The glass pyramid that reveals Kazakhstan's ambitions

Summary: Oil money is rolling into Kazakhstan, and new architectural landmarks in the capital city, Astana, reveal the country's economic aspirations. Jonathan Fryer recently visited the central Asian country and witnessed how President Nursultan Nazarbayev's ambitions are omnipresent there.

The 62m (200ft) high Palace of Peace and Harmony rises out of the stubbly grey grass of one of Astana's parks as starkly as the pyramids in the sands of Giza. Even if it is not as colossal as its ancient Egyptian counterparts, Norman Foster's concrete and glass pyramid is awe-inspiring - not least on the inside. It contains a 1,500-seat opera house, as well as conference rooms of various sizes. It would be easy to get lost, were it not for the solicitous young female attendants - looking just like air-stewardesses - who shepherd visitors around. There's one circular hall where 200 religious leaders gather every three years to discuss the state of the world. 'Controlling destiny' But my favourite spot is right at the top, at the point of the pyramid, where smaller meetings are held; the room is lit by pale blue, white and gold stained glass windows depicting doves against the sky. To get up there, one has to mount a broad staircase, lined with a wall garden which has both temperate and tropical flowers in bloom. "Actually, some of them are plastic," my young guide whispered to me, as we climbed up the other day. "Not all plants can survive our climate." Kazakhstan's climate is indeed extreme, thanks to its location in the centre of the Asian continent. In Astana, the brand-new purpose-built capital in the middle of the country, the temperature can be -35C in winter and 35C in summer. No wonder most of the land around is wind-swept steppe. The city is an act of defiance against the constraints of nature; an almost Victorian life-affirming statement that human beings can control their destiny. Indeed, under the direction of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has held an iron grip on Kazakhstan since it broke away from the disintegrating Soviet Union in 1991, the country is determined to figure among the world's 30 leading economies by the year 2050. That's despite having a population of fewer than 20 million. "We will make it!" an enthusiastic university student, Nurgul, tells me, as we sit eating the local equivalent of fast food in another giant Norman Foster construction: a shopping centre inside a translucent tent, inside which the trains of a roller coaster rattle over our heads. Oil wealth The reason for such confident optimism is Kazakhstan's vast oil and gas reserves, especially along and underneath the Caspian Sea. Even with lower oil prices the money keeps rolling in. Yet the government is determined to be a world leader in renewable energy as well. On a building site opposite Astana's Nazarbayev University, there is a hive of activity, with cranes, trucks and men in bright yellow hard hats everywhere, putting together Expo2017 - an international specialised exhibition that will focus on future energy. Over 100 countries are expected to take part. One burly young construction worker, Nurzhan, told me proudly that this will open Kazakhstan to the world. He said that in the recent presidential elections he had voted for septuagenarian President Nazarbayev; according to official figures, 97.75% of the population did. No strong opposition party is allowed, and dissent is stifled. Golden handprint Nursultan Nazarbayev himself is omnipresent in Astana, as the acknowledged architect of independent Kazakhstan. On election day, I watched him vote in the People's Palace, to polite applause from other voters queuing to cast their ballot. But one gets a better sense of his standing from the top of the Bayterek Tower - a symbolised slender poplar, a tree of life with a globe settled in its uppermost branches. In the middle of the viewing platform 100m up there is a podium, with a gold imprint of the president's hand embedded in a lectern. Visitors are encouraged to place their own hand over the presidential imprint and to look out, down the impressive avenue of gardens and public buildings to the neo-classical presidential palace and Norman Foster's pyramid beyond. "This way you can send a message to the president," an attendant urged me as I mounted the podium. My telepathic powers failed me at that moment. But there is no doubt that Mr Nazarbayev is a man with a mission and that he is determined that nothing and no-one shall stop him. How to listen to From Our Own Correspondent: BBC Radio 4: Thursdays at 11:00 and Saturdays at 11:30. Listen online or download the podcast. BBC World Service: At weekends - see World Service programme schedule or listen online. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

कज़ाकिस्तान में तेल का पैसा आ रहा है, और राजधानी शहर अस्ताना में नए वास्तुशिल्प स्थल देश की आर्थिक आकांक्षाओं को प्रकट करते हैं। जोनाथन फ्रायर ने हाल ही में मध्य एशियाई देश का दौरा किया और देखा कि कैसे राष्ट्रपति नूरसुल्तान नज़रबायेव की महत्वाकांक्षाएं वहां सर्वव्यापी हैं।


Housing shortage pushes up prices in Wales

Summary: House prices in Wales are increasing, fuelled by a shortage of properties, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

The industry body said it now expects house prices to rise by about 6% in 2016. Experts say a dash to invest in homes for the rental market is partly responsible, with stamp duty taxes set to rise in April. Rics says the number of homes up for sale has fallen, down 6% overall. "The evidence suggests that the market is becoming tighter as housing stocks decrease and more buyers come into the market," said Rics residential spokesman, Tony Filice. "This is pushing up prices and the expectation amongst surveyors is that this will continue for now."

रॉयल इंस्टीट्यूशन ऑफ चार्टर्ड सर्वेयर्स के अनुसार, संपत्तियों की कमी के कारण वेल्स में घरों की कीमतें बढ़ रही हैं।


Brexit healthcare worries for Brits in Spain

Summary: British nationals who have retired to EU countries may no longer have their healthcare costs covered by the NHS in the event of a no-deal Brexit and many are considering returning home, reports Vishala Sri-Pathma.

The British love affair with Spain dates back to the 1970s when package holidays first became popular. Since then they've visited in their millions, with many even taking the leap to move from Britain to make Spain their home. There are 300,000 British-born migrants living in the country. For many of them the appeal is clear. During the years when the pound fared well against the euro, their money went a lot further in Europe than it did in the UK. Along with the 300 days of sunshine in large parts of the Spain, the decision to move has been an easy one for many Brits. "We love the Spanish way of life, bowls in the morning followed by a long lunch," Sue Davis tells me after playing a match at the Benavista Bowls Club in Estepona on Spain's Costa del Sol. Originally from Kent, she moved out to Marbella to retire 13 years ago and voted remain in 2016. Sue is not alone in her pursuit of the Spanish retirement dream. There are about 70,000 British pensioners in Spain, many of them living on this part of the coast. They enjoy a sun-filled lifestyle in seaside towns, with breakfast menus featuring fry-ups instead of tortillas - and no Spanish required. But uncertainty over what Brexit will mean for them now threatens their way of life and many are concerned they might have to return to cold, damp Britain. Their main worry is healthcare payments. Currently pensioners can get treatment reimbursed by the National Health Service in Britain under an EU-wide set of reciprocal arrangements. Pensioners who have paid in to the UK's national insurance system for the qualifying number of years benefit from the S1 reciprocal healthcare rules if they retire in EU/EEA countries or Switzerland. A S1 certificate is available to anyone in receipt of a state pension, and to some workers who are sent overseas on a temporary basis by their UK employers. The system currently saves the NHS about £450m a year. In 2017, a senior health department official told a parliamentary select committee that Spain charges an average of £2,300 for every pensioner it treats, compared with £4,500 charged by the NHS. Yet there are no guarantees that this arrangement will continue under the Prime Minister Theresa May's proposals to protect the rights of EU citizens, including the 1.2 million Britons living elsewhere in the EU. London has said the S1 certificate may no longer be valid after 29 March 2019 - depending on what other countries decide to do in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The UK government is currently advising expat Brits in the EU to register for access to healthcare in the EU/EEA country they live in, as some residents may need to be a long-term resident or to pay social security contributions to access free or discounted healthcare. If you are in the process of applying for residency in an EU/EEA country, the UK advice is to take out separate health insurance. Malcolm Buckley, originally from Halifax in Yorkshire, worries he might not be able to make ends meet if his healthcare payments are not covered. "I will have to return to Britain, the healthcare payments are important, without them I can't afford to live here," he tells me. "We have no idea about what is going on. I feel like I've been disenfranchised for 30 years from the UK, the time I've lived away. "I wasn't even allowed to vote in the referendum. If we don't get that healthcare payment lots of us will have to go home." Another blow to the British in Spain has been the falling value of the pound. "It's (Brexit) costing me great amounts of money in my pocket," one bowler says as he lines up the balls for the next game. "I'd like to sees the exchange rate to go back to what it was six years ago - but that's wishful thinking." There are some fears about pension payments as well. Under Spanish law, citizens cannot hold dual citizenship. Some pensioners worry this might mean they'll lose their right to a British pension and subsequently not see the benefits of decades of national insurance contributions. Yvonne Stone, 62, is one of the younger members of the club and tells me she voted for Brexit: "I've been here for three years and have no plans to go back to the UK - but it will depend on what happens. "When I voted to leave I didn't think it would change anything for my rights to live here. We like it here and we don't want to go back but if I don't get my pension we might not have a choice." Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said he wants to secure all rights for British citizens in Spain regardless of what happens. London and Madrid have already signed a deal ensuring voting and working rights for respective migrants - but healthcare is not mentioned in this agreement. Until further agreements are reached between the UK and individual EU member states, the UK is advising people to follow this latest guidance to ensure they are fully prepared for any unexpected healthcare requirements in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

विशाला श्री-पथ्मा की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, यूरोपीय संघ के देशों में सेवानिवृत्त होने वाले ब्रिटिश नागरिकों के पास अब बिना किसी सौदे के ब्रेक्सिट की स्थिति में एन. एच. एस. द्वारा उनकी स्वास्थ्य देखभाल की लागत को कवर नहीं किया जा सकता है और कई लोग घर लौटने पर विचार कर रहे हैं।


Housing improvements bring 'new life' to Ramsey

Summary: Public sector housing improvements costing £1.3m are bringing "a new lease of life" to Ramsey, according to town commissioner Mary Bruce.

