Kylie Jenner: How the reality teen founded a cosmetics empire

Summary: Kylie Jenner was just 10 years old when she made her debut on her family's reality television series Keeping up with the Kardashians. A decade on, the show is still going strong and its youngest star is now the famous family's highest earner.

By Kelly-Leigh CooperBBC News It emerged this week just how vast a chunk of the family's wealth belongs to the 20-year-old. Despite Kim's initial eclipsing fame, Forbes magazine says Kylie is now worth almost three times as much as her sister at an estimated $900m (£680m). The magazine lauded her for heading towards becoming one of the youngest "self-made" billionaires ever. Given her background, many online scoffed at the title, but the impressiveness of the speed of her business success is harder to mock. Kylie Cosmetics is by far her biggest earner. It's not sold in stores and does not advertise traditionally, because unlike other competitors it doesn't seem to need it. After all, Kylie is a social media powerhouse. When she tweeted that she was "sooo over" Snapchat earlier this year, its shares tumbled. The vast majority of her 110 million-strong Instagram following are young and female, fitting firmly within the brand's target market. Her success can be viewed squarely within larger trends in the global beauty industry, which has undergone a huge shift as social media influencers and vloggers become more important to a brand's success. Kylie launched her first set of own-brand lip kits in November 2015. The product choice was not incidental, as the internet had spent much of the previous two years speculating on the teen's noticeably larger lips. At first the reality star alleged the change was achieved using clever make-up tricks (over-lining the lips and filling in with a natural-looking matte base). Some mocked and sparked a viral, and painful, challenge to plump their own lips, but beauty bloggers avidly recreated her look. The products she was rumoured to use sold out at MAC outlets across the world. Kylie and "momager" Kris saw an opportunity to go it alone. She spent months trailing an initial three-shade launch of lip kits - a combination of nude lip liner and matte lip cream combos - on Instagram and Snapchat. The initial stock launch sold out in less than a minute, crashing the website. Bloggers offered suggestions of "dupe" options for those not lucky enough to grab their own, and the $29 (£22) dollar sets were bootlegged online for hundreds of dollars. After launching the debut kits, she relabelled her business Kylie Cosmetics and sales continue to soar, making a reported $19m in one day in late 2016. In just a couple of years she has amassed a reported $630m (£470m) in sales, diversifying from lip kit duos to other products such as glosses, highlighters and eye-shadows. The brand has kept people hooked by maintaining the initial FOMO (fear of missing out) exclusivity - using countdowns to reveal products and selling them on limited release, often in collaboration with her famous siblings. Kylie Cosmetics is not alone; a host of grassroots brands such as Huda beauty and Anastasia Beverley Hills have soared in popularity in recent years. YouTube endorsements in particular have the power to make a product a "must have". A seismic change Stephanie Saltzman, beauty editor at Fashionista, says it cannot be overstated how significant influencers and online marketing have been. She describes the recent change as a "democratisation" within an industry that she believed had gone stale in its approach. "Maybe historically consumers would use what their Mom used, or would go explore a beauty counter in a department store. Now it's in the palm of their hands through social media," she says. "It feels more authentic coming from a person and Kylie Jenner is a person as opposed to a blanket, faceless corporation." Traditional make-up brands are adjusting, though. Some have collaborated with influencers and beauty vloggers on limited-edition lines or have enlisted to use Generation Z celebrities such as Lily-Rose Depp to be their public face. Charlotte Libby, a colour cosmetics expert at analyst group Mintel, says young consumers are rejecting traditional advertising, instead being drawn to brand transparency, and especially "personality, belief and ethics". "Crowdfunding campaigns and social media have brought down some of the barriers for new brands and levelled the playing field," she tells the BBC. "Social media and the success of influencers has proved that personality sells, and partnering with real people, rather than traditional media, offers brand the opportunity to show more personality." The Forbes cover profile points out that the overhead size of Kylie's company is exceptionally small. It has only 12 employees, and only seven are full-time. Most of the company's operations and production needs are outsourced to specialist firms. "As ultra light start ups go, Jenner's operation is essentially air. And because of those miniscule overhead and marketing costs, the profits are outsize and go right into Jenner's pocket," journalist Natalie Robehmed writes. Kylie's self-driven success and huge profits haven't been lost on sister Kim, who has followed suit by launching a new beauty line of her own and a range of new fragrances. After a social-media-heavy marketing campaign that involved sending elaborately packaged perfumes to celebrities and influencers, Kim's initial fragrance offering sold out rapidly, raking in $10m (£7.5m) before a single paying customer had even smelt the products. "I think that was definitely a wake-up call for a lot of others in the industry, and the same can be said with Kylie and everything she has accomplished," says Fashionista editor Saltzman. "I think they feel threatened and also feel inspired. I interviewed Kim right after that fragrance launch and she was saying some big corporations had come to her for advice." In the beauty industry in particular then, it seems that the Kardashians might actually be the ones to keep up with.

काइली जेनर केवल 10 साल की थीं जब उन्होंने अपने परिवार की रियलिटी टेलीविजन श्रृंखला कीपिंग अप विद द कार्दशियन में अपनी शुरुआत की। एक दशक बाद भी, यह शो अभी भी मजबूत हो रहा है और इसका सबसे कम उम्र का सितारा अब प्रसिद्ध परिवार का सबसे अधिक कमाई करने वाला है।


Man jailed for taking banned items into HMP Swaleside

Summary: A London man has been jailed after being found guilty of trying to take prohibited articles into HMP Swaleside.

Richard Brown, 23, of New Cross, south London, was jailed for four-and-a-half years following his conviction at Maidstone Crown Court. He was charged with attempting to convey prohibited articles into prison to a serving inmate at the jail on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Police said the items were four mobile phone SIM cards and a Class A drug.

लंदन के एक व्यक्ति को एच. एम. पी. स्वेलसाइड में प्रतिबंधित वस्तुओं को ले जाने की कोशिश करने का दोषी पाए जाने के बाद जेल भेज दिया गया है।


Son charged with murdering mother at Bromley home

Summary: A man has been charged with murdering his mother after she was found strangled at a south-east London home.

Celia Levitt, 68, was pronounced dead at a property on Stoneleigh Road, Bromley, after police officers were called at about 01:00 BST on Friday. A provisional post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be compression of the neck, police said. Ms Levitt's son Barry Levitt, 36, of Stoneleigh Road, will appear at Bromley Magistrates Court on Monday.

दक्षिण-पूर्व लंदन के एक घर में गला घोंटकर हत्या करने के बाद एक व्यक्ति पर अपनी मां की हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Richard Haass to chair all-party talks in Northern Ireland

Summary: Dr Richard Haass is to chair all-party talks set up to deal with some of the most divisive issues in Northern Ireland.

The announcement has been made by the office of the first and deputy first ministers. Dr Haass served as US envoy to Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2003. He was the agreed choice among the five parties represented in the Northern Ireland Executive. The all-party group will try to bring forward a set of recommendations by the end of this year on parades and protests, flags, symbols, emblems and other related matters.

डॉ. रिचर्ड हास उत्तरी आयरलैंड में कुछ सबसे विभाजनकारी मुद्दों से निपटने के लिए स्थापित सर्व-पक्षीय वार्ता की अध्यक्षता करेंगे।


Alt-right editor challenges journalists to visit Sweden

Summary: Paul Joseph Watson, the UK-based editor of far-right conspiracy website Infowars, has donated $2,000 to one of the hundreds of reporters who took him up on his Twitter offer to pay "any journalist claiming Sweden is safe" to stay in Malmo.

The donation comes after Sweden was thrown into the spotlight by US President Donald Trump's reference last week to a security incident which did not actually happen. President Trump has since sought to clarify his remarks, stating that his comments were "in reference to a story that was broadcast on Fox News concerning immigrants and Sweden". After many social media users ridiculed the American leader using the hashtag #lastnightinSweden, Mr Watson issued a challenge to journalists. Malmo has a large immigrant population. Last October, the so-called Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a fire at a Muslim community centre there, an incident cited by the White House in the list of incidents it claimed had been under-reported by the media. In a follow-up post, subsequently deleted, Mr Watson wrote: "All you lefty idiots accepting a 'trip to Sweden'. Can you read? I said you'd be staying here. Good luck". The post featured a number of images to illustrate his point, including a photograph of anti-Israel protesters from the 2009 Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Israel. Hundreds of people offered their services, including comedian Al Murray and journalist Laurie Penny. Mr Watson has since donated $2,000 to a US journalist, Tim Pool. Mr Pool has pledged to "investigate the claims of 'no-go zones' and a rise in crime that people believe are coming from migrants and refugees". In a video posted on his YouTube channel, Mr Pool says: "This is a highly politicised phenomenon, with one faction saying it's true and you're denying it for political reasons, and the other side saying it's false and you're pushing the story for political reasons. "I don't side with anybody. I'm a sceptic." Malmo's deputy mayor Nils Karlsson has promised any visiting journalists a warm welcome. By UGC and Social News team

सुदूर दक्षिणपंथी षड्यंत्र वेबसाइट इन्फोवर्स के यूके स्थित संपादक पॉल जोसेफ वाटसन ने उन सैकड़ों पत्रकारों में से एक को 2,000 डॉलर का दान दिया है, जिन्होंने माल्मो में रहने के लिए "स्वीडन के सुरक्षित होने का दावा करने वाले किसी भी पत्रकार" को भुगतान करने के उनके ट्विटर प्रस्ताव को स्वीकार किया था।


Does London need a £4.2bn 'super-sewer'?

Summary: A preliminary hearing on Thursday sees the beginning of a planning inquiry into a controversial new "super-sewer" under London - which would be 15 miles (25km) long, cost £4.2bn to build and create the UK's biggest sewerage system - but do we need it?

