ से जल्दबाजी में पीछे हटना पड़ा, जो मानते थे कि वह एक स्ट्रिपर है। विल्टशायर के एक सामाजिक क्लब में 50वां जन्मदिन मनाते हुए समूह कथित तौर पर "उत्साह के साथ जंगली" था क्योंकि वर्दीधारी पी. सी. एस. ओ. माइक ओबेर ने यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए दरवाजे के चारों ओर अपना सिर रखा कि कुछ भी अप्रिय न हो। सौभाग्य से कामुक महिलाओं के लिए, असली कलाकार मिस्टर ओबेर को दरवाजे में पार कर गया जब वह चला गया और, स्ट्रिपर्स के आजमाए हुए और परखे हुए तरीके से, मिस्टर ओबेर न केवल अपनी टोपी पहनने में सक्षम थे, बल्कि अपनी बाकी वर्दी भी पहने हुए थे।


Crawley: Man stabbed to death in Three Bridges

Summary: A man has been stabbed to death in Crawley and police are searching for the suspect.

Emergency services were called to the Three Bridges area at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday, where they found the 24-year-old victim seriously injured. He was treated by paramedics and an air ambulance doctor on Russell Way, but died at the scene. A suspect, known to the victim, is being sought by police. It is believed nobody else was involved.

क्रॉली में एक व्यक्ति की चाकू मारकर हत्या कर दी गई है और पुलिस संदिग्ध की तलाश कर रही है।


Was Russia's South Stream too big a 'burden' to bear?

Summary: Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement that he is cancelling the planned $50bn (£32bn; €40bn) South Stream gas pipeline has caused a mixture of surprise, relief and dismay in countries dependent on Russian gas across central and eastern Europe.

By Nick ThorpeBBC News, Central Europe correspondent Russia's critics have long argued that, parallel to nuclear expansion, gas pipelines constitute "the long fingers of the Kremlin", opening the way for political as well as economic influence. So this decision is a dramatic change of direction. "It may be a bluff," said Martin Vladimirov, an energy specialist at the Centre for the Study of Democracy in Sofia, "to pressurise the Bulgarian, Serbian, Hungarian and Austrian governments to unite behind accelerating the project, and make a better case for it to the European Commission". However, he favours a second explanation, that South Stream is "simply too big a burden" amid the difficult financial situation facing Russia's state-owned giant Gazprom. Europe has a falling demand for gas, and does not need the potential 63bn cubic metres (cu m) a year that South Stream would provide. The North Stream pipeline is only filled to a fraction of its similar capacity, and runs at a loss. Instead, Mr Vladimirov believes, Gazprom is looking to new markets, turning its gas strategy eastwards. "It would need $100bn in the next four to five years to develop the Eastern Siberian fields and construct a pipeline to China," he says. Scrapping South Stream comes as a setback to the governments in Hungary and Serbia, among the strongest backers of the project, alongside the Austrian company OMV and the Italian ENI. Much of the gas would have reached the massive Central European Gas Hub at Baumgarten in Austria, which is partly Russian owned. Around a third of Russia's gas exports to Western Europe pass through Baumgarten. But when Bulgaria suspended work at Varna on the Black Sea coast where the pipeline came ashore, the project became untenable. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that his country would have to find alternative gas supplies, as a result of the Russian decision. But in Ukraine the response to President Putin's announcement was one of relief. "The cancellation of South Stream was made for economic reasons, disguised behind a political explanation," said Andrii Tiurin of Ukrainian nuclear company Energoatom. "Why spend so much money creating alternative routes to supply the same gas? At a time of low and falling oil prices, why spend so much on a project which is unnecessary for Europe?" Ukrainians also point to the extra financial cost to Russia of annexing Crimea, as well as the impact of EU and US sanctions because of Russian support for separatists in eastern Ukraine. At the end of October, Ukraine finally signed a new gas deal with Russia, valid until March, to guarantee gas supplies this winter. Ukraine's demand for Russian gas has fallen as it has sought supplies elsewhere. New pipelines Champions of a more diversified gas supply, weaning Europe off its dependence on Russian gas, hope that the scrapping of South Stream will speed progress towards a common European Union energy policy. Most pipelines were constructed in Soviet times from East to West. Energy experts in eastern and central Europe have long argued for better North-South connections. A new pipeline connecting Hungary and Slovakia is due to open in January, and work continues on a similar project between Hungary and Romania. The construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals at Swinoujscie in Poland, Klaipeda in Lithuania and Omisalj in Croatia will also add to the diversity of supply, with liquefied gas set to arrive from Qatar and North Africa, and possibly the US in the future. From 2019, gas from Azerbaijan is due to enter Europe through the Trans Adriatic pipeline (TAP). While Europe will remain dependent on Russian gas for a long time, however cool political relations become, a diversity of supply allows countries to negotiate lower prices with Gazprom. Pinning the blame for the demise of South Stream on Brussels in general and Bulgaria in particular, President Putin's message was blunt. "The EU will not benefit from Russian gas any more. That is their choice."'

रूसी राष्ट्रपति व्लादिमीर पुतिन की घोषणा कि वह नियोजित $50bn (£32bn; €40bn) साउथ स्ट्रीम गैस पाइपलाइन को रद्द कर रहे हैं, ने मध्य और पूर्वी यूरोप में रूसी गैस पर निर्भर देशों में आश्चर्य, राहत और निराशा का मिश्रण पैदा कर दिया है।


Sheffield's brick-tastic Lego tribute to moon landing

Summary: Models made with hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks are on display in Sheffield to mark the moon landing's 50th anniversary year.

A 6ft 2in (1.9m) model of astronaut Neil Armstrong was built with 81,090 bricks and took two makers 261 hours. He features along with other astronauts, planets, rockets and space vehicles recreated out of Lego. The interstellar trail takes visitors on a journey around the city and runs until 30 August.

चंद्रमा पर उतरने की 50वीं वर्षगांठ वर्ष को चिह्नित करने के लिए शेफ़ील्ड में सैकड़ों हजारों लेगो ईंटों से बने मॉडल प्रदर्शित किए गए हैं।


Sir Mick Jagger expecting eighth child

Summary: Rolling Stone Sir Mick Jagger is expecting his eighth child.

A spokesman confirmed that the singer's girlfriend, 29-year-old American ballerina Melanie Hamrick, is pregnant. Sir Mick, 72, already has seven children whose ages range from 17 to 45 and he became a great-grandfather last year. The news comes two months after fellow Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood became a father again aged 68, after his wife Sally Humphreys had twin girls. Sir Mick began dating Hamrick after the suicide of L'Wren Scott in 2014, his partner of 13 years. The music star had his other children with Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Jerry Hall and Luciana Gimenez Morad. He has five grandchildren and became a great-grandfather in May 2014 when his granddaughter Assisi, daughter of Jade Jagger, gave birth to a baby girl. The Rolling Stones have confirmed they are working on a new, blues-inspired album for release this year. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

रोलिंग स्टोन सर मिक जैगर अपने आठवें बच्चे की उम्मीद कर रहे हैं।


Tyre gauge manufacturer Schrader cutting 42 jobs in Carrickfergus

Summary: The US firm Schrader Electronics is to release 42 temporary employees from its Carrickfergus, County Antrim, plant before the end of the year.

