Prince music pulled from subscription streaming sites

Summary: Prince has removed his music from a number of paid streaming services.

A message on the artist's Spotify page said his publisher had "asked all streaming services to remove his catalogue". "We have cooperated with the request, and hope to bring his music back as soon as possible," Spotify added. Prince's music is still available on iTunes, but not on Apple's new streaming platform, Apple Music. It has also been removed from Rdio but is available on Jay Z's Tidal. The musician has yet to explain the move, which coincidentally happened on the same day he released a new song - Hardrocklover - on Soundcloud. Tidal has tried to win new audiences with exclusive content since its relaunch in March, following Jay Z's acquisition of the service. It streamed much of Prince's Baltimore peace concert in May, held in the wake of the death of an African American man in police custody. Prince has had a fraught relationship with modern technology. Initially an early enthusiast on online music, he declared in 2010 the internet was "completely over" and released an album as a CD insert with several newspapers. Last year, he abruptly left social media, but recently returned to Twitter to promote his Hit and Run tour, announcing shows with little advance notice. Representatives for Prince have yet to comment.

प्रिंस ने कई सशुल्क स्ट्रीमिंग सेवाओं से अपने संगीत को हटा दिया है।


Guernsey recycling 'still causing confusion'

Summary: People in Guernsey are still confused about a £2.5m kerbside recycling scheme, a States officer says.

The Public Services Department (PSD) is due to start a two-year trial next month. Recycling officer Tina Norman-Ross said the most commonly asked question was what day waste would be collected. She said residents would have all the details after they received information packs, which were still being sent out "for the next next week or so". She said: "Everybody should have all the information they need by 10 March". The trial is part of the PSD's efforts to get 70% of household rubbish recycled by 2025. Some residents have criticised the cost of the £2.5m scheme, though.

एक राज्य अधिकारी का कहना है कि ग्वेर्नसे में लोग अभी भी 25 लाख पाउंड की कर्बसाइड रीसाइक्लिंग योजना के बारे में उलझन में हैं।


Liverpool's first dedicated cancer hospital opens

Summary: Liverpool's first dedicated cancer hospital has officially opened.

The new branch of the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre network will treat inpatients from Saturday before opening to outpatients on Monday. Regional mayor Steve Rotheram said it was "good news in these current testing times when NHS resources have been so stretched dealing with coronavirus". The city has some of the highest rates of cancer in England, Liverpool University has said. It added that cancer mortality in Merseyside and Cheshire is 76% higher than the European average. 'Labour of love' A spokesman for the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre network said it treated more than 30,000 patients each year, and would continue at its existing sites in Wirral, Aintree and other hospitals in the region. The 11-storey hospital, which is part of a £162m project to improve cancer care on Merseyside, is situated near Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the University of Liverpool medical school. A spokeswoman said the 110 en-suite patient rooms would help "patients whose immune systems mean they are particularly vulnerable to infection". Dr Liz Bishop, chief executive of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, said the new hospital had been "a huge labour of love". "Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool is the culmination of an eight-year vision for transforming cancer care in a region with one of the highest rates of cancer in the country," she added. Related Internet Links The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

लिवरपूल का पहला समर्पित कैंसर अस्पताल आधिकारिक तौर पर खोला गया है।


A secret network that helped slaves find freedom

Summary: During the late 18th Century, a network of secret routes was created in America, which by the 1840s had been coined the "Underground Railroad". The network was intentionally unclear, with supporters often only knowing of a few connections each.

Though the exact figure will always remain unknown, some estimate that this network helped up to 100,000 enslaved African Americans escape and find a route to liberation. In his exhibition, Night Coming Tenderly, Black, photographer Dawoud Bey reimagines sites along the routes that slaves took through Cleveland and Hudson, Ohio towards Lake Erie and the passage to freedom in Canada. There were also well-used routes across Indiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New England and Detroit. With influences from the photography of African American artist Roy DeCarava, where the black subject often emerges from a subdued photographic print, Bey uses a similar technique to show the darkness that provided slaves protective cover during their escape towards liberation. Unlike what the name suggests, it was not underground or made up of railroads, but a symbolic name given to the secret network that was developing around the same time as the tracks. This allowed abolitionists to use emerging railroad terminology as a code. Both black and white supporters provided safe places such as their houses, basements and barns which were called "stations". Those who hid slaves were called "station masters" and those who acted as guides were "conductors". Spirituals, a form of Christian song of African American origin, contained codes that were used to communicate with each other and help give directions. Some believe Sweet Chariot was a direct reference to the Underground Railroad and sung as a signal for a slave to ready themselves for escape. In 2014, when Bey began his previous project Harlem Redux, he wanted to visualise the way that the physical and social landscape of the Harlem community was being reshaped by gentrification. He says it was a fundamental shift for him to form a mental image of the experience of space and the landscape, as if it was from the person's vantage point. Bey says he has pushed that idea even further in this project, trying to imagine the night-time landscape as if through the eyes of those fugitive slaves moving through the Ohio landscape. "I've never considered myself 'a portrait photographer' as much as a photographer who has worked with the human subject to make my work," says Bey. One of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist and political activist who was born into slavery. During her life she also became a nurse, a union spy and women's suffragette supporter. She initially escaped to Pennsylvania from a plantation in Maryland. Afterwards, she risked her life as a conductor on multiple return journeys to save at least 70 people, including her elderly parents and other family members. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed local governments to recapture slaves from free states where slavery was prohibited or being phased out, and punish anyone found to be helping them. After its passing, many people travelled long distances north to British North America (present-day Canada). The network remained secretive up until the Civil War when the efforts of abolitionists became even more covert. "There was one moment when I was photographing at a bluff [a type of broad, rounded cliff] overlooking Lake Erie that was different from any other I'd had over the year-and-a-half I was making the work," says Bey. "Standing at that location, and setting up to make the photograph, I felt the inexplicable yet unseen presence of hundreds of people standing on either side of me, watching. At that moment I knew that this was an actual site where so many fugitive slaves had come." Dawoud Bey's exhibition Night Coming Tenderly, Black is on show at the Art Institute of Chicago, USA until 14 April 2019.

18वीं शताब्दी के उत्तरार्ध के दौरान, अमेरिका में गुप्त मार्गों का एक नेटवर्क बनाया गया था, जिसे 1840 के दशक तक "भूमिगत रेलमार्ग" बनाया गया था। नेटवर्क जानबूझकर अस्पष्ट था, समर्थकों को अक्सर केवल कुछ कनेक्शनों के बारे में पता था।


Tax dodgers targeted after registering for referendum

Summary: Tax dodgers who joined the electoral roll for the Scottish independence referendum are being warned they now risk being caught.

Aberdeenshire Council has said it is cross-checking the thousands who registered for the first time to see if any have outstanding tax bills. Those arrears could go back many years, even as far as the poll tax. The community charge was introduced into Scotland in April 1989, before being replaced by council tax in 1993. The local government body Cosla said all councils have an obligation to collect outstanding money.

स्कॉटिश स्वतंत्रता जनमत संग्रह के लिए मतदाता सूची में शामिल होने वाले कर चकमा देने वालों को चेतावनी दी जा रही है कि उन्हें अब पकड़े जाने का खतरा है।


Time capsule to be buried in Upton-upon-Severn's flood wall

Summary: Historical artefacts dug up in a Worcestershire town are to be buried in a time capsule in its new flood defences.

Archaeologists found clay smoking pipes from the Kings Head pub during flood wall work in Upton-upon-Severn. The capsule will also contain stories and photos of the pub as well as drawings and letters by school pupils. It will be buried by the Environment Agency and West Worcestershire MP Harriet Baldwin on Friday. Ms Baldwin said it was "extremely interesting to see some of the artefacts uncovered by the work, including evidence of river crossings dating back to the Civil War". Upton-upon-Severn suffered severe flooding in 2007.

वॉरसेस्टरशायर शहर में खोदी गई ऐतिहासिक कलाकृतियों को इसकी नई बाढ़ सुरक्षा में एक टाइम कैप्सूल में दफनाया जाना है।


Deaf construction worker's 'demoralising' job hunt

Summary: Jack Griffiths is one of about 84,000 deaf people in the Welsh workforce. But the 25-year-old builder from Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, suffered numerous knock-backs before landing a job and he has had to overcome the challenges of working on a building site without hearing. He tells his story.