By Tom BatemanReporter, Today programme Deep below the City of London is a world few people ever see. Iron girders span the length of a vast subterranean space - the floor is thick with river silt and the Victorian brick walls drip with condensation. Workers here in the Fleet mainline sewer call this the "viewing gallery" - a space the size of a church hall cut into the earth, from where you can see millions of litres of raw sewage flowing from 500,000 homes on its long journey to treatment works in the east. The sewers are part of a 20,000-mile network owned and run by Thames Water - and are a unique piece of British history. They were built in the 1860s by the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette to intercept raw sewage that previously ended up being flushed straight into the Thames. It followed a series of outbreaks of cholera that killed 40,000 people in the first half of the 19th Century - the Victorians believed the disease was contracted through airborne "miasma" due to sewage in the open air. Their solution was a 1,000-mile network of underground sewers, the construction of which caused much controversy thanks to the £4.2m cost (the equivalent of £430m today), but prevented sewage being dumped in the river. It was not until after the vast project was complete that the Victorians finally understood that cholera was waterborne - the deaths had actually resulted from pumping drinking water straight from the river into which raw sewage had been flushed. "They got the right answer to the wrong problem," says Dr Stephen Halliday, author of The Great Stink of London. He says: "One of the things about cholera and typhoid and other waterborne diseases is that they affect everyone - they affect the rich as well as the poor," he says, explaining what drove the decision to build the Bazalgette sewers. "Waterborne diseases, unlike the diseases of urban filth carried by rats and fleas, [affected] members of parliament and the Royal Family as well as the poorer people, who in those days of course didn't have the vote." Today Bazalgette's network remains in superb condition - the lack of sunlight, the moisture and the regular temperature are perfect for maintaining the Victorian brickwork, according to one worker. But there is a problem - the sewers are being deluged. They were built to take not only waste water from people's homes, but to act as London's drainage system - when it rains, the sewers fill up. The population they serve has quadrupled since the 1860s and vast areas of land have been concreted or paved over. Where storm water once drained into the earth, now it surges straight into the sewage system. The sewers overflow on a weekly basis, flushing 39 million tonnes of raw sewage straight into the Thames each year, according to Phil Stride from Thames Water. He says: "It is absolutely not consistent for a world-leading city to be using its river as an open sewer. "We need to build a project that will intercept those flows and take them off to east London for treatment before they are discharged into the river," says Mr Stride, who is overseeing the Thames Tideway Tunnel project. The 15-mile tunnel would start in Acton, west London, and follow much of the route of the river, capturing raw sewage and taking it to a pumping station in Stratford in the east of the city. Those in the engineering business call it a "megaproject" - a 200ft (60m) deep tunnel, as wide as the Channel Tunnel, which will take 10 years to build and cost £4.2bn - nearly half the cost of the 2012 Olympics. It would eventually add up to £80 a year to Thames Water customers' bills. A preliminary hearing on Thursday will start the Planning Inspectorate's long inquiry process before a final decision could be taken by the government next year. If the tunnel gets the go-ahead, it is due for completion in 2026. But the scheme faces strong opposition. Much of the building work will take place around the clock, causing "mayhem" for people who live near the tunnelling sites, says Christian Sarrasin, from the environmental group, Clean Thames Now and Always. "We've concreted over all the cities and that's why we've got this issue with the Thames Tunnel," he says. He says there are cheaper, greener alternatives to it that involve preventing storm water flooding into the sewers in the first place. So-called "green infrastructure" projects - often involving rooftops being covered in soil and plants - are being used extensively in the US city of Philadelphia where officials say they provide a "model" for flood and sewage management. "You actually get massive benefits from this," says Mr Sarrasin, "it improves everybody's quality of life." His group claims another green innovation - porous asphalt roads that soak up or store water - are a better alternative, and believe that converting half of the roads in central London would mitigate the entire need for the Thames Tunnel. Both sides of the argument will be fully aired during the planning inquiry but there is no doubt that without some help the Victorian sewers will continue to struggle to meet the demands of 21st-Century London.

गुरुवार को एक प्रारंभिक सुनवाई लंदन के तहत एक विवादास्पद नए "सुपर-सीवर" की योजना जांच की शुरुआत को देखती है-जो 15 मील (25 किमी) लंबा होगा, जिसकी लागत यूके की सबसे बड़ी सीवरेज प्रणाली बनाने और बनाने के लिए £ 4.2bn होगी-लेकिन क्या हमें इसकी आवश्यकता है?


Should children watch toy unboxing videos?

Summary: Children around the world are currently trying to decide which toys to put on their Christmas list. Some browse catalogues for inspiration or look in toy shops and watch TV adverts, while others are turning to toy unboxing videos to make up their minds. What is the appeal of these videos, and are they in any way harmful?

By Charlie JonesBBC News For nine-year-old Verity, the unboxing videos have been a great way to work out which toys she really wants this Christmas. In these videos, children, or in some cases just a pair of hands, take toys out of their packaging and play with them. Verity particularly likes watching Shopkins, Lego and Harry Potter toys being opened on YouTube, which is the main platform for this type of content. "It gives you more information than just seeing an advert. It's more interesting because these videos give you more details about how something works and then they show you how it works." Verity, who lives in St Albans in Hertfordshire, also likes to make her own videos, but only for family and friends to watch. "I don't want everybody to see them because they might make fun of them and make bad comments," she says. "People can be mean." Ryan Kaji was among the first children to start making these videos in the US in 2015, when he was four years old. An early clip, in which he opened up a giant egg with more than 100 items inside, has been viewed more than a billion times. Ryan was the highest paid YouTube star of last year, when he earned more than £17m, mainly through partnerships with toy firms and his own TV show. Eight-year-old Ava, who lives near Leicester, is hoping to emulate his success. She started her YouTube channel Ava's Toy Show when she was three. A video showing her unboxing and playing with a Barbie house has had more than 8.6 million views. Her mother Lynsey Brown, 36, says Ava has always been a performer and loves filming the videos. "Ava decides which toys to play with and we feel like she is learning a lot from watching her dad edit the videos. Children can relate to her because she's very down to earth." Ava donates all of the toys to local charities, including a special needs school, and is "very aware" many of her followers, lots of whom live in the Philippines. are not as fortunate as her. "As a parent, it is so frustrating when you spend a fortune on a toy that turns out to be rubbish, so hopefully we can help people decide what presents are actually worth buying this Christmas," she says. Cambridge University research associate Dave Neale, who studies early-years play, believes these videos can have a positive impact if they encourage children to play with toys, and explore them more deeply. "Playing is a vital part of early development, it teaches us language skills and emotional regulation, how to share, and the interaction is a bonding experience, so anything that encourages play is essentially a good thing," he says. However, he is concerned about the lack of interaction and socialising involved. "When children play with toys they are problem-solving and being creative, figuring out how the toy works, or what other things they can do with the toy and that becomes a reward. Watching these videos just gives them the last bit without the other parts. It is a more shallow engagement." Mother-of-three Emma Connell-Smith, from Tattingstone in Suffolk, does not like the effect these videos have on her seven-year-old twin boys Oliver and Thomas. "The toys are very expensive and it makes children feel inadequate if they can't have them all," she says. "I also don't like the fact that these videos are so long and children seem unable to tear themselves away." Her three-year-old daughter Tilly has also asked to watch them, but Mrs Connell-Smith has decided not to let her. "The toy videos aimed at younger children often use baby language, and the toddler when watching this repeats this language, often forgetting how to use the actual words they have." Emma Worrollo, who has two children and writes about child culture and play, believes this type of content can be addictive, and says the trend is showing no signs of slowing down. "It is capturing the eyeballs of kids around the world who are drawn in by the surprise-and-reveal format," she says. "This content has no narrative, no characters and no ending, which means it is hard for a young child to switch off or engage with it in a meaningful way. The experience is hypnotic and many parents report a negative impact on behaviour when young children view this type of content." In Brazil, where advertising to children is illegal, the public prosecutor's office has filed a lawsuit against YouTube in regard to these videos, accusing the firm of "engaging in abusive advertising practices toward children". In the US, Ryan Kaji, who is now aged eight, was the subject of a recent complaint filed by a watchdog group with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleging he was manipulating children who were too young to distinguish between an advert and a review. Google, which owns YouTube, has recently created a new system in which content directed at children must clearly labelled, so the site can turn off targeted adverts. It comes off the back of a settlement with the FTC for violating children's privacy. Here in the UK, a spokesperson for YouTube said it took quick action against any videos that do not declare a paid-for promotion, and videos that do declare this are not available on the YouTube Kids app. However, it has no rules about toys being given to children in exchange for being featured in videos. While toy unboxing videos continue to rack up millions of views, parents need to make up their own minds whether they are a brilliant way of narrowing down that Christmas list or a tool for manipulating their children.

दुनिया भर के बच्चे वर्तमान में यह तय करने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं कि क्रिसमस की सूची में कौन से खिलौने रखे जाएं। कुछ प्रेरणा के लिए कैटलॉग ब्राउज़ करते हैं या खिलौनों की दुकानों में देखते हैं और टीवी विज्ञापन देखते हैं, जबकि अन्य अपना मन बनाने के लिए खिलौना अनबॉक्सिंग वीडियो की ओर रुख कर रहे हैं। इन वीडियो की अपील क्या है, और क्या वे किसी भी तरह से हानिकारक हैं?


Falkirk to raise council tax by 4.84%, with 3% increase for Angus

Summary: Falkirk Council is to raise its council tax by 4.84%.

The council tax rise - the maximum allowable - equates to a Band D increase of £56.58 a year. The local authority committed to an investment of £265m over the next five years in schools, roads, paths and playpark upgrades. Council leader Cecil Meiklejohn said the budget was "not easy" given demands for resources, but it delivered services to those who need them most. He said: "Large-scale investment is being made across all our services most notably extending six of our schools." Meanwhile, Angus Council has agreed a council tax rise of 3%. That equates to a Band D increase of £35.14 a year. The administration said: "On balance, we think that a council tax increase of 3% is fair to our citizens and allows Angus Council to provide for its budget for next year and to plan for the future." Local government body Cosla warned last week that Scottish councils need an extra £300m of funding just to "stand still".

फ़ाल्किर्क परिषद अपने परिषद कर को 4.84% से बढ़ाएगी।


Pope Francis strikes an unusual new tone

Summary: When popes travel, there are three levels of communication.

