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The UK has had its hottest July day on record, with temperatures reaching 38.1C (100.6F) in Cambridge. It reached 30C (86F) in several places around Wales, with the heat causing some travel disruption. The Welsh record was set on 2 August 1990 at Hawarden Bridge, Flintshire, when it reached 35.2C (95.3F). With the summer holidays upon us, how can you get out of the house but keep cool as Wales basks in the summer sun? #hottestdayoftheyear is trending on Twitter, mainly with people sharing gifs and memes of how to stay cool. The temperature reached 30C in Cardiff, Bala, Bodelwyddan, Hawarden, Newbridge -on-Wye and Usk and peaked at 31C in Gogerddan, according to BBC weather forecaster Derek Brockway. So if you fancy taking in a bit of history and culture without having to break out the factor 50, castles and cathedrals, with their high ceilings and often stone buildings, are ideal. Llandaff Cathedral, St Asaph Cathedral or Brecon Cathedral to name but a few would be great places to cool off. In keeping with history and culture, the National Trust has a wealth of places to explore, including Colby Woodland Garden which has an industrial past and a secret garden. A country house with its thick walls, marble floors and servants quarters below stairs mean these places are several degrees cooler than the temperature outside, Penrhyn Castle or a shady underground tour of Dolaucothi Gold Mines might also suit. While the sheltered parkland of Erddig could provide you with a much-needed break from the sun. At Folly Farm in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire, they keep the animals cool with iced treats and a good old-fashioned hosing down. Or how about making the most of Wales' slate caverns? Rob Owen, owner of Llanfair Slate Caverns near Harlech, said plenty of people are visiting the caverns as a place to keep cool. "It's been steady in the morning and then everyone heads down to the beach in the afternoon. "You do feel a difference, it's 10 degrees (50F) constant all year round." We are gifted with a number of glorious national parks in Wales and they can offer some areas of shade while still enjoying the great outdoors. Who can forget the waterfalls at Brecon Beacons National Park? One part of the park, at the head of the Vale of Neath, has so many it is called Waterfall Country. Many of these cascades are easily accessible on foot, but make sure you are safe and don't go into open water. But on days like these, spare a thought for the people working in this heat. Mike Woods, owner of Just Love Food Company, in Blackwood, Caerphilly county, said: "On a day-to-day basis it can be really tricky trying to work in the heat. "That's not just when it's hot, it can get really hot anyway in the factory. I make sure that my staff all get regular breaks and are drinking plenty of water. "We also have big electric fans throughout the workplace which really make a difference." Staying safe in the sun Police have warned of the risks of cooling off in open water - if you do feel you want to take a dip, have a read on how to stay safe. Britain is not used to such extreme temperatures, which means some people could be vulnerable to heat exhaustion. The NHS recommends keeping all babies under six months out of direct sunlight, and older infants should be kept out of the sun as much as possible, particularly between 11:00 and 15:00. They should be kept in the shade or under a sunshade if they're in a buggy or pushchair. Sun cream with a high sun protection factor should be applied regularly - particularly if children are in water.

هل تشعر بالحر، الساخن، الساخن؟

موجة الحر في المملكة المتحدة: أين يمكنك أن تحافظ على برودة جسمك في ويلز؟

By Lauren PottsBBC News Many thousands of people across the UK rely on a network of food banks for their day-to-day survival. It's easy to understand that when food is in scarce supply hygiene isn't always the top priority. But according to research conducted by the Trussell Trust, which has a 428-strong network of food banks nationwide, more than half of people using its services cannot afford toiletries. "If you don't have enough money to cover the cost of food, it's likely you'll be unable to afford other essentials too," said Samantha Stapley, its head of operations for England. "No-one should be left struggling to wash their hair, brush their teeth or afford tampons because they've been hit by something unexpected like redundancy, sickness or a delayed benefit payment. "This is a dignity issue." When faced with the choice of being able to afford food or face wipes the answer is obvious, says journalist Sali Hughes, who has joined forces with beauty director Jo Jones and the Trussell Trust to launch Beauty Banks. "Some people don't have enough money to survive, so what's going to go? The thing that you don't need to stay alive. "But I don't think having clean teeth is a luxury. Having clean hair isn't being spoiled - in 2018, in Britain, it's a right." The pair is pooling their collective industry resources by teaming up with brands, retailers and the wider community to gather as many toothbrushes, razors and tampons as possible to help those unable to afford the basics. The non-profit aims to funnel unwanted toiletries for both men and women to five locations across the UK - a women's refuge and a food bank in Staines in Surrey, a homeless shelter in Cardiff, a food bank in Milton Keynes, and another in Ladbroke Grove, not far from Grenfell Tower. "People really need these things and not being clean and being dirty is the difference between having a bad or good day, of feeling employable and feeling good about themselves," said Ms Hughes. "These are things we take for granted. We often don't think twice about buying shower gel, but [for some] that can make the difference between being clean and not being able to eat." Ms Hughes, who has written in the past about her own experience of homelessness, was in part inspired to launch the scheme after taking part in a recent Sleep Out event run by youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. She and others, including fellow writer Caitlin Moran, spent the night on the street and raised more than £40,000. On Instagram, she described how "brutal" the experience of sleeping rough was - "freezing cold, turfed out and moved on at 6:30am, nowhere to clean my teeth or wash my face". In another, she posted a picture of face wipes and tampons, adding: "These are the basics I need for sleeping rough tonight and I am lucky enough to be able to just go out and buy them. People on the streets can't." According to recent government figures, there were 4,751 people counted or estimated to be bedding down outside in autumn 2017 - a 15% rise on the year before and more than double the figure recorded five years ago. In July, the In Kind Direct charity also warned of a rise in "hygiene poverty" - in which families across the UK were reporting a crisis in being unable to afford essential toiletries. Coupled with increasing reports of period poverty - in which girls across the country are routinely skipping school because they cannot afford sanitary protection - Ms Hughes and Mrs Jones started to talk about how they could help. "The thought of not being able to buy something you absolutely need to protect yourself during your period, it's such a stark reality most of us don't consider," said Ms Hughes. "As women, we know we need tampons, so we chuck them in the trolley in supermarkets and that's the most you think about it. The idea you can't afford to keep clean, it's such a big part of how we feel about ourselves. "When you feel dirty and your hair's dirty, you're constantly thinking 'do people think I'm grotty, do I smell?' People are living like this. It's monstrous, it's really shocking." Mrs Jones said she came up with the idea of donating unwanted and surplus toiletries to food banks about six months ago after realising there was a huge demand for non-food items. She and Ms Hughes had also often talked about how much product was being wasted in the beauty industry. "We started talking about marrying the gap between the waste in our industry and getting it into the hands of people who really need it. "Beauty directors and writers get sent products all the time and people in our industry are really kind and generous, but they don't know what to with [surplus goods] or how to channel it to the right places." You might also be interested in Four stories of rough sleeping in England 'I couldn't mourn my gran because of my period' Second chance careers that paid off Mrs Jones said the turning point came when she got the company she works for, Communications Store, involved. "It's all well and good sending a lot of products to a food bank but that's only part of the solution. Who's going to sort it out and pack it up? So that's when I went to my agency and said, 'can we support this', and my boss said 'yes'. "Our staff are packing the stuff up and we're covering the cost of sending it out, so that when it arrives [at the food banks], it's already sorted. We want to make it as easy as possible to distribute." Donations will be parcelled up and sent to each of the five locations supported by the Trust. Though starting small, Ms Hughes hopes to roll the Beauty Banks project out to further locations and is encouraging people to get involved. "We don't want people to donate money. But we would love members of the public to send their spare toiletries that they have lying around. "We're looking for really essential toiletries like deodorant, we want shaving gel, razors, tampons, sanitary towels. We need shampoo, soap, baby wipes, flannels and toothbrushes. "We would like people to throw a box of tampons in their basket and then throw in another to donate, or to donate the soap their aunts gave them two Christmases ago. "Provided they're unused - they will find a good home."

معظمنا بالكاد يفكر في تكلفة الشامبو والصابون والمناشف الصحية عند تخزين الضروريات اليومية في ممر أدوات الزينة. ولكن بالنسبة لأولئك الذين يعيشون في فقر - سواء في الشوارع أو في المنازل بميزانية ضئيلة - أصبحت النظافة الأساسية رفاهية في المقعد الخلفي.

هل تستطيع "بنوك التجميل" المساعدة في مكافحة فقر النظافة؟

By Leo KelionTechnology desk editor Every few days there seems to be a fresh accusation or leak that paints the social network in the worst possible light and calls into question whether it poses a threat to its members, wider society and even democracy itself. The latest barrage came in the form of a tranche of "confidential" internal emails published online by MPs, who have been smarting that chief executive Mark Zuckerberg refused to testify before them. As Damian Collins, the chair of the Parliamentary committee responsible, put it, if they could not get "straight answers" from Mr Zuckerberg then at least the emails could reveal how his firm treats users' data and protects its "dominant position". Mr Collins claimed the documents prove that the social network continued giving some favoured apps access to users' friends' data after a cut-off point that was supposed to protect its members' privacy. He added that the emails showed the firm had also sought to make it difficult for users to know about privacy changes, and had surreptitiously studied smartphone users' habits to identify and tackle rival apps. Overnight on Wednesday, Facebook has published a blow-by-blow response to these and other allegations. The main thrust of its defence is that the emails had been "cherry-picked" to paint a "false" picture of what really happened. But does its counter-attack stand up? White lists One of the key apparent gotchas from the documents was Facebook's repeated references to "whitelisting" - the process under which it grants special access to users and their friends' data to some third parties but not others. The context for this was that in April 2014, Facebook announced that it planned to restrict developers from being able to tap into information about users' friends as part of a policy referred to as "putting people first". Until that point, any developer could build products that made use of Facebook users' friends' birthdates, photos, genders, status updates, likes and location check-ins. While such access was to be cut off, Facebook said it would still allow apps to see who was on a user's friends list and their relevant profile pictures. However, if developers wanted this to include friends who were not using the same app, they now needed to make a request and pass a review. New apps needed to apply immediately, and existing ones were given a year's grace. But Mr Collins said the emails demonstrated that some firms "maintained full access to friends' data" after the 2015 deadline. The documents certainly show several apps sought extended rights - although it is not always clear what the final outcome was. But Facebook says it only gave "short-term" extensions to the wide range of information about friends and did so in cases when apps needed more time to adapt. "It's common to help partners transition their apps during platform changes to prevent their apps from crashing or causing disruptive experiences for users," it explained. In fact, Facebook already gave Congress a list in July of about 60 organisations to whom it granted this privilege, and said at the time that in most cases it was limited to an extra six months, The names excluded some of the bigger brands referenced in the emails, including Netflix, Airbnb and Lyft. The inference is that if they were indeed granted special long-term rights, it was only to access complete lists of friends' names and profile images. But since Facebook does not disclose which developers have these extra rights, it is impossible to know how widely they are offered. Value of friends' data Facebook has long maintained that it has "never sold people's data". Rather it said the bulk of its profits come from asking advertisers what kinds of audience they want to target, and then directing their promotions at users who match. But Mr Collins said the emails also demonstrated that Facebook had repeatedly discussed ways to make money from providing access to friends' data. Mark Zuckerberg himself wrote the following in 2012: "I'm getting more on board with locking down some parts of platform, including friends' data... Without limiting distribution or access to friends who use this app, I don't think we have any way to get developers to pay us at all besides offering payments and ad networks." Facebook's retort is that it explored many ways to build its business, but ultimately what counts is that it never charged developers for this kind of service. "We ultimately settled on a model where developers did not need to purchase advertising... and we continued to provide the developer platform for free," it said. But another email from Mr Zuckerberg in the haul makes it clear that his reasoning for doing so was a belief that the more apps that developers built, the more information people would share about themselves, which in turn would help Facebook make money. And some users may be worried that it was this profit motive rather than concerns for their privacy that determined the outcome. Android permissions Another standout discovery was the fact that Facebook's team had no illusions that an update to its Android app - which gave Facebook access to users' call and text message records - risked a media backlash. "This is a pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective," wrote one executive, adding that it could lead to articles saying "Facebook uses new Android update to pry into your private life in ever more terrifying ways". In the conversation that followed, staff discussed testing a method that would require users to click a button to share the data but avoid them being shown an "Android permissions dialogue at all". Mr Collins claims the result was that the firm made it as "hard as possible" for users to be aware of the privacy change. Facebook's defence is that the change was still "opt in" rather than done by default, and that users benefited from better suggestions about who they could call via its apps. "This was a discussion about how our decision to launch this opt-in feature would interact with the Android operating system's own permission screens," added the firm. "This was not a discussion about avoiding asking people for permission." It previously defended its conduct in March after users had spotted saved call logs in archives of their Facebook activity and did not recall giving the social network permission to gather them. Whether you accept its explanation or not, it does not look good that executives were clearly worried that journalists might "dig into" what the update was doing in the first place. The risk is that this adds to the impression that while Facebook wants its members to trust it with their information, the firm has an aversion to having its own behaviour scrutinised. Surveying rivals Part of the way through the hundreds of text-heavy pages is a selection of graphs. They show how Facebook tracked the fortunes of social media rivals including WhatsApp - which it went on to buy - and Twitter's viral video service Vine - which it decided to block from accessing some data. This tracking was done via Onavo, an Israeli analytics company that Facebook acquired in 2013 - which provided a free virtual private network app. VPNs are typically installed by users wanting an extra layer of privacy. Mr Collins accused Facebook of carrying out its surveys without customers' knowledge. Its reply was that the app contained a screen that stated that it collected "information about app usage" and detailed how it would be used. It is true that the app's privacy policy stated that it might share information with "affiliates" including Facebook. But it is questionable how many of its millions of users bothered to read beyond the top-billed promise to "keep you and your data safe". In any case, if Facebook is not hiding anything it is curious that, even now, on Google Play the app continues to list its developer as being Onavo rather than its parent company, and only mentions Facebook's role if users click on a "read more" link. It is also noteworthy that Apple banned the app earlier this year from its App Store for being too intrusive. Targeting competitors You do not get to be one of the world's biggest companies just by playing nice. So, Mr Collins' accusation that Facebook had taken "aggressive positions" against rivals is probably unsurprising. Even so, it is interesting the degree to which Mr Zuckerberg is involved. "We maintain a small list of strategic competitors that Mark personally reviewed," disclosed one memo. "Apps produced by the companies on this list are subject to a number of restrictions... any usage beyond that specified is not permitted without Mark-level sign-off." As the case of Vine demonstrated, he is willing to take a tough line. When asked if Facebook should cut off Vine's access to friends' data on the day of its launch in 2013 - ahead of the later wider crackdown - his reply was brief. "Yup, go for it." Facebook suggests such behaviour is normal. "At that time we made the decision to restrict apps built on top of our platform that replicated our core functionality," it said in its response. "These kind of restrictions are common across the tech industry with different platforms having their own variant including YouTube, Twitter, Snap and Apple." But it added that it now believes the policy is "out-of-date" so is removing it. Too late for Vine, which shut in January 2017. And Facebook's problem is that politicians now have another reason for new regulations to limit anti-competitive behaviour by the tech giants. Digital rights campaigners also have new reasons to gripe. "Time and again, Facebook proves itself untrustworthy and incapable of building the world it claims it wants to see," Dr Gus Hosein, from Privacy International, told the BBC. "They show a pattern, fostered by market dominance, of deceptive and exploitative behaviour, which must be stopped."

يشعر موظفو فيسبوك وكأنهم تحت الحصار.

يدافع Facebook عن رسائل البريد الإلكتروني المكشوفة لمارك زوكربيرج

By Nicholas WitchellRoyal correspondent This is not to say that "style" in the context of a royal visit is unimportant. To take the most obvious example, the outfits worn by the Duchess of Cambridge, there are a good many people to whom it does matter what she wears. And for sure their curiosity is well served by elements of the media whose news editors expect reports on every detail of the hat, coat, shoes, handbag, earrings etc, etc, that's she's chosen for a particular engagement. For the fashion label that is chosen, it can mean an immediate sales bonanza. Readers are interested, just as they are in snippets of overheard royal conversation: so on this visit we've learnt that the Cambridges have some IKEA furniture and that William was delighted with a new device to clean his dog's paws. The small stuff helps to maintain interest and project the impression of a down-to-earth couple whose lives, for all their privileged position, nevertheless has recognisable aspects to it. But there is more to a royal visit than that. William and Catherine are visiting Sweden and Norway at the request of the British Foreign Office. It is the latest instalment in the deployment of the royal family to sweeten relations with those all-important European friends and allies. It's a role to which the royals are suited. For one thing, capital P Politics are firmly disallowed: but the arrival of senior members of the British royal family unfailingly forces both nations, the host and the visitor, to reflect on what makes the relationship between the two countries special. Historical ties are recalled: contemporary links celebrated. It won't transform difficult political negotiations but it can sometimes, say diplomats with experience of these things, soften some of the tougher edges. Finally then to the need to root the reporting of royal tours in fact rather than in fantasy. According to a tweet from one news outlet William and Kate have been welcomed by "huge crowds" in Stockholm. Just one problem. They haven't. What's more the news organisation which published this tweet does not have anyone in Sweden covering the visit. The crowds have been decent but no more. On the main public walk out in Stockholm, in the square outside the Nobel Museum, there were perhaps 1,000 people. The facts are sturdy enough to speak for themselves: it's one thing to fall back on light-hearted colour in the reporting of royal visits (we've all done it); it's quite another to distort reality.

ويليام وكاترين في الدول الاسكندنافية: جولة ملكية، وكما هو الحال دائمًا، التوتر الناتج بين الأسلوب والجوهر والحاجة، أكبر من أي وقت مضى في عصر وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي هذا، إلى فصل الحقيقة المؤكدة عن الهراء المطلق.

زيارة ويليام وكيت للسويد يمكن أن "تحسّن العلاقات"

Eleanor Stone from the Manx Wildlife Trust recorded four separate sightings near the Calf of Man on Monday. Minke whales, which can weigh up to 10 tonnes, are sometimes spotted off the Manx coast in late summer. Ms Stone said: "We were amazed when the whale circled the boat, it really was a once in a lifetime experience". She added: "No-one on the boat had ever seen a minke whale so close before, they normally don't pay much attention to boats and so we were amazed when it swam right under us." The whale was spotted in a routine survey of the coastline by the Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch in association with the Manx Wildlife Trust. Minke whales prefer cooler regions to tropical areas and can also be found in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans.

وصف أحد الخبراء البحريين اللقاء الوثيق مع حوت المنك بالقرب من الساحل الجنوبي لجزيرة مان بأنه تجربة "مرة واحدة في العمر".

مشاهدة الحيتان في جزيرة مان "مرة واحدة في العمر"

States of Jersey Police were called to Ann Street in St Helier at about 13:30 GMT on Tuesday to reports of a man having fallen from height. The individual was treated by paramedics at the scene, and taken to Jersey's General Hospital for assessment. His condition is unknown. Police said no arrests have been made and an investigation was underway. Related Internet Links States of Jersey Police

نُقل رجل في الثلاثينيات من عمره إلى المستشفى بعد سقوطه من منصة في موقع بناء.

رجل في "حالة غير معروفة" بعد سقوطه من ارتفاع في موقع البناء

There have been no sailings to or from the islands for two days due to strong winds and high seas. Operator Serco Northlink said it was unlikely anything would now move until Christmas Eve at the earliest. Tesco said islanders had stripped shelves bare of produce. The firm chartered the plane to help restock. The Hercules transporter flew from Norway to Edinburgh. It was packed with food overnight and it then flew to Shetland on Saturday afternoon. Department for Transport restrictions were lifted to allow the flight to take off from Edinburgh Airport at short notice, due to the nature of the situation on Shetland. A further Hercules delivery of supplies was due to take place on Saturday evening.

قام أحد بائعي التجزئة بنقل إمدادات من المواد الغذائية جواً إلى جزر شتلاند لأن العبارات وقوارب الشحن المعتادة تعطلت بسبب الطقس.

