China Anbang crackdown: Who might be next?

Summary: Airlines, football clubs, five-star hotels and film studios.

By Simon AtkinsonAsia Business Reporter China's biggest conglomerates have been snapping up businesses around the world, including some in fairly sexy sectors. Despite growing so big and borrowing so much, they were seen as untouchable because of their political connections. That was until the middle of last year when, after seemingly unrestrained growth, Beijing suddenly turned up the heat on some of those giants. And then last week, some real action. Beijing cracked down on one of those firms - taking control of insurance and financial giant Anbang, and prosecuting the firm's head. This, analysts suggest, could indicate more intervention is on the way. Who might be next? The move against Anbang was called a "warning shot" by the Economist Intelligence Unit. But it is just one of the businesses which became known as "grey rhinos" - large, visible problems in an economy which are often ignored, until they start moving fast and trampling everything in their wake. And next in Beijing's crosshairs, analysts predict, is likely to be HNA, which has been described as the biggest company you've probably never heard of. Investing an estimated $40bn (£28.7bn) in the past three years, it differs from Anbang having primarily bought into "real businesses" rather than being built mainly around complex financial structures. It owns China's Hainan Airlines, airport services firm Swissport, airline caterer Gate Gourmet, holds a major stake in Deutsche Bank, has a 25% share in the Hilton hotel group, and owns Carlson Hotels, which runs the Radisson chain. While there's no suggestion it's in financial difficulties, expect Beijing to lean on HNA to get rid of "most if not all of its financial sector holdings", says Michael Hirson of analysts Eurasia Group. Earlier this month, HNA said it had reduced its stake in Deutsche Bank from 9.9% to 9.2%. While most of Anbang's investors were individuals putting cash into things such as insurance policies, HNA's backers are mainly institutions. On the one hand, this would mean its collapse would be far less politically sensitive. The common man or woman on the street rarely sheds tears when financial giants get their fingers burned. But Eurasia Group says we should not expect a too punitive approach from the government. "Beijing is reluctant to impose major losses on bondholders, which would make it more expensive for many other Chinese corporates to obtain external financing," Mr Hirson said. Significant bankruptcies would also carry political risks. HNA hasn't commented. But speaking last year to the BBC, chief executive Adam Tan was sanguine about plans by Beijing to tighten restrictions on Chinese businesses spending money abroad. He predicted HNA would still get support from Chinese banks, and could count on international banks as well because of its large presence outside of China. It seems unlikely he will feel so secure today. What about Dalian Wanda? Of all the Chinese firms facing a crackdown, Dalian Wanda has the highest profile overseas, partly because of the sort of investments it made. Run by Wang Jianlin, among the country's richest men, it grew into one of the country's most prominent property developers. And it invested overseas too, most noticeably in Hollywood - controlling the AMC cinema chain as well as Legendary Entertainment, co-producer of hit films such as Godzilla and The Dark Knight Rises. But Mr Wang, once considered a Beijing favourite, fell foul of the establishment, with lenders told to pull out their backing. And after the warnings came he was quick to offload businesses, including theme parks and hotels in one of China's biggest property deals as it focused on its core shopping mall and cinema businesses. A subsequent rejigging of the deal just added to the picture of chaos. Earlier it had pulled out of a $1bn bid for Dick Clark Productions - the owner of the Golden Globe TV and film awards - with China's clampdown on overseas investments blamed. Michael Hirson of Eurasia Group described the asset selling as "aggressive moves" to "de-risk". They were, he added, "a painful decision for Wang but one that now looks very astute". Who else is in the spotlight? The other big player put on the watch list in mid-2017 was Fosun. It has investments in the English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers, leisure group Club Med, travel firm Thomas Cook and entertainments business Cirque de Soleil. And unlike the others, is still buying abroad. Just last week, it said it had completed a deal to become the majority shareholder in Lanvin, France's oldest surviving couture label. Though by its standards, the investment of about $120m is fairly small. Both Wanda and Fosun "appear to be on more solid political ground", according to Mr Hirson. What does this mean for Chinese overseas investment? The clampdown is very much aimed at the large conglomerates buying into a huge range of sectors. Most other firms are able to keep investing. But there has been a fall from the peak years of 2015 and 2016. The number of Chinese deals in the US and Europe fell by almost 25% in 2017 from the previous year, Dealogic said. And the rhetoric against Chinese investment in the US from the Trump administration - as seen in the collapse of some major deals - means this trend is likely to continue. Just this week, Germany said it would be watching closely after Geely snapped up nearly 10% of Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler. Why was Anbang targeted? To recap from last week, Anbang firm was known for its aggressive international acquisitions, including New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel. But Chinese authorities have been cracking down on the financial industry to guard against excessive borrowing and risk. The firm's head Wu Xiaohui, who was already detained by authorities last June, is to face prosecution for "economic crimes". Analysts at Eurasia Group described it as "both a takedown and a bailout". "Beijing's approach reveals President Xi Jinping's approach to cracking down on conglomerates - punish wrong-doing by executives while sending a reassuring message to the markets," said Eurasia Group's Michael Hirson. China could have nationalised Anbang instead (as, for example, happened during the UK banking crisis in 2008 with Royal Bank of Scotland). Or it might have forced its sale to another company (continuing the UK analogy, look at how HBOS was sold to Lloyds Banking Group). Instead it put it under the stewardship of China's insurance regulator for one year. This, notes Mr Hirson was a "relatively transparent and investor-friendly" approach, allowing the regulators to sell-off Anbang assets and bring in funds while keeping it out of state ownership.

एयरलाइंस, फुटबॉल क्लब, पांच सितारा होटल और फिल्म स्टूडियो।


New off-road bikes damage to nature reserve near Golspie

Summary: Further damage caused by people on off-road motorbikes has been discovered on land at a nature reserve in the Highlands.

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) said the tyre marks were left at Loch Fleet near Golspie over the weekend. Last month, the agency and Police Scotland highlighted problems with off-road machines at Loch Fleet and also on Ben Wyvis, a mountain near Dingwall. Both areas are protected sites of special scientific interest. SNH has asked any witnesses to the damage being caused to contact police.

ऑफ-रोड मोटरबाइक पर लोगों द्वारा किए गए नुकसान का पता हाइलैंड्स में एक प्रकृति आरक्षित भूमि पर चला है।


New evidence of Viking life in America?

Summary: A new discovery has revealed that the Vikings may have travelled hundreds of miles further into North America than previously thought. It's well known that they reached the tip of the continent more than 1,000 years ago, but the full extent of their exploration has remained a mystery, writes historian Dan Snow.

After a long hike across boggy ground and through thick pine forests, clutching pepper spray to protect against bear attacks, Sarah Parcak and her small team of archaeologists stood on an exposed, wind-blasted headland in North America. Exhausted but happy, they had been led to Point Rosee in Newfoundland by the most high-tech weaponry in the modern archaeological arsenal - satellite data captured 383 miles (600km) above the Earth. But once here they were back to using trowels and brushes. I joined them to see how this powerful combination of new and old allowed them to make what could be a seismic discovery. We were here on the trail of one of the greatest maritime cultures of all time. We were here inspired by ancient chronicles which many have written off as fairy stories. We were here looking for Vikings. In about 800AD Britain felt the fury of these men from the north. Portmahomack was one of Scotland's most prosperous and important communities. On a protected bay in Easter Ross, on the edge of the Highlands, it was well placed as a waypoint for merchants, travellers and pilgrims moving along the east coast. Recent excavations have given us a picture of a wealthy monastery at its heart. Scriptures were copied on to carefully prepared animal skin parchment by monks, skilled craftsmen created beautiful, jewel-encrusted religious ornaments, sculptors carved intricate Celtic crosses. Trade was the source of these riches, the sea brought wealth, but the sea also brought destruction. Archaeologists have revealed that Portmahomack was suddenly and utterly destroyed. They found smashed fragments of sculptures mingled with the ashes of torched buildings. The settlement was wiped out. It is impossible to be certain but historians now think the most likely explanation is that it was attacked and looted. When I visited, a couple of months before the trip to Point Rosee, I held a piece of skull in my hand, presumably from a monk. It had been shattered by a mighty blow, the sword's blade left a deep gouge that makes the cause of death clear. Who were these men who slaughtered God's servants and annihilated one of the oldest Christian sites in Britain? Almost certainly they were men who cared nothing for the Christian God, men who came in ships from the north and west, men who sought gold: Vikings. The attack on Portmahomack is the only Viking raid in Britain for which we have archaeological evidence. Others, such as the attack on Lindisfarne at about the same time, echo only through the reports recorded in chronicles. Together these two violent raids mark the start of an era of attacks from across the North Sea. The Vikings or Norse exploded out of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, using hugely sophisticated navigational skills and shipbuilding technology as they pushed ever further into the wider world. Vikings conquered Normandy in France - the land of the Northmen - even parts of Italy and the Levant. They also founded Dublin, made deep inroads into England and island-hopped across the North Atlantic. Orkney, Shetland, Fair Isle and Iceland. They even crossed to Greenland, where I visited stunning Viking sites on the coast, dodging icebergs to get ashore. But perhaps their greatest achievement is the one shrouded in the most mystery. Did they get to North America? If so, was it a fleeting visit or did they colonise that distant coast too, centuries before Christopher Columbus? The descendants of the Vikings left sagas - beautiful works of literature in which fact and fiction are often poetically intermixed. They clearly state that the intrepid Leif Erikson led an expedition to the east coast of North America. They describe good harbours, and an abundance of natural resources. One of the most fascinating mysteries in history is whether these can be believed. Find out more In The Vikings Uncovered Dan Snow tracks their expansion west, first as raiders and then as settlers and traders. He travels through Britain, to Iceland, Greenland and Canada to see what could be the most westerly Viking settlement ever discovered. The programme will be on BBC One on Monday 4 April at 20:30. In 1960, a site on the very northernmost tip of Newfoundland in Canada, L'Anse aux Meadows, was investigated and archaeologists were convinced that it was a Viking settlement. The world woke up to the fact that the Vikings had reached North America before any other Europeans. But no other site has been identified, the search for Viking America stalled. Until now. Sarah Parcak uses satellite imagery to look for irregularities in the soil, potentially caused by man-made structures which lie beneath. She has used this technique to find ancient sites in Egypt and a few years ago she scoured the Roman Empire where she identified the site of the great lighthouse at Portus near Rome and several other buildings, from a fort in Tunisia to ramparts in Romania. Last year, she decided to search for the Vikings. It wasn't easy. They travelled light and left nothing behind. No massive stone theatres for them. They voyaged in longships with a strong oak keel, and thin overlapping planks fanning out to form the iconic, graceful hull - the gaps between the planks stuffed with animal hair and tar. The rudder was fixed on with a twisted birch sapling. Sails spun from wool. Food was pickled herring, lamb smoked using reindeer droppings, fermented salmon. Almost everything on a Viking ship would get recycled or rot away. But they did leave a trace, and Parcak's team were determined to pick it up, however faint. They scanned satellite pictures from across the east coast of America. Several sites appeared worth following up, but they had to decide on one for a dig. In the end they opted for a headland, almost the very western tip of Newfoundland, 400 miles further south and west than the only known Viking site in North America. It overlooked two bays, offering protection for ships from any wind direction. Parcak saw oddities in the soil that stood out - patterns and discolourations that suggested artificial, man-made structures, possibly even Viking longhouses, once stood there. It was time to leave the lab, and head out into the field. For a couple of weeks Parcak led the team as they carefully probed the ground that she had first spotted thanks to a satellite hundreds of miles away in space. Newfoundland's climate is as brutal as ours in the British Isles with hail, gales, sweltering sun and driving rain. Exploratory trenches were flooded, equipment blew away, but they toughed it out and found something tantalising. Months before, in her lab, Sarah had shown me an image that she thought might be the site of burning or metalwork. Sure enough, when she started to dig on the exact spot, she found something. Something that might prove to be a breakthrough. Carefully peeling back the layers of earth, she found what seemed to be a hearth. A blackened rock testified to intense temperatures. Beneath it were piles of charcoal mixed with cooked bog iron - an iron deposit that needs to be baked to drive off impurities and allow the iron to be extracted for smelting. Surrounding the hearth appeared to be a turf wall of the kind built by Viking settlers across the North Atlantic. "I am absolutely thrilled," says Parcak. "Typically in archaeology, you only ever get to write a footnote in the history books, but what we seem to have at Point Rosee may be the beginning of an entirely new chapter. "This new site could unravel more secrets about the Vikings, whether they were the first Europeans to 'occupy' briefly in North America, and reveal that the Vikings dared to explore much further into the New World than we ever thought." She immediately checked that there could be no other explanation for these deposits. Newfoundland historian Olaf Janzen was certain, no other groups of settlers roasted bog iron in Newfoundland. Nothing has been proven yet, but it looks like Parcak might have found evidence for Viking exploration in North America that goes much further than just that one site discovered in the 60s. This find "has the potential to change history" says Douglas Bolender, an expert on Viking settlement who has spent 15 years tracking the Vikings across the north Atlantic. "Right now the simplest answer is that it looks like a small activity area, maybe connected to a larger farm that is Norse." He is excited and can't wait to see what further excavation reveals. He's hoping that seeds or other organic matter that can be carbon dated will be unearthed. If Parcak has found evidence of another Viking site, it will ignite a new search for Viking settlements across eastern Canada and New England, perhaps as far south as New York and even beyond. Technology has unlocked long forgotten stories from our past, and that technology is getting ever more sophisticated. For those of us who are fascinated by the travels of the intrepid Norsemen, the next few years will provide ever more inspiration. The Vikings Uncovered is on BBC One on Monday 4 April at 20:30 Go berserk with iWonder Vikings warriors were a fierce bunch, trained in archery, spear-throwing and swordplay from the age of 10. The most fanatical warriors were called "berserkers". Could you be a Viking Warrior? Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