The refurbishment project for 18 houses on Brookhill Road and Seamount Road is expected to be completed in July. The properties, which were built in the 1950s, have been fitted with central heating, insulation and new windows. Mrs Bruce said: "This provides tenants with greater comfort while boosting the Island's construction industry." She added: "Some tenants have taken the opportunity to move to smaller accommodation more suited to their households' needs, thereby freeing up a number of these three-bedroom homes for larger families."

नगर आयुक्त मैरी ब्रूस के अनुसार, 13 लाख पाउंड की लागत वाले सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के आवास सुधार, रैमसे के लिए "जीवन का एक नया पट्टा" ला रहे हैं।


Chocolate meltdown closes German road

Summary: "A ton of chocolate" has brought a local road to a standstill in Germany, according to local authorities.

The road was closed in the western town of Westönnen late on Monday after a tank of chocolate in a factory spilled and poured into the street. The chocolate quickly solidified. About 10 sq m (108 sq ft) was cleared by 25 firefighters using shovels, hot water and blowtorches. Employees of the DreiMeister factory also helped with the sugary emergency. "Despite this heartbreaking incident, it is unlikely that a chocolate-free Christmas is imminent," the fire department said. DreMeister assured local media that its factory would return to normal operations on Wednesday.

स्थानीय अधिकारियों के अनुसार, "एक टन चॉकलेट" ने जर्मनी में एक स्थानीय सड़क को ठप कर दिया है।


Leicester attempted murder arrests after man stabbed

Summary: Two people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was critically injured in a stabbing.

The 19-year-old victim arrived at Leicester Royal Infirmary with a stab wound to his abdomen at about 20:45 BST on Friday, police said. Officers believe he was stabbed in the Saffron Lane area of the city. A 16-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man were arrested and later released on bail. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.

चाकू से एक व्यक्ति के गंभीर रूप से घायल होने के बाद हत्या के प्रयास के संदेह में दो लोगों को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


India climate: What do drowning rhinos and drought tell us?

Summary: This week I went to the scene of terrible tragedy.

Justin RowlattSouth Asia correspondent A river, swollen by raging monsoon floodwaters, had torn down a bridge on the main road between Mumbai and Goa. More than 30 people are thought to have died when the great stone structure crashed into the torrent, taking with it two buses and a number of cars. Some of the bodies were swept more than 60 miles downriver in two days. We produced a short news report. In the heart-wrenchingly brutal calculus of the newsroom, this isn't a major story. But zoom out, and you begin to see the outlines of a much bigger and more worrying picture. India, indeed the whole South Asia region, has been riding a rollercoaster of extreme weather. The summer monsoon is the most productive rain system in the world, and this year the region is experiencing a strong one. The floods it caused have affected more than 8.5 million people; more than a million are living in temporary shelters; some 300 people have been killed. Though what really caught people's interest was the three baby rhinos rescued from the waters in the north Indian state of Assam. The fact that 17 adult rhinos drowned got rather less attention. But the important point is that the region is awash with water. Just a few months ago, it was a very different story. The previous two monsoons were unusually weak. The result was a terrible drought in northern India, and parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh. And it was exacerbated by another extreme weather event - record heat. India experienced its highest temperature ever this summer, a blistering 51C. Rivers ran dry; water holes evaporated; reservoirs became dusty plains. And, once again, the statistics were staggering. More than 300 million people were affected by water shortages - the equivalent of the entire population of the US. A city of half a million people was left completely dry. It had to rely on supplies brought in by train. As if that weren't bad enough, in spite of the drought, the country was hit by a series of unseasonal rain and hailstorms. They caused such terrible damage to crops that some farmers were driven to suicide. All these examples of extreme weather were widely reported, rightly so. What tended not to be discussed was the underlying cause. We are all interested in weather; few of us want to be told - once again - that our lifestyles are disrupting the global climate. Yet the truth is that many climatologists believe the monsoon, always fickle, is becoming even more erratic as a result of global warming. The picture in the last couple of years is complicated by the fact that the world has been experiencing a particularly strong El Nino, the periodic weather variation caused by warming of the sea in the Pacific. But a series of long-term studies have shown the number of extreme rainfall events in South Asia increasing while low-to-moderate events are decreasing. And increasingly erratic and extreme weather is precisely what scientists expect climate change will bring. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted "rainfall patterns in peninsular India will become more and more erratic, with a possible decrease in overall rainfall, but an increase in extreme weather events". Since the monsoon accounts for as much as three-quarters of rainfall in some areas, any change is a huge issue. The more extreme the storms, the more likely we are to see more tragedies like the shattered bridge I visited this week. Now, since you've read this far, I hope you'll excuse me if I take a moment to ram my point home a little harder because there is growing evidence that climate change isn't just restricted to South Asia. Ask anyone who follows the issue and they'll tell you that this year is already well on the way towards becoming the hottest ever. The previous record was last year; before that it was 2014. In fact, the 11 warmest years have occurred since 1998. I'm not saying we shouldn't talk about the weather, just that we need to talk about the climate too.

इस सप्ताह मैं भयानक त्रासदी के स्थल पर गया था।


Man arrested in Redhill over Islamic terrorism

Summary: A man has been arrested in Surrey on suspicion of terrorism offences, Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) has said.

The 47-year-old man was arrested earlier in the Redhill area in a joint operation with Surrey Police. A search is being carried out at the scene, police said. The arrest is linked to Islamic terrorism and there is not believed to be any imminent threat to the public, a CTPSE spokesman said. Follow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk. Related Internet Links South East - Counter Terrorism Policing Surrey Police

काउंटर टेररिज्म पुलिसिंग साउथ ईस्ट (सी. टी. पी. एस. ई.) ने कहा है कि सरे में एक व्यक्ति को आतंकवाद के अपराधों के संदेह में गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Kenya's beauty queen: Building a business empire

Summary: "When we were starting out, if you were a woman and you went to the bank for a loan, they wanted to know who you were married to and whether you had permission to be in business," says Terry Mungai.

By Michael Kaloki Nairobi, Kenya Terry, the founder and chief executive of Ashleys Kenya, a beauty company with more than 240 employees, adds: "But now all that has changed. You are considered an entrepreneur." Twenty years ago when her then-employer, Diners International, quit Nairobi she did what she had always wanted to do, and opened a hair salon. Today, walking around one of her 12 hair salons in the upmarket Lavington area of Nairobi, she greets her clients with a broad smile as she moves along the row of hairdryers. Towards one corner of the room, three hairdressers hover over a customer as they twist and turn her hair braids. In a partially enclosed area, another woman enjoys a manicure and pedicure while sipping orange juice. The pampering is part of the company's mission statement - to be the most professionally run chain of salons in Kenya. And it is not just the customers who are getting a makeover - so are Terry's recruits. Training the future As her business grew she realised there was a need for a larger skilled workforce. "We realised that we could not sustain the business without training," she explains. Terry now runs three training centres under the Ashleys brand that offer her students internationally respected beauty qualifications. The training centres also offer services to members of the public as a way of providing real-life experience to the students. There is a hushed tone in one classroom as students undertake a mock examination in hairdressing, a teacher is watching keenly as the students work. Within two weeks the students in this class will undertake their final examinations before graduating. Some of the students who graduate from the training centres are taken on by Terry while others are hired by other companies. Beauty queen Ashleys is also the current holder of the local franchise of the Miss World beauty pageant - known as Miss World Kenya. "We were sponsors for two years and when they were ready to change the franchise holder, they approached me, and asked whether we would be interested," says Terry. Auditions for Miss World Kenya are usually carried out in different parts of the country before a final elimination round is held and the overall winner announced. "I have a bias in trying to bring up young women to have confidence in themselves and create employment. I want women to celebrate their beauty," she says. But it hasn't all been easy. After the terrorist attack at Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre in September 2013, in which more than 65 people were killed, the company was forced to shut down one of its branches, which was located in the complex. Terry has since opened a new branch in a different mall and the staff have been relocated. Retail opening Not content with 12 salons, three training schools and running the national beauty pageant, she is also heading into retail. The first Ashleys cosmetic shop has already opened in Nairobi. "It makes it easier for clients and other outsiders to come and get premium products from us," she says. "Now that we have ventured into cosmetics, I would not rule out Ashleys starting our own line in the future."

टेरी मुंगई कहते हैं, "जब हम शुरुआत कर रहे थे, अगर आप एक महिला थीं और आप ऋण लेने के लिए बैंक जाती थीं, तो वे जानना चाहते थे कि आपकी शादी किससे हुई थी और क्या आपको व्यवसाय करने की अनुमति थी।"


India wireless auction: Reliance buys stake in Infotel

Summary: Reliance Industries has said it is paying 48bn rupees ($1bn; £700m) to take a 95% stake in Infotel Broadband, which emerged as the surprise winner in India's wireless broadband auction.

Infotel was the only company to win broadband spectrum in all 22 service areas. Five other firms also won spectrum in some areas. The auction has raised about 383bn rupees for the Indian government. Last month, India's 3G mobile auction raised about 700bn rupees. High prices The results of the broadband wireless spectrum auction - effectively a sale of slices of the available airwaves - were announced by the Department of Telecommunications after 117 rounds of bidding. Bharti, Tikona, Aircel, Augere and US chipmaker Qualcomm were the other successful bidders. Two of India's largest telecoms operators, Vodafone and Reliance Communications, who both won spectrum in the 3G auction, dropped their broadband bids after prices rocketed. Infotel is paying about 128bn rupees for spectrum in all zones. Commenting on the deal with Infotel, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani said: "We see this as the next wave of value creation opportunity in the wireless broadband space."

