Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey meets disease survivors

Summary: Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey has returned to Sierra Leone for the first time since contracting Ebola there in 2014. She went back to fundraise for children orphaned by the epidemic and to close a chapter of her life.

By Mario Cacciottolo Victoria Derbyshire programme The last time Mbalu met Pauline, the teenager was sick with Ebola and fighting for her life. Pauline cared for her while smothered in a personal protection equipment suit (PPE), when working amidst the crisis gripping the country. The nursing staff had their names written on their suits, so they could identify one another and it is for that reason, and not Pauline's face, that Mbalu, now 17, remembers her. "The first time I saw Pauline, she looked like a devil," Mbalu says, referring to the PPE suit. Now the former patient and her nurse meet again, in an Ebola-free Sierra Leone, at Mbalu's small blue house near Kerry Town, found down a pockmarked dirt road. "It's lovely to meet one of the survivors," Pauline tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. "Mbalu must be so resilient. She has so much inspiration that she wants to fulfil. "Coming here and meeting a survivor is important to me. I wouldn't even start to think about the mental health issues that everyone has gone through post-Ebola and during it as well. "There's no way I can compare what I've gone through to what they've gone through." When they're reunited, the pair laugh and banter like old friends, holding hands and cuddling one another. During the epidemic, that kind of physical contact infected about 14,000 people and proved deadly to 4,000. Ebola killed Mbalu's father and sister - the family breadwinners - along with her niece and aunt. She has not been to school for two years, instead finding whatever work she can to feed her family. "I want to be a nurse. Now I want to help others. I see Pauline as a hero, because she risked her life to come to our aid. She has courage." The outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone left some 12,000 children orphaned, and 1,400 are currently identified by the charity as being at serious risk of extreme poverty, malnutrition and abuse. During her trip, which she funded herself, Pauline also visited the site of the Ebola treatment centre in Kerry Town, quickly erected by the Royal Engineers as the disease spread. It is here that she and her colleagues cared for the sick and dying, and it's where she contracted Ebola. But when she arrives at the former treatment centre, the large site is nothing but rubble. The buildings were demolished only a few days earlier, to make way for a hospital. She calmly walks around, trying to get her bearings and reflecting on what it was like to work there, wrapped in plastic suits in stifling temperatures and cloying humidity. "The wards seemed quite sombre at times. The only real happiness was when the survivors were coming out and the local staff would do a happy dance for them. "It was good just to see it destroyed. It's a place that doesn't hold good memories for many, many people." Pauline fell ill shortly after she returned to the UK and was later charged with misconduct by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for allegedly allowing a wrong temperature to be recorded in the screening process on her arrival at Heathrow. Although she was cleared, fighting her case stripped her of her life's savings. For the next part of her trip, Pauline travels to Makeni, a large town in the centre of the country. Pauline has returned to Sierra Leone with the charity Street Child, to participate in the UK-based charity's annual marathon. This year's event saw 600 locals and 170 runners from overseas take part. It's here the "the craziest marathon in the world," passes over dirt roads, winding through tropical forests and into remote villages. Pauline has had many health problems as a result of her Ebola, including pain in her legs and numbness in her feet. Despite this, she paid to enter the 10k part of the run, launching an Everyday Hero fundraising page which currently stands at £2,600. She had thought she would need to walk it but gets "caught up in the moment" and runs. "It was great that the community was out encouraging us, pushing us along. It was probably the highlight of the trip," she says. For the remainder of her days in Sierra Leone, she visits more charity projects, sitting down with 12-year-old Mariama, a girl who is being cared for - along with her seven siblings - by her grandmother, after losing her parents to Ebola. Mariama is very shy, but delights Pauline when she murmurs how she'd like to be president of Sierra Leone one day. Pauline says she feels some dissatisfaction with the situation in the country. "I feel frustrated that the Western world has moved on. They've pulled out, the media's pulled out, most of the aid agencies have pulled out. These people are still living with the aftermath." But Pauline is, at least, feeling upbeat about her own prospects. "I'm not too sure what the future is going to hold. I'm pretty positive it's going to be something good. "I'm due something good to happen in my life. I've just got to wait for it." Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 BST on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.

स्कॉटिश नर्स पॉलिन कैफरकी 2014 में इबोला से संक्रमित होने के बाद पहली बार सिएरा लियोन लौटी हैं। वह महामारी से अनाथ हुए बच्चों के लिए धन जुटाने और अपने जीवन के एक अध्याय को समाप्त करने के लिए वापस चली गईं।


Border patrol vessels: Numbers 'worryingly low', MPs warn

Summary: Britain's Border Force has a "worryingly low" number of boats to patrol the UK's coasts, MPs have said, amid concerns that coastal security is under threat from people smugglers.

The Home Affairs Select Committee said that only three boats were available to patrol 7,000 miles of shoreline. Royal Navy vessels should be made available to plug any gaps, it said. The Home Office says it makes use of radar and aerial surveillance and has ordered eight more boats. The UK has a total of five Border Force vessels, but one has been deployed to the Mediterranean and another is in dock for maintenance. The Border Force has been given a "key role in implementing strengthened coastal security measures", but it is "experiencing problems in gaining access to a sufficient number of patrol boats", the committee said. 'Atrocious' Labour MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the committee, told BBC Radio 5 live: "The government has done the right thing in ordering more vessels but this should have been done much earlier and criminal gangs are not going to wait until order books have been fulfilled. "They are making huge amounts of money and they are the ones we are going to be targeting - we need to ruthlessly deal with them." The MPs also called for security to be stepped up at smaller ports, after the National Crime Agency warned earlier this year that they were being targeted by people smugglers. The report also: A Home Office spokeswoman said: "Our priority is to offer humanitarian support to those most in need while maintaining the security of our borders." She said refuge had already been provided for more than 1,800 Syrians under the scheme, while the government was "on track" to deliver on its pledge to resettle 20,000 by the end of the Parliament. On councils' role in resettlement, David Simmonds, of the Local Government Association, described the report as "out of date" and said: "We are confident that there will be sufficient places that will support the government's pledge to resettle 20,000 people by 2020." Martyn Underhill, the police and crime commissioner for Dorset, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We are in a lot of trouble and I've been raising this with the government now for a year. "Talk to the public and they will tell you they don't know who's coming in and out. We know that organised crime groups will always go for the weakest link and we know that Calais has been strengthened and they are starting to come in in other ways." In May ministers announced measures to bolster maritime security, including new patrol boats for the Border Force to supplement the existing five-vessel fleet, but full deployment is not expected until the end of next year. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, said: "We have said for years that the Border Force doesn't have enough resources, but successive governments have continued to cut budgets and staff." In May, 18 Albanians were rescued from a sinking inflatable boat off the Kent coast and in April two Iranian men were found floating in a dinghy in the English Channel. Earlier this year, an ex-Border Force manager said Britain's coastal security was under threat from people smugglers because its fleet of patrol vessels was too small.

ब्रिटेन की सीमा बल के पास ब्रिटेन के तटों पर गश्त करने के लिए नावों की संख्या "चिंताजनक रूप से कम" है, सांसदों ने कहा है, इस चिंता के बीच कि तटीय सुरक्षा मानव तस्करों से खतरे में है।


Fire crews allow six-mile grass blaze near Pontsticill to burn

Summary: A huge grass fire stretching up to six miles (10km) near Merthyr Tydfil has been allowed to burn amid fears over the safety of crews.

The blaze near Pontsticill Reservoir has been burning since 10:40 GMT on Monday and has been tackled by more than 20 firefighters. But South Wales Fire and Rescue has pulled out amid fears for its crews in the dark. A fire service spokeswoman said it was hoped the blaze would burn itself out. It said earlier on Monday its crews had attended 180 grass fires since 1 March. Over the weekend crews were called to 54 deliberately started grass fires in south Wales, 40 on Sunday alone.

मेरथिर टायडफिल के पास छह मील (10 किमी) तक फैली घास की आग को चालक दल की सुरक्षा पर आशंकाओं के बीच जलने दिया गया है।


Which flags still include the union jack?

Summary: New Zealanders have voted to keep their national flag - which features the union jack - despite calls for it to be replaced with a silver fern. But where else does the flag of the UK still feature around the world?

By Justin ParkinsonBBC News Magazine Red, white and blue. They're the colours of the union jack, the flag the United Kingdom has presented to the world since 1801. It features the crosses of three patron saints - George (England), Andrew (Scotland) and Patrick (Ireland - although since 1921 only Northern Ireland has been part of the UK). Its official name is the union flag, but the BBC refers to it as the union jack, as per common parlance. New Zealand, after much discussion of whether the union jack represents a legacy of colonialism, has voted to keep it in the top left-hand corner of its own flag. But several other countries, states and territories continue to feature it. The best-known flag to do this is probably Australia's, in use since 1901, with a slight modification in 1908. The union jack is above the "seven-pointed Commonwealth star" and to the side of the Southern Cross, a constellation of five stars that can be easily seen in the southern hemisphere. The country's six state flags have union jacks too. More surprisingly, perhaps, Hawaii, which in 1959 became the 50th state to join the United States, also includes the union jack. This dates back to 1793, when British captain George Vancouver presented one (without the diagonal red cross of St Patrick, as this preceded the 1801 Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland) to King Kamehameha I. The union jack flew as Hawaii's sole flag until 1816, when red, white and blue stripes were added. It has remained a part of the flag. "It might seem strange, as Hawaii was never British," says Graham Bartram, chief vexillologist at the Flag Institute, "but it works as a symbol of friendship. What's interesting is that, when the union jack changed in 1801, so did the flag of Hawaii, even though there wasn't an official connection." The flag of British Antarctic Territory consists of a union jack on a white background, reminiscent of snow, with a lion and a penguin on the crest. The flag of the Falkland Islands features a union jack, alongside their coat of arms, showing a ram - symbolic of the local sheep industry - and the Desire, the ship whose crew were said to have discovered the islands in the 16th Century. The Cook Islands, a self-governing territory of New Zealand, has the union jack next to 15 stars representing the main islands of the group. The flag of St Helena, in the mid-Atlantic, was commissioned in 1983 to commemorate 150 years as a Crown colony. Its union jack stands alongside a crest bearing a wirebird - the national bird - and a ship beside a rocky cliff. Since 2013, Ascension Island has had its own flag, having previously flown the union flag alone on ceremonial occasions. The new design still incorporates it, but uses other symbols from the southern Atlantic British territory in its crest. These include three wideawake birds and two turtles. Canada's national flag hasn't featured a union jack since 1965. But the flags of the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia do. Tuvalu, in the south Pacific, dropped the union jack from its flag in January 1996 but reinstated it 15 months later, after Bikenibeu Paeniu was elected prime minister. "It's the flag our people wanted in the first place," he said at the time. "The new flag was never taken to the people for their views. This is the respect for the fathers of our nation. The flag is our symbol, a symbol of our unity." Fiji is currently debating Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama's plans to replace the current flag, featuring the union jack as part of its flag, amid considerable opposition. It also forms part of the flags of Bermuda... Turks and Caicos... Niue... The British Virgin Islands... The Cayman Islands... Anguilla... British Indian Ocean Territory... Montserrat... Pitcairn Islands... Tristan da Cunha... And South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. "There's often a fundamental misunderstanding of flags by politicians," says Bartram. "It isn't the design but what it shows about their history and means to them. Saying you like a flag because of its design is like saying you like your family because they are all handsome or beautiful. You love them because of who they are, unconditionally. Flags are a bit like that." Follow Justin Parkinson on Twitter @justparkinson Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