एक नई खोज से पता चला है कि वाइकिंग्स ने पहले की तुलना में उत्तरी अमेरिका में सैकड़ों मील आगे की यात्रा की होगी। यह सर्वविदित है कि वे 1,000 साल पहले महाद्वीप के सिरे पर पहुंचे थे, लेकिन इतिहासकार डैन स्नो लिखते हैं कि उनकी खोज का पूरा विस्तार एक रहस्य बना हुआ है।


Israel in mourning for Bulgaria bus bomb victims

Summary: The photographs and life stories of the victims of the Bulgarian bus bombing carried in Israeli newspapers on Friday personalised for Israelis this latest attack, in a country no stranger to shootings and bombings against its citizens abroad.

By Yolande KnellBBC News, Jerusalem One picture of Gilat and Yitzhak Kolangi wearing sunglasses and smiling shortly after their arrival at Burgas airport contrasts sharply with one of injured Natalie Menashe, weeping as she sits in her hospital gown in a wheelchair. Four of the five who died - men in their twenties - were two sets of friends holidaying together. Yitzhak Kolangi and Amir Menashe both left wives and small babies. Two childhood friends from the northern Israeli city of Acre, Maor Harush and Elior Preis, were killed outright as they sat chatting on the backseat of the bus. A third friend is critically ill. Yedioth Ahronoth reports on how "the most tragic day in the life of Itzik Shriki began as one of the happiest". His wife, Kochava, 42, had just found out she was pregnant for the first time and had been breaking the news to her family. She was the only woman killed by the explosion. The coffins of the dead arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in the early hours of Friday morning. Soldiers placed them before mourning family members on the airport tarmac where a solemn service was held. Funerals have since taken place. Women shrieked and wept in grief as the body of Yitzhak Kolangi was brought into a synagogue in nearby Petah Tikva. Threat warnings Israelis have been shocked and horrified by this attack which targeted holiday-makers who had just arrived in Bulgaria on a charter flight. However, as ministers pointed out, there have been other recent attacks or attempts to target Israeli citizens in a wide range of countries. They cite cases in Thailand, India, Georgia, Kenya and Cyprus. As recently as January, a security official from Israel's Transportation Ministry warned of a threat in Bulgaria and identified buses as a weak spot in security. It followed reports that a device had been found on a vehicle scheduled to transport young Israelis to a ski resort. Bulgaria has become a popular destination for Israelis travelling on a budget in recent years. "Israelis like Bulgaria because it's a cheap holiday. Burgas is also popular because it has a casino. That's a major reason," says Tali Teperberg, manager of Snir Travel in Jerusalem. "We don't sell packages to Turkey any more. People stopped going for political reasons and it pushed the prices up because we're not a buying power any more. Other places like Greece are expensive this year." She says it is hard to predict the impact of the attack on Bulgarian tourism from Israel. "People were afraid after the attacks in India [in 2008] but Israelis still go there in thousands. In Kenya the attacks [in 2002] finished the market. The national airline stopped flying to Mombasa for security reasons and I never sold a ticket there again." "My feeling is that Bulgaria will reach a dead end. Once they have to pay for more security it will be more expensive and the best reason for going there will disappear." An Israeli woman who witnessed Wednesday's blast disagreed. Shoshi Eiler remained in Bulgaria with her family to take time to recover from the attack. "About half the people on our flight decided to stay and half flew back. I think it was a good decision to stay. My son saw a lot of blood and the fire and if we flew straight home it would have been worse," she says. "The Bulgarians have put policemen in every hotel with Israelis and are doing everything they can to make us feel safe. When I go shopping the people here keep saying they're sorry about what happened." "I don't think what happened will stop Israelis coming here. Israelis are a target all over the world and nowadays there is terrorism all over the world."

इजरायली समाचार पत्रों में शुक्रवार को बुल्गारियाई बस बमबारी के पीड़ितों की तस्वीरों और जीवन की कहानियों ने इजरायलियों के लिए इस नवीनतम हमले को व्यक्तिगत बना दिया, एक ऐसे देश में जो विदेशों में अपने नागरिकों के खिलाफ गोलीबारी और बमबारी के लिए कोई अजनबी नहीं है।


Catapult fired at police dog Elvis in car theft chase

Summary: A police dog was hit by a catapult as officers went after suspected car thieves in Wiltshire.

The dog, called dog Elvis, was struck as a man and a woman tried to escape while abandoning a Land Rover Discovery in Amesbury. Police said the incident happened in Stonehenge Road at about 10:00 BST on Saturday. A 33-year-old man remains in custody and a woman, aged 21, has been released pending further investigations.

विल्टशायर में संदिग्ध कार चोरों का पीछा करते हुए एक पुलिस कुत्ते को एक गुलेल ने मारा।


Man charged after girl, 3, fatally injured in A34 crash

Summary: A man has been charged with causing the death of a three-year-old girl by dangerous driving in a crash involving eight vehicles.

Thomas Hunter, 58, of Mansfield Road, Mansfield, was arrested after the crash on the A34 at Hinksey Hill, Oxford, on 25 August. Isla Wiggin, who was in another car, died in hospital on 27 August. Mr Hunter has also been charged with causing serious injury to a 31-year-old woman by dangerous driving. He has been released on bail to appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on 17 January. A lorry and seven cars were involved in the accident which closed the northbound carriageway for almost 10 hours. A family statement said Isla, from Fleet in Hampshire, was "a loving and caring" daughter who "would have made an amazing big sister".

एक व्यक्ति पर आठ वाहनों की दुर्घटना में खतरनाक तरीके से गाड़ी चलाकर तीन साल की बच्ची की मौत का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Sir Ranulph Fiennes' 'coldest journey' begins

Summary: Sir Ranulph Fiennes is leading a team of five other explorers in a quest to achieve a feat no other human has managed - to walk across Antarctica in the near permanent darkness and super low temperatures of winter.

