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Passengers were faced with a 25-mile detour while the Sandbanks to Studland crossing was suspended at the beginning of November. The ferry was taken to Southampton where it underwent a refit. The Bournemouth-Swanage Motor Road Ferry Company apologised for the inconvenience but said it was happy the service was back up and running. The operator said it made sense to carry out the work in November as it was its quietest month of the year.

تم استئناف خدمة العبارات المتسلسلة في دورست بعد توقفها عن العمل لمدة خمسة أسابيع بسبب فحوصات الصيانة.

تستأنف عبّارة سلسلة Sandbanks العبور بعد تجديدها

European governments are struggling to co-ordinate their response to the influx. Large movements of migrants from country to country quickly fuel suspicions that some politicians are trying to shift the burden on to their neighbours. Greece and Italy - major entry points for migrants - say there must be more burden-sharing in the EU, especially as they have been hit hard by the eurozone crisis. Migrants continue to board overcrowded, rickety boats, risking their lives. More than 3,000 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported in September - more than four times the estimated deaths in 2013. In one of the worst incidents, at least 300 migrants drowned off Malta in early September. Survivors said their boat had been rammed by Egyptian people traffickers. Among industrialised countries, Germany now receives the most asylum claims - in 2013 it overtook the US. The increase in Germany has been fuelled by big migrant flows from war-torn Syria and Iraq, Deutsche Welle news website reports. (Total applications includes some asylum seekers not yet officially registered) In 2013 Syria became the top country of origin among those seeking asylum in the EU. In 2012 Afghanistan was in the top slot, followed by Russia and then Syria. The UN says asylum claims have soared to their highest level since the wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Globally Europe is by far the top destination for asylum seekers. Asylum is granted to those who say they are fleeing persecution and who can convince the authorities that they would face harm or even death if they were to be sent back. Germany handles about a quarter of the total asylum claims in the EU. The influx has put a great strain on the reception centres housing asylum seekers. France is the second biggest destination. But often English-speaking migrants head for the UK, which is home to large communities from Pakistan, Somalia and Middle Eastern countries. Among the asylum seekers from Russia there are many Chechens, whose homeland was devastated by war between separatist rebels and Russian troops. The asylum seekers from Serbia include many Roma and ethnic Albanians, who complain of discrimination in Serbia. It is important to remember that developing countries host more than 80% of the world's refugees. People fleeing conflict or persecution often end up in a neighbouring country - but many do not want to settle there permanently. Pakistan, with 1.6 million refugees, ranks highest for sheltering refugees. The vast majority of Afghan refugees are in Pakistan and Iran. Most Syrian refugees are in neighbouring Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, and most have not made formal asylum claims. In such cases of massive displacement - Somalia is a similar case - those fleeing are automatically recognised as refugees, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) told the BBC. The refugees register and their stay is regulated, so they are protected from being sent back, the UNHCR's Andrej Mahecic said. It is not individual asylum processing as happens in Europe. Many countries do not have a national asylum system. For many asylum seekers Europe is easier to reach overland or by boat, especially those fleeing conflicts in the Middle East or Africa. And people traffickers already have well-established smuggling routes to Europe. The figures illustrate why immigration has become such a hot topic in Europe. Globally Syria has overtaken Afghanistan as the top country of origin among asylum seekers. In 2013 the numbers from Iraq - racked by war, like neighbouring Syria - rose above those from China and Pakistan. The main countries of origin have anti-government minorities and dissidents who allege discrimination or persecution.

تدفع الحرب الأهلية الوحشية في سوريا موجة جديدة من المهاجرين نحو أوروبا. وقد ارتفعت أعدادهم، لكن العديد من طالبي اللجوء في أوروبا فروا أيضًا من الصراعات والاضطرابات في أفغانستان والعراق والقرن الأفريقي.

الرسومات: طالبو اللجوء في أوروبا

By Danny VincentBBC News, Hong Kong "If we said that we were going to an unauthorised protest it would have provided good evidence for the police to charge us," said KK, an office worker and protester in his late 20s, who asked for his identity to be protected. Thousands of protesters gathered at the location, recognising that the video game - which lets players pit virtual monsters against each other at real-world locations - had been used as a way to gather people together for a very different kind of battle. Crowds were eventually dispersed with tear gas as police and protesters clashed into the late evening. "Many people think of creative ways to gather people," KK added. "We will occasionally 'play' Pokemon Go, or take part in 'Bible reading groups' or 'history tours'." AirDrop used to share protest details Mass demonstrations against a now-suspended extradition bill started in Hong Kong in the spring. Among the protesters' demands are amnesty for anyone arrested during the demonstrations and greater choice in future elections held in the semi-autonomous city. And they are are finding increasingly creative ways to organise and stage their rallies. From chats on the private messaging app Telegram to Uber's ride-hailing service, apps have become an integral part of the way that Hong Kong's youth-led movement is organised. On packed subways, protesters anonymously send freshly-designed posters via Apple's wi-fi and Bluetooth-based file-transfer facility AirDrop - to share times and locations. "At the very early stage of the movement, Telegram was mostly used to spread information to protesters," said Rob, a university graduate and active protester in his 20s. "Information typically included real-time locations of the police force, the situations at different front lines on different streets and locations of first aid stations, gas masks, goggles, bottles of water." Now, he explained, it is frequently used to place orders for Uber pick-ups. The drivers disable their GPS (global positioning system) receivers to avoid being tracked as they offer rides home to protesters who need to leave the scene. "Volunteer drivers now submit their location, destination and licence number to the admin of the [relevant Telegram] channel," says Rob. "Protesters can see from the real-time map - Uber drivers at the same location usually means pick-up points... to get away." Another protester, who wanted to be known as NA7PNQ, added that he recently used Uber to travel through various different protest sites, picking up protesters needing to be "evacuated". The Abacus news site has also reported that the dating app Tinder has been used to help organise events. Alex, a full-time protester who quit his job to focus on the movement. said he would not leave home without a smartphone and a portable charger. "Information on police's location from the scouts are key to reach protest location or escape without being caught," he explained. "On the protest day, I do what I do best in the field, in the front line, and in other days I help reviewing our actions, making promotion materials. "We have friends who live in foreign countries to share it on Facebook and WhatsApp. But we won't do it ourselves as it is just too risky." On the ground, protesters also make use of an anonymous Hong Kong forum called Lihkg. It helps them arrange to share out specific tasks. Rob specialises in putting out tear gas canisters fired by the police. KK believes that the use of apps is key to the "leaderless nature" of the movement. Since early June, police have arrested more than 500 protesters. The demonstrators say using online tools - which help them protect their anonymity - has helped avoid individuals being targeted. "All of the people in the Umbrella Movement were jailed for inciting people to protest, now people tend not to be so open about encouraging people to protest," KK says, referencing the 2014 pro-democracy protests and subsequent imprisonment of their leaders. Another resident compares the street battles to a last-player-standing video game popular in Hong Kong. "There is no-one in charge. They look like they are playing the mobile phone game PUGB [Player Unknown Battlegrounds]." And while protesters are actually turning to games like Pokemon Go to push their agenda, they are also subverting its slogan - a point the same resident makes without apparently realising it. "It's not easy for the police to catch all of them because they are not one organised group," he says. "When the police catch one, they can only catch one team. "They can't catch them all."

وفي أواخر يوليو/تموز، تعرض المتظاهرون في هونج كونج العائدين من مظاهرة لهجوم من قبل مجموعة من الرجال يرتدون قمصان بيضاء. وبعد ذلك بوقت قصير، ظهرت إعلانات مجهولة المصدر على الإنترنت تدعو إلى حملة مطاردة جماعية للعبة بوكيمون جو في بلدة كان المهاجمون المشتبه بهم قد تجمعوا فيها قبل أسبوع.

يلجأ المتظاهرون في هونج كونج إلى أوبر وبوكيمون

Sinn Fein gets an annual grant of £100,000 under a scheme designed for parties that do not sit in the chamber. North Belfast DUP MP Nigel Dodds said that money was hard to justify. The issue is due to be raised at a debate in Westminster later on Tuesday. "We think that it is wrong and there's a cross-party view among many of the parties in Westminster that it is wrong and that needs to be addressed," he said. "I think there is a growing view that given the clampdown on the waste of taxpayers' money generally across the public sector and, indeed, public expenditure, that people are fed up by the situation." Mr Dodds said Tuesday's debate would highlight what he considered a "ludicrous and farcical" situation.

وقال الحزب الوحدوي الديمقراطي إنه يجب سحب الأموال الحكومية الممنوحة لشين فين من أجل الأبحاث والعمل السياسي في وستمنستر لأن الحزب لا يشغل مقاعده البرلمانية.

DUP يدعو إلى منع منحة Sinn Féin البالغة 100000 جنيه إسترليني من وستمنستر

The eBay-owned business said it planned to launch the service in the US before April 2012. Paypal's president, Scott Thompson, told the Bloomberg news agency that his firm would use its knowledge of its 103 million members' past purchases to tailor offers. The move poses a challenge to the sector's two biggest players, Groupon and Livingsocial. Daily deal businesses offer their members the chance to buy goods or services - from spa treatments and sushi to cheap flights and theatre tickets - at a steep discount. Buyers are usually limited to using the coupons within a restricted time span. The daily dealer business then splits the revenue with the organisation providing the goods. Companies may make a loss on the specific offer, but profit if customers return for repeat business. Discount deluge According to the daily deal data aggregator Yipit, four of the biggest players sold close to $210m (£135m) worth of coupons in the US in October. The firms surveyed were Groupon, Livingsocial, Amazonlocal and Google Offers. Mr Thompson said Paypal's service would be "different" because the firm would only offer unique and relevant offers rather than "bombard" its members. A spokesman for the company hinted it might launch coupons in the UK soon after the US. "We don't have any specific plans to bring this to the UK at this stage," said spokesman Rob Skinner. "But Britain is Paypal's second biggest market after the United States, and the past shows that the big developments in the US tends to travel across the Atlantic to the UK very quickly." Although analysts forecast growth for the sector, they have repeatedly warned that the firms involved are likely to face increasing competition because the barrier to entry is relatively low. In the past two years KGB Deals, Time Out, Grabone, the Telegraph newspaper, Discountvouchers, STV and Mightydeals are among those to have started targeting the UK public with discounted coupon offers. Directed deals However, while it may be relatively easy to enter the market, some firms are finding it hard to replicate Groupon and Livingsocial's success. "Daily deals are hard to do - the key to success is flawless execution of the sales process," said Shane Hayes, founder of the deal aggregator service Siftie. "Groupon has proved it can do this and its barrier to entry is more than 5,000 local sales people knocking around doors of businesses around the world. "What we will probably see is next is 'Daily deals 2.0' where things like better targeting, using consumer data, will be used to change consumers' experience of the phenomenon. This may give Paypal an opportunity." In the meantime Groupon intends to maintain its lead by increasing its range of offers. Earlier this week, the firm made headlines when it offered a pair of business class tickets to fly around the world with up to 10 stopovers. The asking price was $20,000 (£12,900).

تخطط خدمة الدفع عبر الإنترنت Paypal لدخول سوق كوبونات الخصم.

تخطط Paypal لقسائم الصفقات اليومية للتنافس مع Groupon

It was a young boy who noticed us and ran to tell his father. Around 10 years old, blond-haired and barefoot, he rushed indoors. The child looked scared. It was dusk and we were strangers. I caught sight of him in the rear-view mirror as we drove along the dirt road that ran past the tall steel fence that encircled their home. Maybe 10 minutes later, a car approached from behind. Headlights flashed, beckoning us to stop. Revolver on hip We pulled up within a few yards of each other. It was an old car, a Toyota from the 1990s. Beaten and rusted, it is a vehicle of the rural poor. A young white man got out. He wore a baseball cap pulled down over his forehead and his right hand sat on the revolver strapped to his hip. There was a young woman with a baby on her lap in the front seat. She looked exhausted, her hair lank and eyes struggling to stay open. The child was ill, coughing and its face covered in red blotches. I saw the man relax as I got out of the car and approached him. I greeted him in Afrikaans. The hand came away from his hip. "You frightened them, you know," he said, pointing towards the house. "They called up on the radio and we came to check on you. They didn't know who you was. We talk to each other on the radio." He said there had been farm attacks in the area. There was constant theft. The young man pointed across the railway tracks to where the fields were now dissolving into the dark. "The farmer over there, if he sees anyone on his land, he is likely to just take a shot. He will fire at anything. Be more careful, man," he said. 'We will level them with the gravel' This was near Potchefstroom on the "platteland" - an Afrikaans word which refers to the great rolling heartland encompassing vast swathes of the South African interior. More than 20 years after watching black and white leaders negotiate an end to the racist system of apartheid, I was driving west of the main city, Johannesburg, to test how much had changed in what had been the most conservative part of South Africa. Potchefstroom, Ventersdorp, Fochville and numerous other towns and villages had provided the muscle for an abortive right-wing rebellion. The leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), Eugene Terreblanche, had sworn never to surrender to black rule. "We will level them with the gravel," I'd heard him declare one hot afternoon in Ventersdorp. There were threats to set up white republics. But the rebellion failed, snuffed out when a black soldier killed three AWB members in cold blood on a rural road and terrified the rest into going home and living with the new dispensation. This was after AWB members shot civilians in and around the platteland town of Mafeking in March 1994. Resenting inequality Terreblanche was murdered 16 years later by one of his own workers. His movement splintered, shrank and became irrelevant. Most Afrikaners accepted the compromise which led to black majority rule. But travelling across the platteland, it is obvious that while dreams of white secession have evaporated, there is much that is unchanged. I was going back to a place where many black people resent the inequality which keeps 67% of arable farmland in white hands, and where white people fear violent attack and dispossession. It is not that South Africa has become newly racist, unequal or violent. It was always all of these things. The violence of racial discrimination and the resentment it bred are part of the nation's DNA. 'Beaten unconscious' Social media has provided an outlet for amplifying the crudest racial slurs and anger over corruption and inequality have stoked an increasingly febrile environment. What is striking is the way in which racial resentment can still be so brutally expressed. Last February a 22-year-old black athlete, Thabang Mosiako, was walking with some friends in Potchefstroom when he saw a shop assistant being insulted by a group of young white men. It was a Saturday night. When Mr Mosiako and a friend intervened, they were set upon. "They were hitting me until I was unconscious," he remembered. "Then I woke up in the hospital, not knowing what happened." His friend, also an athlete, suffered a broken arm. Mr Mosiako runs for South Africa and lost three months from his training because of the beating he received. Worse, he says, is the lingering trauma and fear when he sees groups of white men. "I feel really scared. I can't even go to town alone. I don't know when and where will they come back again." 'Alcohol thrown' Travel 300km (186 miles) north-east to the town of Middelburg and you learn that racist violence can still be lethal. The town has some bad history. In August 2016 two white farmers were filmed beating and then forcing a black man into a coffin in which they told him he would be buried alive. They were given sentences of 11 and 14 years. In another case, Xolisile Ndongzana, 26, was driving home in Middleburg one night last July when he found the road blocked by a group of white men. They approached the car and threw alcohol through the open window, drenching the occupants. Mr Ndongzana was dragged out. His friend, Laurence Nelumoni, witnessed the violence. "They pulled out my friend and beat him. When I tried to save him, it was too late. They used all these 'k-words' - black, kaffir, everything. It was terrible." The "k-word" was the most offensive racial slur used to humiliate black people during the apartheid years. It is a symbol of de-humanisation. Mr Ndongzana died of his injuries. The white attackers have yet to be charged. Mr Nelumoni is rueful when I ask if those who witnessed the end of apartheid were wrong to believe in a "rainbow nation" - the multiracial patchwork of peaceful co-operating groups. "You were wrong. It's not a rainbow nation. Whites still have more powers." What was apartheid? As so often in this country, and in this particular place, there are competing narratives of fear. The white farmers of the platteland worry that their land will be seized under government proposals to take property without compensation. Inflammatory words Populist politicians in the radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and some local leaders of the governing African Nationalist Congress (ANC) have been accused of stoking racial tensions. The South African Human Rights Commission is taking one radical black leader to court over comments he made calling for the killing of white people. Andile Mngxitama, who leads the Black Land First organisation, represents a political fringe but his comments have received widespread publicity and heightened racial tensions. The attacks on white farms - long a feature of rural life - have deepened a sense of alienation from the government on the part of some white farms. Right-wing groups have spread the myth of a white genocide abroad. There is no genocide but there is genuine fear of physical attack and dispossession. More on race relations: Bernadette Hall witnessed the murder of her husband on their farm near Fochville in 2012. Her land is parched and browned from a long southern winter without rain. The cattle are lean. We are standing outside the dairy building where Mrs Hall witnessed her husband's death. "They beat him and he fought with them. But by the end he was on his knees and the one black guy just shot him," she said. She was beaten and tied up as the attackers hunted for money and guns. They found neither. Her two sons live in the nearby town and constantly urge their mother to move away from the farm. But she will not go. "This is my land. I didn't steal it. Why should I move? I belong here," Mrs Hall said. Capacity to surprise Had I left at that moment, I would have come away with an impression of a world incapable of change. The angry racist outbursts and the constant discussion of race on social media give the country a claustrophobic feel these days. But a recent opinion poll by the South African Institute of Race Relations think tank gives some cause for hope. The telephone survey found that 77% of black respondents had never "personally experienced racism directed against them". The same percentage said that "with better education and more jobs, the differences between the races will disappear". Another survey by Afrobarometer found that 92% of South Africans expressed themselves as tolerant towards other ethnicities. Then something happened on our platteland journey. It was at once surprising and yet strangely familiar, a testament to this country's endless capacity to surprise. Earlier we had spotted a bush fire sending a huge cloud of white smoke into the pale blue of the sky. It seemed to be growing in strength. There was a call to Mrs Hall's phone. The man on the other end was speaking Afrikaans and talking about the fire. "Come on. He needs help," she said. 'Great neighbours' We headed in the direction of the smoke. Mrs Hall led the way in her "bakkie" - the ubiquitous pickup jeeps of the platteland - and in a few minutes we were in the middle of the fire and Mrs Hall was shaking the hands of a black man who was fighting the flames. "This is Firi. He's my neighbour," she said. Firi Lekhetha owned the land next to Mrs Hall. He was a young man who had emigrated to the UK to play professional rugby, earned some money and returned to try his hand at farming under a government scheme to encourage black farmers. Soon other white people were arriving and local black farm workers too. The flames were advancing towards Mr Lekhetha's home. Together the group fought them back. They knew the truth of the platteland fire. It spreads. It does not respect fences. "These are great neighbours," Mr Lekhetha shouted to me. "They are always here for me." The flames subsided. Exhausted people slumped on the ground or leaned against bakkies. Mr Lekhetha and Mrs Hall shook hands. He thanked her for the help; she thanked him for the loan of some petrol. I began to ask about the problems of racial animosity on the platteland. Mrs Hall interrupted: "What animosity do you see here? None. There's none." It would be wrong to read too much into the dynamics of a single incident. As I saw earlier in the journey, racism remains pervasive and toxic in South Africa. But the symbol of a fire that consumes all - irrespective of race - is a potent one for this country. As much as they did in 1994, at a time of historic compromise, South Africans need each other.

