Sir Ivan Rogers' letter to staff in full

Summary: The UK's ambassador to the European Union, Sir Ivan Rogers, has resigned. Here is his message to staff in full. We have highlighted key passages in bold, and added BBC political reporter Justin Parkinson's commentary in italics.

Dear All, Happy New Year! I hope that you have all had/are still having, a great break, and that you will come back refreshed and ready for an exciting year ahead. I am writing to you all on the first day back to tell you that I am today resigning as Permanent Representative. As most of you will know, I started here in November 2013. My four-year tour is therefore due to end in October - although in practice if we had been doing the Presidency my time here would have been extended by a few months. As we look ahead to the likely timetable for the next few years, and with the invocation of Article 50 coming up shortly, it is obvious that it will be best if the top team in situ at the time that Article 50 is invoked remains there till the end of the process and can also see through the negotiations for any new deal between the UK and the EU27. It would obviously make no sense for my role to change hands later this year. I have therefore decided to step down now, having done everything that I could in the last six months to contribute my experience, expertise and address book to get the new team at political and official level under way. This will permit a new appointee to be in place by the time Article 50 is invoked. Importantly, it will also enable that person to play a role in the appointment of Shan's replacement as DPR. (Shan Morgan was Deputy Permanent Representative) I know from experience - both my own hugely positive experience of working in partnership with Shan, and from seeing past, less happy, examples - how imperative it is that the PR and DPR operate as a team, if UKREP is to function as well as I believe it has done over the last few years. I want to put on record how grateful I am to Shan for the great working relationship we have had. She will be hugely missed in UKREP, and by many others here in Brussels, but she will be a tremendous asset to the Welsh government. From my soundings before Christmas, I am optimistic that there will be a very good field of candidates for the DPR role. But it is right that these two roles now get considered and filled alongside each other, and for my successor to play the leading role in making the DPR appointment. I shall therefore stand aside from the process at this point. I know that this news will add, temporarily, to the uncertainty that I know, from our many discussions in the autumn, you are all feeling about the role of UKREP in the coming months and years of negotiations over "Brexit". I am sorry about that, but I hope that it will help produce earlier and greater clarity on the role that UKREP should play. My own view remains as it has always been. We do not yet know what the government will set as negotiating objectives for the UK's relationship with the EU after exit. Justin Parkinson: This could be read as a hurry-up to the UK government to decide what it actually wants from Brexit talks, expected to start as early as April. This differs from criticism from some MPs that not enough is being divulged - Sir Ivan is implying a lack of direction at the heart of government, rather than vagueness in its public message. And he is suggesting that UK diplomats in Brussels need to be better informed. There is much we will not know until later this year about the political shape of the EU itself, and who the political protagonists in any negotiation with the UK will be. But in any negotiation which addresses the new relationship, the technical expertise, the detailed knowledge of positions on the other side of the table - and the reasons for them, and the divisions amongst them - and the negotiating experience and savvy that the people in this building bring, make it essential for all parts of UKREP to be centrally involved in the negotiations if the UK is to achieve the best possible outcomes. Serious multilateral negotiating experience is in short supply in Whitehall, and that is not the case in the Commission or in the Council. JP: Sir Ivan is suggesting there's a danger the UK could be outclassed in the Brexit talks - and lose out as a result. Diplomats must be better prepared, he is apparently arguing. The government will only achieve the best for the country if it harnesses the best experience we have - a large proportion of which is concentrated in UKREP - and negotiates resolutely. Senior ministers, who will decide on our positions, issue by issue, also need from you detailed, unvarnished - even where this is uncomfortable - and nuanced understanding of the views, interests and incentives of the other 27. JP: Sir Ivan is saying that only civil servants, rather than campaigners and activists, can provide a true picture of the complexities ahead. The structure of the UK's negotiating team and the allocation of roles and responsibilities to support that team, needs rapid resolution. The working methods which enable the team in London and Brussels to function seamlessly need also to be strengthened. The great strength of the UK system - at least as it has been perceived by all others in the EU - has always been its unique combination of policy depth, expertise and coherence, message co-ordination and discipline, and the ability to negotiate with skill and determination. UKREP has always been key to all of that. We shall need it more than ever in the years ahead. As I have argued consistently at every level since June, many opportunities for the UK in the future will derive from the mere fact of having left and being free to take a different path. But others will depend entirely on the precise shape of deals we can negotiate in the years ahead. Contrary to the beliefs of some, free trade does not just happen when it is not thwarted by authorities: increasing market access to other markets and consumer choice in our own, depends on the deals, multilateral, plurilateral and bilateral that we strike, and the terms that we agree. JP: Sir Ivan does not name those he is effectively accusing of over-optimism and naivety, but this could be read as a criticism of pro-Brexit ministers - those said to favour a "hard Brexit", under which the UK could leave the European single market and customs union and be subject to the rules of the World Trade Organization. There is much hard work ahead, it suggests. I shall advise my successor to continue to make these points. Meanwhile, I would urge you all to stick with it, to keep on working at intensifying your links with opposite numbers in DEXEU [Department for Exiting the EU] and line ministries and to keep on contributing your expertise to the policy-making process as negotiating objectives get drawn up. The famed UKREP combination of immense creativity with realism ground in negotiating experience, is needed more than ever right now. On a personal level, leaving UKREP will be a tremendous wrench. I have had the great good fortune, and the immense privilege, in my civil service career, to have held some really interesting and challenging roles: to have served four successive UK prime ministers very closely; to have been EU, G20 and G8 Sherpa; to have chaired a G8 Presidency and to have taken part in some of the most fraught, and fascinating, EU negotiations of the last 25 years - in areas from tax, to the MFF to the renegotiation. Of all of these posts, I have enjoyed being the Permanent Representative more than any other I have ever held. That is, overwhelmingly, because of all of you and what you all make UKREP: a supremely professional place, with a fantastic co-operative culture, which brings together talented people whether locally employed or UK-based and uniquely brings together people from the home civil service with those from the Foreign Office. UKREP sets itself demanding standards, but people also take the time to support each other which also helps make it an amazingly fun and stimulating place to work. I am grateful for everything you have all done over the last few years to make this such a fantastic operation. For my part, I hope that in my day-to-day dealings with you I have demonstrated the values which I have always espoused as a public servant. I hope you will continue to challenge ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking and that you will never be afraid to speak the truth to those in power. I hope that you will support each other in those difficult moments where you have to deliver messages that are disagreeable to those who need to hear them. JP: The most-reported part of Sir Ivan's email, this implies that more planning is needed, and that ministers are unwilling to listen to the advice civil servants are offering. It gives a strong hint that his colleagues feel intimidated. I hope that you will continue to be interested in the views of others, even where you disagree with them, and in understanding why others act and think in the way that they do. I hope that you will always provide the best advice and counsel you can to the politicians that our people have elected, and be proud of the essential role we play in the service of a great democracy. Ivan

यूरोपीय संघ में ब्रिटेन के राजदूत, सर इवान रोजर्स ने इस्तीफा दे दिया है। यहाँ कर्मचारियों के लिए उनका पूरा संदेश है। हमने बोल्ड में प्रमुख अंशों पर प्रकाश डाला है, और बीबीसी के राजनीतिक रिपोर्टर जस्टिन पार्किंसन की टिप्पणी को इटैलिक में जोड़ा है।


Eurovision puts spotlight on Azerbaijan human rights

Summary: As Azerbaijan continues to clamp down on dissent in the run-up to hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in May, the BBC's Caucasus correspondent, Damian McGuinness, asks whether the competition risks being unfairly politicised.

It started with a letter and some photos. The photographs showed journalist Khadija Ismayilova having sex with her boyfriend - they were taken with a hidden camera installed in her bedroom without her knowledge. And the letter ordered her to stop investigating alleged government corruption. Otherwise, it said, she would be publicly shamed. Ms Ismayilova, one of Azerbaijan's most respected investigative journalists, refused to give in to the blackmail. This was a brave decision in a conservative, mainly Muslim country where, although the state is secular, honour killings still take place. 'KGB methods' The following week, on 14 March, a video showing her having sex, was posted online. It had been filmed with the same secret camera. At the same time, two pro-government newspapers published articles accusing her of lax morals and alcoholism, and indicating where to find the video on the internet. "I am sure this was done by someone in the government who has authority," says Ms Ismayilova. She believes the blackmail was aimed at stopping her from reporting on allegations that President Ilham Aliyev's wife and daughters secretly own stakes in the country's banks and one of its biggest telecoms companies. "They learnt these methods with the KGB. They try to misuse conservative feelings in society," she said. "They thought this would make me stop my investigations. But I have stood up and talked about it openly. And society has supported me." Some newspapers refused to join the smear campaign against Ms Ismayilova, and elders within Azerbaijan's Muslim community have publicly given her their support. The government has denied involvement. A spokesman for President Aliyev, Ali Hasanov, released a statement saying the "right to privacy is a fundamental human right", and said that an investigation has been launched. A source within the president's office told the BBC that the case was being taken seriously, and that the interior minister is also following the investigation. But this is not the first time secret videos of a sexual nature have been used to blackmail government critics in Azerbaijan. Last May, while Azeri opposition activists were holding their own Arab Spring-style protests, sexually explicit footage of two oppositional journalists was broadcast on TV. Two separate videos showed the two activists engaging in sexual activity in the hotel rooms where they were staying for a conference. The clips were broadcast on television, by a channel owned by a cousin of President Aliyev. And in the run-up to the 2010 parliamentary elections, secretly-filmed footage of the editor-in-chief of an oppositional newspaper having sex with a young woman was shown on pro-government television. There is no evidence of tourists or foreign journalists being targeted. But Ms Ismayilova says visitors coming to Azerbaijan for Eurovision in May should be aware that cameras are sometimes planted in hotel rooms. "Everyone should be worried. Big Brother can be watching you." Scrutiny Human rights activists worry that despite the attention attracted by Eurovision, the situation for journalists in Azerbaijan is getting worse, not better. "It's alarming," says Rebecca Vincent from Article 19, a media freedom organization. "We thought that the international scrutiny, with the preparations for Eurovision, would bring more freedom. But instead the authorities are cracking down even harder." Rasul Jafarov, who has launched Sing For Democracy, a campaign that aims to use Eurovision to improve human rights, says the government has a stranglehold over television and radio media. "Just as other spheres of the economy are in the hands of oligarchs or people connected to the government, the heads of all the TV channels are pro-government, and in some cases relatives of people in government. So they have concrete pressure mechanisms," he said. According to Article 19, 11 journalists, bloggers and media workers are currently detained or imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Last year, there were 11 documented attacks on journalists, and 16 cases of reporters being subjected to violence while at work. And last November, a journalist who was critical of the government was murdered in Baku. This case remains unsolved. When it comes to media freedom, the situation in Azerbaijan is "dire", according to Freedom House. Transparency International ranks Azerbaijan 143rd out of 183 countries in itsCorruption Perceptions Index. Criticism of the government by non-journalists can also provoke a heavy-handed response. According to Amnesty International, four youth activists were beaten and 17 arrested at the beginning of March for taking part in a peaceful protest. And last week, two musicians and a music promoter were arrested and allegedly beaten by police after they were accused of insulting the president's family during a concert. Ms Vincent believes that the international spotlight brought by Eurovision means more government critics are now starting to speak out. But, faced with unprecedented international attention, the authorities appear more concerned than ever with covering up allegations of corruption, and are reacting harshly in an attempt to safeguard Azerbaijan's image. 'Platform for change' Tucked between Iran, Turkey and Russia in a little known part of the world, Azerbaijan has been largely ignored by the international media Until, that is, the country won last year's Eurovision Song Contest, making it this year's host. Human rights activists see it as their chance to use the international spotlight to bring alleged abuses of power to the world's attention. For the press, the contrast between the glitz and glamour of pop and the shady reputation of Azerbaijan's human rights record is a story that is hard to resist. After all, Azerbaijan, a member of the Council of Europe, portrays itself as a modern, Western-leaning democracy with a free and fair press. As a result, many argue the country should be held to account. But Michelle Roverelli, a spokeswoman for the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the confederation of broadcasters that organises Eurovision, says the contest is light-hearted entertainment, and should not be used as a political tool. "Eurovision can be a platform for change," she explained. "It puts a spotlight on a country. So we understand that human rights groups use it to advance their interests. We accept that." "But we have to leave politics out of the contest itself," she added."If I have to attack the Azeri government during Eurovision's opening press conference, you can imagine what would happen." Championing individual causes in every host country would mean the end of Eurovision, she believes. Instead, in its capacity as a network of public broadcasters, the EBU regularly talks to member states about media freedom and trains local journalists. And in May, the EBU will host a conference in Geneva, bringing together the Azeri government and human rights activists, to improve the situation for journalists in Azerbaijan. Fans of the song contest think it a little unfair that Eurovision is being criticised for coming to a country described as authoritarian. After all, the event is bringing with it unprecedented attention to Azerbaijan's human rights issues. Euro-pop, glitzy outfits and dodgy dance moves may not be able change the world. But they are certainly pushing Azerbaijan, warts and all, into the limelight.