न्यूजीलैंड के लोगों ने अपने राष्ट्रीय ध्वज को रखने के लिए मतदान किया है-जिसमें यूनियन जैक की विशेषता है-इसके बावजूद कि इसे सिल्वर फर्न से बदला जाना चाहिए। लेकिन ब्रिटेन का झंडा अभी भी दुनिया भर में कहाँ दिखाई देता है?


Trial date set over Easingwold restaurant peanut death

Summary: A trial date has been set for a restaurant owner accused of killing a customer who died from an allergic reaction to peanuts served in a curry.

Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock in January 2014 after eating a takeaway from the Indian Garden in Easingwold, North Yorkshire. Mohammed Zaman, 52, of Aylesham Court, Huntington, appeared at Teesside Crown Court earlier accused of manslaughter. A trial date was set for 25 April and he was granted bail. Mr Zaman, who has not entered a plea, also faces a charge of forging a food safety training certificate, an immigration offence relating to the employee who served the contaminated meal, and food safety offences.

एक रेस्तरां के मालिक के लिए एक परीक्षण की तारीख निर्धारित की गई है, जिस पर एक ग्राहक की हत्या का आरोप है, जिसकी एक करी में परोसे गए मूंगफली से एलर्जी की प्रतिक्रिया से मृत्यु हो गई थी।


Man dies after stabbing in east London

Summary: A man has died after being stabbed in east London.

The victim was found with stab wounds on Kingsland Road, Hackney, at 06:29 GMT by police. Believed to be in his mid-twenties, the victim was taken to hospital in a critical condition but died a few hours later. His next of kin have been informed. The Metropolitan Police has launched a murder investigation. No arrests have been made. A post-mortem examination will be held in due course. Temporary road closures remain in place while police inspect the crime scene. Motorists have been told to avoid the area. It comes hours after a police officer was stabbed outside a train station in east London. There have been more than 123 killings in London since 1 January. The figure - which includes cases of murder and manslaughter - includes 70 fatal stabbings and 14 shootings.

पूर्वी लंदन में चाकू लगने से एक व्यक्ति की मौत हो गई है।


Jurassic Coast museum fossil finds go online

Summary: Details of more than 1,000 fossils discovered along the Jurassic Coast have been made available online.

Magnified photographs and scientific descriptions of the the fossils, held by museums along the Dorset and East Devon Coast, have been included on the Jurassic Coast Fossil Finder database. The fossils included are up to 250 million years old. Richard Edmonds, Jurassic Coast earth science manager said the project would "capture people's imagination".

जुरासिक तट पर खोजे गए 1,000 से अधिक जीवाश्मों का विवरण ऑनलाइन उपलब्ध कराया गया है।


Viewpoint: How India deals with the scourge of 'terrorist pigeons'

Summary: Last week, Indian police said they had arrested a pigeon carrying an abusive note from Pakistan. Indian author Shovon Chowdhury explains the bizarre turn of events - from a satirist's point of view.

I blame my mobile service provider for the pigeons. They haven't been providing much service. In our house in Delhi, we can only make calls if we stick the phone out of a particular bedroom window, and hold it just so. We're not the only ones. On Sunday mornings, it's quite common to see many of our neighbours out in the street trying to make phone calls. It's quite sweet. We nod and smile at each other. In a world that is becoming increasingly inhuman, we are being brought closer. This helps to explain why some patriotic Pakistanis attached a message for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a pigeon, and sent it across the disputed border. It must be because they couldn't get through on the phone. "Modi, we're not the same people from 1971," said the message, "Now each and every child is ready to fight against India." It seems like they did not think things through. Pakistani 'spy pigeon' arrested in India Pigeon taken into custody in India over note threatening prime minister Pakistanis respond after 'spy pigeon' detained in India Tensions between India and Pakistan are quite high at the moment, and many such messages are being exchanged. Revenge is being sworn. Befitting replies are being provided. Diplomats are digging deep into their vocabularies. Nuclear weapons are being mentioned from time to time. This last bit is a little worrying, because Delhi and Lahore are so close that if you nuked one of them, millions would die in the other. It's like projectile vomiting on the man standing right next to you. But there are far better ways the Pakistan side could have conveyed their message. The best thing to do would have been to appear on one of our English news channels, where war was declared approximately two weeks ago. One of the anchors has appeared on his show in combat gear. Another appears to have several seizures every evening, unable to digest all the treachery. His anger is monumental. His suit swells up. His hair ripples menacingly. His eyes flash fire. The nation is watching with bated breath, because this can only end in one of two ways. Either he will be the first person in history to explode on live TV, or, unable to bear it any more, he will leap over his desk, pick up an assault rifle, and command his chauffeur to drive him to Islamabad. Pakistan's pigeon fanciers should have realised that this, not pigeon carriers, would have been the logical medium for their hate message. Pakistan required their services. In this forum, their side is losing. Every one of these shows features token Pakistanis, usually retired military officers, who are torn limb from limb. They might be hoping to win the war, but meanwhile, they're losing the TV shows. If the pigeon fanciers had to send messages on behalf of Pakistan, this is where they were most needed. 'Suspected spy' Instead, they deployed "terrorist" pigeons. It's important to note that there were two pigeons, not one, which means they're attacking us in waves. They have penetrated deeply. Both "attacks" were very close to the capital of Punjab, Amritsar, where men are men and the butter flows freely. The terrorists have clearly taken a long-term approach. Their methodology is evolving. Initial attempts to send abusive messages were made with balloons. Subsequently a pigeon was apprehended with things written in Urdu on its feathers. Once the pigeon's message was translated, the message turned out to be the names of the days of the week. It was hard to draw any conclusions from this, except that the jihadis were running out of paper. By the time of the second attack, the terrorists had found paper, which they used to write a message. This was detected on the infiltrator's leg. The pigeon has been apprehended by the Punjab police, and logged in as a "suspected spy" in the official police diary. It is currently being held in an air-conditioned room, under heavy police guard. Pathankot police office Rakesh Kumar has told AFP news agency that the police are "investigating the matter very seriously". "We have caught a few spies here. The area is sensitive, given its proximity to Jammu, where infiltration is quite common." Luckily, the police in India have plenty of experience with wildlife. When the buffaloes of a prominent politician in northern Uttar Pradesh were kidnapped recently, by people with some kind of death wish, over 100 policemen and two superintendents of police were deployed. They recovered the buffaloes within a week, although questions have been raised regarding the identities of some of them. Some amount of buffalo substitution cannot be ruled out, but on the whole, the case was wrapped up well. Hence, we have reason to hope that they will successfully combat the jihadi pigeon menace too. Currently, they are leaving no stone unturned. According to sources, they are considering a variety of questions, such as: Meanwhile, we will continue to respect our security forces, because otherwise they might shoot us. But we should also spare a thought for the pigeons. These innocent creatures, once a symbol of peace, are now being indoctrinated by jihadis. How soon before sleeper cells within India begin doing the same? Tomorrow, as we walk in our neighbourhood park, enjoying the breeze and trying to make phone calls, how will we know which pigeons we can trust? How do we distinguish the good pigeons from those who are supporting Pakistan? They all look the same. And before all of you who live in London and New York start mocking us, you need to remember one thing. You have pigeons too.

पिछले हफ्ते, भारतीय पुलिस ने कहा कि उन्होंने पाकिस्तान से एक अपमानजनक नोट ले जाने वाले एक कबूतर को गिरफ्तार किया था। भारतीय लेखक शोवन चौधरी घटनाओं के विचित्र मोड़ को एक व्यंग्यकार के दृष्टिकोण से बताते हैं।


'I'm 30 and live at home with my parents'

Summary: The story of the US couple successfully winning the right to evict their 30-year-old son from their home , has prompted a number of 30-somethings to get in touch with the BBC about their experiences of living with their parents.