محرر بي بي سي في أفريقيا، فيرغال كين، يزور المناطق الريفية المحافظة في جنوب أفريقيا بعد ما يقرب من 25 عاما من انتهاء حكم الأقلية البيضاء، ويجد أن العنصرية لا تزال متأصلة بعمق ولكن هناك أيضا رموز للمصالحة العرقية.

العلاقات العرقية "السامة" في جنوب أفريقيا

The force has released images of the suspects and said the stolen gold, worth a lot for sentimental reasons, is "irreplaceable". A 39-year-old man is being hunted in connection with the crime. More than 1,400 people were arrested over burglary offences from 21 September to 14 December, the Met said. Suspects photographed, left to right: Top row Second row Third row Simon Letchford at the Met's Territorial Policing arm said he was stepping up efforts to find and arrest "outstanding wanted suspects" to tackle burglary in the run up to Christmas. He asked anyone with information to get in touch. Mr Letchford added: "We will use every means at our disposal to catch those wanted so they can face justice, so our message is clear, 'if your face is on this list, hand yourself in - don't ruin Christmas for your family'."

تلاحق شرطة العاصمة اثني عشر من المشتبه بهم "الأكثر مراوغة" في جرائم السطو في لندن، بما في ذلك الرجل الذي سرق ما قيمته أكثر من 10 آلاف جنيه إسترليني من الذهب الآسيوي.

ابحث عن 12 مشتبهًا بهم في عملية السطو "الأكثر مراوغة" في لندن

By Steven McKenzieBBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter Garcia is looking forward to making her first visit to the Scottish Highlands. "How exciting, right?" she says. "I'm waiting for the kilts and bagpipes and good medieval stories." Garcia admits to being a newcomer to the comic convention circuit. She attended her first event only last year and last week was at Sci-Fi Wales. Fort Con 2 will be her third time. "I feel so lucky as it is a very tight network," she says of her invites to events popular with fans of comic books, film and TV shows. "I guess my name was coming up and people were like 'Yeah lets get her in'," she adds, laughing. "I feel so fortunate. It's pretty spectacular being a part of Star Wars fandom." 'Changed my life' Garcia's fandom comes from her appearance in the opening scenes of 2015's JJ Abrams-directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Her character is caught up in a battle to save a village on the desert planet Jakku from an invading force of the villainous First Order. But, while auditioning as an extra for the film, Garcia feared she had ruined her chances during an encounter with the director. "There was a moment when director Abrams gathered some of the girls and there were a bunch of 'weapons' lying around and he said: 'Alright pick em up'," says Garcia. "Well, I had a 'gun' and I cocked it and pointed it straight at him. "He looked over at me and says: 'You look like your gonna kill me'. I thought 'oh great I'm being fired as an extra'." But later the director pulled Garcia aside and introduced himself. 'Boom. There you are' Garcia says: "He asked me what I used to do for a living. I said I used to be a Chicago sheriff in the Cook County Sheriff Department. He almost fell over. "The next thing, he was directing me in what was my feature shot. The rest as they say is history. He single-handedly changed my life forever." She adds: "When I win an Oscar he will be the first person I thank." Garcia, who had previously played a police officer in EastEnders and was Monica Bellucci's stand-in in Spectre, said her part in The Force Awakens will live with her forever. "There was a moment when I heard someone calling my name 'Gloria , Gloria...' I thought 'Who is calling me?' and it was JJ Abrams. "He waved me over and showed me on the camera my shot and he said: 'Boom. There you are'. "But truly there are so many moments both on set and the movie itself that I will never forget. "Watching on the big screen the Stormtroopers coming out of the ship to attack Jakku - to see that on set and on the big screen was quite unforgettable." Looking ahead to Saturday's Fort Con 2, she says: "There is no greater reward then being able to meet all the Star Wars fans in person. "They are incredible people all with their own stories. I love them. I would not be if it weren't for them."

يقام مهرجان الثقافة الشعبية Fort Con 2 في فورت ويليام يوم السبت. إحدى ضيوفه، الممثلة الأمريكية غلوريا جارسيا، ظهرت في فيلم EastEnders، فيلم بوند Spectre وحصلت على دور في Star Wars: The Force Awakens بفضل مسيرتها المهنية السابقة كعمدة شرطة أمريكية.

ممثلة تكشف كيف فازت بدورها في حرب النجوم

Wrrexham council voted in favour of moving the police station to the former Oriel Wrecsam building on Monday. Plans had been put on hold on 4 January due to concerns over disabled parking. The council-run gallery has already been temporarily relocated and will eventually move to a new arts and culture hub planned for the town. The police's town centre tower block offices are to be demolished.

تمت الموافقة على خطط تحويل معرض فني إلى منزل جديد لمركز شرطة وسط مدينة ريكسهام.

خطط المعرض الفني لمركز شرطة ريكسهام تحصل على الضوء الأخضر

By Dr Clare MakepeaceCultural historian on warfare "In this new experience you may find temptations both in wine and women. You must entirely resist both." In his memoirs Private Frank Richards, who served continuously on the Western Front, recorded men's responses to these words: "They may as well have not been issued for all the notice we took of them." Visiting prostitutes is a little-known and little-discussed aspect of life on the Western Front, but it was a key part of the British soldiers' war experience. Licensed brothels had existed in France since the mid-19th Century - the war saw the trade flourish. 'Not monks' "Immorality in Boulogne is as prevalent as death in the line," recorded Brig Gen Frank Percy Crozier, who arrived on the Western Front in 1915. ''Rouen has been ruinous to my purse (not to mention my morals)," confided James H. Butlin, a lieutenant who, in 1914, swapped his place at Oxford University for one in the trenches. "But I have enjoyed myself," he confessed. Brothels displayed blue lamps if they were for officers and red lamps for other ranks. Outside red lamp establishments, queues or crowds of men were often seen. Cpl Jack Wood compared the scene he witnessed to "a crowd, waiting for a cup tie at a football final in Blighty". Others saw brothel visits as a physical necessity - it was an era when sexual abstinence for men was considered harmful to their health. Lt R. G. Dixon explained in his memoir: "We were not monks, but fighting soldiers and extraordinarily fit, fitter than we had been in our young lives, and fairly tough - certainly with an abundance of physical energy. "If bought love is no substitute for the real thing, it at any rate seemed better than nothing. And in any case it worked off steam!" 'Presence of death' Physical need made it more acceptable for married men, rather than single men, to visit prostitutes. Cpl Bert Chaney, while he surveyed a queue of soldiers outside one red lamp brothel, was told by those who waited in line "these places were not for young lads like me, but for married men who were missing their wives". Brothels were also places where soldiers went to spend what could be their final mortal hours. Twenty-four hours before the major British offensive of the Battle of Loos, Pte Richards saw "three hundred men in a queue, all waiting their turns to go in the Red Lamp". Lt Dixon described how "we were consistently in the presence of death, and no man knew when his turn might come. "I suppose that subconsciously we wanted as much of life as we could get while we still had life." The war poet, Capt Robert Graves, recorded how this life experience was particularly urgent for some: "There were no restraints in France; these boys had money to spend and knew that they stood a good chance of being killed within a few weeks anyhow. "They did not want to die virgins.' Brothel visits could also be a way to avoid death. They gave soldiers a chance to swap time in the trenches for a few weeks in a hospital bed. According to Gunner Rowland Myrddyn Luther, who enlisted in September 1914, and served through to the Allied advance of 1918, a great many soldiers were prepared to chance venereal disease, rather than face a return to the front. 'Belonged to war' "The total number thus infected must have been stupendous, both officers and men alike. "In fact the contraction of such a disease seemed sought after, even if only to keep a man from the front during treatment." The numbers infected were indeed quite "stupendous". Around 400,000 cases of venereal disease were treated during the course of the war. In 1916, one in five of all admissions of British and dominion troops to hospitals in France and Belgium were for VD. But, succumbing to the temptation Kitchener had warned against was, for many, confined to the extraordinary circumstances of war. For Lt Dixon "the business was compartmentalised - it was, as it were, shut off from normal human relationships, and belonged to this lunatic world of war and to nowhere else." The visits of Tommies and their officers to brothels are unlikely to receive attention in the World War One centenary, but they should. Pte Percy Clare included "the subject" in his memoir because he was "writing faithfully of our life in France". As he summed it up "it is better to know the truth".

عندما انطلق الجنود البريطانيون إلى الخنادق في عام 1914، كانت هناك رسالة قصيرة مطوية داخل كل من دفاتر الرواتب الخاصة بهم. وكان يحتوي على نصيحة منزلية كتبها وزير الدولة لشؤون الحرب، اللورد كيتشنر.

بيوت الدعارة في الحرب العالمية الأولى: لماذا تجاهلت القوات دعوات مقاومة "الإغراء"

People were urged to avoid Watern Tor on Dartmoor while the blaze was brought under control. The National Police Air Service (NPAS) in Exeter was called to assist Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service at 13:00 BST. Residents said smoke could be "seen for miles" but there was "no threat" to the public, the NPAS said.

قالت خدمة الإطفاء إن رجال الإطفاء يتعاملون مع حريق غابات "يبلغ طوله ميلين" في ديفون.

رجال الإطفاء يتعاملون مع حريق جبال دارتمور الذي يبلغ طوله ميلين

Poole's Twin Sails Bridge which links the town to Hamworthy, requires work on its lifting hydraulics and electrics. It will be shut to all road traffic, including cyclists and pedestrians on 14 March from 07:00 BST. The Poole lifting bridge will remain open during the closure. The crossings that span the town's busy shipping channel, prevent a six-mile drive around Holes Bay to get between Hamworthy and Poole. The two bridges which are used by an estimated 20,000 vehicles each day, open hourly outside of rush hours for maritime traffic within 15 minutes of each other. The lifting bridge is expected to close in the autumn for extensive repairs.

تم تحذير سائقي السيارات من توقع حدوث تأخيرات عند إغلاق أحد الجسور عبر ميناء بول لمدة أسبوع لإجراء أعمال الصيانة.

تم إغلاق جسر Twin Sails Bridge في بول لإجراء الإصلاحات

By Amy GladwellBBC News Cookworthy Knapp, Devon The copse of 140 beech trees stands proudly atop a hillside to the south of the A30 at Lifton on the approach to Cornwall from Devon. Local historians believe the trees were planted in about 1900, either as a landscape feature to mark the northern edge of the Lifton Park Estate, or as cover for pheasants. Artist Katy Stoneman, who is from the area, said: "They are known to my children as 'Mummy's trees' because of my paintings. "As it is such an iconic view and means so much to visitors and locals alike, it is known by many different names: 'Cornwall beyond', 'Grandma's trees', 'nearly home'," she said. Diana Kempster, from Launceston, said: "We used to think it was 'our copse' (small-minded arrogance!) and would chirp out 'nearly there'. "There is something almost ethereal and otherworldly about the copse... counting everyone safely in then bidding them a safe goodbye." Transmitter at Emley Moor, West Yorkshire The Arqiva Tower transmitter, which overlooks the Pennines and West Yorkshire, is known by locals as the Emley Moor Mast. The 1,083ft (330m) Grade II-listed structure is taller than The Shard in London. Its television coverage area is one of the largest in the UK, serving most of Yorkshire including Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York. Emily Wells told the BBC: "I've lived in Flockton all my life so see it every day from my window. Driving past, I never tire of slowing down and looking up. "I went up a couple of years ago, which was amazing. I cried as we walked out on to the gallery as it took my breath away." Teacher Lindsay Burrell said: "I grew up in the shadow of the mast for nearly 20 years. As a child we used to play 'first to spot the mast wins' on journeys back home from visiting family or going on holiday." Vikki Brown said: "I suppose it is a bit of a constant in a mad world, and, crazy as it might sound, it feels as though there's an invisible string that tethers me to it." Jill Kynaston, 60, said: "My mum used to cry when she saw the mast after fab holidays because we were nearly home and the holiday was definitely over." Kate Watto, 40, recalled that when she was a child her father made a video of their new house in Emley including footage of the mast, complete with a classical music soundtrack. "As we turned down the hill from Wakefield and caught sight of the mast for the first time, we knew we were nearly home and we all started singing the main theme," she said. "From then on this was our soundtrack whenever we spotted the mast after a trip away." Didcot Power Station, Oxfordshire The site's chimney is one of the tallest structures in the UK and its three remaining cooling towers - which are due to be demolished - can be seen from miles around. The coal-fired Didcot A power station was turned off in 2013, after 43 years in service. During demolition work on the site in February 2016, four men were killed when part of a boiler house collapsed. Francis Caton, from Abingdon, said he had an emotional association with the site. "I was sent away to boarding school in York, where I was bullied without respite," he said. "On my long train journey home from York to Didcot at the end of each term, I used to view the lights of the power station in the night sky from the open train window from Oxford onwards, watching them get slowly closer with each clickety-clack of the train's wheels whilst the wind whistled through my hair, knowing that when I finally reached the lights I would be safe." Emily Rees, 35, from Oxford, said: "I am nostalgically attached to the cooling towers now. "They are such a big part of the horizon and can be pretty striking when the morning sun hits them." Glastonbury Tor, Somerset Glastonbury Tor has been a location of religious significance for more than 1,000 years and is known as "one of the most spiritual sites in the country", according to the National Trust. Pagan beliefs are still "very much celebrated" at the tor and legend has it King Arthur and his knights of the round table also visited it, the trust said. Bethany Dawes said: "It has inspired a monument in a story I am writing, it is that special... we also recently released the ashes of our family dog around the tor." Kate Cook told the BBC: "I lived in Glastonbury all my life until six years ago... coming down over Wells Hill, my heart skips a beat as I know I'm home. "My memories are climbing the tor nearly every day in the school summer holidays with our jam sandwiches and a bottle of water. Then we would roly-poly down the hill," she said. Hazel Cutting said: "My husband used to live in Glastonbury. The tor was visible whilst we were on the M5 when I was taking the kids down for the weekend. "I get butterflies when I see it." 'Give peas a chance' graffiti, Buckinghamshire "Peas" was reportedly the name of a London graffiti artist who daubed his name on the M25's only Edwardian bridge, between junctions 16 and 17, near Uxbridge. The words "give" and "a chance" were added later, with the amended graffiti thought to refer to his frequent arrests, according to a historic building report by Oxford Archaeology. The "Peas" tag can been seen in several places, particularly on other bridges. The bridge has its own Facebook page with about 6,500 followers. Anne Bradford said: "This is a special bridge that marks some family memories of journeys along this part of the motorway." Angel of the North, Tyne and Wear The iconic 200-tonne steel angel has loomed over the A1 in Gateshead since 1998. The sculpture, which is 20 metres tall and has wings measuring 54 metres across, has become a much-loved piece of public art. Dan Homarus said: "The Angel means so much to me... any time I drive back to the 'Toon' now, the sight of the Angel brings back a decade of memories. "It's one of my favourite pieces of outdoor art in the UK: it epitomises the North East with its rusty elegance, flying out of the old coalmine of the past. I love it." For Liam Heenan, from Newcastle, the first glimpse of the Angel is a welcome reminder he is nearly home. "When you have driven all day up the M1 and A1, the sight of the Angel of the North to your right means you're only 10 minutes away from a deserved cuppa," he said. Rachel Wearmouth said: "It is like a relative that you are forced to see at Christmas, and when you do you're glad they're weathering life so well. "It keeps on keeping on, much like me Mam and the poor old commuters stuck in traffic on the A1 every morning." This story was inspired by responses to How do you know when you're nearly home?

إنها المعالم التي تعني أن نهاية الرحلة قد اقتربت وأن وسائل الراحة المنزلية في انتظارك. من الأبراج إلى الأشجار والأعمال الفنية، تقوم بي بي سي نيوز برحلة حول بعض المعالم المفضلة لديك على جانب الطريق والتي تلوح في الأفق فوق المناظر الطبيعية.

