Chris Ramsey's guide for comedians at music festivals

Summary: Music festivals are best known for, well music.

However, more and more are adding "non-music" acts to the line-up. Latitude festival has featured comedians since 2006 and has just announced its biggest line-up yet featuring the likes of Simon Amstell, Katherine Ryan and Dara O Briain. But Chris Ramsey, who has played there twice and will return to Suffolk in July, says it can sometimes be "hard to mix comedy and music". Here's his guide for comedians on how to crack a music festival. Don't play at the same time as Skrillex... Chris says it's "an honour to be asked to play" but raises a few concerns having been put on next to pretty loud acts at other festivals in the past. "You don't want to be in a comedy tent when someone like Skrillex is in the tent next door - that's the end of it, you're not going to have a very good gig. "Latitude's a big place, the bands are on the other side of the field." ...or after a big name comedian "When I'm on tour, it's me, it's my show and people have bought tickets to see me. "So you've got to pray that you're not on straight after a really big name. "If they're clearing out the tent while you're doing your first couple of jokes - it's pretty painful." Get there early "I would say the low point of playing any festival is getting on site," Chris tells Newsbeat. Unlike the musicians who will often arrive on tour buses, lots of comedians will drive themselves to the festival before their set. "There's about 500 different checkpoints of people on their gap year using a walkie-talkie for the first time. "I've spent longer getting into Latitude than getting out." His tips for the others on the bill, who include Joel Dommett, Seann Walsh, Andy Parsons, Susan Calman and Dom Joly is to enter "like a commando". "I'm just going to dig a tunnel and pop up in the middle of the tent, do the set and climb back in." Don't worry if not everyone is there for you See Latitude's tweet "What you get is a lot of hungover people who come into the tent cross-legged and can't be bothered to dance yet," says Chris. "When you're doing festivals it's a conveyor belt of comedians. "You've go to be prepared for the first couple of minutes to feel like you're gigging at a shopping centre - there are just people wondering through." Keep it short and sweet Chris is currently on tour with Is That Chris Ramsey? It's his biggest tour so far and runs for almost two hours. He says he has to approach festival sets in a different way. "I think my set at Latitude will be 30-40 minutes. "I'd have to talk really fast and I talk really fast anyway. I just pick my best bits." Find us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat

संगीत उत्सव अच्छी तरह से संगीत के लिए जाने जाते हैं।


The immigration “windfall” for the Treasury

Summary: The controversy over immigration is about more than money - though what often sparks furious debate is the frequently levelled charge that immigrants, especially those from Eastern Europe, are a burden on taxpayers.

Robert PestonEconomics editor But the opposite is true, according to a new report, by University College London's Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration. It calculates that immigrants from the so-called new Europe, those 10 countries which joined the EU in 2004, contributed £4.96bn more in taxes up to 2011 than they took out in benefits and use of public services. In other words, and according to the report's authors, Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini, they were a boon to the state and the public finances, not a burden. And this calculation may understate the net fiscal benefit to the Treasury: the calculation includes immigrants' proportionate share of all public service costs, those that increase when the population increases, such as health and education, and those that don't, such as the armed forces and defence. If the fixed costs are excluded, the net benefit of immigration from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic et al to the Exchequer would more than double to £10.5bn. And to put these numbers into perspective, the rest of us - the indigenous population - were a massive drain on the state over the same period, to the tune of £617bn, based on allocating to immigrants a share of all public spending costs, or £679bn if fixed costs are heaped exclusively on natives. By the way, there is some logic to attributing all the fixed costs to the native population, because we would have to pay them, whether or not the immigrants were here. Anyway, the big point is that without the immigrants, our taxes or public sector borrowing would be measurably higher. Which, at a time when the government is failing to reduce the UK's unsustainably large public sector deficit at the speed it would like, seems of some relevance. And, by the way, the net benefits of immigration from the rest of the European Union (the richer more developed countries) was £15bn, with full costs allocated, and £18bn without. As for immigrants from the rest of the world, they contributed £5bn or £20.5bn on the same basis. Now for the avoidance of doubt, these calculations include all out-of-work and in-work benefits, including tax credits and child benefit. The importance of this analysis is that for the first time it calculates the net costs or benefits of immigrants from the accession countries - in that the critique of earlier work by the same authors, from Migration Watch, was that any benefits came from old Europe immigrants, not from Poles, Czechs and so on. But, there are some costs of immigration that are ignored here. For example, there is evidence that immigration drives down the pay of the indigenous population, especially among the lowest paid. So in-work benefits to natives may be increased by immigration. Prof Dustmann - who is the author not only of the current report but an earlier widely cited one on how immigration reduces the pay of those who earn least - says these increased costs of benefits paid to natives would nowhere near wipe out the fiscal contribution of the immigrants. A couple of other points are worth making. The immigrants are disproportionately young. And if they stay in the UK, their contribution may actually rise - if they become more skilled - up until their retirement, when they would become a net drain. That said, they may well return home long before retirement. Finally, and corroborating an argument made by proponents of immigration, Dustmann and Frattini point out that the immigrants tend to be better educated than native Brits, and they calculate that the value of the education they received, paid for by their home countries and not us, was £6.8bn, again up to 2011. However, there may be good reasons for curbing immigration, to do with social cohesion, sense of community, culture and happiness. But this report suggests one argument that isn't compelling is the one that alleges immigrants are a big cost to the state.

आप्रवासन पर विवाद पैसे से अधिक के बारे में है-हालांकि जो अक्सर उग्र बहस को जन्म देता है वह अक्सर लगाया जाने वाला आरोप है कि अप्रवासी, विशेष रूप से पूर्वी यूरोप के लोग, करदाताओं पर बोझ हैं।


India 'honour killings': Paying the price for falling in love

Summary: A young couple who were planning to marry were brutally murdered in the Indian state of Haryana on Wednesday. Police are treating the case as an "honour crime". The BBC's Zubair Ahmed visited the village in Rohtak district where the incident took place.

There were about two dozen grim-faced people - all men - waiting at the village cremation ground for the body of a young woman who was beaten to death allegedly by the same waiting crowd. An hour ago, just before I reached the village, the same group had lit the pyre of the woman's boyfriend. He was murdered, allegedly by the same people, and police officers said his "hands were cut off, legs chopped off and head severed from the body". And soon, the two pyres were burning side-by-side. The woman and the man's families together attending the last rites of the murdered couple. Dharmender Barak, 23, and Nidhi Barak, 20, were allegedly killed by members of Nidhi's family in Garnauthi village in the northern state of Haryana on Wednesday evening. First, Nidhi was beaten to death and then Dharmender was dismembered alive. No remorse Nidhi's parents and an uncle have been arrested. A fourth villager - a driver - has also been held. Police say they are treating the double murder as an "honour crime". At the funeral on Thursday, I was searching for remorse or guilt on the faces of the men present at the cremation ground, but there was none forthcoming. "Who wants to kill their own children? But whatever God wanted, happened," said a relative of Nidhi. A man who identified himself as Nidhi's uncle looked dazed, or even bewildered. When I asked him to explain why two young people were so brutally murdered, his eyes quickly filled with anger and his reply met with approving nods: "What was done to them was the right thing to do. We had to set an example." An example for other young men and women to not fall in love. Rural-urban divide "Our culture is not like you have in the city. Here our women live behind curtains," said a young man in the crowd. "The village doesn't approve of love affairs here. They were from the same caste, lived in the same lane in the same village," said another. The man and the woman belonged to the same Jat community and shared the same gotra - the sub-caste - which made them brother and sister, he explained politely. I took a round of the village to explore if anyone had differing views. I found none. The neighbouring villages too approved of the killings. They all said they would not allow young men and women to fall in love as this would "dilute their values". Some spoke of the "decadent western" culture of urban India and how it conflicted with the old, traditional values of rural India where falling in love is taboo. There are no authentic figures of honour killings in India but such occurrences are not uncommon. Experts say they are not as frequent as in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but they do happen in northern India. While driving back to Delhi, I saw a young couple riding a motorcycle on the city's wide road. The woman was holding on to the man firmly. No one even noticed them. But this would amount to an outrageous act in the village where Dharmender and Nidhi were murdered. The distance between Delhi and the village is less than 100km (62 miles). But the chasm in values and mindset is much deeper.

शादी करने की योजना बना रहे एक युवा जोड़े की बुधवार को भारतीय राज्य हरियाणा में बेरहमी से हत्या कर दी गई। पुलिस इस मामले को "ऑनर क्राइम" के रूप में देख रही है। बीबीसी के जुबैर अहमद ने रोहतक जिले के उस गाँव का दौरा किया जहाँ यह घटना हुई थी।


Teaching primary school children about mental health

Summary: The mental health of children is a rising area of concern and one which schools are trying to combat. Emma Jane Kirby reports from south London about a scheme that involves teaching primary schoolchildren about mental health through fun games and workbooks.