Reasons for staying at home range from the culturally acceptable to the financial. Here, people in their 30s describe their current living arrangements with mum and dad. Derek Radcliffe, 30, Calgary, Canada "I have lived my whole life in Calgary, an oil and gas-based city. I saw an abundance of oil and gas jobs in the industry growing up, and becoming a petroleum geologist seemed like a natural course to take. "I was thrilled when I got my first permanent job at a small oil company, and later I had saved enough money for a down payment on a small townhouse. "But in July 2016 the company I worked for declared bankruptcy as the price of oil fell. I received no severance but I was able to sell my townhouse (at a loss) right before the company went under. "My parents and I have always had a good relationship and they were gracious enough to let me move back in with them. They recognise and understand the issues young Canadians encounter. "A lot of my friends are in the same position and understand the situation I am in. If anything, it's me who is putting pressure on myself to leave home. "There is still considerable volatility in my employment and in the Canadian oil and gas industry. I am not confident in moving forward and purchasing or renting a new place. "I would now consider myself in a place of 'precarious employment'. I have no employment insurance, no health or dental coverage. I am not alone in my career uncertainty. I feel I have done everything right, but I still feel anxiety towards the future of my career. "Right now, 'leaving the nest' is just not a financially wise decision." Helen, 37, Wales, UK "Tuition fees were introduced at the time I was applying for university so I couldn't afford to go away from home to study. "I stayed home and studied at the Open University whilst juggling a business and part-time jobs to pay for tuition, business expenses, transport, domestic contributions and saving for a house deposit. "By the time I graduated from the four-year degree and teaching qualification, house prices in my area had quadrupled - £45,000 starter homes went up to £180,000, and I have been priced out ever since. "It was devastating - if I got a full-time job at 16 and saved I would have been able to buy a house! "I think my chance of buying my own home has probably gone. I tried to get a good education, but when I worked it out, I was worse off having gone to university." You may also like: US parents win battle to evict son, 30 Single, 30 and time to leave home? 'Our family's housing market generation gap' "I have a friend who was in the same situation at first. But because of the 'Bank of Mum and Dad' who helped her out, things were never the same between us. "You do feel cut off from people because you feel you become different from them. It can be isolating. "I've kind of given up now. When I was around 30, I wanted to move out but you get to the point that it's not worth it. I could probably get a deposit together but my wages are not enough to pay for a mortgage. "In some ways living at home is a good thing because of family health issues - I might have had to come back home anyway. My parents are elderly, so it's probably too late to move out now. "I'm paying towards household bills and groceries. We try to make the best of it, but we do get fed up of society saying I should move out - sometimes you don't always have a choice!" Heidi, 37, California, US "I have a full-time job and help at home by paying towards the mortgage, utilities, and I do household chores. "Even though I contribute at home, I still follow my parents' house rules - the main one is that I can't bring a male visitor to stay at my parents' house overnight. "Also, I have to let them know if I'm going out, where I'm going and with whom just in case of emergency, but I don't mind. It's just a sign of gratitude and respect. "In my culture as a Filipino, it's normal for children to live with their parents even if they're all grown up. We have a close-knit family. "I think when parents take care of their kids from newborn to 18, it's the kids' turn to take care of their parents when they get old. "Nowadays, people are trying to save money especially after college when a lot of us are in debt so more people are staying longer at home with parents. "I have four siblings who all moved out when they got married. I'm still single and so I'm at home. But I don't feel any pressure to move out. The thought of moving out by myself never occurred to me." Interviews by Andree Massiah, UGC Hub & Social News team

अमेरिकी दंपति द्वारा अपने 30 वर्षीय बेटे को अपने घर से बेदखल करने का अधिकार सफलतापूर्वक जीतने की कहानी ने कई 30 लोगों को अपने माता-पिता के साथ रहने के अपने अनुभवों के बारे में बीबीसी से संपर्क करने के लिए प्रेरित किया है।


Pembrokeshire coast national park is on Google Street View

Summary: People can now take a virtual walk of the Pembrokeshire coast path national trail after it was added to Google Street View.

The route covers 186 miles (299 km) from Amroth to St Dogmaels and passes cliff tops, beaches and estuaries. It took 28 days between April and June 2016 to film after Google loaned the authority a backpack-mounted camera. Rights of way manager Anthony Richards said it "shows the national park at its absolute best". People can access the route on their mobile phone, computer or tablet. In total, Google plans to make 15 national trails available on street view.

गूगल स्ट्रीट व्यू में जोड़े जाने के बाद लोग अब पेम्ब्रोकेशायर तट पथ राष्ट्रीय मार्ग की आभासी सैर कर सकते हैं।


Storrington village in Sussex fails air pollution test

Summary: Traffic fumes have caused a build-up of pollution in a village in West Sussex, a local council has said.

Levels of nitrogen dioxide were found to exceed national air quality standards in parts of Storrington. Horsham District Council is now proposing to declare the village an Air Quality Management Area, which will start a 12-month study of the problem. A spokesman said the pollution found in West Street and the High Street was caused by a large amount of traffic. The council has opened a public consultation and wants to hear residents' ideas on how to tackle the problem.

एक स्थानीय परिषद ने कहा है कि यातायात के धुएँ के कारण वेस्ट ससेक्स के एक गाँव में प्रदूषण बढ़ गया है।


Flintshire council staff face parking charges

Summary: Staff at Flintshire council are set to be charged to park at work under plans agreed by councillors.

Workers would need a permit with a 50p charge per day to park at County Hall in Mold. The authority wants to introduce parking charges across all council-owned car parks with rates varying from 20p for an hour up to £4 for a day. It is expected to raise £400,000 a year. The proposals have to be rubber stamped at a cabinet meeting next week.

फ्लिंटशायर परिषद के कर्मचारियों को पार्षदों द्वारा सहमत योजनाओं के तहत काम पर पार्क करने के लिए चार्ज किया जाना तय है।


Lifting the lid on a Colossal secret

Summary: As the code-cracking Colossus celebrates its 70th anniversary, John Cane, a former Post Office engineer who helped maintain it, reminisces for the first time about working on the pioneering machine. His testimony gives a glimpse into the early days of GCHQ's efforts to employ technology in its spying efforts.

By Mark WardTechnology correspondent, BBC News When history came calling for John Cane, he thought it meant he was in big trouble. At the time, in 1943, Mr Cane was a 19-year-old engineer maintaining telephone exchanges for the Post Office. He had just finished a night shift at an exchange in Battersea and was asked to hang on in the morning as the regional inspector wanted a word. "I thought, 'What have I done now?'" says Mr Cane. Nothing, as it turned out. Well, nothing bad. His skill with a soldering iron and toolkit had got him earmarked for a very special project - one that would save countless lives and shorten the war by years. Park life Mr Cane was one of a small band of skilled telephone engineers selected to help create Colossus - the world's first electronic, digital computer. The Allies were building the machine to help unscramble the messages passing between Hitler and his generals. The inspector told Mr Cane he was off nights and should report, complete with tool bag, the next day to Dollis Hill - the Post Office's research station. "The following morning up I went to Dollis Hill and was shown in to a room there in which were half a dozen people like me in a state of mystification," Mr Cane says. For the first two days, Mr Cane and his fellow engineers were put to work stripping circuitry off some old iron switching racks. "Then came the big moment when we were shown in to an office and had a meeting chaired by the then director of Dollis Hill and he told us what we were destined for," says Mr Cane. "We were to build this equipment called Colossus on these racks and that it was really the top secret project of them all, not to be ever mentioned outside to anybody. "From then on we kept our eyes down on Colossus and when we finished the wiring on the racks the whole thing was moved to Bletchley Park and we followed it there," he says. "At Bletchley we assembled the racks together, cabled it up and testing began." The design for Colossus that Mr Cane and his colleagues were working to was drawn up by Tommy Flowers, a senior Post Office engineer who had been helping code crackers at Bletchley with their work. Perhaps unsurprisingly his design was based on equipment found in telephone exchanges and made liberal use of relays, valves and auto-selectors. Colossus was designed to tackle messages enciphered with what was known as a Lorenz machine that had, unbeknownst to the German generals who used it, a fatal flaw. Bletchley mathematician Bill Tutte discovered a pattern in the encrypted messages that, with the help of Colossus, could be used to unscramble them. It let the Allies read exactly what the Germans were planning and gave them key insights that helped defeat the Nazi war machine. Secret war Mr Cane's war was spent at Bletchley maintaining the 10 Colossus machines, known as Colossi, built to crack those messages. All Mr Cane and his 20 colleagues knew was that the machines were cracking codes. The intricacies of how was left to the mathematicians. Talking for the first time to the BBC, Mr Cane says he kept the secret of his involvement with Colossus quiet for decades. He has only spoken about his experiences now as the story of Colossus is slowly being uncovered. "I'm glad that it has been declassified," he says. "Before then you could not say a word." And he didn't. For decades he "kept his mouth shut" and said nothing of what he worked on to his family. Mr Cane's testimony also sheds light on what happened to the machines after World War Two. On the orders of Churchill the plans were burned and most of them were destroyed. Most of them. Two, says Mr Cane, were moved to Eastcote, the initial home of the UK spying effort that would eventually become GCHQ. He took up the offer of a job helping re-house the two machines and kept them running, largely because they were still useful in helping British spies read messages sent by other powers. Sadly, says Mr Cane, the veil of secrecy that kept it hidden during the war was not maintained at Eastcote. "One of the blocks we installed this marvellous top secret equipment in had a 3ft (1m) wide hole in the wall," says Mr Cane. "And the children used to climb through that hole and pinch our tools." After the usefulness of Colossus waned, Mr Cane stayed on at GCHQ, which by then had moved to its current home in Cheltenham. All he can say of that work is that his interest was taken up with "other equipments". But if little can be said about his later work, more is now being said about the key role he, and those other engineers, played in the Allied war effort. Despite this, he is modest about the significance of that task. "The way I looked at it was that we'd done a job, enjoyed ourselves doing it and been quite safe," he says. "No-one was dropping bombs on us or doing anything like that." "There's pride mixed in with that naturally, but it was also a period of technical development and interest that I wouldn't have missed for anything."

कोड-क्रैकिंग कोलोसस अपनी 70वीं वर्षगांठ मना रहा है, जॉन केन, एक पूर्व डाकघर इंजीनियर, जिन्होंने इसे बनाए रखने में मदद की, पहली बार अग्रणी मशीन पर काम करने के बारे में याद करते हैं। उनकी गवाही जीसीएचक्यू के जासूसी प्रयासों में प्रौद्योगिकी को नियोजित करने के प्रयासों के शुरुआती दिनों की एक झलक देती है।


Greater Anglia disruption as rail works overrun

Summary: Thousands of train commuters in East Anglia have battled disruption because of overrunning engineering works.

Problems between Ipswich and Stowmarket led to Greater Anglia trains between Norwich and London, and Ipswich and other towns in Suffolk being cancelled throughout the morning. Lines from Ipswich to Peterborough and Cambridge were also affected. Many services have since resumed, but the knock-on effects of the works are causing delays into the afternoon. Greater Anglia has apologised for the problems. In May, overrunning works at Colchester led to similar disruption across three counties.

पूर्वी एंग्लिया में हजारों रेल यात्रियों को इंजीनियरिंग कार्यों के अधिक होने के कारण व्यवधान का सामना करना पड़ा है।


Two arrested after swan's eggs destroyed in Shipley

Summary: Two people have been arrested after a nesting swan's eggs were destroyed when they were stamped on.