The company makes tyre pressure gauges for the car industry. It employs about 1,000 people in Northern Ireland. Schrader said it had increased its workforce temporarily towards the end of last year to meet increased demand. It said it was undertaking a phased return to its "standard manufacturing pattern" as demand had now stabilised.

अमेरिकी फर्म श्रेडर इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स वर्ष के अंत से पहले अपने कैरिकफर्गुस, काउंटी एंट्रिम संयंत्र से 42 अस्थायी कर्मचारियों को रिहा करने वाली है।


No timescale for young offender return to HMP Grampian in Peterhead

Summary: The Scottish Prison Service has said there are no plans in place to return young offenders to the new HMP Grampian in Peterhead.

It opened in 2014 but a wing was damaged in a riot just weeks later. The area in question is still empty and young offenders are now housed at Polmont in Falkirk. Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said they would continue to be located there, to help them receive the best and most relevant support. He said the ultimate decision was a matter for the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). An SPS spokesman said no timescale had been set for when that might happen. HMP Grampian opened as a replacement for HMP Peterhead and HMP Aberdeen.

स्कॉटिश जेल सेवा ने कहा है कि युवा अपराधियों को पीटरहेड में नए एच. एम. पी. ग्रैम्पियन में वापस करने की कोई योजना नहीं है।


Christmas stamps mark Isle of Man Post Office anniversary

Summary: Stamps featuring the Isle of Man's favourite Christmas designs from the past four decades have gone on sale to mark the 40th anniversary of the island's Post Office.

The collection, released by Isle of Man Stamps & Coins, features six designs taken from previous Christmas stamps. General Manager Maxine Cannon said it was a "fitting tribute" on the anniversary. The stamps include the Three Wise Men, stained glass windows and winter birds. Mrs Cannon said that with 162 previous stamps to choose from, "it was quite a challenge" to choose six. "However, we feel they capture a little bit of everything when it comes to Christmas and what it means to so many," she said.

द्वीप के डाकघर की 40वीं वर्षगांठ को चिह्नित करने के लिए पिछले चार दशकों से आइल ऑफ मैन के पसंदीदा क्रिसमस डिजाइनों वाले डाक टिकटों की बिक्री शुरू हो गई है।


Murder charge over disabled man Nicholas Churton's death

Summary: A man has been charged with murder over the death of a disabled man whose body was found in Wrexham.

Nicholas Anthony Churton, 67, was found dead at an address in Crescent Close at about 08:20 BST on Monday. North Wales Police said Jordan Davidson will appear before magistrates in the town on Saturday. The 25-year-old also faces three charges of robbery, two of burglary and offences against police officers.

एक व्यक्ति पर एक विकलांग व्यक्ति की मौत पर हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है, जिसका शव रेक्सम में मिला था।


Presbyterian Church elect Rev Ian McNie as new moderator

Summary: Rev Ian McNie has been elected as the new moderator of the Presbyterian Church, the most senior position in the church.

The 64-year-old was nominated by 12 out of the 19 presbyteries who met across Ireland on Tuesday evening. He was chosen from a shortlist of four ministers. Rev McNie will take over as moderator from Rev Michael Barry and will officially take up office as the 176th moderator on 1 June. The other shortlisted candidates were Rev Robert Bell, Rev Liz Hughes and Rev Frank Sellar.

रेव इयान मैकनी को प्रेस्बिटेरियन चर्च के नए मध्यस्थ के रूप में चुना गया है, जो चर्च में सबसे वरिष्ठ पद है।


Michael Phillips death: Five charged with murder of Hartlepool man

Summary: Five men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a Hartlepool man who was found with multiple injuries at a house in the town.

The body of Michael Phillips, 39, was discovered at the property in Rydal Street on 10 June. The five men, aged between 30 and 54, were remanded until a further hearing at Leeds Crown Court on Friday. Two other men, aged 39 and 44, have already denied murder, assault and possessing a weapon. They are awaiting a trial in January. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk Related Internet Links Cleveland Police

शहर के एक घर में कई चोटों के साथ पाए गए हार्टलपूल के एक व्यक्ति की हत्या के आरोप में पांच लोग अदालत में पेश हुए हैं।


Huawei: The storm over the Chinese telecoms giant

Summary: Soon 5G mobile internet will be everywhere.

Karishma VaswaniAsia business correspondent@BBCKarishmaon Twitter Telecoms giant Huawei is a pioneer but is accused of being a gateway for China to spy on Western nations. Is the firm guilty? Or the victim of unfair rumours? I visited Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen to take a deeper look at one of the most controversial companies in the world. Read the full report here.

जल्द ही 5जी मोबाइल इंटरनेट हर जगह होगा।


Jonathan Edwards MP leads Plaid in Parliament

Summary: Plaid Cymru has announced that Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP Jonathan Edwards will lead the party's Parliamentary group.

He has taken over from former MP Elfyn Llwyd who has retired after serving 23 years in Westminster. The role had been expected to pass to Arfon MP Hywel Williams. But it is understood he declined the position for family reasons so Plaid's youngest MP will take on the job. Plaid has three MPs in the Commons. It includes the party's first woman MP, after Liz Saville Roberts succeeded Mr Llwyd in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd seat in Gwynedd.

प्लेड साइमरू ने घोषणा की है कि कार्मार्थेन ईस्ट और डाइनेफ्वर के सांसद जोनाथन एडवर्ड्स पार्टी के संसदीय समूह का नेतृत्व करेंगे।


How to build your own Tardis

Summary: For some fans of TV shows knowing the trivia, quoting the best lines and dressing like their heroes is just not enough. They need something more, something bigger, to demonstrate their devotion. Among dedicated Dr Who fans, Whovians, that something more, the ultimate expression of fandom, involves building a Tardis.

