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uk-england-hampshire-40948033 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-40948033 | Bob Higgins: Ex-Saints coach child abuse charges trial date set | A date has been set for the trial of a former Southampton Football Club youth coach who faces child abuse charges. | Bob Higgins, 64, of Southampton, appeared at Winchester Crown Court earlier charged with 65 counts of indecent assault against 23 boys, all aged under 17. The alleged offences took place between 1970 and 1996. Mr Higgins, whose first name is Robert, did not enter a plea but a provisional trial date has been set for 9 April. | साउथेम्प्टन फुटबॉल क्लब के पूर्व युवा कोच के मुकदमे के लिए एक तारीख निर्धारित की गई है, जो बाल शोषण के आरोपों का सामना कर रहे हैं। |
world-africa-29382685 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29382685 | Birth of a Mugabe dynasty in Zimbabwe? | The birth of a dynasty is not an easy thing to predict. But many Zimbabweans now seem preoccupied by the tantalising possibility that the Mugabes are seeking to join the list - admittedly a shrinking list - of families who have managed to pass the reins of power across the dinner table. | Andrew HardingAfrica correspondent@BBCAndrewHon Twitter President Robert Mugabe is 90. His second wife, Grace, is 49. Succession speculation has been a constant theme for years in Zimbabwe, but Grace Mugabe has only recently emerged as a possible contender. Outsiders are likely to have heard of the president's former secretary in exclusively dubious terms - for her allegedly extravagant shopping habits; for the incident when she punched a British journalist in Hong Kong; and other alleged excesses. Zimbabwe's state media, by contrast, have sought to highlight her devotion to charity work. The notion of a "President Grace" first gained currency in August when Mrs Mugabe - a political novice - was unexpectedly endorsed as the next leader of the governing Zanu-PF's Women's League - a powerful role - to be confirmed at the party's congress in December. Fuel was added to the fire this month when the first lady became Dr Mugabe - awarded a PhD in sociology just two months after enrolling at the University of Zimbabwe, and with her thesis curiously absent from the institution's online archives. When I rang up Zanu-PF's spokesman Rugare Gumbo for his analysis of Mrs Mugabe's embryonic political career, it quickly became clear that the topic was an uncomfortable one. "Please no... I'm not answering anything related to that... Come on, you can't ask me why not," said Mr Gumbo rather briskly. So what is going on? There are - appropriately enough for such a tale of palace intrigue - multiple theories. 'Major miscalculation' The most down-to-earth analysis holds that Mrs Mugabe has no chance of being president, and is being used by one faction within Zanu-PF. "It's very easy to explain. She's been brought in as a means to stop Joyce Mujuru by any means," said the veteran political commentator Ibbo Mandaza. Vice-President Mujuru is seen as a leading contender to succeed President Mugabe. The theory goes that her long-standing rival, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is promoting Mrs Mugabe as a short-term ploy to sideline Mrs Mujuru. "When her husband goes, that's the end of her political career if there's such a career at all," said Mr Mandaza, blithely dismissing the notion of a Mugabe dynasty. The next theory is that President Mugabe is promoting his wife primarily in order to keep all the Zanu-PF factions off-balance, and to strengthen his own position. The rise of Grace Mugabe Dewa Mavhinga, from Human Rights Watch, believes the president has made a serious mistake by bringing in someone with no political pedigree whatsoever. "It shows that President Mugabe doesn't trust anyone around him. I think he was under pressure to control the factions and extend his own stay in office, but it was a major miscalculation and exposed him for the first time if you see how the factions are now fighting openly in the media," said Mr Mavhinga. But there is another, less intrigue-driven analysis of Mrs Mugabe's abrupt arrival on the political stage. Simba Makoni, a former Zanu-PF minister who ran for the presidency as an independent against Mr Mugabe in 2008, believes people are too quick to reject the possibility of a dynasty. "Grace is poised to lead the Women's League... in December. That is a given. And my hunch is she is not going to end there, realising how easy it has been for her to get to there in such a short time," said Mr Makoni. "So I would say watch this space - there will be more happening." It is tempting to argue that a dynasty is an expression of political power - proof that President Mugabe still has the authority to impose his will on Zanu-PF and Zimbabwe. But you could argue the exact opposite - that here is a man who, after three decades in power, can trust no-one outside his immediate family. | राजवंश के जन्म की भविष्यवाणी करना कोई आसान बात नहीं है। लेकिन कई जिम्बाब्वेवासी अब इस संभावना से परेशान हैं कि मुगाबे उन परिवारों की सूची में शामिल होने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं जो खाने की मेज पर सत्ता की बागडोर संभालने में कामयाब रहे हैं। |
uk-england-28593256 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-28593256 | World War One: The British hero who did not shoot Hitler | Henry Tandey became the most decorated private soldier in World War One. His bravery though, would be eclipsed in the run up to World War Two by allegations he had spared Adolf Hitler's life, in 1918. But, is the story accurate? | By Bethan BellBBC News The two events were separated by 20 years. On 28 September 1918, Pte Tandey earned the Victoria Cross "for most conspicuous bravery and initiative" at the fifth Battle of Ypres. Twenty years later, Hitler himself is said to have planted the seeds of the legend during a visit to the Fuhrer by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in his doomed attempt to secure "peace for our time". He apparently seized on the fact that along with many of his fellow soldiers, Pte Tandey had tempered justice with mercy, refusing to kill unarmed, injured men in cold blood. The leader of the Third Reich claimed he was one of those spared. At his Bavarian retreat the Berghof, Chamberlain noticed a picture on the wall of Hitler's study, depicting a scene from a battle at Menin crossroads in 1914. The soldier in the foreground was apparently Pte Tandey, carrying a fellow soldier to safety. Hitler told Chamberlain the soldier had pointed a gun at him but spared him. "That man came so near to killing me that I thought I should never see Germany again," Hitler is alleged to have said. "Providence saved me from such devilish accurate fire as those English boys were aiming at us." The museum of the Green Howards - Pte Tandey's regiment, which commissioned the painting in 1923 from Italian war artist Fortunino Matania - confirmed a copy was hanging at Hitler's retreat. The museum has a letter from Hitler's adjutant, Capt Fritz Weidemann, thanking them: "The Fuehrer is naturally very interested in things connected with his own war experiences. He was obviously moved when I showed him the picture." The painting's route to Hitler's wall was fairly convoluted, centring on one of his staff, a Dr Otto Schwend, who had received a postcard of the painting from a British soldier whom he had befriended in WW1. Hitler had apparently claimed to recognise in it a soldier he met in 1918, but the painting depicts a battle that actually took place in 1914. Dr David Johnson, Pte Tandey's biographer, throws more doubt on the story. He pointed out that even if the date were accurate it would have been unlikely for Pte Tandey to have been recognisable from the painting. He had been injured during the 1918 battle, and in contrast to the painting, would have been "extremely dishevelled and covered in mud and blood". Perhaps even more compellingly, Dr Johnson argues there was no way Pte Tandey and L/Cpl Hitler could have crossed paths. On 17 September, Hitler's unit had been moved about 50 miles (80km) north of Pte Tandey's, which was in Marcoing, near Cambrai in northern France. The meeting of the men was supposed to have happened on 28 September 1918, but papers at the Bavarian State Archive show Hitler had been on leave between 25 September and 27 September. "This means that Hitler was either on leave or returning from leave at the time or with his regiment 50 miles north of Marcoing," Dr Johnson said. He also said it was not likely that Hitler had been simply confused. "It's likely he chose that date because he knew Tandey had become one of the most decorated soldiers in the war," said Dr Johnson. "If he was going to have his life spared by a British soldier, who better than a famous war hero who had won a Victoria Cross, Military Medal and a Distinguished Conduct Medal in a matter of weeks? "With his god-like self-perception, the story added to his own myth - that he had been spared for something greater, that he was somehow "chosen". His story embellished his reputation nicely." It was another detail that also set alarm bells ringing, Dr Johnson said. No telephone On returning to Britain, Mr Chamberlain is alleged to have phoned Pte Tandey to pass on details of the exchange he had with Hitler. He was out at the time, so a nephew apparently took the call. Dr Johnson is highly sceptical the call was made, not least because Mr Chamberlain was a very busy man. "I can't see him spending time tracking down and telephoning a Private," he said. "He also sent long and detailed letters to his sisters and kept diaries. Nowhere in his papers was the Tandey affair mentioned." British Telecom archives add more doubt - Pte Tandey did not have a telephone. But the story has persisted, having probably first come to light at a regimental event in 1938 where, Dr Johnson said, Pte Tandey was told by an officer who had heard it from Mr Chamberlain. "We don't know whether Tandey was taken to one side and told privately - or whether it was a jocular part of an after-dinner speech, or something like that," he said. Pte Tandey himself was noncommittal about it. He acknowledged he had spared soldiers on 28 September, and was initially prepared to entertain the idea - but always made a point of saying he needed more information to confirm it. He was quoted in an August 1939 edition of the Coventry Herald as saying: "According to them, I've met Adolf Hitler. "Maybe they're right but I can't remember him." But a year later, he appeared to be more certain, when a journalist approached him outside his bombed Coventry home, asking him about his alleged encounter with Hitler. "If only I had known what he would turn out to be," Pte Tandey is quoted as saying. "When I saw all the people and women and children he had killed and wounded I was sorry to God I let him go." The newspapers seemed to say it all: "Nothing Henry did that night could ease his sickening sense of guilt." "It was a stigma that Tandey lived with until his death" "He could have stopped this. He could have changed the course of history" However, there is no evidence, not even anecdotal, he was either hounded or avoided after the claims. 'Extremely dishevelled' "It must be remembered that this was a low point for the country and for Coventry, and Henry can be excused for feeling a little sorry for himself and emotional after the sights he had witnessed," Dr Johnson said. "We must not forget that in 1918, no-one knew who Hitler was. Why would Henry remember and regret that specific encounter, especially when Hitler would also have been extremely dishevelled and covered in mud and blood, not looking like he did 20 years later. "It might be equally true that the journalist concerned took Henry's comments out of context, which might go some way to explaining his distrust of the press." | हेनरी टंडी प्रथम विश्व युद्ध में सबसे सम्मानित निजी सैनिक बन गए। हालाँकि, उनकी बहादुरी को द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध से पहले 1918 में एडॉल्फ हिटलर के जीवन को बचाने के आरोपों से ग्रहण लग जाएगा। लेकिन, क्या कहानी सही है? |
uk-scotland-south-scotland-28421553 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-28421553 | Borders workmen take home unexploded bomb | A controlled explosion has been carried out on a World War Two bomb which two workmen took home after finding it on a remote Borders hillside. | The pair made the discovery while erecting fences above Westruther on Monday. They put the device in the back of their van, which they left outside a colleague's house in Earlston. The man's father noticed it and a bomb disposal unit later carried out a controlled explosion in a nearby field. Police said there was no danger to the public at any time. | द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध के बम पर एक नियंत्रित विस्फोट किया गया है जिसे दो कर्मचारी एक दूरस्थ सीमा पहाड़ी पर खोजने के बाद घर ले गए। |
business-36977101 | https://www.bbc.com/news/business-36977101 | Over to you, chancellor | This is further than the bank was expected to go. | Simon JackBusiness editor Although a cut of quarter of a percent was not a surprise, a specific message that it could fall further towards zero by year end was unexpected. Add to that an additional £70bn pumped into the system through buying bonds with newly created money plus another £100bn of cheap money made available to banks for lending and it is clear the Bank of England has real concerns about the economy. It has slashed its growth forecast for the UK economy next year from 2.3% to just 0.8% - and that's including the impact of today's measures. While describing this package as comprehensive and co-ordinated, the Bank was very clear about what it could NOT do. While it can increase the SUPPLY of credit while protecting the profit margins of the the banks who offer it, it can't increase the DEMAND for it. Future Businesses may be more concerned with things that only the government can address. In a time of post-Brexit uncertainty, businesses will be understandably reluctant to invest until they get a better idea, for example, of the government's plans for tax and spending, as well as our future relationship with the UK's biggest trading partner. In the last few hours, the former chancellor, George Osborne, has taken to social media to call for lower business taxes and increased infrastructure spending. The British Chambers of Commerce have echoed that, calling for the government to "offer incentives for business investment and address some of the long-term, structural issues facing the UK economy, such as our chronic underinvestment in infrastructure". The CBI joined in saying the government needed to take "swift, decisive action to unlock key infrastructure investment and show that the UK is open for business". Tools The governor said all of today's measures could, and in the case of lower rates very likely would, be taken further but was also clear that he is looking for the government to do its part to shore up the UK economy. In a statement this afternoon, the Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, said he was confident that both he and the governor "had the tools available to support the economy". Today we saw the Bank of England show its toolkit, businesses will want a bit more detail on what's in the chancellor's. | यह बैंक के जाने की उम्मीद से कहीं अधिक है। |
world-asia-china-37924880 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37924880 | US election 2016: China eyes chance to weaken US power | He may have won at home, but on the level where great nations contend, President-elect Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" now goes head to head with China's favourite catchphrases, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the China dream. | Carrie GracieChina editor@BBCCarrieon Twitter At precisely the moment Mr Trump was giving his victory speech, Chinese TV channels were running extensive coverage of a space mission and President Xi even chose US results day to talk to China's astronauts by satellite link. It was hard to escape the sense that this was his version of the John F Kennedy "we choose to go to the Moon" moment, a message to remind his public that whatever is going on elsewhere in the world, the narrative of rising Chinese might is on course. In private, President Xi is probably celebrating a win in the US too. As I and many others have noted before, the American election race has been a gift to the Chinese Communist Party. In a giant one-party state which enjoys no public discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of its own system, the United States has often been the unspoken benchmark of all that is most materially, culturally and politically advanced. It's no accident that President Xi's China dream slogan echoes the American dream. For a rising superpower, the United States is the nation to beat. Over recent years, Chinese commentators have often said that American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq damaged Chinese faith that the US could be trusted to lead on the world's geopolitics, and that the 2008 financial crisis damaged Chinese faith that the US could be trusted to lead on the global economy. Now a bitter and scandal-ridden presidential race has damaged Chinese confidence that Americans can be trusted to run themselves. Although the Chinese government has been careful to avoid direct comment on the candidates or the campaign, its tightly-controlled media have given full play to the rancour and division of the race. The president-elect has repeatedly echoed Beijing's argument that the American system is rigged in favour of moneyed elites. And Chinese media have discussed at length the experience and meritocratic advance of public servants in their own one-party pyramid as a comment on shallow demagogues in electoral democracies. For a nation which within living memory has suffered civil war and the terrors of the fanatical Cultural Revolution, the bitterness of the US campaign has tarnished any fairytale that American democracy once represented. But on the president-elect himself, the public view is mixed. Many Chinese admire Mr Trump as a businessman, a straight talker and an outsider. If in four years from now, he has "made America great again", then the political system which produced him will regain some credibility. But if the team behind "the China Dream" are making the Chinese public rich, sending rockets to Mars and dominating Asia, then 9 November 2016 may mark the moment when China left the American Dream behind forever. And in the meantime, the Chinese government has to come to terms with a US president who has no track record, no known team and no concrete China policy. We'll get along great with China, said Mr Trump on the campaign trail. But he also said: "They come in, they take our jobs, they make a fortune. We are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world." And occasionally he also seemed to find a middle way. "I have done great deals in China. China is wonderful. I'm not angry at China. I'm angry at our people for allowing them to get away with this... China is wonderful, but they are getting away with murder." As part of Mr Trump's promise to "Make America Great Again" he's often said the US must "win" in its economic relations with China. But over the past four decades, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party have learned to take US campaign promises with a pinch of salt. They've watched many American presidents come and go, making fierce threats against China on the campaign trail, and then quietly returning to a policy of engagement after their first few months in office. At a time when China's economic growth is faltering, access to US markets remains vital and protectionism from an incoming Trump administration would alarm Beijing. But its trade negotiators have had many months to game every possible Trump move on tariffs, market access or exchange rates. And Beijing will have logged that many of the long-time Asia experts in the Republican Party have already ruled out working for a Trump presidency. When it comes to fighting Mr Trump's economic game, Beijing will be ready for him. It may also calculate that trade is a game in which it can afford to give Mr Trump some wins in exchange for its own coveted wins in the great game of geopolitics in Asia. This is where Mr Trump represents opportunity for China. On the campaign trail, the president-elect sounded much cooler on US commitments in Asia than his rival. He was fiercely hostile to the economic dimension of the Obama administration's effort to pivot to Asia. And even in the military dimension, Mr Trump has said that longstanding US allies like Japan and South Korea should pay more to maintain a US military presence. Critics in the region warn that any increase in US isolationism or protectionism, or any grand bargain with Beijing, will make Taiwan and the South China Sea vulnerable, and diminish American leadership in Asia at a time when states like the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand are all calculating where their strategic interests lie. China's geostrategists will now hope that a Trump presidency plays into their ambitious plans to diminish American power and remake the map of Asia. They may well be right. | उन्होंने भले ही अपने देश में जीत हासिल की हो, लेकिन जिस स्तर पर महान राष्ट्र प्रतिस्पर्धा करते हैं, उस स्तर पर राष्ट्रपति-निर्वाचित ट्रम्प का अभियान नारा "मेक अमेरिका ग्रेट अगेन" अब चीन के पसंदीदा मुख्य वाक्यांशों, चीनी राष्ट्र के महान कायाकल्प और चीन के सपने के साथ आमने-सामने है। |
world-australia-39111312 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39111312 | AFLW: How a women's league has captivated Australia | Women are playing Australian rules football professionally for the first time in 2017, drawing sell-out crowds and stunning TV ratings. The league has been celebrated on several fronts despite some controversy over pay, writes Elissa Doherty in Melbourne. | Ask Google what foreigners think of Australian rules football and words like "blood sport", "insane" and "ferocious" come up. One US sports anchor even described Australia's beloved brand of football as a "mix between rugby and mugging someone". Sounds like a men-only zone, right? Wrong. Women have been playing the rough-and-tumble game in various forms for 102 years - but in 2017 they entered the big league. On a balmy night on 3 February, two of the first teams made history in inner Melbourne, booting the oval-shaped ball at an elite level for the first time. And to use Australian lingo, it was a bloody ripper. So strong was the interest, the inaugural women's clash between rivals the "Pies" (Collingwood Magpies) and the "Blues" (Carlton) had to be moved to a bigger venue. But even that wasn't large enough for the 26,000 fans who turned up to the free game, forcing the gates to close and 2,000 to be locked out. "Packed house for first-ever women's match," trumpeted the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "Footy's new female formula has a very big future," crowed Melbourne tabloid the Herald Sun. Controversy over pay inequality For the first season, AFL Women's (AFLW) players are earning between A$8,500 (£5,200; $6,500) and A$27,500, compared to the average of A$300,000 for men. But while the new league is in its infancy, the AFL is playing it safe with women recruited only part-time and for a shorter season than men. Most are still working other jobs to top up their pay packets. The wage disparity has generated controversy, but league chiefs insist they are committed to growing the competition. Collingwood recruit Lou Wotton is among players hoping this will translate into a full-time income. "Initially players were just happy to be paid at all, it's never happened before. It's just been pure passion and love," she said. "I'm hoping with the level of interest it has created, they will be able to increase the salary over time." The novelty failed to wane after the launch, with 50,000 attending the first four games and capacity crowds recorded in non-traditional Aussie rules (as the game is known) cities like Brisbane. Players have flocked to the game from myriad other codes to lace up their boots and carve a new path for women's sport. Stunning first week TV ratings have since taken a dip as the men's pre-season kicks off, but the numbers are still pleasing broadcasters and Australian Football League (AFL) chiefs. The screaming success is due in large part to trailblazers like Dr Sue Alberti, a pearl-wearing philanthropist who has long championed women's football. The businesswoman was forced to hang up her own footy boots at the age of 15 due to a lack of opportunities to play, but her passion never died. She became one of the most powerful women in footy, and propped up the Victorian Women's League with her own money when it was on its knees. Weeks after AFLW finally came to life, she still gets emotional. "I burst into tears at the first bounce," she told the BBC. "I've been wishing for this since I was 15, and I'm turning 70 this year. It's a dream come true. I had to pinch myself and ask 'Is this really happening?'" 'Wonders for women's sport' She's confident the momentum will only grow as the women gain experience and the talent pool widens. Peter Rolfe, sports affairs writer at the footy-centric Herald Sun, said the new league was attracting a whole new audience to Aussie rules. While women's sport has traditionally struggled to gain a firm foothold in the media spotlight, the tide is turning. "The Herald Sun had AFLW on the front and back pages over the opening round and a 16-page lift-out dedicated just to the female stars of the game," he said. "It's doing wonders for women's sport and will only get better as the league becomes increasingly professional." AFL boss Gillon McLachlan saw the writing on the wall when fans flocked to a series of women's exhibition matches, deciding to fast-track the league by three years. Women's participation in Aussie rules has also doubled in the past five years with 350 new teams in 2016. "What is really significant is that we now have these really strong role models who are already inspiring young girls to follow their dreams," Mr McLachlan said. "Australian football is now truly for everyone and we can't underestimate what that means for our game." Meet the history-makers For years they've been known as mums and masseuses, doctors, policewomen and teachers - now they are being recognised by strangers as footballers. Many of the players making up the first eight AFLW teams are so called "code hoppers", plucked from success in other sports like cricket, netball, soccer, basketball and even Ultimate Frisbee. Lou Wotton retired from local football in 2014 to become a triathlete, but returned when the league was announced. The 33-year-old physical education teacher said she loved the skill, athleticism and physicality of Aussie rules - including the tackling. "In the past we'd get questions like 'Is there tackling?', and 'Are the rules the same for women as men?'," she said. "But I think people have been pleasantly surprised to see the women have gone in just as hard." Bulldogs player and former World Cup indoor cricketer Nicole Callinan, 34, grew up playing football in the backyard, living room and hallway at home with her brothers. She laughs as she recalls being their "secret weapon". "They'd bring me along to games with their friends and say 'Oh, our little sister is on our team'," she said. "I'd end up beating them." The remedial massage therapist said the best part for her was the impact on the next generation of players. "It's now the norm - anyone born today will grow up seeing women playing AFL," she said. A novice's guide to AFL and its lingo | मेलबर्न में एलिसा डोहर्टी लिखती हैं कि महिलाएं 2017 में पहली बार पेशेवर रूप से ऑस्ट्रेलियाई नियम फुटबॉल खेल रही हैं, जो बिकने वाली भीड़ और आश्चर्यजनक टीवी रेटिंग को आकर्षित कर रही हैं। वेतन पर कुछ विवाद के बावजूद लीग को कई मोर्चों पर मनाया गया है। |
blogs-china-blog-39254254 | https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-39254254 | China fuels anger over Seoul's missile move | The deployment in South Korea of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) missile defence system has been slammed by Beijing. Now the Chinese Communist Party is calling on its people to embrace their ill will towards their neighbours. | By Stephen McDonellBBC News, Beijing It's incredible the speed with which China's leaders can just switch on anti-South Korea sentiment here. The Communist Party has complete control of the Chinese media. So the instructions go out and a way of thinking is simply poured into the community from above. The giant Costa Serena cruise ship docked at South Korea's spectacular island of Jeju at the weekend. Eighty charter buses stood by with their guides. They were ready to take Chinese tourists around the sights of this old fishing community with its ancient volcanoes and pristine beaches. With its visa-free travel for Chinese citizens, Jeju has been a popular destination for tourists from the Middle Kingdom. Not this time. After the cruise ship docked, some 3,400 Chinese passengers reportedly refused to disembark. It was said to be a protest at the deployment of Thaad in South Korea. In China's state-controlled media coverage, it is not as if you get a range of views. Here is a view you will not hear expressed on, say, a Chinese Central Television panel show: "Look everyone, I know we're all a bit angry about this but we should try and see it from a South Korean perspective. They're worried about those North Korean missiles which we are regularly seeing being tested raining down on Seoul from just across the border." No, you will not hear that view. Basically the only perspective that gets an airing is that the Thaad battery allows the Americans to see deep into China, that this is a threat to our homeland and that the South Korean company Lotte Group provided the land for it on a golf course. Not surprisingly, Lotte supermarkets in China have found themselves in breach of fire regulations and the like, and are being forced to shut their doors. This may, however, turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the company because patriotic citizens have already started taking matters into their own hands. One woman went into a Lotte outlet and filmed herself for social media opening packets of instant noodles and drinks before putting them back. Outside Lotte supermarkets, small-ish protests are being being allowed to go ahead and the momentum is building. Two men in Shandong filmed themselves on the footpath outside an electrical appliance store with the Chinese national anthem blaring out. Next to them was a large cardboard box. After revealing its contents, with the stirring "qi lai, qi lai" (rise up, rise up) echoing around the buildings, they then proceeded to use a sledge hammer to smash an LG-brand washing machine to pieces. Next victim (from the same South Korean brand): a large flat-screen TV. The red banner next to them read: "We would rather destroy these than sell them." The small crowd of passers by watching the ceremony made sure that it spread across social media. Elsewhere, a large group of students were filmed at the Shijixing Primary School. The camera panned across them in their hundreds as they chanted slogans in scenes reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution: "Boycott South Korea! Drive Lotte out of China! This all starts from us! Resist Thaad! Love your country!" Then there's the song. Somebody has re-recorded the well-known pop song The Dedication of Love with new lyrics. It, too, is travelling around social media like wildfire. "It's a call from the heart. // It's a show of love. Danger is approaching us. // So all Chinese people should wake up. In South Korea the US deploys Thaad. // Which can monitor more than half of China. Lotte makes a lot of money in China. // Yet still offers a place to the US. Aaaaaaaaaa. Chinese people should stand up. // Only if our country is safe can we exist." 'They provoked us' At the weekend I was monitoring social media and had the following conversation with a woman in Beijing. Woman: I'm watching the news about the North Korea situation. Stephen: Oh well that's a very important issue. Woman: I'm thinking of exactly how I can destroy their country [South Korea]. Stephen: You want to destroy their country? Woman: If I had the opportunity. That's right, I would destroy it. Stephen: Why do you have such a dark view of this? Woman: They provoked us first. Stephen: I think you should possibly take a calmer view of this situation. Woman: No, no, no. They don't understand the fury in our country. Stephen: They say they're worried about North Korean missiles. Woman: Other countries all think we're always submissive and accommodating because we're afraid but they don't understand our anger against a common enemy. Stephen: Isn't it reasonable for South Korea to be afraid of North Korean missiles? If you were South Korean might you not you also be worried about the situation with the North? Woman: According to my understanding, our blood is boiling. We're waiting for the order from our leaders and we won't turn back. We're not afraid to die. Stephen: According to South Korea's way of thinking, they might see Thaad as not having anything to do with China. Woman: If this Korean supermarket is only losing Chinese customers that's too easy for them. If we are going to fight we need to cut the grass from the roots. Either we die or they die. Our leaders are opposed to Thaad so we need to support them and our country. Whatever North Korea does is not our concern. We only care about our country. Stephen: I really think you should look at this situation a little more calmly. Woman: Until our country gives the order we will do nothing too extreme. We can only stop buying Korean products online. I can't really hurt South Korea by myself. My power is not enough. Stephen: Isn't peace the most important thing? Woman: Our country has a saying: "Anyone who offends our country, no matter how far away it is, we will go and strike them." Chairman Mao said: "If somebody doesn't hurt me I won't hurt them back but anyone who harms me I will definitely harm them back." Stephen: Your country says? Don't you have a mind of your own? Woman: A brain is for making money. State affairs do not require a brain. We simply follow commands. Stephen: You are sounding a little like a robot. Woman: Yes. The Chinese Communist Party is definitely playing with fire by stirring up such emotions in order to achieve a political result. In the past, when the party unleashed this type of sentiment against Japan or the Philippines it had to rein its people in before the situation got out of hand. But you get the feeling that this dispute's flames still have quite a bit of fanning to come. | दक्षिण कोरिया में अमेरिकी टर्मिनल हाई एल्टीट्यूड एरिया डिफेंस (थाड) मिसाइल रक्षा प्रणाली की तैनाती की बीजिंग ने आलोचना की है। अब चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी अपने लोगों से अपने पड़ोसियों के प्रति अपनी दुर्भावना को गले लगाने का आह्वान कर रही है। |
health-26648163 | https://www.bbc.com/news/health-26648163 | ‘I’ve got a lot of living to do’ | Diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in her early 20s, Kris Hallenga is determined the disease is not seen as something that affects only older women. Through her charity, CoppaFeel!, she is fighting to raise awareness of breast cancer in young people. | By Lucy WallisBBC News "I don't think I'll ever forget the minor details of that day," says Kris Hallenga. "The weather was beautiful. I can remember exactly what I wore - this miniskirt with tights. My mum said it was way too short, but I wore it anyway. "The doctor just walked into this tiny little room and in a roundabout way just spat out the fact that I had breast cancer," says Hallenga. A week after the diagnosis, scans revealed the cancer had spread to her spine. That was five years ago, when Hallenga was 23. "I had stage four cancer, there is no stage five. I know the drugs can stop working at any time, so until then I've got a lot of living to do." Cancer staging is used by doctors to describe the size of the tumour and the extent to which the disease has spread. At stage one, the cancer tends to be smaller and contained within the area it started in. By stage four the cancer can be any size and has spread to another area of the body. Hallenga discovered she had metastatic, or advanced breast cancer, in 2009 after a late diagnosis. "That was end of innocence really," says her mother, Jane. "All of a sudden you have to realise and start fighting against what's been handed to you, this fate." Hallenga says she will never know whether she would now be free of breast cancer if she had been diagnosed earlier. The cancer has since spread to her pelvis, liver and hips and she also has a tumour in her brain. She has hospital visits every month, body scans every three months and takes a range of medication to help slow the spread of the disease. "When I was diagnosed I read that my life expectancy was just two and a half years. Thanks to treatment, I'm still here five years later, but so is my cancer," says Hallenga. She is determined that other young people should be trained to spot the early warning signs of the disease and check their breasts regularly. A month after her diagnosis, Hallenga set up a charity called CoppaFeel! with her twin sister, Maren, to help raise awareness at schools and music festivals about the importance of early diagnosis. The chance of developing breast cancer before the age of 30 is around 0.05% or one in 2,000, which increases to one in 50 or 2% before the age of 50. One in three women diagnosed with breast cancer in England is aged over 70. Although the risk of getting the disease does increase with age, some studies suggest the types of breast cancer diagnosed in younger women can be more aggressive. Therefore, survival rates can be lower for younger women with breast cancer than for those in their 50s or 60s. In 2005-09, 90% of women in England aged 50-69 were alive five years after diagnosis, compared with 84% of females aged 15-39. The earlier the diagnosis, the less chance the cancer will have spread to another part of the body. Approximately 10% of women with stage four, or advanced tumours, live for more than 10 years, compared with 85% of women with stage one breast cancers. Young women who have been diagnosed late after an emergency referral often contact Hallenga for advice and support. She has come to see herself as a voice for those who are going through the same thing. Her family, however, wish she would just sometimes take a break. "She's like this superwoman who is taking on the world, trying to save lives, trying to beat this cancer," says her sister, Maren. "I think sometimes she just needs to have a good cry about it or just get [angry] about it." According to Kris Hallenga there is no real respite when living with advanced cancer. "You can never predict what's going to happen from one day to the next, and you can never say, 'Oh I'm fine, I'm in remission,' none of that exists. "This is incurable and it's going to happen at some stage. I just wish it happens a few million years in the future, or never," says Hallenga. However, she is making the most of everything in her life and says that every day she enjoys and is grateful for is "another level of acceptance". "Cancer has given me a life and given meaning to what I do with my life. "I'd really hope and like to think that I would have that same appreciation of life even if I didn't have cancer, but this has just made it all the more important." As she stresses on her Twitter feed, she does not want to be described by anyone as "fighting," "suffering" or "battling". She would rather be known as "simply living". Kris: Dying to Live will be broadcast on Wednesday, 26 March, at 21:00 GMT on BBC Three. Or catch up later on BBC iPlayer | 20 के दशक की शुरुआत में अंतिम स्तन कैंसर का पता चलने पर, क्रिस हेलेंगा ने निर्धारित किया कि इस बीमारी को केवल बड़ी उम्र की महिलाओं को प्रभावित करने वाली चीज़ के रूप में नहीं देखा जाता है। अपने दान, कोप्पाफिल! के माध्यम से, वह युवाओं में स्तन कैंसर के बारे में जागरूकता बढ़ाने के लिए लड़ रही है। |
magazine-26081168 | https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26081168 | Vietnam's illegal trade in rhino horn | Record numbers of rhinos are being poached and killed in South Africa for their horn. Many of those horns end up being sold illegally for their supposed medicinal properties - in countries such as Vietnam. | By Sue Lloyd RobertsBBC Newsnight On 30 December 2013, a park ranger on patrol in South Africa stumbled across the body of a two-tonne, 3m-long dead rhino. Its horn had been torn from its face and it had almost certainly died in slow agony. The ranger used his radio to contact the park HQ saying simply, "Another one gone." They knew immediately what he meant. The death took the number of rhinos poached and killed for their horn last year to 1,004, a 50% increase over the previous year. The South African department of environmental affairs says 668 were killed in 2012. A decade ago, in 2003, only 22 rhinos were poached. If it continues at this rate, the African rhino could face extinction, according to Naomi Doak of the respected wildlife monitoring network, Traffic. "We are going to reach the tipping point for rhinos," she says. "By the end of 2014, we're starting to be in the negative in terms of deaths and poaching outstripping birth and the population will start to decline very quickly." Traditional Medicine Street in Hanoi bustles with street vendors balancing their wares on bicycles while dodging cars. People crowd on to the pavement to drink tea, smoke and play card games. It feels a world away from the vast plains of the South African veldt. But these two worlds are inextricably and, for the rhino, tragically connected. I am told it is the place to buy rhino horn in Hanoi, so I decide to see how easy it is. Journalists are closely monitored, though, in this one-party communist state, so my minder is never far away. It has been illegal to buy or sell rhino horn in Vietnam for eight years and the traders all shake their heads at my request to buy. "It hasn't been sold in the street for a long time," says one. But when I return later - without my minder, and with a hidden camera - traders are happy to oblige. I claim to have a sick husband. One trader tells me that if I grind the horn in to powder and mix it with alcohol, it will cure his cancer. "For the middle stage of cancer, it has a 85-to-90% success rate," he says. At $6,000 (£3,660) for 100g (3.5oz), it is more expensive than gold in Vietnam, at current prices. And yet, biologists say, the main component of the rhino horn is a material similar to the human finger nail. I go to another who claims he is a traditional medicine doctor and say I am looking for a hangover cure. "You've come to the right place," says Mr Nguyen, and shoves a large piece of rhino horn in my hands. "It cures fever and is good for removing poisons from the body which makes it a good remedy for hangovers." I have been warned that a lot of the horn sold on Traditional Medicine Street is fake and I ask Nguyen to reassure me. "I went to South Africa myself," he says and shows me his hunting permit to shoot two rhinos in 2009. His wife accompanied him and he has a picture of his eight-year-old son standing beside an animal he shot and killed. He shows me documents, all stamped by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which approve the export from South Africa and the import to Vietnam of a "trophy horn". He tells me all this makes the sale perfectly legal. But it is not. Most of the rhinos in the wild are found in South Africa where the black rhino is considered endangered and the white rhino remains in the threatened category. Nonetheless, rhino hunting is permitted under strict rules - fewer than 100 experienced hunters can apply for a permit every year to shoot just one rhino and they're legally required to keep the horn intact, as a trophy. The argument is that hunting encourages privately owned rhino parks and therefore adds to rhino numbers. Permits costing tens of thousands of dollars contribute to the local economy. In 2010, the last Javan rhino in Vietnam disappeared, a subspecies hunted to extinction. As the Javan rhino became scarcer at home, Vietnamese hunters started applying for South African permits. By 2010, there were more Vietnamese applying to shoot a rhino in South Africa than any other nationality. But, like Nguyen on Traditional Medicine Street, they were found to be abusing the system. Against the rules, they were importing the horns back to Vietnam and selling them. When South Africa banned Vietnamese hunters in 2012, organised crime syndicates took over who now employ poachers to supply the market for horn in Vietnam and other Asian countries, including China. Vietnam became a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species 20 years ago. The Cites secretariat has been urging the Vietnamese government for some years to tighten the laws and penalties against those selling horns. They were expected to have new laws in place in time for a conference on illegal wildlife trading being held in London this week. I asked Do Quang Tung, who is charged with getting his government to comply with Cites demands, why it is taking so long? "Well, in order to prepare any regulation or law, you can't just make it in one year, it takes time you know," he says, The trouble is, the wildlife experts say there is no time. Mary Rice, executive director of the Environmental Investigation Agency warns: "What we are witnessing right now is the wholesale slaughter of a species, being poached to supply what is ultimately a growing and unsustainable market in Vietnam - and elsewhere. The international community should urgently focus its attentions on pursuing and convicting the criminals behind the organised networks perpetrating the trade." Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook | दक्षिण अफ्रीका में रिकॉर्ड संख्या में गैंडों का अवैध शिकार किया जा रहा है और उनके सींग के लिए उन्हें मार दिया जा रहा है। उनमें से कई सींग अपने कथित औषधीय गुणों के लिए अवैध रूप से बेचे जा रहे हैं-वियतनाम जैसे देशों में। |