जैसा कि अज़रबैजान ने मई में यूरोविज़न गीत प्रतियोगिता की मेजबानी के लिए असहमति पर नकेल कसना जारी रखा है, बीबीसी के काकेशस संवाददाता, डेमियन मैकगिनेस पूछते हैं कि क्या प्रतियोगिता का अनुचित रूप से राजनीतिकरण होने का जोखिम है।


At 12 I grew a beard and had a period

Summary: When Alec Butler was born in 1959 it was assumed Alec was female. But after being brought up as a girl, Alec - now an award-winning writer and film-maker - realised they were intersex, someone whose anatomical, hormonal or genetic sex is neither completely male nor female.

I was about 12 when it really hit. I started to grow a beard and I had a period. So it was really confusing for me. My parents were a little freaked out. They took me to some doctors, but no-one knew about being intersex in the small town where I grew up in Canada. One doctor said, "We're going to have to put her in a mental institution until she learns how to dress like a girl and put on makeup." This was at the age of 12, when even most genetic girls aren't being forced to do that. Luckily my parents were outraged and they said, "We're not going to do that. We're just going to love you, and you can choose how you want to be." That was a gift. Lots of intersex kids don't have that. My whole family was very loving. I had lots of vitality, I was funny, and I could entertain people with my Elvis Presley impersonations. I was always interested in art and writing. As a kid I remember seeing a Van Gogh painting. I was blown away by it. My parents were working class, and the only books at home were encyclopaedias which I read back to back. My family was very accepting of me - it was just school and society that were hard. As soon as I could get away with wearing trousers all the time, I did. That was really difficult back then, to be a girl and to want to wear trousers. And I felt pressure to take female hormones to make me more feminine, even though I wanted to be more masculine - I wanted to be a boy. At school I was picked on. I was worried about being called crazy so I tried to fit in, tried not to get in too much trouble. But when you're in a body like mine, it is trouble. People get upset. I had problems because I liked a girl, and she actually liked me too. But it all went terribly wrong because I was intersex and not really a boy I guess. I was called lesbian, lezzie, dyke… and I was screamed at by the other kids, "You're sick! You're sick!" I was passed notes in class, stuff like, "Why don't you just kill yourself?" At that time we were living on a military base in the east of Canada in Oromocto because my dad was in the army. The school was huge, and because I was bullied constantly, my dad got really worried about what might happen. So he took early retirement, lost a chunk of his pension, and we moved to the bush in Cape Breton, an island off Nova Scotia. But in many ways that was even more oppressive because it was so isolated and people were even more ignorant. When I graduated from high school in 1978, I found it hard to get a job. I moved to Toronto to live my life as a queer person and to follow my dreams. Back then I was presenting as a butch lesbian. It was a way of getting a community, support and feeling accepted. I didn't know any other intersex people - I didn't even know the word back then. Glossary Find out more: Gendered Intelligence See also: A guide to transgender terms Life wasn't easy. I had people threaten me with death on the street. I had things thrown at me. Somebody tried to throw me under a street car. And at a Gay Pride parade, I was surrounded by gay men who threatened to pull down my trousers. It could be really scary. Butch lesbians get a huge amount of hatred directed at them, even to this day. One of the reasons I pass more as male now is because psychologically, I couldn't deal with the violence and the expressions of hatred. But I got my plays produced, and I made a name for myself in the community. During the early 1990s, I took care of friends who were dying of Aids. It was a really busy time, a crazy time. I didn't want people to know I had a beard but during that period I just didn't have time to shave. So stubble appeared, and my friends said, "Wow, you have a beard! That's really cool, you should grow it out." So after my friends died, I did grow my beard in memory of them, and in honour of how they accepted me. But I got in trouble again - it didn't go down well in the lesbian bars. Women would say, "What are you doing at a lesbian bar?" And I was like, "Well, I'm a lesbian too, and some of us have beards." It was probably not until the mid-1990s that I knew I was intersex. One day someone I'd known for years said, "Do you think you might be intersex?" And I was like, "What's that, intersex!?" So I ended up googling it and researching it very intensively, and I thought, "Yeah, that's what I am." And then I remembered things my mother told me about when she was pregnant with me. She was taking a drug called progestin, and I know from my research that it causes intersex in babies, so I think that's what happened to me. Alec Butler was talking to Linda Pressly - listen to her report for The Documentary on BBC World Service from 03:00 GMT on Sunday 24 April 2016, or catch up afterwards on iPlayer. As people become increasingly connected and more mobile, the BBC is exploring how identities are changing. As part of this, The Salon: Stories of women's identity from the hairdresser's chair, is speaking to people around the world. For more stories go to the BBC's Identity season or join the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #BBCIdentity. In the late 1990s I changed my name to Alec. My partner and I both came out as transgender - from lesbian lovers, we became brothers! It was quite a shock to the community. I didn't really have to do anything except change my name because I was already pretty masculine. And I like my body the way it is - I had no desire to change it. I like having a beard. I like having breasts. I just like it. It works for me most of the time. It's hard to start a relationship though, because it is different. Sometimes it's tough for lovers to get their heads around, but I appreciate people who reach out and try to break down those walls. It's really problematic for people to understand the concept of being intersex. And intersex people have had a hard time of it. If they've been surgically altered, they're told to hide it, and they're ashamed. Many people align with one gender or the other. Perhaps it's easier to live like that, to choose to be a man or a woman, and stick with it. But now there are alliances being built between non-binary queers like me, and other intersex people. And it's more hopeful for those born intersex - surgery isn't as important any more, and parents have realised it's their own anxiety they're trying to fix when they choose one or other gender for their children. The kids are usually fine with it. I was fine with being taken for a boy or a girl - it was fun sometimes to fool people. In terms of pronouns, I use "they" and "he". I sometimes get called "she". I don't really mind that, but it does depend where it's coming from. If it's said in a rude manner, I don't like that. But I don't really mind - it's just a pronoun! More from the Magazine In the English language, the word "he" is used to refer to males and "she" to refer to females. But some people identify as neither gender, or both - which is why an increasing number of US universities are making it easier for people to choose to be referred to by other pronouns, writes Avinash Chak. Beyond 'he' and 'she': The rise of non-binary pronouns Now I'm studying Aboriginal studies at the University of Toronto. In Canada's native communities before colonisation, transgender people, masculine women and feminine men were seen as doubly blessed because they possessed the spirit of both male and female. They were two-spirit people. It's a controversial term, but they were hugely important - teachers, marriage counsellors, and they were given special roles in ceremonies. I found out about my native heritage in a very painful way. When my mother was dying, I asked her why she left school at 12. She told me she couldn't take it any more, being called a dirty little Indian. I asked her if that was true. She didn't really answer because it was just something you couldn't talk about - you're taught to be ashamed of your native heritage. But the way she looked at me, I definitely got the message that "Yes, we have native ancestors." For me, identifying as two-spirit means I can feel good about being a man and a woman in one body. And my whole purpose in going back to school is to reclaim that two-spirit identity - it complements my non-binary, intersex identity. It puts the puzzle together for me as a person in this world: I'm not weird, I'm part of humanity. Other people like me exist and have always existed, despite efforts to wipe us out. Now I'm taking testosterone - not because I need to pass as more male, but because of health reasons. For some reason I still get periods, and my doctor's saying, "You should be in menopause by now." But I'm not. And my periods are so physically demanding. I get a lot of pain and it interrupts my creative life. So I'm on testosterone to deal with that. I think it's amazing that a growing number of young Canadians are identifying as non-binary. I wish it had happened 40 years ago when I was a kid because I would've had a much less traumatic life. This new movement has given me a lot of confidence. I actually look forward to going out most days whereas I didn't really go out much before. It was just too hard and too uncomfortable. I would get confronted by people - they'd come up and pinch my boob and say, "Oh, they're real," and I'm like "Yeah, they're real - you didn't have to do that." So maybe an acceptance of non-binary people will help - you can't assume you can touch somebody or say just anything. You can't even assume someone's male or female, and that's good. The message I want to put out to my community - intersex, non-binary and native - is, be proud to be mixed gender and mixed race. That's what I've learned to be - proud. Pieces of me Five non-binary people, including Alec, pick the objects that reflect who they are. Read more from Alec Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

जब एलेक बटलर का जन्म 1959 में हुआ था तो यह माना जाता था कि एलेक महिला थी। लेकिन एक लड़की के रूप में बड़े होने के बाद, एलेक-जो अब एक पुरस्कार विजेता लेखक और फिल्म निर्माता हैं-को एहसास हुआ कि वे अंतरलिंगी हैं, कोई ऐसा व्यक्ति जिसका शारीरिक, हार्मोनल या आनुवंशिक लिंग न तो पूरी तरह से पुरुष है और न ही महिला।


Whitland level crossing train-lorry crash injures three

Summary: Three people have been injured after a lorry and a train collided at a level crossing in the second similar crash in under a year.