By Mark WardTechnology correspondent, BBC News It is a not a project for the faint-hearted, said David Lifton who built one for his son Rhys - the Whovian in the family. "It took an entire spring through summer of evenings and weekends to complete the build from start to finish, probably about five months in all," Mr Lifton told the BBC. Apart from the sheer graft of cutting wood to make all the parts and then constructing the Tardis (which doubles as a garden shed), the hardest part was finding good plans to work from, Mr Lifton explained. As with many other geek maker projects, the web was invaluable. One of the main places people share plans, pictures and photos of their project is the tardisbuilders.com website. Part confessional, part parts list, the site is a goldmine for anyone coveting their own blue box. "I came up with the outline drawings and proportions from a basic diagram I found for one of the original Doctor Who films," he said. This, along with close inspection of the many Tardis toys that Rhys owns, helped refine the final design. Mr Lifton admits that his Tardis is a bit of a "hybrid" in that it combines elements of the 1960s Peter Brachacki version and the craft David Tennant and Matt Smith have been zipping around in. Which Who For many of the faithful that have built their own Tardis, mixing elements from more than one Tardis would be unthinkable. For them, producing an exact copy of a particular Tardis is the reason for undertaking the project. Michael Pickwoad, the current Dr Who production designer, said matching the show version is tricky because the look of the TV Tardis is not nailed down. "From story to story we add bits and pieces," he said. Some of those changes are demanded by the plot of an episode and mean the exterior of the Tardis changes to reflect where the time-travelling gadget is going. "Sometimes it's aged over 500 years suddenly," he added. That would mean the paint would be scuffed and the whole box would look battered to reinforce the idea that it has travelled a long way in time and space. Then there are the changes that production designers make from series to series or with the introduction of a new Who. To the uninitiated the changes might be subtle, but to those who are trying to recreate a particular Tardis they are crucial. The changes involve the small windows at the top of the doors, the light on top, the poster on the front, the position of the door handle and lock and the stepping around the roof. And then there is the colour of the paint. "The colours have changed and its now slightly bluer than it was," said Mr Pickwoad, adding that there might be changes to that colour in the future. "If I was to do another one, another box, we might paint it a different hue of the same colour," he said. Time watch Mr Lifton solved the problem of the paint by writing to Dr Who Magazine and asking them. They wrote back with the RGB (red, green, blue) values that let him get a paint that was close enough. For Whovian Yoz, who prefers not to use her real name, finding the right colour was a much more exhaustive process. Prior to building her police box Yoz built a dossier of all the different versions and the hues of blue they sported. She was just as thorough when it came to working out the dimensions of the Tardis she wanted to emulate - the one piloted by Peter Davison. "I planned it in extreme detail," she told the BBC and then produced a thick file of plans, pictures and notes she accumulated while preparing, planning and building. Her full size Tardis dominates the main room in her flat and doubles as a climbing frame and hang out spot for her cat. For people who are not Whovians, creating a Tardis might seem strange. "It seems natural to me to want to have a Tardis," she said, adding that the idea was hard to shake once it was conceived. "I could not stop thinking about it and the only solution, the only way to get this idea out of my head, was to build it. To do it." So she did, even though taking on such an exacting project was harder for her than for most because she suffers from dyscalculia, a condition that made working out the dimensions of the Tardis tricky. She got around this problem by making full size plans of the Tardis and using those a guide when she was sawing and shaping the parts. All told, she said, the Tardis has taken her about a year to make and she still is not done. "I'm still not entirely happy with it," she said. "The final stage is to make it dirty so it looks like it has been used." When Yoz talks about creating her Tardis it is clear that the building project has had an impact on much more than the internal decor of her flat. It has inspired her to get on with many other things, given her new skills and confidence and changed her life. When David Lifton talks about his Tardis he mentions how much the achievement meant when he finished it and the way it inspired him to tackle other do it yourself projects. Other people on the Tardis builders forum say the same. It is not just about what you get at the end of the project, it's about what happens along the way. It is just like the TV Tardis, whenever and whereever it turns up, lives are profoundly changed, lessons are learned and possibilities are seized. Maybe that is why he is called the Doctor.

टीवी शो के कुछ प्रशंसकों के लिए सामान्य ज्ञान, सर्वश्रेष्ठ पंक्तियों को उद्धृत करना और अपने नायकों की तरह कपड़े पहनना पर्याप्त नहीं है। उन्हें अपनी भक्ति प्रदर्शित करने के लिए कुछ और, कुछ बड़ा चाहिए। समर्पित डॉ हू प्रशंसकों में, व्होवियन, कि कुछ और, फैनडम की अंतिम अभिव्यक्ति में, एक टार्डी बनाना शामिल है।


Doorbell camera owners urged to register with police

Summary: Residents with doorbell cameras or CCTV at their homes are being urged to register them with the police.

A database of private cameras across Swindon is being set up in a bid to speed up Wiltshire Police's search for footage of crimes and incidents. Swindon Borough councillor Rahul Tarar said: "This isn't about surveillance, this is about helping the police with information." It is thought it will be the first dedicated database in the UK. Related Internet Links Wiltshire and Swindon Community Messaging Swindon Borough Council

जिन निवासियों के घरों में डोरबेल कैमरे या सीसीटीवी लगे हैं, उनसे आग्रह किया जा रहा है कि वे उन्हें पुलिस में दर्ज कराएं।


'Never mind the patient, tick the box'

Summary: Scandals lead to inquiries and to recommendations - leading to a focus on filling in forms and ticking the right boxes. But in this week's Scrubbing Up Sue Bailey, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, says it's time to listen to those receiving the care.

By Prof Sue BaileyPresident, Royal College of Psychiatrists Why do care standards break down? We've all read heartbreaking stories of elderly people with dementia or patients with learning difficulties being neglected, mistreated and abused. When things go wrong, inquiries are set up, reports are published and lessons learnt. Think Winterbourne View; Mid-Staffordshire; childcare in Rochdale, or the Carlisle Report. At heart, the recommendations boil down to improving communication, listening, learning and acting. It means taking notice of what patients and service users have to say. Blame culture But when trying to deliver the right kind of care, the health service often addresses regulation, standard setting, inspection and monitoring. This approach aims to improve scrutiny and accountability, which most people would agree is a "good thing". But there is a risk that a constant focus on targets, procedures and performance can lead to a tick box approach to healthcare. This usually ends up placing more controls on healthcare workers, greater monitoring and prescriptive procedures. Unfortunately, this is often at the expense of professional judgement, leading to dissatisfied and demoralised staff - with the all important relationship between the patient and healthcare worker forgotten. I'm not saying that people shouldn't be held to account for their actions, but the present blame culture doesn't help anyone. Healthcare is, or should be, a moral as well as a practical undertaking. It deals with uncertainty in which mistakes are inevitable - but this isn't a message anyone wants to hear. Positive change won't happen if we continue to exist in a risk-averse bubble. As Professor Eileen Munro of the London School of Economics put it recently, defensive care practice doesn't avoid risk, it simply displaces it - usually onto those using the services. Time sensitive What is needed is something in very short supply in the health service - time. It takes time to develop expertise and build relationships based on intelligent kindness, not just technical skills. It takes time to build critical reasoning skills and provide effective supervision. It takes time to allow staff doing a difficult and stressful job to reflect, offload and be mentored by those with more experience. In an era of unprecedented NHS reform, how can we find the time? I believe we need a greater focus on helping the workforce develop the skills, knowledge and personal qualities required to meet care needs, support new staff more and improve opportunities for career progression Workforce development takes time and money, but it is an investment that could support safer and better care, and mutual respect between patient and carer or doctor. Old fashioned? Don't get me wrong; improved processes can help, too. We need data in healthcare but what we want and need are useful, practical tools that help learning and improve care. This learning should involve ongoing feedback from patients, which is acted on by people like me. What's the bottom line? A health service in which the treatment and care of people - not systems and processes - are at the heart of what we do. Does that seem terribly old fashioned? It sounds an awful lot like what I came into medicine for 40-odd years ago, but which I have seen start to drift away. I will be accused of being simple minded, but a just culture should replace a blame culture. This will require a major shift in approach towards positive risk taking and being open and honest with ourselves and with our patients that not everything can be "cured". It's not too late, but policy makers will have to be brave to think and act in the long term. But is anybody listening?

घोटालों से पूछताछ और सिफारिशें होती हैं-जिससे फॉर्म भरने और सही बक्से पर टिक करने पर ध्यान केंद्रित किया जाता है। लेकिन इस सप्ताह के स्क्रबिंग अप में रॉयल कॉलेज ऑफ साइकियाट्रिस्ट्स के अध्यक्ष सू बेली का कहना है कि यह उन लोगों को सुनने का समय है जो देखभाल प्राप्त कर रहे हैं।


How Nigeria and its president are being held to ransom

Summary: The pomp and ceremony of Muhammadu Buhari's inauguration will not mask the huge challenges the 76-year-old Nigerian president faces during his second term in office - in particular the booming business of kidnapping for ransom.

