Is Burundi on the verge of return to ethnic conflict?

Summary: From the hills at Kiriri, to the east of Burundi's capital Bujumbura, there is a clear view of Lake Tanganyika. The Itombwe Mountains across the water in the Democratic Republic of Congo are harder to see as low hanging clouds always get in the way. It is a picture of tranquillity.

By Nkem IfejikaBBC Newsday, Bujumbura Traffic is light, people are on the streets, but peer closer and you will see cracks in the serenity. Residents of the city say since "Le Crise" - or the crisis - began in April, more razor wire barriers line certain streets and soldiers are constantly on patrol throughout the city. The United Nations is concerned, beginning plans to send in a rapid reaction force if needed. 'Tragic consequences' African Union military observers are already on the ground assessing the situation. "We can observe today in Burundi a clear manipulation of ethnicity by both the government and opposition," the UN's special adviser on genocide, Adama Dieng, told the BBC. "We know that ethnicity can be used to divide populations, and spreading hatred among them, which can have tragic consequences." After sunset, the city becomes eerily quiet, unless it is pierced by gunfire such as we heard on Tuesday night. The following morning revealed just how bloody the night was. Police sources say eight people were killed, including a policeman. Both opposition and governing factions accuse each other of violence. Since President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a third term in in April, 200,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries, and 240 people have been killed. Violence affects everyone Activists have gone into hiding, fearing attack. One opposition member who had been shot in the legs told me he could not escape north on the road to Rwanda. "The police have my picture and they know my identity. If I try to flee, I will get caught, so I chose to stay. Even now, they can kill my family." Christophe (not his real name), a human rights activist, says he sleeps in different places every night. When I met him, he was carrying a rucksack with a change of clothes and a baseball cap, explaining: "I can change appearance at short notice." And those who are not political activists have also been affected by the violence. If they live in a neighbourhood which is seen as pro- or anti-government, they could be targeted. The result is an atmosphere of worry and suspicion. Brother Hippolyte Manirakiza runs the centre for neuropsychiatry in Kamenge. He said he has seen an increase in the number of patients attending his hospital. "They come because they're scared and can't sleep at night. People are really afraid, they suffer from fear. And they don't know what will happen tomorrow. Death becomes a really simple thing." The government says the violence is restricted to certain districts in the capital, and that the rest of the country is peaceful. Presidential spokesperson Willy Nyamitwe said the opposition was responsible for the unrest. "They're carrying out the attacks because they want sympathy from the West." The EU and the US have imposed sanctions on four people, including two former officials who led a failed coup in May. Prominent human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa was shot and badly injured in August. One bullet hit his vocal cord and another hit his spine. Speaking from Brussels where he was recovering and just starting to gain mobility, he said: "We welcome the sanctions, but they're rather late after a lot of killings have happened in Burundi." Bujumbura is at the heart of the political turmoil, and as such the countryside has become a refuge for those trying to get away from the violence. In the small fishing community of Kabezi just south of the capital, it is much quieter. People routinely wake up early, fish late, return home. One man everyone called "patron" - on account of being a boat owner - said they had not been affected by the crisis. "We only hear about it on the radio. It's the elite in Bujumbura who're involved in this," he said. Chantal, an abapishi - or a woman who cooks for fishermen to earn a living - said the violence slowed business. "There's no place you can say we are 100% safe, something can happen even here. But when there are problems it's in town. "It's difficult to get people to buy our fish. So economically, we get affected. But even here, things can happen and we have to hide ourselves. Today is okay because we are fine, there's peace." But it is not clear how much longer that will be the case.

बुरुंडी की राजधानी बुजुंबुरा के पूर्व में किरिरी की पहाड़ियों से तांगानिका झील का स्पष्ट दृश्य दिखाई देता है। कांगो लोकतांत्रिक गणराज्य में पानी के पार इटोम्ब्वे पहाड़ों को देखना मुश्किल है क्योंकि कम लटकते बादल हमेशा रास्ते में आ जाते हैं। यह शांति की एक तस्वीर है।


Loss of RAF Kinloss Nimrods 'does pose risk'

Summary: The loss of Nimrod reconnaissance planes from RAF Kinloss does pose a risk to the country's security, the head of the UK's armed forces has said.

General Sir David Richards said the loss of Nimrods was "a risk but not a gamble". He told the Commons defence select committee the loss of some military capabilities could be managed. The UK government announced in October it was cancelling the next generation of Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft. The decision has placed the future of RAF Kinloss in doubt, and there are also concerns for RAF Lossiemouth if it loses its Tornado fleet to RAF Marham. The Ministry of Defence has insisted no decision has been reached about Lossiemouth. A task force has been set up in a bid to safeguard defence jobs in Moray as a result.

ब्रिटेन के सशस्त्र बलों के प्रमुख ने कहा है कि आरएएफ किनलोस से निमरोद टोही विमानों का नुकसान देश की सुरक्षा के लिए खतरा पैदा करता है।


Casualties recovered in Dumfries and Galloway hill rescues

Summary: Mountain rescue teams were called out to rescue two casualties from hills in the south of Scotland over the weekend.

As snow began to set in on Saturday, the Moffat team had to stretcher a woman off Criffel near Dumfries after she suffered a broken leg. At the same time, the Galloway Mountain Rescue unit was helping to airlift a 65-year-old woman to hospital after she broke an ankle on Cairnsmore of Fleet. They also rescued a missing walker in the Galloway Forest on Sunday night.

सप्ताहांत में स्कॉटलैंड के दक्षिण में पहाड़ियों से दो हताहतों को बचाने के लिए पहाड़ी बचाव दलों को बुलाया गया था।


Swansea Students' Union worker Ben Rees dies in Berlin

Summary: Tributes have been paid to a Swansea University Students' Union worker who died while on a trip to Berlin.

Ben Rees, 23, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff, worked in the union's events team after gaining a history degree from the university in 2014. A union spokesman said: "Ben was a much loved and respected member of staff at the Students' Union and his presence will be deeply missed." Mr Rees was also a DJ on student club nights. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Germany on 16 July. We are providing consular assistance to the family at this difficult time."

स्वानसी विश्वविद्यालय छात्र संघ के एक कार्यकर्ता को श्रद्धांजलि दी गई है, जिनकी बर्लिन की यात्रा के दौरान मृत्यु हो गई थी।


Douglas horse trams in 135th year

Summary: The 135th year of Douglas's horse tram service has been launched by the town's mayor.

The trams will run every day, from 0900 to 1800 BST, until 18 September, Douglas Borough Council said. Mayor Ritchie McNicholl started the season on Monday. The first tram to run was No 44, known as the Royal tram as the Queen and Queen Mother rode in it. Passengers will be able to buy tickets for the duration of the season from Douglas council.

डगलस की हॉर्स ट्राम सेवा के 135वें वर्ष का शुभारंभ शहर के महापौर द्वारा किया गया है।


Thousands flock to Appleby Horse Fair

Summary: About 10,000 travellers are expected to attend the annual Appleby Horse Fair.

The Cumbrian event has existed under the protection of a charter granted by James II since 1685. It is one of the key meeting points for members of the Gypsy, Romany and travelling communities. As well as an opportunity to buy and sell horses, it acts as a celebration of traveller heritage and culture. The event ends on 13 June.

वार्षिक एप्पलबी हॉर्स फेयर में लगभग 10,000 यात्रियों के भाग लेने की उम्मीद है।


Business as usual for Egypt and the West

Summary: The renewal of US arms shipments to Egypt has come in spite of the fact some observers say the country is worse under President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi than it was under its former leader Hosni Mubarak, who lost the support of the Americans during the 2011 popular uprising.