By Matthew PriceBBC News Phase one of The Coldest Journey expedition - which aims to raise millions of pounds in donations for the Seeing is Believing charity to tackle avoidable blindness - begins later when the icebreaker SA Agulhas sets off from the River Thames. The journey from a wintry Thames to the ice shelf of Antarctica will take just over a month. During their sea voyage, team members will obtain data on marine life, oceanography and meteorology. On Thursday afternoon, after a suitable send off, the SA Agulhas will weigh anchor and slip beneath Tower Bridge on its way to the world's coldest continent. The expedition force is led by the man known as the world's greatest living explorer - 68-year-old Sir Ranulph Fiennes. It's an expedition that's been in the planning stages for years, Sir Ranulph says on the bridge of the ship, while looking at a map of his route. "The idea came up about four-and-a-half years ago. We started approaching the Foreign Office for permission to go and we finally got it 10 days ago." Aboard the SA Agulhas is a giant crane. It will be used to lift some 200 tonnes of equipment onto the ice of Antarctica. It consists of three huge industrial sledges - each with a modified shipping container placed on top. Inside two of them are living quarters, and supplies. In the third, a science lab. Behind these there'll be another 14 smaller sledges, each transporting fuel. That will power the two bulldozers that have been specially re-equipped for this expedition, in the hope they can drag the entire team across 2,000 miles of some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. In front of this whole procession, two skiers will lead the way, pulling a small ground-penetrating radar system that will help them locate crevices. That will be crucial if they are to make it across. The expedition proper - from the Russian base of Novolazareskaya to the Ross Sea - is due to begin on 21 March and is expected to take six months. "The vehicles are a bigger potential problem than the people," believes Sir Ranulph. "Minus 80 could be damaging to lung tissue when you're breathing while skiing." But he says that, "in the vehicles you have steel and rubber which don't like minus 70 - never mind when they're towing everything - so there is an unpredictable element there". To get Foreign Office permission to go to Antarctica they had to prove they could be self-sufficient. That's why the vehicles must be used to tow everything they might possibly need. In the Antarctic winter there's no way of being rescued. "That means everything from vehicle spares down to a toothbrush," says Brian Newham, who'll be on the team crossing the continent, and who's also been organising the gear for the expedition. He's even been counting the number of sheets on a toilet roll. "We're taking 165 rolls. That's one for all of us for every 2.25 days," he says. Is that enough? "I'd better have it right," he smiles. Everything they take with them will be removed from the ice at the end of the expedition. Including the human waste. There's enough food for each of the six-person team to last 365 days if it's necessary. They hope it won't be. The food consists of specialist dried fruits, sports nutrition products, and normal dried foods like lasagne. They can't take tins with them as they'd freeze and burst. "I can't say I think we can make it," admits Sir Ranulph. "I don't know it's possible - it's rather like the Americans when they went to the moon. Was it possible? They didn't know."

सर रानुल्फ फीनेस पाँच अन्य खोजकर्ताओं की एक टीम का नेतृत्व कर रहे हैं जो एक ऐसी उपलब्धि हासिल करने की खोज में है जो कोई अन्य मानव हासिल नहीं कर पाया है-अंटार्कटिका के पार स्थायी अंधेरे और सर्दियों के अति कम तापमान में चलना।


Philippines drug war: Do we know how many have died?

Summary: The new head of the anti-drugs campaign in the Philippines, Leni Robredo, has said the "killing of the innocent" must come to an end, referring to a government policy human rights groups have blamed for thousands of state-sponsored killings.

By Howard Johnson and Christopher GilesBBC Philippines Correspondent and Reality Check She is a leading opposition figure and vocal critic of President Rodrigo Duterte but she is also the country's vice-president - a directly elected position in the Philippines. Mr Duterte has been facing growing criticism of his controversial crackdown on illegal drug sales and use and has appointed Ms Robredo after she angered him by saying his drug policy "obviously wasn't working". What has President Duterte said? After his election in 2016, the president launched a hard-line campaign against "illegal drug personalities", claiming the Philippines had become a "narco-state". The president's spokesman, Salvador Panelo, told BBC News: "The government does not want to kill - it is not the intention." However, the president himself has said he would personally take the lives of millions of drug users and there have been reports local police forces have been given targets to meet in terms of the number of deaths. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International have called the policy a "large-scale murdering enterprise" and say the police and vigilantes are proactively targeting suspected drug users. How many have died? There has been a great deal of debate about the death toll, with competing claims made by police officials, the government and human rights groups. Separate investigations are currently being carried out by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC). The UN is looking into the issue of extrajudicial killings and the ICC is conducting preliminary investigations into the president for alleged crimes against humanity. Officially, the police say they kill only in self-defence - for example, during drug-bust operations. In 2017, the government launched a campaign to reveal what it said were the true numbers of deaths, under the banner #RealNumbersPH. Its latest figure, published in June 2019, was 5,526 deaths of "drug personalities". However, the former police chief, in the same month, publicly put the number of deaths at 6,700. When pressed on the discrepancy between the two numbers, the president's spokesman said it could have been an "unintentional mistake". These numbers, however, don't include the drug-related killings allegedly being carried out by vigilantes inspired by the president's anti-drug rhetoric. In December 2018, the country's Commission on Human Rights (CHR) estimated the number of drug-war killings could be as high as 27,000. There is further confusion around another death toll, known as "deaths under investigation" (DUI). In March 2019, the police told local media this figure was over 29,000 - and this has been included in the government's official reports on the "war on drugs". So can these be classified as drug-related killings? Rappler, a local media outlet, says the DUI figure is the police's "way of categorising deaths in the war on drugs that police officials could not explain because they were outside 'legitimate police operations'". And Karen Gomez, of the Commission on Human Rights, told BBC News, in August 2019, the growing number had become a "cause of serious concern" and regional police stations were blocking or delaying the release of information. Mr Duterte has encouraged Filipinos to go and kill drug addicts and reports of vigilante groups killing suspected drug users have been well documented. In 2018, the president told an audience the "only sin" he had committed in his time in office was the "extrajudicial killings". Human-rights groups say the police have targeted mostly poor communities, putting suspects on "drug lists" compiled by local community leaders. Michelle Bachelet, the UN chief tasked with delivering the official report into allegations of human-rights abuses in the Philippines, has said even the government's official death toll would be "a matter of most serious concern for any country". Promising to take a health-based approach, Ms Robredo says: "We will change the metrics, not on the number of deaths but by those number of lives being changed for the better." Read more from Reality Check Send us your questions Follow us on Twitter

फिलीपींस में मादक पदार्थ विरोधी अभियान के नए प्रमुख, लेनी रोब्रेडो ने कहा है कि "निर्दोष लोगों की हत्या" समाप्त होनी चाहिए, एक सरकारी नीति का जिक्र करते हुए मानवाधिकार समूहों ने हजारों राज्य प्रायोजित हत्याओं के लिए दोषी ठहराया है।


Trump's first week: Well, that was intense

Summary: Donald Trump promised that he would deliver big things for the American people from the moment he came into office. To call his first week "yuge", as he might say, would be an understatement.

Mr Trump's first seven days in office have seen a flurry of executive orders, a war declared by his team on the mainstream media, some of the largest protests ever held in the United States, and the coining of a term - "alternative facts" - that could come to define the White House under his tenure. The BBC website has published more than 200 stories and videos about or relating to President Trump since inauguration day. It's been a busy week. Day One: American carnage In retrospect, this was the calmest day of them all. With his hand resting on two Bibles - one his own, the other used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861 - Donald John Trump was sworn in as US President, the first man to hold the office without either political or military experience. Earlier in the day, Barack Obama was captured through a window leaving a letter for his successor in the top drawer of the Oval Office desk. What did it say? We don't know and President Trump won't say. Addressing the nation at the ceremony, President Trump spoke in fairly bleak terms of rusted-out factories, poverty-stricken families and crime-blighted cities, vowing to end "this American carnage" "This was not a message to the American people as a whole - many of whom likely feel the past resident of the White House, Barack Obama, reflected their beliefs and their diversity," our correspondent Anthony Zurcher wrote. "This was a speech for the angry, the frustrated, the American voters who turned out in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida and Ohio to shake their fist at the status quo and take a chance on a man who was unlike any presidential politician who came before him." As the Obamas left for a holiday in Palm Springs, a new era in politics began. Take a deep breath now... Day Two: My crowd's bigger than your crowd While many protests were held on inauguration day around the world, including one in Washington that spiralled into violence, Saturday 21 January saw a remarkable global expression of opposition to the Trump administration and its perceived world view. Millions of people turned out to demonstrate at "Women's Marches" in cities around the world to make their voice heard on women's reproductive rights, gender, sexual and racial equality. But as protests continued, President Trump gave an extraordinary press conference at the CIA headquarters, telling staff that the media had fabricated a "feud" between him and the intelligence agencies, despite previously tweeting they were acting as if the US was Nazi Germany. Standing in front of the CIA's hallowed memorial wall, which honours agency employees who died in service, he also complained about reporting of the crowd size at his inauguration, and unflattering comparisons to the turn-out at Barack Obama's own ceremony in 2009. What followed saw "post-truth" politics kick into high gear. Trump dispatched his combative new press secretary Sean Spicer to lambast the media in a televised briefing. He said no-one had any crowd estimates from the inauguration before then giving his own crowd numbers - saying that the space holding 720,000 people was full when the oath was taken. This, he claimed, "was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period. Both in person and around the globe". He also falsely said the number of people taking Washington's subway system on the day had been higher than during Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2013. Day Three: A fact is no longer a fact. And that's a fact. In a television interview on Sunday, Trump counsellor Kellyanne Conway defended Spicer's inaccurate claims, thereby introducing the world to the term "alternative facts", which is how she described what he said. "Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods," NBC presenter Chuck Todd replied. The internet, of course, delivered an outpouring of #Spicerfacts. Meanwhile, the president himself was praising Barack Obama at a ceremony to swear in senior members of his team. While there, he said he would soon begin negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts. "Mexico has been terrific. The president has been really very amazing," he said. More on Mexico was to come later in the week from the president. (Hint: They stopped being so amazing.) Trump also finally responded to Saturday's mass protests against him. Day Four: It's business time The first working day of the Trump administration kicked off with meeting between the president and business leaders, during which Trump announced his aim to cut regulations for US-based businesses by 75%. A clutch of executive actions followed. He pulled the US out of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, a key part of Obama's efforts to engage and divert attention to the Asia-Pacific. Australia swiftly said it wanted to try to keep the deal alive with a so-called 'TPP 12 minus one'. Trump also banned federal money going to international groups which perform or provide information on abortions. The US president's order shows he "wants to stand up for all Americans, including the unborn," his press secretary Sean Spicer said. This picture went viral. "As long as you live you'll never see a photograph of 7 women signing legislation about what men can do with their reproductive organs," Guardian social editor Martin Belam said on Twitter. More than 260,000 people re-tweeted his thoughts. If the day wasn't busy enough in Trump news, a group of US ethics lawyers had filed a lawsuit against the president, alleging he is violating a constitutional ban on accepting payments from foreign governments through his hotels. Mr Trump described the lawsuit as "totally without merit". Oh, and he implemented a hiring freeze on some federal government workers. Day Five: Mmmm, oil The barrage of executive actions continued on Tuesday, with two orders signed to back controversial oil pipelines - Keystone XL and the Dakota Access project - if American steel is used. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose land abuts the proposed route of the Dakota Access pipeline, called Mr Trump's decision a violation of "law and tribal treaties". Environmentalists said Trump was proving as dangerous to the climate as they had feared. Oil industry groups applauded. Separately, Sean Spicer sparred again with reporters, this time over Trump's claims that millions of illegal voters cast ballots in the election despite no evidence suggesting so. It was also announced the FBI Director James Comey would stay in his position under the Trump administration. Mr Comey, of course, is blamed by many Democrats for Hillary Clinton's election loss. He announced the FBI was looking into new Clinton emails just days before the election, before soon after saying it found no evidence of criminality. Just a reminder: it's only Tuesday. Day Six: When torture became OK A visit to the Department of Homeland Security saw two more executive orders signed. One calls for "a large physical barrier" - the infamous wall - to be built on the US's southern border. The other toughened policy on illegal immigrants -"aliens" - including by withholding funding from so-called "sanctuary cities" that protect undocumented immigrants within their boundaries. In an interview with ABC News that aired on Wednesday evening, Trump said he believed waterboarding works, stating "we have to fight fire with fire". But Mr Trump also said he would consult Defence Secretary James Mattis and CIA director Mike Pompeo - both of whom have indicated they oppose the method - and "if they don't want to do it that's fine". A draft executive order - that the Trump team disavows as a White House document - also surfaces. It calls for a review into whether the "black sites" programme should be reintroduced and would scrap Mr Obama's move to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Another draft executive order emerges suggesting Trump would suspend the Syrian refugee programme and stop issuing visas from several Muslim-majority countries deemed to pose a threat to the security of the US. White House officials declined to comment on the document. But hey, it's almost the weekend. And on the seventh day, Donald annoyed Mexico Plans for an upcoming meeting between Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Donald Trump fall apart after the US President insists Mexico must pay for the border wall. Mr Pena Nieto cancels the meeting after Trump says it would better not be held if Mexico refuses to cough up. The White House then suggests a new 20 percent tax on Mexican imports could fund the barrier, but this is rubbished by Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, who says that such a move would only shift the costs burden onto US consumers. While the US-Mexico drama unfolds, UK Prime Minister Theresa May arrives in the US, joking that "opposites attract" and saying she wants to "renew the special relationship" between the UK and America. Separately, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright vows to register as Muslim if Trump creates a register of Muslim-Americans. Day Eight: The British are coming! On Friday morning, CNN hosted Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist who has repeatedly said millions of people vote illegally in the US, and has just as often declined to provide any evidence whatsoever for that claim. Forty-two minutes later, Trump tweeted his support for Phillips. Thousands of people marched on Washington to protest against abortion, and Vice-President Pence became the first sitting VP to address the demonstrators, saying, "Life is winning in America." Amid rumours that he would lift sanctions on Russia, Mr Trump hosted his first international leader when British Prime Minister Theresa May came to visit. Mr Trump joked about revoking the "special relationship" after the BBC asked him a pointed question about his stance on abortion, torture and other hot topics. Just before close of business, he attended the swearing-in ceremony for James Mattis as Secretary of Defense. There, he announced two new executive orders: one ordering "new ships, planes, resources and tools" to build up the military, and one creating new vetting measures to combat radical Islamic terrorism. "We only want to admit into America those who support our country and love deeply our people," he said. Have a relaxing weekend, everyone!

डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प ने वादा किया था कि वह पदभार संभालने के बाद से ही अमेरिकी लोगों के लिए बड़ी चीजें पेश करेंगे। उनके पहले सप्ताह को "युग" कहना, जैसा कि वे कह सकते हैं, एक अल्पोक्ति होगी।


Crime calculator: Find your personal risk of being a victim

Summary: Are you scared of being a victim of crime?

Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent@BBCDomCon Twitter Today, for the first time, BBC News, working with the Office for National Statistics, is providing you with a way of understanding your risk of being a victim of crime in England and Wales. If you are interested in Scotland, you can find out more about the Scottish Crime Survey on its official website. The tool below uses national crime statistics, your address and your personal characteristics to tell you what's happened to people similar to you in the last year - and therefore something approaching a personal estimate of how likely you are to be a victim. It only takes a moment to fill in, and the BBC does not keep the data, so punch in your details and have a look at the results: Sorry, your browser cannot display this content So were you surprised? Week in, week out, journalists like myself report on the big crime trends across the nation. And you will almost certainly notice the tool tells a different story - a personal one. Now, it's worth pointing out that it has some limitations. The Crime Survey of England and Wales, which provides most of the data in the calculator, captures a wide range of real experiences of crime, but some things are very difficult to measure, such as risky lifestyles and behaviour. Be that as it may, the tool does tell us a lot. And if you try changing your age - and even your gender - you learn a lot more about how crime affects us depending on who we are and our stage in life. Young men vs old ladies So, for instance, the tool shows that people like me, living in an area like mine, have a very low risk of being a victim of violence. If I were aged between 16 and 29 (sadly those days are gone) and living in the same area, my risk of being assaulted is five times greater. If I were a woman in my 60s, I'd be even less likely to be a victim. Put most simply, young men in areas of higher deprivation are the most likely victims of crime. Old ladies living in the same areas - among those who are most likely to fear crime - have a lower risk. There is a dividend for living in a posher area - but age and gender remain key factors too. Now, there are a lot of nuances in here - and you can drill into the ONS's data tables for the full facts - or read this highly digestible analysis from Victim Support. But many of these differences come down to how we live our lives. Younger people spend more time out at night. They're more likely to come into contact with people who become violent after they have had one too many drinks. How many parents have had to console a teenager who's had their bike or mobile phone stolen? When kids move out of home, start work or become a student, they're likely to be living in cheaper, less-secure, rented accommodation. But as they get older, the security of stable employment leads to security at home and family life. And you're less likely to be burgled if you've sunk into the sofa watching a box set, rather than if you've gone to the pub. Every time a home is renovated, it's harder to break in to than before. Each new car we buy tends to be more secure than its predecessors. But here's the thing. That's not actually how we perceive crime and our personal risk. In fact, what we think is happening can be at complete odds with what is actually going on. According to the most recent data from the ONS, people generally have a pretty good idea about how much crime is close to them. Their perceptions seem to match the reality. But 60% also thought that crime is rising across the country as a whole - even though the long-term trend is down. The people with the highest risk of being a victim - the young - were less likely to be worried than older generations, even though the older you become, the safer things generally become. Dr Jane Wood, a forensic psychologist at the University of Kent, says a range of factors influence this perception gap. Women for instance fear crime because they know they cannot fight off a younger man. But our perceptions are also influenced by what we see around us - and how we hear about. When the ONS asked interviewees to choose from a list of what most influenced their perceptions of national crime levels, people talked about television, radio, newspapers (tabloid and broadsheet), the internet and word of mouth. And, Dr Wood says, the more we read or watch about crime, the more we think about it. All of which may be an argument for not listening to a word that journalists like me tell you. But while I wait for the hue and cry to drag me from the newsroom, please share a link to the crime risk calculator.

क्या आप अपराध का शिकार होने से डरते हैं?


Q&A: Building Schools for the Future

Summary: In July 2010, Education Secretary Michael Gove controversially axed the national school rebuilding programme for England, established by the Labour government, saying it was wasteful and bureaucratic. The BBC News Website looks at the scheme and the coalition's future plans for school building.