By Nasidi Adamu YahayaBBC Africa, Lagos Even one of the president's relations - a traditional ruler in Daura in northern Nigeria - is currently being held after he was seized from outside his house earlier this month by gunmen. In March, a well-known Muslim cleric in Kano, who campaigned for Mr Buhari ahead of his re-election, was held for 12 days by kidnappers demanding $833,000 (£657,000) for his release. "Eight young men were assigned to guard us. They would smoke cigarettes and marijuana and blow the smoke into the hut, abusing and threatening to kill us since our people didn't care to bring the ransom in time. They issued all sorts of threats," Ahmed Sulaiman told the Daily Trust newspaper, adding that his freedom was secured as part of a prisoner swap. Gangs nationwide kidnap both rich and poor people, often collecting ransoms of up to $150,000 - and sometimes killing abductees whose families fail to pay. Before a World Cup match last year, Nigeria and Middlesbrough footballer John Mikel Obi was told that his father had been abducted for a second time, and threatened with death. "I thought that after the match I would probably find out they had decided to shoot him," he said. He reportedly paid $28,000 for his father's release. A major highway out of Abuja, linking the capital to the city of Kaduna, has become so notorious for kidnapping that many travellers are opting to board trains instead, even though the service to Kaduna is limited and racketeers are selling tickets to commuters at inflated prices. A top ruling party politician and his daughter were abducted on the highway in April, and their driver was shot dead at the scene. Relatives told the BBC that a ransom was paid to free them. 'Fear of farming' What started as a money-making scheme about 15 years ago in the southern Niger Delta with the kidnapping of oil workers has mushroomed across the country. Syndicates have also been taking a leaf out of Boko Haram's books by using the tactics of the Islamist militants to raid whole communities on motorcycles, making off with their leaders. When Mr Buhari took his oath of office in 2015, he promised to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency which has blighted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the north-east over the last decade. The militants' power has diminished over the last four years, but they are still active. Many in the north-east remain homeless or in captivity, including more than 100 of the girls abducted from a school Chibok in 2014. Now the high levels of insecurity elsewhere, especially in the north-western states of Zamfara, Kaduna and Katsina, has left many feeling terrorised. The governor of Katsina, Mr Buhari's home state, told the BBC that he feared there would be a serious food crisis later this year because the fear of kidnapping was keeping so many farmers from their fields. Top challenges for President Buhari Insecurity: The surge of kidnappings and killings by bandits, especially in the north-west, coupled with the resurgence of a Boko Haram faction affiliated to the Islamic State group are his greatest headaches. Economy: Dependent on oil for 70% of government revenues, fluctuating prices leave the country vulnerable. The World Bank has predicted sluggish growth this year at 2.2% - bad news with unemployment at more than 20% and nearly half the population living in extreme poverty. Corruption: The president made some efforts in his first term to counter graft, which has seen tens of billions of dollars drain out of the exchequer. But he has been widely criticised for not taking action against some of his associates. Infrastructure: Despite the billions of dollars being pumped into numerous building projects, the Securities and Exchange Commission has estimated that Nigeria's infrastructure deficit will hit $878bn by 2040, making it hard for businesses to prosper. Last month, the Senate said more than 4,000 Nigerians and foreigners were currently being held by kidnappers. However, some MPs conceded that the figure was an estimate and the real tally was possibly higher. Police chief Mohammed Adamu said that between January and April this year, at least 685 people were kidnapped across the country, 365 of them in the north-west. Operation Puff Adder Meanwhile, the police spokesman, Frank Mba, told the BBC that officers were being monitored after allegations that security personnel had been involved in the lucrative kidnapping trade - though he said there was no credible information to back up such accusations. He said the spate of kidnappings had reduced thanks to Operation Puff Adder, a recent initiative to target the ringleaders. He added that 93 suspected kidnappers had been arrested in the last two weeks. The Nigerian police's Twitter feed is full of posts about the crackdown. However, many are angered by the situation and feel the problem is not being taken seriously - a view apparently supported by headlines such as this from last week's Premium Times: "27 Nigerians were kidnapped from four states in 48 hours". A joke President Buhari made in response to a question about the kidnappings also misfired on social media. He said about the police chief: "I think he is losing weight; so, I think he is working very hard." "It's like we're a joke to this president," one tweeter responded. Nnamdi Obasi, a security analyst from the International Crisis Group think tank, points the blame at multiple failures of governance. "Massive unemployment has created a growing army of unemployed youth, vulnerable to recruitment in the criminal industry," he said, adding that rural areas in the north were especially susceptible. "Serious deficits in the security and rule of law sectors have created a growing culture of impunity, which is increasingly emboldening gangs and criminals. "Continuing corruption by politicians at all levels has had a corrosive effect on the wider society, fostering a value system in which the end justifies the means," he added. Who is Muhammdu Buhari? Read full profile Indeed the government says its attempts to deal with the crisis have been stymied by some local rulers, who supply the bandits with intelligence for a cut in the profits. Many cattle-rustlers have moved into kidnapping as well, especially in Zamfara. Last week, a governor from one of the affected states told the BBC that those caught kidnapping or stealing cattle would receive the death sentence. Mr Obasi feels more practical measures are needed, including the sacking of security chiefs and more training: "The government should improve police capacity to prevent, detect and investigate kidnappings. "Secondly, courts should fast-track judicial arrangements for prosecuting... the thousands of suspected kidnappers awaiting trial over the years, and publicise convictions." But in the longer term, improving the economy and tackling corruption were key, he said. After his kidnapping ordeal, Mr Sulaiman agreed that offering kidnappers a better alternative was the only way to end the crisis: "The government should negotiate with their leaders and provide them with what they said they were lacking, in terms of farming and cattle rearing."

मुहम्मदु बुहारी के उद्घाटन की धूमधाम और समारोह 76 वर्षीय नाइजीरियाई राष्ट्रपति के कार्यालय में अपने दूसरे कार्यकाल के दौरान आने वाली बड़ी चुनौतियों को नहीं छिपाएगा-विशेष रूप से फिरौती के लिए अपहरण का तेजी से बढ़ रहा व्यवसाय।


JHU : Extradite Balasingham

Summary: Sri Lanka’s Buddhist monk-led Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) urged the British government to arrest and extradite Anton Balasingham, the main negotiator of the Tamil Tigers, to the Sri Lankan government.

The JHU handed over a petition to the British High Commission in Colombo and asked the international community to join hands in fighting terrorism in Sri Lanka. Aturaliye Rathana thero, the parliamentary group leader of the JHU, told BBC Sandeshaya that the British government has given protection to Balasingham, who is a mastermind behind the LTTE. Muslim clerics In the wake of the recent bomb explosions in London, British government has taken action to against Muslim clerics for alleged terrorist involvement under the laws of that country, he said. The thero questioned why not similar treatment is given to Anton and his wife Adela who are propagating in support of terrorist activities in Sri Lanka. “In Sri Lanka, leaders and other precious lives and valuable properties and resources are destroyed. Amidst all these things, are we to further bow down to terrorism? Is this what international community expect under the so-called peace process?” The thero said that despite all these killings and the sacrifices people have made the terrorist activities continued unabated. International community has not taken any measures against the LTTE, he said.