Jawad IqbalFormer analysis and insight editor@JIAnalysisBBCon Twitter The United States has given significant military and economic assistance to Egypt during the past four decades. The country has been seen as a key factor in regional stability. One estimate has it that the US has provided Egypt with $76bn (£50bn) in foreign aid between 1948 and 2015. This includes $1.3bn a year in military aid from 1987 to the present. This pattern of support was temporarily halted after President Sisi overthrew the democratically elected leader, Mohammed Morsi, in 2013. In October of that year, the US administration announced it would withhold the delivery of military equipment - F16s, Apache helicopters, Harpoon missiles and tanks, subject to credible progress towards democracy. There was a change in posture last year, when Apache helicopters were sanctioned for delivery to Egypt to help the country's counter-terrorism operations in Sinai. And a few weeks ago, US President Barack Obama announced 12 F16s, 20 Harpoon missiles and up to 125 M-1 Abrams tank upgrades were earmarked for delivery to the Egyptians in the interests of national security. At the same time, Mr Obama reiterated ongoing US concerns about "Egypt's continued imprisonment of non-violent activists and mass trials". America is not alone though in returning to business as usual. France has this year negotiated a $5bn arms deal with Egypt, involving the sale of fighter jets and a naval frigate. Last year, France sold Egypt four naval frigates in a deal estimated to be worth $1.3bn. In September last year, Russia announced it had reached a $3.5bn arms deal with Egypt. No precise details were given, but the agreement forms part of a picture of improving Russian-Egyptian relations, with increased economic and military cooperation. In February of this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Egypt and promised help in constructing a nuclear power plant. Egypt also receives considerable financial support from Gulf Cooperation Council countries - at least $20bn in the past year and a half, according to some reports. A conference last month led to billions of dollars in investment commitments. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Oman pledged more than $12bn. In some ways, none of this should be surprising. Egypt has always been an important country in the Middle East, seen by some as a powerful and balancing voice in the Arab world. Its position in the region, is seen as critical to wider peace between Arab states and Israel. It controls the Suez Canal, through which almost a 10th of all global shipping passes every year. It is by far the largest Arab nation, with a population of 83 million expected to exceed 100 million by 2030. Half the population is under 25. The country is home to the Arab League and is a leading light in Islamic scholarship. Yet it has also been a battleground between moderate and radical Islam. And the role of Egyptian extremists in al-Qaeda and other such movements is significant and considerable. Mohammed Atta, the ringleader of the 9/11 attacks on the US, was Egyptian, as is Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda. And last but not least, Egypt forms, with Saudi Arabia, an axis of Sunni Muslim political power in the Middle East. Egypt has been crucial in America's calculations in the Middle East. But some commentators say it is not as important now as it once was and that countries such as Jordan and the UAE are more significant US allies now. Indeed, Egypt's closeness to America is not that long established. During the 1950s and 1960s, America was suspicious of Egypt - US views were coloured by the Cold War, Arab nationalism, and the more important strategic relationship with Israel. The Americans were suspicious too of the Egyptian leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser. As a result, Egypt turned to the Soviet Union for friendship and military support. When Nasser died in 1970, the new Egyptian leader, Anwar Sadat, worked to move Egypt closer to the US, culminating in the signing of the Camp David accords in 1978 and the eventual 1979 peace treaty with Israel. This closeness continued under Hosni Mubarak, who was seen until the very end as a useful ally. Realpolitik, say some, suggests a new US accommodation with Egypt in a bid to restore stability in a war-torn region. This realpolitik though is precisely what irks critics of President Sisi. The country's jails are overflowing. The Muslim Brotherhood is once again outlawed. Its political party, the Freedom and Justice Party, has been dissolved by court order. The Egyptian authorities have declared the Brotherhood itself a terrorist organisation. Many of its leaders are in jail. Mohammed Badie, head of the Brotherhood, has been sentenced to death. Mohammed Morsi, the elected Islamist leader, overthrown by the army two years ago, has just been given a 20-year jail sentence for ordering the arrests and torture of protesters demonstrating against his rule. Not many Egyptians shed tears over the fate of the Brotherhood. It did not have overwhelming public support, and many Egyptians saw it as abusing a weak electoral mandate during its short time running the country. But it was nevertheless a democratically elected government, one that was removed by force. And now it is not just the Muslim Brotherhood that finds itself under siege. The press is rigidly policed, and many organisations at the heart of civil society are no longer functioning. These conditions in many ways mirror those that led directly to the uprisings known as the Arab Spring, and it is this that worries those hoping for progress and peace in Egypt and the wider region.

मिस्र को अमेरिकी हथियारों के शिपमेंट का नवीनीकरण इस तथ्य के बावजूद हुआ है कि कुछ पर्यवेक्षकों का कहना है कि राष्ट्रपति अब्दुल फतह अल-सिसी के तहत देश अपने पूर्व नेता होस्नी मुबारक के तहत बदतर है, जिन्होंने 2011 के लोकप्रिय विद्रोह के दौरान अमेरिकियों का समर्थन खो दिया था।


Rare Harlequin duck in Aberdeen attracts bird watchers

Summary: The arrival of a rare duck which has only been spotted in the UK a handful of times has attracted scores of bird watchers to an Aberdeen river.

The female Harlequin duck was first sighted on the River Don on Saturday. Twitchers have travelled from across Scotland to catch sight of the bird, which is normally only resident in Iceland and North America. The local RSPB group said there had only been 10 recorded sightings in the UK since 1950. Related Internet Links RSPB Scotland

एक दुर्लभ बतख के आगमन, जिसे केवल ब्रिटेन में कुछ ही बार देखा गया है, ने एबरडीन नदी की ओर कई पक्षी पर्यवेक्षकों को आकर्षित किया है।


Channel Islands ferries disrupted by 'extreme weather'

Summary: Condor Ferries has cancelled its fast ferry sailings because of "extreme weather", after westerly gales were forecast for the English Channel.

The company said fast ferry sailings between Poole and the Channel Islands had been cancelled and its sailing from Jersey to St Malo was brought forward. It was due to leave at 14:55 GMT but departed instead at 09:45 to avoid the worst of the weather. The Jersey met office has forecast very rough seas with force eight winds. It estimated gusts could reach 65mph during the afternoon. The winds were expected to die down early on Friday but further gales were forecast for Friday night. Alicia Andrews, the sales and marketing director at Condor, said fast ferry services were expected to return to normal on Friday but urged customers to check the company's sailings updates online.

कोंडोर फेरीज ने इंग्लिश चैनल के लिए पश्चिमी हवाओं के पूर्वानुमान के बाद "चरम मौसम" के कारण अपनी तेज नौका यात्रा को रद्द कर दिया है।


Conservatives criticise 'two day a week' Baker

Summary: Norman Baker left office with a few passing shots at Theresa May's lack of collegiality, saying he was treated like a "cuckoo in the nest" at the Home Office where it was "like walking through mud".

James LandaleDeputy political editor@BBCJLandaleon Twitter He said he was resigning to take a break from all this so he could spend some more time with his family and his music. Not surprisingly some Conservatives have not been slow in painting a different picture. They suggest that the former transport minister resigned to defend his fragile 7,000 majority in Lewes, a battle which they allege had been claiming more of his time than the Home Office. One Tory source said: "He was never at the Home Office. He was only there two days a week. He spent most of Mondays in his constituency and then he was away by Thursday morning to prepare for his local radio show." Radio show Mr Baker presents a two hour music programme on Seahaven FM every Thursday evening. The show is called: "Anything Goes." The station's website says: "When Norman is not presenting on Seahaven FM, he is the Lib Dem MP for the Lewes constituency and a Home Office minister." The Tory source said that despite spending a limited time at the Home Office each week, Mr Baker still wanted to see everything that was passing through the department, not just the papers relating to his own ministerial responsibilities. "That put huge pressure on his private office," the source added. "And inevitably that meant he did not see some things. This is the Home Office. Stuff happens all the time and when it happens it is big. "It is not same as Transport. And he never got on with Theresa. I think he was one of those people who have trouble working for a powerful woman. He did not report to her. He came in and announced he was effectively the Lib Dem home secretary. Not surprisingly, he was told where to go." The source added: "This is all about him fearing he is going to lose his seat. He may have a majority of 7,000 but that was when the Lib Dems were polling 23%. "Now they are just creeping above 10%. So that's half his vote gone. And he is close enough to Brighton have some students, they will all have gone. All he needs is a small Labour revival and he could be in real trouble." 'Fall in crime' The Lib Dems, naturally, dispute this account. They accept that Mr Baker is keen to spend more time in his constituency but they strongly defend his ministerial record. They point out that as crime prevention minister he has presided over a substantial fall in crime and the drugs report that he outlined last week has begun a genuine debate that could ultimately transform the way the state deals with offenders. "For one year in the Home Office, that is not a bad record," one Lib Dem source said. And while few Tories hail his time in the Home Office, some are much more willing to praise his stint as a transport minister. One Conservative said: "He was good, he had a good grip on policy. He was much more competitive than he seems externally and he could make the system work for him."

नॉर्मन बेकर ने थेरेसा मे की सामूहिकता की कमी पर कुछ गुजरते शॉट्स के साथ कार्यालय छोड़ दिया, यह कहते हुए कि उनके साथ गृह कार्यालय में "घोंसले में कोयल" जैसा व्यवहार किया गया था, जहां यह "कीचड़ में चलने जैसा" था।


Bristol family tribute to three-year-old boy hit by 4X4

Summary: A three-year-old boy who was knocked down and killed in Bristol will "never be forgotten", his family have said.

Freddie Hussey was hit by a Land Rover pulling a trailer on Hastings Road, Bedminster, on Monday and later died in Bristol Children's Hospital. "He's our little boy, this shouldn't have happened. We called him Freddie Boo, we will never forget him," said the family. They also offered thanks to those who had sent "kind messages" of support.

उसके परिवार ने कहा है कि ब्रिस्टल में एक तीन वर्षीय लड़के की हत्या कर दी गई थी और उसे "कभी नहीं भुलाया जाएगा"।


Where do asylum seekers live?

Summary: The majority of asylum seekers are in low-cost housing in urban areas such as Glasgow, Birmingham, Stoke, Cardiff and Middlesbrough. But many local authorities have very few or even no asylum seekers receiving support within their boundaries.

Asylum seekers can apply for support for the period during which their asylum application and any subsequent appeal is being considered - often known as Section 95 support. They must satisfy a 'destitution' test, meaning that they do not have adequate accommodation or money to meet living expenses for themselves and any dependants within the next 14 days. Most are eligible. These figures from the Home Office show the numbers of asylum seekers receiving Section 95 support in each local authority area, as of Q4 2015. Note: Data includes dependants in receipt of support but excludes unaccompanied asylum-seeking children supported by local authorities

अधिकांश शरण चाहने वाले ग्लासगो, बर्मिंघम, स्टोक, कार्डिफ और मिडल्सब्रो जैसे शहरी क्षेत्रों में कम लागत वाले आवासों में हैं। लेकिन कई स्थानीय अधिकारियों के पास बहुत कम या यहां तक कि कोई भी शरण चाहने वाले नहीं हैं जिन्हें उनकी सीमाओं के भीतर समर्थन प्राप्त हो रहा है।


What's happening in a 20-mile set of roadworks?

