Rare black-winged kite spotted in Alderney

Summary: A rare black-winged kite has been spotted in Alderney.

Alderney Bird Observatory warden John Horton spotted the raptor while "pottering about in the garden". He said he happened to look up to see the bird "coming in over the sea", adding: "If I wasn't on lockdown I wouldn't have seen it." The first recorded sighting of the kite in the Channel Islands was made in Guernsey in 2018. The bird of prey has never been recorded in the UK, the British Trust for Ornithology confirmed. Mr Horton described the sighting as "enormous news" for the British bird-watching community, as the furthest north the species is recorded to breed is central Spain. "We're 1,000 miles north of where it should be," he said.

एल्डर्नी में एक दुर्लभ काले पंखों वाली पतंग देखी गई है।


Sgt Pepper artist Peter Blake produces art for Gatwick

Summary: The artist who designed The Beatles' iconic Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve has produced a series of canvases to greet travellers arriving at Gatwick Airport.

Sir Peter Blake's work shows London through the ages. He said: "They are a fantasy London, so each one is a specific tourist attraction, but then lovely odd things are happening." They are on display in the North and South Terminals of the airport. He said: "If you're waiting for your bag and looking around you think, what are those animals doing in Westminster abbey? "However much time you've got, there's a lot to look at." In April Sir Peter recreated the Sgt Pepper cover to celebrate his 80th birthday, which included celebrities Amy Winehouse and Kate Moss.

द बीटल्स के प्रतिष्ठित सार्जेंट पेपर के लोनली हार्ट्स क्लब बैंड एल्बम स्लीव को डिजाइन करने वाले कलाकार ने गैटविक हवाई अड्डे पर आने वाले यात्रियों का स्वागत करने के लिए कैनवस की एक श्रृंखला का निर्माण किया है।


Access limited to Guernsey Airport by airfield project

Summary: Access to Guernsey Airport will be limited at the weekend due to the installation of traffic lights and removal of kerbs at its entrance.

Changes to the junction are to allow greater access into the compound opposite the entrance that houses asphalt and concrete batching plants. During the work the western approach road will be closed from 06:30 BST on Saturday to 06:30 BST on Monday. A diversion will be in place along Rue du Mont Marche and Vue de L'Eglise. For traffic heading past the airport a separate diversion will be in place. Airport authorities have advised islanders to allow more time for journeys to and from the airport. Colin Le Ray, the airport director, has apologised for any inconvenience.

सप्ताहांत में ट्रैफिक लाइटों की स्थापना और इसके प्रवेश द्वार पर कर्ब्स को हटाने के कारण ग्वेर्नसे हवाई अड्डे तक पहुंच सीमित होगी।


Borders Railway engineering work warning issued

Summary: Passengers on the Borders Railway have been advised to check their journeys in advance ahead of engineering work.

Track replacement is taking place in the Newcraighall area over three Sundays - 4, 11 and 18 June. Journey times on the line will be extended and buses will replace trains between Edinburgh and Gorebridge. Rail services will run as normal on the rest of the line. Customers have been advised to check train times on the ScotRail app or website. A ScotRail Alliance spokesperson said: "We appreciate our customers' patience while we undertake these vital works."

सीमा रेलवे पर यात्रियों को इंजीनियरिंग कार्य से पहले अपनी यात्रा की जांच करने की सलाह दी गई है।


Brexit: Germany's CDU leader hopes for second referendum

Summary: "Have you heard about the British party guest? He's the one who announces he's leaving, then you find him hours later wandering around the house with no money for a taxi. When he finally goes, he takes two bottles of wine with him."

Katya AdlerEurope editor@BBCkatyaadleron Twitter European stereotype depictions tend to portray Germans as lacking a sense of humour. But in political cartoons and on satire shows like Extra 3, Germany is finding plenty to laugh about Brexit. "Fisch und Tschüss" is a slogan for the satirical news programme, The Heute [today] Show - a play on words for the traditional UK dish, fish and chips. Except Tschüss in German means goodbye. After initially mourning the UK's vote to leave, then following every twist and turn of negotiations for a while, many Germans now feel alienated from the process. They can't keep up with what's going on in the House of Commons. "I no longer care so much how Brexit ends," you often hear. "As long as it ends." "Brexit has been a strain on all of us. In some ways it has paralysed us," Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told me in Berlin in a UK exclusive interview. She's the leader of Germany's CDU party, very close to Angela Merkel and widely tipped to be the next German chancellor. Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer - also known as AKK - is far from detached when it comes to Brexit. She and a number of other German politicians penned a letter to the Times newspaper back in January, appealing to the UK to change its mind. Now, the EU's determined attempt to show unity at all times over Brexit means it has been frustratingly difficult to get EU leaders to agree to in-depth, on-the-record Brexit interviews . But AKK is not the German chancellor. She had no qualms about laying bare her Brexit regret. "Anything that keeps the UK close to the EU and best of all, in the EU, would make me personally very happy" she told me. "Maybe that could result from the current talks between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn." She hopes for a second referendum - but only, she said, if the majority of UK citizens felt it would heal the country rather than exacerbate divisions further. With the deadline for a Brexit decision looming next week on 12 April, Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer believes the risk of the UK leaving without a deal have "risen dramatically". This is something German business find no laughing matter. A recent poll suggested 100,000 German jobs could be affected by a no-deal Brexit. The BDI Federation of German Industry warned Germany would lose at least 0.5% of its GDP - and this at a time when the German economy is already heading south. That, I think, is why there is a sudden, noticeable softening in tone when EU leaders speak about Brexit. At a press conference in Dublin on Thursday, Chancellor Merkel struck a determinedly encouraging note. Instead of "no-deal is the most likely scenario" or "if Theresa May requests a longer extension, we'll attach really tough conditions", which we've got used to hearing by now, Mrs Merkel chose the words: "Where there's a will, there's a way." Peering into the abyss of a no-deal Brexit over the last few days, EU leaders have had a short, sharp reality check. What impact would that have on them and their countries, they wonder? And what are they be prepared to do to avoid it? There is no common EU position on this yet. That's putting it politely. Verbal fisticuffs are predicted at next week's emergency Brexit summit when the 27 EU leaders come face-to-face. The man who represents all of them here in Brussels, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, thinks he may have found a solution. However, it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. He's proposing what he calls a "flextension", which could see the UK signing up to a one-year-long Brexit delay with the option to cut it short as soon as parliament ratified the Brexit deal. Mr Tusk believes the arrangement would suit the EU and the UK - and as one EU official put it to me, it would avoid Brussels potentially being faced with "endless" UK requests for repeated short extensions every few weeks. EU leaders will discuss Mr Tusk's proposal at next Wednesday's summit. By law, their decision must be unanimous. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer suggested something else the EU could do: take another look at the controversial backstop guarantee to keep the Irish border open after Brexit. "If the UK now came to us and said, 'let's spend five days negotiating non-stop on how to avoid the backstop', I can't imagine anyone in Europe saying 'No'. If the UK had new watertight proposals for the border, I don't think anyone in the EU would say, 'We don't want to talk about it.'" Far from official EU Brexit policy, but it gives us a taster of the kind of conversations going on behind closed EU political doors.

"क्या आपने ब्रिटिश पार्टी के मेहमान के बारे में सुना है? वही है जो घोषणा करता है कि वह जा रहा है, फिर आप उसे घंटों बाद घर में घूमते हुए पाते हैं कि उसके पास टैक्सी के लिए पैसे नहीं हैं। जब वह अंत में जाता है, तो वह अपने साथ शराब की दो बोतलें ले जाता है।"


The three-year-old with an IQ of 171

Summary: When Natalie and Ben's daughter Ophelia joined the high-IQ society Mensa at only three years old, they knew they would be accused of being pushy parents. But what is it like to have a naturally-gifted child?

"Really it was from about eight months old [that we realised how bright she could be]," Natalie Morgan tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. Her daughter Ophelia had said her first word, 'hiya', a few months younger than the norm. "It really went from there. She started saying her colours, letters, numbers quite early on compared to most children." By the age of two, Ophelia, the couple's first child, was able to remember and recite the alphabet. They knew she was above average having read up online, but it was not until she started at play school that they realised how more advanced she was than her peers. That was when they decided to get Ophelia assessed, taking her to a child psychologist who specialises in gifted children. "We just really wanted to clarify how we could help her," father Ben Dew, an IT support worker, explains. "We didn't want her to feel she was being pushed, but at the same time we didn't want her to feel under-stimulated." From there Ophelia took the Stanford-Binet test - used to assess children from the age of two on areas such as spatial awareness and verbal and logic skills. The average IQ score for people of all ages is 100, with most people ranging between 85 and 115. Ophelia scored 171. "I was worried people would think we're pushy parents," admits Natalie. "I would be proud of Ophelia no matter what she did, as long as she's happy and healthy." Lyn Kendall, a psychologist and gifted child consultant for British Mensa, says exceptional children process things quickly, have a good memory, and are more attentive to what is happening around them. They also have a thirst to learn, with which she says parents find it difficult to keep up. "Usually when the parents come to me they say, 'help, this child does not want to stop asking questions and learning all the time'," she says. "One thing parents find is it's quite isolating. You can't [talk to other parents about it] at the school gates, because it sounds boastful. "These children start at five in the morning, and they don't stop until they go to sleep." Ms Kendall says, however, that unlike Natalie and Ben, some parents are pushy - something to which she is strongly opposed. "[These parents] give their children high-energy foods, special juice mixes. Their days are timetabled," she says. "I have parents ring me up and say, 'at 18:30 we have intellectual conversation'. "You just think, 'When do they have time to be a child?'." Ms Kendall's son, now 36, was gifted himself as a child. He has written a novel and worked for Microsoft, which was his dream job growing up. But the psychologist says she always placed a focus on making sure he was well-rounded. "Though these children's brains are zipping ahead at lightning speed, their bodies and emotions are still children and we always have to remember that," she explains. 'Proper conversations' Natalie says Ophelia is "very much a three-year-old in every other sense". She enjoys running around and playing with her cousins, jumping in puddles - the normal stuff for a child of that age. She also just happens to love to learn and try new things. "It's like talking to a 19-year-old," Ben says, describing their interactions. "She has proper conversations, she comes up with her own ideas. "She just seems to pick everything up a lot quicker, and remember it." Watch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 BST on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel in the UK and on iPlayer afterwards.