रिलायंस इंडस्ट्रीज ने कहा है कि वह इंफोटेल ब्रॉडबैंड में 95 प्रतिशत हिस्सेदारी लेने के लिए 48 अरब रुपये (1 अरब डॉलर; 700 मिलियन पाउंड) का भुगतान कर रहा है, जो भारत की वायरलेस ब्रॉडबैंड नीलामी में आश्चर्यजनक विजेता के रूप में उभरा।


Trump May comments 'a remarkable breach of protocol'

Summary: President Trump's comments to British newspaper The Sun are being described in the US as a "Brexit bomb" - but some White House correspondents are querying whether he really intended to rule out a trade deal with the UK.

In the interview, Mr Trump said the UK would "probably not" get a trade deal with the US if Prime Minister Theresa May's current Brexit plan went ahead. He added that Europe as a whole was "losing its culture" because of immigration from the Middle East and Africa. The Washington Post said Mr Trump had "blasted" Mrs May while praising her "archrival", former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson who resigned earlier this week over the Brexit plan. The newspaper quoted a US official who said there was "no way Trump will apologise" for what he said in the interview but added "we also don't want to blow everything up". Another official said President Trump had been privately critical of Mrs May "for many months", discussing her vulnerabilities and criticising her political acumen. White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders had told the British government about the interview in advance, "but thought it would be somewhat more positive", the newspaper quoted an official as saying. In a statement, Ms Sanders said: "The President likes and respects Prime Minister May very much. As he said in his interview with The Sun she 'is a very good person' and he 'never said anything bad about her'." The New York Times said Mr Trump had "given Mrs May's teetering government a shove". It said the US president's interview was a "remarkable breach of protocol" and, coming after his "combative" performance at a Nato meeting in Brussels, amounted to a "global disruption tour unlike anything undertaken by any other recent American president". The Politico website described Mr Trump's interview as "one way to break up a special relationship". It speculated that Mr Trump may have been "wound up" over Brexit by British politician Nigel Farage, the former UK Independence Party leader who campaigned for years for Britain to leave the EU, or that his comments may have been informed by a meeting between his security adviser John Bolton and the ERG, a group of strongly pro-Brexit Conservative Party MPs. But it said the most likely outcome was that Mrs May would suggest that she explain her Brexit plan to Mr Trump, Mr Trump will agree to listen and "they'll both claim the story was overwritten, and then try to go about their day". White House correspondents for Axios and the Toronto Star said The Sun had "over-egged" Mr Trump's comments apparently ruling out a US-UK trade deal. In a commentary for the Breitbart website, British writer James Delingpole said Mr Trump had "dropped the mother of all Brexit bombs" on Mrs May. It "poured nitroglycerine on an already explosive political issue which threatens to destroy May and possibly even bring down her government", he said. Mr Delingpole said Mr Trump had placed himself on the side of the "Brexit resistance" with the likes of Mr Johnson and Mr Farage and said that his "outrageous, protocol breaching intervention" had "infuriated the liberal elite". "For the majority of British people who support Brexit, this could scarcely have come at a more welcome or desperate time," Mr Delingpole said. Former US ambassador to the EU Anthony Gardner tweeted that it was "unprecedented to attack ally during state visit" and said Mr Trump was "out of control and an embarrassment". On CNN, Stephen Collinson also said Mr Trump had detonated a "Brexit bomb" and delivered an "astonishing political knifing" to Mrs May. It was just the latest instance of Mr Trump, "who cosies up to foreign strongmen like Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, insulting or criticising an allied leader", Mr Collinson said. The blog Red State said it would be "interesting to see how the Brits react to this". The US "would not be thrilled if such conditions were put on us after a vote of the whole country", it said. "How a country deals with other countries in trade is their business," it added. US political website The Hill also focused on Mr Trump's comments about "millions and millions of people" coming to Europe from the Middle East and Africa. It said they reprised "a line that he had frequently used on the campaign trail - that Europe was being overrun by non-Europeans and was quickly becoming a shell of what it once was". The Hill noted that migration levels to Europe had declined since 2015, when more than a million people, many fleeing the Syrian civil war and other conflicts, arrived. Fox News said Mr Trump's comments were a "body blow" to Mrs May's government.

ब्रिटिश समाचार पत्र द सन पर राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्प की टिप्पणियों को अमेरिका में "ब्रेक्सिट बम" के रूप में वर्णित किया जा रहा है-लेकिन व्हाइट हाउस के कुछ संवाददाता सवाल कर रहे हैं कि क्या उनका वास्तव में ब्रिटेन के साथ व्यापार सौदे को खारिज करने का इरादा था।


Tooth decay campaign sees 'encouraging progress'

Summary: Fewer children have rotten teeth, according to the latest report on a dental drive through schools in disadvantaged areas.

Almost 93,000 children were taking part in supervised tooth brushing at home through the Designed to Smile programme, 5,500 more than in 2013. Latest figures from 2012 show 41.4% of five year olds in Wales suffering from tooth decay, down from 47.6% in 2008. Chief dental officer David Thomas welcomed the "encouraging progress". The scheme offers tooth brushing and fluoride varnish programmes for children up to the age of six through their schools and nurseries, with treatment and advice for older children who need it. Health Minister Mark Drakeford said children and young people were "seeing the benefits" of the programme.

वंचित क्षेत्रों में स्कूलों के माध्यम से एक दंत चिकित्सा अभियान पर नवीनतम रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, कम बच्चों के सड़े हुए दांत हैं।


Covid in Brazil: Hunger worsens in city slums

Summary: The queue snakes around the block and each day it gets longer: hungry residents of Heliopolis, São Paulo's largest favela, waiting in line for the handout that will keep them going until the next morning.

By Mark LowenBBC News, São Paulo They are given a bowl of pasta with meat and a portion of rice, two packets of biscuits and a carton of milk, shared between a whole household and usually their only meal of the day. Before the pandemic, 300 people would queue up here. Now it is over 1,000, and the charity that runs it has 650 others across São Paulo. "The vast majority of people who live in the favelas work in the informal economy, as cleaners in homes or helping to bake cakes, so when businesses close or houses stop using them, they feel the impact," says Marcivan Barreto, the local co-ordinator. "You see people queuing up at 03:00 for food. I'm very worried that as the pandemic continues, a hungry father will start looting supermarkets. When you're starving, despair hits." During the first wave of the pandemic, Brazil's government introduced emergency relief, known as "coronavouchers". More than 67 million people received a monthly sum of 600 reais (£83; $107, at the time). It was the biggest single injection of financial aid in Brazil's history, introduced by a president, Jair Bolsonaro, who had previously railed against welfare spending. It pushed extreme poverty to its lowest level since the 1970s - and boosted the president's support. But the relief was temporary. With ballooning public debt, the government first suspended the programme and then reintroduced it but at a far lower level of 250 reais and for fewer people. The drop in aid has hit Luciana Firmino and her family hard. She and her husband now depend on the food handout to feed their five children, living in a cramped couple of rooms in one of the favela's narrow alleyways. When the pandemic hit, she lost her job in a manicure studio and her husband's occasional work dried up. Clutching her nine-month-old daughter, she says each day is a decision whether to pay for milk or diapers. "We can't afford the rent anymore. So we will soon be out in the streets or under a bridge." Then she breaks down. "I was hoping for a good life," she says through tears. "Sometimes I think I should give my children away to social services." Brazil is in the grip of a health and social emergency. It has the world's second-highest death toll from the pandemic at over 370,000, and hospitals are near collapse. A study last week found that 60% of Brazilian households have food insecurity, lacking sufficient access to enough to eat. President Bolsonaro - who once dismissed the virus as "just a little flu", opposed lockdowns and failed to secure vaccine supplies in time - has lost support, particularly as the food handouts have declined. Attempts at impeachment are stirring. But he still has his devoted fans, who insist "the establishment" are trying to destroy him. Three hours' drive out of São Paulo, the corn harvest is underway on Frederico D'Avila's farm. He has 1,300 hectares of the crop, as well as soybean, barley and fava, nestled beside dense pine forests. And as the harvester cuts through the stalks of corn, he talks of how the president is slashing "the system of kleptocracy - chains of corruption - that have run here for 35 years". "President Bolsonaro wants to preserve liberty; he wants people to get out, work, feed their children," he says. "He wants people to decide if they want the vaccine, not to be obligated by the state. Freedom in Brazil has always been under threat." I put it to him that the price of that policy is the public health disaster that Brazil is living through. "It's not a disaster", he replies. "We don't have all the data from other countries so we don't know true numbers of dead." Supporters of the president echo the same line, hammered home by the effective Bolsonaro communication machine with claims that if other institutions, including the Supreme Court, had not tied his hands, he could have managed the pandemic fully. To the charge that Brazil was desperately slow to order vaccines, they reply that the shots could not have been ordered earlier as they had not yet been approved by Brazil's health regulator. When I remind him that many countries ordered large quantities of vaccines pending regulatory approval so they could then be rolled out quickly, Mr D'Avila tells me the Supreme Court could have sued the president if the shots were ordered and then not approved. "If he had unlimited power like a king, it would be better. He wouldn't need to deal with the Supreme Court and pressure groups," he says. President Bolsonaro is on the back foot. Under fire for mishandling what is becoming a humanitarian crisis and facing a threat from former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose conviction for corruption was recently overturned, paving the way to challenge the president in next year's election. And all the while hospitals fill up, the food queues grow longer, and this shattered country watches helplessly as fresh graves are dug.

ब्लॉक के चारों ओर कतार लगती है और हर दिन यह लंबी होती जाती हैः हेलियोपोलिस के भूखे निवासी, साओ पाउलो के सबसे बड़े फावेला, जो उन्हें अगली सुबह तक जारी रखने वाले हैंडआउट के लिए कतार में इंतजार कर रहे हैं।


Treating Guernsey's waste on-island 'is plan B'

Summary: The States will be asked to consider building a heat treatment plant if negotiations to export Guernsey's future waste fail

Next month deputies will consider proposals to reduce waste, increase recycling levels to 70% and ship any remaining waste off island. Public Services Minister Bernard Flouquet said if approved, export would be their first choice. He said treatment on the island was the department's fallback position. Deputy Flouquet said: "If we cannot get export to Jersey, or export to anyone else for that matter...then we'll have to go back to the States." The island's current waste solution of landfill is due to last until 2022 based on present rates of tipping.