world-europe-isle-of-man-12602362 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-12602362 | Ramsey police station relocates as part of regeneration | Ramsey police station will relocate from the Courthouse to the Town Hall as part of long-term regeneration plans for the north of the Isle of Man. | The town's post office will move from the Court Row building into the Courthouse on Parliament Street. It is hoped the building reshuffle will encourage more people into the centre of the town. Chamber of Commerce Chairman Chris Blatcher said: "The move will complement future regeneration plans". He added: "This is a ground-breaking initiative and has been brought about in the spirit of a true government and community partnership. "Real progress is being made in revitalising the town". | रामसे पुलिस स्टेशन आइल ऑफ मैन के उत्तर के लिए दीर्घकालिक पुनर्जनन योजनाओं के हिस्से के रूप में कोर्टहाउस से टाउन हॉल में स्थानांतरित हो जाएगा। |
uk-northern-ireland-38239170 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-38239170 | Chinese firm buys 14 wind farm projects across Ireland | A Chinese energy company has bought seven wind farm projects in Northern Ireland and a further seven in the Republic of Ireland for a reported 350m euros (£300m). | By John CampbellBBC News NI Economics & Business Editor The China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) has taken control of the projects from Dublin-based Gaelectric. The deal consists of 10 operating wind farms. A further four will be operational by mid-2017. Dr Wei Lu, chief executive of CGN Europe Energy, said this was the group's first acquisition in the energy sector in Ireland. | एक चीनी ऊर्जा कंपनी ने उत्तरी आयरलैंड में सात और आयरलैंड गणराज्य में सात पवन ऊर्जा परियोजनाओं को 350 मिलियन यूरो (300 मिलियन पाउंड) में खरीदा है। |
uk-politics-parliaments-43921230 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-parliaments-43921230 | What's on in Parliament? | A combination of the latest Brexit manoeuvres, a beleaguered home secretary and an important round of local elections should mean plenty of fizz in Parliament next week. | Mark D'ArcyParliamentary correspondent A clear sign of a fluid political situation is the sudden outbreak of halo-polishing among potential Tory leadership contenders - but this is a week which could offer stumbling blocks to a variety of ministers in a variety of parliamentary venues. The government faces a backbench rebellion orchestrated by former chief whip Andrew Mitchell, on Tuesday during debate on the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill - and the numbers he has mustered are such that the smart move for ministers might be to embrace the amendment he has produced with Labour's Margaret Hodge, on financial transparency in tax havens in UK overseas territories. The predictable drubbing ministers are receiving in the Lords, over the EU (Withdrawal) Bill looks set to continue, meaning more difficult votes in the Commons on tough Brexit issues, further down the line. A longer term worry for ministers will be the muscle-flexing on the committee corridor, where Sarah Wollaston's Health Committee, fresh from forcing the government to embrace a tax on sugary fizzy drinks, is holding more hearings on childhood obesity, which will probably feed into an attempt to drive anti-obesity policy. So there are plenty of hazards to trip ambitious ministers, or alternatively give them a change to demonstrate sure-footedness - and that's before we get to the full dress Opposition Day attack on the Home Secretary Amber Rudd over the Windrush issue. And, as ever, some of the biggest events of any parliamentary week are around urgent questions and ministerial statements that are only scheduled at the beginning of each sitting day - so I can't usually predict them in advance. Here's my rundown of the Westminster week ahead: Monday The Commons opens (2.30pm) with Housing, Communities and Local Government questions. The usual clutch of post weekend statements and UQs can be expected at 3.30pm. Then MPs polish off two bills. First the Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill - where there are competing sets of amendments from Labour and Conservative backbenchers on the theme of limiting the permissible difference between the cheapest advertised rate and the most expensive rate. The key difference seems to be whether that cap would be a temporary expedient while the energy market was reformed, or a permanent restriction. There are also amendments on the need to protect vulnerable customers, including ensuring those who currently benefit under a safeguard tariff. I'm not sure the backbench Conservative amendments will be pushed to a vote, since the game appears to be to try and influence the government rather than inflict another Commons defeat, but there is clear backbench discontent about what some see as a ham-fisted intervention in the energy market. After that, MPs turn to the Laser Misuse (Vehicles) Bill, which strengthens the rules on shining lasers at aircraft, and, for the first time, makes it an offence to shine a laser at cars, trains, ships and air traffic control. The bill has already been through the Lords and seems to be in good shape, given that as I write there are no amendments down. So this looks like a very rapid rubber-stamping exercise. In Westminster Hall, the Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate on a Windrush-related e-petition, no 216539 which calls for an immigration amnesty for anyone who arrived In Britain as a minor that between 1948 to 1971. It calls on the government to stop all deportations, change the burden of proof and establish an amnesty for anyone who was a minor - as well as providing compensation for loss and hurt. It has attracted 177,305 signatures. My committee pick is the Housing, Communities and Local Government hearing (4pm) on the planning guidance on fracking - the controversial method of extracting oil and gas embedded in shale underground. The witnesses include the frackers and anti-fracking campaigners. In the Lords (2.30pm) the main event is day 4 of report stage consideration of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill. Peers have already made some major changes to the bill - and the government has been defeated by majorities ranging from 50 votes to 128. And the debate on this may be the most important so far - on setting the terms of Parliament's "Meaningful Vote" on Britain's divorce deal. The key amendment is number 49, proposed by a tell-tale list of cross-party heavyweights, in this case Viscount Hailsham (the Major-era cabinet minister Douglas Hogg); the crossbench former diplomat Lord Hannay; Labour's Brexit spokespeer Baroness Hayter and the senior Lib Dem Lord Wallace of Saltaire. This kind of list, signalling a carefully assembled coalition of support, has become the hallmark of the most important amendments. This one gives Parliament a vote before ministers can walk away with 'No Deal' and allows the Commons to decide what course of action the government should take - in the event of Parliament rejecting the draft withdrawal agreement, the promised additional statute, or the 'No Deal' scenario. This is looks like the vehicle for a Remain counterattack, because it puts ministers and their Brexit strategy much more firmly on a parliamentary leash than does the "Grieve amendment" passed by the Commons. It would be a surprise if peers didn't vote this through, probably with a big majority; but it must be the amendment minsters would most wish to strike out, when the bill bounces back to the Commons. The Commons opens (11.30 am) with Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy questions. The Scottish Conservative Alister Jack has a Ten Minute Rule Bill tidying up the law around putting penalty points on a driving licence - his Road Traffic Offenders (Surrender of Driving Licences etc.) Bill will mean that licences will no longer have to be handed over or posted in before a person can accept a fixed penalty notice or conditional offer. Then come the report and third reading debates on the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill. Expect some major action over a backbench amendment co-sponsored by the former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell and the former Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, and campaigner for tax transparency, Margaret Hodge. They want to require tax havens under UK jurisdiction to set up public registers of beneficial ownership of companies registered there. The amendment has 40 signatures, including 19 Conservatives, which should be enough to pass it, even if the government resists. They hope, therefore, that ministers will accept it, however reluctantly. In addition, the government is offering amendments to add a "Magnitsky Clause" to the bill, allowing personalised sanctions against individuals where there are reasonable grounds to believe they are implicated in gross human rights abuses - like the murder of the Russian accountant Sergei Magnitsky, who blew the whistle on massive fraud in his country. The government resisted Labour amendments along these lines during the committee stage of the bill, but, in the wake of the Salisbury poisoning, it has now changed its mind, and the Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan has agreed new amendments with Labour. In Westminster Hall, the Labour MP Bambos Charalambous leads a debate (9.30am) on safeguarding children and young people in sport. This follows up the case of one of his constituents who was a victim of the football coach Barry Bennell, who was found guilty of sexual abuse. He wants to identify any loopholes in the laws and safeguarding system, and to examine what steps have been taken by sport governing bodies. Labour's Nick Thomas Symonds leads a debate on bowel cancer screening (11am), and later, at 2.30pm the Chair of the All Party parliamentary Group on Cancer, John Baron, has a debate to raise the APPG's continuing concerns that all of the £200m cancer transformation funding is getting through to the NHS front line. Other debates are on solitary confinement of children in the justice system (4pm) and on the global ban on cosmetic animal testing. The SNP's Dr Lisa Cameron, who is leading the debate, says that over 80% of countries globally still allow animal testing for cosmetics. She says the campaign to ban cosmetic testing on animals worldwide has overwhelming public support and should be adopted in a resolution by the UN. My committee pick is Health and Social Care Committee's hearing on childhood obesity (2.30pm) which features evidence from superchef Jamie Oliver and a series of nutrition experts. In the Lords (2.30pm) the main business is consideration of Commons amendments to the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill - there may still be some attempt to toughen up the bill's provisions on cold calling to sell financial products. After that peers will rattle through a series of orders and regulations including one on Royal Wedding Licensing Hours. MPs open (11.30am) with Welsh questions, followed at noon by Prime Minister's Questions. The DUP's Emma Little Pengelly has a Ten Minute Rule Bill on support for victims who have been severely injured or bereaved as a result of acts of terrorism and to a set up a review of pension support for them. Then, Labour will look to keep up pressure on the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, with an Opposition Day debate on Windrush and creating a "hostile environment" for illegal immigrants. At the moment the Tory troops are rallying around her - but the steady drip drip of revelations about the conduct of immigration policy has not helped her. In Westminster Hall, the subjects for debate are: the case for HPV vaccination in boys (9.30am); the working conditions of prison officers (11am); government policy on reducing plastic waste in the maritime environment (2.30 pm); ticket touting and musical events (4pm) and grandchildren's access right to their grandparents (4.30pm). On the committee corridor a familiar figure returns - the former Chancellor George Osborne gives evidence to the Education Committee on education in the north (10am) in his role as chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership. In the Lords (3pm) it's devolution day in the detailed consideration of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill..... this includes one of the touchier facets of the bill, the section dealing with EU powers which had been promised to the devolved administrations. This covers issues like farm subsidies, food labelling and even fertiliser regulation....and unusually the key amendments are the ones proposed by the government, having struck a compromise deal which has peeled the Labour government in Wales away from its alliance with the SNP administration in Holyrood. One snag with this debate is that the SNP have no peers - they don't, on principle, appoint members to the Lords - but some of their arguments may be made for them by Plaid Cymru peers and maybe others. MPs meet at 9.30am for Brexit questions - but the benches may be rather thinly populated, given that it is local election day in London and many other urban areas. Conscious that the troops may be deployed elsewhere, the House business managers have made sure that nothing particularly important is burdening the agenda - the main debate is on the May adjournment, one of those amorphous debates where any MP can speak on any subject. In Westminster Hall (1.30pm), there's a debate on the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee's report on the effectiveness of local authority overview and scrutiny committees. In the Lords (11 am) peers debate a committee report on Brexit: sanctions policy. Neither House is sitting on Friday. | नवीनतम ब्रेक्सिट पैंतरेबाज़ी, एक संकटग्रस्त गृह सचिव और स्थानीय चुनावों के एक महत्वपूर्ण दौर के संयोजन का मतलब अगले सप्ताह संसद में काफी हलचल होनी चाहिए। |
uk-england-merseyside-54272572 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-54272572 | Birkdale shooting: Man charged over death of Stephen Maguire | A suspect has been charged with murdering a man who was shot inside a house while a six-year-old child and a woman were upstairs. | Stephen Maguire, 27, was shot in the stomach and leg at a house on Guildford Road, Birkdale, at about 23:35 BST on 16 March. Three other men have previously been charged in connection with his death. Patrick Moogan, 34, of no fixed address appeared at Liverpool Magistrates' Court earlier, Merseyside Police said. He has been charged with murder, kidnap, robbery and possession of a firearm and ammunition. Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to [email protected] | एक संदिग्ध पर एक आदमी की हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है जिसे एक घर के अंदर गोली मार दी गई थी, जबकि एक छह साल का बच्चा और एक महिला ऊपर थे। |
world-europe-jersey-13280914 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-jersey-13280914 | Jersey to get Freedom of Information law 'by 2015' | Jersey's Freedom of Information law should be in force by 2015 after politicians formally voted it in. | The new law, which gives access to information held by States departments, was passed on Wednesday. Deputy Rob Duhamel called for the law to be referred to scrutiny but he was defeated with only his own vote in favour. The States have asked the Chief Minister to make sure the new law comes into force in 2015. Deputy Roy le Herissier said he was concerned the law could be lost altogether amid concerns it could cost too much and be too complicated to introduce. | राजनेताओं द्वारा औपचारिक रूप से मतदान करने के बाद जर्सी का सूचना की स्वतंत्रता कानून 2015 तक लागू होना चाहिए। |
business-42705291 | https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42705291 | ‘Superheroes don’t work 90-hour weeks’ | One in eight employees works more than 48 hours a week, analysis by the TUC, seen by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, suggests. But some companies are experimenting to see if it is possible to achieve a better work-life balance. | By Michael CowanBBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme "Some of the superheroes of our time, they are the guys who say, 'I work 90 hours, 100 hours, 120 hours,'" says design company director Marei Wollersberger. "People read those figures and they say, 'That's what's going to make me successful, I'm going to do the same,'... but that's not true." Staff at her company, Normally Design, in London, work a four-day week but are paid as if they were doing the traditional five days. The days remain eight-hours long. She says it's key to the company's success - they can be just as profitable in fewer hours, as employees work more efficiently. In fact, working outside of business hours is not seen as a positive - managers check if there is anything wrong if it happens. Other companies have found it difficult to meet clients' needs after moving to Swedish-style six-hour days. But Normally Design employee Basil Safwat says the shorter weeks do not mean cramming five days of work into four and he has had to work longer hours only a couple of times in two years at the company "There's a social encouragement to make sure you use that fifth day for yourself and not to do work," he says. "You're not going to get Brownie points for replying to emails on the fifth day." Ms Wollersberger says: "We've seen people wait for their whole life for the big moment when they retire and then have the luxury to do all of the things you really want to do and fulfil your dreams. "But we've seen in a few cases that never happens as you get ill or you're older by then. "Maybe we can just flip that round. Maybe we can take that time and move it forward and give it back to ourselves and our employees." Mental health Office for National Statistics labour market data analysed by the TUC found 3,337,000 employees were now working more than 48 hours a week, a rise of 250,000 since 2001. Mental health charity Mind said poor work-life balance could lead to poor mental health in the workplace, which costs the UK economy up to £100bn per year. Stress can leave workers unable to concentrate and less motivated. Gemma Godfrey, chief executive of investment management company Moola, says: "Workers in Germany, for example, could actually stop working on a Thursday and yet still produce more than we do. "So, therefore, greater and longer working hours doesn't necessarily mean that we're more productive, especially when it negatively impacts our health and our ability to do our job." But, she says, the solution involves caring for employees' overall wellbeing, not simply cutting hours. She says: "How are we looking after them? Are we also looking at lifestyle benefits, harnessing modern technology to be able to offer greater flexibility as well as making sure we still deliver? "That's what's going to drive profits and the economy." Retention rates The 100 staff at Pursuit Marketing, in Glasgow, have worked a four-day week since a successful trial in 2016. It says productivity increased initially by about 38%, settling to about 30% over the past year, with turnover rising from £2.2m to £5m. Operations director Lorraine Gray says other companies choose to work with Pursuit Marketing because of the way it treats staff. "The culture in the workplace drives better results, better performance, a happier workforce. So, our retention rates are really high. We can attract the best talent," she says. "When our staff are in the office, they're far more productive. They're focused on what they need to do. And they want to enjoy that three-day weekend every weekend and not be worried about work." Watch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel. | बीबीसी के विक्टोरिया डर्बीशायर कार्यक्रम द्वारा देखे गए टीयूसी के विश्लेषण से पता चलता है कि आठ में से एक कर्मचारी सप्ताह में 48 घंटे से अधिक काम करता है। लेकिन कुछ कंपनियां यह देखने के लिए प्रयोग कर रही हैं कि क्या बेहतर कार्य-जीवन संतुलन प्राप्त करना संभव है। |
uk-36539775 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36539775 | Five top parenting tips that could be in official lessons | What are the key things that every parent should know before they take on what is arguably the most important job of their life? After a call from a leading public health expert for parents in the UK to have lessons provided by the government, we have invited educational psychologist Zubeida Dasgupta to offer five useful tips for parenting to help promote mental well-being in children. | 1 Attach and tune in Help children to feel safe from the start with good attachment, being attuned to them and setting clear and consistent boundaries. It's about your relationship, knowing what your child needs at that moment. Do they need you? Or a bit of space? You have to be ready to see what they need. If the relationship is an attuned one, then the child feels safe and can manage difficulties in the outside world. There's a lot of evidence, (as the FPH says in its report) that children who don't get that in the first 1,001 days, don't develop secure attachment. We use Video Interaction Guidance to support parents - reviewing little clips that show their interactions working well. Showing those moments of joy help them to feel good about their parenting. And help their communication, interactions and relationship with their child. 2 Look after your own mental health Be aware of what can make us stressed, anxious or depressed. Do we have a network of support - be that a partner, friends, school, or the local council's parenting classes? Make sure there is support for yourself, that makes parenting less isolating, that there is space to offload. For working parents it can be really stressful to balance raising kids and working. If we feel good and are calm, if we feel mentally well, we can better support our children. 3 Don't overfill their days Give children time and space. We try to overfill their days with activities when we could be taking our foot off the accelerator and just "being". Too much activity puts pressure and expectation on children. That doesn't give them space to be with themselves and become self-aware. We are often in "rushing" mode, not "being" mode. If we have space in time and in our minds we can listen to what our children say, be that verbally, or non-verbally. Then they are more likely to talk about their feelings. It doesn't have to be hours, just spend 10 minutes joining your child's world - observing, joining in, following their play. Discuss feelings in everyday situations. In books, what do the characters feel? Gently show interest in feelings and thoughts. This helps children develop vocabulary for talking about feelings. 4 Learn resilience, bear frustration. Help children to become more resilient, even from an early age. If they can't get a cube in a shape sorter, we can't bear their frustration and help them to do it. But we all need to bear frustration throughout life. Learning to become resilient and deal with it is a good skill. Be a sensitive parent who can judge how far they can support their child to tolerate frustration. Then, if they have managed something well, help them notice what they have done, help them reflect. 5 The "other" five-a-day As the NHS website says, make sure you have your five-a-day for mental wellbeing. They are: be mindful; connect; exercise; learn something new; and give to others. The idea is that if you should do a little bit of each of those every day. Just like the five-a-day portions of fruit and vegetables that keep the family physically healthy, these keep you mentally healthy. Parents should also trust their instinct and if they are concerned about their child's mental health, seek advice from their GP. And an extra tip, just for fun... ... is to have fun. After all, laughter releases happy hormones. | प्रत्येक माता-पिता को अपने जीवन का सबसे महत्वपूर्ण काम करने से पहले किन प्रमुख बातों के बारे में पता होना चाहिए? ब्रिटेन में एक प्रमुख सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य विशेषज्ञ द्वारा माता-पिता को सरकार द्वारा प्रदान किए गए सबक के लिए कॉल करने के बाद, हमने शैक्षिक मनोवैज्ञानिक जुबेदा दासगुप्ता को बच्चों में मानसिक कल्याण को बढ़ावा देने में मदद करने के लिए पालन-पोषण के लिए पांच उपयोगी सुझाव देने के लिए आमंत्रित किया है। |
uk-england-birmingham-54681348 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-54681348 | Oldbury pub fight leaves man in critical condition | A man is in a critical condition in hospital after being punched in the face outside a pub. | West Midlands Police said officers responded to disorder outside the Phoenix pub in Martley Road, Oldbury, shortly after 21:00 BST on Saturday. It is understood the victim suffered serious head injuries after being hit to the floor. The force is investigating the assault and has seized CCTV from the premises. It has also appealed for witnesses. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: [email protected] Related Internet Links West Midlands Police | एक पब के बाहर चेहरे पर मुक्का मारने के बाद अस्पताल में एक व्यक्ति की हालत गंभीर है। |
uk-politics-55540465 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-55540465 | Much is an echo of March - but a lot is different too | By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable. | Laura KuenssbergPolitical editor@bbclaurakon Twitter But it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful. With tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away. There is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy. This time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business. But there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits. Vaccine 'should be entire focus' By now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions. But there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation. Vaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already. The scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way. One member of the cabinet told me: "We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel." It's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too. | सोमवार को रात 8 बजे तक यह अपरिहार्य महसूस हुआ। |
world-asia-india-36341636 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36341636 | India-Iran relations: Why Bollywood is our common language | With Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting Iran, there's been lots of talk in Delhi about the relationship between our two countries. But for me, a holiday I had in Iran last year told me more about our middle eastern neighbour than any political pundit could. | By Vandana VijayBBC Hindi 1. We are all Shah Rukh Khan fans When I travelled to Iran last year, I received a warm welcome from many strangers - in part because the subject of Bollywood is great icebreaker. On my first day in Tehran, a guard outside the Sadabad Palace museum asked me shyly: "Are you Hindustani (Indian), do you know Shah Rukh Khan?" For the uninitiated, Shah Rukh Khan is one of the biggest superstars of Indian cinema with a fan following around the world. As my friend and I took a selfie with the Iranian Bollywood fan, something inside told me that I was in for a treat. And I wasn't wrong. 2. A secret love of lipstick During my travels, as I was getting myself photographed in local attire, an old lady came towards me. We tried to communicate, but couldn't understand each other's language. Then she mimicked an Indian lady applying lipstick and a Bindi (an adornment worn on the forehead by some Indian women). Once I realised what she wanted, I handed her my lipstick. She deftly applied it on her lips, looked in the mirror and blushed like a new bride. Then she furiously removed the lipstick, as if someone was watching over her. Before I knew it, she had planted a kiss on my cheeks, hugged me and left. I can still feel the warmth of that hug. I don't know what her reasons were. All I know that this was a moment of female solidarity that needed no words. 3. Fashion and nose jobs There was lot for me to learn and unlearn about Iran. Knowingly or unknowingly, we all carry stereotypes in our minds. When I arrived, I was curious to know more about the position of women in Iran. As I roamed around on the streets of Iran, I saw women making a fashion statement every now and then with their clothing. The young girls were smartly dressed in jeans, with highlighted hair loosely covered by fashionable and colourful headscarves. They all carried beautifully accessorised handbags. I also saw young boys and girls sitting in parks holding hands. And then there was the peculiar case of bandaged noses. Almost on every nook and corner, I saw women with bandages on their noses. How could so many women could have hurt their noses in one go? I kept wondering. So curiosity took the better of me and I asked someone. It turns out the women hadn't broken their noses, but had undergone nose jobs! Apparently, nose jobs are a big hit amongst Iranian women, something I had never known. I'd read about life being hard for women in Iran, but clearly many women are keen to access fashion, and if they have the money, will go to great lengths to get the look they want. 4. Vegetarian options Being a pure vegetarian, I was worried about food options in Iran as I'd previously had a difficult time in China But it turns out we have some common roots - and common food cultures. Vegetarian Parsi food came to my rescue. Zoroastrianism is one of world's oldest religions and was founded in ancient Iran about 3,500 years ago. In the 10th Century, a group of Iranians fled, seeking religious freedom, and ended up on the shores of Gujarat in India where they are now known as Indian Parsi community. Since then, the Parsis settled in India have maintained strong connections with Iran And if you are a vegetarian like me, who does not even eat eggs, Parsi restaurants in Iran ensure you are well fed. 5. Diamonds aren't forever? As an Indian, I was also intrigued by the National Jewellery Museum in Tehran which houses many diamonds from India including the famous Dariya re Noor diamond, said to be the largest pink diamond of world. Historians claim it was looted by the Persian emperor Nadir Shah from India but there is no high profile campaign to get it back, unlike the Kohinoor diamond held in Britain. Before showing these diamonds, the Iranian guide would say to the Indian visitors: "Let bygones be bygones", with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. Actually, relations between the two countries are much more than just food, poetry, music and films and nostalgia. There are bigger issues like oil, sanctions, diplomacy and strategy to be taken care of. But as a wanderer visiting Iran, I was happy to see another side of the country, and realise that despite any political differences, we also have a lot in common. | भारतीय प्रधान मंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी की ईरान यात्रा के साथ, दिल्ली में हमारे दोनों देशों के बीच संबंधों के बारे में बहुत सारी बातें हुई हैं। लेकिन मेरे लिए, पिछले साल ईरान में एक छुट्टी ने मुझे हमारे मध्य पूर्वी पड़ोसी के बारे में किसी भी राजनीतिक पंडित की तुलना में अधिक बताया। |
uk-wales-politics-35291914 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-35291914 | Junior doctors' strike: Why is there no Wales dispute? | Hospitals in England are facing more disruption as junior doctors are due to stage a week of strikes in the ongoing dispute with the UK government over a new contract. Why are junior doctors not on strike in Wales? | By Owain ClarkeBBC Wales health correspondent Because the NHS in Wales is devolved. Since 1999, the Welsh Government has been in charge of running the health service. Ministers in Cardiff are responsible for negotiating the specific terms and conditions for doctors working in the Welsh NHS. For the time being the Welsh Government, like the Scottish government, says it intends to stick with the junior doctors contract already in force. Hence junior doctors in Wales will work as normal during the industrial action in England, which is due to take place from 08:00 to 17:00 BST from 12 to 16 September with more expected to follow. So will what's happening in England have no bearing at all on what happens in Wales? The dispute between the junior doctors, the NHS in England and the UK government is extremely complex. But generally speaking, it centres around introducing new working conditions including changing the way junior doctors are paid for working on weekends. The UK government insists the new contract means the NHS in England will be better placed to provide better care seven days a week. But the BMA insists it will increase the pressure on junior doctors and result in a less safe care for patients. While there are moves to improve access to care at weekends elsewhere in the UK, the plans are not on the scale of what the government in England is trying to achieve. For example, in Wales the focus has been on more weekend access to diagnostic tests, pharmacies and therapies rather than creating more seven-day working across the whole system. But that's not to stay if big changes eventually occur in terms and conditions in England that the Welsh Government won't have to consider the implications carefully. It would be very difficult for the NHS on both sides of the border with radically different contracts for staff doing similar jobs. That's why until now the Welsh health secretary has, in my view, been cautious not to try to make too much political capital out of the dispute in England. The Welsh Government is perhaps aware difficult negotiations, such as those that have occurred previously on GP and consultant contracts, may have to eventually take place here. However the Welsh Government insists any negotiations it takes part in will be undertaken in the spirit of "partnership". And last November, the then Health Minister Mark Drakeford encouraged junior doctors and medical professionals to consider working in Wales if unhappy in England. Are any patients living in Wales affected by the action over the border? Most patients living in Wales won't be affected. But those patients from Wales who were scheduled perhaps to get specialist treatment in England could face disruption. Similarly individuals - for example people living near the border in Monmouthshire and Powys who for reasons of geography generally get seen at hospitals in England - may see appointments postponed. So to what extent do junior doctors in Wales back the position of the BMA in England? Generally, junior doctors in Wales support their colleagues in England. BMA Wales said: "We fully support our colleagues in England who have planned industrial action. We are one profession, and we stand together. "Across the UK, the BMA wants a contract that is fair for doctors, safe for patients and safeguards the future of the NHS everywhere. "This is well supported: the BMA's ballot of its members received a near unanimous vote for industrial action in England. The approach taken by the government in England is an attack on us all." There has previously been support for the action from Welsh rugby star Jamie Roberts. He is a qualified doctor, although has never worked as one. He's currently playing for Harlequins and studying for a MPhil at Cambridge. He tweeted during the first strike: "The #juniordoctors have my full support today." However not everyone agrees; the BMA's former Welsh council chairman, former surgeon Russell Hopkins, wrote to the Daily Telegraph when doctors went on strike in February, saying the organisation has "morphed" into a left-wing political body, giving "little thought to patient care". The former surgeon and manager of the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff also said he intended to hand back his fellowship of the organisation. The BMA responded: "Everyone is entitled to their view and junior doctors certainly do not take the decision to take industrial action lightly." What does the Welsh Government say? Ahead of the latest proposed action, the Welsh Government has issued a statement. "We prefer dialogue and agreement over dispute and imposition and we will not impose a junior doctors contract here in Wales," said a spokesman. "Wales has a strong tradition of working in partnership with our staff and their representatives and we've had constructive talks with BMA Cymru regarding the ongoing dispute in England. "We welcome their plans to survey junior doctor members to judge their mood in relation to the contract situation. "We will only move to discuss a new contract for junior doctors when we judge the time is right. In the meantime, we continue to offer attractive working arrangements and a positive training experience, based on the existing contractual arrangements." The spokesman said they would also "seek to ensure there is no adverse impact" on Welsh patients who would routinely access emergency and planned care service at English hospitals. | इंग्लैंड के अस्पतालों को और अधिक व्यवधान का सामना करना पड़ रहा है क्योंकि एक नए अनुबंध को लेकर ब्रिटेन सरकार के साथ चल रहे विवाद में जूनियर डॉक्टरों को एक सप्ताह की हड़ताल करनी है। वेल्स में जूनियर डॉक्टर हड़ताल पर क्यों नहीं हैं? |
science-environment-32472310 | https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32472310 | Nepal quake 'followed historic pattern' | Nepal's devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake on Saturday was primed over 80 years ago by its last massive earthquake in 1934, which razed around a quarter of Kathmandu to the ground and killed over 17,000 people. | By Kate RaviliousScience writer This latest quake follows the same pattern as a duo of big tremors that occurred over 700 years ago, and results from a domino effect of strain transferring along the fault, geologists say. The researchers discovered the likely existence of this doublet effect only in recent weeks, during field work in the region. Saturday's quake, which struck an area in central Nepal, between the capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara, has had a far-reaching impact. More than 4,000 people have lost their lives, with victims in Bangladesh, India, Tibet, and on Mount Everest, where avalanches were triggered. Death tolls and casualty figures are likely to rise over the coming days, and the risk of landslides on slopes made unstable by the quake mean that the danger is far from passed. Trench investigations In a sadly prescient turn of events, Laurent Bollinger, from the CEA research agency in France, and his colleagues, uncovered the historical pattern of earthquakes during fieldwork in Nepal last month, and anticipated a major earthquake in exactly the location where Saturday's big tremor has taken place. Down in the jungle in central southern Nepal, Bollinger's team dug trenches across the country's main earthquake fault (which runs for more than 1,000km from west to east), at the place where the fault meets the surface, and used fragments of charcoal buried within the fault to carbon-date when the fault had last moved. Ancient texts mention a number of major earthquakes, but locating them on the ground is notoriously difficult. Monsoon rains wash soils down the hillsides and dense jungle covers much of the land, quickly obscuring earthquake ruptures. Bollinger's group was able to show that this segment of fault had not moved for a long time. "We showed that this fault was not responsible for the great earthquakes of 1505 and 1833, and that the last time it moved was most likely 1344," says Bollinger, who presented his findings to the Nepal Geological Society two weeks ago. Previously, the team had worked on the neighbouring segment of fault, which lies to the east of Kathmandu, and had shown that this segment experienced major quakes in 1255, and then more recently in 1934. The deadly pattern of quakes around Kathmandu When Bollinger and his colleagues saw this historic pattern of events, they became greatly concerned. "We could see that both Kathmandu and Pokhara would now be particularly exposed to earthquakes rupturing the main fault, where it likely last did in 1344, between the two cities," explains Paul Tapponnier, from the Earth Observatory of Singapore, who was working with Bollinger. When a large earthquake occurs, it is common for the movement to transfer strain further along the earthquake fault, and this seems to be what happened in 1255. Over the following 89 years, strain accumulated in the neighbouring westerly segment of fault, finally rupturing in 1344. Now, history has repeated itself, with the 1934 fault transferring strain westwards along the fault, which has finally been released today, 81 years later. And, worryingly, the team warns there could be more to come. "Early calculations suggest that Saturday's magnitude-7.8 earthquake is probably not big enough to rupture all the way to the surface, so there is still likely to be more strain stored, and we should probably expect another big earthquake to the west and south of this one in the coming decades," says Bollinger. You can follow Kate on Twitter | नेपाल में शनिवार को आया विनाशकारी भूकंप 80 साल पहले 1934 में आया था, जिसमें काठमांडू का लगभग एक चौथाई हिस्सा तबाह हो गया था और 17,000 से अधिक लोग मारे गए थे। |
uk-england-dorset-18534641 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-18534641 | Guys Marsh Prison workshop fire investigation launched | An investigation has been launched into the cause of a fire which broke out in the workshop of Guys Marsh Prison in Dorset. | Fifty firefighters were brought in to fight the fire at the prison south of Shaftesbury at about 08:50 BST. A Prison Service spokesperson said the blaze was extinguised by 10:30 BST and an investigation has now been launched. There were no injuries to staff or prisoners and the fire was contained in the workshop. The rural prison is a designated Foreign National Prisoner Centre and has a capacity of 578. | डोरसेट में गाय्स मार्श जेल की कार्यशाला में आग लगने के कारण की जांच शुरू कर दी गई है। |
