In pictures: A history of US-Russian summits

Summary: When US President Donald Trump met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, on 16 July 2018, they entered their names into the pages of a long history of talks between US and Soviet or Russian leaders.

Here we look back at the summits that preceded this one. President John F Kennedy met Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. The talks were dominated by the crisis in Berlin and control over the divided city. For Kennedy, it was a bruising, unexpectedly hostile encounter at which he felt outmatched by his Soviet counterpart. "Worst thing in my life," the president told a New York Times reporter after the talks. "He savaged me." The Berlin Wall went up in the months after the talks and the following year the two superpowers locked horns over the Cuban missile crisis. In May 1972, President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev met in Moscow for their first summit, which produced what appeared to be a good working relationship between the two leaders and a historic arms treaty setting limits to the rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals of both powers. Nixon invited Brezhnev to Washington the following year, and the pair signed nuclear arms control treaties at three successive summits. In November 1974, Nixon's successor Gerald Ford met Brezhnev for the first time in the Russian city of Vladivostok. Relations between the pair were warm despite the extreme cold. They discussed American football and football which they had respectively played as younger men, and joked together. Ford had come wearing a wolfskin coat from Alaska. "I'm a sheep in wolf's clothing," he joked to reporters. "I told the first secretary. I'm going to get him one." Brezhnev then tried on the coat and modelled it for photographers. The pair met again the following year in Helsinki - the first of several US-Russian summits that would take place in the Finnish capital - for the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. Leaders from 35 nations signed the Helsinki accords - a declaration which called for respect for human rights and for the inviolability of European borders. It was among the most significant moments of the Cold War, but Ford faced criticism at home for what was seen by some as a concession to the Soviets and a legitimisation of Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe. Jan Lodal, a member of Ford's policy team at the summit, later wrote in the Atlantic that Brezhnev had secretly told Ford that the Soviets supported his re-election and would "do everything we can to make that happen". It would turn out to be a strange foreshadowing of the build up to another US presidential election, 41 years later. Towards the end of the Cold War, in December 1987, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Washington DC, where the two nations once again engaged on the issue of controlling nuclear arms stockpiles and testing. They signed the INF Treaty - an accord banning intermediate-range nuclear missiles which led to the destruction of 2,692 missiles by 1991. Then last year, shortly before the INF Treaty's 30-year anniversary, President Trump accused Russian leader Vladimir Putin of violating the pact by testing and deploying a ground-launched intermediate-range cruise missile, calling it a "big deal". Moscow responded by accusing the US of violating the treaty. President George HW Bush met Mr Gorbachev seven times. By the time they met for their third summit, in Helsinki in September 1990, they had established a warm working relationship based on hours of discussions, often without advisers. Mr Bush was hoping to shore up support from Mr Gorbachev in dealing with aggression by the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who had weeks earlier invaded Kuwait. Mr Gorbachev arrived at the summit with a gift for Mr Bush - a framed cartoon depicting the two leaders as boxers, both standing in a victory stance, having knocked out a prone figure labelled "Cold War" in Russian. President Bill Clinton met Russian leader Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki in March 1997 for talks viewed as some of the most crucial between the US and Russia since the end of the Cold War. Relations had been strained by an eastward expansion of Nato to include former Soviet bloc nations. Yeltsin made it clear at the summit that he objected to Nato enlargement, but agreed to negotiate a pact with the alliance. The pair also agreed to a sharp reduction in their respective nuclear arsenals. US-Russia relations steadily worsened under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, a former Russian intelligence official who became president in 2000. George W Bush, who became US president a year later, attempted to bring Mr Putin on side but the pair's relationship slowly soured over the eight years Mr Bush was in office. "I think Putin is not a democrat anymore," he told the visiting prime minister of Slovenia in 2006. "He's a tsar. I think we've lost him." When Barack Obama became US president in 2009, he tried a new strategy of going around Mr Putin. The Russian leader had stepped aside to comply with Russia's two-term presidential limit, and installed Dmitry Medvedev in his place. President Obama attempted to develop a relationship with Mr Medvedev, and in 2009 dispatched his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to meet her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov with the goal of re-setting US-Russia relations. She even went armed with a toy button labelled "reset" in English and Russian, only for it to be revealed that the Russian word they'd used in fact meant "overload". Russia later pointedly refused US demands for them to extradite the whistleblower Edward Snowden. Mr Obama cancelled a trip to Moscow and distanced himself from Mr Putin. Then in 2014 Russia annexed Crimea, breaking for the first time the Helsinki Accord signed by Ford and Brezhnev in 1975 and heaping international opprobrium and sanctions on itself. President Obama criticised Mr Putin, but made it clear he had no intention of entering into any kind of conflict. "This is not another cold war that we're entering into," he said. "Now is not the time for bluster … There are no easy answers, no military solution." Now Donald Trump is president and the US is once again seeking a kind of reset. Mr Trump went into the 16 July summit with Mr Putin with US-Russia relations under a heavy raincloud at home. US intelligence agencies have unanimously concluded that Russia conducted a cyber operation to influence the outcome of the US presidential election in 2016, and a special counsel investigation led by a former director of the FBI is investigating whether Mr Trump's campaign team colluded in that effort. In a press conference, President Trump defended Russia over the claims, contradicting US intelligences, saying Russia had no reason to meddle. Mr Trump also blamed poor relations with Russia on past US administrations rather than Russian actions. The US president has since faced a barrage of criticism from both sides of the US political divide for his defence of Russia. In the end, Mr Putin said the ball was in Mr Trump's court, and gifted the US president a World Cup football. .

जब अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प ने 16 जुलाई 2018 को फिनलैंड की राजधानी हेलसिंकी में अपने रूसी समकक्ष व्लादिमीर पुतिन से मुलाकात की, तो उन्होंने अमेरिका और सोवियत या रूसी नेताओं के बीच बातचीत के लंबे इतिहास के पन्नों में अपना नाम दर्ज किया।


Chinese New Year: England welcomes the Year of the Rat

Summary: Performers and acrobats, flying dragons and dancing lions have been helping thousands celebrate Chinese New Year.

Events are being held in several city centres in England to welcome the Year of the Rat, which fell on Saturday. London held what organisers claim was the largest celebrations outside of Asia, while Liverpool's took place in Europe's oldest Chinatown. Manchester's dragon parade featured a 175ft long (53m) dragon which was accompanied by lion and ribbon dancers. Up to 30,000 people are expected to attend festivities in Birmingham. .

कलाकार और कलाबाज, उड़ते हुए ड्रेगन और नाचते हुए शेर हजारों लोगों को चीनी नव वर्ष मनाने में मदद कर रहे हैं।


Madonna: Will Gompertz reviews the star's show at the London Palladium ★★★★★

Summary: "She is here, isn't she Will?", asked a worried looking man at the London Palladium at about 20:00 on Wednesday night. "Yes", I said. I didn't actually know for sure, but he looked so anxious I thought a bit of reassurance wouldn't go amiss.

Will GompertzArts editor@WillGompertzBBCon Twitter Anyway, the merch counter had just fallen over and there was a rising sense of calamity which didn't need adding to. Madonna goes deep with her fans. The connection is genuine and mutual. Nobody blames her for cancelling shows due to extreme pain in her knees and hips, people just hope it's not on their night (she has subsequently ruled out shows on 4 and 11 February). "I feel so guilty," another fan told me. "My mates had tickets for Monday night, which was cancelled and I've just sent a WhatsApp of my seat tonight." "Where are you sitting?" I asked "Row U in the stalls," he said "How much did you pay?" "£250" he said "Not bad eh? I think it's going to be great." And it was - 5-star great. Not because the show was perfect, though. Madonna's movement was visibly stiff, lighting errors left dancers in the dark, and some of her banter fell flat. All of which only added to the "live-ness" of the event, which was more an evening of intimate cabaret than a stadium blockbuster show. It was perfectly imperfect, like one of those sketchy landscapes by Cezanne where you can see his underdrawings and misplaced lines, making it so much more beautiful and real than Canaletto's soulless precision. Truth is the point of art, not perfection. Getting to it sometimes means removing the artifice, or strapping it on. Madonna's schtick has always been the latter. She's a post-modernist right down to her kinky boots, adopting superficial personas and cultural influences. She is the Cindy Sherman of pop, the chameleon Queen with a debt to the shape-shifting aesthetics of David Bowie. This time around, though, Madonna has let the mask slip. There's still a character for her to hide behind (Madame X, a dominatrix type cliche sporting an eye-patch and padded pants), with its usual mix of the sacred and the profane (she is both a prostitute and a nun). But she constantly undermines her own illusion just as Cezanne did with his fidgety, cross-hatched lines. One minute she is the all-singing, all-dancing Madame X, inhabiting a vividly theatrical world embellished with huge projections. The next she has stepped beyond her own fourth wall to have a chummy chat with the locals. It's improv, kind of. The audience interaction is a pre-conceived element of the show, but her spiel is site-specific, and her responses spontaneous. The artist was present in every sense. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes she went on for a too long, leading to the occasional "get on with it". And sometimes it was awkward: "Does anyone have a spare seat I could sit in?" she asked (scripted). A chap near the front put his hand up. Madonna gingerly stepped down from the stage for a tete-a-tete. She's fine, he's star-struck. Beer is swigged (scripted). To no avail. His tongue has tied itself into a knot so tight no amount of liquor is going to loosen it. A stilted conversation ensues (unscripted). Nobody minds. Madonna's doing stand-up. We're in the room. She is with us, of us, not some distant star on a faraway stage performing a risk-free romp through back catalogue favourites with a few numbers from the latest album thrown in to help sales. The Madame X Tour is an adventurous piece of contemporary theatre, and a match for any of the Tony and Olivier-winning shows currently playing the West End and Broadway. It starts with a Hitchcockian scene. Madonna is stage right, in profile: seated, visible only as a silhouette behind a translucent curtain. She is typing. Slowly. A gunshot rings out every time she strikes a key, provoking a robotic movement made by a single besuited dancer standing in front of the curtain, stage left. Text is projected on high as the dancer contorts his body under a hail of literary bullets, most fired decades ago by James Baldwin, one of America's finest post-war writers. His words "Artists are here to disturb the peace" appear as an epigraph. He is right. Up to a point. Which is about 23:00 for Westminster City Council, according to our celebrated hostess. She told us an iron curtain would be dropped if she went on beyond its stipulated curfew. The diaphanous fabric lifts, Madonna struts, the stage is set, and the show proper begins with God Control. The audience goes nuts ("I should have done this years ago," says the singer as an aside), as the steps and structures revolve and animate. Dark Ballet comes next in a show built around her recent Madame X Album. The smattering of old favourites stitched into its fabric have been incorporated so elegantly as to make them feel an essential part of the whole rather than crowd-pleasing add-ons. And so it is with Human Nature, which follows and resolves in a seated scene that doubles up as a rest for the star and a witty nod for the die-hards towards the famous 1995 video directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Then comes some "Hello London" repartee before an a cappella version of Express Yourself. It's good, and it gets better. A string introduction to Papa Don't Preach segues into a sophisticated rendition of Vogue performed in a striking, angular, black and white design. Not all the creative decisions are made so astutely. There's an ill-advised, wince-inducing vignette, which sees Madonna launching into a "let's wind back the years" routine involving an upside-down-splits topped-off with toe wiggle. I felt a tweak in my own groin - and not in a good way. Fortunately for Madame X, and us, such moments are few and far between. This show is designed (and constantly redesigned) around the 61-year-old's physical condition. Dancers help her on and off pianos, chairs and steps. You can sense her frustration at her body's restricted ability, but she can still hit the beats better than most. Plus, her team of dancers are fantastic. They excel under Megan Lawson's choreographic vision, which appears to riff on a revered contemporary dance cannon including such notables as Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring, Hofesh Shechter's Sun, and Michael Jackson's moon walk. The heart and soul of the show is provided by Madonna's newly found love: the evocative sound of the Fado musicians she discovered in her current home city of Lisbon. That, and the wonderful female Batuque singers from Cape Verde, an African archipelago once colonised by the Portuguese who took an unfavourable view of their traditional music. The show ends with a full-bodied version of Like a Prayer, which leads into an encore of Madame X's protest song, I Rise. Which we all did as a visibly delighted Madonna led her merry band of players out of the auditorium and off into the night (or the physio's bench). Pictures in this review are from other venues in the Madame X tour. Recent reviews by Will Gompertz Follow Will Gompertz on Twitter