यदि ग्वेर्नसे के भविष्य के कचरे के निर्यात के लिए बातचीत विफल हो जाती है तो राज्यों को एक ताप उपचार संयंत्र बनाने पर विचार करने के लिए कहा जाएगा।


Aberdeen's Wood Group wins pharmaceutical deal in Germany

Summary: Energy services giant Wood Group has secured a major contract which sees it build on its move into the pharmaceutical sector.

The Aberdeen-based firm is to take charge of building a new biotechnology plant for GlaxoSmithKline in Marburg, Germany. The multi-million pound contract will see a division of Wood Group design and project manage the construction of the new meningitis vaccine factory. It is due to be completed in July 2019. The contract builds on a relationship Wood Group began 12 years ago with the vaccines division of GSK. Wood Group's chief executive Robin Watson said the contract shows GSK's confidence in the company's global capabilities.

ऊर्जा सेवाओं की दिग्गज कंपनी वुड ग्रुप ने एक बड़ा अनुबंध हासिल किया है जो उसे दवा क्षेत्र में अपने कदम को आगे बढ़ाते हुए देखता है।


Heads of the Valley road set for weekend closure

Summary: Part of the Heads of the Valleys road in Blaenau Gwent and Monmouthshire will be closed in both directions this weekend as the A465 upgrade continues.

The four-mile stretch between Brynmawr, at the A467 King Street roundabout, and Gilwern, the A4077 Main Road junction, will be shut from 20:30 on Friday. It will re-open at 06:00 on Monday. Motorists are being advised to take a diversion via Pontypool and Abertillery on the A467 and A4042. The roadworks are part of the Welsh Government's £800m upgrade programme project which is scheduled to be completed in 2020.

ब्लेनाउ ग्वेंट और मॉनमाउथशायर में हेड्स ऑफ द वैलीज़ रोड का हिस्सा इस सप्ताह के अंत में दोनों दिशाओं में बंद हो जाएगा क्योंकि ए 465 का उन्नयन जारी है।


Curtis Warren gets another ten years after failing to pay £198m

Summary: Convicted drugs dealer Curtis Warren will spend another decade behind bars after failing to pay almost £200m to the Jersey government.

Warren was jailed for 13 years in 2009 for plotting to import cannabis into the island. The 50-year-old from Liverpool was ordered to pay £198m by Jersey's Royal court or face 10 more years in jail. Warren, who is thought to have a £300m fortune, has until 17 December to appeal against the extra sentence. Related Internet Links An Online Resource for the Royal Court of Jersey

दोषी ड्रग्स डीलर कर्टिस वारेन जर्सी सरकार को लगभग 200 मिलियन पाउंड का भुगतान करने में विफल रहने के बाद एक और दशक सलाखों के पीछे बिताएंगे।


Carmarthen A40 link road opens after delay

Summary: A new road linking S4C's new headquarters in Carmarthen with the A40 dual carriageway has now opened following delays.

Work on the Carmarthen west link road started in 2015 but then stalled over negotiations with landowners. The scheme stopped for several months in 2017, the BBC previously reported. The county council then issued compulsory purchase orders. The work was originally budgeted at £5m but costs have now grown to £6.1m. As well as connecting the S4C headquarters at Yr Egin to the A40, the road will serve the Carmarthen campus of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. There are also plans by house building company Persimmon Homes to build a 1,000 new homes there.

कार्मार्थेन में एस4सी के नए मुख्यालय को ए40 दोहरे कैरिजवे से जोड़ने वाली एक नई सड़क अब देरी के बाद खोली गई है।


Joanna Lumley creates chutney to help the Gurkhas

Summary: Actress Joanna Lumley has helped to create a chutney that will go on sale as part of her efforts to support the Gurkhas.

She has worked with food company Sharwood to produce the limited edition Mango and Kashmiri Chilli chutney. She launched the product at the Harvey Nichols store in London before it is rolled out to supermarkets in September. Sharwood's will donate 10p from each jar sold to the Gurkha Welfare Trust. Last year the actress, whose father was an officer in the Gurkha regiment, fronted a campaign which changed government policy to allow Gurkhas who served in the Army before 1997 to settle in Britain.

अभिनेत्री जोआना लुमले ने एक चटनी बनाने में मदद की है जो गोरखाओं का समर्थन करने के उनके प्रयासों के हिस्से के रूप में बिक्री पर जाएगी।


Generation Game memories: Cuddly toys and crazy tasks

Summary: "A toaster, a fondue set, a cuddly toy!" The Generation Game, which began in 1971, will be back with the promise of more prizes, conveyor belts and Bake Off stars Mel and Sue as hosts - but what do families who took part in previous series think?

By Kate PalmerBBC News Sally Steve, who won the show with her dad Walter in 1977, says her cuddly toy - the show's trademark prize - is "looking very worse for wear" but that she has "delightful memories" of being on the show aged 18. "For a while we couldn't go anywhere and I was asked for autographs at school," says Sally, from Camden in north London. "It really was our 15 minutes of fame - Generation Game was compulsory viewing like the X Factor is now." Sally and Walter made it to the show's victory round: the conveyor belt. It is a memory test, where winners see prizes, from toasters to tea sets - including the compulsory cuddly toy - and name them later to win each one. But first, Sally and Walter had to perform a Maori war dance to win against the show's other contestants, three family couples. "We each had a pair of sticks and had to kneel on the floor and smack them together, it was complete mayhem," she says. But during the challenge, host Bruce Forsyth saw that Walter - who had trouble with his knees - was struggling and the long-time presenter "instantly stopped the filming". Sally says: "Bruce was so kind and caring to the contestants. Dad got the sympathy vote which is why we won." Past generations Who presented the show and what were the rules? Generation Game has mixed memories for Sally, since it was filmed five months after her mother - a fan of the show - had died from cancer the previous May. "She always used to threaten she would put me and dad on it," Sally says. "Not long after she died, they called us and I persuaded dad to do it." On top of their prize haul of an owl toy, coffee maker and puzzle, Sally and Walter were each given £25 to buy new clothes before the show - "It was ridiculous money, I bought a whole new outfit from Topshop", she says - and given a tour of the BBC's Television Centre. She is delighted new hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins are bringing the show back and said she hoped her own daughters - aged eight and 13 - could apply to take part with their dad. "They'll do a great job," she says. "It'll be good fun with them at the helm." Birthday blank "We had the biggest grins, we're so alike", says Louise Jones, who with dad Barry lost in a tie-break with one other family in the 2001 Christmas Special presented by Jim Davidson. "The question was, 'What's the fourth month of the year?' and despite being my birthday month no words came out - and the son from the other couple got it," Louise says. But Louise and Barry still won top points for an Austrian dance and another challenge, where they had to shave balloons with Father Christmas beards using a cut-throat razor. "The expert barber who was judging said to Dad, 'Barry, can you start on Monday?'" Louise, who was 29 at the time, says she narrowly avoided being pushed into a trifle because filming over-ran. "Jim [Davidson] said I was a fussy eater and all I liked was bacon and trifle, then read from his card that he was meant to produce one. "The stage had already been completely soaked in bubbles so there wasn't time to push me in and clean me up, so he gave me the cherry on top instead." Davidson was known for giving losers a little wooden man - a "Bendy Geezer" - as a commiseration present. But others were more lucky. Generation Game winner Steve Round, who got to the conveyor belt in 1998, also a Davidson show, gives his advice to budding contestants. He tells BBC News: "I'd got my wife to train me for the conveyor belt in the weeks leading up just in case we got that far - cutting out items from the Argos catalogue and memorising them. "It must have helped as we guessed all the prizes in record time and still have the cuddly toy!" He says it was a "great day at the BBC" where he and his mum did boxing, made a clay snail and performed a dance routine with the actress and dancer Bonnie Langford.

1971 में शुरू हुआ जनरेशन गेम और अधिक पुरस्कार, कन्वेयर बेल्ट और बेक ऑफ सितारों मेल और सू को मेजबान के रूप में पेश करने के वादे के साथ वापस आएगा-लेकिन पिछली श्रृंखला में भाग लेने वाले परिवार क्या सोचते हैं?


'Fake news': What's the best way to tame the beast?

Summary: Most people seem to agree that "fake news" is a big problem online, but what's the best way to deal with it? Is technology too blunt an instrument to discern truth from lies, satire from propaganda? Are human beings better at flagging up false stories?