The eggs, in a nest on the towpath of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Dockfield Road in Shipley, were targeted earlier this month. West Yorkshire Police has described the attack, which took place between 2 and 4 July, as "sickening". The force said the two people held had been released under investigation and inquiries were continuing. Follow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.

घोंसले में रहने वाले हंस के अंडों पर मुहर लगने पर उन्हें नष्ट करने के बाद दो लोगों को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Two 16-year-old boys held over Notting Hill murder of Folajimi Orebiyi

Summary: Two 16-year-boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a teenager was stabbed to death in west London.

Folajimi Orebiyi was knifed in the neck outside a Notting Hill estate on Sunday at about 20:45 BST. The 17-year-old then fled along Portobello Road but collapsed. An air ambulance was called but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Met said the suspects were in custody at separate police stations. A boy of 15 was arrested on Monday. A post-mortem examination has yet to take place.

पश्चिमी लंदन में एक किशोर की चाकू मारकर हत्या करने के संदेह में दो 16 वर्षीय लड़कों को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Empty seats and the privilege of the Games

Summary: The empty seats scandal at these Olympics refuses to go away. The problem is not simply that each vacant place is a kick in the teeth to the millions of sports fans who have tried desperately to get hold of tickets.

Mark EastonHome editor@BBCMarkEastonon Twitter The blocks of empty seating are also a reminder of the privileges available for the rich and powerful at these Games. It looks dreadful because each unused spot emphasises the special treatment afforded to officials and their business partners who then don't turn up. A quarter of all places are reserved for VIPs as well as the media and athletes, but even at sought-after finals, many of the reserved spots have remained unused. The head of the British Olympic Association, Lord Moynihan, has said again this week that the empty places are "unfair" to Team GB. "Every empty seat disappoints me because we need every seat filled to radiate the support from the British public who are passionately interested in sport," he told reporters. But the issue goes deeper than filling arenas with partisan supporters of the home team. The noble principles of Olympism which govern the Games are based upon a "spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play". It is about setting a good example and showing respect. Bagsying all the best seats and then leaving them unused, depriving genuine supporters of the chance to cheer on their favourites, appears at odds with the meritocratic ideals which underpin the Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) already has something of an image problem in this regard. An article in the New York Times last month headlined Olympian Arrogance accused the organisation of being "elitist, domineering and crassly commercial". For some, the Games are tarnished by the perceived privilege of its organisers. The award-winning Canadian journalist Paul Waldie recently reflected on the "IOC officials living the high life" in London for The Globe and Mail. "A line of sleek limousines waiting at the kerb, armed police patrolling the sidewalk, a block of $2,000-a-night rooms reserved at an exclusive hotel, cocktails with the Queen and a reserved lane on the jammed London highways," he writes. "The entire city seems to be at the IOC's beck and call." Eight per cent of tickets have been made available to sponsors and 75% to the public. Another 12% go to national Olympic committees and 5% to the Olympic family - people like IOC officials and the media. The gaps are due to people from a range of those different groups not filling them, the IOC's Mark Adams has said. And the IOC has also said that it has made great strides to ensure that the Games are an opportunity for men and women for all countries and backgrounds to participate. But the committee's critics say the fact that 10 of the 105-strong body are princes and princesses feeds a sense of entitlement and makes it less understanding of the concerns of ordinary sports fans. Our own Princess Royal (one of 33 Olympic competitors on the IOC) rubs shoulders with: The IOC has said it will review the distribution of event tickets and that "everything" about the current system would be analysed. Given that similar problems occurred at the Games in Beijing, Athens and Sydney, one might be forgiven for asking whether that promise may be as empty as the VIP seats.

इन ओलंपिक में खाली सीटों का घोटाला दूर होने से इंकार कर देता है। समस्या यह नहीं है कि प्रत्येक खाली जगह उन लाखों खेल प्रशंसकों के लिए एक झटका है जिन्होंने टिकट प्राप्त करने के लिए अथक प्रयास किया है।


Exotic pets: Why do Americans keep dangerous animals?

Summary: There are more tigers in captivity in the US than in the wild in the whole of Asia, according to some estimates. But the trade in exotic pets has dangerous consequences for man and beast alike, writes Louis Theroux.

I was in the back garden of an elegant home in rural Missouri with a ticklish question hanging in the air. Should we let the big chimpanzee out of his cage? For several weeks I'd been on a kind of suburban safari, on the trail of America's large and growing population of exotic wild animals that are kept as pets. In Indiana, I'd had a close encounter with a baboon called Tatiana. I'd also spent several days getting to know a few of the more than 150 tigers at an "Exotic Animal Sanctuary" in Oklahoma, though mostly through the bars. But this chimpanzee, called Cooper, was a step up on the exotic animal danger-scale. He belonged to a couple called Jill and Brad James. The owners of a funeral home, they'd raised two daughters when they decided to take on Cooper. Later, to give Cooper some company, they added a second, younger chimp called Tukem Kerry into the mix. Even in the world of exotic animals, chimps are considered somewhat controversial. Fully grown men who would think nothing of rolling around on the ground with a lion would politely decline the opportunity to get in a cage with an adult chimpanzee. Many are mindful of the infamous "Travis incident". Travis, a 14-year-old, 200lb (91kg) chimpanzee, had once been the star of several TV commercials. He lived in suburban Connecticut with his owner Sandra Herold, sipping wine from a stemmed glass and occasionally popping a Xanax. One day in 2009, he viciously attacked a human neighbour, ripping off her face and chewing off several of her fingers. Chimp owners have been fighting an uphill publicity battle ever since. Earlier in the afternoon, with a little trepidation, I'd spent some one-on-one time with the James' smaller chimp, Tukem Kerry. He is only five years old and the size of a human toddler, though much hairier and with long, powerful arms. Tormented by visions of him biting off my nose or chewing off my testicles, I was relieved when he clambered up onto me to offer nothing more menacing than a hug. But Cooper is two years older and close to sexual maturity. This makes him much more potentially dangerous, notwithstanding that his testicles are in a jar in Brad and Jill's garage. Exotic animal ownership is rampant in the US. According to one oft-repeated factoid, there are more tigers in Texas than in India. Only last week in Ohio a man with a menagerie of more than 50 animals, including tigers, giraffes and bears, decided to open up his cages and then shoot himself in the head - after being convicted of animal cruelty. Local schools were closed down while authorities tried to track down the animals. Police shot some of the tigers as they stood rather pathetically (the tigers, not the police) outside their cages. Quite why anyone would enjoy having an animal that could easily kill him is not easy to say. Why not own a creature you can stroke and cuddle and tease with a piece of string? Of course, you can stroke and cuddle a baby lion, tiger or chimp, and therein lies part of the problem. Animals that are cute and huggable in infancy later grow into potential man-killers. Most tiger owners let them roam the house for the first year or so of their lives. After that they are locked up for the rest of their lives, which can be as much as 20 years. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) registered facilities are required to provide "sufficient space to allow each animal to make normal postural and social adjustments with adequate freedom of movement". In practice, an animal that roams hundreds of miles in the wild can find itself contained in a space no bigger than a living room. As for chimps, they get to enjoy their first eight to 10 years with direct human interaction. But after that they too tend to be locked away. Given that they can live to be as many as 60 or 65 years old, that's a pretty long stretch behind bars. Some owners tire of their animals as they get older and become too unpredictable to play with. Others run out of money or pre-decease their pets. The prices tell the story. A baby chimpanzee can go for as much as $50,000 (£31,195) or $60,000 (£37434). An adult chimpanzee has no market value. Abandoned adult animals end up in sanctuaries. But in one of the paradoxes of the exotics world, some of the sanctuaries that rescue animals also breed animals to defray their expenses - thereby, arguably, making the problem of surplus adults even worse. As chimp owners, Jill and Brad are in many respects paragons. They have built their hairy friends a large-ish enclosure at the bottom of the garden where they have ropes to swing on, toys and TV to watch. They say they still spend plenty of time with them. I watched luxuriating in a warm shower, he seemed especially keen on the shampoo (drinking it more than washing with it). Jill and Brad say they are committed to Cooper and Tukem Kerry for the long term. But even they admit that as the chimps get older, they may have to play with them "through the bars". As for my alone time with Cooper, when the time came, though he did come out of the cage, after some soul-searching I decided to "enjoy" him from afar. From the safety of inside the James' house, with the doors locked. I watched him as he frolicked in the garden. He rode the sit-down mower, got a coke from the pool-side cabana, then relaxed in the hot tub. No, I didn't get to grapple with him. But on the plus side, I've still got my face.

कुछ अनुमानों के अनुसार, पूरे एशिया के जंगलों की तुलना में अमेरिका में कैद में अधिक बाघ हैं। लेकिन विदेशी पालतू जानवरों के व्यापार से मनुष्य और जानवर दोनों के लिए समान रूप से खतरनाक परिणाम होते हैं, लुई थेरॉक्स लिखते हैं।


Coronavirus: US pushes direct payment plan as part of $1tn stimulus

Summary: US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he supports sending money directly to Americans as part of a $1tn (£830bn) stimulus aimed at averting an economic crisis caused by the coronavirus.