It was at Whitland, Carmarthenshire, at what is known as the Llanboidy crossing just before 16:00 BST on Friday. Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service sent two engines to the scene. A similar incident happened at the same level crossing in December 2011 when a passenger train was involved in a crash with a lorry and trailer carrying hay. The fire service said via Twitter passengers were being transferred onto buses to Carmarthen station. It said three casualties with minor injuries were treated by paramedics at the scene. The B4328 road was closed while investigations were carried out.

एक साल से भी कम समय में इसी तरह की दूसरी दुर्घटना में एक रेलवे क्रॉसिंग पर एक लॉरी और एक ट्रेन की टक्कर में तीन लोग घायल हो गए हैं।


Lloyds privatisation begins

Summary: So more or less on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Bros, which triggered the mother of all banking crises, the Treasury has begun the privatisation of one of the enormous banks rescued by taxpayers in the autumn of 2008.

Robert PestonEconomics editor Tonight the government is trying to sell 6% of Lloyds for around £3.3bn - which represents a bit under a sixth of our 39% stake in the bank. Based on tonight's market price of Lloyds, of just over 77p, the Treasury should get back more or less the cash invested by taxpayers in Lloyds - which was 73.6p per share. During the eurozone banking crisis of 2011-12, getting our money back looked an impossibility. That said, we won't make a fat profit. And the National Audit Office will point out that when the cost of money is taken into account, taxpayers will make a loss. There is one other important financial characteristic of this deal for the chancellor: it will show a "book" profit to the government of around £600m and will reduce the national debt by that amount. The notional profit stems from what some would see as the eccentricities of how the government accounts are written, namely that the shares were included in the government books not at their cash price, but at the (lower) market price on the day of the purchase of shares being a legal reality. However, for Lloyds, the big point is that it moves nearer to being back in the private sector. And even in this initial sale, many will say taxpayers will get their money back (at least in cash terms). PS: These shares are all being offered to investment institutions. The next sale of Lloyds stock will also include an element aimed at retail investors. UPDATE 20:35 My hunch is that the Treasury is likely to receive around 75p per share for the 6% of Lloyds it is selling - a small discount to the closing market price of 77.3p, and a slight premium to the cash price paid by taxpayers for the stake in 2008 and 2009. Around 80% to 90% of the shares are likely to end up in the hands of British and American investment institutions, in a sale being conducted for the government by JP Morgan, UBS and Bank of America. The potential buyers of the shares are being given a promise by the Treasury that it won't sell any more Lloyds shares for at least 90 days. Which means that part two of this privatisation cannot happen till the end of the year, at the very earliest. As for when individuals can be expected to be offered shares in a retail offering comparable to Margaret Thatcher's "Tell Sid" privatisations, that cannot happen till after Lloyds publishes its annual report for 2013, to allow for the writing of a proper prospectus. The annual report won't be available till February. Which implies that a share sale to millions of people can't and won't happen till some months into the new year, at the earliest.

लेहमैन ब्रदर्स के पतन की वर्षगांठ पर, जिसने सभी बैंकिंग संकटों की मां को जन्म दिया, ट्रेजरी ने 2008 की शरद ऋतु में करदाताओं द्वारा बचाए गए विशाल बैंकों में से एक का निजीकरण शुरू कर दिया है।


Rugged Lewis coastline image wins photo awards

Summary: A photograph taken on the Western Isles has won the 2019 Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year Awards.

Norfolk-based landscape photographer Ruth Grindrod took her image, Three Rocks, at the Butt of Lewis. The image also won the contest's seascapes category. Ms Grindrod said: "My journey to Scotland is always a long one, but I will never fail to be excited by some of the best landscapes and seascapes in the world." Related Internet Links Scottish Nature Photography Awards

पश्चिमी द्वीपों पर ली गई एक तस्वीर ने 2019 स्कॉटिश नेचर फोटोग्राफर ऑफ द ईयर पुरस्कार जीता है।


Jersey Post stamps mark Prince William's 30th birthday

Summary: Four stamps to celebrate the Duke of Cambridge's 30th birthday are being issued by Jersey Post on Thursday.

Sally Diamond Ferbrache from Jersey Post said the images showed Prince William's military connections. She said: "With so much emphasis on The Queen's Diamond Jubilee this year, we felt that it was important to celebrate this milestone birthday." Pictures on the stamps show the prince wearing British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, and Irish Guards uniforms.

ड्यूक ऑफ कैम्ब्रिज के 30वें जन्मदिन का जश्न मनाने के लिए जर्सी पोस्ट द्वारा गुरुवार को चार डाक टिकट जारी किए जा रहे हैं।


LTTE and SLA exchange bodies

Summary: The International Committee of the Red Cross says that the Tamil Tiger guerrillas in Sri Lanka have handed over to the government the bodies of nineteen soldiers killed in some of the latest fighting in the north of the island.

At the same time the Red Cross passed on to the Tigers the bodies of two rebels killed by the army. Both sides say that they've inflicted dozens of casualties on the other over the past few days of fierce clashes in Sri Lanka. The Tigers have been coming under sustained pressure recently, with government forces capturing the town of Mallavi on Tuesday. Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said that only some of the bodies have been identified and others are in a decomposed state. “The LTTE has handed over bodies only once they are decomposed “said Brigadier Nanayakkara.

रेड क्रॉस की अंतर्राष्ट्रीय समिति का कहना है कि श्रीलंका में तमिल टाइगर गुरिल्लाओं ने द्वीप के उत्तर में कुछ नवीनतम लड़ाई में मारे गए उन्नीस सैनिकों के शव सरकार को सौंप दिए हैं।


Jay-Z helping on 'afrobeat musical'

Summary: Jay-Z has joined the production team for a new 'afrobeat musical' set to open on Broadway.

He joins actress Jada Pinkett Smith on working on Fela!, a production based on the life of Nigerian multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti. The show is expected to open on 23 November at New York's Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Credited as one of afrobeat's founders, the musician and political activist, Fela Kuti died in 1997. Music for the show has been aranged by the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra who have previously contributed to albums by Foals and TV On The Radio.

जे-जेड ब्रॉडवे पर खुलने वाले एक नए 'एफ्रोबीट म्यूजिकल' सेट के लिए प्रोडक्शन टीम में शामिल हो गए हैं।


Anti-fascists plan vigil as EDL demonstrates in Blackpool

Summary: Members of United Against Fascism (UAF) are to hold a vigil in Blackpool, as the English Defence League (EDL) holds a rally in the resort.

The events are planned for Saturday 28 May, during the bank holiday weekend. The EDL is due to march along the promenade to the headland close to the South Pier where it will hold a demonstration from 1245 to 1400 BST. The UAF plans to hold a vigil at the headland at 1200 BST, the group confirmed. Lancashire Police said while it could not ban a peaceful protest, it was considering imposing restrictions or conditions. It said it hoped residents and businesses in the resort would not be disrupted by the plans but warned some roads may be closed temporarily.

यूनाइटेड अगेंस्ट फासिज्म (यू. ए. एफ.) के सदस्यों को ब्लैकपूल में सतर्कता बरतनी है, क्योंकि इंग्लिश डिफेंस लीग (ई. डी. एल.) रिसॉर्ट में एक रैली आयोजित करती है।


Second of RAF's new UK submarine hunters arrives at Kinloss

Summary: The second of nine new maritime patrol aircraft for the RAF has arrived at a military base in Scotland after being flown from the United States.

The £3bn fleet of P-8A Poseidons is to be stationed at RAF Lossiemouth on the Moray coast. The first of the completed planes will operate from nearby Kinloss Barracks, a former RAF station, while new facilities are built at Lossiemouth. It is almost 10 years since the RAF's last patrol aircraft were scrapped. The last of those jet aircraft, called Nimrods, flew out of RAF Kinloss in 2010. New Nimrods were dismantled for scrap as part of defence cuts, but not replaced by another type of plane. The first of the new Poseidons was flown to Kinloss in February.

आरएएफ के लिए नौ नए समुद्री गश्ती विमानों में से दूसरा संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका से उड़ान भरने के बाद स्कॉटलैंड के एक सैन्य अड्डे पर पहुंच गया है।


Academy status: Heads for and against

Summary: The coalition government is pushing ahead with its Academies Bill, under which all schools in England will be able to opt out of local authority control. It wants to enable schools rated "outstanding" to convert to academy status by September. Two head teachers of such schools explain their opposing views.

