Guernsey Finance appoints new chief executive

Summary: Guernsey Finance has announced it will have a new chief executive from July.

Peter Niven, who has held the post for six years, is standing down and being replaced by his deputy, Fiona Le Poidevin. The company is responsible for marketing the island's finance industry in other jurisdictions. Miss Le Poidevin said: "I am looking forward to the challenges that this presents, not least in view of the difficult economic conditions."

ग्वेर्नसे फाइनेंस ने घोषणा की है कि उसके पास जुलाई से एक नया मुख्य कार्यकारी होगा।


Brexit plan published in government White Paper

Summary: The government has published an official policy document setting out its Brexit plans.

The White Paper lays out the government's 12 "principles" including migration control and "taking control of our own laws". Brexit Secretary David Davis said the UK's "best days are still to come", outside the EU. Labour said the document "says nothing" and had been produced too late for "meaningful" scrutiny. The White Paper's publication comes after pressure from MPs across the House of Commons. It sets out the themes of the government's goals for its negotiations with the EU, as announced by Prime Minister Theresa May last month. These include: The document says the government will "keep our positions closely held and will need at times to be careful about the commentary we make public", with MPs offered a vote on the final deal. Sorry, your browser cannot display this content. Did my MP vote For or Against the Bill? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP Labour is calling for a "meaningful vote" that could send the prime minister back to the negotiating table if the deal is deemed unsatisfactory by MPs. Formal negotiations can begin once the UK has given notice of Brexit under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which Mrs May has promised to do by the end of March. On Wednesday evening MPs voted to allow the PM to do this as they backed the European Union Bill by 498 votes to 114. MPs will discuss the bill in more detail next week when it reaches the committee stage in the Commons, and Labour has vowed to force through amendments. Hundreds of amendments have already been tabled for debate between Monday and Wednesday, with objectives set out in the government's strategy expected to attract more. A total of 47 Labour rebels voted against the bill. Longer holidays? A chart on page 32 of the Brexit White Paper has raised a few eyebrows by claiming UK workers are currently entitled to a generous 14 weeks of annual leave. It comes in a section comparing employment rights in the UK with the rest of the EU. According to the government, the correct figure for someone working five days a week is 28 days. The slip perhaps reflects a possible rush to publish the White Paper with metadata on the file suggesting it was still being worked on at 04:15 GMT. Shadow cabinet members Rachael Maskell and Dawn Butler quit the party's front bench shortly before Wednesday evening's vote, and in total, 13 Labour frontbenchers voted against their own party position which was to support the bill. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said other parties had also been divided on the issue, with two of the Liberal Democrats' nine MPs abstaining despite orders to oppose the bill. Mr McDonnell said a decision on whether frontbench rebels could remain in their jobs would be taken "in due course", and that the atmosphere in his party was "one of mutual respect", with determination to oppose a "reckless Brexit". He said Labour "may look divided" but would unite after the government triggers official negotiations under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty while "the Tory Party will split apart". Mr McDonnell also said shadow home secretary Diane Abbott had missed the vote because she "wasn't very well". 'Calibre judged' The Brexit bill was published last week, after the Supreme Court decided MPs and peers must have a say before Article 50 could be triggered. It rejected the government's argument that Mrs May had sufficient powers to trigger Brexit without consulting Parliament. Iain Watson, BBC political correspondent, said a "sizeable" Labour rebellion could grow further if amendments were not passed. The SNP, Plaid Cymru and seven out of nine Liberal Democrats opposed the government's bill, alongside Tory Ken Clarke. The SNP's foreign affairs spokesman at Westminster, Alex Salmond, said there would be "detailed questions" about the bill during its next stage. He said "the calibre of the government will be judged by how they respond to the amendments". Mr Clarke, the only Conservative MP to defy his party by voting against the bill, said the result was "historic", but the "mood could change" when the "real action" of negotiations with the EU starts. Exit talks with the EU are expected to last up to two years, with the UK predicted to leave the 28-member organisation in 2019.

सरकार ने अपनी ब्रेक्सिट योजनाओं को निर्धारित करते हुए एक आधिकारिक नीति दस्तावेज प्रकाशित किया है।


American Dream breeds shame and blame for job seekers

Summary: Decades ago, the American dream inspired employees, offering the promise of the good life. But now, with jobs disappearing, that dream has become a nightmare for the unemployed who see their joblessness as a personal - and shameful - failure.

By Debbie SiegelbaumBBC News, Washington Victor Tan Chen studies some of the unluckiest people in the US. The sociology fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, researches car workers in cities like Detroit, hard-hit by the economic downturn and by long-term trends in the US industrial base. "But they used to be the luckiest men in America," Chen says. Decades ago, car workers lived the quintessential American Dream: they pursued stable, well-paying, union-backed jobs, often straight out of high school. They were able to build a middle-class life and provide the promise of something better to their children. Times have changed. Now jobs are scarce, and people feel shame in being unprepared for the current labour market. "Unemployed auto workers, factory workers, they have a lot of regrets about the past," he said. "A lot of workers are internalising, 'You succeed on your own merits and your own abilities, and if you fail, you're to blame'," Chen says. He isn't alone in seeing this pattern. Experts tell the BBC that job seekers in the US are now, more than ever, blaming themselves for being out of work, due in part to misconceptions about what it takes to succeed in America. The American Dream thrived in the 1950s, a period of booming manufacturing and a burgeoning American middle class. But new rules started to take shape in the 1970s with the rise of globalisation and automation, Chen says. Companies faced greater competition and unions began to lose power. Manufacturing jobs were replaced by service sector opportunities with lower wages. And nearly overnight, factory towns - where employers lived among the men and women they employed - were replaced by global enterprises. The isolation of elite managers grew, and their sense of public engagement diminished, Chen explains. "Now it's more by yourself, being on your own, sink or swim," he adds. Meritocracy became the prevailing ideology, encouraging workers to aim high and reap the resultant rewards. Anyone could achieve greatness. Paupers could become princes. The more people made, the more likely they were to believe they were worthy of it. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology last year found that the higher people perceived their social class to be, the more likely they were to believe that success comes to those who most deserve it. Perhaps more tellingly, those of lower status were viewed as unworthy. That can create a "very damaging" culture, says Vicki Smith, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. When US workers fail to recognise structural problems within the current labour market or that the "deck is stacked in certain ways", she says, they experience depression and a loss of motivation, ultimately lengthening the period of unemployment. It can also lead employers to stigmatise the unemployed. Rand Ghayad has seen this phenomenon thousands of times. The visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston sent out nearly 5,000 resumes to US companies to determine to what extent the duration of unemployment factored in to whether a candidate was considered for a job. The call-back rate for any candidate with a long-term unemployment spell - typically considered six months or longer - was a paltry 5-6%. "Employers would rather hire a short-term [unemployed] applicant with no experience than bring in someone for an interview that's long-term unemployed with the exact experience they're looking for," he says. "They're giving up on the good people." Ghayad notes employers assume if someone is out of work, it must have something to do with the candidate. Job seekers start to believe it, too, a distinctly American phenomenon. Ofer Sharone has compared US unemployment experiences with those in Israel, and found Americans tend to blame themselves more for their predicament. Even though Israeli job seekers faced the same relative obstacles to finding work, they saw the down economy and a lack of jobs as an arbitrary, "screwed up" system, he says. Job searching "was like playing the lottery", says Sharone, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Israelis believed that if they kept up the hunt, eventually their number would come up. But not Americans. They experienced a "more insidious and deep kind of discouragement" in which lost job opportunities were personal failures, he says. And because they thought it was their fault, they were more likely to stop trying. Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, argues there's nothing wrong with current US job seekers as a group other than their "misfortune of being jobseekers during the worst labour market downturn this country has seen in 70 years". But that misfortune shows no signs of ebbing as labour markets continue to shift. Factory work was a "good bet" decades ago, but luck changed for those Americans, Chen says. Now, there's no clear path. Amid that instability, he warns, anyone can become unlucky - and end up placing the blame on themselves. Research contributed by Kierran Petersen

दशकों पहले, अमेरिकी सपने ने कर्मचारियों को प्रेरित किया, जो अच्छे जीवन का वादा करते थे। लेकिन अब, नौकरियों के गायब होने के साथ, वह सपना उन बेरोजगारों के लिए एक दुःस्वप्न बन गया है जो अपनी बेरोजगारी को व्यक्तिगत-और शर्मनाक-विफलता के रूप में देखते हैं।


James 'Whitey' Bulger's IRA links

Summary: The US mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger, who was convicted of 11 murders after spending 16 years on the run, has been jailed by a Boston court. BBC News looks at the Irish American's links to the Irish Republican Army.