बुधवार की रात लगभग 20 बजे लंदन पैलेडियम में एक चिंतित व्यक्ति ने पूछा, "वह यहाँ है, क्या वह नहीं करेगी?", "हाँ", मैंने कहा। मुझे वास्तव में निश्चित रूप से पता नहीं था, लेकिन वह इतना चिंतित लग रहा था कि मैंने सोचा कि थोड़ा आश्वासन गलत नहीं होगा।


Climate leaks are 'misleading' says IPCC ahead of major report

Summary: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned against drawing too many conclusions from the latest leaked version of its upcoming, and eagerly awaited, Assessment Report 5 (AR5).

Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent@mattmcgrathbbcon Twitter This massive tome will be published in four stages over the next year - the first part, the physical science behind climate change, will be presented in Stockholm on 26 September. The process of compiling this report - with several hundred scientists, 195 governments and over 100 non-governmental organisations involved - has been particularly leaky, with at least three confidential drafts being made public in the last year. According to the latest scoop, the scientists are set to say they are more convinced than ever that global warming is caused by humans. They will say they are 95% certain that our use of fossil fuels is the main reason behind the global rise in temperatures since the 1950s. The panel will also outline why global temperatures have been rising more slowly since 1998, a controversial slowdown that scientists have been struggling to explain. Sensitive questions According to the leak, they will put it down to natural meteorological variations and other factors that could include greater absorption of heat into the deep oceans - and the possibility that the climate is less sensitive to carbon dioxide than had previously been believed. Many climate sceptics have argued that this is a key factor behind the temperature slowdown, and a good reason not to believe the more extreme predictions of those they dismiss as warmist conspirators. But those involved with the IPCC say that even now, just a month away from publication, you would be "foolish in the extreme" to take this latest leak as conclusive. "It is guaranteed it will change," said Jonathan Lynn, spokesman for the IPCC. "In September, the scientists will go through the 15-page summary for policymakers, line by line." "We've already given it to governments for their thoughts, and we've had 1,800 comments on that 15-page document," he said. When the previous IPCC report came out in 2007, it ran into two major problems. The first issue was the discovery of basic errors - including the embarrassing claim that all the glaciers in the Himalayas would have melted by 2035. The second was the so called Climategate affair, in which leaked emails purported to show leading scientists trying to manipulate their data to make the report more damning. Ultimately, several investigations showed the accusations of manipulation to be false. Last chance saloon? To try to ensure there was no repeat in this year's report, the IPCC determined to be as open as possible. Almost anyone who claimed any expertise in the field could register to be a reviewer. There have already been several leaks as a result of this open approach. "We are not trying to keep it secret," Jonathan Lynn told BBC News. "After the report is finished, we are going to publish all the comments and responses so that people can track the process. "We just think it's misleading to get hold of these drafts and put them out and draw conclusions from them." The ongoing problems with leaks is one of the reasons behind the mutterings that this large-scale, multi-faceted report from the IPCC could be its last. There are some who argue that having a mega-event every seven years is misguided: science is moving much faster than that, and the process itself is too arduous for the hundreds of scientists involved. "There are people who say: why not put all the drafts out there, let everyone look at them and that will be the end of it," said Jonathan Lynn. "I think there will certainly be an IPCC in the future but there may not be these big blockbuster events." Follow Matt on Twitter.

जलवायु परिवर्तन पर अंतर-सरकारी पैनल (आई. पी. सी. सी.) ने अपने आगामी, और बेसब्री से प्रतीक्षित, मूल्यांकन रिपोर्ट 5 (ए. आर. 5) के नवीनतम लीक संस्करण से बहुत अधिक निष्कर्ष निकालने के खिलाफ चेतावनी दी है।


Rain saves bog snorkelling event at Llanwrtyd Wells

Summary: Bog snorkelling will take place at this year's World Alternative Games after recent rain filled the trenches which were dried out by the heatwave.

Hundreds of competitors race two lengths of a 55m (180ft) peat bog in Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, in a bid to become World Bog Snorkelling champion. A spokesman for Green Events said the bogs were now "full" ahead of the competition on 26 August. Other events in the Games include space hopping and belly flopping.

बोग स्नॉर्कलिंग इस साल के विश्व वैकल्पिक खेलों में होगी क्योंकि हाल ही में हुई बारिश ने उन खाइयों को भर दिया था जो गर्मी की लहर से सूख गए थे।


Chesterfield crash: Man killed and woman critically hurt

Summary: A man was killed and a woman was left in a critical condition when they were hit by a car in a town centre.

Derbyshire Police said the man died at the scene after the pair were struck by an Audi in Chesterfield at 14:20 on Saturday. The 20-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and has been released while investigations continue. Saltergate was closed for more than three hours after the crash. Police have appealed for witnesses and dashcam footage. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.

शहर के केंद्र में एक कार की चपेट में आने से एक पुरुष की मौत हो गई और एक महिला गंभीर हालत में रह गई।


Car hits house after collision in Small Heath

Summary: A car crashed into a house in Birmingham after colliding with another car.

The vehicle hit the semi-detached property in Barnesville Close in Small Heath on Wednesday night, emergency crews said. West Midlands Fire Service said the car caused some structural damage to the house but the property was declared safe by a city council engineer. No-one was injured in the collision or from the house, firefighters said.

बर्मिंघम में एक कार एक अन्य कार से टकराने के बाद एक घर से टकरा गई।


Hong Kong's battle for hearts and minds

Summary: The Chinese government has clearly decided that facing down a campaign of civil disobedience in the short term is preferable to allowing Hong Kong the kind of political process which might create meaningful challenges to its own authority in the long term.

Carrie GracieChina editor@BBCCarrieon Twitter Sunday's announcement from Beijing leaves no room for compromise with Hong Kong's democratic forces. Far from allowing a more open nomination process for leadership candidates, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has declared that all candidates must secure more than 50% support from a "broadly representative" nominating body. In some ways this seems even more restrictive than existing arrangements, and is unlikely to be endorsed by Hong Kong's Legislative Council. But Chinese officials insist Hong Kong's chief executive must be subordinate to Beijing and that open nominations for the post would create a "chaotic society". The chief executive has to be a person "who loves the country and loves Hong Kong" in the words of the NPC decision. Wider picture Hong Kong's democracy activists have responded with predictable dismay, complaining that such a process would not provide the "genuine choice" which they understand by the term universal suffrage. They warn that the long threatened occupation of the business district will now go ahead. Beijing's uncompromising stance on Hong Kong is part of a wider political picture. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China itself has moved further against any suggestion of democratic reform, the Communist Party ever more jealously entrenching its own monopoly on power. Hong Kong is the only place where Chinese citizens can criticise the one party-state or commemorate the Tiananmen democracy protests of 1989. Free speech and freedom of assembly in the former British colony already stretch Beijing's patience, and - although it does not wish to renege from the promise of direct elections for the next chief executive of Hong Kong in 2017 - it is not prepared to risk the emergence of a leader who might confront its own interests outright. It is not lost on Hong Kong's political community that in another former European colony, next door Macau, the sole candidate and existing leader was re-elected at the weekend by a panel dominated by China loyalists. This is the way the Chinese government prefers to do its politics. And while it espouses market competition in some areas of the economy, it wishes to send a message throughout China that no such principle should apply in politics. 'Step forward' A familiar defensive and xenophobic strain is emerging in the Chinese narrative surrounding the Hong Kong issue. An article in the Communist People's Daily on Saturday said that some in Hong Kong were colluding with outside forces. "Not only are they undermining Hong Kong's stability and development, but they're also attempting to turn Hong Kong into a bridgehead for subverting and infiltrating the Chinese mainland." It's hard to assess how many people in Hong Kong or elsewhere in China actually believe this. Many argue instead that Hong Kong's success has been built on its cosmopolitan society and international focus. The Hong Kong government has thrown in its lot with Beijing. In a report in July, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said "mainstream Hong Kong society" agreed with Beijing on how electoral reform should proceed and he greeted Sunday's NPC decision as a "major step forward in the development of Hong Kong's society". In the opposing camp, the Occupy Central movement has warned that it can mobilise 10,000 people for its sit-in protest. The battle for hearts and minds will now begin in earnest. By refusing to trust the voters of Hong Kong to make free choices, Beijing may now have triggered the emergence of the "chaotic society" it was so keen to avoid.

