'Why I translate all of Trump's tweets into Chinese'

Summary: US President Donald Trump's trade war has enraged the Chinese government but it has also attracted some support among the Chinese people. A Twitter account run by Chinese immigrants in the US translates all his tweets for more than 100,000 followers - many of whom see Trump as a human rights advocate.

By Zhaoyin FengBBC Chinese Service, Washington For at least four hours each day, Jeff Ding, 45, pays close attention to the Twitter account of @realDonaldTrump With every new tweet, Ding rapidly translates the president's words into Chinese for @Trump_Chinese. The freelance engineering consultant in Los Angeles who hails from the same Central China province as Chairman Mao Zedong, is one of the three volunteers running @Trump_Chinese. They are all Trump supporters that are critical of the Chinese government and hope to "spread Trump's messages in the Chinese-speaking world", says Ding. The account, which translates as "Trump's Chinese synchronous tweets" in English, notes its mission is to help followers "understand the theories of governance through Trump's tweets". It launched in September 2018 and has more than 100,000 followers, although the only account it follows is, of course, @realDonaldTrump. "We aim to service Chinese people around the globe, especially mainland Chinese who use VPNs to climb over the Great Firewall," says Ding. He translates the tweets into Simplified Chinese, which is used on the mainland. Traditional Chinese is used in Hong Kong and Taiwan. China blocks selected foreign websites, including Twitter, and the invisible boundary between the domestic and global internet is commonly known as the Great Firewall. Some mainlanders use VPNs - virtual private networks which mask your computers location - to access Twitter, but it can be hard to estimate how many users exist. Ding says his main motivation to maintain @Trump_Chinese is a strong belief that Trump is the most supportive president in American history for China's human rights. He believes Trump's trade war applies pressure on China's economy, which will drag China into an economic recession. That downturn will challenge the Communist Chinese Party's (CCP) legitimacy and lead to its downfall. When Ding encounters tweets that are tricky to translate, he consults Tang Baiqiao, a 51-year-old California-based Chinese political dissident who first came up with the idea of setting up @Trump_Chinese. Tang was a student activist during the 1989 Tiananmen Uprising and came to the US as a political asylum seeker in 1992. In recent years, he has become one of the most fervent Trump supporters in the overseas Chinese dissident community. Additionally, Tang has a friend in the White House - he wrote the foreword to Death by China, a book written by trade adviser Peter Navarro, who is considered the main architect of Trump's China trade policy. Trump's trade war on China brings "obvious" benefits to China's human rights, says Tang. The far-reaching economic sanctions aim to remove China's service trade barriers, like the country's bans on Gmail, Twitter and Facebook. In Tang's opinion, this also means no more internet censorship and publishing restrictions. Since the beginning of his campaign, Trump has used "China" as a trigger to rally supporters. "We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing," Trump repeatedly said on the campaign trail, his words often met with raucous cheers of agreement. And as president, his trade war has shown little sign of stopping. Trump's hawkish China trade policy has contributed to tensions between Washington and Beijing, while simultaneously attracting the support of people angry with the Chinese government. @Trump_Chinese has become an outlet for the dissidents and dissatisfied. Every time Trump criticises China on Twitter, the account gets a particularly large number of comments and gains thousands of followers. In May, Trump unleashed a series of tweets, announcing a plan to impose 25% tariffs on $325bn (£267bn) worth of Chinese goods. Chinese-speaking Twitter users passionately applauded his decision by commenting under @Trump_Chinese's related posts. "Excellent job! Please be more forceful!" "Wise and correct decision!" One described his move as "a God-given opportunity" for overthrowing the Chinese government. Another wished Trump good health and re-election. More on US-China relations A month later, the trade talks took a turn for the better. Trump tweeted that he had "a very good talk" with President Xi Jinping and would not increase the tariffs. @Trump_Chinese was immediately filled with disappointment and outrage. "I thought you were one of the greatest American presidents... It turns out that you may be just a businessman without moral principles," one commented. Some called him a "hypocrite". Even though Trump is often fuming about China on trade, he has repeatedly praised Xi as "the most powerful [Chinese] leader in a hundred years" and his "good friend". Tang is not at all put off by these compliments, which he sees as Trump's diplomatic rhetoric and negotiation skills. "Slap you in the face, and then gently stroke it," he says. However, not all Chinese dissidents see Trump as a fighter for human rights. "Trump started the trade war not aiming to promote freedom and democracy in China," says Teng Biao, a New York-based exiled human rights lawyer. "Objectively speaking, Trump's hawkish trade policy has given Beijing a hard time. However, fundamentally, he has no interests in improving China's human rights." Before he fled to the US in 2014, the 46-year-old was once a lawyer and law professor in China. Teng is concerned that placing hope on the "morally-defected" president is a mistake, and that viewing the enemy's enemy as a friend will soon be proven to be "naïve." Although senior officials in his administration have condemned China's human rights conditions, Trump himself rarely speaks specifically on the issues. He has offered no words about the Muslim camps in the Chinese region of Xinjiang and has not taken a stand regarding the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests. On 22 July, Trump said he was "not involved in it very much," and said the Chinese president had acted "very responsibly". On 1 August, he said it's up for China to deal with the Hong Kong "riots". Fluent in both English and Chinese, Teng enjoys a large following on Twitter, but he thinks among outspoken Chinese dissidents, he and those who are anti-Trump are in a minority. But there's one thing that almost all of them agree on - when interpreting Trump's views on China, lines should be drawn between China the country, its people and the Communist government. On @Trump_Chinese, "China" is often translated as "the Chinese Communist Party", especially in tweets where Trump is aggressively targeting Beijing. This reflects the dissidents' political thinking. "We're sons and daughters of China, not of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin," says Ding, calling it his guiding principle. Ironically, when translated into Chinese, Trump's tweets have striking similarities with the CCP's propaganda rhetoric. "Change 'socialism or communism' to 'western capitalism', swap 'America' with 'China', then it's basically what you hear from Chinese propaganda," one commented on @Trump_Chinese, referring to Trump's tweets criticising communism and promoting American patriotism. Trump often uses "great" to describe the country and people involved with the administration. So does the CCP. The Trump administration's distrust in China has left some worried that a new wave of "Red Scare" is approaching. Ding says he has not personally felt Sinophobia on the rise in the US. Even if there's growing anti-Chinese sentiment, "Beijing is to be blamed," he said, adding: "Trump is only taking countermeasures." Ding is likely to become a naturalised American citizen soon. He says, if he can cast a vote in 2020, he has found a fighter for his cause.

अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प के व्यापार युद्ध ने चीनी सरकार को क्रोधित कर दिया है, लेकिन इसने चीनी लोगों के बीच कुछ समर्थन भी आकर्षित किया है। अमेरिका में चीनी प्रवासियों द्वारा संचालित एक ट्विटर अकाउंट 100,000 से अधिक अनुयायियों के लिए उनके सभी ट्वीट्स का अनुवाद करता है-जिनमें से कई ट्रम्प को मानवाधिकार अधिवक्ता के रूप में देखते हैं।


Breakway rebels- TMVP hand over arms

Summary: A breakaway group of the Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka has formally handed over its weapons to the government at a ceremony in the eastern town of Batticaloa.

The group, known as the TMVP, broke away from the mainstream Tiger rebels five years ago. It was led by Vinayagamurthi Muralidharan popularly known as Colonel Karuna, who is now a parliamentarian. The group later formed a political party and won regional elections, but had refused until today to give up its weapons arguing that they were at risk of revenge attacks from the Tigers. Correspondents say the handover now, by part of the breakaway group, was largely symbolic as the former Tigers had been receiving protection from the Sri Lankan security services.

श्रीलंका में तमिल टाइगर विद्रोहियों के एक समूह ने पूर्वी शहर बट्टिकलोआ में एक समारोह में औपचारिक रूप से अपने हथियार सरकार को सौंप दिए हैं।


Tottenham man charged with murder over new year stabbing

Summary: A man from has been charged with murdering a teenager who was fatally stabbed on New Year's Eve in London.

Meschak dos santos Cornelio, 18, was one of four people killed at New Year in separate stabbings across the city. Detectives have charged Gaille Bola, 21, of Stonebridge Road, Tottenham, with Mr Cornelio's murder. Mr Bola, who was one of seven men detained over the killing, is due to appear before Highbury Magistrates' Court later. None of the six other suspects are currently facing charges in connection with the investigation.

लंदन के एक व्यक्ति पर एक किशोर की हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है, जिसे लंदन में नए साल की पूर्व संध्या पर चाकू मारकर हत्या कर दी गई थी।


Aberdeen to be headquarters for fire service northern hub

Summary: Aberdeen will be the headquarters for the northern hub of the new single Fire Service for Scotland, BBC Scotland can reveal.

The hub will incorporate the old Grampian, Tayside and Highlands fire service areas when all eight merge at the start of April. How it will be structured is still being decided. However it is being claimed there will be no compulsory redundancies as a result. The commander in charge of the new Aberdeen base, Robert Scott, said he accepted it was an unsettling time for employees.

एबरडीन स्कॉटलैंड के लिए नई एकल अग्निशमन सेवा के उत्तरी केंद्र के लिए मुख्यालय होगा, बीबीसी स्कॉटलैंड खुलासा कर सकता है।


Searching for water in drought-hit Latur

Summary: It is 42C in the shade, but that doesn't deter 10-year-old Anjali Patole from queuing up every day near a water tank on a baking pavement in the city of Latur in the western state of Maharashtra.