By Arthur StrainBBC News As well as being a mobster, James 'Whitey' Bulger liked to think of himself as an Irish patriot. His power base was south Boston, a blue-collar Irish-Catholic area during Bulger's criminal heyday. Nowadays Southie, as the area is known, is more of an ethnic melting pot, being gentrified by young professionals. But in the 1970s and 1980s it was a part of the city where collection tins were rattled in bars to raise money for the families of IRA prisoners. One of the 11 people Bulger was found guilty of killing, John McIntyre, died after informing the American authorities about a foiled gun running trip organised by Bulger's Winter Hill gang from the US to the Irish paramilitary group. Tonnes of explosives In September 1984, a fishing boat called the Valhalla left Gloucester harbour in Massachusetts. Full of fuel, bait, ice and weapons, it was seized two weeks later by US Customs agents after stopping in Boston on its way home. During its voyage the Valhalla had rendezvoused with the Irish fishing vessel, the Marita Ann, and tonnes of explosives and weapons were transferred. Two Irish naval vessels stopped the Marita Ann off the coast of County Kerry seizing the weapons and arresting her crew, which included a future Sinn Féin member of the Irish parliament, Martin Ferris. The plot had been betrayed by an informant in the Republic of Ireland, Sean O'Callaghan. He was an IRA man who had become disenchanted with the group and was working as an agent for the authorities. No weapons were found on the Valhalla on its return except for an empty 9mm bullet casing. One of the crew on the Valhalla was fisherman John McIntyre. FBI agent During Bulger's trial a former US customs agent, Donald DeFago, testified that several days after the ship was stopped, McIntyre was arrested on a drunken driving charge and mentioned drug runs to the arresting officers. During one interview, also present was an FBI agent who was friendly with John Connolly, a corrupt FBI agent. After hearing about the interview, Connolly told Bulger that McIntyre had been talking to the authorities. McIntyre had told officers about drug smuggling activities of the Bulger gang and the gun-running. He had not apparently mentioned Bulger by name, but had mentioned other members of the gang. A raid on a Norwegian freighter and the seizure of 36 tons of marijuana belonging to the gang followed. Mr DeFago said McIntyre was approached by Bulger associate Patrick Nee and offered a role in a drugs smuggling deal with a $20,000 (£12,400) buy in. This was supplied by US Customs and after meeting Nee in a Boston restaurant McIntyre was told to keep in touch with his handlers every day. He stopped calling his handlers and despite their efforts to find him, his fate had been sealed. His body was found 16 years later. Tortured McIntyre had been brought by Nee to a house where Bulger and two other gang members were to "talk" to him. He was tortured until he confessed he was an informant and then killed. One of the gang members was Kevin Weeks who told the Bulger trial that after McIntyre was tortured: "Jim says to him, 'do you want one in the head? And he says, 'yes, please'." His body was buried in a cellar before being moved to a pit in Dorchester where it was found in 2000, along with two other alleged Bulger victims. The trial was told that his body was identified through matching DNA belong to his mother. In 1994, Connolly told Bulger he would be indicted on racketeering charges, which began his decades on the run. Republican sympathiser Patrick Nee later wrote a book recalling his exploits as a member of the Boston mob. In Criminal and an Irishman, The Inside Story of the Boston Mob and the IRA, he said that Bulger was a republican sympathiser. He wrote that Bulger "loved being associated with the IRA and the cause of Irish freedom". He said that Bulger felt his association with the "struggle" gave him legitimacy. Nee wrote that Bulger had met one of the founders of the IRA, Joe Cahill, when the Belfast man came to Boston to rally US support for the IRA. During his time on the run there were reports that Bulger had been spotted in Ireland, with the story being that the IRA was helping him evade capture. The truth was simpler: he had spent his time hiding almost in plain sight for at least 14 years in an apartment in California.

अमेरिकी डकैत जेम्स 'व्हाइटी' बल्गर, जिसे 16 साल भागने के बाद 11 हत्याओं का दोषी ठहराया गया था, को बोस्टन की एक अदालत ने जेल भेज दिया है। बीबीसी न्यूज आयरिश रिपब्लिकन आर्मी के साथ आयरिश अमेरिकी के संबंधों को देखता है।


To tip or not to tip... or should it be banned?

Summary: A New York restaurant has banned tipping to spare customers the bother, while some restaurants in other US cities have already replaced the gratuity with a fixed optional service charge. So is the discretionary tip falling out of favour in the land where it's king?

By Tom GeogheganBBC News Magazine, Washington DC A young man and woman are sitting in a restaurant in New York, enjoying their second date. The man pays the waiter the bill and heads to the bathroom while the woman gathers her things. "How much did he tip?" she asks the waiter. He tells her. When the man comes back to the table, there is an angry exchange and she says she doesn't want to see him again. A tip of 8.5% brought that romance to a premature end. This story, told years later by the waiter that night, Steve Dublanica, reflects both how seriously Americans take tipping and how loaded with social meaning it has become. The size of tips has increased and the list of those who expect them is growing also, in recent years joined by staff in takeaways. Meanwhile, tip jars have proliferated to such an extent you may be confronted by one where you receive your sandwich and another one a few feet away where you pay for it. It's a custom that's become second nature for most Americans, although there's still a sharp intake of breath when they see three or four hotel staff involved in taking their luggage from the boot of the car and up to the room. But it's worse for visitors - whom to tip and how much can be a source of debate, confusion and often anxiety at doing the wrong thing or appearing to be ungenerous. Tip the barman but not the shop assistant, reward the hairdresser but not if he or she owns the salon. Give the hotel luggage guy a dollar or two but not the receptionist. And don't under-tip. One British tourist says she and her friends were followed out of a Manhattan restaurant by an angry waiter unhappy with a 10-15% tip. "The waiter gave us the tip back and told us it wasn't good enough, that as tourists we didn't understand that we had to give more in New York," says Janine Windust. "One of my friends, a New Yorker, told him it was discretionary and not to be so rude, but the three Brits couldn't be bothered to argue and left him the full 20%. "He chased us down the street, shouting 'I don't want it now, have it back!' Then there was a massive street argument over it." That's an extreme reaction to what in the UK would be considered a reasonable tip, but some visitors to the US who leave no, or low, tips don't fully understand how critical they are to a worker's livelihood. The federal minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers is $2.13 an hour, with tips expected to take the wage to $7.25 an hour. "It was difficult and I lived and died by my tips," says Dublanica, who worked in New York restaurants for seven years and wrote a blog about it called Waiter Rant. "If you don't tip, I can't pay the rent. But the reality is you can work hard and get no tips and do nothing and get good tips." In the restaurant business, which accounts for about two-thirds of all tips paid in the US, there are signs of change. Since last week, staff at Sushi Yasuda in New York have no need to worry about the generosity or tightfistedness of their customers. Owner Scott Rosenberg has banned tipping, saying his staff already get a good wage, with benefits. He told The Price Hike he wants to improve the dining experience by eliminating the "math equation" from the end-of-meal ritual. Other upmarket American restaurants have introduced an optional service charge of 15-20% instead of a tip. This is a common practice in the UK, usually between 10-15%. This is a big issue in the hospitality industry now, says Dublanica, who adds he would support a service charge divided between employees if it helped to provide a proper wage and benefits such as sick pay. But he can't see it catching on. "Even though the quality of service doesn't affect tipping, Americans are under the illusion they are tipping on service and like the illusion of being able to reward. They don't want to have that option taken away from them." Tipping is an important custom, he believes, because it propagates the "American myth" that hard work brings reward. But even Americans are not united in their support, with feelings that range from exasperation to outright resistance. The website Ban Tipping rallies around its central message: "We are educated consumers, and we do not tip. Deal with it." One diner in California last year left a note in lieu of a tip and blamed an increase in sales tax. In the memorable opening scene of the film, Reservoir Dogs, Mr Pink speaks for many when he questions why it is customary to tip some professions and not others. Taking up this point, Lizzie Post, co-author of Emily Post's Etiquette, says it's customary to tip those who perform a service for you, although she acknowledges the inconsistency of rewarding the guy who moves your furniture but not the guy who cleans your clothes. If drycleaners and others did get in on the action, the tipping economy would be even larger than it is now. A man who has written 51 papers on the subject, Michael Lynn, of Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, estimates the tipping economy to be worth about $40bn (£25bn). That's more than twice the budget of Nasa. But Lynn thinks tipping does imperceptible damage to collective well-being and he would like to see the custom outlawed in restaurants. "It's a net drain on social welfare and our happiness. I think more people tip out of social obligation than tip because they want to, so people are parting with money they would rather keep. "I don't know people are necessarily consciously aware of this. Most people would deny they tip for avoidance [of disapproval by peers and guilt], they say it's for good service, but I've looked at it and they don't reward good service substantially." He also believes, based on his own research and other studies, that restaurant tipping is discriminatory, a system in which both black and white diners tip white servers more than black ones. So he anticipates a class action brought by ethnic minority waiters and waitresses that could lead to tipping being declared illegal. A service charge evenly divided between employees would head off any legal action. But that doesn't make economic sense, says Sherry Jarrell, a professor of economics at Wake Forest University and a former waitress. "I think that customers will see the service charge as, firstly, a price increase on the food bill, secondly, a disincentive for using tipping to incent superior waitressing. "To the extent it destroys a waiter's incentive to earn a high tip, it's harmful," she says. "I see very little economic behaviour or results that is improved by the move. All cost, no benefit." Resistance to change would come from plenty of restaurant staff who make more money from tips than they would from the share of a service charge. And customers wouldn't welcome it either, says Curt Gathje, lead editor at Zagat, who says it's so ingrained in the dining experience that it would be a difficult habit for many people to unlearn. So a ban seems a long way off but there was a time when tipping was widely frowned upon in the US. Six states even outlawed it. The custom arrived in the US from Europe in the late 1800s but early in the 20th Century, an anti-tipping campaign gathered pace, driven by the view it was undemocratic and a means to create a servant class. "Tipping, and the aristocratic idea it exemplifies, is what we left Europe to escape," wrote William Rufus Scott in 1916. His anti-tipping manual, The Itching Palm, went on: "In a republic where all men were supposed to be equal, some cannot be superior until they grind other men into dust. Tipping comes into a democracy to provide that relation." Washington was the first state to ban it in 1909, followed by Arkansas, Iowa, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. But these laws were all repealed by 1926, and since then tipping has flourished. Now the US is probably the most tip-friendly country on earth, says Ofer Azar, a professor of behavioural economics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, but there are huge international variations. "Tipping can be problematic because it seems to create classes, that of the customers, and that of the service workers, who have to satisfy the customers and sort of 'beg' for the tips," he says. That is part of the reason why tipping wasn't allowed in communist USSR and China, and still isn't common in Scandinavia, he says - places where inequality was or is relatively low. For those Americans who really want to avoid it, another international study offers some non-tipping havens they can escape to. Mark Starbuck spent 10 years writing an unpublished thesis on tipping, in which he identified only four African countries that commonly practise it - Egypt, Morocco, South Africa and Tunisia. In Singapore, tips are supposedly illegal, he found, while in Fiji, Iceland and Japan, they cause embarrassment and offence. Here is a selection of readers' tipping nightmares and fairytales. You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook

न्यूयॉर्क के एक रेस्तरां ने ग्राहकों को परेशान करने से बचाने के लिए टिपिंग पर प्रतिबंध लगा दिया है, जबकि अन्य अमेरिकी शहरों में कुछ रेस्तरां पहले ही एक निश्चित वैकल्पिक सेवा शुल्क के साथ ग्रेच्युटी को बदल चुके हैं। तो क्या विवेकाधीन टिप उस देश में पक्ष से बाहर हो रही है जहां यह राजा है?