जब नताली और बेन की बेटी ओफेलिया केवल तीन साल की उम्र में हाई-आई. क्यू. सोसाइटी मेन्सा में शामिल हुई, तो उन्हें पता था कि उन पर दबाव डालने वाले माता-पिता होने का आरोप लगाया जाएगा। लेकिन स्वाभाविक रूप से उपहार देने वाले बच्चे का होना कैसा होता है?


Polls open for Jersey's government reform referendum

Summary: Polls have opened for Jersey's referendum on electoral reform.

The referendum asks islanders how many politicians they want in the States, how they will be elected and what the size of constituencies should be. Polling stations in every parish electoral district will be open from 08:00 to 20:00 BST. After nearly two days of debate, the States agreed the questions would include two options for change and one to maintain the status quo. Option A will see 42 deputies elected from six large voting districts. Option B will have 30 deputies elected from six districts and 12 parish constables. Option C will maintain the status quo of eight senators elected island wide, 29 deputies in a range of constituency sizes and 12 parish constables. Preference vote In 2012 the States of Jersey set up an electoral commission to look at reforming the way politicians were elected and come up with referendum questions to be put to the public. Voters must not use an 'X' to indicate their preference on the ballot paper, but put the number one next to their first choice and a number two next to their second choice, if they have one. After the polls close, the votes will be counted at one central location in each parish, either the Parish, Public or Town Hall. Jurats in each parish will announce the result at each parish count. Once all 12 parishes have declared, the States Greffier Michael de la Haye, who will be based at the Town Hall in St Helier, will announce the how many first preference votes have been cast for each of the options across the island. If one of the options gets more than 50% of the total valid votes cast, that option will win. But if none of the options have more than 50%, the option with the least island-wide votes will be recounted using the second preference shown. Not binding Last week States members voted against setting a minimum turnout threshold for the results of the referendum to be considered. At the last election in 2011 average turnout for the constable elections was 48.6%, for deputies it was 47.9% and 48.4% for the senators elections. Political expert, Adrian Lee, said: "The interesting thing will be whether the opportunity for a referendum will in fact break the Jersey habit, as I would call it, of non voting. "The last time a majority of Jersey's electorate voted in an election was 50.5% in the senatorial elections in 1978." Whatever the outcome, the referendum will not be binding because it will be up to the States to decide if and how it reforms itself. The referendum is only the second in the island's history. The first referendum in 2008 asked if Jersey should move to Central European Time from GMT, and it was rejected by 17,230 votes to 6,564.

चुनाव सुधार पर जर्सी के जनमत संग्रह के लिए मतदान शुरू हो गए हैं।


CIA director Gina Haspel's Thailand torture ties

Summary: When Gina Haspel was nominated as the next head of the CIA in March, it re-opened debate on a murky period of recent US history - the use of secretive overseas prisons to torture terror suspects. As the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head reports, the spotlight has fallen on Thailand, and one such "black site" which Haspel once ran.

In early April 2002, a plane took off from an undisclosed air base in Pakistan, en route to Thailand. On board was a special passenger. Abu Zubaydah, a 31-year-old Saudi-born Palestinian, believed to be one of Osama Bin Laden's top lieutenants, had been captured a few days earlier in a joint US-Pakistani raid on Al Qaeda safe houses in Faisalabad. He was now in the hands of CIA agents, who had decided to make him the first "high-value detainee" to be subjected to what they called "enhanced interrogation techniques" - something human rights groups say amounts to torture. But they needed somewhere to do it. In December 2014 the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) published an executive summary of a confidential 6,000 page report on these techniques. The place where Abu Zubaydah and at least two other high-value detainees were interrogated is referred to only as Detention Site Green. Thailand is not named as the host country. US and Thai officials have consistently denied the existence of such a facility, although the Thai denials have at times been less than wholehearted. But a senior former Thai national security official has confirmed to the BBC that Detention Site Green was located inside the Royal Thai Air Force base in Udon Thani in the north-east. It was not large - just a CIA safe house on the base, he said. The Americans could operate there so long as the Thai government was kept informed. "Whenever someone was captured by the Americans, either in other countries or inside Thailand, they were brought through the site, and later sent off again in an American plane," the official recalls. Why Thailand? The SSCI's report runs through the CIA's reasons for choosing Thailand: President Bush approved the transfer of Abu Zubaydah to Detention Site Green on 29 March 2002. The Thai government was informed, and gave its consent, on the same day. The choice of Thailand, and Udon Thani, would have made sense for a number of reasons: By the time the CIA was considering bringing Al Qaeda suspects to Thailand in 2002, the country had a new prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, a confident but abrasive leader who wanted to move his country in a different direction. He was publicly much cooler towards the Americans than his predecessors, partly driven by the resentment felt by many Thai businesses towards the US for its perceived failure to support them during the 1997 financial crisis. Mr Thaksin also sought closer ties with China. He insisted that Thailand should remain neutral in President George Bush's war on terror, and was adamant that Thailand did not have a terrorist problem. Later he would chide the US for criticising his human rights record, complaining that he was not Washington's "lackey". But behind Mr Thaksin's defiant public face, relations between the two countries, and in particular their military, intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, remained close. Thai co-operation or resistance? Several months before the 9-11 attacks in New York, the CIA had formed a secret new organisation known as the Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Center, bringing together personnel from three Thai agencies with their US counterparts to track down Islamic militants in South East Asia. Despite this, when the CIA first requested the use of Detention Site Green to interrogate suspects, it clearly had some difficulties with the Thais. The SSCI report mentions a request made to the CIA for some kind of "support" from the officials responsible for the site. This "support" was apparently given, but then the Thai officials were replaced by less compliant colleagues, nearly forcing the CIA to close down the facility. The CIA country chief was, says the report, able to negotiate keeping it open. The report also refers to at least eight Thai officials, presumably senior, who knew of the secret site, and the agency assumed that many more people probably also knew of it. With major newspapers beginning to pick up bits of information about the detainment site, the CIA believed increased publicity, and the embarrassment this would cause the Thais, would eventually force it to close. This is in fact what happened in December 2002, two months after Gina Haspel is believed to have taken charge of it. No results from torture During his capture in Pakistan, Abu Zubaydah had been badly injured, and went straight to hospital after his arrival in Thailand. But by 15 April he was transferred to Detention Site Green. His cell was described in a CIA cable as "white with no natural lighting or windows, but with four halogen lights pointed into the cell…" Security officers wore all black uniforms, including boots, gloves, balaclavas, and goggles to keep Abu Zubaydah from identifying the officers, as well as to prevent Abu Zubaydah "from seeing the security guards as individuals who he may attempt to establish a relationship or dialogue with". The security officers communicated by hand signals when they were with Abu Zubaydah and used handcuffs and leg shackles to maintain control. In addition, either loud rock music was played or noise generators were used to enhance Abu Zubaydah's "sense of hopelessness". According to the report: Haspel's unclear role By the time Gina Haspel took over Detention Site Green, the intensive interrogation of Abu Zubydah was over. One other al Qaeda suspect, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, was also waterboarded The controversial methods used on Abu Zubaydah did not produce any useful information. By all accounts he had been co-operative during the softer FBI questioning. What Gina Haspel's exact role was is still unclear. The BBC contacted the CIA for clarification of her role in Thailand. The CIA stated that it was unable to comment on our questions, but directed us to a correction made in another article about Gina Haspel, in which it was stated that she took on her supervisory role in Thailand after the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah had finished. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has demanded that Gina Haspel's part in running Detention Site Green, and in a CIA order in 2005 to destroy 92 videotapes of the interrogations conducted there, must be made public so that the Senate can make an informed judgement about her suitability to head the agency. When Detention Site Green was closed in December 2002, Abu Zubaydah was flown to another CIA secret detention site in Poland. Eventually he was taken, via several other locations, to Guantanamo Bay, where he was seen in public for the first time in August 2016, 14 years after his capture. The US now acknowledges that he was not as important in Al Qaeda as they originally thought. The exact building used to detain and interrogate him in Udon Thani air base is still undisclosed. Since the closure of Detention Site Green, Thai US relations have been strained by two military coups, but close military and intelligence co-operation has continued, regardless of the public diplomatic positions of each country. The White House, meanwhile, issued a statement on 3 May urging the Senate to endorse Ms Haspel's nomination as soon as possible. It quotes former director of CIA Clandestine Service John Bennet as saying she has taken on some of the "most demanding and least rewarding" assignments in her career, "because she felt it was her duty". "That sense of patriotism", says the White House statement, "is precisely what Americans deserve in a CIA director."

जब मार्च में गिना हैस्पेल को सी. आई. ए. के अगले प्रमुख के रूप में नामित किया गया था, तो इसने हाल के अमेरिकी इतिहास के एक अस्पष्ट दौर पर बहस फिर से शुरू कर दी-आतंकवादी संदिग्धों को यातना देने के लिए गुप्त विदेशी जेलों का उपयोग। जैसा कि बी. बी. सी. के दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया संवाददाता जोनाथन हेड ने बताया, थाईलैंड पर ध्यान केंद्रित किया गया है, और ऐसा ही एक "ब्लैक साइट" जो हैस्पेल ने एक बार चलाया था।


Who was Sir Oswald Mosley?

Summary: Last night fans of Peaky Blinders met the gangster drama's latest villain - a fictionalised version of British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. He was the one with big 'tache, who pulled aside gangland-boss-turned-MP Tommy Shelby and told him, ominously, "You have come to my attention."