entertainment-arts-20285096 | https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-20285096 | Profile: Tim Davie | Tim Davie has been appointed acting director general of the BBC following the resignation of George Entwistle in the wake of the Newsnight broadcast on 2 November which wrongly implicated ex-senior Tory Lord McAlpine in a child sex abuse scandal. | Mr Davie, 45, takes over as the BBC's governing body - the BBC Trust - begins the process of agreeing on a permanent successor. He will be in charge of leading an organisation reeling from the aftermath of what the chairman of the Trust, Lord Patten, described as "the unacceptable mistakes and the unacceptable shoddy journalism which has caused so much controversy". In October 2012, he was appointed as the new chief executive of BBC Worldwide and was due to take over in December. Mr Davie has been in his current role of director of BBC Audio & Music, with overall responsibility for BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, and the BBC digital radio stations 1Xtra, 6Music, BBC 4Extra, and the Asian Network, for four years. He also oversaw the three BBC orchestras in England, the BBC Singers, and the BBC Proms; classical music & performance television, factual radio and radio drama production are all within his remit, under the Audio and Music production department. Mr Davie had to deal with some delicate situations under his tenure. Soon after he began his current post, he had to address prank calls made by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on Radio 2. The decision to shut 6 Music under his tenure, which was later reversed, also brought scrutiny. Private sector Tim Davie became head of Audio & Music on 1 September 2008. From April 2005, he was director of the BBC's Marketing, Communications & Audiences division. He joined the corporation from his post as vice-president, Marketing and Franchise, PepsiCo Europe. After reading English at Cambridge University, he joined Procter and Gamble's marketing department, becoming a Brand Manager in 1991. He is a member of the BBC's Executive Board, a trustee of BBC Children in Need, and board member of Radio Joint Audience Research - Rajar - the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK. Mr Davie is married with three young sons. | 2 नवंबर को न्यूजनाइट प्रसारण के मद्देनजर जॉर्ज एंटविसल के इस्तीफे के बाद टिम डेवी को बीबीसी का कार्यवाहक महानिदेशक नियुक्त किया गया है, जिसमें पूर्व वरिष्ठ टोरी लॉर्ड मैकएल्पाइन को बाल यौन शोषण घोटाले में गलत तरीके से फंसाया गया था। |
world-europe-28158800 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28158800 | Deadly anthrax disease 'discovered in Hungarian beef' | Five people are being monitored at a Hungarian hospital after the discovery of the deadly anthrax disease in samples of beef, reports say. | The five were admitted to hospital over concerns that they may have been infected by the disease. The disease was discovered in frozen meat from two animals that had been slaughtered illegally, the Hungarian health agency says. Anthrax is caused by a bacteria that occurs naturally in soil. Symptoms of anthrax exposure include skin ulcers, nausea, vomiting and fever. Left untreated, it can lead to death. The animals in the latest outbreak were reportedly slaughtered at a farm in Tiszafured, a town 160km (99 miles) east of Budapest. | रिपोर्टों में कहा गया है कि गोमांस के नमूनों में घातक एंथ्रेक्स रोग की खोज के बाद हंगरी के एक अस्पताल में पांच लोगों की निगरानी की जा रही है। |
magazine-29894516 | https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29894516 | How Stonehenge site became the world's largest military training camp | Many of England's historic sites - some of which played key roles defending the country in past centuries - were given new roles during World War One. Tudor castles came to the defence of the nation once again, while country houses helped wounded soldiers recover. | The ancient stones at Stonehenge found themselves at the centre of the world's largest military camp. English Heritage is telling the story in a new exhibition at the site in Wiltshire, which runs until April 2015. Click to see how the stones and other historic gems fared between 1914-18 - with English Heritage's Senior Historian Paul Pattison. And scroll down further to see some of the images from the photo film. Soldiers at Stonehenge: Salisbury Plain and the journey to the First World War can be seen at Stonehenge until 12 April 2015. All images above and in the photo film subject to copyright. Images from English Heritage, J T Fuller, T S Crawford, Glenbow Museum (Canada), Stanley C Jenkins Collection, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society History Archive, Malcolm McCarthy and Private Collection. Additional material courtesy Getty Images. Video: Music by KPM Music. Photo film production by Paul Kerley. Related: BBC World War One English Heritage English Heritage - Soldiers at Stonehenge You might also like: Abram Games: Posters that framed the nation Ordinary beauty - Edwin Smith's striking photographs Who was the world's first trainspotter? | इंग्लैंड के कई ऐतिहासिक स्थलों-जिनमें से कुछ ने पिछली शताब्दियों में देश की रक्षा करने में महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाई थी-को प्रथम विश्व युद्ध के दौरान नई भूमिकाएँ दी गईं। ट्यूडर महल एक बार फिर राष्ट्र की रक्षा के लिए आए, जबकि ग्रामीण घरों ने घायल सैनिकों को ठीक होने में मदद की। |
uk-wales-south-east-wales-41728707 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-41728707 | Cardiff terror plot accused, 17, denies charges | A 17 year old boy has denied planning a terror attack in Cardiff. | The teenager, from Rhondda Cynon Taff, is charged with preparation of terrorist acts by obtaining a knife and hammer last month. He appeared before Birmingham Crown Court on Monday where he pleaded not guilty to five charges. A 10-day trial has been fixed to be heard from 13 November. | एक 17 वर्षीय लड़के ने कार्डिफ में आतंकवादी हमले की योजना बनाने से इनकार किया है। |
stories-45992816 | https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45992816 | Why we said 'I do' after 30 years together | Lately, Sue Elliott-Nicholls has been to lots of weddings where the bride and groom have been together for decades. And last month she, too, did the deed in her 50s. So why are all these middle-aged couples finally opting for marriage? | "You must get married," advised a friend who had just tied the knot after 25 years with her partner. "Because if one of you dies, the other person could lose the house to inheritance tax." You only pay inheritance tax if you have assets worth more than £325,000 - but in some parts of the country that applies to almost anyone who owns their own home. And there you have it - that's why I'm going to more weddings in my 50s than I ever went to in my 20s. No-one got married when we were in our 20s - it wasn't cool. Now it seems to make sense, because spouses inherit their partner's assets tax-free. House prices have soared to criminal levels in the South East. No-one can afford to buy, no-one can afford to move, and our grown-up kids can't afford to live independently in the cities they grew up in. But hey, something good can come out of this: we can have a party and tell ourselves there is a good financial reason for it... that it's actually a way of saving for the future. We can celebrate with our grown-up kids, and they can wear ridiculous suits. So after 30 years, my "husband" (I still feel silly saying it) and I have finally got hitched. Before popping the question I mentioned it to another friend who had got married after 25 years. (Yes, I discuss all major family decisions with friends before mentioning them to the actual family.) "What if it all goes wrong?" I asked her. "Sue," she said, rolling her eyes. "It's already gone wrong, you've been together 30 years, it's gone wrong and you've pulled it back into line, multiple times, because that's life." She was right. After 30 years Tony and I have been through many ups and downs - including getting evicted while pregnant , the death of parents, finally buying half a house, wonderful holidays, tracing biological families, and cancer. So, one Tuesday night I looked at him, swearing at the oven door as he tried to fix it, trousers slipping down to reveal a fine builder's bum, and told him I thought we should get married and why. "OK," he said as he screwed the door back on. "Book it." I sat at the kitchen table with the laptop open at the bookings page on the town hall website and we chose our date. In the months leading up to that date we had a few 5am wobbles. Why were we fixing something that wasn't broken? And what would it be like to get our complicated families together in one room for the first time in 30 years? What I hadn't realised was how much fun it would be. We laughed from beginning to end. And other people I have spoken to say it was the same for them. Anne and Ron decided to get the ceremony done with just their three kids and celebrate with a party at a later date. "We needed to get it done but, I don't know, it felt embarrassing to do it in front of people," says Anne. Her oldest son got the time wrong and so had to jump in a cab - he arrived covered in paint. Her second son had lost his passport so was on the phone from Stansted airport throughout the whole thing and her daughter was annoyed because she didn't realise there were going to be photos. "I would have dressed up if I'd known," she complained. Find out more Sue Elliott-Nicholls contributed to the Woman's Hour special, on BBC Radio 4, Why get married? Click here to listen online "It was a shambolic event generally," says Anne. "The registrar put some ghastly music on and let us have a moment - and of course we just fell about laughing. It brings out the bad behaviour somehow." Paddy and Christina left their two small kids with Christina's mum and jetted off to Vegas for an Elvis wedding after 15 years together. "Well," Christina says. "Paddy forgot my birthday. I think later that day he realised and then had to work fast. He rang my parents, got them to come up and have the kids, booked the tickets and arranged for us to go to Las Vegas, because for some reason I'd always wanted to get married in Las Vegas." Phew, well done Paddy. Pretty drastic measures - still, crisis avoided. Best friends Ginny and Jennifer had a problem. They both wanted to marry their partners of 30 and 20 years respectively but didn't really want to invite their large families. On the other hand, they didn't want the event to be too small either. "I feel it would have gone a bit flat really if it had just been Chris and I and the kids," says Jennifer. "So she phoned me one night," Ginny continues, "And said, 'I've had an idea. How about a joint wedding? We could be your witnesses, you could be our witnesses, that way we can keep it small, we could go out for a meal or something and it'll all be done and dusted within a few hours?'" It was a lovely day, they both agree. A few weeks after Tony and I got married it became legal for heterosexual couples to have a civil partnership. As there was no mention of God or obeying in our registry office service I wasn't too bothered - but Jennifer and Ginny said they both would have gone for that option if it had been available. Because all these late weddings came about for practical reasons. There is a sobering moment when we all become aware of our mortality. Cancer was a factor when it came to making our decision. Thankfully, Tony's treatment was successful and he is in remission, but I realised then that if it had been otherwise, we might have had to sell our home. When Jennifer married, she was in remission from cancer - she had lost her sister to cancer three years earlier. And as the mother of two young children, Christina wanted to make sure all the bases had been covered, should anything ever happen to her. In fact, Paddy and Christina opted out of the Elvis wedding when they found out he was going to sing five numbers. They decided it might be embarrassing, after a while, with just the two of them standing there awkwardly. Instead they opted for the drive-through - or as Paddy likes to call it, the drive-by. A quick couple of minutes standing up out of the sunroof of a stretch limo while the slightly worse-for-wear registrar declared them wed. Because, after that many years, you can do what you like. I took the bus to the Town Hall with the girls and picked up my flowers on the way, we had people back to our house because that's where all our happy memories are, we got take-away Turkish food from the mosque around the corner. My friend made a cake and my biological mum made my dress, after surreptitious fittings in the Top Shop changing rooms in our lunch breaks. But there was a moment, a brief moment when our boys were outside the mayor's parlour waiting to escort me in and I walked in to see my partner, suited and booted, looking so healthy and happy that I had to catch my breath. Anne and Ron had a party a few months after their official debacle at the registry office with the kids. This, for them, was the main event. "The party was about celebrating staying together, and the family," Anne remembers. "It was about restating something that we felt 20-odd years ago which you don't really ever say in the normal course of things," says Ron. "There's a reason we stayed together, it's not inertia - at least, not on my part." They both laugh. They had a sort of mock service where Anne's oldest son, Alex, made a speech about how much his stepdad Ron meant to him. Alex's dad had died before Anne and Ron got together. "Alex was really moving," says Anne, looking at Ron. "Talking about you, talking about when his dad died. When would you ever say any of that?" You may also like: When Pakistani designer Nashra Balagamwala produced a board game about arranged marriage, most news reports about her wrongly assumed she was dead against it. Actually her position is far more nuanced - and one goal is to explain to people in the UK and elsewhere how it works. Read: 'I want to explain arranged marriage to people in the West' Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. | हाल ही में, सू इलियट-निकोल्स कई शादियों में गई हैं जहाँ दुल्हन और दूल्हा दशकों से साथ रहे हैं। और पिछले महीने उन्होंने भी अपने 50 के दशक में यह काम किया था। तो फिर ये सभी अधेड़ उम्र के जोड़े आखिरकार शादी का विकल्प क्यों चुन रहे हैं? |
world-us-canada-45790583 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45790583 | US mid-terms: Will young people bother to vote? | This election has been billed as one in which young people form a powerful voting bloc, propelled by the momentum generated by school shootings earlier in the year, and mobilised by celebrities like Taylor Swift and Rihanna. But will they turn up on the day? | Young turnout in mid-term elections in the US is historically low but some signs, including participation in recent primaries and voter registration, suggest that numbers may be higher this year. At the same time, however, other data indicate that very little may change. Let's take a look at key factors. 1. Millennials are more politically engaged A survey of people aged 22 to 38 found that 62% were "looking forward" to the vote on 6 November, a large increase from the 46% recorded in 2014 and 39% in 2010, according to the Pew Research Center. Recent special and primary elections had higher turnout than previous years fuelled, in part, by greater participation of young voters, says Dr Michael McDonald, an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He runs the United States Elections Project, which has election data from as far back as 1787. Early signs suggest that this could happen again next month. "You do expect young voters to be more engaged in this election than in recent [ones]," according to Dr McDonald. Health care, immigration and the economy are some of the most important issues for them, according to surveys, and they tend to engage more with candidates addressing those subjects. 2. But they usually don't bother to actually vote Despite all of the above, don't forget that young turnout in mid-term elections is historically low, hovering around 20%. They are also the age group most likely to not vote. There have been some initiatives to change that. Apart from calls from politicians and celebrities (more on that later), more than 100 companies - including Walmart, the country's largest employer - have joined the campaign Time to Vote. The goal is to boost participation among their employees, many of them young voters - a different Pew survey suggested that conflicting work or school schedule was a reason for a third of those interviewed to miss voting. Lyft and Uber, for example, are offering discount or even free rides for some voters. "People vote when they're interested," Dr McDonald says. "The issues have to matter to the voters in order for them to be engaged and young people, because they haven't been exposed to politics for as long, don't have strong attachments or aren't following politics as close as older people." How to register 3. Politics has been, well, depressing And deeply partisan. And polarised. All of this could either encourage young people to vote or contribute to keep them away from the process. A poll by MTV/AP-Norc in July with people aged 15-34 suggested that: That pessimism, however, can actually boost participation, says Dr McDonald. "Anger is a very potent emotion that can motivate people to participate in elections. Negativity doesn't necessarily have a negative impact. It can turn some people off... but it energises [many]." In 2013, Steven Olikara founded the non-partisan group Millennial Action Project to encourage bipartisan dialogue among young legislators. He said one of their top priorities is to take the "legislative process into the digital age," where much of the debate happens, and "making government more transparent." Writing at the website Salon, he adds: "Beyond writing legislation, young elected officials are chipping away at political dysfunction by engaging in constructive, civil discourse." 4. Activism after Parkland The movement for gun control created by the survivors of February's high-school shooting in Parkland, Florida, raised hopes of more political youth engagement. There are mixed conclusions on that. Based on information available from 46 states, Target Smart, a Democratic political analytics firm, said there was an increase of 2.16% in registrations of 18-29 year olds nationwide following the shooting that left 17 students and workers dead. Some states with critical elections had significant increases, like Pennsylvania (10 point rise), Arizona (7.6) and Florida (7.9). "The spike in voter registration activity comes on the heels of the grassroots movement to address gun violence issues," they said. But a Washington Post analysis of data tracked by Aristotle Inc found almost no change in registration numbers on that age group. Even in Florida. 5. The celebrity effect Or is there one? First, there was Taylor Swift. Citing events in "the past two years", the singer endorsed two Democrats in her home state, Tennessee, to her 112 million followers on Instagram last weekend. The post itself was liked by more than 1.6 million people. Vote.org's Kamari Guthrie was quoted by Buzzfeed News as saying the site had seen a "registrations spike" in the state and also a bump in registration nationwide following the singer's post in the popular photo-sharing platform. "Thank God for Taylor Swift," Ms Guthrie reportedly said. The singer's announcement came ahead of a registration deadline in Tennessee and other states, when numbers usually go up, so it is difficult to say with certainty that the Swift effect is behind the rise. Ms Guthrie, however, told the New York Times she had "never seen a 24- or 36- or 48-hour period like this" since Vote.org was created, in 2016. And many of those who registered were young people, she said. The impact of famous people backing political candidates or causes is debated. Some experts say there is no concrete evidence that celebrities' endorsements or positions have a significant impact on voters. In any case, Rihanna, Kanye West and others have also made their political feelings publicly known. | इस चुनाव को एक ऐसे चुनाव के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया गया है जिसमें युवा लोग एक शक्तिशाली मतदान समूह बनाते हैं, जो वर्ष की शुरुआत में स्कूल की गोलीबारी से उत्पन्न गति से प्रेरित है, और टेलर स्विफ्ट और रिहाना जैसी हस्तियों द्वारा जुटाया गया है। लेकिन क्या वे उस दिन आएंगे? |
uk-england-dorset-36066453 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-36066453 | Bournemouth A338 works: Motorists warned of evening closures | Motorists are being warned of further road closures as one of the final phases of work to rebuild the main route into Bournemouth gets under way. | The A338 will be shut for six nights in both directions between the Ashley Heath Roundabout and Cooper Dean Roundabout from 20:00 BST. The evening closures are part of a £22m project that started in September. The 40-year-old Bournemouth Spur Road is being rebuilt because of crumbling foundations. The work, expected to be completed by June, involves a re-development of the route between the Ashley Heath Roundabout and Blackwater Junction. The authority has advised motorists to "plan ahead". | मोटर चालकों को आगे सड़क बंद होने की चेतावनी दी जा रही है क्योंकि बोर्नमाउथ में मुख्य मार्ग के पुनर्निर्माण के लिए काम के अंतिम चरणों में से एक चल रहा है। |
uk-england-humber-46558442 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-46558442 | Teenager held in Paris over Hull hit-and-run murder bid | A 19-year-old man has been detained in Paris on suspicion of attempted murder after a cyclist was injured in a hit-and-run in Hull. | The 43-year-old man was knocked down "by a car which drove off" near a retail park on Mount Pleasant at about 16:30 GMT on Wednesday, police said. He was seriously hurt and is being treated in hospital for chest injuries. Officers said the teenager boarded a train to the French capital where he was "picked up at the other end". Humberside Police said he was being brought back for questioning in connection with the "suspected attempted murder". The force has appealed for witnesses and anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage to come forward. | पेरिस में एक 19 वर्षीय व्यक्ति को हत्या के प्रयास के संदेह में हिरासत में लिया गया है, जब हल में एक हिट-एंड-रन में एक साइकिल चालक घायल हो गया था। |
world-asia-29673120 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29673120 | Terrified victims of Thai trafficking face uncertain future | For at least five years, the Andaman coast of Thailand has been the scene of some horrific abuses, mainly against ethnic Rohingyas, a Muslim minority group fleeing persecution in Myanmar, also known as Burma. | By Jonathan HeadBBC South East Asia Correspondent In 2009, the Thai Navy was found to be towing boats packed with Rohingyas out to sea, and leaving them to drift. Hundreds are believed to have died. More recently Thai police and military personnel have been accused of selling Rohingyas who washed up on Thailand's shores to human traffickers. These abuses are in part what caused Thailand to be downgraded to the lowest rank in the annual US report on human trafficking. Successive Thai governments have promised to stamp out this scourge. But the recent discovery of 171 mainly Bangladeshi men being held captive in jungle camps shows how much still needs to be done. What started as opportunistic exploitation of Rohingyas appears to have mutated into an organised slave trade. Repeated beatings Eighty-one of the men are now being sheltered in a local government hall in the town of Takua Pa. They sit there listlessly, some nursing ugly wounds inflicted by their captors. At times, tears slide down their faces as they recall their ordeal, and think of homes and families in Bangladesh. They all tell very similar stories. Eighteen year-old Abdurrahim still hobbles from a savage blow to his knee inflicted by one of his guards after he asked for more food. Originally from Bogra, in northern Bangladesh, he told me he was trying to find work in the capital Dacca when an elderly man offered him a job paying around $6 (£3.73) a day. He travelled with this man to Cox's Bazar, he said, and was taken to a small house up in the hills. There he was tied up, drugged, and woke up on board a boat. He spent seven or eight days at sea, he says, where he was repeatedly beaten. After that, the group was unloaded on the Thai coast, and taken to a camp hidden in a mangrove forest. They gave us no food, he said. "We survived by eating leaves." Absar Mia is 27, from Teknaf, close to the border with Myanmar. He is married with three young children. "My heart is burning for home," he said. "All I think about is how I can get home, how I can see my mother again, how I can see my little boys and girl again. That's why I'm crying." He described being offered a job by a man, and waiting for him on a hill near Teknaf. Suddenly he was grabbed, his hands tied, his mouth gagged. He said he struggled as he was taken out to a boat, and was beaten. Ayub was working as an agricultural labourer in Chittagong, southeast Bangladesh, but he said the work ran out. A man suggested he go to Cox's Bazaar. There he suddenly found himself being grabbed, tied up and forced onto a boat which he said was already crowded with people. He repeatedly asked where they were taking him, but said the guards threatened to kill him if he did not shut up. He, too, has three children. Tracked down That they were rescued from their captors is due to the determination of local district chief, Manit Pianthiong. A 28-year veteran of the area, who got the chief's job nine months ago, he is all too familiar with the human trafficking which goes on along the indented coastline of Takua Pa. Mr Pianthiong says he is trying to curb all forms of smuggling, but he is focusing in particular on the human trade, which he says is damaging the image of the entire country. He encourages people in fishing communities along the coast to alert him to any signs of large groups of people being held. That is how he heard about these three groups of mainly Bangladeshi men, and a few Rohingyas. The first group of 37 was found last month. Then, on 11 October, his men tracked down another group of 53. The last group, of 81, was surrounded in a forest camp near the road on 13 October. They had been driven by their guards from one camp to another in an attempt to evade the authorities. Mr Pianthiong believes many more were not rescued, and may have been sold. Two of the guards have now been detained. One of them was identified by the Bangladeshis as the most brutal of their captors, a man they called Keke. Whether this man, and his bosses, are brought to justice, depends on the government in Bangkok. Illegal immigrants Mr Pianthiong said he wants to go after the trafficking kingpins in the region, people with powerful connections. But that would require him to get much stronger backing, and so far that is not happening. Senior figures in the police and the social welfare ministry are resisting his efforts to have all the Bangladeshi men classified as victims of trafficking. The second group of 53 has already been given that status, which gives them proper support and shelter, and would allow them to go back to Bangladesh quickly. However, the police are talking about reversing that decision. Instead, they want then to be jailed as illegal immigrants. It is difficult to know why they want this outcome, for people who have all the appearance of victims. Perhaps it is to avoid having to admit that trafficking continues in Thailand. Perhaps it is because they are reluctant to go after the trafficking kingpins. The result, though, could be disastrous for the Bangladeshis. People have been known to be stuck in Thai immigration prisons for many years. In the case of Rohingyas, some were actually sold back to human traffickers. How Thailand handles the case of these men will surely be a test of its declared willingness to turn its back on a shameful record of trafficking, and take meaningful action to end the trade in people. | कम से कम पाँच वर्षों से, थाईलैंड का अंडमान तट कुछ भयानक दुर्व्यवहारों का दृश्य रहा है, मुख्य रूप से जातीय रोहिंग्याओं के खिलाफ, जो म्यांमार में उत्पीड़न से भाग रहे एक मुस्लिम अल्पसंख्यक समूह है, जिसे बर्मा के नाम से भी जाना जाता है। |
uk-england-18448066 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-18448066 | MP calls for investment in Midland Mainline services | The Midland Mainline runs through the centre of the country, it carries more than 13 million passengers a year, and yet according to the MP for Kettering , when it comes to investment it's the most overlooked rail line in Britain. | Deborah McGurranPolitical editor, East of England "In recent years, some £12 billion has been spent on the rail network, but only £200 million has been spent on the Midland Mainline," he told a debate in Parliament. "Ours is very much this country's overlooked line, even though we connect so many places of importance." With the government drawing up a new list of rail spending priorities MPs across the region are calling debates fighting for their stretch of line. Speedier services This week it was Mr Hollobone's turn and he believes there's a strong case to be made for the Midland Mainline. "Despite having a very good punctuality record, the Midland Mainline is the slowest of any of the inter-city lines," he said. "Due to under-investment in the past 20 years, Midland Mainline trains cannot go at their top speed on any stretch of the track. "Most other inter-city lines can go up to 125 mph, but despite the fact that InterCity 125s run on the line, their top speed is mostly limited to 100 mph." Passenger numbers, he said, had increased by 127% over the last 15 years and a further 28% rise is expected in the next 10 years. Upgrading and electrification of the line would be of immense benefit to Kettering and to the East Midlands. It would lead to faster and more frequent services and deliver £450 million of economic benefits to the region. In particular he wants to see three pinch points tackled: they are at Leicester, Derby and the stretch between Kettering, Harborough and Wigston. Rail investment We're starting to feel sorry for the rail minister Theresa Villiers and her colleague Norman Baker who take it in turn to listen to these pleas for rail improvements and then each time have to give roughly the same response. Ms Villiers acknowledged the importance of the Midland Mainline, pointing out that it had received "important investment" in recent years. New stations had been delivered at Corby and East Midlands Parkway, there had been major improvements at Loughborough, Sheffield and St Pancras, and further improvements were in the pipeline. She recognised that any improvements to the line would pay for themselves within 10 years. But she warned that "the government's response to the campaign will depend on what is affordable within budgets". Mr Hollobone made a very strong case for the Midland Mainline but we were struck by how few other MPs came along to support him. Other debates calling for improvements to rail lines in the region have been much better attended with neighbouring MPs supporting each other. Will the minister take that into account or will she just focus on the strength of the argument? | मिडलैंड मेनलाइन देश के केंद्र से होकर गुजरती है, यह एक वर्ष में 13 मिलियन से अधिक यात्रियों को ले जाती है, और फिर भी केटरिंग के सांसद के अनुसार, जब निवेश की बात आती है तो यह ब्रिटेन में सबसे अधिक अनदेखी की जाने वाली रेल लाइन है। |
uk-england-hampshire-56251883 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-56251883 | Mother and son rescued from tidal mud near Havant | A mother and her young son had to be rescued after getting stuck in tidal mud near a coastal park. | The pair became trapped up to their knees near Havant, Hampshire, shortly after 14:00 GMT on Monday. Crews from three stations were called to Harts Farm Way, near Broadmarsh Coastal Park, where the woman and child were trapped about 30ft (10m) from the shore. The firefighters used inflatable walkways to reach them. Follow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to [email protected]. Related Internet Links Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service | एक तटीय उद्यान के पास ज्वारीय मिट्टी में फंसने के बाद एक माँ और उसके छोटे बेटे को बचाना पड़ा। |
uk-wales-50635374 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-50635374 | Owl clings to ambulance roof for trip to Bridgend A&E | An owl flew into an ambulance heading to a hospital - then clung on to the blue lights until it arrived. | The bird was on the roof when the ambulance stopped at the A&E at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend at 04:00 GMT on Sunday. Staff said the bird seemed a little stunned and had damage to its eye, but was otherwise unhurt. Maes Glas vets agreed to look after the owl, which is now being cared for at the Gower Bird Sanctuary. | एक उल्लू ने अस्पताल जाने वाली एम्बुलेंस में उड़ान भरी-फिर नीली रोशनी से चिपक गया जब तक कि वह नहीं आया। |
uk-england-london-42839414 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-42839414 | Man denies Charlotte Brown speedboat death | A man has denied killing his date in a speedboat accident on the River Thames. | Jack Shepherd, 30, of Paddington in west London, is charged with manslaughter after he and Charlotte Brown, 24, ended up in the river just before midnight on 8 December 2015. Police were called to reports of someone in distress near Wandsworth Bridge at about 23:45 BST. Ms Brown, from London, died later in hospital. Mr Shepherd is due to face a three-week trial at the Old Bailey on 2 July. | एक आदमी ने टेम्स नदी पर एक स्पीडबोट दुर्घटना में अपनी तारीख को मारने से इनकार किया है। |
world-australia-48301237 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48301237 | Bob Hawke: The rambunctious rogue who led Australia | In an era of Australian leadership turmoil, the death of Bob Hawke, a beloved former prime minister, feels especially poignant ahead of a national election on Saturday, writes the BBC's Hywel Griffith in Sydney. | Australia loves a larrikin - a rambunctious rogue who does not care about convention. In Bob Hawke, who died on Thursday at 89, the country found a natural leader, happy to play the role. Though he swore off alcohol while in office, well into his late 80s, he would still perform his famous party-trick of downing a glass of beer at cricket matches, always to rapturous applause. But Hawke's antics belied a sharp political mind that understood the need to build consensus and keep the voters on his side. "These acts of drinking, these acts of womanising, as much as they got out into the public eye were a calculated risk on his part," says associate Prof Anika Gauja from the University of Sydney. "It was cultivated on his part to perpetuate his image of an easy-going guy. I'm not sure whether in today's style of politics, whether he'd be seen as too much of a liability in the social media age." Hawke's eight years as Australian prime minister - still a record for a Labor leader - stands in conspicuous contrast to the most recent decade of turmoil in Australian politics. No prime minister has served a full three-year term since another long-serving leader, conservative John Howard, left office in 2007. For many Australians, both men - though ideological opposites - recall a kind of carefree stability that is lacking in today's politics. And Hawke still holds the highest approval rating of any serving Australian prime minister. Australian election 2019 Despite poor health, he had been active in public consciousness in recent days - releasing spirited statements to promote Labor's cause. Inevitably, his death will loom large in the remaining hours of Australia's election campaign. Prime Minister Scott Morrison saluted him for having "a unique ability to speak to all Australians" and said he would be "greatly missed". Labor leader Bill Shorten - who, like Hawke, forged his career in trade unions - paid tribute to a man he called "Australia's favourite son". Charisma and ambition Hawke was born in 1929 to a family with strong connections to the Labor movement. By the age of 15 he had told friends he would one day be prime minister. After studying in Perth, Oxford and Canberra, he entered a career in the trade unions, where he honed his famous negotiating skills. In 1974, they were called upon to help convince Frank Sinatra to retract sexist comments he had made on tour in Australia, after the singer called female journalists "buck-and-a-half" prostitutes. Sinatra had initially refused to apologise, prompting fury and reports that airport workers would refuse to refuel his plane. It ended in a bizarre standoff at a Sydney hotel. Over cognac and cigars there, Hawke persuaded Sinatra to issue a statement of regret, ending a nationwide boycott of Sinatra's shows. Hawke had become a public figure long before he entered parliament at the age of 50, and within three years he rose to become Labor leader and prime minster. His first, landslide election victory in 1983 gave him a mandate to push through contentious changes, with an agenda of privatisation and deregulation at odds with his party's traditions. But some of his reforms were clearly too ambitious. As he set his sights on a third election victory in 1987 he pledged that "by 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty". He would come to regret that defining moment, especially as the written version of his speech said only no child "need live in poverty." It was a rare slip of the tongue for a politician who seemed so comfortable and relaxed on the big stage. Internationally, he helped renew Australia's floundering friendship with the United States by committing troops to the Gulf War. But Bob Hawke was also aware of the need to seek allies closer to home. "His image could be quite perplexing to foreigners, but I think Bob Hawke will be remembered as the Australian prime minister who really started engaging with Asia," says Associate Professor Anika Gauja. "His move to internationalise Australia's economy will be remembered very positively." Inevitably his popularity dimmed at home when Australia's economic fortunes worsened, and after eight years in office, in 1991, he was replaced by his long-time Labor colleague and rival Paul Keating. There was little love lost between the two men, although Bob Hawke did later claim he was grateful to Keating for ousting him from office, as it meant he had the opportunity to re-marry. In 1995 he divorced his first wife Hazel in order to marry his biographer Blanche d'Alpuget, with whom he had had a long-running extra-marital affair. Despite losing power, Hawke regularly appeared in public alongside Blanche, his reputation restored and his place in history assured. Among legacies still felt today, Hawke's government launched Medicare - Australia's universal healthcare system - and outlawed sexual discrimination in the workplace. It also restricted uranium mining on indigenous lands, and prevented the damming of Tasmania's world heritage-listed Franklin River. Hawke also led international efforts to protect Antarctica from mining, after refusing to ratify a proposal put to Antarctic Treaty nations. "I just couldn't believe it. Here was the last pristine continent," Hawke recalled to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2016. "We were going to be called upon to ratify it and I thought: 'no bloody way'." His death is perhaps felt even more acutely at a time when Australians are preparing to head to the ballot box on Saturday. As one former Hawke staffer and now ABC presenter, Barrie Cassidy, noted soon after his former boss's death: "What a sense of timing." For most Australians, he will always be remembered as the prime minister who loved a drink and joke, and made the serious work of politics look like fun. | सिडनी में बीबीसी के हाइवेल ग्रिफ़िथ लिखते हैं कि ऑस्ट्रेलियाई नेतृत्व की उथल-पुथल के युग में, एक प्रिय पूर्व प्रधान मंत्री, बॉब हॉक की मृत्यु शनिवार को एक राष्ट्रीय चुनाव से पहले विशेष रूप से मार्मिक महसूस होती है। |
magazine-36026451 | https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36026451 | A country where toilets are a sign of hope | War, corruption and poverty have dogged the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it is widely believed that its incumbent president will cancel this year's presidential elections. But despite the instability this could bring, Mary-Ann Ochota met a community who remain surprisingly upbeat. | Bawili Amisi is a slim woman, lean and strong. As she stirs cassava flour to make the Congolese staple fufu, a greyish sticky dough eaten at every meal, I can see the sinews in her arms standing taut. When she calls the family to eat, everyone assembles without delay. Children don't mess about with their food here. They eat and they are grateful. I'm in South Kivu, at the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bawili's village, Mwandiga Trois, sits near the western shore of Lake Tanganyika. It's a beautiful region - verdant hills and rich soils offer the chance of two full harvests a year. The shimmering lake teems with fine, fresh fish. No-one should go hungry here. In fact Congo should be one of the most prosperous countries in Africa. It doesn't just offer agricultural promise, it also has more than a thousand precious minerals. There's copper, diamonds, gold, uranium and coltan, used in every mobile phone in the world. And yet Congo's people are some of the world's poorest. Congo's leaders have been corrupt, cruel tyrants. The current president, Joseph Kabila, oversees a kleptocratic elite, with little interest in uniting, or even running, the country. Mining profits drain overseas or into deep back pockets. There is no rule of law. In every measure of human development - safety, food security, access to water, healthcare, education - the DRC scrapes along the bottom of world rankings. The people are on their own. Bawili's story is quintessentially Congolese. In 1998, her husband was shot when rebels attacked their village. She fled with her children to Tanzania, to spend a decade in an overcrowded refugee camp. In 2008, she was among thousands forcibly repatriated to Congo. It wasn't yet safe back home, but Tanzania was closing the camps. The village Bawili and her family were sent to was new - a patch of forest allocated for "returnees", dislocated strangers from all over Congo. There was no clean water supply, no sanitation, no school and no support. Find out more "It was very difficult," Bawili smiles, almost apologetically, "but I started growing some crops and built the house." She gestures to the neat mud-brick hut we're sitting next to, with corrugated tin shutters on the windows and a bright cloth covering the doorway. "I was too weak to dig a latrine, and I couldn't afford to pay someone to help me. I felt helpless because I couldn't protect my children. It was just me." Bawili's daughter Ebinda can't remember leaving Congo. But she remembers coming back, aged 14. Some months later, she was bitten by a snake on the way back from the bushes which the family used as a lavatory. There was no anti-venom available and the toxins damaged her heart and nervous system. She still suffers now. A year later, Ebinda was spotted by a group of men, again on her way out of the bushes. She became pregnant as a result of the gang rape. Her child, now a sweet, malnourished six-year-old, leans shyly against his mother's legs, peeking up at me. The first few years of international intervention here were all about "visibility". Schools and wells are still branded with rusting signs declaring which major donor built what. But now a new approach is taking hold - the emphasis is on invisible aid, helping a community grow its own capacity for development, seeding change that will outlive the funding, and move with people who are still at risk of displacement. Bawili's the president of the village Community Health Club, an initiative that trains locals to learn and share skills in hygiene, nutrition and childcare. Simple things that can save lives. She and her fellow club members meet under a tree every Sunday morning, taking turns to talk about their work and how to encourage their neighbours. Over the past few months, pit latrines have been dug across the village, including at Bawili's house. The club has composed a jaunty song to teach everyone about hand-washing and hygiene. They start and finish each meeting with a rousing chorus of "Maendeleo! Mbele!", "Development! Forward!" The hope in the village is hard to square with what these people have endured. And as so often in Congo, dark clouds are massing. It's widely believed this year's presidential elections will be cancelled by Joseph Kabila so he can stay in power. If they are, I'm told, "there will be war again". It'll start in the capital, Kinshasa, then spread countrywide. And if Congolese history is any teacher, civilians will again be targeted - enslaved, tortured, raped, starved and displaced. The community of Mwandiga Trois have no means to protect themselves from that. But somehow Bawili has hope. She has new skills, a new latrine, and steely determination that she can face whatever the future holds. Development. Forward. More from the Magazine The billions of pounds Congo's minerals have generated have brought nothing but misery and death to the very people who live on top of them, while enriching a microscopic elite and their foreign backers, and underpinning our technological revolution in the developed world, writes historian Dan Snow. The Congo is a land far away, yet our histories are so closely linked. We have thrived from a lopsided relationship, yet we are utterly blind to it. The price of that myopia has been human suffering on an unimaginable scale. Read more: DR Congo: Cursed by its natural wealth Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox. | युद्ध, भ्रष्टाचार और गरीबी ने कांगो लोकतांत्रिक गणराज्य को परेशान कर दिया है, और यह व्यापक रूप से माना जाता है कि इसके निवर्तमान राष्ट्रपति इस साल के राष्ट्रपति चुनावों को रद्द कर देंगे। लेकिन अस्थिरता के बावजूद, मैरी-एन ओचोटा एक ऐसे समुदाय से मिलीं जो आश्चर्यजनक रूप से उत्साहित हैं। |