Kellyanne and George Conway: The marriage that bridges the divide

Summary: Kellyanne Conway works for Trump. Her husband, George, rips into him publicly. Their conflicting views on the president reflect a political divide in the US. But they're not the only couples who see the world differently - and perhaps that's good for all of us.

By Tara McKelveyBBC News, Washington The night I met the Conways, they looked so happy. She wore a red gown, and her husband held her fur coat. Heading into a candlelight dinner in January 2017, Kellyanne, who served as Mr Trump's campaign manager, said she had chosen her White House office, a place with "great karma". Her husband, George, stood back, smiling. Since then Mr Conway has publicly disparaged the president, describing him as "incompetent". Mr Trump, for his part, has called Mr Conway a "stone cold LOSER" and said that he turned down Mr Conway, a conservative lawyer, for a job in the US justice department. Mrs Conway, an adviser to Mr Trump, defends her boss, and she also rallies for her husband. She said on Fox News Sunday that her husband withdrew his name from consideration for the position in the justice department. Heading into the 2020 election campaign, she remains caught between her boss and her husband. The Conway marriage has become a symbol of the way that people are divided over the White House and the future of the country. It is an inkblot for the Trump presidency - how you see the Conways reveals more about you than it does about them. Many Republicans dislike Mr Trump but they support a conservative agenda. They have sympathy for the Conways, who are both conservatives, and are rooting for their marriage, which reflects the discord within the Republican Party. Mrs Conway's former boss, Robert Prunetti, who used to serve as Mercer County executive in New Jersey, says he hopes she and her husband will overcome their differences: "They seem to make a good team." The divisions within the Conway marriage captures the quarrelsome mood of the country these days and also shows the explosive nature of politics in the US. "The Kellyanne and George story intersects with one of the great American divides - either you love Trump or you hate him," says Gil Troy, an historian at McGill University in Montreal who writes about US political marriages. Yet despite the immense pressure on their marriage from the president and others, the Conways are still together. In their case, the personal has become political, and for some people their ability to work out their differences is inspiring. John Avlon, an anchor at CNN, is himself part of a politically divided couple. He is an independent, and his wife, Margaret Hoover, a host of PBS' Firing Line, is a conservative. He says that he is glad that the Conways have stayed together: "I do think that sends a powerful message in the radius of our own lives - that we don't need to be hopelessly divided." The Conways attract attention because of their outspoken and contrarian views about the president. They also reflect the dynamic of a larger, emotionally charged debate about politics in the US. They are part of a long line of feuding couples who are in the spotlight: whether here or abroad, people watch them closely to see how they fare. In the case of Cory Booker, a New Jersey senator and a Democratic presidential candidate, and actress Rosario Dawson, who are dating, a potential conflict has been averted. More on Kellyanne Conway She supported his rival for the party's nomination, Bernie Sanders, during the last campaign. Now, according to Politico, she supports Booker. For years, Mary Matalin, a Republican who eventually became a libertarian, and James Carville, a Democratic strategist, co-hosted CNN's Crossfire. In addition, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski, a liberal, and her co-host, Joe Scarborough, who used to be a Republican congressman, manage to work things out. Political division also meant divorce for another couple, the Mitchells. John Mitchell was the US attorney general under President Nixon, and his wife, Martha, said publicly that she thought Nixon should resign. The Conways have their differences, but they also have a lot in common. They were married in 2001 and have four children. Mr Conway told a reporter that he denounces the president on social media as a way to vent. This way, Mr Conway said: "I don't end up getting in arguments at home." Mrs Conway makes jokes about domestic strife when she is at parties. Yet she also makes it clear that she is committed to her husband. Political conflict is hardly unique to famous families. In one-third of married couples in the US, according to a data-driven website, FiveThirtyEight, one is a Democrat and the other Republican. Being part of a politically mixed marriage has gotten harder, according to a political-science professor, Lynn Vavreck, at the University of California, Los Angeles. The number of Republicans who do not want a family member to marry a Democrat - and the other way around - has gone up in recent years. It has become harder to be around someone who sees things differently. The Conways both have strong political views, and they disagree in a public way. For some, their marriage offers hope for the nation. "It becomes a symbol of our ability to get along and not make everything Fox versus MSNBC," says McGill University's Gil Troy. Belinda Luscombe, a Time magazine journalist and the author of Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together, agrees - part of us is willing them to stay strong. "You may not agree with their politics, but there's something about two people who choose to stick together under incredible pressure," she says. "It's like seeing someone wade across a deep river. You're like: 'Yes!'"

केलीएन कॉनवे ट्रम्प के लिए काम करती है। उसके पति, जॉर्ज, सार्वजनिक रूप से उसे चीरते हैं। राष्ट्रपति पर उनके परस्पर विरोधी विचार अमेरिका में एक राजनीतिक विभाजन को दर्शाते हैं। लेकिन वे एकमात्र जोड़े नहीं हैं जो दुनिया को अलग तरह से देखते हैं-और शायद यह हम सभी के लिए अच्छा है।


Two new Welsh taxes 'raising £1bn' take effect

Summary: The first Wales-only taxes for 800 years have come into effect.

Two new devolved taxes have been introduced - the Land Transaction Tax (LTT) on property, which replaces stamp duty, and the Landfill Disposals Tax (LDT), which replaces landfill tax. The money raised would make a "very significant contribution to Welsh public services", according to the head of Wales' new tax-collecting body. Ministers estimate the taxes will raise more than £1bn over four years. Powers over stamp duty and landfill tax were transferred from Westminster to Cardiff Bay under the Wales Act 2014, and the Welsh Assembly legislated for their replacements. It also created the Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA), to manage and collect the taxes on behalf of the Welsh Government. WRA chief executive Dyfed Alsop said it was an historic moment. "It's something that stays in Wales. It's for Wales, made in Wales and remains here," he said. Mr Alsop said most of the Welsh public would not deal with the WRA, unless they were buying a property and working with a conveyance or a solicitor for example. "The big difference for people is that these taxes will be collected by the Welsh Revenue Authority and that they go to be used for spending on public services in Wales. "The Welsh Government's estimate how much money these will raise is something in the order of £1bn over the first four years - so that makes a very significant contribution to Welsh public services." The Welsh Revenue Authority is a non-ministerial department of the Welsh Government, made up of 70 members of staff, based in Treforest outside Pontypridd. It says it will help deliver a fairer tax system for Wales and offer services, including bilingual and digital. "What we're here to do is work closely with the public, work closely with those people who need to pay those taxes, to make sure that we make it as easy as possible, we're as supportive as possible," Mr Alsop said. "I think that helps engender a sense of trust, and it helps create the feeling that things are being done in a fair way." New powers for the Welsh Assembly also came into force on Sunday. The Wales Act devolves extra responsibilities for transport, energy and electoral arrangements. It also defines what is under the control of Westminster, with everything else assumed to rest with the assembly - known as the "reserved powers" model. Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "From decisions over ports, taxis and bus regulation and teachers' pay, to decisions on the electoral system for the assembly and Welsh local government, all these decisions will now be taken in the Senedd". "To me that is responsible devolution; that is real devolution and I think that is vital for Wales and for the UK." The Conservative UK cabinet member called on the Labour Welsh Government to be "innovative with the opportunities these new powers provide and deliver the improvements in devolved services that the people of Wales deserve".

800 वर्षों के लिए पहला केवल वेल्स कर लागू हुआ है।


Channel Tunnel is 20 years old: In numbers

Summary: It is 20 years since the Channel Tunnel was officially opened. Both Queen Elizabeth II and France's President Francois Mitterrand attended the initial ceremony in Calais on 6 May 1994, before travelling through the Tunnel, or le tunnel sous la Manche in French, for a similar event marking its opening, in Folkestone. It is impossible to explain all 31.4 miles (or 50.5km) of the Channel Tunnel without using lots of numbers. So here goes.