Summary: The length of roadworks on England's major roads should be shortened, ministers have urged. What exactly goes on while highways are repaired and how can this be done while causing as few delays as possible?

By Jon KellyBBC News Magazine You crawl for miles past an apparently endless procession of traffic cones. On the other side of them there's meant to be work taking place. Not that you can see any. It's an all-too-familiar frustration for drivers on British A-roads and motorways. Figures released earlier this year suggested that one in three British car journeys was delayed by repairs. But now there is the promise of some respite. Ministers want Highways England, which manages the roads, to shorten roadworks and lane closures. According to a report, works would be limited to two miles at a time, with a maximum of five miles in extreme cases. The news would be welcomed by regular users of the M1 and M3 motorways, who currently have to factor in disruptions that last more than 15 miles. The UK's longest roadworks Source: Inrix And England is likely to see a great deal more roadworks in the next few years due to a £15.2bn government programme to improve the road network which will see 80% of motorways and major A-road resurfaced and over 1,300 additional miles of highways. In Scotland a £3bn project will turn the major A9 artery between Inverness and Perth into dual carriageway. With all this looming, there are calls for greater efforts to make repairs and upgrades easier for motorists. The AA says it wants to see overnight working wherever possible, repairs on motorways limited to stretches of 10 miles, more variable speeds limits and more incentives for contractors to finish on time. But planning roadworks is already a fiendishly difficult process, requiring a huge amount of logistics and co-ordination. It is also massively expensive. According to estimates, widening a 51-mile stretch of the M6 cost £1,000 per inch or over £60m per mile. "To minimise the amount of work required you need to have better procedures," says Saad Yousif, senior lecturer in transport studies at the University of Salford. "You have to be co-ordinated." Guidance for planning and operating temporary traffic arrangements is set out by the DfT in chapter eight of the Traffic Signs Manual, which runs to over 300 pages. Roadworks can relate to fairly mainly minor issues - maintenance of signs, barriers, and lighting, for instance, or sometimes small drainage and resurfacing jobs. But major work can be required when the road shows signs of deterioration or reaches the end of its design life, or when demand is higher than originally anticipated, which might require widening sections while traffic moves along adjacent lanes. On a major road such as the M6 it's not practical to offer diversions, so the work has to be carried out while traffic continues to move along the road. Doing this means that even a small section becomes a major building site, says Yousif. Safety barriers may have to be erected and access roads set up to allow equipment and materials to reach the work sites. Cones and temporary signage are put up - and secured in bad weather. Pipes and cables may have to be dug up and re-laid. The job becomes even more complicated when bridges or river crossings are involved. Contractors planning works of these kinds have to think about how to keep vehicles moving as smoothly as possibly around the works. Computer micro-simulations might be used to model how this will operate in practice. In doing so planners will make reference to the fundamental diagram, which charts the relationship between traffic flow and density. Research has suggested that the optimum speed limit around roadworks is about 50mph, says Yousif. When this is enforced properly - for instance, using average speed cameras - this increases capacity by reducing the need for lane changes (which slow down traffic), causing less turbulence and reducing accidents. In recent years lanes have been narrowed from the usual 3.65m to 3m - but there are concerns that smaller gaps are unsafe and causing drivers to hesitate to overtake. Planners, too, have to take account of driver behaviour. Modern motorists have more gadgets in their vehicles to distract them. It's been claimed that British drivers are too courteous - they are more likely to politely allow others to merge in front of them from a slip road, for example, which may force others to brake sharply. A DfT spokesman said the proposals to limit the length of roadworks were "common-sense decisions to minimise frustrations wherever possible". The move was welcomed by Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation research charity, who said that "mile after mile of cones in one go might suit contractors but can drive motorists to distraction". But while Richard Hayes, chief executive of the Institute of Highway Engineers, admits that contractors had not always taken drivers' views into account as much as they should, he cautioned against imposing "prescriptive" limits. "I think you've got to look at the situation across the board and see what you're trying to achieve, and how the effect of what you're trying to do is going to have on the travelling public." Because different jobs take different lengths of time to complete, contractors say it can be more efficient to block a longer section of road and plan the different works required within each section - laying pipes in the first mile, laying pipes, fixing drainage in the second, reinforcing overhead structures in the third and so on. But the downside is that this requires a huge team working in shifts and any delay by one team may result in longer delays. Moving the site more frequently also results in higher traffic management costs and may affect overall safety and capacity. It's "a matter of getting the right balance", says Steve Rowsell, vice-president of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation. A nine or 10-mile limit would take 10 or 11 minutes to drive through "and that would seem to me to be something that drivers can tolerate". Another possible solution is night working. But while this does minimises disruption to drivers, it isn't always possible with certain tasks that require greater visibility, says Yousif. Noise can also be a problem when the site is close to a residential area. "Sometimes contractors don't have the capacity for 24-hour shifts," says Yousif. "It's good for the users but sometimes it's not possible especially as you are talking about specialist contractors, for instance those laying a safety barrier." While reducing inconvenience to drivers is crucial, safety has to be paramount, says Yousif. The death rate for road workers is one of the highest for any employment sector reported by the Health and Safety Executive. A 2006 Highways Agency survey suggested that as many as 20% of road workers had suffered injury caused by passing vehicles and 54% had experienced a near miss with a vehicle. The scourge of traffic cones will frustrate drivers as long as roads exist. But as technology improves and research into traffic flow develops, the sight of them may over time become a bit less irritating. The Magazine on the motorway Would raising motorway speed limits make pile-ups worse? (November 2011) What's wrong with middle-lane hogging? (June 2013) Autobahn speed limits - Germany's love of the fast lane (May 2013) Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

मंत्रियों ने आग्रह किया है कि इंग्लैंड की प्रमुख सड़कों पर सड़क निर्माण की लंबाई कम की जानी चाहिए। जब राजमार्गों की मरम्मत की जाती है तो वास्तव में क्या होता है और जितना संभव हो उतना कम देरी करते हुए यह कैसे किया जा सकता है?


St Leonards double killing: Gunman 'cold and professional'

Summary: A man accused of "executing" his wife and her mother pointed a rifle at a shooting-range official and told him: "It's not going to end well for anyone", a court has heard.

Craig Savage waited until he was the only customer at the firing range in St Leonards, East Sussex, Lewes Crown Court was told. Then he stole the rifle and magazine and left, witness Ryan Graves said. Mr Savage, 35, denies murdering Michelle Savage and Heather Whitbread. He also denies possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. Mrs Savage, 32, his estranged wife, was shot seven times and her mother, Heather Whitbread, who was 53, six times at the family home in the town's Bexhill Road on 16 March this year. Their pet dog, Zeus, was also shot dead. The prosecution said the semi-automatic rifle Mr Savage took from the 1066 Target Sports centre was discharged close to each woman "in an execution-type manner". Mr Graves, the range's deputy manager, told the court he became alarmed at "a look in his eye", and Mr Savage went on to mention "police assisted suicide". He said the defendant stood up with the rifle and said he did not want to hurt him, as he was "a nice guy", but told him he should "step away and let me go out - I want to go out and up the A21". He added that Mr Savage said: "It's not going to end well for anyone", before leaving with the M4 semi-automatic .22 rifle and two of the large magazines. A police officer who later confronted Mr Savage in the road near the house told the court he believed he was going to shoot him. "He wasn't making unnecessary movements. He was cold and professional in the way he moved," Sgt Thomas Milne said. Another officer, PC Jayan Shah, told the court he dived for cover, and said: "I was completely convinced that he had fired a single round in our direction." Mr Savage has pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a firearm. The case continues.

एक अदालत ने सुना है कि अपनी पत्नी और उसकी मां को "फांसी" देने के आरोपी एक व्यक्ति ने एक शूटिंग-रेंज अधिकारी पर राइफल की ओर इशारा किया और उससे कहाः "यह किसी के लिए भी अच्छा नहीं होने वाला है।


Man rescued from bungalow fire in Hull dies in hospital

Summary: A man has died after being rescued from a fire at a bungalow in Hull.

Firefighters got the man out of the property in Ribycourt in the early hours of Friday but he died in hospital on Sunday. Humberside Police said following "extensive enquiries" with the fire service the blaze was not being treated as arson. Officers are continuing to work with the fire service to establish what caused it. Follow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk

हल के एक बंगले में आग से बचाए जाने के बाद एक व्यक्ति की मौत हो गई है।


Jersey gets £150,000 for gastric surgery

Summary: More money has been made available for gastric surgery in Jersey.