चीनी सरकार ने स्पष्ट रूप से निर्णय लिया है कि अल्पावधि में सविनय अवज्ञा के अभियान का सामना करना हांगकांग को उस तरह की राजनीतिक प्रक्रिया की अनुमति देने से बेहतर है जो लंबी अवधि में अपने स्वयं के अधिकार के लिए सार्थक चुनौती पैदा कर सकती है।


Netanyahu's 'chutzpah' rocks Capitol and riles Obama

Summary: There's an old saying that something is "about as welcome as a bacon sandwich at a Barmitzvah". It's probably not the correct metaphor to describe Barack Obama's feelings about Bibi's presence in Congress today, but it will do.

Jon SopelNorth America editor@bbcjonsopelon Twitter Just as negotiations with Iran are at their most delicate stage, in comes Bibi to say the deal stinks. If you're the president, that just doesn't feel very kosher, so to speak. After all, something quite extraordinary did unfold today. The Speaker of the House invited the Israeli prime minister to address Congress and rubbish the president's foreign policy negotiations - without ever telling the White House or the State Department that the invitation had been extended. We'll come to the substance in a moment - but let's just do the theatre. Benjamin Netanyahu rocked the Capitol. His political stagecraft was unbelievable. He had them cheering, whooping and hollering. And that was before he'd said a word. He knew every button to press. It was said of the charismatic British Conservative politician, Michael Heseltine, that he knew like no other how to find his party's G-spot - well, another more anatomical word was used, but let's not dwell on that. Bibi does the same in Congress, to the Republican section of the audience at least, and some Democrats - though many stayed away It is hard to think of any other national assembly - including Israel - where Mr Netanyahu would be given such adulation. For a moment, I tried to imagine Bibi in the Westminster Parliament, or the Assemblee Nationale in Paris or the Bundestag in Berlin. He wouldn't have got anything like that reception. But here in Washington his script lines, his delivery and his message had US congressmen and women leaping up from their seats like jack-in-the-boxes. The argument was familiar, and delivered with great passion and sincerity. Netanyahu said that Israel faces an existential threat from Iran - and he is convinced that the deal under discussion, far from preventing Tehran to obtain the bomb, will pave the way to that. He said it was a lousy deal and should be rejected. He argued that there was an agreement to be had, but it depended on Iran stopping its interference in neighbouring countries, it had to stop sponsoring terrorism around the world, and stop threatening to annihilate Israel. And ultimately, he said, the US was being naive in trusting Iran, whom he argued was fundamentally untrustworthy. But there was a passage early on in his address which seemed a little less sincere. That was when Mr Netanyahu confessed to being shocked that people thought he might have had political calculation in his mind in coming to DC. After all, it is just two weeks before Israel goes to the polls in a closely-fought election. And this is why it was such an act of "chutzpah". The dictionary defines this Yiddish word as being an act of brazen audacity for good or bad. Mr Netanyahu hopes it will be for good; that his appeal over the head of the American president will help sink a deal with Iran, even if it damages the president in the process - and damages relations with his administration. But there is audacity for bad. In Washington, where everything is partisan, the issue of Israel isn't. At times it often feels as though there is an auction going on between Republicans and Democrats over who can be more effusive in their support for the State of Israel. But today felt partisan. Some Democrats stayed away, while the leader of Democrats in the House, Nancy Pelosi said: "I was near tears throughout the prime minister's speech - saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations ... and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation." The words of some administration officials are even more sulphurous. One is quoted today as saying the speech contained "literally not one new idea; not one single concrete alternative; all rhetoric, no action." These words aren't remarkable in themselves, but are when spoken about an Israeli leader. This sort of stuff doesn't normally happen. It does now.

एक पुरानी कहावत है कि कुछ "बार्मिट्ज़वाह में बेकन सैंडविच के रूप में स्वागत योग्य" है। आज कांग्रेस में बीबी की उपस्थिति के बारे में बराक ओबामा की भावनाओं का वर्णन करना शायद सही रूपक नहीं है, लेकिन यह काम करेगा।


The hospice remembering children in birdsong

Summary: For 19 captivating seconds, Abigail Harvey's family listen intently to the song of a robin. They're sitting in the sunshine of the memorial garden at the hospice where Abigail spent many happy hours.

By Mark HutchingsBBC Radio 5 Live Ty Hafan's children's hospice, just along the coast from Barry Island in south Wales, holds a special place in their hearts. And now, as part of a remarkable new sound installation, the names of more than 300 children who were cared for there will be celebrated in the form of birdsong. Abigail had mucolipidosis type 2, an extremely rare, life-limiting disorder and died at the hospice when she was 10. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, her mum, Pauline Harvey, says: "Ty Hafan was the only place we could be together as a family, outside of our home and the hospital, because Abigail had such a severe disability." The hospice has always remembered children who have died by painting a pebble with their name on it, but now they are using Morse code and birdsong to do something special for hundreds of families. "We knew from the parents that hearing their child's name is very, very important, so we found a really creative way to link those children's names into a very natural feeling of the birdsong in the environment," Tracy Jones, head of community services and partnerships, explains. The hospice is working with sound artist Justin Wiggan, who takes the name of the child, puts it into a Morse code translator and then samples birdsong around it. Justin says it's been an emotional process. "I don't think you can create work like this without being connected with the people and families - I am a father myself so I can identify with some of the age ranges. The first few times it is quite overwhelming." He has a detailed way of choosing which bird should sing each child's name. "I started to look at a calendar that I found in an old book in a charity shop, showing which birds sing the strongest during the month that the child died. "From talking to parents and just seeing how at times the child was a lot stronger than the parents, this carried through to a concept that the bird chosen for the child should be the one that sings the strongest during the month that the child died." And he has what he admits is a romantic hope that wild birds in the garden will, in time, mimic the sounds. Pauline says Abigail would have been delighted with the concept. "She was so happy, and such a big personality that she would love the idea of having her name sung across the skies - she would absolutely have adored that idea." Abigail's name has been turned into the birdsong of a robin, which Pauline says is very appropriate. "The robin is one of her favourite birds, such a lively, stroppy, opinionated little bird, it's very emotional." And hearing it played out in the garden for the first time? She takes a deep breath, then smiles. "It sort of knocked me off my feet a little bit. I think what I'm hit with is a wall of memories." Abigail's dad Stephen agrees. "It's a fairly small bird, and Abigail was small for her age, she was probably the size of a two-year-old. She was extremely feisty, it just brings a lot of emotions and thoughts back." Abigail's sister Jennifer, 11, was seven when her sister died. "It's one of those birds that will not be forgotten, you will always know what it is, and Abigail will not be forgotten at any time." The Harvey family will also be playing out the recording on a speaker in their own garden. For Jennifer, having the birdsong at home will be a comfort. "When I wake up in the morning and go outside. Just to hear that, that would cheer me up a lot." Abigail's story was featured on 5 Live's Anna Foster programme which is broadcast from Monday to Thursday from 10:00-13:00 BST and is available on iPlayer afterwards.

19 सेकंड के लिए, अबीगैल हार्वे का परिवार एक रॉबिन के गीत को ध्यान से सुनता है। वे धर्मशाला में स्मारक उद्यान की धूप में बैठे हैं जहाँ अबीगैल ने कई खुशी के घंटे बिताए।


Ipswich murder probe after man fatally stabbed

Summary: A murder inquiry has been launched following the death of a man who was stabbed in an Ipswich street.

Police said they were called to Turin Street at about 13:50 GMT and despite paramedics and air ambulance attending the man died at the scene. No further details of the victim have been released, and police said Turin Street had been closed. Other roads in the Stoke area may also be affected, and police have appealed for witnesses.

इप्सविच गली में चाकू से एक व्यक्ति की मौत के बाद हत्या की जांच शुरू की गई है।


Vale of Rheidol line reopens after landslide in flood

Summary: Services have resumed on a steam railway which was damaged by a landslide in flooding in mid Wales.

About 50ft (15.2m) of track was left suspended in the air after the land beneath was washed away on the Vale of Rheidol railway near Aberystwyth last Saturday. Services had been suspended on the line, which runs between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge. The extent of the track bed problem was found during a survey for damage. At the height of the flooding in mid Wales on Saturday about 1,000 people had to move to safety as flood water hit communities across the area, stretching into Powys.

मध्य वेल्स में बाढ़ में भूस्खलन से क्षतिग्रस्त भाप रेलवे पर सेवाएं फिर से शुरू हो गई हैं।


Girl with cancer fulfils wish to become a police officer

Summary: Abigail Arias wants to fight bad guys.