In favour - Lorraine Heath, Uffculme School, Devon For us it's as much about preserving what we've already got, as it is about thinking what we can develop and improve in the future. We know there are some cuts coming, we don't know how far they're going to go and when they're going to come, but opting out of local authority control gives us the opportunity to make some decisions ourselves about what we can preserve, what we can improve and where, perhaps, we can make savings. I don't think it is true that academies take resources away from other schools. The local authority receives money from central government for the education of all the children within the local authority. They make a decision as to how much they're going to top-slice that money. In Devon it's 8%, in some areas it's as little as 2 or 3%. And they make decisions over how that money's going to be spent. Now that's our money, and all we're doing is asking for our share of that money so that we can make those decisions ourselves and not be dictated to by the local authority. I think it will help academically. If we are are going to get additional resources and we decide to spend them on teachers in classrooms, that's going to help us to improve and preserve the really high standards that we've already got - rather than the money being spent on peripherals. For me, the most important thing is having my teachers in the classroom teaching children, and to not be facing a redundancy situation, which a lot of schools are doing at the moment. The passage of the Bill [to enable schools to convert by September] is quick. I have to say there's a lot to do. We're a foundation school, which means we're already in a sense half way there - we already employ all our own staff, we already own our own land, so it's not as rushed for us as it might be for a community school. But actually, knowing where you're going to be on 1 September is really important. I think there's a rationale for rushing it through, because schools need to know and need to make their plans for September. If we were to become an academy, it would in essence take money and resources from all the other Rotherham schools - and schools across the nation, and simply give it to us. I am head of an outstanding, high-performing school. I'm already doing very nicely, thank you very much, so why give me extra money at the expense of other schools that need it? What we've got in this country is an attempt to get, at the very least, within two or three miles of every child, a state secondary school that is good or outstanding. That's every child - not just my child or your child, but every child. But if this present government is going to follow a "best and the rest" type policy, then we're going to have a situation where we have the haves and have-nots, which is what we used to have. They're busy dismantling all the good work that's been taking place in education over recent years. In education, we collaborate. We compete with ourselves. I'm interested in the fortunes of all children, not just the ones I happen to teach. They have been disingenuous in the naming of these new schools. The old academies were about giving failing schools a leg up. The data suggests it hasn't been particularly successful, but was a laudable attempt, and the intent was right and proper. These are not academies in that sense, these are grant-maintained schools, they were around in the 1980s, the last time the Tories had power. They failed and these new schools will fail also. The two types of academies are very, very different. I have canvassed all the staff and all the governors in my school in a secret ballot. We found that 83% of staff were against, 2% were for and 15% didn't know. The governors were unanimously against. [Prime Minister] David Cameron says he wants to hear what parents have to say, and yet [on this issue] parents don't get a vote. One minute we can ask the parents - but when we think that they may disagree with us, all of a sudden we don't ask. The government can't have it both ways.

गठबंधन सरकार अपने अकादमी विधेयक के साथ आगे बढ़ रही है, जिसके तहत इंग्लैंड के सभी स्कूल स्थानीय प्राधिकरण के नियंत्रण से बाहर निकलने में सक्षम होंगे। यह सितंबर तक "उत्कृष्ट" मूल्यांकन वाले स्कूलों को अकादमी का दर्जा देने में सक्षम बनाना चाहता है। ऐसे स्कूलों के दो प्रधान शिक्षक अपने विरोधी विचारों की व्याख्या करते हैं।


Papua New Guinea profile - Overview

Summary: Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern part of the world's second largest island and is prey to volcanic activity, earthquakes and tidal waves. Linguistically, it is the world's most diverse country, with more than 700 native tongues.

Some 80% of Papua New Guinea's people live in rural areas with few or no facilities of modern life. Many tribes in the isolated mountainous interior have little contact with one another, let alone with the outside world, and live within a non-monetarised economy dependent on subsistence agriculture. A very small proportion of the land can sustain cash crops, including coffee and cocoa. Abundant rainforests provide the raw material for a logging industry, which is dominated by Malaysian-owned companies. Conservation groups have criticised the social and environmental impact of the activity. Mineral deposits - including gold, copper and nickel - are extensive, but the difficult terrain and poor infrastructure make exploitation slow. There are significant reserves of oil and natural gas and the country has pinned its hopes on becoming a significant energy exporter. The separatist struggle in the neighbouring Indonesian province of Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, prompted the flight of thousands of Papuans into Papua New Guinea from the mid-1980s onwards. Many of them remain in border-area jungle camps. Although there is strong public concern in Papua New Guinea over the treatment of indigenous people in the western part of the island, the Papua New Guinean government is keen not to let the issue undermine relations with Indonesia, and has said it will not tolerate the use of its territory for separatist attacks on the Indonesian army. Papua New Guinea had to deal with separatist forces of its own on the island of Bougainville in the 1990s. Up to 20,000 people were killed in the nine-year conflict which ended in 1997. A peace deal signed in 2001 provided the framework for the election in 2005 of an autonomous government for Bougainville. Papua New Guinea has strong ties with its southern neighbour, Australia, which administered the territory until independence in 1975. Canberra's substantial aid programme aims to relieve poverty and to boost development. Australia has also despatched police officers and civil servants to support their local equivalents. Concerns have been raised over high levels of crime and violence in the country, especially gender-based violence. The incidence of HIV/Aids is extremely high, and diseases such as cholera and malaria are endemic. There has also been criticism of Papua New Guinea's human rights record. Refugees in the country have been the targets of xenophobic attacks, and police brutality is commonplace. Though the death penalty has not been used since 1954, in May 2013 legislation extending it to cover a wider range of crimes was passed. Corruption is rife, with Transparency International rating the country one of the most corrupt in the world in 2012. Analysts see political corruption as being a product of the patronage system of governance, and the fact that many politicians are also businessmen has exacerbated the problem.

पापुआ न्यू गिनी दुनिया के दूसरे सबसे बड़े द्वीप के पूर्वी हिस्से में फैला हुआ है और ज्वालामुखी गतिविधि, भूकंप और ज्वार की लहरों का शिकार है। भाषाई रूप से, यह 700 से अधिक देशी भाषाओं के साथ दुनिया का सबसे विविध देश है।


Okehampton: Man held over woman's death is released

Summary: A man arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 60-year-old woman in Devon has been released without charge.

The woman's body was discovered by police at a house in Wonnacotts Road, Okehampton, on Saturday. Devon and Cornwall Police said the death is no longer being treated as suspicious. The criminal investigation is over and inquires are being handed over to the coroners court, the force added. Related Internet Links Devon and Cornwall Police

डेवोन में एक 60 वर्षीय महिला की मौत के बाद हत्या के संदेह में गिरफ्तार एक व्यक्ति को बिना किसी आरोप के रिहा कर दिया गया है।


Buckle up for more turbulence in the airline industry

Summary: Airlines have long been risky investments, and they're in for a turbulent journey as coronavirus spreads. Flybe was particularly weak, but others are vulnerable. Loganair's move to pick up 16 routes may look hasty, but it's been carefully planned, to avoid the Renfrewshire-based airline becoming another casualty. The industry's own forecast for worldwide loss of revenue this year look eye-watering - potentially as severe as the financial crash of 2008, which brought down several airlines.

Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, Scotland Running an airline has always been more about the glamour than profit. There are good years, but they come with a lot of risk, and with bad years. There are high fixed costs, but passenger demand is fickle. So is the oil price, and currency hedging is a big challenge. And growing one's market share is for those with deep pockets, such as those stitched into Arab attire. Etihad, based in Abu Dhabi, on Thursday reported an $870m (£660m) loss for 2019, adding to $4.67bn (£3.5bn) of losses over the previous three years. It plans to break even in 2023. Thirteen years ago, on the anniversary of the Wright brothers' pioneering flight, the US investment sage Warren Buffett told his disciples: "If a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favour by shooting Orville down". So Flybe has joined a long list of those that flew too high, or ran out of financial fuel. It had lots going wrong, and for some time. Too many aircraft, of too many types, on poor leasing terms, earned it losses for most of the past 10 years. It tried lots of changes, including a split from its Loganair partner on Scottish island flights. That now looks fortuitous, both because it meant island routes avoided the trauma of the Flybe collapse, and it was the starting point for Loganair to expand. With Flybe's collapse, the political response has sounded as if this airline was providing a lifeline service to Britain's smaller city airports. The service was to passengers, yes, and also to the airport operators, because these routes kept them open. Southampton is one example. Some 95% of its flights were Flybe. That matters to Scottish aviation, because Southampton is owned by the same company that controls Glasgow and Aberdeen, and it's thought to be the preferred and officially anonymous bidder for Prestwick Airport. As such, AGS may have less capital than it had planned on at the time the Scottish government welcomed its bid to take the loss-making Ayrshire airport off ministers' hands and taxpayers' books. A rare survivor For all the early talk of "devastation" from the Flybe collapse, a few hours later it didn't look quite so bad, at least for travellers. The uncertainty continues for a lot of Flybe staff and those contracted to the company. Loganair was quick to pick up 16 of the more attractive routes - but to do so carefully. This is not so much a vulture operation as a relief, bringing with it recruitment of around 100 people. At its Glasgow Airport headquarters, Jonathan Hinkles, the chief executive, took the opportunity of recent weeks - while Flybe, its owners and the UK government tried to settle on a rescue package - to plan for only the routes that are a good fit. He wants to reassure investors that he isn't overstretching the way others have. It is only a year since he took a previous opportunity from the failure of an airline, in that case Flybmi. It brought city routes taking Loganair into deepest England and across the North Sea. So while picking up on others' failure, Hinkles has to be careful not to become the next one. In only around 15 years of British flying, we've waved off not only Flybmi, but bmibaby, Scot Airways, later failing as Suckling Air, Monarch, Globespan and Thomas Cook. To that list, add Zoom, the Scots-based low-price carrier which was grounded in 2008, when its managing director was one Jonathan Hinkles. Meanwhile, other airlines avoided failure by being merged into British Airways and Flybe. Through such change, Loganair is a rare survivor, and that's the way Mr Hinkles wants to keep it. "The plan represents the outcome of several weeks of behind-the-scenes contingency planning work, during which we've evaluated many routes and aircraft," he says. "It's critical to the continued success of our own airline that we refrain from over-expansion, and that our growth can be delivered within our operational and financial means". Competing with rail So Loganair is picking up Flybe routes from bases it already operates in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Newcastle. These are particularly important for the energy industry, bringing offshore workers into Aberdeen from across the UK, with Eastern Airways continuing to operate joint Flybe routes to Humberside and Teesside. The choice of those bases partly reflects Loganair's footprint in Scotland, climbing and maintaining altitude over nearly 60 years. It also reflects the fact that flying is a relatively attractive option for those travelling in and out of Scotland, simply because of distance. The same goes for Northern Ireland, with added seawater. English and Welsh regional airports tend to compete less favourably with the train or road. As train use has gone up sharply, their scheduled flights in and out of London airports have fallen back. Add in "flight shame" for those who fret about their carbon footprint, and the more exposed English bases, where the absence of Flybe may hurt most, look like being in the south-west. Take a holiday Will other airlines be grounded or forced into takeovers in the coming months? Almost certainly, if the industry's global governing body is any guide. In late February (only a few days ago, remember?) IATA, the international air travel association, set out a projection of the losses that might be expected if coronavirus could be contained. That looked like a whopping $27bn (£21bn) loss of revenue, almost all of that in and around China, or more distant airlines that have routes into Asia. But with the latest developments in the spread of the virus into Europe and North America, it has re-run its financial models. Containment of the current trends, to those countries with more than 100 cases already, would bring an 11% drop in passenger numbers and a loss of $63bn (£48bn), IATA reckons. Most of that loss would be in and around China. But if there is extensive spread to countries which have more than 10 cases already, IATA forecasts a drop of 19% in air passengers worldwide, and 24% fewer in the UK and nearby European nations. In that case, the global hit would be a drop in revenue of around $113bn (£86bn), with western Europe and the UK taking nearly a third of that hit. The industry's downturn would be on the same scale as the financial crash of 2008. Some are already taking action. Thursday brought 2,000 flight flight cancellations from Portugal's TAP, while Norwegian Air cut back on the frequency of trans-Atlantic flights, and planned a 15% cut in capacity. British Airways and Ryanair have already said they're scaling back operations where the virus outbreak has so far hit hardest. United Airlines, one of America's big four, said it was cutting capacity by 20% on international routes, with a 10% cut on domestic US flights. Things look so severe at Virgin Atlantic that the chief executive is actually taking a pay cut. Emirates and Etihad are asking staff to bring forward leave planned for later this year to the spring months, or to take a month of unpaid leave when it's looking alarmingly quiet. For an industry that is held up as an example to every other in its attention to safety, that scale of financial risk looks overwhelming for airlines that aren't strapped in for some very bumpy turbulence. Final frontier On a more positive postscript about the aviation industry, it's worth noting recent success for aerospace in Scotland. Airbus orders are bringing more work and 100 more jobs to the Spirit Aerosystems factory next to Prestwick Airport, where they assemble the leading edges for passenger plane wings. Airbus's sworn enemy, Boeing, has also raised its activities in Scotland, with a commitment to the advanced manufacturing centre - a landmark industrial building which has just secured planning permission at Inchinnan, next to Glasgow Airport. The intention is to develop strong materials that cut weight and fuel use. Improving the industry's green credentials with that sort of research and development is a very high priority. Boeing also wants to plug into Scotland's growing expertise in space technology. There's an irony somewhere in both aerospace giants looking to Scottish expertise and skill, while their battle over unfair subsidies has resulted in a 25% US tariff on imports of single malt Scotch, cashmere sweaters and shortbread.