By David WilleyBBC News, Rome First there are the crowds, the gut reaction and the enthusiasm of the millions of faithful and of the simply curious who turn out to see the new man in white, the latest successor to Saint Peter. In Rio, the welcome Pope Francis received on the streets and particularly along the Avenida Atlantica at Copacabana beach was rapturous. Three million people gathered on the sands to hear and see him project his image of a poorer, simpler church. Then there's the religious message. During his week-long visit to Brazil, Pope Francis laid down a revolutionary blueprint for the future of the Catholic Church, not only in Latin America but worldwide. Using very simple, direct language - in contrast to the sometimes obscure and wordy "Popespeak" of his immediate predecessors - he challenged common notions of modernity and progress, and asked difficult questions of his more than 1.3 billion followers. He spoke mainly in the language in which he feels most comfortable, his native Spanish, often eschewing Brazilian Portuguese, the language spoken by his hosts. But his message came across with startling clarity. He told a crowd of 30,000 young Argentine Catholics attending World Youth Day in Rio to "make a mess" in their dioceses, to "stir things up", to shake up the comfort, self-satisfaction and clericalism of a Church closed in upon itself. "Don't forget to disturb complacency, but please don't water down the faith!" Francis said. "The Church must be taken into the streets," he said in the cathedral of Rio. "If not, the Church becomes an NGO. And the Church cannot become an NGO." This was not a call to revolution, simply an endorsement of the frustration experienced by millions of young people, both in the developing world and in industrialised countries, who have no jobs nor any immediate prospect of dignified work. In the huge beehive-shaped Cathedral of Rio, illuminated by strips of brilliant stained-glass windows, he suggested that the Catholic Church should also slow down its pace a bit. "People today are attracted by things that are faster and faster, rapid internet connections, speedy cars and planes, instant relationships," Pope Francis told the biggest gathering of Catholic bishops in half a century. "At the same time, we see a desperate need for calmness, I would say even slowness. Is the Church still able to move slowly, to take the time to listen, to have the patience to mend and reassemble? Or is the Church itself caught up in the frantic pursuit of efficiency?" Disarming frankness The third level of communication is when the Pope talks off-the-cuff to journalists. Speaking on the plane which brought him back to the Vatican from Rio, he fielded questions on a wide range of subjects ranging from how he intended to resolve the money laundering scandal at the Vatican Bank to allegations about a "gay prelates lobby" inside the Church's headquarters. He was disarmingly frank. He said he didn't know yet how the story of the Vatican Bank was going to end. A Vatican accountant is currently in jail being questioned by Italian prosecutors who believe that some Italian businessmen may have been using the Vatican as a sort of fiscal paradise and tax haven. On the question of the existence of a so-called "gay lobby" inside the Vatican, Pope Francis quipped that he still had to find anyone whose Vatican ID described him as gay. He denied outright Italian media reports about a long-ago gay scandal involving a prelate who is now in charge of the Vatican residence which is the Pope's new home. Pope Francis, the first ever pontiff from Latin America, has struck an unusual new tone at all levels of communication. Now that he is back at his desk in his modest Vatican quarters, he has some important decisions to make about the future governance of his Church. Normally the cardinals who run the Holy See are off on their long summer holidays at this time of year. But Pope Francis' seasons are not the same as those of his predecessors. In the Southern Hemisphere, where the bulk of his international flock now lives, it is winter. Pope Francis plans to spend the month of August preparing for some radical changes in the future governance of his worldwide Church. Be prepared for some big surprises.

जब पोप यात्रा करते हैं, तो संचार के तीन स्तर होते हैं।


Silverstone University Technical College plans revealed

Summary: Plans to build a specialist motorsports college at Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire have been submitted.

Silverstone University Technical College would offer full-time courses to 14-19 years olds in engineering, event management and hospitality. If approved, it would be one of the first in a new wave of specialist university technical colleges (UTCs). South Northamptonshire Council is due to decide at a later date whether the development can go ahead.

नॉर्थम्पटनशायर में सिल्वरस्टोन सर्किट में एक विशेषज्ञ मोटरस्पोर्ट्स कॉलेज बनाने की योजना प्रस्तुत की गई है।


Saudi Hajj coronavirus curbs mean 'no work, no salary, nothing'

Summary: With his head in his hands, Sajjad Malik sounds dejected. The taxi booking office he manages near Mecca's iconic Grand Mosque, the Masjid al-Haram, is empty. "There's no work, no salary, nothing," he says.

By Faarea MasudBusiness reporter, BBC World Service "Usually these two or three months before the Hajj (annual pilgrimage) me and the drivers make enough money to last for the rest of the year. But now nothing." One of his drivers, Samiur Rahman, part of Saudi Arabia's largely foreign private workers, sends the office status updates from the roads around the popular Mecca clock tower. The sea of pilgrims is missing - they usually line the streets, dressed in white, with umbrellas to protect themselves from the intense heat. Today the drivers' people-carriers are void of passengers and the city looks like a ghost town. Sajjad's drivers send him videos of the pigeons filling the roads instead. "My drivers have no food and now they are sleeping four or five per room, in rooms designed for two," says Sajjad, I ask him if he is receiving any government help. "No, no help, nothing. I have savings, which we are spending. But I have a lot of staff - more than 50 people were working with me - and they are suffering. "One of my friends called me yesterday, saying, 'Please I need some work, I don't even care how much you want to pay me.' Believe me, the people are crying." There are severe restrictions in place for this year's Hajj. Saudi Arabia has seen one of the biggest outbreaks of coronavirus in the Middle East and has said the two million pilgrims who normally come from around the world to Mecca will not be allowed to do so, in a bid to limit the spread of Covid-19. Only those already living in the country will be allowed to perform the Hajj - taking the number down to just 10,000. Pilgrims will not be able to freely drink from the holy Well of Zamzam, the water will all have to be bottled individually. And when it comes to the stoning of the three pillars in Mina, symbolising the rejection of the devil, the pebbles will have to be sterilised. Away from Saudi Arabia itself, the huge influx of hungry pilgrims usually leads to lucrative import orders for livestock from neighbouring countries like Kenya - many of whose farmers now have herds of unsold cattle. "The livestock subsector in Kenya is big. It's the mainstay for most of the households in the country, and a way of life for most farmers, especially during the Hajj period," says Patrick Kimani from the Kenya Livestock Producers Association. On average, his members export 5,000 head of cattle to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, he says. "Farmers are now diversifying in to cold storage and local markets. "We are concerned that it could decimate local cattle prices because all that extra produce could be dumped at cut price to local buyers for a quick sell." Hajj dates back to the life of the Prophet Muhammad 1,400 years ago and there have been few limitations like this in its history. What is the Hajj? Making the pilgrimage at least once is one of the Five Pillars of Islam - the five obligations that every Muslim, who is in good health and can afford it, must satisfy in order to live a good and responsible life, according to Islam. Pilgrims gather in Mecca to stand before the structure known as the Kaaba, praising Allah (God) together. They perform other acts of worship too, renewing their sense of purpose in the world. The shock of a sudden withdrawal of an age-old source of income is also leaving many tour companies struggling. Last year, Pakistan sent the most foreign pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. But today in Karachi, Shahzad Tajj says his firm, Cheap Hajj and Umrah Deals, is on the brink of collapse. "Basically, business is zero. Even other travel-related activities weren't going on. Like flights, logistics, deliveries - so there was nothing to sell. We were not, frankly, totally prepared for this. "We had to downsize our staff to minimal numbers. Time has now forced us to sell our assets, cars and some property, to just get through this stage at least. I help out some of my team with emergency funds, but that's all I can offer for now." Restrictions this year are putting a large financial hole in the cities of Mecca and Medina, which receive billions of dollars worth of business from the travelling pilgrims. "Although most of the cost to the Saudi government of hosting the Hajj will be saved this year, Mecca and Medina will lose out on around the $9bn-$12bn (£7bn-£9bn) worth of business," says Mazen Al Sudairi, head of research at the financial services firm Al-Rajhi Capital in Riyadh. Mr Al-Sudairi says the government has stepped in to help. "Maybe the small and medium enterprises were suffering, but the Saudi central bank is trying to support this segment, to give them relief, by deferring their loans for a further two or three months. "We believe that we are facing a recovery period - we think the worst is behind us." More than 80% of Saudi Arabia's national income comes from oil but prices have plummeted, forcing the country to diversify. Yet things haven't been going so well, according to Alexander Perjessy of Moody's Sovereign Risk Group. "The government announced in March 2020 it would postpone collection of various government fees, as well as Value Added Tax, for three months. [But] this is not going to avert a recession in the non-oil sector of the economy - we think it will contract by about 4%," he says. In Mecca, despite the empty bookings screen in front of him, Sajjad Malik does not want to return to his native Pakistan. Saudi Arabia has served as an economic last-chance saloon for those in neighbouring countries who were struggling to earn enough. "Working in Saudi for over eight years has allowed me to provide for my children and family back home. We get free medical benefits, and when the Hajj does happen, there are great earnings," he says. "The labouring community are struggling now. But this country is still number one for me, praise be to God."

अपने सिर को हाथों में लिए हुए, सज्जाद मलिक उदास लग रहा है। मक्का की प्रतिष्ठित ग्रैंड मस्जिद, मस्जिद अल-हरम के पास वह जो टैक्सी बुकिंग कार्यालय चलाता है, वह खाली है। वह कहता है, "कोई काम नहीं है, कोई वेतन नहीं है, कुछ भी नहीं है।"


Leeds woman charged over £1.9m Heathrow cash seizure

Summary: A woman has been charged with money laundering after £1.9m in cash was found in suitcases at Heathrow Airport.

Tara Hanlon, 30, of Pelham Court, Leeds, was arrested by Border Force at Terminal 2 as she waited to board a flight to Dubai on 3 October. Ms Hanlon appeared before magistrates and was remanded in custody to appear at Isleworth Crown Court on 5 November. A 28-year-old woman from Doncaster, who was also arrested, has been released under investigation. Follow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.

हीथ्रो हवाई अड्डे पर सूटकेस में 19 लाख पाउंड नकद पाए जाने के बाद एक महिला पर धन शोधन का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Dale Cregan: Killer's mother on conspiracy charge

Summary: The mother of police killer Dale Cregan and a police call handler have both been charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.

Anita Cregan, 56, and Kathryn Smith, 25, who works for Greater Manchester Police (GMP), were remanded in custody by magistrates. A third defendant Sean Booth, 30, was also remanded in custody on the same charge. All three will appear at Manchester Crown Court on 28 June. A GMP spokesperson said Ms Smith had been suspended since 8 September 2012. An internal investigation has opened and will be completed once the criminal case is dealt with. Dale Cregan was given a whole life sentence on Thursday for the murders of PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone and of father and and son David and Mark Short.

पुलिस हत्यारे डेल क्रेगन की माँ और एक पुलिस कॉल हैंडलर दोनों पर एक सार्वजनिक कार्यालय में कदाचार करने की साजिश रचने का आरोप लगाया गया है।


The many ways to say sorry in Japanese

Summary: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has issued a much-anticipated statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. He gave a "heartfelt apology", but as the BBC's Mariko Oi explains, that is only one of the many ways you can express remorse in Japanese.