By Emma Jane KirbyThe World at One, BBC Radio 4 The children are half out of their chairs, hands straining in the air, knees jiggling with excitement as they beg to be picked. The smiling lady at the front of the class repeats her question. "Can I see your thoughts? Can I smell them or touch them?" she asks. Managing moods Dr Anna Redfern is clearly a gifted communicator as well as a clinical psychologist. It is not everyone who can persuade a class of eight- and nine-year-olds to talk about their innermost feelings in front of each other. Yet here are the children of Class 4S at the Oliver Goldsmith Primary School, Peckham, south-east London, openly admitting that they have days when they feel down or angry or just very sad. "No-one can see our thoughts," says a little girl confidently. "And that's why we need to talk about them." Dr Redfern and her colleague Dr Debbie Plant are delivering a new programme called Cues-Ed, funded by the South London and Maudsley Trust. The programme teaches children to recognise the signs when things aren't right, and some behavioural techniques to help them manage low mood. "We all have feelings," says Dr Redfern. "And we will all have difficulties in our lives which will make us feel and think things that are very challenging. "And rather than being fearful about talking about these things, we want children to have the language that allows them to get the right help and to say, 'Actually this is how I am feeling, these are the things I am thinking and I need some extra support.'" In today's lesson the children are looking at the difference between helpful and unhelpful thoughts. Specially designed cartoon characters help the children relate to how different situations might make them feel - all the children sympathise when one of the cartoon characters is feeling left out and imagines that his friends are laughing at him. 'We should be worried' The whole programme is carefully couched in fun and child-friendly terms. Adult words such as "depression" are never used. "Do you ever have one of those really bad days when everything seems to be against you," asks Dr Redfern with a big smile. "Like when you go downstairs for breakfast and there are no more Coco Pops, there's only Weetabix?" The class groans in horror, and the children start chatting to each other about their own bad days. According to the Association of School and College Leaders, 65% of head teachers say they struggle to get mental health services for pupils. Over three-quarters of teachers surveyed said they had seen an increase in self-harm or suicidal thoughts among students. Yet, at the moment, Cues-Ed is available only in south London and generally has to be funded by the participating schools themselves. A package of classes costs £3,950. As she helps a child with his workbook, Dr Plant, whose team leads the project, says it is vital that children get mental health education early and all together. She would like to see the programme rolled out nationwide. "I think we should be worried about young people's mental health," she tells me. "The last time the government took statistics it showed one in every 10 children suffered a mental health difficulty - that's three in every class." 'Believe in yourself' We watch her colleague calming a little boy who's got himself worked up because he doesn't think he can do the writing exercise he's been tasked with. The child next to him offers some positive advice. "If you're upset, you could try meditation or breathing deeply," she says. "And you should believe in yourself." Dr Plant smiles as we watch them, happy to see last week's lesson on positive thinking has sunk in. "You know, we worked in adolescent mental health for so long," she says "And we thought we were doing so well. But the young people said to us, 'Why didn't you teach us all of this when we were seven, eight and nine? That would have really made a difference.'" The children are extremely excited now as they're handed fishing nets and told to catch little pieces of coloured paper on which are written helpful and unhelpful thoughts and which are being blown across the classroom. The class teacher, Sophia Campbell-Whitfield, selects a little boy to pass round the class with a bin. I ask him what he's doing. "Putting all the unhelpful thoughts in the bin," he says, "because they're rubbish." 'Big changes' There is no doubt the children are all engaged in the lesson, but does it make any practical difference to their behaviour? Mrs Campbell-Whitfield nods emphatically. "Definitely," she says. "This class had a lot of issues last year - but now with the Cues-Ed programme, I have seen some big changes. "I see children use strategies to calm themselves, whereas before they would have stormed off… and they now have a proper conversation with each other about behaviour and sometimes they even say, 'Come on now, did you catch that thought?'" One nine-year-old boy appears emotionally very fluent as he tells me how he gets very angry and sad when he is told off at school. But he remembers what he has been taught in Cues-Ed about trying to dispel his low mood and unhelpful thoughts by doing something he finds fun and likes doing. I ask him what that is in his case, and he doesn't hesitate. "I like to enjoy my lunch."

बच्चों का मानसिक स्वास्थ्य चिंता का एक बढ़ता हुआ क्षेत्र है और जिसका स्कूल मुकाबला करने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं। एम्मा जेन किर्बी दक्षिण लंदन से एक ऐसी योजना के बारे में रिपोर्ट करती हैं जिसमें प्राथमिक विद्यालय के बच्चों को मजेदार खेलों और कार्यपुस्तिकाओं के माध्यम से मानसिक स्वास्थ्य के बारे में पढ़ाना शामिल है।


Conservative Party leadership: Who's backing who?

Summary: Conservative MPs have been revealing who they are backing in the race to take over from David Cameron as leader of the party - and prime minister.

Here is a list of candidates, in alphabetical order, and the names of those that have backed them publicly ahead of the second round of voting on Thursday. The information is correct at the time of writing and will be updated as more MPs declare who they are supporting. Liam Fox and Stephen Crabb both withdrew after the first round of voting and gave their support to Theresa May. Who's backing who? Michael Gove Declarations: 27 Andrea Leadsom Declarations: 49 Theresa May Declarations: 175 Not declaring Results from the first round of voting

रूढ़िवादी सांसद यह खुलासा कर रहे हैं कि वे पार्टी के नेता और प्रधानमंत्री के रूप में डेविड कैमरन से पदभार संभालने की दौड़ में किसे समर्थन दे रहे हैं।


Robots on the march

Summary: Sitting eating a hot dog outside Lyon's exhibition centre, I couldn't help noticing the group at the next table. Three young men were chatting while a fourth sat completely immobile, not saying a word.

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter Maybe that was because the fourth was a robot. Nobody batted an eyelid, as other people came and took a screwdriver to the humanoid device, but then this was Innorobo, Europe's largest robotics event, and here you get a flavour of a future where robots live amongst us. To anyone who's roamed the vast halls of tech events like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas or Barcelona's Mobile World Congress this will seem a tiny, almost parochial, event. You can walk from one end of Innorobo to the other in five minutes - but in that time you will see more innovation packed into a small space than you will ever find in those gigantic shows. The show's focus has in the past been on industrial robotics, and there are plenty of advances on this front. I spotted a robotic arm delicately picking up individual chocolates and placing them in a box, air-quality robots that can wander a factory reporting back on pollution levels, and cupboards on castors picking a route through a crowd to deliver tools to workers at the other end of the hall. But the star of the show was undoubtedly Pepper, the most advanced domestic robot to go on sale to the general public. When this French-made humanoid robot companion was offered to Japanese consumers last month for quite a hefty price, it sold out within a minute. Meeting Pepper, I was not quite sure why. He or she - it seems you decide the gender - does not undertake any practical tasks, but is designed to engage with you on an emotional level. "Pepper won't do the dishes" explains Magali Cubier of Aldebaran Robotics, "but if Pepper can see you are sad, then Pepper will propose a game to cheer you up." How does the robot know I'm sad? It is packed with sensors which can for instance detect a sad face or intonation in your voice, so this internet-connected device may decide now is not the moment to read out the news headlines. This robot is solely devoted to being your companion, sensitive to your every mood - it can even dance with you, though I'm not sure my moves impressed Pepper. Aldebaran's owners Softbank chose Japan as the launch market. knowing the idea of a relationship with a robot was more likely to fly in a country where technology is readily accepted in homes. Elsewhere, there may be less enthusiasm. Across the show floor I found the veteran British robot engineer Will Jackson was sceptical about devices like Pepper invading the home any time soon. He thinks the cost and dubious utility of a one-to-one robot will be a barrier. But he does see a growing role in the commercial world for products like his Robothespian and Socibot, robots that can entertain and interact on some level with humans, taking over some roles in service industries. "Walk into a supermarket in a few years time, and a robot will know who you are, your complete shopping history, and may try to help you or to sell you stuff." It is facial recognition technology that will enable robots to recognise us - and that's just one of the controversial issues hanging over this fast growing industry. As well as privacy, there are concerns about safety, with the tragic news of the death of a worker crushed by a robot at a Volkswagen factory. Until recently, all industrial robots were locked behind cages to prevent this kind of accident because they were not smart enough to detect a human in their path. Now they are getting more sensitive, but releasing them from their cages may bring added risks. And then there's the question of jobs. One firm here is showing off an autonomous forklift truck, effortlessly shifting pallets without the aid of a driver. The driver is the most expensive element of a forklift, so the product pays for itself within a year, according to Fabien Bardinet of Balyo, the company behind the autonomous driving technology. But I put it to him that we should worry about the threat to the workforce. "Forget about it, - they are going to help us, make jobs simpler," is his response. His thesis is that by making companies more competitive, adopting robots will create jobs rather than destroy them. And he points out that Germany, which employs far more industrial robots than France, has a lower level of unemployment. Let's not exaggerate the threat from the robots - they are still very bad at things we find easy, like climbing stairs or telling jokes. But over the next few years we could see them gradually filling more human roles, from sales assistants to child minders to taxi drivers. And we - the humans - will have to decide how far this robot revolution should go. Read about more robots destined for the home UPDATE: MONDAY 6 JULY, 14:42 GMT Volkswagen has been in touch to stress that the robot involved in the accident was not one of the new generation of collaborative robots that work alongside production line workers without being protected by safety cages.

ल्योन के प्रदर्शनी केंद्र के बाहर एक हॉट डॉग खाते हुए बैठे, मैं अगली मेज पर समूह को देख रहा था। तीन युवक बातचीत कर रहे थे जबकि चौथा पूरी तरह से स्थिर बैठा था, एक शब्द भी नहीं बोल रहा था।


Special Me... the truth about turning 18 with a disability

Summary: Eighteen is a milestone birthday.

For most young people, it is the beginning of an exciting, new episode in their lives. But for young people with learning disabilities and their parents, it can be a time of stress, sadness and anxiety. A new BBC documentary, Special Me, looks into the world of young teenagers with a disability as they close the school door behind them forever. The programme introduces us to Gareth Knox whose life is about to change beyond recognition. He has Down's Syndrome and autism and attends Kilronan school in Magherafelt. When he turns 18, he will move from child to adult services. This will automatically trigger a change in health and social care arrangements including new social workers, new respite arrangements and a fundamental alteration of routine. All that change can be traumatic. His mother Claire speaks about the dreams and hopes she had for her new born son. She knew his life was going to be more difficult than most, but they were as proud and as happy as any new parents could be. "In my head, Gareth was going to be the first Down's Syndrome prime minister, you know, he was going to be the best thing ever," she said. "We began filming with Gareth seven weeks before he reached his milestone 18th birthday and followed his journey as he made the transition from child to adult services," said documentary director Eimhear O'Neill. "Reaching 18 was a poignant moment for the family who were delighted to see their son come of age, but they were also fearful of this move as it meant his respite arrangements, a life saver for the family, changed," she said. "Gareth has not had an overnight stay since leaving children's services in July though his family are hopeful that some overnight respite under adult services may begin later this month." The film also follows Phoebe Dalrymple, 19, on her last week at school. We meet her at the school leavers' party which is a highly moving experience, both for the students, staff and parents. Over the course of the documentary, we rejoin her as she begins part of her next chapter at Alternative Angles in Ballymena - a scheme that teaches new skills to adults with learning difficulties. David Skelly, 32, who has Down's Syndrome, also features. Since he left school 13 years ago, he has worked in both paid and voluntary employment. David is very proud of what he has achieved since leaving school. We join him as he volunteers at The Avenue, a cafe run by Stepping Stones in Lisburn. The charity gives adults with learning disabilities the opportunity to take part in accredited training and gain skills for employment. For director Eimhear, this subject was very close to her heart. "When I was growing up, I was surrounded by the special needs community in Magherafelt as my mum worked at the local special school," she said. "Every summer, I volunteered in their summer scheme and I was introduced to an incredibly loving, thoughtful and vibrant community. At the end of each academic year, I would ask my mum: 'Who is leaving this year and what will they do when they leave?'" she said. "I felt it was very important to invite viewers into the lives of these three very special people and also to the lives of the many individuals with special needs featured in the documentary. "Like everyone they are confident, scared, hopeful, nervous, funny and brave. We all leave school and move on, but are our post-school options the same?" Special Me is a Below the Radar production for BBC Northern Ireland. It was broadcast on Monday, 12 November 2012 on BBC One NI.