एयरलाइंस लंबे समय से जोखिम भरा निवेश कर रही हैं, और कोरोनावायरस के फैलने के साथ वे एक अशांत यात्रा के लिए तैयार हैं। फ्लाईबी विशेष रूप से कमजोर था, लेकिन अन्य कमजोर हैं। लोगानेयर का 16 मार्गों को लेने का कदम जल्दबाजी में लग सकता है, लेकिन रेनफ्रूशायर स्थित एयरलाइन को एक और दुर्घटना से बचने के लिए इसकी सावधानीपूर्वक योजना बनाई गई है। इस साल दुनिया भर में राजस्व के नुकसान के लिए उद्योग का अपना पूर्वानुमान आंखों में पानी भरने वाला लगता है-संभावित रूप से 2008 की वित्तीय दुर्घटना के रूप में गंभीर है, जिसने कई एयरलाइनों को नीचे ला दिया।


Did Hezbollah send drone to Israel?

Summary: The mystery surrounding the unmanned drone that penetrated Israeli airspace on Saturday from the Mediterranean continues, although there is growing speculation that it could actually have been launched by the Lebanese Shia Islamist group, Hezbollah, with the support of Iran, the BBC's Jonathan Marcus reports.

Without the radar track of the unmanned drone it is impossible to confirm exactly where it came from - and the Israeli military are not saying. But Sunday's mock air raids by Israeli jets on villages in southern Lebanon suggest that Israel believes the drone was launched by Hezbollah. The Israeli press clearly believes that this was a Hezbollah operation - newspapers have published maps indicating that the drone was launched near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. The suggestion is that it first flew out to sea, then south, appearing over southern Israel from the direction of the Mediterranean. Hezbollah has flown Iranian-supplied drones in the past across Israel's northern border. But why might it have sent a drone to penetrate Israel's southern border? Here there is only speculation. Inevitably, Israeli analysts see the hand of Iran - Hezbollah's close ally. One theory is that the drone was tasked with filming the Dimona nuclear plant in southern Israel. In this light the whole affair becomes part of the ongoing struggle between Israel and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme. Israel is widely believed to be behind a campaign of sabotage and assassination aimed at slowing Iran's nuclear progress. Filming Dimona could represent a significant propaganda coup for Tehran and the drone's penetration of Israeli air space would also represent a warning to Israel. This was apparently an unarmed drone but as the technology spreads and develops, there is no reason why Iran and Hezbollah might not deploy armed drones in the future.

भूमध्य सागर से शनिवार को इजरायली हवाई क्षेत्र में प्रवेश करने वाले मानव रहित ड्रोन के आसपास का रहस्य जारी है, हालांकि ऐसी अटकलें बढ़ रही हैं कि इसे वास्तव में लेबनानी शिया इस्लामी समूह, हिज़्बुल्लाह द्वारा ईरान के समर्थन से लॉन्च किया जा सकता था, बीबीसी के जोनाथन मार्कस की रिपोर्ट।


Cyber-attack! Would your firm handle it better than this?

Summary: What's it like being the victim of a live cyber-attack? What should you do to protect your company from further damage? And should you pay that ransom demand? Technology of Business eavesdropped on a "war games" exercise hosted by cyber security firm Forcepoint that was based on lots of real-life experiences.

By Mark WardTechnology correspondent, BBC News Scenario IT staff at fictional High Street optician Blink Wink's head office have been suckered by a phishing email. Someone clicked on a link to a spoof website because they thought the email looked legitimate. It wasn't. That was two months ago. Today, the proverbial hits the fan... Tuesday 08:30 Tony Lewis, Blink Wink's IT administrator, starts his day clearing out the company's public email inbox of the usual junk and spam. One message stands out. His stomach lurches. "I have more where this came from. We will be in touch shortly with our demands," the text says below someone's name, credit card details and email address. Tony hopes it's a hoax, but can't take the risk. He swallows hard and calls the firm's security officer, Doug Hughes. Doug isn't impressed as he's on holiday in New York where it's 3:30am. "This better be good," he growls. Tony forwards the suspect email. "Have we validated the credit card number?" Doug asks, tension evident in his voice now. "Is it one of our customers?" "I don't know yet," admits Tony. "Well, when did we get this?" Doug snaps. "Um... well... it seems we got it yesterday just after I'd left work, so I didn't notice it until this morning." "So we're at least 12 hours into this?" "Um, yeah," Tony mumbles sheepishly. Tuesday 13:30 "We've got a second email," Tony tells Doug. "It's a ransom demand for £15,000 in the Litecoin crypto-currency. We have to pay by 22:00 BST or they'll delete all our customer records." "What?" shouts Doug. "I thought they only had one?" "Um, no. They claim to have them all." In a sweat, Doug calls Blink Wink's legal counsel Grace Bolton for advice. She has to dial in several times as her headset is malfunctioning. Her voice keeps cutting out during the conversation. "This is obviously a potential breach," she says. "So do not respond to that message. I'll need to review existing legislation so we know where we stand." "What about the police?" asks Doug, his romantic city break now thoroughly ruined. "And the Information Commissioner? What about GDPR, who do we notify?" Tuesday 15:30 Things are spiralling out of control for Blink Wink. The hackers have posted a tranche of customer names and credit card numbers on Pastebin, a public website for sharing text and source code. Doug has now confirmed that the data is genuine. "Shouldn't we shut down the website?" asks Tony. "Then we'll limit the risk." Grace butts in. "Before we do that, who do we need to tell first? What's our data breach policy?" "I thought that came from legal," says Doug. "Aren't you the data protection officer?" Grace asks Tony. "Nope, not me..." "God, is it me?" asks Doug despairingly. "Anyway, if we pull the website that'll just draw attention to ourselves won't it? Not sure that's the right thing to do." "Me neither," says Grace. Blink Wink's head of public relations, Sandra Ellis, has been looped in to the conversation. "This isn't looking good," she says rather obviously. "We've failed to protect our customers' private data. We could get really hammered for this." She points out that the firm has a "buy one get one free" contact lens promotion running at the moment. "We're driving people to the website right now. Are their details being stolen too?" "Very possibly," says Doug. "We've got to shut down the site - or parts of it anyway. And then we've got to decide whether to pay the ransom." Tuesday 17:00 Sandra Ellis has drafted a public statement but doesn't propose releasing it to the media until people start asking questions. "We'll just say we are experiencing an incident and do it reactively," she says. "Not an incident - a breach," Doug advises. "No, don't use the word 'breach' - not yet anyway," chips in Grace, thinking of the legal ramifications. Tony bursts in on the conference call. "We've found some malware! We saw an email come in that went to quarantine so we checked it out and it had an attachment. That could be it." "You didn't click on it did you?" asks Doug, his day going from bad to worse. "Um... I just thought it would speed things up..." More Technology of Business Doug swears and dips out of the call to get his security staff to check for any more damage. Grace turns the conversation to informing the Information Commissioner's Office. "We can phone or report it online," she tells them. "But we need to say what we did to mitigate the problem." "Well, we were meant to get the latest threat detection software last year, but the guy who was looking into that left and wasn't replaced," says Tony. "It kinda didn't happen." "Well don't tell the ICO that," Grace barks. "If we can't show we had adequate controls in place we could be in trouble. And the cyber-insurance people might not pay out either." Later, Doug confirms that the latest phishing email was a red herring, but informs the team: "They did find a phishing email sent two months ago that linked to a log-in page made to look like the one for our cloud provider. That's how they got in. "We've got to handle things better from now on," Doug concludes. "This will happen again, and it's only going to get worse." So what should Blink Wink have done? Richard Ford, chief scientist at Forcepoint, says: "Reacting late has put Blink Wink on the back foot. You need to move quickly in these situations otherwise the attackers dictate the pace. "A poor knowledge of data breach laws has made the company vulnerable. They clearly didn't have a breach policy in place nor did they know who was responsible for each role or what they should be doing." Richard says the firm should have: And if your firm is the victim of a data breach, cyber expert Troy Hunt says it should:

लाइव साइबर हमले का शिकार होना कैसा लगता है? अपनी कंपनी को और नुकसान से बचाने के लिए आपको क्या करना चाहिए? और क्या आपको उस फिरौती की मांग का भुगतान करना चाहिए? साइबर सुरक्षा फर्म फोर्सप्वाइंट द्वारा आयोजित "युद्ध खेलों" अभ्यास पर प्रौद्योगिकी का व्यापार जो वास्तविक जीवन के कई अनुभवों पर आधारित था।


Viewpoint: The power of China's strolling eco-warriors

Summary: In China a tiny number of officials make key environmental decisions. But an increasingly savvy public could take to the streets unless the government changes its approach, argues environmental campaigner Ma Jun as part of a series of viewpoints on challenges facing China's new leaders.