श्रीलंका के बौद्ध भिक्षु के नेतृत्व वाले जातिका हेला उरुमाया (जे. एच. यू.) ने ब्रिटिश सरकार से तमिल टाइगर्स के मुख्य वार्ताकार एंटोन बालासिंघम को गिरफ्तार करने और श्रीलंका सरकार को प्रत्यर्पित करने का आग्रह किया।


Will the India-US nuclear deal work?

Summary: "It's a joyous, happy moment," chimed Abhishek Manu Singhvi, a senior functionary of India's main opposition Congress party, after the US and India announced a breakthrough on a pact that will allow American companies to supply India with civilian nuclear technology.

Soutik BiswasDelhi correspondent It was a rare moment of bipartisan support for a deal which came during a heady opening day of President Barack Obama's landmark three-day visit to India. It was also ironical that the BJP which had steadfastly argued against the nuclear deal in its entirety when in opposition in 2007, had actually managed to pull this off now it is in power. Much of it has been put down to the personal chemistry between Mr Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It also helps that - unlike his predecessor Manmohan Singh, who was hobbled by difficult allies and reservations about the deal within his own Congress party - Mr Modi suffers from no such constraints. So how significant is Monday's announcement? The historic 2006 India-US nuclear deal had been held up for eight years amid US concerns over who would be liable for any nuclear accident. Mr Singh, the deal's architect, had told the parliament that it marked the "end of India's decades-long isolation from the nuclear mainstream". Now, a large insurance pool will be set up, without the need for any further legislation. The plan, according to reports, is to transfer the financial risk to insurers in the case of an accident. Analysts say the two governments have done "all they can do" and it is now up to the suppliers - or American firms wanting to sell reactor technology to India - to do business. Energy-hungry India plans to generate 63,000 MW of nuclear power by 2032 - an almost 14-fold increase on current levels. It has 22 nuclear reactors and plans to build some 40 more in the next two decades. American suppliers are already facing competition. Russia is planning to build 20 reactors in India. France is building six reactors in the western state of Maharashtra, one of India's most industrialised states. America will build at least eight reactors. So what lies ahead for American companies? "It is not going to be easy. Pricing will be a key issue," says science journalist Pallava Bagla. "New generation American reactors are three times more expensive than comparable India-made reactors. They are also untested as all of them are under construction, including in the US." Both General Electric and Westinghouse Electric Company, two major US suppliers, have already been given land in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh state to build reactors. Westinghouse has praised developments and said it looked forward to the "fine print" of the agreement and further meetings, including a planned "insurance seminar". GE said it would review the agreement soon. Clearly, it won't be a walk in the park for American suppliers. It is too early to say that the deal will spur billions of dollars worth of nuclear contracts. Then there's a strong anti-nuclear lobby in India who fear a disaster similar to the one at Fukushima in Japan in 2011. The controversial Indo-Russian Kudankulam nuclear plant began producing electricity in 2013 after years of protest. India is still far from having non-partisan support for nuclear power. Also, nuclear power itself presents a mixed picture globally. There are more than 430 operational reactors in 30 countries around the world. Some 72 are under construction in 15 countries. Despite new reactors, nuclear power is on the decline. It is generating less than 11% of the world's electricity production, the lowest level since 1982, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA) in its latest report. (Coal is still the fuel of choice.) On the one hand, Germany plans to phase out nuclear power by 2022; on the other, China plans to treble nuclear power capacity by 2020. "Nuclear power is at a paradoxical stage," says the IAEA. "On the one hand, it appears to have entered an era of declining expectations. Yet a wave of countries is poised to introduce nuclear power, and the long-term potential remains high." Economic, technological, and political changes, as we have seen, can influence the spread of nuclear power. India is not an exception.

अमेरिका और भारत द्वारा अमेरिकी कंपनियों को भारत को असैन्य परमाणु प्रौद्योगिकी की आपूर्ति करने की अनुमति देने वाले समझौते पर एक सफलता की घोषणा के बाद, भारत की मुख्य विपक्षी कांग्रेस पार्टी के एक वरिष्ठ पदाधिकारी अभिषेक मनु सिंघवी ने कहा, "यह एक खुशी का क्षण है।


Bloodhound Diary: Super-wheels

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 mount an assault on the world land speed record. Bloodhound will be run on Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa, in 2015 and 2016. Wing Commander Andy Green, the current world land-speed record holder, is writing a diary for BBC News about his experiences working on the Bloodhound project and the team's efforts to inspire national interest in science and engineering.