Obese islanders will soon be able to benefit from treatment such as bypasses and bands to make the stomach smaller. Jersey's health service, which has been guaranteed funding of £150,000, hopes up to 13 people a year will benefit from the surgery. The health service said obesity rates in Jersey were rising steadily. It believes the problem is costing the island more than £5.5m a year. Nathan Wright, who had a gastric bypass earlier this year, said: "It got to the point where literally walking upstairs was difficult, I was getting out of breath, and taking the dog for a walk was really not possible. "My health, my blood pressure and cholesterol were up and, having been diabetic since I was two, there were ongoing issues. "I tried many different ways to try and lose weight and it just didn't work." Alberic Fiennes, the consultant surgeon who performs gastric surgery on Jersey people in the UK, said: "People always think it's just a matter of improving people's feelings of well-being about their size and about their weight. "But the fact is being severely overweight is the commonest determinant of other serious conditions such as diabetes, sleep apnoea and coronary artery disease. "By getting the weight down one is reducing patients' morbidity from all those other conditions."

जर्सी में गैस्ट्रिक सर्जरी के लिए अधिक धन उपलब्ध कराया गया है।


Who could succeed Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika?

Summary: After weeks of protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the Algerian army's chief of staff has called for the presidency to be declared vacant. BBC Monitoring profiles the country's main centres of power and possible successors to Mr Bouteflika.

The Military Algeria's military has always had a pivotal role in politics, which was strengthened during the 1990s - the "Black Decade". This is when the army annulled elections and fought a fierce civil war with Islamists. However, President Bouteflika has managed to push some of the generals aside. In 2015, he sidelined the once powerful head of intelligence, Mohamed Mediene (known by his alias General Toufik). He was the last of the "Janviéristes", who steered Algerian politics for over 20 years after cancelling the January 1991 polls. However, pro-government media and politicians hailed the move as a step towards democracy and demilitarisation of the state. Ahmed Gaid Salah Lt Gen Ahmed Gaid Salah called for Mr Bouteflika to be declared unfit to rule on 26 March, adding to commentators' suspicions that he has presidential ambitions. A French parliamentary report published in January 2017 said Lt Gen Gaid Salah "sees himself as a likely successor". This is despite regular affirmations that he would not betray his "liberation war brother-in-arms". The army chief of staff has managed to weather shifting fortunes and has often helped Mr Bouteflika undermine the position of other generals. He was rewarded for his loyalty with the title of "deputy defence minister" ahead of Mr Bouteflika's last re-election. The president remains the country's official minister of defence. He has repeatedly taken credit for successful counter-terrorism efforts and his ministry's budget has climbed steeply in the last few years, despite a budgetary clampdown due to low oil prices. He also obtained legislation passed to prevent ousted generals from speaking out against him. However, some Algerian media outlets suggest there are tensions between Lt Gen Gaid Salah and the presidential clan. Presidential clan The president's trust is notoriously hard to earn. He is mostly surrounded by family members and childhood acquaintances. A notable member of this close-knit circle is Chakib Khelil, who grew up with Mr Bouteflika in their native Oujda in Morocco. He went on to become Mr Bouteflika's minister of energy, president of state oil giant Sonatrach and chairman of Opec. After six years on the run over corruption scandals, Mr Khelil made a flamboyant comeback to Algeria in 2016, touring the highly-regarded Soufi lodges and drawing ample coverage from the press. Many reports speculate that he lobbied for his presidential bid during his exile in the US, where he studied. He denies being a US passport holder, which could disqualify him from running in presidential polls. Said Bouteflika The leadership intentions of the president's younger brother have long been the subject of speculation, and many Algerians believe he is already the de facto ruler of the country. The former physics lecturer and trade unionist joined his brother at the presidency as a special adviser as soon as he assumed office in April 1999. When Abdelaziz Bouteflika suffered a stroke in 2013, his brother Said travelled with him to France and oversaw his treatment. He is often described as being the president's gatekeeper, leading the presidential clan and protecting its interests from behind the scenes. The collapse of potential rivals, including his once-untouchable protégé Amar Saadani, suggested he will want a bigger role than just being one of a number of kingmakers. However, the protest movement in Algeria may have moderated his ambitions. Public servants In the 1990s, after nearly a decade of a bloody civil conflict, Algeria's generals chose Mr Bouteflika as a consensus veteran diplomat, seen as an intellectual, to rehabilitate the country without encroaching on their considerable powers. Little did they know that Mr Bouteflika would be able to play them off against each other for four terms, mastering the game of shifting alliances to displace his rivals one by one. Similar candidates today would include Mouloud Hamrouche and Ali Benflis, two former prime ministers who have also previously run for the highest office. One of these two insider reformists could be called upon if the ruling elites come under pressure to modernise the state. Recently dismissed Ahmed Ouyahia was prime minister three times and now leads the ruling coalition's Democratic National Rally (RND). He is reputed to be close to the president, but is seen as an enforcer, not a leader. Amar Saadani, once thought to be the frontrunner to succeed, was forced to resign from his office as the head of the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) party and to run instead for a seat in the upcoming parliamentary elections. His political demise was brought about by the many powerful enemies he made in aggressively critical statements to the press. Both men were among the first to support Lt Gen Gaid Salah in his call for enacting Article 102 of the constitution to declare the presidential post vacant. Lakhdar Brahimi Lakhdar Brahimi is one of Algeria's most respected veteran diplomats. He held key posts in the foreign ministry, culminating in his two-year term as minister of foreign affairs at the beginning of Algeria's civil war. Mr Brahimi went on to have a successful career at the highest level in the UN General Secretariat. His mission as a joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria brought him back to the fore in 2012, and his resignation after the failure of the Geneva talks in 2014 earned him respect from Algerian pundits. Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described him as "one of the world's most brilliant diplomats". Mr Brahimi has since voiced his opinions on several regional issues. In contrast to his country's longstanding stance, he as called for Algeria to intervene in Libya, for the International Criminal Court to prosecute war crimes committed in Syria, and for Morocco and Algeria to reopen their shared border. In June 2015, the US geopolitical analysis firm Stratfor intimated that he was viewed positively by international partners. Several North African media outlets interpreted this as Western backing for his eventual candidacy. This would normally have sparked a backlash in Algeria's perpetual war of clans, but Mr Brahimi was welcomed back in Algiers's inner circles, meeting Mr Bouteflika several times and receiving an award from the country's state-sponsored human rights body. However, Mr Brahimi's chances of wielding real power might be dented somewhat by his age. He was born in 1934 and is older than the ailing president. Opposition Algeria's opposition is fragmented and has failed in its attempts to present a single candidate for the presidential elections, which were cancelled after protests broke out across the country. The historic opposition parties are the secular Socialist Forces Front (FFS) and Rally for Culture and Democracy (RND). They can regularly mobilise voters in the Kabylie region and the capital Algiers and had been calling for a boycott of the presidential election before the protest movement started. They were also the first to denounce Lt Gen Gaid Salah's call for declaring the presidency vacant, saying it amounted to "a coup d'etat" and that it sought to "revive the regime". Other opposition parties were intending to compete in the elections and were meeting over electoral alliances when the protests took them by surprise. Former Prime Minister Ali Benflis, who ran against Mr Bouteflika in 2014, had a more measured response and asked for more guarantees for the transition of power. The Islamist leaders Abdalla Jaballah and Abderrazak Makri made similar comments, with Mr Makri seeking to guarantee a role for his Muslim Brotherhood-linked party in a transitional administration before elections. Ali Benflis Mr Benflis has more in common with insiders who fell out of grace such as Mr Ouyahia and Mr Saadani than with opposition activists. A popular lawyer in his native Batna and a founder of the state-run Algerian League for Human Rights, he climbed the ranks in the bar association and was appointed minister of justice in 1988. The following year, he was on the central committee of the ruling FLN. He resigned as justice minister in the early days of the crisis leading to Algeria's decade-long civil war. As Mr Bouteflika returned in 1999 to end the unrest, Mr Benflis ran his successful presidential bid and became his chief aid. Mr Bouteflika named him as prime minister the following year. He also became secretary-general of the FLN. However, he was dismissed in 2003 as his popularity grew and his presidential ambition became apparent. He then attempted two failed presidential bids, running against Mr Bouteflika in 2004 and 2014. In recent years, he has been received in Western capitals as a potential successor to Mr Bouteflika. He had high hopes for the 2019 election, publishing a biography - Ali Benflis: An Algerian Destiny - in France months prior to the race, which depicted him as "the man to lead a transition". Business interests One of the most remarkable transformations in Algerian society under Mr Bouteflika's rule has been the rise of the business tycoons, a class of oligarchs who came to counterbalance the once-all-powerful generals. Often closely linked to political backers, they amassed wealth, power and media clout. Issad Rebrab, one of the richest men in Algeria, has clearly expressed his political opinions, and opposed Mr Bouteflika's 2014 re-election. In 2016, the authorities stopped him from achieving his dream of building his own media empire when they prevented him from purchasing one of the country's largest media groups, El Khabar. Mr Rebrab already owns the pro-opposition French-language daily Liberté. Ali Haddad Media mogul Ali Haddad has given positive coverage of the army chief's call to declare Mr Bouteflika unfit to be president. He also appears to rub shoulders with those in power. In February 2017, He stood side-by-side with French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron at a news conference when he visited Algiers. In an interview with Algerian news website TSA in 2017, Mr Haddad did not hide his proximity to the powerful, including Said Bouteflika and other military and civilian officials whom he described as "Algerian patriots". Mr Haddad was identified by the Algerian and French press as being one of the main financiers of Mr Bouteflika's 2014 re-election campaign. Mr Haddad went from managing his family's small hotel in Kabylie to owning a construction empire, a football club, a partnership with a US healthcare provider and several media outlets. But his real speciality is obtaining public contracts, some of which have sparked controversy, like the costly and long-running East-West national highway project. On 27 March, his Le Temps d'Algerie newspaper gave positive coverage to the chief of staff's call to enact Article 102. Hours later, he resigned from his post at Algeria's business forum.