المعالم التي تعني أنك على وشك الوصول إلى المنزل

1. Brexit economic warnings backfire What started off as a trickle soon became a steady stream and ended up as a flood. The public was bombarded with warnings about how they would be poorer if they voted to leave the EU but, in the end, weren't convinced by what they were told and/or believed it was a price worth paying. The CBI, the IMF, the OECD, the IFS - an alphabet soup of experts lined up to say economic growth would be hobbled, unemployment would go up, the pound would plummet and British business would be left in a no man's land outside the EU. The Bank of England raised the prospect of a recession while The Treasury said it would be forced to put income tax up and slash spending on the NHS, schools and defence. If that wasn't enough, President Obama suggested the UK would go to the "back of the queue" in terms of securing a trade deal with the US while top EU official Donald Tusk hinted at the end of Western political civilization. Some on the Remain side accepted this was overkill and that so-called "Project Fear" had got a bit out of hand while the Leave campaign was quick to dismiss the naysayers as wealthy, unaccountable elites with their own vested interests talking down Britain. But the fact the public discounted so readily the advice of experts points to something more than just a revolt against the establishment. It suggested far more people felt left behind and untouched by the economic benefits of five decades of EU involvement being trumpeted. How will Brexit affect your finances? 2. £350m NHS claim gets traction The assertion that leaving the EU would free up £350m a week extra to spend on the NHS is the kind of political slogan that campaigns dream of: striking, easy to understand and attractive to voters of different ages and political persuasions. No surprise then that Vote Leave chose to splash it across the side of their battle bus. The fact that the claim does not stand up to much scrutiny - the figure is calculated using sums which were disputed by the Treasury Select Committee and described as potentially misleading by the UK Statistics Authority - did not reduce its potency. Remain campaigner Angela Eagle may have told her opponents to "get that lie off your bus" but polling suggests it gained traction and was the single most remembered figure from the campaign, with many people believing that money handed over to the EU to be a member should be spent in the UK instead. In that sense, it served as a powerful illustration of how the UK could be better off outside the EU. 3. Farage makes immigration the defining issue If they didn't quite bet the farm on the issue of immigration, Leave played what they knew was their trump card often and they played it successfully. The issue fed into wider questions of national and cultural identity, which suited Leave's message - particularly to lower income voters. The result suggested that concerns about levels of migration into the UK over the past 10 years, their impact on society, and what might happen in the next 20 years were more widely felt and ran even deeper than people had suspected. Just as crucially, it suggested Leave's central argument that the UK cannot control the number of people coming into the country while remaining in the EU really hit home. Turkey was a key weapon in Leave's armoury and, although claims that the UK would not be able to stop it entering the EU were firmly denied, there was enough uncertainty about this - a fact that the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe unquestionably fed into. The language and imagery used by the Leave campaign came in for criticism and there were recurring tensions between the Conservative dominated official Leave movement, Nigel Farage's UKIP roadshow and the separate Leave.EU group. But their various messages resonated and segued with their central proposition that a vote to leave was a once in a generation chance to take control and assert national sovereignty. 4. Public stop listening to PM David Cameron may have won one leadership contest, one (or two if you include the 2010 coalition-forming one) general elections and two referendums in the past ten years but this was the moment his luck ran out. By putting himself front and centre of the Remain campaign, and framing the decision as a question of trust, he staked his political future and personal reputation on the outcome. Having put so much store on his ability to secure a fundamental change in the UK's relationship with the EU, it was inevitable that the concessions he came back with following nine months of negotiations would be dismissed as a damp squib by Eurosceptics in his party. But this summed up a deeper problem. Having constantly stated that he would "not rule anything out" if he didn't get what he wanted, trying to enthuse the UK to stay in on the basis of reforms most believed were modest at best was always going to be a difficult sell. Throughout the process, he found himself at odds with many Conservatives who have never quite reconciled themselves to his decision to go into coalition after the 2010 election and the compromises that brought. Unsuited to winning over Labour supporters, the prime minister was not able to persuade enough floating voters to give him the benefit of the doubt. It was his failure to get the outcome he wanted, coupled with his desire to try and unify the country after the bruising campaign, that prompted him to say he would stand down as PM by October. 5. Labour fail to connect with voters The Remain campaign always needed Labour voters to win the referendum and the fact that they did not play ball will be the subject of a long and acrimonious post-mortem within the opposition. Not only did Labour - 90% of whose MPs backed staying in the EU - badly misjudge the mood of its supporters, when it realised something was wrong during the campaign, it was unable to do much about it. Despite sending in big beasts such as Gordon Brown and Sadiq Khan to talk up the benefits of the EU, and hinting that further controls on immigration would be needed, it was unable to shift the impression of a growing schism between those running the party and its base. Although Alan Johnson, the head of Labour In, has been singled out for criticism, it is likely that Jeremy Corbyn - who declined to share a platform with pro-EU politicians of other parties - will take most of the blame. Critics have said his lukewarm support for the EU - which he summed up as 7 out of ten in one appearance - filtered through to the entire campaign and his emphasis on the need for a "social Europe" simply did not resonate with enough people. 6. Big beasts - Boris Johnson and Michael Gove We always knew a handful of cabinet ministers would support Brexit but it was Michael Gove and Boris Johnson's declaration of support which really put rocket boosters under the campaign. The justice secretary brought intellectual heft and strategic nous to the table while the former mayor of London, after a bout of soul-searching, brought star appeal and ability to appeal across the party divide. The two men were deployed deftly, Boris Johnson cast in the role of foot soldier as he criss-crossed the country on the Vote Leave bus, pulling pints and brandishing cornish pasties in his wake. Meanwhile, Mr Gove did much of the heavy lifting, helping to put together Leave's post-Brexit manifesto as well as facing the public in TV referendum specials on Sky News and the BBC. Then there was Nigel Farage, the face of Euroscepticism in the UK but also a potential loose cannon for the Conservative dominated official campaign? The UKIP leader, as is his forte, did his own thing and occasionally provoked controversy but also played a vital role on the ground in motivating his party's supporters and numerous others to go to the polls. 7. Older voters flock to polls While experts will pore over the finer details of turnout over the coming days and weeks, the cry will inevitably go up that it was older voters which won it for Leave - particularly in the south, south-west, Midlands and the north east. It is a matter of fact that the older you are, the more likely you are to make the effort to vote - 78% of those 65 or over voted in the 2015 election, compared with 43% of 18-24 year olds and 54% of 25-34 year olds. Despite the last minute rush to register - which saw 2.6 million people sign up, many of them younger voters, between 15 May and the extended deadline of 9 June - the breakdown may not be radically different this time. Factor in research suggesting that support for Brexit was significantly higher among those aged 55 and over than among younger age groups - three out of every five voters aged 65 or over said they wanted to leave - then you have the foundation for Friday's result. Of course, it is not as simple as that, with many younger voters will also have supported Brexit across England and Wales. But a big inter-generational divide in voting patterns is just one of the many talking points going forward. 8. Europe always slightly alien The UK's relationship with Europe has never been simple nor static. It took the country years to join what was then the European Community and, even then, when it was last put to the vote in 1975 many backed it grudgingly or for narrow economic reasons. Many of those have since changed their minds, with their earlier ambivalence turning into outright hostility. There have been decades of scepticism towards the EU among politicians and in large parts of the UK media. The younger generation were generally seen as pro-EU but it remains to be seen - once the details of the voting is looked into - how the result broke down by age. What appears clear from the campaign is that the vote to Leave was as much a statement about the country's national identity, and all that involves, as it was about its economic and political future.

صوتت المملكة المتحدة لصالح الخروج من الاتحاد الأوروبي بعد الاستفتاء على عضويتها. فكيف فازت حملة المغادرة؟

ثمانية أسباب وراء فوز الخروج من الاتحاد الأوروبي في الاستفتاء الذي أجرته المملكة المتحدة

By Dr Neil StanleyIndependent sleep expert It is an undeniable fact that we have a problem with obesity in the UK. The government and the NHS rightly believe that for the health of the nation, levels of obesity need to be reduced. So we have campaigns based on eating less and more healthily, such as "5-a-day" and exercise - "10,000 steps a day" and the "Change for Life" initiative. However, given recent reports, these efforts, whilst very well-meaning, are seemingly having absolutely no effect on reducing levels of obesity or increasing rates of exercising. The conventional line is that this is because we are all victims of the "aggressive advertising" and "easy availability" of sugary and fatty foods and/or that we are addicted to computer games/TV/Facebook etc. It is possibly true that in the past we did move a bit more than modern children, but I seem to remember that sugary and fatty foods were just as "aggressively" advertised and easily available. 'Hunger hormones' My "bog-standard" comprehensive school had a tuck shop and there were plenty of local shops selling a myriad of sugary and fatty comestibles for our delectation. Perhaps there is some other reason why the "eat less, move more" advice is not working. What if we simply cannot help ourselves? And that, from a physiological point of view, we actually crave junk food and don't want to exercise? So what might be the answer? Numerous studies have shown a significant association between short sleep duration and being overweight or obese in both children and adults. And I believe that it is more than coincidence that, over the last 40 years, as there has been a reduction in our sleep duration, there has also been a rise is the number of people who are overweight or obese. Using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), poor sleep has been shown to affect the brain areas responsible for complex decision-making and response to rewards causing us to favour unhealthy foods. Apple - or cupcake? Poor sleep also causes changes in the levels of our hunger hormones. There is a decrease in the level of leptin - which regulates food intake and signals when we have enough food, while the level of ghrelin - which stimulates appetite, fat production and body growth - rises. Research suggests this causes 24% higher feelings of hunger, a 23% increase in overall appetite but a 33% increased desire for high-fat, high-carbohydrate foods making us feel that we have had insufficient food and thus encouraging us to increase food intake. Short sleep has also been shown to increase our urge to snack between meals and causes us to excessively season our food, eat fewer vegetables, buy more junk food and buy more food overall. So the availability and advertising of junk food is seen as the problem. However, the simple fact is that because of poor sleep, you may actually physiologically want to eat these foods regardless of the efforts of the multi-national purveyors of junk food - though this is in no way trying to absolve them of their responsibilities. But be honest - when you are sleepy, which would you prefer: an apple or a cupcake? The "eat less, move more" message, no matter how it is presented and how much money is spent on its promotion, is obviously not working - and I would contend that, in isolation, it cannot work. Up until now, there has been no serious government or NHS advice or guidance about sleep, no multi-million pound campaigns - they haven't even appointed a scientist off the telly as a "Sleep Tsar". I believe that if we are serious about reducing the weight of the nation and increasing rates of exercise, we need to address the issue of poor sleep. Isn't it is time for a new approach - "eat less, move more, sleep well"?

التركيز في مكافحة السمنة يميل إلى النظام الغذائي وممارسة الرياضة. ولكن ماذا عن النوم؟ في Scrubbing Up هذا الأسبوع، يقول الدكتور نيل ستانلي إن الحصول على قسط جيد من الراحة أثناء الليل لا يقل أهمية.

"النوم مفتاح معالجة السمنة"

By BBC TrendingWhat's popular and why Well don't look now, because the next one is just around the corner. The potential first shots of the next campaign were fired online in the hours after Donald Trump's victory became clear when hundreds of thousands took to social media to urge the current first lady to run for President in 2020. "Perfect conditions for Michelle Obama to win 2020 elections," read one comment. Another said simply: "Michelle Obama 2020 please Michelle Obama 2020 please Michelle Obama 2020 please". Mrs Obama is that extreme rarity, a popular figure in America's political landscape. Her favourability rating, pegged by Gallup at 64 percent, is significantly higher than that of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, or even her husband. There's one small problem for the first lady's supporters, however. In March, she said she had no interest in the top job. On the other hand, a few things have changed since then. Blog by Mike Wendling More US election coverage from BBC Trending: The American Brexit In the final days of his campaign, Donald Trump promised a victory that would be "Brexit plus plus plus" - after his win at the polls it didn't take long for Americans and Brits to pick up the theme.READ MORE You can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.

هل أنت سعيد بانتهاء الانتخابات الأمريكية أخيرًا؟

الانتخابات الأمريكية 2016: ميشيل أوباما في 2020؟

By Jonathan AmosBBC Science Correspondent, New Orleans "Volcanoes have a nozzle aimed at the sky, and rockets have a nozzle aimed at the ground," explains Steve McNutt, a geosciences professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. It explains why he and colleague Dr Glenn Thompson have installed the tools normally used to study eruptions at the famous Kennedy Space Center. Comparing the different types of rumblings could yield new insights. In the case of rockets, the team thinks their seismometers and infrasound (low-frequency acoustic waves) detectors might potentially be used by the space companies as a different type of diagnostic tool, to better understand the performance of their vehicles; or perhaps as a way to identify missiles in flight. In the case of volcanoes, the idea is to take the lessons learned at Kennedy and fine-tune the algorithms used to interpret what is happening in an eruption. It might even be possible to develop systems that give early warnings of some of the dangerous debris flows associated with volcanoes. "It all started really as a way to test and calibrate our equipment," says Glenn. "We don't have any volcanoes in South Florida - obviously. But Kennedy provided some strong sources, and it also gave our students the opportunity to learn how to deploy stations and work with the data." The team has now recorded the seismic and acoustic signals emanating from about a dozen rockets. Most have been associated with launches; a few have been related to what are called static fire tests, in which the engines on a clamped vehicle are briefly ignited to check they are flight-ready. But perhaps the most fascinating event captured so far was the SpaceX pad explosion in September 2016. This saw a Falcon 9 rocket suffer a catastrophic failure as it was being fuelled. Many people will have seen the video of the spectacular fireball. But Glenn's and Steve's equipment caught information not apparent in that film. For example, they detected more than 150 separate sub-events in the infrasound over the course of 26 minutes. These were likely individual tanks, pipes or other components bursting into flames. Of course, the SpaceX explosion was an unusual occurrence, and it is the more routine activity that most interests the team. And some clear patterns are starting to emerge in their study of "upside down volcanoes". "As the rocket gets higher and higher and accelerates, we see a decrease in the frequency in the infrasound - that's basically a Doppler shift because the source is moving away from us," says Steve. "And then you get a coupling of the signal in the air into the ground and this produces seismic waves recorded on the seismometer. "So, we get some common features between the infrasound and the seismometer, but then there's a little separation of the energy between the two." There is a lot still to learn, but the pair think they can distinguish the different types of rockets - to tell a Falcon from an Atlas from a Delta. There are subtle but significant divergences in their spectral signatures, which almost certainly reflect their distinct designs and modes of operation. Where in particular the rockets could have instruction for volcano monitoring is in describing moving sources. A rocket is a very well understood physical process. Its properties and parameters - such as the size of the nozzle orifice, the thrust, the trajectory and the distance - are all precisely known. The related seismic and acoustic signals should therefore serve as templates to help decipher some of the features of eruptions that share similar behaviours. Good examples of rapid movement in the volcano setting are the big mass surges like pyroclastic flows (descending clouds of hot ash/rock) and lahars (mud/ash avalanches). An objective of the team is to improve seismometer and infrasound systems' characterisation of these dangerous phenomena. This could lead to useful alerts being sent to people who live around volcanoes. "Assuming you can find a few safe places to put your instruments that are reasonably close, you'd get your advance warning," said Steve. "What you'd be doing then is getting the time and the strength of the signal and then watching it evolve to figure out which direction it's going. "If you can do that successfully then you can forecast with a couple of minutes in advance things like lahars and pyroclastic flows downstream." Glenn added: "I worked on [the Caribbean island of] Montserrat during the crisis from 1995 to 2011, and we did have a rudimentary system even then for tracking the pyroclastic density currents coming down the slopes of the volcano. "It wasn't quite a real-time application, but we hope with this kind of work that we can improve those algorithms and make them more of an automated alarm system." The equipment at Kennedy has been temporary, but the team is looking for a permanent installation. Like everyone, Glenn and Steve are particularly looking forward to the launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy vehicle in the New Year. The Heavy should produce nearly 23 meganewtons of thrust at lift-off, more than any rocket in operation today. It is sure to make for some interesting seismic and infrasound signals. Glenn Thompson and Steve McNutt detailed their work here at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