By Andy GreenWorld Land Speed Record Holder Following June's successful spin test of the wheels, the team has been analysing the test data. The test proved that the Bloodhound wheel would not explode under the 50,000g radial loads that it will experience at 1,000mph. However, the test was designed to show a lot more than that. We also wanted to validate the stress model, by measuring the growth of the wheel at peak speed. The wheel was spun in the Rolls-Royce test rig, which is designed to test engine fans, although not this fast - the Bloodhound wheel was going to be the fastest spin test in the rig's history. While the air can be pumped out of the rig chamber to simulate high altitudes, we ran our wheel at normal air pressure. This had an interesting side effect. The friction of the air heated the wheel up to a peak temperature of 98C at just under 10,500 revs per minute. This caused the wheel to expand further because it was hot. Hence the results show a growth of 0.8 mm due to the 50,000g load, and another 0.35mm due to the heating effect. This may not sound like much, but for a forged metal disc weighing close to 100kg, it's a lot of growth. You can see from the wheel test video that the wheel rim was getting quite warm. As the wheel slowed down again, it stayed hot for a while, so the wheel finished up bigger than it started. We applied a temperature correction to the results, which then exactly matched the stress model predictions - so the major part of the test was a big success. What do these effects mean for running Bloodhound at high speeds? The validation of the stress model has confirmed our wheel design, which has at least a 50% safety margin at all speeds. This may not sound like a massive amount, but 50% is the industry standard for aircraft design, and as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot I'm very happy that the car is meeting the same safety requirements that I expect in my day job. The heating effect is a bit more of an unknown. Even at 150C, the aluminium will only lose about 20% of its strength, so our 98C wheel is still very strong. On Bloodhound, the wheel will only be at 1,000mph for perhaps 10 seconds or less, so it should not get anywhere near as hot. However, the wheel will be spinning in a thick cloud of dust, which will create a lot more friction than the clean air in the Rolls-Royce rig. The car will also be accelerating and decelerating at high g, so the wheels are likely to experience a lot of "slip" as they struggle to keep up, generating yet more friction. The bottom line is that we don't know exactly how hot the wheel rims will get, so it's another on the long list of things that we will have to measure when we start testing. Our "Engineering Adventure" means exactly that - it's an journey into the unknown for all of us. In addition to the huge rotation loads, the wheels are going to put some big forces into the suspension. Bloodhound has independent double-wishbone suspension with pull rods. That means that, a bit like an F1 car, the wheels are supported by two horizontal V-shaped brackets. The weight of the car is then supported by a diagonal "pull rod", which is attached to the spring and damper unit. The pull rod has to cope with loads of up to 15 tonnes, so it's bigger than your average race car suspension. So far, so simple, but then we have to consider the massive drag loads on the wheels. Each rear wheel and suspension assembly will be subject to several tonnes of drag load, which will physically shift the wheel back a couple of millimetres relative to the car. The suspension is, of course, designed to take this rearward shift. However, because of the large loads through the pull rod (up to 15 tonnes, as previously mentioned), traditional spherical "rose joint" bearings will not cope - they will simply lock up under the load. As a result, we are using needle roller bearings. Unfortunately, the roller bearings will not allow the pull rod to move backwards and forwards under the drag loads, so the pull rod itself is designed to flex very slightly. As you can see from the picture, each rod has two flat sections in it, allowing it to act as a "flexure" bearing. Use this word next time you need to impress someone with your engineering knowledge. It just means "bendy", but sounds soooo much better. The chassis work continues to make good progress, with the upper-rear chassis almost completed. That's 11,500 rivet holes drilled off, countersunk and de-burred. Once it's all assembled, we'll take it all apart again, of course. The components will then go for pre-assembly treatment (anodising, etc.) before being bonded and riveted together permanently. Once that's done, we can fit the jet engine in the chassis for the first time. The EJ200 jet engine literally "hangs" in the car (just as it does in the Eurofighter Typhoon), from a single "thrust trunnion", which will also take the nine tonnes of thrust that the engine produces. We've just had the trunnion fitting delivered, so we're ready for that first fit as soon as the upper chassis is finished. I was at the Farnborough Air Show last month, watching the amazing Eurofighter-Typhoon displaying. It's astonishing to think that the engines are held in place, even at the maximum 9g of the display, by a single thrust trunnion - essentially by one large bolt. Mind you, it's even more impressive to think that we're building a car that has more power than the Typhoon, only weighs half as much… and will outrun the Typhoon at ground level. Bloodhound SSC is going to be phenomenal. We got a chance to show off all our progress to one of our long-term supporters. HRH Prince Philip has been a keen follower of the Land Speed Record since the Thrust SSC days, so it was a great pleasure to welcome him to the Bloodhound Technical Centre to see our latest efforts. He lived up to his reputation for being great fun as well as very quick on technical details. I was duly told off for not mentioning gyroscopic forces when I outlined the challenges of building the world's fastest wheels. It was only a five-minute briefing to cover the whole car, so I had to leave something out. HRH did have a point though: the gyroscopic forces will be pretty large. I've also managed to get back to South Africa, to support the national congress on teaching mathematics. The event was held in Kimberley in the Northern Cape, so it also gave me a chance to thank the Northern Cape for their amazing efforts to prepare the world's best race track for us. The last few weeks of work are now being completed, to leave a perfect hand-prepared surface 12 miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide. This is the surface that Bloodhound will cover, from end to end, in two minutes from a standing start. As part of the conference keynote lecture, I discussed some general equations of motion for Bloodhound and how different age groups can try to estimate the car's performance. This may look like a handful, but if you don't want to solve all the equations, then you can always look up the answer in "The Perfect Run". This performance graph is not just an answer, but is a teaching aid in itself, one of many in the Bloodhound Education Programme. This is going to be a great opportunity for South Africa, and in particular for the maths teachers. These teachers are vital to the future of their country. I pointed out to them that, without mathematics, engineers and scientists are stuck with numbers that they don't understand and can't use. Like it or not, you all need us mathematicians!

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 विश्व भूमि गति रिकॉर्ड पर हमला करेगा। ब्लडहाउंड 2015 और 2016 में उत्तरी केप, दक्षिण अफ्रीका में हक्सकीन पैन पर चलाया जाएगा। विंग कमांडर एंडी ग्रीन, वर्तमान विश्व भूमि-गति रिकॉर्ड धारक, ब्लडहाउंड परियोजना पर काम करने के अपने अनुभवों और विज्ञान और इंजीनियरिंग में राष्ट्रीय रुचि को प्रेरित करने के लिए टीम के प्रयासों के बारे में बीबीसी न्यूज के लिए एक डायरी लिख रहे हैं।


'My wife can never call my name in public'

Summary: Imagine you're at a busy airport, somewhere in Europe or the US. You're meeting your wife (let's call her Layla) after work and flying off for a mini-break. She's running late, so you sit down in a coffee shop to wait. Soon you're lost in thought, so you don't see your beloved waving from across the terminal. How can she get your attention? Shouting your name would work. But if she does that, bystanders will panic. Security will circle. Your law-abiding missus could be taken to a stark side-room and interrogated for hours. What's the problem? Your wife is a practising Muslim, and your name is Jihad.