Soutik BiswasDelhi correspondent Here, Anjali and her uncle - her father has migrated to Pune to look for work, and her mother is a vegetable vendor - will stand under the blazing sun for up to three hours to fill 150 litres of drinking water in 15 containers, a smorgasbord of shiny kitchen utensils and brightly coloured plastic tanks. At home, the taps dried up three months ago. Every eighth day a municipal water tanker comes to her street, providing 200 litres of water to every family. It's never enough for her family, so Anjali, frail and enervated, is spending her summer holidays collecting water in the soaring heat. Aren't you afraid that she might suffer from a heatstroke? I ask her uncle. 'Compulsion' Last week a 12-year-old girl died of heatstroke after spending four hours gathering water from a hand pump in the neighbouring Beed district. Anjali had already spent more than two hours when I met her. The uncle shrugs off my question. "Compulsion, compulsion," he mutters under his breath. "We don't have a choice." The scarcity of water leaves people with few - and mostly awkward - choices. So it is with Latur's residents, who are among the 330 million people in 256 districts in India affected by drought, brought on by three years of poor rainfall. Not surprisingly, the lives of half a million people in the district's main city now revolve around water. They worry about getting supplies, and mull their choices. Will I wait for the tanker or head to the queue? Or should I check the hand pump down the street? At home, the choices are no less onerous. Should I take a second bath in the sweltering heat? Should I cook something that consumes less water? Should I invite friends for dinner? Should I postpone an operation to save money for water? The oft-prophesised war of the 21st Century over water is already being fought in the minds of many here. The city is rife with rumour and suspicion. Is a municipal councillor diverting more tankers to his constituency? Is my neighbour bribing the tanker driver and siphoning supplies? In the fierce battles over water, two people - a volunteer managing a water queue, and a woman, exhausted by long hours in the queue - have reportedly died of heart attacks. People have come to blows in queues. To avert water riots, authorities imposed orders prohibiting large gatherings at water collection sites last month. 'New normal' There have been protests outside storage tanks, prompting authorities to put spiky gates on the concrete spiral stairways to prevent people from scampering up. A main police station in the city is coping with up to 20 complaints from people squabbling over water. "People are pretty worked up over water," says Sudhakar Boakar, a policeman who is in charge of the station. The rich buy bottled water for drinking and private tanker supplies for cleaning and washing. The poor and not-so-well-off, spend most of their time waiting for municipality tanker supplies or queuing up outside storage tanks. "This has been the new normal for six to eight months now," says councillor Shailesh Swami. "Things worsened after the taps ran dry four months ago." On a still, hot night, a long queue builds outside a storage tank in the heart of the city. The roads are deserted, but the wet pavement is humming with activity. A steady stream of weary water hunters trickles in under flickering street lights. The containers - buckets, drums, bowls, pots, pitchers - squat in a queue of their own. Around midnight, Rabindra Mirkale, a factory worker, riding a moped, arrives with his nephew and 12 containers. It is a minor miracle - the number of vessels Mr Mirkale yokes to his decrepit two-wheeler; hunting water, clearly, inspires jugaad, an Indian word that means ingenious improvisation in the face of scarce resources. It's going to be a long night ahead. Mr Mirkale reckons he will get his 200 litres of water around daybreak, some six hours later. "I work all day and collect water all night. I have no life," he grins. Now Sheikh Mainuddin arrives, dragging a bicycle carrying a staggering 20 containers. He's walked a kilometre in the sweltering heat. There are a dozen people in his house, he says, waiting for water. "The once-a-week tanker water is not enough." There is tension as more people join the queue. An anxious mother awaits her turn, putting her child to sleep on top of a reservoir nearby. Rubbish burns on a landfill next to the tank, making the air hotter. Then suddenly, the transformer blows out, plunging the queue into darkness, completing a picture of urban dystopia. 'Difficult situation' Authorities claim 125 tankers are ferrying drinking water to residents every day. Latur's senior-most official Pandurang Pole tells me at the peak of the water famine in February, the city was getting a quarter of its daily requirement of 25 million litres. Two years of paltry rainfall has reduced the main Manjara river, which supplied most of Latur's water, to a gritty mass of silt and rock. Now, Mr Pole says, the city is managing to narrow the gap by securing nearly 20 million litres a day by scrounging from every available source: two dams, a barrage, 150 bore wells, reviving a defunct water supply scheme, and most importantly, the much-talked about water train. "It is a difficult situation," he says. "We now have stocks until July and are hoping for rains this year." Outside the city, things are gloomier. Tankers are supplying water to 150 of the 800 villages. Groundwater levels have fallen below 500ft (152m). Desperate villagers are clambering down wells looking for dregs of water. Growing water-guzzling cash crops like sugarcane and cotton for years meant that the groundwater wasn't destined to last long in a drought-prone district of 4.5 million people. More than 30 debt-stricken farmers have taken their lives this year. But there are also stories of hope in a cruelly arid landscape. People, by and large, have been extraordinarily patient and resilient even as politicians score brownie points by sticking party posters on water tankers and taking credit for the water train. 'A shame' Far away from the din, local people, goaded by the Art of Living Foundation, have already contributed 30m rupees ($450,113; £311,487) to dredge an 18km (11-mile)-stretch of the bone-dry Manjara, the district's lifeline. Twenty dredgers are working round the clock to finish the job. "The drying up of the river is Latur's shame," says Mahadev Gomare of the group. "Nature has given us water. We should protect the sources." A young farmer, who bought a bore well to irrigate his dry 10-acre farm and grow corn, has instead decided to supply water free to villagers for two hours every evening. "Crops can wait," says Vikas Manikrao Sul, 31, who's also a lawyer. "Providing water to affected families is more important. In times of scarcity, you should not think of profit." In the long term, Latur has to conserve and harvest its water better, and change cropping patterns to avert a similar disaster. But, before that, it has to rain a lot. "I always feel thirsty. Is that what happens to you when it doesn't rain for years?" says Shailesh Swami, looking up at the cloudless sky.

यह छाया में 42 डिग्री सेल्सियस है, लेकिन यह पश्चिमी राज्य महाराष्ट्र के लातूर शहर में एक बेकिंग फुटपाथ पर पानी की टंकी के पास हर दिन कतार में खड़े होने से 10 वर्षीय अंजलि पटोले को नहीं रोकता है।


Police identify Crossmichael house fire victim

Summary: Police have identified a 91-year-old woman who died in an early morning fire in the south of Scotland.

Sarah Millar, known as Bunty, was pronounced dead at the scene of the fire on Main Street in Crossmichael. Emergency services were called out to the village at about 04:00 on Monday. Police said it was not being treated as suspicious but investigations into the cause were ongoing. Related Internet Links Police Scotland SFRS

पुलिस ने एक 91 वर्षीय महिला की पहचान की है, जिसकी स्कॉटलैंड के दक्षिण में सुबह आग लगने से मौत हो गई थी।


Empowering Kenya's new generation

Summary: The odds are stacked against young people in Kenya. Three-quarters of those under 35 do not have jobs. Poverty and poor education have left 1.3 million youths unemployed - and studies suggest women are five times more likely to struggle to find work than men.

Susan Kayongo, 18, has benefited from a scheme - the Girls Empowerment Micro-franchise project - run by the International Rescue Committee in Nairobi. It is hoped this will become a blueprint to help thousands of young unemployed Kenyan women. A hair product company has provided capital for Susan - and also trained her in business technique and kitted her out with stock. Now it is up to her to make the business work. All images subject to copyright. Photography by Jonathan Kalan. Slideshow production by Kelvin Brown. Publication date 15 November 2012. Related: Photographer - Jonathan Kalan International Rescue Committee The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. More audio slideshows: South Africa under apartheid in the 1970s 'Why I care for 52 children' Could Africa save China's tigers?

केन्या में युवाओं के खिलाफ बाधाएं खड़ी हैं। 35 वर्ष से कम उम्र के तीन-चौथाई लोगों के पास नौकरी नहीं है। गरीबी और खराब शिक्षा ने 13 लाख युवाओं को बेरोजगार कर दिया है-और अध्ययनों से पता चलता है कि महिलाओं को पुरुषों की तुलना में काम खोजने के लिए संघर्ष करने की संभावना पांच गुना अधिक है।


Eyewitness: Norway Utoeya shootings

Summary: Hours after a massive bomb struck the heart of Oslo, reports began emerging of fresh horror: the indiscriminate shooting of young people attending a youth camp of the ruling Labour Party on an island west of the capital, in one of the world's worst killing sprees.

A gunman opened fire on campers on the tiny island of Utoeya, sowing panic among them, before finally being arrested. At least 80 people were killed, police say, warning that figure could rise as several people are still missing. Initial reports put the death toll at 10. TV aerial images showed police commandos arriving in boats as survivors tried to swim to shore. Others tried to hide in undergrowth, appealing for help through text messages (SMS) from mobile phones, because they feared that calls would give them away. Some of those who caught sight of the gunman described a Norwegian-looking man, tall and blonde, dressed in what appeared to be a police uniform. Adrian Pracon, an official who attended the event, told Norway's Varden newspaper of "complete panic" among the campers, adding that he had seen four dead bodies. 'Bodies in water' Anita Bakaas, mother of a teenage girl who survived the ordeal unharmed, told BBC World TV that some 600 people had been camping in tents in woods. Her daughter, she said, had hidden in a toilet with four other girls for an hour, keeping in contact by text message. The girl told her mother the shooting had begun after campers were called to a meeting to hear about the bombing in Oslo, which had occurred several hours earlier. As she hid, people outside the toilet door were being shot and killed, her mother said. A witness quoted by Norwegian broadcaster NRK said a man in police uniform had called on people to gather round, before opening fire. The father of a girl attending the summer camp said he had received an SMS that said: "There is gunfire, I am hiding." "We communicated by SMS," he added. "She told me not to call so as not to give away her hiding place." Ali Esbati, a Swedish politician of Iranian descent who was at the camp, told the BBC he saw the suspected gunman hours after the shootings began, having been hiding in the woods. Mr Esbati said that he appeared to be in a police uniform and was holding a rifle. "I jumped into the water like several other people and moved a few metres away and tried to see if he was coming". A number of witnesses described how terrified campers jumped into the water to escape the indiscriminate gunfire. But the gunman reportedly fired at people swimming away. "I saw many dead people," youth camp delegate Elise told the Associated Press news agency. "He first shot people on the island. Afterwards he started shooting people in the water." She said she hid behind the rock the gunman was standing on: "I could hear his breathing from the top of the rock," she said. Police say they are scouring the lake for bodies. Andre Skeie, 26, told Reuters news agency he had seen 20 dead bodies in the water after arriving on his boat to help evacuate people.