I was profoundly deaf when I was born. I went to school in Cwmbran - a mainstream school for the hearing and deaf - but my parents were trying to find somewhere that was good for me. I was a clever child but nothing was fitting my needs here in Wales, so I made the decision to go to Derby, to the Royal School for the Deaf. I've always loved making things. Wood, plaster, making things with my hands, so I naturally progressed into the construction industry. My dad is an electrician, but I wanted to do building. As I got older I spent more time in Derby and I went to college, where I did bricklaying, and then I did more qualifications. Then I went to Nottingham, where I passed my plastering qualification and I was keen to continue in Derby, but I couldn't carry on studying. So, I moved back home to Wales, where I wanted to do more qualifications and I started looking for a job. It was really difficult. I had interviews but failed because of the "risk levels" - I wasn't sure what the problem was. I felt that I was well qualified, it should be easy. But I realised quite quickly how hard it would be. I'm confident but I couldn't change their view of a person who is deaf and their preconceptions. It wasn't me being scared about getting into the world of work. It was them being scared of me working for them - people who didn't understand what it was about. I realised I needed help. I felt my confidence ebbing away. I started getting worried about my future. I thought, what happens if I can't get work? Nobody was keener to get into work than me. And when you hear "no" all the time, the constant disappointment - it becomes a hard struggle to keep on applying. Find out more Jack's story on BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme Action on Hearing Loss have information about support services for people who are deaf or have hearing loss There were times when I wanted to give up. I kept saying to myself, "don't give up, keep fighting, you will get a job, somebody will give you a job". I knew I had to try my best. I had to keep going. I'd be talking to people but I found myself drifting away - my concentration was lacking. 'Huge amount of thanks' When I first met Matt Skinner [an employment adviser at Action for Hearing Loss Cymru] it did change. Before I met him, emailing and using the telephone was difficult. Matt's support changed the way I was doing things. A hearing person who could contact people on the phone, could help me with English. It helped a lot. Things improved from then on. I owe him a huge amount of thanks. I was offered a job with a one-year contract and I was happy to take that. I enjoyed it but the contract ended and was not extended. So, it was time to look for more jobs. It went on for a year or two - no job - and it was demoralising hearing "no" all the time. It affects you. Then Matt got in touch about Willis Construction in Cardiff. I'd never heard of the company. I was expecting the same again - I was expecting a fail. When Matt said the health, safety and training manager Paul Cachia wants to meet you, I thought "OK". I immediately recognised that he had a level of respect and understanding about disability. He was very welcoming. We had a chat and I realised he was really different to everyone I met before. I really liked him. He told me straight away [I had the job]. I was surprised. I asked him: "Aren't' you going to give me an interview?" "No, I can see your certificates," he said. "I can see how qualified you are, you just need the chance." When I first started I had an interpreter so the boss was able to talk to me. The first time I met Adam Bruton, my colleague who I now work with, I was awkward and apprehensive, with stumbling communication. It improved to the smooth communication we have now. It's a natural relationship. Adam does all the phone calls, I do the driving. Adam meets the site boss and chats about the day. He then explains it to me and I get on with the job. We help each other through the day. In work on an everyday basis, I communicate by texting, gestures, body language, for instance, digging with a spade - just a natural gesture communicates that. Some people I can lip read. Also - easy things - pointing and validation. It all works nicely. Sometimes there are mistakes but we get there in the end. Sometimes I feel I'm frustrating people or wasting their time - that's just normal. Some of the companies that I was interviewed by in the past, we have dealings with. In a way, I wish I could go to people and say: "Look at me, I'm working here and there's been no mistakes, no problems, no risks. It's a smooth working environment." I want to show people, I want them to say: "Oh, you're the deaf person, we interviewed you and turned you down because you're deaf." I want them to realise that I can do it. Deaf people just want the same opportunity. We want people to be deaf aware. We want them to realise that we can do things.

जैक ग्रिफिथ्स वेल्श कार्यबल में लगभग 84,000 बधिर लोगों में से एक हैं। लेकिन ट्रेडेगर के 25 वर्षीय बिल्डर, ब्लेनाउ ग्वेंट को नौकरी मिलने से पहले कई असफलताओं का सामना करना पड़ा और उन्हें बिना सुने एक निर्माण स्थल पर काम करने की चुनौतियों को दूर करना पड़ा। वह अपनी कहानी बताते हैं।


Exercise guidelines 'hard to meet'

Summary: One of the UK's leading sports medicine specialists says government guidelines are actually discouraging people from being active. In this week's Scrubbing Up, Dr Mike Loosemore, head of exercise medicine at the Institute of Sport Exercise and Health at University College London who has been involved in the development of commercial exercise programmes, says people should be encouraged to do more "low-level" exercise - such as simply standing up.

By Dr Mike Loosemore,University College Hospital, London Ready for a sit-down or are you sitting comfortably already? You might be a little less relaxed if you knew that lack of physical activity is the public health problem at the beginning of the 21st century. There is an overwhelming weight of evidence that humans need to be active. And I'm not talking about hours in the gym or jogging miles around the local park, but simply avoiding the sort of sedentary behaviour that sees us spending hours of our day sat in front of a computer, at the wheel of car or watching the gogglebox. It's time to stand up for yourself. Literally. There is now enormous evidence that simply standing makes huge differences to your health. It is estimated that being on your feet for just three hours a day can extend your life by two years! Cure-all? The great news is of course that now everyone can benefit. If you are feeling unfit or fat, or too over the hill to walk up even a small one, it's time to think again. Low-level activity, even regularly getting off your seat, can change your life forever. Active individuals reduce their risk of heart disease by 40% against their inactive counterparts. Other reductions are similarly extraordinary. High blood pressure can be lessened by almost 50%, the risk of recurrent breast cancer by almost 50% whilst the likelihood of colon cancer goes down by over 60%. It has great mental benefits, too, with the risk of developing of Alzheimer's disease decreased by a third and depression eased as effectively as Prozac or behavioural therapy. Activity is not only more powerful than drugs for most conditions, but can act as a cure-all. The UK government's recommendation that adults in the UK complete 30 minutes of moderate activity five days a week to achieve the above gains would seem to make sense. No drugs are involved and this level of activity needs no special equipment. 'Impractical or unobtainable' It would seem so undemanding yet so beneficial, you would expect the whole of the population to be following these guidelines. However, what do we find? When adults were monitored, barely 7% of men and 4% of women were carrying out enough activity to fulfil them. It is perhaps not surprising that the UK has one of the highest levels of obesity in the world. So the governments' recommendations are not just failing to encourage the population to increase their physical activity, but are seemingly acting as a positive disincentive to people to participate at all. For many of the population, 30 minutes of moderate activity is deemed impractical or unobtainable, so the idea that being more physical to improve long-term health is ignored or dismissed. Most of us do not have the time, energy or inclination to make the effort, so the recommendations are not just failing to engage the population, but are positively discouraging people to participate at all. But there is some good news. Even a small amount of activity can make major health gains, and this is what the population really needs to be taught. Every action, even a single step on a stair or standing up for a few seconds, can put you on a positive path to better health. If you start to think that the smallest movement makes a significant difference, then every single person can take part and gain the powerful benefits of being physically active. As you can see, feeling great is a walk in the park. Dr Mike Loosemore is Head of Exercise Medicine at the Institute of Sport Exercise and Health, University College Hospital, London. He was chief medical officer for England at the 2014 Commonwealth games and is co-designer of Active Movement, a low-level activity programme for workplaces.

ब्रिटेन के प्रमुख खेल चिकित्सा विशेषज्ञों में से एक का कहना है कि सरकारी दिशानिर्देश वास्तव में लोगों को सक्रिय होने से हतोत्साहित कर रहे हैं। इस सप्ताह के स्क्रबिंग अप में, यूनिवर्सिटी कॉलेज लंदन में खेल व्यायाम और स्वास्थ्य संस्थान में व्यायाम चिकित्सा के प्रमुख डॉ माइक लूसमोर, जो वाणिज्यिक व्यायाम कार्यक्रमों के विकास में शामिल रहे हैं, कहते हैं कि लोगों को अधिक "निम्न-स्तरीय" व्यायाम करने के लिए प्रोत्साहित किया जाना चाहिए-जैसे कि बस खड़े होना।


Coronavirus: 'Nurses prepare for the worst but not this'

Summary: Facing supply shortages and the fear that this could just be the beginning, a nurse working in a New York City emergency room, with 12 years' experience, tells the BBC what it's like on the front lines of America's coronavirus outbreak.

What have you been seeing in ER in the last few weeks? We've seen an influx of patients that are coming in with the typical Covid symptom - fever, cough, sometimes sore throat, lung pain, chest pain. Other people are coming in with gastro-intestinal symptoms which are nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, which have been identified as possibly an early symptom of Covid. We're also noticing that our patients are coming in with red eyes, their eyes are red around the rim. You can look at these patients that are coming in that turn out to be Covid positive and you can see the sickness in their face, in their eyes. Our emergency room is completely Covid. And we're short staffed, so it puts an even bigger strain on our emergency-care system. Do you have enough equipment? The short answer to that no, we don't. As of the last day that I worked, we were running out of pumps. When a patient has an IV hooked-up, there is a machine that's sitting next to you that calculates the medication, making sure it is being given to you at the right time and the right amount. We are running out of those pumps. We're giving patients medications to sedate them and we don't even have the correct equipment to monitor them. We are being rationed PPE - which is our personal protective equipment. We're getting one N-95 mask and we're having to reuse it for five shifts. Before this pandemic, you were never to reuse this equipment. It was one time use and it was thrown out. It was discarded. Now we are being told to use it for our shift, put it in a paper bag and save it for next shift. After five shifts, we turn it in and we'll get a new one. We're running out of basic supplies because all of our patients are requiring so much. How are you coping? I believe that I'm coping with it as best that I can. I'm exhausted at the end of every shift. My feet are numb, my legs are numb. I'm sore. I soak through my scrubs. Stuff like that doesn't bother me. The things that bother me are making sure that my family and friends are okay. I'm making sure that my family knows that, hey, if you go out, know that you are not protected, that you're being exposed to things. And if something were to happen to you, or if something were to happen to me, and God forbid, I pass away, or God forbid you get sick or you have to be intubated, we're all going to have to do it alone. Our hospitals are no longer allowing visitors so all my patients are going out and battling this virus alone. I don't think that I was ever prepared for something like this. I mean, you are always prepared for the worst as a nurse, in nursing school, you're always given the worst-case scenario, and how to get out of it. This situation has proved to be a situation that none of us knew was going to happen. And my co-workers and I are doing the best that we can to get through every day. Currently, we are so stressed at home. And we're thinking about our patients. We're thinking about our family members. There's nurses that won't even go home because they have children at home. They have their elderly parents at home. Luckily, I live by myself, I don't have to worry about stuff like that. But we're so stressed, we're clinging on to the little things that we have, which is food delivery, which is, you know, laughing as much as we can, sharing the memes on the internet, taking pictures of each other in PPE because things like this we never thought would happen. It's just taking out everybody you know, we had a nurse die. He was a nurse manager. He passed away this past week from Covid. And a nurse manager usually isn't on the front lines. They're more of a back office person, they help when needed. But he passed away this week. And, you know, everybody talks about how healthy he was. And he was the first nurse to always get up and help, he was a true team player. And he passed away taking care of his patient and helping out his co-workers and helping out the patients in need. What keeps you awake at night? My fears regarding this pandemic are specifically in New York City because I feel like we've been hit harder. And we've been hit first. And I feel like we're setting the standard for what the rest of the country is going to do and how they're going to respond. I am fearful that we haven't even gotten the worst. And we're already running out of critical items that we need. I am fearful that we are going to go to war-time medicine. And when I say that, I mean triage, being with a patient and saying 'this person doesn't have a good quality of life to begin with so we're not going to take heroic measures to save them'. That's my biggest fear. I also fear that we're just not going to have any supplies. Are we going to be mandated to be at work for 24 hours? What else is going to happen? The fear of the unknown is what bothers all my co-workers. What would you like to say to people who are not on the front line? The message I would like to convey to everybody who's not in health care is stay home. You know, I hate staying home, I hate being locked in my house. But at the end of the day, the chance of you getting sick and dying is extremely, extremely high at this point. And Covid is not just focusing on the immune compromised, the old, the elderly. It's everybody at this point. It doesn't matter who you are. It is take no prisoners. So my message is to stay at home. In the coming weeks, what are your expectations? I believe that this pandemic will go on until at least May or June. We in the healthcare system, especially in New York, we believe that this will go on until the summer time. The only way that I believe and that a lot of my co-workers believe that we can get a handle on this is there needs to be an entire lockdown on the entire country. And that means food delivery is shut down. That means everything is shut down except for truly essential employees. And that means police, nurses, doctors, those are the only people that need to be going out because we're truly trying to tackle this. Anybody else needs to be at home and we need to completely lock the country down. That's the only way I think that we are going to tackle this. Otherwise, it's just going to keep going and going and going. The nurse we spoke to preferred to remain anonymous