"We're looking at sending cheques to Americans immediately," he said. The $250bn (£207bn) in cheques are part of a huge aid package which the White House is discussing with Congress. It follows widespread school and shop closures as the number of coronavirus cases in the US approached 6,000. The US has been debating how to provide relief as activity grinds to a halt in response to curfews and other measures intended to slow the spread of the virus. Details such as the size of the cheques, and who would qualify for them, are still under discussion. A $1tn aid package - roughly the size of the entire UK budget - would be larger than the US response to the 2008 financial crisis, amounting to nearly a quarter of what the US federal government spent last year. In addition to the $250bn in cheques for families, the plan includes a bailout for airlines and hotels, among other measures. The proposal must be approved by Congress to move forward. Wall Street rebounded sharply on Tuesday after the plan was announced, though not nearly enough to make up for the previous day's heavy losses. Separate from the $1tn package, Mr Mnuchin said the government would also allow companies and individuals to delay their tax payments for 90 days. "We look forward to having bipartisan support to pass this legislation very quickly," he said. US President Donald Trump initially proposed a payroll tax cut, which would reduce the money the government automatically withholds from worker pay to pay for social programmes. However, critics said that relief would come too slowly and leave out those without jobs. Several high-profile economists had urged more direct assistance, including $1,000 payments, winning support from lawmakers such as Republican Senator Mitt Romney. Mr Trump said he had come round to the view that faster, more direct relief is necessary. "With this invisible enemy, we don't want people losing their jobs and not having money to live," Mr Trump said, adding that he wanted to target the relief to those who need it. Mr Mnuchin said he hoped to send the cheques within two weeks. "Americans need cash now and the president wants to give cash now and I mean now, in the next two weeks." Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard University who had championed the idea, wrote on Twitter that he was thrilled to see it gain traction. Speaking to the BBC earlier, he said direct payments would help, even with so many shops closed for business. "It would enable people to not work, if that's what they need to do. It will prevent some people from not making their rent payments," said Mr Furman, who served as a top economic adviser under former President Barack Obama. "There are a lot of ways to spend money that don't involve going out." But economist Gabriel Zucman, a professor at the University of California who has advised Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, said the government should prioritise help to businesses if it wants to avoid mass layoffs and company failures. "What the US needs is massive support to small businesses to cover wages and maintenance costs during shutdown," he said, adding that lawmakers could opt to do both. The White House push for relief comes as Republicans and Democrats in Congress remain divided about what help is necessary. It follows actions by the Federal Reserve to ease financial strains. The bank on Tuesday said it will use emergency powers to purchase up to $1tr in short-term corporate debt directly from companies, reinstating a funding facility that was created during the 2008 financial crisis. It is also offering another $500bn in overnight loans to banks. It has previously enacted two emergency rate cuts, and other stimulus measures. US markets rallied about 6% following Tuesday's announcements after steep falls a day earlier. They have been in turmoil for weeks, as investors respond to the likelihood that the coronavirus will cause a sharp contraction in the US economy in coming months.

अमेरिकी ट्रेजरी सचिव स्टीवन मेनुचिन का कहना है कि वह कोरोनावायरस के कारण होने वाले आर्थिक संकट को टालने के उद्देश्य से $1 ट्रिलियन (£830 बिलियन) प्रोत्साहन के हिस्से के रूप में सीधे अमेरिकियों को धन भेजने का समर्थन करते हैं।


Tablet goes on sale for £30 in UK

Summary: A tablet costing £30 has gone on sale in the UK.

The UbiSlate 7Ci, made by UK-based company Datawind, is the commercial version of the Aakash 2 tablet, which was originally launched in India. There, the tablet is mainly used by students and was designed to provide cheap internet access to help improve education. Analysts say UK customers buying this tablet and comparing it with others on the market may be disappointed. The 7in (18cm) Android tablet has wi-fi connectivity, 512MB of RAM, a microUSB connection and 4GB of storage. It has a three hour battery life and allows users to watch online tutorials and videos, browse the internet and play games. When the Aakash was launched in India in 2011 it was dubbed the "world's cheapest touch-screen tablet" and was aimed at schools and colleges. The first version was not well received by critics, but an upgraded version, the Aakash 2, fared better. Speaking at the Wired 2013 conference in October, Suneet Singh Tuli, who founded Datawind, said getting online was all about affordability. "It's not just about creating low-cost devices, for us it's about delivering the internet," he said. Cost offset A partnership with the Indian government helped the Aakash 2 become one of the country's best-selling tablets. "At the start of this year we became the largest supplier of tablet computers in India, ahead of both Apple and Samsung," said Mr Tuli. Samsung has since taken the lead. The company said it could afford to sell the product at such a low price as the cost of the hardware was offset with revenue from content and advertising. "The reality is that with any consumer electronics device you get what you pay for," said Ben Wood, an analyst at research company CCS Insight. "Any consumer buying this tablet with the expectation it will deliver a comparable experience to more expensive, yet affordable, Android tablets such as Amazon's Kindle Fire and Tesco's Hudl will be sorely disappointed." The company, which was named as the UK's most innovative mobile company in a government competition in 2012, also has two other tablets with higher specifications advertised on its UK website. Both Tesco and Aldi have recently joined the "low-cost" tablet market. Tesco's 7in Hudl device went on sale for £120 and Aldi sold out of the 7in £80 Medion Lifetab shortly after launching it. Argos also launched a £100 tablet known as the MyTablet.

ब्रिटेन में 30 पाउंड की कीमत का एक टैबलेट बिक्री के लिए उपलब्ध है।


Brazil stadium row highlights Fifa tension

Summary: This week's embarrassing row, which briefly saw the suspension of Sunday's high-profile Brazil v England football match at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium, has brought into sharp focus some fundamental cultural and political issues as Brazil prepares to host big international events in the next few years.

By Wyre DaviesBBC News, Rio de Janeiro The all-powerful Brazilian Football Confederation and the state government of Rio have blamed the judicial decision to suspend the game on a "procedural oversight" and have announced the game will, after all, take place. In reality, the district court judge who issued the initial injunction on Thursday, in the interests of public safety, probably did exactly the right thing. As impressive as it may have looked from the inside, the refurbished Maracana was in absolutely no condition to host 75,000 spectators for such a big, albeit friendly, football international. Local organising committees in Brazil have been repeatedly warned by Fifa, world football's governing body, that the Maracana and several other prospective World Cup venues are way behind schedule. Fifa has told the Brazilian football authorities that they are in a race against time to be ready for the Confederations Cup in June, as well as the main event in a year's time. Even after that injunction was overturned and the necessary public safety certificates were issued, Brazil's so-called "Cathedral of Football" is still a huge building site. Parts of the roof and, in particular, the plazas and concourses outside the ground where thousands of fans will gather before and after the game, were unfinished. As the weekend began, tonnes of concrete and reinforced steel were still being poured and fixed into place. Dozens of trucks carrying building materials queued up outside the complex. The refurbishment of the Maracana, and some of the controversy surrounding it, is indicative of the tensions between Brazil and the big European-based sporting organisations that govern world sport, FIFA and the International Olympic Committee. Irksome demands Luis Fernandes is Brazil's deputy sports minister but he has overall responsibility for the World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics, making him arguably one of the most high-profile and scrutinised politicians in the country. Like many in officialdom here, he almost dismisses the row over the Maracana delays as a "bureaucratic problem" and maintains that everything has now been settled. Mr Fernandes admits that, with the responsibility of hosting so many high-profile international events and visits in the next few years, Brazil has its work cut out to modernise and upgrade communications, transport and other infrastructure but is confident the government and private sector will "deliver". "We have been followed very closely by Fifa and the IOC," says the minister. "They are very strict in their demands and their technical conditions for hosting the games and we are meeting all the requirements that have been presented to us." But it is those very rigid and strict "European" conditions that have irked and frustrated many in Brazil, a country with its own way of doing things but which is also anxious to prove itself a worthy member of the global elite. Football and big public parties, such as Rio's annual carnival, are two things Brazilians think they know how to do best and, if truth be told, they do not like being told by stiff-shirted outsiders from Europe how to get it right. The row over the Maracana is indicative of that. Built initially for the 1950 World Cup, it is dear not just to the football-mad people of Brazil but to Cariocas, natives of Rio de Janeiro, in particular. The atmosphere inside the old ground must have been magical, with as many as 200,000 fans singing on the terraces as gold-shirted players like Pele, Garrincha, Zico and Romario danced around the playing surface below. But the stadium was old, basic and uncomfortable. You would imagine that a $364m (£240m) upgrade with comfortable seating and convenient facilities for fans would have been overwhelmingly welcomed. Far from it. Rio's newspapers and airwaves have been full of public opinions and professional editorials claiming that the heart and character of "their" Maracana has been ripped out on Fifa's orders. Many think the plush seating (no standing allowed anymore), slightly bigger roof and reduced capacity are somehow an abandonment of what was created back in the 1950s when Brazil truly became a footballing nation. Many, if not all, Brazilian men deep down believed they could have been chosen for the "selecao", the national team. If only the scouts had seen them at their prime. If only they had applied themselves a little bit better in those misspent days of youth on the beaches of Rio. With that thought still flickering at the back of their furtive imaginations, many Brazilians play football socially several times a week. Middle-aged Cariocas run around five-a-side pitches on midweek nights, trying out the tricks that somehow evaded the scrutinising eyes of the talent scouts back in the day. Positive nation At one such informal game or "pelada" in Rio's more up-market south-zone I caught up with the well known journalist and commentator, Aydano Andre Motta. He resents that with its obsession for punctuality and organisation, Fifa is in danger of turning the World Cup into a sterile, European event. "I regret the fact that they (FIFA) are not letting a little bit of what we're known for, the Brazilian 'alegria' (fun) to creep in," says Mr Motta. But he also addresses the reality that Brazil has its own responsibilities and choices when it comes to these big events. Perhaps the biggest gripe and concern in recent months, particularly in the poorer parts of Rio, Sao Paulo and Salvador, has been the huge amount of public and private money spent on new or refurbished stadiums. As much as its economy has grown in recent years and millions of people have regular incomes, there is still an embarrassing shortage of good public education and healthcare. While billions of pounds have been allocated to far too many pristine new football stadiums, in the favelas or shantytowns that skirt the big cities there is an understandable envy, although most Brazilians I have spoken to agree there will be some trickle-down benefits for all. "Brazil has serious deficiencies in areas like health care and education and that's unhappily a fact," says Mr Motta. If there had been no World Cup, he says: "The reality is that, the huge sums now being spent on the Maracana or the new stadium in Brasilia wouldn't be reallocated to social projects." Criticising Fifa, damning the deficiencies of their own society and, above all, lamenting the poor quality of football being played by the national team at the minute, every Brazilian is a "national coach" or "expert pundit" in his own eyes. But you know that, in this overwhelmingly positive nation, when it comes to kick-off they will all get behind the project and support their team. With a huge dose of good luck, a glance to the heavens and a big Caipirinha, Brazil's national cocktail, it will all come together in the end.