"I have cancer. The bad guys are in my lungs," the six-year-old from Texas told ABC News. Abigail has Wilms Tumours, a form of cancer that starts in the kidneys. Her family were recently told her cancer is terminal. In December, she met Freeport Police Chief Ray Garivey, and the pair struck up an instant friendship. Abigail confided in Mr Garivey that she has always wanted to be a police officer. This week Abigail's dream came true. Wearing a specially made uniform, and standing on a stepladder, she was sworn in as an honorary officer of the Freeport Police Department. Fighting back tears, Mr Garivey swore Abigail into the force with a pledge to "keep fighting the bad guys". The ceremony was attended by Abigail's family and fellow officers from across Texas. "Her spirit, her toughness, her will to survive, that's what [we believe in]," Mr Garivey said. "Her terrific smile and will to keep fighting 'the bad guys' inside of her - I wanted to make her dream come true," Mr Garivey told CNN. "You have to meet her to really understand what a great and inspiring young lady she is." You may also like: In a post on Facebook, the police department thanked "all the businesses, citizens, community leaders and first responders who were present who took part in making Abigail's dream come true."

अबीगैल एरियस बुरे लोगों से लड़ना चाहती है।


Aberystwyth students protest on roof at Pantycelyn halls

Summary: Students at Aberystwyth University have climbed on the roof of a Welsh language hall of residence to protest its proposed closure.

About 30 protesters refused to leave Pantycelyn at the end of term on Sunday and five climbed on the roof on Monday. The campaigners said they would also go on hunger strike on 21 June, the day before a decision is due on whether the accommodation will close indefinitely. The university recommended the halls close to make them "fit for purpose". It said the building would still be used for Welsh language services. But campaigners have accused the university of not placing enough value in the Welsh language. Student Bethan Roberts said: "We are here occupying the building with students and people from all over Wales to ensure this stays as a Welsh halls of residence."

एबेरेस्टविथ विश्वविद्यालय के छात्र इसके प्रस्तावित बंद होने का विरोध करने के लिए वेल्श भाषा के आवास की छत पर चढ़ गए हैं।


'Digital revolution' of the newspaper industry

Summary: As the newspaper group Trinity Mirror - whose Welsh titles include the Western Mail and the Daily Post - reports a 2.5% increase in annual profits but says it plans to save an extra £10m a year, BBC Wales' arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas analyses the changes and the challenges for the Welsh newspaper industry.

Trinity Mirror's financial results follow the publication of statistics which show more and more of us are choosing to read stories online, and for free, instead of buying a paper. The information superhighway got off to a slow, noisy start. But today, for most of us, it is a speedier solution, delivering the world to our laptops, mobile phones and tablet computers. At the Evening Post in Swansea, a fast connection is vital for the newspaper to source its stories, and send them to the printers. It is the paper with the biggest circulation in Wales, but like the rest of the industry, sales are falling, as readers go online instead. Jonathan Roberts is a week into his new job as editor and said the hard copy newspaper still had a role. "All the content is produced in one newsroom but of course it is destined for very different mediums and people access that content for different reasons," said Mr Roberts. "People go online to be entertained, whereas people pick up a newspaper for a reading experience essentially, they want to take their time, go for a cup of coffee to sit down and enjoy reading the stories. "Whereas online they are looking for different kinds of content really - shorter stories, video, pictures, audio offerings as well so it is a very different market but again it is using the same content." As newspaper circulations fall, the Evening Post's online visitors soar. In the second half of last year, it averaged over 380,000 unique visitors to its website every month - an increase of 65% on the year before. Visitors were up at the websites of the Western Mail and the Daily Post as well. Wales Online - which hosts stories from the Western Mail, as well as the South Wales Echo and the valleys papers - averaged 1.4 million visitors a month, a rise of almost 30%. Daily Post drew 378,000 to its pages every month - a rise of 28%. The stats are impressive - but making money out of them is hard work. Papers are resistant to charging for access to their content, leaving the advertising market the best source of funds. Marc Webber is a media analyst and was a sub-editor for The Sun's online site. "The reason why they're not making much money out of digital technology at the moment, is that you have sales teams in newspapers that are quite frankly used to selling spot ads and classified advertising," he said. "They're not used to selling banner advertising, they're not used to selling engaging multi-platform solutions for advertising like video and all those sorts of things. "And quite frankly until you have sales teams in these companies that know how to make money out of digital you will always have the gap between making a profit out of it and a rising amount of people using it." Changing priorities Newspaper owners insist they are adapting their business models to make money online. The past 10 years has seen some titles disappear completely, while the rest deal with a new reality - a readership with the ability to find everything they need at the touch of a button. The Evening Post's Mr Roberts added: "The regional media industry as a whole is undergoing a period of transformation - not evolution but revolution. "I think previously we have seen ourselves as a newspaper with a website, now we're a digital media business with a newspaper." Newspapers are not giving up on their traditional formats. In recent weeks, a turf war has broken out in Swansea - with the Western Mail giving away thousands of free copies in a bid to reduce the dominance of the Evening Post. But there are still cuts and reorganisations in newsrooms as management adapt to changing priorities. Trinity Mirror is consulting on job cuts and a new publishing system that will see many of the feature pages in its papers produced from one newsroom in Liverpool. The future for newspapers may appear bleak - but with huge online audiences, making money out of their visits will hold the solution to their survival.

जैसा कि समाचार पत्र समूह ट्रिनिटी मिरर-जिसके वेल्श शीर्षकों में वेस्टर्न मेल और डेली पोस्ट शामिल हैं-वार्षिक लाभ में 2.5% की वृद्धि की रिपोर्ट करता है, लेकिन कहता है कि यह प्रति वर्ष अतिरिक्त £10 मिलियन बचाने की योजना बना रहा है, बीबीसी वेल्स के कला और मीडिया संवाददाता ह्यू थॉमस वेल्श समाचार पत्र उद्योग के लिए परिवर्तनों और चुनौतियों का विश्लेषण करते हैं।


Maintenance work set to cause delays across Guernsey

Summary: There could be severe traffic delays across Guernsey next week when one of the island's busiest routes closes for maintenance work to be carried out.

The Forest Road and Les Cornus will be closed in stages while resurfacing work is done. Motorists are being advised to allow extra time for their journey as they follow diversions for the six-week duration of the works. Maintenance will begin on Monday when Forest Road shuts for three weeks. Traffic heading west should use Le Vauquiedor, St Andrews Road, Rue Frairies and Les Blicqs to get to the Chene traffic lights. The eastbound diversion for heavy vehicles uses the same route, with the addition of La Villiaze Road, Route de L'Issue and Bouillon Road. Lighter traffic heading east will be diverted left at the Chene, through Le Chemin Le Roi and Les Mouilpieds back to Les Cornus.

अगले सप्ताह ग्वेर्नसे में यातायात में गंभीर देरी हो सकती है जब द्वीप के सबसे व्यस्त मार्गों में से एक रखरखाव कार्य के लिए बंद हो जाता है।


Are these the worst ring roads in England?

Summary: Which city's ring road has a section named after Lara Croft? And which ring road's roundabouts prompted a fans' calendar? Love them or loathe them, ring roads are now an intrinsic part of everyday urban living.