In English, you either say "sorry" or "apologies". In Japanese, there are at least 20 different ways. One of the most casual and most frequently used words is "gomen" ごめん. You can make it more formal by saying "gomen-nasai" ごめんなさい or more friendly with "gomen-ne" ごめんね. "Warui warui" 悪い悪い or "my bad" is also a very casual way to say sorry. "Sumimasen" すみません, which can be translated as "excuse me", also works as an apology depending on how it is used. "Yurushite" 許して is to ask for forgiveness and "kanben" 勘弁 can be used to plead for mercy and both terms are used much more casually than in English. Viewpoint: Why do Japan’s apologies get disregarded? More formal ways to apologise include "moushiwake nai" 申し訳ない and "shazai" 謝罪. But I use both terms quite often in business emails not because I really feel bad but just to be polite. For example, I may begin my correspondence with "I am sorry for the delay in getting back to you" and end it with "I apologise for creating extra work for you" even if it only took me a few days to respond and even if I was merely asking them to do what's already in their job description. 'I am reconsidering the past' If I genuinely want to apologise, at least three or four different phrases would appear in one short email. I may be "too embarrassed to face you" 合わせる顔がない and "I have no excuse" 弁解の余地がない for whatever I did. For the post-war apologies, Japanese leaders have used the word "hansei" 反省 much more frequently. In the English transcript, it reads "remorse" but I would translate it as "regret" and use it, for example, for failing to be more productive on my day off. A student would be told to "hansei" for forgetting to do one's homework. Its Chinese or Korean equivalents - "fǎnshè" or "banseong" respectively - also mean "reflection on" or "reconsideration of" the past. The 1995 statement by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama was considered landmark because it included the word "owabi" お詫び which is one of the most formal ways of apologising. He said his country had caused "tremendous damage and suffering" through its "colonial rule and aggression" and expressed "deep remorse" and stated his "heartfelt apology". Ten years later to mark 60 years since the end of the World War Two, the then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi also used the term "owabi". Mr Koizumi's apology, however, was overshadowed by his repeated visits to the controversial Yasukuni shrine where all the war dead - including Class A war criminals - are enshrined. The current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also included the word "owabi" in his war anniversary statement but he had indicated that he would not visit the Yasukuni shrine on Saturday.

जापानी प्रधान मंत्री शिंजो आबे ने द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध की समाप्ति की 70वीं वर्षगांठ को चिह्नित करते हुए एक बहुप्रतीक्षित बयान जारी किया है। उन्होंने एक "हार्दिक माफी" दी, लेकिन जैसा कि बीबीसी की मारिको ओइ बताती हैं, यह उन कई तरीकों में से एक है जिनसे आप जापानी में पश्चाताप व्यक्त कर सकते हैं।


Why landlocked Ethiopia wants to launch a navy

Summary: When Eritrea gained independence in 1993, Ethiopia suddenly found itself without a coastline and so it took the logical step of disbanding its navy. Now, it is reconsidering its decision and its latest manoeuvres in the region suggest it could be shopping around its neighbourhood to find a naval base it can use.

By Dickens OleweBBC News Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recently said on state TV: "We built one of the strongest ground and air force in Africa... we should build our naval force capacity in the future." His comments revealed the country's naval ambitions but his plans for how to achieve this goal have not been made public. However, Ethiopia's latest push to enter into deals with its coastal neighbours signals something is afoot. What is behind the move? State-linked Fana Broadcasting Corporate quoted Mr Abiy as saying the military reforms should "take into account current fast changing world, socio-economic and political situation in Ethiopia". After Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a bitter border war from 1998-2000, there was little chance that Ethiopia could carry on using Eritrea's ports as it had done previously. So it had to find alternatives. Ethiopia recently signed a deal to take a stake in the port of Djibouti, which now handles roughly 95% of all its exports and imports. It is also connected to its small neighbour by a new 472 mile (759 km) railway line - opened last year - which links the capital Addis Ababa to the port of Doraleh, an extension of the port of Djibouti. The railway line has increased the movement of cargo volumes to and from the port to such an extent that at least 70% of all its activity is now Ethiopian trade. Roba Megerssa Akawak, head of the state-owned Ethiopian Shipping & Logistics Services Enterprise (ESLSE), told Bloomberg that Ethiopia was concerned that Djibouti was controlled by foreign naval forces. US, China, Japan and France all have military bases there. "We are afraid perhaps in the future that even Djibouti may not have its own say to really decide on its own fate. This is quite a threat to Ethiopia," Mr Roba said. He added that a navy would also help protect the 11 Ethiopia commercial ships in a "very volatile" Red Sea area where Ethiopia has other economic interests "and there are conflicting political interests". These ships are currently based in Djibouti, from where they sail to ports in the Gulf, the Indian sub-continent, China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, and Indonesia. Ethiopia also still has a civilian maritime institute which trains more than 500 marine engineers and electro-technical officers each year, with plans to train more than 1,000 officers annually. According to the Ethiopian Maritime Institute the graduates have skills and knowledge "needed to succeed in the global shipping industry". Building a navy from the ground up is however a different kettle of fish - it would require massive financial investments and a lot of time to train the forces, as well as a base. Since coming to power in April, Mr Abiy has also signed deals with Sudan for access to Port Sudan, in a bid to diversify its port outlets and reduce port fees. Ethiopia has also agreed a deal with the self-declared Somali state of Somaliland for a 19% stake in the port of Berbera which includes a plan to build a road from its border to the port. Eritrea rapprochement Mr Abiy also struck a reconciliation tone in his maiden speech - calling on long-time foe Eritrea to resolve their differences, saying the two countries were "not only intertwined in interests but also in blood". He has since followed up on his reconciliation offer by agreeing to a 2002 border commission resolution which awarded disputed territories, including the town of Badme, to Eritrea. This was one of the war's main flashpoints. Eritrea has not commented on the move. Its information minister Yemane Gebre Meskel had previously told the BBC that relations could not be resolved until Ethiopia withdrew "from the occupied territories". However, the relationship with Eritrea is unlikely to thaw to the extent that Ethiopia could once more rely on its ports in Assab and Massawa. There is also a danger that Ethiopia's naval ambitions could alarm Eritrea. Former Ethiopian diplomat Birhanemeskel Abebe speculates that strategic and geo-political security concerns could be driving the navy plan. "Ethiopia's right to use international waters demands it has a naval base," he told the BBC's Newsday programme. He suggested Kenya, Somaliland and Djibouti as possible locations for the base. The plan, Mr Birhanemeskel said, was to push for the "unification of the Horn of Africa as an economic bloc and the navy is part of that project". He said Ethiopia would use its strong cultural and economic ties in the region to push for its naval ambitions. The Kenyan option In May, Ethiopia agreed a deal with Kenya to facilitate the acquisition of land in the island of Lamu as part of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (Lapsset) project, a $24bn (£18bn) transport and infrastructure plan to link the two countries and their neighbours. The project was signed in 2012 but has been beset by funding delays and security problems in both countries. In Ethiopia, the government was until recently dealing with large anti-government protests which culminated in the resignation of Mr Abiy's predecessor Hailemariam Desalegn in February. Mr Abiy has struck a different tone since taking office, calling for reconciliation in Ethiopia. He has pushed for reforms including the release of political prisoners and activists. His government has also ended a state of emergency. Deo Gumba, from the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), says Ethiopia's naval ambitions could be targeting the operations of Islamist militant group al-Shabab in Somalia, as well as piracy in the Indian Ocean. Mr Gumba said that, as a US ally, Ethiopia was likely to get support for its plans. Is a navy feasible? Timothy Walker, a maritime researcher at ISS, however cautioned that it would take decades for Ethiopia to have a fully fledged naval unit. "It may create a maritime branch of its armed forces but not a navy... it would take decades for the procurement of ships and training of the force." "Many African countries do not have a sufficient navy and if you look at the Horn of Africa, the big world powers are the ones who operate there," Mr Walker said. "Recorded incidents of piracy and militancy in the region do not justify investment in building a navy from the ground up." But despite the naysayers, Ethiopia seems determined to press on with its plans.

जब इरिट्रिया ने 1993 में स्वतंत्रता प्राप्त की, तो इथियोपिया ने अचानक खुद को समुद्र तट के बिना पाया और इसलिए उसने अपनी नौसेना को भंग करने का तार्किक कदम उठाया। अब, वह अपने निर्णय पर पुनर्विचार कर रहा है और इस क्षेत्र में अपने नवीनतम पैंतरेबाज़ी से पता चलता है कि वह अपने पड़ोस के आसपास एक नौसैनिक अड्डे को खोजने के लिए खरीदारी कर सकता है जिसका वह उपयोग कर सकता है।


Roman coins stolen in Braintree knife attack

Summary: An armed robber forced his way in to the home of a man in Essex early on Wednesday and stole a collection of 170 Roman coins.

The attack happened in Blenheim Close, Braintree, just after 04:05 BST and it left the victim, aged in his 60s, with cuts, police said. The coins were kept in plastic wallets inside an A4 binder. "This was a frightening incident and I need to find the person responsible," Detective Constable Red Leeson said. "Some of the coins taken are rare and quite distinctive and I need to speak to anyone who thinks they have been offered them for sale." He appealed for anyone with information to come forward. Related Internet Links Essex Police

एक सशस्त्र डाकू बुधवार तड़के एसेक्स में एक व्यक्ति के घर में जबरन घुस गया और 170 रोमन सिक्कों का संग्रह चुरा लिया।


Shell's Brent field resumes production

Summary: Shell has announced production has restarted in its Brent field after a seven month shutdown for safety reasons.

Brent Bravo, which lies 150 miles north east of Shetland, and Brent Alpha are again working. It is expected Brent Delta will resume in the near future and Brent Charlie will restart early next year. Production was halted on the platforms to replace heavy protective fenders from the waterline of Brent Bravo.

शेल ने घोषणा की है कि सुरक्षा कारणों से सात महीने के बंद के बाद उसके ब्रेंट क्षेत्र में उत्पादन फिर से शुरू हो गया है।


Belfast City Cemetery: 150 years of buried stories

Summary: On 4 August 1869, the body of three-year-old Annie Collins was lowered into her paupers' grave in what was the very first burial at Belfast Cemetery, later to be known as Belfast City Cemetery.