इस सप्ताह की शर्मनाक पंक्ति, जिसमें रियो डी जनेरियो के माराकाना स्टेडियम में रविवार के हाई-प्रोफाइल ब्राजील बनाम इंग्लैंड फुटबॉल मैच को कुछ समय के लिए निलंबित कर दिया गया था, ने कुछ मौलिक सांस्कृतिक और राजनीतिक मुद्दों पर ध्यान केंद्रित किया है क्योंकि ब्राजील अगले कुछ वर्षों में बड़े अंतरराष्ट्रीय कार्यक्रमों की मेजबानी करने की तैयारी कर रहा है।


Nant Helen opencast mine to reopen near Ystradgynlais

Summary: Mining will restart at an opencast site in the south of Powys after county councillors gave their backing.

The Nant Helen Surface Mine near Ystradgynlais was mothballed in 2016 due to a fall in demand. But Celtic Energy said the move would safeguard 100 jobs as its East Pit, near Brynamman, is coming to the end of its productive life. Nant Helen will be used to fulfil contracts for about 400,000 tonnes of coal a year over two years, it said. The company said it expected to complete the restoration of the pit by summer 2023, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

काउंटी पार्षदों द्वारा अपना समर्थन देने के बाद पॉव्स के दक्षिण में एक ओपनकास्ट साइट पर खनन फिर से शुरू होगा।


George Floyd death: Seven solutions to US police problems

Summary: Protesters across the US have taken to the streets in the wake of George Floyd's death to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.

By Robin Levinson-KingBBC News In response, Democrats have proposed legislation to address inequities and reduce deaths in custody, including measures that would require police to wear body cameras, ban chokeholds and make it easier to prosecute officers. Here's a look at some of these proposed solutions, and other potential ways to reform policing. 1. Rewrite "use of force" policies Most police departments have a "use of force" policy which dictates how and when officers can use force. These policies vary substantially from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. For example, the type of "neck restraint" or chokehold that Officer Derek Chauvin used on George Floyd has been banned in New York City since 1993. After high-profile police killings, many departments are forced to re-examine and rewrite their use of force policies by federal consent decrees. The city of Baltimore revamped its policy in 2019 as a part of its consent decree with the US Department of Justice after the death of Freddie Gray. The new version requires officers to report use of force incidents and compels them to intervene if they see another officer improperly using force. After Floyd's death, the Minneapolis city council forced the police department's hand by banning chokeholds and making it mandatory for officers to intervene if their colleagues are using improper force. Advocates acknowledge that simply rewriting these policies would not effectively prevent deaths like Floyd's, and that force is still disproportionately used against communities of colour. A New York Times analysis showed that the Minneapolis police use force against black residents seven times more often than white residents. 2. Defund the police Protesters believe that cities and states spend far too much money on their police departments without sufficiently funding education, mental health, housing and other community-based social services. A growing demand is for political leaders to "defund" the police - that usually means reducing funding not cutting it altogether. These calls have been heeded by the mayor of Los Angeles, who slashed $150m from a proposed budget increase for his city's police. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio also pledged to divert money from the NYPD towards social services, though he did not cite a figure. In Minneapolis, a group called the Black Visions Collective is asking the city council to pledge not to increase the police department's budget, and to divert $45m of the force's current budget to shore up the city's coffers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. "Now is the time to invest in a safe, liberated future for our city," the group wrote. "We can't afford to keep funding MPD's attacks on Black lives." 3. Dismantle the police On Sunday, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council signed a pledge in front of a crowd of demonstrators promising to "begin the process of ending the Minneapolis Police Department". They vowed to create a "new, transformative model for cultivating safety". Earlier in the week, two council members used the word "dismantle" to describe their plans for the department, as did Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar. The statement did not make it clear if the council is merely pledging to remake the department, or if they were heeding some demonstrators' calls to "abolish the police," which would obviously be the most radical course of action. The council president said she could imagine a scenario where the department enters state receivership, and a team of medics and health care professionals respond to 911 calls instead of police. A group called MPD 150 is calling for a "police-free future" in Minneapolis, in which mental health professionals, social workers, religious leaders and other community-based advocates would do the work of police. There is some historical precedent for a wholesale dismantling of a department. In 2012, the Camden, New Jersey, police department was fully disbanded and all of its officers lost their jobs. However, it was certainly not abolition - a new, countywide police force was formed in its place, and about 100 former Camden officers applied for and regained their jobs. The move actually put more police on the streets of Camden. The new department adopted a very strict use of force policy and made it easier for the city to fire rogue officers. The department has reported a steep decline in homicide and use of force complaints since. 4. Demilitarise Since the 1990s, the military has transferred over $5bn-worth of equipment, ranging from sleeping bags to ammunition and armoured vehicles, to local police departments through a special acquisitions programme with the US Department of Defense. As a result, many advocates for police reform argue that police today function more like domestic soldiers, using techniques and equipment designed for battle, than community peacekeepers trying to keep people safe, and that this approach costs lives. President Barack Obama put limits on how police could use the programme in 2015, but most of those were overturned by the Trump administration a few years later. Not only have police acquired more weapons over the past two decades, but many are taught military-style tactics. This so-called "warrior training" often spins a narrative where police are heroes fending off danger at every turn, who must learn how to protect themselves at all costs - even if that means killing civilians. Critics say it teaches cops to be afraid, and to shoot first, think later. In 2019, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey banned cops from attending "warrior-style" training, even on their own time with their own money. But the local police union called the ban "illegal" and continued to offer the training. There is research to show that militarisation leads to police violence. In 2017, a study published in Research and Politics found that the more military weapons police have, the more likely they are to use them. 5. Sue the police Citizens who try to sue the police in civil court for excessive force frequently see their cases thrown out because of a legal doctrine known as "qualified immunity". It was designed by the Supreme Court to protect government employees from frivolous lawsuits and give police legal breathing room surrounding their split-second decisions. In order for a case to move forward, the court directs that it must ask two questions: first, was excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment used? And if so, is there a "clearly established" prior court ruling on the behaviour that would mean the officer knew his or her conduct was illegal? This second question is where advocates say courts give officers a free pass, throwing out cases if there has been no previous, precedent-setting case with an almost identical set of facts. A Reuters analysis found that more than half of excessive force cases in the US get thrown out on "qualified immunity" grounds. A portion of the sweeping Justice in Policing Act introduced this week by House and Senate Democrats would eliminate qualified immunity for police. Supreme Court Justices Sonya Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas have both said they believe the doctrine needs to be revisited. There are currently eight qualified immunity cases before the country's highest court. 6. Police the police Sometimes, police violence against black people is attributed to a "bad apple" - an angry and racist cop who overreacts in the line of duty. In an effort to keep them out, some forces have fired police officers who publicly admit to racist ideas. Last July, the Philadelphia Police Department fired 13 officers who posted racist, violent messages on social media - but only after an advocacy group brought the messages to light But the reality is a bit more complicated than just one bad apple ruining the bunch. Police work in what social researchers call a "closed system" where there is little external oversight and loyalty is highly prized. If one officer crosses the line, others will back him or her up. Without a video of the incident, it often comes down to just the word of an alleged "criminal" and a respected police officer. That's why many are pushing for police to be required to wear body cameras, to record police interactions. They were adopted in New York a few years ago after the death of Eric Garner, and Congress is proposing making them mandatory nationally. But there is little evidence that shows they reduce violence, according to a recent analysis of 70 studies looking at their efficacy. Campaign Zero, the non-profit behind the #8cantwait hashtag pushing for police reforms, says they have limited use. While footage of police brutality has played a vital role in exposing the problem, most of it was filmed by citizens, not police. Body cameras can easily be turned off, and the footage is more likely to be used by prosecutors against civilians during criminal trials, than as a means of proving police brutality. 7. Start counting There is no doubt that black Americans are more likely to be killed by police and subjected to other forms of police violence. But what's still unclear is exactly how many victims there are, or which departments are the worst offenders. In 2014, Obama signed into law the Death in Custody Reporting Act to force police departments to report every time a citizen dies in custody. The law also required the data to be turned over to the attorney general, who would have to release a report on ways to reduce deaths every two years. Four years later, the Department of Justice's inspector general said the department still had no mechanism to collect data from the states and didn't expect to have one until 2020. Meanwhile, the FBI has launched the National Use-of-Force Data Collection project, to track not only people killed by police but every time a police officer uses force. They began collecting this data in 2019, but local law enforcement agencies are not required to participate and the information has yet to be made public. In this vacuum, non-governmental organisations and journalists have had to fill in the gaps. In 2015, The Washington Post began to log every fatal shooting by an on-duty police officer in the US. Since then, they have recorded more than 5,000 people killed by police, using a mixture of news reports, social media and police reports. Their data, which is often used by policy researchers, shows that black people were almost 2.5 times more likely to be killed than white people. (Additional reporting by Jessica Lussenhop)

जॉर्ज फ्लॉयड की मौत के बाद अमेरिका भर में प्रदर्शनकारी सड़कों पर उतर आए हैं और पुलिस की बर्बरता को समाप्त करने और जिसे वे प्रणालीगत नस्लवाद के रूप में देखते हैं, की मांग कर रहे हैं।


Odessa leads Ukraine's battle to reform

Summary: The West is determined that Ukraine can reform and succeed as a modern, independent state. Nowhere is that fight in sharper focus than in the southern region of Odessa, where the former president of Georgia, and arch critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mikheil Saakashvili is leading a self-styled crusade against corruption, writes the BBC's Tom Burridge.