By Rebecca SealesBBC News What's life like when your loving parents saddle you with a name that provokes shock, rudeness or awkward jokes across much of the Western world? The BBC asked three men named Jihad - a doctor from Chicago, a famous Syrian actor, and a young engineer from the Palestinian territories building a life in London. In Arabic-speaking countries, Jihad - sometimes spelled Jehad - is a perfectly normal thing to call your baby. The word means "a struggle for a noble cause". And in the days before 9/11 and the War on Terror linked it to mass murder in the public imagination, it functioned just like any other name. For Jihad Abdo, one of Syria's best-known actors, it was the name his millions of fans followed. The one the authorities followed. The one that got his car smashed up when he was felt to have criticised Syria's government in the LA Times. Abdo was ordered to give a TV interview in support of President Assad. He refused, and fled the country. The US was his sanctuary - but his name quickly proved a liability. "I raced to America in October 2011," Abdo explains by phone from Paris, on a break from filming the US comedy-drama Patriot. "In no time I was introducing myself to people and seeing this… reaction…" "Especially in the Midwest, when they heard my name was Jihad the first thing that appeared to their minds was the image of suicide bombers, and the jihadists that attack the army in Afghanistan or Iraq." Abdo, whose most popular TV show had an audience of 50 million, simply couldn't catch a break in Los Angeles. He suffered through 100 failed auditions and scraped by delivering pizza for Domino's. He realised that to keep his career, he would have to lose his name. "I just imagine someone with the opposite thing in my country, with a name that we fear. He won't be able to make it big in the entertainment business," he explains. "And as Shakespeare said 400 years ago, 'What's in a name?' I said - 'Change it.' I love my name, but I also want to survive. "I consider myself an open-minded guy, and my wife as well. Humbly speaking, we don't care about having this name or that name. What we care about is our mission in the world, our ethics and our achievements." He considered Jude, but settled on the name Jay - simple, innocuous - American. Things changed overnight, "because Jay for them is a lovely guy - it brings to them Jay Leno or... lovely people - people they are comfortable with. It doesn't create any 'sensitivity', let's say." His family think it's funny, he says. "But they understand totally, because the same thing happened with the name Osama years ago. And the same thing happened in Russia with the name Koba after Stalin died. And the same thing happened with Adolf in Germany. "I don't want to have problems because of my name when my mind is totally different - and my heart." Abdo, 55, still uses his original name in Syria and the wider Middle East. And some US friends have rejected the rebranding. "They said, 'Can I keep calling you Jihad? Because I hate this misunderstanding about anything outside America.'" 'If eight-year-olds can say it…' That's a philosophy Jihad Shoshara, 49, might well appreciate. He's lived in Chicago all his life, and works as a senior paediatrician - a children's doctor. Born to a Mexican-American mother and a father from Damascus, he was teased as a child for his "weird" name. "In Syria and Lebanon, and the Levant in general… it's not like Jacob or something where you kind of hear it every fourth or fifth person, but it's not uncommon by any means," he explains. "It's also unisex. I've met women named Jihad. And it's not even explicitly Islamic, so there are Christians named Jihad as well." But in 1970s America? Forget it. He made the same choice as his actor namesake aged 12 or 13. "Going through school, high school and even college, I went by Jay," he says. "I wouldn't hide my real name, but it was just easier to go under the radar and not have to deal with the difficulties." He remembers very specifically when and why he went back to using Jihad. "I had just graduated from university, and I had a year off in-between college and going to medical school. I spent the summer as a camp counsellor for underserved youth. And so I went to this camp in rural Wisconsin the day after I graduated. I walked in and introduced myself to the staff, the kids… "And I said, 'Hi, my name is Jihad,' and before I could even say, '…but you can call me Jay', they're like, 'Oh Jihad, alright, cool!' And I thought - 'Hey, if eight-year-old kids can say this name properly, then I should too.'" Nowadays, he says, "it's a great conversation-starter!" Though their reasons differ, both Jihads agree they wouldn't give a child of their own the name. "Superficially no, for the reason that in Muslim tradition, 'Jnr' is not really a thing," the doctor muses. "Absolutely not," declares the actor. While Jihad Abdo doesn't consider himself religious, Jihad Shoshara says he tries to be an observant Muslim. But time is short between his doctors' practice and his humanitarian work with the Syrian American Medical Society, which includes relief missions to Jordan to treat Syrian refugees. "I try to be observant. So I identify as Muslim. Do I hit all my prayers? No!" he laughs. 'It's not a Muslim beard!' The youngest man the BBC spoke to - Jehad Fadda, 32, feels his name has complicated his relationship with religion, because of the assumptions people make. "I'm not a very religious person, and for me it's a question I need to answer: Where do I want to be on the scale of things? I know religion has a part to play in my life but I'm still coming to terms with where to place it," he ponders. "In front of people, it feels like I don't get a say in my personal choices. 'So you don't drink because you're Muslim.' Ok I don't drink, yeah, but it's not necessarily because I'm a Muslim - maybe I have other reasons." Originally from Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Jehad came to the UK seven years ago to study for his second degree - in telecoms engineering, at Newcastle. He is proud to have been named after his grandfather, and when the question "to be Jehad, or not to be…?" came up, chose to keep the name. Like many London men in their 30s, Jehad sports a full beard - a fashion choice spawned by the city's hipsters. Some would say that's feeding the trolls, I suggest. The question draws a chuckle. "It's ironic because it's a stupid idea - no-one supports it in my family! "If you're Muslim and you look at my beard, you'll know this is not a Muslim beard because Muslim beards don't allow a moustache. It's something to look out for! It's viewed as unhygienic." Airports can be stressful places for Muslim passengers, but Jehad counts himself among the lucky ones. "Nothing dramatic has ever happened," he reflects, "but being randomly selected not-so-randomly is normal." He avoids speaking Arabic in airport terminals, and thinks the fact his wife doesn't wear a headscarf has made things easier for them. What about the (hypothetical) scenario we started with - does he worry about that? "Interestingly enough, if I lose my wife somewhere, she will never shout my name out loud. That applies everywhere." There's a smile in Jehad's voice again. So if Mrs Fadda needs to summon her husband in a public place, what would she shout? "She uses a nickname!" Which is…? "Jhu-Jhu! I don't think we've ever written it down..." He laughs fondly. "I'm a 6-foot guy with a beard, and someone calls me Jhu-Jhu!"

कल्पना कीजिए कि आप यूरोप या अमेरिका में कहीं व्यस्त हवाई अड्डे पर हैं। आप काम के बाद अपनी पत्नी से मिल रहे हैं (चलो उसे लैला कहते हैं) और एक छोटे से ब्रेक के लिए उड़ान भर रहे हैं। वह देर से भाग रही है, इसलिए आप इंतजार करने के लिए एक कॉफी की दुकान में बैठ जाते हैं। जल्द ही आप सोच में खो जाते हैं, इसलिए आप अपने प्रिय को टर्मिनल के पार से हाथ हिलाते हुए नहीं देखते हैं। वह आपका ध्यान कैसे आकर्षित कर सकती है? आपका नाम चिल्लाना काम करेगा। लेकिन अगर वह ऐसा करता है, तो दर्शक घबरा जाएंगे। सुरक्षा घेरे में आ जाएगी। आपकी कानून का पालन करने वाली मिसस को एक सख्त कमरे में ले जाया जा सकता है और घंटों तक पूछताछ की जा सकती है। क्या समस्या है? आपकी पत्नी एक अभ्यास करने वाली मुसलमान है, और आपका नाम जिहाद है।


Venezuela: The most expensive Nutella in the world?

Summary: An economic crisis in Venezuela - oil rich but suffering from its low world price - has led to people queuing around the block for basic items. When the BBC's Daniel Garcia Marco arrived, he went straight to supermarkets to see for himself.

I spent my first days in Venezuela taking photographs of food. I needed to reassure family and friends. They were surprised - as was I - to see shelves brimming with vegetables, cereal and bread. There is food in Caracas, the capital. But as inflation pushes prices higher and higher, the food is inaccessible for the majority of people. How long does it take to buy basic goods in Venezuela? Venezuelans cross re-opened border to shop in Colombia What has gone wrong in Venezuela? The fall of the price of oil, which is the main source of income for the Venezuelan economy, has crushed the country's ability to import products. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting that inflation will hit 700% by the end of the year. The government last published figures for inflation in December 2015, putting it at 180%. It regards the shortages as being caused by an "economic war" waged by the private sector and foreign countries. Luxury shops have prices much higher than those in Europe or the US. One delicatessen supermarket stocks only imported goods from Italy, Spain and the US. A jar of the Italian chocolate spread Nutella can reach 15,000 bolivares - $15 (£11) if you sell it on the black market. A 750g jar in a UK supermarket costs about £3.50. More saliently, it is half the Venezuelan monthly minimum wage. This is not the fault of the chocolate spread manufacturers but a symptom of a seriously struggling economy. If you are unable to pay, you will have to queue for hours to get basic goods. "I haven't seen sugar in a while," says Luz. Fridays are her day for shopping - this is decided by the number on her ID card, in one of the ways the government has tried to deal with the food shortages. Luz lives in Petare, one of the poorest areas of Caracas. Every Friday she goes to a supermarket in Santa Fe, a middle-class area. She gets up at 03:00 so she can queue - but that does not guarantee anything. The supermarket may say the delivery did not arrive, or things might run out by the time she gets to the front of the queue, or there might only be soap when she wants sugar. The Central Venezuelan Bank (BCV) used to publish an official scarcity index. In April 2014 it was at 25.3%. That was the last time the figure was made public. There are hundreds of jars of tomato sauce, but no pasta. You will find plenty of gel to fix your hair with "cement effect", but there is no trace of shampoo, necessary to return your hair to its less rigid state. It is impossible to get cow's milk. Almond milk is a healthy but expensive alternative. The government is trying to fight against people who queue and then sell goods at massive mark-ups. It has regulated prices at some supermarkets and prioritised poor people at others. But while the crisis continues, prices and politics will be the two big conversation topics in Caracas.