राष्ट्रपति अब्देलअजीज बुतेफ्लिका के खिलाफ हफ्तों के विरोध के बाद, अल्जीरियाई सेना के प्रमुख ने राष्ट्रपति पद को खाली घोषित करने का आह्वान किया है। बीबीसी मॉनिटरिंग ने श्री बुतेफ्लिका को देश के सत्ता के मुख्य केंद्रों और संभावित उत्तराधिकारियों के बारे में बताया है।


Pair stuck in mud freed by coastguard near Connah's Quay docks

Summary: A man and woman were rescued after getting stuck in mud opposite Connah's Quay docks on Sunday night.

Flint Coastguard found them on the edge of a grass embankment close to the River Dee at about 21:00 BST. The man, who had injured his ankle, had been stuck for up to an hour. The woman had been trapped for a shorter time. Two coastguard specialist mud rescue technicians took the pair to a lifeboat on a special sled. North Wales Police and the Welsh Ambulance Service also attended.

रविवार की रात को कोनाह के क्वे डॉक के सामने मिट्टी में फंसने के बाद एक पुरुष और महिला को बचाया गया।


Aberdeen City Council staff begin new Marischal HQ move

Summary: Aberdeen City Council staff have begun moving into their new headquarters at the renovated Marischal College granite landmark.

The complex has been extensively refurbished as part of a three-year £65m project. Hundreds of employees will move there from the 1960s St Nicholas House block across the street. Staff will also move from other offices around the city over the next two months.

एबरडीन सिटी काउंसिल के कर्मचारियों ने पुनर्निर्मित मरिस्चल कॉलेज ग्रेनाइट लैंडमार्क में अपने नए मुख्यालय में जाना शुरू कर दिया है।


Charmouth coastline cordoned off over cliff crack

Summary: A section of coastline in Dorset has been cordoned off after a crack was seen in a cliff.

Coastguards called to Charmouth on Wednesday put up warning signs and Dorset County Council is considering if further action is needed. In August five people were unhurt after a landslip between Charmouth and Golden Cap. Ten miles along the coast, holidaymaker Charlotte Blackman died in a landslide at Burton Bradstock in July. Experts said heavy rain had been a factor in the Burton Bradstock landslip.

एक चट्टान में दरार देखे जाने के बाद डोरसेट में तटरेखा के एक हिस्से की घेराबंदी कर दी गई है।


World record attempt at Big Knit in Dundee falls short but raises thousands

Summary: A Dundee attempt to break a world record for simultaneous knitting fell short - but raised thousands of pounds.

The Big Knit 2013 was held at Dundee United's Tannadice Park on Sunday afternoon. It was hoped 4,000 knitters could take part, with the current record understood to stand at more than 3,000. In the end, almost 1,200 attended, which is believed to have broken the Scottish record, and more than £3,000 was raised to aid Alzheimer's support.

एक साथ बुनाई के विश्व रिकॉर्ड को तोड़ने का डंडी का प्रयास विफल रहा-लेकिन हजारों पाउंड जुटाए।


Crypto for care homes - one bad idea

Summary: Back in April, I wrote about an unusual scheme that saw a care home organisation create its own crypto-currency. Carlauren Care wanted residents and investors to use the currency to buy rooms in its upscale homes and what it called care "resorts."

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter The owner, Sean Murray, told me there was a unique feature to his Carlauren Coins, priced at £70 apiece - the company would buy them back any time at £63, meaning there were none of the risks associated with wildly volatile crypto-currencies. He also insisted that although his initial coin offering was aiming to raise £35m, his company didn't really need the money - or, as a statement from his PR agency put it: "Unlike other offerings, Carlauren Group as a company has no current need to raise monies for its business." When I suggested to Mr Murray that his buyback guarantee would work only if his business did not run out of money, he laughed off that idea. "I'm a visionary," he told me and went on to outline his vision of transforming the care industry through his innovative crypto-currency scheme. Spool forward a couple of months, and all is not well at the Carlauren Group. Last week, one of its care homes, in Yeovil, Somerset, closed after staff claimed they had not been paid for a month. Carlauren said it was having "serious cash flow problems". The residents of Tyndale House were given just 28 days to find somewhere else to live. At this point, I contacted Sean Murray again to ask him how a well funded business had turned into a company that could not even pay vital staff. I also wanted to know whether the buyback guarantee for his coins still stood - after all, I had paid £70 for one. But answers came there none. So, I went to the Carlauren website to find out more. Now, while the Carlauren Group dates back to 2015 only, it has built a complex web of companies. As well as care homes, it has a hotels division, a travel business, even Carlauren Aviation. This turns out to be one corporate jet based in Bournemouth and available to charter - though, when I rang the number listed on the website, it was permanently engaged. But back to the care homes. There are only two listed on the website - Tyndale House and another Somerset home, Hurst Manor. But it turns out that this too is closed. Then, an organisation representing unhappy investors in Carlauren got in touch. It forwarded the company's latest newsletter for investors, which first sought to reassure them, then dropped this bombshell: "Carlauren Care Ltd subsidiary has now formally closed due to the losses incurred over the past two years, which are well in excess of £700,000 and which we no longer wish to fund. " The newsletter also revealed Tyndale House was being converted into a hotel - somehow there are funds for that, maybe because labour costs had been cut. It added: "We have now reduced our annual wage commitment by £1.3m. "This aggressive restructuring has had an adverse effect on the companies due to disgruntled staff contacting local media in order to express themselves. "We would ask that if and when any adverse information filters through the media channels to you, that you consider the material fruitful effect that our decisions have had and continue to have on our cash flow, which ultimately will benefit you, our clients." The clients will, however, have to wait for this "fruitful effect". Investors promised a guaranteed 10% per annum return on the rooms they had purchased in Carlauren properties are now being told those returns will be sharply reduced - though that will be temporary. Eventually, Sean Murray did come back with replies to my questions. He said: "We were well funded in March but due to market changes with third parties, our income changed. "Wages were decreased in order to maintain the jobs of the other 350 staff we employ." He said the crypto-currency plan was "on hold" but insisted the buyback guarantee still stood. In summary, Carlauren launched a crypto-currency as a means to pay for rooms in its care homes and resorts but has now got out of the care home business and is running out of cash. Its investors are angry because they have not got the returns they were promised, staff have not been paid, the few residents of its one care home have had to move at short notice - and, least important of all, I'm still not entirely sure the £70 I paid for my C-Coin was a good investment. Back in April, I thought selling crypto-currency for care home rooms was a bizarre and rather dubious idea. Now, I'm certain of it.

अप्रैल में, मैंने एक असामान्य योजना के बारे में लिखा था जिसमें देखा गया था कि एक देखभाल गृह संगठन ने अपनी खुद की गुप्त मुद्रा बनाई है। कार्लाउरिन केयर चाहती थी कि निवासी और निवेशक अपने महंगे घरों में कमरे खरीदने के लिए मुद्रा का उपयोग करें और जिसे वह देखभाल "रिसॉर्ट्स" कहता है।


Donmar's Versailles mixes public and private lives

Summary: A three-hour play based around the peace conference which followed World War One might seem to threaten a dry history lesson on stage. But in Versailles, at the Donmar Warehouse, playwright Peter Gill allows the main characters' private lives to take centre stage.