Question: What do an anti-fraud officer from the City of London police, an EU border agency official and a Scottish-born businessman have in common? Answer: All three were present at the Black Sea Economic Forum in the city of Odessa. It is symptomatic of the support from the West for Ukraine's current political class. Also at the forum was Yuriy Gubankov, a local businessman who says he was kept awake at night when his grain storage business in the city's lucrative port was the subject of a criminal investigation. Mr Gubankov claims the probe was politically motivated because he wouldn't pay bribes to corrupt officials. He alleges that under previous Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych the tax authorities, public prosecutors, the courts and the police were only "working in one direction: how to take money from businessmen". Yuriy Gubankov lived in London for 10 years and is part of a new, internationally minded group of Odessans which is already singing the praises of the region's new flamboyant foreign-born governor Mikheil Saakashvili - barely four months since he took charge in Odessa. 'The California of Europe' Given the current economic problems in Ukraine, some will consider one of the forum's organisers, Bate Toms, to be wildly optimistic. However, this American-born lawyer and chairman of the British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce believes Odessa has the potential to be "one of the richest cities in eastern and central Europe". In farming terms, he says, Ukraine could become "the California of Europe" because of increased irrigation. And a new automated, electronic customs system at Odessa's port will, he argues, not only stamp out opportunities for bribes, but will also mean that shipping containers can travel through the port at the same speed "as in Rotterdam or Hamburg". Odessa, he believes, could become the main transit point from Central and Eastern Europe to Asia. Even if you don't buy this sales pitch for Odessa, the region clearly has huge potential, and is crucial for Ukraine's future. 'Reform or die' And with Vladimir Putin's Georgian-born nemesis Mikheil Saakashvili now running the region, Odessa now feels like a focal point of Russia's and the West's dispute over Ukraine. A bright, shiny office in Odessa full of 20-something, smartly dressed female government workers is Mr Saakashvili's vision for the future. He promises voters that they will soon be able to register a home or a business, or pick up a passport there, in a matter of hours or days, not weeks or months. Partly funded by money from the US government, the electronic system here, he argues, will eliminate opportunities for corruption, which he describes as 'Ukraine's number one problem". With the country's economy in dire straights, he believes the stakes are high. "Either it (Ukraine) reforms, or it dies as a state." 'Curbing corruption will make Ukraine more stable' - Saakashvili Super rich and super powerful However, Ukraine has a club of very rich and powerful individuals, known as the oligarchs, who Mr Saakashvili describes as a "shadow government". These entrenched non-state power structures mean that implementing radical state reforms is anything but straightforward. And in Odessa, like in the rest of Ukraine, there are powerful individuals who are linked to the old guard. Sergey Kivalov was a deputy in Ukraine's parliament for the party of Mr Yanukovych. He is head of the city's law school and says that, if anything, levels of corruption have got worse since Mr Yanukoyvch left office. Mr Kivalov has himself been investigated for alleged corruption, which he denies. And his opponents also accuse him of election fraud. He was head of Ukraine's election commission when Mr Yanukovych claimed victory in Ukraine's disputed 2004 presidential election. Anti-Putin stance Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko personally appointed Mr Saakashvili as governor of Odessa this summer, at the same time granting him Ukrainian citizenship. It is still too early to judge his success. Back home in Georgia Mr Saakashvili faces criminal charges for allegedly exceeding his authority as president, as well as charges linked to the break-up of a protest in 2007 in the Georgian capital Tbilisi and a raid on a television station. His supporters say he is the victim of a political witch-hunt. But this politician, who knows how to court the media, and who fought a war with Russia (and Vladimir Putin) in 2008 when he was president of Georgia, is now a key member of Ukraine's new political order. Their backers in Washington and Western European capitals know that Ukraine needs to regain the confidence of foreign investors to rescue the war-ravaged economy. And the Saakashvili reform agenda in Odessa - whether it can improve people's lives, unite the region and kick-start the economy - is a key test case for the rest of Ukraine.

पश्चिम इस बात को लेकर दृढ़ है कि यूक्रेन एक आधुनिक, स्वतंत्र राज्य के रूप में सुधार कर सकता है और सफल हो सकता है। ओडेसा के दक्षिणी क्षेत्र की तुलना में कहीं भी इस लड़ाई पर अधिक ध्यान केंद्रित नहीं किया गया है, जहां जॉर्जिया के पूर्व राष्ट्रपति और रूसी राष्ट्रपति व्लादिमीर पुतिन के कट्टर आलोचक, मिखाइल साकाश्विली भ्रष्टाचार के खिलाफ एक स्वयंभू धर्मयुद्ध का नेतृत्व कर रहे हैं, बीबीसी के टॉम बुरिज लिखते हैं।


Highland Council to start work on Inverness West Link

Summary: Highland Council has given the go-ahead for preliminary work to start on the planned Inverness West Link.

The scoping study will examine the environmental impact of the road, which could cost £27.2m. The local authority used delegated powers to push ahead with the investigative work. The West Link has been proposed as a solution to city centre congestion. It would cross the River Ness and Caledonian Canal.

हाईलैंड काउंसिल ने नियोजित इनवर्नेस वेस्ट लिंक पर प्रारंभिक काम शुरू करने के लिए मंजूरी दे दी है।


Sir Christopher Kelly - why the Co-op nearly blew up

Summary: Another day, another rumble from the belly of the Co-op beast. Sir Christopher Kelly's report into the near-collapse of the Co-op Bank and the subsequent problems at the Co-op Group is not quite the final word on one of the most spectacular falls from grace since the financial crisis.

Kamal AhmedBusiness editor@bbckamalon Twitter There are still reports from the Treasury Select Committee, the investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority and the inquiry by the Treasury itself to come. But Sir Christopher's report is the most comprehensive attempt so far to draw together what happened to cause such a calamity. It is due to be published next week, but a number of drafts are already in circulation and the arguments over who is right and who is wrong on why the Co-op nearly failed have already started behind the scenes. Blame At the heart of the report, I have been told, is the takeover of the Britannia Building Society in 2008 and 2009. Sources have revealed that in a late stage draft of the report, Sir Christopher argues that both the Co-op Group and the Co-op Bank were "culpable" for the problems with the takeover. Due diligence over Britannia's commercial real estate was "extremely cursory", according to drafts of the report. Ultimately, impairments linked to the takeover totalled £560m. Sir Christopher says that the organisation took "its eye off the ball" - careful wording (mandarin-like, even) for a deal that caused a significant part of the Co-op Group's problems. He says that the lack of governance was at group as well as bank level. The 150-page draft does go into the Somerfield takeover but I am told that it does not put as much weight on that deal as it does on Britannia. By the time of the Co-op's attempts to take over the Lloyds bank branches in 2012, the die had already been cast. 'Inaccuracies' Sir Christopher's report is likely to split those who read it, particularly former members of the Britannia who feel that they have been unfairly blamed for all the ills at the bank and the group. I understand that a number of them, including Neville Richardson, the former chief executive of the Britannia who subsequently had a senior role running the merged bank, will write to Sir Christopher claiming the report contains "factual inaccuracies". Mr Richardson, who left the Co-op in the summer of 2011, argues that it was only after his departure that the business became over-stretched. He says he warned the organisation it was taking on too much. The letter is likely to say that not enough weight has been put on the Co-op Bank's own impairments which could total more than £400m. The collapse of the deal to buy the Lloyds branches also left the bank with a bill of several hundred million pounds and a troublesome IT system costing £300m. It is not clear how Sir Christopher will react to the letter. If he publishes the report so that it has a similar thrust to the draft, then it is likely that the Britannia camp will go public with their concerns.

एक और दिन, सहकारी पशु के पेट से एक और गड़गड़ाहट। सहकारी बैंक के लगभग पतन और सहकारी समूह में बाद की समस्याओं के बारे में सर क्रिस्टोफर केली की रिपोर्ट वित्तीय संकट के बाद से सबसे शानदार गिरावट में से एक पर अंतिम शब्द नहीं है।


Marian Hill: 'An Apple advert kick-started our career'

Summary: It's an ordinary day in Advert-ville, USA.

By Mark SavageBBC Music reporter As the black-and-white sun rises over a black-and-white street, authentic-looking extras with a variety of contemporary hairstyles walk past a dilapidated warehouse. A shoeshine boy flicks open his newspaper, passing time until a customer arrives. None ever will, because shoeshine boys only exist in the movies. Perched on an upturned milk crate is a tall and slender young man. Let's call him Lil Buck, because that is his name. Bored, he puts in his earphones and fires up a song. Suddenly, the music brings him to life. He springs off the crate and contorts his body to an irresistible beat, defying gravity as he dances on walls and shop-fronts. That's how Apple chose to promote their new wireless headphones earlier this year - and the song selected for the soundtrack was Marian Hill's Down. A sparsely atmospheric track, it pits Samantha Gongol's husky voice against a simple piano figure before crashing into a staccato beat in the chorus. Apple's advertising agency, Media Arts Lab, stressed the importance of finding "an unknown band" for their commercial. "People get excited when they discover a new band," music supervisor Peymon Maskan told Music Week earlier this year. "They pull out their phone to Shazam the track and they tell their friends. That's a music fan's experience when discovering an ad like this." Within days of the advert airing, the song had racked up 12 million views on YouTube and Down became the most searched-for song in America - ahead of Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars. Nielsen Soundscan, which compiles the charts, said sales of the song jumped from "negligible" (not worth reporting) to 101,000 in the space of a week. In the UK, it was streamed more than 3 million times. "That commercial was the catalyst for a lot of things," says keyboardist and producer Jeremy Lloyd. "It put us in so many people's living rooms - and to have them instantly love the song felt so validating for all the work we had done." As they take a break from making their second album, the duo tell the BBC how they got together and found their sound. How did the band get together? Samantha: Jeremy and I have been friends since we were about 12 or 13. We got the name Marian Hill from a production of The Music Man that we were in together in eighth grade. He played Harold Hill, I played Marian Paroo and we combined our character names. We stayed friends throughout high school and college, until Jeremy showed me a beat and asked if I wanted to write with him. That song was called Whisky, and the rest is history. Right out of the gate you had a unique, minimalistic sound. How did it come about? Jeremy: We really stumbled into it. At the time we'd written a couple of other things together that were all over the map musically. Then I was playing Sam a couple of different beats and I had one that had this hip-hop feel to it - and that was the Whisky beat. Neither of us had ever made anything like it before. I was able to recognise how much better it was - and so, for me, the goal became, how do you carry this forward? And what was the answer? Jeremy: At that point, it still wasn't that serious, necessarily. It was just a thing we'd made. And when I was about to graduate college, I decided I wanted to give it a real try, so I emailed, like, 50 blogs and thankfully people picked up on the song and liked it. From then on it's been this slow, steady stream of people wanting to hear more. Samantha, your vocals are very jazzy. Who were your influences? Samantha: I grew up loving the diva vocalists - Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James. I was a huge Norah Jones fan too. That was a huge watershed moment for me, in terms of discovering a contemporary vocalist that I connected with. Jeremy: So often in songs, there's no room for the vocal to sit - the voice is just pasted on top, so the whole mix is throbbing at the seams. With our stuff I try to make sure the vocal has space, and you can hear all the textures and nuances that would otherwise get lost. Before Marian Hill, Samantha did some work as a "top liner", writing melodies for big pop singers. What was that like? Samantha: Writing sessions are kind of like blind dating: You're just thrown into a room together and you hope you get along and make something incredible. How did you go about writing Down? Samantha: We were just messing around in the studio and I think the piano line came first, Jeremy? Jeremy: Yeah, it was the first thing we'd written on a piano. I was goofing around and I stumbled on that piano line. It wasn't like, "OK, we're writing a song now." I wasn't quite sure about it. But I asked Sam, "Do you think we could do something with this?" and she figured out a melody. Looking back on it, it was such a simple process. I'm pretty sure it was all one night. The song's about going to a party against your better judgment, is that right? Samantha: We just wanted to have fun with it. There are so many party songs about getting on the dancefloor and throwing your hands in the air (like you just don't care). We thought it could be cool to write it from the perspective of Marian Hill, and what it would sound like if we did a song like that. "I'm not sure I want to go, but do you?" And then the crash of the chorus was the party itself. The Apple commercial really fitted the song. How much input did you have? Jeremy: We probably would have had a veto if we'd hated it, but it very much was on them. They put it together and we were just like, "Wow, this is perfect." What effect did it have? Jeremy: It was amazing because our album [Act One] had been out for a minute and our fans were loving it, but it hadn't really broken out to a larger audience. Having this spotlight, it put us in so many people's living rooms, and to have them instantly love the song felt so validating for all the work we had done. It was a great way to finish off the album campaign. So what comes next? Jeremy: We've been writing a lot over the last two months, together in New York and at home in Philadelphia. It's an exciting point to be at, coming off the success of Down, so we're really excited to get these songs out to our new fans. What changes are you making compared to the first album? Jeremy: It's the same aesthetic, only it's a little more brash. But we're right in the middle of it and that direction could change. And when do we get so hear it? Jeremy: It will be within a six-month window. We have a deadline in mind. Samantha: Probably in the fall. Marian Hill's Act One (The Complete Collection) is out now. They play a headline gig at London's Scala on 9 October. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