आपूर्ति की कमी और इस डर का सामना करते हुए कि यह सिर्फ शुरुआत हो सकती है, न्यूयॉर्क शहर के आपातकालीन कक्ष में काम करने वाली एक नर्स, 12 साल के अनुभव के साथ, बीबीसी को बताती है कि यह अमेरिका के कोरोनावायरस प्रकोप की अग्रिम पंक्ति में कैसा है।


Northamptonshire County Council: The story behind the cash crisis

Summary: Northamptonshire County Council has voted to make radical cuts to jobs and services as it attempts to fill a £70m shortfall. Children's services, road maintenance and waste management are among the areas now facing cuts. So how did the council find itself in this crisis?

By Phil ShepkaBBC News 'Weak budgetary control' A highly critical government report into the Conservative-run council in March accused leaders of "weak budgetary control". The authority's leader Heather Smith subsequently resigned. The Best Value report condemned the structure within the council's finance department, saying there appeared to be no officer with "clear responsibility for setting professional standards for finance staff". Former finance director Matt Bowmer had warned in 2015 the council had a "culture and behaviour where overspending is acceptable". He wrote to chief executive Dr Paul Blantern, council leader Jim Harker and cabinet member for finance Bill Parker after the authority overspent by £43m in the first seven months of that year. He called for the authority to halt all non-essential spending - known as a section 114 notice - but his request was ignored. A later government inspection found the letter was not treated as the "wake-up call" it should have been. The 2018 Best Value report said if the warning had been heeded, the council would have avoided having to make the latest cuts. The authority's budgeting relied on one-off items, windfalls and capital receipts to balance the numbers at the end of the financial year. For instance, a £21.1m overspend for 2017-18 was put down to, in the most part, the failure to sell land at a development area known as Buckton Fields. The latest overspend prompted the government to send in commissioners to take direct control of the authority in April. The council has issued two section 114 orders so far this year. There had previously only been two issued by UK councils since 1988. Mike O'Donnell, from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (Cipfa), said the council reached its current situation "in large part a result of failure of leadership to act upon clear warning signs". He added: "Faced with these increasing pressures, the council lacked the financial oversight and political strength to take robust action." 'Next Generation Model' The government report highlighted the council's radical outsourcing plans as a cause of its financial problems. The plan, dubbed the "Next Generation Model" intended to outsource all services and create new bodies covering child protection, care of vulnerable adults, health provision and "improving the county". These bodies would be owned by the authority but charge a fixed fee for services. The authority hoped this would avoid escalating costs and produce savings of £96.7m. Councillors approved the plans in 2015, however expected savings did not materialise and in 2018 both public health and adult social care services were brought back in house. Max Caller, author of the Best Value report, said all the model had done was "obscure and prevent effective member oversight and budgetary control". The report said: "It did not and could not address the regular budget overspends which were covered by one off non-recurring funding sources." Reduced funding While Ms Smith was in charge of the council she complained it received "significantly less" in government funds than other authorities. In September she said the council "couldn't carry on as we are" and launched an appeal for "fairer" funding from central government. The council said its population of 733,000 was among the fastest growing in England and demand for services was growing at an unprecedented rate. But the government report said the authority was "in no worse position than any other council" and was not the "most disadvantaged" shire county. Mr O'Donnell, from Cipfa, pointed out the council's leadership failings "took place within a context of sustained local government funding cuts". He added: "It is a task for the government to work with councils to ensure finances are sustainable and it is down to local authorities to keep a check on their medium-term financial planning to have in place robust governance and financial oversight and also to heed the advice of outside experts." Historically, the authority has charged its residents a lower-than-average council tax rate. The Best Value report said a council tax rise would have helped the authority's finances. However, it had implemented the government's council tax cap between 2011 and 2014. Other councils face similar issues, with East Sussex planning service cuts to a legal minimum "core offer". Research released by the County Council Network (CCN) in June suggested England's 36 shire authorities face funding pressures totalling £3.2bn over the next two years. CCN chairman and Kent County Council leader Paul Carter said: "Shire counties face a triple whammy of funding reductions, rising demand for services and are the lowest-funded type of authority. "Counties are shouldering a disproportionate burden and the elastic is close to breaking." What next? In February all seven of the county's MPs had said they had lost faith in the authority's leadership. The Best Value report was clear on what it thought should happen - scrap the council and start over. It said it should be replaced with two new unitary authorities by 2020, one covering Daventry, Northampton and South Northamptonshire and the other covering Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough. The council has so far resisted those calls but Ms Smith's replacement, Matt Golby, said the authority accepted the inspection had found "what he believes to be significant failings at the council". As councillors debated the cuts on Thursday, a member of the public said the council would have "blood on its hands" if a person died this winter because of cuts. Mr Golby told the meeting that balancing the county's books would require "some very difficult decisions" including "rigorous controls on spending, recruitment and contracts". The council will now figure out the impact on jobs and individual services after approving the "radical" cuts.

नॉर्थम्पटनशायर काउंटी काउंसिल ने नौकरियों और सेवाओं में भारी कटौती करने के लिए मतदान किया है क्योंकि यह 70 मिलियन पाउंड की कमी को पूरा करने का प्रयास करता है। बच्चों की सेवाएं, सड़क रखरखाव और अपशिष्ट प्रबंधन उन क्षेत्रों में से हैं जो अब कटौती का सामना कर रहे हैं। तो परिषद ने इस संकट में खुद को कैसे पाया?


Balochistan journalists caught 'between the stick and the gun'

Summary: More than a dozen towns, cities and districts in Pakistan's restive province of Balochistan have been without newspapers for the past month. Journalists are too scared to produce them, and vendors are too afraid to sell them. The doors of the local press clubs are locked.

By Secunder Kermani and Malik MudassirBBC News, Quetta In October, the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), a banned separatist group, issued an angry ultimatum to local journalists, whom they blamed for collaborating with the media wing of the Pakistan Army. The BLF accused the journalists of failing to print its claims of responsibility for attacks. "If you do not stop publishing one-sided propaganda we will take strict action," the group warned in a statement. Balochistan, in the west of Pakistan, has been the scene of a long-running nationalist insurgency. Foreign journalists need to seek special permission to visit the majority of the province, while the Pakistani media is often wary of reporting on what is considered to be one of the most sensitive issues in the country. According to the International Federation of Journalists, 29 media workers were killed in the province between 2007 and 2015. The Pakistani military has been accused of torturing and "disappearing" dissidents. Insurgent groups have also killed members of non-Baloch ethnic groups. Speaking on condition of anonymity, local reporters told the BBC that earlier this year they had been warned by civil and military authorities in the province they would not "tolerate the version of militants in newspapers." They were ordered not to publish anything attributed to the insurgents. One reporter told the BBC he had attempted to argue that it was a journalistic right to at least publish the claims of responsibility for attacks. "How can we stop the news?" he asked. But under pressure, media outlets agreed to what one editor described as a "blackout" of the insurgents. He described the government as treating journalists like "facilitators" of terrorism. The BLF set a deadline of 24 October for newspapers to begin publishing their claims. Caught between the authorities and the militants - the "stick and the gun", as one journalist described it - print media in the province ground to a halt. In the days immediately after the deadline, newspaper distributors in the majority of the province refused to collect newspapers. Grenades were thrown at a press club in the town of Hub and at a news agency in the city of Turbat, injuring a number of people. Since then newspaper deliveries have resumed in the provincial capital, Quetta, and in areas mainly populated by Pashtun rather than Baloch communities. Newspaper offices in Quetta are protected by soldiers stationed outside. But the BBC spoke to members of 18 different press clubs in areas dominated by the Baloch ethnic group who said they all remained closed, with no newspapers being delivered at all - suggesting distributors aren't working in about half the province. One senior journalist told the BBC that circulation of his newspaper was down by about 80%, and that initially "bundles of newspapers were left at the roadside" with distributors too afraid to collect them so they had simply cut the numbers of copies they publish. "It's a frustration, people should be informed," he said. "In the interior of the province there is no electricity, no internet. People read newspapers." Another, also on condition of anonymity, said the authorities were encouraging editors "to be brave" and to keep publishing, offering them as much protection as they wanted. A number of journalists told the BBC that officials were concerned the issue was creating the impression of a poor security situation. Balochistan lies along the route of the multi-billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which was designed to link the province's Gwadar port with western China, turning it into a major regional trading hub. Pakistani politicians and the army have repeatedly praised the CPEC, calling it a "game changer" for development in the country. But Baloch insurgent groups have vowed to disrupt the work and an unstable security situation could scare off foreign investors. Reporters in Balochistan repeatedly complained that because of the sensitivities in the province, "investigative journalism" was impossible, citing fears of reprisals from militant groups and from the intelligence agencies. "The press know well" about allegations of abuses by both sides "but we can't publish… I'll not be alive if I do," said one editor. The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan recently expressed concern about freedom of press in the region, noting that the provincial government had stopped publishing advertisements in three newspapers perceived to be sympathetic to Baloch nationalist politics, depriving the papers of much-needed income. An editorial in one newspaper stated: "From day one the government has been opposed to the media, and in particular local newspapers… The reason is newspapers believe in the right of freedom of speech." The management of the newspaper decline to discuss the editorial for this story. Pakistan is routinely ranked as one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, and local reporters described Balochistan as being the most dangerous place to be a reporter in Pakistan. One journalist compared working in the province to "crossing the Bridge of Siraat". In Islamic belief, the Bridge of Siraat must be crossed before reaching heaven. It is as thin as a strand of hair, and passes over the pits of hell.