By Jenny ScottEngland News Online While some bemoan the destruction and confusion caused by the wraparound concrete constructions, others choose to celebrate their idiosyncrasies. So where are the ring roads we love to hate? We have listed some below but do you agree with our choices? Send your stories of ring road hell to england@bbc.co.uk with the word "ring road" in the subject line. Sheffield Driving into Sheffield, I was looking forward to my friend's hen-do. We had booked a city centre apartment, a spa day and a restaurant. What could go wrong? Yet, an hour-and-a-half later, I was bellowing tearfully into my mobile at my boyfriend: "You came to university here. Where AM I?" What had caused this emotional meltdown? Certainly not a fall-out with my friends - I hadn't even seen them yet. Instead, my fun-filled city break had been spent navigating a series of roundabouts on the city's ring road which kept spitting me out with increasing ferocity. Sheffield's inner ring road has been tormenting drivers since 1961. Like many of the nation's worst ring roads, it twists you round its little finger only to catapult you into bus-only zones or roads that lead you off in the opposite direction to the one you need. I'm not the only one who has suffered at the hands of Sheffield's ring road. Tim Hale, from the city's chamber of commerce, said: "I have lived in Sheffield all my life and even I get confused." Former Top Gear presenter Quentin Willson believes the poor state of Britain's ring roads is a "national scandal". "We are in denial about cars in this country," he said. "There is a tacit government policy to discourage people from using roads and get them on to a public transport system that doesn't exist." His pet ring road hates are London - "the M25 is legendary, while the M40 is perpetually blocked" he says - and Leicester. "Even Sir Ranulph Fiennes was late for a speech in Leicester because he couldn't get off the ring road," he said. Wolverhampton He was a tramp... and they loved him. The "Wolverhampton ring road tramp" was a homeless man named Josef Stawinoga. He spent more than 30 years living in a tent on the central reservation of the city's ring-road and ended up attracting a Facebook following of 14,000 people. He died in 2007 and campaigners are now calling for a statue to be erected in his memory. "We couldn't approach him and say hello to him because he was always grumpy," said Matthew Hadley, one of his Facebook followers. "But that's what we liked about him." Sadly, in the view of many, Mr Stawinoga, known as "Fred", was the best thing about Wolverhampton's ring road. Samuel Brandt, from the University of Chicago, has written a thesis about the ring road. He said the route famously took 26 years to complete. "It was a protracted and, at times, painful process," he said. "By the time it was completed in the late '80s, its faults and obsolescence were already becoming apparent." Redditch The ring roads that send you off to a different destination entirely are the subject of a Jasper Carrott joke. Of the notorious Redditch ring road, the West Midlands comedian said: "All the signs lead to Bromsgrove, and I don't want to go there again." According to driving instructor Andy Bennett, the main problem with Redditch is an overriding sense of déjà vu. "It's roundabout after roundabout and they all look the same," he said. "You turn a corner and you think, 'I've just been here'. It all looks exactly the same and it's very confusing." However, the roundabouts of Redditch also spark some affection in the town. In 2002, Redditch company BB Print Digital turned photographs of the ring road's roundabouts into a surprise hit by publishing them in a calendar. "I see Redditch's roundabouts as an oasis in a sea of asphalt," said Kevin Beresford, who headed the company and now runs the Roundabout Appreciation Society. Derby One wrong turn in your drive around Derby could send you hurtling off towards Nottingham. "It can be quite confusing," said Chris Woodward, from the campaign group Derby Heart, who fought plans to extend the ring road. "People have trouble finding our house because the access road was severed by the building of the ring road." Like other ring roads, such as Leicester's, Mr Woodward said the Derby route changed the character of the historic heart of the city. "A lot of historic buildings and green spaces were lost when they built it," he said. "I'm not sure it actually improves the flow of the traffic because there are so many lights and roundabouts that hold people up." However, the Derby ring road does have one unique feature: a section named after video game heroine Lara Croft, whose character was created in the city. "The city council did an online survey asking people to suggest names for part of the ring road. It somehow went viral and lots of Lara Croft fans voted, so that's what we've got," said Mr Woodward. Stoke-on-Trent Several towns have ring roads that time - or perhaps developers - forgot. The Stoke-on-Trent ring road has been "in development" since 2002 - and it is still not finished. The Potteries Way was due to have been completed by 2011, with the final link in the chain being provided by a private company. However, the firm went into receivership, leaving Stoke with a missing section. Pat Field owns Rockerman's Furniture shop, which suddenly found itself cut adrift by the ring road development. "When they built it, a lot of people couldn't cope with not being able to get to things the way they always have - they didn't know how to find us any more," he said. "It's bisected a street and left us isolated and the bit where the road doesn't connect is very confusing for a lot of people." Coventry Coventry's ring road circles the city on concrete stilts. "You either love it or hate it," said Rick Medlock, who lives in the city and has won awards for his photographs of the road. "Most people who come here for the first time find it really confusing. It's like a ring of concrete that isolates the city centre. And you have to walk under it if you want to get into Coventry. "I know one woman who hasn't been in to the city centre for eight years. She doesn't like driving on the ring road and she doesn't feel safe walking underneath it." London The main issue with big city ring roads, such as London's M25 and north and south circular, is congestion. "The south circular is still a myriad of local roads," said Paul Watters, head of roads policy with the AA. "The air quality is awful," added Steve Chambers, from Hornchurch, who is doing a PhD in urban planning. "It's polluted, the infrastructure is really poor and the traffic signals are awful. It's a really, really horrible environment, not just for cars but for cyclists and pedestrians too." Birmingham One of the country's most controversial ring roads was Birmingham's Queensway - or the concrete collar, as it was otherwise known. It was been described by author Stephen Bayley as, "a nightmare: you shot past your ring road junction only to be condemned to another circuit of an idealist's hell". The ring road was subsequently broken up but many drivers would insist Queensway remains a nightmare - not least those who have fallen victim to the city council's "confusing" bus lane signs. One of those drivers, Maurice Abney-Hastings, from Alcester, was fined £180 for mistakenly driving into a bus lane. He says driving on the road is so traumatic, he is campaigning to prevent people from going into Birmingham. "I have been going around telling everybody not to go there," he said. "I think I have done the city out of at least as much money as it has fined me. My friends have all been going shopping in Leicester, instead of Birmingham." John Howells, a regional manager with the Road Haulage Association, said many ring roads suffer from problems with signage. "If you take the wrong exit, you often can't drive across cities any more, so you need to find your way out again which can be difficult," he said. "Where ring roads work, they take traffic out of town centres. But there are too many routes that were drawn up in the 1960s and '70s, where the concept was good, but funding ran out during construction." The roads may even become obsolete some day, experts believe, if petrol price rises and concerns about carbon emissions force people to make lifestyle changes. Samuel Brandt, who studies Britain's ring roads, said: "British ring roads as we know them could well see their final day. However, what I think is more lasting is the idea of a city centre being ringed, whether it be by a road, a moat or a wall."

किस शहर के रिंग रोड में लारा क्रॉफ्ट के नाम पर एक खंड है? और किस रिंग रोड के गोल चक्कर ने प्रशंसकों के कैलेंडर को प्रेरित किया? उन्हें प्यार करें या उनसे नफरत करें, रिंग रोड अब रोजमर्रा के शहरी जीवन का एक आंतरिक हिस्सा हैं।


How to avoid a holiday disaster when travelling with young children

Summary: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have flown to France for their first summer family holiday with Prince George and Princess Charlotte. But as the young royals make travelling with two young children look like a breeze, most new parents find taking a trip a daunting prospect. So, without the help of a nanny and a private jet, how do you avoid holiday disaster when travelling with kids?

By Emma AtkinsonBBC News 1. Diversion tactics You've got up at the crack of dawn, frantically scrambled to the car, got stuck in traffic and have tired, bored toddlers testing your nerve. The key to getting five minutes' peace on your journey is providing plenty of distractions. Having an arsenal of toys and snacks that can be pulled out at different intervals inevitably helps the time go quicker. Sticker books, a selection of stocking-filler type toys to be opened every hour, comics, books and plenty of finger-food snacks, are what Mumsnet recommends. Playing I-Spy and "count the cars" might only last so long but a portable device for playing Frozen on repeat will last for hours. Just don't forget the charger - or the headphones. When it comes to food, small pieces of easy-to-hold and not-too-sticky foods are best - there is nothing worse than a clammy toddler hand covered in rapidly melting chocolate. Mumsnetters also suggest sippy cups or sports bottles, rather than juice cartons or cans to reduce the high risk of spills. 2. Accept it - children cry on planes For most parents with young children the idea of stepping onto a packed plane, full of people trying to sleep, is the stuff of nightmares. As the engines roar and the tears begin, adults try to frantically quieten the little ones with endless bouncing on the lap, whilst wishing the ground would swallow them up. But guess what, children cry, and sometimes there is just not much you can do about it. So relax. As long as you're not doing something that is disrespectful to other passengers, it's fine. Fellow parents will probably zone out with a smug look on their face that says "thank goodness that's not me". Try sitting in aisle seats so you don't have to ask anyone to move for you and children can have a little wander (then crack out your distraction tools from tip one). If all else fails, there is bribery. Parenting blogger Melissa Baswell Williams got a huge reaction on social media after posting pictures of the small bags of sweets and ear plugs she gave to nearby passengers on a flight she took with her 11-week old baby. 3. Find suitable accommodation Take time to plan where you are going to stay. The cool apartment in a remote mountain top location might have been idyllic when you were without children, but with babies and toddlers in tow it can leave you in a constant state of panic. Sian Williams, who runs the travel company Baby Friendly Boltholes says: "A holiday can be pretty stressful if you are constantly averting the next disaster with a free standing mirror, sharp-edged table, or un-gated stone steps. "For me, the holy grail is a place that is stylish and parent-friendly. Cool but practical interiors and services to help parents relax whether it's a raft of baby gear so you can pack light, babysitters or meal delivery services so you can enjoy a romantic evening." Mum-of-three Jane, from parenting blog Northern Mum, says you often don't need to take half as much stuff with you as you think you'll need. "You are not the first parents to take children away. People have thought about a lot of this already and hotels and accommodation can often provide things like cots and sterilisers. Do some research about what they already have as it can save you a whole load of hassle." A playground or a toy corner onsite are also good so parents can take it in turns to let the other lie-in whilst one keeps junior occupied. 4. Beware of the bugs Take a supply of child-friendly medicines with you. Being stuck with an ill child in a foreign country, miles from anywhere, is no fun. If your little one often feels sick on car journeys try to keep them focused on things outside the car, rather than a book or screen, and remember to keep a plastic bag in the glove compartment for any unexpected sickness. The most important weapon for any parent are baby wipes, Mumsnet says, especially when travelling. If your child gets themselves into a mess, when there are limited facilities on a flight or train or for any spills, baby wipes work a treat. A change of clothes is also highly recommended. 5. Embrace your inner child With all the worries of travelling filling your mind don't forget to have fun - it is a holiday after all. Children are funny, love to explore and the smallest things are often what they enjoy the most (with the bonus being they are often free!). Digging a big hole on the beach, looking for interesting stones and riding on the top deck of the bus are all a thrill when you're a kid. Why not provide them with a camera, travel experts at Thomas Cook recommend - a brilliant way to keep kids entertained and it's great to then look back over the pictures when you get home and see the holiday through your child's eyes. After all the stress, when you really need time to lie on a sun lounger with a cocktail in hand, look for the kids' club. Many hotels and resorts offer them and children often don't want to leave.

ड्यूक और डचेस ऑफ कैम्ब्रिज राजकुमार जॉर्ज और राजकुमारी शार्लोट के साथ अपनी पहली ग्रीष्मकालीन पारिवारिक छुट्टी के लिए फ्रांस गए हैं। लेकिन जब युवा शाही परिवार के सदस्य दो छोटे बच्चों के साथ यात्रा करना एक हवा की तरह दिखता है, तो अधिकांश नए माता-पिता को यात्रा करना एक कठिन संभावना लगती है। इसलिए, नानी और एक निजी जेट की मदद के बिना, आप बच्चों के साथ यात्रा करते समय छुट्टियों की आपदा से कैसे बचते हैं?