تقوم شركة تيسكو بنقل الإمدادات جوًا لإعادة تخزين أرفف جزر شتلاند

By Alastair LeitheadBBC News, Africa correspondent Now an investigation into their killing last October, has found "individual, organisational and institutional failures and deficiencies" contributed to their deaths. In America, the first response to the attack was to ask what US troops were doing in this lesser-known part of Africa, and if it was a supporting mission, why were they in danger? The issue was inflated when one of the widows claimed President Donald Trump's call of condolence was insensitive. And when various explanations of how they were killed didn't seem to add up, there were calls for an inquiry. The investigation by the US defence department runs to thousands of pages and involved interviews with 143 witnesses. But it may still fall short in the eyes of relatives, as much of the findings remain classified. Although identifying problems the eight-page executive summary found that "no single failure or deficiency was the sole reason" for what happened. It said the four soldiers, Sergeant First Class Jeremiah Johnson, Staff Sergeant Bryan Black, Staff Sergeant Dustin Wright and Sergeant LaDavid Johnson, "died with honour while actively engaging the enemy". There had been reports that one of the men had been captured, but the Department of Defense said all died almost immediately from their injuries. Militant manhunt Their mission had begun on 3 October 2017 when the US special operations forces team from Camp Ouallam joined Nigerien troops in the search for a senior member of the extremist group Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS). But the American troops had not trained together before arriving in Niger, and, according to the defence department's investigation, they had not rehearsed for an operation which had not been approved at a senior level. Eventually information that IS-GS leader Doundoun Cheffou may have been located was passed up the chain of command, and an airborne raid with another team was planned. But bad weather scuppered the mission. Although unprepared, the soldiers known as "Team Ouallam" went ahead with the mission anyway. They launched an early morning raid but their target had gone. The convoy was heading back to base and stopped at the village of Tongo Tongo so Nigerien troops could get water. After delays meeting the elders they left just before noon and were ambushed a few hundred metres from the edge of the village. The jihadists responsible for the ambush released helmet camera footage from one of the dead soldiers and the New York Times pieced together what happened from the video. 'Significantly outnumbered' The defence department created an animation with its interpretation of events. The key finding was that the troops were "significantly outnumbered by a well-trained force". They didn't have armoured vehicles, and were attacked by dozens of militants with motorbikes and heavy weapons. Despite first fighting back and then attempting to retreat, four Americans and five Nigeriens were shot dead. Although it's just a basic graphic depicting cars as rectangles and troops as small circles, the animation shows a poignant moment. A circle representing Staff Sergeant Wright is shown moving away from the advancing militants. But then he stopped, turned around to help his injured colleague, and opened fire before both men were killed. "Individual members of the team performed numerous acts of bravery while under fire," the report said, "and their actions should be reviewed for appropriate recognition". Other troops were badly injured. The whole unit had taken up a "last stand" position when French fighter jets flew low overhead scattering the militants. French helicopters then rescued the survivors. "French and Nigerien partner forces saved American lives," the report states, while listing some of the recommendations and actions to be taken to prevent something like this happening again. Militarised desert There are around 800 American boots on the ground in Niger - and nearly twice that many deployed across the Sahel - the long southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Their commanders say much of the work is training and mentoring Nigerien troops to counter Boko Haram, al-Qaeda affiliated groups and IS-GS. But the investigation made it clear that soldiers were also "conducting operations". The rise of violent extremist groups in the Sahel is leading to a militarisation of the desert. French and American special forces are on a counter-terrorism mission while a 14,000 strong UN force in neighbouring Mali has become the most dangerous UN peacekeeping mission in the world. Human traffickers working the migrant routes to the Mediterranean are providing cover and funding for the terror groups who pay poor, unemployed young men to fight. A potent mix of historical ethnic tensions, population growth, climate change and absent government is allowing Islamists to recruit, radicalise and spread across the Sahara.

كان مقتل أربعة جنود من القوات الخاصة في زاوية صغيرة من النيجر تُعرف باسم تونجو تونجو أكبر خسارة في أرواح العسكريين الأمريكيين في أفريقيا منذ عمليات القتل التي وقعت في الصومال قبل 25 عامًا في حادث "سقوط طائرة بلاك هوك".

كمين الولايات المتحدة في النيجر: كيف انتهت مجموعة من الإخفاقات بالموت

The collision, involving a heavy goods vehicle (HGV), four cars and a lorry tractor unit, happened in Crowthorne Road, Bracknell, Berkshire at about 08:00 BST on Monday. A 56-year-old man, from Thatcham, died at the scene. No-one else was seriously hurt. Thames Valley Police has appealed for witnesses and dashcam footage of the crash. Related Internet Links Thames Valley Police

وفاة سائق شاحنة في حادث تصادم بين عدة مركبات.

وفاة سائق شاحنة في حادث تصادم متعدد المركبات براكنيل

Part of an embankment appears to have been washed away underneath the tracks at Glazebrook, near Warrington, after wet weather, Network Rail said. Some trains have been diverted to an alternative line linking the two cities, via Newton-le-Willows. Northern Rail and Transpennine Express trains are affected. A Network Rail spokesman said: "Engineers are on site to investigate the problem, find out what caused it and put it right so we can get trains running again as soon as possible."

تؤثر عمليات الإلغاء والتأخير على خدمات القطارات بين مانشستر وليفربول بعد إغلاق الخط بسبب الانهيار الأرضي.

الانهيار الأرضي يلغي القطارات بين ليفربول ومانشستر

Nick TriggleHealth correspondent@nicktriggleon Twitter It was meant to have launched in April. But last summer ministers announced it was to be postponed until 2020 amid concerns it would not work given the pressures in the system. Officially it still remains policy, but many doubt it will ever see the light of day - even former Care Minister Norman Lamb, one of the architects of the plan, is in this camp. Instead, they believe it is destined to go down on the long list of failed changes to the system. Find out the cost of care in your area Home care What is home care? You stay in your own home while getting help with everyday tasks such as washing, dressing and eating. How your council helps with care EXPLAINER TITLE average amount of care provided per week, by your council average paid per hour by your council, 2014-15 average paid per hour in your region if you pay for your own care, 2016 Residential care What is residential care? You live in a care home that provides round-the-clock support with everyday tasks. How your council helps with care Average contribution per week Paying for yourself TBC pay for their own care Nursing home care What is nursing home care? You live in a care home which provides round-the-clock support for everyday tasks and nursing care. Depending on your medical needs, the NHS may contribute to your costs. How your council helps with care Average contribution per week Paying for yourself TBC pay for their own care Who gets help? How is your contribution decided? Your home Savings, investments and income are assessed, along with the value of your home - unless you or a close relative live there. Will I have anything left? Want to know more? Around the UK The future of care Useful links The care system has remained more or less unchanged since it was created, along with the NHS, after World War Two, when life expectancy was nearly 10 years shorter than it is now. But people are not only living longer, they are surviving with more complex conditions that require care and support. So just at the time when you would expect the amount of support provided by the government to be rising, it is falling. Councils complain they do not have enough money - the Local Government Association estimates the gap between what they need and what they get will be about £4bn by the end of the decade. That would leave them about a third short of what they need So what can be done? Over the years a variety of suggestions have been put forward. Increases in tax or national insurance contributions could be used to put more money in - and in a way this has already been done, as councils have been given the power to raise council tax to fund care. But already it looks like that will not be enough. Other options include diverting existing spending on pensioner benefits (the winter fuel allowance for example) to go on care. But ministers seem reluctant to tackle that. In the dying days of the Labour government, a plan was drawn up to create a universal care system - giving everyone a minimum entitlement to care. But the Tories leapt on that, suggesting it would be paid for by a "death tax". And it was soon consigned to the bin. There has also been talk of merging the system with the NHS - the budget for which is 10 times more than what councils spend on care. But following Andrew Lansley's changes to the health service, there is little appetite in the corridors of power for more structural upheaval. Instead, the NHS is being encouraged to, in the words of one social care director I spoke to, tinker around the edges by setting up shared budgets under a scheme called the Better Care Fund, currently worth £5bn a year. The result is that councils are left to limp on. Each year, they cut the amount of care they can provide. It leaves people to pay for themselves, rely on family and friends or, increasingly, go without care. Elsewhere in the UK, the devolved governments have tried to offer more generous access to help in the home - it is capped in Wales and provided largely free in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The hope is that it will keep people well - and their costs down. But people still complain they are struggling to get the help they really need. It means those with money are increasingly having to subsidise the government-funded system - people who pay for their own places in care homes pay nearly 50% more on average than the fees councils pay homes. Meanwhile, those without have to rely on family and friends or simply go without. As always, there will be calls for reform. The problem is no-one seems to have a plan. Read more from Nick Follow Nick on Twitter

الغبار المتراكم على الرف في مقر وزارة الصحة في لندن هو خطة لإصلاح نظام الرعاية لمن هم فوق 65 عاما في إنجلترا. إنه السقف الذي تم التبشير به كثيرًا لتكاليف الرعاية، والذي كان جزءًا أساسيًا من بيان حزب المحافظين لعام 2015.

الرعاية: المشكلة لا يمكن لأحد أن يحلها

It said highway crews had dealt with 3,500 potholes following damage caused by severe winter weather. Surrey County Council said crews were sent out as soon as the weather abated to inspect roads and identify which areas were most in need of repair. Twenty-six highway crews were out filling potholes each day, it added. Councillor Ian Lake said: "We can't repair all the potholes immediately but we are working as hard as we can to make sure we fix them as quickly as possible." He urged residents to report any potholes they came across to help speed up the repair process.

كشف مجلس المقاطعة أنه تم إصلاح الحفر في جميع أنحاء ساري بمعدل واحد كل 10 دقائق تقريبًا منذ العام الجديد.

الحفر في سري "يتم إصلاحها كل 10 دقائق"

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نعرض كل أسبوع صورًا تمت مشاركتها معنا من جميع أنحاء أوكسفوردشاير.

الصورة الكبيرة لأوكسفوردشاير

By Lee CarterBBC News, Toronto The issue has injected a spark of interest into a campaign many observers say has been lacklustre, as Canadian voters prepare to head wearily to the polls on 2 May for the fourth time in seven years. The election was triggered by a non-confidence vote in Canada's parliament, which came after Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government was criticised for failing to provide details about several controversial areas of spending, including the budget for new fighter jets. Spending questions seemed to dog Mr Harper's Conservatives again this week. A leaked auditor general's draft report on last summer's G8/G20 summit in Canada alleged the government spent millions of dollars on dubious projects and that parliament was "misled" about the spending. The Conservatives have dismissed the allegations, insisting that the final report will be less damning, and Auditor General Sheila Fraser has said she will not release the final report until after the new parliament is seated. Nevertheless, the controversy has put Mr Harper's campaign on the defensive heading into the debate. The leader of the main opposition Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, will almost certainly seize on the allegations to cast the Harper government as untrustworthy. Questions of honesty But Mr Ignatieff also has a lot to prove in the debates, as the only one of the four leaders fighting an election for the first time. And Conservative advertisements attacking the patriotism of the Liberal leader, who spent much of his career away from Canada, appear to have had some success. Despite an energetic campaign, the author and former political commentator has made little headway in opinion polls, with his party trailing the Conservatives by 8.5 points in a Nanos Research poll released on Tuesday. Allan Bonner, a Toronto-based political consultant, said Mr Ignatieff had to seize the opportunity in the debates to demonstrate that he has leadership qualities and to use the auditor general's report as a "springboard" to raise questions in voters' minds about the Conservatives' honesty and spending. "He needs to show a broader performance, a deeper knowledge of the issues, maybe deliver some soaring rhetoric," Mr Bonner said. Buoyed by what Mr Bonner calls "the power of incumbency", the technocratic Mr Harper has run a cautious, tightly controlled campaign, promising to give a boost to retirement savings accounts and to eliminate the country's budget deficit by 2014. "He's selling himself as a good and diligent but rather dour manager," Mr Bonner said. "We have seen the range of emotions from Stephen Harper running all the way through from L to M in the alphabet and that's probably what we're going to see in the debate." Jockeying for position New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe, who heads the Quebec nationalist party Bloc Quebecois, will also be jockeying for position at the debates. Controversially, the Green Party, led by popular leader Elizabeth May, has been excluded from the forum. Mr Layton, who has recently recovered from a hip operation and a brush with cancer, has conducted a feisty and passionate campaign, promising among other things to secure long-term funding for the country's public healthcare system by increasing corporate taxes. But the latest polling by Nanos Research shows NDP support falling to 16.8% from a high of 19.9% on 15 March. National Post political columnist John Ivison said the Liberals were trying to take advantage of the crowded and divided opposition to attract leftist New Democrat voters. "Their platform is becoming virtually identical to the NDP's," he said. "There's a lot of promises of money for childcare, family care and post-secondary education - all the things NDP voters care about." Toronto swing Mr Ivison also said Canada's largest metropolitan area was a key battleground in the Conservatives' much-vaunted quest to form a majority, after heading a minority government since 2006. Toronto is the country's commercial and financial capital, with a diverse population of more than 5.1 million in the metropolitan area. The city has long been a stronghold for the federal Liberals, who traditionally have been supported by immigrant and ethnic groups. But with the election of a populist right-leaning mayor and shifting voter allegiances, Mr Ivison says the Liberals can no longer take ethnic and immigrant voters for granted. In particular, backing for the Conservatives' supportive Israel policy by the large Jewish communities in York Centre and Eglinton-Lawrence on the northern edge of Toronto could swing the vote, Mr Ivison says. Hockey schedule In addition, Canada's large Chinese community in Toronto and in Vancouver in the west is similarly impressed by Mr Harper's pro-business stance and his government's 2006 apology for a discriminatory head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1885 and 1923, Mr Ivison says. But for all the political parties, voter apathy will be a major problem unless an event like the leaders' debate can breathe life into a listless campaign. Rex Murphy, one of Canada's best known TV and radio political commentators, said the election had been fought over trivial matters rather than substantive issues - the format of the debate and Mr Ignatieff's political style, for example, rather than the global economy, Japan, Libya and energy policy. And as if to illustrate the lack of voter interest, the French-language debate was rescheduled to Wednesday from Thursday to avoid conflicting with the start of the National Hockey League play-offs, a game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins. "All the things of substance and count are evacuated from this campaign," Mr Murphy said. "It's a battle of shadows."

سيشارك زعماء الأحزاب السياسية الأربعة الرئيسية في كندا في أول مناظرتين متلفزتين مساء الثلاثاء، ومن المرجح أن يركز زعماء المعارضة على الاتهامات الجديدة بسوء إدارة الإنفاق التي تستهدف المحافظين الحاليين.

قد تؤدي مناقشة قادة كندا إلى إضفاء الإثارة على الحملة

By Andy GreenWorld Land Speed Record Holder Global interest in Project Bloodhound continues to grow. I've spent a fair bit of the last month overseas, promoting the world's first 1,000mph car, together with Bloodhound's science and technology education programme. Of course, that involves promoting the world class engineering behind this British race car, too. I spent five chaotic days in Brazil, in support of the "GREAT Britain" Campaign. Presentations and press events covered Bloodhound SSC, the UK technology behind it, and our aim to inspire the next generation with the magic of science. I also visited a number of schools and colleges to talk about The Project and our Education Programme. Brazil is keen to reproduce this, as they need engineers just as much as we do. With some 5,500 schools and colleges signed up in the UK, it's already working well over here. If your school isn't taking part already, then sign up to Bloodhound Education here. It's free and it makes science lessons fun - what's not to like? The highlight in Brazil was the Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend, with the GREAT Britain Campaign well-represented. First up was a symposium on F1 in Road Safety. How does that relate to Bloodhound? More easily than you'd think. At some level, all of the presenters, from F1 to DHL to Bloodhound, have the same basic aim: we're all about "speed and safety". I was amazed at just how popular Bloodhound is in Brazil, not only with the schools and technical colleges, but also with the Brazilian TV and press, the F1 circus and even the drivers. Emerson Fittipaldi, who was also speaking at the Road Safety event, wanted an autograph for his kids! Bloodhound really has become a global Engineering Adventure. At the track, I was lucky enough to get a lap in a Porsche 911, and sneaked in a quick bit of "ambush marketing" for the GREAT Campaign. As part of the Campaign, the British Consulate invited a number of visitors to see UK engineering expertise at work, which is exactly what F1 really is. Of the 11 teams racing in the series, no less than eight of them are based in the UK, because, quite simply, we've got the world's best racing engineers. Even a great German technology brand like Mercedes makes its F1 race cars, and its F1 engines, in the UK. Combine that with one of the world's best aerospace industries and you finish up with the world's best Land Speed Record vehicles as well. Bloodhound SSC is just the latest in a long line of world-beaters. I recently had a chance to help promote the UK's aerospace expertise when I was invited to the Dubai Air Show, by Eurofighter and Eurojet. Dubai is an important air show for them, and they wanted something exciting as the focus of their air show reception, so naturally they asked Bloodhound. We're using perhaps the world's best military jet engine, the Eurojet EJ200, so it gave me the perfect chance to thank them in public, in front of an international audience. The choice of engine is not just about how much power it produces. Size and weight are also important, and we also need to think about the amount of fuel it will use (not much for the EJ200 - more of which later). The other big thing for me (given that I'm going to strap myself to it) is its safety record. Bloodhound SSC is aiming for over 1,000mph, which is faster than any jet fighter has ever been at ground level, so we're taking the engine outside its design envelope. A big concern for us is "engine surge", which is a breakdown in the airflow through the engine. This can cause the airflow through the engine to reverse, with the high-pressure gas in the centre of the engine being violently forced out through the engine intake. In simple terms, the engine sneezes. The huge extra pressure of an engine surge can damage the engine intake. Bloodhound's intake is being stressed to survive a surge, but multiple surges could do a lot of harm. If the intake fails, the pressure of the surge will probably explode the car's bodywork as well. That's when it becomes a real problem, as we have no idea what would happen after that. The simple solution is to pick an engine that never surges, whatever you do to it - and that's the EJ200. Back in 2011, while I was deployed with the RAF to support the air campaign over Libya, I saw the RAF's Typhoons fly over 3,000 combat hours, without a single engine problem. That's simply astonishing. I'm very happy that I'll be strapping myself to a jet engine with that kind of reputation. Even when the jet is working normally, Bloodhound's engine intake has to work hard. At 1,000mph, the pressure in the jet intake is around 1.7 Bar (25 psi). The pressure tries to force the two halves of the intake apart with a load of some 29 tonnes. It's also feeding the engine with 75kg of air each second (about 65 cu m/sec). If you want to picture 65 cu m, then compare it with the volume of the average UK house, which is about 200 cubic metres. Bloodhound's jet engine would suck all the air out of the house in three seconds. The intake components are manufactured with a small amount of extra carbon fibre material, so that they are slightly over-sized. This is the only way to guarantee a perfect fit: make them slightly too big and then trim them. The challenge with the intake is trimming the "B" surface (the inside of the intake "tube" is moulded, while the "B" surface is the rough surface on the outside of the tube, hidden inside the bodywork). This "B" surface has to plug into the moulded inner section of the monocoque, above and behind the cockpit. The only way to check the fit is to climb and do it from the inside. We haven't seen much of our expert fabricator, Tufty, recently as he's spent a lot of hours in this small dark space, trimming the world's fastest jet engine intake. URT continues to produce top-class carbon bits for the car, with the mould for the jet engine's fuel tank now completed. It's an odd shape, designed to make full use of the available space underneath the front of the engine. Despite Bloodhound being 13m long, we are using just about every millimetre inside it. The main jet fuel tank holds around 400 litres, which doesn't look much. However, it's enough for a five-minute engine warm-up, a full-power run to supersonic speeds, and then 2-3 minutes cooling down before shut-off. We'll also have two auxiliary tanks further back in the car, just in case, as the performance figures could be a few percent out. After all, no-one has ever done this before and the engine has never been this fast at ground level. The front suspension sub-assembly is well under way at Boeing AMRC in Sheffield. I love the fact that they are using one of the fastest aluminium cutting machines on the planet (spindle speeds of 30,000rpm) to make major parts for the fastest car in the world. We've also had more components arriving for the rear suspension. Bloodhound SSC needs over 3,500 bespoke parts and a steady supply of these from the 250+ companies supporting the project means we can crack on with the assembly. As Chief Mechanic, Chris Dee recently said of our summer 2015 target date to run in South Africa: "Keep the parts coming and we'll beat that!". Go to it guys; the world's waiting to see the finished result. All of the car's 2D titanium skins have now been completed, for the sides of the rear upper chassis. "2D" means they are only curved in one direction, like the surface of a cylinder. The much more difficult bit is right at the back on the Car, where the curves are "3D", like the surface of a large ball. These panels are still made by hand and, for the 3D shapes, are hand-formed to fit a "buck". The buck is made from a series of aluminium sheets, which can be assembled either right or left-handed, so we can use the same buck for both sides. This will - hopefully - make it easier to produce symmetrical panels for both sides. The Hexagon metrology laser will reveal all when we assemble the panels over the next few of months. Meanwhile, this is the last time we will ever see the car's "skeleton" fully assembled. The next time we put it all back together, it will have the skin panels glued and riveted in position, and we'll be getting ready to run it for the first time. Can't wait. The rainy season in the Northern Cape of South Africa has started now, with plenty of rainfall in recent days. This is good news, as every wet season helps to smooth the repair work and track preparations on Hakskeen Pan, in advance of our first runs in 2015. The Northern Cape team probably has around two months of tidying up work left to do next year, moving the piles of stones already cleared from our track and filling the last of the holes left behind. The fastest track on Earth is nearly ready for us. 2013 has been a really good year for Bloodhound. The car is rapidly coming together, and each time I see it there are new parts fitted and more work completed. We've also just signed a couple of major new deals, so 2014 is going to be just as exciting, as we announce some new partnerships and reveal some more technical developments. One, you just heard about - our decision to use a Nammo hybrid rocket system in the car. I'll write more about that next month. I hope you are all looking forward to the New Year as much as we are. In the meantime, have a supersonic Christmas!