पाकिस्तान के अशांत प्रांत बलूचिस्तान के एक दर्जन से अधिक कस्बों, शहरों और जिलों में पिछले एक महीने से समाचार पत्र नहीं हैं। पत्रकार उन्हें पेश करने से बहुत डरते हैं, और विक्रेता उन्हें बेचने से बहुत डरते हैं। स्थानीय प्रेस क्लबों के दरवाजे बंद हैं।


Pakistan floods: The villagers trapped and praying

Summary: Rescuers in Pakistan are trying to reach hundreds of thousands of people cut off by floods which have destroyed homes and large areas of farmland. The BBC's Andrew North joined emergency teams in one of the worst-hit areas in Punjab province.

Andrew NorthSouth Asia correspondent@NorthAndrewon Twitter The first sign of human life in Kotla Nek Ahmed village is the angular tips of three tombstones. They poke from the waters of what otherwise seems to be a big lake. The boat driver keeps a respectful distance as he navigates towards a half-submerged clump of trees. Somewhere out there are dozens of people marooned by Pakistan's late-monsoon floods and rescuers from the local Punjab provincial government are making another foray to find them. Many here in this district along the banks of the river Jhelum stayed behind when their villages started flooding, reluctant to leave homes and precious livestock - and praying it wouldn't get any worse But now they have found themselves trapped, with the authorities increasingly concerned about the possibility of more flooding because of a new rain-fed surge coming downriver from across the border in India. They have been urging people to evacuate for miles around. Beyond the clump of trees, the outlines of small dwellings start to appear, but perched on what are now islands. Two men stripped to the waist, against the still bath-like heat, wave at the boat from their little outcrop. When the rescue team arrives, the men greet them with what look like smiles of relief and warm handshakes. They start to try on the bright orange life-jackets they are handed. Then they turn to call their wives and children from inside. A grandmother comes too and takes charge of the young ones fighting for the best place in the boat. But then the men suddenly take off their life-jackets and step out of the boat. What is clearly an old conversation resumes, with the two women remonstrating with their husbands. There are gestures and frustrated tones. But then the men turn away and walk away towards a few goats and cows tethered near the houses. One of the rescue team shakes his head knowingly. "They don't want to leave the livestock," he says. The team pushes off, the children quiet now as the boat heads towards a big protective dyke where people displaced by the floods have been setting up temporary shelters. Another boat arrives at the same time. An elderly farmer steps off with his daughter and two grandchildren. "I've never seen a flood like this," he says. "We've lost our cattle and all our crops have been destroyed. Now I'm standing here and I've got nothing."

पाकिस्तान में बचावकर्मी बाढ़ से कट गए लाखों लोगों तक पहुंचने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं, जिसने घरों और कृषि भूमि के बड़े क्षेत्र को नष्ट कर दिया है। बीबीसी के एंड्रयू नॉर्थ पंजाब प्रांत के सबसे बुरी तरह प्रभावित क्षेत्रों में से एक में आपातकालीन टीमों में शामिल हो गए।


A profile of SNP leader Alex Salmond

Summary: Love him or loathe him, few would dispute Alex Salmond's skill and achievements as a politician.

By Andrew BlackPolitical reporter, BBC Scotland He is a man who has spent his whole political career dividing opinion. Mr Salmond's political beginnings as a brash, yet passionate, outsider have never disappeared - even when he turned statesman as the head of Scotland's government and his beloved Scottish National Party. As one of the most talented politicians of his generation, he has now brought the SNP as close to its dream of independence as it has ever been, in the wake of a landslide election win and a deal to hold a referendum in 2014. The SNP leader has now reached another milestone, becoming Scotland's longest-serving first minister, breaking the record held by his predecessor, Labour's Jack McConnell. Mr Salmond's reputation as a hot-headed and rebellious character ensured he was a high-profile politician long before becoming first minister of Scotland. Born on Hogmanay 1954 in the ancient and royal burgh of Linlithgow, Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond graduated from St Andrews University and began a career in economics, working for the Scottish Office and the Royal Bank of Scotland. He also played an increasingly active role in the Scottish National Party, having come to the conclusion that the economic case for independence was strong. His initial rise to prominence, both inside and outside the party, came as the SNP entered its darkest period. The 1979 General Election, which resulted in victory at the polls for Margaret Thatcher's Tories, saw the number of Nationalist MPs slashed from 11 to two. Mr Salmond played a prominent role in the breakaway '79 Group, which sought to sharpen the SNP's message and appeal to dissident Labour voters after the party's collapse - a move which earned him a brief expulsion in 1982. Reflecting on the incident years later, he put it down in part to his being a "brash young man" - although the urge to cause a bit of mischief has never been far from his mind. Despite his form, Mr Salmond established himself as a rising star of the SNP, winning the Westminster seat of Banff and Buchan in 1987 - and notably getting himself banned from the Commons chamber for a week after interrupting the chancellor's Budget speech in protest at the introduction of the poll tax in Scotland. When the job of party leader came up in 1990, Mr Salmond made his move and, on winning the post, repositioned the SNP as more socially democratic and pro-European. The delivery of Scottish devolution presented new opportunities for the SNP. The party failed to win the first Holyrood election in 1999, but won enough seats to set itself up as the official opposition. During the campaign, Mr Salmond had sparked controversy when he described Nato action in Kosovo as "an act of dubious legality, but, above all, one of unpardonable folly". After putting in a decade as SNP leader, Mr Salmond made the decision to quit and stand down as an MSP. Leadership challenge He returned to Westminster, where he had built up a high profile, partly from his many appearances on TV programmes ranging from Question Time to Have I got News for You. Mr Salmond has also put his love of horse racing to good use, appearing as a pundit on Channel 4's The Morning Line programme, as well as offering tips and insights through the pages of the Racing Post. John Swinney - later to become Scottish finance secretary - succeeded Mr Salmond as leader, but stood down in 2004 following continued criticism from sections of the party and the negative publicity of a leadership challenge. Many turned to Mr Salmond to grasp the thistle and take his old job back. He responded by borrowing from Union Army General William Sherman, who, on being asked to run for president following the American Civil War, declared: "If nominated I'll decline. If drafted I'll defer. And if elected I'll resign." As it was looking like Roseanna Cunningham was a front-runner for the job, Mr Salmond entered the leadership race, "with a degree of surprise and humility, but with a renewed determination". Essentially, as he put it himself: "I changed my mind." Following the comeback, on a joint ticket with deputy Nicola Sturgeon, Mr Salmond led the SNP to its greatest hour yet - victory at the 2007 Scottish election and delivery of a minority SNP government. He also reinvented himself as something of a new man - at least initially. Gone was the "Eck" of old, known to respond to tough questions in an aggressive manner - replaced with a more measured and positive, even chirpy, character. Behind the scenes, colleagues and staff were expected to keep up with his extraordinary drive - with the old flash of the Salmond temper still putting in a public appearance. Mr Salmond also achieved a personal victory in the election, winning the Liberal Democrat-held Scottish Parliament seat of Gordon, providing the vehicle for his return to Holyrood. Gordon Brown, still Chancellor at the time, called Mr Salmond to congratulate him becoming first minister - four weeks after the election. It was not long before the first predicted brush with the UK Labour government. The subject was the future of the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi - who was later released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds on account of his terminal illness in the face of huge criticism from the US and others. In a BBC interview marking his first ministerial milestone, Mr Salmond said, looking back, that the fallout of the decision resulted in "difficult days". And despite a row at the 2012 SNP conference over it's U-turn to Nato opposition and criticism over the government's handling of the existence of EU legal advice on an independent Scotland, Mr Salmond added: "In the league table of stooshieness, the last couple of weeks is pretty minor compared to Megrahi." As the SNP's term in government progressed, there would be many more arguments with Westminster, on topics ranging from energy policy to Treasury funding and, more recently, the terms of the independence referendum. As the global economic meltdown took hold, Mr Salmond blamed "spivs and speculators" for the problems which caused the takeover of HBOS, as the crisis of confidence in the financial sector hit Scotland. 'Cavalier approach' He later faced criticism from political rivals who said HBOS's real problems were caused by the bank's exposure to the volatile mortgage market. In contrast, though, the Glasgow Airport terror attack and foot and mouth crisis showed how willing the first minister was to work with Westminster on issues of UK importance. In 2008, Mr Salmond was accused of taking a "cavalier" approach to dealing with US tycoon Donald Trump's £1bn Scottish golf resort. An inquiry into the affair by Holyrood's local government committee raised concern over the Scottish government's decision to call in the plans, following their rejection by Aberdeenshire Council, after "two five-minute phone calls". The probe concluded the decision, although unprecedented, was competent. It was the classic Salmond approach to problem-solving. Two years later, Mr Salmond came under fire for his involvement in saving the troubled international clan gathering event in Edinburgh. The SNP was criticised for bailing out the event organisers with an interest-free taxpayer loan not widely publicised at the time. In his usual style, Mr Salmond later conceded the government could have told other public bodies involved with the event about the loan, but remained defiant, insisting the action saved an event worth £10m to the economy. Then came the 2010 UK election. The SNP had already delivered a crushing blow to Labour, winning the Westminster seat of Glasgow East in a by-election (which Labour later re-claimed). Mr Salmond's campaign strategy was to back a hung parliament at Westminster, combined with an ambitious plan to significantly boost the number of SNP MPs so they might hold a balance of power, when it came to making key decisions - to "make Westminster dance to a Scottish jig," as he put it. But, in the event, with a resurgent Tory party on course for victory, Scots voters came out in their droves to back Labour. It was also a campaign which saw the SNP unsuccessfully take the BBC to court, after it was decided Mr Salmond would not take part in the TV debate with Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron. With the polls giving Labour as much as a 15-point lead, it seemed the party was on course for a return to power at Holyrood in 2011. But, never to be underestimated, Mr Salmond - who has always relished being the underdog - launched into the contest with a positive campaign. Enigmatic persona When he came up against Labour's negative, attacking style, Scots voters decided there was no contest - and the SNP was returned with an overall majority. For Mr Salmond it was a jaw-dropping result - perhaps a once-in-a-generation shift in Scottish politics, which had seen Labour as the dominant force for 50 years. The part-PR/part-constituency system at Holyrood was essentially designed to keep any one party (ie, the SNP) from winning an overall majority. The re-elected first minister now had a mandate for the independence referendum, to be held in autumn 2014, the terms of which have now been agreed with the UK government. Mr Salmond's party continued in government, with its policy of resisting Westminster cuts, protecting NHS spending and Scotland's cherished universal benefits, and its claims of achievement, like cutting crime to a 30-year low. Opposition parties sought to portray Mr Salmond as being obsessed with winning the referendum to the point of neglecting Scotland's real social problems, while accusing him of watering down his vision of independence - on issues like keeping the pound and the monarch as head of state - to maximise the 'Yes' vote. Away from the Holyrood chamber, the first minister has faced opposition accusations of close links with big businessmen - Stagecoach boss Brian Soutar, US tycoon Donald Trump - who later turned on Mr Salmond over his government's pro-wind farm policy - and Rupert Murdoch. During the height of the News International phone-hacking scandal, rival parties asked why Mr Salmond was meeting the media mogul, while also demanding to know whether he himself had been a hacking victim. The first minister insisted his relations with Murdoch were about promoting jobs for Scotland and, after weeks of questioning, he finally told the Leveson Inquiry into press standards his phone was not hacked - but that his bank account was accessed by the Observer newspaper in 1999. Despite his style as a politician, Mr Salmond retains an enigmatic persona. He and wife Moira, who never had children, closely protect their private lives. He is also known for his love of singing, having recorded a version of the Rowan Tree with artist Anne Lorne Gillies as part of a CD released to inspire independence. And with opposition parties constantly quoting polls which put support for independence at about a third, could it be a case of so near, yet so far for his ultimate dream? One thing is for sure - in a world where political leaders so often rise from within the establishment, Mr Salmond has made it with a totally unconventional approach, the like of which may not be seen again. He would never have had it any other way.