In August 2011 about 12,000 people in China went for a "group stroll" in the northern city of Dalian. But this was no ordinary Sunday morning walk - it was a protest by another name, in a country where dissent is controlled. The strollers carried banners voicing their rage at a chemical plant in the area. In China these strollers eventually forced the government to announce the relocation of the 10bn yuan ($1.6bn; £1bn) plant. China has witnessed remarkable economic successes over the last three decades, accompanied by industrialisation and urbanisation. But ordinary people are coming to understand that this comes at a cost. Citizens are beginning to see that development based on ever-greater consumption of resources is unsustainable. When China's new leaders take control, they will be confronted with a population increasingly protective of their environment. China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally. Yet local officials have stuck with this model of development because it promotes GDP growth, and such measures are closely tied with their personal political careers. They believe that the day when concerns over the environment and availability of resources actually constrain growth is far away. Many others believe they are wrong. People power Over the last year, these environmental constraints have been felt in sudden and unexpected ways. August 2011 saw the mass protests against the PX chemical plant in Dalian, and this was followed by public protests against a metal smelter in Shifang and rallies against a waste-water pipeline in Qidong. Faced with tens of thousands of "walking" protesters, the regional governments compromised in all three cases, cancelling huge investment plans or committing to relocate facilities on which tens of billions of yuan had already been spent. These cases have far-reaching implications. First, it shows that the public is more environmentally aware than ever before and reacts strongly, perhaps radically, to health risks. Second, microblogs and other social media have given people the tools to discuss social issues and to organise. Third, the government is reluctant to use force to suppress public actions which are aimed at defending fundamental environmental rights and health. And so the new leadership in China, which is set to take the stage after China's Communist Party Congress in November, will face a major transformation unseen in China for 30 years. For the past three decades, China's top-down and opaque methods of managing the environment have allowed for the fast-track sanctioning of large-scale projects in line with already approved plans, and ensured that those projects are not disrupted by local communities. Rapid economic growth has ensued. But incidents such as those in Dalian have shaken this system. If this trend is not handled properly, not only will it be hard to achieve both development and environmental protection, but social stability may be at risk. Things must change. But how? Increasingly it is understood that the biggest obstacle to environmental protection in China is not a scarcity of funds or technology, but a lack of motivation. We have created laws and regulations but the enforcement remains too weak and environmental lawsuits are still very difficult to file. Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution. Behind those failures lies an environmental management system in which every decision is still made by a tiny number of officials, developers and experts who make compromises at the expense of the environment and local communities. Knowing the risks It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection. But China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in. The cases in Shifang and Qidong have made many, including sensible government officials, rethink the top-down environmental management system. China needs to proceed step-by-step in the short term, but in the long run there needs to be a clear framework supported by key rights. The environmental right to know, or giving the public the right to access information held by the government, is critical. If the public is unaware of environmental risks or decisions being made, or cannot get hold of any environmental data, participation becomes meaningless. After that comes the right to participate. This is also crucial, as information itself will not clean up pollution. Finally, the right to seek judicial redress comes into play when the first two rights are infringed upon, and again this requires further judicial reform. Over the coming decade, we can predict that the public's environmental awareness will continue to increase and that there will be greater willingness and ability to take action. Environmental change will inevitably occur. But only a new approach to managing the environment, founded on fairness and transparency, and with open participation at its heart, can provide the motivation to ensure China's sustainability.

चीन में अधिकारियों की एक छोटी संख्या महत्वपूर्ण पर्यावरणीय निर्णय लेती है। लेकिन एक तेजी से समझदार जनता सड़कों पर उतर सकती है जब तक कि सरकार अपना दृष्टिकोण नहीं बदलती, पर्यावरण प्रचारक मा जून ने चीन के नए नेताओं के सामने आने वाली चुनौतियों पर दृष्टिकोण की एक श्रृंखला के हिस्से के रूप में तर्क दिया।


Derby sex assaults: Man charged after cyclist appeal

Summary: A man has been charged with a series of sex attacks after a police appeal to trace a cyclist.

Officers had received reports of a man riding past teenage girls and grabbing them in Derby city centre. Csaba Kiss, 35, of St Chads Road, has been charged with 22 counts of sexual assault, Derbyshire Police said. He has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on Monday, the force said. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.

एक साइकिल चालक का पता लगाने के लिए पुलिस की अपील के बाद एक व्यक्ति पर यौन हमलों की एक श्रृंखला का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Argentina elections: There may be trouble ahead

Summary: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner certainly divides opinion in Argentina.

Wyre DaviesRio de Janeiro correspondent "I think that Cristina has been one of the top five leaders in the world", says Daniel Narezo, a Peronist activist and owner of the Buenos Aires bar Peron, Peron. The bar is dedicated to the founders of the uniquely Argentine populist ideology that bears their name. The walls are not only plastered with images and speeches from Juan Domingo and Eva Peron, but also of Cristina, as she's known to Argentines - a worthy successor to Evita say her supporters. "It will be almost impossible to replace her, just like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela," adds Narezo, clearly a fan of the outgoing president. "Perhaps her greatest achievement has been reengaging people with politics - young people in particular. With all her social achievements, that will be her legacy." Others are less convinced about the state of the country Cristina is now leaving behind after eight years as president. "Her government decided to spend the few dollars that were left at the Central Bank. So now the next president is going to find the Bank empty," says Martin Redrado, somewhat wryly. Redrado should know because he quit his post as governor of the Central Bank of Argentina over what many regarded as the government's irresponsible and unsustainable spending. "To give you an idea", Redrado tells me, "When I left the Central Bank there were $50 billion, real dollars, liquid dollars ….. now we are left with net reserves of just 10% of that. Basically, in the last year, they decided to use it all, so the bill is left for the next president." Two differing views on perhaps why, despite Argentina's perilous economy and stubbornly high levels of poverty, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's approval ratings are well over 50%. Less than a year ago, CFK was staring into the political abyss. The country had technically defaulted over a long-running dispute with a minority of overseas-based creditors. The central government had fallen out with the country's powerful agricultural sector over the high tax regime. Some of the ruling party's own supporters even took to the streets, protesting for better conditions. Then, at the start of the year, in a high profile case that shook the country, a public prosecutor was found shot dead in his own apartment. Alberto Nisman had been due to testify in Congress against the government. He'd even issued a draft arrest warrant for President Fernandez de Kirchner for allegedly helping to cover up the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires. Whether suicide or murder, many blamed the government for Nisman's death and Cristina's stock could hardly have been lower. But somehow she bounced back. Spending on popular welfare programmes went up, she struck trade and financial deals with China which gave Argentina access to vital credit and the Peronist movement's army of young activists was mobilised to work on her behalf. As for Nisman, Argentina's notoriously complicated and drawn out legal system is still dealing with the case and no one expects a breakthrough soon. Most importantly for Cristina, little of the mud that was thrown in her direction has stuck. Little wonder, perhaps, that at a political rally towards the end of this presidential campaign, Cristina let her hair down and started dancing on the stage - to the delight of her supporters but perhaps the embarrassment of the man standing next to her. He was Daniel Scioli, Cristina's handpicked successor as the "Front for Victory" (official Peronist) candidate. Scioli will probably win either in this weekend's first round or in a November run-off, thanks to the Peronist Party machine. But the outgoing governor of Buenos Aires province lacks Cristina's charisma and her rapport with Argentina's working classes. Perhaps the reason for Scioli's reluctance to dance with Cristina on stage was that he knew what was around the corner: rocketing inflation, embarrassing levels of poverty and inequality and those empty Central Bank coffers. While the opposition candidates, dissident Peronist Sergio Massa and the centre-right Mauricio Macri, might try to tackle the looming crisis, Scioli says he's not set on wholesale changes. Cristina's supporters say she's leaving Argentina in better shape that ever. Yes, this is still a wonderfully diverse, classy and artistically rich country but it's difficult to see how that claim can be justified. Argentina has been in gradual decline for decades and despite her charisma, Cristina has presided over an increasingly divided nation. Daniel Scioli might win these elections, thanks to the outgoing leader's endorsement and support, but he must know there's trouble ahead.

क्रिस्टीना फर्नांडीस डी किर्चनर निश्चित रूप से अर्जेंटीना में राय विभाजित करती हैं।


Trump proves G20 is less than sum of its parts

Summary: We'll get to the G20 in a moment. But let's start with organisational psychology. There are some groups or teams that are greater than the sum of their parts, and there are others - that for all the talent and power they may have individually - are less.