يقوم فريق بريطاني بتطوير سيارة قادرة على الوصول إلى سرعة 1000 ميل في الساعة (1610 كم / ساعة). مدعومة بصاروخ مثبت على محرك نفاث من طراز Eurofighter-Typhoon، ستشن المركبة هجومًا على الرقم القياسي العالمي للسرعة الأرضية. سيتم تشغيل Bloodhound على Hakskeen Pan في Northern Cape، جنوب أفريقيا، في عامي 2015 و 2016. يقوم قائد الجناح آندي جرين، صاحب الرقم القياسي العالمي للسرعة الأرضية، بكتابة مذكرات لموقع بي بي سي نيوز حول تجاربه في العمل في مشروع Bloodhound و جهود الفريق لإلهام الاهتمام الوطني بالعلوم والهندسة.

يوميات الكلاب البوليسية: الهندسة البريطانية "العظيمة"

But how exposed to coronavirus might you be in your job? And how does that compare to others? Data from the UK's Office for National Statistics, based on a US survey, puts into context the risk of exposure to disease, as well as the amount of close human contact workers had before social distancing and other safety measures were introduced. See how your job ranks by using the search below. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. How exposed is your job? Enter your job below Can't find your job? Browse full list Rather search by typing? Back to job search Exposure to disease Closeness to other people While most jobs require people to work relatively closely to others - somewhere in the range between arm's length and a shared office environment - there are very few that typically involve exposure to disease more than once a year. It's important to note that the data on both exposure to disease at work and how close people are to others is based on interviews that took place with US workers before the pandemic broke out and social distancing recommendations were introduced. Some jobs may find it easier to adjust than others and there may be slightly different working practices and conditions in the US for certain occupations. The results can be expected to be broadly the same in most developed countries. Almost all the jobs that have a high exposure to both disease and other people are healthcare professions, while those who scored low on both measures include artists, lawyers and those in more typical office jobs like marketing, HR and financial advisers. Cleaners, prison officers and undertakers are among those who have relatively high exposure to disease without so much close interaction with other people. But the people who might be most at risk to a new infectious disease like Covid-19, are those who have lots of close contact with people, but aren't used to being exposed to disease. Bar staff, hairdressers and actors fall into this category, as well as taxi drivers and bricklayers. What do I need to know about the coronavirus? Other figures released by the ONS this week showed that deaths in the healthcare sector in the UK are no higher on average than those in the wider community, although social care workers were dying at higher rates. Given that these healthcare occupations are so exposed to both disease and other people, why have there not been more deaths? This could be because workers in these jobs are more likely to be using personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks and gloves, says Ben Humberstone, deputy director for health analysis at the ONS. They also follow regular hygiene measures like washing hands. One of the jobs which had many more coronavirus deaths than the average was taxi drivers. That's a job which scores highly in terms of closeness to other people, particularly among those jobs which are still actually possible to do at the moment. Bar staff, hairdressers and fitness instructors all score higher, but with bars, gyms and hair salons shut, most of these people will be isolating. As taxi drivers are less exposed to disease in normal times, there may not be an existing culture of regular hand-washing and wearing PPE. Some firms are trialling partition screens and distributing gloves and masks to protect their drivers and customers. Methodology The data in the look-up comes from this release by the ONS. The figures on proximity to others and exposure to disease come from a survey carried out by the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) in which they asked respondents in the US to place themselves on a 1-5 scale for the following two questions. 1. How physically close to other people are you when you perform your current job? 2. How often does your current job require you to be exposed to diseases or infection? For exposure to disease, a score of one means they are never exposed, while a score of five means they are exposed daily. It's referring to any disease, not coronavirus specifically. For the physical closeness question, one means the respondent works more than 100ft away from the nearest other person, while five means they need to touch or be near to touching other people at work. The survey was carried out before social distancing measures were introduced and workers in certain jobs will of course find it easier to adjust than others. The responses for people in the same jobs were averaged together and extrapolated to form a score of 100. We've looked at these scores out of of 100 and given each job a ranking. If any two jobs had the same score we've given them a tied ranking. By Daniel Dunford, Sean Willmott, Marcos Gurgel and Katie Hassell.

يقوم الملايين من العمال بوظائفهم اليومية من أماكن مؤقتة في غرف المعيشة والمطابخ الخاصة بهم، في حين يتم الآن تشجيع أولئك الذين لا يستطيعون العمل من المنزل في إنجلترا على العودة إذا تمكنوا من القيام بذلك بأمان.

فيروس كورونا: ما مدى تعرض وظيفتك للخطر؟

By Anthony ZurcherEditor, Echo Chambers Jackie didn't go to a hospital after the alleged incident, as her friends decided it would adversely affect her- and their - reputations at the school. In 2013, the story continues, Jackie reported her rape to the head of the school's misconduct board, Nicole Eramo. Jackie was presented with the choice of going to the police, beginning a formal complaint or having a mediated session where she could confront her alleged attackers. "Setting aside for a moment the absurdity of a school offering to handle the investigation and adjudication of a felony sex crime - something Title IX requires, but which no university on Earth is equipped to do - the sheer menu of choices, paired with the reassurance that any choice is the right one, often has the end result of coddling the victim into doing nothing," the article's author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, writes. Jackie decided she couldn't go forward. "She badly wants to muster the courage to file criminal charges or even a civil case," Erdley says. "But she's paralysed." The Rolling Stone story expands beyond the one allegation and its subsequent fallout and looks at how the university has handled suspected rape cases over the past decades - including multiple allegations of gang rapes at the fraternity in question, Phi Kappa Psi. Last year, the school discloses, there were 38 reports of sexual assault. Nine became formal complaints, and four resulted in misconduct board hearings. "The other 29 students evaporated," Erdely writes. She adds that 14 students have been found guilty of "sexual misconduct" in the school's history, but none has been expelled. According to Erdely, the most recent student, found to have been responsible for multiple assaults, was suspended for one year. When Erdely asked university president Teresa Sullivan why the university keeps its rape disciplinary proceedings private, she said it would discourage women from coming forward. Jackie tells Rolling Stone she was told by the dean that it's "because nobody wants to send their daughter to the rape school". "At UVA, rapes are kept quiet, both by students - who brush off sexual assaults as regrettable but inevitable casualties of their cherished party culture - and by an administration that critics say is less concerned with protecting students than it is with protecting its own reputation from scandal," Erdely writes. The University of Virginia is one of 86 schools currently under investigation by the Obama administration's Department of Education for their handling of sexual-assault-related complaints. It's also one of 12 schools undergoing a more thorough "compliance review" of its policies for dealing with sexual assault on campus. Fallout from the Rolling Stone article has been swift. Initially, the school placed Phi Kappa Psi "under investigation". The federal judge originally named to head the inquest was later withdrawn after word spread that he was a member of the fraternity in question. As outrage mounted, the fraternity voluntarily suspended itself during the proceedings. In a letter to the Virginia student paper, the fraternity said it had "no specific knowledge" of the magazine's claims, but it would co-operate with authorities. "Make no mistake, the acts depicted in the article are beyond unacceptable - they are vile and intolerable in our brotherhood, our university community and our society," the letter states. On Saturday Sullivan announced that she was suspending all fraternity and sorority activities - involving about 3,500 students - until 9 January and calling on the Charlottesville, Virginia, police to investigate Jackie's allegations. "The wrongs described in Rolling Stone are appalling and have caused all of us to re-examine our responsibility to this community," Ms Sullivan writes in a letter to students. "Rape is an abhorrent crime that has no place in the world, let alone on the campuses and grounds of our nation's colleges and universities." Hundreds marched in protest on Thursday. On Friday morning, the Z Society - one of the university's six secret societies - left a letter and flowers for students at the university's amphitheatre, where students would later gather. "We share in our anger and in our concern, but - what's more - we share in the belief that our community can and must evolve," the letter says. Over the weekend, the Phi Kappa Psi house was vandalised, with windows broken and "UVa Center for Rape Studies" and "Suspend Us" written on the building's wall. An anonymous letter from individuals claiming responsibility for the attack said the incidents will escalate until the university takes more decisive action - including mandatory expulsion for students found guilty of sexual assault and Eramo's resignation. "Rape is not a political issue to be negotiated and discussed with an eye towards gradual improvement," they write. "It is a criminal act of violence that cannot be tolerated." Rolling Stone published a follow-up article on Friday containing excerpts from reader letters to the magazine, including many women who agreed with the assessment that the school fosters a "culture of sexual assault, along with a disdain for those who attempt to report it". The articles - and the ensuing controversy - has led many to once again question the way US universities deal with sexual assault, and the role the Greek system of fraternities and sororities play on campus and college culture in general. "The Rolling Stone story reveals a campus culture in which fraternity houses are widely known as places where girls, especially freshman girls (who are too young to get into bars) are invited inside, gotten drunk, and bedded," writes Rod Dreher for the American Conservative. He compares the university's reaction to that of the Catholic Church after allegations of sexual molestation by priests first began to surface. "The deeper you read into the story, the more clear it is that the University of Virginia's administration has been absolutely and disgustingly derelict for decades, protecting the reputation of the institution at all costs," he writes. He concludes that he would never want his children, male or female, from getting involved in the Greek system: "I do not want my kids, as college students, to be subject to rape, to participate in rape, or to be in a position in which they are pressured to prove their loyalty to their fraternity, their friends, and their university by staying silent about rape." The university isn't the only one at blame, write the editors of the Roanoke, Virginia, News Leader. "The seven fraternity brothers who allegedly perpetrated the 2012 rape were almost certainly raised in educated families of economic means," they write. "Their sense of entitlement was likely high. Did any parent or teacher ever spell out to them the immorality and unacceptability of rape?" The editors of the Roanoke, Virginia, Times call for Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to order a state police investigation, rather than relying on a local investigation. "Cynics could just say the local police have an interest in preserving the reputation of the city's biggest economic driver," they write. "But people would be more inclined to believe state police. Err on the side of trust." Ms Sullivan's initial reaction to the Rolling Stone article was not nearly strong enough, write the editors of the Charlottesville, VA, Daily Progress. "For 48 hours, when the community first needed heartfelt reassurance from the university, that engagement was lacking," they write. "In fact, the word that comes to mind throughout this nightmare is 'disconnect.'" Virginia student Dani Bernstein, writing in the university's student newspaper, says that while Erdely's article exposes the school's deference to fraternities, it paints all Virginia students too broadly. "We cannot deny there is some pervasive culture here that allows abuses to occur," she writes. "But we have undeniably excellent student groups aimed at addressing this very issue." The University of Virginia, founded by President Thomas Jefferson, is often called a "public Ivy" - one of the most prestigious schools in the nation, with a tuition price that's considered a bargain compared to similarly respected private institutions. Now, however, Virginia's reputation - always on the minds of the college's administrators, according to Rolling Stone's report - may be permanently stained. "This UVa campus rape story is just sickening & should make people question going there," tweets Yahoo News editor Garance Franke-Ruta.

الادعاءات الواردة في العدد الأخير من مجلة رولينج ستون مروعة. طالبة جامعية تبلغ من العمر 18 عامًا في جامعة فيرجينيا تحضر حفلًا في إحدى أقدم الأخويات بالمدرسة في خريف عام 2012. "جاكي"، كما يطلق عليها في المقال، مدعوة إلى الطابق العلوي حسب موعدها، حيث تقول إنها اغتصاب جماعي من قبل سبعة إخوة الأخوة.

التحقيق في "ثقافة الاغتصاب" يصدم جامعة فيرجينيا

Wiltshire Police said a suspicious item was found at an address in Anzio Road, Devizes, on Wednesday afternoon. A local man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of possessing an explosive substance. A cordon that was in place was lifted late on Wednesday evening and people were allowed back into their homes.

تم القبض على رجل بسبب حادث أدى إلى إخلاء المنازل واستدعاء فرقة القنابل التابعة للجيش.

القبض على رجل بعد العثور على قطعة مشبوهة في ديفايز

Police have closed parts of the coastal roads at Cobo, Perelle and Rocquaine and drivers have been warned to avoid the areas. Bus services along the west coast have been cancelled because of the conditions. Flooding has also been reported along parts of the east coast, but there are no reports of any major incidents.

تسببت المد والجزر العالية والرياح العاتية في حدوث فيضانات على طول الساحل الغربي لجزيرة غيرنسي.

ضربت الفيضانات السواحل الغربية والشرقية لجزيرة غيرنسي

Made in Leeds is being screened on Freeview and on a local cable network. The channel launched at 20:00 BST and follows the introduction of Sheffield Live in September. Ofcom initially received 57 bids to run channels in the UK and a total of 19 licences were awarded. The first station began broadcasting in Grimsby last November.

تم إطلاق قناة ليدز التلفزيونية المحلية على Freeview والكابل يوم الخميس.

يتم إطلاق قناة Made in Leeds TV على Freeview والكابل

By Jenny HillBBC Berlin correspondent "They may say the economy's thriving but we don't feel it," he says. "The one thing they do right is to keep the migrants out." Not far away, at Hungary's southern border, the wind whips across the steppe, flattens the grass and whistles right up against the vast metal intricacy of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's border fence. Few try to cross it these days. Even so a security patrol crawls, rather menacingly, along its barbed perimeter. What is, for some, all about internal security, also represents this country's decision to prioritise national interest above that of the EU. It's a symbol of defiance. It's also a vote winner. Politics and the migrant crisis "By the end of 2014 the popularity of Fidesz had dropped dramatically and they tried everything. There was no stone left unturned to get this popularity back," says Mark Kekesi, a human rights activist. In spring 2015 the wave of refugees and migrants entering Central Europe via Hungary came as a kind of heavenly gift to Mr Orban and many other politicians in the region. They could exaggerate the potential immigration threats and then appear as saviours. Hungary, of course, wasn't alone in its opposition. It decided, along with Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, to reject EU migrant quotas, angering Brussels and earning the so-called Visegrad Four (V4) a reputation as the union's troublemakers. But their resistance has shone a light on a profound and dangerous division within the club. Not so much a stand-off between East and West but between the older, established member states and the former communist countries which joined in 2004. Read more on this topic: Resentment in Slovakia In the eerie, blue flashing light of a grimy factory in southern Slovakia, welders in overalls bend over huge chunks of metal. One lifts his protective mask to reveal a lined face. During the socialist era, journalist Tibor Macak says, there was more security, more certainty. And now? "Living standards aren't the same as those in other member states. In Germany they earn four times what we get. If we're talking about the European Union, it should be equal." There is resentment, a sense of injustice here - although Slovakia represents the very least of Brussels's problems. Its leader Robert Fico stands shoulder-to-shoulder with his Visegrad counterparts and declares: "I belong to a union of prime ministers who do not wish to see Muslim communities being created in our countries". But that's about as far as his anti-EU rhetoric goes. Conscious perhaps of the relative prosperity that EU membership has brought (French and German car manufacturers are among the foreign investors here), Slovakia is, officially at least, open to closer EU integration. Slovakia is the only member of the V4 in the eurozone. Inside the peculiar upside-down, concrete pyramid that houses Slovakia's national radio station, Tibor Macak says: "Now is the big question: what happens if (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel and (French President) Emmanuel Macron put reform on the table? Slovakia in the majority supports that - it's very clear." Not so its Visegrad neighbours Hungary and Poland. There, further EU integration is viewed with suspicion and resistance. Polish patriots In Poland's rural east, the women of Zambrow gather every week to practise the old village songs. Boots tap, long skirts sway. Jolanta shrugs back her flowered shawl and says: "The most important thing is to prioritise the interests of our fatherland, to support the interest of the Polish people." She recently became a local councillor for the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS). "Most importantly it was patriotism that drove me towards PiS, the patriotism I inherited from my grandparents and parents," she says. PiS, endorsed (in part) by the powerful Catholic Church, has won popular support thanks to generous child benefits and a decision to lower the retirement age. As one mum told me: "All the other parties make promises but they don't deliver. PiS kept their promises." But PiS have enraged the EU and left their country horribly divided. The party's attacks on press freedom, on access to abortion, its decision to continue logging in the ancient Bialowieza forest, in breach of EU law, horrify many Poles. But it was the government's shake-up of the Polish judiciary which brought people out onto the streets in protest and stirred the European Commission into action, triggering Article Seven against a member state for the very first time. The article deals with adherence to the EU's rule of law values. Renate Kim, a journalist based in Warsaw, said "I went to the United States for the elections and when I listened to people, how they believed in what Trump promised them, it was exactly the same as here - 'we'll make Poland strong again, we'll make Poland great again'." "People hear 'we'll be a big country with lots of pride, we won't listen to Brussels and the leftist Brussels politicians' and they like that, because they feel proud of their country again." No wonder, perhaps, PiS MP Dominik Tarcynski said last week that the Polish government would not back down over the reforms, which the EU Commission and independent experts argue flout the rule of law. Brussels is unlikely to withdraw the country's voting rights - it needs unanimous the approval of all member states and Hungary has signalled support for its neighbour. Viktor Orban's increasingly authoritarian rule, his shift towards a self-styled "illiberal state", also flies in the face of EU values. There are voices within the EU which hint at hitting both Poland and Hungary where it hurts most - by reducing their EU funding. This week Ms Merkel issued a veiled threat with regard to the next EU budget. "In the next distribution of structural funds," she said, "we need to redefine the allocation criteria to reflect the preparedness of regions and authorities to receive and integrate migrants."

قال لي ساندور، عامل تنظيف النوافذ، وهو يبتسم بمرح وهو يمسح ممسحته بدقة عبر الواجهة الزجاجية لمتجر النظارات، إنه لا يفكر كثيرًا في حزب فيدس الحاكم في المجر.

القومية في قلب أوروبا تحتاج إلى الاتحاد الأوروبي

The council's planning committee has approved a programme which will build 1,600 new homes and refurbish more than 1,200 in Pendleton. Its first phase begins later this year and will end in 2016. Earlier this year planning permission was granted to expand the Salford Shopping City in Pendleton. Phase one of the plan, from consortium SP+, includes building about 300 new homes and refurbishing 1,253 properties, including the area's nine tower-blocks, with new kitchens, bathrooms and windows. The full project also includes changes to Clarendon Park and other green spaces, new walkways and cycle paths, a community farm, an extra care facility, new shopping promenade and new sports pitches at the Fit City development. In summer 2011 Shopping City in Pendleton was the focal point for rioting and looting.

أعطى أعضاء المجلس في سالفورد الضوء الأخضر لمشروع بقيمة 430 مليون جنيه إسترليني لتجديد جزء من المدينة الذي عانى أكثر من غيره في أعمال الشغب العام الماضي.