He gave me the creeps. Adrien Brody was pretty menacing as the bad guy in the last series. But this fella... He frightened lots of people in real life too. During the 1930s Mosley led Britain's virulently anti-Semitic fascist movement, whose streetfighters - known as blackshirts - were notorious for their violence against Jews and left-wing opponents. He was on friendly terms with Mussolini. And Hitler was guest of honour at his second wedding. Oh, and that wedding took place at the home of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. And here was me thinking razor-wielding Brummie gangsters were terrifying. The British authorities definitely considered Mosley a threat. During World War Two he was interned as a suspected enemy sympathiser. It was widely assumed at the time that, had the Nazis successfully invaded the UK, he would have been installed as head of a pro-German puppet regime. Everyone knows about German Nazis and Italian fascists. British fascists... not so much. What kind of background did he come from? "In the 20s he was a fashionable figure," says Stephen Dorril, Mosley's biographer. Born into an aristocratic family, Mosley was a champion fencer who distinguished himself during World War One and was elected Conservative MP for Harrow at the age of 21. He married the daughter of an earl. "He was invited to lots of parties. He knew Churchill, he knew all the politicians. A massive womaniser - he was very tall for the time, although he had a limp. He lived life to the full," says Dorril. So he started out as a Tory. How did he end up so much further to the right? Actually, after leaving the Conservatives he became a Labour politician - the MP for Smethwick, in Tommy Shelby's West Midlands stamping ground. Following the 1929 crash he became a government minister tasked with finding ways to solve the unemployment problem, but his proposals were rejected. Mosley couldn't accept this, says Dorril. "He was incredibly egotistical. He believed he was the right man. He believed that he had the solution." That's when he set up the New Party, which held meetings stewarded by heavies known as the "biff boys". Then, after touring Mussolini's Italy, Mosley formed the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932, blending his economic programme with explicit anti-Semitism. And this was actually popular… in the UK? He achieved some limited success, for a time. At one point the BUF claimed 50,000 members. The Daily Mail's owner, Viscount Rothermere, notoriously wrote a 1934 article headlined "Hurrah for the blackshirts!" The BUF also got a handful of councillors elected. You said the blackshirts were violent towards Jewish people. What did they do? There was a 1934 rally at London's Olympia, in which they brutally attacked hecklers in the crowd - left-wingers as well as Jews. Mosley also attempted to stage a march through a Jewish area of east London, resulting in the famous "Battle of Cable Street", in which local people and anti-fascists blocked the blackshirts' path. Although the BUF's membership actually rose in the wake of Cable Street, Dorril says that in general "the British don't like people parading around in uniform". In fact, the Public Order Act of 1936 included a ban on political uniforms. The war must have put an end to his political career… Pretty much. Most British people thought of WW2 as a war against fascism, and Mosley's internment met with little opposition. After the war, he attempted to revive his party - soon renamed the Union Movement - with little success, and he left the country in 1951. Eight years later, in the wake of race riots in Notting Hill, he stood for election in Kensington North on an anti-immigration platform, but failed to break through. After failing again in the 1966 general election, also in a London constituency, he retired to France. He died in 1980. So, does he have any relevance today? Other than appearing in Peaky Blinders? Dorril thinks Mosley would have welcomed the recent surge in populism, but he wouldn't have approved of Brexit: "He would have been appalled about Britain leaving Europe," he says. After WW2, Mosley began promoting the idea of "Europe, a nation". Mosley shows that the far-right has in the past had a certain appeal in the UK - but his biographer says Mosley was never in danger of securing power: "It's clear he was an exceptional speaker, but it never translated into a real mass movement. I think he was always doomed to failure, fortunately." You may also be interested in: He was a skinhead and the poster boy for one of the 1980s' most notorious far-right movements. But Nicky Crane was secretly gay. Then his precarious dual existence fell dramatically apart. The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi (December 2013)

पिछली रात पीकी ब्लाइंडर्स के प्रशंसक गैंगस्टर नाटक के नवीनतम खलनायक से मिले-ब्रिटिश फासीवादी नेता सर ओस्वाल्ड मोस्ले का एक काल्पनिक संस्करण। वे बड़े 'टेच' वाले व्यक्ति थे, जिन्होंने गैंगलैंड-बॉस से सांसद बने टॉमी शेल्बी को अलग कर दिया और उनसे कहा, "आप मेरे ध्यान में आ गए हैं।"


Man's body discovered on farm track near Cardenden

Summary: Police are investigating the discovery of a man's body on a farm track in Fife.

The body of the 43-year-old man was found at Cardenbarns Farm, near Cardenden, at about 10:30 on Saturday. The death is being treated as unexplained. Police said inquiries were continuing. Related Internet Links Police Scotland Non Emergencies - Phone 101

पुलिस फाइफ में एक खेत की पटरियों पर एक व्यक्ति का शव मिलने की जांच कर रही है।


Is 2017 the year of virtual reality film-making?

Summary: The Tribeca Film Festival, opening this week in New York, is promoting virtual reality (VR) as never before. And next month the Cannes Film Festival has announced it's to show its first big VR attraction. So is 2017 the year virtual reality film-makers finally hit the big time?

By Vincent DowdArts reporter, BBC News Bogart Street in Bushwick has the mix of occupants you might expect in a formerly blue-collar but increasingly artsy corner of Brooklyn. Number 56 is the four-storey home of small art galleries, jewellery designers and miscellaneous media start-ups. Part of the basement is occupied by Scatter, which calls itself an immersive media studio. Only a few years ago terms such as "immersive", "experiential", "volumetric" and "virtual reality" were on the outer fringe of film-making. Yet recent analysis claimed that by 2021 the VR industry could generate revenues of $75bn (£60bn) annually. Some older hands in the film industry are wary of such optimism - but they're also watching the rapidly developing VR world with a keen eye. James George, co-founder of Scatter and technical director of Blackout, which the studio is showing at this year's Tribeca, calls it an experience rather than a film. "You put on a headset and you're in a totally convincing virtual depiction of a New York subway car. In the car, which you can move about in, are various characters and as you turn to look you hear what each person's thinking. "So someone is depressed about getting older and another person is thinking about doing their nails or whatever. The headset detects who you focus on through your head and eye movements. "The term virtual reality now covers a whole array of audience experiences and the technology is changing constantly. What we do in Scatter draws deeply on the history of film-making and in no way rejects it. There's more than a century of experience there in how to tell a story effectively. "But we build on that sensibility and those skills and we expand into room-scale holographic experiences. "Though the movie comparison is good, there's also a link to immersive live theatre which a company like Punchdrunk offers in something like Sleep No More where the audience is mobile and surrounded by the action. "This whole desire to move into immersive is a generational shift. A new generation is demanding participation in their media - which you can call interactivity. So everyone showing at Tribeca will have their own slightly different model of VR - and we all have our own means of trying to make it work financially." Broken Night is a very different VR experience also viewable at this year's Tribeca. It's the work of Eko, a tech and media company based in Manhattan. Eko's Alon Benari says the project has an overlap with traditional film-making but is also different. "We were lucky that Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola [real-life husband and wife] were keen to come on board to play key roles on screen," he says. "So they play a married couple - and at a certain point a gun is fired. It's hard to say much more because exactly what happens when you have the head-set on depends on which storyline you follow. The viewer explores the woman's memories and to a degree constructs them." But co-director Tal Zubalsky says it's not a case of the viewer determining the storyline. "The interactivity is there to increase the viewer's emotional involvement, not to give them control - this isn't like winning points in a video game," he explains. "But we're all learning and that's why Emily and Alessandro wanted to co-produce: suddenly traditional film-makers want to understand this new world. They were with us for two days on location, shooting on a Nokia Ozo, to make a six-minute film." Like Blackout, Broken Night depends on an individual viewer experiencing the narrative in a headset. Some VR experiences at Tribeca will offer multiple headsets but the problem of making a profit with limited audiences is obvious. Benari admits that for now distribution of a film like Broken Night is a challenge. "But you need to look at the level of excitement in the creative world, in investors and increasingly in consumers," he says. "Technology will figure it out even if for now it's like the early days of silent movies or radio. No one can say if a version of today's headsets will be the medium of mass distribution at all: maybe it will all be embedded in eyeglasses or contact lenses or maybe it will be a hologram experience we don't yet understand. "Then we can have audiences not of one person or three people but hundreds. "Once you reach mass distribution with content which audiences really want - that's when there's huge monetisation. We are not there yet but if you look at the investment in VR, it's going to happen." Loren Hammonds is the overall programmer for VR at the Tribeca Festival. "We had VR content last year but even in 12 months it's remarkable how things have grown. And we all wanted Tribeca to stay in the forefront. "The kind of immersive film-making we're most interested in puts story first. It might be a thriller like Broken Night or something far remote from that. "But increasingly we're seeing the tech used in clever ways to support a narrative, whether fiction or documentary. We've already gone beyond the demo phase of just explaining what the bells and whistles can do. "Now we're into an adoption phase. Some people know all about VR but now the general public needs to be introduced to it so people see it's a lot more than Hollywood-style 3D. Optimistic future "Our Virtual Arcade will have around 30 experiences, with two thirds of them world premieres. I'm thinking of it as a street filled with curiosities - some of which you will love and some you probably won't. But it will be a great place to see the latest VR and for practitioners to talk. "You might be on a swivel-chair with a 360-degree world around you and other experiences are positional, meaning you can actually walk around within a physical room. I'm looking forward to an installation called Treehugger by Marshmallow Laser Feast where you can put your head through knotholes into the tree and it will change your perceptions. "Or there's an experience called Draw Me Close by Jordan Tannahill which actually involves an actress in a motion capture suit who interacts with you live. It's co-produced with the National Theatre in London and you might say it's something totally different again. But it's all VR." Hammonds is optimistic about VR financially. "It's changing every month. But we've got the premiere of Kathryn Bigelow and Imraan Ismael's The Protectors. That's a mass trigger event, with 250 people in a room and they all have headsets and have the same experience at the same time. So VR needn't just be for one person at a time. "I can't guess what VR we'll be showing at Tribeca a couple of years from now - or how people will see it. But the richer the content is, and the more compelling, the more it warrants being paid for. That's when we have an industry and a legitimate visual medium." The Immersive Virtual Arcade runs as part of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York 19 - 30 April. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

न्यूयॉर्क में इस सप्ताह शुरू होने वाला ट्रिबेका फिल्म महोत्सव आभासी वास्तविकता (वी. आर.) को बढ़ावा दे रहा है जैसा कि पहले कभी नहीं हुआ था। और अगले महीने कान फिल्म महोत्सव ने घोषणा की है कि वह अपना पहला बड़ा वी. आर. आकर्षण दिखाएगा। तो क्या 2017 वह वर्ष है जब आभासी वास्तविकता फिल्म निर्माता आखिरकार बड़े समय पर पहुंच गए हैं?