By Richard WestcottBBC Transport correspondent Seven A few years ago it was voted one of the seven wonders of the modern world by the highly respected American Society of Civil Engineers. That puts it in the same league as the Empire State Building, the Panama Canal and the Golden Gate Bridge. (Also on the list by the way, the North Sea Protection Works, which is worth looking up online.) 830 At around 830m (that's 907 yards) Eurotunnel tell me their car trains are the longest in Europe. They're also pulled by the most powerful locomotives in the world. 1802 They have been talking about a Channel Tunnel since the beginning of the 19th Century. Napoleon liked the idea but the Brits didn't fancy the prospect of being invaded from a giant hole. Since then there have been dozens of proposed schemes. They even dug half a mile underneath Kent in the 1880s, and the old tunnel is still there today. Again, a fundamental mistrust of the French stopped it in its tracks. The best idea that I've read about though, (I do so hope it's true), was for an ice tunnel, that could be deliberately melted by switching off the refrigeration units if an invading army fancied sneaking across. Brilliant. It has been suggested that a Channel Tunnel could have shortened World War One by two years because the British could have used it to supply their troops more effectively. Quite a sobering thought that, especially as we remember the 100th anniversary this year. 40 It runs 40m (131ft) under the seabed. None of it goes through water. I was allowed to take a stroll through the service tunnel. Honestly, it's spooky. One It was finished a year late. 4 billion It cost £4bn ($6.7bn) more than the original estimate, and that's without interest payments. 2007 Buckling under the sheer weight of debt, the owners were stumbling towards bankruptcy until a last-minute restructuring in 2007-08. 2012 All things considered, 2012 was the first year that this leviathan of a project actually turned a profit. The owners now say they're going from strength to strength. Three There have been three fires caused by lorries on trains. They now have an intensive, automatic spraying system to douse any flames (on top of dedicated safety teams and equipment). Also three There are actually three tunnels. Two for trains and a smaller, service tunnel down the middle (the one I walked down). It can be used as a "lifeboat" to get people out during an emergency. That is what happened in 2008 after the worst blaze, when a lorry caught fire seven miles from the French entrance. It took months to repair the damage caused by the 1000C heat. Two Two of the 11, mighty boring machines used to dig the thing are still down there, buried. Funnily enough, they don't fit them with a reverse gear, so it was cheaper to put in a 90-degree turn and bury them in the wall, rather than dismantle them and bring them out. The other machines are on show all over the place. At least one is a sculpture in the middle of a car roundabout in France. A couple Back in the early 1990s they didn't have the pinpoint tunnelling machines they have today. They used lasers to guide them but engineers didn't know for certain they'd meet up in the middle until a bloke with a pneumatic drill knocked through the wall, and didn't get wet. It turns out they were just a couple of millimetres out. By the way, the Brits got a bit further than the French, so they didn't quite meet in the middle, but the French did face tougher geological and engineering issues (apparently). 85 Around 85% of the people taking their cars and vans through are basically from Britain. Only around 6% are French. So it turns out we like driving in France far more than they like driving here. They must have seen the M25 (M6, A14 etc etc). 20 Years old today.

चैनल सुरंग को आधिकारिक रूप से खोले हुए 20 साल हो चुके हैं। रानी एलिजाबेथ द्वितीय और फ्रांस के राष्ट्रपति फ्रेंकोइस मिटर्रैंड दोनों ने 6 मई 1994 को कैलाइस में प्रारंभिक समारोह में भाग लिया, सुरंग के माध्यम से यात्रा करने से पहले, या फ्रांसीसी में ले टनल सोस ला मांचे, इसी तरह की घटना के लिए इसके उद्घाटन को चिह्नित करते हुए, फोकस्टोन में। बहुत सारे नंबरों का उपयोग किए बिना चैनल सुरंग के सभी 31,4 मील (या 50.5km) की व्याख्या करना असंभव है। तो यहाँ जाता है।


The shadowy centre helping former al-Shabab members quit

Summary: In a small, heavily guarded compound on the bullet-riddled outskirts of Baidoa, a secretive team is working to undermine Somalia's Islamist militant group, al-Shabab, from the inside.

Andrew HardingAfrica correspondent@BBCAndrewHon Twitter "We can't just solve this militarily," said Aden Mohamed Hussein, ushering me past the soldiers at the gate. "So far so good... We hope for a domino effect." Mr Hussein runs a new "disengagement" programme for surrendering al-Shabab members at the camp here in Baidoa, an hour's helicopter ride northwest of the capital Mogadishu, towards the Ethiopian border. Al-Shabab no longer controls the town or, we're assured, the surrounding countryside. But attacks are still frequent and our time inside the compound is strictly limited. Such are the alleged sensitivities surrounding what goes on behind the high stone walls, that the international organisation in charge has asked not to be named. Read Andrew's other reports from Somalia: Profile of a suicide bomber Sun, surf... and grenades in Mogadishu 'Why I left al-Shabab' Getting round remittance bans The same goes for all the former al-Shabab members, 80 in total, who are currently being housed here. I can reveal that the German government is funding the programme. Britain is supporting another, similar camp in Mogadishu, which remains entirely off-limits for journalists. "These are the lower risk cases. Not the assassins or the explosive experts," said Mr Hussein. Given the thousands of al-Shabab militants still thought to be active, I asked him if the programme wasn't just a drop in the ocean. "Absolutely not. If we can accelerate and do more of this kind of work I believe we can overcome [al-Shabab]. "We hope the people here can spread the word, that they have been welcomed, that there's no need to die in the bush," he said. The first thing you notice inside the compound is the noise. A loud generator is powering a welding kit, as two men hammer at a steel girder. Three men are shovelling gravel into a barrow as more prepare to make breezeblocks. And in the far corner, five women are working at a row of pedal-powered sewing machines while beside them four men are busy dismantling a car engine. "No-one forced me to join al-Shabab. They were telling everyone to come and fight for Islam. So I joined up," said Mohammed, 30, a short, earnest man who used to be a shopkeeper in Buur Hakaba, in the Bay region of Somalia. Five years ago, Mohammed became a tax collector for al-Shabab, who controlled the town. "I was trusted, and I knew maths," he explained. "We collected money from trucks bringing goods from Mogadishu. We took $6m (£3.8 million) a month," he said with a hint of pride. "Even after the government retook the area, we were still collecting $2.4m a month for al-Shabab," he said. This observation - even if it is unconfirmed, and quite possibly exaggerated - speaks volumes about the failures of Somalia's new authorities to fill the vacuum left behind as territory is captured from the militants. "It was the atrocities that made me use my head, and get out. I saw that these people were terrorists. "Al-Shabab terrorised their own community - forcing people to give more money than they can afford. It was all about money - not religion. Then I heard the government was granting amnesties to people who leave, so I took advantage of that," Mohammed said. "Al-Shabab can be destroyed. But I'm not seeing any signs of that yet. They're still collecting money in two areas I know of right now. "Still, this [camp] is one of the solutions. We're being reintegrated here and given money to start businesses. No-one wants to stay in the bush and earn nothing. It's hot and bad there," he said. Mr Hussein, the project coordinator, said some of the newer arrivals at the camp had openly admitted they had surrendered more out of curiosity than conviction. "Some of them will even tell you 'we are ambassadors - we've been sent [by others in al-Shabab] and if you treat us good then everyone will come'. "Right now, even the ones who are in the centre are calling their old colleagues to say 'hey - we have protection here,' because others fear that when they come they will be killed. And I believe many, many, of them will come. So we are going to demand a larger space here," he said. Hanat, 25, says he joined al-Shabab in 2006. He was unemployed and bored, but quickly discovered that his new bosses would not let him leave. "In 2010 they took us to Mogadishu. We didn't have enough ammunition, not enough training - we were fighting a hide-and-seek war," he said, describing the intense urban warfare that raged in the capital against African Union and Somali government forces. But then Hanat made a phone call that changed everything. "My brother had been abroad, training in Uganda with the Somali national army. "When I joined al-Shabab I was told to switch off my phone, so I had no communication with my family, but later, in Mogadishu, I switched it back on and tried calling my brother. "He told me he was on the front line. Right there. Opposite me. I decided that if I fired another shot it would be my brother who would die. And if he shoots - he'll kill me. "We spoke just once on the phone. It was a very long conversation. He told me the government had more ammunition and better training, and I didn't want to die. "So I changed my mind about what I was doing, escaped from Mogadishu, and when the government took control of Baidoa, I came here. "I called a government official and told him I'd been with al-Shabab but had decided to leave. Then they welcomed me here," he said. Across the courtyard, beside a tent packed with bunk beds, one of the handful of women in the camp came over to talk to me. Unlike most of the men, 20-year-old Fatoumah had not joined al-Shabab willingly. "I remember the day they kidnapped me. I was coming from school, and they forced me into their car. "They tortured me, and starved me. Then they raped me. Eventually I had to submit - that was the only way I could save myself," she said. "The torture lasted for eight months. They did bad things to me. Then they made me marry an Emir - a commander - of the group. One of my three children is his. The other two are from a different fighter. "My first husband died. Then I was made to marry another. They were merciless. I was with al-Shabab for three years. There were other women with me - some foreign. "I served the fighters food and water. When they went to war I had to provide first aid. We went into battle with them and even fought along side them. "One day we were in a convoy going to fight and there was an ambush by Amisom (African Union forces). When I got wounded in my side they abandoned me. "I went to hide in the bush. Later some people found me and gave me traditional medicine to heal my wound, then they took me by camel to a safer area," she said. Eventually Fatoumah was brought to the camp in Baidoa - partly for her own protection. "I was part of them - and they didn't want me to leave. Whoever tries to leave must be killed. "So they sent several people to kill me, including someone with a suicide vest - he blew himself up when he met me. That's why I have this scar on my head," she said, pointing to a line on her forehead. The Baidoa camp serves many roles. It offers former combatants a chance to retrain, and also to confront what they've done - a new programme called "Tree of Peace (or more literally, Acacia of Peace) is developing a Somali-led process of truth and reconciliation for communities ripped apart by the conflict. But for many of those living here, the camp is above all a sanctuary - a guarded compound where people like Fatumah are relatively safe from al-Shabab. Useful, no doubt. But the question looms - how long will people have to stay here before they feel safe to return home?