अठारह एक मील का पत्थर जन्मदिन है।


Reading 'could get extra bridge'

Summary: A new bridge could be built in Reading as part of the council's multi-million pound bid to get people using more green forms of transport.

Plans for the pedestrian and bicycle crossing over the River Thames is part of the council's £31.8m proposals. There are three main routes over the Thames in the area, two in Caversham, Reading and one in Sonning, Wokingham. If successful, the money would come from the government's £560m Local Sustainable Transport Fund. To be successful the council needs to show it can cut CO2 output by 10%. The bridge plans come alongside a proposed bike hire scheme and an expanded park-and-ride route. The bridge could be installed near the town centre, though a similar government funding bid for a new Thames crossing was unsuccessful in 2009. The results of council bids will be released in June.

लोगों को परिवहन के अधिक हरित रूपों का उपयोग करने के लिए परिषद की बहु-मिलियन पाउंड की बोली के हिस्से के रूप में रीडिंग में एक नया पुल बनाया जा सकता है।


Kim Kardashian shares the first photo of baby Chicago

Summary: Kim Kardashian West has shared the first selfie with her new baby.

The reality star posted the photo of herself and Chicago with a bear-themed photo filter. Chicago, her third child with Kanye West, was born via a surrogate mum on 15 January. She's already made an appearance in Kylie Jenner's birth announcement video for her daughter, Stormi Webster, who was born a few weeks later. Kim's picture was liked almost six million times in nine hours. The 37-year-old has spoken about the couple's decision to have their daughter via surrogate, saying that not carrying the child herself was "so hard" - but that she and her rapper husband had an instant connection with Chicago. "Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl," Kim wrote in a post on her website in January. "We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give and to our wonderful doctors and nurses for their special care. "North and Saint are especially thrilled to welcome their baby sister." She carried and gave birth to her elder children, four-year-old North and two-year-old Saint. But doctors advised Kim against getting pregnant again because of possible medical complications. She suffered from placenta accreta, where placenta remains attached to the uterine wall after childbirth, and pre-eclampsia, on those occasions. Pre-eclampsia is a condition that usually occurs in the second half of pregnancy and can cause serious complications including seizures and death if not monitored and treated. This weekend she tweeted about Chicago to a fan who asked about how she was doing on Twitter. And confirmed that the Kardashian Jenner clan would be taking on the West family in an upcoming episode of game show Family Feud. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here

किम कार्दशियन वेस्ट ने अपने नए बच्चे के साथ पहली सेल्फी साझा की है।


Cyclists are 'unaware of the risks from pollution'

Summary: Cycling is a great way to get around cities and become fit at the same time - but do cyclists get enough public health information about the damage air pollution could be doing to their lungs? In this week's Scrubbing Up, Amanda Dryer, based at the infirmary' s Platt Rehabilitation Unit says cyclists need to be given more information about the risks of cycling in polluted areas.

By Amanda DryerRespiratory physiotherapist, Manchester Royal Infirmary Cycling is fantastic exercise. It yields many health benefits and should not be discouraged due to concerns regarding air pollution. It is critical however that we raise public awareness about the effects that air pollution has on the respiratory system - both in the short and long term. At the moment, these effects are not well publicised. Giving cyclists more information would enable them to make informed decisions about when and where they cycle. Breathing difficulties Air pollution is made up of numerous pollutants that have been reported to have specific effects on the lungs. The pollution from diesel engines is of particular concern as the small particulates or ultra fine particles which tend to be emitted by diesel engines, can be inhaled further down into the lungs than the larger particles. In people with existing respiratory disease this can cause significant airway irritation and breathing difficulties. Pollution also creates gases - sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone. These gases have been reported as having certain effects on the lungs. Primarily they can cause the airways to become inflamed and therefore narrow, trigger airway irritation, decrease the amount of oxygen that the blood can carry and reduce lung function. However, hard evidence on the impact of air pollution on the health of the general population is inconclusive. Some studies have reported a decline in lung function with airway inflammation, whilst others highlight a very weak tenuous link between air pollution and any effects on the respiratory system. Several studies have specifically investigated the effects of air pollution on lung function in cyclists. It has been postulated that because cyclists breathe more deeply during the physical exertion of cycling, that they can inhale up to five times more particulates than either car users or those travelling on public transport. On the other hand, it has also been suggested that passengers travelling in cars or buses are more at risk of being exposed to higher levels of air pollution than cyclists, as they are sitting in an environment of limited circulating ventilation. Despite the contradictions, cyclists need to be informed of the potential risks. It is not unusual for health promotion messages to face contradictions and ambiguities when promoting one measure to benefit health - daily cycling - while potentially increasing the risk of an adverse effect - increased exposure to air pollution. Minimise risk In the cycling community, there are many ongoing discussions on different cycling web sites that suggest ways to minimise risk. These include finding alternative routes away from high density commuter traffic and major public transport routes, avoiding congested roads and utilising cycle paths and tracks and finding routes that offer some shielding from air pollution - eg trees. Also, don't get stuck behind a bus or find yourself travelling downwind of vehicle's exhaust fumes and when stopping at traffic lights or a major junction, move out in front of the stationary motor vehicles so you are not inhaling the plume of exhaust fumes and by monitoring air quality in your area. Public health is all about investigating and identifying ways to minimise risk but it's also about common sense. It is important that we consider what measures could be adopted to try and protect cyclists' airway function. One of the main obstacles to promoting a clear public health message is that there is no clear UK guidance as to what are acceptable levels when we consider air pollution reduction figures - it's too vague. There needs to be closer scrutiny of air quality in particular, within built up urban areas and a firm commitment to continually investigate and evaluate how we can make our environment cleaner. For example investigating cleaner fuels, better emission controlling devices and supporting car manufacturers in developing new technology to investigate electric vehicles. There also needs to additional funding resources that reflects the need to improving health and allow further research to be conducted to accurately detail the effects of pollution on the respiratory system and to clarify what are the potential toxic effects of air pollution on the lungs. The government's ongoing strategy should be how we can continually monitor air quality and ensure that we are achieving reductions in pollutant levels that are clear and laid out. Monitoring air quality in the UK has not been given enough publicity or funding. As a result, often cyclists do not fully appreciate what risks they are imposing upon themselves by cycling in areas where air quality is sub optimal. We need to make sure people are given informed choices when it comes to deciding what measures they can adopt to protect themselves against air pollution - this can only come about if clear health promotion is delivered to the public.

साइकिल चलाना शहरों में घूमने और एक ही समय में स्वस्थ होने का एक शानदार तरीका है-लेकिन क्या साइकिल चालकों को वायु प्रदूषण से उनके फेफड़ों को होने वाले नुकसान के बारे में पर्याप्त सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य जानकारी मिलती है? इस सप्ताह के स्क्रबिंग अप में, अस्पताल की प्लाट पुनर्वास इकाई में स्थित अमांडा ड्रायर का कहना है कि साइकिल चालकों को प्रदूषित क्षेत्रों में साइकिल चलाने के जोखिमों के बारे में अधिक जानकारी देने की आवश्यकता है।


Man dies after being hit by lorry on M5 near Cullompton

Summary: A pedestrian died from "catastrophic injuries" after being hit by a lorry on the M5 in Devon, police said.

Emergency services were called to the crash near Cullompton on Monday at around 12:25 BST. A man, believed to be in his 30s and from north Devon, died at the scene and has yet to be formally identified, but police have informed his next of kin. Devon and Cornwall Police described the scene as "incredibly complex and challenging". The motorway was closed for six hours while forensic examinations took place. Police said they were investigating how the man came to be on the M5 and appealed for witnesses. They are not treating his death as suspicious.

पुलिस ने कहा कि डेवोन में एम5 पर एक लॉरी की चपेट में आने से एक पैदल यात्री की "विनाशकारी चोटों" से मौत हो गई।


Bloodhound Diary: A couple of sticky issues

Summary: A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will mount an assault on the world land speed record. Bloodhound will be run on Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa, in 2015 and 2016. Wing Commander Andy Green, the current world land-speed record holder, is writing a diary for BBC News about his experiences working on the Bloodhound project and the team's efforts to inspire national interest in science and engineering.