technology-20226894 | https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20226894 | iZettle and the modernisation of money | Wednesday could see another important step towards the modernisation of money. iZettle, a device that allows small traders to take credit card payments, is arriving in the UK after a successful rollout in other markets. But a failure by big payment firms to agree common standards on how we use these mobile money systems could mean the whole idea fails to fly. | Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter iZettle is a small card-reader that plugs into iPhones, iPads and a number of Android smartphones or tablets. It is designed for use by any small trader who can't afford the infrastructure needed to take credit card payments. You hand over your card to the stallholder - or plumber or window-cleaner - it is swiped through the device, and then you sign for your purchase. The merchant pays a commission of 2.75% a transaction, and the consumer gets to use their plastic rather than cash in new places. I tried it out at a launch event and it worked pretty smoothly. A scented candle manufacturer told me she had been using a trial device for some months, and had found it was an excellent way of taking payments at craft fairs. iZettle was launched in Sweden a year ago, and according to the co-founder Jacob de Geer, it is now used by more than 75,000 small businesses and individuals in six countries. In Sweden, he told journalists at the launch, 700 blacksmiths are using the device. "It's bringing new merchants to the table. My ambition is to democratise card payments." The big question in the UK, though, is whether consumers will fancy the idea of having their cards swiped into this device. And here there's a hitch. There are big names backing iZettle including the mobile operator EE, and the payments firms Mastercard and American Express. But the other major force in the card industry, Visa, is an investor in a much bigger player in the mobile payments area. Square, started by the Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is making rapid progress in the United States market and is now valued at something over $3bn. And what people couldn't help noticing at the iZettle launch event was that paying with Visa was a lot harder than with other cards. Whereas with Mastercard or American Express the consumer just presents their card and signs, Visa users had to hand over their phone numbers and tap in security details on their own phones. It seems that Visa is not too keen on the "chip 'n' signature" security that iZettle uses, even though the Swedish company says it has a lower fraud rate than for chip and pin transactions. When I asked Visa about the issue, the company sent me this statement: "We're continuing to work with iZettle to develop a fully Visa Europe compliant mobile point of sale solution." The trouble is that any kind of friction in a mobile payments system is annoying and will lead many to conclude they are better off sticking with cash. There are now lots of different mobile payment technologies from all sorts of companies, but they all seem to have different ways of verifying who customers are. But with little evidence of any great enthusiasm for mobile money - unless it makes life easier - surely it is time for the payments industry to get its act together and agree some common standards. | बुधवार को धन के आधुनिकीकरण की दिशा में एक और महत्वपूर्ण कदम देखा जा सकता है. आईजेटल, एक उपकरण जो छोटे व्यापारियों को क्रेडिट कार्ड भुगतान लेने की अनुमति देता है, अन्य बाजारों में सफल रोलआउट के बाद यूके में आ रहा है। लेकिन बड़ी भुगतान फर्मों द्वारा इन मोबाइल मुद्रा प्रणालियों का उपयोग करने के सामान्य मानकों पर सहमत होने में विफलता का मतलब हो सकता है कि पूरा विचार उड़ान भरने में विफल रहा। |
uk-england-somerset-26312853 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-26312853 | Somerset flood water levels drop after sluice gate opens | A sluice gate which diverts water out of the River Parrett has been partially opened in an attempt to clear flood water from the Somerset Levels. | The Environment Agency said opening the gate at Monksleaze had allowed pumping to begin on Currymoor to drain the moors around East Lyng. An agency spokesman said water levels had dropped by up to 30cm in places as a result of opening the gate. He added the situation was being monitored carefully. "We have people on the ground observing and if we see any deterioration we will be closing the system down," said spokesman Andy Gardiner. Once the sluice gate is opened, water is sent down the Sowey River and from there it goes into the King's Sedgemoor Drain and into the sea. | समरसेट स्तर से बाढ़ के पानी को साफ करने के प्रयास में पैरेट नदी से पानी को बाहर निकालने वाला एक स्लुइस गेट आंशिक रूप से खोल दिया गया है। |
uk-england-northamptonshire-52318000 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-52318000 | Northampton baby death: Police probe as six-month-old dies | A police investigation has been launched after the death of a six-month-old baby. | Officers were called to Chalcombe Avenue in the Kingsthorpe area of Northampton on Wednesday evening. The child was pronounced dead at the scene, despite the efforts of paramedics. Northamptonshire Police said two people were "helping with inquiries", and they were not seeking anyone else in connection with the investigation. | छह महीने के बच्चे की मौत के बाद पुलिस जांच शुरू कर दी गई है। |
uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-27604164 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-27604164 | New image of planned Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre released | A fresh image of a planned new Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre has been released ahead of a series of public consultations . | Henry Boot Developments is behind plans for a replacement for the existing Bridge of Don-based AECC, to be built at a site at Bucksburn. The first Jesmond Centre consultation is on Thursday from noon to 20:00. Friday's at the Beacon Centre is during the same hours. Saturday's Aberdeen Art Gallery event is until 17:00 from noon. Comments are being sought in advance of a planning application being submitted. The deadline for initial comments will be 27 June, before further consultation events being held in September. | सार्वजनिक परामर्शों की एक श्रृंखला से पहले एक नियोजित नए एबरडीन प्रदर्शनी और सम्मेलन केंद्र की एक नई छवि जारी की गई है। |
uk-wales-north-west-wales-19300919 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-19300919 | Colwyn Bay pier: Judge backs Conwy council ownership | The former owner of Colwyn Bay's 112-year-old pier has failed in his attempt to regain control from Conwy council, which wants to develop it. | Steve Hunt, who was made bankrupt in 2008 in a dispute over unpaid council tax, claimed that ownership should revert to him after three years. But a judge at Cardiff County Court rejected the claim. Conwy council announced in March that it had taken over the rundown, Grade II-listed Victorian pier. In April the Heritage Lottery Fund turned down the authority's application for a £4.9m grant to restore the pier. The council claimed ownership of the landmark after the Welsh government acquired it from the Crown Estate. A separate hearing, involving a claim on the pier by Mr Hunt's mother, is due to be held later in the year. Conwy council said it would be inappropriate to comment before the matter is concluded. | कोल्विन बे के 112 साल पुराने घाट के पूर्व मालिक कॉनवी परिषद से नियंत्रण हासिल करने के अपने प्रयास में विफल रहे हैं, जो इसे विकसित करना चाहती है। |
magazine-23710697 | https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23710697 | Sars: The people who risked their lives to stop the virus | Ten years ago, the world was in the grip of a panic over an outbreak of a mysterious illness - Sars. The virus killed hundreds - and infected thousands more - but its impact would have been far more devastating had it not been for the bravery of a handful of doctors and nurses. | Kevin FongDoctor and broadcaster "It was like a nightmare - each morning you arrived and more people were sick." In 2003, Dr Olivier Cattin was working at the French hospital in Hanoi, in the north of Vietnam. "We got to the Friday and there was only one nurse left on our ward who was able to treat the other nurses, and this nurse was also sick." One day at the end of February that year, a Chinese-American man, Johnny Chen, had arrived with what appeared to be a bad case of flu. Within days, nearly 40 people at the hospital had fallen ill, including a number of the staff. Seven would go on to die. This was the site where the deadly disease - later named severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) - would come to the attention of the world. It was highly contagious, and often deadly. More than 8,000 people around the world were infected, and more than 770 died. But this is a story about people not statistics. The closer you get to the story of Sars, the more overwhelmed you become by the experience, and the heroism, of those who stood on the frontline. War is a metaphor that we often use in relation to the fight against disease. But it is rarely more apt than in the case of Sars. At the French hospital in Hanoi, panic set in as the doctors reviewed the X-rays of all those who had fallen ill. They knew they were facing something very serious and highly unusual. "All the chest X-rays were abnormal and... were similar to Johnny Chen. We had a panic attack. We were all thinking that they were are all going to die," says Cattin. "One by one, we saw the X-rays and there was a big silence because we could not talk… We didn't know what was going on. It was very, very scary." The virus had a highly unusual pattern of transmission. Its peak of infectivity occurred late in the course of the disease when its victims were at their most unwell and usually in hospital care. Because of this, the worst cases clustered in a few hospital wards and intensive care units in a handful of major cities. And within these, the virus spread like wildfire. When Johnny Chen and some of the first medical staff to care for him all died, they began to understand what they were facing and the risk it posed to the world outside. Full in this knowledge, they took the incredible step of locking themselves in, quarantining themselves away from the city to protect it and their country. "I've never met such amazing doctors and nurses as I did in North Vietnam," says Cattin. "I lost five colleagues, they were friends. We're the survivors of this outbreak." Another survivor is Dr Le Thi Quyen Mai, head of virology at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi. "I am very, very lucky," she says. As news of the deadly virus spread through her institute, most of her colleagues fled, fearing for their lives. She stayed, despite having a three-year-old daughter at home. Why? "Just a duty," she says simply. In those early days, when events threatened to spiral out of control, perhaps their most important single asset in the fight against this outbreak was Carlo Urbani, an Italian expert on infectious diseases who was working for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Hanoi. Urbani felt he could not stay in the office as a paper-pushing bureaucrat. As a doctor, he had to help. It was Urbani who took samples from the patients for analysis - at great personal risk - and who first alerted the world to the crisis. After working tirelessly in the French hospital for several weeks, he was urged to take a break. And it was then that he discovered he too had contracted Sars. "I knew he was getting sicker and sicker," says his eldest son Tommaso Urbani, who was 15 at the time. "But I hoped from deep down in my heart that he could make it because he was my father. And I saw him as a strong person, a strong doctor and thought he was invincible or something like that. So I never thought that he could die." But Carlo Urbani did die, two weeks after developing the illness. Ten years on, Tommaso says he's proud of the sacrifice his father made. "I am sure that if he could go back in time, my father would do exactly the same things. I'm happy for what he did because he saved a lot of lives." But although the story of Sars started in Hanoi, it didn't end there. Johnny Chen, the first patient to arrive in Vietnam suffering with the virus, was an international businessman who had arrived from abroad. And so the trail of Sars lead away from Vietnam back to its original point of explosion - Hong Kong - where Chen had stayed shortly before. "There were two dozen of my colleagues sitting in the same room, everybody was shaking and running a high fever, many were coughing," says Prof Joseph Sung who was head of the Prince of Wales' medical faculty at the time, and was effectively the man in charge of this unfolding disaster. "That was the beginning of the nightmare, because from that day on, every day we saw more and more people developing the same illness." Sung divided his team into two groups. One would care for the other patients in the hospital, and the second team - the "dirty team" as they called it - would undertake the dangerous job of treating these patients, and risking infection themselves. Anyone with young children was given an exemption from the "dirty team". But those who were single, and those whose children were grown up, were encouraged to step forward. Not only did volunteers step forward - they kept on coming during the weeks that followed. "I needed a continuous supply of manpower to go in. And I was very touched by the fact that after we exhausted everybody in the medical department, surgeons, orthopaedics people, gynaecologists, even ophthalmologists came to help us." Sung himself ended up spending three months inside the hospital. In Toronto, half a world away from the East Asian locations where Sars first arose, the virus took them completely by surprise. At the Scarborough Grace hospital, a single patient, arriving unwell with what initially looked like a severe pneumonia, went on to infect dozens of staff. Many were transferred to an old tuberculosis hospital on the outskirts of Toronto for quarantine and treatment. And as in Hanoi and Hong Kong, there were those who chose to flee and those who turned up for work one day and stayed - without returning home - for weeks. "I wrote a note to my children," says Monica Avendano, a physician and specialist in respiratory diseases at Toronto's West Park Healthcare Centre, who was one of those who decided to stay. "I said: 'I've been exposed, I might get infected, this might kill me and if it does, don't cry too much. I did it because I'm a physician and I'm a doctor and my duty is to look after sick people.'" Dr Avendano did survive, but the experience of Sars in Toronto was nothing if not terrifying for those involved. Bruce England was a paramedic on duty in Toronto during the early days of the Sars outbreak and, having attended a patient with a chest infection, found himself falling ill. For him, and many others affected by the Sars outbreak in Toronto, the effects of that experience are still being felt today. Ten years on Bruce still experiences weakness and difficulty with his breathing. "I had Sars. It's left a lasting impact on me and my life. So did I survive it? Maybe not, it's still there for me," he says. By the summer of 2003 the chain of human-to-human transmission had been broken. Doctors had come to understand when the most contagious times were for anyone infected and what precautions to take to avoid passing it on. But what happened in Hong Kong, Vietnam and Toronto could so easily have happened in London, New York or any destination reachable by plane. The vectors of this virus were not rats on ships but aircraft travelling at hundreds of miles an hour across the globe. The reason that this is an important story to tell and to continue to retell is because of how narrowly disaster was averted. And I now think that the margins were much narrower than we ever realised. Kevin Fong was reporting for a two-part BBC World Service documentary Sacrifice: The Story of Sars. Part 2 airs on Sunday at 14:06 GMT (15:06 UK time). You can also listen to part 1 and part 2 online. | दस साल पहले, दुनिया एक रहस्यमय बीमारी-सार्स के प्रकोप से दहशत की चपेट में थी। वायरस ने सैकड़ों लोगों की जान ले ली-और हजारों लोगों को संक्रमित किया-लेकिन इसका प्रभाव कहीं अधिक विनाशकारी होता अगर यह मुट्ठी भर डॉक्टरों और नर्सों की बहादुरी के लिए नहीं होता। |
uk-england-nottinghamshire-11255288 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-11255288 | Nottinghamshire college students hurt by ceiling tiles | A Nottinghamshire College will not open on Friday after two students were hurt by falling plasterboard ceiling tiles. | The students from West Nottinghamshire College in Mansfield needed treatment for minor cuts on Thursday. Neither were taken to hospital but principal Asha Kemkha decided to close the Derby Road campus as a "precautionary measure". Students with exams should report to the college as normal and the nursery will remain open. In a statement, the principal said: "We will be undertaking a thorough assessment of the situation over the weekend and will be making a further announcement... on Sunday 12 September." All other college campuses remain open as usual. | एक नॉटिंघमशायर कॉलेज शुक्रवार को नहीं खुलेगा क्योंकि प्लास्टरबोर्ड की छत की टाइल्स गिरने से दो छात्र घायल हो गए थे। |
uk-wales-56278809 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56278809 | Covid: Ghost-hunters stopped in Mumbles due to rule break | People on a ghost hunt about 60 miles (96km) away from home have been fined by police for breaking lockdown rules. | Covid fines were issued to four people who drove from Cwmbran in Torfaen to Mumbles, Swansea, to "ghost hunt and view castles". A car was also seized due to the driver having no insurance and a provisional licence. Current lockdown rules in Wales say you can only travel when essential. Reporting the incident, South Wales Police tweeted it would be a "long walk home" for offenders. | घर से लगभग 60 मील (96 किमी) दूर भूत का शिकार करने वाले लोगों पर पुलिस ने लॉकडाउन के नियमों को तोड़ने के लिए जुर्माना लगाया है। |
science-environment-35011505 | https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35011505 | Bloodhound Diary: It's rocket science | A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will first mount an assault on the world land speed record (763mph; 1,228km/h). Bloodhound will be run on Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa, in 2016. Wing Commander Andy Green, the current world land-speed record holder, is writing a diary for BBC News about his experiences working on the Bloodhound project and the team's efforts to inspire national interest in science and engineering. | By Andy GreenWorld Land Speed Record Holder I'm regularly asked whether Project Bloodhound is going to develop any new technology that will be used in the future. My answer is always "I hope not". Bloodhound is not aiming to develop new engineering; we are aiming to develop new engineers. New technology is difficult and expensive to produce, and we have to assume that it's unreliable until it's been properly tested and developed. Proven "off the shelf" technology is always a better choice, especially for a small fast-moving (!) project like a Land Speed Record. Bloodhound is using existing technology in new ways, in order to bring science and technology to life for the next generation of engineers. However, that's not quite true for Bloodhound's rocket programme. The education/inspiration role is still the essential part of what we do, including for the rocket programme, but I'll come back to that later. The problem with the rocket programme is that we do appear to be in the "developing future technology" business, whether we like it or not. The good news is that we seem to be rather good at it. Frist, a brief summary of why we're developing a rocket. We need some form of rocket system in order to reach 1000+ mph, as jet engines alone won't be enough - after all, we're trying to go faster than any jet fighter has ever been at ground level, so we're above the design speed of any known jet engine. Hence, we need a rocket, but what type? Solid rockets (like very large fireworks) can't easily be controlled or shut down, so they are not a favourite of mine. Liquid rockets (the sort used for "normal" space rocket launches) work by mixing two very excitable liquids together and trying to control the very angry reaction it causes. Liquid rockets are very powerful, but the liquids are not nice to use (or to carry in large quantities in the car with me) so once again this is not ideal. Hence our choice was for a hybrid rocket system. The solid fuel "grain" (basically a long tube with a hole down the centre) is made from a synthetic rubber called HTPB, while concentrated hydrogen peroxide, known as "high-test" peroxide (or HTP for short) gives us a fairly well-behaved oxidiser. These make for a safe payload in rocketry terms. The rubber fuel is, well, just rubber. In dilute form, hydrogen peroxide can be used for a number of things including hair bleach - hence the term "peroxide blonde" - and as long as the concentrated HTP is kept cool and clean, it also behaves itself nicely. These chemicals are certainly a whole lot more friendly than liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, various solid fuel "explosives", etc., that other rockets use. The tricky bit in a hybrid rocket is pumping the HTP oxidiser into the fuel grain at high pressure and then managing the burning process (known as "regression") of the rubber fuel grain, once the hybrid reaction (very high temperature burning rubber) starts to generate the thrust. This is the system that the Bloodhound team has been developing, in conjunction with our rocket partner Nammo. Bloodhound's rocket pump has been produced in-house. Starting with a 1960s design from the British rocket programme (which also used HTP all those years ago), we've used modern computer modelling and specialist manufacturing processes to produce the most efficient HTP pump ever made. The pump still needs over 500hp to drive 800 litres (approximately one tonne) of HTP, at 75 Bar (1,100psi), into the rocket in just 20 seconds, which is why we've got Jaguar's 5 litre supercharged V8 engine as a pump motor. Add a whole series of valves, electronic sensors and computer controls, plus flushing and purging systems, and you've got a complicated (but safe) rocket system (summarised in this rocket animation video, which is worth watching just for the Elbow soundtrack). The Bloodhound team delivered its first full-scale firing back in 2012, working with the Falcon Project to test our first prototype. With that background knowledge, we then made some big changes to the design, using several smaller rockets as an alternative to one large one. Two years later, Nammo fired the first of the revised rocket designs intended for use in the car. Two years might sound like a long time, but for rocket development, that's virtually overnight. This rapid-prototyping approach is grabbing people's attention in the rocket world. We're using some components (like the Jaguar V8) that are too heavy for a flight system like a space rocket, but Bloodhound's approach is getting things done quickly and cheaply - just what a Land Speed Record team needs. So much for the rocket system in the car. If you add in the requirement to set a World Land Speed Record, then things get even more difficult. We'll be operating the rocket out in the middle of a desert, not in a specialist rocket facility, so we'll need a lot of support equipment for servicing, fuelling, HTP storage and so on. The FIA regulations require the car to do two runs, in opposite directions, within one hour. Instead of days to prepare the rocket for another firing, we've got to replace the fuel grain, reload a tonne of HTP, replace the car's coolant, reset all the systems, and get all that done in about 30-40 min. This is a classic blend of aerospace and motorsport technologies: a racing pit stop for a hybrid rocket. To deliver this race-capable rocket system in the desert, we are preparing some specialist support vehicles and equipment. These are being delivered in the same short period of time. I've only just found out that this support equipment is regarded as so innovative that one of our rocket support team is writing his post-graduate thesis on its development. Like it or not, we really are developing new technologies and new ways of doing things. Bloodhound's use of HTP is also generating a lot of interest. We've set up our own test laboratory to check that all the key materials in the car are HTP compatible. That includes the Alpinestars fire-proof overalls, boots, gloves etc, that I'll be wearing to drive Bloodhound (the suit was absolutely fine, by the way, but the boots needed a bit of modification - the leather bits were reactive). They even tested my flame-resistant underwear! Alpinestars uses a natural fibre called "Lenzing FR", made from trees (yes, I know that sounds wrong, but apparently my underwear really is made with Beechwood fibres). I was sure that anything from a tree would react furiously with HTP. Shows how much I know: the flame-proof "wooden" underwear is also very HTP-resistant. Sadly, this robs me of the chance to say "that run was so fast that my underwear nearly caught fire", as the team now knows that this can't happen. HTP is also a very "green" fuel. It's non-toxic, relatively easy to store and use, and produces the cleanest decomposition products imaginable - water and oxygen. We've been approached by a range of people, from the space industry to universities, seeking advice on using it. I don't know if HTP is going to find its way into everyday vehicles any time soon (storage and handling does require some care), but it's a really interesting option for an alternative fuel source - so who knows? We are trying to avoid using too much "new" technology for Bloodhound, but as you can see, we do have to develop some to get us to 1,000mph. The new technology does come with one big advantage - as Bloodhound is an "Engineering Adventure" designed to bring technology to life, it gives us an even better story to tell. As well as developing our own rocket technology on the car, we're seeing more and more schools taking part in the Bloodhound Model Rocket Car Challenge. Ever fancied getting your name into the Guinness Book of World Records? Here's one exciting way to do it. Don't wait too long, though; the competition is getting more intense every day. Interest in the Model Rocket Car Challenge goes much wider than just UK schools. Over the week of the Brazilian Grand Prix, we had a small team out in Sao Paolo, helping the UK Government to promote the very best of British innovation and technology (Project Bloodhound!). We were also there to support Brazil's huge interest in the Rocket Car Challenge, which is going country-wide in Brazil. The teams from the SENAI academy seemed to get the hang of it really quickly - subject to ratification, they have already set a world record in the 50-metre category. Well done them! Another great result in Brazil was signing up our newest Bloodhound Ambassador, the Brazilian F1 racing legend Emerson Fittipaldi, who was recruited by our Rocket Challenge manager, Jas Thandi. Having this level of support for the Brazilian education campaign will make a big difference. Thank you, Emerson. As a final thought, the Bloodhound rocket programme has forced us to change the way we talk about things. We can't use the phrase "it's not rocket science" anymore, because Bloodhound is the ultimate Engineering Adventure. It really is rocket science. | एक ब्रिटिश टीम एक ऐसी कार विकसित कर रही है जो 1,000 मील प्रति घंटे (1,610 किमी/घंटा) तक पहुंचने में सक्षम होगी। एक यूरोफाइटर-टाइफून जेट इंजन को बोल्ट किए गए रॉकेट द्वारा संचालित, वाहन पहले विश्व भूमि गति रिकॉर्ड (763 मील प्रति घंटे; 1,228 किमी/घंटा) पर हमला करेगा। ब्लडहाउंड 2016 में उत्तरी केप, दक्षिण अफ्रीका में हक्सकीन पैन पर चलाया जाएगा। विंग कमांडर एंडी ग्रीन, वर्तमान विश्व भूमि-गति रिकॉर्ड धारक, ब्लडहाउंड परियोजना पर काम करने के अपने अनुभवों और विज्ञान और इंजीनियरिंग में राष्ट्रीय हित को प्रेरित करने के लिए टीम के प्रयासों के बारे में बीबीसी न्यूज के लिए एक डायरी लिख रहे हैं। |
uk-scotland-scotland-business-49954074 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-49954074 | A new monster from the deep | A vast new oil field in the North Sea has come on stream, drawing on new technology for greater efficiency and far greater profits. Its estimated benefit to the government over five decades is estimated at £80 billion. The Norwegian government, that is. So why has Norway done so much better out of North Sea oil? Some luck, some choices, keeping work in-country - above all, being an investor as well as levying tax. | Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, Scotland The Kraken awoke. Mariner is heavy, but making headway. Clair Ridge is full of gas, and no relation to Sophie, the political interviewer. They are all very large oil and gas fields in the North Sea, which drove the investment boom at the start of this decade, and now represent a large share of Britain's hydrocarbon output, as older fields rapidly deplete. But less than 20km (12 miles) across the sea boundary and 90km (56 miles) west of Stavanger, Johan Sverdrup is the daddy of the new North Sea. He was the man who fathered modern Norwegian parliamentary government in the 1880s. More recently, after its discovery in 2010, his name was given to a humongous offshore oil field. On 5 October, it began production. It's hard to overstate the bonanza it has brought to Norway's industry and finances, and it's being presented by Equinor, its operator, as a model of how to do offshore energy in the 21st century. It all makes for quite a contrast with Britain, where world-leading cultural institutions, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, were this week ending sponsorship from oil companies BP and Shell. We're in a period of tension between the amazing achievements of offshore engineers to unlock access to fossil fuels on which we continue to depend, at the same time as pushing for an end to that dependence and a shunning of the oil majors. Footprint The numbers for Johan Sverdrup are colossal. At peak production of 660,000 barrels per day, it will build up to a third of Norway's output. The field contains 2.7 billion barrels. The cost of developing it was £7.5bn (US$9.2bn), and getting to first oil has taken only four years from approving the project. It has come on stream two months ahead of schedule. And being developed during a downturn for the industry, it successfully stripped out nearly a third of the anticipated costs. A few factors that are particularly noteworthy: Major investor The comparison with the benefit to the UK from recent oil developments is stark. Offshore oil and gas taxation has risen above £1bn per year, but it is not expected to rise much more in the current market and with current profits. Extraction of oil and gas from mature UK fields is getting more expensive and therefore less profitable. Developing deep sea fields west of Shetland, along with technical challenges around high pressure and high temperature, has meant the Treasury to provide bigger tax incentives. Norway has built up a vast oil fund, from which it draws a modest amount in earnings each year. To do so, it has foregone the lower tax that other oil producers, including the UK, have handed to their populace. Compared with Britain, it has been lucky in tax revenue terms, in that fields have been larger and typically more profitable. Over the four decades of production, the UK's oil and gas profile has tended towards maximum output at times when prices and profits have been low. Not so in Norway. But the big difference is that the Norwegian state has been a major investor. The UK government was, until the Thatcher government sold its stakes. Some of Oslo's investment has been through its 67% stake in Equinor, known until last year as Statoil. That company owns 43% of Johan Sverdrup, as well as operating it. Net government cash flows from petroleum activities 1971-2019 (SDFI: state's direct financial interest) The field was discovered in 2010, with the first successful drill by Lundin Petroleum, a third of which is owned by a Swedish-Canadian family, based in Geneva. Equinor is the second biggest shareholder. Petoro has a 17% stake. It is the company that manages the Norwegian government's direct stake in 34 producing fields, with licences for a third of Norway's oil and gas reserves. Last year, it paid £10.6bn into the Norwegian state oil fund. The Oslo government's stake in Equinor brought in £1.3bn in dividends to the government, there was a £600m revenue from environmental tax, and the main tax on offshore oil and gas brought a further £10bn. The budget for this year is for more of the same. With Johan Sverdrup now onstream, that flow of kroners is set to stay strong for years to come. | उत्तरी सागर में एक विशाल नया तेल क्षेत्र प्रवाह में आ गया है, जो अधिक दक्षता और कहीं अधिक लाभ के लिए नई तकनीक को आकर्षित कर रहा है। पांच दशकों में सरकार को इसका अनुमानित लाभ 80 अरब पाउंड होने का अनुमान है। नॉर्वे की सरकार, यानी। तो नॉर्वे ने उत्तरी सागर के तेल से इतना बेहतर क्यों किया है? कुछ भाग्य, कुछ विकल्प, देश में काम रखना-सबसे बढ़कर, एक निवेशक होने के साथ-साथ कर लगाने के रूप में। |
world-latin-america-41319045 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41319045 | Bolivia governing party challenges Morales' term limit | Lawmakers from Bolivia's governing Movement Towards Socialism party (MAS) have asked the Constitutional Court to allow President Evo Morales to run for a fourth term, despite the constitution preventing him from doing so. | The move comes a year and a half after Bolivians voted against changing the constitution to remove term limits. At the time, Mr Morales said he would respect the referendum results. Mr Morales has been in power since January 2006. Evo Morales in office January 2006: Starts first term as president January 2009: Bolivians approve new constitution in a referendum December 2009: Mr Morales wins second term by a landslide in early presidential election April 2013: Constitutional court rules Mr Morales can stand in the 2014 election despite the 2009 constitution limiting presidents to two consecutive terms. The court argues that his first term should not count because it took place before the constitution came into force October 2014: Morales wins third term in office February 2016: Bolivians vote in a referendum against lifting presidential term limits September 2017: Governing party lawmakers ask the constitutional court to scrap term limits Lawmakers from the governing party and two from the Democratic Unity party backed the request to declare the articles on term limits in the constitution "inapplicable". They argued that imposing term limits conflicted with the constitutional right of every Bolivian to "participate freely in the formation, exercise and control of political power". They also want term limits for other political posts such as governors, mayors and lawmakers to be scrapped. The constitutional court has 15 days to accept or reject the request, and another 45 to come to a decision. If Mr Morales were to be allowed to run again in 2019 and if he were to win, he would be in power until 2025. Many Bolivians who voted "no" in the 2016 referendum on term limits said they did not want to see Mr Morales in power for 19 years. While Mr Morales said at the time that he would respect the outcome of the referendum, he has since stated that he believes the result was down to a "dirty war" launched against him. Allegations surfaced shortly before the referendum accusing Mr Morales of using his influence to favour a Chinese construction firm in Bolivia, which he denied. | बोलिविया की सत्तारूढ़ मूवमेंट टुवर्ड्स सोशलिज्म पार्टी (एमएएस) के सांसदों ने संवैधानिक न्यायालय से राष्ट्रपति इवो मोरालेस को चौथे कार्यकाल के लिए चुनाव लड़ने की अनुमति देने के लिए कहा है, भले ही संविधान ने उन्हें ऐसा करने से रोक दिया हो। |
uk-wales-politics-30916147 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-30916147 | Historian MP casts doubt on Owain Glyndwr parliament | Was Owain Glyndwr's parliament a myth? | David CornockParliamentary correspondent, Wales Rhondda Labour MP Chris Bryant, doyen of parliamentary historians, think so. As part of the BBC's "Democracy Day" I appeared alongside Mr Bryant on a two-hour programme looking at democracy within and beyond the UK. My role was to summarise developments in Welsh governance through the ages. I mentioned Owain Glyndwr in passing. Chris Bryant took the earliest opportunity to correct me: "David Cornock said that Owain Glyndwr held a parliament. He didn't. That is complete myth. "The only person who ever referred to it anywhere near contemporaneously was Geoffrey of Monmouth and he said he pretended to hold a parliament. Actually, if he gathered anybody he gathered a few barons." Compared to James Blunt, I got off lightly, but then I did go to a comprehensive school. The Geoffrey of Monmouth reference may though have come as a surprise to some people, not least because Geoffrey of Monmouth lived three centuries before Glyndwr's day. A contrite Mr Bryant later realised he had got things wrong and gracefully corrected his own mistake on twitter. "An apology. I corrected @davidcornock but I was wrong. It wasn't Geoffrey of Monmouth but Adam of Usk who wrote about Owain Glyndwr." Aside from the reference to Geoffrey of Monmouth, was Chris Bryant right? Was the Glyndwr parliament a myth? Is the Owain Glyndwr industry under threat? Let me know what you think. You can watch the programme again on BBC Parliament tomorrow at 8pm. If you can't wait until then, why not watch on the BBC iplayer here? | क्या ओवेन ग्लैंडवर की संसद एक मिथक थी? |
world-asia-india-55625447 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55625447 | Kohima: Britain's 'forgotten' battle that changed the course of WWII | Captain Robin Rowland was 22 when his regiment was deployed to the north-eastern Indian town of Kohima. It was May 1944, and a small group of British-Indian soldiers was under assault by an entire division of Japanese forces. | By Anbarasan EthirajanBBC News Capt Rowland, now 99, vividly remembers approaching the town, following a trail of devastation to the front line. "We saw abandoned trenches and destroyed villages, and as we moved forward the smell of death was everywhere," he said. The young captain was a member of the Punjab regiment of the British Indian army, on his way to help relieve 1,500 of his fellow soldiers who had spent weeks resisting 10 times their number in Japanese forces. Cut off by the Japanese, the allied forces were depending solely on supplies by air, and very few believed they could withstand the relentless onslaught. Japan's soldiers had marched to Kohima through what was then Burma - their aim to invade India. The Japanese had already routed the British in Burma, but no-one expected them to successfully negotiate the mosquito-infested jungle hills and fast-flowing streams en route to Kohima, the capital of Nagaland, and Imphal, the capital of Manipur state in India. When they did, the British-Indian troops tasked with defending the two towns were surrounded by more than 15,000 Japanese soldiers. They fought for weeks to prevent the Japanese moving through and capturing the strategic city of Dimapur, which could have opened the routes to the plains of Assam. Few believed the defenders could prevail. The Japanese soldiers came in "wave after wave, night after night", recalled Capt Rowland. The fighting was brutal and the British-Indian forces were confined to Garrison Hill, which overlooked Kohima. At one point the fighting descended into hand-to-hand combat, with only a tennis court separating the two sides dug in on the hill. The besieged British-Indian soldiers held on until the reinforcements arrived. After three months, by June 1944, with more than 7,000 casualties and almost no food supplies left, the Japanese division retreated and returned to Burma, despite orders from above to stay and fight. "It was a terrific resistance by 1,500 British-Indian troops," Capt Rowland said. "If the Japanese had taken Garrison Hill, they would have gone to Dimapur." The British-Indian forces were ordered to pursue the retreating Japanese and Robin Rowland was among the pursuers. Some of the Japanese soldiers died of cholera, typhoid and malaria, but by far the greater number perished due to starvation as they ran out of supplies. According to military historian Robert Lyman, the battle "changed the course of the Second World War in Asia". "The Japanese invasion of India, of which the battle of Kohima was a significant part, was [their] first major defeat in the Far East," he told the BBC. But, although it was a turning point, the battle in north-east India never captured the public imagination in the way that D-Day, Waterloo or other battles in Europe and North Africa had. It has often been described as "the forgotten war". People in Britain were simply too far away for it to register as much, according to Bob Cook, the head of the Kohima Museum in the city of York. "The Germans were just across 22 miles of water from Britain," he said. "The thing that most concerned people of this country was the imminent threat of German invasion." But there have been some attempts to teach people about the Battle of Kohima and Imphal. In 2013, it was voted as Britain's greatest battle after a debate at the National Army Museum in London, a surprise winner over the likes of D-Day and Waterloo. Robert Lyman made the case for Kohima. "Great things were at stake in a war with the toughest enemy any British army has had to fight," he said in his speech. But there has hardly been any attempt in the sub-continent to highlight the importance of the battle, in which thousands of Commonwealth and Indian soldiers - including men from modern-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - lost their lives. One reason was the British partition of India soon after, according to Charles Chasie, a historian based in Kohima in Nagaland. "One of the reasons I think was that India's leaders were too busy dealing with the effects of transition and partition initially," he said. "The British had decided to leave in a hurry before things got too complicated and out of hand on the sub-continent." The battle of Kohima was seen more as a colonial war, while the post-war discourse focused more on the Indian independence struggle led by the Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi. In addition to the regular British-Indian army, thousands of people from the Naga ethnic community fought alongside the British and provided valuable intelligence in the conflict. Their in-depth knowledge of the mountainous territory was of great help to the British. Today, only a dozen or so Nagas who lived through the battle of Kohima are still alive. Sosangtemba Ao, is one of them. He was among those enlisted by the British Army to cut the Burma road. "The Japanese bombers were flying every day dropping explosives. The sound was deafening and there was smoke after each attack. It was distressing," recalled Mr Ao. He worked alongside the British for two months for pay of one rupee per day. He still has a lot of admiration for the fighting ability of the Japanese soldiers, he said. "The Japanese army was highly motivated. Their soldiers did not fear death. For them, fighting for the emperor was divine. When they were asked to surrender, they would become suicide attackers." A documentary about the battle, Memories of a Forgotten War, was released online recently to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender. Several years ago producer Subimal Bhattacharjee and the crew travelled to Japan for a commemoration. "When the Japanese and the British veterans of Kohima met, they hugged each other and started crying," he said. "These were the soldiers who had fired at each other, but still they showed a special bond. It was spontaneous and we didn't expect it." For the Japanese, it was a humiliating defeat, and Japanese veterans rarely talk about their experience in Kohima. "None of the Japanese food was left," said one, Wajima Koichiro, who was interviewed for the documentary. "It was a losing game and then we withdrew." The ethnic Nagas, who aided the British and suffered huge casualties, also continued to suffer. They had hoped that the British would recognise them as a separate Naga nation during the handover of power, and not as part of India. But they were "sorely disappointed", said historian Charles Chasie, and many blamed them for the thousands of Nagas who were killed in subsequent conflicts with the Indian government and army. Over the years, the families of those killed at Kohima and Imphal, especially from Britain and Japan, have travelled to the two war cemeteries there to pay respects to their ancestors. Capt Rowland went back to Kohima with his son in 2002 at the invitation of the Indian Punjab regiment. He stood in front of Garrison Hill, where he and his fellow soldiers had resisted the waves of Japanese fighters 58 years earlier. "It brought back many memories," said Capt Rowland, remembering how a group of 1,500 men had stood against the might of the entire Japanese 31st division. "It was a great military achievement." Before leaving Kohima, Capt Rowland and his son stopped to lay a wreath at the base of the rough stone war memorial on Garrison Hill. As he put the wreath in place, he remembered eight fellow soldiers he had known who were lost. He knew the battle had not entered the public imagination in the way more famous battles had, but those who were there would never forget. "It was a great tribute to the resilience of human nature," he said. | कैप्टन रॉबिन रोलैंड 22 वर्ष के थे जब उनकी रेजिमेंट को उत्तर-पूर्वी भारतीय शहर कोहिमा में तैनात किया गया था। यह मई 1944 था, और ब्रिटिश-भारतीय सैनिकों के एक छोटे समूह पर जापानी बलों के एक पूरे विभाग द्वारा हमला किया गया था। |