يدعم مجلس سالفورد تجديد بندلتون بقيمة 430 مليون جنيه إسترليني

By Sooraj ShahTechnology of Business reporter He's talking about the scammers and criminals that inhabit the "dark web" who have found a new angle - anxiety over Covid-19. Mr Wright, who is now chief security adviser at security software company SentinelOne, used to teach behavioural analysts at the US National Security Agency (NSA) about the exploitation of human behaviour. He is now seeing some of those techniques being used on the dark web, an encrypted part of the internet that can be accessed using popular networks such as Tor. The Tor browser is privacy-focused, meaning it can obscure who is using it and what data is being accessed. It offers bad actors a way to operate with a degree of impunity, as law enforcement find it much more difficult to track down criminals that use it. What is Tor? Tor is a way to access the internet that requires software, known as the Tor browser, to use it. The name is an acronym for The Onion Router. Just as there are many layers to the vegetable, there are many layers of encryption on the network. It was originally designed by the US Naval Research Laboratory, and continues to receive funding from the US State Department. It attempts to hide a person's location and identity by sending data across the internet via a very circuitous route involving several "nodes" - which, in this context, means using volunteers' PCs and computer servers as connection points. Encryption applied at each hop along this route makes it very hard to connect a person to any particular activity. To the website that ultimately receives the request, it appears as if the data traffic comes from the last computer in the chain - known as an "exit node" - rather than the person responsible. Since the beginning of the global pandemic, marketplaces on the dark web have seen a rise in Covid-19 related products and services. Sought-after N95 masks, gowns, gloves and the drug chloroquine have all been listed on these marketplaces. Last month, security software firm IntSights found blood allegedly belonging to recovered coronavirus patients was even being offered for sale. Criminals hope a heightened sense of fear will make people rush to buy these products, and as a result these items are not cheap; an Australian Institute of Criminology report found the average fake vaccine was being sold for about $370 (£300), while one supposedly sourced from China was selling for between $10-15,000 (£8-12,000). One of the reasons for the rise in such sales may be because many fraudsters are having to turn from their normal methods of making money on the dark web - such as selling fake flights booked using stolen airmiles - because these industries are currently dormant. Many criminals also see an opportunity - as the majority of people are working from home, there is a greater chance of lax cyber security in place. "There was suddenly a huge shift [on the dark web] of talking about vulnerabilities in collaboration software when they realised people were going to be working from home," says IntSights chief security officer Etay Maor. More Technology of Business Phishing scams have also been on the rise. These are where fraudsters pretend to be a different organisation or person by email, hoping the person will provide some login details or personal data, which can then be used to steal money or someone's identity. "The phishing attacks started with those pretending to be from the NHS, and then extended to secondary organisations that are related to Covid-19 like banks or HMRC emailing about funding, grants or being furloughed," says Javvad Malik, security advocate at training company KnowBe4. "Now there are Covid-19 related phishing templates making their way into all of the phishing kits that are available on the dark web - meaning people can imitate Apple or LinkedIn with a set of standard templates," he adds. In addition, many services and products, including phishing kits are being offered at discount in "coronavirus sales". "There are people who have been specialising in phishing pages, shady VPNs or spamming services for a number of years, who are now offering discounts because they believe it's the best time to make money and spread these kits," says Liv Rowley, threat intelligence analyst at Blueliv, a computer and network security firm. The dark web was designed by the US Naval Research Laboratory, with the idea of enabling human rights activists and people within the military to talk and collaborate in a secure, anonymous way. While the introduction of bitcoin enabled criminals to make money on the dark web, there remains a huge number of users that opt to use it for its initial purpose - speaking to others anonymously on forums. According to Mr Malik, these forums have often been used to fuel conspiracy theories around the virus. "Conspiracies about 5G being the vehicle of this virus, or bioweaponry or that Bill Gates is the man behind it tend to crop up on the dark web," he says. As social media companies and other news outlets crack down on misinformation, many others may be pushed onto the dark web. These forums often act as a gateway to marketplaces, for people to plug their products or services to a targeted audience. This could be a way for fraudsters to make further money in the months to come. The flipside to this is that many journalists, activists and citizens may be using the dark web to communicate in countries where there is a lot of censorship. Tor versions of many news outlets, including the BBC and New York Times, may be used if the original sites are blocked by governments or states, for instance. Netblocks, a digital rights advocacy group says that many countries have cut access to the web in different ways, as they seek to control the flow of information about the coronavirus outbreak. Two ransomware groups had said they would not attack any hospitals or healthcare organisations during the pandemic, but as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab outlined in a recent press briefing, there is evidence that criminal gangs are actively targeting national and international organisations that are responding to the pandemic - including hospitals. "These organisations are targeted because of how vulnerable they are at this time and because of the likelihood that a ransom would be paid," says Charity Wright, cyber threat intelligence adviser at IntSights. The co-ordination and orchestration of many of these attacks often begin on the dark web. "We are seeing more offerings on the dark web specifically for healthcare-related information and for targeting healthcare facilities and doctors. There's even a database someone has created on the dark web with all kinds of information about medical staff," says Etay Maor from IntSights. At its core, the dark web may still be being used for the same reasons it was intended to be used for - from a privacy and security perspective. But criminals are using this to try to exploit a global crisis for financial gain. "That's the double-edged sword that as a society we haven't quite worked out: how do we safeguard freedom of speech and ensure privacy, but at the same time track down and stop people abusing those freedoms?" says Javvad Malik.

يقول مورجان رايت، المستشار الكبير السابق: "إنهم يستغلون الخوف وعدم اليقين والشك الذي يعاني منه الناس أثناء الوباء، ويستخدمون القلق واليأس لحمل الناس على شراء أشياء أو النقر على أشياء لم يكن من الممكن أن يحصلوا عليها لولا ذلك". لبرنامج المساعدة في مكافحة الإرهاب التابع لوزارة الخارجية الأمريكية.

يستغل محتالو الويب المظلم الخوف والشك من فيروس كورونا

At its height, Kellingley employed more than 2,000 workers and its closure brought to an end centuries of deep coal mining in Britain. Known locally as the Big K, the largest deep pit in Europe was hailed as the new generation of coal mining. Its miners could bring up to 900 tonnes an hour to the surface. Two shafts descend some 2,600ft (800m) underground where, from the bottom, miners travelled about five miles on small battery-powered trains in 30C heat before lying chest down on a conveyor belt to reach the coalface. Now many of the former subterranean workers find themselves in a totally different environment. Shaun McLoughlin, former Colliery Manager at Kellingley, who now works at the National Coal Mining Museum "The last few months were really difficult; the whole mine was under a lot of pressure to get finished on time, which they did. "It was a great relief when we finally finished and closed the mine on a successful plan. "Originally, it was very difficult because I have come into a museum business; the pace of life is a lot slower and relaxed but I've acclimatised and am really enjoying it. "It took months to finally relax from under the pressure and stress I was under. "I've still got a garage full of Kellingley mementoes; lots of guys have donated lots of their artefacts and memorabilia. "After 39 years of mining I thought I knew everything about mining. Once I came here I realised I know nothing about mining. It's a big learning curve for me, catching up with the historical aspects of mining. "It's a totally new life for me and I'm enjoying it." Josh Young, one of the last miners taken on at Kellingley, has applied for a visa to go to Australia to work in the mines there "We got promised 20 years and we only managed two - I left my job as an electrician to work in the pit. "It's made me want to carry it on, I've applied for my visa to move to Australia. "The camaraderie of working underground is a great environment to work in. "It's what my family has done - my dad was a miner, both my granddads were, and it's just something I really want to carry on doing. "Within that two years I realised that's the job I want to do for the rest of my life. There is nowhere else in this country to carry it out. "The guys take you under their wing and look after you, make sure you are working safe constantly. "It's not an easy job but working with so many people, no matter how hard that job is, you get on with it and forget how hard it is." Rob Cheney has started his own conveyer belt business "The first four months was really hard; we didn't know how to advertise properly or get in touch with customers. Since then it has really picked up. "It is totally different to what it was like underground. "It is a totally different way of life out here, there's a lot more fresh air for one. I was proud to be a miner and used to love telling people what I did. We're doing this because we can't be coal miners. "Working at the pit learnt us a lot about working in a team and you never lose what you learnt down pit. "People have given us a chance as a business and let us show them what we can do. "A few lads from the pit have come on other jobs to help me; we all stick together still." Nigel Kemp is claiming a reduced pension - Kellingley was the only place he had ever worked "Most of the guys that have had to get a job have found some success, some are still pottering about. "Some of the lads have been set on and then laid off after 10 months but that's the reality now - people don't want to employ you for 35 years like most of us have been. "I am lucky enough I was 50 years old when I finished so I could get a little bit of my pension, albeit reduced, and I can go out there and select work. "I've applied for a couple of jobs but my skills aren't transferrable, so I've been told."

غادر آخر عمال مناجم الفحم العميق في بريطانيا مناوبتهم النهائية قبل عام واحد. التقت بي بي سي نيوز ببعض من الرجال الـ 450 الذين عملوا في منجم كيلينجلي كوليري، في شمال يوركشاير، لمعرفة كيف تطوروا بعد أن فقدوا وظائفهم.

كيلينجري كوليري: كيف انتقل عمال المناجم إلى الأمام؟

By Stuart HughesBBC News, Windsor, Ontario In the basement of his father's home in Windsor, Ontario, Adam Maier-Clayton lays out orange prescription bottles full of pills. They contain just some of the medication that doctors have given him to treat his mental health condition. In a video posted on YouTube, he lists the anti-depressants, mood stabilisers and tranquilisers he's taken, as well as "lots and lots of therapy". Adam's mental health problems first emerged in childhood. He suffered from obsessive thoughts, depression and anxiety. Later, as a talented soccer player and prolific goal scorer, he'd bind his fingers with tape to try to stop his physical tics from distracting him from his game. But after experimenting with cannabis for the first time at the age of 23, Adam's symptoms worsened significantly. "Man, it knocked him right off his tracks," his father Graham told me. "He was in and out of hospital for six or seven days. He suffered depersonalisation, a kind of 'other worldliness.' Doctors thought it was just a temporary effect of the drug - but it brought about a permanent change in him and things started to go downhill from there on." Adam began experiencing crippling physical pain throughout his body. He described the experience as akin to being "burned with acid". Any kind of cognitive activity, such as reading, writing or even talking for more than a short time, made the pain worse and left him incapacitated for hours afterwards. He was diagnosed with Somatic Symptom Disorder, a psychiatric condition characterised by physical complaints that aren't faked but can't always be traced to a known medical illness. In June 2016, as Adam's bouts of pain were becoming ever more frequent and debilitating, Canada's federal parliament passed a landmark piece of legislation. The law is called Bill C-14. It legalises physician-assisted suicide, provided certain strict criteria are met. "C-14 allows people who are broadly conceived to be at the end of life, who are 18 years old or older, who suffer from a serious disease or disability, who have irreversible decline in capabilities and who suffer unbearably to obtain medical assistance in dying - basically a doctor or a nurse who will be able to end their lives," explains Trudo Lemmens, Professor of Health Law and Policy at the University of Toronto. The boundaries permitting assisted suicide under Bill C-14 are deliberately narrow in scope - and exclude people suffering solely from a mental illness who aren't also grievously and terminally ill. Adam Maier-Clayton believed the law was ambiguous, unconstitutional and discriminatory. Convinced his condition was untreatable, he began a vocal campaign of media activism, arguing that Canada should follow the example of Belgium and the Netherlands. In those countries, people who believe their lives have become intolerable because of severe mental illness can seek permission to receive lethal drugs with a doctor or nurse's help. "Every Canadian deserves this right, the right to have the ability to terminate pain that is chronic, incurable," he told the Canadian Press in September last year. But in cases of psychiatric illness, critics say, determining whether a person's condition is chronic and incurable isn't clear-cut. "If we provide adequate mental healthcare, the majority of people will recover in a way that provides them with quality of life," argues Professor Lemmens. "Yes, some people people will continue to suffer. Yes, some people will likely commit suicide - but at the outset we don't know who are the people who will not recover. That's very hard to determine." 'We need to be careful' Dr Michael Bach agrees. He's executive director of IRIS, a Toronto-based institute that works to improve the rights of people with disabilities. He's not totally opposed to euthanasia, but fears a creeping inevitability should the criteria for assisted suicide be widened. Once assisted suicide is made available to people with mental health problems, he says, more and more people are likely to be drawn to it before all their treatment options have been exhausted. "To suggest that we can remediate suffering by terminating a life is a very strange logic," Dr Bach told me. "We need to be careful not to provide an 'out' to tough situations. "I don't want to say that we shouldn't do everything we can to minimise personal suffering. But we can't expect of medicine that we're going to eradicate suffering from life. Somehow that has emerged as the social and medical and political project." Pro-euthanasia campaigners in Canada argue otherwise. They point to a Supreme Court decision from 2015 in the case of Carter v Canada, which they say makes no reference to terminal illness as one of the core criteria for a medically assisted death. "The Supreme Court justices in that decision could have at any time put 'terminal illness' or 'imminently dying' as part of the decision - they did not," says Shanaaz Gokool, chief executive of Dying with Dignity Canada. "What they looked at was the person, and the level and degree of suffering that they may have, that may be physical or psychological or psychiatric in nature. "And so from that decision our Supreme Court justices said that, yes, there is a role here to ensure that people who have grievous and irremediable medical conditions, that cause them enduring and intolerable suffering for which there is no remedy acceptable to the person as long as they're an adult and they're clearly consenting, should be able to have an assisted death," Gokool says. Medically assisted dying for people with mental health problems is currently the subject of one of three reviews being carried out by the Council of Canadian Academies. A report is due before the end of next year, although its findings will be advisory and not binding on any future changes to legislation by Ottawa's lawmakers. 'I am my own saviour' The review, though, will come too late for Adam Maier-Clayton. On April 13th he drove to a motel just off Highway 401, ate breakfast, and then took his own life. He was 27. In his final Facebook post he wrote: "I am my own saviour. Always have been. Always will be." Following his death, Graham Clayton plans to continue his son's activism by campaigning for an extension of Canada's assisted suicide laws to include people with enduring mental illnesses. "Adam didn't believe in suicide. He believed in suicide prevention," Mr Clayton told me. "For the overwhelming majority of people there's hope. The research has been done. The medical treatment is there. If they have to go through a variety of different treatments and drug therapies to find what works, fine. Hang in there and stay the course. "But when you know that you're in such a dire situation and the science hasn't been done it should be your call when you've had enough. "If you're so inclined you should be able to ask for help - help in ending the pain." Where to get help If you are depressed and need to ask for help, there's advice on who to contact at BBC Advice. From Canada or US: If you're in an emergency, please call 911. If you or someone you know is suffering with mental-health issues, call Kids Help Phone at 1-800-668-6868. If you're in the US, you can text HOME to 741741 From UK: Call Samaritans on 116123 or Childline on 0800 1111

قبل عام، شرّعت كندا الانتحار بمساعدة طبية للأشخاص المصابين بأمراض مزمنة والذين يقتربون من الموت. لكن نشاط أحد الرجال أجبر كندا على طرح أسئلة صعبة ومثيرة للجدل حول القيود المفروضة على حق الفرد في الموت.

حملة آدم ماير كلايتون المثيرة للجدل من أجل الحق في الموت

PC Sunil Narr, 31, from the West Midlands force, is charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. At Birmingham Magistrates Court on Thursday, he was granted unconditional bail. The charge relates to an incident in Hillfields, Coventry, when a man was detained following a police pursuit. PC Narr has not been suspended, but "taken off front line duties", West Midlands Police says. He is due to appear before Birmingham Crown Court on 22 November. Related Internet Links HM Courts & Tribunals Service - GOV.UK West Midlands Police

مثل ضابط شرطة أمام المحكمة متهمًا بالاعتداء على رجل زُعم أنه ضُرب على رأسه بهراوة.

ضابط شرطة في المحكمة بتهمة "الاعتداء بالهراوات" في كوفنتري

Mark D'ArcyParliamentary correspondent The published Commons agenda sees two days of debate on the UK Internal Market Bill, but there's a sense that developments relating to the pandemic are now moving pretty fast, so watch out for ministerial statements and urgent questions about the government's response. On the Internal Market Bill, the government seems to have defused the backbench Tory rebellion in the Commons, with an offer of a further vote before powers to override international law come into effect. But in the Lords, which takes its committees seriously, the bill may be a harder sell for ministers. The Lords EU Environment Sub-Committee has accused Environment Secretary George Eustice of failing to acknowledge concerns over possible checks and controls on goods moving from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland if the UK and EU fail to strike a trade deal. The committee has also warned about the possible impact on all-Ireland supply chains, as well as what it called the "challenging timetable" to implement the Northern Ireland Protocol part of the UK's withdrawal agreement. Fireproof bill? That's just one committee - the verdict of others, like the Constitution Committee and the Delegated Powers Committee, could stoke up pressure for a hostile amendment of some kind, when the bill comes before their Lordships. The Constitution Committee is organising panels of experts to give evidence on the legal and devolution implications next week. The Lords could yet make changes and bounce the bill back to MPs. There's been much talk of the 1945 Salisbury Convention making the bill fireproof. But that agreement, reached after the Attlee landslide, was a guarantee that peers (there was then a Conservative majority in the Lords) would not seek to block a bill promised in an election manifesto, at second or third reading stage; it does not preclude amendments the government does not like in between. Meanwhile, the Lords could see the first serious attempt to challenge a pandemic regulation. The Lib Dem Baroness Grender has a "Prayer to Annul" down against the latest regulations intended, in line with a government promise, to prevent people who've fallen into rent arrears during the pandemic facing court proceedings for eviction. She's concerned that a major loophole would potentially allow tens of thousands of eviction cases to go ahead, where they were started between March and August. The exact number of people affected is not clear, and she put down a number of, so far unanswered, parliamentary questions to find out. But with claims that 200 extra district judges and tribunal judges were being hired to hear extra eviction cases, she believes the number is substantial. Some cases may deal with anti-social behaviour, or result from rent arrears built up before the pandemic hit, but there are fears that the regulations could also trigger a wave of no-fault evictions. Labour, in the shape of justice spokesperson Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, have a Regret Motion down against the regulations, but Baroness Grender's Prayer to Annul is a rarely-used device which would actually strike them down, something that hasn't happened since the 1970s. It may be that the government offers assurances, over the next few days, which persuade her not to push it to a vote, but otherwise this would mark the first attempt to strike down a pandemic regulation. Here's my rundown of the coming week: Monday 21 September The Commons week begins at 14:30 BST with an hour of Defence Questions - with the inevitable one or two urgent questions or ministerial statements to follow. Then comes the key section of the committee stage consideration of the Internal Market Bill, when MPs deal with the Northern Ireland provisions. There will be debate on the controversial sections, including amendments to delete them, but not the vote on the government's compromise amendment, tabled last week in response to a promised amendment from senior Tory MP Sir Bob Neill. This is because that amendment deals with the commencement of the power to override the Northern Ireland Protocol, so, while it will be debated, it does not get voted on until Tuesday, when MPs consider the final clause, the commencement clause, which says when the new law comes into effect. There's an interesting adjournment debate with Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner raising the implications of the foreign acquisition of Cambridge-based technology company Arm Holdings for £31bn. The company is a global leader in designing chips for smartphones, computers and tablets, and he will be will be pressing ministers to explain the government's thinking on whether to refer the takeover to the Competition and Markets Authority. He will also press for government guarantees about jobs in Cambridge, maintaining the HQ and research base there, and securing an exemption from US rules which give the US government extraordinary powers over businesses using ARM-designed chips. On the Committee Corridor, no fewer than four delegated legislation committees will be processing a vast list of regulations, mostly concerned with the pandemic. These include restrictions on gatherings and requirements to wear facemasks, plus the rules for local lockdowns in Leicester and elsewhere, although one is the new regulation to cap public sector redundancy payments at £95,000. The Public Accounts Committee (14:30) takes evidence on selecting towns for the Towns Fund, which aims to provide a selection of struggling towns across England with funding to address issues such as ageing populations, limited regional economic opportunities and lack of investment. There had been concern about the transparency of the process. In the Lords, (12.00) crossbencher Baroness Cox will question ministers on a recent parliamentary report about violence against Christians in Nigeria. Other questions cover financial support to retailers unable to access the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme because of the EU's state aid rules, government guidance to health care providers about appropriate treatment to different patient age groups, and the number of probation staff needed to implement the Probation Workforce Strategy. The day's legislating is the second reading of the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill - which is designed to ensure that the sentences served by terrorists reflect the severity of offending, and strengthen the tools for monitoring them in the community. Tuesday 22 September The Commons opens (11:30) with Justice Questions - where the subject of the day's main event may come up in some pointed questions to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland. Conservative Jonathan Gullis will introduce the day's ten-minute rule bill, which would change the Town and Country Planning Act to allow unlimited fines against rogue private land owners who allow their property to fall into ruin. At the moment, he argues the £1,000 fine available to the courts is so low that it puts local authorities off court action against them. And then MPs move on to the final day of committee stage scrutiny of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill, although there will be two days set aside for report stage consideration and third reading, where some of these battles may be re-fought. There's a lot of action on the Committee Corridor: Environment Secretary George Eustice and his permanent secretary, Tamara Finkelstein, are before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (14:30). The Treasury Committee (09:30) takes evidence on UK customs policy, with witnesses from the Institute of Directors, Logistics UK and the Port of Dover. Foreign Affairs (14:30) talks to Koji Tsuruoka, former Japanese ambassador to the UK, and Singaporean Ambassador-at-Large Chan Heng Chee about an ongoing review of UK foreign policy. Justice (14:30) has a session on the future of the probation service, with evidence from the Chief Inspector of Probation, Justin Russell, and others working in rehabilitation. International Development (14:30) discusses the next steps in addressing sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector. In the Lords (12:00), questions to ministers cover the recovery and diversification of the UK oil and gas industry supply chain, diversity in the creative industries during the pandemic and further devolution in England. Then peers move on to the third day of report stage consideration of the Agriculture Bill, which will see key votes on a series of amendments intended to prevent imported foodstuffs undercutting the animal welfare and hygiene requirements on UK farms. There are rather similar-looking amendments from Labour's Lord Grantchester, a rare beast in the Labour world as an actual farmer, with dairy herds (insert jokes about "Moo Labour" here) and the former NFU stalwart Lord Clark, which would give the Trade and Agriculture Commission set up by the government a veto over trade deals which did not protect UK standards. And there's also an amendment from Labour's Baroness Jones, requiring the government to set targets for reducing the climate change emissions created by agriculture. The government has already suffered one defeat on the bill - a 50-vote loss on an earlier amendment from Baroness Jones on linking financial assistance to agriculture to environmental targets. Wednesday 23 September Commons business opens (11:30) with half an hour of Women and Equalities Questions, followed at noon by Prime Minister's Question Time. The day's ten-minute rule bill, from the Conservative MP James Daly, is about ensuring that healthy or curable animals are not put down, or their bodies disposed of, without having their microchips checked; it reflects two local campaigns in his constituency. The first "Gizmo's Law" followed the case of a cat named Gizmo which was killed by a car. The body was destroyed by the local council without checking the microchip, which would have allowed Gizmo's owner to handle to burial. The bill aims to ensure that no deceased cat can be cremated without all attempts being made to reunite it with its owner. The second, Tuk's law, is named after a rescue dog named Tuk who was taken to a vet and euthanised without his back-up rescue being contacted. The bill aims to make it a legal requirement that vets are required to scan for rescue backup contact details (i.e. a former owner or the breeder) and contact them to enquire as to whether they would like to take ownership of the pet and also to confirm the person presenting the animal is registered as the owner, before putting down a healthy or treatable animal. Then MPs turn to the second reading of the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill, which would provide greater legal protections to armed forces personnel and veterans who have served or are serving on military operations overseas. It will create a new 'triple lock' to ensure that the pressures placed on them during overseas operations will be taken into account when prosecution decisions are made about alleged historical offences. First, there will have to be "exceptional" circumstances to justify prosecutions for alleged offences more than five years ago, plus a requirement for prosecutors to give particular weight to certain matters in reaching decisions in such cases, and a requirement for the permission of the attorney general or, in the case of Northern Ireland, the advocate general, before a prosecution can proceed. There will also be a six-year limit on civil actions relating to historical allegations. Critics like the pressure group Redress say the bill risks creating impunity for serious offences including torture, and will put the UK in breach of international treaty obligations. Committee sessions There's plenty of committee activity: Northern Ireland Affairs (09:30) takes evidence from a series of academic experts on the Northern Ireland Protocol; Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (09:30) hears from more experts on the post-Brexit trade talks, and Home Affairs takes evidence on counter-extremism and counter-terrorism . The Treasury Committee (14:30) hears evidence on infrastructure from Sir John Armitt, the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission and others. And Science and Technology (14:00) looks at a new UK research funding agency. In the Lords (12:00), ministers field questions on the conditions in Uighur internment camps in Xinjiang in China, government plans to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the algorithm to determine this year's A-level results. Then come the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) (Coronavirus) Rules and the prayer to annul from Baroness Grender, (see above). Lord Keen of Elie was due to reply to this debate - but given he has quit his government post, a locum will have to be found. Peers will also be asked to approve the Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2020, which increases the fees towards the NHS paid by non-EEA nationals from £400 to £624. The fee is not paid by certain groups covered by exemptions. Thursday 24 September The Commons opens (09:30) with forty minutes of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Questions, followed by questions to the Attorney General, Suella Braverman. Normally this is quite a low-key affair, but given the controversy over the UK Internal Market Bill, it may well be rather more lively than usual. Then comes the weekly Business Statement from the Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg. That is followed by three debates selected by the Backbench Business Committee. These cover the situation in Yemen, the settlement of the occupied Palestinian Territories, and the Rohingya humanitarian crisis and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the Committee Corridor, Environmental Audit (09:00) has a session on tackling climate change as part of the post-Covid recovery. In the Lords (12:00), former chair of the Metropolitan Police, Lord Harris of Haringey, will ask about the impact on the delivery of the new Emergency Services Network of the decision to ban Huawei equipment from the UK's 5G network. Other questions cover a Troubles-related victims payment scheme in Northern Ireland, and mental health services for young people during the pandemic. Peers should then polish off the report stage of the Agriculture Bill, before moving on to debate the regulations underpinning various local lockdowns across England, covering Leicester, Blackburn with Darwen, and Bradford. Friday 25 September The Commons meets at 09:30 to debate private members' bills. First up is a bill from Labour MP Darren Jones, with the second reading of his Forensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy Bill. Forensics services are provided to the police by private sector companies (the Coalition fully privatised the service), but the Forensics Regulator doesn't have the legal powers to require them to meet standards, or to impose fines if they don't. The Regulator has warned that the poor quality of forensic services in the UK is having a direct effect on successful prosecutions - so the bill has government support. Next, the SNP's Dr Philippa Whitford has the second reading of her Public Interest Disclosure (Protection) Bill - a whistle-blower protection measure she has previously proposed as a ten-minute rule bill. It would establish an independent body that would set, monitor and enforce standards on how whistleblower cases are handled, and replace the Public Interest Disclosure Act, which, she argues, is no longer fit for purpose. After that come a series of bills proposed by Private Members Bill frequent flyer, Sir Christopher Chope. He's one of the group of Conservative backbenchers who sleep over in the Public Bill Office every year, to be first in the queue to get their proposed measures onto the order paper, with the chance of getting some debating time in the chamber, behind the bills that win places in the annual private members' bill ballot. Magistrates' retirement age His proposals include the Illegal Immigration (Offences) Bill, the Border Control Bill and the Foreign Nationals (Criminal Offender and Prisoner Removal) Bill, among others. Its possible they might get a short debate at the fag-end of the day. Behind that on the list are a series of measures floated as ten-minute rule bills or presentation bills which have no real prospect of getting discussed, still less voted on. But keep half an eye on the Magistrates (Retirement Age) Bill, from the Conservative Edward Timpson. It is whispered that the Ministry of Justice would like to get the increase in the retirement age it proposes into law - but that would require it to be given a formal second reading without objection, when the title of the bill is read out at the close of business at 14:30. That in turn would require Conservative awkward squaddies like Chris Chope to be persuaded not to object - might a deal be done? In the Lords (11.00), peers debate another job lot of Coronavirus regulations.