By Laura McDaidBBC News NI Exactly 150 years later, her once solitary plot is surrounded by more than 226,000 others. The abundant wealth of some of those buried in the cemetery's grounds is clear from the beautifully carved monuments and ornamental gates that surround their remains. Others, like Annie's parents, were too poor to afford a simple headstone. Annie's short life and hundreds of others like her are only remembered thanks to the work of historians who have, over the years, meticulously poured through public records to uncover their fascinating stories. In a few months, Belfast City Council will begin a Heritage Lottery-funded restoration project to restore the cemetery to its previous glory. Author and historian Tom Hartley, who leads guided tours of the cemetery, says the graveyard "sums up the history of Belfast at the height of its power and wealth". "All the big industrialists are buried here in this ground, alongside those who worked for them and in some cases died for them," he tells BBC News NI. The Victorian 'big hitters' It has been said many times that death is a great leveller, but this cemetery highlights the hierarchical systems and sexism that thrived in Victorian cities. It is no coincidence that some of the most prominent Belfast families of the 19th and 20th centuries lie in raised vaults at the top of the central steps overlooking the vast graveyard below. Sir Edward Harland, co-founder of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff, lies alongside tobacco merchant Thomas Gallaher, a man caustically described by Mr Hartley as "the greatest serial killer of all time". Ironically, today these once impressive graves are overrun by weeds and surrounded by an ugly wrought iron fence for health and safety purposes, while those less fortunate, whose graves lie in less ostentatious surroundings, are often tended to by strangers. Nearby is Viscount William Pirrie, former chair of Harland and Wolff. In the months leading up to the Titanic disaster, Lord Pirrie was questioned about the number of life boats aboard his ships. He responded that the ships were unsinkable and the rafts were to save others, a line that would haunt him to his death in 1924. Further down the densely populated 100 acre plot of land, there lies a more understated grave, that of 15-year-old Samuel Scott, the first worker to die in the building of the Titanic. He was a so-called catch boy, who collected rivets, but fell to his death from the side of the ill-fated ship while under construction. Samuel's descendants later told Mr Hartley that representatives of the shipbuilding giant later offered his family 12 shillings as compensation for the loss of their son. His parents were also too poor to mark where he lay, but in 2011, a headstone was unveiled as part of the Féile an Phobail festival. "So you see in just a few of the many graves here that Belfast was a schizophrenic sort of city, with enormous wealth and abject poverty," Mr Hartley says. Radical It was also, he adds, a city where Catholics converted to Protestantism and Presbyterians became Irish republicans. A case in point is Robert Lynd, the son of a Presbyterian moderator, who was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, now known as Inst, who later became an Irish republican writer. "Robert taught Roger Casement how to speak Irish. He wrote the introduction to James Connolly's pamphlet, Labour in Irish History. He was a friend of James Joyce and when Joyce married Nora Barnacle, they stayed with Robert," says Mr Hartley. "The cemetery is a great reminder that the political and cultural identity of late 19th century Belfast was complex and layered." What about the women? Mr Hartley says women buried in the cemetery were defined by the men they married. The headstone of Margaret Byers, a renowned educationalist, activist and social reformer who founded Belfast's Victoria College for girls, simply describes her as "the widow of Rev John Byers", her husband who died about 50 years earlier. "It says nothing about what she achieved in her life," says Mr Hartley. Behind a nearby oak tree lies a small patch of land, surrounded by an iron fence, with a sign that reads Ulster Female Penitentiary. This is the unmarked grave of seven women who experienced unimaginable hardship, Mr Hartley explains. "These women would have been labelled as prostitutes, and as such, we're not meant to know they're even here." "These women epitomise our need to understand history, because we need to know who they were and how they were treated and the circumstances that brought them to the penitentiary." Margaret Byers and her friend Isabella Todd - a Scottish suffragist who is buried in south Belfast's Balmoral cemetery - campaigned to help prostitutes and all exploited women by opposing the Contagious Diseases Act, legislation that allowed for the arrest of women suspected of being prostitutes. Grieving parents The grief of those who were left behind is evident in some of the more ornate monuments. The grave of 14-year-old George Sayers, the only son of wealthy landowners in Malone Heights, who died in a sporting accident, is particularly poignant. "In the roundel, you see two rose flowers in bloom, then you see a sickle, and beneath it, a rose bud broken at its stem," Mr Hartley points out. "The two roses represent George's parents, the sickle is the grim reaper and the broken rose bud is George - he never got a chance to fully bloom."

4 अगस्त 1869 को, तीन वर्षीय एनी कॉलिन्स के शरीर को उनके गरीब लोगों की कब्र में उतारा गया, जो बेलफास्ट कब्रिस्तान में पहली बार दफनाया गया था, जिसे बाद में बेलफास्ट सिटी कब्रिस्तान के रूप में जाना जाने लगा।


Woman charged over extortion incidents in Aberdeen

Summary: A 28-year-old woman has been charged in connection with several incidents of extortion in Aberdeen.

The alleged incidents took place in the King Street area of the city in June and July. Police confirmed that the woman is expected to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Monday. Officers thanked members of the public who had come forward and helped with their inquiries, following an earlier appeal for information.

एबरडीन में जबरन वसूली की कई घटनाओं के संबंध में एक 28 वर्षीय महिला पर आरोप लगाया गया है।


Dalian Atkinson: Living at speed on and off the pitch

Summary: Dalian Atkinson's life was cut short at the age of 48 when he died after being Tasered outside his father's home. A police officer has now been charged with the murder of the former Ipswich Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa forward, who was remembered at a poignant funeral service in November 2016.

By Richard HaughBBC News Three decades earlier, it would have been impossible to imagine that this would be how the story would end for the fleet-footed footballer. Speaking shortly after Atkinson's death, those who knew him in his early years at Ipswich Town told the BBC that his talent and raw speed were apparent from the moment he arrived. "It was all about his blistering pace," said Jason Dozzell, a local boy who was already on Ipswich's books when the teenager first came to the club in 1983. The 14-year-old Atkinson would travel along with other young talent from around the country to train at Portman Road during the school holidays. This influx was a strange sight for Dozzell, who, like Atkinson, would go on to have a successful career. "We had loads of people from up north come down in those days - lots from Newcastle," Dozzell said. "Their accents were intriguing; you couldn't understand them. "Dalian was a bit like that. He had a little bit of a lisp when he talked - it was quite hard to understand." Dozzell said that back then Atkinson, from Telford in Shropshire, was "very skinny" and would play as a right-winger - with exceptional pace. "He made all my balls look good. You put it in front of him and he'd reach it," Dozzell said. Memories of Ipswich's most successful era were quickly fading - they had won the FA Cup in 1978 and the Uefa Cup in 1981 - as the club tried to get used to life without Bobby Robson, who became England manager in 1982. Atkinson and Dozzell were to be a key part of the club's revitalisation. "We had a good understanding going after a while," Dozzell said. "I knew where he wanted it and he knew I was going to put it there - he was on his bike as soon as that ball came in to me." Along with Michael Cole, Dozzell and Atkinson were referred to in a newspaper report as "The Three Degrees" - the world of 1980s football was not renowned for political correctness. Also speaking in 2016, fellow forward Cole remembered Atkinson as "raw, pacey, and unpredictable - in a good way" by the time they both became apprentices at Portman Road. "Dalian was young, exuberant, fun to be around and had a raw talent - if and when he applied himself, he had an abundance of ability," Cole said. After becoming apprentices, the two teenagers were put up with Maurice and Shirley Crawford, who lived a few miles out of Ipswich in the village of Bramford. Mrs Crawford recalled how she had applied to the club to house a footballer, as it was a way of "earning good money", and ended up taking both Atkinson and Cole. "I applied to have one footballer and when (the man from the club) came round to assess us, he said 'can you not put up another one?'" Mrs Crawford said. "He said 'how do you feel about him being black?' I said it didn't bother me. "He said 'well could you take another one?' There were a lot of people who wouldn't take them on. I said 'it's going to be a bit squashed, but he said 'oh, you could take two single beds in that room'." Mrs Crawford has mostly fond memories of her lodgers, who were with her for about five years. "They went through a stage - I think it was Dalian - where I'd go to the cupboard to get a biscuit and they were gone. We had to tighten up on that - 'you don't take, you ask'." The fact that they had to be available for Boxing Day fixtures meant the pair would be with the Crawfords on Christmas Day. "One year I had 26 people for Christmas dinner and I told them they had to come down and join in - they went up to their bedroom afterwards but they did join in. They were quite sociable. "I looked after them how a mum would look after them. It was the first time they'd left home so I'd cook for them, wash for them, iron for them - did everything else for them." Mrs Crawford's prevailing memory of Atkinson is of his love for the opposite sex. "Dale, as we called him, liked the girls," she said. "He was on the phone every Friday evening. He must have got a book of girls' names and if he didn't get one girl he went right down the list." Cole said he would always appreciate the time they spent together in Bramford. "We were two young black kids, in an area that didn't have many black kids near us.... growing up together, enjoying playing football, wanting to progress. "I don't think we would have made it through if we weren't there together. We helped each other get through the early stage." Cole has similar memories to those of his old landlady about his room-mate's extra-curricular activities. "As a young person, cars and the fairer sex were the way Dalian looked at things off the pitch," he said. "He loved a fast car. "One of the first cars he bought was an Alfasud. We went out to Woodford or somewhere and there was a mechanic working on this car, making additions. It became apparent to me it wasn't a normal road car - there were roll bars and it had a souped-up engine. "We spent time with him going to places like Norwich on a weekend after a match, hanging on to dear life. It was like rally car driving - but he was a really good driver. "It was like a reflection of how he was on the pitch - it was fast and pacey." "He was an absolute lunatic driver," agreed Dozzell. "He was good fun but you couldn't tell him anything to slow down - he'd just give you a look, 'be quiet'. Everything was fast. Everything was an experience when you were hanging around him." By now, Atkinson was also beginning to have success on as well as off the pitch. Having lacked power and confidence in the early stages of his career, he returned to Ipswich one summer for pre-season training with a beefed-up appearance. "He'd been on a weight programme and had bulked up," Cole said. "He'd grown physically. Now he had not only the pace he had before, he now had power. "There was something about him when he came back - he had intent. He wanted to be on that team-sheet as a first-team player." Atkinson made his first-team debut for Ipswich in March 1986, as a substitute in a 3-1 away defeat at Newcastle. By this time Dozzell was already a regular starter. "Dalian got so much abuse warming up, and in those days a lot of it was racial," he said. "He took so much stick he was thinking 'what's all this about?' But he came on and terrorised them." As his success on the pitch led to better contracts, Atkinson was able to exert his independence. Dozzell said his team-mate bought a house in Ipswich - but spent most of his free time out and about. "He loved socialising, I'll give him that," said Dozzell. "I was always with him, so I can't say anything. We liked travelling as well - we used to go to Norwich, Romford, everywhere. "There were no mobile phones or anything in those days to get you in trouble." Atkinson left Ipswich in July 1989 to join top-flight Sheffield Wednesday. "Ipswich were in the old Second Division and Sheffield Wednesday at the time were a big club," Dozzell said. "I was pleased for him. He felt he had to move on to progress, to a bigger club, and at the time Sheffield Wednesday were. "I don't think he was a football supporter, someone who went to watch a team or anything. He just wanted to make it really quick at the best club he could." He would go on to enjoy even greater success at Aston Villa, scoring in the final of the 1994 League Cup as the Birmingham club beat Manchester United - and of course netted that goal against Wimbledon, which was named the best strike of the 1992-93 season. But his career would peter out in the late 1990s and Atkinson found it hard to adjust to life after football, something Dozzell can relate to. "The money was decent, but it's not enough for when you come out of the game," he said. "There are a lot of people in Dalian's position who you don't hear about - they don't talk to people. "There was no-one to talk to in those days and it was a bit of an embarrassment you going to talk to someone if you thought you had any problems. I heard he was depressed. I've had hard times, coming out of the game, what the hell do you do?" Dozzell said he was "devastated" about his friend's death. "He's died on the street that he probably used to play football on as a kid," said Dozzell. "It's a tragic story. I'd heard he hadn't been well prior to this and hadn't got round to ringing him, which I'm disappointed in myself for. "I'd heard he was quite ill, that he was in hospital. So I was disappointed in myself, and then this happens. "We'd carry on where we'd left off the last time we saw each other, we didn't have to ring. That's just how we were. "What's unfolded is tragic. He's the same age as me. It's so sad." Dalian Atkinson: Career This article has been updated since it was first published on 21 November 2016.