ओस्लो के दिल में एक बड़े बम के टकराने के कुछ घंटों बाद, ताजा भयावहता की खबरें सामने आने लगींः राजधानी के पश्चिम में एक द्वीप पर सत्तारूढ़ लेबर पार्टी के युवा शिविर में भाग लेने वाले युवाओं की अंधाधुंध गोलीबारी, जो दुनिया की सबसे खराब हत्याओं में से एक है।


Morrissey scraps Iceland gig over vegetarian demands

Summary: Morrissey has cancelled a concert in Iceland after the venue refused not to sell meat on the night of the gig.

The 55-year-old vegetarian had planned to perform at Reykjavik's Harpa concert hall but axed the date, saying it declined to observe his stipulation. "I love Iceland and I have waited a long time to return," the former Smiths frontman told the True To You fan site. "But I shall leave the Harpa Concert Hall to their cannibalistic flesh-eating bloodlust." Morrissey is scheduled to play six UK dates next month, beginning at the Nottingham Capital FM Arena on 13 March. The singer published his autobiography last year and is currently working on his debut novel.

मॉरिसी ने आइसलैंड में एक संगीत कार्यक्रम रद्द कर दिया है क्योंकि कार्यक्रम स्थल ने कार्यक्रम की रात को मांस नहीं बेचने से इनकार कर दिया था।


Manx ferry crossings to Birkenhead diverted to Heysham this winter

Summary: There will be no weekend Manx ferry crossings between the Isle of Man and Birkenhead this winter, the island's ferry company said.

"Essential engineering works" at the Merseyside terminal mean a suitable berth for the Ben-my-Chree will not be available. Passengers and freight will instead go to and from Heysham from 9 November. Isle of Man Steam Packet Company chief executive Mark Woodward said the move was "beyond our control". Coach services between Heysham and Liverpool will be provided for foot passengers, Mr Woodward added.

द्वीप की नौका कंपनी ने कहा कि इस सर्दियों में आइल ऑफ मैन और बर्केनहेड के बीच कोई सप्ताहांत मैनक्स नौका क्रॉसिंग नहीं होगी।


Star Wars and Action Man: The rise and fall of Palitoy

Summary: Action Man, Care Bears and Star Wars figures were toys almost every British child in the 1970s and 80s couldn't wait to get their hands on. So why did Palitoy, the company that made them, fall into decline?

By Jennifer HarbyBBC News Online They were once the must-have playthings coveted by children across the UK. Christmases and birthdays were rarely complete without the presence of an Action Man, a Care Bear, a Tiny Tears doll or a Star Wars figurine. All of these toys were made at Palitoy - a company based in the industrial town of Coalville, in Leicestershire. Yet at the height of its selling powers, the firm was being wound down and closed. What led to its demise? The company, originally named Cascelloid, was founded in 1919 by a man named Alfred Pallett. The toy division, which produced toy windmills and baby rattles, became part of a larger plastics factory. By the 1950s and 60s, Cascelloid's toy section was performing strongly and it created a separate toy division named Palitoy - a nod to the company's founder. In the 1960s, 70s and 80s brands such as Spirograph, Airfix and Tiny Tears were really taking off. Alongside them was one of Palitoy's most enduringly popular toys - Action Man. Launched in 1966, Action Man was originally based on the American toy G I Joe. But the design was inherently British, with Action Man driving Land Rovers and Scorpion Tanks and wearing anything from a Grenadier Guards uniform to a Manchester United strip. And the character's most famous feature, his gripping hand, also had its origins close to home. Former chief toy designer Bob Brechin said he modelled the body part on his own. "We turned him into a British toy," he said. "We came up with the idea of giving him hair on his head, rather than just painted hair, and gave him his distinctive gripping hand." All of this home-grown success brought Palitoy to the attention of the international market and in 1968 it was sold to the US giant General Mills, which already owned other toy producers. By the late 70s, the success of Action Man meant expansion for the business, with sales topping 20 million. Palitoy was producing many of its figures on licence, meaning it manufactured other companies' ideas and paid for the privilege. One of the most successful franchises it took on was Star Wars, which became the company's biggest-ever seller. The firm was responsible for the redesign of some Star Wars products for a UK audience, including a cardboard, self-assembly version of the Death Star. Mr Brechin said the plastic playset was originally considered too expensive for the British market. Nowadays, the card Death Star is hugely collectable. "I am really chuffed that the collectors, even in the States, are so keen on our design," Mr Brechin said. But behind the cuddly toys and action figures, a corporate strategy was at work that would spell the end for the company. By the early 80s, the production of most of the toys had shifted to Hong Kong. It was a cheaper process, but the beginning of the end for Palitoy. The first two years of the decade saw redundancies within the company, despite the fact that, by 1983, it held between 10 and 15% of the British toy market. In 1984, Palitoy's design and development departments were shut down when General Mills decided to abandon all European product development. Although many of the lines continued to be manufactured by other producers, Palitoy, in effect, became a marketing company, repackaging products designed in the United States for European markets. By 1986 it had ceased trading, and in 1994 the Coalville site was eventually closed, although production had ended there many years earlier. Yet today the Palitoy name is big business once again - this time, at collectors' markets. One Star Wars figure, the bounty hunter Boba Fett, sold for £18,000 at auction, which experts say is a world record for an action toy. "It's crazy, the prices they fetch," said Mr Brechin. "You can't believe people are collecting things that were just work to us. "I just wish I had kept a few." Inside Out is broadcast on BBC One East Midlands at 19:30 on Monday 14 September and nationwide for 30 days thereafter on the iPlayer.

एक्शन मैन, केयर बियर्स और स्टार वार्स की आकृतियाँ 1970 और 80 के दशक में लगभग हर ब्रिटिश बच्चे के लिए खिलौने थीं, जो अपना हाथ पाने के लिए इंतजार नहीं कर सकते थे। तो फिर इन्हें बनाने वाली कंपनी पालीटॉय का पतन क्यों हुआ?


Aum Shinrikyo: Images from the 1995 Tokyo Sarin attack

Summary: Japan has executed seven members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult over the deadly Sarin chemical attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995. Here we look back at images of the attack and the events that followed. WARNING: Some readers may find some of the images below distressing.

The Aum Shinrikyo cult was founded by Shoko Asahara, also known as Chizuo Matsumoto (above). In 1995 it carried out a Sarin chemical attack that killed 13 people and injured thousands more. Asahara was among the seven executed on Friday. Another six members, also linked to the country's worst terror incident, are still awaiting execution. On 20 March 1995, cult members released the Sarin on the Tokyo subway. They left punctured bags filled with liquid nerve agent on central train lines. The toxin struck victims down in a matter of seconds, leaving them choking and vomiting, some blinded and paralysed. Rescue workers had to wear hazmat suits and gas masks to help the injured and deal with the poison. Many victims were treated by emergency medical teams at makeshift shelters before being transported to hospital. Witnesses described noticing a strong chemical smell similar to paint thinner before feeling stinging fumes hitting their eyes. Two days after the attack police raided the compounds of the Aum Shinrikyo cult. The picture above shows Aum Shinrikyo members outside during the raid. The cult began as a spiritual group mixing Hindu and Buddhist beliefs, later including elements of apocalyptic Christian prophesies. A riot police officer stands guard outside the Aum Shinrikyo cult headquarters 6th compound as the raids continued on 11 May 1995, searching for the mastermind behind the attacks. On 16 May, Shoko Asahara was finally arrested. He is seen here in September, coming from a court session. Below he is seen in a TV image from 2003. .

जापान ने 1995 में टोक्यो भूमिगत पर घातक सरीन रासायनिक हमले के लिए ओम शिन्रिक्यो कयामत दिवस पंथ के सात सदस्यों को फांसी दी है। यहाँ हम हमले की छवियों और उसके बाद की घटनाओं पर नज़र डालते हैं। चेतावनीः कुछ पाठकों को नीचे दी गई कुछ छवियाँ परेशान करने वाली लग सकती हैं।


Robert and Conor McAleenan could be jailed for horse cruelty

Summary: A judge has warned a father and son who admitted failing to properly feed and water 70 horses on their farm that they could be jailed for animal cruelty.

A court was told a vet and police found that nine of the animals were dead from neglect when they visited the farm. Robert James McAleenan, 53, and his son Conor, 28, from Lisnevenagh Road, near Antrim admitted 16 charges of causing unnecessary suffering to the animals. Most of the dead horses were found piled up on top of each other. Antrim Crown Court was told they had been there for some time. The surviving horses, which were to be slaughtered for food, were seriously malnourished. Both men will be sentenced on Tuesday at Coleraine Crown Court.

एक न्यायाधीश ने अपने खेत में 70 घोड़ों को ठीक से खिलाने और पानी देने में विफल रहने की बात स्वीकार करने वाले एक पिता और बेटे को चेतावनी दी है कि उन्हें पशु क्रूरता के लिए जेल हो सकती है।


JD Sports sees 64% rise in half-year profits

Summary: Sports retailer JD Sports Fashion boosted profits by 64% to make £16.6m for the six months to the end of July.

It said sales for that half of the year had been boosted by the World Cup, but that second-half trading had also got off to a solid start. The group trades as JD Sports, Chausport, Size, Bank and Scotts from over 530 stores. So far this year, the company has opened 11 stores, more than double last year's five outlets. The company's statement said the emphasis for the year's trading remained on the key Christmas period. It said: "The result for the full year remains very dependent on the sales and margin performance in December and January." Related Internet Links JD Sports

स्पोर्ट्स रिटेलर जे. डी. स्पोर्ट्स फैशन ने जुलाई के अंत तक छह महीनों के लिए £ 16.6m बनाने के लिए लाभ में 64 प्रतिशत की वृद्धि की।


Sarahah: Anonymous app dropped from Apple and Google stores after bullying accusations

Summary: A wildly popular anonymous messaging app has been removed from the Apple and Google stores after accusations that it has been facilitating bullying. But the company's chief executive denies the claims and says the app isn't meant to be used by younger teens.