ما هو القاسم المشترك بين البراكين والصواريخ؟

قعقعة الصواريخ تعطي رؤى بركانية

DAY FOUR Miles achieved: 484 Miles to go: 0 It took 4 days, some serious thermal underwear, and copious amounts of waiting. But my electric car and I finally made it to Edinburgh. There were plenty of nervous moments, and a rather low-key entry to the Scottish capital. After all, I was driving at 30mph and was shivering with cold. On the last leg I'd got suddenly over-confident, and had a serious dose of range anxiety. At one point my range indicator showed 48 miles charge left on my battery, with 50 miles still to go. Hence the slow speed, and the lack of heater. 6 mph average Including the time spent both charging and driving, I managed an average speed between London and Edinburgh of just 6mph. Not exactly impressive, or very practical, but then I'm sure Stevenson's Rocket didn't go very fast the first time he tried it. And there certainly was a moment when I didn't think I'd make it at all. I'd got to Wark, close to Kielder Forest in Northumberland, at what I thought was the last outpost of electric charging points in England. From here it is 87.1 miles to Edinburgh. The publican of the Battlesteads hotel, Richard Slade, didn't think I'd make it. "You're going to have difficulty at the end," he said gloomily. In summer, it would have been perfectly possible, as warmer temperatures take the range of the electric Mini up to 100 miles. But in the cooler winter climate, I'd been managing between 70 and 80 miles. At this moment I heard that the UK's most recent charging post had just been installed at a garden centre at Berwick on Tweed. Last week in fact. A quick look at the map, and we calculated it was about 70 miles away, just within range, and perfectly positioned for the last leg to Edinburgh. Last Post The drive across Northumberland, through the towns of Bellingham and Rothbury, is surely one of the most spectacular, and under-rated, in England. We hurried over misty moorland, and through sunlit villages like Eldon, its streets and corners still heaped up with snow. And soon there it was, at the Berwick Garden Centre: the last post in England; my mini and I the first customers. Without this, the drive to Edinburgh would not be possible. With it, the electric car can claim to be something which so far it hasn't been: a vehicle for travelling long-distance, as well as to the supermarket and back. My point is that if anyone is prepared to spend £23,000 or so on an electric car, they surely don't want to have to buy a petrol one as well, just so they can drive out of town at week-ends. Sweet Combination This journey has been laborious, impractical and time-consuming. But from here on out, the technology will improve rapidly. We are in a golden age, where manufacturers are pouring millions of pounds into research, while governments across the world are prepared to subsidise both the cars and the charging posts. That is a sweet combination. By the end of next year, the UK will have 4,000 charging posts across the country. Your car's sat nav will guide you straight to them, so there'll be no time wasted while you hunt for them. When you plug in, your car will get an 80% charge in just 20 minutes. Meanwhile fuel prices continue to rise. The economics of electric motoring, and the practicalities, are constantly changing. But from where I've been sitting for the last four days, there's only one way those economics are headed. And now I'm heading home too - on the train this time. DAY THREE UPDATE - THE RACE IS ON It seems I have competition on my trip: a driver from the Tesla Motors Club is now driving one of the sports cars along the same route as I am using. The trip - which is supported by the comedian, actor and electric car fanatic Robert Llewellyn - seems to be motivated, at least in part, because they feel my test is an unfair test of electric cars. (The editor of the BBC News business and economics unit has also responded to this criticism; you can also leave comments here) It's nice to see Tesla joining in the spirit of pioneering challenges, but their challenge is not exactly in the spirit of fair play. The Tesla Roadster costs around £88,000. For that money you expect far better performance than with a standard electric car, and far better range. You get it. The Roadster also does not qualify for the government subsidy yet, because the Department for Transport has yet to receive a "complete application from Tesla" for the scheme. Nine cars currently do qualify for a subsidy. Would you measure flying time between London and Edinburgh by using a Eurofighter Typhoon? I think not. My aim was to try this challenge with a mass-market car, and to use the opportunity to test the charging network more than the car itself. Throughout the trip we have been mentioning other types of car, and the technology that is to come in the very near future. Both as far as car batteries are concerned, and the charging posts themselves. DAY THREE Miles achieved: 285 (460km)How far will an electric car go? Miles to go: 199 (320km) We are approaching York, and I begin to suffer another bout of post traumatic stress. By that I mean stress in finding a post at which to charge my car. If I can't charge here, there is no other post for over 40 miles (65km) in each direction, and the journey to Edinburgh will fail. Suddenly we see the lights of the Waitrose supermarket, and stress levels reduce. Like the welcoming beams of a lighthouse, the blue luminescence of the charging point shines out across the car park. But until today, this charge post will only work for a maximum duration of two hours. The idea of that is to stop people blocking access for everyone else. And I need to charge here for 10 hours. Then Vicky, the manageress here, tells me that the company have just altered the software especially for me, so I will be able to charge overnight. I feel like dancing around the car park. 'Really cool' At 7am the next morning we head off to Preston Hall near Stockton on Teesside. We pull over and plug in. An army of wellington boots and brightly-coloured lunch-boxes is striding through the puddles towards us. Suddenly my Mini is surrounded by about 50 children from Preston Primary, eager to see what all the fuss is about. "That's really cool," says 9 year-old Hunter. "I know what car I want when I'm older," comments 6 year-old Jake, "and it's that one." This is a generation that needs no preaching when it comes to cars that are eco-friendly. But they're also aware of some of the economic complexities involved in predicting the future. They know that petrol is getting more and more expensive, and they also know that electric cars are expensive too. "What price do you think electric cars will be in six years time?" asks one young girl. I guess, correctly, that she is 11 years-old. Car envy Also gathered in the car park are some officials from Stockton council. They turn out to be a bunch of electric car fundamentalists, who've turned up in their own electric car, an i-miev. I look on enviously, as Mitsubishi's i-miev actually has a back seat, and a boot, which the Mini doesn't. Goodness me, what I could do with a back seat. Suddenly I realise that this is the electric equivalent of pulling up at the lights, and glancing at the Aston Martin which has just drawn up alongside you, while you try to look cool in your Robin Reliant. It's true: when it comes to electric cars, there's always a newer bit of technology on the way. Next month's arrival of the Nissan Leaf will only be the start of that process. DAY TWO Miles Achieved: 181 (290km) Miles to Edinburgh: 303 (490km) It's 7.30 in the morning. We're proceeding up the Fosse Way in Leicestershire at about half the speed the Romans must have managed in their chariots some 1,500 years ago. This is not because it's the local rush hour. It's because, even at this early hour, I am already fretting about the range of my electric car, and I have slowed down to forty miles an hour. And turned off the heater. At one stage the display says I have 18 miles (29km) charge left in the battery, and it's nearly 20 miles (32km) to Nottingham. But then my little Mini is apt to be a little vague in the mornings. Just when I need precision. However the beauty of electric motoring is that one worry is quickly overtaken by another. So it is that "range anxiety" is subsumed by "charging post anxiety." Finding the post Charging post anxiety comes in two virulent forms. The first is fear that you can't find the charging post. The second is that some other electric motorist will be parked up on your charging bay, and could be there for anything up to ten hours, ruining your travel schedule by up to a day. Given that Nottingham has just two charging bays in the whole of its metropolitan area, both forms of charging post anxiety are now in play. We enter the large Victoria Centre car park (well one of them) and drive round for a good half hour trying to spot one of the two likely plug sockets. Across the gloomy car-park this isn't easy. However, we finally find an attendant who can help us out. We find the charging point and plug in. 'First Customer' Suddenly a cloud lifts; news spreads that someone is actually using the electric charging point for real; car-park attendants from all over central Nottingham are summoned by walkie-talkie to come and admire the spectacle of an electric car plugged in to a socket. "Welcome to the Victoria Centre," says the customer services co-ordinator, Gary, who is first on the scene. "You're our first customer in the three years!" He is quickly joined by the yellow jacketed Natalie, Amy and Robert. We are hastily awarded the ultimate prize: free parking for at least two hours. Then it's back on the road, for the 43 mile (70km) trip to Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield. There are about 8 charging points in the centre, so I've learnt by now that no one else will be on them. Furthermore I venture to suggest in advance that no one else has EVER been on them. At least not for real. But can we find them? Does anyone know where they are? As I say, just when one form of charging post anxiety subsides, another takes over. DAY ONE Miles achieved: 110 (180km) Miles to Edinburgh: 373 (600km) The sign at the side of the M1 says it's 39 miles to Leicester. Coincidentally my electric mini says it has 39 miles left in the battery. It's going to be a close-run thing. It's only day two of my electric mini challenge, and I already have visions of calling out the RAC to tow us into Leicester, or having to recruit some friendly citizens to give us a push for the last few metres. Meanwhile I slow down, and turn the heating off. My producer, Joanna, with help from Google, tells me that a woman from Bristol was banned from driving for doing just 10 mph on a motorway. It's not quite that bad yet, but it soon could be. The trouble was that when I left Milton Keynes, the mini's display declared that I had 75 miles (120km) worth of charge. I knew, as only an electric motorist can, that the distance between Milton Keynes and Leicester is 55.7 (89.6km) miles. I therefore thought that Leicester was safely in range. As it turned out, we made it into High Cross car park with 4 miles to spare. Here there are 105 spaces for charging an electric car, and we are the only customer. Long wait Earlier we reached Milton Keynes, a 55 mile (88km) trip from London (that's 55 miles exactly, since you ask). As I plugged into the post at the Mercedes Benz headquarters, it began to dawn on me that I was now a visitor to Milton Keynes for at least six hours. In fact it was not even Milton Keynes. More the outskirts. After two hours, I check the battery level, in the vain hope that the man from Mini UK was being unduly pessimistic about the charging time. He wasn't. And there's not a lot to pass the time at Mercedes, other than a rather fine collection of chick lit in the company canteen. Not feeling up to Penny Vincenzi, I check the battery levels again. 58 miles (93km). Still far too risky. Golden Age So, in the same way that pioneering motorists in their 1930's Humbers might find themselves stranded in a village pub after running out of petrol, today's electric motorist can expect to find himself in all sorts of places he might otherwise never go. Only most of those places are in a car park just off the M1. Not such glory being a pioneer these days. But I am beginning to envy the Burberry cloth caps and the tartan picnic rugs they used to gather over their laps. Using the Mini's heater can cut the range by 10% or so. So if they take my advice, today's fashionable eco-motorists will wrap up well, with thermal underwear and thick ski-jackets. Isn't the Michelin-man look rather in this year? THE EXPERIMENT Just before Christmas, the government proudly announced that 2011 would be remembered as the year the electric car took off. In an attempt to make that prophecy come true, it announced a subsidy of £5,000 for each electric car sold in the UK. But what is electric motoring actually like? Does it bear any resemblance to the smug self-satisfaction of those who glide along in petrol-lubricated luxury, untroubled by the fear that they might not actually reach their destination? Because despite the hype of the battery revolution, it is still not easy to drive an electric car any further than the supermarket and back. So, in what is arguably an unfair test of a car designed mostly for short-distance motoring, the BBC decided to try to drive an electric Mini the 484 miles (778km) from London to Edinburgh. It is unfair in one sense, but surely fair in another: if the electric car really has come of age, won't potential owners want to know that if they wanted to, they could drive it from London to Manchester and back at the weekend, to see uncle and auntie? Charging network It would be easy to charge the car by asking successive pub landlords between Westminster and the Royal Mile if they wouldn't mind you plugging into their electricity supply while you had a drink. That is until you mentioned that it might need a 10-hour charge and would need to leave a cable dangling out of the window overnight. No, the only practical way for drivers to charge their cars is by using public charge points, of which there are thought to be as many as 500 in the UK. No-one has actually added them up. Even OLEV, the government office for low emission vehicles, doesn't know exactly how many there are. So are there enough? And are they spaced correctly for me to get to Edinburgh within a working week? Range anxiety To try and get a better idea of feasibility we went to visit Calvey Taylor-Haw, who runs a business called Elektromotive. At a factory in Lancing, West Sussex, he manufactures many of the electric charging posts that make up the network. After looking at the map, he pronounces that the journey as far as Tyneside is perfectly achievable. But between Northumberland and Edinburgh it will be a significant challenge. "The gap is 87 miles (140km) ," he says, "which is more than the range of your car. "Ideally you need another charging post halfway between the two. Otherwise you are going to suffer range anxiety." From where I'm about to sit, that's a serious understatement. Read a selection of your comments: Surely, surely the way to go with electric cars is a system of swapping batteries (drop of the flat, pick up a charged, probably at existing fuel stations), rather than trying to install sufficient charge points? Much less of a technical challenge, all things considered! Robyn Pender, London I understand the need to provide alternatives, but what happens to the battery when it is spent? I am led to believe that the "green" element of an electric car is so poor because of the disposal of the battery that it is not worth considering. Anni, Yorkshire I have driven a Reva G-Wiz for about 4 years. It all depends on how one drives it. They will charge up as they go if you go downhill. They work better in summer than winter, even with Lithium Dioxide batteries. Radio, wipers and heater all work off the battery so they all drain it. Use them minimally when you need to go a distance. Extra weight costs power, especially up hills. Deflated tyres cost power. Drag on the car goes (roughly) in proportion with the square of the speed, so you can go further if you reduce your speed. Try to go as far as you can on a low power setting. There must be an optimum speed and have (for no good reason) a figure of 25mph for a G-Wiz. Ben Rickman, Wembley I can drive from Weston to Inverness in 10 hours, on one tank of fuel, until electric cars have the same range as conventional cars they are not going to be embraced by the masses. It is infeasible for the majority of the population to charge their car outside their home or rely on pit stops every 60 miles or so. Iain, Weston-super-Mare Will Brian only be driving in daylight as I often wonder how the range of electric vehicles is affected when lights (and heating!!) are used too as these will both use up battery power? also the cost of charging the car to drive to Edinburgh may be pennies but what of the accommodation and extra food he'll need to pay for on the journey while the car is being charged? 87 miles wouldn't even get me to my mums in Hampshire! Andrew Cockerill, Bristol Most of the first generation electric cars can go 100 miles on a single charge. Most people's journeys are less than 100 miles per day and the electric car is the least polluting and cheapest option for transport by an individual bar walking or cycling. If you have an electric car and have to drive long distances once in a while, rent an old fashioned petrol car. Christian, London I had an electric Mitsubishi I-MIEV on trial last year. The cold weather ruined the range as batteries work less well when cold plus the heater was a big drain, the LED lights less so. A very smooth drive when it worked, reliability was shocking. Electric cars are fine for committing say 20 miles each way to work at moderate speeds but that's about it so far. Oh, the lack of gears made it theoretically as fast going backwards! Grant Williams, Walsall I don't think the idea of an eclectic car is to travel long distances over four days. I'm sure I could cycle the same route quicker, taking into account the charging period of 10 hours. I'm not sure what purpose this exercise proves. Nobody would plan a trip to Edinburgh and back that takes 8 days of travel time. Andrew Pick, Doncaster I ride a Vectrix (Electric Motorbike) to commute - a return distance of about 10 miles. The bike is an absolute dream - reducing my commuting time from 25 to 7 minutes! The drawback (as always) is range; at an average 30mph I can get a full week out of a single charge (cost around 20p). Being a motorbike - the temptation to throttle up on open roads can mean that I only get two journeys on a single charge! Graham Lloyd, Cambridge What happens when Brian gets to one of these few charging points and someone else has their car plugged in? If you disconnect their car to charge your car, would you get the equivalent of charge-rage instead of road-rage? Are you allowed to disconnect someone else's car if your need is greater. A whole new etiquette needs to be established. Craig Shepheard, St Albans And if my trip to see uncle and auntie needed to be completed in just two days, what do I do while the car is charging? Oh hang on, I forgot to factor in the forty hours' charging required for the entire trip. So in fact a return trip to see uncle and auntie, including lunch and a game of cards would take at least nine days. One last thing, struggling to see how 20 million cars plugged into The National Grid in any way helps to save the planet. Philip, Congleton

قاد مراسل بي بي سي، بريان ميليجان، سيارة كهربائية صغيرة من لندن إلى اسكتلندا، باستخدام نقاط الشحن العامة فقط. وهنا مذكراته عن تلك الرحلة.

مغامرة صغيرة: إلى أي مدى يمكن أن تصل السيارة الكهربائية؟

The significance of Mr Bouteflika's resignation cannot be understated. He has been in power since 1999, so almost half of the country's young population have only known him as president. So is this a defeat for the regime? There is no doubt that this is the end of Mr Bouteflika. A senior party figure in the ruling party, Hocine Kheldoun, said in a TV interview on Thursday that the long-serving leader was "history now". But many Algerians believe that the octogenarian's health has declined to such an extent that he is just being used as a front by the murky group of businessmen, politicians and military officials, known as "le pouvoir" (the power) who don't want to give up their influence. This group dominates the National Liberation Front (FLN), which has governed Algeria since independence from France in 1962. So the protesters see the concessions as a ruse to avoid far-reaching reform. The new Prime Minister Nouredine Bedoui, a close ally of Mr Bouteflika, has been tasked with bringing about political reforms until new presidential elections are held. His government is also expected to organise a national conference, but no dates have been given for either the elections or the conference. And for the moment, Mr Bouteflika remains in office. One of the protesters' new slogans is: "We wanted elections without Bouteflika, we were given Bouteflika without elections." Is Bouteflika still in charge? His supporters say the 82-year-old leader is "mentally and intellectually" capable of running the country. However, since suffering a stroke in 2013 he has rarely been seen in public and does not travel around the country or abroad, except for medical treatment. His aides represent him at events and read his messages to the public. He was not physically present at the constitutional council to submit his paperwork run for his fifth term as required by the law. And the announcement that he was not standing was read on his behalf by a newsreader on national TV. Some say his brother Saeed is making key decisions for him, although the reality is much more complicated. Saeed is at the head of one of the groups which make up "le pouvoir". Why is it so hard to find another candidate? A veteran of Algeria's war of independence, Mr Bouteflika's upper-class, Westernised style led him to be called "the dandy diplomat" in some quarters. He came into office, backed by the army, after the 1990s civil war and was largely viewed as a unifier of the many factions underpinning Algerian politics. Unlike some leaders in the region, his presidency survived the protests of the Arab Spring in 2011 - until now. Mr Bouteflika has been the pivot, or the balance, in the patronage created by "le pouvoir" - a system of rule which gives power to a small privileged group. He has been key to making this complicated and conflicted system work. It is unclear what would happen in the country if the cog for the past 20 years is removed. And this is why it has been so hard to find an alternative. Bouteflika's key dates: So why did the government back down? One thing that is clear is that the government was taken by surprise by the sheer number of protesters that have been pouring onto the streets for weeks and also their unrelenting push to achieve their goals. It seems that the government had underestimated how unpopular it had become after years of corrupt and repressive rule. The protests, which were initially led by young people, were later joined by lawyers, judges and teachers, making it an intergenerational push for change. Some parents have also taken their young children to the marches. Public broadcasters which had ignored the demonstrations in the beginning were later allowed to cover them. The demonstrators have also been largely peaceful, and adhered to a code of conduct which has been widely shared on social media, to reduce confrontation with security forces. In fact, the peaceful nature of the protests earned praise from former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, who resigned this week after President Bouteflika dropped his fifth-term plans. The security services have also showed an unusual self-restraint towards protesters which could suggest that they are not prepared to use force against them. The government, and all Algerians, are also aware than any violent clashes are likely to escalate and get out of hand in a country which was torn apart by a decade-long civil war in the 1990s. It was not hyperbole when Mr Ouyahia warned that "the situation in Syria also started with roses". What does the opposition want? The main opposition parties have rejected the decisions of the government to delay the elections and hold the national conference. A constitutional law expert at the University of Algiers, Fatiha Benabou, told the AFP news agency that there was no legal basis in the Algerian constitution for postponing the elections and that Mr Bouteflika's announcement did not refer to any legislation. The leader of the opposition Adala (Justice and Development) party, Abdallah Djaballah, is currently co-ordinating talks that include the HMS (Society of Peace) party and political personalities, including former prime ministers Ali Benflis and Ahmed Benbitour, as well as prominent human rights lawyer Mustafa Bouchachi. Other political parties are expected to join the group, including the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), a social democratic and secularist political party which has boycotted previous elections because of alleged fraud. Kamel Guemazi and Ali Djeddi, members of the banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), were also seen at the opposition talks. The FIS won the first multi-party legislative elections in 1991, which were later cancelled by the military, leading to the civil war. The opposition says the current regime cannot continue to run the country against the will of the people and beyond the scope of the constitution. Adala party MP Ben Khallaf told the BBC the opposition was preparing for its own national conference to set up a roadmap for reforms. He added that protests would continue until the will of the people was respected by the regime. How strong is the opposition? There is no indication that opposition political parties have influence on the protests which were led by waves of youths not involved in party politics. Opposition parties - which range from socialists to Islamists - are known to be deeply divided and have failed on several occasions to come together and find common ground to stand up to the regime. However, the alternative national conference proposed by the opposition does present a robust challenge to the government. They, however, have to take into consideration that the people went to the streets to end politics as usual - and this might include the traditional opposition parties. Mustapha Bouchach, a prominent figure in the opposition has refused to speak for the protesters as suggested to him on social media. He said on a local TV programme: "These protests are led by the youths who are in the streets. They speak for themselves and no-one has the right to spoil their successes." He urged the political parties and personalities in opposition to support the protesters and not try to take the lead form them. "That would be a big mistake," he added.