By Vincent DowdBBC World Service radio At 74, Gill has been writing and directing for almost half a century. He's held major positions at the Royal Court and Riverside Studios in London and 30 years ago he founded the National Theatre Studio. He's quietly become a grand old man of British theatre. But Gill says the process of writing is still essentially a mystery to him. "Some writers say they know in detail where their plays are going all along. I don't. So I can't really explain why I knew that two-thirds of this play had to be set in Kent. "I've only really been to Kent once. I just knew it's where the family in the play had to live. "Also when I started I had no idea there would be a romance between Leonard Rawlinson (an idealistic young British economist) and his friend Gerald (an army officer with rather fewer inhibitions). The relationship just emerged." Theatrically daring The friendship between Leonard and Gerald is by modern standards more theatrically daring than it sounds: Gerald has died in the war and exists only in Leonard's mind. Gill, who is director as well as author, stages Gerald's first appearance to the accompaniment of a flickering light bulb. It's the kind of stagecraft you might find in an old JB Priestley play. Even more so, in its concern with Britain's middle-class and its morality under pressure, Versailles evokes the Edwardian playwright Harley Granville-Barker. The Donmar has even given it two intervals - almost unheard of since the 1950s. Gill says he didn't write the play to mark the centenary of 1914. "It was only when I was half way through that I even realised the anniversary was looming." Leonard Rawlinson is played by Gwilym Lee, recently starring on ITV in Midsomer Murders. "I think Peter would be delighted to find his play compared to Granville-Barker. He's not afraid of discussing big social and political themes on stage. It's why his work is such a delight to play." Versailles shows Lee's character growing increasingly uneasy at the terms of a peace treaty which he feels threatens German economic stability and recovery. The Cambridge historian David Reynolds says there are clear parallels with the economist John Maynard Keynes, who in 1919 represented the British Treasury at the negotiations. Reviewing the play for Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 he said Keynes's disappointment with the Versailles Treaty is not universally accepted. "Keynes's view came over very strongly in the play. I didn't find it very persuasive and it's now much argued about by historians." Passionate friendship But David Reynolds also said he found elements of the play moving. If the ghost of Keynes haunts the play, the central relationship seems also to echo the passionate friendship between the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Peter Gill ensures that physically, actor Tom Hughes resembles Owen . Hughes is rapidly becoming a screen star: he's soon to be seen in the Cold War adventure The Game for the BBC. But he says he's been desperate to work at the Donmar for a long time. "It's almost four years since I did theatre. But when you're approached by the Donmar you take it seriously: it's an incredible space. "For me there are three bullet points: do I want to work for the director? Do I think the writing's good? Do I want to play the part? "In this case it was yes to all those questions. And I know the Donmar will push me to be a better actor." Meaty roles for women Leonard's sister is played by Tamla Kari. She has been doing a lot of TV too, including the BBC's Cuckoo and currently The Musketeers. But she says she's delighted to be in a stage play which gives meaty roles to women. "Mabel is a young woman in a period of change: she is fighting the norms which her mother represents. "She wants to experience life. And as a writer Peter really understands women. He gets women and likes women. "It's actually pretty rare for male writers to write women well. So if you're offered a part like this you jump at it." Francesca Annis plays the Rawlinson family matriarch. "Believe me if I was offered scripts this good all the time I would be doing them - but they're hard to find. "Peter writes about all aspects of society. Yes it was the men who still mainly looked after politics - though that was just beginning to change in 1919. "You see the difference between the pre-war women and the new women of the 1920s. "We're not drawing crass parallels with what's happening today - every era is different. "But the play will make you think not just about what happened in Europe - but also about how significant the end of the war would be for the Middle East." Gwilym Lee believes the play strikes home above all because of its mix of the public and the private. "It's the relationship between Leonard and Gerald which most obviously makes it a modern play. Tom and I have never labelled Gerald a ghost: he's something intrinsic to Leonard, who lost the person he loved most. "When he's in a crisis Leonard discusses things with Gerald. "We never really discover how far their relationship went before Gerald was killed. The script and the direction leave the question open: that uncertainty makes the story even more tragic."

प्रथम विश्व युद्ध के बाद शांति सम्मेलन के इर्द-गिर्द आधारित तीन घंटे का नाटक मंच पर एक शुष्क इतिहास के सबक के लिए खतरा प्रतीत हो सकता है। लेकिन वर्साय में, डॉनमार वेयरहाउस में, नाटककार पीटर गिल मुख्य पात्रों के निजी जीवन को केंद्र में रखने की अनुमति देते हैं।


Oscar Wilde love letter celebrated 'behind bars'

Summary: In 1895 Oscar Wilde was sent to prison following the most infamous of indecency trials. His two-year term was served mainly at the now closed Reading prison, then known as Reading Gaol. It was there he wrote De Profundis - a long letter to his young aristocratic lover. Weekly readings of it by well-known actors and writers have just begun at the former prison. One of the readers, poet Lemn Sissay, went to meet the great-grandson of the man regarded as Wilde's nemesis - the 9th Marquess of Queensberry.

By Vincent DowdArts reporter, BBC News At 86, the 12th Marquess of Queensberry, or Lord Queensberry (first name David), is long retired from a career as Professor of Ceramics at the Royal College of Art. But his house in London is filled with paintings and pottery and an obvious love of art. Lord Queensberry is delighted to invite into his kitchen the poet Lemn Sissay, one of the figures who for the next few Sundays will read De Profundis where it was first written, in the former Reading prison. The title means From the Depths. Though in theory a letter to his former lover Lord Alfred Douglas (known as Bosie) it reads as a long essay on life, art and religion. Others scheduled to perform it include Maxine Peake, Ben Whishaw and Patti Smith. In most cases the Sunday readings, which are largely sold out, are in the prison chapel. But Irish novelist Colm Toibin will read from the same cell where Wilde served the sentence which helped propel "Prisoner C33" towards an early death at 46. The project is the work of the organisation Artangel and includes artwork by the likes of Steve McQueen and Marlene Dumas. Which brings us back to the current Lord Queensbury and his art-filled house. No one could be less like the Victorian ancestor often portrayed as a maniac intent on destroying Wilde at any price. But Lord Queensberry is keen to give Sissay the background to the work he's about to perform. "I'm absolutely not an apologist for my great-grandfather and never have been. There were times when he was a monster. But I'm not the only person who thinks his son Bosie was the real villain. In later life Bosie became something of a homophobe and some of his statements were racist." Lord Alfred Douglas died in 1945 and Lord Queensberry recalls meeting him. "It was fleeting and we never had a proper conversation. But I know my father helped him financially: at times Bosie was pretty well penniless." Faced with the daunting task of reading all of De Profundis to an audience, Sissay is keen to understand more about what led to a work theoretically addressed to Bosie. "It's not always easy going," he admits, "but with Artangel I committed to reading the whole thing which will take around four hours. I could have gone for a condensed version but it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the reader and the audience. "It's like becoming Chancellor of the University of Manchester last year - it's important for writers to be involved in things beyond their own little world." Wilde was discreetly allowed to write his manuscript by a sympathetic prison governor. But Lord Queensberry believes Wilde came to see that sending it to Bosie would have been pointless. "Probably Bosie would just have put it on the fire. It's not very flattering to him - certainly not the full version which emerged after he died." Neither he nor Sissay doubts that Wilde was in love with Bosie but Lord Queensbury says Bosie's motivations were complex. "People sometimes forget the entire thing started when Wilde was prevailed upon to sue Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess accused him of being a 'somdomite' as he put it - spelling isn't always our family strength. It was Bosie who wanted him to sue: if he had a dream it was to see Queensberry carted off to jail. Bosie wanted to stand in the witness box and denounce his father. "We can't say he didn't love Wilde but Bosie was certainly manipulative. He persuaded Oscar to deceive his own legal counsel about their relationship: if the truth had been clear the lawyers would have seen disaster was almost inevitable. "You do get a self-pitying streak in De Profundis, which annoys some people. But after what Oscar went through I suppose we might forgive a little self-pity." Sissay admires the fact that much later Lord Queensberry, as a member of the House of Lords, spoke in favour of the Sexual Offences Act 1967. The legislation legalised homosexual acts in private between consenting adults aged at least 21 in England and Wales. "It was a huge step for gay men but it was a real step for all of us." Lord Queensberry says half a century ago he was delighted to associate his family with a liberalising measure. "The Queensberry name had become so associated with the way Oscar Wilde was pilloried in 1895. However much I disapprove of what Queensberry did, he was using the law as it then stood. "My regret with the 1967 act was that we settled for a high age of consent. But it was the only way to get it through parliament. Today if you read some of the objections my fellow peers made at the time they sound extraordinary. "I have family and close friends who are gay and for most people it's just not an issue. It's been a remarkable change in my lifetime." Sissay is looking forward to his stint reading De Profundis on 18 September. "It's not only the work itself - though I'm finding new things in it all the time. It's also being part of people's fascination with Wilde, which never seems to vanish. It was too late for him but a lot of attitudes were changing by the sixties - and not just to sexuality. De Profundis is a reminder of how bad things were for far too long." Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison continues until 30 October. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

1895 में ऑस्कर वाइल्ड को अश्लीलता के सबसे कुख्यात मुकदमों के बाद जेल भेज दिया गया था। उनकी दो साल की सजा मुख्य रूप से अब बंद रीडिंग जेल में बिताई गई थी, जिसे तब रीडिंग गाओल के नाम से जाना जाता था। वहीं उन्होंने डी प्रोफुंडिस लिखा था-अपने युवा कुलीन प्रेमी को एक लंबा पत्र। प्रसिद्ध अभिनेताओं और लेखकों द्वारा इसके साप्ताहिक पठन अभी पूर्व जेल में शुरू हुए हैं। पाठकों में से एक, कवि लेमन सिसे, वाइल्ड के दुश्मन माने जाने वाले व्यक्ति के परपोते-क्वींसबेरी के 9वें मार्कस से मिलने गए थे।


Woman arrested over Cornwall stab death

Summary: A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died in a stabbing.

Police were called to reports of a domestic incident at a house in Bugle, near St Austell, Cornwall, at about 19:50 BST on Friday. The man, in his 30s, was taken to hospital where he was later confirmed dead. His next of kin has not yet been informed. The suspect, in her 30s, remains in police custody. Related Internet Links Devon and Cornwall Police

छुरा घोंपने से एक व्यक्ति की मौत के बाद हत्या के संदेह में एक महिला को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Trapped Chinese miners say thanks for medicine, call for sausages

Summary: Eleven miners trapped underground after an explosion at a Chinese mine have said they are grateful for nutritional liquids and medicine delivered via a long thin communication tunnel, but would really like some pork sausages.