बैदोआ के बाहरी इलाके में गोलियों से घिरे एक छोटे से, भारी सुरक्षा वाले परिसर में, एक गुप्त दल सोमालिया के इस्लामी आतंकवादी समूह, अल-शबाब को अंदर से कमजोर करने के लिए काम कर रहा है।


Akhilesh Yadav emerges as challenger in Uttar Pradesh

Summary: With the regional Samajwadi Party emerging as the main challenger to the government of Dalit icon Mayawati in the ongoing assembly elections in India's Uttar Pradesh state, the spotlight is on Akhilesh Yadav, the party's young president who is being credited with its turnaround. The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Lucknow profiles the new star on the politically crucial state's horizon.

A few hundred people have gathered on a winter evening by the roadside in a crowded commercial area in Lucknow. Overhead hangs red bunting with the smiling faces of party leaders and pictures of a bicycle - their election symbol. Almost all the men in the crowd sport cloth caps in red - the party colour. Soon, a bright red bus, escorted by a couple of dozen young men on bikes, comes into view and the crowd gets into a frenzy. "Long live Akhilesh bhaiyya [brother]," they chant. The bus comes to a halt in the middle of the road and Mr Yadav is hoisted onto the roof on a mechanical lift. The member of parliament is the son of Mulayam Singh Yadav - a former wrestler who served three times as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. He is the star campaigner for the Samajwadi Party and the reception he gets here befits a rockstar. His flag-waving supporters surround the bus and throw rose petals at him. They call out his name and raise their hands to touch him. Many in the crowd take his photo on their mobile phone cameras. Mr Yadav appears at ease with the adulation, bending forward to catch the marigold garlands flung at him from below. He knows nearly all the party workers by name and invites a few of them to stand on the bus with him. 'Love people' His speech is short and lively. He uses humour while listing the failures of the Mayawati government. He pokes fun at her for spending billions of rupees on building parks to Dalit icons and erecting their statues. "Some people love stone statues, but we love people," he says to loud claps and cheers. He talks about what his party will do if elected: "We will give laptops to students who finish class 12 and tablets to those who complete class 10." His young supporters cheer wildly. In a country where age is regarded as a sign of wisdom and where most politicians are in their 70s and 80s, Mr Yadav at 38 is rather young. But he is not new to politics. First elected to parliament in 2000, he is serving his third term as MP. "Two years ago, he took over as the party president and has been leading the effort to win back power in the state," says Lucknow-based journalist Sanjay Bhatnagar. "He is spontaneous, he has a presence, he has his own ideas. His father opposed English for being a language of the elite and computers for taking away jobs of poor people. "But he's a contemporary and educated person. He has contributed a youth flavour to the party manifesto by talking about English and laptops for students." It's a clever strategy in a state where 40 million voters are below the age of 30. Mr Bhatnagar says Mr Yadav is being projected as the next leader by the party: "Yadav senior is getting on in years and his health problems are well-known. If the party wins, Akhilesh will be the obvious choice as chief minister." Litmus test Comparisons are also being made with Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty who is leading India's ruling Congress party's revival bid in the crucial state elections. These elections are being seen as a litmus test of their leadership. Mr Bhatnagar says: "Comparisons with Rahul Gandhi are natural. But Rahul is a national figure, whereas Akhilesh is purely a state leader. "Rahul is a crowd puller but he is an outsider here. He has an urban image whereas Akhilesh has a more rural image which in Uttar Pradesh is an advantage." For Mr Yadav though, his main adversary is Ms Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Since September, when the election campaign went into top gear, he has covered a lot of miles. "I have travelled 8,000km (4,970 miles) by road and visited more than 250 of the 403 constituencies," he tells the BBC. Now in the thick of the campaign, he is always on the move. He covers four to five constituencies a day, hopping from one meeting to another in a helicopter. He offers me a seat in his helicopter during his tour of Ambedkar Nagar - a stronghold of the BSP which won all five seats in the district in the 2007 assembly elections. We visit four constituencies and at each one he is welcomed by thousands of flag-waving, slogan-shouting supporters. And his speeches are tailored to address local issues. 'Fed up' In Jalalpur constituency, he talks about inflation, the problems of farmers and the lack of development: "The government took away all the funds meant for building hospitals and schools for you and spent it on statues." In Tanda, a town dominated by Muslim weavers, he tells a huge rally: "We will give free electricity to weavers if we are elected." Isa Kalim is sold on the promise: "We received a lot of benefits when his father was chief minister. He gave us power at 65 rupees ($1.32; 84 pence) per loom. If they make it free, that will benefit us further." Later, as we head back to Lucknow, Mr Yadav says: "The people are fed up of bad governance, they want a change." He is confident his party will return to power. "The government is facing a strong anti-incumbency and that will help us. We will win," he says. But, analysts say, it's easier said than done. The biggest challenge the party is facing is a negative public perception. Their earlier stints in power were associated with a surge in gang violence when thugs threatened shopkeepers and harassed women. "During Mulayam Singh's rule, chain snatchings, thefts were common, people had to pay protection money to goons," says journalist Ashwini Bhatnagar. "Serious atrocities were committed against Dalits and other low-caste people and memories of those years are very strong in [the] public mind and people fear that petty crimes will go up if the party wins." It is a perception Mr Yadav is fighting to change. "We will not shelter or harbour ruffians," he has said. And last month, he stalled controversial politician DP Yadav's attempt to join the Samajwadi party. But critics point out that many of his party candidates have criminal records and some of them are contesting from inside the jail. They say that if the Samajwadi Party is elected, it will be back to the old days of muscle-power ruling the state.

भारत के उत्तर प्रदेश राज्य में चल रहे विधानसभा चुनावों में क्षेत्रीय समाजवादी पार्टी के दलित आइकन मायवती की सरकार के लिए मुख्य चुनौती के रूप में उभरने के साथ, पार्टी के युवा अध्यक्ष अखिलेश यादव पर ध्यान केंद्रित किया जा रहा है, जिन्हें इसके बदलाव का श्रेय दिया जा रहा है। लखनऊ में बीबीसी की गीता पांडे ने राजनीतिक रूप से महत्वपूर्ण राज्य के क्षितिज पर नए सितारे की रूपरेखा तैयार की है।


Snow in the UK: Wintry weather in pictures

Summary: Heavy snow has fallen across much of the UK, bringing with it a flurry of opportunities to take wintry photographs.

The Met Office has yellow weather warnings for much of the Midlands and southern England, western and northern parts of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and much of Wales - where 10 to 15cm of snow is expected in some areas. By mid-morning large parts of the UK had snow. The wintry showers are due to die out later across most of the country. All pictures subject to copyright.

ब्रिटेन के अधिकांश हिस्सों में भारी बर्फबारी हुई है, जिससे सर्दियों की तस्वीरें लेने के अवसरों की झड़ी लग गई है।


Italian police bust 'Mafia plastic recycling ring'

Summary: Italian authorities say they have smashed a Mafia-run plastic recycling ring that sent toxic material from the southern island of Sicily to China.

The scam was uncovered during a four-year investigation, after shoes made in China with the contaminated plastic were found on sale in Italy. Police say 15 people were held on a range of offences, including extortion and waste trafficking. Among them was alleged ringleader Claudio Carbonaro. He had been a police witness at one stage, but in 2013 returned to Sicily and took over a feared Mafia syndicate. He then entered the highly lucrative trade in toxic plastics. Claudio Carbonaro was "responsible for atrocious crimes in the 1980-90s, including over 60 murders", Italian police told news agency AFP. Thursday's arrests were made in and around the Sicilian city of Ragusa.

इतालवी अधिकारियों का कहना है कि उन्होंने माफिया द्वारा संचालित प्लास्टिक रीसाइक्लिंग रिंग को तोड़ दिया है जिसने दक्षिणी द्वीप सिसिली से चीन में जहरीली सामग्री भेजी थी।


The challenges facing the NHS in 2019

Summary: When the NHS is preoccupied with immediate pressures, like the surge in numbers of sick patients that winter brings, it's hard to imagine how there can be time for senior managers to think beyond the next month, never mind five years or more. But they are having to.

Hugh PymHealth editor@BBCHughPymon Twitter The long-term plan for the NHS in England - due out by the end of 2018 but delayed because of the government's preoccupation with Brexit - should now be published in January. And it could set the tone for the NHS in England for the next decade. The period of waiting and wondering has been frustrating for staff and managers alike, not to mention health charities and campaign groups which have been jockeying for a prime position in the plan. The postponement of a consultation document, or Green Paper, on social care in England has fuelled further criticism in some quarters about the government's priorities. The genesis of the plan was the prime minister's announcement in June 2018 of a new funding package for the NHS in England with an extra £20.5bn annually by 2023. This amounted to a real-terms increase of 3.4% a year - rather more than the annual funding growth in recent years. In return, Theresa May called on NHS leaders to set out how they would spend the money and where efficiency savings could be made, hence the need for a long-term plan. Expectations were high and health lobbyists sent in lengthy shopping lists. NHS England's chief executive Simon Stevens and his management team honed their priorities. They were told by ministers to have it ready to roll in early December. Then came summits, a confidence vote and wrangling over Brexit backstops, and the NHS plan was put back in the pending tray. The plan was not fully signed off before Christmas. Stories emerged of last-minute tension between NHS England and other parts of Whitehall. NHS leaders know that funding increases of 3.4% per year, while higher than in the past few years, are more or less in line with the long-run average in recent decades. They suspect that higher patient demand will account for a chunk of the money each year, leaving a limited amount for new initiatives. Emergency admissions to hospitals were up 6% in the year to November 2018. But ministers want some new projects to showcase and it's understood the plan contains fresh commitments on cancer care and the treatment of heart disease. For their part, NHS leaders will be keen to highlight local schemes where the health service is working closely with social care providers, known as integrated care. There will be a pledge to extend the model across England. The plan is seen as a potentially big moment for GP and community care with a commitment to out-of-hospital services though a lot will depend on the precise funding allocation. The Treasury and Downing Street are understood to want a detailed plan on what milestones will be hit each year in return for the funding increases. NHS leaders are reluctant to be tied down to such firm pledges with future patient demand so hard to predict. Whitehall sources deny there have been any disagreements. Rather, they say, there has been a desire by Downing Street to get to grips with the detail having been focused on other matters for most of November and December. The Welsh government has already published a long-term plan for health and social care. This includes promises of a "person-centred approach" with more services closer to people's homes and outside of hospitals. Like the planned Green Paper in England, there will be discussions about how to pay for social care including increasing taxes. The Scottish government says it wants to increase the pace with which the health and social care systems are integrated in 2019, following the creation in 2016 of joint boards responsible for funding local services. There will be investment in a drive to reduce NHS waiting times. With the assembly and executive suspended in Northern Ireland it is hard to identify priorities and long-term strategic plans. The NHS plods on with civil servants doing the best they can in the absence of political leadership. Waiting times for routine surgery and in A&E continue to exceed those in the rest of the UK. There are some big decisions to be made in 2019 about how the NHS and social care cope with the care needs of more older and sicker patients. More care away from hospitals is what everyone wants, but finding the money to keep up with patients' needs gets harder, leaving political and health leaders at Westminster and the devolved administrations with a lot to think about in the year ahead.