By Andy GreenWorld Land Speed Record Holder Belated Happy New Year to everyone. I don't know what you're planning in the next 12 months, but for Bloodhound, 2015 is the year that we start running the world's fastest car! Just before Christmas, we laid out some of the 3,500 pieces that will be assembled over the next few months. As Christmas presents go, this is the ultimate model kit. We videoed the whole thing as well, to let you see the various bits close up: follow the link to see the world's best car kit. In last month's diary, I talked about the construction of the upper-chassis. At the time, we thought the heat-curing process had gone just about perfectly. As with any high-precision engineering task, though, it's never quite that simple. On closer inspection, we've got a couple of small defects to deal with. The first problem is that the bonding agent, or glue, has failed to bond the titanium skins properly to the aluminium ribs. This is not a worry for us, because the structure is held together by 11,500 rivets, which are more than strong enough to do the job by themselves. The problem is that the failed bonding agent might have left gaps, or voids, between the outer skins and the framework. Any gaps will weaken the riveted structure. We can't take it all apart again, so what can we do about it? The first thing is to find out if we really do have any voids. We're going to test the whole chassis with ultrasound. These very high-frequency sound waves (over 100 times higher than the upper limit of human hearing) will reflect differently in areas where there are voids under the skin. To make sure we know what we are looking for, the team will first test two specially made samples of riveted structure, one with solid bonding and one with voids in it. Then, having "characterised" the voids, we can confirm how many we have, if any. Fixing the voids turns out to be relatively easy, once we know where they are. We can use a special adhesive that "wicks" into these under-skin spaces, using capillary action, and then sets in place. Job done. The other minor problem is that the upper-chassis has slightly changed shape. While we were "cooking" the bonding agent, at 175 C, the aluminium frames expanded over twice as much as the titanium skins, created a lot of stress and a little bit of distortion. The whole chassis was put into the autoclave, bolted firmly to the huge Manufax fixture it was built on. This fixture is also made in aluminium, so that it expands at the same rate as the chassis frames. Despite this, when we finally removed the chassis from the fixture, it had changed shape just a little bit. We've checked that the upper-chassis joins to the lower-chassis, so the two halves of the car still fit together. The other concern was the airbrakes, which fit in large apertures on either side of the car. To check their fit, we made up a pair of dummy airbrakes from plywood and bolted them in place. The airbrakes still fit and the hinges are still in alignment - everything checks out and we can move on. Over this year and next, we're going to take this chassis up to the astonishing speed of 1,000+mph. With the above problems, should I be worried, at least a little bit? No, exactly the opposite. Prototype engineering is full of these small challenges; that's part of what makes Bloodhound so interesting. The important thing is that we are finding them, and doing everything we can to understand and fix them. This gives me more confidence, not less, in the finished product. I'd be a lot more worried if we thought we didn't have any problems at all! As well as test-fitting the dummy airbrake doors, we've been working with Parker to install the hydraulic systems that will power the airbrakes. Each airbrake door will experience about five tonnes of load at speeds of up to 800mph. The doors will need forcing out into the supersonic airflow, using huge hydraulic rams. However, to get the best performance, we will deploy the doors at a very specific rate, aiming to maintain the g force on Bloodhound at just under 3g. While this may not sound a lot, it equates to slowing down by 60mph every second. Next time you're driving at 60mph, have a think about stopping completely in one second. That's 3g - and that's what the airbrakes are trying to achieve. The other challenge for Parker and the systems team is that the airbrakes have to work even if things go wrong. If Bloodhound has a hydraulic failure, the airbrakes still need to deploy to stop the car. If Bloodhound has electrical or computer failures, the airbrakes still need to deploy to stop the car. To achieve all this, Parker have supplied us with lightweight carbon fibre accumulators, which "store" pressurised hydraulic fluid. In simple terms, the airbrakes are always trying to deploy, and it's only the control systems that stop them - they should always fail to the "open" position. Given that stopping Bloodhound is an essential part of every run, this makes perfect sense. Have a look at our new "Airbrake System" video on Cisco BHTV to see how it works. As ever, there is a huge amount of work going on to get the car ready to run this summer. The rocket pump is now in final assembly before being shipped to Nammo in Norway next month for some high-power testing, using the 550hp Jaguar V8 engine to drive the rocket pump system. We're just waiting for a pack of specialist seals to arrive from the US and we'll be ready to go. The aerodynamics of the car are still being tweaked. We fixed the external shape of the car some time ago, but details like the "winglets" above the front and rear wheels are still being refined. If the aerodynamic computer predictions are exactly right, then the winglets will have almost nothing to do. However, in the real world, computer models are rarely that precise, so we may need to trim out some "small" (one or two tonne) aerodynamic loads. Even if the computer predictions are accurate, we still don't know exactly how the car will handle as it accelerates, so we may want to change the aero balance to improve Bloodhound's stability. This is what the winglets are for For this year, the winglet sizes will be 0.3 sq m (rear) and 0.15 sq m (front). As a comparison, 0.3 sq m is about the same area as 5 sheets of A4 paper. The difference in size front to rear reflects the complexity of the car's shape - the more complex shapes at the rear (including the fin, rear wheels and suspension) give us a greater possible range of loads. And talking of the fin, have you put your name on Bloodhound's fin yet? Time's running out; we'll be running the car soon!

एक ब्रिटिश टीम एक ऐसी कार विकसित कर रही है जो 1,000 मील प्रति घंटे (1,610 किमी/घंटा) तक पहुंचने में सक्षम होगी। एक यूरोफाइटर-टाइफून जेट इंजन को बोल्ट किए गए रॉकेट द्वारा संचालित, वाहन विश्व भूमि गति रिकॉर्ड पर हमला करेगा। ब्लडहाउंड 2015 और 2016 में उत्तरी केप, दक्षिण अफ्रीका में हक्सकीन पैन पर चलाया जाएगा। विंग कमांडर एंडी ग्रीन, वर्तमान विश्व भूमि-गति रिकॉर्ड धारक, ब्लडहाउंड परियोजना पर काम करने के अपने अनुभवों और विज्ञान और इंजीनियरिंग में राष्ट्रीय रुचि को प्रेरित करने के लिए टीम के प्रयासों के बारे में बीबीसी न्यूज के लिए एक डायरी लिख रहे हैं।


Coronavirus: The restaurants feeding hospital staff

Summary: Restaurant staff have been forced to shut up shop while NHS workers have sometimes finished gruelling shifts only to find supermarket shelves empty. We meet the chefs on shutdown volunteering to feed hospital workers around the clock.

By Jennifer MeierhansBBC News Kelly Iles, from The Barn Kitchen in Coventry, has delivered more than 3,500 meals to NHS staff at two hospitals in Warwickshire and said she had never been more proud of anything she had done. "You see how grateful these nurses are," she said. "You pull up into a car park and you see 10, 15 ambulance drivers who are there saving lives, keeping us going." Mrs Iles used food from her closed venue, while more than 700 people have paid for meals for doctors and nurses via a link on her website. "I've wiped out my entire business stock but I don't care," she said. "I've accepted that I no longer own a restaurant. "I don't know if I will come back out of this. But hey, so what, it's just bricks." Honest Crust Sourdough Pizza in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, is producing 60 meals a day to feed NHS staff. Owner Rich Carver told Altrincham Today: "Andy dropped 30 meals at ICU at Stepping Hill yesterday and made a ward full of nurses cry they were so grateful. Really, it's the least we can do." Jess Mooney, who runs Bread For Life school in Leamington Spa, has been delivering freshly baked goods for NHS staff working at Warwick Hospital. Boxes include bagels, fresh pasta and doughnuts. "I can only make so much so I'm just doing my bit to say thank you," she said. An Indian restaurant in Shifnal, Shropshire, has delivered dozens of curries to night staff at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. East End Balti posted on Facebook that staff wanted to do this every Monday as "a little gesture to show how much we appreciate the NHS, the true heroes of our country". Francesca Price posted photographs of staff receiving their meals and said a "massive thank you" for the delivery. More than £330,000 has been raised by charity Meals for the NHS. All money raised goes to local businesses who will then prepare and deliver food to the hospitals, meaning the scheme provides meals for health workers but also helps restaurants and caterers who would be faced with a loss of business during the current crisis. So far about 66,000 meals have been delivered to NHS staff, the charity said. Yorkshire's famous tearooms, Bettys, made sure unsold bread and cakes did not go to waste by sending them to local NHS staff at the weekend. The group decided to close its cafes in York, Harrogate, Ilkley and Northallerton. Zoe Beedham, deputy branch manager at Bettys in Ilkley, sent supplies to the staff at Airedale Hospital in Steeton. "We wanted to help support the amazing key workers, like those in the NHS, who are working so hard to look after us all," she said. "So, we put together a care package of Fat Rascals [a type of scone], bread and treats in an effort to deliver a bit of cheer to the hospital staff." Colmans Seafood Temple in South Shields posted on Facebook: "Our last delivery is on us, almost 200 meals all to the wonderful staff of South Tyneside Hospital who are working tirelessly to help fight this virus for everyone." Vermilion restaurant has been delivering meals to North Manchester General Hospital. A tweet from the restaurant said: "We salute the heroes of our NHS who are making a huge contribution in this time of crisis."

रेस्तरां कर्मचारियों को दुकान बंद करने के लिए मजबूर किया गया है जबकि एन. एच. एस. कर्मचारियों ने कभी-कभी केवल सुपरमार्केट अलमारियों को खाली पाने के लिए कठिन पाली समाप्त कर दी है। हम चौबीसों घंटे अस्पताल के कर्मचारियों को खिलाने के लिए स्वयंसेवी रूप से बंद होने पर रसोइयों से मिलते हैं।


Facebook acts on fake ‘likes’

Summary: "A 'like' that doesn't come from someone truly interested in connecting with a page benefits no one." So begins a blog entry posted by the Facebook security team on Friday. It might look a statement of the obvious - but it signals that the social network is finally emerging from its state of denial about the true value of "likes", which have been presented as a valuable currency to advertisers.

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter Back in July, we questioned the worth of "likes" and asked whether Facebook was awash with questionable accounts which appeared to like just about anything. But the company was dismissive of our Virtual Bagel experiment which had managed to gain 3,000 "likes" for a non-existent business in a few days by placing some adverts. Fake accounts were not a serious problem and getting thousands of dubious "likes" was not the experience of most advertisers, Facebook told us. But now the message has changed. The security team at the company is warning that it is now acting to remove "likes" on pages that "may have been gained by means that violate our Facebook terms." That includes fans that have been bulk bought by companies - there is a healthy trade in likes as a quick search will show - and others generated by spam accounts or malware. Our research showed that all sorts of big brands which boast about the millions who have given them the thumbs up appear to be "liked" in rather unlikely parts of the world. And when we looked at some of the "likers" - for my virtual bagels and for some other pages - quite a few of them seemed to be engaged in "liking" everything they saw, with thousands of businesses benefitting from their admiration. That kind of behaviour - whether genuine or the result of some automated system - is raising questions about Facebook's usefulness as a platform where businesses can engage with consumers. One correspondent put it to me like this: "What marketing or demographic value does Facebook see in the fact that an 11-year-old girl I know - who is on Facebook, yes - 'likes' American Express? She doesn't even know what it is, and is 10 years from being able to have an American Express card, at the least." Now, though, Facebook says it will act to remove those questionable "likes" - which would include an 11-year-old girl if the company could work out its users real ages. The social network says that on average less than 1% of "likes" will be removed, and the move will benefit both businesses and users because the system's integrity will be reinforced. But some brand owners will no doubt wake up to the fact that the love they thought they were getting from Facebook users is not quite as heartfelt as it appeared. And that in turn may make them "like" Facebook's adverts just a little bit less.