Shukatsu sexism: The Japanese jobseekers fighting discrimination

Summary: Japan has one of the most intense, fiercely competitive and stressful recruitment processes for new graduates anywhere in the world. The way men and women are expected to dress is just one of the many demands part of the highly rigid experience. But as a few raise their voices against the system, things may be slowly changing.

By Tom BatemanTokyo, Japan "I'm not cisgender but also not transgender at the same time. I don't want to be identified as a man or woman, just me, myself," says Yumi Mizuno, an interpreter in her early 30s. When speaking English she uses feminine pronouns, but Ms Mizuno identifies as non-binary, an umbrella term that refers to people who do not see their gender as being exclusively male or female. In Japanese she prefers the gender-neutral "jibun", meaning "myself". Back in 2011 she was one of thousands of student job hunters, dressed in black and taking part in Japan's highly-structured, year-long recruitment process known as "Shushoku katsudo", or "Shukatsu" for short. Applicants are expected to wear what are known as 'recruit suits' that come in two varieties: a men's suit, worn with a white shirt and dark tie, and a women's suit with a skirt, white blouse and a jacket that's cinched in at the waist. But for Ms Mizuno, that gender-based choice is unacceptable so she's raising her voice to challenge a system that dates back to the 1950s. High stakes Competition is intense, which has spurred the growth of an entire industry devoted to grooming students for success during the Shukatsu period. Recruiters and clothing companies provide detailed guidelines that define things like the recruit suits students can wear, the haircuts they can have and even how they should sit during an interview. "They only provide etiquette and clothing instructions based on a gender binary, for men and women," she says, "and I felt I couldn't fit in either of them. "It's very scary, because in Japan we're taught to get a job before we graduate from university." Shukatsu begins every April and culminates in a hiring season that lasts from August to October. Those who miss out on a job offer risk having to wait and repeat the process the next year, competing against a fresh crop of students. It's a prospect that, historically, has come with a degree of shame attached. "The stigma can damage their chance of gaining a quality graduate position in the following year," explains Dr Kumiko Kawashima, an expert in Japan's working culture at Macquarie University in Australia. "Given this reality, it is not unheard of that professors allow final year students to concentrate on job hunting instead of turning up to class," she says. Dropping out A low point for Ms Mizuno came when she went to a job interview dressed in flat shoes, a suit jacket, trousers and tie - the typical uniform of a male job hunter. "It was very scary, I felt I couldn't take the risk. I went to the station bathroom and I took off my tie, put on makeup, changed my shoes from flats to high heels," she says. "Even after I changed my clothes at the station, I was still afraid because I had a bag that's for boys. I was scared, what if the interviewers judge me for having the wrong bag?" Not long afterwards, she dropped out of the Shukatsu process. "I thought, 'I'm losing my identity'," she says, "so I started to cover myself up. I couldn't go out at that time. I locked myself up in my apartment for three months." Dr Kawashima says she's not surprised by that story. "In the name of etiquette, Shukatsu 'experts' teach a rigid gender performance where being masculine is the opposite of being feminine and nothing in between or outside of the binary exists," she tells the BBC. "Students have little choice but to conform to those styles so as not to jeopardise their chances of landing a good job." 'Anyone can speak up' There are signs that Japan is warming up to diversity, however. A recent survey by the Kyodo news agency found that over 600 schools across Japan had relaxed their rules on gender-segregated uniforms, allowing students to dress according to their gender identity. In October Japan Airlines stopped calling passengers "ladies and gentlemen" during English-language announcements, choosing to go with the gender-neutral "all passengers" and "everyone" instead. In a case that made headlines around the world in 2019, the actress Yumi Ishikawa started an online movement called #KuToo (a play on #MeToo and the Japanese word for shoes, "kutsu") after she was forced to wear high heels every day while working at a funeral home. "I hope this campaign will change the social norm so that it won't be considered to be bad manners when women wear flat shoes like men," Ms Ishikawa told reporters at the time. As the #KuToo campaign gained international attention, Yumi Mizuno began to work as an interpreter for Ms Ishikawa, translating for her during media interviews in English. Inspired by #KuToo's impact, Ms Mizuno asked a group of like-minded people to help start a campaign called Stop #ShukatsuSexism. The campaign calls on recruiters and clothing companies to accommodate a more diverse range of people with their products. "Just one sentence on their instructions or below their instructions could change society. Like, for example, saying 'this is just a guideline, you can choose other suits, as well'," she says. "I don't want them to change everything at the same time, but I want them to try and show their effort." 'We don't have people like you' Kento Hoshi understands what it's like to be different. A victim of discrimination himself, the 26-year-old was bullied out of school for being gay when he was 14. But it was a transgender friend's Shukatsu experience that inspired him to try to change the way Japanese recruitment works. "One company wrote about diversity and inclusion activities, so she thought it would be ok for her," he says. But when she mentioned that she was transgender during her job interview, she was asked to leave. "The interviewer said, 'We don't have people like you'," Mr Hoshi says. He decided to set up a website where people could share their experiences of job interviews at various companies. That website later grew into Japan's first recruitment agency aimed at LGBT people, Job Rainbow. "If diverse people, including LGBT, can't work, it has a really bad effect on the Japanese economy. I want to make it a win-win relationship," he says. Companies forced to change This debate isn't unique to Japan. In the UK alone, moves toward accommodating a wider variety of gender identities has led to conflict over toilets, school uniforms and passports. "While Japan's case seems extreme due to the institutionalised and uniform nature of the Shukatsu process, similar gender biases abound in the business world elsewhere," says Macquarie University's Dr Kawashima. But it remains the case that the country's low birth rate and strict limits on immigration have left businesses competing for an ever-shrinking pool of fresh recruits, sparking a burst of change. In 2018, Keidanren, the federation representing many of Japan's largest companies, announced that by March 2021 the Shukatsu system would no longer run on a strict annual timetable, a move that aims to help Japanese firms compete against foreign recruiters. There have not, however, been any official moves to encourage the availability of more diverse clothing options. "Japan's shrinking and ageing population is making the search for young talent more competitive," says Dr Kawashima. "Embracing and promoting diversity during and beyond recruitment will be increasingly important if employers want to remain relevant in the eyes of capable job seekers." Kento Hoshi agrees. "We get a lot of enquiries from many huge companies who want to be more LGBT-friendly. I feel like society is changing." Yumi Mizuno's own push for change has gathered over 13,000 signatures in support of its call for companies to recognise a greater diversity of clothing options. She hopes it will benefit every job seeker. "The campaign is not only for LGBT+ people, because what's wrong is this gender binary," she says. "I want them to present all types of suits equally for each gender. Then the people like me, trans people, queer people won't think they're wrong, that they're marginalised."

जापान में दुनिया में कहीं भी नए स्नातकों के लिए सबसे तीव्र, अत्यधिक प्रतिस्पर्धी और तनावपूर्ण भर्ती प्रक्रियाओं में से एक है। जिस तरह से पुरुषों और महिलाओं से कपड़े पहनने की उम्मीद की जाती है, वह अत्यधिक कठोर अनुभव की कई मांगों में से एक है। लेकिन जैसे-जैसे कुछ लोग इस प्रणाली के खिलाफ अपनी आवाज उठाते हैं, चीजें धीरे-धीरे बदल सकती हैं।


Seychelles elections: How a priest rose to become president

Summary: On his sixth attempt Wavel Ramkalawan, an Anglican cleric, has become Seychelles' president ending decades in opposition, but as Tim Ecott reports from the Indian Ocean archipelago - he now has to bring the country together.