هل سيهيمن Covid-19 أو UKIMB هذا الأسبوع؟

الأسبوع المقبل في البرلمان

A man in his 60s was struck on the A38 in Wychbold, Worcestershire, on Monday. It was thought an altercation may have earlier taken place on the M5 southbound, police said. The pedestrian is thought to have been driving a van beforehand. The arrested man, in his 50s, has been released on bail until mid-September pending further enquiries. Emergency services were called to the A38 under the bridge for the M5 shortly before 16:30 BST on Monday. An Eddie Stobart HGV lorry was believed to have been in a collision, West Mercia Police said. Related Internet Links West Mercia Police

تم إطلاق سراح رجل تم احتجازه للاشتباه في ارتكابه جريمة قتل بعد أن صدمته شاحنة أحد المشاة، بكفالة.

تم إطلاق سراح رجل تم القبض عليه على الموت بكفالة بعد تحطم شاحنة في Wychbold

Magazine MonitorA collection of cultural artefacts Now Magazine suggested last summer that Kate might want "back-to-back babies". The idea being that you can have your children in a single batch lasting just a few years and then move on. Women starting a family in their 30s might not have the luxury of spacing their children out. For the mother's health, two to three years is "probably perfect" says Sarah Jarvis, a GP who regularly appears on the BBC's Jeremy Vine Show. A woman goes through a lot giving birth, especially if they breastfeed afterwards. In nutrition terms, it takes a year to recover, says Jarvis. They will need to have time to rebuild their pelvic floor, she continues. Two years is good because it gives a bit of leeway. And anything over three years may be too long as it can cause sibling rivalry, Jarvis suggests. Some parents talk of two years as being ideal. If you plan ahead, it means siblings will be approaching A-levels and GCSEs at the same time - allowing the family to have an intensive "exam" year, followed by a year off. There are pros and cons with any gap, says Justine Roberts, who co-founded Mumsnet. She once read of research suggesting that the ideal age gap for developing a child's intelligence is 11 years as the older child becomes like a third parent. But that's not practical or desirable for many. At the other extreme, having children one year or less apart is likely to be a huge strain. The advantage of having babies close together is that your children will play together and become close, developing shared interests, Roberts suggests. But having a new baby while you have a toddler is hard work. "It depends how your set up is, how drained you'll be." Luckily for the Duchess of Cambridge, childcare should not be a problem. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

ومن المتوقع أن تلد دوقة كامبريدج في ربيع عام 2015. وقد أنجبت طفلها الأول، الأمير جورج، في 22 يوليو 2013، مما يعني أنه ستكون هناك فجوة تبلغ حوالي 20 شهرًا بين الطفلين، تزيد أو تنقص. بضعة أسابيع.

الطفل الملكي: فجوة السنتين – هل هي مثالية؟

The series returns to Channel 4 on 28 August for a second year after moving from the BBC. The presenters and judges remain the same as last year, with Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig back for another year of puns. Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith will also be on hand to judge the best bakes. Meet the contestants The new series of The Great British Bake Off, hosted by Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, will begin on Channel 4 on August 28 at 8pm. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

منسق أغاني تكنو وعالم أبحاث ومصرفي هم ثلاثة فقط من المتسابقين الذين يتنافسون على جائزة Great British Bake Off لهذا العام.

تم الكشف عن المتسابقين البريطانيين العظماء في برنامج Bake Off لعام 2018

The rhea, similar to an ostrich, escaped from a paddock in Chilton Polden at about 23:00 BST on Tuesday. An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said the bird was "not usually aggressive, but we'd advise people to call us if they see it". He said the pet bird was grey and about 5ft (1.52m) tall.

تحذر الشرطة الناس من الاقتراب من طائر كبير غير قادر على الطيران فُقد في منطقة سومرست.

تحذر الشرطة من ضرورة تجنب هروب الطيور الكبيرة في مستويات سومرست

By Manuel RuedaBogotá, Colombia But her campaign ended abruptly last year when hooded men burst into her home and killed her partner, Alexander Parra, also a former Farc guerrilla fighter, shooting him five times in the back. Ms Giraldo fled with her children to a nearby city and has not returned to Mesetas. She is one of hundreds of former guerrilla fighters dressed in white T-shirts who marched into Colombia's capital, Bogotá, on Sunday to seek a meeting with President Iván Duque. The protesters, who have been holding demonstrations in front of the presidential palace, say the government is not keeping up with commitments made in a 2016 peace deal that led to the disarmament of 13,000 fighters and transformed Latin America's oldest guerrilla group into a political party. The new party retained the initials Farc but they now stand for Common Alternative Revolutionary Force. While the former fighters may have laid down their arms, their lives are still at risk from other guerrilla and drug-trafficking groups, and one of their key demands is for more protection. "At this moment we face so many threats we don't even know where the bullets are coming from" says Ms Giraldo. Carrying a white banner with a portrait of her late partner wearing a cowboy hat, she is followed everywhere by two bodyguards assigned to her by the Colombian government. More than 230 former fighters have been killed since the peace deal was signed, according to human rights groups. And even though it has now been almost four years since the peace agreement was signed, the rate of killing has not decreased. The UN verification mission in Colombia says 50 former Farc rebels were killed in the first nine months of this year. In October, four more were murdered, according to human rights group Indepaz. Among them was Juan de Jesús Monroy, a well-known ex-Farc commander who - after demobilising - had been leading farming projects in south-eastern Meta province. His murder triggered the march on Bogotá, which was joined by about 700 former Farc rebels from different corners of Colombia. "The international community has to realise things are not going well," says Jesús Chaparro, a 50-year-old ex-rebel who has been working on a cattle-raising project managed by Mr Monroy. He is part of a group that made the 400km-journey on buses to Bogotá and stopped at towns along the way to hold smaller rallies. Juan Carlos Garzón, an analyst of Colombia's armed conflict at the Ideas for Peace Foundation, says the killings have happened mostly in remote rural areas previously controlled by the Farc rebels, where security has been deteriorating since the peace deal was signed. In these areas a smattering of criminal organisations is now fighting for control of drug-trafficking routes, illegal mines and other resources abandoned by the Farc guerrilla after they demobilised. Former Farc fighters who stayed there have been caught in the middle of the violence but now have no weapons to defend themselves. "Some of these groups have old scores to settle" with Farc fighters, Mr Garzón explains. He says that criminal groups are trying to recruit former fighters and get farmers to grow coca, the raw material for cocaine. These groups target Farc party members, or anyone else who is trying to prevent that. Organisations currently fighting over former Farc territory include drug-trafficking groups like the Gulf Clan, the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla and dissident groups made up of ex-Farc fighters who did not want to lay down arms. Colombia's Attorney General estimates that 70% of the murders of former Farc rebels have been committed by these groups but according to the UN, there have so far only been convictions in 31 cases out of more than 230. "Our people are targeted because they are natural leaders" said Manuela Marín, a Farc party organiser based in Bogotá. "We are trying to generate transformations in these rural areas, and that clashes with criminal and political interests." The Colombian government has attempted to protect former Farc fighters by assigning troops to watch over "re-incorporation villages", places where many former guerrillas live and work on farming projects. Former Farc rebel leaders who are thought to be at greater risk are also assigned bodyguards and given bullet-proof vehicles. Currently there are 1,100 bodyguards who work with the National Unit for Protection and are assigned to former Farc rebels. In October, Colombian government officials said that an additional 600 bodyguards would be hired to protect Farc party members. The party has welcomed this help but its members say that for there to be a lasting improvement to their security and that of community leaders in rural areas, the implementation of the peace deal would have to be speeded up. What the former fighters want to see is the dismantling of criminal groups and investment in rural infrastructure, so that people in those areas do not turn to the drug trade to make a living. "Getting bullet-proof cars and bodyguards for 13,000 former fighters is impossible" says Tulio Murillo, a 54-year-old Farc party leader who has received death threats and has four bodyguards to protect him. "What we need is greater commitment to the agreements that were made." You may want to watch:

بعد القتال مع القوات المسلحة الثورية الكولومبية (فارك) لأكثر من عقدين من الزمن، بدأت لوز مارينا جيرالدو مسيرتها المهنية في السياسة المحلية وترشحت لمقعد في مجلس مدينة ميسيتاس، وهي منطقة ريفية في السهول الشرقية لكولومبيا.

كولومبيا فارك: المتمردون السابقون الذين يحتاجون إلى حراس شخصيين للبقاء في أمان

Deputy police chief of Shanxi province, Li Yali, has been removed from his duties and an investigation has begun. State media said video posted online showed Li Yali's son assaulting police. It is the latest in a series of incidents where web users have targeted local officials accused of corruption. Reports say the video also showed Mr Li's son being stopped by passers-by and other police officers. A blood alcohol test reportedly showed he was over the legal alcohol limit, but media reports say he was escorted home by police officers. Li Yali stands accused of abusing his power to cover up that altercation. He has made no public comment. Last month a district Communist Party official in south-west China was sacked after apparently featuring in a sex video exposed by investigative journalists and reposted online many times by microbloggers.

ذكرت وسائل إعلام رسمية أنه تم إيقاف أحد كبار رجال الشرطة في الصين عن العمل وسط مزاعم بالتستر على ابنه الذي تم تصويره في مواجهة مع الشرطة عندما تم إيقافه بسبب القيادة تحت تأثير الكحول.

إيقاف الشرطي الصيني لي يالي عن العمل بسبب "التستر" على قيادة السيارة تحت تأثير الكحول

Police forced their way into the disused building on Commercial Street in Batley, West Yorkshire, on Sunday. The body, believed to be a man, was found at the scene by West Yorkshire Police officers. Two of those arrested have been released under investigation and the third has been bailed. The building was previously used by the Yorkshire Bank, but the branch closed in 2016. Follow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.

تم القبض على ثلاثة أشخاص للاشتباه في قيامهم بالتآمر للقتل بعد العثور على جثة في فرع بنك سابق.

التحقيق في جريمة قتل باتلي بعد العثور على جثة في بنك سابق

By Tim HarfordBBC World Service, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy So wrote an English publisher named John Gadsby, travelling through Europe in the mid-19th Century. This was before the modern passport system, wearily familiar to anyone who has ever crossed a national border. You stand in a queue, you proffer your standardised booklet to a uniformed official, who glances at your face to check that it resembles the image of your younger, slimmer self. Perhaps she quizzes you about your journey, while her computer checks your name against a terrorist watch-list. For most of history, passports were neither so ubiquitous nor so routine. They were, essentially, a threat: a letter from some powerful person requesting the traveller pass unmolested - or else. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world. It is broadcast on the BBC World Service. You can find more information about the programme's sources and listen online or subscribe to the programme podcast. The concept of passport as protection goes back to biblical times. And protection was a privilege, not a right. Gentlemen such as Gadsby who wanted a passport needed a personal link to the relevant government minister. As Gadsby discovered, the more zealously bureaucratic continental nations had realised the passport's potential as a tool of social and economic control. A century earlier, French citizens had to show paperwork not only to leave the country, but to travel from town to town. 'Oppressive invention' While wealthy countries today secure their borders to keep unskilled workers out, municipal authorities historically used them to stop skilled workers from leaving. As the 19th Century progressed, railways and steamboats made travel faster and cheaper. As Martin Lloyd details in his book The Passport, restrictive travel documents were unpopular. France's Emperor Napoleon III shared Gadsby's admiration for the more relaxed British approach. He described passports as "an oppressive invention", and abolished them in 1860. France was not alone. More and more countries either formally abandoned passport requirements or stopped enforcing them, at least in peacetime. You could visit 1890s America without a passport, though it helped if you were white. Some South American countries enshrined passport-free travel in their constitutions. In China and Japan, foreigners needed passports only to venture inland. By the turn of the 20th Century, only a handful of countries still insisted on passports to enter or leave. It seemed possible they might soon disappear altogether. Migrant crisis What would today's world look like if they had? One morning in September 2015, Abdullah Kurdi, his wife and two young sons boarded a dinghy in Bodrum, Turkey, hoping to make it 4km (2.5 miles) across the Aegean Sea to the Greek island of Kos. But the dinghy capsized in rough seas. Abdullah managed to cling to the boat, but his wife and children drowned. When the body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach and was photographed by a Turkish agency journalist, the image became an icon of the migrant crisis that had convulsed Europe all summer. The Kurdis hadn't planned to stay in Greece. They hoped eventually to start a new life in Vancouver, where Abdullah's sister Teema is a hairdresser. There are easier ways to travel from Turkey to Canada than taking a dinghy to Kos. Abdullah had money: the 4,000 euros (£2,500; $4,460) he paid a people-smuggler could have bought plane tickets for them all - if they had had the right passports. Since the Syrian government denied citizenship to ethnic Kurds, the family had no passports. But even with Syrian documents, they couldn't have boarded a plane to Canada. Passports issued by Sweden or Slovakia, or Singapore or Samoa would have been fine. It can seem natural that the name of the country on our passport determines where we can travel and work - legally, at least. Discrimination? But it's a relatively recent historical development, and, from a certain angle, it's odd. Many countries ban employers from discriminating among workers based on characteristics we can't change: whether we're male or female, young or old, gay or straight, black or white. It's not entirely true that we can't change our passport: $250,000 (£193,000) will buy you one from St Kitts and Nevis. But, mostly, our passport depends on the identity of our parents and location of our birth. And nobody chooses those. Despite this, there's no public clamour to judge people not by the colour of their passport but by the content of their character. Less than three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, migrant controls are back in fashion. Donald Trump calls for a wall along the US-Mexico border. The Schengen zone cracks under the pressure of the migrant crisis. Europe's leaders scramble to distinguish refugees from "economic migrants", the assumption being that someone who isn't fleeing persecution - but merely wants a better job or life - should not be let in. Politically, the logic of restrictions on migration may be increasingly hard to dispute. Winners and losers Yet economic logic points in the opposite direction. In theory, whenever you allow factors of production to follow demand, output rises. In practice, all migration creates winners and losers, but research indicates there are many more winners. In the wealthiest countries - by one estimate - five in six of the existing population are made better off by the arrival of immigrants. So why doesn't this translate into popular support for open borders? More from Tim Harford The simple steel box that changed the face of global trade How the invention of paper changed the world Tick tock: The importance of knowing the right time How air conditioning changed the world There are practical and cultural reasons why migration can be badly managed: if public services aren't upgraded quickly enough to cope with new arrivals, or belief systems prove hard to reconcile. The losses also tend to be more visible than the gains. Suppose a group of Mexicans arrive in America, ready to pick fruit for lower wages than Americans are earning. The benefits - slightly cheaper fruit for everyone - are too widely spread and small to notice, while the costs - some Americans lose their jobs - produce vocal unhappiness. It should be possible to arrange taxes and public spending to compensate the losers. But it doesn't tend to work that way. The economic logic of migration often seems more compelling when it doesn't involve crossing national borders. Security concerns In 1980s Britain, with recession affecting some of the country's regions more than others, Employment Minister Norman Tebbit notoriously suggested - or was widely interpreted as suggesting - that the jobless should "get on their bikes" to look for work. Some economists calculate global economic output would double if anyone could get on their bikes to work anywhere. That suggests today's world would be much richer if passports had died out in the early 20th Century. There's one simple reason they didn't: World War One intervened. With security concerns trumping ease of travel, governments imposed strict new controls on movement, and they proved unwilling to relinquish those powers once peace returned. In 1920, the newly formed League of Nations called an "International Conference on Passports, Customs Formalities and Through Tickets", which effectively invented the passport as we know it. From 1921, the conference said, passports should be 15.5cm (6in) by 10.5cm, 32 pages, bound in cardboard, with a photo. The format has changed remarkably little since. Like John Gadsby, anyone with the right colour passport can only count their blessings. Tim Harford writes the Financial Times's Undercover Economist column. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy is broadcast on the BBC World Service. You can find more information about the programme's sources and listen online or subscribe to the programme podcast.

"ماذا سنقول نحن الإنجليز إذا لم نتمكن من الذهاب من لندن إلى كريستال بالاس أو من مانشستر إلى ستوكبورت دون جواز سفر أو ضابط شرطة في أعقابنا؟ اعتمادًا على ذلك، نحن لسنا نصف ممتنين لله على امتيازاتنا الوطنية".