By Elizabeth CassinBBC Trending Katrina Collins was appalled by the anonymous messages her 13-year-old daughter was receiving. One person said she hoped her daughter would kill herself. Others used extremely foul and offensive language. The messages appeared on the Sarahah app, which was designed to allow people to leave "honest feedback" about colleagues and friends. Although Collins' daughter wasn't actually using the app, she saw the messages after a friend downloaded it and showed them to her. Collins, who lives in Australia, put up a post on online petition site Change.org. She called for the app to be removed from two of the biggest mobile storefronts - Apple's App store and Google's Play store. The petition accused Sarahah of facilitating "bullying" and "self harm", and quickly gained nearly 470,000 supporters. The app was then taken down from both the Apple and Google stores. It appears the companies took action in response to the petition, although a Google spokesperson said "we don't comment on specific apps" and Apple did not respond to requests for comment. Zain-Alabdin Tawfiq, the CEO of Sarahah, has disputed Collins' allegations. He says the decision by Apple and Google to remove the app was "unfortunate", but is "very optimistic about reaching a favourable understanding with them soon." Anonymous messages The app has had an up-and-down ride since it was launched a year ago. It became an instant success - worldwide, more than 300 million users have created accounts. Sarahah, which was developed in Saudi Arabia, topped Apple's App Store in more than 30 countries in July. Sarahah, which is named after the Arabic word for "honesty", aims to allow users to receive anonymous constructive feedback. But Katrina Collins, the woman behind the petition, says it also "facilitates cyberbullying". "If it's happening to my daughter," she told BBC Trending, "it's happening to a hell of a lot of other kids out there as well." A 14-year old from Grimsby in the UK recently spoke out about the "disgusting" messages she received on the app. Listen to this story: Trending radio from the BBC World Service You might also be interested in Tawfiq says the offensive word highlighted in Collins' petition "would be picked up by our filtering mechanism and prevented from reaching its destination". He says "as soon as we received this petition, we tried to run [the message] through Sarahah, and it didn't go through." But Collins says the messages about her daughter "definitely sent", and sent screenshots of the offensive messages to prove her point. She said: "There were no filters at all that picked [them] up. They were all sent". Since the petition launched, Tawfiq says his company has upgraded its filtering system to use "artificial intelligence and machine learning." "So basically if someone says kill yourself, then 'kill' is a keyword. But if someone says 'jump off a cliff', then now these robots will be able to detect that and block it as well." He also pointed out that the app is meant for people aged 17 and older. BBC Trending set up an account and sent the phrases used in the messages to that account. None of the offensive language got through, although this may be because of the recent algorithm change. How to protect children online Cyber-bullying Sarahah is not the first anonymous messaging app to be linked to online bullying. The Secret app shut down after criticism in 2015, and Ask.fm was linked to several teen suicides in 2013. Another anonymous messaging platform, Sayat.Me, was taken down by its owners following the death of George Hessay last year. Hessay, a 15-year-old boy from the UK, took his own life after receiving abuse on the site. If you or someone you know has been affected by the issues in this story, there are resources and support on the BBC Action Line website. Do you have a story for us? Email BBC Trending. More from Trending: Florida shooting: Teachers want to be armed, but not with guns "Pencils, paper, technology, books, art supplies, counsellors... Not Guns" - this is the wishlist of one teacher in America.READ NOW You can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.

एक बेतहाशा लोकप्रिय अनाम संदेश ऐप को ऐप्पल और गूगल स्टोर से इस आरोप के बाद हटा दिया गया है कि यह बदमाशी की सुविधा प्रदान कर रहा है। लेकिन कंपनी के मुख्य कार्यकारी ने दावों का खंडन किया है और कहा है कि ऐप युवा किशोरों द्वारा उपयोग किए जाने के लिए नहीं है।


'I lost my entire family to a cult': How one woman escaped Grace Road

Summary: A South Korean church which believes global famine is imminent has set up base in Fiji, where it's gained considerable influence but faced growing allegations of abuse. One woman who fled what she believes is a cult told the BBC's Yvette Tan she lost her family in the process - but has no regrets.

Seoyeon Lee had one chance to escape and she took it, running down the road in Fiji in her pyjamas and flip-flops. "I was crying and I looked hysterical," she told the BBC. The then 21-year-old was being pursued by members of Grace Road - including her own mother - who she says had tricked her into going to the Pacific island nation. "I would have killed myself if they'd made me stay," she says. 'I think it's a cult' A year earlier, in 2013, Seoyeon had come home to South Korea from the US, where she was studying, for the summer. Her mum was suffering from uterine cancer but had refused treatment. She told Seoyeon she would only seek treatment if she went with her to Grace Road Church. "It was very bizarre," said Seoyeon. "There were people screaming, crying, speaking in tongues and the sermon was about how the end times were coming. "I told my mum, I think it's a cult but she didn't believe me." Once back at university, she found her mother had still not sought treatment and would only do so on one condition - that Seoyeon quit school and went back to South Korea. Seoyeon, whose father had died of cancer, took leave and went home. After her mother went through surgery, she told Seoyeon that she wanted to move to Fiji to recover - and insisted that she go along with her. Eventually, Seoyeon agreed to go for two weeks to help her adjust. "At that point, I didn't know it was an elaborate ruse," she said. "But when I got to Fiji and saw we were driving to a commune... I was like, how could I have been so stupid?" The 'great famine' South Korea has a significant Christian population, and in recent decades many small, fringe churches have sprung up, some of them developing cult-like characteristics. Grace Road, which insists it is not a cult, started out small in 2002, but now numbers about 1,000 followers, according to Prof Tark Ji-il of Busan Presbyterian University, who has closely studied Korean cults. The church's founder and head pastor, Shin Ok-ju, believes that a great famine is imminent, and that her followers "needed to find a new home to prepare for the second coming of Jesus", says Prof Tark. In 2014 - the same year it was classified as heretical by mainstream churches - the church uprooted to Fiji, declaring that it would be one of the few places saved by God from famine. About 400 of its followers now live in Fiji, mostly working for the company it has set up to manage its operations, GR Group. Seoyeon says those there have been "handpicked" by the leadership "maybe depending on how much you've donated". "When my dad died, we were left a certain sum of money. I'm pretty sure my mum took all that and gave it to the church," she said. "They make you sell your property, quit your job, cut off your friends." The group has built up a sizeable business empire, from construction to restaurants to agriculture. "Farming is our original mission because we need to prepare for the famine, we need to be self-sufficient," Daniel Kim, president of GR Group and Ms Shin's son told the BBC. The group's construction business has also won lucrative contracts, including a tender to renovate the Fijian president's residence and its State House, which Mr Kim insists was won through a legal tender process. In an indication of his good connections, Mr Kim was pictured with Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, after the group won the Prime Minister's International Business Award. 'No choice but to stay' But over the past year, a bleak picture has emerged of life inside Grace Road. Five church members who had returned to South Korea accused Ms Shin of confiscating their passports and holding them against their will. They alleged the church used forced labour and issued ritual beatings so harsh that they led to the death of one follower. In July, Ms Shin was arrested while back in South Korea on charges of assault and confinement. She was alleged to have abandoned the church members, confiscated their passports, and overseen a brutal regime. Then in August, Fijian and South Korean authorities conducted a joint raid on the church in Fiji, arresting Mr Kim and several other senior members as part of a slavery investigation. They were released without charge, but according to Fiji's police commissioner, investigations are "ongoing". You might also be interested in reading: A documentary by South Korean broadcaster SBS last month included footage of Ms Shin beating her followers. Chief Chun Jae-hong of the Korean National Police Agency told SBS that many had "donated their entire fortune to the church, so even if they go back they are penniless... so they have no choice [but to stay]". South Korean police directed the BBC to the documentary when asked for comment. Wilfred Regunamada, a spokesman for the Fiji Methodist Church, recently told New Zealand media that Grace Road members were living in fear, and called on the Fijian government to do more to explain its links with the church. The government did not respond to requests for interviews with the BBC. Mr Kim firmly denies wrongdoing and said of his mother: "I don't understand why they are treating her like a criminal. "It's a very malicious attack [by those] who have run away. They say that me and other senior members are like a ruling cult. It's insane." He insisted "no ritual beatings" had taken place. "If someone did something very wrong, they might get slapped by our pastor... [but] in a way that a mother would rebuke her child," he said. The cause of the follower's death was cancer and "there's no evidence to connect it to beatings", he said. Mr Kim says all those in Fiji had volunteered to go, and "it doesn't matter if they bring money or not". He evaded a question as to whether church members were paid for their work, saying they "have accommodation, food and travel all covered by the company", adding that he himself does "not receive a fixed salary every month". And what of the allegations that the 400 church members are essentially being held against their will? "Impossible," he said. "If we really captured their passports it's very simple, they can just go to the embassy and get an emergency passport." That's exactly what Seoyeon had to do. 'I would have killed myself' The day before she was due to leave, she realised that her laptop and passport were missing. Her mother admitted she had taken them to stop her leaving. "I wanted to go back to college, I wanted to meet my friends," she said. She tried ringing the police, but alleges that the other followers "rang them back, saying it was a joke". "They tried to block me but I ran out to the road. I was going insane." She found a police car which took her to the station, and eventually managed to get an emergency passport. "They followed me all the way from the station to the embassy in a car. That was when my mum tried to break me. She told me I was adopted - that was how I found out. "She said my entire family - my aunts, uncles, grandmother and cousins - were all moving here and our apartment had been sold. She was trying to convince me that I had nobody," said Seoyeon. "But I would never have gotten brainwashed and joined the church. I would have killed myself if they had made me stay." Now back in South Korea, she says she can't afford to return to studying, but has moved on and has a steady job. "I am very happy with where I am in life now. I still love my family but as cold as this might sound, I can't really forgive them for what they've done... and after everything that's happened I can never invite them back into my life," she said. "They are so deep in the cult that there's no way I could change their minds... if they're already in Fiji, they're a lost cause."

एक दक्षिण कोरियाई चर्च जिसका मानना है कि वैश्विक अकाल आसन्न है, ने फिजी में आधार स्थापित किया है, जहां इसका काफी प्रभाव पड़ा है, लेकिन दुर्व्यवहार के बढ़ते आरोपों का सामना करना पड़ा है। एक महिला जो भाग गई थी, जिसे वह एक पंथ मानती है, उसने बीबीसी के यवेट टैन को बताया कि उसने इस प्रक्रिया में अपने परिवार को खो दिया-लेकिन उसे कोई पछतावा नहीं है।


Pig head man given suspended sentence after guilty plea

Summary: A man who left a frozen pig's head outside a community centre used by a Muslim group has been given a 12-week suspended jail sentence.