What was Building Schools for the Future? Dubbed the biggest school building programme since Victorian times, Building Schools for the Future was Labour's £55bn grand plan to rebuild every secondary school in England. Announced by Tony Blair in 2004, the programme was about much more than replacing classrooms with leaking roofs or buildings with crumbling brickwork. It was about initiating a step-change in children's education. Not only were pupils to be provided with inspirational buildings that made them feel valued and worthwhile, but they were to be given access to new ways of learning fit for the 21st Century This involved state of the art computer technology and, as such, required a change from the lay-out of a traditional school. Instead of sitting in a class, filled with a line of wooden desks facing a teacher firmly ensconced in front of a chalk board, they might perch in wi-fi enabled "learning hubs", using their own laptops to carry out their own independent research. And for the multi-billion pound investment to be sustainable, the new facilities had to be flexible, as no one could predict what education would be like 50 years ahead. How did it work? At first Labour prioritised funds to 14 projects in 17 socially deprived local authorities, in a bid to raise their educational attainment. These local authorities oversaw the design and building projects in multiple schools with the help of officials from a quango called Partnership for Schools (PFS). But a key part of the process was close involvement by staff, governors and pupils in the schools themselves. And as such they needed lots of support. Schools would come up with a vision of what they wanted to offer and how they would provide it, so decision making on the redevelopments was devolved to the front-line. Then a private sector partner had to be sought to make the dream a reality and carry out the actual building work. Once that had happened a local education partnership between the council, the schools and private sector contractors would be set up to deliver the rebuilding. What were the difficulties? The problems were numerous. It was not long before the programme slipped from its original time scale. Within two years, Tony Blair's delivery unit had stepped in to investigate why things were proceeding so slowly and how lessons could be learned. Firstly, as senior officials in the then Department for Education and Skills pointed out to the Commons select committee, it was always going to be a "very, very big task" to get building started quickly by the councils in the most deprived areas of the country. This is because these local councils were the ones under the most pressure, with so many more calls on their resources and time than those in wealthier areas. And the challenge itself was a big one. Rebuilding numerous schools in an area, sometimes reshaping the educational provision in the process, takes time to plan, prepare and consult upon. By the end of the second year of the programme, some 72 local authorities had joined the scheme, but only five had reached the position where they could start building. It was not long before the original targets were labelled "too ambitious", by the then DfES, and scrapped. Stories emerged about the quality of schools being provided. The Commission for the Architecture and the Built Environment audited 52 of the 124 schools that had been completed and found that the quality of building and design was "poor" in 16 and "mediocre" in almost half. And head teachers started revealing just how much of their time these projects were taking up, with extra staff being hired to back-fill for them. How did things change? It was when the Conservatives started making political capital out of the scheme, that the then Labour government decided to make some changes. In January 2007, Schools' Minister Jim Knight defended the scheme but said the lessons must be learned from early mistakes. His department acknowledged that local authorities in the first three waves of the programme had lacked the management expertise and capacity to oversee such big projects. So councils bidding for BSF money would have to pass a readiness test, before their proposals were approved. More support was offered to schools and local councils in the form of the design champions and other experts. These were needed to ensure that schools were involved in the plans in a very real way. The procurement process was changed to ensure that some of the wastage was cut out at an early stage. PFS altered the bidding process to narrow down the number of contractors at an earlier stage. And once a contractor was chosen, they would revamp all the schools in the area, beginning with one or two sample or "pathfinder" schools. Was it wasteful? According to Education Secretary Michael Gove, yes, undoubtedly. When he scrapped the scheme he mocked the level of bureaucracy that accompanied projects. He said throughout its life, BSF had been characterised by "massive overspends, tragic delays, botched construction projects and needless bureaucracy". He claimed that, under Partnership for Schools (PfS), the BSF process had nine formal "meta stages", each with a series of sub-stages. But local authority staff and councillors reworking the education provision in their areas argued that good planning and proper consultation was necessary to ensure that they got things right. And it is generally thought that changes to the programme did help to ensure that schools built later on were of good quality - and some were considered inspirational. By June 2010, 178 school rebuilds or refurbishments were complete, with a further 231 in construction or nearly in construction. And a further 1,100 schools were on their way. Thus far the scheme has cost £5bn. But the original estimate of the scheme's overall cost was revised upwards by £10bn to £55bn. However, as the National Audit Office reported in February 2009, the government increased the scope of the programme and building cost inflation has been higher than originally estimated. Did some schools lose out? When Mr Gove axed the scheme, about 150 school projects were left in limbo, with a decision still to be made on whether they would proceed. Mr Gove got into some hot water after he published a list of schools that could proceed with a number of errors on it. This left him having to apologise to council officials. In the end, some 75 of these schools, mostly academies, were told their developments would go ahead. What happens to school building projects now? Mr Gove commissioned a review, headed by Sebastian James of the Dixons group, to look at how school building should be carried out in the future. The James review - published in April 2011 - recommended new schools be built to "standardised drawings", incorporating the latest thinking on educational requirements. He said a new central body should be set up to negotiate contracts with the construction industry. The government has acted on this advice - on 7 June 2011, Mr Gove officially announced the closure of PfS. PfS will be wound down and its functions transferred to the new Education Funding Agency (EFA), an executive agency of the Department for Education, by April 2012. The chief executive of the EFA will be Peter Lauener, former chief executive of the Young People's Learning Agency. The DfE is yet to set out its response to the review.

जुलाई 2010 में, शिक्षा सचिव माइकल गोव ने श्रम सरकार द्वारा स्थापित इंग्लैंड के लिए राष्ट्रीय विद्यालय पुनर्निर्माण कार्यक्रम को विवादास्पद रूप से खारिज करते हुए कहा कि यह व्यर्थ और नौकरशाही था। बीबीसी समाचार वेबसाइट योजना और विद्यालय निर्माण के लिए गठबंधन की भविष्य की योजनाओं को देखती है।


Thorntons sees profits surge thanks to strong Christmas

Summary: Thorntons has reported a 47% surge in profits, thanks to strong trading in the run-up to Christmas and its decision to more via supermarkets and wholesalers than its own stores.

The chocolate maker said pre-tax profit for the 28 weeks to 11 January was £7.2m, with sales up 4.5% to £139.7m. Thorntons has cut its store numbers to 280 and plans to cut further, to 180. Chief executive Jonathan Hart said he was "encouraged" by the progress it had made on "rebalancing the business". The firm said the re-launch of its Classics toffee and Nostalgia fudge range had gone well, while sales of its new Snowman-licensed range were better than expected. In its retail division, total sales fell 4%, mainly because of store closures. It closed 15 stores over the period and plans to close 40 in total this year. Thorntons said it expected profitability to continue to improve as it reduced the proportion of sales made via its stand-alone retail shops.

क्रिसमस से पहले मजबूत व्यापार और अपने स्वयं के स्टोरों की तुलना में सुपरमार्केट और थोक विक्रेताओं के माध्यम से अधिक करने के निर्णय के कारण थॉर्नटन्स ने मुनाफे में 47 प्रतिशत की वृद्धि दर्ज की है।


Woman and child seriously injured in A48 crash

Summary: A woman and child have been seriously injured following a crash on the A48 in Carmarthenshire.

Police are appealing for witnesses after the collision between Carmarthen and Nantycaws on Thursday night. The incident happened on the westbound carriageway at around 18:10 GMT, with two vehicles involved in the initial crash and two others colliding in the aftermath. Both the injured child and woman are in a stable condition in hospital. Police have asked anyone who saw a grey Nissan Note in the area at the time to contact them. Related Internet Links Dyfed-Powys Police

कार्मार्थेनशायर में ए48 पर दुर्घटना के बाद एक महिला और बच्चा गंभीर रूप से घायल हो गए हैं।


NEC Group sell-off: 40 years of events, exhibitions and concerts

Summary: From immaculately-coiffed pop stars to immaculately-coiffed dogs - the NEC's portfolio of concert venues, a conference centre plus a massive exhibition facility has played home to the full gamut of entertainment. But now the owner, Birmingham City Council, wants to sell the venues as it is facing a £1.1bn bill for equal pay settlements.

In 40 years the NEC group has hosted everything from the G8 summit of world leaders to the Crufts dog show. During that time, the centres have helped propel Birmingham into the international headlines. In 1998 the eyes of Europe were on the NEC as it hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, famously won by Israeli singer Dana International. Stars from David Bowie to Beyonce have performed at its two arenas - the National Indoor Arena (NIA) and the LG Arena. And the famous National Exhibition Centre is the home of Crufts Dog Show, Clothes Show Live and the BBC Good Food Show, among many other events. Every year about four million people attend more than 700 events at the group's venues. The National Exhibition Centre was the first venue to open - planning permission was granted in 1971 and two years later the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath, unveiled a plaque to mark the start of building work. The first seven halls were completed in 1975 and in 1976 the Queen opened the International Spring Fair at the site. The complex now has 20 halls on a 610-acre site near junction six of the M42 motorway. The NEC also houses the 16,000-seat LG Arena, which hosts concerts and conventions. Known as the NEC Arena when it was completed in 1980, the first event there was a concert by Queen. About 800,000 people attended concerts in 2012 by acts including Muse, The Killers, Jay Z, Rihanna, Elton John, George Michael, and Mumford & Sons, the venue said. In 1991, the £200m International Convention Centre (ICC), a conference centre in Centenary Square in Birmingham city centre, was officially opened by the Queen. Building work began back in 1984 and in 1998 it hosted the G8 summit meeting of world leaders. The ICC is also home to the 2,262-seat Symphony Hall concert venue, which is run by the Performances Birmingham Limited. In 1991, Olympic champion sprinter Linford Christie officially opened the National Indoor Arena. It staged the World Indoor Championships in 2003. The NIA has also hosted Davis Cup Tennis, music gigs and WWE wrestling. In December 2011 a £20.6m plan to revamp the NIA was announced, with work starting in June last year. Also in 2013, work began on a £150m casino complex at the NEC. The seven-storey Resorts World complex will boast a hotel, restaurants, cinema and shops.

बेदाग पॉप सितारों से लेकर बेदाग कुत्तों तक-एन. ई. सी. के संगीत कार्यक्रम स्थलों का पोर्टफोलियो, एक सम्मेलन केंद्र और एक विशाल प्रदर्शनी सुविधा ने मनोरंजन के पूरे सरगम को घर बना दिया है। लेकिन अब मालिक, बर्मिंघम सिटी काउंसिल, स्थानों को बेचना चाहता है क्योंकि यह समान वेतन निपटान के लिए £ 1.1bn बिल का सामना कर रहा है।


Boy arrested after woman and child die in Ipswich

Summary: A 17-year-old boy has been arrested after the "sudden death" of a woman and child.

The woman's body was found at an address in Swinburne Road, Ipswich, while the "young" child was treated by paramedics but died at the scene. Ambulance workers alerted police after being called at 17:00 GMT. Officers have not disclosed the grounds for the boy's arrest, but it is understood not to be murder or manslaughter. A cordon is in place and next of kin have been informed, Suffolk Police added.

एक महिला और बच्चे की "अचानक मौत" के बाद एक 17 वर्षीय लड़के को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


TT Mad Sunday road safety 'remarkable', say police

Summary: Visiting bikers showed "remarkable" road safety standards on Mad Sunday, at the Isle of Man's annual TT festival, according to police.

A spokesman said there were only four accidents yesterday, compared with dozens in previous years. On Mad Sunday the circuit is opened to motorcyclists to allow them to travel on the same tarmac as the Superbike riders in the TT. Insp Derek Flint said riders showed "remarkable" respect for speed limits. "None of us can remember anything similar in recent memory. What we did see was good standards, respect for speed limits in the main, and people really heeding the message to know their limits," he said. There have been no arrests for drinking and driving, although nine people, four local people and five tourists, have so far been arrested for other alcohol-related offences.

पुलिस के अनुसार, आइल ऑफ मैन के वार्षिक टी. टी. उत्सव में मैड संडे पर आने वाले बाइक चालकों ने "उल्लेखनीय" सड़क सुरक्षा मानकों का प्रदर्शन किया।


Gwynt y Mor wind farm's foundations completed

Summary: The foundations for a large wind farm off the north Wales coast have been completed.

Energy company RWE Innogy UK says the £2bn Gwynt y Mor project, near Llandudno in Conwy, is due to be operational this year. It is the largest project of its kind being built in Europe and its 160 turbines will generate enough power for 400,000 homes, the company claims. A spokesman said the foundations represented a "tremendous milestone".