هل تعيق جوازات السفر النمو الاقتصادي؟

The Alliance Party leader has held the post since policing and justice powers were devolved to Stormont in 2010. Mr Ford will run for re-election as an MLA, but a party spokesperson says the leader would not take the justice job again when the executive positions were decided after the election. It is unclear if the party will take up the post.

لن يطرح ديفيد فورد اسمه ليكون وزيراً للعدل بعد انتخابات الجمعية العامة في مايو.

لن يسعى ديفيد فورد لإعادة انتخابه وزيراً للعدل

By Zoe KleinmanBBC News They call themselves "long-haulers" and their symptoms persist long after the 14-day period that's officially said to be the average length of the illness. There are calls for both health professionals and employers to recognise that some people will take a lot longer than two weeks to recover. "It's the weirdest thing I've ever experienced," Helen Calder, from Liverpool, told BBC health correspondent Dominic Hughes. Nearly four months after she and her family caught the virus, and after needing hospital treatment twice, she still experiences a relapse roughly every two weeks where she is hit by debilitating fatigue, nausea, headaches and limb pain. Her doctors have diagnosed post viral fatigue and she says any small over-exertion while she is feeling well can set her back for days at a time. A very brief runaround with her young daughter during a family outing left her back in bed for days afterwards, completely exhausted. Donna McCulloch, from Winchester, was diagnosed by her GP on 23 March - she did not have a test - but says she was at her worst seven weeks later. "The whole of April and most of May were an absolute wipe-out," she says. "Everybody was saying it was 14 days, and I just didn't get better. By week six I was panicked." Concerned about a secondary infection, her doctors prescribed antibiotics, which she says made her feel even worse. Donna now finally thinks she is on the mend: "I'm not where I was - but I've done everything I can to get myself get back on track." Donna and Helen are far from alone. Thousands of people are sharing stories of their prolonged battle with Covid-19, using hashtags and joining Facebook groups like the Long Covid Support Group, which has more than 5,200 members. Data from the Covid Symptom Study app, downloaded more than three million times, suggests a "significant number" of people report symptoms for a month. One in 10-20 report it for longer than that, says genetic epidemiologist Prof Tim Spector, who came up with the app idea. "When this started, everyone assumed it was like the flu, it would all be over in a week and a few people would end up in hospital and either recover or have problems," he says. "And we now know from people logging onto the app every day that there is a significant proportion of people who have problems lasting not just the average... but over a month." Dr Jake Suett, an intensive-care doctor in Norfolk, who was himself ill for several weeks, wrote an open letter calling on the government to push for more research into long-haul symptoms, and also to raise awareness among not only health professionals but also employers, who may see their staff off work for longer than two weeks. "These patients may require financial help, and their employers need to have a realistic expectation for the time it will take them to recover," he wrote. The issue has since been raised separately in parliament, and NHS England has just launched a new service to help people deal with the long-term effects of coronavirus. The government has also announced an £8.4m study into the long-term impact on health. But Dr Suett has not yet had a response. So what is going on? Long-term consequences also affect some people who experience other chronic respiratory illnesses, including viral pneumonia in various forms, says Dr Michael Head, an epidemiologist at the University of Southampton. It's difficult to pin down whether there are more or less people affected in the case of Covid-19, because existing studies into other conditions give inconsistent results. But Dr Head says the variety of its symptoms could be more unusual. "What may well be different with Covid-19 is the sheer range of observed long-term health consequences." The tiredness, "brain fog" and lingering loss of taste and smell that many long-haulers report has led some to ask whether the virus actually attacks the brain. "It's not yet fully known as to how these symptoms come about, for example whether the virus has an indirect effect on the nervous system, or whether it can pass through the blood-brain barrier and affect the brain directly," says Dr Head. "It is certainly very clear that the virus does affect many parts of the body beyond the lung." Prof Paul Garner from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is an epidemiologist who has been studying his own post-Covid19 long-haul journey since he first fell ill on 19 March. He describes his condition now as being like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or ME. He says some sufferers think their condition must be psychological, because they can't believe they are experiencing such intense symptoms for such a long time. "They think, 'I can't be going through this, this is too strange. I must be having a mental breakdown'," he says. "I've spoken to general practitioners who think they are undergoing a nervous breakdown. But, actually, they've just got symptoms of the disease." Ultimately complete rest is crucial to eventual recovery, Prof Garner says - but many people will feel unable to do that, either for financial or family reasons, or both. "If you don't give the body time to heal, it kicks you back," he says. "Rushing back into work because you have to is more likely to make you ill again and likely to delay your recovery, and people haven't thought this through, I think."

يعد التعب الشديد والغثيان وضيق الصدر والصداع الشديد و"ضباب الدماغ" وآلام الأطراف من بين الأعراض المتكررة التي يصفها بعض مرضى كوفيد-19 لأسابيع - وحتى أشهر - بعد تشخيصهم.

فيروس كورونا: الآلاف يقولون إن الأعراض المنهكة تستمر "لعدة أسابيع"

"My only thought process at the time was I need to stop him or he will kill me," the 29-year-old recalls. He had been travelling along Leyton High Road on 7 August with a colleague when they spotted a suspicious looking van. PC Outten, who was driving, asked his colleague to check the vehicle's details in the police national computer. They realised the van had no insurance so decided to pull the driver over. The man behind the wheel was Muhammad Rodwan, a 56-year-old handyman from Luton, who was convicted of wounding with intent but found not guilty of attempted murder following a trial at the Old Bailey. PC Outten said Rodwan originally stopped but "doesn't get out of the car, he shouts at my colleague through his closed window then drives off". "So we have a car chase that lasts no longer than 300-400 metres and he stops again, gets out of his van and shouts at me through the windscreen," he adds. After remonstrating with the officers, Rodwan tried to drive away again but PC Outten stopped him from closing the van door. He then punched the Met officer twice in the face. The officer arrested Rodwan on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, yet that was just the beginning of the attack. "He broke free of my grip, lunges across inside his van - I'm trying to grab his trousers, grab his legs to try to drag him out and he starts hitting me in the head with something," PC Outten says. The officer became aware his head was "getting wet quickly" and was conscious "something big, heavy and sharp was hitting me on the side of the head" but, with the adrenaline taking over, he "could not feel it" . 'He's going to kill me' In fact Rodwan was slashing at him with a rusty two-foot long (60cm) machete, slicing into his head and arms blow by blow. Despite his severe injuries, the PC was able to back away and fired his Taser. But the stun gun failed to make a full impact and Rodwan, still armed, advanced towards him. "My thought process then is 'Well, I've got one more shot and if this one doesn't work he's going to kill me'," the PC recalls. Stumbling to the floor, PC Outten aimed and fired again. "I fully believe that he would have carried on hacking at me," he says. With Rodwan incapacitated, the Met officer radioed for support and he was rushed to hospital. He had suffered six head wounds, including a fractured skull, slash wounds to his arm, several broken fingers and three severed tendons in one hand. His scars are still prominent five months on, but lying in the hospital at the time he was glad "everything was still intact". PC Outten spent just 36 hours in hospital having just "wanted to go home". The officer is still in recovery and has to complete stretches daily to keep his injured hand in working order. But he holds no ill feelings to the man who left him so badly hurt. "I don't believe he was attacking me personally, I believe he was attacking a police officer in uniform," he says. "There's no hatred, there's no time for hatred. He'll get what he deserves via sentence. I can't go round holding grudges otherwise they'll weigh on me and they'll bring me down, and they'll change who I am." Talking about the night he nearly died has helped him deal with the aftermath and, remarkably, he insists it has not tainted his enthusiasm for policing the capital. "I can't change it so there's no point feeling sad, feeling down or anything negative about it. All I can do is use that and move forward with it. "As soon as they let me, I'll be back on the street. If they'd have let me I would have been out a week with my stitches in place and my hand in a cast."

بدأت دورية ليلية في شرق لندن في أغسطس الماضي مثل أي دورية أخرى في مسيرة بي سي ستيوارت أوتن المهنية التي استمرت عقدًا من الزمن مع شرطة العاصمة. ومع ذلك، سينتهي الأمر فجأة بإصابته بجروح خطيرة في وسط الشارع والقتال من أجل حياته.

هجوم شرطة ليتون بساطور: "اعتقدت أنه سيقتلني"

The journey is more important than the destination, as the saying goes, unless the journey is as long as 34 years. My journey to find out about the life of India's first Olympian, Norman Gilbert Pritchard, began in 1984. He had won two silver medals in athletics at the Paris Summer Olympics in 1900. I stumbled on his name while researching for a story on the Summer Olympics that were underway in Los Angeles that year. But it wasn't until last month that I finally got in touch with his descendants, who now live in Middlesex, England. Pritchard was born in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) on 23 April 1875. He grew up in India and it's also where he cut his sporting teeth before leaving for England in 1905 on business. He then moved to the United States to pursue a career in acting. Pritchard was an all-round athlete. He scored the first hat-trick in Indian football in 1899, he excelled in rugby and he competed in numerous track events. He had many firsts to his name - he was the first Indian Olympian and the first Asian to win silver medals in 200m and 200m hurdles; he was also the first Olympian to act on the stage in England and on the big screen in silent Hollywood movies under the screen name, Norman Trevor. Yet, very little is known about him. For many years, my research on Pritchard was stuck on locating his relatives and their descendants. I knew he had a daughter named Dorothy but not much else. The breakthrough in tracing his living relatives was thanks to my friends, UK-based genealogist Natalie Cook, and cricket historian, Martin Chandler. Ms Cook located the family of Pritchard's younger sister whose grandson, Gilbert Norman Pritchard Cann, now 73 years old, was also an accomplished all-round sportsman in school. He was born in Kolkata and he went to school at St. Xavier's where his famed ancestor had studied in the late 19th Century. Mr Cann moved to England in 1961 with his parents and brother. I got in touch with Mr Cann's eldest daughter, Natalie, on Facebook and she, in turn, connected me with her father. My interest had been piqued by Pritchard's unique accomplishments - and the fact that India had claimed two Olympic medals back in 1900, a fact few around the world and in India are aware of. "All of us were, of course, well aware of Norman's Olympic feats and his acting career with all the male members of the family being given either one of his names - Norman Gilbert Pritchard or Trevor," Mr Cann told me. "However, it's the senior family members, who are no more, who had details of his personal life." Mr Cann won a bagful of gold medals in track and field events in his final year in school in Kolkata in 1960. He also captained his school's football, hockey and cricket teams. His brief moment of glory was in the semi-final of the national inter-school cricket competition - he finished 51 not out and led his team into the final which they eventually lost. The win came at the last minute and after nearly 60 years, Mr Cann has vivid memories of the match which brought him a lot of publicity in Indian newspapers. Raju Mukherjee, a former domestic Indian cricketer, went to school with Mr Cann, whom he remembered him by the nickname, Gily. He told me: "He was an exceptional athlete. He was primarily a pace bowler, a hard-hitting batsman and a brilliant fielder in the deep." So what is the big gap left in Pritchard's life? It is whether his daughter, Dorothy, ever married and had children. According to the New York Times' obituary on Pritchard, she had been single and living in New York when he died in California in 1929. The family too is unaware of what happened to Dorothy and it remains a mystery. Though Mr Cann never returned to India, he hopes to do so someday. He recalled his childhood in Kolkata with fondness and added that the conversations he had with me made him look forward to his visit. It was emotional for me as well, having wondered all these years whether I would ever be able to connect with the living relatives of the remarkable Norman Pritchard. Gulu Ezekiel is an independent Delhi-based sports journalist and writer. He is the co-author of Great Indian Olympians and a number of other sports books.

كان نورمان جيلبرت بريتشارد أول رياضي هندي يفوز بميدالية أولمبية، ولكن لا يُعرف سوى القليل عن حياته وعائلته. يكتب الصحفي الرياضي جولو حزقيال المقيم في دلهي عن بحثه عن عائلة بريتشارد الذي استمر لأكثر من ثلاثة عقود.

البحث عن أول ميدالية أولمبية للهند

By Andrew WhiteheadBBC World Service, Yangon Reverend John Felix, priest at the Armenian church in Yangon, also known as Rangoon, can't speak Armenian - but then neither can his congregation. Not that there is much of a congregation these days - just seven, myself included, on a recent Sunday morning. The 150-year-old church enjoys an imposing location, at a street corner in downtown Yangon. It's a beautiful building, a patch of calm in a bustling city. The Armenian Orthodox church of St John the Baptist - standing, suitably, on Merchant Street - is almost all that's left of what was one of the city's main trading communities. "To judge from church records, there were once a few hundred Armenian families in Burma but the last 'full' Armenian died last year. Across the country, there are no more than 10 or 20 families who are part Armenian - and just a handful still come to the church," says Felix. Rachel Minus, in her mid-30s, can sing in Armenian - and does with reverence - but can't speak the language. She attends on Sundays with her father, who also tolls the church bells. "My grandfather was full Armenian and our family name is derived from the Armenian surname of Minossian. We're part Armenian and this church and its services mean a lot to us," she says. On that Sunday, just one other worshipper was of Armenian descent. Percy Everard has been coming to the church for decades. His wedding, the priest believes, was the last to be conducted at the church - but it's so distant no one is quite sure how long ago it took place. In the early 17th Century, large numbers of Armenians fled the Ottoman Empire and settled in Isfahan in what's now Iran. From there, many travelled on in later years to form a commercial network which stretched from Amsterdam to Manila. Their influence in the British Raj reached its peak in the late 19th Century, when census records suggest that about 1,300 Armenians were living principally in Calcutta, Dhaka and Rangoon. Their closeness to the Burmese royal court gave them a particularly privileged status in Rangoon's trading community. The land on which the church stands is said to have been presented to the Armenians by Burma's king. The region's most prestigious hotels - including The Strand a short walk from the church in downtown Yangon and the even more famous Raffles in Singapore - were established by Armenians. But bit-by-bit over the past century many in these small Armenian outposts, worried by political and economic instability, have looked for a new home - with Australia the most favoured destination. John Felix - whose bishop is based thousands of miles away in Sydney - is a welcoming and enthusiastic clergyman, proud of his church and unbowed by the difficulties of keeping going as the congregation steadily shrinks. Felix took over as priest of the Yangon church from his father, who died three years ago after more than 30 years as minister. Like his father, he was initially ordained into the Anglican communion and then re-ordained as an Orthodox priest. He was born in Myanmar, speaks Burmese - but is of south Indian origin, and so has his roots in another of the migrant communities which once made Yangon such a thriving commercial hub. A global church He worries about the upkeep of the building. "There are three spots in the roof where the water's coming in, and we need to get them fixed." But this is by any standards a neat, well-kept church, and an important part of Yangon's rich colonial-era architectural heritage which is increasingly attracting tourists and international attention. Sunday worship has all the hallmarks of an Orthodox church service - icons, incense and, in spite of the slender attendance, entrancing hymn singing. Felix doesn't wear the ornate priestly robes in which his father once conducted ceremonies, but he remains firmly part of the Orthodox tradition. That Orthodox lineage could be key to the survival of the church - as a spiritual home to all the various forms of Orthodox Christianity as well as a last vestige of an almost-gone Armenian community. Already diplomats, business visitors and tourists from a range of Orthodox countries and churches - Russian, Greek, Serbian - occasionally swell the numbers at St John the Baptist, the only Orthodox church in Myanmar's biggest city. A new worshipper here, Ramona Tarta, is Romanian, a globetrotting business woman, publisher and events organiser who has lived in Yangon for the last few months. "My faith is very important to me. Wherever I am in the world, I seek out an Orthodox church. But I was about to give up on Yangon. I thought it was the only city I'd ever lived in which had no Orthodox place of worship," she complains. She chanced across the Armenian church when driving past, and believes that with a little promotion, this historic building - and the tradition to which it bears testimony - could have a more secure future. If the church reached out more actively to all strands of Orthodoxy then, she argues, it could attract more worshippers and find a renewed purpose. She's set up a Facebook page for the church as a first step towards getting more attention. Myanmar has had more than its share of troubles and upheaval over the last century. The country was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two, and suffered greater privation and damage to its infrastructure than almost anywhere else in the region. Many Armenians were among those who embarked on the arduous wartime trek north through jungle and forest to the relative safety of British India - a memorial in the church lists the 13 members of one Armenian family who died during the journey. Burma gained independence from Britain in 1948, several months after India and Pakistan. Within a few years, it had a military-backed government which made little effort to develop commercial links beyond the country's borders. The army's violent suppression in 1988 of the democracy movement further heightened the country's international isolation. Over the past few years, Myanmar has been edging towards greater democracy, and has started to open its doors more widely to foreign business and investment. What was one of Asia's most international cities is again starting to develop a more global aspect. And a church which has its roots in an earlier era of international commerce may find fresh succour from a new bout of globalisation. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

تكافح إحدى أقدم الكنائس في ميانمار، والمعروفة أيضًا باسم بورما، من أجل الاستمرار، حيث لا يصل عدد المصلين فيها إلا في بعض الأحيان إلى أرقام مزدوجة. لكن انفتاح البلاد على الاستثمار الخارجي والسياحة يقدم أملاً جديداً.

آخر الأرمن في ميانمار

By Marcos González DíazGuadalajara, México Ligia, 59, says that she has worked during the swine flu pandemic in 2009 and an outbreak of cholera in 2013, but some people are "behaving psychotically in response to this virus. It is terrible". She was attacked on 8 April after leaving work in her hometown of Merida, Yucatan. Someone drove past her and threw hot coffee down her back. "Infected!" they yelled through the car window before speeding away. She says that luckily she was not badly injured but recognises it could have been worse. As of 28 April, there have been at least 47 attacks against health workers, particularly nurses, in the country, the Mexican government says. And the authorities recognise the true figure may be higher - reports on social media of discrimination range from nurses stopped from getting on buses to doctors assaulted by relatives of Covid-19 patients. "It made me sad… to see how people are attacking us," says Ligia. "That hurt me more - the psychological damage." Some of the attacks appear to have been motivated by a misguided attempt to disinfect health workers. Alondra Torres, an ear, nose and throat specialist, had diluted bleach thrown over her on 13 April while walking her dogs in the city of Guadalajara. She does not see Covid-19 patients in her clinic, but is convinced her uniform made her a target. Alondra, who suffered conjunctivitis and contact dermatitis on her neck and shoulder as a result, says she was "disappointed" that some people seem to believe she needs to be bathed in bleach. "My eye was burning a lot, I couldn't see well." Doctors and nurses have not been the only frontline targets. Daniel (not his real name) was getting off a bus a few blocks from the Guadalajara hospital where he works as a cleaner when he was brutally attacked by a group of other passengers. "When I got on the bus I noticed that three people became aggressive. They kept repeating the word "dirty", which they then repeated while they were beating me," he says. "I felt it was never going to end." He suffered bruises to his head and face. Police suspect the assault was triggered by his hospital cleaner's uniform. Nurse Melody Rodríguez, 25, has even felt compelled to move house for the time being. She was coming home to her village of Lo de Marcos, in Nayarit state, on 8 April, when she came face to face with a group of residents blocking her path. "They said if I entered the village I wouldn't be allowed to leave again. And they said that it would be better if I didn't enter at all because I came from a source of infection," she says. A colleague filmed the incident and shared it on social media. The municipal authorities intervened to ensure Melody could get home, but she opted to just collect some belongings and rent a room in another town. She was too frightened to go home. "The fact that I had to get out and the way I had to get out, I still feel awful because they really made me feel like I was plague-ridden." "This is discrimination, and it is really detestable. We give our support to all workers in the health sector, everyone. They are our heroes, our heroines," said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador a few weeks ago. The government has subsequently deployed members of the National Guard in hospitals and some states have offered medical workers private transport and even hotel rooms so they can avoid long commutes home. The World Health Organization says up to 38% of health workers experience physical violence at some point in their careers, but the coronavirus pandemic seems to have exacerbated this threat in Mexico. Experts think the attacks reflect the public's conflicted feelings about what the medical workers represent in a country which had recorded 40,186 cases and 4,220 deaths of Covid-19 as of 13 May. "They (the health workers) symbolically represent the disease itself and the cure," says María del Carmen Montenegro, from the Faculty of Psychology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México And she says that unlike other traumatic events, the virus is impossible to run away from, "and that generates more fear". Alondra, the doctor doused with bleach, agrees that the attacks are motivated by "a mixture of ignorance and fear". "What if [the attack involved] acid next time?" she says. But she is determined to keep working, returning to her clinic just a few days after the attack. "This is not going to make me doubt about my work, my profession or my dreams of continuing to help people". Ligia is also adamant she will continue to work. "My country and my people need me and I will give everything I have." Mexico's health workers say they are not expecting applause, just respect. "We don't need you to praise us, just let us do our job… That's why we are there for you," says Melody.

تقول الممرضة المكسيكية ليجيا كانتون إنها خلال 40 عامًا من العمل، لم تشهد أبدًا مثل هذا رد الفعل السام تجاه العاملين في مجال الصحة. بينما يتم الإشادة بالأطباء والممرضات في العديد من البلدان لعملهم على الخط الأمامي لفيروس كورونا، تعرض العشرات في المكسيك للهجوم.