"After 43 years we have regained democracy. The road has been long and now we will reap its rewards." There was only the merest hint of triumphalism in President Wavel Ramkalawan's acceptance speech as he addressed an audience of invited dignitaries assembled in the manicured grounds of State House. His election marks a seismic change for the islands, where the presidency has been dominated by one party since 1977. In front of the grand Victorian colonial mansion and accompanied by a military guard of honour, the 58-year-old was sworn in by the chief justice on Monday. The new president is an ordained Anglican minister, and not surprisingly his overall message was one of peace, tolerance and an appeal for all Seychellois to work together for national unity, and to overcome the divisions of so many years of political wrangling. Thanking outgoing President Danny Faure for keeping political dialogue open over the past few years, Mr Ramkalawan stressed the need for tolerance among the Seychellois people and appealed for what he called a return to civility, to a society where everyone says good morning to one another and where racial and social differences are put aside. The 115-island Indian Ocean nation 97,625population $17,400per person income 65%of GDP comes from tourism 1976gains independence from UK 1977coup sees PM Albert René installed as president 1991Multiparty democracy restored "Seychelles," said the new president, "should be an example of tolerance for the whole world. We are 115 small islands in the Indian Ocean, but we are not insular. "We will maintain friendly relations with all nations, and welcome help and assistance from our international allies whomsoever they may be." Behind the Christian sentiments expressed by the new president there is also political steel. 'Pulpit politician' This was his sixth attempt at the presidency, a journey that began when he first contested the role in 1998. He had entered politics several years earlier, and was criticised by the government for making what they saw as political statements from the pulpit during the one-party state era. He had come tantalising close to winning the presidency several times, and in 2015 lost to James Michel by only 193 votes in a second round of voting. Referring to the years in opposition, and his five previous defeats in presidential elections Mr Ramkalawan quoted Nelson Mandela: "A winner is a dreamer who never gives up." In spite of the positive messages in his inaugural address, there is no doubting the divisions within Seychellois society. It is precisely 43 years since the islands were subjected to a violent coup by Albert René, who overthrew the democratically elected government of James Mancham, the man who had led the islands to independence from the UK in 1976. Amid his appeals for peace and harmony, President Ramkalawan pointedly paid homage to Gerard Hoarau, an opponent of René assassinated in London in 1985, and whose killers have never been identified. Hoarau was not the only person who died or disappeared during the one-party era that lasted from 1977 to 1991. Many of the crimes committed during that period were exposed publicly during recent Truth and Reconciliation hearings in Seychelles. There is no doubt that those revelations harmed the chances of Mr Faure and his United Seychelles party in these elections. United Seychelles is the current name of the former Seychelles People's Progressive Front, which was in power when René so ruthlessly imprisoned and persecuted his political opponents. For all its convoluted political history in the decades since independence, the 97,000-strong population of Seychelles now faces very big challenges. The economy is heavily reliant on tourism, with around 350,000 annual visitors accounting for 65% of GDP. Covid-19 has reduced tourist arrivals to a tiny trickle, and the economy has already shrunk by around 14%. In addition, local non-governmental organisations estimate that approximately 10% of the working population, some 6,000 people, are addicted to heroin, and many are reliant on the government's methadone rehabilitation programme. As well as winning the presidency, Mr Ramkalawan's party, Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS), has also won a convincing majority in the islands' national assembly. They will have 25 seats to the United Seychelles' 10. However, the president warned his parliamentarians not to become complacent. "Just because we have won, we can't sit back," he said. "We need to carry on working hard, delivering what our people deserve." You may also be interested in: One of the subtexts of Mr Ramkalawan's inaugural address is that the LDS will need to unravel decades of inefficiency, corruption and cronyism within the civil service and public administration of Seychelles. He has promised that under his presidency "no-one will be above the law". Even though the one-party state was dismantled more than 25 years ago, a small number of educated Seychellois have tended to occupy key positions and appointments have been handed out based on party loyalty rather than competence. Internationally, the new president is likely to also face challenges negotiating the tricky geopolitical order of the Indian Ocean. Just a day before the elections he reiterated that the islands' sovereignty was not for sale. India-China rivalry He was referring to a deal made by President Faure to cede control of a remote island to the Indian Navy as a base. Mr Ramkalawan is adamant this will not go ahead. However, in recent years the region has been the scene of diplomatic rivalry between India and China. India had hoped to use the Seychelles' island of Assumption to rival China's military base in Djibouti. Both China and India have made significant donations to Seychelles, although the most generous donor is the United Arabs Emirates - especially Abu Dhabi. However, fresh diplomatic overtures towards President Ramkalawan from India are highly likely, especially since he had a grandfather who emigrated to Seychelles from the Indian state of Bihar. The LDS victory has been received peacefully in Seychelles, and most people believe that it is time for a new philosophy at State House. President Ramkalawan stated clearly that his wish was for national reconciliation and for all parties to join in helping young people secure a better future. "Whatever our party," he said, "we must now concentrate on being Seychellois together."

अपने छठे प्रयास में वेवेल रामकलावन, एक एंग्लिकन मौलवी, विपक्ष में दशकों का अंत करते हुए सेशेल्स के राष्ट्रपति बन गए हैं, लेकिन जैसा कि टिम एकॉट हिंद महासागर द्वीपसमूह से रिपोर्ट करते हैं-उन्हें अब देश को एक साथ लाना है।


GameStop - David and Goliath or a political fable?

Summary: Take a company that's been around for years. Think of a high street VHS video store in the age of Netflix, for example. I, a cynical financial investor, think to myself - I don't like the prospects for that company - it looks out of date, I reckon it's doomed. The shares cost £1 each - a year from now I reckon it will surely be bust.

Simon JackBusiness editor@BBCSimonJackon Twitter Thanks to the way the financial markets work there is a way I can make money out of this company's seemingly inevitable demise. I find someone who owns the shares and I borrow 1,000 of them in return for a small daily fee. I then sell the shares I've borrowed, pocketing £1,000 but I still owe the owner (I am "short") 1,000 shares. Sure enough, the shares start to fall. Everyone starts to agree with me and the shares fall to 50p. I buy those shares back for £500, give back the thousand shares I borrowed and, hey presto, I'm up £500 on the deal. If it went bust - even better, the shares cost nothing to buy back so I could have made as much as £1,000. However, what happens if after I've sold them, the company suddenly starts doing well? VHS tapes are suddenly cool again. The shares start rising to £2 - to get back the shares I borrowed and owe I would have to pay twice the money I got for selling. I am £1,000 down. Here's the scary thing for me - the amount I could lose is UNLIMITED - as the shares rise, more people pile in. Then some of the other people who have done what I've done (the other "shorts") start panicking and decide to cut their losses by buying back the shares they have borrowed and sold. This only adds to the stampede of buyers. Do I hold my nerve? If the share price goes up much further my debt will overwhelm me and I'll be ruined. That is what happened with GameStop. Some of the hedge funds who had bet against the company eventually raised the white flag and lost billions of dollars. An army of small investors started pushing the shares up, from $20 to $450, turning the tables on the cynical professionals who were betting this company would fail. A classic and romantic tale of David and Goliath - or more like the Ewoks beating the Empire. Emboldened by their success, this golden horde of small investors look around for other companies the pros had written off and betted heavily against. But hang on a minute. What are GameStop shares actually worth? $450 or $20? If I was late to this party I may have paid 20 times more than it's worth - whatever money I put is at very great risk of being lost. Small investors are being encouraged to do something manifestly bad for their own financial well-being. Investors cry foul This is where the brokers and their regulators get nervous The companies that operate the small investors' accounts start shutting down the activity before the regulators get angry. They say they are trying to protect the little guy who sees something going up and wants a piece of the action to make a few bucks. The army of small investors cry foul: you are limiting my freedoms - it's my money to do what I want with - you are protecting the establishment - where were you when the establishment was taking ludicrous risks? - oh yes, you bailed THEM out. Suddenly this is a political debate. My freedom to trade is the financial equivalent of my freedom of speech and the powers that be are silencing me. When I pointed out on Twitter that I was worried that the glee at duffing up the hedge funds would be replaced by anger and disappointment when small investors lost money they couldn't afford to, many agreed. But I was also met with some pretty stern ideological resistance. "It's their right to lose money if they want. Stopping them is scary big brother behaviour." "Wall Street turned to suppression of the regular Joe investor." "You just don't get it do you? This is not about money - it's about upsetting the control of the elites." Different motives The point here is that the army of small investors will have enlisted for different reasons. Some will hope to profit from getting in early and starting a wave of others doing the same, ride it for a bit before getting off the wave and letting it crash after they've taken their profits. Others will see something going up and think the sky's the limit to this - still plenty of time for me to profit too. And others will think - I don't really care if I lose a few bucks, sticking it to the man is the name of the game. The first group will have made money and indeed may be being infiltrated right now by the very professionals they hoped to beat. The second group will end up poorer and unhappy about it. The third may end up poorer but don't care - they have made a telling political point. The regulators have done the equivalent of what Twitter and Facebook did to Donald Trump. Even Angela Merkel - who holds no candle for Donald Trump - thought that was a mistake. With GameStop - no shots were fired, no one died, not a single window was broken. GameStop is as much a political as a financial story. You can hear more on this story on Business Daily, on the BBC World Service.

एक ऐसी कंपनी को लें जो वर्षों से चल रही है। उदाहरण के लिए, नेटफ्लिक्स के युग में एक हाई स्ट्रीट वीएचएस वीडियो स्टोर के बारे में सोचें। मैं, एक सनकी वित्तीय निवेशक, अपने आप से सोचता हूं-मुझे उस कंपनी की संभावनाएं पसंद नहीं हैं-यह पुरानी लगती है, मुझे लगता है कि यह बर्बाद हो गई है। शेयरों की कीमत प्रत्येक £1 है-अब से एक साल बाद मुझे लगता है कि यह निश्चित रूप से ध्वस्त हो जाएगा।


Roker and Seaburn seafronts in Sunderland get £1m revamp

Summary: Council bosses in Sunderland have unveiled plans for a £1m revamp of the seafront areas of Roker and Seaburn.

The work will focus on Marine Walk in Roker and Seaburn's promenade. Sunderland City Council is sharing the cost with the Commission of Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe) Sea Change fund. The authority said it hoped to appoint contractors by December, with the redevelopment work completed by July next year. The project will see the installation of new street furniture, lighting and play facilities. Millions of people visit Seaburn from Sunderland's annual international air show.

सुंदरलैंड में परिषद के मालिकों ने रॉकर और सीबर्न के समुद्र तट क्षेत्रों के 1 मिलियन पाउंड के सुधार की योजना का अनावरण किया है।


Mind the gap: Alliance and the community relations debate

Summary: Last Thursday, when Alliance walked out of the cross party Cohesion, Sharing and Integration working group, I broadcast a piece on BBC Newsline which compared and contrasted what the latest draft of the CSI document contained with David Ford's bottom lines on community relations.