डालियन एटकिंसन का जीवन 48 साल की उम्र में कम हो गया था जब उनके पिता के घर के बाहर छेड़छाड़ के बाद उनकी मृत्यु हो गई थी। एक पुलिस अधिकारी पर अब पूर्व इप्सविच टाउन, शेफ़ील्ड बुधवार और एस्टन विला फॉरवर्ड की हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है, जिन्हें नवंबर 2016 में एक मार्मिक अंतिम संस्कार सेवा में याद किया गया था।


DNA tests for UK’s nuclear bomb veterans

Summary: Decades ago they witnessed nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific. Now some veterans hope new DNA testing will prove it was responsible for their subsequent ill health, which they say ruined their lives.

By Sarah CorkerBBC News "It was awe-inspiring, like another sun hanging in the sky. The blast bowled people over. A few men were on the ground screaming." Bob Fleming was wearing a T-shirt, khaki shorts and flip flops when the bomb went off. At just 24, he had just witnessed one of the most powerful weapons on earth detonate on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. It was 1956 and the Cold War threat was growing. The RAF serviceman was one of around 22,000 British service personnel who witnessed nuclear weapons tests on mainland Australia, the Montebello Islands off Western Australia and Christmas Island in the South Pacific between 1952 and 1958. With their backs to the bomb, they felt the intense heat from the explosion first. Then, after the countdown, they were ordered to turn round and look directly at the huge mushroom cloud in front of them. "We had no protective clothing," said Bob, who's from Downham Market in Norfolk. "We were guinea pigs. It was so bright I could see the bones in my hands with my eyes closed. It was like an X-ray." 'Genetic curse' The veterans say the nuclear tests ruined their lives, causing cancers, fertility problems and birth defects passed down the generations. Now 83, the great-grandfather believes that three generations of his family are living with the "genetic curse" of those explosions. Sixteen out of 21 of his descendants have had birth defects or health problems. His youngest daughter, Susanne Ward, has thyroid problems and severe breathing difficulties, and her teeth fell out prematurely. "It just gets worse as the next generation comes along. Our grandchildren have similar problems," Suzanne said. "My dad blames himself, but it isn't his fault." The Fleming family now hope new DNA testing could end decades of uncertainty. Last week, the UK's first Centre for Health Effects of Radiological and Chemical Agents was launched at Brunel University in London. One of its projects is a three-year genetic study looking for any possible damage to the veterans' DNA caused by the tests. Blood samples will be taken from 50 veterans who were stationed at nuclear test sites, and compared with a control group of 50 veterans who served elsewhere. Blood will also be taken from their wives and any children they have together. Dr Rhona Anderson, who is leading the study, said a major question to answer is whether "there is a genetic legacy of taking part at these nuclear tests". "If no differences (in the DNA) are seen between test and control groups then this will be reassuring for the nuclear community." 'No valid evidence link' Fewer than 3,000 nuclear veterans are still alive today. They cannot volunteer for the study, as that might lead to bias in the results. Veterans will be selected using military service records and information available about those who were most at risk of exposure to radiation. The Ministry of Defence says it is grateful to Britain's nuclear test veterans for their service, but maintains there is no valid evidence to link participation in these tests to ill health. The UK is the only nuclear power to deny special recognition and compensation to its bomb test veterans. The veterans took their case for compensation to the highest court in the land and lost in 2012. The Supreme Court Justices said the veterans would face great difficulty proving a link between their illnesses and the tests. In 2015 the Aged Veterans' Fund was set up by the government using bank industry fines. It will help to fund a series of social and scientific projects. Doug Hern, who's 81, and his wife Sandie, from Lincolnshire have been campaigning tirelessly for years. When Doug was 21 he saw five nuclear explosions on Christmas Island and has suffered ill health ever since. He said is skeleton is "crumbling". He has skin problems and bone spurs. His daughter died, aged 13, from a cancer so rare it did not have a name. He believes this was a consequence of her inheriting his "corrupted genes". Sandie Hern is vice-chair of the British Nuclear Test Veterans' Association (BNTVA) "The veterans have been treated abominably. They've been forgotten. We need this research to see if anything can be done to help their children," she said. The overall aim of the new centre at Brunel is to work closely with the veteran community to improve their health and well-being in the future. After years of personal suffering, the Flemings want to have their DNA tested and are waiting to hear if they have been selected. Six decades on, nuclear families are still living in the aftermath of the bomb tests, and searching for answers.

दशकों पहले उन्होंने दक्षिण प्रशांत में परमाणु हथियारों के परीक्षण देखे थे। अब कुछ दिग्गजों को उम्मीद है कि नए डीएनए परीक्षण से यह साबित होगा कि यह उनके बाद के खराब स्वास्थ्य के लिए जिम्मेदार था, जिसके बारे में उनका कहना है कि इसने उनके जीवन को बर्बाद कर दिया।


Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults

Summary: The sweeping approach along a slick set of motorway junctions is convincing enough - although there is curiously little traffic.