world-asia-india-52119032 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52119032 | Coronavirus: Air India pilots 'at risk of infection' on rescue flights | India's national carrier Air India has been praised for flying a number of flights to rescue Indians stranded in coronavirus-affected countries. Now, a group of pilots have alleged their safety was compromised - a charge the airline denies. | By Vikas PandeyBBC News, Delhi Air India's fleet has long been used by the government to help Indians in crisis. This has included everything from delivering relief materials during natural calamities to airlifting citizens from Middle Eastern countries during the 2011 Arab Spring. But this time, as Covid-19 sweeps across the world, crew members have made several allegations about serious shortcomings with regards to ensuring the safety of crew and passengers on recent rescue flights. In a letter seen by the BBC, the Executive Pilots Association, a body that represents senior long-haul pilots of the airline, says they have been given "flimsy" pieces of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that "tear and disintegrate easily on rescue flights". The letter, which has been sent to the airline and the aviation ministry, adds that "disinfection processes [for aircraft] are short of international industry best practices". "These inadequacies compound the chances of viral exposure and equipment contamination and may even lead to community transmissions of Covid-19 within crew members, passengers and the public at large," the letter states. The Indian Pilots' Guild, which also represents Air India's long-haul pilots, has written to the ministry citing similar concerns. The BBC has seen this letter as well. A senior pilot, who did not wish to be identified, told the BBC it is not that the crew "doesn't want to work in these testing times for the country". "All we are asking is that proper safety procedures should be followed. If we don't have the right PPE and disinfection processes, we are risking the safety of everybody on the plane, our family, and residents of the buildings where we live," he said. "We are being compared to soldiers and that is very humbling. But you have to give the right gear to your soldiers." An Air India spokesperson acknowledged the letters and said: "Air India is proud of its crew." "Our crew has shown tremendous strength, integrity and dedication. All possible measures have been taken towards their health and safety. Best available PPE are procured for our crew," he told the BBC. 'Quarantine violations' The pilot also added that in some cases the norm of following 14-day quarantine period for everybody returning from abroad was not applied to crew members. The BBC is aware of at least one case where a pilot who returned from a Covid-19-affected country was asked to fly again within seven days. The spokesperson denied these allegations, saying that "all crew having done international flights have been home quarantined". "They have been advised to self-isolate should they develop any symptoms and report immediately. We are following all government quarantine guidelines," he added. The two letters add that the crew do not have any specific Covid-19-related insurance policies and don't have medical teams to examine them when they return from international flights. "Medical teams all over India are now being covered under a government scheme, although surprisingly air crew are not," the letters say. The pilot added that "we are not comparing ourselves to medical staff - they really are the frontline soldiers". "But we are also risking our lives, and an insurance will just give us some peace of mind," he said. The association has also highlighted the issue of unpaid allowances to the crew. "Our flying-related allowances, comprising 70% of our total emoluments, remain unpaid since January 2020. This is grossly unfair," the letter says. The pilot added that this went against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's request to employers not to withhold or cut wages in this time of crisis. "I will repeat again that we do not mind serving the nation, but we need our pay to be protected. We need to be able to look after our families," he said. The airline spokesperson said that "all salaries have been paid and efforts are on to clear some pending dues", but pilots say the withheld allowances are around 70% of their total earnings. Air India has been saddled with massive debts and several efforts to sell it have failed. However despite this, the airline is in the midst of planning a massive operation to evacuate foreigners in India at great cost. The passengers will be collected from several major Indian cities and flown to Frankfurt, but Air India will not be bringing back any Indian citizens who may still be stuck in Europe. The pilot said "it's commendable that Air India is helping those in need" but asked why Indians could not be on the return flights as the planes would be flying home empty. "I want to stress that we will not stop flying rescue and supply missions at any cost. We just want to be heard," another pilot told the BBC. "Otherwise it feels like we are alone in this battle when the need is for all of us to work together and look after each other." | कोरोना वायरस प्रभावित देशों में फंसे भारतीयों को बचाने के लिए कई उड़ानें उड़ाने के लिए भारत की राष्ट्रीय वाहक एयर इंडिया की प्रशंसा की गई है। अब, पायलटों के एक समूह ने आरोप लगाया है कि उनकी सुरक्षा से समझौता किया गया था-एक आरोप जिसे एयरलाइन नकारती है। |
uk-wales-30951803 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-30951803 | How much does NHS Wales spend? | So how much does the NHS Wales spend? | By Sarah DickinsBBC Wales economics correspondent In 2011/12, £6,379m was spent on health in Wales. The seven local health boards spent the biggest chunk. They are responsible for both funding and providing NHS services in their geographical area. In the 2011/12 financial year, they were given £6,013m by the Welsh government to do that. NHS finances - the workforce As we can see from the pie chart above, most of the money is spent on staff - the various grades of nurses, doctors, consultants and administrative teams. In 2013 there were the equivalent of 72,393 full-time jobs in the NHS in Wales. This was an increase of 391 (0.5%) on the previous year. The biggest increases were in medical and dental staff - a rise of 2.8% compared with 2012. The table below shows the changes in staffing levels over a five-year period to 2013. Excluding GPs and dentists, there are the equivalent of 36,312 people working full time in NHS Wales. What is significant is the reduction in the number of managers and senior managers since 2009. In particular, a 28.5% reduction in senior staff. Here you can also see a breakdown of local health board staff in your area. NHS finances - spending money locally Primary healthcare in Wales has an annual budget of £1,347m. That pays for GPs, their teams of nurses and administrative support as well as prescribed drugs, pharmacies and other services. The proportion spent on each service varies for each health board. Case study: Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University health board Let's look how, for instance, the health board covering Bridgend, Neath Port Talbot and Swansea spends its money. As well looking after local hospitals, it has £232.7m to spend on primary healthcare alone and we can show how that breaks down. The largest amount goes on prescribed drugs and appliances, followed by general medical services - which covers GPs and their staff. There is much discussion about patients' access to local doctors. In Wales there are broadly six GPs for every 10,000 people, similar to England and Northern Ireland. But in Scotland, it is notably higher with eight per 10,000 (Stats Wales/House of Commons Library, 2013). What do illnesses cost to treat? The debate about spending priorities in healthcare is a very complicated one and individual spending categories cannot really be looked at in isolation. Even if we had not been rocked by the global financial crisis of 2008 and the policies of austerity that followed, the health service would still have had to consider its priorities. Costs for services and pharmaceuticals would have increased as would patient demands and population growth. The fact that we are still trying to recover from a recession - and have increasing social pressures - heightens discussion about the health service we want for the future. | तो एनएचएस वेल्स कितना खर्च करता है? |
world-asia-india-38515486 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38515486 | Why MS Dhoni's place in cricket history is assured | Mahendra Singh Dhoni has stepped down as India's limited-overs captain ahead of the upcoming one-day international series against England. Wisden India editor Suresh Menon looks at what made the wicketkeeper-batsman one of the calmest cricketers in history. | Dhoni was not only a calm captain himself, he was the cause for calmness in others. He smiled, he showed displeasure, he chatted to bowlers, but while his immediate message was clear, no one could bet on what his thinking was. To catch the cricket fraternity by surprise twice in two years - first while quitting Test cricket, and now when relinquishing captaincy in one-day internationals - is no mean feat. Dhoni read the one-day game better than he did Test cricket, and was India's finest captain in the shorter formats. He led India to victory in three tournaments - World Twenty20 (2007), World Cup (2011) and Champions Trophy (2013) - so the record matched his reputation. He tended to let the longer game drift occasionally, and seemed to feel the pressure of not losing his early Tests, something that might have rendered him more defensive once the streak was broken. The shorter formats were different. He could experiment, even gamble, trusting his finely honed sense of time and place to bring him success. When he handed the ball to rookie Joginder Sharma in the final of the inaugural World T20 a decade ago, there might have been a collective gasp around the country. Yet Sharma claimed the last Pakistan wicket, and as an unintended consequence, the face of cricket was changed forever. The IPL was born, as India, Twenty20 deniers became Twenty20 obsessed. Dhoni, one of the greatest finishers in the modern game, got his timing right once again, pre-empting the inevitable media speculation about his future following the sustained successes of Test skipper Virat Kohli. Fitness not a problem The only question to be answered, of course, was whether Dhoni saw himself in the 2019 World Cup team. He would be 39 then, but fitness was unlikely to be the problem. The concern was over the fact that given that India's fixture list is heavy on Test cricket, he might feel rusty with bat in hand. Already in recent matches, his legendary finishing abilities had let him down occasionally, and there were few chances to get match fit. This meant that he could not afford failure, and had to make an impact every time he went out to bat. Youngsters like wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant were beginning to look match-ready. It was thus a pragmatic call, to give up the captaincy, focus on batting and try to rediscover the freedom and form that made him one of the greats. For Dhoni is nothing if not practical. Not for him the romance and layered philosophy of the game; he was simple without being simplistic, straightforward without being naive, and knows his mind best. These qualities served him well as captain, they serve him well as a person. The long chat he had with the chairman of selectors, MSK Prasad, during the semi-final of the ongoing domestic Ranji Trophy tournament might have convinced him. Perhaps the decision to step down as the one-day captain was made before the chat. Dhoni's place in history is assured, and not just as a player and captain. He was leader of a talented group of players which emerged from non-traditional areas. There was a historical inevitability about this. India's early captains were the local royals. Then came those who worked for the royals like Lala Amarnath and Vijay Hazare. Then came the middle-class salary-earning city-bred captains (Gulabrai Ramchand,Nari Contractor, Ajit Wadekar), with Tiger Pataudi the exception in the 1960s. Dhoni's arrival was a testimony to the reach of televised cricket. Youngsters had been fired by the 1983 World Cup win by Kapil Dev's India. Suddenly towns like Bharuch, Aligarh, Jalandhar, Palarivattom, Quilon, Rae Bareilly, Khorda and Kodagu began producing international cricketers. Dhoni was eight when Sachin Tendulkar made his debut, yet within months of playing under Dhoni, the senior man was saying, "I am delighted at the way Dhoni conducts himself. He is a balanced guy with a sharp brain. His approach is clear and uncomplicated." So clear and uncomplicated that when his immediate predecessor Anil Kumble retired, Dhoni carried him off the field on his shoulders. In Indian cricket, no captain is a hero to his vice-captain, and this must rate as one of the great sights on a cricket field. 'A fluke' The simple was best demonstrated when he asked spinner Amit Mishra to bowl the last over on the second day of the Mohali Test against Australia in 2008, and the bowler dismissed Michael Clarke. At the press conference later, Dhoni, praised for his acumen, confessed, "It was a fluke." He was to say later, "I want a team that can stand before an advancing truck." It was a captaincy mantra that he followed, and which saw India rise to the top in both Test and ODI rankings. Whether Dhoni was bowing to the inevitable by giving up the captaincy, or merely anticipating the future by a fortnight, the fact remains that once again he goes out on his own terms. He led in 199 matches, winning 110, a figure second only to Allan Border's 165. His 41 wins in Twenty20 are the best by any captain. The transition, as in Test cricket, will be smooth. Virat Kohli is ready, willing and able. He has said he learnt much under Dhoni, and as he prepares to put together the team for 2019, the younger man has enough time to figure out whether the older fits into his scheme of things. But currently, Dhoni the batsman is a certainty. Suresh Menon is the Editor of Wisden India Cricketers' Almanack | महेंद्र सिंह धोनी ने इंग्लैंड के खिलाफ आगामी एक दिवसीय अंतरराष्ट्रीय श्रृंखला से पहले भारत के सीमित ओवरों के कप्तान के रूप में पद छोड़ दिया है। विजडन इंडिया के संपादक सुरेश मेनन ने देखा कि किस बात ने इस विकेटकीपर-बल्लेबाज को इतिहास के सबसे शांत क्रिकेटरों में से एक बना दिया। |
uk-wales-42635696 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-42635696 | 100 Welsh Government phones and laptops 'lost or stolen' | It has cost nearly £14,000 to replace phones and laptops lost or stolen from Welsh Government employees since 2012, new figures have shown. | A Freedom of Information response shows 80 phones were lost and 11 stolen along with six laptops. In total, these were worth £13,000 with it costing £13,900 to replace them. A Welsh Government spokesman said the number lost in any one of the years represented less than 1% of devices issued. "When a member of staff reports an item of electronic equipment missing or stolen, they are referred for disciplinary action if reasonable care for the device has not been taken," he said. Incidents include items taken after being left outside secured government properties, falling out of pockets or bags, taken during home burglaries, car break-ins and street robberies. | नए आंकड़ों से पता चलता है कि 2012 से वेल्श सरकार के कर्मचारियों से खोए हुए या चोरी हुए फोन और लैपटॉप को बदलने में लगभग 14,000 पाउंड का खर्च आया है। |
uk-england-merseyside-46347793 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-46347793 | Royal Liverpool Hospital: Work on stalled £335m project resumes | Work to finish the building of Royal Liverpool Hospital has resumed. | Construction of the already delayed £335m, 646-bed hospital - due to have opened in March 2017 - was halted in February after Carillion's collapse. New contractors Laing O'Rourke have started to clear the site ahead of the resumption of building work. It is now estimated the hospital will be ready to open by the end of 2020. Trust chief executive Aidan Kehoe said it had been "a turbulent 11 months". "We are looking forward to the New Year with fresh optimism," he added. "With Laing O'Rourke and others in place, more contractors to follow in the coming months, and work returning to the site, our staff are now refocusing their attention on our plans for moving in." From 3 December "early work will begin to gather pace and continue over the next four months", according to the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. That initial work will include the completion of a security room to monitor CCTV throughout the new hospital building, along with modification to the ventilation system in the anaesthetic rooms in theatres. The completion of an energy-saving lighting system, meaning lights will switch off automatically in unoccupied rooms, will also be completed by February, the Trust added. Work to replace unsafe cladding installed by Carillion, and repairing beams in other parts of the structure, will also take place in the next two years. The Trust is also working with Laing O'Rourke on a procurement process involving about 140 contractors who were already employed on the site prior to Carillion's collapse. "Having all these contracts in place will help facilitate a swifter restart of construction," the Trust said. The hospital was originally funded under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) where companies provide money for new hospitals and then charge annual fees. But NHS bosses announced last moth that and public money would instead be used to complete the work. In February, Carillion filed for compulsory liquidation with debts of about £1.5bn and local MPs called on the government to intervene. Birkenhead MP Frank Field described the incomplete hospital as a "creaking monument to… greed" following a damning report into the "rotten corporate culture" at Carillion. | रॉयल लिवरपूल अस्पताल के निर्माण को पूरा करने का काम फिर से शुरू हो गया है। |
world-middle-east-34115952 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34115952 | Has Yemen war handed Aden to jihadists? | Unseen by most of the world, the once tranquil port of Aden is being steadily infiltrated by jihadists from both al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular (AQAP) and the so-called Islamic State (IS). | By Frank GardnerBBC security correspondent They are not in charge of the city, the military forces of the UAE are. But in the last few days disturbing reports have emerged of the summary executions of prisoners by the jihadists, along with their black flags hoisted onto public buildings. The war in Yemen, now in its sixth month, has effectively offered the jihadists a backdoor entry into the country's second most important city and a major Indian Ocean port. "The jihadists have been taking advantage of the chaos in Aden to infiltrate the city," says Aimen Deen, a Dubai-based consultant and former jihadist himself. Nigel Inkster, the director of transnational threats at the London think-tank IISS and a former director of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, concurs. "AQAP are a very opportunistic organisation," he says. "What has happened in Aden has created an opportunity and given them scope to expand there and in certain parts of the country." So what exactly has happened in Aden? Very bad things in recent weeks is the answer. For 128 years, the Indian Ocean port of Aden and the adjoining hinterland was a British protectorate and later a crown colony. As recently as the 1960s, cruise ships were dropping off passengers to shop in its teeming markets as they refuelled on the long voyage between Southampton and the Far East. It was one of the busiest ports and harbours in the world. After a violent independence campaign, Aden became the capital of the Marxist People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from 1967 to 1990. Russian sailors strolled around town, office women wore Western skirts and there was even a local brewery. Then followed unification with North Yemen and a brief and ultimately unsuccessful attempt by the South to split away in 1994. When I interviewed the country's strongman, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in 2000, he told me his greatest achievement had been uniting the two Yemens, North and South. Aden But today Yemen is in chaos. Pushed out by the Arab Spring protests of 2011, President Saleh left office, but not Yemen. A sore loser, he conspired to wreck Yemen's transition to a peaceful democracy, forming an alliance in 2014 with the same Houthi rebels he had fought several wars against. In September 2014, the rebels advanced on the capital, Sanaa, from their northern stronghold. By January 2015, they had the president, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, under house arrest. By March, they had seized almost the whole of the western half of the country, driving the government into exile and capturing Aden. Who is fighting whom in Yemen? Houthis - The Zaidi Shia Muslim rebels from the north overran Sanaa last year and then expanded their control. They want to replace Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, whose government they say is corrupt. The US alleges Iran is providing military assistance to the rebels. Ali Abdullah Saleh - Military units loyal to the former president - forced to hand over power in 2011 after mass protests - are fighting alongside the Houthis. Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi - The president fled abroad in March as the rebels advanced on Aden, where he had taken refuge in February. Sunni Muslim tribesmen and Southern separatists have formed militia to fight the rebels. Saudi-led coalition - A US-backed coalition of nine, mostly Sunni Arab states, says it is seeking to "defend the legitimate government" of Mr Hadi. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - AQAP opposes both the Houthis and President Hadi. A rival affiliate of Islamic State has also recently emerged. Human Rights Watch report on Yemen Yemen's giant neighbour, Saudi Arabia, suspected the hand of Iran was behind the rebels, who are Shia, and launched a devastating air war to push them back and force them to sue for peace. It has largely worked, but at a cost. The rebels are now in full retreat, but over 4,000 people have been killed in the fighting, at least half of them civilians. The once quiet, torpid streets of Aden have been battered by mortar fire, snipers and artillery. As part of the Saudi-led coalition, the UAE landed an entire armoured brigade there to reinforce the Yemeni loyalists fighting the rebels. French-built Leclerc tanks of the UAE army have been in action north of the city. But in Aden itself there has been something of a power vacuum with almost no effective policing or security - just the sort of situation the jihadists like to exploit. As far back as February, when the Houthis were advancing into Aden, IS declared a new province, a "wilaya" of Aden and Lahej. After launching an attack on Houthi rebels on 18 July, they reportedly executed seven of their captives in the district known as Crater. Now, in a new report on the mistreatment of prisoners by both sides, Human Rights Watch cites reports that on 23 August, IS dressed a number of Houthi prisoners in orange jumpsuits, placed them in a boat which was then towed out into the harbour. Reportedly watched by local residents of Aden, the boat carrying the prisoners was then blown up, killing those on board, the report says. Yemen is no stranger to violence. In the last four years, it has witnessed some horrific suicide bombings, mostly in Sanaa. For now, it seems that the jihadists of AQAP and IS have largely put aside their differences to fight their common enemy, the Shia Houthi rebels. Ironically, they are being aided by air strikes from the very countries - Saudi Arabia and the UAE - who normally oppose them. But their apparent infiltration into what was once one of the most important ports on the Indian Ocean gives them a base they could only have dreamed of before this war began. | दुनिया के अधिकांश हिस्सों द्वारा अनदेखे, कभी अदन के शांत बंदरगाह में अरब प्रायद्वीप में अल-कायदा (एक्यूएपी) और तथाकथित इस्लामिक स्टेट (आईएस) दोनों के जिहादियों द्वारा लगातार घुसपैठ की जा रही है। |
business-53156213 | https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53156213 | 'I've been stared at in disbelief when I introduce myself' | For the past five years BBC News has invited entrepreneurs to share their advice in a video series called CEO Secrets. Here, four black business founders who have been guests discuss how they feel their skin colour has affected the way they navigate the business world. | By Dougal ShawCEO Secrets series producer Ojoma Idegwu - I have to clarify I am who I 'claim' to be Ojoma, 37, is the founder of Dear Curves, a fashion label for plus-size women. She used to work on the shop floor in Topshop, but eventually took the plunge of starting her own fashion business. I must start off by making very clear how immensely proud I am of the colour of my skin. Having said that, I am all too aware of the challenges it presents. Being a black entrepreneur in the UK for me means, in most instances, I have to work twice as hard to be in the same space as, and get the same opportunity as, my white colleagues. I'm genuinely made to feel like I have to prove myself again and again. I’m dealing with consistent micro-aggressions, back-handed compliments from some white, key decision-makers in the fashion industry. And people say: “Oh Ojoma, I’m only joking, don’t take it so seriously!” I’ve been stared at in disbelief [at business events], when I introduce myself as the owner of Dear Curves. From their reaction you can tell they didn't expect to see a black person. It’s almost like people are saying, "Did she miss the exit?" I'm often asked again, as if to clarify I am who I "claim" to be! It can end up with them walking away in embarrassment. I wish there were more female fashion entrepreneur role models, to boost confidence. Recently we had the protest for racial equality in the US, and rightly so. So we had a lot of big businesses coming out making wonderful pledges, publicly preaching about how they would create space for black and minority-owned businesses. These brands publicly ask you to send them a copy of your lookbook, but privately, they send you an email, talking about how "I'm not a right fit for their platform". The key problem with this is I'd not even sent them a copy of my lookbook yet! This is what black-owned businesses like mine deal with. I'm tired of being used as a tool to publicly show how diverse these brands intend to be, but in reality they don't mean any of the things they declare. Jamal Edwards - I used to feel like the outsider but the internet has made things easier Jamal, 29, founded the online media company SBTV in 2007 in west London. It grew out of YouTube, with an emphasis on discovering new music artists, including Ed Sheeran and Dave. He was awarded an MBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. I personally feel like the democratic nature of the internet has meant that the opinions and ideologies of the so-called gatekeepers - who are mainly white - are null and void. It’s made it a lot easier for people like me, who are of Afro-Caribbean descent, to prosper. This has broken down a lot of barriers and increased the access to opportunities that may have not been readily available to me before the YouTube era. When I first started I had work experience at MTV and the BBC and I always remember feeling a sense of nervousness going in to work because it felt like I was the outsider. I quickly learnt to overcome these problems, but I don’t think it should be a feeling an aspiring young professional should face. Although I have had many successes I have faced many challenges. For example, there came a point in my business where I felt like I hit a glass ceiling. It became clear that I was not being taken seriously due to my appearance because I didn't dress or look like your generic executive. I have always looked at it as a matter of strategy to debunk these micro-aggressions that were the cause of these barriers. It became apparent that I had to hire a senior white male executive to balance things out and to aid in breaking through the glass ceiling I was faced with. Since then we have built a great partnership and we work extremely well together. As time has passed it's inspiring to see all the black executives championing change. I definitely think there has been change, even if it has been small. This has led to other entrepreneurs coming through and making a name for themselves. It’s refreshing to see people that look like me, that have often been overlooked, and had to work harder than their white contemporaries, be taken seriously and reap the fruits of their labour. Gerald Manu - An investor told me to ask black people for money instead Gerald, 22, is the founder of Devacci, a street fashion label he created while still at school in Croydon, south London. Building a business from scratch is never easy. Building a business from the ground up as a black entrepreneur is 100 times harder. This is especially true in my area: fashion and technology, where there are few black entrepreneur role models. The Black Lives Matter movement really matters to me because I believe in equality in every aspect of life. Black people like myself have been treated unfairly and it is time for a change. I have experienced countless hardships as a black entrepreneur. My worst experience was fundraising. I had come across an angel investor who agreed to schedule a meeting with me. The meeting only lasted about 20 minutes. The majority of the meeting was the angel investor brutally criticising my business plan without any positive feedback, but that wasn’t the worst part. He made a comment saying: “I know that if I give you this money, you will most likely blow it all on an expensive lifestyle or spend it recklessly. Why don’t you go ask other black, influential, wealthy people in the UK for the money instead?” I was shocked and disgusted by those comments. My ego was crushed at that moment. It was one of the worst days of my life. But I did not let it get me down, I used those comments as fuel to pursue my dreams with Devacci. I hope there will be more diversity when it comes to venture capitalist funding for businesses, because I know I am not the only one facing this type of racial discrimination. Being a black entrepreneur trying to secure angel investment or venture capital for your business is basically almost impossible and that is something that needs to change. Kike Oniwinde - There are not enough black people in senior leadership positions Kike, 27, is the founder of BYP Network, which works with businesses like Facebook, Sky and Netflix. It has been called ‘the black LinkedIn’, creating networking opportunities primarily for black people. When I started my business back in 2016, it was partly inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and the realisation that there was a lack of black representation in corporations. I felt like the media only represents black people in a negative way: it’s about knife crime, or it showcases us as entertainers in sports and music only. This led to the motivation to "change the black narrative" by connecting black professionals around the globe for role model visibility, job and business opportunities and economic empowerment. Here we are in 2020, and the same motivations still persist. There are not enough black people in senior leadership positions here in the UK, we still face prejudice, micro-aggressions, racism and closed doors. Race is something I think about daily, mainly because my business is focused on black attainment, but also because the glaring differences of how we are treated is constant. As a black female founder, access to investment is statistically near-impossible. In Europe, €13bn (£11.6bn) a year funding is spent on predominantly white, male founding companies to innovate the future. This capital is barely accessible to black founders. Only 1% of companies invested in are black-owned. Only 0.2% of companies invested in have a black, female founder. I have been fortunate to raise investment, but it’s about access for all black founders, not just the few. Venture capital firms should be held accountable for the lack of investment in black founders. We have barely seen statements of solidarity or even acknowledgement of the current climate. As an entrepreneur, I believe the wider public should be more informed about the venture capital world so that more people can hold them accountable, not just the elite few. Myself and other black founders ask them to: Black lives matter in all facets of life, whether when questioned by police, interviewing for a job, or seeking investment. As a black female founder, I am aware that others see me as a role model, the very representation I was searching for. So it’s part of my duty to ensure doors can be opened for others that look like me. If you would like to suggest an inspiring entrepreneur for CEO Secrets you can contact series producer Dougal Shaw | पिछले पाँच वर्षों से बी. बी. सी. न्यूज़ ने उद्यमियों को सी. ई. ओ. सीक्रेट्स नामक एक वीडियो श्रृंखला में अपनी सलाह साझा करने के लिए आमंत्रित किया है। यहाँ, चार अश्वेत व्यवसाय संस्थापक, जो अतिथि रहे हैं, चर्चा करते हैं कि वे कैसे महसूस करते हैं कि उनकी त्वचा के रंग ने उनके व्यापार जगत में जाने के तरीके को प्रभावित किया है। |
sinhala.041029_sb_amara | https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/news/story/2004/10/041029_sb_amara | No foreign travel for SB and Amara Piyaseeli | The Colombo Magistrate ruled that former ministers SB Dissanayake and Amara Piyaseeli Rathnayake and six others should refrain from leavening the island . | The Magistrate made this ruling after looking into chargers made by the police on misuse of funds allocated for "Samurdhi" projects. Approximately rupees three million had been allocated for two projects by then Samurdhi Affairs minister SB Dissanayake on the request of Women's Affairs minister Amara Piyaseeli Rathnayake. Investigating police officers told the courts that there were no such projects in the relevant areas. The officials of the non-governmental organizations who are said to have received the funds also have been charged. The Magistrate informed the police that if they intend to arrest the suspects they should seek the attorney generals advice before doing so. | कोलंबो मजिस्ट्रेट ने फैसला सुनाया कि पूर्व मंत्री एस. बी. दिसानायके और अमारा पियासीली रथनायके और छह अन्य को द्वीप छोड़ने से बचना चाहिए। |
uk-wales-politics-30438526 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-30438526 | Plaid MP would back 'issue-by-issue' deal with Labour | How many parties does it take to form a government? | David CornockParliamentary correspondent, Wales The answer next May could be more than two. UKIP's rise and the SNP surge have helped make the election the most unpredictable in living memory (a phrase you may hear again in the next 146 days). Neither of the two largest parties looks capable of winning a majority and the third largest party may have insufficient seats to hold the balance of power on its own. Alternatively, could one of the larger parties choose to govern as a minority administration, by striking a deal or pact with another (non-Lib Dem party)? Well, it could happen. Which is where the SNP come in. Former SNP leader (and future backbencher?) Alex Salmond told last night's BBC Newsnight he "would be very surprised if people weren't looking at this kaleidoscope potential of a parliament and not seeing how legitimate political ambitions can be pursued. "Incidentally, this is entirely proper - this is what politics is about, that's why people vote. And that's why I'm saying that for first time in many years people in Scotland can vote with the reasonable expectation that we might actually have a decisive influence on legislation in the next Parliament, and that is all to the good." The one stumbling block to a deal with Labour could be the SNP's self-denying ordinance on votes on English issues. It would clearly limit their value to a Miliband administration without a majority. So presenter Kirsty Wark asked if he would vote on education and NHS legislation in England in a deal with Labour. Alex Salmond: "One of things I learned in that experience minority government in Scotland is it's probably wise if you're in that position of an opposition party not to reveal too many of your cards in advance. The people who played their cards best were the ones who didn't play them face up. So if you forgive me I won't go into too much detail on tactics." He agreed with Wark that it isn't difficult "with parliamentary ingenuity" to make a bill relevant to Scotland So where does that leave Plaid Cymru, who form a joint parliamentary party with the SNP at Westminster? Plaid's parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd told me in an interview for the next Sunday Politics: "We've always worked with the SNP. We are looking at these things even now because it is inevitable it will be a hung parliament and it's a question of who's going to be doing what. It's an interesting situation and I believe that we will be players in it." The SNP shopping list appears to involve the scrapping of Trident (and presumably the continuation of the Barnett formula). What would Plaid Cymru want (apart from the end of the Barnett formula)?. Elfyn Llwyd: "Greater powers to the Welsh assembly, clearly; moving on taxation without a referendum, ensuring that we address the Barnett problem now without any further ado. There are many things that we could be talking about, but I think, potentially, it's an important situation and potentially we could do a lot of good for Wales by entering into an issue-by-issue understanding with a Labour government and I for one would fully endorse that." Plaid leader Leanne Wood, new SNP leader (and First Minister) Nicola Sturgeon and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett will hold talks on Monday in London to discuss their strategy for the coming months. | सरकार बनाने के लिए कितने दलों की आवश्यकता होती है? |
technology-28582479 | https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28582479 | Why your washing machine is a security risk | "Hello! Do you need any help, sir?" | By Mark WardTechnology correspondent, BBC News "No thanks, I'm just browsing." This is a lie. I am not just browsing. I am trying to make a smart washing machine on display in this electronics store cough up its deepest secrets. On this model, that means I need to simultaneously press a couple of buttons on the control panel to jog it into a mode that shows how it connects to wi-fi. But I need to hold the buttons down for five seconds or so and every time I do that a hovering salesman or woman comes over and I have to abandon the attempt. Maybe there is a better way to plumb the secrets of smart devices. I'm curious about the security on these gadgets as I've just bought a washing machine that can communicate its well-being via an app. More and more domestic gadgets that, since their creation, have been as isolationist as North Korea are now becoming decidedly verbose. And they do most of their chatting via apps. With home routers regularly getting enrolled into scams, I'm wondering if smart washing machines, ovens, tumble dryers and fridges will be next. App attack "Get hold of the .apk," said Mark Schloesser, a senior researcher at security company Rapid7 when I asked him about ways to investigate the security, or otherwise, of these gadgets. By .apk he means the Android file for the app. The relatively open nature of Google's Android means it is possible to download an app and decompile it to reveal its innards. This I do. And soon after, I realise that all my years of tinkering with computers and software have not accidentally turned me into a competent reverse engineer. I can see how the code breaks down into functions but the opaque nature of the language in which it is written, Java, defeated my attempts to understand which bit did what. Mr Schloesser reassured me that this kind of static analysis was difficult for everyone. "Java has a big standard library and a big amount of tools to choose from," he said. "In addition, on Android you have the whole Google SDK [software developers' kit] at your disposal." Also, he said, there was no set way that developers lay out the code inside an app. "It will be pretty much arbitrary. The structure is not standard," he said. Given that, I let another professional, Stephen Tomkinson, of security company NCC Group, also have a look. From what he saw, the app in question is a bit of a mess. It has code in it to serve both washing machines and air conditioners. It has hardcoded passwords and communicated with a servicing and maintenance system in a way that might be insecure. 'Flaky' The best way to see if the app, and by implication, the washing machine can be turned against its owners is to spy on the traffic that flows between the two and which they send out over the net to the service centre or head office. Daniel O'Connor did just that with his Samsung air conditioner, which can be controlled over wi-fi via a smartphone or laptop. He started to look at the traffic because soon after he installed it he lost the ability to control it via anything but a smartphone. "It was flaky and it was not clear why," he told the BBC. "That drew my attention, and led me to start figuring out how the heck this was working." By looking at the data passing over his home wi-fi network from the device he found that it was regularly sending updates about itself to a service website run by Samsung. He noticed it was sending back unique identifiers for his device and seemed to communicate whether he wanted it to or not. Mr O'Connor figured out the problem that made his air conditioner only talk to a smartphone, and it kicked off an effort to develop more ways to communicate with these smart devices. He is not alone. There are a growing number of projects run by amateurs and start-ups keen to make their software act as a central co-ordinator for devices that will be the "things" in the future Internet of Things. Many of the early IoT devices only talk to products from the same manufacturer. Without a central controller, the fear is that our homes will be populated by several internets of different things, making them a nightmare to control. Data lost Even though I do not have a smart washing machine I found a man that did - Dan Cuthbert, an analyst at security firm company. Even better, he has been looking at the apps used to control it and other gadgets, such as a tumble dryer, to see how easy they are to subvert. His investigations suggests that the app-based control system is something of an afterthought and few companies seem to have spent the money needed to ensure the apps are secure. He said analysis shows that code inside some of the apps has been borrowed from other places and, worryingly, they use some technologies, such as UPnP, known to have exploitable vulnerabilities. Right now though, he admits, the danger posed by these devices is largely theoretical. However, he said, that might soon change. "If you look at two or five years down the line there's a big push to have lots of internet-enabled devices," he said. "You start with the utility devices such as washing machines and fridges. Then it moves to other gadgets - and once you start doing that, there's the issue of data leakage." By having all those devices merrily connecting and swapping data it might get much easier for cyberthieves to grab information they can use to get at much more saleable data. Attackers could use an insecure fridge as a pivot to get at your laptop or tablet where login IDs, credit card numbers and other identifiers are located. A home full of smart devices will be gathering data on its occupants and that information is going to become very useful and valuable, he said. Already social media sites profit from the data people surrender as they post updates. Actual data about lifestyles was likely to be a juicy target for all kinds of firms, he said. "As a consumer I want to know what these devices are doing," he said. "I think I have a right." | "हैलो, सर, क्या आपको किसी मदद की ज़रूरत है?" |