"एक 'लाइक' जो किसी ऐसे व्यक्ति से नहीं आता है जो वास्तव में किसी पृष्ठ से जुड़ने में रुचि रखता है जिससे किसी को लाभ नहीं होता है।" तो शुक्रवार को फेसबुक सुरक्षा दल द्वारा पोस्ट की गई एक ब्लॉग प्रविष्टि शुरू होती है। यह स्पष्ट रूप से एक बयान लग सकता है-लेकिन यह संकेत देता है कि सोशल नेटवर्क अंततः "लाइक" के वास्तविक मूल्य के बारे में अपने इनकार की स्थिति से उभर रहा है, जिसे विज्ञापनदाताओं के लिए एक मूल्यवान मुद्रा के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया गया है।


Why Uzbek migrants are being radicalised

Summary: Sayfullo Saipov, who killed eight people in a truck attack in New York, did it "in the name of" so-called Islamic State, a police spokesman has said. Mr Saipov is from Uzbekistan, a Central Asian state whose citizens have been involved in several major terror attacks lately. What is behind this?

By Abdujalil Abdurasulov BBC News Uzbeks were involved in the following major attacks: These attacks have led many people to view Uzbekistan as a hotbed of radical Islamism. As evidence, they use the example of Uzbek fighters who have joined militants in Syria, Iraq and Pakistan. Indeed, there is a relatively large group of fighters from Uzbekistan in those countries. According to estimates from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, 500 Uzbek citizens had travelled to join militants in Syria and Iraq by 2015. But it is misleading to believe that Uzbekistan, and Central Asia as a whole, is becoming a major source of radicalism and Islamic extremism. The level of terrorism in Central Asia is extremely low. According to the Global Terrorism Database, out of 85,000 incidents of terrorism registered from 2001-2016, there were only 10 in Uzbekistan and 70 across the entirety of Central Asia. The role of Islam in Uzbekistan and in the region is certainly growing but this should not be viewed as an indication of radicalisation. Otherwise, there is a risk that every Muslim who starts attending a mosque will be treated as an extremist. The official rhetoric in Uzbekistan is that Islamists are posing a major security threat. Observers, however, say this argument is largely used to justify repressions against those who criticise the regime. Under the country's former president, Islam Karimov, people who actively practised Islam faced persecution. Human Rights Watch says that 12,000 people in Uzbekistan are currently imprisoned for extremism. And the country's new leader, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, recently announced that under Karimov's rule 17,000 people were included in a security blacklist as religious extremists. Mr Mirziyoyev recently removed 16,000 of them from the list. If we look at the profiles of Uzbek and Central Asian attackers - in Stockholm, St Petersburg and elsewhere - most of them left their home country a long time before the attack. Sayfullo Saipov, for example, is reported to have moved to the US in 2010. Dr John Heathershaw from the University of Exeter argues that in order to understand why so many Uzbek citizens and Central Asians turn to radicalism and decide to carry out such attacks, we need to look their experience as migrants. "We can't assume that someone seven or eight years ago left their home country with an intention of joining a militant group and launching an attack," he says. "I think where we need to look for an explanation are some specific recruitment networks within Central Asian migrant communities and diaspora communities. Clearly something is going on there." Indeed, Uzbek and Central Asian fighters who join militant groups tend to be recruited from abroad. When migrants from Uzbekistan are stigmatised in their new country, especially when they have lost the family environment they once had, then they can be recruited more easily by militant groups. So, perhaps when we look at Sayfullo Saipov's case, it is his experience in the US and not his life in Uzbekistan that can give us a better understanding of how he was radicalised.

एक पुलिस प्रवक्ता ने कहा है कि न्यूयॉर्क में एक ट्रक हमले में आठ लोगों की हत्या करने वाले सैफुल्लो साइपोव ने तथाकथित इस्लामिक स्टेट के नाम पर ऐसा किया। श्री साइपोव मध्य एशियाई राज्य उज्बेकिस्तान से हैं, जिनके नागरिक हाल ही में कई बड़े आतंकी हमलों में शामिल रहे हैं। इसके पीछे क्या है?


The salacious musical scene behind a snakebite stage death

Summary: Last month, an Indonesian singer was killed on stage by a king cobra she used in her act, making headlines around the world. The BBC's Rebecca Henschke travelled to her home village in West Java to find the truth behind the increasingly salacious world of dangdut music and the pressure on its performers to stand out from the crowd.

On a bamboo bench outside her home in Karawang, Encum recalls seeing her daughter, Irma Bule, perform. "It was embarrassing, seeing her up there dancing on stage like that," she says. She knew her daughter was a dangdut singer, but she didn't know her act that day in Karawang involved snakes. Disturbing video seen around the world last month shows Irma accidentally stepping on the king cobra as she dances. It clamps onto her leg. Stage hands pull the snake off her but she continues to perform for another 45 minutes. She was only taken off stage after she started vomiting. By the time Encum arrived at the hospital, her daughter was dead. "I always hoped she would become a teacher but she always wanted to sing. No-one forced her - she was doing what she loved," says Ercum, wiping tears away with her headscarf. "I miss her terribly. She was a good mother, a good wife, a dutiful daughter." She wants to know why no-one rushed her to hospital immediately. Multimillion dollar industry Dangdut combines Indian, Arabic and Malay influences in fast-paced dance floor fillers, and has been hugely popular in Indonesia for decades. Its singers are renowned for their erotic dancing. Irma had been performing with snakes for eight years and with cobras for the last two years. "The snake killed her but the snake didn't crawl up on stage by himself," says her uncle, Maman, who has been at the police station following up the case. "Someone gave it to her and told her it was safe. Whether it was neglect or planned, she was killed." Police are still investigating what happened. A number of people have been questioned by police but no-one has been charged. The organisers of the event have denied any wrongdoing. They told the BBC they just hired the musicians and the snake handler. The snake handler, one of those questioned, could not be reached. Dancing for tips Many dangdut stars began their careers in rice farming villages like Karawang, where Nani Sanjaya is entertaining an all-age crowd at a village wedding. As night falls, she and other performers change into more revealing, sparkling outfits. Men come up on stage to dance around them. They tuck money into their hands, hair and clothes as they sway around them. The performers earn a fee through their agents, but most of their earnings come from these tips. Nani, who was friends with Irma, says a performer gets "more money and tips if you perform with snakes, you're the star of the show". "There is pressure to please and stand out from all the others, we all dream of becoming stars," she says. 'We were nobodies' Dangdut is a multimillion dollar industry. For those who make it big, a career on TV beckons. At a studio of the national television station in the capital, Jakarta, the latest dangdut sensation Duo Serigala are performing alongside two of the biggest stars of the genre. The pair, Pamela and Ovi, have made themselves stand out with a salacious dance that became known as the "dribble dance" (goyang drible), and their sensational and sexy Instagram account. "It's been a long journey, we have worked very hard from the bottom to get here, we started from zero," says Pamela Safitri. "We were nobodies. I am sorry to say that our families were poor but now slowly with the money we are earning from singing we are able to support them." They too were shocked by Irma Bule's death and say they can relate to her story. "Irma Bule was doing the same as we did, working really hard to try and entertain people," says Ovi Sovianti. "She used the snakes to make her performance the best. We really feel for her family." King of Dangdut Rhoma Irama has been the undisputed King of Dangdut since the 1970s. But the singer and politician - he has his own unofficial political party - has been vocal about his distaste for what he sees as the increasingly erotic performances of female singers. "Polite dancing not erotic dance - that's the true dangdut," he says in his office in Jakarta. But despite opposition from some conservative Muslim groups, he says there is nothing in Islam that outlaws dangdut. "Islam is very pluralist. Islam is peaceful. Love Indonesia, love dangdut, love the world," he says with a laugh. "Dangdut is Indonesia, it's the spirit of Indonesia." "Do singers often get killed by snakes?" I ask. "This is the first time I have ever heard of it," he replies. "Snakes are not essential to perform dangdut at all. In all my years on stage I have never met a snake." He says the dangdut community is close and that they have a fund for singers who die or get sick. Irma's family say they have received money from the dangdut community. Back at the family's home in Karawang, there is a knock on the door, and Irma Bule's daughters rush in from school. The oldest is eight. She says she too wants to be a singer like her mum. Irma's uncle, Maman says he will not let that happen, but admits: "I can't stop her." "What I will do is keep her in school and, if we can, send her to university. Hopefully with a good education, she will make her own good decisions about what to do with her life."

पिछले महीने, एक इंडोनेशियाई गायिका को मंच पर एक किंग कोबरा द्वारा मार दिया गया था, जिसे उसने अपने अभिनय में इस्तेमाल किया था, जो दुनिया भर में सुर्खियां बना रहा था। बीबीसी की रेबेका हेंस्के ने पश्चिम जावा में अपने गृह गांव की यात्रा की ताकि डांगदुत संगीत की बढ़ती अश्लील दुनिया और इसके कलाकारों पर भीड़ से अलग खड़े होने के दबाव के पीछे की सच्चाई का पता लगाया जा सके।


The tech that helps techno artists get paid

Summary: When music is played in public, the artist who created it is meant to receive royalties. But keeping track of what is played in clubs isn't always easy, and the producers of electronic music often go unpaid. Thanks to music recognition software, that is beginning to change.