जब एन. एच. एस. तत्काल दबावों में व्यस्त है, जैसे कि सर्दियों में बीमार रोगियों की संख्या में वृद्धि, तो यह कल्पना करना मुश्किल है कि वरिष्ठ प्रबंधकों के लिए अगले महीने से आगे सोचने का समय कैसे हो सकता है, पाँच साल या उससे अधिक की परवाह न करें। लेकिन उन्हें करना पड़ रहा है।


Diamond Jubilee: The Queen's bond with 'remarkable' Welsh

Summary: The Queen's history with south east Wales runs deep.

By Elise JenkinsBBC Wales From her first visit as a 17-year-old princess on her first civil tour of the UK, and a year later to meet the Girl Guides of Wales, and several times after that. The Queen has admired and paid tribute to Wales' "remarkable spirit" and "undimmed optimism". She has shared the "joys and sadnesses" and her lasting bond with the community of Aberfan is proof of that. During a televised visit in 1946, Princess Elizabeth, then 20, became an honorary bard - Elizabeth O Windsor - at the eisteddfod in Mountain Ash. Two years later and after marrying Prince Philip of Greece, the future Queen was given the freedom of the city of Cardiff. 'Special pleasure' She called it a "special pleasure" and added: "I am always glad of an opportunity to visit Wales." Princess Elizabeth told the waiting crowd about the pride she had felt in the Welsh history of the monarchy. Yet when the Queen made her first visit to Wales after her accession to the throne in June 1952, excitement in Wales grew. The summer coronation tour took her from Newport to Cardiff and up to Pontypridd and the Valleys. She drew large crowds. Queen Elizabeth made history in 1960 when she became the first reigning monarch to visit the National Eisteddfod. She was joined by a young Prince Charles and his sister Princess Anne. According to the Western Mail on Saturday, August 6, 1960, "thousands" of people were chanting "we want the Queen" as they waited at Cardiff Docks. The paper added: "Police estimated that there were more than 12,000 men, women and children on the wharf alongside the brilliantly-lit Royal yacht Britannia." The Queen also visited Llandaff Cathedral and rededicated the building following its extensive reconstruction from air raid damage sustained in 1941. The visits to Wales continued. On Friday, October 21 1966, when tragedy struck in Aberfan the Queen's relationship with Wales grew deeper. Regret A total of 144 people, including 116 children, died when a coal waste tip slid down a mountain and engulfed a school and surrounding houses. The disaster all but wiped out an entire generation of the community's school children. The Queen travelled to the village a week later. Her four visits since then have long been taken as a sign of her unflinching support for Aberfan. During her recent Jubilee Tour, the Queen and Prince Phillip met survivors as well as parents bereaved in the tragedy nearly 46 years ago. During the 1960s, the Queen paid another visit to Cardiff and in 1968 she officially opened the Royal Mint in Llantrisant. The Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977 was an opportunity for hundreds of street parties across south Wales. In keeping with tradition, beacons were lit as a mark of celebration. In the 1980s she visited at least five times, and similarly in the 1990s. May 1999 was a historic moment, when the Queen opened the National Assembly of Wales, Cardiff. She said it showed "a new and significant direction in the way Wales is governed". The Queen has returned to Cardiff on many occasions. She has watched the rugby; met Sir Tom Jones and Dame Shirley Bassey at Cardiff Castle and Charlotte Church at the Millennium Stadium. She also opened of the historic new chamber in 2006 and told assembly members devolution had created a system "more accountable to the electorate". The Queen has visited Royal Welsh shows; met Welsh soldiers and toured the country for three days as part of her Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002. In April this year, the Queen returned to south Wales once again, this time to mark her Diamond Jubilee, and was greeted by thousands of well-wishers. She and Prince Phillip, now aged 90, travelled to Llandaff; Margam Park; Merthyr; Aberfan; Ebbw Vale and Glanusk Park near Crickhowell over two days. The Queen told the crowd in Ebbw Vale: "My family has been coming here since the height of the valleys' industrial might. "After the closure of the steel works a decade ago, we have admired the fortitude and resilience of Ebbw Vale as you have tackled the social and economic struggle that followed. "Prince Philip and I have shared many of the joys and sadnesses of the Welsh people in that time and have always been struck by your sense of pride and your undimmed optimism. "That remarkable spirit of Wales has been very evident in this valley today." To mark the Queen's 60 year reign on June 5, 190 beacons across Wales will be lit. Beacons on Penarth cliffs in the Vale of Glamorgan; in Newport, and on Pen y Fan will join a network of more than 2,000 across the UK. And this jubilee is even more significant because the Queen will become only the second monarch in British history to celebrate 60 years on the throne. The only other monarch to reign for this long was Queen Victoria, who was on the throne from 1837 to 1901 and reigned for 63 years. See all the latest Diamond Jubilee news and features at bbc.co.uk/diamondjubilee

दक्षिण पूर्व वेल्स के साथ रानी का इतिहास गहरा है।


Easter Rising 1916: 100 years of Anglo-Irish relations

Summary: Ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising by Irish rebels against British rule on the island, BBC News NI's Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison looks at how relations between the two states have changed over the last 100 years.

By Shane HarrisonBBC NI Dublin correspondent It was a long time coming - the first state visit by a reigning British monarch to independent Republic of Ireland. On a cloudy 17 May 2011, Queen Elizabeth II and the then Irish President Mary McAleese both bowed and honoured those who took up arms and fought against British rule. It was all such long way from Easter 1916, when Irish rebels took over Dublin's General Post Office (GPO) and proclaimed a republic. The executions of the rebellion's leaders, the arrests of so many by the British afterwards and the threat of conscription to fight for Britain in the bloody First World War all helped quickly to change public opinion about the Easter Rising that had been initially hostile. "The conscription crisis had in some ways, I think, as enduring an impact on Anglo-Irish relations as did the 1916 Rising," says Prof Eunan O'Halpin from Trinity College, Dublin. In the general election of 1918, most of southern part of Ireland voted for Sinn Féin and its goal of an independent republic, while unionists dominated in the northern part of the island. The War of Independence broke out after the newly elected Irish MPs refused to go Westminster and set up a Dáil Éireann, an independent Irish parliament. In the resulting 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, the six Northern Ireland counties stayed British but the remaining 26 counties were given self-government under the British crown; it was initially known as the Free State. The treaty led to a brief civil war: Michael Collins on one side, Eamon De Valera on the other. Collins led the Irish delegation at the Anglo-Irish Treaty talks and supported the deal, De Valera opposed it. De Valera's anti-agreement forces were defeated but he later reconciled himself to the new dispensation and led his party into government. In the late 1930s, while De Valera was in power, he ended the role of the crown, took control all the ports from the British and declared Irish neutrality during World War Two, A British Pathé news reel of the time captures London's hostility to the Irish prime minister's decision not to get involved saying: "Mr De Valera's neutrality permits German agents to establish themselves in an easy position for the collection of vital information." From the end of WW2 until the civil rights campaign in Northern Ireland and the later outbreak of the Troubles, British-Irish relations remained largely on an even keel, despite the 1948 decision to declare a republic. During the unrest, the Irish government strongly objected to how the minority Catholic and nationalist community in Northern Ireland was treated and discriminated against; but unionists and the British saw this as interference in the United Kingdom's internal affairs. And yet in spite of those often heated rows, both London and Dublin joined what would become the European Union (EU), resulting in much more contact between leaders, ministers and civil servants. "We saw one another in a different light, it was no longer big Big Brother and Smaller Brother," says John Bruton, a former Taoiseach (prime minister). "We were all together in a union that contained many other big countries and smaller states and were were able to cooperate in a much more normal way. And that, I think, has completely changed the type of relationship that we've had." Prof O'Halpin agrees, saying that such was the Irish economic dependence on the UK that Dublin, to become more independent, had to follow London into was then called the Common Market. "For Ireland to prosper, for Ireland to lessen its dependence on the British economy, ironically she had to follow Britain into this new European entity," he adds. Many believe that changed relationship, which Mr Bruton described, was evidenced in the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement that gave the Republic of Ireland a say in Northern Ireland's internal affairs and then later with the power-sharing Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Once again, both governments were at one but this time with the support of most of the political parties in Northern Ireland including the Ulster Unionist Party, but not the Democratic Unionist Party at that stage. So, now 100 years after the Easter Rising there is another potential landmark in relations between the two states, the British referendum on its membership of the EU. A British exit (Brexit) from the EU could have major implications for the two islands with the Irish deeply worried that UK voters may choose to leave with serious consequences for working relations between the two countries and for the peace process. The wheels of history keep turning.