دفعت الاحتجاجات المستمرة منذ فترة طويلة في الجزائر الرئيس عبد العزيز بوتفليقة إلى التخلي عن خططه للترشح لولاية خامسة كرئيس. ومع ذلك، فهو لا يزال في منصبه واستمرت الاحتجاجات، مع مطالبته بالاستقالة على الفور. مراسل بي بي سي أحمد روابة يلقي نظرة على ما قد يحدث بعد ذلك في البلاد.

الرئيس الجزائري بوتفليقة سيرحل، لكن هذا لا يكفي بالنسبة للمحتجين

It took hold at about 18:00 GMT on Saturday night at the former Elmete Wood school on Elmete Lane in Roundhay. Residents in the area surrounding the old school were advised by police to stay inside their homes and close windows and doors. The school, which catered for children with educational and behavioural issues, closed in 2016. Follow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here. Related Internet Links West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service

كان أربعون من رجال الإطفاء يتعاملون مع حريق خلال الليل في مدرسة مهجورة في شمال ليدز.

إلميت وود: رجال الإطفاء يتعاملون مع حريق المدرسة ليلاً

Rather than members of the public being able to buy the tickets immediately, Games organiser Locog will initially purchase them "at face value". The unwanted tickets can be sold until 18:00 GMT on 3 February, and the public can buy them from April. The website crashed on the day it opened and Locog commercial director Chris Townsend said: "We are sorry for any inconvenience caused." The resale window had opened on 6 January but problems developed as the site, run by Ticketmaster, was slow to update sessions which had sold out. This resulted in the system closing that day. Mr Townsend added: "We made a commitment to our customers to give them a safe, secure and legal way of selling Olympic and Paralympic tickets which they are no longer able to use. We are delivering on that commitment, and will buy any tickets that customers are no longer able to use. "We believe this system - purchasing the tickets back from customers now, and offering them again from April, will result in a better customer experience for everyone." The move follows a series of ticketing problems for Locog. The first sales period had to be extended after the site slowed down. In the second round of sales, thousands of people thought that they had bought tickets. They were told the following day that they would not be charged, as they had not actually got any tickets at all. Ten thousand tickets to watch synchronised swimming were put up for sale, yet they did not exist and customers have been offered a swap with seats at some of the Games' most sought after events like the men's 100m final. However on 9 January, Locog partially reopened the site to sell Football and Paralympic tickets. Police have warned it is a criminal offence to resell London 2012 tickets on the open market without the permission of Locog.

تم إعادة فتح الموقع الإلكتروني للأشخاص لبيع التذاكر الأولمبية.

لندن 2012: إعادة فتح موقع إعادة بيع التذاكر الأولمبية

By Anna AllattBBC News About 50% fewer women than men cycle twice a week or more, according to walking and cycling charity Sustrans, and when it comes to cycling on the roads, the number drops again. Commonly cited reasons for shunning the benefits of getting into the saddle include sexual harassment, fears about appearance and concerns about safety. So what can be done to get more women on their bikes and out on the road? Tackling sexist attitudes among male road users would be a first step, says Leigh Campbell, who leads all-women cycling rides in Nottingham. "Sometimes, when I've been out cycling on my own, I've had male drivers shout at me as they're overtaking," said the 45-year-old British Cycling Breeze Champion. "I've been told to 'read the Highway Code' and 'get off the road'. I've also been sworn at. "I've even had 'keep pedalling, nearly there' - from a male cyclist. They wouldn't have said it to another man, it's so patronising and uncalled for. "All I want to do is ride my bike and I don't think I should have to put up with abuse from other - mainly male - road users, just because I'm a woman." What some men may see as harmless fun can be unnerving, frightening and confidence-draining. Helen Pidd, a journalist who has written a book aimed at women cyclists and rides with an all-female club called Team Glow, has had her fair share of comments. "We get a lot - some of it's general, anti-cyclist stuff but sometimes it's really mean. Stuff like 'thunder thighs'. Cycling gear is not kind to people's sizes - I'm a size 10 and sometimes I have to wear a large in tops. "I was riding through the Peak District in Derbyshire one time and a motorbiker slapped me on the bum. It was frightening and dangerous. I reported it to Derbyshire Police who said I'd been sexually assaulted." Another primary concern for many female cyclists is safety, according to a report on cycling by Sustrans in 2013. "Women tend to be more concerned about safety than men," said Ms Pidd. "And those fears are perfectly rational. Roads aren't safe for cyclists - you need to be confident to go on the roads." Throw sexual harassment into the mix and is it any wonder many women are reluctant to get on their bikes? For some though, overcoming their inhibitions can be life-changing. Maryam Amatullah, a 46-year-old from Leicester, had a passion for cycling as a child but quit in her teens. Then in 2010, while recovering from chronic fatigue, she realised she wanted to get back on the road again. "My youngest was playing on the PlayStation and I thought 'I want to get out in the fresh air', so I went out and bought myself a bike," she said. "I got a lot of stares at first in my hijab, particularly from my community and I didn't like it. "I got tearful and felt self-conscious but I contacted the council to see if there were any clubs I could join. They told me the only thing to do was to set something up myself or train as an instructor. "So that's what I did and started volunteering for cycle organisations and delivered training in schools. In 2011 I trained as a Breeze Champion and now my life has changed forever." Breeze Champions are volunteers who lead women-only rides as part of British Cycling's goal of getting one million more women cycling regularly by 2020. Zero to 1,500 miles in a year - Anna Allatt, former non-cyclist I have been a cycling widow for several years but in the new year of 2017, I decided I wanted to cycle the 20-mile round trip from home to work a couple of times a week. As a full-time working mother-of-two, it was almost impossible to factor in exercise but this way I'd be able to make it part of my daily routine. I would also have to overcome the fear of the work shower room (singular). And figure out how to dry my hair and do my make-up to make myself presentable for work - all in the confines of one slightly grotty space. My husband suggested signing up to a Breeze ride and I haven't looked back. Weather permitting, I commute a couple of times a week. I have also joined a club, completed my first sportive and racked up a total of 1,541 miles on my bike in 2017. I feel better physically and mentally and have made some really good friends. And this year's goals? To get a road bike and complete a 100-mile ride. Mrs Amatullah's fellow coach, Lindsey Ball, 54, says she feels equally strongly. "Mentally, I know when I've not been cycling. If you've got a family, a job, you can get bogged down, you get so busy but on the bike you have some 'me' time, you're taking control and you get to exercise," she said. "The friends I've met through cycling are my best friends now. When we do our cycling holidays, we're tired and exhausted; you don't want to see another hill but we all encourage each other and it really builds your self-esteem." Offering women a "safe and comfortable" environment such as a female-only group can encourage them to take up cycling, according to Kate Dale, head of Sport England's This Girl Can (TGC) campaign, which aims to get women active and involved in sport. "Groups of men aren't necessarily intimidating but can be cliquey and if you think they all know what they're doing it can be off-putting," she said. "They may not be doing it on purpose but it may be an environment you're not comfortable in." TGC research also found appearance was an important issue for women while there were worries among some about ability. "Women who've had bad experiences of sport at school or feel they're "too fat to get fit", or aren't sure how to change a tyre or work out their gears on a bike, can feel intimidated," Ms Dale said. "And then there are priorities. We feel guilty if we do exercise, for taking some 'me' time, and guilty if we don't as we're not setting a good example. It's all too much to overcome, or can certainly seem that way." As 2018 begins, the year that marks the centenary of women being given the vote in the UK, the words of Susan B Anthony, the US suffragist and abolitionist, seem fitting. "I'll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. "I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood." She may have made that comment in 1896 but Maryam Amatullah feels much the same way more than 120 years later. "I grew up shy and I lacked self-esteem but when I'm on the bike, I feel like a superhero. "I feel as if I'm in control." The changing face of cycling - advice for the female rider of 1895 Source: New York World 1895

كانت الدراجة في يوم من الأيام رمزًا لتحرر المرأة، حيث كان المطالبون بحق المرأة في التصويت يركبون عجلتين لنشر رسالتهم المتعلقة بالمساواة في الحقوق. لكن أحدث الأرقام تظهر فجوة كبيرة بين الجنسين عندما يتعلق الأمر بركوب الدراجات. لماذا؟

ما الذي يمنع النساء من ركوب الدراجات؟

By Marit Higraff and Neil McCarthyBBC World Service, Bergen In the hills above Bergen surrounded by tall pine trees, large icicles hanging from the branches, we are back on the trail of the Isdal Woman. This is the cold and remote location at the centre of a mystery which has puzzled Norway for half a century. There are so many strange details. Why was she here, seemingly alone, and unprepared for a freezing night in the wilderness? Why did she have multiple identities? Was she a spy? If so, who was she working for? Her suitcases contained a coded note as well as disguises, and she swapped hotel rooms more than once. There was a mysterious meeting, it seems, with a naval officer. And why did the police shut down the case within just a few weeks, despite the many unanswered questions? Did someone want things hushed up? Modern science has shed new light on this most cryptic unsolved case. Last year, we worked with forensic police to carry out isotope tests on her teeth and jawbone, the only parts of her body not buried after the case was closed in 1971. They connected the woman tentatively with Nuremberg in Germany. And the woman's likely age was revised - closer to 40 than 30. Working together in the Death in Ice Valley Facebook group, listeners have also come up with theories about the Isdal Woman's mysterious travel itinerary - and identified the origins of a spoon found in her luggage. We already knew many details from witnesses: she had a gap between her front teeth, ate porridge for breakfast and wore a fur hat. And she smelled quite strongly of garlic. We heard from people who, astonishingly, still remember meeting her, and noting her speaking in English with a "foreign" accent, five decades ago. A black-and-white story from the last century has gained colour and context. And now, new details. The bag "It's a good noise," Arne Magnus Vabo tells us, wielding his metal detector. The beeping is insistent and the quality of the sound tells him what kind of metal may be hidden underground. Out on the same hillside, many months ago, the device alerted him to an intriguing find. The loud sound suggested a mixture of metals - maybe iron, maybe bronze or copper. He dug down into the cold earth. Then he hit something. Around 15cm (6in) beneath the surface he uncovered a handbag. The way it had been buried made him think it had been hidden deliberately. "This was the first time I searched here [in this particular spot]," the 57-year-old says. He'd previously taken his detector to other areas nearby but not found anything. "When you're alone, it's a creepy thing. You know people have used this place to have rituals or take their life. It's not a nice place to be." Vabo carefully removed the handbag, keeping it tightly closed, and let us know about the discovery. The Death in Ice Valley team then took it to the police. The bag was heavy. Tree roots wound their way through its structure. It had been there for many decades. Located just 40m from where the Isdal Woman's body was discovered, it appeared it could be the first new lead found in Ice Valley (Isdalen) in almost 50 years. A few days later the bag was carefully opened in a forensic laboratory. Nothing but soil was found. Any items once inside had been destroyed by time and the elements. Experts cleaned it up carefully, revealing a blue-grey bag with red stripes. Short straps, about 35cm long, suggest it may have been bought for a child. After so long in the earth, almost certainly dating back to the era of the Isdal Woman, experts said there was little point in testing the bag for DNA. The excitement in the laboratory dissipated. The team had been hoping for remnants of a passport, identification of some sort, any clue to firmly connect the bag to the Isdal case. They did not find it. The grandfather "When I asked my father if he knew anything about my grandfather working on the Isdal case, my father had this reaction I'd never seen before. He got very quiet and it was like I punched him in the gut," says Cecilie Thorsted Flo. Even now, the memory of his reaction makes her emotional. "The case broke my grandfather's trust in his work and my father said it was a case that had been very frustrating. My grandfather had this feeling that barriers were being put on their work," she says. We know that Cecilie's grandfather worked in the Bergen Police and, although not central to the investigation himself, was close friends with one of the main investigators on the case. The pair often met to share their frustration. Cecilie's father was just 10 at the time, but the memories have stuck with him. He will speak with us off the record, but otherwise he asks his daughter to tell this uncomfortable family story. "I waited to write to you until I had heard eight episodes and then you started touching on the fact there were possible links to some foreign intelligence and possibly Israel," she explains. "That was when I knew I had to write to you because the second after, my father said there was something about some links to Israel, and that was why the case was shut down. "Once the police in Bergen had been working the case and digging deeper and found some connections to foreign intelligence, it seems like that was when the local police were shut down." During the Death in Ice Valley investigation we found no strong indication of links between the Isdal Woman and Israel, although other researchers believe it is a plausible theory and we're still investigating. Was the woman monitoring top secret trials of the Norwegian Penguin missile, which took place from the late 1960s? Classified documents, obtained by the podcast team, state that the secret police did investigate this possibility. Other theories point towards possible spying for a non-government group, maybe one of the radical left-wing organisations that became notorious in the 1970s, such as the Baader-Meinhof gang. Cecilie's sense, judging from her grandfather's strength of feeling, is that there is more to unlock. "I understand my father and my grandfather a bit more after knowing about this. Both my father and I urge you to keep working this case." Cecilie's words remind us that this mystery has affected many people and has not been forgotten despite the passage of so much time. The crime club Not far from Oslo, a group of young men meet around the dining table in one of their parents' homes. In front of them is a box and inside are some old newspapers and a large folder filled with police reports. They were friends already but now they meet up with a purpose: to try to solve the case of the Isdal Woman. "We started listening to the podcast and came up with different theories about what happened," says Thomas Hayes. "We think she's a spy or something like that, because she was spotted by some military places in Bergen. I think she was tired of doing her job and killed herself." But not everyone in the club agrees. "I think she was a spy or an agent but how did she die? I think it was another man who killed her. I don't think she killed herself," says Fredrik Knudsen. One day, club member Sindre Bratli showed up to a meeting with the box. It turned out that his uncle had looked into the case many years ago as a journalist. "He was working for a newspaper in Bergen in the 1990s. Twenty-five years after the case he wrote a big article. He borrowed the documents from the police in Bergen and never delivered them back," Sindre says. The documents in the box turned out to be copies of police documents. As with the bag, they are a tantalising but ultimately frustrating find. Thomas Hayes is well-known because he stars in Norwegian online teen drama Skam, which follows the lives of a group of high school students and has been a hit not just in Scandinavia, but across the world. But while he has more than a million followers online, the Isdal Woman case has been something the four friends have so far kept to themselves. "It will be interesting to tell people about it, when this [interview] comes out," he says. "I have a lot of followers from Russia and Ukraine and they probably have relatives who have disappeared in the 1970s. Maybe something will come up. Maybe someone has a great-aunt or someone who has disappeared." The mountain "I had to tell somebody about it, because this tragedy, it filled me up. I have remembered it for 48 years. I have always had a need to tell somebody. I didn't want to keep it to myself." We travel on the funicular, a short rail line up the mountain in Bergen - it's 150 years old and very popular with tourists. We pass white, wooden houses, bridges and rock, and slowly the scenery becomes filled with snow and ice. We are here to meet Ketil Kversoy, a sea captain who used to live in the area. He has a story to tell. At the top, Ketil walks us into the woods. The Isdal Valley is ahead of us, Bergen below. We're in deep snow here, it's winter, with hawthorn, spruce and conifer trees all around. It's very picturesque, with the occasional skier coming past but otherwise there's hardly anyone to be seen. It's very solitary. And Ketil hasn't been here for a long time. "I have not been here since I had this meeting, 48 years ago. Before, I would go here quite often. But after that, I couldn't come here," he says. He's talking about a day in 1970, when he believes he had a chance encounter with the Isdal Woman. It was late afternoon and he was on his way back to Bergen. "I was surprised. Some people were coming up the mountain. That wasn't normal. I'd seen nobody else and I had been walking for a couple of hours," he says. A woman walked towards him, trailed by two men. All of them, he says were wearing clothes more suited to a visit to town, rather than the outdoors. Their paths drew closer together. "She was looking at me and her face, to me it looked like she was scared and she was giving up," he says. The men were about 20m behind. "When she looked at me, I felt that she started to say something but she didn't and then she looked behind her and saw these men. I'm sure she knew they were going after her." There are still elements of her appearance that he recalls to this day. "I remember her hair, dark hair, not too long. And also the men coming behind had dark hair. They didn't look Norwegian, I was thinking southern Europe." Although he would eventually tell the police what he had seen, he regrets not speaking up sooner. "I waited too long. I didn't go to the police station because I felt like a crazy man coming and telling a crazy story." But a friend of his who was a police officer at the time told him that the case was beyond the Bergen force. It was an international case, he said, and it would never be solved. Ketil says his meeting with the woman happened on a Sunday, late afternoon, and that is the awkward thing about this story. The Isdal Woman was found on a Sunday morning and the last sighting of her is on the Monday, almost a week before she was found. This encounter, if it was with the Isdal Woman, can't have taken place on the Sunday she was found, so it must have been the Sunday before, or another Sunday. But that doesn't mean it wasn't her. The DNA Listeners have asked why we haven't compared the DNA profile of the Isdal Woman with the biggest commercial databases, which contain millions of DNA profiles. The DNA material in the case belongs to the Norwegian police and, for legal and ethical reasons, they have so far not allowed the material to be run through commercial databases used by people to find out about their ancestry. But there might be hope for the future. The use of genetic genealogy to solve identity cases has been experiencing explosive growth, especially in the US. This is where an unknown person's DNA is used to track down distant relatives. This information is combined with traditional genealogical methods to build family trees that help uncover the unknown person's identity. Joseph James DeAngelo, a former police officer, was charged with eight counts of first degree murder in April 2018, based on DNA evidence gathered in an investigation to find the so-called Golden State Killer. In another American case, known as the Bear Brook Murders, the identities of three murdered people have been confirmed by police. Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch and her two daughters, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn and Sarah Lynn McWaters went missing in the late 1970s. Genetic genealogy also helped to identify the man most likely to have murdered them - Terry Peder Rasmussen, a serial killer who died in 2010. A fourth victim, thought to be a female child, has yet to be identified. The story has been made famous around the world in the NHPR podcast, Bear Brook, which shone a light on the work of amateur genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter. Her research linked various crimes attributed to Rasmussen. Coleen Fitzpatrick, a leading expert in this area of DNA research, has contacted the Death in Ice Valley team, offering to help identify the Isdal Woman. "I read an article on how you had already done some isotope testing which narrowed down her origins, so that piqued my interest," she says. She's part of the DNA Doe project, a volunteer-run organisation that uses genetic genealogy to identify unknown people ("John and Jane Does", as they are known in the US). "We handle many cases that have had the isotope testing done and we've actually identified those people," she says. "The Isdal Woman is a very well-known case and it's very interesting, we'd love to work on it." The wheels are slowly in motion in Norway now. It's been recognised these methods have launched a revolution in the solution of cold cases, so there will now be a legal hearing to decide if the police can do the same with the Isdal Woman. It's not clear when that hearing will take place. But for the time being, we wait and hope. Live in Bergen Three of the key players in the Death in Ice Valley podcast join us on stage in a darkened room, in the University of Bergen students' union. In front of an audience of the podcast's fans - many from Bergen, but some from places such as Germany, France and Iceland - we talk through the investigation with forensic pathologist Inge Morild, crime writer Gunnar Staalesen and Nils Jarle Gjovag from the Bergen Police. "My personal theory," says Staalesen, "is that she was hunting for Nazi war criminals… Israel and Norway had a very friendly connection, so if the secret services knew that was what she was doing here, they would keep that a secret. But it's only a theory." Some of the audience wonder if she could have died somewhere else and then been taken to the location where her body was found. But Morild thinks this unlikely. "She was breathing in smoke and there was a fire [by her body] so she must have died on the spot where the fire was," he says. "Or there has to have been smoke or fire some other place, which, to my knowledge, wasn't reported. I think she died at the place where the fire was." Discussions like these, and the level of interest in the case, are reassuring to senior police officer Nils Jarle Gjovag. "In many cases, especially cases like this, we're depending on the people out there," he says. "The people are the greatest detectives. In this case, we are trying to get the identity of an unknown woman and we don't know where she came from. To get the case out in the world like this, perhaps somebody out there will say something like, 'Hey, I had an aunt who went missing at that time - could it be her?'" Since launching the Death in Ice Valley podcast, we've been getting information from people across the world. Maria, a student in Bergen, wants to know how we decide which leads to investigate. The answer is that a joint team at NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster, and at the BBC World Service in London, sifts through the leads, and recommends new ideas - ones we haven't seen before - for further discussion. Some of them we can't resist but follow up, though they don't always lead anywhere. Ian Briggs, in the Facebook group, asks if we're making more episodes of the podcast. It's too early to give a definite answer, but some of the new leads are taking us to places we truly didn't expect. Readers who want to share tips about the case of the Isdal Woman can contact the investigation team via the the Death in Ice Valley website. Additional reporting by Amelia Butterly and Anna Doble