By Stephen PeirisBerlin A spring evening on Berlin's Oranienstrasse and the bars are packed. Set in the former anarchist district of Kreuzberg, two of Berlin's most famous clubs are in easy reach - Club Gretchen and the Prince Charles club with its neighbouring bar, the Parker Bowles. Queuing for the electro night at Gretchen, Marc Hype, a young Berlin producer, says the key moment for him will come after 1am. This is when the dance floor fills and tonight it will be when his track gets played. Hype's track is on the playlist of the Los Angeles DJ, R L Grime. Previously this would only have been good for his reputation, but this time a "black box" installed in the club will recognise his music - and royalties should be paid. Germany's performance rights organisation, Gema, has always been tight-lipped about its methods, but it's thought that in the past it recorded the tracks clubs played and identified them later, relying on both automatic recognition systems and human memory. In clubs where the music was hard to identify they would send inspectors. But electronic music was a problem. It's the kind of music for which Berlin's clubs are famed - making up 75% of all tracks played by one estimate - but it was the hardest for Gema to identify. Electronic music producer Mitch Alive says he has never received a royalty payment, though he estimates that his pieces are played in the city's clubs about twice a week. Gema's new system, introduced in January, aims to fix that. While it's still far from perfect, it is fully automated, with the black boxes in clubs now recognising the track being played spontaneously. Nearly all mainstream music - pop, rock and folk - is easily identified. Electronic music is still harder, but Gema says about half can now be recognised. The technology, supplied by the French firm Yacast, will only identify music that has been fed into its database, so it tends to work with recordings put out by major labels and not with lesser-known artists on minor labels. Critics also point to another weakness, which is that the black boxes are only installed in a small fraction of Germany's dance floors - 120 out of a total of 5,000, according to Gema spokesperson Franco Walther. Furthermore, these sample only one hour of music at each location every week. Gema then extrapolates from these results using a method worked out by statisticians at the University of Dortmund. Walther admits it is not perfect, but says it would cost too much to put boxes in every club. "We wouldn't have any royalties left over because the pot would be empty," he says. "So we use the statistical method." Gema's technology is currently ahead of the system in use in the UK. "There you have inspectors from organisations like PRS who go to events and recognise music manually," says Gavin Burke, the English CEO of Berlin-based software company GTI, which has developed a different kind of music recognition software. The British system is further weakened by the fact that "many clubs don't even allow inspectors inside," Burke says. GTI's system uses the low-cost mini-computer, Raspberry Pi, in its black boxes, which cost a mere 30 euros (£20) each. GTI's database works with the online music store, Juno.co.uk which has worked to digitise underground vinyl releases. Its system also allows artists to upload their own tracks, to guarantee that their music will be recognised when it is played. German radio DJ Andre Langenfeld compares this idea to the hugely successful discogs.com website, which catalogues vinyl to help users sell records. "Discogs didn't start overnight," he says. "Back then it was a sort of nerd Wikipedia for DJs. Now even the labels recognise it and they enter their releases themselves and don't leave it to a fan. "If this happens for black boxes then it becomes 'our database' and artists will update it themselves." Gema has no plans to allow user-generated content in its black boxes. However, Ralf Kollmann of the Association for Electronic Music, sees much greater changes on the horizon. Some DJs already tweet their playlists live to a global audience, he says. In future he can see DJs turning up not with records, CDs or even USB sticks - just with a login they use to fetch all the music they need from the Cloud. It would not be hard then to create a system where performing rights agencies kept a record of these downloads. "At that stage," he says, "the path to 100% music recognition anywhere in the world is even shorter." Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

जब संगीत सार्वजनिक रूप से बजाया जाता है, तो इसे बनाने वाले कलाकार को रॉयल्टी मिलती है। लेकिन क्लबों में क्या बजाया जाता है, इस पर नज़र रखना हमेशा आसान नहीं होता है, और इलेक्ट्रॉनिक संगीत के निर्माता अक्सर अवैतनिक हो जाते हैं। संगीत पहचानने वाले सॉफ्टवेयर की बदौलत, यह बदलने लगा है।


Was My Lai just one of many massacres in Vietnam War?

Summary: In 1968 US soldiers murdered several hundred Vietnamese civilians in the single most infamous incident of the Vietnam War. The My Lai massacre is often held to have been an aberration but investigative journalist Nick Turse has uncovered evidence that war crimes were committed by the US military on a far bigger scale.

In a war in which lip service was often paid to winning "hearts and minds", the US military had an almost singular focus on one defining measure of success in Vietnam: the body count - the number of enemy killed in action. Vietnamese forces, outgunned by their adversaries, relied heavily on mines and other booby traps as well as sniper fire and ambushes. Their methods were to strike and immediately withdraw. Unable to deal with an enemy that dictated the time and place of combat, US forces took to destroying whatever they could manage. If the Americans could kill more enemies - known as Viet Cong or VC - than the Vietnamese could replace, the thinking went, they would naturally give up the fight. To motivate troops to aim for a high body count, competitions were held between units to see who could kill the most. Rewards for the highest tally, displayed on "kill boards" included days off or an extra case of beer. Their commanders meanwhile stood to win rapid promotion. Very quickly the phrase - "If it's dead and Vietnamese, it's VC" - became a defining dictum of the war and civilian corpses were regularly tallied as slain enemies or Viet Cong. Civilians, including women and children, were killed for running from soldiers or helicopter gunships that had fired warning shots, or being in a village suspected of sheltering Viet Cong. At the time, much of this activity went unreported - but not unnoticed. Civilian casualties Researching post-traumatic stress disorder among Vietnam veterans, in 2001 I stumbled across a collection of war crimes investigations carried out by the military at the US National Archives. Box after box of criminal investigation reports and day-to-day paperwork had been long buried away and almost totally forgotten. Some detailed the most nightmarish descriptions. Others hinted at terrible events that had not been followed up. At that time the US military had at its disposal more killing power, destructive force, and advanced technology than any military in the history of the world. The amount of ammunition fired per soldier was 26 times greater in Vietnam than during World War II. By the end of the conflict, America had unleashed the equivalent of 640 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs on Vietnam. Vast areas dotted with villages were blasted with artillery, bombed from the air and strafed by helicopter gunships before ground troops went in on search-and-destroy missions. The phrase "kill anything that moves" became an order on the lips of some American commanders whose troops carried out massacres across their area of operations. While the US suffered more than 58,000 dead in the war, an estimated two million Vietnamese civilians were killed, another 5.3 million injured and about 11 million, by US government figures, became refugees in their own country. Today, if people remember anything about American atrocities in Vietnam, they recall the March 1968 My Lai massacre in which more than 500 civilians were killed over the course of four hours, during which US troops even took time out to eat lunch. Far bloodier operations, like one codenamed Speedy Express, should be remembered as well, but thanks to cover-ups at the highest levels of the US military, few are. Industrial-scale slaughter In late 1968, the 9th Infantry Division, under the command of Gen Julian Ewell, kicked off a large-scale operation in the Mekong Delta, the densely populated deep south of Vietnam. In an already body count-obsessed environment, Ewell, who became known as the Butcher of the Delta, was especially notorious. He sacked subordinates who killed insufficient numbers and unleashed heavy firepower on a countryside packed with civilians. A whistle-blower in the division wrote to the US Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland, pleading for an investigation. Artillery called in on villages, he reported, had killed women and children. Helicopter gunships had frightened farmers into running and then cut them down. Troops on the ground had done the same thing. The result was industrial-scale slaughter, the equivalent, he said, to a "My Lai each month". Just look at the ratio of Viet Cong reportedly killed to weapons captured, he told Westmoreland. Indeed, by the end of the operation Ewell's division claimed an enemy body count of close to 11,000, but turned in fewer than 750 captured weapons. Westmoreland ignored the whistle-blower, scuttled a nascent inquiry, and buried the files, but not before an internal Pentagon report endorsed some of the whistle-blower's most damning allegations. The secret investigation into Speedy Express remained classified for decades before I found it in buried in the National Archives. The military estimated that as many as 7,000 civilians were killed during the operation. More damning still, the analysis admitted that the "US command, in its extensive experience with large-scale combat operations in South East Asia, appreciated the inevitability of significant civilian casualties in the conduct of large operations in densely populated areas such as the Delta." Indeed, what the military admitted in this long secret report confirmed exactly what I also discovered in hundreds of talks and formal interviews with American veterans, in tens of thousands of pages of formerly classified military documents, and, most of all, in the heavily populated areas of Vietnam where Americans expended massive firepower. Survivors of a massacre by US Marines in Quang Tri Province told me what it was like to huddle together in an underground bomb shelter as shots rang out and grenades exploded above. Fearing that one of those grenades would soon roll into their bunker, a mother grabbed her young children, took a chance and bolted. "Racing from our bunker, we saw the shelter opposite ours being shot up," Nguyen Van Phuoc, one of those youngsters, told me. One of the Americans then wheeled around and fired at his mother, killing her. Many more were killed on that October day in 1967. Two of the soldiers involved were later court martialled but cleared of murder. Commemoration Last year, the Pentagon kicked off a 13-year programme to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the war. An entry on the official Vietnam War Commemoration website for My Lai describes it as an "incident" and the number killed is listed as "200" not 500. Speedy Express is referred to as "an operation that would eventually yield an enemy body count of 11,000". There is almost no mention of Vietnamese civilians. In a presidential proclamation on the website, Barack Obama distils the conflict down to troops slogging "through jungles and rice paddies… fighting heroically to protect the ideals we hold dear as Americans… through more than a decade of combat". Despite what the president might believe, combat was just a fraction of that war. The real war in Vietnam was typified by millions of men, women, and children driven into slums and refugee camps; by homes, hamlets, and whole villages burnt to the ground; by millions killed or wounded when war showed up on their doorstep. President Obama called the Vietnam War "a chapter in our nation's history that must never be forgotten". But thanks to cover-ups like that of Speedy Express, few know the truth to begin with. About the author: Nick Turse has been researching US military atrocities in the Vietnam War for more than a decade and has detailed his findings in a book Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. A Pentagon spokesman, when asked for a statement about the evidence presented, said he doubted that more than 50 years after the US went to war in Vietnam, it would be possible for the military to provide an official statement in "a timely manner."

1968 में अमेरिकी सैनिकों ने वियतनाम युद्ध की सबसे कुख्यात घटना में कई सौ वियतनामी नागरिकों की हत्या कर दी। माई लाई नरसंहार को अक्सर एक विचलन माना जाता है लेकिन खोजी पत्रकार निक टर्से ने सबूतों का खुलासा किया है कि अमेरिकी सेना द्वारा बड़े पैमाने पर युद्ध अपराध किए गए थे।


Q&A: Germany dioxin scare

Summary: German authorities have blocked meat and eggs sales from some 4,700 farms across the country after it was revealed that chickens and pigs had eaten feed contaminated with dangerous levels of dioxins. What are dioxins and why are they dangerous?