By Chris BowlbyBBC News Then, the main terminal building comes into view - its statement entrance with huge expanses of glass and exits from a large railway station below emerging into a piazza in front. To one side stands a smart hotel. As a structure, it looks impressive enough. Until you pause, look around you, and absorb the silence. This is Berlin Brandenburg or BER, the new, state-of-the-art international airport built to mark reunified Germany's re-emergence as a global destination. It is a bold new structure, costing billions, and was supposed to be completed in 2012. But it has never opened. BER has become for Germany not a new source of pride but a symbol of engineering catastrophe. It's what top global infrastructure expert Bent Flyvbjerg calls a "national trauma" and an ideal way "to learn how not to do things". No passengers have ever emerged from the railway station, which is currently running only one "ghost train" a day, to keep the air moving. No-one has stayed at the smart airport hotel, which has a skeleton staff forlornly dusting rooms and turning on taps to keep the water supply moving. Enter the grand terminal building itself and the spooky atmosphere intensifies. Huge luggage carousels are being given their daily rotation to stop them from seizing up. There are several of them, designed to process constant arrivals. Round and round they go, smooth - but pointless. They have never processed a single piece of real luggage. Find out more What has gone so wrong in a place supposed to be the capital of efficient engineering? Listen to The Berlin Airport Fiasco. Indicator boards show flights arriving and departing. But they are using data from other airports, elsewhere in Berlin. Some of the boards tested since the airport was supposed to have opened have now had to be replaced, worn out without ever having shown a flight landing or taking off from here. The company running the airport promises it will finally open next year, which would make it at least eight years late as well as billions over budget. So what on Earth has happened in Germany, meant to be one of the world's leaders in efficiency and engineering? This is the story of how a noble ambition to transcend a troubled past was slowly suffocated by political wrangling, bungling incompetence, and the world's worst tangle of badly installed cabling. The story has its roots in the long years of Berlin's Cold War isolation. Divided by a concrete wall, marooned behind the Iron Curtain, its links with the wider world were sharply restricted by tensions between the Soviet Union and Western Allies. For West Berliners, air links to the West, which had kept their part of the city free from Soviet domination during the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s, were something precious but precarious, highly limited and expensive. When I lived in West Berlin the 1980s, I came and went by train. For East Berliners, imprisoned by their Communist government behind the wall, the idea of flying West or around the globe was nothing more than wild fantasy. Then, US President Ronald Reagan came to West Berlin in 1987. His headline sound bite was to call on then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall". Much less noticed by the outside world was Reagan's promise, later in the speech, of a new aviation future. "We look to the day," he said, "when West Berlin can become one of the chief aviation hubs in all Central Europe." It was a dream all Berliners could share. And after the wall did come down, in 1989, one of the first political priorities was new infrastructure - to bind Berlin together again, celebrate its status as the capital of a reunified country, and make it a new global destination. And a lot of highly impressive things were built. From a giant hole in the ground near where the wall had stood emerged a towering new central railway station, linking the city and the rest of Germany and beyond in every direction. When it came to air travel, most politicians agreed the city's existing airports - Tempelhof and Tegel in the west of the city, and Schoenefeld, in what had been the Communist East - urgently needed replacing. So, they set up a company to build an ambitious new airport. "The supervisory board was full of politicians who had no idea how to supervise the project," says Prof Genia Kostka, of the Free University of Berlin. "They were in charge of key decisions." When the global financial crisis in 2007-08 made it harder to attract a large specialist contractor to build and fund the airport, the politicians ploughed on, using public money. Martin Delius, a former Berlin city politician who later headed an extensive inquiry into what went wrong, says those in charge decided "to give 30 to 40 contracts to smaller companies which they thought they could pressurise into giving them lower prices". "They built a very complex controlling system which didn't work," he says. Most disruptive of all were decisions to change the size and content of the new airport - while it was being built. As he shows me around the interior of the new but unused airport, Michael Dorn from the company running it, FBB, says the capacity inside the terminal building was doubled - after construction began. One simple problem, bizarrely enough, was the airport architect, Meinhard von Gerkan's dislike of shopping. Joel Dullroy, a Berlin-based journalist with Radio Spaetkauf, who produced a podcast telling this airport's story, says Mr Gerkan wrote disdainfully about passengers "dragging around unwanted bottles of whisky like a beggar" and wanted to have as few airport shops as possible. But when the airport company realised this - very late in the day - it insisted on adding whole new floors of shopping into the design, as the company now makes up to 50% of its revenue from retail. Extra capacity for things such as sprinklers and smoke extraction had to be crammed in, no-one knew any more what exactly had been installed where. It was, says Prof Genia Kostka, of Berlin's Hertie School of Governance, "like fixing an aeroplane while it's flying". The constructors were also racing to keep up with a low-cost revolution in the airline industry. At first, Dullroy says, "they didn't have any gates intended for low-cost flights", only the much more expensive "jet bridges". However, the politicians supervising the airport - especially Berlin's then-mayor, the extrovert Klaus Wowereit - hated the idea of scaling things down. They insisted new departure gates were added to accommodate giant Airbus A380 aircraft, whose production has ended before the airport can open. But as low-cost carriers became increasingly influential, the airport had to add new sections to accommodate them. All these changes added to chaotic supervision meant the airport builders simply lost control of what was being done, especially the hugely complicated technical infrastructure. After a first postponement, the airport was set for a grand opening in 2012. Many involved in the construction had begun to warn of fundamental problems. But the politicians in charge, fixated on their dreams of a glamorous party announcing Berlin's new connection to the world, ignored the bad news. After invitations to an opening ceremony with Chancellor Angela Merkel in attendance had been sent out, the local official responsible for certifying the building's fire safety called a halt. He had discovered that a supposedly sophisticated system of detectors and automated alarmed fire doors was not functioning. Those running the building had instead been working with makeshift systems, which included temporary employees sitting by doors to raise the alarm with mobile phones. Mayor Wowereit and colleagues from local, regional and federal government had to announce, in a humiliating press conference, the grand opening could not take place. Suddenly, the astonishing scale of the new airport's problems emerged. New construction boss Hartmut Mehdorn made a list of all the faults and failures, Mr Delius tells me. "Small ones like the wrong light bulbs to big ones like all the cables are wrong," he says. The final total was 550,000 - more than a half a million problems to fix. What you might call chaotic cabling has been the curse of this project - and it's still dangling over the whole enterprise. They have had to put in "many hundreds of kilometres of new cables", Mr Dorn says, to replace what was originally installed. And costs have gone up all the time, with millions spent each month maintaining the building. There were some who believed - as the scale of the problems emerged - that it would be best to abandon the new airport altogether and start again from scratch. Mr Delius was one. But he has changed his mind. "There's a point of no return," he says. "It's public money. If you spend it, you need to get something out of it." So, the airport of no arrivals has, in financial terms, passed the point of no return. The management company now says the overall cost of the project will be 6bn euros (£5.3bn) - if it opens as planned next year - up from an original projection of about 2bn euros. The final sum will be paid mostly by German taxpayers, who have come to view the whole saga with emotions ranging from rage to boredom to very black humour And some have even turned this black humour into a business opportunity. Philipp Messinger and Bastian Ignaszewski have invented a board game based on the Berlin airport disaster. The main object of the game is to waste as much public money as possible. I pick up a card saying some of the escalators from the train station were built too short, needing very expensive additions. "Everything on these cards," Mr Messinger says, "has really happened." Intense attempts are now being made, Mr Dorn says, to ensure all the official permissions are obtained before the planned opening, in October 2020. And he is hoping if it does finally open, its traumatic history will swiftly fade from memory.

मोटरवे जंक्शनों के एक चिकने सेट के साथ व्यापक दृष्टिकोण काफी आश्वस्त करने वाला है-हालांकि दिलचस्प रूप से बहुत कम यातायात है।


New Yorkers stock up for Passover

Summary: Passover, one of the most important occasions in the Jewish calendar, begins on Friday. It commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. And it's also a very busy time at New York's Jewish delis.

By Reggie NadelsonNew York I am on the phone to Russ & Daughters - trying to order food for a party - and a quiet, familiar voice says: "Hello, Reggie, this is Sherpa Lox. How can I help?" "Oh, good," I think. Sherpa knows his way around the lox and other delicacies I am hoping to buy at Russ, New York's great, appetising store. But maybe I had better explain. Sherpas in New York? Lox? Appetising stores? Joel Russ, a Jewish immigrant from central Europe, started selling smoked and pickled fish on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1914. Subsequently, his daughters took over. Then his grandson Mark Federman went to law school. But Mark heard the call of the lox, it is said, and returned to run the store until - in the last half-decade or so - Mark's daughter Nikki and her first cousin Josh have taken over the business. Lox is in the blood. In New York, an "appetising store" usually refers to a place that sells those fishy delicacies sometimes defined as "stuff that goes with bagels". Head into Russ on East Houston Street, where the pink and green neon sign and a couple of neon fish - salmon, I think - wink over the door. On one side are glass-fronted counters that contain golden-skinned, sweet-fleshed, smoked whitefish, smoked mackerel, smoked sable, smoked sturgeon. There is home-made cream cheese and, behind the counter, the best bagels in town, also bialys and the onion rolls known as pletzel. In the back, there is the caviar, pickled herring, herring in cream sauce, herring salad. Before Jewish holidays, items like gefilte fish, matzo-ball soup and latkes (potato pancakes) are available to crowds who jam the shop. "Take a ticket, please." But at the very heart of the place is the lox and the nova. In New York, almost everyone refers to smoked salmon as lox. Lox in fact is the cheaper, saltier, brined belly salmon. Its more aristocratic cousin, cold-smoked salmon, often comes from Nova Scotia but New Yorkers use the term nova, to refer to all smoked salmon, except lox. Got it? At Russ, displayed in all their glory, is smoked salmon from Ireland, Scotland and Norway. There is even pastrami salmon, salmon spiced with pastrami flavouring. Everest to Manhattan And behind the counter are the slicers, princes of the church of lox. Among them is Sherpa. "How much would you like?" he asks, wielding the slicing-knife as an artist wields his brush, turning smoked salmon into pale pink, paper-thin slices of paradise. "It takes at least 10 years to become a great slicer," he adds. It is a long way from the eastern Himalayas to the peaks of fine slicing. And Sherpa did once climb to within six hours of Everest's peak. "I looked around and thought better of it," he says, "and I headed back down," adds the handsome, soft-spoken man whose people gained fame portering climbers up Everest. The most famous among them, of course, was Sherpa Tenzing Norgay who went up with Sir Edmund Hillary. Sherpa Lox's full name is Sherpa Chhapte Panasha, and he was born in Patle, a village with a population of 120 in eastern Nepal. "At school, there were no chairs and I got tired of sitting on the bare floor listening to teachers for eight to 10 hours a day," says Sherpa. Restless and ambitious, he made his way to Zarzi where he worked with trekkers, made friends with foreigners, got himself into an English-language school in Kathmandu - his English is pretty perfect now - and then to the USA. "I've been everywhere in America and did everything, including crushing grapes in the Napa Valley," says Sherpa. "Eventually I made my way to New York." A job at an uptown appetising store taught Sherpa to slice salmon. Then someone mentioned Russ & Daughters. "What is Russ?" he thought and - this being before ubiquitous use of the internet - he wandered the streets until he found it and then asked for a job until he got one. A store manager now, Sherpa has been at Russ for a decade, where he works alongside Italians, Dominicans, Mexicans and Israelis. Sherpa lives in Jackson Heights in Queens where, he says, "I feel completely at home." There are now about 7,000 Nepalese in New York and approximately 2,000 Sherpas. In 1907, when Joel Russ arrived at Ellis Island, it was a long journey, but he came, like millions of others, in search of refuge and maybe a little slice of paradise. When, long ago, the Sherpa tribe migrated from Tibet to Nepal, it is said they journeyed, first, in search of a Shangri-la. You might think of Russ & Daughters as a primarily Jewish shop, but this is New York - everyone comes here. "Do you like the food at Russ?" I ask. Sherpa grins. "Oh, yes, I eat it all. I always say to customers that I am from KathmanJew." How to listen to From Our Own Correspondent: BBC Radio 4: A 30-minute programme on Saturdays, 11:30 BST. Second 30-minute programme on Thursdays, 11:00 BST (some weeks only). Listen online or download the podcast BBC World Service: Hear daily 10-minute editions Monday to Friday, repeated through the day, also available to listen online. Read more or explore the archive at the programme website.

यहूदी पंचांग में सबसे महत्वपूर्ण अवसरों में से एक, पसवा शुक्रवार से शुरू होता है। यह पलायन की कहानी की याद दिलाता है, जिसमें प्राचीन इजरायलियों को मिस्र में गुलामी से मुक्त किया गया था। और यह न्यूयॉर्क के यहूदी व्यंजनों में भी बहुत व्यस्त समय है।


'My best friend was killed in the protests - I'm marching for him'

Summary: "My best friend had a big heart," Diamond Davis says.