वेनेजुएला में एक आर्थिक संकट-तेल समृद्ध लेकिन इसकी कम वैश्विक कीमत से पीड़ित-लोगों को बुनियादी वस्तुओं के लिए ब्लॉक के चारों ओर कतार में खड़ा कर दिया है। जब बीबीसी के डैनियल गार्सिया मार्को पहुंचे, तो वह सीधे खुद को देखने के लिए सुपरमार्केट में गए।


White powder package sent to Westminster

Summary: Police are investigating a suspicious package containing white powder that has been delivered to an office within the Palace of Westminster.

The powder was contained in a letter which was assessed by specialists and found to be non-harmful. The office remains closed but the rest of the Palace of Westminster is open, police said. Detectives from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command have been informed and are investigating.

पुलिस सफेद पाउडर वाले एक संदिग्ध पैकेट की जांच कर रही है जिसे पैलेस ऑफ वेस्टमिंस्टर के भीतर एक कार्यालय में पहुँचाया गया है।


Coronavirus: How have independent shopkeepers been faring?

Summary: From breaking up fights among shoppers to battling to keep shelves filled, the independent shopkeepers who have been allowed to open have faced many challenges since the coronavirus pandemic hit. The BBC went to three high streets in Birmingham to see how businesses have fared.

By Rebecca WoodsBBC News Faces contorted with desperation and determination, the customers of Walter Smith Butchers were taking no prisoners as they grappled for the last bit of meat in the fridge, resulting in a scuffle on the shop floor. Manager Mark Healey watched in amazement from behind the counter. "There were bodies everywhere fighting for a pack of chicken breasts," he recalls. "It was hairy. I just said 'wow'." As panic-buying happened across the country in March, Mr Healey couldn't sell meat quickly enough from his shop in Erdington High Street, Birmingham. "We'd have a whole shop full," he says, his arms demonstrating how far and wide the throngs of customers stretched. "It was like a free-for-all." Sales were up 50% in the early days of lockdown. In recent weeks they have remained strong at 30% higher than usual. "We've acquired the supermarket customer - we'd lost them for about 10 years now. I think we'll keep them too." As lockdown rules were eased last week, shoppers - many wearing masks - filled Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham some four miles north-east of the city centre. But it has been pretty busy since the start, with Birmingham City Council so concerned about problems with social distancing that it is widening pavements and painting signs reminding people of the 2m rules. In among the chains like B&M Bargains and Poundland, Erdington's many independent supermarkets, hardware shops and European food stores are open, with shoppers queuing - 2m apart - outside. Paul Beresford has seen a sharp rise in new customers at Erdington Pet Centre. "It's been good for us," he says. "I've had to close our shop in Wolverhampton city centre because there's no food shops around it so people aren't going in. But here, we've been very busy. People have been coming in saying, 'We didn't know you were here'." Eight miles south of Erdington is Kings Heath, where pavements are also being widened to cope with social distancing challenges. Long queues stretch outside the high street's seven banks, two large supermarkets and the likes of Poundland, Boots and Wilkos, but customers have also stayed loyal to the independent businesses that have been able to remain open. Mohammed Junaid, of Buywise, realised his job as a shopkeeper was about to change when he took his little brother to football and returned to find 100 cases of 36 toilet rolls had been cleared. He had been gone for only two hours. "I walked into the shop and had such a shock - it looked completely empty because these huge cases had filled the shop and they were all gone." Queues of 20-30 people formed outside his shop. Many headed over from Asda, across the road, when they found the shelves empty there. Mr Junaid enlisted his father and uncle to help with crowd control, as people ignored his three-in-the-shop limit and refused to social distance outside in the queue. "Some people gave me a lot of stick," he says, remembering some strained encounters amid the madness. "I'd say, come on, we're all adults here. "It was a very tricky time to be a shopkeeper." While the shelves of the area's big supermarkets were empty of hand sanitizer, antibacterial spray, toilet rolls and eggs, Buywise - more often than not - was fully stocked. How? "I normally order from one wholesaler, but I went to 10 instead," says Mr Junaid. "Me and my uncle were getting up at 6am and going round them all making sure we had everything. Then I'd go and do deliveries for the elderly and then back at the shop, closing at 10pm." Around the corner from Buywise, organic vegan health shop Xover Nutrition is open to walk-in customers and has started doing home deliveries. Business has been booming, says Charlotte Hanlon, whose brother opened the shop two years ago. "We've had a lot of people come to us wanting to improve their health, and boost their immune systems," she says. "They're wanting vitamin C, or going organic, taking capsules, eating nuts and seeds, that kind of thing." They'd planned to start deliveries later in the year, but when the pandemic hit, they leapt into action. They wear masks and gloves while taking deliveries across Birmingham. "One of our customers is 95 years old," adds Ms Hanlon. "So it's really rewarding when we go out and do these things." Across the road, Mohammed Arif has kept open his family cycling shop, Bike Pro, a stalwart of the high street for 28 years. In the days before the lockdown, he was increasingly worried about what lay ahead. "Then one of my suppliers texted me saying bikes are an essential service. I slept peacefully that night," he says. He's been kept very busy. "There's been a huge rise in people wanting to buy indoor trainers. If you're in isolation then you ride indoors - there are apps where you can ride with your mates, or do a stage of the Tour de France. "We sold out within a week. There's also been a big upturn in bicycle sales, and a spike in children's bikes, with the kids off school." Another bustling high street is in Sparkhill, two and a half miles east of Kings Heath. Here, on the busy Stratford Road, 95% of shops are independent, the highest number in the UK in 2016 and 2017, according to the Local Data Company (LDC). It is a high street that, pre-lockdown, was always vibrant, filled with families buying fresh meat, fruit, vegetables and spices from its many grocery shops, the wares spilling out on to the pavement on colourful, well-stocked stalls. According to Gulrez Hussain, who is working on the grill outside Best Pakora Shop, there has not been a significant downturn in customers. "It is quieter in the day because of Ramadan," he says. "But around 7-8pm, it is so busy. "This is always the busiest month of the year [Ramadan], and it's no different this year. We've had to take on extra workers." At Foodworld, there is a steady stream of shoppers gazing at the produce outside. A sign above the door to the inside shop states only one person is allowed in at a time. It refers to one member of a household. "Some come with five or six people and we have to tell them to stay outside," says proprietor Amjad Rehman. He has become increasingly frustrated at what he sees as people ignoring social distancing rules. "If you look down Stratford Road, you would not think there was a pandemic. "We try to keep people apart, but they don't listen. They think you're trying to be in command, but it's about safety." Mr Rehman says the whole pandemic experience has made him reflect on life, and the way he goes about his business. "It's taught me a lot. We have this black cloud over our heads... and we should be living simply, helping the needy, helping the poor." He's also started delivering to customers who are struggling or in isolation. "I'm going to keep doing it when this is over. We should all be helping each other." Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk

खरीदारों के बीच झगड़े को तोड़ने से लेकर अलमारियों को भरा रखने के लिए संघर्ष करने तक, जिन स्वतंत्र दुकानदारों को खोलने की अनुमति दी गई है, उन्हें कोरोनावायरस महामारी के बाद से कई चुनौतियों का सामना करना पड़ा है। बीबीसी ने बर्मिंघम में तीन ऊँची सड़कों पर जाकर देखा कि व्यवसायों ने कैसा प्रदर्शन किया है।