The miners have been able to communicate via a new telephone line. Rescuers had initially lowered rations on a cable, and received back a note saying "Don't stop trying to reach us". Eleven other miners remain missing in the gold mine, their fate unclear. The 22 men were trapped at the Hushan mine near Yantai in eastern Shandong province on 10 January when an explosion damaged the exit and the communications system of the mine, which was still under construction. The cause of the explosion is not known. Signs of life from the group of 11 were detected a week after the blast, about 540m underground, when rescuers felt a pull on a rope they had lowered from the surface. According to Chinese media, one of them is in a coma but the others appear to be in good health. They reported that they had been able to communicate with a colleague trapped 50m below them, but that the contact had since been lost. The miners thanked rescuers for porridge and other nutritional liquids and medicine sent down via the thin tunnel but said they would be grateful for a more traditional meal of sausages. Rescuers were growing increasingly concerned by Tuesday about underground water levels, saying they were considering using submersible pumps to try to clear some of it away. The crews had spent days after the accident tapping and waiting for signs of survivors, until finally they felt a pull on ropes that had been lowered into the mine. Mining accidents are not uncommon in China, where the mining industry safety regulations can be poorly enforced. Eventually the rescuers managed to make contact through a long thin communication shaft they had drilled from the surface and retrieved a note from deep underground. "There are 11 others - one is injured, and the status of the remaining 10 is unclear," said the note. It said the miners were surrounded by rising water and needed medicine. Rescuers replied, sending down liquid food, medicine, paper and pencils into the hole. Chen Fei, the deputy secretary of Shandong's Yantai city, said phone conversations had established that the miners were "very weak" and that shafts were being opened up with their location. "After we opened up the third shaft, it had a really excitable effect on the people connected. They were very confident and very hopeful that they would soon be able to get out of the mine," he told a news conference on Monday. "We established they needed emergency medicines and equipment." As well as painkillers, the miners reportedly asked for anti-inflammatory drugs and medical tape for the injured. They later thanked rescuers for the medicines and nutritional food, sparking hope of a positive outcome. It took more than a day for the accident to be reported, meaning rescue teams lost precious time to start their attempt to reach the miners. The local Communist Party secretary and mayor were sacked because of the 30-hour delay. Mining accidents in China are often linked to poorly-enforced safety regulations. In December last year, 23 miners died after a carbon monoxide leak at a coal mine. And in September, 16 workers were killed at another mine on the outskirts of Chongqing when a conveyor belt caught fire, producing high levels of carbon monoxide. In December 2019, an explosion at a coal mine in Guizhou province, south-west China, killed at least 14 people. You may also be interested in

एक चीनी खदान में विस्फोट के बाद भूमिगत रूप से फंसे ग्यारह खनिकों ने कहा है कि वे एक लंबी पतली संचार सुरंग के माध्यम से दिए गए पोषण तरल पदार्थ और दवा के लिए आभारी हैं, लेकिन वास्तव में कुछ सूअर का मांस सॉसेज पसंद करेंगे।


Stanford Hall plans for soldier rehabilitation centre under consultation

Summary: People are being asked their views on plans to turn a stately home into a centre for injured servicemen.

Stanford Hall near Loughborough was purpose-bought by the Duke of Westminster in October 2011. Military rehabilitation is currently undertaken at Headley Court in Surrey which opened in 1947 to treat RAF crew. A planning application for the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) is to be submitted in the autumn.

लोगों से एक आलीशान घर को घायल सैनिकों के केंद्र में बदलने की योजना पर उनके विचार पूछे जा रहे हैं।


Treblinka: Revealing the hidden graves of the Holocaust

Summary: Any doubts about the existence of mass graves at the Treblinka death camp in Poland are being laid to rest by the first survey of the site using tools that see below the ground, writes forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls.

When the Nazis left Treblinka in 1943 they thought they had destroyed it. They had knocked down the buildings and levelled the earth. They had built a farmhouse and installed a Ukrainian "farmer". They had planted trees, and - contemporary reports suggest - lupins. But if they thought they had removed all evidence of their crime, they hadn't. For a forensic archaeologist, there is a vast amount to study. The destruction of buildings rarely results in the complete removal of all traces of them. And even on the surface there are still artefacts and other subtle clues that point to the real purpose of the site. A 1946 report by investigators into German crimes in Poland found "a cellar passage with the protruding remains of burnt posts, the foundations of the administration building and the old well" and here and there "the remains of burnt fence posts, pieces of barbed wire, and short sections of paved road". They also discovered human remains as they dug into the ground, and on the surface "large quantities of ashes mixed with sand, among which are numerous human bones". Despite this, in a later statement they said they had discovered no mass graves. The existence of mass graves was known about from witness testimony, but the failure to provide persuasive physical evidence led some to question whether it could really be true that hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed here. Although they lasted only a few days, those post-war investigations remained the most complete studies of the camp until I began my work at Treblinka in 2010. This revealed the existence of a number of pits across the site. Mapping the Treblinka death camp Some may be the result of post-war looting, prompted by myths of buried Jewish gold, but several larger pits were recorded in areas suggested by witnesses as the locations of mass graves and cremation sites. One is 26m long, 17m wide and at least four metres deep, with a ramp at the west end and a vertical edge to the east. Another five pits of varying sizes and also at least this deep are located nearby. Given their size and location, there is a strong case for arguing that they represent burial areas. My research has been designed to respect both the historical and scientific potential of the site as well as its religious and commemorative significance. No excavation was carried out and the ground was not disturbed, which would be a violation of Jewish law and tradition, banning the exhumation of the dead. Until relatively recently the technology has not been available to investigate the sites of the Holocaust in such a way. Aerial photography from the 1940s can now be supplemented with satellite imagery, GPS and mapping software. A range of geophysical surveying tools also exists, including ground penetrating radar, resistance survey and electrical imaging. However, no geophysical methods will reveal conclusively what is below the soil - they do not detect human remains. What each method does is to highlight contrasts between the physical properties of the soil and features within it, such as buried remains or ground disturbance. Conclusions can then be drawn about the nature of these features by comparing historical and archaeological data, and drawing on knowledge about construction, demolition and burial processes. As well as the pits, the survey has located features that appear to be structural, and two of these are likely to be the remains of the gas chambers. According to witnesses, these were the only structures in the death camp made of brick. Unlike at Auschwitz, there were no purpose-built crematoria at Treblinka. The decision to burn the bodies of victims was made only after the camp had been operating for several months. The order to exhume and cremate those already buried came in 1943, after the German army had discovered the bodies of Polish officers massacred by the Soviets at Katyn three years earlier - demonstrating to the German leadership the importance of covering up its own crimes. Witness reports indicate that the bodies were burned on improvised pyres made of railway lines and wood, and the ashes were often reburied in the same graves the bodies had been taken from. But recent work in forensic cremation demonstrates that total eradication of bone requires extremely high temperatures. In most crematoria today, bones remain intact and have to be ground down to produce ash. At Treblinka it is clear that the ash contains many bones. Bone fragments can still be seen on the surface of the ground, especially after rain. Considerable evidence also exists to suggest that not all of the bodies were exhumed and cremated. Photographs show bodies littering the landscape as late as the early 1960s. But this work is just the beginning and further work is required to understand the complexity of the site. This initial survey should be viewed as a start of what will hopefully be a long-term collaboration between myself and the Treblinka museum, aimed at providing new insights into the physical evidence, and allowing the victims of the Holocaust to be appropriately commemorated. The Hidden Graves of the Holocaust will be broadcast on Monday 23 January at 20:00 GMT on BBC Radio 4

फोरेंसिक पुरातत्वविद् कैरोलिन स्टर्डी कॉल्स लिखते हैं कि पोलैंड में ट्रेब्लिंका मृत्यु शिविर में सामूहिक कब्रों के अस्तित्व के बारे में किसी भी संदेह को जमीन के नीचे देखने वाले उपकरणों का उपयोग करके साइट के पहले सर्वेक्षण द्वारा शांत किया जा रहा है।


Coronavirus: Why China's claims of success raise eyebrows

Summary: China has reported no new deaths from coronavirus anywhere in the country, for the first time since the beginning of the outbreak. But as the BBC's Robin Brant writes, there are lingering questions over how far these figures, and therefore China's narrative on the outbreak, can be trusted.