उससे प्यार करें या उससे नफरत करें, बहुत कम लोग एलेक्स सैल्मंड के कौशल और एक राजनेता के रूप में उपलब्धियों पर विवाद करेंगे।


Profile: Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood

Summary: As a Welsh learner from the Rhondda, some observers might have thought Leanne Wood an unlikely candidate to lead Plaid Cymru, whose traditional heartlands are in the Welsh-speaking west and north of Wales.

By Daniel DaviesBBC Wales political reporter But she has tried to use her background to her advantage. If Plaid is ever going to dislodge Labour as the biggest party in the assembly, she says, it must first dislodge Labour as the dominant party in places like the south Wales valleys. "I think I'm able to speak to people in order to do that," she said. A staunch republican, in 2004 she was ordered to leave the assembly chamber when she referred to the Queen as Mrs Windsor and refused to withdraw the remark. But during the leadership campaign she said she would meet the Queen if it was part of her official duties as Plaid leader. As an AM she also unearthed failings at the public spending watchdog, the Wales Audit Office, under former Auditor General Jeremy Colman. 'Resonates across Wales' She was the last leadership candidate to throw her hat in the ring, but her campaign quickly gathered momentum, with a band of active young supporters who enthusiastically championed her cause online. Her credentials as a potential leader were boosted by the support of one of the party's most prominent figures, former MP Adam Price. She speaks, he said, "with a voice that resonates across Wales". However, his own standing may have suffered somewhat when he called for Plaid members to vote tactically to stop Elin Jones getting the job. Ms Wood herself said she would be giving her second vote in the leadership election to Ms Jones. So where next for Plaid under its new leader? The party has successes to shout about after going into coalition with Labour in 2007. The coalition built the case for reforming the way the Welsh assembly is funded, secured primary law-making powers and passed legislation to protect the Welsh language - all key aims of Plaid Cymru. But it failed to capitalise on them at last year's election. In her analysis of why Plaid lost seats, Ms Wood said that after ticking off so many of its short-term goals while in government, Plaid failed to offer voters a unique selling point. Last year she gave an indication of where she thought the party should be heading when she published proposals torevitalise the former coalfields. It is a vision that prioritises economic renewal and the creation of jobs as the basis for an independent Wales - what she calls "real independence for Wales so we can finally break the system that's keeping us down".

रोंडा के एक वेल्श शिक्षार्थी के रूप में, कुछ पर्यवेक्षकों ने सोचा होगा कि लेन वुड प्लेड साइमरू का नेतृत्व करने के लिए एक असंभव उम्मीदवार हैं, जिनके पारंपरिक केंद्र वेल्स के वेल्श भाषी पश्चिम और उत्तर में हैं।


Clacton road closed as unexploded bomb found

Summary: A road was closed ahead of an unexploded bomb being blown up in a seaside town.

Essex Police were called after the device was found in Sladburys Lane, Clacton, at about 10:45 BST. Officers called in the Army bomb disposal squad and warned members of the public to avoid the area, to the north of Holland-on-Sea. PC Toby Wilde tweeted footage the bomb squad safely blowing the World War Two ordnance up in a field.

एक समुद्र तटीय शहर में एक बिना फटे बम के उड़ने से पहले एक सड़क को बंद कर दिया गया था।


Daryl Fowler stab death: Man charged with murder

Summary: A 43-year-old man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in a street.

Daryl Fowler, 28, died of stab wounds after being found in Chevington, on the Leam Lane Estate in Gateshead, at 20:00 BST on Friday. Lee Wall, of Chevington, has been charged with his murder and Emma Brown, 39, also of Chevington, has been charged with assisting an offender. Both will appear before South Tyneside Magistrates' Court on Monday.

एक 43 वर्षीय व्यक्ति पर सड़क पर चाकू मारकर हत्या करने का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Don Banfield murder trial jury retires

Summary: The jury has gone out in the Old Bailey trial of a wife and daughter accused of murdering a man who vanished more than 10 years ago.

Don Banfield, 63, was last seen leaving the family home in Wealdstone, north-west London, in May 2001. Shirley Banfield, 64, and her daughter Lynette Banfield, 40, of Ashford Road, Canterbury, Kent, deny his murder. They are accused of murdering him after he signed a contract selling the family home, resulting in a £120,000 profit. They have admitted fraudulently claiming Mr Banfield's pensions.

जूरी ने 10 साल से अधिक समय पहले गायब हुए एक व्यक्ति की हत्या के आरोपी पत्नी और बेटी के ओल्ड बेली मुकदमे में भाग लिया है।


What is in the Paris climate agreement?

Summary: What was agreed as part of the Paris climate deal?

By Helen BriggsBBC News The deal unites all the world's nations in a single agreement on tackling climate change for the first time in history. Coming to a consensus among nearly 200 countries on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions is regarded by many observers as an achievement in itself and has been hailed as "historic". The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 set emission cutting targets for a handful of developed countries, but the US pulled out and others failed to comply. However, scientists point out that the Paris accord must be stepped up if it is to have any chance of curbing dangerous climate change. Pledges thus far could see global temperatures rise by as much as 2.7C, but the agreement lays out a roadmap for speeding up progress. What are the key elements? What's in and what has been left out? The goal of preventing what scientists regard as dangerous and irreversible levels of climate change - judged to be reached at around 2C of warming above pre-industrial times - is central to the agreement. The world is already nearly halfway there at almost 1C and many countries argued for a tougher target of 1.5C - including leaders of low-lying countries that face unsustainable sea levels rises in a warming world. The desire for a more ambitious goal has been kept in the agreement - with the promise to "endeavour to limit" global temperatures even more, to 1.5C. Sign up for a weekly chat about climate change on Facebook Messenger It coincides with an opinion poll by YouGov for Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) which said 70% of respondents supported greater action to tackle climate change. Dr Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics, says the objective is "remarkable". "It is a victory for the most vulnerable countries, the small islands, the least developed countries and all those with the most to lose, who came to Paris and said they didn't want sympathy, they wanted action." Meanwhile, for the first time, the accord lays out a longer-term plan for reaching a peak in greenhouse emissions "as soon as possible" and achieving a balance between output of man-made greenhouse gases and absorption - by forests or the oceans - "by the second half of this century". "If agreed and implemented, this means bringing down greenhouse-gas emissions to net zero within a few decades. It is in line with the scientific evidence we presented," says John Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Some have described the deal as "woolly" because some of the targets were scaled down during the negotiations. "The Paris Agreement is only one step on a long road, and there are parts of it that frustrate and disappoint me, but it is progress," says Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo. "This deal alone won't dig us out the hole we're in, but it makes the sides less steep." What about money? Money has been a sticking point throughout the negotiations. Developing countries say they need financial and technological help to leapfrog fossil fuels and move straight to renewables. Currently they have been promised US $100bn (£67bn) a year by 2020 - not as much as many countries would like. The agreement requires rich nations to maintain a $100bn a year funding pledge beyond 2020, and to use that figure as a "floor" for further support agreed by 2025. The deal says wealthy countries should continue to provide financial support for poor nations to cope with climate change and encourages other countries to join in on a voluntary basis. Dr Ilan Kelman of UCL, London, says the lack of time scales is "worrying". "The starting point of $100bn per year is helpful, but remains under 8% of worldwide declared military spending each year." What happens next? Only elements of the Paris pact will be legally binding. The national pledges by countries to cut emissions are voluntary, and arguments over when to revisit the pledges - with the aim of taking tougher action - have been a stumbling block in the talks. The pact promises to make an assessment of progress in 2018, with further reviews every five years. As analysts point out, Paris is only the beginning of a shift towards a low-carbon world, and there is much more to do. "Paris is just the starting gun for the race towards a low-carbon future," says WWF-UK Chief Executive David Nussbaum. Prof John Shepherd of the National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, says the agreement includes some welcome aspirations but few people realise how difficult it will be to achieve the goals. "Since the only mechanism remains voluntary national caps on emissions, without even any guidance on how stringent those caps would need to be, it is hard to be optimistic that these goals are likely to be achieved."