एडवर्ट-विले, यू. एस. ए. में यह एक सामान्य दिन है।


Coldplay announce UK stadium tour for summer 2012

Summary: Coldplay have announced a stadium tour for May and June 2012.

The band will play five dates, beginning at Coventry's Ricoh Stadium, before moving to London for two shows and finishing off in Sunderland and Manchester. Tickets go on sale on 18 November with European and North American dates expected to follow shortly. Coldplay's recently-released fifth album, Mylo Xyloto, hit the top of the charts in the UK and America. The band admitted trying hypnosis to inspire them while recording the album, after a suggestion from producer Brian Eno but said it had no effect on their music. Despite lining up a stadium tour, the band also took time out in October to play a small gig in Norwich as part of Radio 1's student tour. Tour dates announced so far are: Ricoh Stadium, Coventry - 29 May 2012 Emirates Stadium, London - 1 June Emirates Stadium, London - 2 Stadium of Light, Sunderland - 7 Etihad Stadium, Manchester - 9

कोल्डप्ले ने मई और जून 2012 के लिए एक स्टेडियम दौरे की घोषणा की है।


Chinese tourists: 'Make UK visas easier!'

Summary: "The famous British rain!" enthused our guide Jason Liu, smiling heavenward as though inviting his group of 18 Chinese tourists to be grateful for the benediction. "And the big advantage is no camera glare for your photos." The group obediently took out their cameras.

Carrie GracieBBC China editor@BBCCarrieon Twitter Only 20 years ago Chinese simply didn't go abroad unless it was for work or study but now thanks to rising incomes and a relaxation of government restrictions, they are the biggest force in world tourism. Both in numbers and spending. Under Big Ben, rain turned to hail and the statue of Churchill hunched inside his black stone raincoat. We'd heard about the British weather on the journey in from our hotel on London's outskirts. Slow traffic also allowed time for a thorough briefing on the capital's inability to widen its roads due to public resistance, its 50-year battle to beat pollution and emphatic warnings against its armies of pickpockets. "Be careful of anyone who approaches the group," instructed Jason. "A friend of mine called me only last night to tell me one of his group had £2,000 stolen outside Downing Street. Broad daylight and he didn't even see the thief!" As a seasoned traveller, 40-year-old Scarley is used to keeping a close eye on her belongings in countries where policing is laxer than at home. "I've been to Thailand five times, to Russia, Japan, Australia and I've done a tour in Europe," she explained. "I wanted to come to Britain this time because of its long history and its impact on the world." But her mother-in-law used the coach journey to catch up on her sleep and so missed out on Jason's romp through British history. No Romans, no sword in the stone or royal beheadings. She woke up only as we passed Hyde Park Corner and rejoined the conversation where she'd left off, telling me that of all the countries she'd visited she particularly enjoyed Thailand because of the performances they put on for tourists. "I'm here for the clean air and old buildings," explained retired mine manager Wang Chunjie. But of nearly 100 million outbound tourists in 2013, only 196,000 came to the UK. So Mr Wang had advice for the UK's tourism authorities. "Many of my friends would have come on this tour if it was easier to get a British visa." 'Inconvenience' There's the rub. A Schengen visa covers 26 European countries and allows Chinese visitors to make "the grand tour" of several European destinations. The UK insists on a separate visa. "For the British visa, I had to go all the way to Beijing to get my fingerprints done," explained Mr Wang. "This kind of inconvenience puts us off. Besides, Britain is only one country and a very small one at that. Most people will choose to go to Europe." Hardly music to the ears of Christopher Rodrigues, chairman of Visit Britain, which promotes tourism into the UK. Oddly, when I found him in Parliament Square, the rain had stopped and the sun was shining. I didn't need to remind him that a Chinese tourist spends four times as much as the average visitor. He insisted the British government had already simplified visa procedures, to make it easier for them to come. "We are not in Schengen and I don't think for security reasons we will be for the foreseeable future. What is right is that when you apply for a visa, you get it quickly. There have been significant improvements but we can still do more and we need to if we are expecting as the prime minister has said, half a million visitors by the end of this decade." Across the Channel, France passed the half million mark long ago. It already has nearly 10 times as many Chinese tourists as the UK, and the pavement outside the famous Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris teems with tour groups clutching shopping bags. "I'm here to buy handbags," said Lina, a well-dressed young professional. "Luxury goods are so expensive back home. I wouldn't dream of wearing a fake bag. We're wealthy enough to buy the real thing. And everyone can tell the difference. It's nice to have beautiful things." Back in London my group also have big shopping plans. But before that, it's lunchtime. I still haven't met the Chinese tourist who is prepared to go a whole day on a European diet. "Don't make your expectations too high," warns Jason as he leads his bedraggled band down into the basement of a restaurant in Chinatown. I bid my farewells and wished them a safe trip to Cambridge, Oxford, Stratford, Edinburgh, Belfast…. and finally home to China. Their parting chorus to me: "Make the visas easier and we'll be back!"

"प्रसिद्ध ब्रिटिश बारिश!" हमारे गाइड जेसन लियू ने स्वर्ग की ओर मुस्कुराते हुए अपने 18 चीनी पर्यटकों के समूह को आशीर्वाद के लिए आभारी होने के लिए आमंत्रित किया। "और सबसे बड़ा फायदा यह है कि आपकी तस्वीरों के लिए कोई कैमरा चमक नहीं है।" समूह ने आज्ञाकारी रूप से अपने कैमरे निकाल लिए।


Anak Krakatau tsunami: The moment a child was swept from her mum

Summary: Hundreds of people have been killed by a tsunami that struck Indonesia last weekend after the Anak Krakatau volcano erupted. One woman survived to tell the tale, but told BBC News Indonesia about the horrifying moment her five-year-old child slipped from her grasp and into the sea.

Emilia was holding her daughter in her hands when the waves hit. "I was holding my child, she was still calling me mum," said Emilia, identified only by her first name. But as wave after wave continued sweeping into shore, she found herself unable to hold on any more. "I was so weak, my strength was gone. I could no longer breathe... I could no longer hold my girl," she said. "I [grabbed] her shirt collar, but it [tore away]. Emilia herself barely survived. She was dragged into the sea but was eventually pushed to shore by waves. Both her and her husband survived, though both were severely injured - though her child still remains missing. "My child still can't be found... my only child." 'We are still traumatised' Emilia and her family lived on the island of Sebesi - one of the largest islands in the Sunda Strait - located near the Anak Krakatau volcano. Sebesi island is one of several areas that was badly hit by the tsunami, which was believed to have been triggered after volcanic activity at Anak Krakatau caused undersea landslides, which in turn generated killer waves. She is one of 90 people who have been hospitalised at the Bob Bazar hospital in the nearby town of Kalianda. Nursanah, another tsunami victim at the hospital, says that though they may have survived, the future ahead remains uncertain. "We are still traumatised, especially when we hear Krakatau [rumbling]," Nursanah, who was herself rescued from a forest, told BBC News Indonesia. "We have no home, where should we cook our food? We have no idea what kind of help we should ask [for]." Life after the tsunami On Saturday, vast waves engulfed coastal towns on the islands of Sumatra and Java leaving at least 430 dead and more than 150 missing. It destroyed hundreds of buildings, sweeping away cars and uprooting trees in several popular tourist destinations. At least 16,000 people still remain displaced and rescue workers are struggling to reach remote areas of the country that have been hit by the tsunami. Thousands of people are living in temporary shelters like mosques of schools, with dozens sleeping on the floor. Indonesia is prone to tsunamis because it lies on the Ring of Fire - the line of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire Pacific Rim. In September, more than 2,000 people died when a powerful earthquake struck just off the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi, setting off a tsunami that engulfed the coastal city of Palu.

अनक क्राकाताऊ ज्वालामुखी फटने के बाद पिछले सप्ताहांत इंडोनेशिया में आई सुनामी में सैकड़ों लोगों की मौत हो गई। कहानी बताने के लिए एक महिला बच गई, लेकिन उसने बीबीसी न्यूज़ इंडोनेशिया को उस भयावह क्षण के बारे में बताया जब उसका पांच साल का बच्चा अपनी मुट्ठी से फिसलकर समुद्र में जा गिरा।