Mark DevenportPolitical editor, Northern Ireland@markdevenporton Twitter The draft, which dates from early May, merits lengthier quotation than I had the time for on Thursday or during Tuesday morning's story related to flags. One thing worth stressing is the document I've seen is a draft - it indicates the areas under debate, not what has been agreed. Just like the Good Friday agreement talks these discussions operate on the basis that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. On flags, Alliance demanded a framework to remove illegal flags and emblems. The draft says the Stormont parties "are committed to working with people across, and within, all sections of the community to achieve our objective of removing threatening and divisive symbols, such as flags, racist and sectarian graffiti and murals, where these are used or perceived as being used in an attempt to intimidate". Misuse The document distinguishes between paramilitary flags and "the inappropriate misuse of national flags". It says when it comes to paramilitary flags there should be "zero tolerance. There must be no place in any normal society for the celebration of a culture of violence and intimidation". The document deals with efforts by the authorities to remove paramilitary symbols through dialogue in detail. It says that the authorities may be tempted to engage in dialogue over paramilitary flags in order to minimise the potential for disorder. However it points out that there are risks to this approach in relation to building up the status of "certain individuals" or "self appointed community gatekeepers" at the expense of others who have never been associated with violence. The draft says that "the issue of the public display of flags or emblems associated with paramilitary activity in the recent conflict on main thoroughfares or in sensitive areas needs to be tackled as a priority". After I broadcast the story about "self appointed community gatekeepers" on Good Morning Ulster, an Alliance source told me most of the flags section was their idea. But not all the text can have been provided by Alliance because on my copy the section on paramilitary flags on main thoroughfares has an Alliance note attached arguing that this falls short of the 2000 law which already bans such displays. Targets An Alliance spokesperson told me the party "believed that just setting targets on what is already the law is not enough and so proposed that the document went further by having a regulatory framework to ensure the respectful and non-intimidatory and time-bound display of national flags in order to allow cultural expression and to promote and protect all public space as shared space. This was another Alliance proposal that was rejected by the other parties and led to the Alliance's withdrawal from the working group." On our school system, Alliance sought investment and targets for increased integrated education. The Stormont draft contains no targets but does say that "creating more opportunities for shared and integrated education [with a view to achieving a full shared education system in Northern Ireland] is a crucial part of breaking the cycle of sectarianism". Those square brackets could be crucial, as there's no consensus for making the single educational system a policy objective. I gather that the unionists parties and Alliance think such a commitment should be included, but both nationalist parties withheld their consent to what they view as a plan to end Catholic schools. The draft claims that the Programme for Government reflects the Executive's commitment to building a more shared learning environment and goes on to argue that "it is vital that this process addresses sectarian divisions and results in a less segregated and more shared school system". On housing, Alliance wanted a review of segregated housing and prioritisation of mixed housing. The draft document looks pretty close to this saying "mixed housing should be considered the norm" and it is "imperative that we prioritise the need to develop more shared housing and neighbourhood schemes". The draft also says "a landmark review of residential segregation and equality of housing provision" should be undertaken. Hot topic Housing near interfaces has become a particularly hot topic since the row developed over the redevelopment of the Girdwood site in North Belfast. The CSI document I have seen predates the Girdwood announcement. However it says that "housing should be only accessible to all and those making decisions on where to live should be able to do so free from the risk of intimidation or threat". But it continues to point out that "in practice, however, segregation through fear in housing represents a significant barrier to creating a more united community and achieving our vision of a society where people can live, work and socialise together." Finally concerns have been expressed by gay activists that their concerns won't be reflected in the CSI strategy. The draft I have seen does contains a specific reference to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and a target date of December 2012 for the publication of the Executive's Sexual Orientation strategy. As with the flags it's not clear which ideas on housing, education and gay issues are agreed and which are contested. For that, we shall have to wait for the finished CSI policy.

पिछले गुरुवार को, जब एलायंस क्रॉस पार्टी कोहेशन, शेयरिंग एंड इंटीग्रेशन वर्किंग ग्रुप से बाहर निकला, तो मैंने बीबीसी न्यूज़लाइन पर एक टुकड़ा प्रसारित किया, जिसमें सामुदायिक संबंधों पर डेविड फोर्ड की मुख्य बातों के साथ सी. एस. आई. दस्तावेज़ के नवीनतम मसौदे की तुलना और तुलना की गई थी।


Murder memorials: A grisly history written in stone

Summary: Wandering around the picturesque cemetery at St Catwg's church in Cadoxton, Neath, a first-time visitor might be startled out of their gentle stroll by the stark message on top of one tall, weathered stone - MURDER.

By Natalie GriceBBC News This memorial in south Wales is one of a handful of "murder stones" erected around the UK, the majority over a period of about 100 years, to commemorate violent deaths that shocked the local communities. The Cadoxton stone is dated 1823, and recounts the death of Margaret Williams, 26, who was from Carmarthenshire but was working "in service in this parish" and was found dead "with marks of violence on her person in a ditch on the march below this churchyard". Miss Williams' story, such as is known from contemporary reports, tells of an unmarried young woman who had been working for a local farmer in Neath when she became pregnant. She had declared the father of the child was the farmer's son, and when her apparently strangled body was discovered head down in a watery inlet in marshes near the town, he was the prime suspect. But whatever local opinion may have believed, there was no evidence to tie him or anyone else to the crime, and her murder remained unsolved. However, the murderer was left in no doubt as to the feelings of the local community after this stone, part gravestone and part warning, was erected over poor Margaret's body. Giving the details of her fate and the date of her death, the stone, erected by a local Quaker, continues: "Although the savage murderer escaped for a season the detection of man yet God hath set his mark upon him either for time or eternity, and the cry of blood will assuredly pursue him to certain and terrible righteous judgement." This unsolved killing is unusual in the history of the surviving murder stones in that the murderer escaped justice. Most of the other memorials are to people whose killers were quickly detected, sentenced and dispatched via the gallows. Dr Jan Bondeson, a retired senior lecturer at Cardiff University and a consultant physician, has made a study of the history of crime alongside his medical career and has written a number of books on the subject. He became interested in murder stones after editing a book which featured them. He said: "The murder stone in Cadoxton is the only one in Wales. There are plenty of them in England. "There was an instinct for the local people to erect them. There was a strong instinct to commemorate a tragic murder." Dr Bondeson has documented several further murder stones across the English counties, and one early example of the type in Scotland. One murder stone has been immortalised by no less a writer than Charles Dickens himself. In the novel Nicholas Nickleby, the eponymous hero walks through the ominously named Devil's Punch Bowl at Hindhead in Surrey. There, he and his companion come across the real-life stone marking the 1786 murder of a man known only as the Unknown Sailor. The unnamed man was en route to his ship in Portsmouth when he visited a local pub in Thursley. There he fell in with three fellow sailors, and paid for their drinks and food before leaving with them. The sailor was repaid for his generosity in the following way: They "nearly severed his head from his body, stripped him quite naked and threw him into a valley". The three did not get far. The sailor's body was found soon after, and James Marshall, Michael Casey and Edward Lonegon were chased and captured after trying to sell the dead man's clothes at a pub. They were hanged from a triple gibbet near the murder scene, and the unknown man was buried in Thursley with a stone paid for by local people. But the local mill owner, James Stillwell, went a step further. He placed a stone in Devil's Punch Bowl itself, with this grim warning to future generations: "ERECTED, In detestation of a barbarous Murder, Committed here on an unknown Sailor, On Sep, 24th 1786, By Edwd. Lonegon, Mich. Casey & Jas. Marshall "Who were all taken the same day, And hung in Chains near this place, Whoso sheddeth Man's Blood by Man shall his, Blood be shed. Gen Chap 9 Ver 6" Dr Bondeson said the majority of the stones appeared around the 1820s, adding "That was the high level for the erecting of murder stones. All of them are in the country - none are in urban areas." Elizabeth - Bessie - Sheppard was just 17 when she set out from her home in Papplewick, Nottingham, on 7 July 1817, to seek work as a servant in Mansfield, seven miles away. She found a job, but she never found her way back home, because on her return journey, a travelling knife grinder found her. Charles Rotherham, a man in his early 30s, had served as a soldier in the Napoleonic wars for 12 years before beginning this new stage in his life. He was seen on the road coming from Mansfield after drinking several pints where his path crossed Bessie's. Her severely battered body was found in a ditch by quarrymen the next day. Her shoes and distinctive yellow umbrella were missing and there was evidence her attacker had tried to remove her dress but had failed. Rotherham had sold Bessie's shoes and was on his way to Loughborough when he was arrested. He confessed to the crime and was returned to the scene where he showed a constable the hedge stake he had used to kill Bessie. Like all murderers at the time, Rotherham swung for his crime. Local people, outraged by the attack, banded together to raise money for a stone to commemorate Bessie, which was placed on the site where she was attacked. Bessie's stone simply honours the memory of the dead girl, but another stone erected to a female victim of violence has more of a moral tone, seemingly warning women against certain behaviour as much as expressing anger with the killer. "As a warning to Female Virtue, and a humble Monument to Female Chastity: this Stone marks the Grave of MARY ASHFORD, who, in the twentieth year of her age, having incautiously repaired to a scene of amusement, without proper protection, was brutally violated and murdered on the 27th of May, 1817." The story behind Mary Ashford's death and its aftermath is one which left a permanent mark on English legal history. She had gone to a dance in Erdington, Birmingham, with her friend Hannah Cox, whom she planned to stay with overnight before returning to her place of work at her uncle's house in a neighbouring village. At the dance, she met a local landowner's son, Abraham Thornton, and later reports confirmed the pair spent most of the night dancing together and having fun. When they left the dance, Mary told her friend she would spend the night at her grandparents' home - possibly a ploy to spend more time with Thornton - and Mary and he went off together. Mary returned to Hannah's house at 4am, changed her dancing clothes for her working clothes, collected some parcels and set out for her uncle's home. About two hours later a labourer found a bundle of clothing and parcels on the path leading to Mary's home. The alarm was raised and her body was found submerged in a water-filled pit. An autopsy showed she had drowned and had been raped shortly before her death. You may also like: People believed Thornton, having been rebuffed by Mary during their hours together, had lain in wait for her to return home and raped her before throwing her into the pit to drown. He was duly arrested and tried, but a number of witnesses placed him at another location at the time of Mary's death and he was acquitted. But the story does not end there. Mary's brother William Ashford began a private prosecution under an obscure ancient law, which allowed relatives of murder victims to bring an "appeal of murder" following an acquittal. Thornton had a surprise up his sleeve though. In response, he demanded a trial by combat as was his right under that law, under which he could legally have killed Ashford, or if he defeated him, gone free. Ashford was much smaller than Thornton, and declined the battle. Thornton was a free man, and the case was swiftly followed by a change in the law in 1819, banning such appeals and therefore trial by battle. Other victims include: The last word goes to those who chose to commemorate Nicholas Carter, a 55-year-old farmer from Bedale, Yorkshire, killed by a farm labourer as he rode home from market. The stone laid at the murder site in Akebar - later to become a Grade II listed monument which hit the headlines earlier this year when it was badly broken in a car crash - had a very simple message, along with the date of his death, May 19, 1826. Do No Murder.