تم العثور على جثة امرأة محترقة بشدة في منطقة نائية، وادي الجليد، بالقرب من بيرغن في النرويج. وقد تم قطع الملصقات من ملابسها وإزالة العلامات المميزة من متعلقاتها. وسرعان ما تكتشف الشرطة رسائل مشفرة وأقنعة وهويات مزيفة... كان ذلك في عام 1970 ولم يتم حل اللغز أبدًا. اكتشفنا في العام الماضي المزيد من الأدلة في البودكاست "الموت في وادي الجليد". الآن وجد المستمعون المزيد.

الموت في وادي الجليد: أدلة جديدة في لغز امرأة إسدال

People reported seeing smoke coming from the building on Priory Road in Aston, Birmingham, at about 10:25 BST, the fire service said. Five crews tackled the blaze, bringing it under control by 13:30 BST, West Midlands Fire Service said. It is not yet known who owns the building, on the same road as another unit which caught fire in August. An investigation is under way.

اندلع حريق في وحدة مصنع كبيرة مهجورة بالقرب من مكان حريق مماثل.

حريق وحدة مصنع أستون: أرسل خمسة من فرق الإطفاء إلى مكان الحادث

By Rachael McMenemy and Laurence CawleyBBC News Moreton Hall feels like a small town in its own right. A neighbourhood of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, it is home to 8,000 people and separated from the main town by the busy A14. It has a mix of housing dating from the 1970s to the present day and at its centre is a hub of shops and amenities, including a butcher, GP's surgery, post office, community centre, coffee shop and small supermarket. A lot of residents like the sense of community and it is a place where most people stop to chat to their neighbours. And at the moment, there is one major topic of conversation: Covid-19. Last week, a coronavirus alert was issued for the estate, with West Suffolk Council warning of a large rise in cases and telling residents to "take action now" to avoid a further spike. The authority said the increase involved household transmissions, linked to visits to friends and family. Although no further restrictions were imposed, the council reminded people of the need to adhere to those already in place, including the Rule of Six. Figures show there were 21 new cases in the week to 27 October for the Moreton Hall area, taking the rate to 262.7 cases per 100,000 people. 'It felt like we were all tarred with the same brush' Nicola Moody, who has lived in Moreton Hall since the age of two, helps run a Facebook group for residents. On hearing about the local alert she, like many others, was shocked, having seen little or no evidence of people flouting the rules. "It sounded incredibly official and serious, and sounded like it condemned the whole of Moreton Hall, and [it] felt like we were all tarred with the same brush," she says. She said people had believed cases were localised to Abbots Green Academy, which has remained shut this week following the half- term break due to the number of positive cases, and the need for many other staff and pupils to self-isolate. "The vast majority of people here are following the rules. It is a very small number of cases in a very large estate. Moreton Hall is like a small town, really," she says. With a second England-wide lockdown looming, Ms Moody, who is seven months pregnant with her second child, is particularly anxious at the prospect of giving birth, since the West Suffolk Hospital, like many others, is only allowing partners to attend once a woman is in active labour. "It is a very scary experience," she says. Many on the estate fear Thursday's lockdown will extend well beyond the four weeks the government has initially stipulated. "People are very disappointed and worried... because if it gets extended it will be very near Christmastime," she says. "If you've been following the rules it is very frustrating to know you're going into lockdown again." 'It's been so quiet' Lucy Newell, co-owner of The Coffee House on the estate, says there has been a marked downturn in customers since news of the local warning broke. "It has been so quiet," she says. "The cases in this whole area have been so low, everyone has been doing what was asked... people have been obeying the rules, so it is really hard to believe about the cases." On Thursday the shop will be closed while a sister site nearby will stay open. "We'll keep Fornham All Saints open for takeaway but we're going to close this one as it's been so quiet," she says. She also feels "a duty of care" to shut the shop while cases remain high. 'We'll really miss this place' Friends Denise Brown and Vicky Heighes are regulars at the coffee shop, often popping in after a workout. They, too, were shocked at news of the higher rates on Moreton Hall, and say at first it sounded quite scary. Ms Brown, whose family run the company Vacs R Us on the estate, also noticed a downturn in business in the days immediately after the alert was issued. "We had less people coming in and I know that happened here [the coffee shop] too. But it's started to pick back up again." Ms Heighes says the pair are both "really going to miss" the coffee shop and its friendly atmosphere once lockdown starts again. 'Everyone pulls together' Peter Thompson is a concerned resident, a Conservative district councillor and mayor of Bury St Edmunds. Living on Moreton Hall, he says he understands the frustrations of local people, but has no worries that the estate will not pull through and drive down case numbers again. "We have got really strong community in Moreton Hall; everyone pulls together, there is a really good community spirit," he says. As a councillor, he says adult-to-adult household transmission was the "red flag" leading to the alert, rather than the school outbreak as some believe. "We've got a very mixed community in terms of demographic," he says. "This used to be the place in the country where people had the highest life expectancy... so we do have an elderly population. We've also got two good primary schools and a high school. So you've you a mix of the very young and very old." The "worrying bit", he says, was transmission between households with no children, or between people in their 40s. Mr Thompson says residents seemed split in terms of the actions they wanted to see. "The reaction was 50/50, really, with people saying they wanted lockdown of schools, but also saying they need a living and people being scared of losing a job if things shut down again. "People are not intentionally going out there to be reckless... but if you do anything for seven to eight months some people will make some mistakes. "It's a bit like when you're on a diet, you need to consciously think about what you're eating, and with this you have got to make a conscious, mindful effort and not get complacent." 'A frustrating time' Suffolk County Council said it was too soon to comment on case numbers on the estate, but confirmed Abbots Green Academy would remain closed this week. It said two new pupil cases were identified at the weekend and that some staff who tested positive for Covid-19 were not well enough to return. In a statement, it said: "We would like to thank the Moreton Hall Community for following the guidance. We understand that this is a frustrating time but if we stick with it we should start to see cases reducing." Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk

أصيب الأشخاص الذين يعيشون في منطقة سكنية تم الإشادة بها ذات يوم على أنها تتمتع بأعلى متوسط عمر متوقع في المملكة المتحدة، بالصدمة عندما تم إصدارها بتحذير من فيروس كورونا. إذًا، ما هو السبب الذي يعتقدون أنه سبب الارتفاع الكبير في معدلات الإصابة بالعدوى – وما هو شعورهم تجاه احتمال الإغلاق الثاني؟

تنبيه Covid-19: يتكيف Moreton Hall مع الحياة بعد التحذير من الفيروس

By Philip SimBBC Scotland political reporter Whale or minnow? A Commons research library briefing reckons the UK's fishing and fish processing industries employ a total of 24,000 people, and contribute £1.4bn to the UK economy. Yes, that's a lot of jobs and a lot of money. But it's a drop in the ocean when you consider that it's 0.12% of the overall economy, and less than 0.1% of the 33 million strong national workforce. In terms of economic impact (measured by gross value added, or GVA), the timber industry has similar heft. Indeed, looking at the latest statistics for GVA by industry, almost all of them are bigger than fishing. The leather goods industry is slightly larger - and given its reliance on European markets, could be as significantly affected by Brexit as fishing. Equally the travel agency industry is also watching political proceedings with interest, and is worth significantly more in GVA. And yet, we don't hear backbench MPs fretting about the future of woodworking, or writing to the prime minister to demand a good deal for tanners. We don't even hear as regularly about the financial services industry, which is worth £119bn(or 6.5% of economic output). So why does fishing have so much pull? Local significance The difference between fishing and industries like wood processing can be found in their histories and its geographical concentrations. By and large, if you're going to go fishing, you need access to the sea. So the actual fish-catching infrastructure is packed into a few small areas - particularly in Scotland, which has 53% of the entire UK industry. While it might make up a small sliver of the national workforce, the industry dominates some coastal communities in places like Peterhead. This means any changes in its fortunes have a very noticeable impact - similar to the way the downturn in the oil industry was particularly stark in Aberdeen. The history of the fishing industry also gives it a firm hold on the heartstrings of a nation which up until quite recently claimed with some justification to "rule the waves". On top of this, the industry has a powerful lobbying presence - Scottish Fishing Federation chief Bertie Armstrong has a keen eye for a media opportunity, and has become a more prominent figure in the current political debate than quite a few cabinet ministers. Where does Brexit come in? The fishing industry played a fairly major role in the Brexit campaign - and was central to one of the weirdest moments in the build up to the referendum, when Nigel Farage and Bob Geldof engaged in a sort of nautical battle on the Thames. The industry became a symbol of dissatisfaction with the EU, an illustration of the "take back control" narrative of the Leave campaign. It was a tangible example that people could point to - the UK would literally be reasserting control over its waters by exiting the unpopular Common Fisheries Policy. The 2017 election had an impact too, when the Scottish Conservatives swiped a series of coastal seats from the SNP - prising Moray away from the SNP's then deputy leader Angus Robertson, and overturning an enormous majority in Banff and Buchan. The 13 Scottish Conservative seats won at Westminster election helped keep Theresa May in Downing Street (albeit with a crutch in the form of the DUP). But this has become a double-edged sword for Mrs May when it comes to selling her Brexit deal, as it has magnified the influence of members who represent fish-heavy constituencies. The Scottish Conservative MPs wrote to Mrs May making clear that they could only support her deal if it protects the fishing industry and guarantees a speedy exit from the CFP, and Mr Mundell has threatened to quit (although it's fair to say that opponents have questioned his sincerity). Mrs May has managed to keep these concerns largely at bay, for now, by kicking the can down the road to future negotiations. But the topic continues to rear its head constantly. During her latest Brexit statement in the Commons, the prime minister discussed fishing with 11 different MPs. Only the Northern Irish backstop rears its heads as often when it comes to gripes about her draft deal. Do we eat the fish we catch? The symbolic value of fishing in the Brexit debate is chiefly about the catching of fish, given the ongoing row over whose boats will get to go where (and how much they'll be allowed to catch). But just as important as the catching of fish is the selling of it. For an example, let's look at the battered (or breaded) heart of the iconic British fish supper, cod and haddock. These fish only make up a small slice of the UK catch - 5% is cod, 7% is haddock. And the majority of the stuff actually eaten here is actually imported - 83% of the cod consumed in the UK is shipped in from abroad, alongside 58% of the haddock. What the UK fleet actually catches a lot of is herring - and 93% of it is exported, mostly to Norway and the Netherlands, where people have much more of a taste for it. So, while the most regularly-cited issues are quotas and access, future trading arrangements are also going to be a big deal when it comes to fish. Basically, even if Mrs May's deal makes it through the Commons, we won't have heard the last of fishing.

وجدت صناعة صيد الأسماك نفسها في قلب الجدل حول خروج بريطانيا من الاتحاد الأوروبي ومسودة صفقة رئيس الوزراء. ولكن كيف أصبح القطاع الذي يمثل حوالي 0.1% من اقتصاد المملكة المتحدة قضية كبيرة إلى هذا الحد؟

خروج بريطانيا من الاتحاد الأوروبي: لماذا يتحدث الجميع عن صيد الأسماك؟

By Samantha JaggerBBC News From the outside, they look a bit like a waiting room - the occupants gazing quietly at the machines as their clothes whirl round. Photographer James Wise has always been drawn to the charm of their interiors and facades, photographing the people who own them and the people who use them in towns across Lancashire. When the lockdown was announced, the 33-year-old continued to document those near his home in Chorley. "I find launderettes fascinating. They are preserved anomalies - a time capsule. High street shops are so sterile and are geared towards not offending anyone, whereas launderettes are full of character. "I still use the machines and feel nostalgic about my childhood, as I have so many memories from them. Pre-coronavirus, I remember them being bustling with people. "Now there is a nervous apprehension from people not wanting to get close to each other. It's a solemn mood - there is just a hum of the machines." The Washtub on Moor Road features heavily in James' photographic series, which he posts on his Instagram account. Owner Imtiaz Master, who has been in the business for 12 years, said his shop has been "significantly impacted" due to the outbreak. The 32-year-old said he is worried about the future of his business. "We've seen a 90% reduction in a lot of the elderly customers who come in on a weekly basis. If this continues with the amount of customers I'm receiving, I may have to shut as I won't be able to afford my bills for electric, gas and water." The Washbowl Launderette on Pall Mall has been in operation since 1960 and its owners span three generations of the same family. Taryn Baker left a job in London to take over the business last year. "I grew up with the business being part of family life," said the 31-year-old. "During school holidays, it was a treat to travel around Lancashire with my grandparents to check on the machines and staff." Taryn said she "remains hopeful" about the future and is working on updating her business strategy to move forward. "There is no doubt that Covid-19 has financially impacted our business with our turnover dropping substantially." The landscape is similar at launderettes across England. Derek Read inherited Swift Launderette from his father, who opened in Kings Heath, Birmingham, in 1950. "I grew up in launderettes and I remember when it was normal to have to queue to use a machine. For many years, they were the social hub of many communities, with much gossip and many scandals being discussed. "We chat to our regular elderly customers as much as possible as many are lonely due to the social isolation," the 63-year-old added. Derek has seen dry cleaning turnover drop to "almost zero" and is unsure what the future holds. "I suspect many in this industry will find it impossible to continue if the lockdown continues much longer." You might also be interested in: How are coastal resorts faring during lockdown? 'They were fighting for a pack of chicken breasts' The effect of lockdown on Little America Mark Gillows quit his job at a rugby club to open four shops in Wiltshire and Bath in 2004. "My first memory of launderettes was the warmth from the big old tumble driers hitting me - like when you step out of an aeroplane in Barbados," said the 48-year-old. "It has become quite trendy to want to own one. They are community-based and this can be a lifeline to people who use the launderette facility to not only do their laundry, but to socialise too." The impact on the Bath branches have been "dramatic", but "not by all means grave". In fact, Mark remains "hugely optimistic" for the industry. "The word cleaning has taken on even greater meaning now, as people come to terms with living in a society where it has become even more essential." James, who has struck up friendships with some of the launderette owners, hopes to show his photographs at an exhibition in July at The Tap in Manchester. "I would be so upset if [the launderettes] had to close. The owners are in a precarious position and their livelihoods are at stake. "Launderettes are some of the last shops left in the world with personality." Photographs by James Wise and Lauren Potts.