Jon SopelNorth America editor@bbcjonsopelon Twitter Think soccer. Think last year's European Championship. Then tiny little Iceland were the heroes of the competition - and not just because of their wonderful fans. This team of part-timers played way above their ranking, there was solidarity, singleness of purpose, real determination. And think of England. Absurdly well paid and pampered players, whose showcase is the Premier League, the wealthiest in the world - and they were just a bunch of inked and primped individuals who seemed to have no team spirit. Dire. Just dire. And so to the G20. It is not lousy like the England team were - I mean nothing could be as bad as that. But it is less than the sum of its parts. What of the joint communiqué (that will have been toiled over by bureaucratic draftsmen for days to find a bland enough form of words that all the leaders can sign up to) will be remembered in six months' time? What ringing declaration will change lives? What plan of action will we look back on and think "turning point"? No, I suspect this G20 will be remembered for two things. The first, the appalling violence on the streets of Hamburg from a sizeable group of protestors who seemed hellbent on burning and looting (there was something surreal on Friday night, drinking a beer in the 20th floor bar of our hotel and watching the fires and the police on the street below - as if it was a rioting son et lumière spectacle put on for our entertainment). And second - the first meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump. I suspect if you asked Mr Trump what was most memorable for him, he too would say the Putin meeting - but also his day in Warsaw, when thousands of Poles chanted his name and "U-S-A". Remember the crowd does for him what a battery station does for a Tesla car. His speech on the challenges facing the West was well crafted with an argument to make. And he just sounded - well - more committed to the idea of the "West" than he did when he was last in Europe at the Nato summit and the G7. His definition of what constitutes Western values may not have been to everyone's tastes - but he also committed the US to Article 5 of Nato, with its pledge that an attack on one is an attack against all. And for those countries who are part of the Alliance and abut Russia, they'll have been reassured by that. Which brings us to the meeting with the Russian leader. I've read analysis since suggesting that it was a big victory for Trump; and some arguing that Mr Putin came out of top. But that is to view the encounter as a zero sum game. Maybe both men emerged feeling they had won. Putin was treated seriously, wasn't lectured on human rights and democracy (his regular complaint about what it was like dealing with Barack Obama), and the meeting went on for nearly two hours more than its allotted time. Why does that matter? Because the Russian leader will feel he was treated as an equal to the US president with major things to discuss. Mr Trump will feel he has put the "Russia controversy" behind him. He raised it with Mr Putin, right, let's move on. But that might be wishful thinking. Particularly after the Russians disclosed that the American president accepted the assurances of Mr Putin that Moscow hadn't interfered in last November's election. The White House has not challenged that. And that leaves a very simple and astonishing point. Given the choice between accepting what his intelligence agencies have told him, and what Vladimir Putin has told him to be true, he's gone with the Russian. And that might not play well in Washington, where there are myriad inquiries going on into the Trump campaign's links to Russia - and a Republican Party, who by and large given the same choice over who to believe, will go for the nation's intelligence professionals. Donald J Trump might want a reset in the relationship with Russia, but there are political constraints on him in Washington. And then there are the decisions of the G20 itself. On two of the big ticket items - trade and climate change - it was really the G19 plus America. Mr Trump was intransigent in the face of appeals by other nations to recommit to the Paris climate change agreement. And there are real fears among European leaders that the president could unleash a trade war, over his insistence that America is being ripped off. So if you're marking Mr Trump's card on how he got on, it really depends on where you stand on those issues. And as for the G20, it's hard to be more than the sum of its parts, when the biggest and most economically powerful member of the orchestra is humming a different tune.

हम एक पल में जी-20 तक पहुंचेंगे। लेकिन आइए संगठनात्मक मनोविज्ञान से शुरू करें। कुछ समूह या दल हैं जो अपने भागों के योग से अधिक हैं, और कुछ अन्य हैं-जो व्यक्तिगत रूप से उनके पास सभी प्रतिभा और शक्ति के लिए कम हैं।


How did MSPs vote in the Assisted Suicide Scotland Bill debate?

Summary: MSPs rejected the Assisted Suicide Scotland Bill by 82 votes to 36 following a debate in the Scottish Parliament . Nine MSPs did not vote and there were no abstentions. Here is a list of members and the side they supported.

For the Bill George Adam (Paisley) (SNP) Jayne Baxter (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Claudia Beamish(South Scotland) (Lab) Colin Beattie (Midlothian North and Musselburgh) (SNP) Marco Biagi (Edinburgh Central) (SNP) Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) Jackson Carlaw (West Scotland) (Con) Graeme Dey (Angus South) (SNP) James Dornan(Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP) Jim Eadie (Edinburgh Southern) (SNP) Mary Fee (West Scotland) (Lab) John Finnie (Highlands and Islands) (Ind) Joe FitzPatrick (Dundee City West) (SNP) Kenneth Gibson (Cunninghame North) (SNP) Rob Gibson (Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) (SNP) Christine Grahame (Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale) (SNP) Patrick Harvie (Glasgow) (Green) Cara Hilton (Dunfermline) (Lab) Jim Hume (South Scotland) (LD) Alison Johnstone (Lothian) (Green) Colin Keir (Edinburgh Western) (SNP) Bill Kidd (Glasgow Anniesland) (SNP) Richard Lochhead (Moray) (SNP) Angus MacDonald (Falkirk East) (SNP) Gordon MacDonald (Edinburgh Pentlands) (SNP) Mike MacKenzie (Highlands and Islands) (SNP) Stewart Maxwell(West Scotland) (SNP) Liam McArthur (Orkney Islands) (LD) Mark McDonald (Aberdeen Donside) (SNP) Fiona McLeod (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (SNP) Elaine Murray (Dumfriesshire) (Lab) Tavish Scott (Shetland Islands) (LD) Kevin Stewart (Aberdeen Central) (SNP) David Torrance (Kirkcaldy) (SNP) Jean Urquhart (Highlands and Islands) (Ind) John Wilson (Central Scotland) (Ind) Against the Bill Clare Adamson (Central Scotland) (SNP) Alasdair Allan (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP) Christian Allard (North East Scotland) (SNP) Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab) Claire Baker (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Richard Baker (North East Scotland) (Lab) Neil Bibby (West Scotland) (Lab) Sarah Boyack (Lothian) (Lab) Chic Brodie (South Scotland) (SNP) Gavin Brown (Lothian) (Con) Keith Brown (Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) (SNP) Cameron Buchanan (Lothian) (Con) Margaret Burgess (Cunninghame South) (SNP) Malcolm Chisholm (Edinburgh Northern and Leith) (Lab) Willie Coffey (Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley) (SNP) Angela Constance (Almond Valley) (SNP) Bruce Crawford (Stirling) (SNP) Roseanna Cunningham (Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) (SNP) Ruth Davidson (Glasgow) (Con) Nigel Don (Angus North and Mearns) (SNP) Bob Doris (Glasgow) (SNP) Kezia Dugdale (Lothian) (Lab) Annabelle Ewing (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP) Fergus Ewing (Inverness and Nairn) (SNP) Linda Fabiani (East Kilbride) (SNP) Alex Fergusson (Galloway and West Dumfries) (Con) Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Lab) Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) Annabel Goldie (West Scotland) (Con) Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) Iain Gray (East Lothian) (Lab) Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Hugh Henry (Renfrewshire South) (Lab) Jamie Hepburn (Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) (SNP) Fiona Hyslop (Linlithgow) (SNP) Adam Ingram (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) (SNP) Alex Johnstone (North East Scotland) (Con) James Kelly (Rutherglen) (Lab) Johann Lamont (Glasgow Pollok) (Lab) John Lamont (Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) (Con) Richard Lyle (Central Scotland) (SNP) Kenny MacAskill (Edinburgh Eastern) (SNP) Lewis Macdonald (North East Scotland) (Lab) Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) Hanzala Malik (Glasgow) (Lab) Jenny Marra (North East Scotland) (Lab) Paul Martin (Glasgow Provan) (Lab) John Mason (Glasgow Shettleston) (SNP) Michael Matheson (Falkirk West) (SNP) Margaret McCulloch (Central Scotland) (Lab) Margaret McDougall (West Scotland) (Lab) Jamie McGrigor (Highlands and Islands) (Con) Alison McInnes (North East Scotland) (LD) Christina McKelvie (Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) (SNP) Aileen McLeod(South Scotland) (SNP) Michael McMahon (Uddingston and Bellshill) (Lab) Siobhan McMahon (Central Scotland) (Lab) Stuart McMillan (West Scotland) (SNP) Duncan McNeil (Greenock and Inverclyde) (Lab) Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con) Paterson, Gil (Clydebank and Milngavie) (SNP) Graeme Pearson (South Scotland) (Lab) John Pentland (Motherwell and Wishaw) (Lab) Willie Rennie (Mid Scotland and Fife) (LD) Dennis Robertson (Aberdeenshire West) (SNP) Robison, Shona (Dundee City East) (SNP) Rowley, Alex (Cowdenbeath) (Lab) Michael Russell (Argyll and Bute) (SNP) Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con) John Scott (Ayr) (Con) Dr Richard Simpson (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Drew Smith (Glasgow) (Lab) Elaine Smith (Coatbridge and Chryston) (Lab) Liz Smith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) Stewart Stevenson (Banffshire and Buchan Coast) (SNP) David Stewart (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) Nicola Sturgeon (Glasgow Southside) (SNP) John Swinney (Perthshire North) (SNP) Dave Thompson (Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) (SNP) Maureen Watt (Aberdeen South and North Kincardine) (SNP) Paul Wheelhouse (South Scotland) (SNP) Humza Yousaf (Glasgow) (SNP)

एम. एस. पी. ने स्कॉटिश संसद में बहस के बाद 36 के मुकाबले 82 मतों से असिस्टेड सुसाइड स्कॉटलैंड बिल को खारिज कर दिया। नौ एम. एस. पी. ने मतदान नहीं किया और कोई अनुपस्थित नहीं रहा। यहाँ सदस्यों और उनके द्वारा समर्थित पक्ष की सूची दी गई है।


In pictures: The Queen's visits to Scotland

Summary: The Queen is celebrating her official birthday on Saturday, 13 June.

A Trooping the Colour ceremony and parade traditionally mark the day with honours given out in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. These pictures recall the Queen's visits to Scotland over the years.

महारानी शनिवार, 13 जून को अपना आधिकारिक जन्मदिन मना रही हैं।


West Midlands Police new chief constable appointed

Summary: The deputy chief constable of West Midlands Police will take over the top job in January, the force announced today.

David Thompson will take over from retiring Chief Constable Chris Sims. Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said: "David Thompson is clearly the best person in the country to do the job." Mr Thompson said: "I will very much be looking to continue the fantastic work of Mr Sims."

बल ने आज घोषणा की कि वेस्ट मिडलैंड्स पुलिस के उप मुख्य कांस्टेबल जनवरी में शीर्ष पद संभालेंगे।


Man denies murdering mother of two in Swansea

Summary: A man has denied murdering a mother of two.

Helen Bannister, 48, died a week after being taken to hospital last month after being injured in the Mayhill area of Swansea. Swansea Crown Court heard the 37-year-old defendant admitted to an "unlawful assault" but there was "no intention of causing really serious harm". A trial date was set for June, which is expected to last between seven and 10 days. His defence barrister Stephen Donnelly told the court he was unable to advise his client on a plea for manslaughter as the post-mortem report had not yet been finalised. Prosecuting barrister Carina Hughes told the court the crown hoped to be in receipt of the preliminary post-mortem report shortly. Related Internet Links HM Courts & Tribunals Service

एक आदमी ने दो बच्चों की मां की हत्या से इनकार किया है।


Galeri Caernarfon reopens with cinema screens

Summary: An arts complex is Gwynedd has officially reopened following the completion of a multimillion pound overhaul seven years in the planning.