नीथ के कैडॉक्सटन में सेंट कैटवग चर्च में सुरम्य कब्रिस्तान के चारों ओर घूमते हुए, पहली बार आने वाले व्यक्ति को एक लंबे, वातावरण वाले पत्थर-मर्डर के ऊपर के कठोर संदेश से उनकी कोमल सैर से चौंका दिया जा सकता है।


Katy Sprague: The family piecing together an 'avoidable murder'

Summary: Katy Sprague was strangled to death in the common room at a block of flats for people with mental health issues. Her family had long-held concerns for her safety. New details of her killer's violent past have amplified their search for answers over a death they feel could have been avoided.

By Phil ShepkaBBC News, Cambridgeshire In the months before she was murdered, Katy Sprague had become worried the man living in the flat below was becoming more and more unwell. He would often disturb her late at night, "banging around and being sick"; on occasions he was found lying in the foetal position in a communal corridor. Her family raised their concerns to staff but say they were played down - each of the residents of Denham Place lived there because they needed help with their mental health. But, all around, the support for her sister was becoming more threadbare, says Rebecca Sprague. Katy, 51, had been living at the block in Cambridge for 13 years, having struggled with acute anxiety for more than two decades. In Denham Place, morale among staff appeared low. Elsewhere, social clubs were closing and activities halted - part of a "gradual, steady decline" in services which had left "nothing for people with mental health issues to go to". That fraying safety net around Katy has become a key focus for the family as they piece together the factors that led to Katy's death at the hands of Zac Jackson, the man who lived downstairs. Her murder has already sparked two separate independent reviews into the organisations whose job it was to care for Katy. In their victim impact statement to the court, her family said they believed her death was "preventable" and "avoidable". But a string of details that emerged at Jackson's murder trial has left them asking how an unstable man with a history of violence towards women - who requested to be sectioned hours before he killed her - was left alone with her, with no staff around. "[People with mental health problems] cannot be left to basically fend for themselves in the wider community without adequate support," Rebecca says. "Obviously, mental health services have been cut to the bare bones, and some of the results are people are dying because of this." Katy had a young mental age and had suffered from anxiety since around the time of her father John's sudden death. She was a caring and thoughtful person, says Rebecca, describing her as someone who "enjoyed life, but became very, very anxious over seemingly quite simple situations". Katy lived in the flat above Jackson and, though the two were not friends, they would occasionally bump into one another in Cambridge's bookshops. The 38-year-old's flat was piled high with Star Trek magazines and books on conspiracy theories, from the Moon landings to the Kennedy assassination. He had been diagnosed with an anti-social and emotionally unstable personality disorder, and had spent several periods at Fulbourn Hospital, a nearby mental health facility in Cambridgeshire. It was a place he knew well, and where he wanted to return to on the day he murdered Katy. On the morning of 27 November 2019, he was visited by a community psychiatric nurse for his fortnightly anti-psychotic injection. In his flat, Jackson told her he wanted to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act at Fulbourn - then attempted to strangle her. She pushed him away and went to tell a manager but, following her, Jackson told her he was "going to kill her, kill the manager and kill Katy". The nurse called the mental health crisis team to attend to Jackson but was told was no-one was available to assess him until the next day. The news seemed to placate Jackson. Later that day, with no staff on site at Denham Place, Jackson strangled Katy to death in the common room. At his trial in February, it emerged that Jackson had a history of strangulation attempts, though no previous convictions. Katy's family learned he had tried to strangle a support worker in 2018. Two further incidents happened at Fulbourn Hospital; one in 2016 and another in 2002, when he attempted to strangle his mother. 'Warning signs' The court was told that, as a child, Jackson had witnessed violence between his parents, both Class A drug addicts who later died from overdoses. As an adult, he would provoke altercations with random women in the street, the court was told, making disparaging remarks before confronting them if they challenged him. "The warning signs were there," says Rebecca. "He shouldn't have been left in minimal supported housing and very unsupported. "He obviously didn't want to be in Denham Place. He didn't, as far as we know, have any family support. "More regard should have been taken to the fact he did have this history of violence and, we later learned, it seems to be violence particularly towards women." Jailing Jackson for life, the judge Mr Justice Bryan described him as "something of a loner, and reclusive". He said his outburst about killing Katy was "rightly [seen as a] cry for help" as he wanted to be sectioned - a tactic he had used before. 'Threat to kill' But Katy's family say questions remain over the response of the crisis team, which did not respond when called, and how Denham Place staff responded after Jackson's outburst in the manager's office. "Katy certainly was not aware there was any threat to kill her otherwise she wouldn't have been in the common room on her own with him," says Rebecca. The common room of the 16-flat complex had long been a source of concern to Katy's family, and they raised fears over it being open when support staff were not on site - just as on the day of the murder. They also say Katy had previously been physically assaulted there by another resident - not her killer. Her family believe if their concerns had been fully addressed, Katy would be alive today. A local safeguarding adults review is now under way into the case, as well as an NHS review. When contacted by the BBC, each agency said they were waiting for the outcome of that review. Julian Hendy runs the charity Hundred Families, which supports those affected by mental health homicides. He says Jackson was "clearly a very troubled man with concerning history of threatening innocent women". "There are serious questions to be asked if he was receiving the appropriate level of supervision at Denham Place, and whether services responded quickly enough when he asked to be sectioned," he says. "If they had been able to respond sooner, Katy might still be with us today." Cambridgeshire County Council says the review being done on behalf of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board will be made public "at the appropriate time". "The local authority and partners will ensure that there is an open and transparent process to make sure that any lessons learnt are shared," a spokeswoman for the authority says. The council has commissioned Sanctuary Supported Living to operate Denham Place's day-to-day support since 2017. A spokesman for Sanctuary Supported Living says: "Our thoughts remain with Katy's family during this very difficult time. "We are co-operating fully with the [review] being conducted on behalf of the local authority and await the outcome." A spokesman for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the crisis team, says: "We would like to offer our sincere condolences to Katy's family and friends. "We are supporting the review... to make sure that any lessons from this incident are acted on." Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk

कैटी स्प्रेग की मानसिक स्वास्थ्य के मुद्दों वाले लोगों के लिए फ्लैटों के एक ब्लॉक में आम कमरे में गला दबाकर हत्या कर दी गई थी। उसके परिवार को उसकी सुरक्षा के लिए लंबे समय से चिंता थी। उसके हत्यारे के हिंसक अतीत के नए विवरणों ने एक मौत पर जवाब के लिए उनकी खोज को बढ़ा दिया है जो उन्हें लगता है कि टाला जा सकता था।


Edwin Poots plans ban on cigarette vending machines

Summary: Health Minister Edwin Poots has said he hopes to ban tobacco sales from vending machines in Northern Ireland from next February.

It would be the latest in a series of measures taken by the Department of Health concerning tobacco sales. They include an attempt to introduce regulations banning the display of tobacco products at point of sale as well as vending machines. Mr Poots said he would consider views from everyone involved in the business. He added it could be next spring before the ban on displaying products was introduced.

स्वास्थ्य मंत्री एडविन पूट्स ने कहा है कि उन्हें उम्मीद है कि अगले फरवरी से उत्तरी आयरलैंड में वेंडिंग मशीनों से तंबाकू की बिक्री पर प्रतिबंध लगा दिया जाएगा।


Unique art exhibition unveiled on Anglesey

Summary: A unique art exhibition has been unveiled on Anglesey, with giant canvasses displayed at the exact beauty spots where they were painted.

The 2.5 metre-tall acrylic oil canvasses, dubbed 'Four on Anglesey' depict iconic views from the island. They were painted over the course of a week by landscape artist Anthony Garratt and hoisted on to steel structures. It is hoped residents and visitors will be inspired and do a double take. They depict views of Caernarfon, Snowdonia, the Great Orme, the Llyn Peninsula and the Irish Sea and will be on display until October. The paintings were commissioned by owner of the Menai Holiday Cottages Bun Matthews, who wanted a "unique" celebration. She hopes residents and visitors will do a 'double take' on the view.

एंग्लेसी पर एक अनूठी कला प्रदर्शनी का अनावरण किया गया है, जिसमें सटीक सौंदर्य स्थलों पर विशाल कैनवस प्रदर्शित किए गए हैं जहां उन्हें चित्रित किया गया था।


Out of Ethiopia: Is international adoption an ethical business?

Summary: International adoption is big business in Ethiopia and the country accounts for almost one in five international adoptions in the US, but how ethical is the process? BBC Africa's Hewete Haileselassie reports in this article which appeared in the latest issue of our Focus on Africa magazine.