पेरिस जलवायु समझौते के हिस्से के रूप में क्या सहमति हुई?


Why the Today programme is much more than just politics

Summary: BBC Radio 4's Today programme is celebrating 60 years of being on air. It's become known as the place to hear top politicians being taken to task and policy analysed to within an inch of its life. But the programme has, over the years, become much more than that, as presenter Justin Webb explains.

By Justin WebbThe Today programme Today is about a lot more than politics. It's always been a window on the whole world - a place for BBC reporters to bring their news to people in Britain who care about, and know about, their world. I spent most of my career doing that - though I follow in the footsteps of many great reporters including, rather oddly, my own father Peter Woods. He became famous as a newsreader in the 1970s but was, before that, a war reporter. His delivery is not what you have come to expect on Today these days - He is too stilted, too un-conversational. I think the same is probably true of my own reporting from decades ago. Since then, we have become a little less gung-ho about our wars abroad and a little more used to the idea of Brits being in conflict. We have also begun to question each other on-air and expect clearer answers. In the below exchange with Peter Sissons, the day the euro was introduced, I wish in retrospect I had gone a bit further. But it's still the case that the big events need to be given weight on Today, and still the case that those who report on those events are given an opportunity to get a look-in. Let's face it, Westminster politics isn't everything. Foreign reporting is expensive and often difficult. But it's part of this programme and long may that remain the case.

बी. बी. सी. रेडियो 4 का टुडे कार्यक्रम प्रसारित होने के 60 वर्षों का जश्न मना रहा है। यह शीर्ष राजनेताओं को अपने जीवन के एक इंच के भीतर कार्य और नीति का विश्लेषण करते हुए सुनने के लिए एक जगह के रूप में जाना जाता है। लेकिन यह कार्यक्रम, वर्षों से, उससे कहीं अधिक हो गया है, जैसा कि प्रस्तुतकर्ता जस्टिन वेब बताते हैं।


British racing drivers on show at Silverstone

Summary: When Indira Flack started photographing British racing drivers, she wasn't sure who - if anyone - would get to see the pictures. Yet now 100 of them can be seen at The Silverstone Experience, which celebrates the past, present and future of British motorsport, and was recently officially opened by the Duke of Sussex and multiple F1 world champion, Lewis Hamilton.

From the outset, Indira Flack realised that she needed to get some big names under her belt. "I just thought I need to show people what I am doing," she says. "The drivers didn't know me of course, so I needed to show I was a proper photographer, and not a random stalker." That, of course, meant a meeting with Sir Stirling Moss, arguably Britain's greatest racing driver. With 212 wins from 529 starts across both Formula 1 and sports cars, and often described as the greatest driver never to have won the World Championship, Sir Stirling was sure to add weight to the project. Flack photographed him in his home, and remembers lots of laughter and amazing stories of his time behind the wheel. It was Moss who chose to wear the union jack braces, which perfectly fitted in with the project. John Surtees, the only person to have won the world championships on both two and four wheels was next, and then it was on to three-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart. Flack went to meet Sir Jackie at his home, and arranged to photograph him in his garage. While setting up the lights, she was careful to avoid touching any of the priceless cars in the garage, including Stewart's race-winning cars, alongside others such as Mark Webber's Red Bull F1 car, in which he won the British Grand Prix. When Sir Jackie came in, Flack presented him with some home-made jam, having seen him on television declare his liking for it. Stewart proceeded to hang the bag of jam on the wing of the Red Bull - her coat followed, making it "the most expensive coat hook in the world". Now Flack was up and running, with a long list of drivers she wanted to photograph, from those just starting out in their motorsport career, to those currently competing at the front of the grid. In the latter group is Jamie Chadwick, who has a long list of victories behind her. Last year she was the winner of the inaugural W Series Championship, and continues as Williams F1 Development driver. She was also the first woman to win an F3 race. They met at Donington Park, with this final image reflecting the freezing weather outside. "Whoever I am photographing, my aim is to not make it into a big trauma," says Flack. "Most people don't like having their picture taken, so I explain it is only the two of us. I need to get the picture - but otherwise we can have a good time while we are doing it." Flack spent the day with Alice Powell and Ella Stevens at Shenington kart track in Oxfordshire. Powell, who came third in last years W series, is supporting Stevens, a 13-year-old karting champion. "We did some static shots in the morning, but once I saw what their relationship was like - and I felt the shots didn't capture it - we shot some more, with Alice giving Ella a piggy back. It was exactly what I wanted," says Flack. Although that may have taken all day, others - like the one of Johnny Herbert, David Coulthard and Martin Brundle - were far quicker to execute. The planning, however, took months. The three former drivers now cover F1 for a range of broadcasters. "They were brilliant," says Flack. "All three turned up bang on time with microphones. Five minutes later, they were gone." In 2015, Nicolas Hamilton became the first disabled driver to compete in the British Touring Car Championship - he returns this year for a full season. Born with cerebral palsy, Flack describes him as "one inspiring person". She remembers that, with a big grin on his face, he told her: "You don't want to worry about my brother, you've got the most important Hamilton." It took Flack a while to meet up with Nathalie McGloin, the first British woman with spinal cord injuries to be granted a motor racing licence in the UK. She was paralysed from the chest down after a car crash as a 16-year-old, and is now the only female tetraplegic racing driver in the world. Racing in a hand-controlled Cayman S in the Porsche Club Championship and Classic Sports Car Club, McGloin competes against able-bodied men. "I wanted to do something with her hands," says Flack. "We did have limited time, but this says what I wanted it to say." Some of the drivers came up with their own ideas for the pictures. Louise Cook, a big Star Wars fan, brought along her lightsaber. In 2012, Cook was the first woman to win an FIA Rally Championship not specifically for women - the FIA Production Car Cup for Drivers of 2WD. Chris Ingram, the first British driver in 52 years - along with co-driver Ross Whittlock - to win the FIA European Rally Championship, brought along his dog. Scottish driver Dario Franchitti has a string of wins to his name, including the Indy Car Series four times and the Indianapolis 500 three times. He wasn't easy to pin down. Flack approached him at Goodwood early on in the project, and it took a few years before she managed to take this portrait. "This is a small proportion of the drivers I would like to photograph," says Flack. "There are loads more, especially women like Jade Edwards and Divina Galica, but now it is a time and money issue. Without sponsorship, I probably can't continue." Great British Racing Drivers can be seen at The Silverstone Experience. All photographs courtesy © Indira Flack The project supports Jackie Stewart's Race Against Dementia.

जब इंदिरा फ्लैक ने ब्रिटिश रेसिंग ड्राइवरों की तस्वीरें लेना शुरू किया, तो उन्हें यकीन नहीं था कि किसे-अगर किसी को-तस्वीरें देखने को मिलेंगी। फिर भी अब उनमें से 100 को द सिल्वरस्टोन एक्सपीरियंस में देखा जा सकता है, जो ब्रिटिश मोटरस्पोर्ट के अतीत, वर्तमान और भविष्य का जश्न मनाता है, और हाल ही में ड्यूक ऑफ ससेक्स और कई एफ1 विश्व चैंपियन, लुईस हैमिल्टन द्वारा आधिकारिक रूप से खोला गया था।


Europe's leaders weigh Cameron's proposed EU reform deal

Summary: My first instinct is that this is something everyone can work with.

Katya AdlerEurope editor@BBCkatyaadleron Twitter Eastern and Central European countries will continue to complain about the suspension of migrant in-work benefits. They are likely to argue that the EU has sold its principles down the river in an attempt to keep the UK in the EU. They have to be seen by their own voters as protecting the right to live and work in any other member state. That's a founding principle of the European Union. However, it can be argued from this text that the so-called "emergency brake" is not discriminatory because it's available for any country to use. UK-EU draft deal - Latest updates What you need to know Other elements of the section on migrant benefits, such as child allowances and sham marriages, are unlikely to raise many eyebrows. All 28 member states want to clamp down on any potential abuse of the welfare system. The French will be delighted there is no proposal for a UK veto over eurozone legislation. But the UK does get to pull a different brake, this time on eurozone legislation that it fears may be detrimental to non-eurozone countries. In practice, the UK government is particularly concerned with protecting the City of London. According to the draft deal, eurozone members must "respect the competencies, rights and obligations of member states whose currency is not the euro". It allows the UK to call a summit of EU leaders if it is deeply concerned. Beefing up The "red card" system trumpeted by Number 10, which would enable a majority of national parliaments to club together to object to or veto European Commission proposals, is unlikely to prove contentious. It appears to be a beefing up of the little-used "yellow card" system whereby national parliaments can raise concern if they believe an issue could better be dealt with at home rather than in Brussels. However the government will hope it will sound good in terms of wrestling back powers from Brussels to the UK - and to other EU countries. Further reading on the UK's EU referendum Guide: All you need to know about the referendum Referendum timeline: What will happen when? Q&A: What does Britain want from Europe? More: BBC News EU referendum special

मेरी पहली प्रवृत्ति यह है कि यह कुछ ऐसा है जिसके साथ हर कोई काम कर सकता है।


Shiptonthorpe crash driver Erhan Ahmed faces three charges

Summary: The driver of a car that rolled on to its roof after hitting a roundabout has been charged with three offences.

Erhan Ahmed, 27, was driving the BMW car that crashed at Shiptonthorpe at 03:30 GMT on Tuesday. He has been charged with dangerous driving, not having insurance and failing to provide a blood specimen for analysis. Mr Ahmed, of High Street, Market Weighton, is due before Hull Magistrates' Court. He and the female passenger of the vehicle were taken to hospital after the crash, but both have now been released.

एक चक्कर से टकराने के बाद छत पर लुढ़कने वाली कार के चालक पर तीन अपराधों का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Arts world gets creative in funding crisis

Summary: With public grants for the arts shrinking, many venues and artists are looking for new ways to fund their works. From fan funding to hosting weddings on stage, here are some of the more innovative schemes that arts bodies around the UK are turning to.