उत्तरी वेल्स तट पर एक बड़े पवन फार्म की नींव पूरी कर ली गई है।


Family devastated by Taliban murder of Pakistani porter

Summary: The Taliban in Pakistan have said that the shooting of 10 climbers in the north of the country on Monday was carried out by a branch of the militant group set up to target foreigners. Among the dead however was Pakistani Shia Muslim Ali Hussain, whom officials say may have been targeted because of his religion. The BBC's M Ilyas Khan has been speaking to family of the murdered porter and cook.

Mr Hussain was the only Pakistani who died - at least four other Sunni Muslim local staff were reportedly spared by the hardline attackers who see Shia Muslims as heretics. Those killed on Monday were forced to kneel and were shot in the head, officials said. They were identified as American, Chinese, Ukrainian, Slovakian, Lithuanian and Nepali. Friends and family say that Mr Hussain, 28, lived a busy and productive life occasionally working as a cook-cum-porter in the area around Nanga Parbat mountain and other locations. An ambulance brought his body to his home village, Hushe, in the Skardu area of Gilgit-Baltistan region on Sunday night. Relatives say he had bullet wounds in the head and chest. One of them, Ali Khan, was not there, but when contacted by the BBC in nearby Skardu said that the dead man's young family was devastated. "He was hard-working, a good earner, and a high achiever, given the area that he came from," he said. High-altitude porter Ali Hussain was born in Hushe, located in the midst of a remote mountain desert, some six gruelling hours by jeep north of Skardu, the administrative centre of Baltistan district. There are no roads and there were no proper schools when he was growing up. "But he progressed to become an experienced high-altitude porter who climbed up to the 8,000m Camp Four of K-2 mountain in 2010, and the 7,000m Camp Three of the Broad Peak in 2008," Mr Khan said. It was Mr Hussain's skill as a cook that resulted in him becoming a porter. "He learnt cooking in a hotel in Lahore when he was 18, and that skill got him his first job with a mountaineering firm nearer to home," said Mr Khan. Since then, he had flowed with the migratory pattern of the labour force of northern Pakistan, working as a cook in the lowlands of Punjab in the winter, and signing up for 40-day mountain expeditions in the Gilgit-Baltistan region in the summer. The earnings were meagre by western standards: about $80 (£50) a month as the hotel cook, and about $570 (£368) for a climbing season in the north. But for the people of this cold and isolated hinterland of northern Pakistan, this amounted to a considerable family income. His parents could only afford for him to have a couple of years of schooling, and he had to curtail his education in order to help them grow wheat, peas and potatoes on the family farm. But Mr Hussain worked hard and was able to send his five-year-old son to a private English-medium school that has recently been established in Hushe. "With him gone, I am not sure if the family will be able to afford the school fees," said Mr Khan. Apart from his son, Ali Hussain leaves behind a young wife and two daughters, the youngest one being just eight months old. "He was the eldest of two brothers and four sisters. None of them is married yet. He was the financial mainstay of the family. They will miss him sorely," Mr Khan said. Some unconfirmed news reports said that at least 15 gunmen dressed in the uniform of local security forces carried out the attack. Even though it took place at base camp, it was at a height of 4,200m (13,779 ft) prompting analysts to speculate that the attackers would had to have travelled for at least 18 hours by foot or by mule. The killers reportedly forced two local guides to take them to the base camp. Once they reached their destination, they rounded up the foreign climbers and staff, took passports and money, destroyed mobile phones, blindfolded them and then forced them to kneel.

पाकिस्तान में तालिबान ने कहा है कि सोमवार को देश के उत्तर में 10 पर्वतारोहियों की गोलीबारी विदेशियों को निशाना बनाने के लिए स्थापित आतंकवादी समूह की एक शाखा द्वारा की गई थी। हालांकि मृतकों में पाकिस्तानी शिया मुस्लिम अली हुसैन भी शामिल थे, जिनके बारे में अधिकारियों का कहना है कि उन्हें उनके धर्म के कारण निशाना बनाया गया था। बीबीसी के एम इलियास खान मारे गए कुली और रसोइये के परिवार से बात कर रहे हैं।


Teenager dies in crash as car followed by Essex Police

Summary: A 17-year-old boy has died after a Ford Escort car being pursued by police failed to stop and collided with a BMW and a garden wall in Essex.

The accident happened in the early hours of the morning near Glendale Gardens in Leigh-on-Sea. Another 17-year-old boy in the Escort has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Two other teenagers, who were also hurt, have been arrested. An IPCC spokesperson said: "IPCC investigators have been deployed to the scene to oversee evidence collection and to a local police station where the officers are participating in a post-incident procedure." Related Internet Links Essex Police

पुलिस द्वारा पीछा की जा रही एक फोर्ड एस्कॉर्ट कार के रुकने में विफल रहने और एसेक्स में एक बीएमडब्ल्यू और बगीचे की दीवार से टकराने के बाद एक 17 वर्षीय लड़के की मौत हो गई है।


When being treated for an eating disorder treatment means leaving home

Summary: Struggling with an eating disorder is hard enough at the best of times - but if you live in Northern Ireland and need intensive hospital treatment, you face being separated from friends and family in order to travel hundreds of miles for the care you need.

By Dominic HughesHealth correspondent, BBC News At a gym in Omagh, Aileen Ui Dhonnghaile is using her hard-won knowledge of anorexia to break down some myths. "You can control what you eat, but you can't control what you're feeling at times," she tells her audience of personal trainers. Many of the trainers report working with clients they think might have an eating disorder but not knowing what to do. Aileen can answer their questions with authority because she has endured her own struggle with anorexia. But when she became so ill she had to be admitted to hospital, no facility in Northern Ireland could offer the specialist mental and physical care she needed. 'Really lonely' She ended up leaving her home and family and travelling to London, hundreds of miles away. "It was really, really lonely and it was a time in my life when I just went, 'How did I come to this?'" she says. "You're being put in a country you just didn't know. "You are trying to recover from an eating disorder and that in itself is a struggle, never mind having the added factor of being away from your family. "There's people out there that are really, really struggling with life and can't access the help that they really, really need." 'We're proof you can recover from an eating disorder' 'I don't know how to live without my eating disorder' 'Bulimia battle did not beat me' says athlete Aileen spent more than two years being treated in London and is not an isolated case. Smaller population The lack of specialist hospital care is now part of a wider review of eating disorder services provided by the NHS in Northern Ireland. But Dr Stephen Bergin, of Northern Ireland's Health and Social Care Board, says the size of the population may work against establishing a specialised service. "We may lack the critical size to ever develop that, given Northern Ireland's [population of] 1.8 million," he says. "The advice we've sought is that you need a population base of, say, five million. "So would we ever justify an inpatient service? I'm not sure." Community-based teams in Northern Ireland do offer psychological therapies, but the number of people seeking help is putting those services under intense pressure. There is also an issue around getting the condition recognised in the first place. Student nurse Olivia Ervine realised she had anorexia while at university, but when she sought help she was shocked by a simple lack of understanding. "I cried a lot after that, because no-one was taking me seriously," she says. "For any health professional that is supposed to be trained in this, they should know it's not to do with food, it's to do with maybe some emotional trauma you went through, or the unhappiness in your life. "It's a very destructive disease, physically, mentally, it's just absolute torture." Olivia ended up getting help through a private clinic, and like Aileen is now making a good recovery. But if doctors fail to spot there's a problem, the consequences can be serious. Pam Nugent lost her son Laurence when he was just 24. Laurence had lived with bulimia for years, but Pam believes he missed out on the best care and so too are hundreds of others. "We lived in hell every day, because every day we worried whether our son was going to be alive by night time. "It can be fatal, it has been fatal, not just my son but lots of people, in different age ranges, not just at 24 years of age, at 30, 40 and 50. "People need to get the right support, they're entitled to it, they deserve it. " Northern Ireland is not the only place in the UK where people find it hard to get speedy access to mental health services. But having to journey across the Irish Sea for treatment presents those who need intensive care with a dilemma: say goodbye to family and friends to get the help you desperately need, or put your health at risk.

एक खाने के विकार के साथ संघर्ष करना सबसे अच्छे समय में काफी कठिन है-लेकिन यदि आप उत्तरी आयरलैंड में रहते हैं और आपको गहन अस्पताल उपचार की आवश्यकता है, तो आपको अपनी देखभाल के लिए सैकड़ों मील की यात्रा करने के लिए दोस्तों और परिवार से अलग होने का सामना करना पड़ता है।


Descent into hell: Mumbai's dehumanised sewer workers

Summary: About 30,000 conservancy workers, also known as sweepers, are employed by the civic authorities in the Indian city of Mumbai.

The workers, all of them Dalits - formerly known as untouchables - collect garbage, sweep the city streets, clean the gutters, load and unload garbage trucks and work in the dumping grounds. And "without exception, all of them despise their work", says photographer Sudharak Olwe who documented their lives over a period of a year.

लगभग 30,000 सफाई कर्मचारी, जिन्हें सफाई कर्मचारियों के रूप में भी जाना जाता है, भारतीय शहर मुंबई में नागरिक अधिकारियों द्वारा कार्यरत हैं।


Abortion law in Northern Ireland: An evolving story

Summary: Things in Northern Ireland can change pretty quickly.

By Marie-Louise ConnollyBBC News NI Health Correspondent And that's what has happened around abortion law in Northern Ireland. On Thursday, Belfast's Court of Appeal overturned the 2015 judgement that the current law was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. By 14:00 BST, the government announced it will fund abortions for women from Northern Ireland in England for free. Evolving story That overturns a court ruling made earlier this month which rejected an appeal by a mother and daughter in their legal battle for women from Northern Ireland to receive free abortions on the NHS in England. It is a story that continues to evolve. Back to Thursday's case, and it was Stormont's Department of Justice and Northern Ireland's Attorney General who had brought the appeal against the 2015 judgement. Overturning that ruling is significant. Again it demonstrates how the public, charities, families even the courts have difficulty reaching a decision and even interpreting the local abortion law. 'Mixed day' Overthrowing the previous ruling came as a shock to Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International. While they had claimed victory in 2015 for moving the local abortion story closer in line with the rest of the UK - on Thursday all that was undone. Meanwhile, as anti-abortion campaigners were celebrating at that decision - their feelings quickly turned to absolute dismay and disbelief as the news emerged from Westminster. It's safe to say that this is a mixed day for Northern Ireland's abortion campaigners - on both sides of the argument.