فيروس كورونا: يواجه العاملون الصحيون هجمات عنيفة في المكسيك

Mark D'ArcyParliamentary correspondent The central event will be a financial statement from Chancellor Rishi Sunak, with an economic debate to follow. And the main Commons debates on Tuesdays and Wednesdays are Estimates Day debates. These will focus on particular aspects of government spending, chosen via the backbench business committee. These debates are an opportunity to air concerns about spending. An estimate selected for debate can be amended, but only reductions to the estimate can be proposed; it's not open to MPs to propose increasing spending through this mechanism. Once the estimates have been agreed, they're put into legislative form through a Supply and Appropriation Bill. And the other major event of the week is the Domestic Abuse Bill, back in the Commons for Report Stage consideration. There are all kinds of very significant amendments being proposed - including a government amendment to remove the "rough sex" defence for murder. It's a quiet-looking week in the Lords, although there may be signs of trouble ahead for the Business and Planning Bill. Here's my rundown of the week ahead: Monday 6 July The Commons convenes, at 14:30 BST, for Defence Questions, doubtless to be followed by the usual collection of post-weekend statements from ministers and Urgent Questions. The main legislative action is the Report Stage and Third Reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The government may have agreed to provide an amendment to ban the "rough sex" defence to murder, but there is still plenty of pressure for other changes, notably from a formidable cross-party alliance of backbenchers, headed by Labour's Harriet Harman and the Conservative Mark Garnier. Among the changes they propose is a new clause which would require the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions for a charge of anything less than murder, in any homicide resulting from domestic abuse, They also propose new clauses to create a new offence of non-fatal strangulation in domestic abuse, and to prevent the victim's previous sexual history being used as evidence to prove consent to violence in a domestic homicide case. Labour's Yvette Cooper and Conservative Robert Halfon have amendments on the management of serial and serious domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators, and a group of traditionalist Conservatives led by Fiona Bruce wants research on the links between pornography and domestic violence. Meanwhile, the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, Labour's Peter Kyle and Plaid's Liz Saville Roberts want lifetime press anonymity for survivors of domestic abuse. And there is a series of amendments from the Conservative backbencher Philip Davies, including clarifying that economic abuse has to be unreasonable and not to cover incidents of the withholding of money where it is intended to be in a person's best interest - for example, the partner of a gambling addict. There are plenty more amendments, and the chair's selection for debate is bound to disappoint some MPs. Some may be fended off by the promise of future government amendments to achieve their aims, by making changes when the bill goes before the Lords. On the committee corridor, Public Accounts takes evidence at 14.30 BST on the post-Grenfell drive to remove dangerous cladding on tower blocks, from the top civil servant at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Jeremy Pocklington. And the International Development Committee, also at 14:30 BST, has what seems almost a valedictory session with the Secretary of State Anne-Marie Trevelyan on humanitarian crises monitoring: the impact of coronavirus. The Joint Committee on Human Rights (16:00) hears from Shadow Justice Secretary David Lammy, HM Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams (author of a review into the Home Office handling of the Windrush scandal) and others about black people, racism and human rights. In the Lords (13:00) questions to ministers cover discussions with the incoming Director General of the BBC on the postponement of the withdrawal of free TV Licenses for people aged over 75; access to medicinal cannabis; increasing consumption of fruit and vegetables by children and adults and the increase in Covid-19 infections as a result of lifting restrictions. The main legislative action is the second reading of the Business and Planning Bill, the emergency legislation on helping firms adjust to the easing of the lockdown, which was passed by MPs on 29 June. Detailed committee stage scrutiny will follow on Monday 13 July, and the final consideration a week later. The Bill was whizzed through the Commons in a single gulp, but its passage through the Lords may be less serene; issues about relaxing the licensing regime to allow off-premises alcohol sales, and pub or restaurant tables on pavements are alarming a number of MPs and there is a strong prospect of a cross-party attempt to rein in what looks to some critics like a troublesome free-for-all. That could make life interesting, because Downing Street is the driving force behind these measures and might not take kindly to meddling by noble lords, but watch out for a few markers going down in the course of the debate. Tuesday 7 July The Commons opens at 11:30 BST with Treasury Questions. The day's Ten Minute Rule Bill, from former minister Edward Timpson, would raise the retirement age for magistrates from 70 to 75. Then comes the first set of Estimates Day debates. The first subject is the Department for Education, where the Education Committee Chair, Robert Halfon, will highlight the impact of the lockdown on children, millions of whom have had little contact with teachers. His fear is that the result could be an "education ice age", doing long-term damage to their learning, and to their wider well-being. The Treasury Committee Chair, Mel Stride, will lead a debate on the estimates for HM Revenue and Customs, focusing on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and support for the self-employed, and how the system will deal with the effects of local lockdowns The second debate is on the estimates for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Select committee chair Darren Jones' speech will argue that the best way to support workers and businesses in their recovery and growth in the post-lockdown economy, is a targeted industrial strategy combined with investment in skills and training. He will also say investment in green industry and technology must be central to the future economic strategy. The day's committee hearings include Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs (09:30). whose members will question ministers Jesse Norman and Lord Agnew plus Nick Smallwood, the chief executive officer of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, on the government's management of its major projects. Justice (14:30) looks at the injustices resulting from private prosecutions brought by organisations that act as the investigator and the prosecutor but are also the victim of the alleged offence - this follows the Post Office Horizon scandal. And Defence (14:30) has a session with General Sir Nick Carter, the Chief of the Defence Staff, In the Lords (11:00) questions cover the financial threat to local government in England from the pandemic, ensuring no detainee of an immigration removal centre is released without accommodation support and advice and the risks for British travellers to the United States of eating chicken which has been subject to a pathogen reduction treatment and hormone-fed beef. Then peers turn to the first of four days of Committee Stage scrutiny of the Agriculture Bill. This is the "shadow-boxing" stage, where amendments are debated but almost never pushed to a vote; the idea is to test the detail of the Bill and seek explanations from ministers, usually teeing up better-honed amendments at the later Report Stage, which is not expected until the autumn, Wednesday 8 July MPs open, at 11:30 BST, with half an hour of Wales questions, with PMQs to follow, at noon. The Ten Minute Rule Bill, from former cabinet minister Maria Miller, is on Redundancy Protection during their pregnancy and maternity leave. The Bill gives mothers the same kind of safeguards as women in Germany, protecting them from redundancy when pregnant and in the months following the birth. With record numbers of women in work, she believes their continued role in the workplace is crucial for the recovery from Covid-19. Government data shows more than 50,000 women leave their jobs when pregnant because of their experiences at work, one in 20 are made redundant and Maria Miller fears that the pandemic will exacerbate this problem. The main event is Rishi Sunak's statement, followed by debate on the economy. This is not expected to be a full-scale "fiscal event" complete with economic projections from the Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility - more a list of shovel-ready building programmes to be triggered. A key factor is that no-one really knows whether the easing of the lockdown will trigger a spending boom as pent-up consumers flock to the shops, or whether people will be more cautious, so any decisions on tax cuts to stimulate the economy would be premature. And the chancellor's words will be studied for hints about how and when he plans to raise taxes to re-balance the post-Covid books. There may also be some targeted measures to help communities like Leicester that might face a second lockdown. It's a busy day for the committees. At 15,00 BST, the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, a super-committee of senior parliamentarians, chaired by the former Foreign Secretary, Dame Margaret Beckett, hears from Sir Mark Sedwill, the Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser. Sir Mark is due to leave his post in September, to be replaced as NSA by the Brexit negotiator, David Frost. I suspect that changing of the guard may come up. Elsewhere, Home Affairs (09:30) talks to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service Dame Cressida Dick, Work and Pensions (09:30) meets the Pensions Ombudsman, Anthony Arter and the Treasury Committee (14:30) considers the economic impact of coronavirus with expert witnesses including the former permanent secretary of the Treasury Lord Macpherson. The Lords (11.00) opens with questions to ministers on the proposed border operating model for customs arrangements between the UK and the EU, representations from the EU on plans to prevent the importation of Xylella Fastidiosa - a plant disease spread by insects, which can have a devastating effect on agriculture and the environment - and on the publication of a government White Paper on social care. Then peers will consider statutory instruments. The big one is the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020. This give powers to transport operators to refuse access to someone not wearing a face covering, or to direct them to leave a service if they do not put on a face covering when asked to. There will be exemptions for passengers with a "reasonable excuse" for not wearing a mask. The argument is that masks can offer limited protection to others, in environments like public transport, where distancing is difficult to manage. Peers will also consider the Surrender of Offensive Weapons (Compensation) Regulations 2020 which will compensate the owners of some kinds of rapid firing rifles and bump stocks, which increase the rate of fire of self-loading rifles. These will become illegal under the terms of the 2019 Offensive Weapons Act, and will have to be surrendered by their owners. Thursday 9 July The Commons opens, at 9:30 BST, with forty minutes of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport questions followed by questions to the Attorney General, and the weekly Commons Business Statement from the Leader of the House Then comes the second helping of Estimate Day debates. First MPs will focus on spending on Development Assistance, and how that will work when the Department for International Development is merged into the Foreign Office, in September. Then they turn to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, where the focus will be on how ministers plan to compensate councils which have simultaneously had to raise spending on homelessness, social care and environmental health during the pandemic, while losing much of their commercial income. The debate was triggered by HCLG Committee chair Clive Betts and Public Accounts chair, Meg Hillier, who say they have had considerable trouble pinning down the government's intentions. There's a rare non-Covid select committee hearing as the Environmental Audit Committee (09:30) looks at the potential of hydrogen as a green power source. In the Lords (11:00), questions to ministers range across quarantining internet transfers of cash on the grounds of security, the long-awaited publication of the report of the Intelligence and Security Committee on Russian interference in the UK and the impact of the pandemic on the financial sustainability of churches and places of worship. Then it's back to the detail of the Agriculture Bill, and day two of Committee stage consideration Friday 10 July Private members bills were to have returned to the Commons today but have now been postponed until September. So there will be no Second Reading for the "Green Share" Bill, AKA the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill from Labour's Anna McMorrin. which aimed to allow co-operatives and community associations to make environmentally sustainable investments. There were worries a few weeks ago that consideration of private members bills would be postponed to the point where there would not be enough time to get any of them onto the statute book. But I'm told assurances have been given that an extra sitting Friday will be scheduled for September, so that the magic "eighth Friday", the day on which the bills can return to the Commons for Report Stage consideration, will not be unduly delayed. That should allow sufficient time for any bills agreed by the Commons to go through the Lords and into law. At the moment the real bottleneck is Committee Stage consideration - because there are only a couple of rooms large enough to allow socially-distanced committees to sit, and they're needed for government bills. By September, the hope is social distancing will be relaxed to the point where more committees can sit, thus allowing private members bills to go through this part of the process. The Lords, however, are sitting (11:00) to consider statutory instruments. These include the Port Examination Codes of Practice and National Security Determinations Guidance Regulations 2020; the Terrorism Act 2000 (Video Recording with Sound of Interviews and Associated Code of Practice) (Northern Ireland) Order and the Environmental Protection (Plastic Straws, Cotton Buds and Stirrers) (England) Regulations 2020.

وسيقضي النواب معظم الأسبوع المقبل في الحديث عن المال.

الأسبوع المقبل في البرلمان

No Olympic rings It may sound similar, and end in "lympic", but the Paralympics are not the Olympics. The iconic interlocking rings have no place here. Instead there is the Agitos, the three swoops in red, green and blue that represent the Paralympic motto "spirit in motion". The IOC and the IPC are different The two Games - and the International Olympic Committee and International Paralympics Committee - are separate entities. The first international Paralympic Games took place in Rome, a week after the 1960 Summer Olympic Games were held there. In 1964, they were held in Tokyo, again just after the Olympics. But in 1968, Mexico City, the host city of that year's Olympics, refused to host the Paralympics. They were instead held in Tel Aviv and from then until 1988, the Paralympics continued to be held in locations completely separate to the Olympics. Then in 1988, Olympics hosts Seoul took on the Paralympics, and they have been held together ever since. In 2001, it became official, and now host cities have to bid for both. There are rumours that one day the two might merge, but opinions are split on the merits of such a move. Classifications Sport is only fun or competitive if you pit like against like. At the Paralympics, you don't have a blind runner competing against one with cerebral palsy - but you may have a person with cerebral palsy competing against someone with restricted growth, which is perhaps a less obvious match. In order to stream the athletes, they have to go through vigorous testing of function and movement from a sporting medical professional who then gives them a classification. Swimming has 14 classes. S1-S10 are variations on physical impairments with 10 being least disabled - it covers everything from amputees and spinal cord injuries to someone with dwarfism. S11-S13 are allocated to visual impairments and S14 for those with an intellectual disability. The S-class refers only to freestyle, backstroke and butterfly whereas SB is breast stroke and SM is individual medley. An athlete classified as a 9 in freestyle could be a 10 in butterfly - you are classified according to the stroke you're using as swimming on your back could prove more challenging for you depending on your impairment mix. Classifications are also affected depending on whether you have the ability to dive in or start a race from within the pool. The knock-on effect of having more classifications is that this year's Paralympic swimming as a whole has 148 gold medals up for grabs compared with 34 at the Olympics. Classifications can be controversial. "There are some who try to cheat their class," says former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson. "When they deliberately cheat it's the same as taking drugs. But some do just fall one side or other of a line and can move up and down between classes." Sports that are the same but different Although there are sports that only disabled people play, you'll recognise most of the events at the Paralympics. Swimming, cycling and athletics will happen in a similar way to their Olympic equivalents, albeit split into many different classifications, and with added prosthetics, wheelchairs and human guides. Spectators at sports like wheelchair rugby, sitting volleyball and blind football, who are familiar with their able-bodied equivalents, will quickly realise that the Paralympic versions bear little resemblance to the sports they know and love. The ball used in blind football is less bouncy than a regular one and contains ball bearings to make it audible. It is played on a hard surface by two teams of five players. The area of play is smaller than in regular football and is surrounded by boards. The boards not only stop the ball from going out, but also reflect sounds from the ball and from footsteps, which helps players to orientate themselves on the pitch. Outfield players, blind or partially sighted, wear eye covers to level the playing field. The goalkeeper is fully sighted but is not allowed to leave his area. A "guide", also sighted, directs players from behind the goal. In the absence of visual communication between players, they use specific terms. Shouts of "voy" - the Spanish word literally meaning "I go" but idiomatically "I'm here" - act as a warning that one player is about to tackle another. Teams rely heavily on numerous audible clues, so spectators must stay silent during play. Sports unique to the Paralympics There are two sports which are exclusive to the Paralympics - goalball and boccia. Goalball is played by two teams of three blind and visually impaired athletes, on an indoor rectangular court with tactile markings. The object is to throw a heavy ball filled with bells into the opposing team's net, while defenders try to block its progress with their bodies. Boccia features some of the most disabled athletes at the Games. Although it is played competitively in more than 50 countries, it is one of the least well-known Paralympic sports. A bit like bowls, boccia takes place on an indoor court. Playing individually, in pairs or in teams, athletes roll, throw or kick the balls, aiming to land them close to a target. It was originally introduced as a game for people with cerebral palsy, but over the years, boccia has been extended to include players with a variety of disabilities affecting motor skills. Boccia has four disability classifications, BC1 to BC4. The BC3 class players are unable to propel the ball themselves, so a lightweight ramp is put in place to aid its movement towards the target. "[BC3 players] are allowed to have an assistant on court with them," says ParalympicsGB boccia team captain Nigel Murray. "The person who is their assistant has their back to the court so they are unable to see any of the play and they're totally directed in the movement of the ramp by the athlete". Some players communicate with their assistant through blinking or head movements. Accessibility It took five days to turn the Olympic Village into the Paralympic Village. The venues have increased their wheelchair capacity by removing and rearranging the existing seating - the stadium will have 568 spaces compared with 394 during the Olympics. Blind spectators will be supplied with audio guides, while those with hearing impairments will be seated with a direct view of large screens so they can follow the action. "The village did have to be Paralympified," says director of Paralympic integration Chris Holmes. "It was planned from the start. The bathrooms, the signage, the pavement have been fully accessible from the beginning." Tappers One of the most important aids to the blind swimmer is the tapper. Standing at each end of the pool is a person holding a long pole with a soft circular ball on the end. As the swimmer approaches they are tapped on the head. It is a sign to the swimmer that the end of the pool is approaching, and the confidence gained by the tapper's presence means the swimmer can move at full pelt without fearing a painful crash at the end. "The pole looks a bit like a fishing rod," says Marcelo Sugimori, one of two tappers in the Brazilian Paralympic team. Sugimori used to tap for his sister Fabiana, who won gold in the 50m freestyle in Athens 2004. He now works with the team's two other blind and partially sighted swimmers. "We tap the swimmer when they are between two and four metres from the end of the pool," he adds. "It takes a lot of training together, and a lot of trust." He says that he aims for a single tap, ideally on the head or upper back. Guide runners for blind athletes Blind and partially sighted runners can compete with a guide. Usually tethered to the athlete by a rope, a guide runs with them, acting as their eyes. Sprinters Tracy Hinton and Libby Clegg will represent ParalympicsGB in this way. Clegg, who runs the 200m and 100m, maintains contact with her guide Mikail Huggins, using a loop of physiotherapy tubing, bound in the middle with electrical tape. She described the process of running with a guide as, "a bit like doing the three-legged race but attached by your hands rather than your feet". "To execute the run properly you need to be smooth and in time, with both the pace and the stride length correct." Clegg can run 100m in 12.41 seconds. The guide talks throughout the race, explaining to the athlete where they are on the track, flagging up bends and making a call on whether or not the athlete should accelerate, hold the pace or relax. They are allocated a lane each. The totally blind runners, T11 class, will always have a guide, but those categorised as T12 - who have some sight - can choose. Most blind or visually impaired female runners partner with male guides, as the guide must have the ability to go faster than the athlete. The golden rule of guide running is not to cross the line before the athlete, a crime punishable by disqualification. Both Clegg and Hinton have lost out on past medals when their guide unintentionally pipped them to the post. But it is not just runners who use a guide. Blind athletes competing in the long jump and triple jump also use guides, though here they stay stationary, shouting commands, clapping and directing athletes through the jump. Age Viewers new to the Paralympics may notice there are a number of athletes who excel in their field despite being a little older than you might expect sportsmen and women to be. At Wimbledon this year, commentators were questioning how long Roger Federer could continue at champion level being as he was then the ripe old age of 30. At the Paralympics, however, we find that GB's wheelchair tennis champ Peter Norfolk is 51. Norfolk won gold in Athens and Beijing, is presently ranked third in the world and will be the flag bearer for ParalympicsGB at the opening ceremony. Much was made of older Olympians as well this year. Hiroshi Hoketsu competed in the dressage at 71. Gymnast Yordan Yovchev, 39, finished seventh in the final of the men's rings. Yamile Aldama, 40, competed for Team GB in the triple jump. In sports like equestrianism and shooting there are plenty of competitors over the age of 40. But the effect is more pronounced in the Paralympics. GB blind football captain David Clarke is 41, boccia's Nigel Murray is 48, archer Kate Murray 63, discus thrower Derek Derenalagi is in his first Paralympics at 38 and the athletics captain and runner Tracey Hinton is 42. Athletes may have excelled later than their non-disabled counterparts as a result of choosing to use sport as part of their rehabilitation after acquiring a disability, like Afghanistan veteran Derenalagi. Other reasons are a little more complicated. The pool of disabled athletes is smaller than that of the Olympics due to lack of opportunity - be that about physical access to sporting facilities or lack of imagination from PE teachers or those supporting disabled people in their development. Self-esteem or simple lack of hands-on experience might mean it never really enters the minds of many who could be extremely capable if supported. Head of the British Paralympic Association Tim Hollingsworth acknowledges the age differences and says: "The routes into the sport for new athletes are more varied and less predictable than those who've been doing nothing but their sport until this age." Hollingsworth hopes that the Games will inspire disabled people, non-disabled PE teachers and those in charge to appreciate the possibilities out there. Hollingsworth is keen to point to a general diversity of age in the GB squad. At the other end of the scale we have wheelchair fencer Gabi Down at 14, sitting volleyball's Julie Rogers at 13 and swimmers Chloe Davies, 13, and Amy Marren, 14. Drug testing Paralympic athletes are subject to the same list of banned substances as Olympic athletes. Anyone who requires additional medication for pain or treatment must apply for an exemption. Each application will be considered on an individual basis by a medical committee. The same goes for Olympic athletes. "It's a common misconception that a lot of Paralympians will be on prescription drugs. That's not the case at all," says Nicole Sapstead, director of operations at UK Anti-Doping. "Obviously there are athletes with spinal injuries and they need pain relief. But mostly it is the same as the Olympics - things like asthma and diabetes." Therapeutic Use Exemptions are granted with a defined dosage for a specific period of time. The banned substances are the same in both the Paralympics and the Olympics, and athletes on prescription medication must prove that there is no suitable alternative that they could take instead. Reporting by Damon Rose, Emma Tracey and Lucy Townsend

بعد النجاح الذي حققته أولمبياد لندن، هناك حماس غير مسبوق بشأن الألعاب البارالمبية. ولكن ما هي الاختلافات بين مجموعتي الألعاب؟

الألعاب البارالمبية: 10 أشياء تحتاج إلى معرفتها

Owain Bristow, the head of biology at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen, went missing on Friday. Emergency services had received a report of a man falling into the water near the Bullers of Buchan beauty spot. Police and coastguards using a drone and a helicopter have been leading the search. Aberdeen and Peterhead lifeboats have been combing the coast. Robert Gordon's College is offering support to pupils.