By Ian YoungsArts reporter, BBC News Personalised plays Theatre company Angle is looking for the best new playwrights - but it needs money. In the supermarkets, cafes and community centres of west London, its activists will be accosting people and asking them to scribble down script ideas on beer mats, the backs of envelopes and in notebooks. Angle has already done something similar in east London, staging five full productions by promising first-time writers in 2009. To mount the best new plays this time, Angle is attempting to raise £3,000 by attracting small donations through the Wedidthis crowdfunding website. Wedidthis allows individuals to donate anything from £5 to £15,000 to arts organisations for specific projects, and get rewards in return. So if you give £10 to Angle, you will get a handwritten postcard of thanks from the selected new playwrights. Or for £500, you will get a personalised 20-page play written by one of the new playwrights about you or a topic of your choice. "You never know who they might become!" Angle's sales pitch enthuses. Others currently raising funds through Wedidthis include Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji and the Classical Opera Company, while other similar crowdfunding sites include Sponsume and Wefund. "A handful of quangos, foundations and wealthy individuals hold too much power over what art gets funded," the Wedidthis manifesto says. "By giving small amounts in great numbers, audiences and supporters of the arts decide what gets funded." Dinner with a musician For £6,000 over three years, an orchestra lover can sponsor a musician from the Northern Sinfonia, based in Gateshead, through its Principal Partners scheme. You choose a principal musician to support, and get exclusive access in return. "You meet that principal on a regular basis over lunch or supper, and become close to that instrument and understand what it is to be a player in an orchestra like this," explains director of marketing and development Lucy Bird. You also get access to rehearsals, invitations to special events and your name in the programme. Eleven of the 13 musicians are currently filled. "It's been hugely successful," Ms Bird says "We've done it now for six years so people have come back twice and they're all renewing again. Nobody's dropped out, despite the recession. Clearly they get something out of it." It is an extension of the more traditional sponsor a seat schemes, where supporters pay to get their names on a plaque in their favourite auditorium. The prices vary depending on the venue - it is £200 for 10 years at Derby Guildhall or £5,000 for a seat in the stalls at the refurbished Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Weddings on stage For those who really want to make a show of their big day, a growing number of theatres are letting couples get married on stage. They include The Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, north Yorkshire, a gem that has changed little in 220 years and is the UK's oldest working theatre that is still in its original form. Opened in 1788, the venue still has some of its original paintwork and can wheel out Georgian scenery for the occasion. The 214-seat venue also prints mock tickets for guests to present to the ushers as they file into the stalls to watch the happily-ever-after drama unfold on stage. Other theatres that allow happy couples to tie the knot on stage include the Nottingham Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic and Bath Theatre Royal. Many more, including the National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe, hire function rooms for receptions, while a range of art galleries offer the same thing. Weddings are not the only occasions for which venues are hired out. Many play on their cultural appeal when attracting conferences, corporate seminars, dinners and award ceremonies - and those functions will become more important as funding is eroded. Expert coaching Live Theatre in Newcastle has a long reputation for staging new writing and has spawned hits such as Cooking With Elvis and The Pitmen Painters. So as well as selling tickets for its shows, it also sells something else that is in demand - its scriptwriting expertise. The venue set up an online playwriting course last year, charging £495 for a step-by-step guide for budding writers around the world, culminating with the completion of a full script. Students get regular live online feedback from the tutors - actor, playwright and literary manager Gez Casey and The Royal Court's deputy artistic director Jeremy Herrin. That is not the only scheme Live Theatre has to increase income from other sources. It is opening a gastropub with Terry Laybourne, the first chef to win a Michelin Star in the north-east, and is hoping to convert an adjoining former schoolhouse, which it would rent out to digital and media companies.

कला के लिए सार्वजनिक अनुदान सिकुड़ने के साथ, कई स्थान और कलाकार अपने कार्यों के लिए धन जुटाने के नए तरीकों की तलाश कर रहे हैं। प्रशंसकों के धन से लेकर मंच पर शादियों की मेजबानी तक, यहाँ कुछ और नवीन योजनाएं हैं जो यूके के आसपास के कला निकायों की ओर रुख कर रही हैं।


Eboney Cheshire: Mum pays tribute to 'beautiful princess'

Summary: A girl who died in "unexplained" circumstances at her home has been named as 13-year-old Eboney Cheshire.

The teenager was taken ill at her house on Sandon Close in Rainhill, St Helens, on Sunday and died later in hospital. Merseyside Police said a post-mortem examination had proved inconclusive and further tests would take place to establish the cause of her death. Paying tribute to her "beautiful princess", Eboney's mother Kerry Williams said she was "heartbroken". More stories from the North West of England She said the 13-year-old had been "so funny, full of character and so popular" and her family's lives would "never, ever be the same".

अपने घर पर "अस्पष्टीकृत" परिस्थितियों में मरने वाली एक लड़की का नाम 13 वर्षीय एबोनी चेशायर रखा गया है।


Baby boy found abandoned in Plaistow park

Summary: A baby boy has been found abandoned in an east London park.

The newborn was found wrapped in a white blanket near to Balaam Street, Plaistow, at about 08:20 BST. Police said they were "growing increasingly concerned" about the child's mother and urged the woman to contact authorities to receive medical care and support. The baby has been taken to an east London hospital where he has been named Harry by medical staff. Appealing to the baby's mother, Det Ch Insp Jim Foley said: "We are growing increasingly concerned for your welfare and I would urge you to make contact with us or your local hospital or GP surgery. "It is really important that we know you are safe."

पूर्वी लंदन के एक पार्क में एक बच्चा परित्यक्त पाया गया है।


Hillsborough trial on hold as juror hospitalised

Summary: The summing up in the trial of the Hillsborough match commander has been adjourned after a juror was taken to hospital "as a precaution".

Judge Sir Peter Openshaw is midway through his summing up of the six-week trial at Preston Crown Court. Two jurors in the case have already been discharged. Mr Duckenfield, 75, denies the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans, who died in a crush at the ground in April 1989. Sir Peter told the nine remaining jurors: "One of your number is not well. "As a precaution an ambulance has been sent to take her to hospital. "I think the better course is to wait and see if she is all right on Monday morning."

हिल्सबोरो मैच कमांडर के मुकदमे का सारांश एक जूरी सदस्य को "एहतियात के तौर पर" अस्पताल ले जाने के बाद स्थगित कर दिया गया है।


Chris Brown cleared of California hit-and-run charges

Summary: Chris Brown has been cleared of hit-and-run charges.

The star pleaded not guilty to giving false insurance information and refusing to hand over his licence after a crash in California in May. The judge said the R&B singer and a woman whose Mercedes he hit with his Range Rover in Toluca Lake had reached an agreement over the case. The prosecution disagreed with the decision, saying Brown showed aggression after the incident. Chris Brown also denied leaving the scene of the crash on 21 May. The offences carried a maximum of one year in jail. The 27-year-old was still on probation at the time of the crash for assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. That has now been reinstated and the star has been given a new sentence to perform 1,000 hours of community service. He has been ordered to perform tasks like highway work and graffiti removal. The singer was not present at the hearing but tweeted: "Thank God!!!" after the hit-and-run case was dismissed. Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, said the agreement did not involve any money and that the woman driving the Mercedes only received $800 (£512) from her insurance company. Geragos added: "Sometimes I get the impression that he [Brown] is prosecuted for who he is, not for what he's done." LA city lawyer Patrick Hiscocks claimed the singer should have been punished for the accident, saying the other driver felt she was treated badly on social media after the crash. Brown called the incident "ridiculous" on Twitter and denied giving the other driver false details. "I have a valid drivers license and I gave the woman the right info," he tweeted in May. "She saw cameras and wanted to make a scene." The singer also accused the woman of trying to make money out of the incident. This week Chris Brown was sued for battery and assault over a fight in a car park at an LA recording studio. Sha'keir Duarte wants damages saying he suffered a concussion as well as humiliation and mental anguish after being attacked by a member of the singer's entourage. It's claimed a fight at Westlake recording studios started on 27 January after Chris Brown parked in Frank Ocean's space. Mark Geragos described that case as frivolous. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter Click here to Tweet this story from your account

क्रिस ब्राउन को हिट-एंड-रन के आरोपों से मुक्त कर दिया गया है।


Nest - a 'crazy idea' at a crazy price?

Summary: What kind of business could you buy for $3.2bn - or about £2bn? Well, in the UK you could pick up the construction giant Balfour Beatty, which employs more than 10,000 people, or the only remaining High Street electronics chain Dixons, with a workforce of more than 30,000. Or, if you are Google, that is what you can pay for a tiny connected home business employing just 300 people.

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter Nest is certainly a clever company, founded by two former Apple executives, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. But its first product, a smart "learning" thermostat which allows you to control the heating from your smartphone, only went on sale two years ago and is only available in the US and Canada. Now we've got used to crazy price tags on web start-ups - remember the $3bn Snapchat is supposed to have turned down from Facebook? But fast-growing software businesses can go global very quickly, turning huge audiences into lucrative advertising properties, Nest, on the other hand, is a hardware business, and its struggle to adapt its thermostat for a UK launch - "be patient, it'll come," says Tony Fadell - shows that global growth poses different challenges for that kind of firm. Yes, the Nest looks lovely, its design showing the Apple flair of its creators. And the smart energy market is poised for rapid growth, with lots of companies piling in as I wrote a couple of months ago. But I put it to Fadell when I caught up with him on the phone last night that his thermostat was a niche product, appealing to a limited audience, and he'd struggle to justify the $3.2bn price tag: "I beg to differ," he told me. "People are buying it because of the cost savings they see." And he went on when I suggested that Google was still paying a huge multiple of Nest earnings, "our revenues might be higher than you think..." In a 10-minute chat we covered a lot of ground. Google's Sergey Brin had first been shown a prototype of the Nest in 2011, many of the firm's executives had installed it in their homes and the relationship had turned into merger talk last summer. "They've always been keen on what we were doing because they thought we had a crazy idea and they love crazy ideas," says Fadell. I asked him what plans Google now had for new products. He said CEO Larry Page had just told a Nest staff meeting, "you guys already had a great vision. We believe in your vision of the roadmap that we've seen - just do it with all the Google resources behind you and hopefully make it happen faster." But what about privacy? Would Nest customers be happy that Google now knew what time they were leaving their homes? "Our Nest privacy policy clearly limits the use of the customer information we gather to improving Nest's products and services," says Fadell. "The terms of service are not going to change." But more interestingly he went on: "Already there's all kinds of things that Apple and Google collect from your smartphone. They already know a lot more about you than we actually do." Now Google, which is making its way into connected cars, has just bought a clutch of robotics companies and whose Glass product will deliver lots more data about its users, is entering the connected home market. So, $3.2bn might sound a lot of money - but to the search giant which generates about $15bn in revenues every quarter it is small change. And of course, a chance to put one over on Apple, moving into a territory where the Cupertino firm must have its own ambitions by snapping up a firm founded by former executives, must have made it even more attractive.