By Sarah BaumNewsbeat reporter When the 19-year-old from Omaha, Nebraska, lost the job she had in school, her friend James Scurlock was there for her. James's family let her move in with them, meaning she avoided becoming homeless. "When his family took me in, I knew that he was going to be more than just a friend to me," Diamond tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. "I knew he would be like a brother." Diamond, and James, who was 22, were neighbours. They met by the swimming pool of their apartment complex in 2018. James would walk her to her job and help her with homework. She still has the sketches he made in the margins of her school books. Diamond says James, who was nicknamed "Juju", was silly and adored by his little brothers and sisters. He had a job as a construction worker, but stopped working to focus on looking after his seven-month old daughter. He was proud to be a father, Diamond says. It was thinking of his baby daughter's future that made James more politically active, according to news reports. He started attending the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, who was killed in Minneapolis after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. But after one protest on May 30, James didn't come home. Jacob Gardner, a white bar owner, shot and killed him in an incident that was caught on video and went viral on Twitter. Mr Gardner had been standing outside his bar to guard it and the video shows James clinging to Mr Gardner's back as he fired two shots into the air, then one shot behind his back, which hit James in the collarbone. James died from his injuries. The county attorney said he wouldn't press charges as he had concluded the bar owner was acting in self-defence. But some eyewitnesses claim Mr Gardner and his father were threatening protesters and using racial slurs, and James was trying to protect others. A public backlash led the county attorney to call in a grand jury - a group of citizens who decide if charges should be brought - to investigate the case. They will consider if Mr Gardner should face charges that could include manslaughter and carrying a weapon when his permit had expired. 'We can make a change' Omaha is Nebraska's largest city. It's mainly white - 77% in the last census. Nebraskan Governor Pete Ricketts came under fire for addressing black community leaders there as "you people" during a meeting about James' death, causing some to walk out in protest. Diamond wasn't there the night her friend died. She hadn't been to the protests at all before that. She says she knew police violence was a problem but she didn't think of herself as politically engaged. That changed when James was killed. "I loved James like a brother," she says. "Losing him was a different kind of pain I never felt before." So Diamond broke Covid-19 quarantine guidelines to protest with her friends. "The government is against its own people," she says. "But if the people stick together, then we can make a change in the government." "I'm still out here protesting," she tells Newsbeat. "My best friend has not got his justice yet." James' death is one of at least 19 in the US connected to the protests. Most were unarmed black men like him. Some died from gunshot wounds; one died when a counter-protester drove a vehicle through a crowd. Diamond wants other young people to support Black Lives Matter and says it's important the protests are peaceful. "I believe that regardless of our situation, we shouldn't be ruining our own home," she says. "I want people to be safe doing it the right way: with non-violence." Diamond spoke to Newsbeat as she prepared for a party with James's family, to commemorate him - a "Juju world" party with a poolside barbeque and a video montage. They hope it will be a tradition for years to come. Diamond hopes that charges will be brought in his case: "I want justice for all." James had plans for his future. He was thinking of becoming a tattoo artist like his brother, or studying in college to be a role model for his daughter. In the days after his death, his name trended on Twitter. Murals have been put up to honour him. "He used to tell me that when he died, he was going to die a legend," Diamond says of her friend, who was also an aspiring rapper. He wanted to be famous, and a role model for his daughter. "Now my best friend is a legend," Diamond says. "His name will live on." Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.

डायमंड डेविस कहते हैं, "मेरे सबसे अच्छे दोस्त का दिल बहुत बड़ा था।"


2019 European elections: List of candidates for Wales

Summary: Elections for the European Parliament will be held on 23 May 2019. Voters will choose 73 MEPs in 12 multi-member regional constituencies. Each region has a different number of MEPs based on its population.

4 MEPs will be elected to represent Wales. MEPs are elected by proportional representation, in order as listed by their party. The number of MEPs each party gets is calculated using a formula called d'Hondt, except in Northern Ireland, where the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system is used. Back to introduction Candidates shown in party list order Change UK Jon Owen Jones June Davies Matthew Paul Sally Stephenson Conservative Dan Boucher Craig Lawton Fay Jones Tomos Davies Green Anthony Slaughter Ian Chandler Ceri Davies Duncan Rees Labour Jackie Jones Matthew Dorrance Mary Wimbury Mark Whitcutt Liberal Democrats Sam Bennett Donna Lalek Alistair Cameron Andrew Parkhurst Plaid Cymru Jill Evans Carmen Smith Patrick McGuinness Ioan Bellin The Brexit Party Nathan Gill James Wells Gethin James Julie Price UKIP Kris Hicks Keith Edwards Tom Harrison Robert McNeil-Wilson

यूरोपीय संसद के लिए चुनाव 23 मई 2019 को होंगे। मतदाता 12 बहु-सदस्य क्षेत्रीय निर्वाचन क्षेत्रों में 73 एम. ई. पी. का चयन करेंगे। प्रत्येक क्षेत्र की जनसंख्या के आधार पर एम. ई. पी. की संख्या अलग-अलग होती है।


The canal boat dwellers told to keep moving or face eviction

Summary: Canal boat owners with "continuous cruiser" licences must keep moving to a new place every 14 days. Many people who live on their boats are complaining that the way the rule is being interpreted - having to travel in one direction - means their children can't go to school.

By Andrew BomfordBroadcasting House, BBC Radio 4 It's a scene of very normal domesticity. Mum is preparing the evening meal in the kitchen. Dad is sitting with his seven-year-old son, reading a book of Greek myths together. The two-year-old daughter is playing with a toy, and Pan, the dog, is lying snoozing on the floor. But for mum Jassy Easby and dad Ted Powles, and children Jem and Alba, home is not bricks and mortar. Home is a 70ft canal boat called Pathfinder and built in 1893. "We didn't choose to live on boats because it's an easy lifestyle. We chose to live on boats because we love the canal," says Powles. The family is currently moored at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, on the Kennet and Avon Canal. It's a picturesque town they know well, and it's where Jem goes to school and Alba to nursery. And that's the problem. Like 5,000 of the 32,000 canal boats (more than during the Industrial Revolution) their boat is licensed as a "continuous cruiser", without a home mooring - which can be very hard to come by. Find out more You can listen to Andrew Bomford's report on Broadcasting House, BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 17 April at 09:00 or catch up afterwards on the iPlayer. Under the British Waterways Act 1995 such boats must be used - in the words of the legislation - "bone fide for navigation… without remaining continuously in any one place for more than 14 days or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances". Interpretation of this legal clause is controversial. The Canal and River Trust (CRT), which took over control of the 2,000-mile English and Welsh canal network in 2012 from the old British Waterways, takes it to mean that boaters must be on a continuous journey, mostly in one direction, from one place to another. According to CRT they must travel at least 15-20 miles a year, and usually much further. Many boaters are falling foul of this ruling when, instead, they shuttle backwards and forwards over one relatively short stretch of the same canal, because of the need to get to a job or school. For some years the family has been navigating along a 15-mile stretch of the Kennet and Avon Canal between Semington in Wiltshire and Bath. Powles works in Bath and the children are at school and nursery in Bradford on Avon. "We have various ways of getting to school," explains Easby, "Sometimes we walk, and sometimes we cycle." "Sometimes I cycle three miles," interjects Jem. "The furthest cycle Jem can do is about three-and-a-half miles, but it's a stretch," she adds, "You can see he's puffed out at the end of it." The result of their limited travelling is that over the last year they've been refused a new annual boat licence by CRT, and instead given a restricted licence lasting six months. They are now on their second six-month licence, which effectively serves as a warning that their cruising pattern is not acceptable. Without a marked improvement, they risk losing their licence altogether. They are not alone. CRT has so far issued 652 restricted licences to boaters it believes are not operating within the spirit of the legislation. "I've been on this canal for 10 years," says Powles, "I've never felt as unwelcome as this before, as un-listened to, as ill-informed by the people running the canal as to what they actually want." Is he worried they will lose their licence altogether? "Of course - to have a grey area around what may or may not have your home taken from you is worrying," he says. Easby is more forthright. "It feels like anything we do will not be good enough and that they just want us gone. I feel like they are trying to threaten people because they don't want us here, and they will keep threatening people until they move on. "The first people to go will be the families, and if you take the families off this canal you are ripping the heart out of this community. I think it's very sad." The Canal and Rivers Trust is currently carrying out enforcement proceedings against 45 boat owners who have been refused further licences because of repeated failures to travel sufficiently. According to CRT, it is currently instructing solicitors to seek court orders to seize the boats in 15 cases. Two canal boats have already been removed from the water and destroyed. CRT believes the education of children or the need to travel to work are not good enough reasons to allow a reduction in cruising distances. Published CRT guidance to boaters specifically states: "Unacceptable reasons for staying longer than 14 days in a neighbourhood or locality are a need to stay within commuting distance of a place of work or of study (eg a school or college)." Info on costs Easby says as parents they have a duty to give their children the best education they can. "We love living on the boat - that's the frustrating thing because we love taking it out and we love the open fields. But we have our commitments and Jem's education has to come first." According to CRT, lots of people do manage to raise children on canal boats and successfully get them to school, but it just takes more organisation and planning than normal. Spokesman Matthew Symonds says they can't make exceptions for one group of barge dwellers. "We try and support boaters where we can, and we try and listen to individual circumstances," he says, "And we make lots of reasonable adjustments - for example if people are unwell. "But when you're looking at something like education that could go on for 15 years that a child might be in school, then it wouldn't be reasonable to bend the rules for one group. We have to apply them to everybody and be fair." The canal network is more popular than ever. CRT calls it a "golden age" for canals. In the last 10 years the numbers of licensed boats have increased from 25,745 to 32,733. On some canals, particularly in cities like London, this has caused great congestion, and prompted the organisation to police the waterways much more proactively than before. Enforcement officers actively log the position of boats, and those that are not cruising "in good faith" are given advice and warnings. Only after repeated warnings, does CRT begin the enforcement process which could ultimately result in a canal boat being seized and removed from the canal network. In most parts of the country there are severe shortages of permanent moorings. Apart from places at private marinas, many boaters rent moorings from CRT. But few are available. Currently there are only seven residential moorings available from CRT in the whole of England and Wales. In London and parts of the south east of England, the housing crisis has prompted some people to look to canal boats as a cheap housing solution because apart from the annual licence, boaters pay nothing for mooring temporarily in one place. CRT, though, is keen to disabuse people of this idea, saying that canal boats are very much a lifestyle choice and can be difficult to operate successfully at the same time as holding down a full-time job. Many boaters have been objecting to the current enforcement process, and claim it is in part an attempt to cleanse the waterways of a counter-culture of canal boat dwellers in favour of more use of the canals by visitors and holiday-makers. Members of the National Bargee Travellers Association are planning a protest in London against CRT. And in the absence of new waterways, the jostle for space will continue. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

"निरंतर क्रूजर" लाइसेंस वाले नहर नाव मालिकों को हर 14 दिनों में एक नई जगह पर जाना चाहिए। जो लोग अपनी नावों पर रहते हैं, वे शिकायत कर रहे हैं कि जिस तरह से नियम की व्याख्या की जा रही है-एक दिशा में यात्रा करने का मतलब है कि उनके बच्चे स्कूल नहीं जा सकते हैं।