For months now, every morning at 03:00, officials in China have put together the latest figures on the spread of the virus to share with the world. As of 7 April, it had recorded 81,740 cases and 3,331 deaths. The country where the virus emerged has received praise for its handling of the crisis. World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed China for the "speed with which [it] detected the outbreak" and its "commitment to transparency". But despite those warm words from the WHO, there is considerable and persistent doubt about the official statistics and claims of success. Last week, senior British government minister Michael Gove told the BBC "some of the reporting from China was not clear about the scale, the nature, the infectiousness of the virus". US President Donald Trump also said last week that the reported death toll and infections seemed "a little bit on the light side". And for some time US lawmakers have accused China of under-reporting the scale of the outbreak. As cases rise across the world - the US has already far outstripped reported Chinese cases and deaths - some appear to be looking to China for answers on how to "flatten the curve". But there is growing concern that China is not being entirely honest about the extent of its infections and deaths. This mistrust is partly about history - and partly about a lack of clarity that inevitably breeds mistrust. A history of secretive data China has a bad reputation when it comes to providing official numbers that the world believes. This is particularly true of data on its economy - the key gauge of progress for the country and the ruling Communist Party. Unlike most countries, China's quarterly GDP figures have long been regarded as more of a guide than an accurate reflection of its actual economic performance. Before this pandemic, the government was aiming for around 6% growth in 2020. For years the forecast has almost always been achieved, with virtually no margin of error. But there are few economists outside China who take that as read. No comparable economy has numbers that deliver on this suspiciously consistent level. Communist Party dominance sometimes depends on living up to forecasts or targets - even if they aren't actually met - and, conversely, hiding the reality when it doesn't fit the party's stated aim. Some provincial level officials have been publicly punished for filing faked GDP numbers. Some estimates put China's actual economic growth at half of the stated number. In the past, some independent analysis using provincial electricity-generating figures suggests a lower GDP than official figures. If China can face constant accusations that it is opaque about something as significant as GDP, it is not a big step to think it would behave the same way with something as significant as Covid-19. An early cover-up In recent days, the most senior Communist Party official in Hubei, Ying Yong, urged officials in the province where it all began to "prevent omissions and concealment". We know this virus began circulating in Wuhan at the latest by December 2019. But it's no secret that China did indeed conceal its existence, its extent and its severity in the early stages. The mayor of Wuhan long ago admitted there was a lack of action between the start of January - when around 100 cases had been confirmed - and 23 January, when city-wide restrictions were enacted. China reported the virus to the WHO on 31 December. But we also know that, around that time, a doctor who tried to warn his colleagues about an outbreak of a Sars-like virus was among a group visited by the police. Dr Li Wenliang and other "whistleblowers" were silenced. Dr Li later died from Covid-19. A few weeks ago - around the time President Xi Jinping made his first visit to Wuhan since the outbreak - there were no new confirmed cases of the virus in all of mainland China, except Hubei province. Prof Ben Cowling of Hong Kong University's School of Public Health told me he believes the numbers reported around that time were "an accurate representation of reports at the local level'. But critics say the key word there is "reports". Around the time of President Xi's visit, the Japanese news agency Kyodo News reported the concerns of an unnamed doctor in the city, who said officials were instructing him and others to leave new cases out of the official numbers. Some in the US government have gone further, according to recent reports from Bloomberg. It said an official intelligence report to the White House concluded that China's reporting was "intentionally incomplete" and the numbers were "fake". The reason for covering up the outbreak? They could be multiple: to hide from the public another impending public health crisis, to prevent panic or perhaps to manage the news in the hope it wouldn't escalate and would never fully be revealed. Changing the goalposts on case numbers Even if the actual figures reported are considered valid, the empirical integrity of China's numbers has been repeatedly questioned. From January through to early March, seven different versions of the definition for Covid-19 were issued by the National Health Commission. Prof Cowling told me that initial testing focused very specifically on only severe pneumonia cases associated with the wet market in Wuhan where the outbreak began. He now estimates there would be around 232,000 confirmed cases if the latter definitions were used from the beginning. That's about three times as many as has been reported. "We think the degree of underestimation was greater at the early stage of the outbreak," he says. Then there are asymptomatic cases - those that don't show any symptoms. Up until last week, China did not include these cases in its tally, even after they had been identified and confirmed. Prof Cowling said the outbreak on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan suggested the proportion of asymptomatic cases among those infected could be around 20%. President Xi Jinping, and the circle around him, have already started trying to repair their reputation and China's standing. Last week China's Premier Li Keqiang - the number two in Chinese politics - said "all localities must insist on the open and transparent release of information". Dr Li and the other whistleblower doctors who were initially punished and have since died from the virus were declared official national martyrs. Weeks after the lockdown of Wuhan, state media reported claims that the president had personally led meetings about it in the first week of January, although this wasn't reported at the time. China has sent aid and medics to countries most in need, like Italy, but also others, like Serbia, that are needy allies. And the Chinese government claims the first stage of human trials of a possible vaccine have been completed, in just weeks. Whether or not the data it's providing is accurate, it does look like China is starting to emerge from the worst of this crisis, and it's clear that the country that gave birth to this global outbreak now wants to be seen as the country that can end it.

चीन ने प्रकोप की शुरुआत के बाद पहली बार देश में कहीं भी कोरोनावायरस से किसी नई मौत की सूचना नहीं दी है। लेकिन जैसा कि बीबीसी के रॉबिन ब्रैंट लिखते हैं, इन आंकड़ों पर सवाल बने हुए हैं, और इसलिए प्रकोप पर चीन के कथन पर भरोसा किया जा सकता है।


Could music festivals be good for your health?

Summary: Millions of people around the world go to music festivals each year. At one time, they were seen as encouraging heavy drinking and drug-taking while providing poor facilities and bad food. But now organisers are more focused on festival-goers' wellbeing.

By Martin VennardBBC News "The music is great, it's educational and it's therapy," says Marta Pibernat, from Catalonia in Spain. "But we do end up drinking more than we should," admits her friend, Patricia Torne, who is also from Catalonia, but lives in the UK. It is Friday morning and we are in a field in rural Wiltshire, in southwest England, where the two women and several hundred other people have just taken part in a 90-minute yoga workshop. We are at the Womad world music festival, where performers such as Macy Gray, reggae star Ziggy Marley and Malian singer Salif Keita are performing over the four-day event to a total of 39,000 people. There are workshops, talks and therapies, along with exotic and familiar foods. James Mowbray, from London, has just had a gong bath when I meet him. Massages, reiki, reflexology and inversion therapy are all on offer, while two shamans offer to remove "ancestral traumas from the vibrational field of your DNA". Mowbray lies on his back on a couch while two therapists gently bathe him in the sound of their gongs. "It's extremely pleasurable and relaxing," he says of the 30-minute session, which cost £40 ($49). "I used to go to dance music festivals, which are not necessarily good for your health," he adds, referring to their reputation for drugs and overindulgence. The health benefits of listening to live music are borne out by studies. "We found that going to concerts significantly reduces the levels of the stress hormone cortisol," says Daisy Fancourt, associate professor in epidemiology at University College London. They took saliva samples from people attending a classical and a pop concert to compare stress levels. "Both groups were biologically calmer afterwards. That suggests it's more about the event rather than the type of music. Her studies also found that going to live music events could help reduce the risk of developing depression and preserve cognition in the over-50s. Julie Ballantyne, of the University of Queensland, has studied the effects on people's wellbeing of music festivals in Australia. "The experience of being separated from everyday life prompts people to reflect and spend time on themselves and this is important for their wellbeing," says the associate professor of music education. "But we also found that if they had a positive social experience with friends, their subjective, psychological and social wellbeing were all the more impacted." She says that bad experiences, such as drinking too much alcohol, being jostled in big crowds, poor toilet and shower facilities or queuing, can reduce the benefits. Ziggy Marley tells me that festivals such as Womad are good for the collective wellbeing. "They represent the potential of the world. Thousands of people together in unity," he says. But not everyone has a good time at festivals. "If you aren't enjoying it and everyone else around you is, that could make you feel worse," says Dr Chris Howes, the founder of the charity Festival Medical Services (FMS). "That's why we have psychiatrists and mental health nurses on site and work with welfare services," he tells me in the medical tent at Womad. Using volunteers, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and paramedics, FMS now also works at 11 other UK festivals, including Reading. "At Reading, you get a lot of young people who are away from home for the first time," says Dr Howes. "Sometimes they just need a cuddle." He says that around 10% of the cases they deal with at festivals involve mental health or psychiatric problems. "We see all the medical conditions you would expect in life from cardiac arrests to burns from barbecues and fires, to sunburn. We see an upswing in stomach problems towards the end of festivals as food people have brought starts to go off. "I've delivered one or two babies in caravans at Glastonbury in the past and a festival is not an ideal place to have a baby," Dr Howes adds. He says they see relatively few drink and drug-related problems. He says festival-goers should make sure their immunisations for things such as measles and meningitis are up to date. "The close proximity of people means epidemics can spread very quickly," Dr Howes adds. "The truth is there is a healthy and an unhealthy side to music festivals," says Jeet-Kei Leung from Vancouver in Canada. He has been involved in festivals across the world for 20 years as a producer, DJ and documentary filmmaker and is particularly interested in what he calls "transformational" ones, such as Burning Man in the Nevada desert. He says transformational festivals support personal and community growth, offer workshops and health practices and often having a non-religious, spiritual side. But he says that some transformational festivals are what are known as "ragers". "At ragers, people are partying really hard and there could be a relatively high use of intoxicants," he says. "Overall festivals are good for your health and most people go home recharged and reinvigorated," Dr Howes says. "We do our best to pick up the pieces when it goes wrong."

दुनिया भर में लाखों लोग हर साल संगीत समारोहों में जाते हैं। एक समय में, उन्हें खराब सुविधाओं और खराब भोजन प्रदान करते हुए भारी शराब पीने और नशीली दवाओं के सेवन को प्रोत्साहित करने के रूप में देखा जाता था। लेकिन अब आयोजक उत्सव में जाने वालों की भलाई पर अधिक ध्यान केंद्रित कर रहे हैं।