According to theWorld Health Organization, dioxins are a group of highly toxic, chemically-related compounds. Dioxins can occur through natural processes but they are mainly the by-products of industrial processes including smelting, chlorine bleaching of paper pulp and the manufacturing of some herbicides and pesticides. Dioxins are found throughout the world in the environment. The highest levels of these compounds are found in some soils, sediments and food, especially dairy products, meat, fish and shellfish. The higher in the animal food chain, the higher the concentration - and danger - of dioxins. Once dioxins have entered the human body, they endure a long time because of their chemical stability and their ability to be absorbed by fat tissue, where they are then stored. They can cause reproductive and developmental problems, damage the immune system, interfere with hormones and cause cancer. How did the dioxins enter the food chain in Germany? According to theEuropean Union, the incident began when fatty acids meant to be used for industrial processes - from a biodiesel company - were mixed with vegetable feed fat, used to make food for animals. The contaminated feed was distributed to several farms in Germany, and consumed by pigs and hens whose meat and eggs now have levels of dioxins higher that those allowed under EU law. Most of the affected farms are pig farms in Germany's Lower Saxony region. Some of the eggs were sent to a processing plant in the Netherlands, and a 14-tonne consignment of pasteurised egg has been sent on to the UK, where it may have entered the food chain. EU authorities say they were first informed about the incident by Germany on 27 December 2010. But the first message only referred to one consignment - 26 tonnes - of contaminated feed. By 3 January 2011, German officials realised that the contamination was much bigger - a total of nine consignments - delivered to 25 feed manufacturers. However, the state agriculture ministry in Schleswig-Holstein says the dioxin alert began even earlier. It says the company where the contaminated oils originated - Harles und Jentzsch - carried out a test in March 2010, which revealed that dioxin levels were twice the permitted level. The company is alleged not to have informed the authorities of this. However, some test results released later by the ministry showed the fat of the feed contained 77 times the approved amount of dioxin. Why is the rest of Europe worried? Europe's food production and processing systems are highly integrated, meaning that tracing which food products have been contaminated, and where, can be complex. Because of this, the EU says that the best way to prevent human exposure is to strictly control industrial processes to limit the formation of dioxins. The EU has warned that eggs from farms affected by dioxins have entered the UK in processed products destined for human consumption. The eggs had been sent to the Netherlands for processing and then onto the UK in liquid formwhere, the BBC has learnt, they have been used by two manufacturers of cakes and quiches. But this isn't the first time there has been a dioxin-related food scare in Europe, is it? No, there have been several. In Italy, for example, in early 2008, worries about the levels of dioxins in the buffalo milk used to make some mozzarella cheese led Japan and South Korea to cancel orders. There were allegations that waste incineration in the region around Naples might have led to the higher levels of the carcinogens in the cheese. Later that same year, all pork products made in the Irish Republic were recalled after it was discovered that some pork contained more than 200 times the acceptable level of dioxins. The pigs were thought to have eaten contaminated feed. A few months later, some 7,000 cattle on 10 Northern Ireland farms were culled because because of fears of dioxin contamination. How dangerous are the levels of dioxins found? Authorities in Germany are emphasising that they have closed the farms and blocked sales as a precautionary measure and that all meat, poultry and eggs are safe to eat. The EU has said that although the eggs found on affected farms in Germany had five times the legal limit of the chemical, consumers would have to eat vast quantities of eggs, or processed products made with these eggs, in order for the dioxins to pose a risk to human health.

यह पता चलने के बाद कि मुर्गियों और सूअरों ने डाइऑक्सिन के खतरनाक स्तर से दूषित भोजन खाया था, जर्मन अधिकारियों ने देश भर के लगभग 4,700 खेतों से मांस और अंडों की बिक्री को रोक दिया है। डाइऑक्सिन क्या हैं और वे खतरनाक क्यों हैं?


Shirley Temple's blue diamond ring up for auction

Summary: A diamond ring that belonged to former child star Shirley Temple is going up for auction next month at a starting price of $25m (£17.3m), Sotheby's says.

The auction house said the 9.54-carat "Fancy Deep Blue" ring was bought by Temple's father in 1940 for $7,210. Temple, one of Hollywood's most popular stars in the 1930s, died in 2014 at the age of 85. A private buyer bought the ring from her estate and is now putting it up for auction, Sotheby's said. It is estimated to be worth up to $35 million. Temple pursued a career in politics after leaving the entertainment industry, serving as US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. A selection of her belongings, including a dress worn at the 1935 Oscars, has previously been auctioned off by her family.

सोथबीज का कहना है कि एक हीरे की अंगूठी जो पूर्व बाल कलाकार शर्ली टेम्पल की थी, अगले महीने 25 मिलियन डॉलर (£ 17.3m) की शुरुआती कीमत पर नीलामी के लिए जा रही है।


Birmingham city centre stabbings leave two men dead

Summary: Two men have been stabbed to death in Birmingham city centre.

West Midlands Police said one man was stabbed outside Sainsbury's in Martineau Place and the other was found slumped near Boots in Union Street. Officers arrested a man near the Odeon cinema in New Street minutes after the stabbings and forensic teams had cordoned the area off, the force said. The police are appealing for any witnesses to the stabbings, which happened at 17:50 GMT, to come forward. West Midlands Ambulance Service said its crews arrived at the scene to find two men, who are believed to be in their 40s, being given first aid by police officers and passers-by. A spokeswoman said: "Both men went into cardiac arrest. "Crews and the team of medics administered advanced life support to both men but sadly, despite the best efforts, nothing could be done to save them." Insp David Keen said: "There are potentially hundreds of witnesses, either people who saw the stabbings or the offender leaving the scene. "I'd urge people to get in touch immediately - they could have vital information." West Midlands Ambulance Service received a number of 999 calls to reports of stabbings on Union Street just before 18:00 GMT.

बर्मिंघम शहर के केंद्र में दो लोगों की चाकू मारकर हत्या कर दी गई है।


I saved my dad's life with CPR

Summary: "I heard my mam shout my name. You know when someone shouts your name and it frightens you? I ran downstairs and there's my dad on the couch, blacked out, blue lips, blue ear lobes, his fingers - everything. I thought: 'Right, that's CPR time'."

Aaron Groves, from Liverpool, was 15 when his dad David suffered a cardiac arrest. His quick thinking saved David's life. CPR is when you press up and down on a casualty's chest and give them a series of breaths to help pump blood around their body when their heart can't. To mark the British Heart Foundation's Restart a Heart Day, both Aaron and David have spoken to Radio 1 Newsbeat about what happened. Aaron: He wasn't breathing, so I rang 999, dragged him down to the floor and started doing chest compressions on him. I'd had some informal training at the scouts and an NHS day in Liverpool with school a couple of years before. But I didn't know I could do it. I'd never practised. It was like an emotionless experience. I was speaking to the operator and he did talk me through it. After four minutes of doing chest compressions, the ambulance actually arrived. They got the defibrillator out. After about four blasts on that we got a heartbeat. David: I woke up in hospital, I had complete memory loss for a week. I felt very proud of Aaron really. Aaron: I actually wrote him a letter for when he woke up as the doctor said he might have some short-term memory loss. It just explained why he was there. It helped my dad and his recovery throughout the week, to try and get his head round it. It's really hard for him to understand. One minute you're on the couch, next minute you're in hospital with no clue why you're there. David: For me it was when I woke up and saw that note. Even now, when it gets read out, it sends a shiver down my back. In some respects I felt very emotionally traumatised. Waking up in hospital and learning I had complete memory loss for a week. I have a very special relationship with Aaron that's unique. I had no idea he had those CPR skills. In some respects that's what made me even more emotional. Had he not had those skills, I wouldn't still be here. Aaron: I think it's been strange for my dad to get over it. During the events he had no recollection of why he was there for a good two weeks. It's only when we got back to the house and he got his memory back that we learnt to deal with that emotion and trauma. It has brought us closer together afterwards. David: We've always had this wonderful relationship even before what happened. A lot of the things that have happened to me afterwards have been quite unusual. Having an internal defibrillator fitted and learning the psychological aspect of that. I've turned it round from being a negative to being a positive. Aaron's been a great inspiration for that. I was also surprised by his knowledge. He explains things to me. It just stunned me that he knew what he did and I can't get over it really. It's an amazing thing to be with him. Aaron: The way I looked at it was, if I do nothing he's no better but if I do something he might be better. That's my advice. If you do nothing they're not going to get better, but if you do something hopefully they will. So even if you don't know CPR, call an ambulance and they will tell you on the phone. You've just got to do it. It's a matter of life and death. For more information about CPR and Restart a Heart Day click here Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.

"मैंने अपनी माँ को मेरा नाम चिल्लाते हुए सुना। आप जानते हैं कि कब कोई आपका नाम चिल्लाता है और यह आपको डरा देता है? मैं नीचे भागा और वहाँ मेरे पिता सोफे पर हैं, काले रंग के, नीले होंठ, नीले कान, उनकी उंगलियाँ-सब कुछ। मैंने सोचाः 'ठीक है, यह सीपीआर का समय है'।


Can Pakistan and India ever live in harmony?

Summary: Within hours of winning the May 2013 elections, Nawaz Sharif made a point of meeting with Indian journalists who had been covering the campaign. He told them that, as he looked ahead to his third term in power, improving relations with Delhi was one of his top priorities.