Liam Ferrar, 24, of Brook Road, Leicester, admitted a charge of intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress. Leicester Magistrates' Court heard he left the severed head on the steps of the city's Thurnby Lodge Community Centre on 26 December. He was also ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid community work. The sentence was suspended for a year because of Ferrar's previous good character and a letter of apology. A district judge ordered him to pay £85 in costs.

एक मुस्लिम समूह द्वारा उपयोग किए जाने वाले सामुदायिक केंद्र के बाहर जमे हुए सुअर का सिर छोड़ने वाले व्यक्ति को 12 सप्ताह की निलंबित जेल की सजा सुनाई गई है।


Hollie Gazzard killer Asher Maslin to appeal against jail term

Summary: A man convicted of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in her Gloucester salon has been granted leave to appeal against the length of his sentence.

Asher Maslin murdered 20-year-old Hollie Gazzard in February after she ended their relationship. When he was sentenced to life at Bristol Crown Court, Maslin was told he must serve a minimum of term 24 years. Maslin's legal team said a date for the hearing at the Court of Appeal was yet to be set.

ग्लूसेस्टर सैलून में अपनी पूर्व प्रेमिका की चाकू मारकर हत्या करने के दोषी एक व्यक्ति को अपनी सजा की अवधि के खिलाफ अपील करने की अनुमति दी गई है।


Could remote crowdworking change how we care for our elderly?

Summary: Many of us have strong views on outsourcing.

By Dave LeeTechnology reporter, BBC News Whether it's the uncomfortable image of a low-paid army of workers shuffling onto almost impossibly long production lines in Asia, or the offshore call centre worker struggling through a conversation offering technical support, the feeling of farming off work that could be done by local workers is one which fills some with unease. Yet as connectivity and technology mean the barriers to outsourcing are beginning to almost disappear entirely, outsourcing is graduating into another trend that is changing how we treat repetitive human work. Crowdworking is growing, fast. Ville Miettinen, chief executive of "human powered document processing" service Microtask, says business at his crowdworking company is increasing at around 400% year-on-year - and his experience is typical of the wider industry. It beckons a new way of approaching huge, often dull, tasks. Where once a company would hire a bunch of temporary workers, or eager teens happy with minimum wage, it can now call on workers from all over the world to collaborate on huge tasks while simply sitting at their computer. Heaphy Project To date, outsourcing has largely been an exercise in getting some of our less glamorous industries out of sight and mind. However, the practice could now be about to come full circle. Willow Garage is a robotics company based in California. It pioneers the use of human-in-the-loop systems - that is, actions which robots can't quite manage on their own, but with a simple piece of human intervention can finish the job. By using Mechanical Turk, Amazon's crowdworking platform which allows workers all over the world to remotely carry out small tasks for small cash rewards, they have made the first steps in what they eventually believe could be a way to outsource even the most delicate of tasks, such as caring for the elderly. Its Heaphy Project is a system which allows a person to control a robot remotely using just a web browser. Users, who watch what's happening via a video feed, can move the robot around and control its arms to such a precise degree it can pick up objects. Willow Garage believe this method could be used to allow remote workers carry out tasks such as production line work, or even, for example, aiding an elderly or disabled person reach an object which they have dropped. Dirty dishes Initially, to test the scheme, interested users on Mechanical Turk had to learn how to pick up dirty dishes from the desks of Willow Garage employees before carrying them to a kitchen sink. "People would sign-up through Mechanical Turk, and then they would be taken to a training room, if you will, and they had to complete a series of tasks," explains Bob Bauer, Willow Garage's director of commercialisation. "The first set of tasks were done all in simulation before they were allowed on the robot - like a pilot in a simulator. "Then in a very constrained environment they did the task with a real robot, with real cups on real tables, learning how to pick them up. Those that showed a certain amount of capability were then allow to do the next step of do the task in the real world." They trained hundreds of people using this method, in thousands of training sessions. Mr Bauer believes that as the demand for elderly care increases in years to come, such human-in-the-loop robotic care will become common place. "We're in conversation with everything from elderly care facilities to people who are doing security applications in order to understand what's the right mix of being automated and human intelligence being brought to the problem." The robots can also be used for other less-than-desirable tasks, as demonstrated by one research programme at Willow entitled Perception Of Offensive Products and Sensorized Control Of Object Pickup - or POOP SCOOP, for short. Military records Despite huge leaps in technology, remote control robot carers are still some way off. Today, crowdworking is a little more low-key, but no less disruptive to long-established work practices. Microtask's Mr Miettinen offers a massive workforce available at a company's beck and call without the hassle - to put it insensitively - of hiring and firing employees to meet business needs. Microtask takes a set of documents - say, membership forms - and splits them into small pieces to be processed by workers. "The individual tasks are really small," Mr Miettinen explains. "It can be just a single word out of a document. They're not seeing the entire page, they don't know what the rest of the page contains, and they also don't know who else is working on it." It means several people, in several continents, can all collaborate to process one individual form. "We can outsource to pretty much anywhere on the planet," he says. "We're doing a lot of distributed outsourcing to places like Pakistan, rural India, the Philippines, China and other countries." In the US, such methods have been used to process military and even medical records - but the export of such data is covered by strict privacy laws. Microtask pays works at the typical local rate, although in the US it will, in some cases, fall below the minimum wage for hourly work. Nevertheless, it hasn't stopped over 120,000 people signing up to work on the platform since its inception in 2009. As the industry goes, more and more companies will start to shun local workers in favour of their cheaper crowdworked alternatives. It is, as Mr Miettinen describes, the "human equivalent of cloud computing".

आउटसोर्सिंग पर हम में से कई लोगों के मजबूत विचार हैं।


Girl, 12, suffers 'unprovoked attack' while walking dog in Annan

Summary: A 12-year-old girl was left "shaken-up" after being assaulted in an "unprovoked attack" while walking her dog.

The incident happened near a close running from Scotts Street to Queensway in Annan at about 21:00 on Saturday. Police are trying to trace a man aged about 20, 5ft 2in tall, well-built and with short brown hair. He was wearing brown trousers, a white T-shirt and trainers and had a star cut into his hair near to the right temple area. PC Scott Graham said the girl was not injured but had been "clearly shaken-up". He asked anyone who could identify the attacker or witnessed the assault to come forward.

एक 12 वर्षीय लड़की अपने कुत्ते को चलते समय "बिना उकसावे के हमले" में हमला किए जाने के बाद "हिल गई"।


Inside Iraqi air base as Islamic State closes in

Summary: Ain al-Asad air base, the largest in Iraq's western province of Anbar, has been encircled by militants from Islamic State (IS). The BBC's Quentin Sommerville, the first Western journalist to make it to the facility since IS launched a nationwide offensive in June, found soldiers on the defensive as the militants close in.

At Ain al-Asad, soldiers and their armoured vehicles had departed. The camp was quiet, almost peaceful. But we were in fact in the eye of a storm. On multiple fronts, troops were out fighting - and losing - battles with Islamic State (IS) militants. We had come to see an offensive. Instead, we found a retreat. The army's planned assault on the IS stronghold of Hit was forgotten. IS had launched a surprise attack. "From 07:00 until 11:00, we lost territory that had taken us two weeks to gain. In a few hours, it was gone," said a senior officer from the Iraqi Army's 7th Division, who did not want to be named. As many as 15 villages surrounding the base fell to the militants: Mahboubiya, Juba, Jabha, Dulab... the list went on, the militants moving ever closer. Qais, a pro-government fighter from the Al Bu Nimr tribe, made it to the relative safety of the camp. "I'd had early prayers in Juba, but by the afternoon, it had fallen. IS took trailers full of weapons," he said. He was trying to get to Baghdad to meet his commanders. His family were still in Juba, which was now held by IS. Air strikes plea Ain al-Asad stretches for miles. It was the biggest US army base during the Iraq War. Reminders of American occupation are everywhere - spent artillery shells and dusty accommodation quarters, with uneaten ration packs strewn across the floor. By the camp's barber shop stands a duty-free store and the long-closed "Forever Cafe". Even though the base is much diminished, it remains a linchpin in the country's biggest province. If Anbar falls, Islamic State will stretch from Syria all the way to the edge of Baghdad. From near the edges of the camp, outgoing mortars could be heard, launching and landing. The soft booms of distant artillery occasionally made those on the base stop and look to the horizon for a moment. At night, two days into the IS offensive, soldiers from the 7th Division returned to the base, exhausted, and angry. They blamed the lack of aerial cover for the losses. "We stood our ground. But IS advanced with tanks - we only have Humvees," Pt Karar Hadi said. "What we need are helicopters and combat aircraft. I don't know why the planes didn't come. They're saying the conditions are wrong, but the weather is fine now. In two days, there wasn't a single air strike." Eventually, there were air raids, but by then much territory had already been lost. It could take weeks, if not months to regain, if it is ever retaken. Back in January, IS seized Falluja, one of Anbar's biggest cities. Since then, the militants have tightened their grip. With their supporters, they now control almost 80% of the province. With the world's attention on Syria, it has been a largely unseen humanitarian crisis, with more than 500,000 people displaced. Booby-traps We are the first Western journalists to visit Ain al-Asad since IS established its self-declared caliphate in June. In a convoy of armoured Humvees, we drove with the troops to their field command. In some of the villages we passed through, shops were open and children waved to the soldiers. But outside it was a different story. In the driving seat was Sgt Abu Mahdi. "When you're in a convoy, the biggest risks are the roadside bombs, from IS or their supporters - and they booby-trap houses, as well as having snipers. These are the most deadly of their tactics, but, God willing, we can deal with them." Anbar is mostly Sunni, and in many of its villages IS has been welcomed. Iraq's army is the enemy, and the soldiers remain on their guard. In only three days, the frontline had crept forward, closer to Ain al-Asad. When we arrived, it was 30km (18 miles) away. When we left, it was less than 10km. Sunni tribes who have taken up arms against the militants have suffered. They formed the backbone of the Awakening Councils, which helped the US defeat al-Qaeda militants during the Iraq War. Sheikh Naim al-Gaood of the Al Bu Nimr tribe, explained: "From my tribe there are 762 martyrs, [including] 31 women and 26 children. "Some of them were slaughtered with swords; some of them were executed by bullets to the head. Children as young as six months old were killed while sitting on their mothers' laps. Some of the children were thrown in the river, and others down wells." It is thought that dozens of Iraqi soldiers have been killed or kidnapped in the current offensive. Strong resolve On the chain-link fences around Ain al-Asad, ragged black death notices flap in the soft breeze. Among those killed was a Brig Abbas Radad, the head of the division's special forces. "It wasn't a tragedy - he is a martyr who sacrificed his life to defend his country," Col Abu Mahmoud told me. "All of us here would do the same. We will not allow these people to take Iraq. He was killed by a sniper - a coward who shot from afar - they don't show their faces," he added. The Americans are back in Ain al-Asad, and three of their army medics tried to save Brig Radad. Their primary role is training tribal fighters. They are in a private corner of the camp - largely unseen. But their presence is viewed as essential. Qais, the Al Bu Nimr fighter, said: "We know that Ain al-Asad will never fall while the Americans are here. They won't let it happen."