business-31044818 | https://www.bbc.com/news/business-31044818 | When 40% revenue growth isn’t enough | Alibaba, the world's largest e-commerce firm, has reported annual revenue growth of 40% in its debut report since its record-breaking share flotation. That would be impressive for most companies, but the $4.2bn earned fell short of analysts' expectations of $4.4bn. | Linda YuehChief business correspondent However, earnings per share beat consensus forecasts at 81 cents versus 75 cents, and the margin on earnings rose to 58% from 50.5%. Alibaba says that gross merchandise sales volumes rose by 49% with active buyers up 45% from a year earlier on its Chinese retail sites. Notably, mobile transactions now account for 42% of Alibaba's business, more than doubling from a year ago when it was 20%. The company says that active mobile users have nearly doubled to 265 million from 136 million a year ago. Those would seem to be impressive figures, but Alibaba shares fell as much as 8% in pre-market trading on the missed revenues. A rare public dispute with the Chinese regulator may also be casting a shadow on the company. The SAIC, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, in a white paper said that Alibaba's biggest e-commerce platforms not only sold fakes, but that the company turned a blind eye to counterfeit goods, and accused Alibaba of "misconduct". Alibaba says it is combating counterfeit goods sold by vendors on its various websites. The SAIC said that this discussion with Alibaba over its practices occurred two months before its Initial Public Offering (IPO), but the regulator has only brought it to light now. Well, sort of, since the report has since been taken down from the SAIC's website. The spat with the SAIC may reveal the Chinese government using one of its most prominent companies to set an example to showcase its commitment to crack down and protect intellectual property rights, an ongoing area of dissatisfaction expressed by foreign firms in particular and increasingly by Chinese ones. In any case, Alibaba's share price has come under some pressure as a result over the past two days - dropping some 4% yesterday when the SAIC report was released. Still, at about $90, it is still considerably above the IPO price of $68 from last September. What Alibaba is now experiencing is what other listed firms regularly face - the need to meet market expectations and address bad news, particularly on the regulatory front. | दुनिया की सबसे बड़ी ई-कॉमर्स कंपनी अलीबाबा ने अपनी पहली रिपोर्ट में अपने रिकॉर्ड-ब्रेकिंग शेयर फ्लोटेशन के बाद से 40 प्रतिशत की वार्षिक राजस्व वृद्धि दर्ज की है। यह अधिकांश कंपनियों के लिए प्रभावशाली होगा, लेकिन $4.2bn की कमाई विश्लेषकों की $4.4bn की उम्मीदों से कम हो गई। |
uk-england-cumbria-21813425 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-21813425 | Cumbria charities and trust open £50,000 health hub | A new £50,000 health hub has been opened in Cumbria. | The Gateway Centre at Gillingate in Kendal, was built after receiving £50,000 of funding from Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The centre brings together five local charities and the trust under one roof to offer health advice to residents. Lord Lieutenant Claire Hensman, who opened the centre, said it was a "wonderful opportunity" for the community to "work together". The centre is one of 16 projects in the county that has shared £500,000 worth of funding from the trust. | कुम्ब्रिया में 50,000 पाउंड का एक नया स्वास्थ्य केंद्र खोला गया है। |
magazine-33344898 | https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33344898 | How I was de-radicalised | It's become known as the Aarhus Model, a programme designed in Denmark's second city to dissuade young people from going to fight for al-Qaeda or Islamic State. Thirty travelled to Syria in 2013 but only two so far this year - and only one in 2014. Ahmed is one young man who was convinced, a few years ago, to draw back from the first step on a path that could have ended in jihad. | By Tim ManselBBC World Service, Aarhus We meet in a large, loud, busy Turkish restaurant on the edge of the city, but we don't stay long. There are two of them - we'll call them Ahmed and Mahmoud - and what we have to talk about demands a measure of privacy. Mahmoud drives us to a large hotel, where we sit down in a quiet room. Ahmed is 25, he says, born in Somalia, although he's lived in Denmark since he was six. Ahmed then tells his story, describing an unexceptional childhood - he was a "normal kid" growing up in the Aarhus suburbs, who liked playing football, doing well in school, learning Danish fast. "Everything was good for me at that time," he says. Then, when he was in his teens, his father announced that he was taking him on the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca. "It was important for my father to get me more religious," he says. "I didn't know much about my religion. It was like I had left it in Somalia. But my father said, you are a Muslim, you have a Muslim name. You have to know your history, your background and your religion." So the family went to Mecca and Ahmed remembered returning to Denmark with a sense of relief. "When we came back I was happy and I was a new person with a religious identity. I saw the world differently. I saw that it was important for a person to have a connection with his god, I saw that there was an afterlife." But Ahmed's new faith got him into trouble at school. He abandoned jeans and T-shirts and took to wearing traditional Islamic dress. He became defensive and argumentative when the subject of religion came up. He acknowledges today that he could have handled things better, but at the time, he said, he responded aggressively because he felt he had a duty to defend his religion when he was being baited by his Danish classmates. "They would say things like, 'You stone your women, you lash people who speak freely,' and I felt I had to defend my religion, but I didn't know how to debate properly and it went out not correctly." Ahmed was shortly to discover exactly how "not correctly" it had come out. He was out one evening when his father rang. "Where are you?" he demanded. "What have you done?" His father said the police had just knocked on the door and were looking for him. "When I got home, he was shocked and angry. He told me that I had to go straight to the police station the following morning, and ask them what they wanted." So Ahmed went to see the police and was amazed to discover that he'd been turned in by the principal of the school. Find out more Listen to Tim Mansel's radio documentary Returning Jihadis - A Danish Solution? for Assignment on the BBC World Service. Click here for transmission times, or to listen via the BBC iPlayer. "The reason you are here," he was told, "is that your classmates are afraid, they think you are extremist and that you are capable of dangerous things. They think you have been radicalised in Saudi Arabia." Ahmed grins as he remembers all this. But it wasn't funny at the time - he had a vision of being put on the next flight to Guantanamo. "I was shocked," he says "and I had no words to defend myself." The police then told him they would need to search his home and that they would need the password to his email account and any other social media that he used. "I gave them everything and they searched my house and it was very humiliating to watch. When they left I was shocked and I was angry," he says. It got worse. All this had happened during the last week of school, and he had missed the end of year exams. The school, he told me, refused to allow him to sit them late. "That gave me a punch in the face, and gave me the feeling this society is total racist," he says. "They call me a terrorist? I will give them a terrorist if they want that." Ahmed smiles again as he recounts the story. It sounds foolish all these years later. Ahmed then told everything to his friends at the mosque. They were sympathetic, he says, and invited him home. There were long discussions about the hypocrisy of the West in its dealings with Muslims and Muslim countries. They watched a lot of jihadi videos online. Ahmed remembers in particular those that featured Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American cleric of Yemeni descent, who was killed in a drone strike in 2011. "He would say things like, 'We are at war with the West, the West will kill all the Muslims around the world if we don't stand up to them,' and I was like, OK, and my friends were saying, 'Yeah, he's totally right.'" Finally someone drew Ahmed aside and suggested that if he wanted to learn more about Islam and be respected as a Muslim, he should go to Pakistan. "He told me about a school there, where they have good teachers and where they teach Islam in the best way." Ahmed says he told his father what he was planning. His father said he wouldn't try to stop him but advised him to finish high school first. Then the telephone rang. It was the police and they wanted to invite Ahmed out for a cup of coffee. He went, reluctantly. "Something inside me said these people are never going to leave you alone, so why don't you see them face-to-face and just say your opinion. So I went to the meeting and they gave me some coffee and we talked and I was angry and I said, 'You know what, I'm going to Pakistan. It's not illegal. I can do what I want. When I get the money, when I've finished high school, that's where I'm going. Sayonara. See you later.'" But the police had an offer. They wanted him to meet someone, another Muslim, they said, who could talk to him about his feelings and his anger in a way that they, the police could not. Ahmed smiles again as he remembers his indignant reaction. What kind of Muslim could this be? Clearly a traitor. This is how he met Mahmoud. And this is how he was introduced to what the world has now come to call the Aarhus Model. The Aarhus Model Ahmed says it took several months for him to relax. In the beginning he would frisk Mahmoud every time they met, because he wanted to check he wasn't wearing a microphone. He says their arguments were intense and he was frustrated that Mahmoud seemed to have a quiet, logical answer to everything. Ahmed says he asked his friends at the mosque for help, for arguments to defeat this "traitor who's working with the police". "But then I started to take my hands down - you know in boxing you have your fists up high - and I said I have to listen to this guy, this guy never gives up. "And he discussed with me in a logical way, in a way that I could understand that where I was going actually was dangerous. "Mahmoud said, 'Yes, you were treated wrong, that's correct, but what you are doing is you are ruining your own life if you go to Pakistan.'" This, said Ahmed, made sense to him. He wasn't being told that he couldn't be a Muslim. He was being told simply to be a good Muslim who doesn't hurt innocent people. "You can still be a Muslim and have a prosperous future in Denmark. You can be an asset to society, not a liability," he remembers Mahmoud telling him. Mahmoud is listening and nodding. "Actually Ahmed has told me that a lot of times, that if we hadn't had those conversations, he thinks that he would be in Pakistan now," he says. Ahmed graduated from high school and instead of going to Pakistan he went to university. He is about to graduate. He has also got married. "I'm happy right now. I see my future in Denmark. I couldn't see that before because it was all dark," he says. "And now that I'm actually finished with the programme. I hope that personally I'm going to be a mentor some day and help other people who have been in my situation." Listen to Tim Mansel's radio documentary Returning Jihadis - A Danish Solution? for Assignment on the BBC World Service. Click here for transmission times, or to listen via the BBC iPlayer. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox. | यह आरहस मॉडल के रूप में जाना जाता है, एक कार्यक्रम जो डेनमार्क के दूसरे शहर में युवाओं को अल-कायदा या इस्लामिक स्टेट के लिए लड़ने से रोकने के लिए बनाया गया था। 2013 में तीस लोगों ने सीरिया की यात्रा की, लेकिन इस साल अब तक केवल दो-और 2014 में केवल एक। अहमद एक ऐसा युवक है जो कुछ साल पहले उस रास्ते पर पहले कदम से पीछे हटने के लिए आश्वस्त था जो जिहाद में समाप्त हो सकता था। |
uk-scotland-34489496 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34489496 | The role of Scottish women in the suffragette movement | From throwing an egg at Winston Churchill, to a huge suffrage march in Edinburgh, to the horrors of force-feeding, Scotland's suffragettes and the more gradualist suffragists were an important part of the fight for women's votes. | By Gillian SharpeBBC Scotland As the film "Suffragette," opens in British cinemas there is renewed attention on that struggle, one in which Scotland played a vital part. "For a long time the suffrage movement, as far as history is concerned was located in London and the national leadership was located there too," says Dr Norman Watson, a journalist and historian who has researched the suffragettes for 30 years. But he points to the fact that Edinburgh had one of the earliest suffrage societies in the 1870s and by the period after 1905 Scotland was "punching above its weight" in the struggle for votes. There were plenty of opportunities to confront the establishment with then prime minister Herbert Asquith having his constituency in Fife and Winston Churchill as an MP for Dundee. He continues: "So with the militant women pledging to argue at every by-election at which the Liberal party stood because the Liberal party kept refusing them votes, this really catapulted the militancy episode into Scotland and all parts of Scotland were involved." When Churchill came to stand in Dundee in 1908 he was followed by 27 of the national leaders of women's suffrage movements. At one point he even hid in a shed and tried to hold a meeting there. There had been lots of campaigning for the vote towards the end of the 19th Century mainly using methods such at petitions, writing letters and badgering members of parliament. That changed in 1903 with the establishment by the Pankhursts, and others, of the Women's Social and Political Union. A branch was opened in Glasgow in 1906 and by 1908 its Scottish headquarters had been opened in the city. "At first the suffragettes tend to go down to England in order to commit some of the more militant acts," says Prof Sarah Pedersen of Robert Gordon University who is writing a book on the Scottish suffragettes. "We don't really get much militant suffrage activity going on Scotland until a couple of years before the First World War but once they get started they do quite a lot of damage." She points to the burning down of buildings, the grandstands at Ayr and Perth racecourses, the pouring of acid in post boxes to destroy the mail or burning the slogan 'votes for women' into the greens of golf courses with acid. "One of the things to note is that they were very careful not to actually harm or kill anyone with all these fires, the places they set fire to were empty. What they were hoping for was that the landowners and the insurance companies would put pressure on the government to give women the vote," she continues. A important point for the movement in Scotland was a big rally in Edinburgh in 1909. It was led by the formidable Flora Drummond, riding on horseback. A key figure in the movement, she had grown up in Arran. Edinburgh had a rather less positive claim to fame too though. It was here that the suffragette Ethel Moorhead became the first in Scotland to be force-fed, a practice which came later north of the border. "There were two prisons in Scotland that did force feed," says Donna Moore of the Glasgow Women's Library. "One was Edinburgh," she continues "although slightly reluctantly, but the main one was Perth and, in fact, when there was a royal visit to Perth there were signs outside saying welcome to your majesty's torture chamber in Perth prison." Ms Moore is fascinated by the stories of suffragettes, stories which she feels deserve to be better known. Earlier in the year a group of women took part in a public art event, called "March of Women", from the Glasgow Women's Library to Glasgow Green. The idea was to celebrate women's history and achievements, past and present. The site was chosen as the green had been the venue for many rallies and marches by both suffragettes and suffragists. World War One is often credited with bringing some women the vote in 1918. But Norman Watson says "in many respects we forget about the valuable work that the constitutionalists did, the non-militant women". He reckons there were perhaps 100 plus militant suffragettes in Scotland, but thousands who were pursuing similar aims but by different means. "My view is that by 1914 when the worst of the forcible feeding was happening I think we were heading towards the government giving in, and I actually think the women might have got the vote in 1916, two years before they did." | विंस्टन चर्चिल पर अंडा फेंकने से लेकर एडिनबर्ग में एक विशाल मताधिकार मार्च तक, जबरन भोजन की भयावहता तक, स्कॉटलैंड के मताधिकार प्राप्त करने वाले और अधिक क्रमिक मताधिकार प्राप्त करने वाले महिलाओं के वोटों की लड़ाई का एक महत्वपूर्ण हिस्सा थे। |
world-us-canada-54483973 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54483973 | Michigan 'plot': Who are the US militia groups? | The FBI says it has foiled a plot to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer by six men involved with an armed militia group. The governor had become a target of anti-government outrage after enacting strict social distancing measures since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. | The men discussed murdering "tyrants" and trying the governor for "treason", according to court documents. They met repeatedly over the summer for arms training and combat drills, the FBI said, and co-ordinated surveillance around the governor's vacation home. And they are among a growing number of paramilitary groups mobilising across the US. So who are militia men, what do they believe and what does the law say? What are US militia groups? The term has a complex history. The Militia Act of 1903 created the National Guard as a reserve for the Army, managed by each state with federal funding, and defined the "unorganised militia" as men between 17 and 45 years of age who were not part of the military or guard. Today, the National Guard is community-based and are deployed by the governor of its respective state, often for weather-related emergencies or instances of civil unrest, such as the protests against policing practices earlier this year. Militia groups, in contrast, do not report to a governmental authority, and many organise around an explicitly anti-government sentiment. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an advocacy organisation, defines current US militia groups as the armed subset of the anti-government movement. These groups engage in military exercises and gun training, and generally believe in conspiracies regarding the federal government. They focus on protecting second amendment rights - or the right to bear arms granted by the US constitution. Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, describes the militia movement as "American, born and bred". Many of these militia groups hold a "romanticised" view of the US revolutionary era, she told the BBC, with notions that they, like the colonists who fought British rule, are "the ultimate protectors of the nation". The III% Security Force militia group describes themselves in such a way - a coalition "intended for the defence of the populace from enemies foreign and domestic". "At such a point as the government intends to use the physical power granted it by those who implemented it against them, it then becomes the responsibility of the people themselves to defend their country from its government," the militia's website states. While there are militia-type formations in other countries, Ms Beirich says the revolutionary past of the groups in the US has made them more unique when it comes to movements with "conspiratorial ideas of an evil federal government". What exactly do they believe? "Their number one issue, no matter what, is about protecting the second amendment," says Ms Beirich. "These are organisations that believe there are conspiracies afoot to take away their weapons." Militia are not the same as the white supremacy movement or the alt-right movement, she emphasises. They are not advocating white rule, for example, though they do share some beliefs with these movements. Two of the biggest militia incidents in recent years were the Bunkerville standoff - when militia ran federal officials off a rancher's land, believing the government was there to seize cattle - and a similar standoff in Oregon, where militia took over a wildlife refuge in protest of government "interference" in ranchers' lives. But in recent years, Ms Beirich says, the militia movement has overlapped increasingly with anti-immigration views. She notes that those ideas predated Donald Trump's presidency, but his election win emboldened the movement. "Although these groups have always hated the federal government, they're pretty big fans of Donald Trump, so they're in an awkward position where they support Trump but believe there's a deep state conspiracy against him." It's a connection that Governor Whitmer referenced this week as she addressed the plot against her, accusing the president of "giving comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division". The president argued he should be thanked because federal investigators eliminated the alleged threat against her. In recent years, militias have begun to work openly with white supremacists, which was rare in the past, Ms Beirich says. Members of the III% militia, for example, turned up at the far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2016. "That's a toxic brew we have to be concerned about," Ms Beirich says. And in a report released this week, the Department of Homeland Security said white supremacist extremists remain the deadliest domestic terror threat to the US. The report echoes testimony from FBI director Christopher Wray in September, saying that "racially motivated violent extremism", mostly from white supremacists, make up the majority of domestic terrorism threats. How many militia groups are there? Whenever there is talk of gun control on Capitol Hill, membership rises in militias nationwide. In 2019, the SPLC identified 576 extreme anti-government groups that were active in 2019, down from 612 in 2018. Of these groups, 181 were militias. Given how secretive these organisations can be, however, that figure is likely an undercount. "The number of these groups skyrocketed in the Obama era," Ms Beirich says. "Obama never moved on gun control, barely spoke on it, but they viewed him as an existential threat." A similar situation happened under Democratic President Bill Clinton, she notes. The militia movement views Republicans as a party that is protective of gun rights, unlike Democrats. In 2008, the last year of Republican President George W Bush's term, the SPLC reported 149 anti-government groups. The next year, under Democratic President Obama, that number jumped to 512, reaching a peak of 1,360 in 2012. Is this legal? Yes, depending on the state in which a militia is located. All states have laws barring private military activity, but it varies when it comes to paramilitary or militia organising. "There are very few rules in the US about what people with guns," Ms Beirich says. "Many of them frame holding military training exercises as their right with the second amendment, exercising their right to bear arms." According to a 2018 report by Georgetown University, 25 states criminalise kinds of paramilitary activity, making it illegal to teach firearm or explosive use or assemble to train with such devices with the intent to use such knowledge "in furtherance of a civil disorder". Twenty-eight states have statutes prohibiting private militias without the prior authorisation of the state government. "Not all militias are involved in the same kinds of activities," Ms Beirich notes. "If people are engaged in exercising their constitutional rights under the second amendment in states that don't ban the kinds of activities they undertake, they have every right to engage." | एफ. बी. आई. का कहना है कि उसने एक सशस्त्र मिलिशिया समूह से जुड़े छह लोगों द्वारा मिशिगन के गवर्नर ग्रेचेन व्हिटमर के अपहरण की साजिश को विफल कर दिया है। कोरोनावायरस महामारी की शुरुआत के बाद से सख्त सामाजिक दूरी के उपायों को लागू करने के बाद गवर्नर सरकार विरोधी आक्रोश का निशाना बन गए थे। |
world-middle-east-40744608 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40744608 | Yemen conflict: A nation's agony as cholera and hunger spread | Amid UN warnings of the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen, the BBC's Orla Guerin has overcome attempts by Saudi Arabia to block her team from entering the country and has seen for herself the depth of the suffering. | Yemen's health, water and sanitation systems are collapsing after two years of war between government forces - backed by a Saudi-led coalition carrying out air strikes - and the rebel Houthi movement. The conflict and a blockade imposed by the coalition have triggered a humanitarian disaster, leaving 70% of the population in need of aid. Orla has been tweeting about what she saw. In a hospital in Aden, Orla saw staff battle to save the life of an elderly cholera victim - Abdullah Mohammed Salem - who was brought into the building without a pulse. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholera. Most of those infected will have no or mild symptoms but, in severe cases, the disease can kill within hours if left untreated. Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have contracted cholera in recent months, making it the worst outbreak in history. Hospitals are overcrowded and severe food shortages have led to widespread malnutrition, making people - especially children - even more vulnerable to the infection. Some 60% of Yemenis do not know where their next meal will come from and the World Food Programme is warning of the danger of famine. Doctors told the BBC that Yemen was in danger of losing its future, with 500,000 children now severely malnourished. In two years of war, houses, hospitals and schools have been destroyed by Saudi airstrikes and more than 3,000 civilians have been killed. Some people are living in the rubble of what were once their homes. Yet despite the destruction, no side appears close to a decisive military victory. Pro-government forces - made up of soldiers loyal to internationally-recognised President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and predominantly Sunni southern tribesmen and separatists - stopped the rebels taking Aden. Mr Hadi and his government have returned from exile and established a temporary home there. But they have been unable to dislodge the rebels from their northern strongholds, including the capital Sanaa. The sides have drifted into stalemate - but the human suffering continues unabated. | यमन में गंभीर मानवीय स्थिति की संयुक्त राष्ट्र की चेतावनियों के बीच, बीबीसी की ओर्ला गुएरिन ने सऊदी अरब द्वारा अपनी टीम को देश में प्रवेश करने से रोकने के प्रयासों पर काबू पा लिया है और खुद के लिए पीड़ा की गहराई को देखा है। |
uk-england-cornwall-57189361 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-57189361 | Inquest opened into death of baby at Cornwall campsite | An inquest has opened into the death of a one-year-old girl who died after being hit by a car at a campsite. | Josephine Gordon from Cotgrave in Nottinghamshire died on 12 May at Trethvas Farm, on the Lizard, in Cornwall. Devon and Cornwall Police previously said the girl was hit by a car towing a caravan. Emergency services, including the air ambulance, were called to the campsite but she died at the scene. Follow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to [email protected]. Related Internet Links Cornwall Coroner | शिविर स्थल पर कार की चपेट में आने से एक साल की बच्ची की मौत की जांच शुरू हो गई है। |
uk-england-somerset-22038055 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-22038055 | Bath bus gate traffic restriction decision due | A decision on plans for a second bus gate in Bath city centre is expected to be made by councillors on Wednesday. | The proposal is to ban all vehicles other than buses and taxis using the eastbound side of Dorchester Street for an 18-month trial period. The carriageway between St James Parade and the railway station would become a bus lane between 10:00 and 16:00 BST under the new scheme. The local authority believes the £20,000 scheme will reduce congestion. A bus gate is already in operation between Northgate Street and Pulteney Bridge. | बाथ शहर के केंद्र में दूसरे बस गेट की योजना पर बुधवार को पार्षदों द्वारा निर्णय लिए जाने की उम्मीद है। |
uk-wales-north-east-wales-39485087 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-39485087 | Wrexham 'murder': Nicholas Churton suffered 'head trauma' | A former wine bar owner who is believed to have been murdered, died from head trauma, an inquest has heard. | Nicholas Anthony Churton, 67, was found dead at an address in Crescent Close, Wrexham, at 08:20 BST last Monday. An inquest into his death was opened and adjourned on Monday, with the provisional cause of death detailed. Jordan Davidson, 25, will appear before Mold Crown Court on Tuesday charged with murder, robbery, burglary and offences against police officers. | एक पूर्व शराब बार मालिक, जिसकी हत्या की गई मानी जाती है, की मौत सिर में चोट लगने से हुई, एक पूछताछ में पता चला है। |
uk-scotland-54753318 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-54753318 | Your pictures of Scotland 30 October - 6 November | A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 30 October and 6 November. Send your photos to [email protected]. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs which can be found here. | Please also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly. Conditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions. Please ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice). In contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide. However, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law. You can find more information here. All photos are subject to copyright. | स्कॉटलैंड की अपनी तस्वीरों का चयन 30 अक्टूबर और 6 नवंबर के बीच भेजा गया। अपनी तस्वीरें [email protected] पर भेजें। कृपया सुनिश्चित करें कि आप तस्वीरों के संबंध में बीबीसी के नियमों का पालन करते हैं जो यहां पाए जा सकते हैं। |
world-europe-29794234 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29794234 | Balancing act for Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko | Ukraine's snap parliamentary election on Sunday resulted in a massive shift in the political landscape, creating for the first time what appears to be a pro-Western majority backing wide-ranging reforms. | By David SternBBC News, Kiev But the extent of this revolution at the ballot box is still unclear. The vote could produce a steam-roller super majority of two-thirds of the deputies for President Petro Poroshenko. Or it could prepare the ground for even more political turmoil. At the moment, pro-government parties have swept the proportional vote, which determines half of parliament's 450 seats. Exit polls showed the parties of President Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk and mayor of the western city of Lviv, Andriy Sadoviy, winning the top three spots. Mr Poroshenko claimed that more than three-quarters of the electorate "powerfully and irreversibly" supported a pro-European course. "I asked you to vote for democratic, reformist, pro-Ukrainian and pro-European majority. Thank you for hearing and supporting this call," Mr Poroshenko said on his website. However, with great power also comes great responsibility. If he fails to deliver on the promises and demands of the Maidan revolution, he will have no excuses left. In gambling vernacular, he now finds himself in the position of "put up, or shut up". He also risks going too far. Since he might not face substantive opposition, he could have a free hand to push through bad policies as well. This is particularly dangerous, since - despite the seeming consensus on a European trajectory - Ukraine is still to a degree a divided country. Preliminary election results indicate that turnout was low in many eastern and southern regions. What's more, the Opposition Bloc party, which consisted of the remains of former President Viktor Yanukovych's party, is so far winning in key, supposedly government-friendly, areas such as Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk. The mood in Donetsk and Luhansk, after suffering through months of brutal fighting, is even more ill-disposed towards Kiev. It would seem Mr Poroshenko would be wise to tread carefully when pursuing policies unpopular in the east. 'European values' Moreover, not all of the reforms will be universally welcomed, regardless of the region. Raising gas prices to market levels could potentially unleash a public backlash. Streamlining bureaucracy will affect perhaps tens of thousands of government workers and their families. The pro-government camp itself is also potentially a source of unrest, divided as it is among a variety of personalities, ambitions and different opinions on how to tackle Ukraine's manifold problems. Mr Poroshenko and Mr Yatseniuk, for example, could not unite in a single party before the election. Many saw this as an example of Ukrainian politics-as-usual, driven sometimes more by personalities and egos than by issues. Politicians across the political spectrum also says that they are for "European values" and "rule of law". But what that actually means to them personally, when push comes to shove, is still to be discovered. In the end, what's most important is that there's a general agreement - and a consuming desire - among a large number of the political class to change the how the system works in Ukraine. To do something. And if they don't, there are masses of people who are ready to take to the streets to remind them through protests - or more extreme measures. | रविवार को यूक्रेन के त्वरित संसदीय चुनाव के परिणामस्वरूप राजनीतिक परिदृश्य में भारी बदलाव आया, जिससे पहली बार व्यापक सुधारों का समर्थन करने वाले पश्चिमी समर्थक बहुमत का निर्माण हुआ। |
world-europe-isle-of-man-30018154 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-30018154 | Flybe announces Isle of Man to London Stansted route for 2015 | Flybe has announced it will operate a new service between the Isle of Man's Ronaldsway airport and London Stansted in 2015. | The Exeter-based airline said it will operate "up to three times a day" from 15 March. Flybe's chief commercial officer Paul Simmons said bolstering regional connectivity is their number one aim. The company also announced extra flights from Stansted to Newcastle and Newquay. A spokeswoman for the Isle of Man airport said it was "good news for Manx passengers". | फ्लाईबी ने घोषणा की है कि वह 2015 में आइल ऑफ मैन के रोनाल्ड्सवे हवाई अड्डे और लंदन स्टैनस्टेड के बीच एक नई सेवा संचालित करेगा। |
magazine-36301098 | https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36301098 | Barred from voting on their own future | About three million people living in the UK are citizens of another EU country. Many have lived here for decades and count Britain as their home, but they can't vote in the referendum on whether to remain in the European Union. So what do they make of the vote? | Carla Herbertson, from the Netherlands: I came here as an au-pair when I was 17 and then returned after university to work as a journalist. I married an Englishman and have two children who are six and three. They are both British citizens but I'm still Dutch. I'm so against leaving Europe out of principle. I was able to come and work and establish myself in Britain. I've lived here for 18 years, I pay taxes and am an active part of society. I was even called for jury duty, so I'm really frustrated that I can't vote. I get upset about it because I feel powerless. It's even more important than a national election. As a European citizen it really affects me. However, I won't go for British citizenship. Even though I feel part of British society and I love living here, being Dutch is part of my identity. I shouldn't have to give that up. Anna Rigano, from Italy: I've lived in Britain since 1996. I came here to work and study after university and ended up moving to London to live with an English boyfriend. I instinctively think Britain should leave the EU. I think Italy lost a lot of its identity when it joined the euro and I'm against big centralised governments. I'm not too worried about my own position as I think I should have the right to remain. I have always loved the English language and grew up singing British pop songs. I also enjoy comedy like Monty Python, Black Adder and Peter Cook. I think the British are good at laughing at themselves. Today I work as a freelance translator and live in a village in West Sussex with my teenage daughter. We are both Italian citizens although my daughter's father is English. We are very much part of the community. I buy my food locally and am part of the local choir and film society. I think British people have more get up and go, I like that you don't take ages over lunchtime. While I think it's good to be European in terms of exchange of culture, I think it's better to have smaller, more independent powers. Cecile Bonnet, from France: We moved to Britain from the US six years ago for my husband's job. I work in sales and marketing, although I'm currently on maternity leave. We bought a house when we settled here - our street in London is really diverse and we love that. I feel part of Britain. We drink a lot of tea at home and I love watching the Great British Bake Off. We also like the Queen. My daughter sent her a 90th birthday card and if we pass Windsor she will say: "That's my Queen's castle." My husband is originally from Pakistan and last year he got permanent residence in the UK. He is now applying for British citizenship. My daughter already has British citizenship and I have applied for permanent residency. I want us all to become British citizens. My husband will be able to vote in the referendum as he is a Commonwealth citizen but I won't be able to. If I could vote I would want to stay in. I am worried that Britain could become isolated if it breaks from Europe. I still have lots of ties to France. My parents are over there and I'm worried that leaving could make it more difficult to travel. My parents currently just use their French ID to come and visit us, but they may now need to pay for passports. I don't think any of the campaign groups have been clear on what will happen to Europeans living in the UK if Britain votes to leave. I'm concerned that it may make it more difficult for students to travel. When I was younger I went to study in Spain for six months and it was such a good opportunity to open my mind and experience a different culture. I would hate to see that cut off. Gianluca Galli, from Italy: I came across to the UK in 2008 to find work. I am now a software engineer and live in a flatshare in London. I love living in the city. You meet people from so many different cultures. London is a city that gives opportunities to everyone who looks for them. I help organise courses through a website, where up to 30 people meet and share skills and use it for networking. I have no plans to go back to Italy and hope I can continue to work here. I have a job so it may just be a case of getting a visa. London especially needs foreign workers. If I could vote in the referendum I would vote to stay but I don't think Europe should stay as it is. Europe needs to change but I don't think Britain leaving would be the solution. Pia Foss, from Denmark: I travelled to Britain in 1987 after I finished school. I wanted to improve my English and ended up staying here. I work in customer services in a museum and live in London. After a few years, a Danish friend back home said she could tell I'd been living in England because I was more courteous. I like living in Britain as people are freer to do their own thing. I find the rest of Europe is quite conformist. My three children were born in this country but they were all officially Danish citizens because although their father is British we weren't married. My eldest daughter, who is 23, became a British citizen a while ago but my youngest two haven't. I'm worried about what will happen if we do leave Europe. If there were problems staying in Britain I guess I would apply for naturalisation, even though I still feel Danish. However, my youngest daughter is 17 and isn't sure what to do as she needs to consider that university education is free in Denmark. I feel that we've been forgotten about in the debate. I've lived in Britain most of my life but I can't vote in the referendum. I think it shows a British attitude of not feeling part of Europe - we're not even part of the picture. The Remain Campaign seems to be scared to be passionate about being pro-Europe, instead they are presenting it as the lesser of two evils. Reporting by Claire Bates Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox. | ब्रिटेन में रहने वाले लगभग 30 लाख लोग दूसरे यूरोपीय संघ के देश के नागरिक हैं। कई लोग दशकों से यहां रह रहे हैं और ब्रिटेन को अपना घर मानते हैं, लेकिन वे यूरोपीय संघ में बने रहने के लिए जनमत संग्रह में मतदान नहीं कर सकते हैं। तो वे वोट के बारे में क्या सोचते हैं? |