आप किस तरह का व्यवसाय $3.2bn-या लगभग £2 बिलियन में खरीद सकते हैं? ठीक है, यू. के. में आप निर्माण क्षेत्र की दिग्गज कंपनी बाल्फोर बिटी को खरीद सकते हैं, जिसमें 10,000 से अधिक लोग काम करते हैं, या 30,000 से अधिक कार्यबल के साथ एकमात्र शेष हाई स्ट्रीट इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स श्रृंखला डिक्सन्स। या, यदि आप गूगल हैं, तो आप केवल 300 लोगों को काम पर रखने वाले एक छोटे से जुड़े हुए घरेलू व्यवसाय के लिए यही भुगतान कर सकते हैं।


Dissecting the issue of obesity, literally

Summary: You probably already know that obesity is a problem.

It's a problem for society, for the NHS... for individuals, for families. And that's also a problem. We've heard it all before, right? A BBC Three programme is tackling the issue by allowing viewers to watch an obese body being dissected. Obesity: The Post Mortem on BBC iPlayer is being billed as a UK "televised first". Viewers will see the filmed autopsy of a 17-stone woman in graphic detail. It's not for the faint-hearted. Carla Valentine, an anatomical pathology technologist, is one of the team carrying out the procedure. She says too many people think the problem is about looks - rather than health. "If popular media is to be believed then one of the 'issues' is that obesity is about vanity rather than health - many magazines put forth the idea of being 'beach ready' or getting a 'bikini body' or curves like Kim Kardashian," she tells Newsbeat. "This programme is not about that. "It's not about the visual effects of obesity but the inside; the dangerous pathological consequences most people will not have seen or even thought about before." Is it just for shock value? The body being cut up belonged to an American woman who died because of a heart attack linked to her obesity. You can see the yellowy fat, how much of it there is and where it is, including around the organs. "Statistics state that almost three quarters of British adults are likely to be overweight or obese in less than 20 years", Carla explains. She rejects any suggestion the programme is just a shock show. "Gratuitous? As in 'done without reason'? I'd say it's absolutely not. Given the statistics and the fact that other "anti-obesity" campaigns perhaps aren't having the desired effect it is certainly time to try something new... perhaps this documentary will encourage more discussion about the other core reasons for the problem." Why are we becoming a more obese society? The most common measure of obesity is BMI (Body Mass Index). It's a way calculating if your weight, compared to your height, is "healthy". The causes are varied. We sit down more than generations gone by - to drive, to work in offices, to entertain ourselves at home in front of a screen. Our food has changed - with processed foods, "junk food" and more of it packed with sugars and fat, all available 24/7. Being dangerously overweight makes many people miserable and limits the things they do. There's a consensus that medically it shortens your life and raises the risks of cancer. Carla hopes viewers really do stop and think: "Seeing the human body opened and examined shouldn't be shocking. It's how we all look inside. I hope people will learn to think twice about the delicate nature of their physical selves." Find us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat

आप शायद पहले से ही जानते हैं कि मोटापा एक समस्या है।


Coronavirus: Russian republic Dagestan enduring a 'catastrophe'

Summary: Dr Ibragim Yevtemirov still coughs every so often as he talks. A paediatric trauma surgeon in Dagestan, in the Caucasus region of southern Russia, his ward had been full of Covid-19 cases for a couple of weeks when he got infected himself.

By Sarah RainsfordBBC News, Moscow He says seven colleagues in his town have now died, including nurses, orderlies and laboratory staff, according to a count kept by local medics themselves. "All three doctors on my team got sick. We were replaced by dentists until we recovered," Dr Yevtemirov told the BBC by phone from Khasavyurt, where he's now back at work in the central hospital. "At the peak, there were 10, 11 patients dying a day here," he says. How Dagestan's disaster was revealed The doctor's account of dire shortages and deadly chaos is just one, stark snapshot of a Covid-19 crisis in Dagestan so serious that the republic's chief mufti this week described it to President Vladimir Putin as a "catastrophe". As the holy month of Ramadan ends this weekend, Akhmad Afandi has been urging people in the mainly Muslim republic not to gather to celebrate Eid with friends and extended family - as it may cause a further dangerous spike in cases. But it was a startling interview with the local health minister that first exposed Dagestan's struggle with this epidemic. The minister told a blogger that 40 medics had died in the republic: more than the total, official number of Covid-19 fatalities. "At the start, the kit we were given was very primitive," Dr Yevtemirov explains, from his personal experience. "It's not that we weren't worried, but when this epidemic hit there was no alternative. It's like we had to rush straight into battle," he says. Why Dagestan's true toll is unclear The health minister's interview also revealed that hundreds of people had died of "community-acquired pneumonia" in Dagestan - with all the same symptoms as Covid-19 - casting further doubt on Russia's low official mortality rate from coronavirus. "Our hospital is full of Covid cases, but only a tiny handful of patients have a confirmed diagnosis," Dr Yevtemirov clarifies, saying that most of the swabs the hospital sends off for analysis are recorded as pneumonia. Like other countries, Russia only adds cases with a positive test result to its daily death toll. "Perhaps there's a problem here with the tests, or something. Some think there's been an order from above not to diagnose Covid, but I can only guess," the doctor says. Was Moscow's messaging to blame? Data on how deeply the infection has penetrated Dagestan is also hard to be sure of. Until recently, the republic was conducting fewer than 1,000 tests a day, lacking both the equipment and laboratory capacity for more. "The hospitals only dealt with the seriously sick, no-one was testing anyone else," explains Ziyautdin Uvaisov of advocacy group Patient Monitor. Like many, Mr Uvaisov believes the spread of the virus was helped by mixed messaging from Moscow, coupled with deep-rooted mistrust of officials. "People on TV kept saying it's no worse than normal flu," he points out, adding that official orders to stay at home were then widely ignored. How Dagestanis protected themselves Dagestan was always going to be susceptible to coronavirus. Many local men are long-distance truck drivers, criss-crossing Russia to travel to Iran and beyond. There are also close links with Moscow and when the Russian capital declared a lockdown at the end of March many Dagestanis flowed back to their villages, unchecked. The village of Gurbuki was better served than others to cope. A brand new hospital was opened in December to great fanfare. But when in April suspected Covid-19 cases began filling up beds, a staggering 50% of medical personnel fell ill. Locals didn't wait for government help to take action. Volunteers, mainly young men, began helping out on the wards; others stepped in to set up checkpoints at the village entrance to try to control the infection's spread. And when the hospital began running dangerously low on oxygen, it was volunteers who travelled the 120km (75-mile) round trip to the Dagestani capital, Makhachkala, to refill all the gas canisters they'd begged and borrowed off villagers. "At the peak they were travelling three times a day, to bring oxygen for the wards," village head Magomedkhabib Mamatgereev told the BBC. "The canisters are really heavy and it's a lot of work, but they did it all for free. They're our heroes!" Despite their efforts, at least 10 people have died in the local hospital and some 30 in the village itself. "Of course we expected more from the Dagestani government, but I don't want to criticise anyone," the village head reflects. "At the start we had nothing: no PPE, no medicine. We hoped the virus wouldn't affect our village," he admits. "But we coped. And now things are getting better." More stories from Sarah: The sudden focus on Dagestan has brought belated promises of urgent, extra resources from Moscow - though Vladimir Putin appeared to blame local people for the "complications", suggesting too many had tried to treat themselves at home. An inspection team confirmed the republic's poor testing capacity for Covid-19, a lack of PPE, medicine - and even medics. But there are signs that the immediate crisis is beginning to ebb. "Fewer people are being brought in and fewer are dying," Dr Yevtemirov confirmed, adding that staff at his hospital in Khasavyurt do now have protective clothing. But he's concerned that Eid celebrations could shake the new, tentative stabilisation. People have been crowding local markets, he says, despite imams sending WhatsApp warnings not to lay on food to share with neighbours. "I think they'll gather together less, but it won't stop totally," the doctor worries, ahead of another shift on the Covid ward. "People are a little bit undisciplined." More BBC stories from Russia's southern republics

डॉ. इब्रागिम येवतेमिरोव अभी भी बात करते हुए बार-बार खांसते हैं। दक्षिणी रूस के काकेशस क्षेत्र में दागेस्तान में एक बाल चिकित्सा आघात सर्जन, उनका वार्ड कुछ हफ्तों से कोविड-19 मामलों से भरा हुआ था जब वह खुद संक्रमित हो गए।


PM: No discrimination against Tamils

Summary: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse says Sinhala Buddhists have not discriminated against the Tamils in delivering tsunami relief aid.

He says there were no reports that the Buddhists in Sri Lanka oppose to the distribution of tsunami relief aid equitably to Tamil community. Answering questions by bbcsinhala.com users, the PM says he knew about the details of the Joint Mechanism (JM) to share tsunami relief aid with Tamil Tigers, as the document was published in the print media before it was signed. The PM admits, however, that there are Sinhala extremists in Sri Lanka. But the Tamil community, he says, have lived in Sri Lanka in peace and harmony. PM Rajapakse also says that he is taking steps to speed up the Colombo-Matara highway project.

प्रधानमंत्री महिंदा राजपक्षे का कहना है कि सिंहली बौद्धों ने सुनामी राहत सहायता देने में तमिलों के साथ भेदभाव नहीं किया है।