كانت المغاسل في قلب المجتمعات لعقود من الزمن، ولكن على الرغم من اعتبارها خدمة أساسية أثناء إغلاق فيروس كورونا، يقول العديد من المالكين إن أعمالهم تعاني. ماذا يخبئ لهم المستقبل؟

فيروس كورونا: كيف ستخرج المغاسل في الغسالة؟

Nick TriggleHealth correspondent Take the current debate over A&E. The focus has been on what is happening in these units rather than how it fits in with the entire system. But in many ways the NHS is like an engine. It is made up of many different parts. If a problem develops in one area, it is likely to have an impact on the whole. Each part either has to work harder to keep the car moving or if the strain becomes to much it breaks down. The problems being encountered in A&E are proof of that. Visits have risen by 50% in England in a decade and this winter A&E departments have started spluttering. But to get a full picture of what is happening you need to look at the whole system. Rises in demand are being seen everywhere in England. GP consultations are up by a third since the mid 1990s. Some of this workload has been passed on to hospitals with referrals for non-emergency care at one point during the 2000s rising by 15% a year. This in turn has prompted increasing restrictions being placed on referral processes in recent years. Nonetheless, the number of routine operations carried out by hospitals, such as knee and hip replacements, has still jumped by 60% since the mid 1990s. Rationing There are signs the GP workload has had an effect on A&E too. Amid complaints that doctors could no longer cope, they were allowed to relinquish responsibility for providing out-of-hours care in 2004. This has been taken on by agencies, but with confidence in the system low there are large numbers of patients now attending A&E who do not need emergency care. The College of Emergency Medicine estimates up to a third could be treated elsewhere. But what is causing this? The overall population has been rising, but not at such a rapid rate to explain these figures. Instead, it is the complexity of the cases that has resulted in people needing more frequent help. The ageing population has meant there are more people with multiple conditions, such as heart disease, dementia and respiratory problems. These patients need careful managing and more help. Take GP consultations. The average patient is now seen 5.5 times a year compared to less than four times in 1995. A similar pattern has emerged in hospitals. Two thirds of patients are now over the age of 65. A quarter of beds are taken up by those aged over 85 - and they spend much longer in hospital than younger patients (11 days on average compared to three for the under 65s). The rises in demand have happened at a time when the number of hospital beds has been reduced too. There are now 107,000 beds - down a third in the past 25 years. But as well as seeing demand at the front-door rise, the NHS is finding it difficult to get patients out the other end. Cuts to council budgets have meant they have had to ration social care, which affects the ability of hospitals to discharge frail and elderly patients as quickly as they should. Luxury Unsurprisingly, all this has resulted in hospitals becoming over worked. According to recommendations, hospitals should only be 85% full to allow them to cope with surges in demand and provide the flexibility to allow patients to be moved around to the most appropriate areas. An analysis last year by Dr Foster found once quiet periods, such as bank holidays and Christmas are stripped out, hospitals are running at 90% capacity. In other words, they are too full. This, of course, has an impact on the ability of A&E units to admit patients and get their treatment under way - hence the long waits that were experienced in many parts of the county this winter. It may also ultimately drive up waiting times for non-emergency operations as hospitals struggle to fit in their routine patients around the emergency cases - a point made by NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar when he appeared before MPs on the Health Select Committee this week. However, the irony is that as soon as this problem has hit the headlines, the official figures have started suggesting the pressure is easing. A&E data has been improving as the weather gets milder and within the next few weeks the major units should start hitting the waiting time target again. But no-one should be fooled into thinking the issues have gone away. Whereas in recent years there has been extra money to throw at problems, that luxury is no longer available. The engine of the NHS may still be running, but under the bonnet all is not well.

في كثير من الأحيان نفكر في خدمات NHS بمعزل عن غيرها.

هل ستقوم هيئة الخدمات الصحية الوطنية بتفجير الحشية؟

By Ian MurphyBBC news Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) are homes where people, who are not related, sleep in separate rooms but share facilities such as kitchens or bathrooms. Previously only houses of more than three storeys and with five or more people forming at least two households had to be licensed. A new rule has been introduced that removes the three-storey threshold and applies to smaller homes. 'They cram as many people into one space' Shanice Ireland, 25, moved into her first shared house after leaving her mum's home in May. She says her landlord has "crammed" four people on to the ground floor of the end-terraced house in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. "The upstairs is then rented out as a flat where people come and go, it is almost like a hotel," she said. "We've had builders, a family of four and tourists going to the Harry Potter experience, so you often have people getting drunk and being loud. "It has no soundproofing so when they are walking around and talking I can hear everything." Shanice says she hates living in an HMO, which costs her £800 a month, and wants to get out as soon as possible. "I haven't cooked in this place once. It's such a small kitchen with four people trying to cook, I just go to my mum's to cook. "I literally just use it to sleep in. It is a bit of a rip-off." Shanice, who works in Watford as an IT reseller, says she would leave if her landlord increased her rent. "If they were going to rent it normally as a house they would never make as much money as they do by splitting it up. "They just try and cram as many people into one space." 'Landlords forget we call these places our home' Anna Mäkinen has lived in five shared homes since she moved to England from Finland in 2013. The 26-year-old says at the worst place she stayed in Whitechapel, east London, there were seven people living in a three-bedroom house. "I was living in the living room. We had one girl living on a balcony. It had a roof and was sealed but the wind would come in. "When I moved into where I live with my boyfriend now there was still painting to be done and the floors needed to be finished. "We had to put our stuff on the balcony and it got wet." Anna, who works in HR, now lives in an HMO in east London with her boyfriend and two other women. She hopes the new legislation will mean people in shared houses have a better standard of living. "Our landlord has been overpromising for seven months to fix things that aren't working. "We had mice in the house and had to get rid of the problem on our own and with our own money. "I have tried to contact the council but we never get any help. They said it was the landlord who needed to fix it. "I understand the market is competitive but I feel like landlords have completely forgotten that we call these places our home." 'You've got these people who are almost forgotten' Liam Moyna lived in about 20 different shared houses over a 20-year period after leaving university. He says he rarely had a problem with landlords but that people he lived with could often have issues because of marriage or relationship breakdowns. "I found it was a bit of a mixed bag with anything from PHD students to people who are just out of prison," the 43-year-old added. "One person who had taken something out of context waived a hammer around during a scuffle. I decided to move out the next day. "The houses have generally all been nice and the landlords have been brilliant." Liam thinks there should be legislation to stop landlords being able to put too many people in houses. "Young single men on a low wage make up a lot of the people I found in shared houses," the IT worker says. "You've got these people who are almost forgotten, they coast along and are stuck there. "The problems come from having too many people in a house. I think they should legislate against that. The houses are just not designed for it." Liam, who bought his own house in Southampton this year, adds: "Most of the time you move because the landlord sells up. "I certainly didn't have enough money to save up for a mortgage and that is what I found with a lot of housemates. People are so often sorely missed by the system "I am one of the lucky ones."

حذر الملاك من أن المستأجرين في المنازل المشتركة قد يواجهون الإخلاء أو زيادة الإيجار بسبب تغيير القواعد الحكومية. ولكن كيف يبدو العيش مع الغرباء؟ لقد طلبنا من ثلاثة أشخاص أن يخبرونا عن تجاربهم.

ما هي تجارب الناس في العيش في منزل مشترك؟

The boat, which also had two crew on board, had been on a wildlife trip when it got into trouble south of the Isles of Scilly, just after 11:30 BST. No one was injured, and all passengers were taken by RNLI lifeboat to safety on St Mary's island, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said. The crew members remained on board to pump out the vessel. The boat has been returned to the harbour while investigations are carried out.

تم إنقاذ ثمانية وأربعين شخصًا من قارب ركاب بعد أن اصطدم بجسم ما وبدأ في دخول المياه.

تحطم قارب قبالة جزر سيلي أدى إلى إنقاذ 48 شخصًا

While he was alive, very few committed supporters of late President Hugo Chavez would ever openly criticise him. They had no time for opposition arguments about the government's control of the media and the judiciary, and rejected the idea that Venezuela was living under a dictatorship. Rather, when there were complaints they tended to be over more immediate quality-of-life issues: infrequent rubbish collections or a lack of local sporting facilities. In pro-Chavez neighbourhoods - like 23 de Enero in the capital, Caracas - such problems were easily solved with oil money. Shouting over the noise of a gleaming-new government rubbish truck as it crushes the mountains of waste outside her building, local co-operative leader Judith Vegas explains how she has enjoyed a direct line to the Chavez government for years. She shows us around a brand new baseball ground and takes us on the shiny lifts which the socialist administration installed in the crumbling 1950s housing blocs. In her state-owned apartment, Judith cannot hold back her tears when talking about Hugo Chavez. "It hurts me what's happening," she says between sobs. "I loved him and everything he did for us." For Judith, the most fitting tribute to the late socialist leader is a vote for his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, in next month's election. "We'll love Maduro, too. The absence of Chavez won't mean that things will stop here. No. Chavez is inside all of us." But her support for Mr Maduro isn't completely unconditional. "It's not that we don't trust him but he must follow the lines which Chavez left down to the letter so that this revolution can continue. "If he fails to do so, he will come up against the people on 14 April," she warns, before adding brightly: "But I'm sure he won't." 'Commando Hugo Chavez' Millions of like-minded Chavistas agree. Although campaigning doesn't officially get underway until 2 April, tens of thousands turned out to the National Electoral Council earlier this month to see Mr Maduro hand in his credentials as presidential candidate. The rally outside was, in all but name, an election campaign event. Unsurprisingly, Mr Chavez's image is emblazoned across all of the United Socialist Party's election propaganda. "We are trying to choose between two names for the campaign team," Nicolas Maduro told the assembled crowd. "It's between 'Commando Battle of Carabobo,'" he said to muted murmurs, "or 'Commando Hugo Chavez'!" he cried - to rapturous applause. "Approved! My election team will be called Commando Hugo Chavez!" the acting president declared. One of the Commando's main leaders is Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez. He opened the doors of his office to BBCMundo - in a rare at-length interview in the days immediately after Mr Chavez's death. He was still wearing the armband in the colours of the Venezuelan flag which all of Mr Chavez's inner circle had worn at his funeral. "Without doubt we have lost the most important leader of the 20th and 21st Century," Mr Ramirez opened by saying. "I have been his oil minister for 10 uninterrupted years. President Chavez wasn't just our boss and our leader, he was our friend." When the discussion turned to the election, Mr Ramirez was adamant about what he believed April's vote entailed. "This is a referendum to confirm the political will already expressed by the people last October (in the presidential election which Mr Chavez won by 11%) and then again in December when we won 20 of the 23 governorships in the country." And he was typically dismissive of the chances of the opposition's candidate, Henrique Capriles. "There is no way that the right wing will again govern this country. And much less, these men." 'Unique opportunity' In opposition circles, they know they face an extremely tough prospect against a man hand-picked by Mr Chavez the day before his final cancer operation. Nevertheless, Mr Capriles is showing a far more aggressive style against Mr Maduro than he did against Mr Chavez last year, resolutely refusing to call him president and referring to him instead as just "Nicolas". There is even an outside possibility of a televised debate between the candidates - something Mr Chavez never countenanced. In an interview earlier this year, before Mr Chavez's death, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado spoke of the prospects for the opposition in a post-Chavez Venezuela. "After 14 years of control of the media, resources and all the public powers, in our last electoral processes, which were not clear and fair processes, almost half the population voted against (Hugo Chavez)." "That shows that Venezuelans understand the true nature of the regime which tries to be imposed on us: a regime in which citizens are dependent on the government and are not allowed the right to disagree or dissent." This was "a wonderful, unique opportunity to produce a true transformation of our society", she added. In the country's first presidential election without Hugo Chavez's name on the ballot in almost 20 years, it seems the choice in front of Venezuelans remains as stark and as divisive as ever.

بينما تستعد فنزويلا لإجراء انتخابات 14 أبريل - وهي أول انتخابات رئاسية بدون اسم هوجو شافيز على بطاقة الاقتراع منذ ما يقرب من عقدين من الزمن - يبدو خيار الناخبين صارخًا ومثيرًا للانقسام كما كان دائمًا، حسبما أفاد مراسل بي بي سي في كراكاس.

فنزويلا تستعد لانتخابات ما بعد تشافيز

By Gemma RyallBBC News He had become critically ill with undiagnosed type 1 diabetes and his body was shutting down. Six days later he lost his fight. His mother Beth believes four simple questions asked by GPs could help prevent similar deaths in future. In her own words, Beth explains why she hopes Peter's story will lead to change. I'd been watching Peter in his hospital bed all night. He was semi-awake - I was talking to him but he wasn't really responding. He kept trying to move the oxygen mask and he was just so tried. About 6am one of the nurses walked past his room and she said to me "get your head down". I said "I'm ok" but she insisted: "He's ok, get your head down." I was sat next to him and put my head down on a little pillow. I don't know what woke me up about 10 minutes later... I got a feeling. I woke with a start, looked up and he didn't look right - he looked grey. I called the nurse and said "what's going on? This doesn't look right". She came over, lifted his eyes... I don't know if she pushed the buzzer but within 30 seconds all hell broke loose. Someone said "he's really not well, talk to him" and I just started screaming "come on Peter, I'm here, mummy's here". Nurses came from everywhere, alarms were going off, doctors came in shouting for a crash team. One was doing chest compressions. They were trying to save him because he'd had a cardiac arrest. I was shouting at him all the time to wake up and telling him "mummy is here". A nurse said she would call my husband Stuart. He came as our house is only two minutes around the corner. We just watched in disbelief as a team of goodness knows how many doctors and nurses managed to restart his heart. They took him to surgery, off to try to stabilise him. We went up to the surgical department, just waiting, waiting, waiting. Just 24 hours earlier, on New Year's Day 2015, my son Peter - fun-loving, everyone's friend and so clever - had been at our home in Whitchurch, Cardiff. He had been ill with a chest infection. We'd been to see a GP and given antibiotics. But I was so worried about how ill he was that I called my parents to come over - more for reassurance, I suppose. I wanted someone to say he was ok. They took one look at him and said I should call an ambulance straight away. I started to panic. He was not breathing properly. I was very scared. A first responder arrived at our house and one of the first things he did after giving Peter oxygen was prick Peter's finger for a blood test. Within 30 seconds of coming he had diagnosed him as having type 1 diabetes - a condition where the body doesn't produce enough insulin. I was told he was in a DKA - diabetic ketoacidosis - which is when your body starts to shut down if you haven't had insulin and it can lead to organ failure. The ambulance journey to the University Hospital of Wales didn't take long from our house and soon Peter was in critical care in the high dependency unit, hooked up to a drip and oxygen. Stuart went home at midnight to be with our eight-year-old daughter Lia. I remember saying: "Peter will be fine, come back in the morning." I had no idea how bad he was. After he had the cardiac arrest, the doctors and nurses saved him but when we were able to see him again we could tell his poor little body had been through the mill and back. He was in the intensive care unit for four days. We sat by his side the whole time but he never really came back. They said the DKA had gone too far and even though he'd been given medication, his body was already in shutdown mode and he couldn't fight it. That led to too much pressure on his organs. They did all sorts of tests and he was put on dialysis. They came to us and said there were signs of damage to the brain and the outlook didn't look good. On the day he died, it's all a bit of a blur... but they said he's not likely to make any recovery. The majority of the brain had been damaged and the machines were keeping him alive. Hearing this broke us. We played music to him and read to him. We held his hands and rubbed his feet and kissed him a million times and told him how much we loved him and that everyone was praying for him. Then at about lunchtime they said it's not really fair on him and we need to start making decisions. I don't remember much about that day other than trying to process that my child was about to die. It's something you never ever consider and to this day I can't accept or comprehend. I have to be grateful we had six days to get our heads around it almost, even though we were hoping and praying for a miracle. We had to switch the machines off and there was a last hope that he would start to breathe. But he didn't. My daughter was eight at the time and she decided she didn't want to see him with all the tubes and machines. Our family all came in - my parents, brother and sister - and said goodbye. Stuart's family all came down from Newcastle. My mum was hysterical and I was trying to say to her "I tried". I felt like I failed him and there was nothing I could do - he'd gone. My dad died when I was four and Peter was named after him. I was praying to my dad "make sure Peter's ok. Save him". Now I know my dad's looking after him. I have to believe that. It's so hard. We had to leave the hospital that night without him. My life turned completely upside down and I was heartbroken. Within 24 hours my house was full of flowers. It's lovely for people to show their support but flowers will wilt and die - I thought the money should go to charity instead. So we decided to raise money - the target was £500 and we reached that in an hour. It reached £10,000 in a week. It showed the impact Peter had had on people's lives. Diabetes UK got in touch to thank us and offered to support us. We have been working with them ever since. They have taken Peter into their hearts and shared his story as a way of helping raise awareness of the dangers of not diagnosing type 1 diabetes. I'm immensely proud and heartbroken at the same time. This is Peter's legacy. I know he would have been a really good ambassador for type 1 diabetes. The fact he's not here means we have to continue in his spirit and on his behalf. Since we started campaigning, many people and children have been in touch to say they were only diagnosed as type 1 diabetes as an emergency. That should not be happening as four simple questions can raise the alarm for GPs examining a sick child. They call it the Four Ts test: We want those questions to be mandatory for all GPs in Wales - they don't cost anything and take 30 seconds to ask. If the answers are yes to these, there's a simple and accurate test available which GPs can carry out - a finger prick test, like you have if you go to give blood. It takes less than one minute and has instant results. All GPs have finger prick monitors but not all have them on their desk. So we want working equipment they know how to use. If Peter had had that test, we would have had a head start in helping him. Peter wasn't a sickly child and the GP was correct to diagnose him as having a chest infection. But the examination stopped there without exploring if anything else was wrong, even though he was very ill. That's why Stuart and I are leading Diabetes UK's national campaign called 'Know Type 1' to raise awareness of the symptoms. We are also petitioning the Welsh assembly to ensure effective diagnosis and gave evidence to the petitions committee on Tuesday along with Diabetes UK Cymru. Just a few weeks before he died, Peter had gone on a school trip to Germany to see the Christmas markets and he'd just started going into town with his friends - he was getting his first taste of independence. He had an amazing group of friends and he used to play with them all the time, out on his bike and computer games. When he moved to Whitchurch High School he was in the school council and he used to volunteer for stuff like the anti-bullying group. He did well at school and was active in all parts of school life and really took pride in what he did. I'm angry, heartbroken, devastated and distraught that Peter's life could have been saved. It's such a small test that is readily available. That's why it's so wrong. That's why we are determined changes must be made.