business-37784082 | https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37784082 | Bollywood drama in the boardroom: The Tata troubles | It's the stuff Bollywood blockbusters are made of: Big boss hires an outsider as new chairman to run family empire. Said outsider tries to change big boss's strategy and do things his way - getting rid of the projects close to big boss's heart. | Karishma VaswaniAsia business correspondent@KarishmaBBCon Twitter He eventually gets unceremoniously dumped, and family empire is back in the hands of big boss - at least, for four months until a new leader is found. Except that this time - the ousted chairman has struck back - via email. All of this is a bit tongue-in-cheek, of course, and frankly it is grossly unfair to call Cyrus Mistry an outsider, given his corporate history and achievements - but you get the idea. When the scion of Indian business Ratan Tata handed over the reins of his $100bn (£88.9bn) empire to Mr Mistry four years ago, the decision was greeted with much fanfare in the Indian press. Fighting back These days, that adulation is gone. Instead, newspaper headlines in India are filled with questions and concerns about what Mr Mistry must have done to be booted out as chairman by the board of directors at Tata Sons (the holding company of the Tata Group). But in a twist worthy of an Indian telenovella, Mr Mistry is fighting back. He's written an email detailing how he was basically a "lame-duck" as the Tata's group boss, because of regular meddling by his predecessor, Mr Ratan Tata. He also alleges that the company is at risk of billions of dollars in writedowns as a result of some of the problems Mr Mistry inherited, and couldn't fix. The Tata group or Mr Ratan Tata haven't commented on the feud but media reports say that the fight between the two has been a long time coming. Old school vs business school? Primarily the reason appears to be a difference in strategy - Mr Mistry's more brusque, business-school management style, in comparison to Mr Tata's old-school, Indian industrialist style way of doing business. It's thought the 78 year old Indian magnate also took issue with some of the decisions Mr Mistry made - in particular how he dealt with the European steel assets, and his disdain for Mr Tata's prized mini car-project - the Nano. It is highly unusual for an affair of this nature to be made so public within India's business circles. Even when Mukesh and Anil Ambani, two of the richest men in the country - who happen to be brothers - had a falling out, the spat was contained to innuendoes in press releases and leaks to the press. Mr Mistry's decision to send an email to the board, and then for that email to find its way into the mainstream press is likely to raise lots of questions about just what kind of business the Tatas are running. A story set to continue The issues he's raised - of corporate governance, alleged fraud, and white elephant projects - aren't going to infuse investors with a great deal of confidence about the firm's future - and that's already evident in the way they've been punishing Tata shares. Expect that to continue, especially if there's a protracted legal battle between the two sides. The Tata Group is a company that arguably has been as much of the Indian psyche as Bollywood is. Ask any young Indians about where they'd like to work, and chances are the name Tata won't be too far from their minds. The damage to its reputation from this public spat will be hard to live down. But to borrow a phrase from a popular Hindi film - "picture abhi baakhi hai mere dost" - or in other words, this story isn't finished yet, by any measure. | बॉलीवुड की ब्लॉकबस्टर फिल्में इन चीज़ों से बनी हैंः बिग बॉस पारिवारिक साम्राज्य चलाने के लिए एक बाहरी व्यक्ति को नए अध्यक्ष के रूप में नियुक्त करता है। कहा जाता है कि बाहरी व्यक्ति बिग बॉस की रणनीति को बदलने और चीजों को अपने तरीके से करने की कोशिश करता है-बिग बॉस के दिल के करीब परियोजनाओं से छुटकारा पाना। |
world-europe-32396080 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32396080 | Armenian tragedy still raw in Turkey 100 years on | Sevag Balikci never got to see his new bedroom. | By Mark LowenBBC News, Istanbul His family, ethnic Armenians from Turkey, moved into their Istanbul apartment at the start of 2011. Sevag was finishing his military service in the south-east. On 24 April, aged 25, he was shot dead by a fellow recruit. The judge called it an accident, sentencing the killer to four years in prison. The family is convinced it was an intentional act by a Turkish nationalist, timed for maximum effect. The 24th April is the date on which Armenians commemorate the darkest moment in their history: when - 100 years ago this week - they began to be rounded up in a crumbling Ottoman Empire and were deported or killed. Armenia says 1.5 million were systematically murdered, calling it "genocide". Turkey fiercely rejects the label, insisting far fewer died - many of starvation or disease - and that the deaths of Turks have been ignored. 'The same fate' As the centenary of the tragedy approaches, historical narratives are colliding. "The genocide was being commemorated and the killer wanted to intimidate people through my son," says Ani Balikci, Sevag's mother. "An Armenian had to die on that day - and Sevag was available. "The authorities have leant on witnesses to change statements - it suits them to say it's an accident." She shows me her son's room, which she has kept as it was. "We can't throw out his belongings because it would be like saying goodbye to him," she says, her tears flowing. "A century ago, my family were killed in the genocide - and now one of their descendants, my son, has met the same fate." Hushed up Armenians had long been treated as second-class citizens in the Ottoman Empire, their sporadic revolts ruthlessly suppressed. As World War One raged, Ottoman leaders blamed faltering national cohesion for losses in the Balkans and elsewhere, seeing the Armenian minority as a threat. Armenian genocide dispute Find out more about what happened From a pre-war Armenian population of two million, just 50,000 remain in Turkey today. Around 20 countries, including France, Italy and Canada, officially recognise the killings as genocide. But for decades Turks grew up unaware of what happened in 1915. Textbooks omitted it; political leaders hushed it up, pursuing the "Turkification" of society. When it was finally talked about here, the official Turkish version called it "the Armenian events". But in the past decade, history classes at some universities have begun to address the period and a small liberal fringe has spoken out. Three hundred Turkish intellectuals signed a petition asking Armenia for forgiveness, among them Ahmet Insel, a professor at Galatasaray University. "This was a genocide and a crime against humanity," he says, standing outside the Islamic Arts museum in Istanbul, the site where the first Armenians were rounded up. "Turkey has a moral obligation to recognise it as such, so as to become a civilised modern democracy." He says he does not expect formal recognition within the next 10 years. "The charge of genocide could mean Armenians claim financial compensation from Turkey - that's one factor holding it back." Rhetoric hardened The current government has slowly moved forward on the issue, returning some confiscated properties to Armenians. And, last year, the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan - now President - offered his "condolences" to families of the victims, calling the killings "inhumane". It was the furthest a political leader had gone in Turkey, but was rejected by Armenia for dodging the word "genocide". In the run-up to the centenary, the rhetoric has again hardened. When Pope Francis said two weeks ago that Armenians had suffered "the first genocide of the 20th Century" Mr Erdogan hit back, saying he "condemned" the Pope, warning him not to "repeat the mistake". Partly the president is shoring up core nationalist votes ahead of an election in June. But partly too, Turkey, which cares so much for its prestige and strongman image, recoils at a word linked with Rwanda, Srebrenica and Auschwitz. 'Distract attention' Perhaps no clearer example of the reluctance to mark the killings will come on the anniversary itself, when Turkey will instead lavishly commemorate 100 years since the Gallipoli campaign: the victory of Ottoman forces over invading Allied troops. It is never remembered on 24 April but this year the ceremony will fall on that day - critics say to overshadow the Armenian anniversary. President Erdogan invited world leaders to Gallipoli, including Armenia's president, who sent an angry rejection, calling it "an attempt to distract attention". Most leaders have declined the invitation. On the shores of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, the far-right MHP party is campaigning for the election, repeating its unrepentant line on Armenia. "There was no genocide," says Hakan Aslan, the party's regional head. "All the ethnic groups who paid their taxes to the Ottoman Empire and weren't traitors lived in peace." Meanwhile at the heart of Istanbul's Armenian cemetery lies the grave of Sevag Balikci. A marble slab bears his name, picture and the date: 24 April 2011. But among the surrounding graves, not a single one dates from 1915. In fact, there is no cemetery in Turkey dedicated to those victims, such is the refusal to mark what happened. A sign, say Turkey's critics, of a country still unable to face its past. | सेवग बालिक्की को कभी भी अपना नया शयनकक्ष देखने का मौका नहीं मिला। |
world-europe-guernsey-28184530 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-28184530 | Guernsey States to clear contaminated soil | Work to remove soil in a field off Forest Road, Guernsey, that was contaminated by a firefighting chemical will start in the next few months. | Public Services says traces of Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) were found in ground water at the site. Officials say they want the chemical gone to protect water supplies. The contamination dates to 1999, when a cargo plane carrying newspapers crashed on approach to Guernsey airport. Two pilots died. | फॉरेस्ट रोड, ग्वेर्नसे के एक खेत में मिट्टी को हटाने का काम अगले कुछ महीनों में शुरू हो जाएगा, जो अग्निशमन रसायन से दूषित हो गई थी। |
magazine-27796276 | https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27796276 | No ordinary newspaper | The News of the World wasn't an ordinary newspaper when Andy Coulson was its editor. It had another team you didn't find in your average tabloid newsroom. | Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent@BBCDomCon Twitter Alongside the news reporters and feature writers, there was a department of criminality - a conspiracy at the heart of his newspaper to get the story at any cost. The conspiracy reached the parts of people's private lives that the competition couldn't even know about. The ultimate aim was to ensure that the News of the World remained Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper, bringing in the profits for its parent company, News International. An Old Bailey jury has now found Coulson, the newspaper's editor between 2003 and 2007, guilty of conspiracy to hack phones. His predecessor and News International's former chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, has been cleared of the same charge - as has the former managing editor Stuart Kuttner. The jury's verdict at the hacking trial means the conspiracy operated at every level of the News of the World's hierarchy. It involved reporters, the news desk and an editor who rose from local journalist to be Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director. And that conspiracy brought down a British journalistic institution that was read and loved by more than three million every Sunday. The last edition rolled off the presses on Sunday 10 July 2011. The full-page editorial declared: "Quite simply, we lost our way." Hacking: Who pleaded guilty? (clockwise from top left): •Greg Miskiw, former news editor •Neville Thurlbeck, former news editor and chief reporter •James Weatherup, former news editor •Dan Evans, reporter •Glenn Mulcaire, private investigator - prosecuted on two occasions •Clive Goodman, in 2006. Prosecuted this time for corrupt payments This was not the first hacking trial - and it may not be the last. Taken alongside other guilty pleas before the trial, the verdict puts paid to the idea that former royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, convicted in 2006, were the only people ever involved. The newspaper insisted that Goodman was one rogue reporter. But subsequent investigations by the Guardian and New York Times newspapers revealed that News International had secretly settled other cases. Strangely, Scotland Yard had seized evidence that showed voicemail interception was widespread - but it had not acted upon it. Officers had not told other potential victims, despite evidence that there could be hundreds of them. The revelations led to more hacking victims coming forward - and more damages claims and pay outs. Ultimately in 2011, the police launched the mammoth Operations Weeting and Elveden and arrests followed. This trial was about what Weeting and Elveden brought to court. Phone hacking began in the 1990s because a security flaw meant that anybody could access another mobile phone user's voicemail - providing they had a little bit of technical know-how. Mulcaire, a lower-league professional footballer, had a sideline as an investigator selling information to newspapers. He had a network of contacts and an array of techniques to acquire personal information. Hacking was one of the tools in his box. He has admitted being part of the conspiracy to hack phones for the News of the World. At the heart of the case against him and others were: News International paperwork and emails, almost 700 tapes Mulcaire kept of his voicemail and other recordings, and a vast archive of 8,000 notes detailing the people he had targeted. On the top left hand corner of each note, Mulcaire would scribble the name of the journalist who had "tasked" him to acquire personal information. His notes contained the names of at least 28 News International employees. One whiteboard included the name Rebekah Wade, as she was then known. She told the trial that she had never heard of Mulcaire before the scandal came to light. Mulcaire's first "tasking" that we know of was on 3 June 1999 and it related to the actor Christopher Guest, also known as Lord Haden-Guest, husband to actress Jamie Lee Curtis. In the corner of the note, Mulcaire had scribbled "Greg". At the time, Mulcaire worked for the newspaper on a freelance basis under the direction of Greg Miskiw, the then news editor. Miskiw has also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hack phones. In late 2000, the News of the World formalised its relationship with Mulcaire by signing the first of a series of contracts for his exclusive services. According to evidence at the trial, Mulcaire received more than 540 "taskings" from co-conspirators while Rebekah Brooks was editor. Detectives were able to establish 12 incidents of confirmed hacking during her time - although she told the jury she had no knowledge of what had been going on. It was the revelation of one of those that brought the newspaper down. Milly Dowler went missing from her home in Walton on Thames in 2002. She was abducted and murdered by Levi Bellfield, now serving life for his crimes. But in April 2002, as the police hunt for her continued, Glenn Mulcaire was tasked to hack her phone, looking for an angle nobody else had. Mulcaire listened to her messages and he found one that sounded like the teenager was trying to get a job 150 miles away. The message from a Telford recruitment agency had been left completely by accident. It was meant for another woman - the name didn't even sound the same. Neville Thurlbeck, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hack, and managing editor Stuart Kuttner shared the information with Surrey Police. Kuttner sent an email to the force explaining that the newspaper had "messages left on Amanda Dowler's mobile phone". The email that Kuttner sent to the force was the key allegation he faced - but he told the jury he had passed on "all the information that I had been given" - and denied authorising reporters to hack phones. The Guardian newspaper's revelation in 2011 that the newspaper had hacked a murdered girl's phone turned the News of the World into a toxic brand. But Milly Dowler was not the only murder victim who was hacked. Clare Bernal was a beauty consultant at the Harvey Nichols department store in London who was killed by a stalker in September 2005. Patricia Bernal, Clare's mother, said the family fell under a media siege. She told the BBC that she received cash through the letterbox from the News of the World as an offer to tell her story. Her partner pushed it back out again. Years later, Mrs Bernal received a visit from detectives assigned to Operation Weeting, the re-opened investigation into the hacking affair. They had been trawling through Glenn Mulcaire's notes and had found her daughter's name. "I felt that Clare had been violated," says Mrs Bernal. "It just made me feel physically sick. My daughter was dead but they [the News of the World] would have had access to voice messages. They would have found an awful lot out about my daughter who was a very shy and private person. "It was like her diary was exposed to the world." Mrs Bernal has since received an admission from News International that her dead daughter was targeted - but that apology came years after hacking had been integrated into the engines of the newsroom. Mulcaire's own notes show that during Coulson's editorship, he received at least 1,350 taskings. The news desk would commission Mulcaire to work on a story - or sometimes just a rumour - and his information would be used to assist in landing the exclusive. Sometimes Mulcaire would tell other News of the World staff how to listen to voicemails themselves. Clive Goodman, the newspaper's royal editor, made hundreds of his own interceptions. He hacked princes William and Harry - and Kate Middleton 155 times. It was the interception of one royal household message in 2006 that ultimately led to him being caught. He told the trial that hacking became so important that it was occurring on "an industrial scale". One news editor even began to hack Coulson so that he could hear messages left for the editor by his rivals in other parts of the newspaper. There was evidence at the trial that even Rebekah Brooks was hacked. Dan Evans, a former Sunday Mirror and News of the World journalist, has also admitted being part of the conspiracy. He told the jury that Coulson recruited him partly because of his interception skills - and that the paper's senior team put him under huge pressure to get results. The jury heard that the newspaper gave him "burner phones" - mobiles that he would regularly throw away. He would sit at his desk and "drop my head and hack there and then". When in 2005 he targeted actor Daniel Craig and found a message suggesting he was having an affair with fellow actor Sienna Miller, the reporter said that his editor was delighted. One of Coulson's team allegedly joked that Evans was now "a company man". Coulson vehemently denied Evans's claims. Politicians were the third group to be targeted, alongside crime victims and celebrities. For instance, Mulcaire spent a vast amount of time and energy chasing a false rumour that Home Secretary Charles Clarke was having an affair with his adviser Hannah Pawlby in 2005. The investigator's note revealed that he not only targeted her, but gathered confidential information on her parents, grandparents, family friends - including a senior MI6 officer - and neighbours. The previous year he had done the same to Mr Clarke's predecessor, David Blunkett. Mulcaire went for Kimberly Quinn, also known as Fortier, who was in a relationship with the cabinet minister. A draft version of that story, prepared by Neville Thurlbeck - and 300 voicemail recordings harvested from the target's phone - were found in the safe of a News International lawyer. Bethany Usher was a News of the World reporter during Coulson's time. She grew up in a working-class area of Sunderland and says she believed the newspaper spoke to, and for, people from her community. Now a journalism lecturer for Teesside University, she says the reality of the newspaper was completely different - it was obsessed by celebrities and scandals, rather than stories that mattered to real people. In hindsight, she wonders why news editors would demand she hand over contact numbers for interviewees - including families of soldiers killed in action. "They gave me an interview because they believed I would do justice to their loved one," she says. "The idea [others at the newspaper] would have hacked their phone disgusts me. I don't know whether they did, I hope not." Whether any of Ms Usher's former colleagues can answer that question didn't matter to this jury. Despite being a prosecution of exceptional complexity, hampered by huge chronological gaps because critical internal emails are missing, the trial came down to three words which appeared in an email from Andy Coulson to one of his news editors: Do His Phone. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox. | द न्यूज ऑफ द वर्ल्ड एक साधारण समाचार पत्र नहीं था जब एंडी कॉल्सन इसके संपादक थे। इसकी एक और टीम थी जो आपको अपने औसत टैब्लॉइड समाचार कक्ष में नहीं मिली। |
uk-england-northamptonshire-53452907 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-53452907 | Coronavirus: Northampton food bank sees demand rocket | Tens of thousands of people rely on food banks each week for basic provisions, but lockdown forced many to close just as they were needed most. One centre in Northampton remained open against the odds. BBC News spoke to its users and volunteers. | By Craig Lewis and Orla MooreBBC News It's just gone 10:00 BST and outside one of the units at Weston Favell Shopping Centre, a queue is starting to form. In its previous life as a Next store, that was nothing unusual, but now people are lining up not for fashion bargains but that most basic of essentials: food. Twice a week, an army of masked volunteers meet here, sorting, packing and handing out tins, packets, bags and cartons to grateful recipients. Lockdown saw demand at Weston Favell Centre Foodbank treble, prompting its move from a nearby church to this vacant retail unit on Northampton's eastern edge. Food bank user Susan Austin described the service as a "Godsend". "I'm on Universal Credit and I can't go to work, so this is really important to me. I'd be in the mortuary without it," she said. "I don't get paid until the first of the month, which seems years away. "I'm here because I simply have no food." 'You'd be amazed how versatile a tin of tomatoes can be' During lockdown, mother-of-two Kiera found herself on a low income, looking after her disabled partner and struggling to make ends meet. "This is vital to me; a lifesaver," she said. "I'm on Universal Credit. Everything I get from here, I use. It all makes a big difference when you've not got the money to spend. "I couldn't afford school uniforms last year and the food bank staff took me to Tesco and helped me." "You get lots of soup - I love soup. It's healthy as well. You get the odd packet meal; quick and easy. With a bit of research, you'd be amazed how versatile a tin of tomatoes can be." Kiera is not alone. Michael Harrison has been visiting the food bank with his son Kenneth for a month now. "When you're out of work, the low income just about covers the bills," he said. "Trying to find work when you haven't been out of the house is hard. But this makes a lot of difference. "It takes the stress out of putting food on the table. I can just buy meat myself. The alternative is hunger." Last month, the UK's biggest food bank network, the Trussell Trust, reported an 89% increase in emergency food parcels for the month of April. Food banks in the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) reported a 175% increase in need during the same period. 'This used to be a crisis service' But this lifeline is just emerging from a crisis of its own. Lockdown saw demand rocket but supplies collapse. "At first, it was hard to get the donations in as we couldn't get to the supermarkets - we felt like criminals," said food bank manager Anne Woodley. "Until they waived the restrictions it was really difficult. "Prior to that, it was a crisis service: three days' food, just tins. We have now moved into a different world where people are living off food banks." More than 2,000The number of Food Banks in the UK 23%Rise in food parcel distribution from April-September 2019 4 millionHours worked by food bank volunteers in 2017 - worth £30m 1.5 millionThree day emergency food parcels supplied in 2018/19 Initially, exhausted volunteers mustered the energy to organise emergency Friday deliveries to vulnerable people shielding. "I remember one week where we ran out of food at the end of a Wednesday session. We just about had enough food for that day, and then thought 'what are we going to do for Friday?'" The food bank went from handing out 120 parcels at the height of the crisis to a more manageable 80 a week, Mrs Woodley said. Back in January, it was 40 a week. 'I volunteered to do something good' Volunteer Evie Stephens worked for a charity until she was placed on furlough three months ago. "I decided to fill my time with something good for the community," she said. "It's been lovely to see the impact on our clients. For some people it's a real lifeline, but the food is just one part of what we give - you see at first-hand the difference it makes. "It was a bit strange at first, walking around with mask and gloves on, but we are doing the best we can to make everyone safe." You may also like: 'Sometimes it's food you think of last' "We never know what donations are coming in so we structure the week," said warehouse co-ordinator Tracey Fogg. "If someone finds themselves in difficulties, such as paying bills, sometimes it's food you think of last. "Initially when lockdown happened it was chaotic. We were inundated with donations and needed to store it all, but on the other side of the coin clients came in because they panicked. The supermarkets were struggling to provide bulk stock and we were relying on the generosity of the public. "We had to adapt pretty quickly." Colleague Jayne Redding, a former street church volunteer, said clients came from all walks of life, with many suddenly affected by the Covid-19 downturn. "We get single people, huge families, people with ageing parents who are shielding and those who are laid off because of Covid," she said. "Sometimes they're embarrassed and worried, but we signpost them to the right place. "I'm quite an emotional person and it can make me sad, but we can plug this one gap for them. It can be uplifting." Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected] | बुनियादी प्रावधानों के लिए हर हफ्ते हजारों लोग खाद्य बैंकों पर निर्भर रहते हैं, लेकिन लॉकडाउन ने कई लोगों को बंद करने के लिए मजबूर कर दिया क्योंकि उनकी सबसे अधिक आवश्यकता थी। नॉर्थम्प्टन में एक केंद्र बाधाओं के बावजूद खुला रहा। बीबीसी न्यूज़ ने अपने उपयोगकर्ताओं और स्वयंसेवकों से बात की। |
uk-england-london-35920299 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-35920299 | What is it like selling sex in London? | Ending the criminalisation of soliciting for sex in England and Wales could lead to one of the most tectonic shifts in how prostitution is seen in society since it was first made illegal nearly 200 years ago. But what is it like to sell your body for sex in London? | By Pippa StephensBBC News, London On Friday a cross-party group of senior MPs called for soliciting by sex workers to be decriminalised in what would be radical changes to the laws on prostitution. This will most likely be welcome news to London's estimated 32,000 sex workers who, charities say, are less safe as a result of the criminalisation of their trade. Jenny Medcalf says she started selling sex in 2004 when an ex-boyfriend suggested it. At the time she was working as an actuary, struggling to keep up with the childcare costs for her three children and mortgage payments on her house in Surbiton. The Durham University graduate says after a difficult marriage and a string of "not so great" boyfriends, she wound up with a different boyfriend who got her into BDSM - an abbreviation for bondage, discipline, domination, submission, sadism and masochism. "I desperately needed the money, " says Jenny, 47. "I thought I was making a controlled decision to go into sex work to meet my financial needs and I could run it like a business." Her ex initially organised the bookings and was present for her first punter, she says. The graduate says she advertised online and would visit men in hotels or their houses. "I wasn't the traditional type of escort you would see. I was really thin with cropped hair, completely flat-chested and quite boyish but I was offering a BDSM service." A recovering alcoholic, Jenny says she used drugs to disassociate herself from the emotional and physical toll the job took on her. After five years working in the industry, there was one moment when she knew she wanted out. "This guy had me in a cage and he was trying to whip me through it. I swore at him, shouting. I never saw him again, although he wanted to see me. It was a turning point. "The job had completely broken me." She says the idea she was in control had "gone completely" and at that stage, she hated herself. Like women on the street, she says she was going to a client and then on to her dealer - but rather than a £10 rock of crack she was buying £300 worth of speed after a two-hour booking. The situation became untenable when, unable to face opening her post, she slipped behind on mortgage payments and lost her house - along with her three children, her cats and all of her possessions. After attempting to kill herself, using drugs and turning to drink again, Jenny met the man who went on to become her husband, whose patience she says helped to give her the strength to transform. One morning during her recovery, she woke up and a "light bulb" went off in her head that she wanted to work with sex workers with addictions. She started volunteering at the Spires charity in Tooting and is now one of the charity's most prominent workers. She goes out on to the street at night to find and help people - largely women - who are working as prostitutes. On the street, these women get around £20 for full sex - but the price can also be as low as £5. She offers them warm clothing, sweets, crisps, condoms - and support. Jenny and her colleagues visit the sex workers, sometimes in hospital, or prison, often in the middle of the night. "I fight for the women," she says. "A number are the same age as me. They are me, but they are still in it. "I respect them as women, I love them as women and I can see they can be so much more than they are at the moment," she says. Out of the core 200 women known to the charity, seven exited the profession in 2013 and 10 in 2015. However, selling sex can also be a positive thing, according to one Londoner in her 30s who works privately in a centrally-located flat. Alice (not her real name), previously a project manager for a large government organisation, started selling sex seven years ago. A friend introduced her to an escorting website when she was "short on cash", she says. She sells sex to men, women and couples, along with elderly and disabled people. Intimacy and "skin on skin" contact is a "natural, biological way to make us feel good", she says. After having had a middle-class upbringing, she says when she first started the work was a "revelation". "I couldn't believe I was being paid to enjoy my favourite pastime," she says. Her friends, most of her family and her partner, who she describes as the love of her life, know about her work and "completely accept it", although they were worried about her safety at first. She says she has never been subject to violence but has occasionally been harassed by clients who became overly emotionally attached. While the stigma of the work can make it difficult, she says, her clients are "nice, ordinary people". "I do not need rescuing," she adds. Alice's and Jenny's stories are played out on a larger scale across the country. A 2015 survey by the NUM foundation and Leeds University found 71% of the sex workers who took part had previously worked in health, social care, education, childcare or the charity sector. Alex Feis-Bryce, director of services at the NUM foundation, says that rise has, in part, been caused by cuts in recent years to public sector jobs and charities. People are attracted to the flexibility of the work, he says. Forty-five per cent of the 240 contributors to the survey, which ran between November 2014 and January 2015, sold sex alongside holding down another job. "Something we are seeing more and more of is private escorts being stalked and harassed - we saw a 188% increase in the numbers of cases between 2014 and 2015," he adds. Alex says these workers are often blackmailed by people taking advantage of their situation and the need to remain anonymous - threatening to tell partners or employers. Shrinking funding for services helping sex workers meant the situation was pretty "grim", he adds. Of course, sex is still sold on the streets of the capital. However, the idea perpetuated by Julia Roberts' character in the 1990 blockbuster Pretty Women, of risqué dressing and glamour, is not generally reflected by so-called streetwalkers in London. Women selling sex on the street are more likely to look like a friend, an aunt or a mother - they tend to be wrapped up warm, as standing on a street all night is cold - and wearing comfortable shoes, not the killer heels often seen in the media. They are not likely to be heavily made-up. Met Police commander Christine Jones says she often finds women working within the sex trade are there as a result of coercion, a lack of choices, and vulnerability. She says she tries to put the care of women at the "heart of everything", as it is the punters who create the demand and bring violence and anti-social behaviour to communities. She says targeting people who exploit women and buy sex is "at the top" of the Met's agenda - rather than taking the women into custody. "I think that is a really important message to get across," she adds. But the story on the ground is perhaps not so cut and dried, according to Laura Watson, a spokesperson for the English Collective of Prostitutes. Laura says she hasn't seen police moving away from targeting sex workers. "We are fighting cases where women are being hounded by police officers," she says. She says the women she works with "do not trust" the police to look after them once they report a violent crime. Some have been threatened with arrest when they do so, Laura adds. And in reality, targeting the punter rather than the worker has a similar "detrimental impact" to sex workers' safety as they are forced underground, she says. Laura adds: "Women are more likely to go into different areas they don't know just to pick up clients, or their negotiating time could drop as the client is worrying about being caught so all of the safety measures are diminished. "Terrible things happen as a consequence of that." She says most of the women are mothers and so can't afford to stop working. And the number of people turning to prostitution has increased since the recession, due to benefit sanctions and job cuts, she says. This means women who were once sex workers are returning to the profession. Another facet of criminalisation means women struggle to find other work, Laura adds, so it is harder to leave should they choose. Whether or not the MPs' recommendations make it into legislation remains to be seen - and any such move would almost certainly be reserved for a calmer period in UK politics. Although some, like Alice, are able to make prostitution work to their advantage, many struggle with the reality of making a living out of something so intimate. | इंग्लैंड और वेल्स में यौन संबंध के लिए अनुरोध करने के अपराधीकरण को समाप्त करने से समाज में वेश्यावृत्ति को देखने के तरीके में सबसे अधिक परिवर्तन हो सकता है क्योंकि इसे लगभग 200 साल पहले पहली बार अवैध बना दिया गया था। लेकिन लंदन में यौन संबंध के लिए अपने शरीर को बेचना कैसा लगता है? |
in-pictures-54362835 | https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-54362835 | Your pictures on the theme of 'open road' | We asked our readers to send in their pictures on the theme of "open road". Here are some of the pictures sent to us from around the world. | The next theme is "life in the water" and the deadline for entries is 13 October 2020. Send pictures to [email protected] or follow the link below to "Upload your pictures here". Further details and terms can be found by following the link to "We set the theme, you take the picture", at the bottom of the page. All photographs subject to copyright. | हमने अपने पाठकों से "खुली सड़क" के विषय पर अपनी तस्वीरें भेजने के लिए कहा। यहाँ दुनिया भर से हमें भेजी गई कुछ तस्वीरें हैं। |
uk-wales-mid-wales-30924896 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-30924896 | Jobs at risk as three Powys schools recommended for closure | Three Powys secondary schools should be shut and the number of sixth-forms in the county cut to just six, according to a report being considered by the authority. | The education review also wants to establish at least one Welsh medium secondary school in the county. It is understood that the report compiled by Price Waterhouse Cooper would put 97 jobs at risk. The review will be considered by the council's cabinet on 27 January. "The review provides us with clear evidence that we need to reduce the number of secondary schools, sixth-forms and change the way we deliver Welsh medium education to make the most of our resources and deliver a service fit for the 21st century," insisted Arwel Jones, who is responsible for education in Powys council's cabinet. "The findings are not the end of the process but the start of an intensive period of work that aims to provide a secondary school structure that can deliver the very best for learners of Powys." | प्राधिकरण द्वारा विचार की जा रही एक रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, तीन पॉवी माध्यमिक विद्यालयों को बंद कर दिया जाना चाहिए और काउंटी में छठे रूपों की संख्या को घटाकर केवल छह कर दिया जाना चाहिए। |
uk-england-essex-40725928 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-40725928 | 'Gosh, a woman with a comic shop' | If you believe superheroes are just for men and boys, Holly Ringsell would urge you to think again. The pioneering 26-year-old, who runs her own comic book shop, lifts the lid on what it's like being a woman in what is traditionally a male-dominated environment. | By Laurence CawleyBBC News The delivery man arrives with a large cardboard box. Following him through Dark Side Comics in Chelmsford is the fluorescent-haired Miss Ringsell. She beckons him towards the rear of the store, where there's enough space to put the box down on the floor. The delivery man has to steal Miss Ringsell's attention away from the package to get a signature. Moments later, he's off. And she's in, slicing through tape and tearing open the box flaps. Today is Wednesday. Miss Ringsell likes weekends, but she loves Wednesdays. "Wednesdays are awesome," she says. "It's when all the new comics and merchandise come out." The scent of fresh ink, paper and cellophane wrap draws in comic lovers from across the city and beyond, eager to get their hands on the very latest output from the comic world. "There's a strong community feel on Wednesdays," says Miss Ringsell. "People will talk about what they're reading and strike up conversations." What is now Miss Ringsell's career began as a youthful pastime. "My love of comics started when I was pretty young," she says. "My dad was the one who got me into animated movies and comics. "I used to do a lot of drawing as a kid, and comics seemed a natural thing to draw from. "He would bring me home comics and I would read them and then draw from them." Her first comics were from the X-Men series before she moved on to Batman - "the coolest", says Miss Ringsell. Her first Batman comic was the 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke by comic book legend Alan Moore, whose other works include Watchmen and V for Vendetta. By the age of 14, she was hooked. But her passion for comics isn't something that others always readily accept. "I have had the odd comment here and there and people usually assume I either just work here or that I am someone's wife or daughter," she says. "I have even had telesales people phone up and say: 'gosh, a woman with a comic shop', and I am like, 'yes, a woman with a comic shop'. "It can be a male-dominated industry, but we are fighting through." And the battle hasn't simply been one of challenging the occasionally sexist attitudes of customers and callers, as Miss Ringsell explains. "The 1990s was a terrible time for female characters in comics - a lot of them ended up chopped up into bits or put in fridges," she says. "Female characters were being murdered as plot devices for male protagonists, or they were there just to be looked at. "There are some really great female characters now. Personally, my favourites are Batgirl, Squirrel Girl and Jem and the Holograms. "There are now female characters for all ages." The famous and not-so-famous female comic stars Olivia Hicks, a doctoral research student of British and American comics at the University of Dundee, points out there is a rich history of strong female characters. As far back as the 1930s, there was Lois Lane who, when Superman failed to save the day, would set about sorting out whatever crisis needing dealing with. And in the 1940s, as well as Wonder Woman, there was Miss Fury, who would don a catsuit that gave her increased speed as she fought against Nazi agents. "She was such a fantastic character," says Ms Hicks, whose own current favourites include Mark Waid's Archie, Hawkeye and Jem and the Holograms. "There have been strong female characters in British comics too, stretching back to the first girls' comic, School Friend, and its cover stars The Silent Three - which were drawn by a woman, Evelyn Flinders - who donned robes to solve mysteries and foil bullies at their school. "Popular characters like Bella at the Bar (Tammy) and Valda (Mandy) exhibited immense courage and strength and, in the case of Valda, often refused to listen to authority figures. It was her way or the highway." Miss Ringsell believes one of the biggest shifts in contemporary comic depictions relates to body diversity. "All the women used to have the same body. It was the hourglass body only. "There are now more body types for both men and women. "I never understood why they made She-Hulk skinny because, surely, she should be enormous. "And I think it is really important that women have strong role models whether on television, in films or in comics. "If you start with someone like Batgirl or a Spider-Gwen, you have a strong female character from the off rather than women being there to be either saved or stared at." But what of diversity of tone and plot dynamics? Oxford-based comic creator Kate Brown thinks the larger publishers could be more open-minded. "I've had scenarios where I've presented ideas that have had to be drastically changed as they were considered too gentle," she says. "That is, I've focused on emotions or concepts of interpersonal drama. "I was often told to ramp up the excitement by adding action, or high-concept ideas, that kind of thing. "It's frustrating... and then it's like, do I refuse to do this? Or do I change this to something I enjoy far less so I can get a chance to work in this industry? "While action-focused or high-concept ideas certainly don't automatically equal 'brainless', it worries me that this kind of reaction from some publishers or editors means we're losing out on work from some wonderful creators, and also losing out on potential readers, too. "I love comics very much and I think comics can be, and should be, for everyone." It's a sentiment shared by Miss Ringsell, who says she has begun to notice a changing demographic in the comic book world. "I am seeing a lot of younger girls getting into comics, largely from secondary schools," she says. "A lot of women in comics are making contact with each other and creating our own communities. "We now feel we are part of a collective." | यदि आप मानते हैं कि सुपरहीरो केवल पुरुषों और लड़कों के लिए होते हैं, तो होली रिंगसेल आपको फिर से सोचने के लिए प्रेरित करेगी। 26 वर्षीय अग्रणी, जो अपनी खुद की कॉमिक बुक की दुकान चलाती है, पारंपरिक रूप से पुरुष प्रधान वातावरण में एक महिला होने के बारे में बात करती है। |