متسلق مفقود يعتقد أنه سقط من المنحدرات البحرية في أبردينشاير هو مدرس كبير.

متسلق منحدرات بحر أبردينشاير المفقود هو مدرس كبير

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.

تم تحديد موعد لمحاكمة مدرب الشباب السابق في نادي ساوثامبتون لكرة القدم والذي يواجه اتهامات بإساءة معاملة الأطفال.

بوب هيغنز: تم تحديد موعد محاكمة اتهامات إساءة معاملة الأطفال لمدرب القديسين السابقين

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.

إن ولادة سلالة حاكمة ليس بالأمر السهل التنبؤ به. ولكن يبدو أن العديد من أهل زيمبابوي منشغلون الآن بالاحتمال المحير المتمثل في سعي عائلة موغابي إلى الانضمام إلى القائمة ـ وهي القائمة المتقلصة بلا أدنى شك ـ التي تضم الأسر التي تمكنت من تمرير مقاليد السلطة عبر مائدة العشاء.

ولادة سلالة موغابي في زيمبابوي؟

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."

أصبح هنري تاندي الجندي الخاص الأكثر أوسمة في الحرب العالمية الأولى. ومع ذلك، فإن شجاعته ستختفي في الفترة التي سبقت الحرب العالمية الثانية بسبب مزاعم أنه أنقذ حياة أدولف هتلر في عام 1918. ولكن، هل القصة دقيقة؟

الحرب العالمية الأولى: البطل البريطاني الذي لم يطلق النار على هتلر

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.

تم تنفيذ تفجير محكم لقنبلة من الحرب العالمية الثانية أخذها عاملان إلى منزلهما بعد العثور عليها على أحد التلال النائية.

عمال الحدود يأخذون إلى منازلهم قنبلة غير منفجرة

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.

وهذا أبعد مما كان من المتوقع أن يذهب إليه البنك.

الأمر لك أيها المستشار

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.

ربما يكون قد فاز في الداخل، ولكن على المستوى الذي تتنافس فيه الدول الكبرى، فإن شعار حملة الرئيس المنتخب ترامب "لنجعل أمريكا عظيمة مرة أخرى" يتعارض الآن مع العبارات المفضلة لدى الصين، التجديد العظيم للأمة الصينية وحلم الصين.

الانتخابات الأمريكية 2016: الصين تتطلع إلى فرصة لإضعاف قوة الولايات المتحدة

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

تلعب النساء كرة القدم الأسترالية بشكل احترافي لأول مرة في عام 2017، مما يجذب حشودًا كبيرة وتقييمات تلفزيونية مذهلة. تم الاحتفال بالدوري على عدة جبهات على الرغم من بعض الجدل حول الأجور، كما كتبت إليسا دوهرتي في ملبورن.

AFLW: كيف استحوذ الدوري النسائي على أستراليا

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.

انتقدت بكين نشر نظام الدفاع الصاروخي الأمريكي على ارتفاعات عالية (ثاد) في كوريا الجنوبية. والآن يدعو الحزب الشيوعي الصيني شعبه إلى تبني إرادته السيئة تجاه جيرانه.

الصين تؤجج الغضب بشأن تحرك سيول الصاروخي

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

تم تشخيص إصابة كريس هالينجا بسرطان الثدي في مراحله النهائية في أوائل العشرينات من عمرها، وهي مصممة على أن المرض لا يُنظر إليه على أنه مرض يصيب النساء الأكبر سناً فقط. من خلال مؤسستها الخيرية CoppaFeel!، تكافح من أجل رفع مستوى الوعي بسرطان الثدي لدى الشباب.

"لدي الكثير من العيش لأقوم به"

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

يتم صيد أعداد قياسية من وحيد القرن وقتلها في جنوب أفريقيا من أجل الحصول على قرونها. ينتهي الأمر بالعديد من هذه القرون إلى بيعها بشكل غير قانوني بسبب خصائصها الطبية المفترضة - في بلدان مثل فيتنام.

التجارة غير المشروعة في فيتنام في قرون وحيد القرن

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".

سيتم نقل مركز شرطة رمزي من مبنى المحكمة إلى مبنى البلدية كجزء من خطط التجديد طويلة المدى لشمال جزيرة آيل أوف مان.

يتم نقل مركز شرطة رمزي كجزء من عملية التجديد

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.

اشترت شركة طاقة صينية سبعة مشاريع لمزارع الرياح في أيرلندا الشمالية وسبعة أخرى في جمهورية أيرلندا مقابل 350 مليون يورو (300 مليون جنيه إسترليني).

شركة صينية تشتري 14 مشروعًا لمزارع الرياح في جميع أنحاء أيرلندا

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.

مزيج من مناورات خروج بريطانيا من الاتحاد الأوروبي الأخيرة، ووزير الداخلية المحاصر، وجولة مهمة من الانتخابات المحلية، يجب أن يعني الكثير من الضجة في البرلمان الأسبوع المقبل.

ماذا يجري في البرلمان؟

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 northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk

اتُهم مشتبه به بقتل رجل أصيب بالرصاص داخل منزل بينما كان طفل يبلغ من العمر ست سنوات وامرأة في الطابق العلوي.

إطلاق النار على بيركديل: اتهام رجل بقتل ستيفن ماغواير

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.

من المفترض أن يدخل قانون حرية المعلومات في جيرسي حيز التنفيذ بحلول عام 2015 بعد أن صوّت عليه السياسيون رسميًا.

جيرسي تحصل على قانون حرية المعلومات "بحلول عام 2015"

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.

ويعمل واحد من كل ثمانية موظفين أكثر من 48 ساعة أسبوعيا، وفقا لتحليل أجراه TUC، واطلع عليه برنامج فيكتوريا ديربيشاير على بي بي سي. لكن بعض الشركات تجري تجارب لمعرفة ما إذا كان من الممكن تحقيق توازن أفضل بين العمل والحياة.

"الأبطال الخارقون لا يعملون 90 ساعة في الأسبوع"

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.

ما هي الأشياء الأساسية التي يجب أن يعرفها كل والد قبل أن يتولى ما يمكن القول أنه أهم وظيفة في حياته؟ بعد دعوة أحد كبار خبراء الصحة العامة للآباء في المملكة المتحدة للحصول على دروس تقدمها الحكومة، قمنا بدعوة عالمة النفس التربوي زبيدة داسغوبتا لتقديم خمس نصائح مفيدة للأبوة والأمومة للمساعدة في تعزيز الصحة العقلية لدى الأطفال.

أهم خمس نصائح تربوية يمكن أن تكون في الدروس الرسمية

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: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk Related Internet Links West Midlands Police

رجل في حالة حرجة في المستشفى بعد تعرضه للكمة في وجهه خارج إحدى الحانات.

قتال في حانة أولدبيري يترك الرجل في حالة حرجة

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.

بحلول الساعة الثامنة مساء يوم الاثنين، بدا الأمر لا مفر منه.

الكثير هو صدى لشهر مارس - ولكن هناك الكثير مختلف أيضًا

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.

ومع زيارة رئيس الوزراء الهندي ناريندرا مودي لإيران، كان هناك الكثير من الحديث في دلهي حول العلاقة بين بلدينا. لكن بالنسبة لي، فإن العطلة التي أمضيتها في إيران العام الماضي أخبرتني عن جارتنا في الشرق الأوسط أكثر مما يستطيع أي محلل سياسي أن يفعله.

العلاقات الهندية الإيرانية: لماذا بوليوود هي لغتنا المشتركة

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.

تواجه المستشفيات في إنجلترا مزيدًا من الاضطراب، حيث من المقرر أن ينظم الأطباء المبتدئون أسبوعًا من الإضرابات في النزاع المستمر مع حكومة المملكة المتحدة بشأن عقد جديد. لماذا لا يقوم الأطباء المبتدئون بالإضراب في ويلز؟

إضراب الأطباء المبتدئين: لماذا لا يوجد نزاع في ويلز؟

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

كان زلزال نيبال المدمر الذي بلغت قوته 7.8 درجة على مقياس ريختر يوم السبت، قد استعد منذ أكثر من 80 عامًا لآخر زلزال هائل في عام 1934، والذي دمر حوالي ربع كاتماندو وأدى إلى مقتل أكثر من 17000 شخص.

زلزال نيبال "يتبع النمط التاريخي"

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.

تم فتح تحقيق في سبب الحريق الذي اندلع في ورشة سجن جايز مارش في دورست.

بدأ التحقيق في حريق ورشة عمل سجن جايز مارش

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.

تم تعيين تيم ديفي مديرًا عامًا بالنيابة لهيئة الإذاعة البريطانية (BBC) بعد استقالة جورج إنتويستل في أعقاب بث برنامج Newsnight في 2 نوفمبر والذي أشار خطأً إلى تورط كبير المحافظين السابق توري لورد ماك ألبين في فضيحة الاعتداء الجنسي على الأطفال.

الملف الشخصي: تيم ديفي

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.

ذكرت تقارير أن خمسة أشخاص يخضعون للمراقبة في مستشفى مجري بعد اكتشاف مرض الجمرة الخبيثة القاتل في عينات من لحوم البقر.

اكتشاف مرض الجمرة الخبيثة القاتل في لحوم البقر المجرية

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?

تم منح العديد من المواقع التاريخية في إنجلترا - والتي لعب بعضها أدوارًا رئيسية في الدفاع عن البلاد في القرون الماضية - أدوارًا جديدة خلال الحرب العالمية الأولى. عادت قلاع تيودور للدفاع عن الأمة مرة أخرى، بينما ساعدت المنازل الريفية الجنود الجرحى على التعافي.

كيف أصبح موقع ستونهنج أكبر معسكر تدريب عسكري في العالم

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.

نفى صبي يبلغ من العمر 17 عامًا التخطيط لهجوم إرهابي في كارديف.

المتهم بمؤامرة كارديف الإرهابية، 17 عامًا، ينفي التهم الموجهة إليه

"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.

في الآونة الأخيرة، حضرت سو إليوت نيكولز الكثير من حفلات الزفاف حيث كان العروسان معًا لعقود من الزمن. وفي الشهر الماضي، قامت أيضًا بهذا الفعل وهي في الخمسينيات من عمرها. فلماذا يختار كل هؤلاء الأزواج في منتصف العمر الزواج أخيرًا؟

لماذا قلنا "أفعل" بعد 30 عامًا معًا

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.

وُصفت هذه الانتخابات بأنها انتخابات يشكل فيها الشباب كتلة تصويتية قوية، مدفوعة بالزخم المتولد عن حوادث إطلاق النار في المدارس في وقت سابق من هذا العام، والتي يحشدها المشاهير مثل تايلور سويفت وريهانا. ولكن هل سيظهرون في ذلك اليوم؟

الانتخابات النصفية في الولايات المتحدة: هل سيهتم الشباب بالتصويت؟

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".

تم تحذير سائقي السيارات من المزيد من إغلاق الطرق مع بدء إحدى المراحل النهائية من العمل لإعادة بناء الطريق الرئيسي المؤدي إلى بورنماوث.

أعمال بورنموث A338: حذر سائقو السيارات من الإغلاق المسائي

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.

تم اعتقال رجل يبلغ من العمر 19 عامًا في باريس للاشتباه في محاولته القتل بعد إصابة سائق دراجة في حادث صدم وهرب في هال.

مراهق محتجز في باريس بسبب محاولة قتل هال وهرب

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.

على مدى خمس سنوات على الأقل، ظل ساحل أندامان في تايلاند مسرحا لبعض الانتهاكات المروعة، خاصة ضد أقلية الروهينجا، وهي أقلية مسلمة تفر من الاضطهاد في ميانمار، المعروفة أيضا باسم بورما.

يواجه ضحايا الاتجار التايلاندي المذعورون مستقبلاً غامضاً

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?

يمر خط ميدلاند الرئيسي عبر وسط البلاد، ويحمل أكثر من 13 مليون مسافر سنويًا، ومع ذلك، وفقًا لعضو البرلمان عن كيترينج، عندما يتعلق الأمر بالاستثمار، فهو خط السكك الحديدية الأكثر إغفالًا في بريطانيا.

النائب يدعو للاستثمار في خدمات ميدلاند مينلاين

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 south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk. Related Internet Links Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service

تم إنقاذ أم وابنها الصغير بعد أن علقا في طين المد والجزر بالقرب من حديقة ساحلية.

تم إنقاذ الأم وابنها من طين المد والجزر بالقرب من هافانت

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.

طارت بومة داخل سيارة إسعاف متوجهة إلى المستشفى، ثم تشبثت بالأضواء الزرقاء حتى وصولها.

البومة تتشبث بسقف سيارة الإسعاف في رحلة إلى Bridgend A&E

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.

نفى رجل قتل رفيقته في حادث قارب سريع على نهر التايمز.

رجل ينفي وفاة شارلوت براون بالقارب السريع

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.

في عصر الاضطرابات القيادية الأسترالية، تبدو وفاة بوب هوك، رئيس الوزراء السابق المحبوب، مؤثرة بشكل خاص قبل الانتخابات الوطنية يوم السبت، حسبما كتب هيويل غريفيث مراسل بي بي سي في سيدني.

بوب هوك: المارق الهائج الذي قاد أستراليا

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.

تطارد الحرب والفساد والفقر جمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطية، ويعتقد على نطاق واسع أن رئيسها الحالي سوف يلغي الانتخابات الرئاسية هذا العام. ولكن على الرغم من عدم الاستقرار الذي يمكن أن يجلبه ذلك، التقت ماري آن أوشوتا بمجتمع لا يزال متفائلاً بشكل مدهش.

بلد تعتبر فيه المراحيض علامة أمل

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.

قد يشهد يوم الأربعاء خطوة مهمة أخرى نحو تحديث المال. iZettle، وهو جهاز يسمح لصغار التجار بتلقي مدفوعات بطاقات الائتمان، يصل إلى المملكة المتحدة بعد نجاح طرحه في أسواق أخرى. لكن فشل شركات الدفع الكبرى في الاتفاق على معايير مشتركة حول كيفية استخدام أنظمة الأموال عبر الهاتف المحمول قد يعني فشل الفكرة برمتها.

iZettle وتحديث المال

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.

تم فتح بوابة السد التي تحول المياه من نهر باريت جزئيًا في محاولة لإزالة مياه الفيضانات من مستويات سومرست.

تنخفض مستويات مياه الفيضانات في سومرست بعد فتح بوابة السد

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.

بدأت الشرطة تحقيقا بعد وفاة طفل يبلغ من العمر ستة أشهر.

وفاة طفل في نورثامبتون: تحقق الشرطة في وفاة طفل يبلغ من العمر ستة أشهر

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.

تم إصدار صورة جديدة لمركز أبردين الجديد للمعارض والمؤتمرات قبل سلسلة من المشاورات العامة.

تم إصدار صورة جديدة لمركز أبردين للمعارض والمؤتمرات المخطط له

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.

فشل المالك السابق لرصيف خليج كولوين البالغ من العمر 112 عامًا في محاولته استعادة السيطرة من مجلس كونوي الذي يريد تطويره.

رصيف خليج كولوين: القاضي يدعم ملكية مجلس كونوي

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.

قبل عشر سنوات، كان العالم في قبضة الذعر بسبب تفشي مرض غامض - سارس. لقد قتل الفيروس المئات - وأصاب الآلاف غيرهم - ولكن تأثيره كان من الممكن أن يكون أكثر تدميرا بكثير لولا شجاعة حفنة من الأطباء والممرضات.

سارس: الأشخاص الذين خاطروا بحياتهم لوقف الفيروس

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.

لن تفتح كلية نوتنغهامشاير أبوابها يوم الجمعة بعد إصابة طالبين بسبب سقوط بلاط السقف الجصي.

طلاب جامعة نوتنجهامشير يتألمون بسبب بلاط السقف

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.

غرمت الشرطة الأشخاص الذين كانوا يقومون بمطاردة الأشباح على بعد حوالي 60 ميلاً (96 كم) من منازلهم بسبب خرقهم قواعد الإغلاق.

كوفيد: توقف صائدو الأشباح في مامبلز بسبب انتهاك القواعد

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.

يقوم فريق بريطاني بتطوير سيارة قادرة على الوصول إلى سرعة 1000 ميل في الساعة (1610 كم / ساعة). مدعومة بصاروخ مثبت على محرك نفاث من طراز Eurofighter-Typhoon، ستقوم المركبة أولاً بشن هجوم على الرقم القياسي العالمي للسرعة الأرضية (763 ميلاً في الساعة؛ 1228 كم / ساعة). سيتم تشغيل Bloodhound على Hakskeen Pan في Northern Cape، جنوب أفريقيا، في عام 2016. يقوم قائد الجناح آندي جرين، صاحب الرقم القياسي العالمي الحالي للسرعة الأرضية، بكتابة مذكرات لبي بي سي نيوز حول تجاربه في العمل في مشروع Bloodhound وجهود الفريق. لإلهام الاهتمام الوطني بالعلوم والهندسة.

يوميات الكلاب البوليسية: إنه علم الصواريخ

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.

لقد بدأ تشغيل حقل نفط جديد ضخم في بحر الشمال، بالاعتماد على تكنولوجيا جديدة لتحقيق كفاءة أكبر وأرباح أكبر بكثير. وتقدر فوائدها المقدرة للحكومة على مدى خمسة عقود بنحو 80 مليار جنيه استرليني. الحكومة النرويجية، وهذا هو. فلماذا كان أداء النرويج أفضل بكثير فيما يتعلق بنفط بحر الشمال؟ بعض الحظ، وبعض الخيارات، والاحتفاظ بالعمل داخل البلد - وقبل كل شيء، أن تكون مستثمرًا بالإضافة إلى تحصيل الضرائب.

وحش جديد من الأعماق

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.

طلب مشرعون من حزب الحركة نحو الاشتراكية الحاكم في بوليفيا، من المحكمة الدستورية السماح للرئيس إيفو موراليس بالترشح لولاية رابعة، على الرغم من أن الدستور يمنعه من ذلك.

الحزب الحاكم في بوليفيا يتحدى الحد الأقصى لولاية موراليس

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?

هل كان برلمان أوين جليندور أسطورة؟

نائب مؤرخ يشكك في برلمان أوين جليندور

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.

كان الكابتن روبن رولاند يبلغ من العمر 22 عامًا عندما تم نشر كتيبته في بلدة كوهيما شمال شرق الهند. كان ذلك في شهر مايو من عام 1944، وكانت مجموعة صغيرة من الجنود البريطانيين الهنود تتعرض للهجوم من قبل فرقة كاملة من القوات اليابانية.

كوهيما: معركة بريطانيا "المنسية" التي غيرت مسار الحرب العالمية الثانية

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."

حظيت شركة الطيران الوطنية الهندية "إير إنديا" بالإشادة لقيامها بعدد من الرحلات الجوية لإنقاذ الهنود الذين تقطعت بهم السبل في البلدان المتضررة من فيروس كورونا. والآن، زعمت مجموعة من الطيارين أن سلامتهم قد تعرضت للخطر، وهو ما تنفيه شركة الطيران.

فيروس كورونا: طيارو الخطوط الجوية الهندية "معرضون لخطر الإصابة" أثناء رحلات الإنقاذ

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.

إذن كم تنفق هيئة الخدمات الصحية الوطنية في ويلز؟

كم تنفق هيئة الخدمات الصحية الوطنية في ويلز؟

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

استقال ماهيندرا سينغ دوني من منصبه كقائد محدود للهند قبل السلسلة الدولية القادمة التي تستغرق يومًا واحدًا ضد إنجلترا. ينظر سوريش مينون، محرر ويسدن إنديا، إلى ما جعل حارس الويكيت-رجل المضرب واحدًا من أهدأ لاعبي الكريكيت في التاريخ.

لماذا يتم ضمان مكان MS Dhoni في تاريخ لعبة الكريكيت؟

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.

أظهرت أرقام جديدة أن تكلفة استبدال الهواتف وأجهزة الكمبيوتر المحمولة المفقودة أو المسروقة من موظفي حكومة ويلز قد بلغت حوالي 14 ألف جنيه إسترليني منذ عام 2012.

100 هاتف وجهاز كمبيوتر محمول تابع للحكومة الويلزية "ضائعة أو مسروقة"

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.

تم استئناف العمل لإنهاء بناء مستشفى ليفربول الملكي.

مستشفى ليفربول الملكي: استئناف العمل في المشروع المتوقف بقيمة 335 مليون جنيه إسترليني