Galeri in Caernarfon now has two cinema screens, along with a new exhibition space and reception. There has not been a dedicated cinema in Caernarfon since the Majestic cinema closed in 1984. To mark the reopening, the centre is hosting an evening with actor Rhys Ifans later talking about his career.

ग्वेनेड में एक कला परिसर को योजना में सात साल के मल्टीमिलियन पाउंड ओवरहाल के पूरा होने के बाद आधिकारिक तौर पर फिर से खोल दिया गया है।


Grenfell Tower inquiry: 9 things we now know about the cladding

Summary: Panels made from plastic and aluminium were installed on the sides of Grenfell Tower to make it warmer and drier. But the cladding has been blamed for helping flames to spread when fire broke out in June 2017, resulting in 72 deaths.

By Tom SymondsHome affairs correspondent, BBC News Hundreds of thousands of people are living in buildings with similar cladding, which must now be removed at enormous cost, resulting in a crisis in building safety. The public inquiry has questioned key employees of Arconic, the multinational metals company that made and supplied the cladding sheets for Grenfell. So, what have we discovered? 1. This type of cladding burns easily The big concern is about a type of cladding called Aluminium Composite Material, or ACM. It is made from polyethylene (PE), plastic sandwiched between two very thin sheets of aluminium. France-based Arconic Architectural Products called its version of the product Reynobond PE, and sold it to big building projects all over the world. What is not in doubt is that this product is highly flammable. 2. The cladding consistently failed fire tests for 12 years before Grenfell In 2005, Arconic commissioned tests in France to see how its Reynobond product would perform in a fire when installed in two standard ways known as "rivet" cladding systems and "cassette" systems. Rivet systems are simply installed straight onto mounting brackets, with rivets. In "cassette" systems the cladding is folded into box shapes, like old-style cassette tapes, to hide the fixings. Crucially, the cassette system was the design used at Grenfell Tower. When the cassette version of Reynobond PE was tested, it failed to complete the test. In the standard European fire test the results are classified from A1 (best) to F (worst). The cassette version was given a rating of E. The folding appeared to allow flaming pools of plastic to form. This version was to be tested again in 2011, 2014 and 2015. Each time the rating was E. Even the better-performing rivet version only managed a class C in more recent tests. 3. It didn't meet building standards in England The bible for the construction industry in England is called Approved Document B. It sets out the fire performance standards required for all buildings. Only products with a rating of B in the European fire test can be used on tall buildings above 18m. The Reynobond cladding with class E fell short of the required standard. England has its own system of fire test ratings. The best rating is Class 0 (zero), which is acceptable instead of the European standard. But Reynobond PE's French manufacturer had never put this cladding through the relevant tests, the inquiry was told. There were other ways to meet the regulations, including testing a design in a full-scale mock-up. That didn't happen at Grenfell Tower. Arconic now says it should have. 4. Arconic 'misled' British standards board Test results are commercially sensitive. So a specialist body, the British Board of Agrement (BBA), assesses them and issues product certificates. The BBA decided the evidence from the more successful European tests carried out on the Arconic cladding meant it "may be regarded" as having met the British standard. But the Board was never shown the class E ratings for the cassette version of the cladding and knew nothing about them until a BBC investigation in 2018. Arconic's president in France, Claude Schmidt, was forced to admit at the inquiry this would have "misled" anyone reading the certificate, including British architects. 5. The Grenfell disaster was predicted, a decade before In 2007, Arconic marketing manager Gerard Sonntag attended a talk given by a consultant Fred-Roderich Pohl, who gave a dramatic warning of the risks of Aluminium Composite Material cladding. He said it had the same "fuel power" as a 19,000 litre truck of oil. But he went further. Pohl reportedly asked "what will happen if only one building made out of PE is on fire and kills 60 to 70 persons." Exactly the circumstances of the Grenfell fire in 2017. Mr Sonntag's account of the presentation has been uncovered by the inquiry, which included it in evidence of what the company knew and when. 6. The company was aware of a 'Towering Inferno' warning following fires in the Middle East In May 2013, the BBC reported on a worrying series of fires in the Middle East, blamed on ACM cladding from several producers. Arconic noticed. Employees circulated an email they had received from a sales manager working for a competitor, Richard Geater at 3A Composites, who described cladding which had been sold as fire resistant "burning like paper". It was a "cheat", Geater concluded. Arconic's UK sales manager, Deborah French, was asked at the inquiry: why not attach a health warning to the product? "At the time," she said, the level of risk "wasn't so obvious". 7. Cladding sales continued, despite the risk The company's UK sales manager, Deborah French, told the inquiry British buyers were more likely to request Reynobond PE and fit the cladding as "cassettes", the variant which resulted in poor fire tests, as they allowed for a "cleaner" appearance, with the fixings hidden from view. In France, there was a move towards a "fire retardant" version, but not in Britain. The company's technical manager Claude Wehrle, had been instrumental in commissioning the fire tests. He warned colleagues, and even some clients, about the results, even that they should be kept "very confidential", and sales continued. In the minutes of a meeting in 2011, Mr Wehrle wrote that the cladding "has a bad behaviour exposed to fire", but, "we can still work with national regulations which are not as restrictive". 8. Arconic claimed it wasn't responsible for how its cladding was used Since the fire, the company has stopped selling Reynobond PE. But it argues it is simply the manufacturer of a raw material, supplied to specialist "fabricators" who make cladding systems. Arconic says it can't possibly know the end uses for its products, and it is for designers to check they could meet building regulations. However, an email sent in May 2013 by sales manager Deborah French to a client gave a different impression. She said the company could "control and understand" which type of cladding is being used in building projects because it only worked closely with a "very small group of approved fabricators". "We are able to follow what type of project is being designed/developed," she wrote, and then offer "the right Reynobond specification". Questioned about it, Ms French claimed she had not been telling the truth when writing the email. 9. The company knew it was selling to Grenfell But, the inquiry has evidence Deborah French, who led the sale of cladding for Grenfell Tower, knew it was for a public residential building. In January 2013, four years before the fire, she was sent "artistic renderings of what Grenfell Tower might look like" after completion of the work, according to her witness statement. But she maintained throughout days of evidence that she had "no technical knowledge, and did not get involved in the design of projects".

ग्रेनफेल टावर के किनारों पर प्लास्टिक और एल्यूमीनियम से बने पैनल लगाए गए थे ताकि इसे गर्म और सूखा बनाया जा सके। लेकिन जून 2017 में आग लगने पर आग की लपटों को फैलाने में मदद करने के लिए क्लैडिंग को दोषी ठहराया गया है, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप 72 लोगों की मौत हो गई।


Ketchup debate: To chill or not to chill...

Summary: Our fridges are stuffed with food that could also be kept in the cupboard. In the past, people kept butter, eggs and sauces in the pantry without getting ill. So why do many of us insist on keeping it all chilled?

By Kate PalmerBBC News A supermarket has begun stocking ketchup in the fridge section as well as on shelves in a bid to appease both camps. Asda's poll of some 2,600 people found opinion was split, with 54% saying ketchup belonged in the cupboard and 46% saying they stored it in the fridge. Some shoppers took to social media to say which part of the shop they would be heading towards. But Polly Russell, a food historian from BBC Two's Back In Time For Dinner, said modern-day food chilling could be "bizarre". Many brands we recognise today, such as Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, HP Sauce and Heinz Tomato Ketchup, were all sold before households had fridges, she explains. "They were absolute life-savers for housekeepers - adding flavour to food that might be slightly bland or monotonous," Dr Russell said. Their acidity levels, coupled with salt and sugar content, means they were - and still are - microbiologically safe to keep at room temperature. "Households had no fridge, only cool boxes, or ice deliveries if it was a wealthy family." In the latest series of Further Back In Time For Dinner, the Robshaw family are sent to a 1900s house - finding a kitchen with a cool-cupboard and overstuffed parlour instead of a fridge or freezer. So when did this change? As late as 1961, 20% of British households had a fridge, Dr Russell's research found. Yet half of these households probably owned a television. It was only from 1968 that half of Britons owned a fridge. Nearly 70 years on, we are fridge-obsessed. Ms Russell said there was now an "increased anxiety" over food safety, meaning that we tend to chill foods when we do not need to. "Shoppers don't trust the food they buy and hear mixed messages about what is and isn't safe," she said. But some people are attempting to resist our reliance on refrigeration. "If we get more people into preserving food, we can reduce the need for a fridge," says Caroline Aitken, a food preservation teacher from Dartmoor. Mrs Aitken, 38, teaches "permaculture", a movement that began in the 1970s and promotes self-sufficiency, growing food naturally and minimising waste. "We've gradually lost our larders and now we've got very hot centrally heated houses," she said, adding that there was a "cultural fear" of leaving food out of the fridge. She suggests pickling food from scratch using salt and water and keeping sugary preserves such as jam in the larder. "Sauerkraut and kimchee are great to experiment with," she said. "I generally add three tablespoons of salt for every two kilos of shredded vegetables." Mrs Aitken says people can go "over the top" with keeping food in the fridge, even once it has been cooked. "You can have cold-store outside," she said. "If I've cooked a big stew I sit the pot in a room with a stone floor and it's perfectly fine to have the next day." According to the government, the electricity costs of running a fridge bought in 2013 over a 12.5-year lifespan will total about £270, although it may be difficult to do without one altogether. Even Mrs Aitken says she keeps some things, like her homemade yoghurt, in the fridge. "I just don't go over the top: tomatoes, citrus fruits, eggs, they shouldn't be in there." Ketchup, eggs, butter and fruit: Is it bananas to keep them in the fridge? Sources: NHS Food Safety advice, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences journal We would like to see what's inside your fridge, whether it's edible or not. Please send your pictures to yourpicsor tweet us.

हमारे फ्रिज में ऐसे खाद्य पदार्थ भरे होते हैं जिन्हें अलमारी में भी रखा जा सकता था। पहले लोग बिना बीमार पड़े पेंट्री में मक्खन, अंडे और चटनी रखते थे। तो फिर हम में से कई लोग इसे ठंडा रखने पर जोर क्यों देते हैं?