uk-northern-ireland-47472435 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-47472435 | Bloody Sunday: The victims | Thirteen people were shot dead when soldiers opened fire on marchers during a civil rights march in Londonderry on 30 January 1972. | It became known as Bloody Sunday and these are the victims: Patrick Doherty Married father-of-six Patrick Doherty, known as Paddy, was 31 years old when he joined the march. He worked in the city's Du Pont factory and was an active member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. Mr Doherty died as he was trying to crawl to safety. In the Saville Report - a re-examination of the events of Bloody Sunday carried out by Lord Mark Saville and published in 2010 - said Mr Doherty was unarmed. The inquiry also found there was "no doubt" he was shot by Soldier F, who changed his story over the years. The Widgery Inquiry - announced the day after Bloody Sunday and chaired by Lord Widgery - largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame, although he described the soldiers' shooting as "bordering on the reckless". That earlier inquiry said that if the soldier had shot Mr Doherty in the belief he had a pistol, that belief was "mistaken". Gerald Donaghey The 17year-old was a member of the IRA's youth wing, Fianna na Éireann. He had become involved in the civil unrest and had been jailed for six months for rioting the year before. A police photograph taken shortly after he was pronounced dead showed a nailbomb in Mr Donaghey's pocket. A soldier later said he had found four nailbombs among Mr Donaghey's clothing. Widgery dismissed claims that the devices had been planted after death - saying nobody had offered any evidence to the contrary. But the Saville Inquiry heard that neither the soldier who first examined Mr Donaghey nor the Army medical officer who received him at an aid post had found anything suspicious when they checked the teenager. In conclusion, Saville found the nailbombs were "probably" on Mr Donaghey but said he was not preparing to throw them at the time nor was he shot because he was carrying them. The report said he was shot by Soldier G while trying to escape from the soldiers. John Duddy One of a family of 15, the factory worker is thought to have been the first to be killed. The 17-year-old boxer, known a Jackie, had represented his club in bouts across Ireland and in Liverpool. He had attended the march "for the craic" with his friends and against his father's advice. The picture above shows a group of people carrying the dying teenager though the streets of Derry, lead by the then Fr (later Bishop) Edward Daly waving a bloodied handkerchief. It became one of the enduring images of Northern Ireland's Troubles. The Saville report concluded Mr Duddy was unarmed and "probably" shot by Soldier R, as he ran away from soldiers. Widgery said he had not been armed and was probably hit by a bullet intended for someone else. Hugh Gilmour The 17-year-old was the youngest of eight children and a trainee tyre fitter. He was shot as he was running away from the soldiers in a crowd of up to 50 people. A woman said she heard him cry "I'm hit, I'm hit". A single bullet had struck him in the chest and arm. The teenager was pulled to safety behind a barricade but died shortly afterwards. Saville said Mr Gilmour was unarmed and Soldier U had fired at him as he ran away from the soldiers. Widgery concluded Mr Gilmour was not shot from behind and had probably been standing on a barricade when he was hit. Michael Kelly The 17-year-old had been training to be a sewing machine mechanic and the march was his first taste of the civil rights movement. He went, his family said, because his friends were going. He was shot in the stomach near a barricade. He was carried to the safety of a house and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. At Saville, Soldier F admitted that he had shot Michael Kelly - but said that he had only fired at people with bombs or weapons. However, Saville concluded Mr Kelly was unarmed. Widgery said forensic tests found firearms residue on Mr Kelly's right cuff and that indicated he was close to someone who was firing at the soldiers from the barricade. "But I do not think that this was Kelly, nor am I satisfied that he was throwing a bomb at the time when he was shot," said Widgery. Michael McDaid The second-youngest of a family of 12, the 20-year-old worked as a barman. Mr McDaid was arrested but then escaped out of the back of an Army vehicle before being shot near a barricade. Saville concluded that Mr McDaid was unarmed and he was shot by either Soldier P, Soldier J or Soldier E. Widgery could not identify who had fired the shot. Forensic tests found lead particles on Mr McDaid's jacket and right hand, and Widgery discounted the possibility that the clothing and body had been contaminated by residue from soldiers or their vehicles. Kevin McElhinney The 17-year-old was the middle child of five and was described as a hardworking supermarket employee. He was shot as he tried to make his way to safety. Saville said Soldier L or Soldier M shot Mr McElhinney, who was "unarmed", as he crawled away from the soldiers. It suggests they probably did so on the orders of senior officers. Widgery said the firer was probably "Sergeant K". "He described two men crawling from the barricade in the direction of the door of the flats and said that the rear man was carrying a rifle. He fired one aimed shot but could not say whether it hit. "Sergeant K obviously acted with responsibility and restraint." Bernard McGuigan A 41-year-old married man with six children, Bernard McGuigan was a factory worker and handyman. Shot as he went to the aid of Patrick Doherty, Mr McGuigan was waving a white handkerchief as a single bullet struck the back of his head. He fell to the ground, beside a 19-year-old paramedic. "He raised his hand in the air and shouted 'Don't shoot, don't shoot'. And seconds later he was just shot and landed in my lap." Saville found there was "no doubt" Soldier F had shot an unarmed Mr McGuigan. Widgery said forensic tests had found lead residue on his hands and a scarf, consistent with the cloth having been wrapped around a revolver that had been fired. His widow denied the scarf belonged to her husband, and Widgery concluded it was not possible to say whether Mr McGuigan was using or carrying a weapon. Gerard McKinney A father-of-eight whose youngest was born eight days after his death on Bloody Sunday and named after him. Mr McKinney managed a junior soccer team and ran the city's Ritz rollerskating rink. The 35-year-old was shot as he tried to make his way to safety. The Saville Report concluded Soldier G, a private, shot an "unarmed" Gerard McKinney. That bullet passed through him before hitting another victim, Gerald Donaghey. Widgery said his death was one of the most confusing episodes of the day and that forensic tests found no evidence that Mr McKinney had handled weapons. William McKinney A printer at the Derry Journal newspaper, the 27-year-old was the oldest of 10 and was engaged to be married. A keen amateur photographer, he had set out to film the Bloody Sunday march on a camera he had received as a Christmas present. Like Gerald McKinney (no relation), he was in a group and was shot as he ran for cover. "Willie was not a stone-thrower, a bomber or a gunman. He had gone to the civil rights march in the role of amateur photographer," said the newspaper's tribute to him. Saville said there were four soldiers - E, F, G or H - who could have fired at Mr McKinney and another victim, Jim Wray. Up to five more people were injured by the same group of soldiers. Soldier F will now face murder charges over the killing of William McKinney. All four soldiers insisted they had shot at people carrying bombs or firearms - claims rejected by Saville. The Widgery report put William McKinney's death in the same category as Gerald McKinney - both men had been shot without justification. William Nash The 19-year-old dock worker was the seventh of 13 children and the brother of Olympic boxer Charlie Nash. Mr Nash was shot in the chest near a barricade. Alexander Nash saw his son being shot and went to help him, and was then shot himself. Saville concluded that shots fired by Soldier P, Soldier J and Soldier E, caused the deaths of William Nash, as well as victims Michael McDaid and John Young. The inquiry rejected claims that the three soldiers fired because the men were armed. Soldier P told Widgery that he had returned fire after a man consistent with Mr Nash's description had fired first. "In view of the site of the injury it is possible that Soldier P has given an accurate account of the death of Nash," said the report. James Wray The 22-year-old had worked in England for some time and was engaged to an English girl. Friends said he was outgoing and worked in a city bar and dancehall at weekends. His entire family had attended the march after going to Mass together. Mr Wray's death, like that of Gerald McKinney and William McKinney, happened during the chaos as people ran for cover. Saville said Mr Wray, who posed no great danger, was shot twice in the back and there were four soldiers who could have fired at him - soldiers E, F, G or H. The second shot was probably fired as he lay wounded, said Saville, meaning there could have been "no possible justification". Widgery said there was no photographic evidence of what had happened to Mr Wray, but he had been in the general vicinity of where soldiers claimed that civilians had opened fired. On 14 March, the Public Prosecution Service said there was enough evidence to prosecute Soldier F for his murder. John Young The 17-year-old was the youngest of six and worked in a menswear shop. He was shot near a barricade as he tried to take cover. Saville concluded John Young was killed in the same shooting incident that claimed the lives of William Nash and Michael McDaid. He also said he was unarmed and shot by soldiers P, J or E. One witness told Widgery that Mr Young had gone to help another teenager who had been shot. Widgery said: "Young was undoubtedly associated with the youths who were throwing missiles at the soldiers from the barricade and the track of the bullet suggests that he was facing the soldiers at the time." | 30 जनवरी 1972 को लंदनडेरी में एक नागरिक अधिकार मार्च के दौरान जब सैनिकों ने मार्च करने वालों पर गोलियां चलाईं तो तेरह लोगों की गोली मारकर हत्या कर दी गई। |
uk-scotland-glasgow-west-52261898 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-52261898 | One of Scotland's Dunkirk veterans hits the century | One of Scotland's Dunkirk veterans is celebrating his 100th birthday. | Harry Osborne served as a gunner in the Royal Artillery and was deployed to France in January 1940. A planned party to mark his 100th birthday had to be cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak. However, the occasion will still be marked at the care home in Troon, South Ayrshire where Mr Osborne lives. | स्कॉटलैंड के डंकिर्क दिग्गजों में से एक अपना 100वां जन्मदिन मना रहा है। |
world-europe-isle-of-man-34796705 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-34796705 | Flybe axes Isle of Man to London Stansted service | Flybe has confirmed plans to end its service between the Isle of Man and London Stansted, less than a year since it was launched. | The Exeter-based airline has been operating up to three flights a week since introducing the route in March. Flybe's chief commercial officer Paul Simmons said passenger numbers made the flights harder to justify environmentally and economically. Flights will cease from 26 March 2016. Other routes are unaffected. Routes between Ronaldsway and Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester will remain. Mr Simmons said: "We have a disciplined approach to the routes we operate, which means we continually review our network." | फ्लाईबी ने शुरू होने के एक साल से भी कम समय में आइल ऑफ मैन और लंदन स्टैनस्टेड के बीच अपनी सेवा को समाप्त करने की योजना की पुष्टि की है। |
uk-england-south-yorkshire-53538586 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-53538586 | Doncaster man arrested after dog punched in face | A man has been arrested after a video appeared on social media showing a dog being punched in the face. | Police said the 26-year-old, who is from Doncaster, had been released under investigation. The welfare of the dog has been checked and it has been removed from his custody, South Yorkshire Police said. The investigation was prompted after graphic footage of the incident was widely shared on Friday and appeared in several newspapers. Follow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to [email protected] or send video here. | सोशल मीडिया पर एक वीडियो सामने आने के बाद एक व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है जिसमें एक कुत्ते के चेहरे पर घूंसा मारा जा रहा है। |
uk-england-suffolk-27507996 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-27507996 | Great Blakenham tomato greenhouses approved | A £30m tomato-growing centre which could create about 250 jobs in Suffolk has been given the go-ahead. | Two giant greenhouses covering nearly 50 acres (20 hectares) of land are due to be built next to the B1113 between Great Blakenham and Bramford. Tomato producer Sterling Suffolk claims the site could produce about 10% of all tomatoes grown in Britain - about 7,000 tonnes a year. Mid Suffolk District councillors approved the plans on Wednesday. The neighbouring Energy from Waste plant will provide heat and power. Work on the greenhouses is due to start in the autumn. | 30 मिलियन पाउंड के टमाटर उगाने वाले केंद्र को मंजूरी दी गई है जो सफ़ोक में लगभग 250 नौकरियों का सृजन कर सकता है। |
magazine-37620366 | https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37620366 | Full refund: How good is your recall of these product recalls? | Samsung has ceased production of its Galaxy Note 7 phone after reports that the device was catching fire. | It's not the first time a company has been forced to give up on a product, or ask for it back. How much do you recall about these product recalls? And if you missed last week's 7 days quiz, try it here Picture credits : 2 - SPL; 3, 5 - Getty Images; 1, 4 - PA; 6 - Trading Standards; 7 - iStock Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. | सैमसंग ने अपने गैलेक्सी नोट 7 फोन में आग लगने की खबरों के बाद इसका उत्पादन बंद कर दिया है। |
world-europe-jersey-17272604 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-jersey-17272604 | Jersey police burn drug seizures in incinerator | Jersey Police have destroyed hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of drugs in the incinerator in St Helier. | This included six of bags of illegal drugs - including quantities of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy - and three bags full of prescription drugs. They came from raids across the island and destroying them meant heating the drugs to more than 1,100C (2012F). Police said burning drugs and destroying the gas they create was a common way to dispose of seizures. | जर्सी पुलिस ने सेंट हेलियर में भस्मक में सैकड़ों हजारों पाउंड मूल्य के ड्रग्स को नष्ट कर दिया है। |
world-asia-43806930 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-43806930 | North and South Korea: The petty side of diplomacy | North and South Korea are preparing for their first summit in just over a decade. After years of frosty relations and belligerent rhetoric, this is being hailed as a rare and hopeful moment by South Korean politicians. | By Yvette TanBBC News As a peace treaty was never signed after the end of the Korean War in 1953, the neighbours do not have formal relations. The "Sunshine Policy" of re-engagement with the North from the late 1990s earned one leader a Nobel Peace prize, but broke down within a decade as South Korean politics changed course and Pyongyang pursued its illegal nuclear ambitions. But over the years both North and South have also engaged in what some might see as miniscule acts of "petty" warfare designed to wind the other up but not cause lasting damage, almost reminiscent of some techniques used by the Soviet Union and the US during the Cold War. "These kinds of displays provide an important competitive outlet between the two sides outside of possible military conflict," analyst Ankit Panda told the BBC. "For both sides, I think what seems petty to us on the outside has important symbolic value and even operational effectiveness. The two countries are dramatically different in their ideologies and see value in exerting the primacy of their system of government." These are some of the small-time point-scoring both sides have attempted over the years: Loudspeakers Both countries have been fighting an aural battle for years. Before August 2015, the loudspeakers had been turned off for a couple of years, under a deal negotiated between both countries. But in 2015, after two South Korean soldiers were severely injured by North Korean-planted mines in the demilitarised zone (DMZ), the South turned its speakers back on. It was halted again in 2015 and re-started in 2016 in response to the North's claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb. But what exactly does South Korea broadcast from its speakers? You can expect to hear anything from weather reports, dramas, news from both Koreas that otherwise would not be heard over the border and even K-pop songs. The loudspeakers are typically aimed at border guards, though they can also reach citizens that live near the DMZ border. "The loudspeakers are left on all night and day and it hurts morale for some North Korea soldiers because some of them can't go to sleep, some are exhausted from hearing it all day," said Dr Kim. "So what North Korea is concerned about is the psychological impact of these broadcasts." North Korea's broadcasts carry its characteristically strident condemnations of Seoul and its allies, but are said to be harder to hear - possibly the result of poor speakers. But South Korea has now turned off its loudspeakers, just days after North Korea announced that it was stopping all its nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The North appears to have stopped broadcasting propaganda too, residents on the southern side of the demarcation line say. The South has not said whether it plans to restart the broadcasts once the summits are over. Flagpole sizes During the 1980s, the South Korean government built a 321.5-foot (97m) tall flagpole in its border village of Daesong-dong. North Korea responded by building a 525-foot tall flagpole in its border town of Gijung-dong. "This is a good sign of one of them trying to one-up the other," Dr James Kim of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies told the BBC. "That being said, it might have been very important to the North to build a bigger flagpole but South Korea might not even have really cared." Balloon propaganda Both the North and South have had a long history of launching propaganda balloons at each other. In South Korea, defectors, conservatives and religious groups regularly launch these balloons, which can contain anything from leaflets to chocolate biscuits. The balloons can go on to reach thousands of miles, and have been proven to be "very effective", according to Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at Human Rights Foundation (HRF) who runs Flash Drives for Freedom, an initiative which sends flash drives in to North Korea. HRF's flash drives contain anything from a selection of films, TV shows, documentaries and everyday footage of life in South Korea. But the North themselves have also sent their fair share of balloons over to the South. In 2016, hundreds of leaflets praising North Korea were found in Seoul, sent ahead of North Korea's 7th congress of its Workers Party, which was the first of its kind in 36 years. Speculation arose then that Pyongyang may have sent the leaflets as part of its anti-South Korea psychological warfare. But though the leaflets are unlikely to leave a great impact on South Korea, it could be more than just a matter of "pettiness" to North Korea. "I've been in downtown Seoul and seen the propaganda leaflets a few times. It's interesting and novel for [South Koreans] but it isn't construed as something that is threatening to their daily livelihood," Dr Kim told the BBC. "But for the North Koreans these pamphlets are very important. Ideology is very important to them, it's what keeps their regime together... so they might think that this is even more threatening to them than a small-scale military response." Secret agents In 2016, North Korea restarted its coded "numbers" broadcasting after a break of 16 years - a move which has angered South Korea. Numbers broadcasts, as the name implies, usually comprise a series of numbers read out on air which will only make sense to someone with the decryption key, usually secret agents in a foreign country. These apparent codes were observed in a late-night 12-minute section on Pyongyang Radio Station, a propaganda station aimed at South Korea. Why the sudden resumption after 16 years? The numbers broadcast comes almost immediately after the US and South Korea announced the deployment of a THAAD defensive missile battery in South Korea. It's not clear if the move is a direct act of retaliation, but it's definitely got under the skin of South Korea, who urged the North to "desist from such practices." The North and South's current relationship is arguably the closest the two neighbours have got in recent years. But if the thaw does not turn into a permanent detente, more imaginative point-scoring is little short of certain. BBC Monitoring contributed to this report | उत्तर और दक्षिण कोरिया एक दशक से भी कम समय में अपने पहले शिखर सम्मेलन की तैयारी कर रहे हैं। वर्षों के ठंडे संबंधों और जुझारू बयानबाजी के बाद, दक्षिण कोरियाई राजनेताओं द्वारा इसे एक दुर्लभ और आशाजनक क्षण के रूप में सराहा जा रहा है। |
world-us-canada-51197129 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51197129 | Why Australia probably doesn't need more koala mittens | Canadian volunteers are sending six airplanes full of handmade goods and medical supplies to help the animals injured in Australia's wildfires. But officials are worried that a deluge of good intentions could spark a "second disaster". | By Robin Levinson-KingBBC News, Toronto When Canadian Brianna MacDonald found herself confronted by the devastation of the bushfires over Christmas, she decided she had to do something to help the wildlife in her adopted home of Australia, where she has lived for seven years. Along with her mother and two sisters back in Canada, Ms MacDonald has become part of a cross-national effort by crafters to send soft goods like baskets, jackets and pouches for animals injured or orphaned in the wildfires. "There were so many people offering to help," Brianna's sister Carol MacDonald told the BBC. The whole family joined the Canadian Animal Rescue Craft Guild, a Facebook group that has united 11,000 people from across Canada to knit, sew or crochet for the cause. In eastern Ontario where she is based, Carol says they collected about 5,000 soft goods and another 2,000 medical supplies, weighing almost 500 kilograms. Meanwhile in Sydney, Brianna opened her home to donations of crafts, medical supplies and food for the Animal Rescue Cooperative, which helps support wildlife rescuers across the country. She also agreed to let the Canadian crafters ship supplies to her home, since, through her work with Animal Rescue Cooperative, she knew how to distribute the supplies and where they were needed. Soon, her house was full, and so she had to rent a warehouse in order to store all the goods. "The outpouring of not only the Australian community but the Canadian community has been absolutely jaw dropping," Brianna MacDonald says. The boxes from Canada arrived via the airline Air Canada, which is shipping them free of charge on board six of its commercial flights destined for Australia. The first flight left Halifax on 17 January, and the last left Vancouver on 27 January. Canada wasn't the only country to send handmade help. As images of the devastation flooded the media, knitters in the UK, Asia and the US have also rallied to help. The good intentions have sparked concern from officials in Australia, however. "Unfortunately, what usually happens is local communities become overwhelmed very quickly with donated goods," emergency official in New South Wales Jeremy Hillman told broadcaster ABC on 7 January. One Australian group has asked international supplies to stop being sent altogether. "We are continuing reaching out to as many rescues as we can (any and all of them) and helping them as we can, but the answer generally is, 'Thanks guys, we're good!'," wrote the Animal Rescue Collective Craft Guild, which also works with the Animal Rescue Cooperative. "THANK YOU for your support, solidarity, kind words & thoughts, and crafted items so far. We ask you, PLEASE do not send any more items to Australia." Too much stuff is an all too common problem during a disaster, says Juanita Rilling, the former director of the Center for International Disaster Information in the US. "Certainly in the last 50 years worldwide, the response to almost every major emergency has been affected by a flood of unsolicited donations that get in the way," she told the BBC. Donations of goods from abroad often compete with local rescue efforts for resources like airport runway space, staff and gasoline, if there are shortages. Warehouses holding goods that may or may not be needed might be better serves by housing other supplies. And heavy cargo planes flying overseas emit greenhouse gasses and pollution that could be avoided by more local shipments. Ms Rilling says that if you want to help when a disaster strikes, the best thing to do is send money to a reputable organisation working on the ground - even if all you can afford is a few dollars. "People are suspicious about sending cash," she says. "The trick is to identify who is actually working in the area and donate to them." Ultimately, people just want to help and everyone understands that these donations are given with love. "It's a beautiful thing," Ms Rilling says. "But there's an old proverb that says desire without knowledge is not good, and this is a case of desire without knowledge." As for the Canadian crafters, they are turning their attention - and knitting needles - to helping wildlife groups closer to home. | कनाडाई स्वयंसेवक ऑस्ट्रेलिया के जंगल की आग में घायल जानवरों की मदद के लिए हस्तनिर्मित सामान और चिकित्सा आपूर्ति से भरे छह हवाई जहाज भेज रहे हैं। लेकिन अधिकारियों को चिंता है कि अच्छे इरादों की बाढ़ "दूसरी आपदा" को जन्म दे सकती है। |
uk-england-birmingham-45727401 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-45727401 | Teenager charged with murder of Arthur Gumbley | A teenager has been charged with the murder of an 87-year-old man who died after a violent break-in at his home. | Arthur "Bob" Gumbley died in hospital three weeks after he was attacked during a burglary in Endwood Drive, Sutton Coldfield, on 21 November 2017. Police said Jason Wilsher, 19, of Barlestone Road, Bagworth, has been charged with Mr Gumbley's murder. Mr Wilsher is due to appear at Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. In a statement after his death, Mr Gumbley's family said: "He truly was a person that, not only us as a family, but the people that knew him, looked up to and respected. "Words can't express the extent of our loss." | एक किशोर पर एक 87 वर्षीय व्यक्ति की हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है, जिसकी उसके घर में हिंसक तोड़फोड़ के बाद मौत हो गई थी। |
uk-northern-ireland-politics-30146988 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-30146988 | Peter Robinson says he will support any future DUP leader | Peter Robinson has said he will give full support to whoever eventually succeeds him as DUP leader. | Mr Robinson, who is 66 next month, will address his party's annual conference on Saturday. Asked whether he plans to step down as DUP leader after next May's Westminster election, Mr Robinson reiterated that he has no particular timescale in mind. He told BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Politics any future leadership change would be a carefully managed process. | पीटर रॉबिन्सन ने कहा है कि जो भी अंततः डीयूपी नेता के रूप में उनका स्थान लेगा, वह उसे पूरा समर्थन देंगे। |
world-asia-27545079 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27545079 | Afghan Notebook: From Kabul to Calais | About 200 Afghans are among almost 1,000 migrants living in squalid conditions in the French port city of Calais, just across the English Channel from Britain. BBC Afghan's Bashir Bakhtyar met several of them when he went to report on their informal camps. Among them was the man who grabbed the headlines this month when he set sail on an improvised raft to try to get to the UK, only to be picked up by a French lifeboat. | Home for the Calais Afghans is a filthy camp of plastic bags and sheets on a disused railway line, without water, power or even enough food. Their illegal settlement lies just a few hundred metres from where the big ferries take hundreds of passengers back and forth between France and the UK. It's a desperate and frustrated group, subsisting on one meal a day, mainly pasta, provided by a local aid group. Every night they sneak out of their tents for what they call "the throw", a desperate attempt to climb on board one of the many trucks destined for Britain. Some of the men I met had Italian temporary residence permits. But still they were keen to come to Britain because they believed it was easy to find a job there. They told me that there was not enough work in Italy, and since their travel documents did not allow them to travel legally to the UK, they were opting for illegal ways. One man who epitomises the migrants' determination is Asif, the 33-year-old Afghan who shot to fame of sorts when he tried to cross the Channel on a self-made raft. Frustrated by his continued failure to sneak into Britain by boarding trucks, he made his raft using discarded bits of wood and plastic he picked up in the streets of Calais, using an old bedsheet for a sail. Asif took me across the dunes down to the beach where he set sail at dawn on a day in early May. He said he thought it was the point closest to Britain. "Water is as soft as cotton," he told me looking out over the Channel on a sunny day with ferries gliding past. "It's not as dangerous as boarding the moving trucks." He said that his craft had made good progress into what he called the dark waters, when the wind changed and pushed him back towards the shore. The lifeboat fished him out a little later. Inside his tiny makeshift tent, Asif told me about his dream of reaching London, which he describes as the "star of Europe". He's been chasing that dream for over a decade. A farmer's son from the Mosahi region, just south of Kabul, Asif left Afghanistan during the last years of Taliban rule in search of a better life, By his own account, his largely illegal voyage took him to Iran, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and Switzerland. He says that in almost every country he stayed for about a year to save money for the next leg of his journey. His story, the many obstacles as well as the stubborn desire to reach the UK, is typical among the men here. But many get stuck in this small city and their presence is very visible and has made some locals angry, something I experienced first hand. As Asif and I made our way to the beach, there were openly hostile looks and one man made a cut-throat gesture towards us. Such sentiments are understandable, considering that the port has been the gateway for Afghans and other migrants attempting to reach Britain for years. Inside a garage, local staff did not hide their frustration, citing concerns over the city's image. One of the workers told me she could not see a solution: "It looks like a never-ending process. The more you take in, the more tend to come," she said. It's an observation born out by the determination of the men I met to try and try again. Asif was not deterred by his aborted crossing. He had no regrets, he told me, and would be making another attempt. When and how he kept to himself. | ब्रिटेन से इंग्लिश चैनल के ठीक पार फ्रांसीसी बंदरगाह शहर कैलाइस में खराब परिस्थितियों में रहने वाले लगभग 1,000 प्रवासियों में से लगभग 200 अफगान हैं। बीबीसी अफगान के बशीर बख्तियार जब उनके अनौपचारिक शिविरों में रिपोर्ट करने गए तो उनमें से कई से मिले। उनमें से वह व्यक्ति भी था जिसने इस महीने सुर्खियां बटोरी जब वह ब्रिटेन जाने की कोशिश में एक तात्कालिक बेड़ा पर सवार हुआ, जिसे केवल एक फ्रांसीसी जीवन रक्षक नौका द्वारा उठाया गया। |
10207079 | https://www.bbc.com/news/10207079 | Demolition work after Shrewsbury explosion | Work is under way to demolish a Shrewsbury building which was badly damaged by a suspected gas explosion. | The blast at the corner of Bridge Street and Smithfield Road on 3 January injured 12 people and closed parts of the town centre for more than a month. Work by Bristol company Bensons will take about four weeks to complete and road closures have not been planned. The Health and Safety Executive is trying to find out the cause of the explosion. One woman was airlifted to hospital with burns to her head, neck and chest, and a man suffered spinal injuries in the explosion. Five people were trapped in a car beneath rubble but were pulled free by bystanders and emergency crews. | श्रूसबरी की एक इमारत को ध्वस्त करने का काम चल रहा है जो एक संदिग्ध गैस विस्फोट से बुरी तरह क्षतिग्रस्त हो गई थी। |
uk-england-derbyshire-31531920 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-31531920 | Lost Royal Shrovetide Football ball found in hedge | A ball that disappeared in the middle of Royal Shrovetide Football, bringing the game to a confused end, has been discovered lodged in a hedge. | The annual game is played between Up'ards and Down'ards in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, over two days. This year, the Up'ards took the honours on Tuesday but Wednesday's game ended when the ball was lost in Mayfield. Some suspected foul play but organisers said it was an "ill-fated attempt" to launch the ball towards goal. Shrovetide committee member Mike Betteridge, who turned up the ball on Wednesday, said: "There was frantic searching for nearly an hour before a group of Up'ards found it. "It had lodged itself in the upper branches of the hedge, which was a leylandii, and no-one could see it." Because nobody goaled the ball, Mr Betteridge gets to keep it. Shrovetide glossary | एक गेंद जो रॉयल श्रोवेटाइड फुटबॉल के बीच में गायब हो गई थी, जिससे खेल का अंत भ्रमित हो गया था, एक बाड़ में रखी हुई पाई गई है। |
world-south-asia-20631402 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-20631402 | Viewpoint: Pakistan seeks Afghan talks between government, Taliban and US | Pakistan's military has undergone a dramatic shift in policy in recent weeks, writes journalist and author Ahmed Rashid. After a decade spent allowing the Afghan Taliban sanctuary and freedom to sustain its insurgency in Afghanistan, it is now pushing for peace talks between the Taliban, the Afghan government and the Americans before Nato forces withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014. | Pakistan's change of heart - if sustained - could open up several new tracks in the peace process, bring about a ceasefire with the Taliban, encourage a wider regional settlement and improve Islamabad's own fraught relations with Washington. Most significantly, a ceasefire and peace talks with the Taliban could dramatically improve the chances of survival for the weak Afghan government and army once Western forces leave. In a rare sign of the new relationship, recently not one but several senior Afghan officials in private conversations have praised the Pakistan army and its chief, Gen Ashfaq Kayani, for taking visible actions to encourage reconciliation between the Taliban and the Afghan government. For years President Hamid Karzai and other officials have openly accused the army and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the Afghan Taliban. "We believe now there is a change in Pakistan's policy and Gen Kiyani is absolutely genuine about helping bring peace to Afghanistan," said a senior Afghan adviser to President Karzai. In mid-November, Pakistan freed nine Taliban officials it had been holding, releasing them to the Afghan High Peace Council, which is tasked with opening talks with the Taliban. Pakistan said on 3 December it would soon free more Taliban prisoners. Officials said the ISI was holding at least 100 Taliban leaders and foot soldiers but was expected to free them all. Those Taliban being freed will have complete freedom of movement and association, say senior Pakistan military officials. Pakistan has also pledged not to interfere if the Taliban and the Afghan council want a third country as a venue for future talks. If these initial steps bear fruit, an even more decisive step may come later when the ISI asks hundreds of Taliban commanders and officials fighting Western and Afghan forces inside Afghanistan to support reconciliation talks with Kabul. Deal next year? According to senior Afghan, Pakistani and Western officials, Kabul and Islamabad have prepared roadmaps with timelines outlining how future reconciliation talks could take place. While the Afghans have shared their road map with the Pakistanis and the Americans, the Pakistanis will only do so when the Obama administration offers its own plan. Gen Kayani is now urging Afghan officials to strike a deal with the Taliban as early as next year rather than wait for 2014 as stipulated in its roadmap. However, the wounding of the Afghan intelligence chief on Thursday by a Taliban suicide bomber will be a setback to the process as it could trigger retribution killings. Meanwhile, a formerly slow moving tripartite commission made up of the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan has suddenly got teeth as it discusses issues such as safe passage for the Taliban, who will need to travel for talks, and how to take Taliban names off a UN Security Council list which labels them as terrorists. US-Pakistan relations were broken for the past two years, largely over Afghanistan, but relations are now on the mend. Gen Kayani has recently met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mr Karzai. However, US officials are more sceptical about the military's intentions and will wait to see what else the military delivers. Meanwhile, the US government has reached internal agreement on a policy document that for the first time links reconciliation with the US military withdrawal in 2014. In 2011 the US began secret talks with the Taliban in Qatar, but the Taliban pulled out in March, accusing the Americans of continuously changing their positions. At the time the US military and the CIA were opposed to peace talks. The new US policy document signals that there is now much greater consensus in Washington for talks with the Taliban. So far the Pakistan military has been loath to call its moves a "change" or "shift" of policy, because that would imply that it supported the Taliban in the past. Military officials argue that Pakistan has been calling for Afghan reconciliation for years, but the facts are that in the past the military has not taken any positive steps to implement reconciliation - something it is now doing. The civilian government has little input in Pakistan's Afghanistan policy. Reluctance The motives for the army's change of thinking is largely due to the worsening security and economic crises as hundreds of people are killed every month. Pakistan faces an insurgency in the north with terrorist strikes being carried out by the Pakistani Taliban, a separatist movement in Balochistan province and ever increasing ethnic and sectarian violence in Karachi. The army, which has endured heavy casualties fighting the Pakistani Taliban, is deeply reluctant to get involved in more fighting. Gen Kayani is now banking on the hope that reconciliation among the Afghans will have a knock-on positive effect on the Pakistani Taliban also - depriving them of legitimacy and recruits. There are several balls now in play. The US insists that the Qatar process is not dead and will respond positively if the Taliban resume that dialogue. Pakistan is not part of the Qatar process and is anxious that its own peace process gets off the ground. Until now the Taliban have said they will not talk to the Kabul government, but Pakistan may get them to change their mind. Qatar's failure has also led to a fierce intra-Taliban debate about the usefulness of talks. Pakistan does not control the Taliban and nor can it force them to the table. However a signal from the military at the right time that Taliban safe havens, recruitment drives, fundraising and other activities will come to an end by a certain date will put enormous pressure on the Taliban. Yet Pakistan cannot afford to antagonise the Taliban so that another front is opened and they join up with Pakistani extremists to fight the government. Time is now of the essence, even for the Taliban as their own public support base would not relish the thought of war continuing beyond 2014. And although President Karzai is unpopular, he cannot be a candidate for presidential elections in 2014, which now offers the opportunity of a new and invigorated Afghan leadership. Pakistan has supported the Taliban for too long and has paid a bitter, bloody price. However if all players are now learning that there is no way forward except for reconciliation, that effort needs uninhibited international support. The Americans in particular need to appoint a heavyweight diplomat to take the peace process forward, and President Obama needs to personally get engaged - something he has declined to do so far. Nato needs to play less of a waiting game and be more proactive in pushing the US to speed up the talks process. Above all, the Afghans who have battled for 34 years need to show maturity and seek a peaceful resolution to their wars. | पत्रकार और लेखक अहमद राशिद लिखते हैं कि पाकिस्तानी सेना ने हाल के हफ्तों में नीति में नाटकीय बदलाव किया है। अफगान तालिबान को शरण देने और अफगानिस्तान में अपने विद्रोह को बनाए रखने के लिए स्वतंत्रता देने में एक दशक बिताने के बाद, अब वह 2014 में अफगानिस्तान से नाटो बलों की वापसी से पहले तालिबान, अफगान सरकार और अमेरिकियों के बीच शांति वार्ता पर जोर दे रही है। |
uk-england-birmingham-17180870 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-17180870 | European librarians visit Birmingham's £189m facility | More than 250 senior librarians from Europe are gathering in Birmingham to discuss the future of library services. | As well as meeting at the Town Hall, visitors will see progress on the £189m library being built in Centenary Square. The 10-storey development, which will have an outdoor amphitheatre, is due to open next year. The site will also include a theatre, recording studio and free access to the National Film Archive. | यूरोप के 250 से अधिक वरिष्ठ पुस्तकालयाध्यक्ष पुस्तकालय सेवाओं के भविष्य पर चर्चा करने के लिए बर्मिंघम में एकत्र हो रहे हैं। |
uk-wales-mid-wales-32223574 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-32223574 | Aberystwyth Town FC's flats plan approved | Plans to build 33 flats alongside Aberystwyth Town FC's stadium have been given the go-ahead. | The sale of land next to the ground at Park Avenue for social housing along with match funding from the Football Association of Wales will allow the club to install a 3G pitch. The club and housing association Tai Ceredigion originally wanted to build 80 flats and create a new 500-seater stand along with a new clubhouse. But Ceredigion council rejected it. A council statement said the plans had been approved subject to changes being made to an access road to the development. | एबेरेस्टविथ टाउन एफ. सी. के स्टेडियम के साथ 33 फ्लैट बनाने की योजना को मंजूरी दी गई है। |
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