इराक के पश्चिमी प्रांत अनबर में सबसे बड़े हवाई अड्डे ऐन अल-असद को इस्लामिक स्टेट (आईएस) के आतंकवादियों ने घेर लिया है। बीबीसी के क्वेंटिन सोमरविले, जो जून में आईएस द्वारा राष्ट्रव्यापी हमला शुरू करने के बाद से इस सुविधा में आने वाले पहले पश्चिमी पत्रकार हैं, ने आतंकवादियों के करीब आते ही सैनिकों को रक्षात्मक अवस्था में पाया।


Could Labour's love be lost in Mansfield after 94 years?

Summary: It has been 94 years since a party other than Labour has succeeded in returning a Member of Parliament for Mansfield. But after a strong vote for Brexit and with the Conservatives and UKIP circling, could it change hands in June?

By Liam BarnesBBC News David Spencer is in many ways a traditional Mansfield voter. The 80-year-old retired plasterer is solidly working class and more concerned with local issues than any Westminster politicking. "I am a Labour voter," he said. "I'm a working man, and it's the only party for me." Fred, a former engineering apprentice who worked in the pits before moving into teaching, has also supported Labour for decades. His long allegiance however changed when he backed UKIP in 2010. He voted for the party again two years ago, but now plans to back the Conservatives. "Brexit has absolutely been the biggest issue here, which is why I'm going [to vote] Tory - I think they think will sort out the hardest Brexit," the 79-year-old said. "They would vote for a goat if it was Labour here before, but it's not going to happen now." Fred is not the only voter to have had a change of heart in the Nottinghamshire town. Thousands of once guaranteed Labour voters switched during the last two elections, slashing a majority of 11,365 in 2005 by more than half to 5,315 in 2015. In another message to politicians, 70.9% of voters were clear on Brexit, making it known they wanted to leave the EU. With such a resounding result, and with Labour struggling in the opinion polls, the seat has since been targeted by the Tories as well as UKIP. But can they overturn nearly a century of party dominance and wrestle the seat from Labour's control for the first time since 1923? Mansfield has long been considered a safe seat, a place where callow Conservative candidates feared to tread. Current Father of the House and Rushcliffe MP Ken Clarke failed twice in his bid to represent Mansfield, losing to Labour's Bernard Taylor and Don Concannon by nearly 20,000 in 1964 and 1966. He recalled being "practically chased from a garden" by an anti-Tory voter who made reference to Winston Churchill's role in sending boy soldiers to the Turkish coast during World War One. "I was knocking on doors and saw [a man who] shouted at me he wouldn't speak to a man from the same party as 'the butcher of Gallipoli'," Mr Clarke said. "I did shout over my shoulder that Churchill was a Liberal at the time, but I don't know if he heard me." Though Mr Clarke's loss was heavy, the Tories considered keeping Labour's majority in Mansfield below 20,000 a success given its staunch hold. "There was a Conservative presence in the town, but you did have some people who whispered that they were going to vote Tory - they didn't want the neighbours to know," said Mr Clarke. "I was the first candidate anyone could remember who was from Nottinghamshire and wasn't an Old Etonian." That Mr Clarke was unable to sway Labour voters is of no surprise to Mia James, who moved to Mansfield from The Netherlands in 1963. Now 75, she is backing the Conservatives, something she said was barely heard of in the 1960s. She said: "It was absolutely a Labour town when I came - people didn't talk about politics much, but most people voted the same way." Whereas other neighbouring constituencies have moved with the political climates of the day and changed hands on occasion, Mansfield has held out. The closest challenge came in 1987, when a weak Labour party was swatted aside nationally by Margaret Thatcher's triumphant Tories. In Mansfield, not only was the town still reeling from the 1984 Miners' Strike, but stalwart MP Concannon, who had held the seat since 1966, stood down. His successor Sir Alan Meale - who was proposed as a candidate by the National Union of Mineworkers - squeaked home with a wafer-thin majority of 56, a drop in support he said reflected the fractious politics of the day. "When I came here, it was as bad as it has ever been, and the country was totally and absolutely divided," he said of the seat he will defend in June. "Families were split, and [some relatives] still won't speak to each other." From that close shave, Labour went on to regain strength in the town, winning by margins of at least 11,000 from 1992 to 2005. It has since dwindled, something independent candidate Philip Shields believes is part of a wider disillusionment in Mansfield. "People are just fed up of all politicians," he said. "It's not just Labour, it's all of them, they just say one thing and do another." Sid Pepper, UKIP's candidate at the coming election, previously avoided voting in elections because he "didn't see the point". The 67-year-old said his disenchantment with politics shows how Labour has become disconnected from residents. "When you get that sort of longevity you get that sort of complacency, people think they don't need to do anything," he said. Conservative candidate, 27-year-old Ben Bradley, thinks others his age have lost their tribal links to Labour. "Maybe it has been the case before [people voting Labour], but times have changed, demographics have changed, and today the Labour party has changed," he said. "It has been a Labour town here, I can't argue with the results over all that time. But the majority has been shrinking over the last few elections and things have moved on." It is undeniable that the political balance in Mansfield has been shaken over the years. The question is come June, will Labour inch even closer to a century in power in the town? Will the Conservatives be boosted by pro-Brexit sentiment, or could UKIP split that vote? Anita Prabhakar, the Liberal Democrat candidate, hopes young people will help her cause and see a liberal party return to power in the town for the first time since 1922. "When nothing happens in things like the economy and education, that can be a reason for [people wanting] changes," she said. "Young people especially want to bring more changes." For once, Mitchell Eaton, 27, and Alistair Johnson, 24, intend to use their vote rather than spoil their ballots as they have in previous elections. They intend to back the party traditionally supported by their families. "Basically I think they're [Labour] the only ones planning on doing something positive," said Mr Eaton. "My dad's never really taken much interest in politics and would be happy to get rid of it all, but he's still going to vote Labour. We're a working class family." Mr Johnson even wishes the party will reach that milestone number. "I hope Labour can get to 100 years."

94 साल हो गए हैं जब लेबर के अलावा किसी अन्य पार्टी को मैन्सफील्ड के लिए एक संसद सदस्य को वापस करने में सफलता मिली है। लेकिन ब्रेक्सिट के लिए एक मजबूत वोट के बाद और कंजर्वेटिव और यूकेआईपी के चक्कर लगाने के बाद, क्या यह जून में हाथ बदल सकती है?


Tory leadership: Who will give up to stop Boris Johnson?

Summary: If your first and only brush with the men who want to move into No 10 had been those sixty minutes of debate, would you really conclude that Boris Johnson is the soaraway favourite and Rory Stewart is the exciting one to watch?

Laura KuenssbergPolitical editor@bbclaurakon Twitter Not really. In fact, a source in the camp of one of the candidates tonight suggests if a newbie to the spectacle were told that afterwards, they would "stare in utter disbelief". That's not just a reminder that it's always worth skimming off some of Westminster's daily froth to see what's underneath - but that political contests are full of ups and downs, and are rarely a smooth glide to the top or a straight slide down and out. The former foreign secretary was less sure-footed than the strength in his numbers suggests. But he avoided blundering into fresh disaster, and voting rounds have put him out of reach of the rest. After a metaphorical lock down lasting weeks, Boris Johnson now has only two days left to step carefully around any banana skins in order to book his place in the final two. But the joust to join him there is real. Rory Stewart's apparent rising star shone a lot less brightly than his converted fans might have hoped. The senior cabinet trio, Messrs. Hunt, Gove and Javid, were all content with their time in the studio. And when it comes to votes, all four are within easy potential reach of each other - at this stage, all are reluctant to withdraw. But by Thursday, they and the Tory party have a bigger decision to make: who, if any among them, will give up their own dream, in the hope of mounting a serious and collective effort to stop Boris Johnson? Strangely, at this moment, the tension in this race is not about the identity of the likely winner, but which politician will wrangle their way to second place.

अगर नंबर 10 में जाने की इच्छा रखने वाले पुरुषों के साथ आपकी पहली और एकमात्र बहस उन साठ मिनट की बहस थी, तो क्या आप वास्तव में यह निष्कर्ष निकालेंगे कि बोरिस जॉनसन सबसे पसंदीदा हैं और रोरी स्टीवर्ट देखने के लिए रोमांचक हैं?


Jersey Care Inquiry to be published in July

Summary: A report into decades of abuse in Jersey's care system will be published on 3 July, according to an inquiry spokesman.

The £23m Jersey Care Inquiry finished formal hearings last year and was originally due to publish its findings at the end of 2016. Publication was later delayed until March 2017. The inquiry then announced a further delay due to "more evidence" coming forward. For more on the Care Inquiry, and other stories across Jersey. Yesterday a lawyer representing care leavers called for the inquiry to explain the delays and announce a date. Alan Collins said the inquiry was at risk of losing the confidence of care leavers due to a lack of transparency.