By Owen Bennett-JonesBBC News A year later, when Narendra Modi stormed to victory in India, he seemed to have similar ideas and immediately invited Nawaz Sharif to Delhi. It was the first time a Pakistani leader had attended an Indian prime minister's inauguration ceremony. The atmosphere of positivity even penetrated Pakistan's military. The high command in General Headquarters in Rawalpindi has an unshakable, deep distrust of India. Even so, some senior officers argued that Mr Modi's reputation as a hardline nationalist might enable him to take risks in delivering some kind of deal to end India and Pakistan's differences. But a year and a half later the two countries' officials can't even agree to meet, never mind move towards a settlement. Meanwhile the Pakistani and Indian armies are exchanging fire across the line of control in the disputed territory of Kashmir. The optimism has gone. Mumbai 'insult' From India's point of view the reason is clear enough. Even if Islamabad is now confronting the Pakistani Taliban, it has not shown any sign of moving against Lashkar-e-Taiba (now renamed Jama'at ud Dawa), the militant group suspected of carrying out successive operations in India including the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Indeed, the man accused of masterminding Mumbai, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, walked free from a Pakistani jail in April this year. A spokesman for India's interior ministry described Lakhvi's release as "an insult to the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai attack". Since then the two countries have traded accusations. In June, on a visit to Bangladesh, Narendra Modi accused Pakistan of promoting terrorism in India. For its part, Pakistan accuses India of providing support to separatist insurgents in Balochistan and to violent political activists in the county's commercial capital Karachi. Talks abandoned Despite all the public rancour, when Mr Modi and Mr Sharif met at the sidelines of a conference in the Russian city of Ufa this July they tried to start a dialogue process. The two men agreed that their national security advisers should meet to discuss, among other things, ways to expedite the Mumbai trial. But Pakistan backed out of the talks hours before they were due to begin. It's widely assumed in Pakistan that the military - which traditionally controls key foreign policy issues - told the government in Islamabad to abandon the dialogue unless the Kashmir issue was clearly on the agenda. Ever since 1947 both India and Pakistan have claimed that they should control Kashmir. Decades of artillery exchanges, skirmishes, incursions, full-blown wars and a sustained insurgency have failed to alter the territorial share: Pakistan has around one-third of Kashmiri territory and India two-thirds. More failed initiatives Nawaz Sharif's desire to improve relations with India goes back a long way. He also searched for an agreement in 1998 during his second term in power. That initiative was fatally undermined by the decision by Pakistan's army to cross the line of control during the Kargil conflict. Kargil war Timeline: How the Kargil conflict unfolded Subsequent peace initiatives have also failed. When General Musharraf tried to strike a deal in 2001, the Indian government rebuffed his efforts. President Asif Ali Zardari's idea of improving trade links ran into opposition from entrenched business interests who benefit from the current stand-off. Pakistani security officials have watched Mr Modi's growing confidence on the international stage with dismay. The Indian leader's nationalist politics, coupled with the size and potential of the Indian market, means that Islamabad's campaign to win international support for its case over Kashmir looks more forlorn than ever. Relations between Delhi and Islamabad are also undermined by the situation in Afghanistan. Privately Pakistani officials justify their support for the Afghan Taliban by saying they need a powerful, friendly force in Afghanistan to counter growing Indian influence there. Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif may both want to settle their countries' differences. But there is little sign of them being able to do so.

मई 2013 का चुनाव जीतने के कुछ ही घंटों के भीतर, नवाज शरीफ ने अभियान को कवर करने वाले भारतीय पत्रकारों से मुलाकात की। उन्होंने उन्हें बताया कि जब वह सत्ता में अपने तीसरे कार्यकाल की ओर देख रहे थे, तो दिल्ली के साथ संबंध सुधारना उनकी सर्वोच्च प्राथमिकताओं में से एक था।


Covid: Chatsworth House barbecue group fined by police

Summary: Five people from three households have been fined for having a barbecue and picnic together in the grounds of a stately home.

Officers were called to Chatsworth House, near Bakewell in Derbyshire, at about 15:40 GMT on Sunday. Officers found five adults - two women and three men - and three children breaching coronavirus lockdown rules. The adults were each given a £200 fixed penalty notice and the group was dispersed. The local policing team said on said on Facebook: "We understand that the lockdown has been hard for people, but we ask that the public stick with the rules." Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk. Related Internet Links Derbyshire Constabulary

तीन घरों के पांच लोगों पर एक आलीशान घर के मैदान में एक साथ बारबेक्यू और पिकनिक करने के लिए जुर्माना लगाया गया है।


RAF Lossiemouth crews in temporary move back to Fife

Summary: An RAF Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) group based in Scotland is to temporarily move from Lossiemouth in Moray to Leuchars in Fife.

QRA crews at Lossiemouth and RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire intercept unidentified aircraft approaching UK airspace. Recent incidents have included Russian military planes near UK airspace. The Lossiemouth group's move to Fife later this year is to allow for a major revamp of Moray station's runway. QRA crews had previously operated from Leuchars until 2014 when the group relocated to Lossiemouth. Leuchars has been an army barracks since 2015. The Typhoon fighter jet crews are expected to return to Moray before the end of this year. Typhoon training done at Lossiemouth will temporarily move to nearby Kinloss Barracks.

स्कॉटलैंड में स्थित एक आर. ए. एफ. त्वरित प्रतिक्रिया चेतावनी (क्यू. आर. ए.) समूह अस्थायी रूप से मोरे में लॉसीमाउथ से फाइफ में ल्यूचर्स में स्थानांतरित होने वाला है।


When having fun on Twitter went awry for Brent

Summary: Last autumn, Brent Marriner, a 27-year-old from Sunderland, collected a Chinese takeaway by himself for the first time. He tweeted about his achievement and got more than 10,000 likes and retweets.

By Tim WyattBBC Ouch The positive response was more than he could have hoped for. But since then, he has found himself dragged into controversial debates or hounded for what he posts. Brent, who has Down's syndrome, and his "Mam" Jacqui Tyson set up their joint account @Being_Brent in 2015. Brent wanted to show people that he can do "lots of things" and Twitter seemed the ideal place to share. "It's a good life with Down's syndrome. Mam and family and friends help if I need it. It's just ordinary," he says. Much like everyone else, they tweeted about their life in Sunderland - going to the theatre, the tedium of chores, and acknowledging life's little achievements. Jacqui calls it activism by example. They quickly hit 12,000 followers. But then a more sinister edge crept in. They found their posts quickly becoming public property, which were fought over and used in battles about personal politics. It started when Brent tweeted that he had put the laundry away by himself. "Do you want a medal?" one woman quipped. Jacqui messaged her privately to explain why it was an achievement for him, and the woman immediately apologised. "She was mortified, said she was so sorry," Jacqui recalled. For Brent's mum, that was that. But some of Brent's followers hounded the woman, even after she deleted the tweet. Jacqui tried to rein it in and said she would deal with any "bother" on the account, but eventually the woman was forced off Twitter. "The response is a bit like when somebody famous dies," Jacqui says. "People can lose all sense of proportion and kindness and understanding and react in extreme ways. "With Brent - he's just a bloke who wants to have a nice life." Brent was fostered by Jacqui when he was six years old, and she adopted him when he was 10. He works part-time in a cafe, performs with a local dance company, and on Sundays he carries the cross at Sunderland Minster where Jacqui is a curate. The duo had agreed the account would be for fun, not to pontificate on ethical or political issues. Jacqui would type the tweets, as Brent struggles with speech and language, and she would post it once he was happy with the wording. But the family found they occasionally had to delete @Being_Brent when things got out of hand. In June, an academic jumped on a tweet by Brent that said he chose his own clothes and hairstyle "because I am a man and I can". "Do you mean a man rather than a child Brent? It comes across as a man rather than a woman and I'm sure you don't believe that women can't choose their clothes and hair!" the academic tweeted. A gender politics firestorm erupted and lots of Brent's followers publicly shamed the academic. Jacqui didn't like the attention or what she describes as the mob mentality and felt it necessary to temporarily shut down the account until the furore had died down. And then there's the emotionally charged debate perhaps most associated with children with Down's syndrome. "People sometimes try to drag us into the abortion debate and we just won't," Jacqui says. "No," Brent agrees. The disability world can be very political with strong opinions defended by friends and family who want the best outcomes for the people they care about. Naturally there are clashes, but it's something Jacqui and Brent had not expected when they started out on social media. Nor did they expect people to assume that Brent must also be a commentator if he'd set up an account and attracted so many followers, but they do. Recently, as a debate broke out about a new pre-natal test for Down's syndrome, soon to be available on the NHS, activists started to tweet links about the issue underneath Brent's posts. The Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT) allows pregnant mothers to find out if their unborn child has Down's much earlier than the current screening process. As it only requires a simple blood sample from the mother, it is also much safer. Activists from the Don't Screen Us Out campaign fear the new test will lead to the effective eradication of people with Down's syndrome. But others, including abortion providers such as BPAS, say it would be unfair to deny women more accurate information about their pregnancy if it is available. Comedy actor Sally Phillips, whose son Olly has Down's syndrome, previously said that she and others in the community had been "extremely bruised" by the negative attitudes revealed in the recent debates around screening. "The message we hear is: 'Everyone would be better off if you were not here at all,'" she says. Brent's followers expected an answer from him, a suggestion of which way to turn on the topic. Jacqui says that Brent found it: "Sad to think people didn't want babies with DS because, after all, babies are babies. And DS is just DS." She says: "For him it's that simple. For some people it's not." It's not just those who want to reduce the number of babies with Down's who cause conflict for the pair. There are a few inexhaustible Down's advocates and supportive followers who, Jacqui says, can also be problematic and make Brent a commodity, rather than an individual. "They were saying we wouldn't have wonderful people like Brent if DS was wiped out and asking if it was tantamount to eugenics." She says she's also had to block people who continually added them to lists on Twitter, see Brent as inspirational and only send them articles about Down's syndrome. "Brent has Down's syndrome, you have lots of friends with Down's syndrome, but presuming that all we're interested in is random people with Down's syndrome… I find that kind of patronising," she says. "I will block anybody on a comment if it looks in the least bit iffy." The pair still enjoy Twitter and remain optimistic it's a space to share Brent's experience of Down's, but Jacqui says some of the innocence has gone. She is regularly contacted by other parents whose children have Down's and are encouraged to see how full Brent's life is. Some have even set up their own Twitter accounts, but Jacqui always gives a word of warning to expect some strife. Often, disabled people find that whatever they do becomes political to others, especially if they're a member of a minority like Brent. But despite all the attempts to entice Brent into advocacy, he remains firm that his account is for fun, and he does his own form of advocacy - without signing a petition or using a hashtag - by just being himself and living his life. When asked if he thought his tweets were, in their own way, changing how others perceived Down's, Brent said: "We don't know, but we hope so." For more Disability News, follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.

पिछली शरद ऋतु में, सुंदरलैंड के 27 वर्षीय ब्रेंट मैरिनर ने पहली बार खुद एक चीनी टेकअवे एकत्र किया। उन्होंने अपनी उपलब्धि के बारे में ट्वीट किया और 10,000 से अधिक लाइक्स और रीट्वीट प्राप्त किए।