By Lorelei MihalaTechnology of Business reporter During the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election, we were treated to headlines such as "Hillary Clinton sold weapons to Isis" and "Pope Francis endorsed Donald Trump for President". Both completely untrue. But they were just two examples of a tsunami of attention-grabbing, false stories that flooded social media and the internet. We were awash with so-called "fake news". Many such headlines were simply trying to drive traffic to websites for the purpose of earning advertising dollars. Others though, seemed part of a concerted attempt to sway public opinion in favour of one presidential candidate or the other. Commentators heaped opprobrium on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for not doing more to block such content on his influential social media platform, which now has more than two billion users worldwide. "Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic," he wrote in defence last November. "Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes." But a study conducted by news website BuzzFeed revealed that fake news travelled faster and further during the US election campaign. The 20 top-performing false election stories generated 8,711,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook, whereas the 20 best-performing election stories from 19 reputable news websites generated 7,367,000 shares, reactions and comments. "Due to our tendency as humans to believe in things that already support our opinions, it finds readers who then spread it to like-minded individuals using social media," says Magnus Revang, research director at Gartner. The criticism of Facebook obviously hit home, because it has now introduced a range of measures to tackle fake news, including placing ads in newspapers giving tips on how to spot such stories. It is also working with independent fact-checking organisations, such as Snopes, to help police its pages. "If the fact-checking organisations identify a story as false, it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to a corresponding article explaining why," explained Facebook's Adam Mosseri in April. Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski tells the BBC: "We don't really take directives from Facebook, we have a partnership, which means that if we have already debunked a story we mark it as debunked if it appears in a list of disputed news stories that is provided to us." Snopes uses a small editorial team to debunk, myths, urban legends and fake news, but a team of international students thinks an algorithm can do the job. They've created FiB, a program that analyses news on Facebook and labels stories as "verified" or "not verified". "Many social media giants had rejected the idea that an algorithm could detect fake news," says Anant Goel, FiB's 18-year-old co-founder. "We check the authenticity of the link itself for things such as malware, inappropriate content or how often fake news comes from that particular news site," explains Mr Goel, originally from Mumbai, India, now studying computer science at Purdue University in the US. "We also cross-check the content of each article across multiple databases to ensure the same thing is mentioned on other sources as well. "Depending on both of these factors, we generate an aggregated score. Anything that gets a rating below 70% gets marked as incorrect," he says. FiB, which can be added as a Google Chrome extension (in the US only), won a Google "Best Moonshot" award. Other Chrome extensions, such as B.S. Detector and Fake News Alert, aim to do similar things. But is this labelling-by-algorithm approach the right one? Gartner's Mr Revang has his doubts. "The challenge is that we would then be more inclined to believe stories that didn't have the label," he says. And this assumption would be "a real danger", he believes. "You would have plenty of stories it didn't detect, and some stories it would falsely detect. "The real danger, however, would be that adopting AI [artificial intelligence] to label fake news would most likely trigger fake news producers to increase their sophistication in order to fool the algorithms." Last year, Google came under fire after a link to a Holocaust denial site came top of search rankings in response to the question "did the Holocaust happen?" More Technology of Business Google's response has been to employ its army of 10,000 evaluators to flag up "offensive or upsetting" content. So, are people always going to be better than technology at doing this kind of job? "I actually think it would be an excellent idea if every social media network hired its own newsroom full of people," says Ms Binkowski. "The first network to do it, and to really go all in, would lead the way to the next phase of our social media culture." But Google - as you might expect - isn't giving up on technology just yet. This month, it awarded researchers at City, University of London £300,000 to build a web-based app called DMINR. The app combines machine learning and AI technologies to help journalists fact check and interrogate public data sets. The team will enlist the help of 30 European newsrooms to test the tool, which is aimed at tackling the proliferation of "fake news", as well helping journalist conduct investigations. So should social media platforms and search engines be treated like traditional publishers? "I don't believe you can put the same responsibility on social media and search engines as we do on newspapers and TV channels," says Mr Revang. But it's clear that some governments are losing patience with the "we're not publishers" defence. Germany, for example, recently voted to impose fines of up to 50m euros (£43.9m) on social media companies if they fail to remove "obviously illegal" content within 24 hours. But perhaps we should also take more responsibility to check out the provenance of stories first before unthinkingly clicking on that "share" button.

अधिकांश लोग इस बात से सहमत प्रतीत होते हैं कि "फेक न्यूज" ऑनलाइन एक बड़ी समस्या है, लेकिन इससे निपटने का सबसे अच्छा तरीका क्या है? क्या तकनीक सच और झूठ, व्यंग्य और प्रचार को समझने के लिए एक साधन है? क्या मनुष्य झूठी कहानियों को चिह्नित करने में बेहतर हैं?


How Norway's relationship with the EU has split views

Summary: Lars Tomasgaard watches as one of his workers carefully guides a large, black metal cauldron from one side of his factory to the other. It is hanging from a crane and inside the pot is molten copper, bubbling at 1,250 degrees celsius.

By Rob YoungBusiness reporter, BBC World Service, Oslo "It's scrap copper, any kind of copper. It comes from scrap dealers around northern Europe," says Mr Tomasgaard. His factory on the edge of the Norwegian capital Oslo smells of hot metal. In some parts of the building, everything is caked in red copper dust. Mr Tomasgaard's company, Nordox, turns the metal into copper powder to be used in specialised anti-fouling paint for the shipping industry. Nordox sells its products globally, but its biggest markets are nations in the European Union. The firm benefits from the free trade deal that Norway has with the EU. The free trade deal means Mr Tomasgaard can sell his product to customers in the EU without any tariffs - essentially import taxes - and so puts his products on a level playing field with similar companies in Germany, Spain or the UK. This Scandinavian nation of five million people is not a member of the EU but has access to its single market, with the exception of agriculture and fishing. It makes annual financial contributions to the EU and is part of the Schengen borderless area allowing free movement of people. It is often used as the perfect example of how a country can be successful in Europe without being part of the European Union. Yet many Norwegians believe the current arrangement is not working, and opinions remain polarised. Mr Tomasgaard complains EU rules are putting a "bureaucratic burden" on industrial firms, but nonetheless says he'd rather Norway became a full member of the European Union. "We definitely should be a part of the EU - absolutely. It's better to be within and then possibly change it than be on the outside and have no influence at all." Norway's fishing industry agrees. The nation's seas are rich in fish helping to make the country the world's second biggest seafood exporter. But fishing and agriculture are not part of Norway's trade deal with the European Union. So 70% of fish caught in Norwegian waters have tariffs slapped on them before they reach shops abroad. In total, the industry says it pays 1bn Norwegian krone in duties to the EU every year. "The lack of free trade with the EU is very difficult for us and has been a problematic area for years. Our fish become more expensive and our exporters have less income," says Kristin Alnes from the Norwegian Seafood Federation. She believes that full EU membership "would be the best solution", but acknowledges public opinion is not on her side. In fact, opinion polls suggest most Norwegians are happy with the status quo. The country has rejected EU membership in two referenda - the last one was in 1994. Like the bulk of the population, the country's influential farming lobby is keen to avoid any further integration with the European Union. On a city farm that educates families about agriculture, Ola Hedtson from the Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives, says that if Norway joined the EU and food was freely traded, Norway's farmers would simply not be able to compete on price. "It's expensive to produce food because of the climate, the topography and the geography. Food will always be expensive to produce in Norway. It's not possible to produce at the same price as in Holland." He also claims the country's lack of full EU membership means the food on sale in Norway is better quality. "There is no country using less antibiotics than Norway. That is something we have gained because we are not a member of the European Union and [don't have] have their regulations. In Norway we have also tried not to take the fastest road to the cheapest product. We have higher standards. " In the park and streets outside the parliament in Oslo the state of the country's democracy isn't evidently on the minds of the sunbathers and drinkers. But dig beneath the surface and many Norwegians are concerned. The equivalent of five EU rules are introduced into Norwegian law for each and every day this parliament sits. Yet no MP here can vote those rules down. Norway has a lack of "democracy and sovereignty," according to Katherine Kleveland who runs a campaign called NO 2 EU. The group opposes full EU membership, but also wants Norway to tear up its existing European trade deal. "The world is bigger than the EU. We want to be a part of the whole world and make our own choices. We want a trade agreement without being a part of the EU's laws and regulations," she says. Norway has higher than average immigration levels for a European country. But unlike discussions about the state of Europe in many countries, the issue is not controversial here. "We have needed all the people coming to Norway," says Ms Kleveland. With such divergent views on the best arrangement for Norway, the government has chosen to leave its relationship with the EU as it is. The Cabinet Minister Vidar Helgesen - a pro-EU membership Conservative - says Norway's relationship with the bloc is economically beneficial but is not as democratic as he would like. "It does provide most Norwegian businesses with the market access they need. It also provides Norway with the opportunity to have labour immigration big time from EU member states. That has served our economy very well," he says. Yet this most ardent of Norwegian Europhiles also believes that there are problems with the status quo. "It's not necessarily good for our democracy. We pay more or less on par with what we would have to do as a member state." He believes that EU membership would strengthen the country's influence in Europe, but acknowledges the Norwegian people have "little appetite" to have another referendum. However, Mr Helgesen says if Britain does vote for an EU exit in the 23 June referendum, then this might change views in Norway. "Much will change for Europe in the event of a Brexit and much will change for Britain, and much of that change will be for the worse," he believes.

लार्स टॉमसगार्ड देख रहा है कि उसका एक कर्मचारी अपने कारखाने के एक तरफ से दूसरी तरफ एक बड़ी, काली धातु की कड़ाही का सावधानीपूर्वक मार्गदर्शन कर रहा है। यह एक क्रेन से लटकी हुई है और बर्तन के अंदर पिघला हुआ तांबा है, जो 1,250 डिग्री सेल्सियस पर उबल रहा है।


Ineos to buy Dong Energy's oil and gas arm in £1bn deal

Summary: British petrochemicals group Ineos is set to become a major North Sea player after acquiring Danish firm Dong Energy's entire oil and gas business in a deal worth up to $1.3bn (£1bn).

The transaction includes production, development and exploration sites off Denmark, Norway and west of Shetland. Ineos said the move would make it the biggest private group operating in the North Sea. The company has been looking recently to expand its upstream arm. Last month it struck a $250m (£192m) deal with BP to buy the Forties pipeline system, which transports nearly 40% of the UK North Sea's oil and gas production. In the latest move, Ineos - which is controlled by British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe - will pay Dong just over $1bn, plus up to $250m in contingent payments. About 440 staff will transfer from Dong on completion of the deal, which is expected in the third quarter. Dong's oil and gas assets include stakes in Ormen Lange, the second largest gas field in Norwegian waters, and Laggan-Tormore, a new gas field west of Shetland which came on-stream early last year. Dong produced 100,000 barrels of oil and gas per day in 2016, down from 115,000 in 2015. It is also estimated to have as much as 570 million barrels of commercial and potential oil and gas reserves across the Danish, Norwegian and UK continental shelves. Mr Ratcliffe said the business was a "natural fit" for the group, which owns a major refinery in Grangemouth. He added: "This business is very important to us at this stage of our growth plans and we are delighted with the expertise that comes with it. "We have been successful in our petrochemical businesses, focusing on operating our assets safely, efficiently and reliably and we intend to do the same with our oil and gas assets. "We are keen on further growth and already see lots of opportunity within this impressive portfolio when it transfers to Ineos."