Twenty-five years after leaving Ethiopia, Matthews Teshome decided to come home from the United States. This time for good. He had left much behind in April 2007 - most notably a successful career in IT. But his reason was simple. "There is work to be done," he said at the time. Soon after returning to the capital, Addis Ababa, he befriended a young boy he saw running errands and shining shoes around his hotel. Zeberga, who was then 13, used the little money he made to clothe and feed himself, pay his uncle rent, put himself through night school and send money back to his mother in rural Ethiopia. "As I was in the country to help out, if I couldn't help this boy then I wasn't doing much," says Mr Matthews, who was determined that Zeberga should return to school full-time. After promising to continue the monthly $3 (£2) remittance, he received permission from Zeberga's uncle and his mother to support Zeberga. Within months the young boy had moved in with Mr Matthews, who employed a lawyer to facilitate the adoption process not only of Zeberga but also of his younger sister who was working as a maid in the capital. Drawn to Ethiopia Meanwhile, 8,000 miles (13,000 km) away, in the US, Bridget Shaughnessy gave birth to her daughter Elia. It was also April 2007. In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Mrs Shaughnessy was diagnosed with a rare birth complication which meant that the baby had to be delivered early. Elia arrived safely but her birth was both traumatic and risky for Mrs Shaughnessy. As she and her husband Luke watched Elia grow up in Denver, Colorado, they decided that adoption was the only way to complete their family. They both felt drawn to Ethiopia, its culture and history, and so made contact with an agency specialising in international adoptions. That was the beginning of a three-year process that ended in their bringing their son Teshale home from Ethiopia. Back in Addis Ababa, Mr Matthews says the biggest obstacle he initially faced in the adoption process was being a single man with no biological children of his own. But once the authorities were convinced of his motives and character, the process proved less difficult than he had anticipated. While it is common in Ethiopia for families to incorporate children of relatives into their own households, formal and legal adoptions remain the preserve of foreigners. Parents vetted Official Ethiopian data is hard to come by but Dagnachew Tesfaye, a lawyer who has handled many adoptions for the country's children and youth affairs office, estimates that there are around 5,000 international adoptions a year from Ethiopia. Almost 19% of all children adopted from abroad and taken to the US come from Ethiopia, according to the US department of State - the most famous case being actress Angelina Jolie and her daughter Zahara. It costs up to $25,000 to adopt a child to take abroad. In contrast, Mr Matthews says he paid roughly $300 for his own in-country adoption. Mr Dagnachew, who has also presided as judge in many high profile international adoptions, says that while the fees are high - leading to accusations of impropriety in some cases - the government is in no way profiting. He adds that the amounts paid to the courts in processing fees, for example, were "laughably small", with the difference being taken by the agencies who handled the foreign adoptions. Mr Dagnachew explains that the Ethiopian government sees international adoption as one of the measures used to tackle the country's large number of orphans - said to be five million, from a population of 85 million. The United Nations defines an orphan as a child having one or more dead parents. The Ethiopian ministry of women's affairs is also putting in place various checks to ensure that the adoptive families are thoroughly vetted. This can include visits to children in their new homes abroad. 'Amazing moment' Mrs Shaughnessy, who blogs at www.stickymangofeet.com, says that she was drawn to Ethiopia because of its "open" and "ethical" adoption process. She also points out that children maintain access to information about their birth families. In fact, soon after she contacted the adoption agency in Minnesota that would link her to a government orphanage in Ethiopia, she had a home visit from a government representative. She describes the moment when she took the telephone call that informed her she had been allocated a child as "surreal - very exciting. A really amazing moment." The Shaughnessys travelled to Ethiopia in November to meet Teshale and to start the process of taking him to the US. Mrs Shaughnessy says that by the time they met him in an orphanage in Addis Ababa - where he had been for almost a year since being placed there by his birth mother - "we had already fallen in love with him, but he didn't know who we were." As for Teshale, who was not yet two at the time, Mrs Shaughnessy says he was scared and overwhelmed. "He knew something was happening but not what," she says. She spoke of tears each time he left the orphanage to spend time with them. Once in the US, she kept her son's Ethiopian name as part of honouring what his birth mother had given him. She added that she keeps in close touch with other adoptive families who also have Ethiopian children. Controversial practice But this still remains a highly controversial practice. One high-profile former adoptee is a United Kingdom-based poet and playwright, Lemn Sissay. He entered the British care system in the 1960s having been given up for adoption by his mother who gave birth in England before returning to Ethiopia. He says that non-Africans should be closely "monitored" when seeking to adopt African children and that while many good adopting parents exist, "having an African baby is often a sign to non-African adopters of their philanthropic, political, familial or religious credentials." Ultimately, he says, "taking a child from another culture is an act of aggression". Selamawit (not her real name), an independent consultant who works with women's affairs organisations in Addis Ababa, shares Mr Lemn's concerns about screening adoptive families but says that "adoption in principle is not a bad thing" although it is best for children to remain with their birth families or, failing that, the extended family. She argues that in Ethiopia adoption has become far too lucrative a business where children's interests seem secondary. She also says there is a pressing need to monitor internal adoptions, formal or otherwise, as children can be subjected to child labour when sent to live with family members. These cases tend to fall outside monitoring mechanisms. Selamawit suggests that the money should be reinvested into the orphanages to help those children left behind. Five years on from being adopted, Zeberga is legally an adult and his sister is 16. Their father, Mr Matthews, runs a successful restaurant in Addis Ababa and says that some of his colleagues who were the most wary of his plans to adopt later became the most supportive. "Adopting has become one of the best experiences of my life," he says. Mrs Shaughnessy echoes these sentiments saying of her son Teshale: "We are beyond in love with him. I don't even know how to make sense of it, it's amazing what happened."

इथोपिया में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय गोद लेना एक बड़ा व्यवसाय है और अमेरिका में लगभग पाँच में से एक अंतरराष्ट्रीय गोद लेने के लिए देश जिम्मेदार है, लेकिन यह प्रक्रिया कितनी नैतिक है? बीबीसी अफ्रीका के हेवेट हेलसेलासी ने इस लेख में बताया है जो हमारे फोकस ऑन अफ्रीका पत्रिका के नवीनतम अंक में प्रकाशित हुआ था।


Wales unemployment rises by 1,000 to 122,000 in last three months

Summary: Unemployment in Wales has risen by 1,000 in the last three months with 122,000 people out of work, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has said.

The rate remains at 8.2% as it was for the period between January and March while the figure is 4,000 lower than the same period last year. The number of people on Jobseekers Allowance fell by 1,800 to 73,400. Figures also show 21,000 more people in work in Wales compared to last year and 5,000 more than the last three months. The UK unemployment total fell by 4,000 to 2.51 million - a rate of 7.8% and above the new target of 7% set by the Bank of England. Bank governor Mark Carney announced the target last week, saying interest rates would be unlikely to be raised until UK unemployment came down to 7%.

राष्ट्रीय सांख्यिकी कार्यालय (ओ. एन. एस.) ने कहा है कि पिछले तीन महीनों में वेल्स में बेरोजगारी में 1,000 की वृद्धि हुई है और 122,000 लोग काम से बाहर हो गए हैं।


Amid Greek austerity, plunder of priceless treasures

Summary: The financial crisis in Greece has already had far-reaching consequences for many people, but now it is claiming a new casualty as some of the country's ancient treasures become a target for thieves.

By Theopi SkarlatosBBC Fast Track, Athens Detective Gergios Tsoukalis puffs nervously on his cigar. In the passenger's seat of a taxi, he grapples with four different mobile phones as he tries to co-ordinate the arrest of yet another antiquities smuggler. As the driver pulls into the port, he sees ahead of him that plainclothes police officers have already pounced on the unassuming man, who is completely shocked by the early-morning operation. As he is being bundled into a van, one of the officers shouts at him: "How many of you are there? Don't mess me around. How many?" Mr Tsoukalis is less concerned with the accused. He is following the trail of the treasure. He heads straight to the back of the suspect's vehicle and pulls out a bag to confirm that these are the stolen artefacts. "These are them, here are the coins," he says with relief, immediately lighting up another cigar. These moments are what the detective lives for. Vulnerable artefacts Hunting down illegal traders and saving timeless ancient objects does not just provide him with a rush of adrenaline or a satisfying buzz. First and foremost, he does this job because he is Greek and cannot stand to see his country's most valuable and vulnerable artefacts in the wrong hands. There has been a rise in the last three years in illegal trading. According to police reports, there has been a 30% increase since the crisis took hold in 2009. Mr Tsoukalis believes the most popular buyers are Russians, Chinese and Latin Americans. "In the last few years with the crisis, people who have reached their limits have become more easily tempted," he says. "They are more likely to either sell antiquities in their possession or search for them in abandoned excavation sites, in order to sell what they find to dealers who take them abroad. "We've tracked down ancient Greek antiquities as far away as Colombia - in the hands of drug dealers". In February, he received a call from one man determined to do the right thing. Yiannis Dendrinellis, from the coastal town of Derveni in Corinthia, came across what he has now been told could be the site of an ancient temple. He found a bag left at the side of the road where someone had been digging. "Inside there were some old coins and parts of small statues. You read stories about people finding treasure, but it can't be compared to finding it yourself with your own hands. It was amazing, just something else." Yiannis will receive a small share of the value of his find because he contacted the authorities. He is still waiting to hear more about its worth. Inadequate protection From the onset of the financial crisis in Greece, it became easier for people to steal and sell on artefacts because many sites, including those still being excavated are not adequately protected. "Some islands only have one guard to protect and maintain all of the ancient sites," says Despina Koutsoumba, of the Association of Greek Archaeologists. "How can he do his job properly? Things are being stolen all the time. Only recently a man was arrested and caught with a Macedonian tomb - and inside the entire warrior's outfit. We didn't even know it existed until the man who took it was arrested." Her main worry is ensuring the maintenance and security of the already registered artefacts in Greece's museums. In December 2012, the finance ministry took control of the archaeological fund containing all the profits from museum ticket sales - a budget of 2m euros (£1.72m). "We have not seen this money since December last year and this money is needed to keep our museums running properly. Not only can we not afford toilet paper and petrol for our drivers, but we haven't been able to pay our electricity, water and phone bills, since last year. "So you can imagine what this means for a museum, to be threatened and have its electricity cut off, what that means for its operations and what that means for its alarms," she said. The Ministry of Culture stresses it is doing all it can to protect Greece's most important sites and museums. Maria Vlazaki, General Director of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage says: "There are a lot of people employed to guard Greece's most important sites, but of course there are less than before. "As there are fewer employees in all other sectors, we have the same problem with this one. But we have done all the work we can to protect our museums and archaeological sites and keep them safe. I know it is a difficult situation, but we try hard". Last week the government secured another bailout instalment from the troika of international creditors, the EU, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB). In return, a further 25,000 public sector workers will be dismissed and all ministries will be affected. Those working for the Ministry of Culture are waiting nervously to find out not only if their jobs will be protected, but also the ancient antiquities behind glass cases - and those yet to be discovered. Fast Track can be seen on BBC World News at 03.30, 13.30 and 18.30 GMT on Saturdays and 06.30 GMT on Sundays.

यूनान में वित्तीय संकट के पहले से ही कई लोगों के लिए दूरगामी परिणाम रहे हैं, लेकिन अब यह एक नए नुकसान का दावा कर रहा है क्योंकि देश के कुछ प्राचीन खजाने चोरों के लिए एक लक्ष्य बन गए हैं।