Tech Tent: Europe moves to fine big US tech firms

Summary: It's been a week which has seen another huge cyber-attack with worrying implications, a record fine imposed on Google by the European Commission - and a law passed in Germany to punish web firms who fail to remove extremist content.

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter On Tech Tent this week we reflect on the growing tensions between Europe and the United States over the regulation of tech giants - and mounting global anxiety over cyber-crime. Ransomware Returns…. ...or does it? When news broke this week that a new cyber-attack was under way, affecting businesses and government organisations around the world, it sounded very similar to the Wannacry ransomware which afflicted NHS hospitals in May. But it is becoming clear that this was rather different. For one thing, the attack seems to have been focused on Ukrainian businesses and state organisations, and has spread rapidly within networks but not hopped from one to another so easily. Experts are also pointing to the fact that the attacks seemed to destroy data rather than just locking it up - which means that it is unlikely to garner many ransom payments as victims will get nothing in return for paying up. The show debated what conclusions we can draw about who was behind the attack - and whether it is more or less worrying than Wannacry. Google v Europe Type anything you might buy into Google's search engine - say, leather shoes - and at the top of the results you will see a box with images of products and links to where you can order them. This is an advertising service called Google Shopping, and this week the European Commission decided it amounted to an abuse of the search giant's market power. The European Commission slapped a record 2.4bn euro ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) fine on Google and ordered the company to change its ways and stop favouring its own services above rival shopping comparison services. Depending on your point of view, this was either a long overdue move to trim the sails of an over powerful monopoly - or it was Europe throwing a hissy fit because it can't produce a company as innovative as Google. The second view is expressed forcefully on our programme by the media academic Prof Jeff Jarvis, long an admirer of Google. He says there is little evidence of harm to consumers from Google's behaviour and sees this week's fine as sour grapes: "I think Europe has constantly been in the position of feeling jealous that it doesn't have a Google," he tells us. "But you're not going to get there by regulating and passing protectionist legislation." Of course the irony is that the EU ruling has been applauded by the likes of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and the British tabloid press, usually sceptical about regulation and anything else that comes out of Brussels. But in the view of Prof Jarvis that is because they have watched impotently as the innovative web giant steals their advertising business - so they have decided that their enemy's enemy is their friend. Germany moves against online hate Another area where Europe and the United States see things differently is on where to draw the line between free expression and protecting people from racist and violent language. The German parliament has just voted to approve a law which could see social media firms face big fines if they fail to remove illegal hate speech within 24 hours. A country where there are strict laws against anti-Semitic and other racial abuse has struggled to apply those rules online. Now, according to Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Germany has acted to end "the internet law of the jungle". The American social media giants had lobbied long and hard against what looks like the strictest law yet to be applied about online behaviour in a democratic country And even some German organisations which monitor online hate speech and fake news are worried. Alexander Rabe from Eco, which was consulted about the drafting of the law, told us that it was difficult to define hate speech and he was concerned that repressive regimes might take inspiration for a crackdown on free expression.. So why did lawmakers vote it through? Our correspondent in Germany, Joe Miller, tells us there is a simple answer - the idea of curbing hate speech and taking on what are seen as irresponsible American web firms is hugely popular.

यह एक सप्ताह रहा है जिसमें चिंताजनक प्रभावों के साथ एक और बड़ा साइबर हमला देखा गया है, यूरोपीय आयोग द्वारा गूगल पर लगाया गया एक रिकॉर्ड जुर्माना-और चरमपंथी सामग्री को हटाने में विफल रहने वाली वेब फर्मों को दंडित करने के लिए जर्मनी में एक कानून पारित किया गया है।


'Most adorable random act of kindness ever'?

Summary: Parking restrictions spark frustration more often than delight, but a newly-installed sign in Wiesbaden, Germany has been declared "the most adorable act of random kindness ever" as social media users shared the story online.

Food and travel writer Christie Dietz, whose four-year-old son has parked his bike by the same lamppost "just about every day for the last year", discovered the space had now been reserved just for him. A kind-hearted stranger had placed a sticker on the lamppost bearing a picture of her son's distinctive green and blue balance bike. Ms Dietz posted a picture of the lamppost to Twitter on Monday and the image has been shared widely - attracting more than 75,000 likes and shares. "We were really touched by someone carrying out such a sweet and joyful idea," Ms Dietz told the BBC. "My son is very happy about the sticker." "I'm really happy the tweet has brought smiles to so many people," she said. And the reaction on social media suggests the smiles have come with a fair number of tears. "Just had a little tear in my eye," tweeted one social media user. "It's always the little details that get you. Such a lovely gesture." Another said it was the "most adorable random act of kindness ever". Ms Dietz said she has written a thank you note which she plans to leave at her son's newly-reserved parking space. You may also be interested in:

पार्किंग प्रतिबंध खुशी की तुलना में अधिक बार निराशा पैदा करते हैं, लेकिन जर्मनी के वीसबाडेन में एक नए स्थापित संकेत को "यादृच्छिक दयालुता का अब तक का सबसे मनमोहक कार्य" घोषित किया गया है क्योंकि सोशल मीडिया उपयोगकर्ताओं ने कहानी को ऑनलाइन साझा किया है।


Upside-down cat rescued in Wilburton after loft fall

Summary: A curious cat had a lucky escape after it got stuck upside-down behind a bathroom wall.

Firefighters freed the feline after it followed its owner into the loft and fell into a soil stack void. Crews used specialist cutting equipment to release the pet from the family home in Wilburton. Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service said that "other than feeling a little embarrassed", the cat was doing well and had not been injured.

एक जिज्ञासु बिल्ली बाथरूम की दीवार के पीछे उल्टा फंस जाने के बाद भाग्यशाली बच गई।


30 jobs for new seafront restaurant at Criccieth, Gwynedd

Summary: Thirty jobs are to be created with the opening of a restaurant in a Grade II-listed building on a Gwynedd seafront.

The first Dylan's restaurant opened in Anglesey in 2012 and the owners are spending £500,000 to revamp the Morannedd building in Criccieth. The building was built in 1952 by Portmeirion architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis and was used as a cafe. Dylan's director David Evans said he also hopes to bring trade to local fishermen when it opens next Easter. "It's a place that's very dear to the heart of most people in north Wales, with views as far as Snowdon. We want to restore it to its former glory."

ग्वेनेड सीफ्रंट पर ग्रेड II-सूचीबद्ध इमारत में एक रेस्तरां खोलने के साथ तीस नौकरियों का सृजन किया जाना है।


Labour conference: Five things to look out for in Brighton

Summary: Labour's annual conference starts in Brighton on Saturday.

By Gavin StampPolitical reporter, BBC News With Brexit and a possible general election on the horizon, what will be making the headlines over the next five days and what are likely to be the main flashpoints? 1) Brexit battles Labour will want to talk about other things, but the reality is that Brexit is going to dominate much of the proceedings and the media coverage. In the run-up to the conference, the leadership has tried hard to craft a position which it hopes can bind different groups together and minimise the potential for splits and divisions. If he wins power, Jeremy Corbyn has said he will negotiate a new "sensible" Brexit deal and then put it to the people in another referendum - asking voters to decide between leaving on those terms and remaining in the European Union. The Labour leader, who backed remain in 2016 despite being a life-long Eurosceptic, has so far resisted pressure to say which way he would campaign if there is another vote, insisting he would carry out the wishes of the people. Other senior figures have not been so coy, however, with Emily Thornberry, Sir Keir Starmer and Tom Watson all saying they would personally back Remain - and Mr Watson calling for the party to "unequivocally" come out in support of staying in the EU. The Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish Labour parties are also all pro-Remain. With the leadership and the unions much more cautious, this faultline in the party is likely to be on show ahead of a vote on its Brexit policy on Monday evening. The final wording of the motion will not be clear until Sunday - when it will emerge from a convoluted process of sifting known as compositing - but the language will be crucial if Labour's different factions are to be kept on board. 2) Election date Labour MPs voted against an early general election when Boris Johnson gave them the opportunity earlier this month. The leadership says it wants a poll on its own terms and it will support one after the Brexit deadline has been extended and a no-deal exit on 31 October is ruled out. Labour badly wants power but, as everything with the party, it is not as simple as that - and the whole issue of election timing could rear its head in Brighton. Some MPs, most notably Tom Watson, want to prioritise stopping Brexit via another referendum. Others in Leave-supporting areas want to get out of the EU with a deal before going to the people. But with the membership and unions strongly behind him, expect the Labour leader to portray himself as a prime minister in waiting in his closing speech in Wednesday. This is the fifth time Mr Corbyn has addressed conference as leader and, as ever, his tone will be interesting. Will he seek to reach out to floating voters he will need to win a majority? 3) Dissent Before the conference proper gets under way, a move to oust deputy leader Tom Watson has sparked outrage among senior Labour MPs. An initial bid to abolish Mr Watson's role was made at the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Friday by the Corbyn-supporting group Momentum, but it failed to get the two-thirds majority needed. Former Labour leader Ed Milliband gave his backing to Mr Watson, but a Momentum source told the BBC: "We just can't afford to go into an election with a deputy leader set on wrecking Labour's chances." Elsewhere, Labour has been in opposition for nearly a decade and, according to some opinion polls, is trailing behind Boris Johnson's Conservatives. Since last year's conference, nearly a dozen MPs have quit the party amid anger over its policy on Brexit, its record on tackling anti-Semitism and claims of bullying and factionalism. With other MPs facing the threat of de-selection via trigger ballots, there is a sense of a growing disconnect between the party at Westminster and in the country at large. Disagreements about Labour's values and future direction are never far from the surface, as an ongoing row about the decision to disband the Labour Students movement has proved. While the prospect of an imminent election is likely to help unity, there could be dissent - as much over issues of political culture and the internal machinery of the party as policy. 4) Radical ideas Moves to democratise the conference and give it a direct say in policymaking have been a running theme since Jeremy Corbyn became leader in 2015. Momentum, the campaign group born out of his leadership bid, has said delegates will seek to "write" the election manifesto and insert a host of "radical" ideas aimed at putting the "people and the planet before privilege". Each day will have a different theme - it's public services on Sunday, the economy on Monday and the climate emergency on Tuesday. Before all that, on Saturday, there will be a vote on which motions should be debated, with the 20 most popular submitted by constituency Labour parties and affiliates going forward. Some of the more eye-catching proposals include: Expect a lot of brightly coloured clothing to be waved around as delegates seek to get called to speak. If they do get lucky, they won't have long, as the majority of speeches will be limited to two minutes. 5) Healthy living Conferences are legendary for their long hours, free drink and late-night carousing, with exercise often the last thing on people's minds. Labour has always tried to do its bit to counter these stereotypes, hosting an annual football match between MPs and journalists. This year ex-England footballer Paul Elliott will captain one of the sides while there will also be a women's match against a Lewes FC's veterans' eleven. And some of the party's leading lights will also be putting on their lycra elsewhere. Health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth is doing a pier-to-pier run early on Tuesday while Tom Watson, who has chronicled his successful fight against diabetes, is taking part in an aerobics session on Wednesday to mark National Fitness Day.