ब्रिटिश पेट्रोकेमिकल्स समूह इनियोस $1.3bn (£1bn) तक के सौदे में डेनिश फर्म डोंग एनर्जी के पूरे तेल और गैस व्यवसाय का अधिग्रहण करने के बाद एक प्रमुख उत्तरी सागर खिलाड़ी बनने के लिए तैयार है।


Brexit: See how your MP voted on the contempt motion

Summary: Theresa May's government lost a crucial vote on whether they were holding Parliament in contempt on Tuesday, by a margin of 311 votes to 293.

To find out how your MP voted, use the look-up below. Parliament had been unable to see the full legal advice on the prime minister's Brexit deal, prepared for ministers by the government's chief legal adviser. MPs argued that they needed this to make an informed choice on whether to approve the deal in a vote next week. Please upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP find the government in contempt of Parliament? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP Data from Commons Votes Services. Click here if you cannot see the look-up. Interactive produced by Will Dahlgreen and developed by Maryam Ahmed and Becky Rush.

थेरेसा मे की सरकार ने मंगलवार को एक महत्वपूर्ण वोट खो दिया कि क्या वे 293 के मुकाबले 311 मतों के अंतर से संसद की अवमानना कर रहे थे।


Police mephedrone warning after death in Pembroke Dock

Summary: Police have warned about the dangers of a formerly legal drug following the death of a 26-year-old man at a property in Pembroke Dock.

The dead man, and a second man who was taken to hospital, are believed to have taken mephedrone, known as meow meow. The cause of death is not yet known but toxicology tests will take place. Dyfed-Powys Police have warned about the dangers of the drug and say it can cause heart attacks. It has been linked with several UK deaths. "There are some serious side effects to using meow meow," said Det Insp Anthony Griffiths. "These can include heart attacks, seizures, sweating and paranoia." It has been illegal to possess or supply mephedrone since April 2010, and police say being caught with it could mean a jail sentence of up to five years.

पुलिस ने पेम्ब्रोक डॉक में एक संपत्ति में 26 वर्षीय व्यक्ति की मौत के बाद एक पूर्व कानूनी दवा के खतरों के बारे में चेतावनी दी है।


Why Sangin's fall to the Taliban matters

Summary: The Taliban's capture of the strategically-located Sangin, once considered the deadliest battlefield for US and British troops in Afghanistan, will increase the group's mobility in the north of the province and give it control of an important supply line with the provincial capital Lashkar Gah

By Dawood AzamiBBC World Service The Taliban has already captured a few of the 14 districts of Helmand, which borders Pakistan. According to some estimates, the insurgent group now controls more than half of the province, which produces the bulk of Afghanistan's lucrative opium crop. Reports say that the Afghan security forces pulled out overnight from the district headquarters and the main bazaar, after the Taliban launched a major attack. The Taliban insurgents had been trying to capture the Sangin headquarters for two years. Symbolic gain The Afghan soldiers and police who had been fighting hard to repel the repeated attacks by Taliban fighters, at times complained about not receiving reinforcements and being short of ammunition and food. The fall of Sangin, one of the most heavily-populated districts in Helmand, also indicates the Taliban's growing strength in the south, and has a symbolic significance for the US-Nato led mission in Afghanistan. Sangin district was perhaps the most dangerous and deadliest for all sides involved in the war in Afghanistan. Both the US and UK lost more soldiers in Sangin than in any of around 400 other districts in Afghanistan. Of the 456 British lives lost in Afghanistan since 2001, most of them - more than 100 - were killed in Sangin over a period of four years. Tactical retreat British forces were deployed in Helmand province in 2006 to secure it and prepare the ground for good governance and reconstruction. Although some progress was made by the more than 10,000 British troops based there, the fighting soon intensified, resulting in the death of many Afghan and British forces as well as civilians. By 2009, the then Afghan president Hamid Karzai and American officials expressed dissatisfaction with the British performance. In 2010, thousands of US Marines were deployed to replace British troops and responsibility for security was transferred from the UK to the US in several areas of Helmand, including Sangin, Nawa, Garmsir, Marjah, Khanshin and Nawzad. Within the first 90 days of their deployment, around 20 US Marines were killed in Sangin. Since responsibility for security was handed over from international forces to the Afghan government in 2014, hundreds of Afghan forces have lost their lives defending Sangin. The fight to capture Sangin also took the lives of more Taliban fighters than any other battle for territory in Afghanistan. Afghan forces say they have made a tactical retreat from the centre of Sangin, which has been fiercely fought over for more than a decade. The Taliban's capture of Sangin will also have a destabilising effect on neighbouring Kandahar, a province of huge strategic and political significance, and whose capital is Afghanistan's second-largest town. What next? The fall of Sangin is an indication that this year's fighting season might be even tougher as the group is planning to push even harder to expand its footprint throughout the country. The Taliban now controls more territory than at any point since the US-led invasion in 2001 which toppled its regime. The loss of Sangin underlines the challenge facing the Afghan government and its Western allies, who, according to US military officials are in a "stalemate" with the Taliban. The new US President Donald Trump has yet to announce his Afghanistan strategy, but it is likely to involve sending a few thousand more troops to help the approximately 13,000 personnel from Nato allies and partner countries currently based in the country. There are two possibilities now. The Afghan forces, with the help of US Special Forces and aerial bombing, might try to recapture the district as seen in some other parts of the country. Or the government will leave it to the Taliban, as they have done in a few other districts in Helmand, and focus on defending Lashkar Gah.

रणनीतिक रूप से स्थित सांगिन पर तालिबान का कब्जा, जिसे कभी अफगानिस्तान में अमेरिकी और ब्रिटिश सैनिकों के लिए सबसे घातक युद्धक्षेत्र माना जाता था, प्रांत के उत्तर में समूह की गतिशीलता को बढ़ाएगा और इसे प्रांतीय राजधानी लश्कर गाह के साथ एक महत्वपूर्ण आपूर्ति लाइन का नियंत्रण देगा।


Coronavirus: The retail revolution gathers pace

Summary: Imagine half a million jobs being lost in only three years, with the process now accelerating. That's British retail. Lockdown has boosted the pace of a revolution that has been under way for years. Shop numbers are being drastically cut back. The main battle front is between retailers and commercial landlords, being forced to reduce rents by firms collapsing, with collateral damage to shopping streets and staff.

Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, Scotland Nearly quarter of a million jobs are forecast to disappear this year, in retail alone. With them, more than 20,000 shops are likely to close. The numbers, from the Centre for Retail Research, are staggering, as the UK's coronavirus lockdown raises the pace of a structural change that was already under way. The colossal job loss numbers are not new because of Covid-19 - only higher. The Centre for Retail Research calculates that 2018 saw 117,000 jobs going across the UK, and more than 14,000 units closing. It says last year saw 143,000 jobs going, and the closure of more than 16,000 shops. Around a third of those job losses were due to companies going bust: others were due to slimming down, and shedding less profitable units. The forecast for this year - 243,000 fewer retail jobs - was based on data available in the early weeks of lockdown, so did not take account of it lasting longer than first expected. Customer shopping habits were already shifting, much of that driven by online competition. Lockdown forced non-essential, non-food shops to close. Even as they re-open, they are having to contend with lower footfall, and infection controls constraining numbers and interaction in stores. Primark may have been a popular destination for the early returners to shops, but will the ultra-cheap garment trade remain in vogue more widely? With the fashion cycle disrupted, will it turn over as fast in future? And with many more working from home, will the spend on clothes for the office be reduced permanently? 'Restructuring' The roll-call of company administrations and 'restructurings' is lengthy. Among the better-known names since lockdown began, there was Laura Ashley furniture and fabrics, closing 70 stores permanently and it's not clear how many might reopen. Cath Kidston homeware, gifts and clothes followed, and has opted to go fully online. Shirt maker TM Lewin recently did likewise. Debenhams has been in administration and may return there. Oasis and Warehouse fashion saw a complete collapse and closure. LK Bennett fashion went into administration, and the future of its stores network remains unclear. Monsoon Accessorize went for a pre-pack deal - meaning administration immediately followed by a sale of assets to a new owner, sometimes looking very like the previous one. Many jobs can be salvaged that way, the business keeps trading, and the creditors are off its back. The bakery/cafe chain Le Pain Quotidien did something similar. So did Go Outdoors, put into administration by JD Sports, and immediately bought back by it. Poundstretcher is trying to do that through administration for its property arm. Last week, it was the turn of Bensons for Beds and Harveys furniture, owned by the Blue Group. Most Bensons stores will reopen, after a management buy-back, but it has shed its less profitable ones, while Harveys' future is uncertain. Quiz fashion, based in Glasgow, put itself in the hands of administrators, and the question of how many of its 82 stores re-open depends on negotiations with landlords. 'Misguided and myopic' The theme running through many of these is that tussle between retailers and their landlords. It has to do with lease contracts that were, for decades, more favourable to landlords. To understand what's been going on, experts pointed me to the days, in the 1980s and 1990s, when retail property was building out rapidly. Supermarkets were grabbing every opportunity they could find to build, often as anchors for out-of-town retail parks. Councils were enticing developers onto their turf on favourable terms, eager for the business rates and other spin-offs. With retailers following the trend to sprawling national chains of shops, they were willing to sign up to long leases, often of 25 years, with upwards-only rent revisions. For some department stores, the leases could run for several decades, giving the stability to justify expensive fit-outs and investment in building a customer base. These rents were paid on an archaic quarterly basis, which skews retail accounting. With the 2008 financial crash, the brakes were slammed on funding for commercial property. "Retailers thought it was a bank problem, and that they would return to normal," says one consultant. "But they were being misguided and myopic." The shift to online was already under way. The long leases were already being replaced by shorter ones, except for big food retailers. Their battle for presence and market share continues. For most retailers, the 25-year lease has been replaced. Typically, it is now a five-year lease, containing a break point at three years. With less stability, fit-outs are done more cheaply. And whereas rents have been inflexible, with only upward revisions, retailer power is demanding that more leases base rent on turnover. That runs at about 6 to 10%, with more than half now payable monthly rather than quarterly. Brutal haircuts To get landlords to accept the change, firms are using administration, to offload debt, and also less profitable stores and staff. Short of that, they're using CVAs - the Company Voluntary Arrangement. This avoids administration, with persuasion of 75% of creditor votes that they will get more money out of accepting a flat rate "haircut", or a proportionate reduction in debt, than they will get from dealing with an administrator. It's a brutal process, in which commercial landlords are deeply frustrated by the legal methods to ditch leases, particularly as they routinely get outvoted by other creditors in a CVA. The landlords can often seem to be faceless, distant investment funds, but they point out that their funding is often from pension funds. So reduced returns hit home for many people. The process has drawn in private equity firms, buying brands with little sentimental attachment to their history or loyalty to their staff, and impatience for turnaround and exit from their investment. And in shopping centres left behind as the national brand retreats, the new investors - in England, at least - are often local councils, redeveloping unwanted retail space for other purposes, including more social uses. Some experts warn just one of the risks of this retail revolution is that the focus on reducing rents and store numbers is being driven financially and without insufficient attention to the underlying, longer-term business challenge - that of better understanding shifting shopper behaviour and customer preference, and not only towards online.