उत्तरी आयरलैंड में चीजें बहुत जल्दी बदल सकती हैं।


Arrest after 'Nazi salute' synagogue video

Summary: A teenager has been arrested after a video was posted online showing a boy performing a Nazi salute outside an East Renfrewshire synagogue.

The post, thought to have been recorded at the Giffnock and Newlands Synagogue, featured a boy who appeared to have a Hitler-style moustache. The clip was widely shared on social media. Police have confirmed that a 16-year-old has been charged in connection with the incident.

ईस्ट रेनफ्रूशायर आराधनालय के बाहर एक लड़के को नाजी सलामी देते हुए दिखाने वाला एक वीडियो ऑनलाइन पोस्ट किए जाने के बाद एक किशोर को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Thousands take part in Windermere Great North Swim

Summary: Thousands of people are taking part in what has been billed as the UK's largest open water swimming event.

Windermere's Great North Swim annually attracts up to 10,000 entrants. Swimmers must wear wet suits for the half-mile (0.8 km), one-mile (1.6km) or two-mile (3.2 km) courses. The three day event, which culminates later, raises large amounts for charity, and gives a substantial boost to the local economy. Saturday's elite events featured some of the best in the world, with Welsh swimmer Tom Allen winning the men's race and the USA's Christine Jennings the women's.

ब्रिटेन के सबसे बड़े खुले पानी में तैराकी कार्यक्रम में हजारों लोग भाग ले रहे हैं।


Covid in Wales: How the country is coping - in six charts

Summary: How is Covid-19 affecting Wales? Nearly a month since the latest lockdown came into force, hospitals have more patients with the virus than ever before and weekly deaths are close to the peak levels seen at the end of April.

By Steve Duffy & Gwyndaf HughesBBC News But case rates seem to be easing off and the vaccination rollout has started, if a little stutteringly. Here is a snapshot - in six charts - to show where we are. Wrexham still a hotspot as cases ease In the week before Christmas, Merthyr Tydfil had the highest case rate in the UK for Covid-19. From that peak of 1,349 cases per 100,000, it has been cut considerably. The latest figures show 545.5 cases per 100,000, which is 29 positive cases in the past week. But while the south Wales valleys and Bridgend were showing up as hotspots for weeks, concerns have switched to north Wales - and the north east region in particular. Health officials believe the faster-spreading variant of Covid-19 has taken root and is responsible for at least 70% of cases in north Wales. Wrexham has seen a steady rise in its case rate. It now stands at 970.9 cases per 100,000 - its highest point. Twelve of its communities make up the highest 20 localised hotspots in Wales, when those figures are broken down further. With at least 30% of recent positive cases in south Wales also due to the new variant, health officials will be anxious to keep a lid on its spread. The case rate in Wales as a whole was for a period in December one of the highest in the world but it has been falling since the week before Christmas. Indeed England - including six of its regions - and Northern Ireland are now ahead of it. The chief medical officer for Wales Frank Atherton cautiously welcomed this "small fall." He also said around 20% of tests were now coming back positive, down from 25% last week. "This is heading in the right direction but is still too high and shows that there's still a lot of coronavirus circulating in the community," he said. Hospital numbers at a record Doctors believe it could be at least a month before falling case rates work their way through to hospitals. The pressures within Welsh hospitals have been growing - with 36% of all patients in beds having Covid. This is twice the proportion we saw in May. In the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf, more than half its hospital patients have the virus. There are also record numbers of recovering Covid patients - now more than 1,000. These are people who no longer have the virus but are too sick from the effects of it to be allowed home. The numbers in critical care or on ventilators are the highest seen since the peak of the pandemic in April. The challenges of containing Covid-19 infections within hospitals themselves have proved difficult. There have now been more than 3,300 infections linked to hospital outbreaks since the start of October, with 271 new cases in the most recent week. Not seen in the figures themselves are the effects on staff, who were said by NHS Wales bosses on Wednesday to be exhausted and on a "constant treadmill." Deaths continuing to rise The number of Covid-19 deaths during the pandemic passed the 5,000 mark in Wales in the latest weekly update from the Office for National Statistics. Rhondda Cynon Taf has the worst mortality rate - and by one measure has the highest across England and Wales. On the day the most recent lockdown came into force, there were 65 deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales - the worst in a single day since April. It is still running at an average of 43 a day in the past week. Looking at the five-year average - seen as a reliable measure - so far this year there have been 3,945 "excess" deaths in Wales. How Wales is staying at home Behaviour has changed over lockdowns, as revealed by the mobile phones we carry around. Mobility data tracked from the likes of Google show dramatic drops in journeys to work, on public transport and to shops. This information is gleaned by scientists and policy-makers as part of the overall picture on formulating the restrictions to reduce transmission of the virus. We can see again how the lockdown just before Christmas caused some of the most dramatic shifts yet - but partly of course, people would be spending more time at home anyway. More people in Wales were back grocery shopping, and more quickly, than after previous lockdowns. But it is still not back to the period before Christmas and is 20% below the baseline, where we were back in May. Workplace data also suggests not as many are working from home than during the April-May lockdown. Vaccinations picking up? After an admittedly slow start off the blocks, Wales' vaccine rollout programme saw more than 10,000 first doses administered at the start of the week, almost double the number the previous day. Although the overall proportion is still behind the other UK nations, there was a sign of drawing closer to England and Scotland's rate in the latest daily figures. Wales will hope to catch up as it aims to reach 1.5 million people in the first phase.

कोविड-19 वेल्स को कैसे प्रभावित कर रहा है? नवीनतम लॉकडाउन लागू होने के लगभग एक महीने बाद, अस्पतालों में वायरस के पहले से कहीं अधिक मरीज हैं और साप्ताहिक मौतें अप्रैल के अंत में देखे गए चरम स्तर के करीब हैं।


Somerset Levels flooded farmers in 'utter despair'

Summary: The government has ordered a "concrete plan" to deal with persistent flooding on the Somerset Levels, which farmers accuse the Environment Agency of not doing enough to tackle. The reality for one farmer, as the anger continues to rise, is living with up to 90% of 300 acres of land constantly under water.

By Chris SandysBBC News "It's all a bit bleak," said Heather Venn, a beef farmer around Curry Moor and West Sedgemoor. She would not reveal the financial cost, but admitted the family had been forced to reorganise its borrowings "significantly" to stay in business. "It's a huge deal for us," she said. "We are running at a significant overdraft." The cause is obvious to those living in the county. Currently about 11,500 hectares (28,420 acres) of the Somerset Levels are inundated by about 65 million cubic metres of water. The Levels are supposed to flood, no-one disputes that, but the water is also supposed to then recede. For Mrs Venn and her husband Gerald though, their grassland has been flooded since the end of last year. "It has been underwater for so long what on earth is it gong to be like when the water goes?" she says. "Is it going to be croppable or not? It is not just about farming now, it's about more than farming. The destruction of farmland." It is a similar picture for Barry Bryer, a dairy and maize farmer with 400 acres around King's Sedgemoor, 50% of which was underwater a fortnight ago. In 2012, almost a quarter of his land reverted to peat bog, he said, with a friend suggesting the flooding was last this bad in 1929. "If you have rainfall, you have got to get it out. There are two main arteries - the River Parrett and the Parrett relief channel," he said. "I liken it to your own heart. If your arteries clog up you have bypass surgery - for us that was the bypass channel - but if they remain clogged up something needs sorting. "Realistically, you have got to clear the rivers. The Parrett has not been dredged properly for 30 years. Dredging is the only way I know of. "The channels at the moment are only 60% effective." According to the tourist board Visit Somerset, the levels are dotted with heritage sites and historic towns, bursting with wildlife and home to a vibrant farming community. However the community is one in desperate need of help. "Utter despair" is how the National Famers Union (NFU) in the South West puts it. It says there is a "lack of trust" in the government and the problem can only be overcome by "unblocking the arteries". NFU regional director Melanie Squires, said: "We must see urgent action by the Environment Agency (EA), backed by Defra ministers, to allocate sufficient resources or the situation, not simply in terms of the damage done to land and property, but also to trust in central government and its agencies will be irreversible." However, the EA is adamant increased dredging in Somerset would not have prevented the widespread flooding. "We're doing everything we can to pump water off the Somerset Levels as quickly as river and tide levels allow," said an agency spokesman. "This is the single largest pumping operation ever undertaken in Somerset." The agency said £45m was spent nationally in the last financial year on improving rivers, including dredging and weed clearance. During a visit to the county, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, said it appeared two rivers needed to be dredged as part of a much wider package of flood relief work. But for the landowners, the homeowners, the business owners, and the farmers who are surrounded with stagnating floodwater, taking things one day at a time, is the only option. "Dredging is not the only thing, but if it's not done then we're all going to go under," said Mrs Venn. "If you don't clear your drains out, the water won't go away." And there are hundreds in Somerset, who just want the water to drain away.

सरकार ने समरसेट स्तर पर लगातार बाढ़ से निपटने के लिए एक "ठोस योजना" का आदेश दिया है, जिससे निपटने के लिए किसानों ने पर्यावरण एजेंसी पर पर्याप्त प्रयास नहीं करने का आरोप लगाया है। एक किसान के लिए वास्तविकता, जैसे-जैसे गुस्सा बढ़ता जा रहा है, लगातार 300 एकड़ भूमि में से 90 प्रतिशत तक पानी के नीचे रह रहा है।


Game of Thrones: Behind-the-scenes documentary's top secrets

Summary: Secure phonelines and codenames are usually the preserve of governments and secret services. But when it came to Game of Thrones spoilers, the producers of the fantasy mega-hit weren't taking any chances, as the woman who made its official behind-the-scenes documentary found out.