लेबर का वार्षिक सम्मेलन शनिवार को ब्राइटन में शुरू होता है।


Seamus Deane: Derry-born author and poet dies

Summary: The author and poet Seamus Deane has died aged 81.

Deane, an original member of the Field Day Theatre Company from Londonderry, died in hospital on 12 May. President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins said his death would be "an incalculable loss to Irish writing". His debut novel Reading in the Dark was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won The Irish Times International Fiction Prize and The Irish Literature Prize in 1997. In a statement, Mr Higgins said Deane was a "distinguished poet, novelist and internationally acclaimed university teacher". "To Derry he leaves the incomparable legacy of the life, the writing, the concerns, the despair and the hope, that he shared with its people and to which so much of the work would respond," said Mr Higgins. "Few cities have a writer more embedded in its people, its history, its challenges, its hopes and its humour," he added. "There are, to me, parallels between Seamus Deane's relationship to Derry and, in his time, Sean O'Casey's relationship to Dublin in the way the full experience of its peoples are placed at the centre of the writing. Prof Kevin Rafter, chair of the Irish Arts Council, said Deane left a "powerful literary and cultural legacy". "As a critic, an editor, a poet and a novelist, Deane brought concentrated rigour and empathy to his work," Prof Rafter said. "A gifted writer and a profound intellect, Seamus Deane was a master of every writing form". Prof Rafter said Deane was also an "inspiring teacher and continual advocate for Irish writing". 'Rising expectation of the Catholic community' He was educated at St Columb's College in Derry, where he was a classmate of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. Civil rights campaigner Eamonn McCann, also a schoolboy contemporary of Deane's at St Columb's College, told BBC Radio Foyle he was a "literary giant". "And I knew him at Queen's University when he was beginning to emerge as a huge literary talent. "I had huge respect for him as a writer and I also liked him very much as a human being." Mr McCann said Deane was an "apt example" of the talent coming out of the school at the time. "I think it had something to do with the rising expectation of the Catholic community and the growing and huge self-confidence of the people who came out of St Columb's," he said. Fifty years at the centre of Irish writing Like his friend and classmate Seamus Heaney, Seamus Deane made the journey from St Columb's College to Queen's University to global renown. Along with Heaney, Stephen Rea, Brian Friel and others, he was one of the driving forces behind the Field Day organisation. The company's first production was Friel's ground-breaking play Translations, staged first in September 1980 in the Guildhall in Derry. Deane was a prominent poet and critic and later took on the monumental task of editing the 4,000-page Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, the first volumes of which were published in 1990. But it was his Booker-shortlisted 1996 novel Reading in the Dark - based on his childhood in Derry - which brought him wider public acclaim. Seamus Deane's passing comes after half a century at the centre of Irish writing. After leaving Derry, Deane studied at Queen's University Belfast, Ulster University and Cambridge University. A career in academia saw him lecture at University College Dublin and later become professor at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in the United States. His poetry include the collection Gradual Wars, which won the AE Memorial Prize.

लेखक और कवि सीमस डीन का 81 वर्ष की आयु में निधन हो गया है।


Poppi Worthington: Father declined to answer questions

Summary: Poppi Worthington was found lifeless by her father at their home in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, in 2012. A three-week inquest - held after the first was deemed inadequate - has resulted in a coroner deciding she was sexually assaulted in the hours before her death by her father. During the inquest, Paul Worthington was asked more than 250 questions and declined to answer all but a handful of them.

By Duncan LeatherdaleBBC News It was 11:30 GMT on 30 November - the fourth day of the inquest being held at County Hall in Kendal. Paul Worthington, seated in the witness chair at his daughter Poppi's inquest, had finally been asked the question many wanted answering. "Why did you hurt your daughter?" said Kate Stone, solicitor for Poppi's mother, who cannot be named. It was towards the end of his second day appearing as a witness. The press benches were filled. A court artist scrutinised Mr Worthington's features and appearance. His reply was, by now, familiar. "I refer to my previous statements," he said. "I rely on my rights not to answer that under rule 22." Mr Worthington was referring to inquest rules which protect witnesses from potentially incriminating themselves. However, the three-week inquest heard sufficient evidence for the senior coroner for Cumbria, David Roberts, to decide that Mr Worthington had taken his daughter to his bed and assaulted her before laying a duvet or blanket over her and going to sleep. He said: "The deceased died as a result of her ability to breathe being compromised as a result of an unsafe sleeping environment." It follows a ruling in January 2016, by family court judge Mr Justice Peter Jackson, that on the balance of probabilities Mr Worthington had subjected his daughter to a "penetrative sexual assault" - an allegation he strenuously denies. Mr Worthington had been the last person to see Poppi alive. Poppi's mother told the inquest she heard her daughter cry out in the night, while Mr Worthington was upstairs. He later carried her lifeless body down the stairs, frantically shouting for his partner to call the ambulance. Poppi 'sexually assaulted before death' What the coroner heard Key dates in Poppi's story His lawyers had argued, in vain, for their client to be hidden by screens from the public and press when he gave his evidence. They told the coroner Mr Worthington had received numerous threats and been publicly vilified since Poppi's death. He was living in hiding, enduring a nightmare, accused of sexually abusing his infant daughter but unable to clear his name. When he arrived at the inquest venue, it was through a back door with a police escort, his head covered. A decoy van had even been deployed in the car park in an attempt to bamboozle the waiting media. The coroner declined his request though and, with reporters poised with pens and laptops, the questioning had begun. Was it right that his relationship with Poppi's mother began in 2009, Alison Hewitt, counsel for the coroner, asked him. "I refer to my previous statements," he told the court, stumbling slightly over the words. "I rely on my rights not to answer that under rule 22." The coroner told Mr Worthington rule 22 did not apply to scene setting questions and the question was put to him again. He said yes. Further scene setting questions followed. He said yes, it was right it was an on and off relationship and that Poppi's mother was unhappy with his gambling on sports and his cleaning-related obsessive compulsive disorder. However, as the questioning continued, he declined to give more answers. He refused to answer a total of 69 questions during his first day. The second day was a copy of the first. His voice broke, he sobbed, he drank water from a glass on his table, he refused to answer question after question, some 252 in all across the two days. At the end, Mr Roberts told the court no inference should be drawn and Mr Worthington should not be criticised for his stance. He then asked Mr Worthington if there was anything else he wanted to tell the coroner, to help him understand what happened to Poppi. "No sir," Mr Worthington replied, his body shaking slightly. And with that he left the same way he had arrived, bundled into a police van, his face masked, heading back into hiding. The previous statements he referred to, though, were often contradictory and raised questions. What time had he gone to her? When did he take her leggings off? What position did he leave her on his bed? All remained unanswered. At least the questions were being asked this time. A first inquest held in 2014 lasted just seven minutes and coroner Ian Smith said the death could not be explained. Poppi had not even been named at the hearing and had instead just been referred to as a 13-month-old girl. Mr Roberts agreed to hold a second inquest after receiving representations from the media. This time every detail would be gone into, although many of the questions could not be answered. This was thanks, in no small part, to a police investigation that the force itself admits fell below the proper standard. Dr Alison Armour was the Home Office pathologist who examined Poppi. She was certain Poppi had been abused and it was her findings that Mr Justice Peter Jackson based his conclusions on. She told the inquest that external and internal marks she found on Poppi's body were consistent with abuse. Though she could not find a cause of death, Dr Armour said she believed either the abuse triggered a fatal reaction or Poppi suffocated on bedding, possibly as a result of being laid face down. However, other experts said some of the marks could have occurred naturally while others may have been caused by resuscitation attempts. Mr Worthington's lawyers questioned her conclusions. How could she be sure there had been abuse when others were not? Had she been tainted by the police who, before she carried out her examination, told Dr Armour there had been previous unsubstantiated allegations against the father? She was, in short, unprofessional and lacking objectivity, they argued. Dr Armour disagreed - very strongly. She said she appreciated other experts held different views, but she stood by her conclusions. She was sure, based on the marks she had seen, that Poppi had been abused. However, the coroner was told other experts, who were asked to look at the case by the National Crime Agency and representatives of Poppi's family, were less certain. Home Office pathologist Dr Nat Cary said had Poppi been abused, he would have expected to see much more evidence of it; more bruising and injury. The evidence was just not there to say anything untoward had happened, he argued. What evidence there was could be explained away, often as a result of the police's poor investigation, the coroner was told. For example, Poppi's DNA had been found on her father's penis. However, in the eight hours between her being taken to hospital and swabs being taken from him, he would have gone to the toilet, thereby transferring the DNA, his lawyers argued. The expert who analysed the DNA said the place where it was found was not consistent with evidence an assault had taken place. However, the coroner ruled that Poppi had suffered anal penetration before her death. The failings of the Cumbria Police investigation were highlighted throughout the inquest. In addition to the eight-hour delay before taking a swab test from Mr Worthington, officers also failed to find Poppi's last nappy, failed to secure the house quickly enough and failed to seize other vital evidence, such as the sheet from Mr Worthington's bed or the laptop he had been using, and looking at pornography on, the night before Poppi's death. Amanda Sadler, who had been the detective inspector in charge, admitted she was not qualified or experienced enough to lead such an investigation. Not only had police not found enough evidence to prosecute Mr Worthington, they had also failed to find the evidence which could categorically prove him innocent in the eyes of the public, his lawyers argued. It was hard, they said, to point to anything the police actually did right. The police agreed. Catherine Thundercloud, the officer who took over the case in 2014, cited a list of her colleagues' failings. These included not keeping proper logs, not following procedure, and failing to investigate Poppi's death in the first instance as a possible crime. The protocols had been there but, for whatever reason, senior officers had not followed them, she said. They failed Poppi, said Gillian Irving QC, another representative of Poppi's mother. Mr Worthington has never been charged with any offence relating to Poppi's death and it is unlikely that any charges will ever be brought. However, it appears that to some extent, questions Poppi's relatives had surrounding her death may have been answered.