कल्पना कीजिए कि केवल तीन वर्षों में पांच लाख नौकरियां चली गई हैं, और अब प्रक्रिया तेज हो गई है। यह ब्रिटिश खुदरा है। लॉकडाउन ने एक क्रांति की गति को बढ़ाया है जो वर्षों से चल रही है। दुकानों की संख्या में भारी कटौती की जा रही है। मुख्य लड़ाई खुदरा विक्रेताओं और वाणिज्यिक मकान मालिकों के बीच है, जो कंपनियों द्वारा किराए को कम करने के लिए मजबूर हैं, जिससे खरीदारी की सड़कों और कर्मचारियों को संपार्श्विक नुकसान हो रहा है।


Intel Haswell processors offer 'longer battery life'

Summary: Intel has formally launched its Haswell family of processors.

By Leo KelionTechnology reporter The firm says the chips offer improved battery life and a leap in graphics power over the previous generation. Intel is the leading PC chip-maker and its product refreshes typically spur on new laptop and desktop sales. Computers using the chips have already been unveiled at the Computex tech show. However, studies suggest the market is in decline because of competition from smartphones and tablets. Most smart devices are powered by chips based on designs by the British firm ARM rather than the x86 architecture used by Intel. Even so, Intel said Haswell would allow laptops and two-in-one devices - offering both a laptop and tablet experience - to become thinner and last longer between charges, increasing their appeal. It added that one version of the new chips featured CPU (central processing unit) cores which used just six watts of scenario design power - its power usage during "regular" tasks. Intel said this was low enough for Haswell to be used in "cooler, quieter, fanless designs". The amount of heat given off by the previous generation, Ivy Bridge, had meant that two fans needed to be included in the design of Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet. Haswell tocks Haswell - or the fourth generation Intel Core processors, as the family is formally known - marks the "tock" in the US firm's regular "tick-tock" development cycle. This refers to the fact that its improvements centre around a new chip architecture rather than a change to its transistors. The firm says the new design of the family's CPU cores is capable of delivering a 15% boost in performance, a 50% improvement in active-use battery life, and up to three times the amount of standby battery life when compared to the performance of Ivy Bridge. In addition, it says versions of the chip which include its new integrated GPU (graphics processing unit) - which it calls Iris - offer twice the performance when handling complex tasks such as generating 3D graphics or encoding high definition video. For some users, that will mean they do not need a separate graphics card - something that adds to the bulk and cost of a computer. It could also help drive the roll-out of laptops with higher resolution screens. These make more demands on a chip's GPU because more pixels are involved. Some reviews of Apple's 13in Macbook Pro with Retina Display - which relies on Ivy Bridge's less powerful integrated GPU to drive its 226 pixels per inch (ppi) screen - suggested that the laptop struggled to cope in some situations. However, Nvidia - a GPU card maker - has already warned Haswell has limits of its own. "Any serious gamer will tell you that integrated graphics is far from adequate for delivering a reasonable, let alone good experience," it said. "Haswell won't change that." Longer lasting Intel boasts that the improvement in battery life is the biggest such gain in its history. The company says it was able to do this because Haswell is more aggressive at cutting voltages to the parts of its architecture that do not need it. "If someone is typing on their PC, we can literally shut everything down when it's not being used and then immediately bring it back up again in between the keystrokes," Navin Shenoy, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group, told the BBC. "The system is smart enough to know it's not being used for those nanoseconds. That's the kind of granular power management at the chip level that we've never had before." Intel has achieved this by integrating a voltage regulator into its chip's architecture for the first time. In the past as many as seven additional third-party chips were needed to take care of this task. An added benefit is that space is saved inside the computer. Mr Shenoy added that his firm had also worked with companies who make other components used in PCs to ensure they are optimised to complement Haswell's power regulation abilities. ARM's challenge Intel says Haswell marks a "radical change" to its processor line-up, but it also highlights the continuation of a long-running business strategy. "Intel has always held onto the value of its chips by integrating more components," said Sergis Mushell, a computer chip expert at the tech consultancy Gartner. "It takes parts that were previously discrete - such as the need for a separate GPU - and builds them in. It's the only way the firm can protect its margins." But another analyst warned that Intel might struggle to repeat past profits. "Intel and the other x86-chip maker AMD both have a huge problem: they are trying to sell processors for computers into a market where people have increasingly lost interest," said Chris Green, principal technology analyst at Davies Murphy Group Europe. "People don't want PCs in the same volumes they did, and are increasingly going for ARM-based smart devices instead. "Windows 8 has also failed to deliver the traditional uplift in PC sales which you'd expect from a new version of Microsoft's system making it even harder for Intel to ship large quantities of its processors to PC-makers - and Apple Macs and Linux PCs have not been able to mop up the slack." However, Mr Mushell was more optimistic noting that the Haswell line-up would soon be joined by a cheaper range of Intel chips - codenamed Bay Trail - which he said had a good chance of appearing in Android devices.

इंटेल ने औपचारिक रूप से अपने हैस्वेल प्रोसेसर परिवार को लॉन्च किया है।


Bombay Bicycle Club and Feeder added to T in the Park

Summary: Bombay Bicycle Club, Feeder and Benjamin Francis Leftwich are among several acts added to this year's T in the Park line-up.

Other additions include J Cole, Reverend & the Makers, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Zulu Winter, The Milk and Dawes. This year's festival takes place in Balado, Kinross-shire, between 6 and 8 July. Snow Patrol and Kasabian join The Stones Roses as main stage headliners. Also playing at the festival will be Tinie Tempah, Kaiser Chiefs, Jessie J, Example, Calvin Harris, Nicki Minaj, Emeli Sande, Skrillex, The Darkness, Labrinth, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Florence and the Machine and The Maccabees. BBC Radio 1 will be broadcasting highlights and live music with an 85,000 capacity on each day of the festival.

बॉम्बे साइकिल क्लब, फीडर और बेंजामिन फ्रांसिस लेफ्टविच इस साल के टी इन द पार्क लाइन-अप में जोड़े गए कई कृत्यों में से हैं।


Firefighters free horse stuck in mud and water in Prestatyn

Summary: Firefighters in Denbighshire were called to rescue a horse that got stuck chest-deep in water and mud.

The horse got stuck in a stream known as the 'Prestatyn Gutter' near Marine Road East in the town. Firefighters from Prestatyn and an animal rescue team from Colwyn Bay were called at 16:27 BST on Monday. A vet was called to assist until the animal was freed unharmed in an hour long operation using straps and a winch.

डेनबिघशायर में अग्निशामकों को एक घोड़े को बचाने के लिए बुलाया गया जो पानी और कीचड़ में सीने तक फंस गया था।


Baljit Singh death: Two murder arrests over strangling

Summary: Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man found strangled in an alleyway.

Emergency services found the body of Baljit Singh, 37, in an alleyway off Station Road, in Hayes, west London, on 25 April at about 22:30 BST. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as compression to the neck. Two men, aged 20 and 24, arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody, police said. For more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

गली में गला घोंटकर हत्या करने के संदेह में दो लोगों को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?

Summary: For the past week, I've been running a very successful small business via Facebook. It is called VirtualBagel and more than 3,000 people from around the world have decided they "like" it - despite the fact that it does, well, absolutely nothing. But in running this non-existent firm I have learned quite a bit about the value of those "likes" prized by so many big brands, and the usefulness of Facebook's advertising.