एक जांच प्रवक्ता के अनुसार, जर्सी की देखभाल प्रणाली में दशकों के दुरुपयोग की एक रिपोर्ट 3 जुलाई को प्रकाशित की जाएगी।


Jersey Airport roadworks to cost £750,000

Summary: Jersey's government will spend £750,000 resurfacing the roads leading to the airport for the first time in 23 years.

The Transport and Technical Services department said the roads were in urgent need of repair and work would start in 2012. Roadworks and particularly cold weather in 2010 left the surface in poor condition and with pot holes. The work will start in January and last until May and will happen at night to minimise impact on airline passengers. The transport department said that despite the nighttime work there would still be some road diversions. A website will be set up with updates on the roadworks and traffic. There will also be a public exhibition on the scheme from Wednesday at the Jersey Aero Club.

जर्सी की सरकार 23 वर्षों में पहली बार हवाई अड्डे की ओर जाने वाली सड़कों को फिर से बनाने के लिए £750,000 खर्च करेगी।


HMP Northumberland: A year on from privatisation

Summary: An MP described it as a "powder keg". A union called it a "tinderbox" and said its members did not feel it was safe . HMP Northumberland, in north-east England, has been under scrutiny ever since it was privatised a year ago and cut a third of its staff. So is the criticism justified?

By Robert CooperBBC News Online The company that runs HMP Northumberland insists the prison is under control and says the same number of layoffs would have been had it remained in the public sector. But a series of incidents, since French multinational Sodexo took over in December 2013, have attracted criticism from staff, MPs and union officials. Paul Miller was an officer at the 1,300-capacity Acklington jail for 23 years and picked up awards for his service. "I loved my job. I loved the banter. I had a great rapport with the prisoners. I was proud to wear the crown on the uniform," he said. He, along with about 200 of the 588 staff, took voluntary redundancy earlier this year. The 48-year-old now runs a photo booth business with his wife Julie but he says if the prison had stayed in the public sector, he would have remained in the service. "I think it's immoral to run this for money," he said. "Why should somebody make profit out of somebody's misfortune?" Labour MP Ian Lavery, whose Wansbeck constituency is nearby, said he was "vehemently opposed" to privatisation of the Prison Service. But the prison was not without shortcomings before the contract was put out to tender. Its last inspection report in 2012 said a third of prisoners were locked up during the working day with nothing to do. This, says Sodexo, is one of the areas in which it is making progress, as it works to fulfil its commitment to bring more work into the prison. But the 2012 report also found the prison was relatively safe and "respectful". In a year which saw a group of prisoners take over a wing, a member of staff hospitalised in an assault and a small group of prisoners running riot after fire broke out in six cells, Mr Miller also says one of his friends was headbutted by a prisoner. Mr Lavery said: "It looks very much as if it's a powder keg. I'm worried a member of staff is going to get seriously harmed." It is unclear if there has been a genuine increase in violence, or whether there has simply been greater scrutiny since privatisation. The Ministry of Justice, which holds the figures on the number of assaults, has refused to release them for the period after December 2013. "Don't get me wrong, it did happen in the Prison Service as well but not in these numbers," Mr Miller said. "We always felt we were good at interacting with the prisoners and there was a lot of respect both ways." But he believes there are now too few staff to forge relationships with prisoners and keep control of them. "When I first went to HMP Northumberland, we had 60 prisoners with a senior officer and five officers running a wing," he said. By the time he left, this had dropped to two officers in charge of a wing with no senior officer, he said. Frances Crook, chief executive of campaigning charity the Howard League for Penal Reform, said staffing levels were "particularly concerning". She said 2014 had been "a year to forget" for the prison. In a statement, Sodexo said it constantly reviewed staffing levels and had hired 27 new officers as a result. Sir Alan Beith, the Liberal Democrat MP whose Berwick constituency includes the prison and who is chair of the Justice Committee, said staffing was a concern. But he pointed out that when the HMP Northumberland contract was put out to tender, the public sector bid also included a planned staff reduction of 200. "I visit a lot of prisons, some of them are public sector, some of them are private sector and there's good and bad in both," he said. "The thing that tends to make prisons not work well is the immediate aftermath of any kind of change. "There has been a general increase in violence across the prison system and it's clearly affected HMP Northumberland." Staff cuts have been made across the board and government figures recently released showed a 15% increase in attacks on officers across the prison system, since the coalition came into power. Sodexo sees some of the criticism it has received over its running of HMP Northumberland as unfair. In a statement, the company said: "We're disappointed with the negative perception of HMP Northumberland when our experienced staff do fantastic work in a challenging environment. "Our highest priority is to run a safe prison and this is never an area of compromise. "Criticism of staffing levels has taken the focus away from HMP Northumberland as a working prison. "We are committed to reducing reoffending and more prisoners are now working in the prison for longer hours than ever before as part of our resettlement strategy." The public will get a sense of the current situation in the jail next month, when inspectors who visited in September publish their report. As staff cuts take place across UK prisons, the conclusions they reach may provide valuable lessons for the whole system.

एक सांसद ने इसे "पाउडर केग" के रूप में वर्णित किया। एक संघ ने इसे "टिंडरबॉक्स" कहा और कहा कि इसके सदस्यों को यह सुरक्षित नहीं लगा। उत्तर-पूर्वी इंग्लैंड में एच. एम. पी. नॉर्थम्बरलैंड, एक साल पहले निजीकरण के बाद से जांच के दायरे में है और अपने कर्मचारियों में एक तिहाई की कटौती की है। तो क्या आलोचना उचित है?


Caught tech-handed: The criminals snared by their own stupidity

Summary: The Canadian woman convicted of killing her friend after police saw she had posted a picture of the murder weapon - her belt - on Facebook shows how suspects are not only exploiting technology but increasingly being snared by it too.

Here are some more examples of how technology has led police to suspects and how criminals have fallen victim to their own stupidity, ignorance and vanity. Find my iPhone thief A thief who stole more than 100 smartphones at a music festival was detained after revellers with iPhones tracked them using an app that comes with the phone. The Find My iPhone app shows the device's location on laptops or other devices. Reinaldo De Jesus Henao, 36, was arrested at the Coachella festival in California last April. Police had already dedicated extra resources to Coachella after "chatter on social media" about missing iPhones, Sgt Dan Marshall told tech news site Gizmodo. Several phones were returned immediately, Indio Police added, while the rest were handed to lost property at the festival site. Photo finished In 2011, police in California recovered a stolen laptop after being handed clues to its whereabouts along with pictures of a suspect thanks to a stealth software program. Cab driver Muthanna Aldebashi, 27, was snapped on the Mac device's built-in camera after he powered it up. The Mac's rightful owner Joshua Kaufman, an Oakland interaction designer, had installed software called Hidden, which supplies the computer's location, photographs taken on the Mac's internal camera and shots of the Mac's screen display. The program immediately began sending Mr Kaufman photographs of a bearded man with shaggy dark hair sleeping on a couch, sitting shirtless on a bed in front of the computer, and driving. The software also sent Mr Kaufman - who has blogged about the theft - a screen shot showing the man logging into his own e-mail account - information investigators later used to lure him into an arrest. Handing your selfie in Thieves who steal electronic devices can find themselves literally facing justice simply by using them. There have been numerous reports of stolen smartphones and laptops being recovered after photos taken on devices are automatically uploaded to the owner's iCloud account. In 2015 Randy Schaefer had an iPad, a laptop and some cash stolen from his truck parked in Houston, Texas. The thieves gloated by taking selfies and recording themselves with their booty. When checking his iCloud account moments later, Mr Schaefer discovered more than a dozen pictures and video of the suspects - who said they were "just hustling" - with their mouths full of $100 notes. He uploaded the content and handed the evidence to police, who later arrested the two men, according to local media. Ahead of the criminals A cyclist robbed at gunpoint by three men in South Africa in 2014 caught the entire episode on a camera strapped to his head - and the thieves failed to notice. Malcolm Fox handed over his possessions, including his smartphone, car keys, designer Oakley sunglasses and bike, after he was approached by a man with a gun and then "frisked" by another man with a knife. However, none of the men seemed to have any idea of the importance of Mr Fox's GoPro camera, which they appeared to investigate and stare at but were uninterested in taking. Mr Fox, who was approached by the men after taking a wrong turn while cycling in Somerset West, later shared the dramatic footage on YouTube. The suspects were later arrested and Mr Fox's mobile phone and bike were returned, according to reports. Catch me if you can... here! Twitter is all about encouraging followers - and that is exactly what happened when an armed man on the run from police in Chicago began live-tweeting the chase and posted the location where he was hiding. Brandon McNeil, 21, was found in a basement by officers who discovered his social media boasts. "Lol look I just left the police they lookin fa me," he tweeted during the 2016 chase, adding: "Here's my hiding spot." McNeil also posted a photo of a gun, police records show, and the location of a home where he had chosen to hide. He was arrested shortly afterwards when officers contacted the homeowner, police said.

कनाडाई महिला ने अपने दोस्त की हत्या के लिए दोषी ठहराया, जब पुलिस ने देखा कि उसने हत्या के हथियार की एक तस्वीर-उसकी बेल्ट-फेसबुक पर पोस्ट की थी, जिससे पता चलता है कि कैसे संदिग्ध न केवल प्रौद्योगिकी का शोषण कर रहे हैं, बल्कि तेजी से इसके जाल में फंस रहे हैं।


Babri mosque: India's Muslims feel more abandoned than ever

Summary: Nearly three decades, 850 witnesses, more than 7,000 documents, photographs and videotapes later, a court in India found no-one guilty of razing a 16th-Century mosque which was attacked by Hindu mobs in the holy city of Ayodhya.

Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent Among the 32 living accused were former deputy premier LK Advani, and a host of senior BJP leaders. Wednesday's court judgement acquitted them all, saying the destruction of the mosque in 1992 had been the work of unidentified "anti-socials" and had not been planned. This was despite numerous credible eyewitness accounts that the demolition, which took just a few hours, had been rehearsed and carried out with impunity and the connivance of a section of the local police in front of thousands of spectators. Last year, India's Supreme Court conceded it had been a "calculated act" and an "egregious violation of the rule of law". So how do we explain the acquittals? Generally the verdict is being seen as another indictment of India's sluggish and chaotic criminal justice system. Many fear it has been damaged beyond repair by decades of brazen political interference, underfunding and weak capacity. But more specifically the verdict has thrown into sharp relief the increasing marginalisation of India's 200 million Muslims. Under Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist BJP government, the community has been pushed into a corner and feels more humiliated than at any time in the history of pluralist, secular India, hailed as the world's largest democracy since independence in 1947. Mobs have lynched Muslims for eating beef or transporting cows, which are sacred to majority Hindus. Mr Modi's government has amended laws to fast track non-Muslim refugees from neighbouring countries. It has split the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir and stripped it of its constitutional autonomy. This year, Muslims were singled out and blamed for spreading the novel coronavirus after members of an Islamic group attended a religious gathering in Delhi. Larger Hindu religious gatherings during the pandemic received no such political, public or media opprobrium or scape-goating. That's not all. Muslim students and activists have been picked up and thrown into prison for allegedly instigating riots over a controversial citizenship law in Delhi last winter, while many Hindu instigators went scot-free. The Babri verdict, many Muslims say, is just a continuation of this humiliation. The sense of alienation is real. Mr Modi's party makes no bones about its Hindu majoritarian ideology. Popular news networks openly demonise Muslims. Many of India's once-powerful regional parties, which once stood by the community, appear to have abandoned them. The main opposition Congress is accused by critics of using Muslims cynically to harvest votes without providing much in return. The community itself has few leaders to speak up for it. "Muslims are simply losing faith in the system. They feel cornered and feel the political parties, institutions and the media are failing them. There is a lot of despondency in the community," says Asim Ali, a research associate at the Centre for Policy Research, a Delhi-based think tank. In truth, India has a long history of marginalising Muslims. They "carry a double burden of being labelled as 'anti-national' and as being 'appeased' at the same time", according to one report. But the irony is that, while many Indians have bought the Hindu nationalist bogey that Muslims are being unfairly rewarded, the community has not in fact benefitted from major socio-economic gains, say historians. Muslims are disproportionately squeezed into ghettos in India's teeming cities. Their share in India's elite federal police officers force was below 3% in 2016, while Muslims make up more than 14% of the population. Only 8% of India's urban Muslims had jobs which paid a regular salary, less than double the national average, one report found. Read more stories by Soutik Biswas Enrolment of children at primary school levels was high, but so were dropouts at high school, largely because of economic deprivation. Muslim representation in India's parliament have been declining consistently - below 5% in the elected lower house now, down from 9% in 1980. When the BJP swept to power in 2014, it was the first time a winning party did so without a single Muslim MP. Mr Modi and his colleagues have consistently said their party doesn't discriminate against any religion. The prime minister has said he enjoys the support of many Islamic nations and his expansive welfare benefits reach every poor Indian, irrespective of religion or caste. For years, the BJP has described the liberal opposition parties as "pseudo secular". Some believe there is truth in this allegation. As an example they point to the Communists who ruled West Bengal state in eastern India for more than three decades and were avowedly secular, ensuring the protection and security of Muslims, who form nearly a quarter of the state's population. Yet, studies revealed that Muslims in Gujarat, a state marked by religious tension and sectarian politics, fared economically better and in human development indices than their counterparts in Bengal. "The market place is non religious in India. So in states like Gujarat where business thrives both Hindus and Muslims do well," says Mirza Asmer Beg, a professor of international relations, at Aligarh Muslim University. But analysts say religious electoral competition practised by the BJP has led to the "otherisation" of Muslims. "How do you polarise? By making the other a threat to your identity," says political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot. He believes India is moving towards an "ethnic democracy", born out of ethnic nationalisation which implies a "strong sense of belonging and of superiority". It's not all dark yet. There is the rise of a young and articulate middle class unencumbered by the ghosts of partition. The widespread protests against the citizenship law saw a large number of these articulate Muslim men and women taking to India's streets and breaking stereotypes of a cloistered and voiceless minority. Community coaching classes have sprung up, training young Muslims to prepare for India's prestigious and competitive civil service exams. "Many of the young Muslims do wear their identity on their sleeves in a positive way and are not afraid to voice their views," says Mr Ali. But, in the end, the acquittals will only deepen anxieties and a sense of injustice among India's Muslims. "In many ways, it is an abandoned community. There's a feeling of powerlessness. Muslims have been exploited by both their own and Hindu leaders and all parties for years," says Zaheer Ali, a political scientist. "Poverty has made things worse."

लगभग तीन दशक, 850 गवाह, 7,000 से अधिक दस्तावेज, तस्वीरें और वीडियो टेप बाद में, भारत की एक अदालत ने किसी को भी 16वीं शताब्दी की मस्जिद को ढहाने का दोषी नहीं पाया, जिस पर पवित्र शहर अयोध्या में हिंदू भीड़ द्वारा हमला किया गया था।


How do you verify a militant's death?

Summary: Like a cat with nine lives, militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar - dubbed "the uncatchable" - has been reported dead at least three times in recent years. Official confirmation of the latest reports of his "killing" is yet to come from the US, but how exactly do governments and their militaries go about verifying militant IDs after the kill?

By Sarah FowlerBBC News Tobias Borck, an analyst with the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (Rusi), says verification of a kill depends on the type of operation carried out in the first place. He contrasts the air strikes targeting Mokhtar Belmokhtar to the operation carried out by US special forces to kill Osama Bin Laden four years ago. "One was killed from the air, the other was killed by soldiers going in in person. The latter is obviously much easier for identification purposes," Mr Borck says. Bin Laden was shot in a night-time raid at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011. His body was transported to a ship for DNA tests before being dropped into the Arabian Sea. Intelligence gathering "Because physical verification of ID - like DNA testing - cannot be done from the air, one has to rely on other information, in particular intelligence gathered both before and after the strike," Mr Borck adds. "To put it crudely, if you drop a missile on someone, there won't be much left of them," he adds, "but, in terms of 100% certainty, you will only get this if you do a Bin Laden operation and go in." But in most cases, where getting a visual ID is not possible, DNA testing after the event is the preferred method of choice. Matthew Henman, head of Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre, says the authorities rely on DNA testing, especially after air strikes when there may not be sufficient remains to identify a corpse by sight. This happened in the case of one of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's (AQIM) most feared and radical commanders, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, who was killed in fighting in early 2013. Algerian TV first reported the killing at the end of February. This was corroborated by Chadian President Idriss Deby, who said his troops had killed the militant in battle in the mountains of northern Mali. His death, however, was not officially confirmed until France formally identified Abou Zeid through DNA samples, almost a month later. But DNA testing has also been used for 100% verification, even when there is an identifiable body, as was the case with the killing of Osama Bin Laden, says Mr Henman. Martyrdom or death notices In the event a body cannot be recovered and there are no means of formal ID, most governments wait for official confirmation from the militant group itself - often a long process. Militant groups need time to reorganise and work out who will be the successor before issuing a martyrdom notice, says Matthew Henman. How long this takes depends on the organisation and media abilities of the group, he says. "For big groups like the Taliban and Islamic State, which are media-savvy and well-structured, a formalised death notice can be put together quite quickly. "But for AQIM, which can be quite disparate and disorganised, they often send video statements to Mauritanian news agency Al-Akhbar and this may take several weeks." Even if a militant group announces the death of a leading figure, Mr Henman warns "there are obvious trust and verification issues". It might be in a group's interest to say a leader has died when actually the man in question is continuing to operate behind the scenes but it is a sneaky practice which is not often seen, he adds. Meanwhile, Rusi's Tobias Borck says there is very little reason to doubt a militant group's death announcement. "However, if a group says its leader hasn't been killed, then we should take it with a pinch of salt". There are constant issues with verification, and until there is proper confirmation, analysts say many people just won't believe it. Counterterrorism cooperation The operation against Belmokhtar was not the first time the US had entered Libyan territory or air space to carry out a counterterrorism operation. Anas al-Liby, one of the masterminds behind the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, was captured in a raid by US commandos in Tripoli on 5 October 2013. The US forces and the internationally-recognised Libyan government also launched a combined operation to arrest Ahmed Al Khattala in June last year. He was one of the suspected ringleaders of the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including US ambassador Chris Stevens. "I imagine the US is doing whatever it can to partner with the Libyan authorities to get verification of Belmokhtar's death," says Matthew Henman. Mr Borck agrees that verification can be difficult without having people on the ground. The CIA and other Western intelligence agencies are likely to have local networks in Libya working with them to help verify the reports, he says. "In a situation like this, proper verification will be done by corroboration with different sources on the ground to confirm Belmokhtar was in the house at the time of the strike."

नौ लोगों की जान लेने वाली बिल्ली की तरह, आतंकवादी मुख्तार बेलमोख्तार-जिसे "द अनकैचेबल" कहा जाता है-को हाल के वर्षों में कम से कम तीन बार मृत बताया गया है। उसकी "हत्या" की नवीनतम रिपोर्ट की आधिकारिक पुष्टि अभी तक अमेरिका से नहीं आई है, लेकिन सरकारें और उनकी सेनाएं हत्या के बाद आतंकवादी आईडी की पुष्टि कैसे करती हैं?


Swansea: Man arrested over nine Singleton Park sex attacks

Summary: A 27-year-old man has been arrested by police investigating nine sex attacks which took place in a city park in the space of five hours.

The assaults happened in and around Singleton Park, Swansea, between 08:00 GMT and 13:00 on Friday. South Wales Police tweeted to say the arrested man was being held in custody on Sunday. On Saturday, the force had appealed for a cyclist who was captured on CCTV to come forward. Det Insp Peter Collins said: "We are thankful for the support we have received from the local community so far and I would appeal if anyone has any information that they have not yet shared with us please do so now." Related Internet Links South Wales Police

शहर के एक पार्क में पांच घंटे के अंतराल में हुए नौ यौन हमलों की जांच कर रही पुलिस ने 27 वर्षीय एक व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया है।