Filmmaker Jeanie Finlay, whose work has appeared on BBC Four, usually tells "intimate stories" in her films. So she might not be the obvious candidate to rub shoulders with 2,000 crew members and a cast of White Walkers on the set of the world's biggest TV show. But, to her surprise, that's exactly what happened. "I got this mysterious e-mail from this guy who used to work at the Irish Film Board saying 'HBO are going to call'," she said. 'Enormous trust' By her own admission, Ms Finlay "wasn't the biggest Game of Thrones person", although she "knew 'winter was coming' and who Jon Snow was". Nevertheless, she took the call and, about a month later, found herself meeting the show's producers in Los Angeles pitching her idea. "They gave me enormous trust," she said. "Three weeks later they said 'welcome to the family'." A fortnight after that, she was "on a recce in a very windy quarry in Northern Ireland with the producers". Embedded on the set, she would go on to chronicle the creation of the show's final season and what it takes to bring the world of Westeros to life. And while millions around the world would watch the finished product, Ms Finlay couldn't tell a soul about her top-secret assignment. Speaking on Mark Kermode's weekly podcast, Ms Finlay said she kept her involvement hidden from friends and family for 14 months. But there was little danger of her revealing dreaded spoilers, as she had to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). "It was such a secret - even the existence of the film was a secret," she said. 'Dragons and ice lakes' In scenes which could have come from other HBO dramas, the US network even installed a dedicated phone line at Ms Finlay's office in Nottingham's Broadway Cinema. "Three guys from HBO came over from New York, they got the road dug up, they put in a special secure line, we used code names and cut on encrypted material," she said. "We had to use code names for all of the actors because of spoilers. "It is actually surreal to be able to talk about it. "I'm so relieved the finale has gone out." For Ms Finlay, whose films, such as Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, tend to be fly-on-the-wall portraits of single subjects, the scale of Game of Thrones' production was a shock. "I'm a documentary maker so this was something else," she said. "It was just huge. It was four months before the cast turned up." "They had dragons and ice lakes and a castle - a massive castle which can be shot from any angle. "There are costumes which had acid-etched decoration, the level of detail is extraordinary." 'Terrifying job' In her documentary, the filmmaker tells the stories of eight people, including Vladimír Furdík, who plays the Night King in the show. "He's the biggest, baddest, villain in Game of Thrones, but he's the most adorable Czechoslovakian stuntman," she said. Despite not being a fan going into the project, she fell in love with the Game of Thrones world, and even got her 15-year-old daughter a part in the final episode as a wildling. "Just the scale of it is so amazing which makes it terrifying as a job to do," she said. "The producer Chris Newman said, 'You must never be intimidated by the feast, you can only eat the meal in front of you', so that's what we did, day by day." The Last Watch, by Jeanie Finlay, can be seen on Sky Atlantic. The Lord of Links recommends: Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.

सुरक्षित फोनलाइन और कूटनाम आम तौर पर सरकारों और गुप्त सेवाओं के लिए सुरक्षित होते हैं। लेकिन जब गेम ऑफ थ्रोन्स स्पॉइलर की बात आती है, तो काल्पनिक मेगा-हिट के निर्माता कोई जोखिम नहीं ले रहे थे, जैसा कि पर्दे के पीछे की आधिकारिक वृत्तचित्र बनाने वाली महिला को पता चला।


Kent hospital's A&E delays 'due to minor ailments'

Summary: Patients at a Kent hospital have been facing a wait of up to 10 hours to be admitted on to wards because of people seeking treatment for minor ailments.

The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate said many could be dealt with by pharmacies and local GPs. Peter Orsman, an A&E matron at the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, said some patients saw the hospital as an "easy option". But he added that the hospital would never turn anyone away. Mr Orsman said some patients had been attended by ambulance crews first, who had given them "good advice", only for them to then get a taxi to the hospital. "It's putting more pressure on A&E, and taking up the ambulance service in the first place. "These are people that will be seen by a doctor after a wait, and then will go home again," he said.

केंट अस्पताल में रोगियों को वार्डों में भर्ती होने के लिए 10 घंटे तक का इंतजार करना पड़ रहा है क्योंकि लोग मामूली बीमारियों के लिए इलाज चाहते हैं।


Quinn Cooper: Tribute to driver killed in collision

Summary: A driver who died after being involved in a crash with a lorry on Teesside was "kind, patient and thoughtful to others", his family have said.

Quinn Cooper, 21, died on 5 September after the Ford Fiesta he was driving collided with an HGV in a lay by close to the A1053 roundabout, near Lazenby. In a statement his family said: "Quinn was taken at his happiest". They said he had studied a law degree and was ready to become a teacher. The statement read: "We love you Quinn more than the world. You make us proud every day and we will miss you forever. "We will always remain as a family of four." Related Internet Links Cleveland Police

टीसाइड पर एक लॉरी के साथ दुर्घटना में मारे गए एक चालक के परिवार ने कहा है कि वह "दूसरों के प्रति दयालु, धैर्यवान और विचारशील" था।


Barham shooting: Man arrested on suspicion of murder

Summary: A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was shot inside a house.

Suffolk Police were called to a property in Barham just before 04:45 BST on Sunday and found the woman, in her 40s, with serious injuries. She taken to Ipswich Hospital where she later died. A 51-year-old man remains in custody. A police cordon and forensic teams are at the scene and the force urged anyone with information to contact them. Related Internet Links Suffolk Constabulary

एक घर के अंदर एक महिला को गोली मारने के बाद हत्या के संदेह में एक व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Sean Quinn contempt of court action begins in Dublin

Summary: An action for contempt of court taken by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) against Sean Quinn, his son, Sean Quinn junior, and his nephew, Peter Quinn, has begun at the Commercial Court in Dublin.

IBRC alleges that the Quinns breached court orders, which prevented them from interfering with property assets in several different jurisdictions. The bank alleges the Quinns were involved in a conspiracy to put assets beyond the reach of the bank. It says the Commercial Court in Ireland granted injunctions in June and July last year preventing them from interfering with the assets. But it alleges the Quinns took considerable steps after those orders were granted to strip assets from some of the international companies. The bank says that these are assets over which it has security in the form of share pledges provided by various members of the Quinn family. It says if the Quinns are not restrained in these actions, its security will be worthless. Stripped Lawyers for IBRC, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, said that if it were to win the case being taken against it by the Quinns over 2.8bn euro in loans, the underlying security against which the loans were given would be stripped of any value. The Quinns deny the allegation that they breached court orders. They said any steps they took were taken before the Commercial Court granted its injunctions. The court heard that 20 sworn documents have been submitted on behalf of the bank. It heard that the bank intends to cross-examine Mr Quinn, his son and his nephew. The bank says Sean Quinn senior and Peter Quinn were the prime movers in breaching the court orders, but it also makes one allegation of contempt against Sean Quinn junior in relation to a Ukrainian company. The case is expected to last eight days.

आयरिश बैंक रिज़ॉल्यूशन कॉर्पोरेशन (आईबीआरसी) द्वारा सीन क्विन, उनके बेटे, सीन क्विन जूनियर और उनके भतीजे, पीटर क्विन के खिलाफ डबलिन के वाणिज्यिक न्यायालय में अदालत की अवमानना के लिए कार्रवाई शुरू हो गई है।


BT’s competitors plot regulatory backlash

Summary: With BT's management working feverishly to complete a £10bn deal to buy a mobile telephone company, it is worth noting that their competitors are unlikely to sit idly by and watch the deal go through.

Kamal AhmedBusiness editor@bbckamalon Twitter As has been widely reported, BT is close to entering the key "exclusivity" stage of the deal to buy either O2 (22 million mobile phone customers in the UK) or EE (24.5 million). The "exclusivity" stage is the bit when a company agrees it wants to buy a target and enters talks with that target alone to seal the deal. Of course, as with any deal, it could fall at the final hurdle but the noises today are positive. For what this might mean for consumers, read my earlier blog on the issue here. I argued then that any deal would probably mean cheaper bills in the long run, creating a significant headache for other mobile operators which already operate with wafer-thin profit margins. Sources tell me that the BT board is caught in a dilemma over the deal. Buying O2 is easier. It only has one owner, Spain's Telefonica, which is a willing seller. And it will be cheaper as it has fewer customers. EE is seen by many, though, as strategically more compelling for BT. It leads the market in 4G (the fastest mobile bandwidth) which many think is the future for smartphone service delivery. But EE has two owners - France's Orange and Germany's Deutsche Telekom - which makes any deal trickier. Buying EE will also be considerably more expensive and EE's 4G position may raise regulatory issues. BT successfully bought 4G spectrum in the last auction of 2013. Bringing that together with EE may make the Competition and Markets Authority and Ofcom (the two lead regulators for the sector) twitchy. It may not be the only thing. 'Competition is good' Vodafone, Sky, Virgin, Talk Talk and 3 - the other major players in this market - will all be watching developments closely. One of the biggest worries, I am told, is over what is known as "backhaul" services. That's the vital bit of the telecoms infrastructure that links mobile transmission masts with the mobile operator's network. It's run by BT Wholesale. Now, if there is a deal that could raise concerns as BT would then be running its own mobile business through the "piping" that is also owns. The second issue is more fundamental. How should the telecommunications sector be regulated in a "quad-play" world where major operators like BT could ultimately provide mobile, broadband, fixed line and television services? At the moment the four parts of the "quad" are largely regulated as if they are separate sectors. It's a system of "vertical" regulation. But what if that were to change to "horizontal" cross-media regulation? Again, if the deal goes through, BT would become a major player in each of the quad areas. Its mobile and television competitors are likely to make some regulatory noise about that. My BT sources say that any issues are easy to overcome and that BT would not be dominant in any of the key markets. One told me that competitors might make a lot of noise, but that's because they don't like the thought of a new competitor. "Competition is good for the market and consumers," the source said. As a counter to that, mobile operators are pointing to the example of New Zealand. There the major provider, Telecom, split to become a retail business - which retained the name - and a network delivery business, called Chorus (which plays the BT Wholesale role). We are a long, long way from similar developments here. But it is certainly worth remembering that telecommunications is a fast developing sector dealing with the rapidly evolving world of digital. How that world changes if this deal goes through - and how that affects all of us and how we live online - will be much debated as BT flexes its considerable corporate muscles.

बीटी का प्रबंधन एक मोबाइल टेलीफोन कंपनी खरीदने के लिए 10 बिलियन पाउंड का सौदा पूरा करने के लिए कड़ी मेहनत कर रहा है, यह ध्यान देने योग्य है कि उनके प्रतिद्वंद्वियों के आराम से बैठने और सौदे को होते देखने की संभावना नहीं है।