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter When social media consultant Michael Tinmouth told me of his concerns about the returns his small business clients were getting from advertising on Facebook, I decided I needed to mount an experiment. Could I persuade Facebook users to click on adverts for an imaginary business and like it? The idea for VirtualBagel was born from something my oldest son came up with many years ago, as he watched a picture download very slowly from the internet onto our first computer: "What if we could download doughnuts too?" So my business was going to be called VirtualDoughnut - until I realised I needed a copyright-free photo, and I had only bagels, not doughnuts to hand. I set up a page, with very basic information: "We send you bagels via the internet - just download and enjoy." The fuller description talked of a dream of delivering virtual bagels over the internet to a world of virtual eaters. But nothing more. Next, I created my first advert, which is a fairly simple process. You choose your objective - mine was to reach people who were most likely to "like" my page - how much you want to spend - I opted for $10 (about £6.50) - and where you want it seen. I chose the United States, the UK, Russia, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. I narrowed it down slightly by targeting under 45-year-olds interested in cookery and consumer electronics, but was told that would still give me a potential audience of 112 million customers. Then I pressed the button and waited. Within minutes people were starting to "like" my meaningless site, and within 24 hours I had 1,600 likes - and had spent my $10. Where were they from? It seemed VirtualBagel was hugely popular in Egypt, Indonesia and the Philippines, but just about nobody in the US or the UK had any interest. And amongst my likers were some interesting characters, notably Ahmed Ronaldo. He was from Cairo - the city where my page is still most liked - but seemed to work at Real Madrid, and his profile consisted of nothing but pictures of Cristiano Ronaldo. What was more interesting was what else he liked besides VirtualBagel - more than 3,000 pages, ranging from a retailer called Titchy Kitch London to Mr H Menswear to Pets World. What exactly was going on? Over the next few days, I tinkered with my advert, removing a number of countries so that I was just targeting the US, the UK and India. The "likes" continued to mount, though very few came from the US or UK. After four days, my page was "liked" by nearly 3,000 people. Then for one final day, I decided to advertise solely to UK Facebook users. The results were frankly disappointing - new "likes" slowed to a trickle. After spending a total of $60 (£40) VirtualBagel had built an audience in Egypt and India, but was not making an impact in the lucrative UK or US markets. Then I sat down to analyse the results, with the aid of Facebook's adverts manager page. I'm a newcomer to the arcane world of online advertising metrics but one thing leaped out. When my advert was broadly targeted the click-through rate - the number of clicks on the advert divided by the number of times it was shown - was 0.55%. That had generated nearly 3,000 "likes" over four days. But when I restricted the advert to UK users, the click through rate fell to 0.059% - about a 10th as many. And in the one day that advert ran, I achieved just 17 "likes" for my $10. So, it seems that Facebook adverts can be very effective in generating interest in your business from certain countries but not in the US or the UK. And I think my experiment raises a lot of questions. Who are these people in some countries who are clicking in an apparently random way on thousands of Facebook adverts and earning the network a small fee each time? Is Facebook worried that there seem to be a number of fake profiles in certain countries generating fake "likes" and so devaluing the worth of its advertising system? Is the network being as active as it should be in addressing a problem which is generating lots of revenue for its bottom line? Now Facebook, it is important to say, feels my experiment is worthless because I have simply failed to target my advert in a way which delivers useful results. The company also says it sees no significant issue with fake profiles and is acting to discourage the practice. The question you may ask is why does any of this matter? Well, Facebook has just arrived on the stock market with a valuation of $100bn, which was entirely based on the promise that advertising revenue will continue to grow from last year's $4bn. So if advertisers - big or small - start losing confidence in what the Facebook platform has to offer, then that will be very serious indeed for the company's future prospects.

पिछले एक हफ्ते से, मैं फेसबुक के माध्यम से एक बहुत ही सफल छोटा व्यवसाय चला रहा हूं। इसे वर्चुअलबैगल कहा जाता है और दुनिया भर के 3,000 से अधिक लोगों ने फैसला किया है कि वे इसे "पसंद" करते हैं-इस तथ्य के बावजूद कि यह करता है, ठीक है, बिल्कुल कुछ भी नहीं। लेकिन इस गैर-मौजूद फर्म को चलाने में मैंने उन "पसंद" के मूल्य के बारे में काफी कुछ सीखा है जो इतने सारे बड़े ब्रांडों द्वारा बेशकीमती हैं, और फेसबुक के विज्ञापन की उपयोगिता।


Murder investigation after body found in Cleethorpes house

Summary: Police have started an investigation into the murder of man at a seaside resort in north east Lincolnshire.

The body of Shaun Lyall was discovered when officers were called to a house in Sidney Street, Cleethorpes at 18:45 BST on Tuesday. Humberside Police said they thought it was a "targeted incident and do not believe there is a threat to the wider community". A police cordon is in place and extra officers are patrolling the area. More on this and other Lincolnshire stories

पुलिस ने उत्तर पूर्व लिंकनशायर में एक समुद्र तटीय रिसॉर्ट में एक व्यक्ति की हत्या की जांच शुरू कर दी है।


Murder probe after body found in Sunderland house

Summary: The death of a man who was found with "significant injuries" is being treated as murder, Northumbria police said.

Barry Solomon, 42, was discovered in a house in Kemble Square in Downhill, Sunderland on Saturday night. Three youths arrested in connection with the death have been released on bail. A 39-year-old woman who was also arrested has been released "under investigation", without bail. A cordon is in place at the property. Officers have appealed for witnesses. Related Internet Links Northumbria Police

नॉर्थम्ब्रिया पुलिस ने कहा कि "गंभीर चोटों" के साथ पाए गए एक व्यक्ति की मौत को हत्या माना जा रहा है।


Newspaper headlines: '12 rules of Christmas' and Sunak's 'New Deal'

Summary: "Season's meetings" is the headline on the front page of the Daily Mirror as it reports on the easing of the coronavirus rules over Christmas. The Daily Mail says the UK will "unite for festive cheer" - but points out that care home residents over the age of 65 won't be allowed to join their families.

By BBC NewsStaff The Sun has had fun merging Boris Johnson's face on to the body of the Slade frontman Noddy Holder - along with a lyrical pun from the band's famous festive song - "Here it is... mini Christmas". It delivers the news that families can hug and party when the rules are relaxed - but points out that the new enlarged "bubbles" won't be able to go to the pub together. 'Covid grinches' The paper congratulates the UK's leaders for granting the country a Christmas "of sorts", while suggesting that "Covid grinches" who wanted to abandon this year's festivities entirely can still lock themselves away and watch Home Alone. A comment piece in the Times observes that not everyone wants a "normal Christmas", and that "lockdown misanthropes" won't want to lose their pretext to isolate. On a more serious note - the prime minister's message urging people not to "throw caution to the wind" is on the front of the Daily Express. The Times carries a warning from government scientific advisers that the festive rule change will cost lives and risk another lockdown in January. 'Systemic economic crisis' The Guardian says it has seen a confidential government document which admits that the UK faces an increased likelihood of a "systemic economic crisis" as it completes its exit from the EU in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic. The leaked briefing also warns that the country could have to deal with a perfect storm of simultaneous disasters - including coronavirus, a bad flu season, severe flooding, and co-ordinated industrial action - just as the Brexit transition period comes to an end. The Cabinet Office told the paper that this wasn't a prediction of what will happen - but shows that the government is ensuring it's ready for all eventualities. Overseas aid cut 'morally wrong' The Times reports that five former prime ministers are now opposed to the government's plan to cut the UK's foreign aid target - which is expected to be confirmed in the chancellor's spending review this afternoon. The paper quotes Sir John Major as saying that cutting overseas aid "is morally wrong and politically unwise". The Sun disagrees - saying that change is needed because currently "vast sums are wasted" or end up lining the pockets of corrupt politicians. Former aid worker Sarah Dusek uses a comment piece in the Daily Telegraph to say that those who see the aid budget as a symbol of the UK's commitment to the world shouldn't be so concerned - because developing countries need investment and ambition, not pity and handouts. The winner of this year's Great British Bake Off is pictured smiling on the front of several of the papers. Last night, 20-year-old Peter Sawkins became the show's youngest ever champion. The Daily Telegraph describes the Edinburgh University student as being part of "Generation Bake Off" - as he grew up watching the show and it inspired him to take up baking. The show's final gets four stars in the Daily Mail - which describes it as such great entertainment that it almost made us forget that we're in the middle of a pandemic. The i thanks the series for giving a lift to what has been - in Bake Off terminology - a "soggy-bottomed year". Sunak studies his sums Several of the papers include photographs of the chancellor preparing for today's spending review - or in the words of the Daily Mail- studying his sums. The i's political editor, Nigel Morris, believes this afternoon's statement by Rishi Sunak could mark the moment when his popularity begins to wane, as he must now spell out how the vast bills accumulated over the past eight months will be paid back. In the Times, Daniel Finkelstein describes it as the biggest test yet of Mr Sunak's political skills - as he'll have to raise taxes and say no to a lot of spending demands. A cartoon in the Daily Telegraph depicts the chancellor scratching his head as he looks at a particularly bare money tree. The Daily Mirror says as Mr Sunak reveals his plans for Britain's recovery, he also has the chance to lift thousands of children out of poverty. The paper is campaigning for a £5 a week increase in child benefit, and a rise in the National Minimum wage. It carries an article by the former Labour prime minister Tony Blair, who had wanted to eradicate child poverty by this year. He says it's a "national tragedy" that millions of children still live in poverty in the UK. The Sun claims that allies of Sir Keir Starmer have said the Labour leader will order his MPs to back almost any trade deal that Boris Johnson forges with Brussels. They hope that such an approach will help win back the trust of "Red Wall" voters lost to the Conservatives in last year's election. Labour's official line is that no decision on this has been taken. Cricket tea in crisis The Daily Telegraph is concerned that the traditional village cricket tea may be in jeopardy. The Sussex Cricket League has said that next summer it will no longer be mandatory for the home team to serve up the normal selection of cakes, scones and sandwiches. The Times thinks a lack of "beige and brown delights" in the interval would make the sport more sterile than the requirement to sanitise the ball every six overs. The Daily Mail quotes a cricket fan who called the decision "a sign of the beginning of the end of civilisation". The league's chairman has offered the reassurance that the rule is only for 2021 - and could be changed the following season. Sign up for a morning briefing direct to your inbox

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