द्वीप पर ब्रिटिश शासन के खिलाफ आयरिश विद्रोहियों द्वारा 1916 के ईस्टर राइजिंग की शताब्दी से पहले, बीबीसी न्यूज़ एनआई के डबलिन संवाददाता शेन हैरिसन देखते हैं कि पिछले 100 वर्षों में दोनों राज्यों के बीच संबंध कैसे बदल गए हैं।


Poaching the creature that's more valuable than gold

Summary: Last year a record 1,215 rhinos were slaughtered for their horns in South Africa - and at the same time, 42 poachers were killed by rangers and police. This bloody conflict is fuelled by the mistaken belief in Asia that rhino horn cures cancer, and it's growing more intense every year.

By Leana HoseaBBC World Service "The gunman advances close to the animal, against the wind. He shoots. After if falls the other two join the killer, this time to extract the horn. Then we go to our hideout and wait for the cover of night before we walk to the border." Eusebio lives in one of many small Mozambican villages scattered along the South African border. It's a desolate, impoverished area. Most people live by farming small plots of maize and vegetables - but 27-year-old Eusebio had other ideas. "I met up with my friends to discuss how we could escape our lives of poverty. We decided to go and poach a rhino. First we went to see the witchdoctor to find out the safest route to take. Then we left home and headed for the mountains." There are no more rhinos in Mozambique - the last were killed two years ago - so his destination was South Africa's Kruger National Park, a pristine wilderness where animals can roam freely. It's home to the majority of the world's rhinos, which makes it the number one target for poachers. "We wait and watch the movement of the rangers and when it gets dark we walk long distances to a place where the rangers rarely go. There we sleep. At dawn we start the hunt. When there's no police around then you can kill it, but it should die on your first shot or it's dangerous. Cutting the horn is hard, but we in the countryside are used to cutting wood with a machete, so it's not difficult for us." Poachers usually work in groups of three. One shoots the rhino, one cuts off the horn and the other acts as a look out. Eusebio was the shooter on his four successful trips into Kruger Park, making him about $10,000 (£6,740) in total. This is a fraction of the value of a rhino horn in Asia, where, where - falsely thought to be a cure for cancer among other things, and an aphrodisiac - it can fetch $250,000 (£170,000). But to Eusebio it meant he could move his three wives and children out of their stick hut into a small house of brick and concrete, buy some cattle and set up a small bar. Though he's not proud of killing rhinos, he says his family might otherwise be going hungry. As the number of slaughtered South African rhinos has shot up - from 13 in 2007 to more than 1,000 in 2013 and 2014 - a whole industry to protect the animal has arisen. One example is Protrack, the first of a number of private anti-poaching security companies that have been set up in South Africa. "You've got heavily armed gangs coming in to kill," says its founder, Vincent Barkas, who hires out his rangers to private reserves in the Greater Kruger area. "We're teaching our guards to protect themselves, which unfortunately means teaching them to use a semi-automatic weapon, which can potentially kill a person." The rangers live out in the bush and sleep under the stars when on patrol. To protect themselves from wild animals they make little enclosures with the branches of thorny bushes and spend the nights inside them with the comfort of a small fire. Protrack's star ranger, Tumi Morema, who has caught more poachers than anyone else, says his wife is convinced he will be killed one day - either by poachers or wild animals. And the risks also follow him home. "I do get threats," he says. "On the street I meet people who say, 'Tumi we're going to get you.'" Despite this, he says he understands what drives the poachers, beyond poverty and greed. "Many years ago there weren't fences and then white people came and put up fences. Now they own the animals and black people feel like their access to the wild has been taken away," he says. "So they don't respect it. They feel like they've been robbed. That's the biggest problem. That's what causes poaching." The illegal trade in rhino horn One of the 42 poachers killed in South Africa last year was Eusebio's younger brother, Sebastiao. He left behind two widows, two children and heartbroken parents. Until last year poaching was not even a crime in Mozambique, and there still seems to be a reluctance in some quarters to stop the lucrative trade. "The police and soldiers bring the weapons here for us to go and poach," says Eusebio's father, Jeremiah. "So the first step is for the government to stop the police and soldiers bringing guns from the capital Maputo - but if the guns continue to come here, our children will continue to go poaching because they have nothing else to do." Police even compete to be deployed to poaching areas such as Massingir and Magude, over the border from the Kruger National Park, says Mozambican journalist Lazaro Mabunda, because "this is where they can make a fortune out of poaching". "Those running illegal hunting have practically neutralised state institutions," he says. "That's why you hardly find cases of people [convicted] for rhino poaching. On the contrary they are the most protected people by the state." Mozambique's head of conservation, Bartolomeu de Soto, acknowledges that the number of rhinos being killed is rising, but he says poachers have been arrested, and it's because the law was only passed last year that there have been no convictions so far. He says this issue is a priority for the government, and that "if there is a case of corruption, the government acts". But he accepts that poverty - one of the root causes of poaching - won't be eradicated soon. On the other side of the border, the man charged with stopping rhino poaching in Kruger National Park, Maj Gen Johan Jooste, says he knows that killing poachers is not the solution. "Poacher will always replace poacher unless you take out organised crime, the big bosses," he says. "You must also give the community hope. You must demonstrate that you have control over the crime network and then come with a benefit that they'll get in the long term. The future of our parks lies in the hand of our communities and them benefiting from the wildlife economy." Rhinoplasty? Most rhinos are killed for their horn, though some are tranquillised while the horn is hacked off. But how do you treat an animal mutilated in this way? No-one has had to do it, until now. "The biggest challenge is the size of the animal, and the fact that very little post-operative care can be done," says wildlife surgeon Johan Marais. "We have to immobilise the rhino with the facial wounds every four weeks for up to 12 months, which is a risk every time for the animal as well as a financial burden for the owner. However, it is something that needs to be done to save these animals' lives." This rhino, called Lion Den, had her horn and part of her face hacked off with a chainsaw, and was left wandering the bush with blood pouring from her fully exposed sinuses. To keep flies out, vets covered the wound with a cast made of fibre glass, but the rhino began to damage it while scratching on tree trunks. Another solution had to be found. What they came up with was rather surprising. They decided to fill the wound with the material used for dental plates and sew it on with dental wire, filling in any gaps with superglue. Skin was also taken from behind Lion Den's ears and sewn on to her face - the first ever skin graft performed on a rhino. It has so far proved successful and Lion Den is slowly recovering at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre. There was, however, one casualty. Lion Den was pregnant when attacked and the trauma meant she lost her calf. Watch Leana Hosea's documentary, Rhino Wars on BBC News Channel, and on BBC World at 11:30 GMT and 22:30 GMT on 4 April - or catch up on BBC iPlayer Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

पिछले साल दक्षिण अफ्रीका में रिकॉर्ड 1,215 गैंडों को उनके सींगों के लिए मार दिया गया था-और साथ ही, रेंजरों और पुलिस द्वारा 42 शिकारियों को मार दिया गया था। यह खूनी संघर्ष एशिया में इस गलत धारणा से प्रेरित है कि गैंडे का सींग कैंसर का इलाज करता है, और यह हर साल और अधिक तीव्र होता जा रहा है।


Northern Ireland's historic Euro election

Summary: Given the arguments over the Brexit backstop revolve around treating Northern Ireland in exactly the same way as the rest of the UK, it's worth pointing out that we just elected our three MEPs using a completely different system from England, Scotland and Wales.

Mark DevenportPolitical editor, Northern Ireland@markdevenporton Twitter Voters in Great Britain marked their chosen party with an X, whilst in Northern Ireland you indicated your preferences with a "1, 2, 3" - and so on. Single Transferable Voting takes longer to count than the party system, but means voters get multiple opportunities to influence an election - and no politician can fairly accuse another of "splitting the vote". The STV system, coupled with Northern Ireland's tradition of not counting votes on a Sunday, meant the count in Magherafelt got underway long after most of the political battles in Great Britain had already been decided. Endless counts Traditionally, we journalists moan about bringing up the rear, having to sit through endless counts, whilst our counterparts "across the water" are already moving on to the next story. But there were no complaints from the press pack this year. Chief Electoral Officer Virginia McVea set a keen pace and the results, when they emerged, could not have been more dramatic. Back in 1979, the old EEC calculated that, given its population, Northern Ireland was entitled to just two seats in the European Parliament. But EEC chiefs worried unionists might take both seats, leaving Irish nationalists unrepresented, so they allocated a third. Forty years on, as the batches of ballot papers stacked up on Alliance leader Naomi Long's shelves inside the count centre, it soon became clear that the era of two unionist MEPs is over. The 57% vote for remain candidates almost replicated Northern Ireland's 56% vote to stay in the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum. The DUP's Diane Dodds will now be joined not by an Ulster Unionist, but by Mrs Long and Sinn Féin's Martina Anderson. Traditional divide The traditional unionist/nationalist divide in Northern Ireland politics still exists. However, it has been overlaid by the more recent division between Leave and Remain. What will be the impact of having two remainers representing Northern Ireland? That will depend on how long the new MEPs hold their seats and what transpires over the next few months in London and Brussels. The election of two politicians determined to use their speaking time in Brussels and Strasbourg to back the backstop could provide a counter to the message the DUP conveys at Westminster. Perhaps their narrative will pave the way towards a rethink, either via another referendum or a fresh election. Alternatively, the Alliance breakthrough could be completely overshadowed by the triumph of Nigel Farage's Brexit Party. Electoral threat Theresa May's successor may, understandably, put far more weight on the electoral threat posed by Mr Farage, or the views of the DUP given its kingmaker role at Westminster. Under this scenario, Naomi Long might have to content herself with complaining about a UK government hurtling towards a no-deal Brexit she has no power to stop. If this has been Northern Ireland's last European election it has certainly been historic, not just in returning two remainers, but also in electing three female MEPs. If it isn't the last one, maybe Great Britain could consider adopting Northern Ireland's STV voting system. Let's call it - for the sake of a better label - "regulatory alignment".