पॉपी वर्थिंगटन को उसके पिता ने 2012 में बैरो-इन-फर्नेस, कंब्रिया में अपने घर पर मृत पाया था। तीन सप्ताह की पूछताछ-पहली बार अपर्याप्त माने जाने के बाद-के परिणामस्वरूप एक मृत्यु समीक्षक ने निर्णय लिया कि उसके पिता द्वारा उसकी मृत्यु से कुछ घंटे पहले उसका यौन उत्पीड़न किया गया था। पूछताछ के दौरान, पॉल वर्थिंगटन से 250 से अधिक प्रश्न पूछे गए थे और उनमें से मुट्ठी भर के अलावा सभी का उत्तर देने से इनकार कर दिया था।


A sarcastic response to Syria's militants

Summary: It takes a special kind of person to run a radio station in an area controlled by Islamist militants in northern Syria. Music is forbidden, so are women presenters. But Raed Fares - manager of Radio Fresh FM - has come up with a creative response to the militants' demands.

By Mike ThomsonBBC News It is mid-day and almost time for the latest news from Radio Fresh FM in the rebel-held province of Idlib, in north west Syria. Suddenly the airwaves are filled with assorted sounds of tweeting birds, clucking chickens and bleating goats. As the newsreader gets under way, the cacophony continues beneath his voice. You might be forgiven for thinking that this is some sort of farming bulletin. It's not. It's simply that the station's manager, Raed Fares, has had enough of being told what to do by the powerful jihadist group, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham or JFS - which until last July was linked to al-Qaeda and known as the al-Nusra Front. "They tried to force us to stop playing music on air," says Fares. "So we started to play animals in the background as a kind of sarcastic gesture against them." In what appear to be further acts of sarcastic sabotage aimed at JFS's ban on music, Radio Fresh FM has introduced long sequences of bongs from London's Big Ben clock, endless ticking sounds, ringing explosions and the whistle of shells flying through the air. And instead of songs with melodies, the station now plays recordings of tuneless chanting football fans. Fares has been getting involved in confrontations of one kind or another for years now. He took part in hundreds of demonstrations against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime at the beginning of the uprising in 2011 and continues to see it as the biggest enemy. Many of his friends were killed or imprisoned, as the authorities responded with increasing violence. Then came the threats from fighters of the so called Islamic State. Like JFS, they said the station's music was haram, or offensive to Islam. Believing this to be totally wrong, Fares ignored the threats and carried on as before, but nearly paid with his life. Just over three years ago, when the 44-year-old former estate agent arrived home in the early hours of the morning, after finishing work at the radio station, two IS gunmen with Kalashnikovs were waiting for him. They fired a barrage of shots, leaving more than a dozen holes in his car, even more in the wall behind, and two in the right side of his body. These shattered several bones in his shoulder and ribs, as well as puncturing his right lung. Fares was left lying in a pool of blood and only narrowly survived after being rushed to hospital by his brother. "I still have trouble breathing," he later said, "but my doctor says my lungs should be no problem because of the size of my nose." It's not that surprising that IS doesn't like Fares. After all, he did once design a poster depicting Syria as an alien with a monster called ISIS exploding out of its chest. The group has since been pushed out of Idlib province. President Assad, though, is his favourite target. He once got his friends to drape themselves in shrouds and then filmed them staggering out of graves calling for Assad to step down, as if even the dead want him gone. He posted it online and it was played on a number of Arabic television stations. Humour, it seems, is never far from the surface with Raed Fares. Take his response to another of JFS's demands, to get rid of women news readers - who are also haram, they say. Has he, I ask him, agreed to swap them for men? "No, I have another solution for that issue. We simply put their voices through a computer software program which makes them sound like men." Though having heard the resulting broadcasts, I would say the women now sound closer to Daleks or robots than men. The feisty 6ft 2in station manager has also refused JFS's demands to allow their members into the radio station to monitor the behaviour of his staff. "We said 'No,'" he says. "You have to monitor the transmissions, not what people are doing inside the radio station." JFS are not the only extremist rebels in the area. There are about a dozen others, and even though some of the biggest factions have recently been forming new alliances, this still makes the area chaotic to govern. There is little more than two hours of mains electricity a day, water supplies are limited and food increasingly expensive in a region flooded with 700,000 refugees from elsewhere in the country. The fact that Fares's dispute with JFS has continued for so long is evidence that the group is a little more tolerant than IS. But as a family man with three children is he not worried that sooner or later one of these jihadist groups will kill him? "They've tried that five times already," he says. "If it happens, it happens. But they haven't succeeded yet. I try to survive, but if I can't, it's OK." He tells me that the lowest point in his life came when one of his closest friends was killed and another severely injured by a bomb last summer. Fares admits that he nearly took his own life in the days that followed. But now, he says, he is more determined than ever to carry on. "We started the revolution together and were all aware that we faced the same risks," he says. "That means that my life isn't more expensive than my friends who lost their lives." Mike Thomson's report about radio Fresh FM ran on the Today programme on 9 February. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.

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Legacy of the miners' strike in Wales

Summary: It is 30 years since the year-long miners' strike, and as Neil Prior discovers in his second piece looking at the dispute - it was life-changing for those affected, and the impact is still being felt today.

By Neil PriorBBC News More than 25,000 Welsh mineworkers lost their jobs in the decade-long programme of pit closures which followed the strike. While many found it difficult to find work, Prof Keith Gildart did manage to reinvent his career. After seven years as a labourer at Point of Ayr colliery in Flintshire, he left mining in 1992, and now lectures in Working Class History and Industrial Relations at Wolverhampton University. Yet he is adamant that his story should not be seen as representative of the opportunities which were open to others. "It would be completely unfair and inaccurate for me to portray what I've done as something which everyone could have achieved," he said. "Rather than the decline of mining being the impetus I needed to go on and achieve something different, it was only possible for me to do it because of my time at Point of Ayr. "The colliery was an alternative source of education for me. I left school at 16 completely disillusioned, but once underground I was schooled in history, economics, politics and industrial relations by older miners and those that had been active in the strike. "Many others I worked with used their skills to become electricians and ambulance drivers etc, it's the generation behind who've really borne the brunt of the pit closures. 'Odds stacked' "The breakdown of communities and traditional families has led to what's been termed the crisis of masculinity, with no role models to encourage young men into a career, and no collective aspiration or expectation to succeed. "Young men aren't stupid, they can tell when the odds are stacked against them, and when there seems very little point in even trying." But if young men have been the victims of the end of mining in Wales, for many women the strike presented new opportunities. Janis Jones supported her husband Kevin throughout the year on the Cwm Colliery picket line, and says it was a time during which she discovered a lot about herself. "You can't blame the men, it was the way it'd always been in the valleys up until then, but the way everyone - men and women - thought was that the blokes earned the money, while the women looked after the children. "But once the strike hit we had a job to do: raising money, finding enough food, getting some good publicity for once. Finding strength "It wasn't that we were being held back before, but it took that to make us realise ourselves what we could achieve when we put our mind to it. "With that experience, when Cwm shut a year after the strike and the men were crushed, it was a lot of the women who found the strength to go and set up new businesses. "Was it worth it? Not really; I think it'd have happened sooner or later anyhow, and just look at the price we've paid for a bit of independence." But whilst positions are as entrenched and bitter now as they were 30 years ago, Prof Gildart argues that this anniversary should be the time to finally put feuds to one side and build for the future. "The political arguments are all well-rehearsed and largely pointless. In many ways the decline of deep mining was inevitable and has been mirrored all over the world. "What was utterly mismanaged - by successive governments of all colours - was the transition to other industries, and that's what we have to get right now if we're to avoid having the same debate in another 30 years' time." "Transport, inward investment, education and most importantly belief in the future are key investments which will require a government having vision beyond a five-year parliament."

एक साल से चल रही खनिकों की हड़ताल को 30 साल हो चुके हैं, और जैसा कि नील प्रायर को विवाद को देखते हुए अपने दूसरे भाग में पता चलता है-यह प्रभावित लोगों के लिए जीवन बदलने वाला था, और इसका प्रभाव आज भी महसूस किया जा रहा है।