ब्रेक्सिट बैकस्टॉप पर तर्कों को देखते हुए उत्तरी आयरलैंड के साथ ठीक उसी तरह का व्यवहार करने के इर्द-गिर्द घूमता है जैसे बाकी यूके के साथ किया जाता है, यह ध्यान देने योग्य है कि हमने अभी-अभी इंग्लैंड, स्कॉटलैंड और वेल्स से पूरी तरह से अलग प्रणाली का उपयोग करके अपने तीन एम. ई. पी. चुने हैं।


Hillsborough: What will the new inquests mean for families?

Summary: A report by the Hillsborough Independent Panel, published last month, concluded that police had tried to cover up the failings of the South Yorkshire force and to shift the blame on to fans. The Attorney General is applying to have the verdicts in the inquest into the 96 deaths at Hillsborough quashed - but what does this mean for families of the victims?

By Joshua RozenbergBBC Radio 4's Law in Action The Attorney General's announcement does not necessarily mean that new inquests will be held into the deaths of all 96 people who died in the Hillsborough disaster. Still less does it mean that criminal charges will follow. But Dominic Grieve's request is likely to be granted by the High Court, leading to fresh inquests. It is also likely that the original verdicts of accidental death will be quashed. The Attorney General's announcement raises the possibility that new inquests will return narrative verdicts recording that some of the Liverpool fans might have survived if mistakes had not been made in 1989. 'Cautious and sceptical' The Attorney General's request is likely to be granted by the High Court and a fresh inquest is unlikely to return verdicts of accidental death on all 96 victims, giving their relatives some comfort. Interviewed for Radio 4's Law in Action, Julian Knowles QC said: "There is evidence... that demonstrates that one of the working assumptions of the original inquest - namely that people were dead or beyond help by 3.15pm - was wrong and it now seems clear that a significant number of those who died may not have died had they received medical help." However, Mr Knowles, who advised the family support group at an earlier stage in the proceedings, did not think that a new inquest would return the verdicts of unlawful killing sought by some family members. "I am cautious and sceptical whether they'll succeed in that aim," he said. Unlawful killing was a verdict that required a high standard of proof, Mr Knowles added, and inquest verdicts would not automatically lead to prosecutions. In a private prosecution 12 years ago, a jury had been unable to agree whether Ch Supt David Duckenfield, in overall command at the match, should be convicted of manslaughter. The Attorney General told MPs that he had not completed his consideration of the evidence needed to support his High Court application. 'Considered afresh' He has to persuade the court that it would be "necessary or desirable in the interests of justice" for the original inquest verdicts to be quashed - because, for example, of "the discovery of new facts or evidence". Mr Grieve's current view was that he should ask for fresh inquests to be held on all 96 victims of the disaster. However, his announcement took account of the fact that some families might not wish the circumstances of their loved one's death to be reopened nearly a quarter of a century later. The Attorney General told Parliament: "I believe that these deaths, arising as they do from a common chain of events, should all be considered afresh. "However, before reaching any final view on the scope of the application, I want to give the families affected the opportunity to make any representations in respect of the family member or members they lost. "I will therefore be in contact with each family seeking views." Listen to the full report on Law In Action on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 16 October at 16:00 BST and Thursday 18 October at 20:00 BST. Listen again via the Radio 4 website or the Law in Action download.

पिछले महीने प्रकाशित हिल्सबोरो इंडिपेंडेंट पैनल की एक रिपोर्ट ने निष्कर्ष निकाला कि पुलिस ने दक्षिण यॉर्कशायर बल की विफलताओं को छिपाने और दोष प्रशंसकों पर डालने की कोशिश की थी। अटॉर्नी जनरल हिल्सबोरो में 96 मौतों की जांच में फैसले को रद्द करने के लिए आवेदन कर रहे हैं-लेकिन पीड़ितों के परिवारों के लिए इसका क्या मतलब है?


News Daily: Deadly newspaper attack and EU summit latest

Summary: Hello. Here's your morning briefing:

By Victoria KingBBC News Newspaper gun attack Five people have been killed and others injured by a gunman who targeted a local newspaper in the US state of Maryland. Staff at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis said the attacker, armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades, fired through a glass door into the newsroom. The suspect has been named by US media as Jarrod Ramos. He's reported to have had a long-standing feud with the paper after unsuccessfully suing for defamation in 2012. Staff tweeted from inside the newsroom as the attack took place, describing their terror. Afterwards, they vowed to return to work and put out an edition of the paper on Friday. Mass shootings in the US are becoming more common and more deadly, as this video explains. Here, we sum up America's gun culture in 10 charts. EU summit latest European leaders have reached an agreement on migration after 10 hours of difficult negotiations. Italy - one of the main entry points for thousands of mainly African migrants - had threatened to veto any deal unless other nations take a greater share of the burden. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in particular, is under great pressure at home. Her political ally is threatening a mutiny on migration unless she comes up with a way to prevent new arrivals. Migration isn't the crisis it was in 2015, but tensions have grown in recent weeks after Italy barred entry to migrant rescue ships, as BBC Europe editor Katya Adler explains. Meanwhile, Theresa May has accused the EU of putting the safety of its citizens at risk by blocking agreements on security after the UK's departure. The summit is the last chance for the prime minister to address fellow leaders before October, when both sides hope a Brexit deal will be done. Splits in her cabinet are making things very difficult though and all eyes are now on a meeting at Chequers next Friday when it's hoped that ministers will finally be able to agree the UK's blueprint for its future relations with the EU. Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning Out of the group England will play Colombia in the last 16 of the World Cup after losing 1-0 to Belgium. You can watch the highlights here, but be warned, chief football writer Phil McNulty says it was "a largely mediocre, lifeless encounter" punctuated by just one spectacular strike. Silver linings though, and the defeat means England avoid bookmakers' favourite Brazil if they reach the quarter-finals - check out the route they could now face through the knock-out stages. The faces female football fans want you to see By Laura Lea, BBC News website Put "female football fan" into a search engine and the image results are a stream of attractive young women in tight shirts and, sometimes, no shirts. Tired of sexualisation and misrepresentation, some fans have decided it's time to level the playing field. "These images represent everything that's great about this game - how many different kinds of women go to matches and support. We need this realness," says Emma Townley, from online community This Fan Girl. She's talking about five images of female England fans taken ahead of this World Cup. Read the full article What the papers say The papers weren't impressed by the quality of England's game against Belgium. It was "a lukewarm contest" and neither side seemed sure "whether they really wanted to win", says the Daily Mirror. "A game played like a testimonial never feels right at any World Cup," remarks the i. The Daily Express worries that coach Gareth Southgate "tried to overthink things" and says "a whole nation really hopes you know what you are doing". Everything will be fine though, as the Sun comments, "as long as you get the outcome you wanted". Elsewhere, most of the papers discuss the apparent impasse over the UK's Brexit deal. A cartoon in the Financial Times portrays the stars on the EU flag as the hours on a clock - and the time is five to midnight. Daily digest Mormon church Call to end children's sexual interviews Cannabis Legalisation "would raise £1bn for the Treasury" Consistency Why you should see the same doctor again and again Windrush Individuals were "unlawfully and inappropriately" detained If you see one thing today When the US shot down an Iranian airliner If you listen to one thing today Journeys in Afrofuturism If you read one thing today These friends travel thousands of miles for a game of tag Sign up for a morning briefing direct to your phone Lookahead 10:30 Judge rules on whether there will be prosecutions of five defendants who have challenged charges against them relating to the Hillsborough disaster Today Second day of the European Council meeting - with continued migration into the EU top of the agenda On this day 1960 BBC Television Centre in White City opens with promises it will be the "Hollywood" of the small screen From elsewhere When food festivals go wrong (Guardian) Growing up a British Asian girl meant acting like a double agent (The Pool) What will the world's central banks do next? (Bloomberg) To stop another Ebola outbreak, science went open source (Wired)

नमस्ते। यहाँ आपकी सुबह की जानकारी हैः


Volunteers to clean up Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike

Summary: Volunteers are to clear away litter from the slopes of Britain's highest mountains on Saturday.

The Real Three Peaks Challenge, now in its fourth year, is to be held on Ben Nevis in Scotland, Snowdon in Wales and England's Scafell Pike. Last year, a total of 88 people were involved in the clean up of the mountains. More than 24 stone (153kg) of litter was collected from Ben Nevis, near Fort William.

स्वयंसेवकों को शनिवार को ब्रिटेन के सबसे ऊंचे पहाड़ों की ढलानों से कचरा हटाना है।


Council resumes bin collections after severe weather

Summary: North East Lincolnshire Council has resumed its waste collection service after if was suspended for nearly two weeks because of the severe weather.

The council stopped the service on 29 November because of heavy snow and ice. A spokeswoman said since it resumed on Saturday, it had picked up 496 tonnes of waste - more than double their weekly collection. Hull City Council's rubbish collections are also back up and running, after some were disrupted by the weather. A council spokesman said they had extra crews deployed across the city to help clear the backlog.

उत्तर पूर्व लिंकनशायर परिषद ने खराब मौसम के कारण लगभग दो सप्ताह के लिए निलंबित होने के बाद अपनी अपशिष्ट संग्रह सेवा को फिर से शुरू कर दिया है।