كان بيتر بالدوين يبلغ من العمر 13 عامًا عندما توفي.

مرض السكري من النوع الأول: "اختبار بسيط كان من الممكن أن ينقذ ابني"

Police were called to a property on Albany Street, off Burton Road, at about 13:00 GMT and discovered the body of a man. A cordon is in place while forensic teams work at the scene, the Lincolnshire force said. It has not released any further details and has appealed for anyone with information to contact them. More news from across Lincolnshire Follow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.

ألقي القبض على ثلاثة رجال للاشتباه في ارتكابهم جريمة قتل بعد العثور على جثة في منزل في لينكولن.

اعتقالات بعد العثور على جثة في منزل في لينكولن

By Roger HarrabinBBC environment analyst Its key message is that keeping global temperature rise within 2C means leaving in the ground 80% of known coal reserves, 50% of gas and 30% of oil. The University College London authors invite investors to ponder whether $670bn, the amount they say was spent last year on seeking and developing fossil fuels, is a wise use of money if we can’t burn all the fuel we’ve already found. The movement to divest from fossil fuel companies is being prompted by the small but increasingly influential NGO Carbon Tracker, which argues that investment has created a carbon bubble of fossil fuel assets that will be worthless if climate change is taken seriously. The managers of the Rockefeller fortune have heard its message and already divested from coal. The University of Glasgow’s investment fund will avoid fossil fuels altogether. NGO 350.org is gathering support for a similar campaign in the US, and Norway’s vast government pension fund is seeking to pressure companies to take their climate responsibilities more seriously. Surprisingly, the Bank of England has also chipped in. It is conducting an enquiry into the risk of an economic crash if future climate change rules render coal, oil and gas assets worthless. The findings will be interesting; even if the enquiry team are alarmed by the potential extent of stranded assets, they can hardly make their case bluntly for fear of creating a stampede. To heap on the pressure, the talks leading to the prospective climate deal in Paris in December will debate whether fossil fuels can be completely phased out by 2050. Oil firms like Shell have stated their confidence in the energy status quo that has formed the economic bedrock of modern society and helped billions out of poverty. They say they see no risk to their business model (because executives privately do not believe that politicians will keep their promises on carbon limits). And they have hopes that technology to capture and store carbon will give their products a new lease of life. But the UCL team has more bad news: carbon capture technology, they say, is too late, too expensive and too inefficient. Some commentators argue that the world should continue to develop cheap energy and take a chance that we can adapt to whatever climate change brings. And leaders of the fossil fuel asset class, worth over $4 trillion, may be currently more worried by the plummeting oil price than the embryonic divestment movement. But campaigners believe tiny pinpricks like the one from UCL can ultimately deflate what they think is a great carbon bubble. Follow Roger on Twitter @rharrabin

هل تتأرجح "فقاعة الكربون" في مواجهة هجوم جديد؟ قدمت ورقة بحثية في مجلة Nature الدعم لفكرة أن مكافحة تغير المناخ وتطوير المزيد من الوقود الأحفوري أمران متناقضان بشكل متبادل.

الوقود الأحفوري: "الاحتياطيات التي لا يمكن المساس بها"

By BBC TrendingWhat's popular and why No, not Donald Trump, but President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. During his campaign Duterte, nicknamed "The Punisher", promised harsh punishment for those suspected of using and selling illegal drugs. Dealers, he said, would be "fed to the fish in Manila Bay." (And that was not his only threat - here's a few of his most notable quotes). Many attributed his popularity to his straight talk, but something else also helped Duterte secure the presidency - social media. Maria Ressa, founder of the Filipino social news site Rappler, has investigated the machine built by the Duterte campaign. "Duterte was the only candidate who took it seriously," she says of the power of social networking. "They (his campaign) claimed it was because they had no money and social media is essentially free." That idea is backed up by the man who steered the president's strategy, former advertising executive Nic Gabunada. "When we realised we didn't have money for TV, radio, print, billboards etc, we made the decision to tap up the social media groups," Gabunada says, "How did we organise them? We reached out to them, we assigned co-ordinators." Those co-ordinators were in charge of particular geographic regions of the country and one group was devoted to Filipino workers overseas. Each group received targeted, bespoke messages, relevant to their own immediate experience. "During the campaign we had a 'message for the week'. It was really up to each group to amplify that message to their own circles and to craft how that message is best framed in their own networks," Gabunada says. With the help of those overseas workers, Gabunada was able to make the Duterte machine work 24 hours a day. "Late at night the people from abroad, the (workers) in a different time zone took over, people from Europe, people from down under, or the Middle East," he says, The campaign also rallied the help of high profile digital influencers, and using the hashtag #Du30 (a hashtag that rhymes with the president's name). The influencers were chosen for their connections to messages central to the Duterte campaign. "Some of them have very real experience of how crime has affected or destroyed their lives," says Gabunada, "like Mocha, whose father was murdered." The "Mocha" he's talking about is Mocha Uson, one of the biggest and most controversial faces in the Duterte volunteer network. She's a Filipino singer with more than four million Facebook followers. She released songs supporting the president during the campaign and her group played at Duterte rallies. "I uploaded the videos of his rallies," she tells BBC Trending. "And it is only through social media that Filipinos saw how many people actually supported him, because they didn't show that on the mainstream media." Uson put up 20 to 30 political posts a day. One photo she shared claimed to be of a Filipina who was raped and murdered - but the picture was actually taken in Brazil. She later took it down. More reporting on the Philippines from the BBC Trending team Listen to Trolls, 'the Devil', and Death on the BBC World Service Watch Manila's brutal nightshift: the photographer on the front line of Duterte's war on drugs Read No country for poor men: the human cost of the anti-drugs campaign Mocha tells BBC Trending that she's also willing to hold the government to account, but it's not totally clear Nic Gabunada sees her in the same way. "Filipinos are like that actually, as long they are able to get your message, they will work for you," he says, "I have a term for that. Arouse, organise, mobilise. That's the secret." Rappler founder Maria Ressa agrees, but says that one intriguing aspect of the Duterte campaign is that it didn't end with his election victory. "Most of the time you'd think when you win, you retire your campaign machinery, but not in this case. The campaign helped change values and perceptions in our society and we're watching it unfold in the first months of his presidency." Rappler investigated online networks of Duterte supporters and discovered that they seem to include fake news, fake accounts, bots and trolls, which Ressa thinks are being used to silence dissent. Follow BBC Trending on Facebook Join the conversation on this and other stories here. "What we're seeing on social media again is manufactured reality... They also create a very real chilling effect against normal people, against journalists (who) are the first targets," she says, "and they attack in very personal ways with death threats and rape threats. "The weaponisation of hatred I think is what you're seeing." Indeed, journalists in the Philippines critical of the Duterte campaign were subject to online intimidation. "Even at press conferences, which are televised live... journalists get immediate responses if they ask any question that challenges him," says Ressa, "and the responses are 'you should die', 'you should get raped'." Ressa says that the messages often appear to originate from pro-Duterte accounts and are then amplified through the Duterte support network in order to create a powerful wave of dissent against those that challenge the president. But the notion that fake or troll accounts are driving the president's social media machine is denied by Mocha Uson. She points to her huge numbers of fans as proof that Duterte's support is real. "On my Facebook I have 4.4 million followers and the engagement is as high as 3.6 or 3.7 million. Maybe (critics) are the ones who have these trolls or bots or fake accounts." Nic Gabunada points out that dirty tricks were not exclusive to some of the president's supporters. "It happened not just from Duterte but from other camps," he says. "You cannot expect to control all people in the social media sphere, people have been given a weapon and a medium where they can express themselves, so you should understand this is a whole volunteer movement, you cannot control everybody." Blog by Kate Lamble and Megha Mohan You can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending. Next story: The dad who asked for donations - even though he's well-off A row has erupted on social media in China over a father who raised money for his sick child without disclosing what some people argued were substantial assets of his own.READ MORE You can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.

وهذا العام، فاز الزعيم الاستبدادي المناهض للمؤسسة، والذي اشتهر بتصريحاته المثيرة للجدل وموقفه المتشدد بشأن القانون والنظام، بالانتخابات الرئاسية بمساعدة حملة مبتكرة ومثيرة للانقسام على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي.

المتصيدون والانتصار: معركة رقمية في الفلبين

By Fiona GrahamBusiness reporter, BBC News, Beaconsfield The novelist Maria Edgeworth remarked, "I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die". While you may not be able to take a seat in the pews, you can still have a say in your final send-off. As anyone who has had to arrange a funeral will know, it can be a heart-wrenching process. Many bereavement counsellors believe that pre-planning your funeral can be one of the greatest gifts you can give to those that survive you And, perhaps as people act on such advice, in recent years there has been a steady rise in the numbers of personalised funerals. Fran Hall is a former funeral director who now manages the Chiltern Woodland Burial Centre, and she is hosting this year's National Coffin Exhibition. The event, "Handled with Care", organised by the British Institute of Funeral Directors, hopes to encourage people to have that difficult conversation. "We really want people to start thinking about and actually talking about their own future funeral. It's a subject we don't like to talk about in British society." Going green Although the majority of funerals are still fairly traditional, humanist and civil celebrants are becoming increasingly common. There are more than 200 natural burial grounds across the UK, and organisations such as the Natural Death Centre provide information on alternative arrangements, even DIY funerals. Environmentalism is one driving factor. Actresses Lynn Redgrave and Wendy Richards, chef Keith Floyd and Body Shop founder Anita Roddick have all chosen eco-friendly coffins. "Ten years ago it was all your stereotypical wooden coffins - now there's a whole range," says Julian Atkinson, managing director of coffin makers and distributors JC Atkinson They include a hand-made woollen coffin made by Hainsworth. Sales have been brisk, according to Mr Atkinson. "People like it because it's touchy-feely, it's warm," he says. Craig Wensley of Daisy Coffins feels the use of the term "alternative" is misleading. His company produces caskets made from banana leaf and water hyacinth. "For me, it was about offering modern products that aren't sombre, but look nice," he says. "With willow, sometimes you can see through. We wanted to be green, but we also wanted it to look nice." Newcomer Sunset Coffins has not looked back since launching last year. "Business is good," says managing director Steve Ancrum. "We've been genuinely surprised at how the public have received the product. "We think it's partly because it's British-made, but it's also because it's 100% recycled newspapers." Coffins are not the only choice. Bellacouche is a company that makes soft felt shrouds from locally sourced wool. The base is reinforced to make it rigid, so the body can be carried. "It captured the essence of her" Pamela Barton loved to paint, and made cards for family and friends. Before she passed away a few months ago after a long illness, she talked to her daughter about what she wanted. Her daughter, Anne Barber, works for Civil Ceremonies, training civil funeral celebrants. She contacted picture specialists Colourful Coffins. A few days later Pamela's granddaughter Gemma visited their offices, armed with a painting of her grandmother's of snowdrops. "We looked at it and thought 'gosh, yes, it's exactly it'. The coffin was beautiful, really. It was exactly what she wanted," says Anne Barber. "What I didn't expect was the difference it made to the funeral. What happened when the coffin turned up, the only thing I could say was it was perfect. And it really was. People would touch the coffin, they couldn't believe it wasn't wood. It captured the essence of her." "I call it my own carriage" For some people, simply decorating the coffin isn't enough. When Brian Holden takes that final trip it will be aboard the Alnwick coach of the Orient Express Northern Belle. He and his wife first travelled on the the real-life Northern Belle eight years ago, as an anniversary treat. They liked it so much they became regulars, always travelling in the same carriage. Three years ago, his wife Jean passed away. After 50 years of marriage he found himself alone. "I decided I was not going to scurry into a little hole," he says. "It was a good part of my life, we'd been married for 50 years when we first went on the journey. "I found I could still carry on and make the journey on my own." After spotting an newspaper article about a company called Crazy Coffins that makes unusual caskets, he contacted Orient Express, which agreed to provide plans for the coffin makers to work from. "The older you get, the less years you have ahead of you, and it was nice there. I thought, 'why not get to go out in an environment where you've been happy'. "I'll go out in comfort, and disappear into the fiery furnace in the Alnwick Northern Belle carriage." The company is currently building a Viking longboat and a Tardis. Complicated orders such as Mr Holden's need to be ordered in advance, but simpler designs, such as a skateboard they built for a 9-year-old boy, can be done in a few days. Plan ahead The funeral industry has been criticised for having pushed up prices in recent years The president of the British Institute of Funeral Directors, Ken Satterly, says he would always advise people to shop around. He blames the increases on rising fees. "Over the last five years there's been tremendous increases in charges for cremations, fees for minister and church, fees for doctors, fees for issuing of cremation forms ... and the cost of fuel has risen steeply." Given the expense involved, it makes sense to make provision before you go, or you could risk leaving your family struggling to pay, funeral directors say. It does not have to cost the earth - the Natural Death Centre publishes a 14-point checklist of money-saving tips. You do not need to use a funeral director, and you can even be buried in your back garden. And if you still want a bespoke coffin - do not despair. Greenfield Creations has been selling cardboard coffins direct to the public for 20 years. Will Hunnybel, whose father started the company, says he gets 50 - 60 internet enquiries a week. A plain cardboard coffin will set you back around £130, or for a few hundred pounds more you can have the design of your choice printed on it, and have it delivered to your front door.

الموت هو الشيء الوحيد المشترك بيننا جميعاً

الموت يصبح أنت: اختيار التابوت المثالي

I guess my family does not fit with the typical image of 2.4 children. But wouldn't it be boring if all families were identical? One bizarre reaction I often get is people thinking that I'm somehow depriving my children of physical activity because their dad is a wheelchair user. I typically get comments like: "Isn't it a shame the boys will never get to play football with their dad?" But there are lots of other different types of play which are accessible that I can do with the boys, such as reading, jigsaws or going to the cinema, and if they desperately wanted to play football then they have a footie-obsessed granddad who is more than happy to oblige. And we do live in Liverpool after all. Over the years I've also found there seems to be this general misunderstanding that disabled people have kids in order to provide them with a free source of "care" or support. Whenever issues around disabled parents make it into the media, it's typically around the lack of support for young carers. Indeed sometimes I can't help but feel that society seems more comfortable with the notion of my children looking after me - rather than supporting me to look after my children. Of course, no child should be put in a position where they are being relied upon by their parents for basic day-to-day support. One thing about my family which surprises people is that we manage our own support and don't expect our kids to "look after" us. We have a personal budget from our local authority which we use to employ personal assistants to support us with day-to-day living, including our roles as parents. This can involve helping us do tasks like getting our kids to nursery or school in the mornings, washing their clothes and preparing meals. However more and more government cuts to local authority funding are, in turn, having a huge effect on local social care provision for people like us. Only this week Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget a further £10bn cut in welfare spending in 2016-17 from the forecast bill. To me, giving disabled parents adequate support makes good sense, as the knock-on effect is fewer children being placed in the position of having to provide support for their parents. Instead disabled parents would be able to fulfil their roles as parents, thus freeing their children to get on with simply being kids. There's also a misconception that disabled people with my degree of impairment are incapable of being parents at all. When we'd tell people we were expecting we'd get one of two reactions. They either assumed we must have had IVF because we couldn't possibly have done it the old-fashioned way. Or they would shake my hand firmly and say "Congratulations" while I could see them thinking: "How the hell did he manage that then?" It is often said that a defining point in any child's development is the moment when they realise they are better than their parents at doing a particular thing. To the best of my knowledge, this moment arrived for my older son Tom on his fifth birthday when he asked me to help him play a game on his new games console. It was then I discovered that most video games are not really designed for the co-ordination skills of someone with cerebral palsy. Of course, another common reaction I get when I tell people that I'm a dad is that I'm apparently "inspirational". These sorts of reactions really get on my nerves as they assume that I'm some sort of special case, when in fact there are thousands upon thousands of disabled people who choose to take the parenting plunge. That said, as a child I can't remember ever seeing any adults with cerebral palsy who had become parents. This in turn had a knock-on effect on expectations for my later life, since if you are not used to seeing people like yourself taking on responsibility and living full lives then it becomes harder to envisage yourself doing these sorts of things in the future. It was only as an adult that I finally met some disabled parents and realised this was not some impossible dream. I guess Adele and I didn't decide to have children to have them "look after" us or to prove a point, but for probably the exact same reasons as everyone else who decides to start a family. My kids are used to having a dad who uses a wheelchair because they've never known any different. It's only when other people comment or make an issue of it that it ever becomes a problem for us.

لورانس كلارك ممثل كوميدي مصاب بالشلل الدماغي. يعيش مع زوجته أديل وولديه توم، سبعة أعوام، وجيمي، تسعة أشهر. ويصف هنا التحديات والمواقف التي يواجهها الناس تجاه عائلات مثل عائلته.

وجهة نظر: كيف يبدو الأمر عندما تكون أبًا معاقًا؟

The carriages of the train exploded in the centre of the small town of Lac-Megantic, destroying at around 30 buildings and killing at least 15 people. Scattered oil tank wagon wheelsets Wrecked oil tank wagons Burnt-out cars Houses destroyed Shops burnt to the ground Satellite images captured by US space agency Nasa two days apart show the scale of the inferno in comparison to major urban centres close to Lac-Megantic.

بدأ محققون كنديون البحث عن سبب خروج قطار النفط عن مساره في كيبيك صباح السبت.

الصور الجوية: الدمار في لاك ميجانتيك

By Will GompertzArts editor Do go. It's a fabulous place. And not a bit like some other cities one could mention, where a stranger saying "hello" either means you've been set-upon by a chugger or a performance artist. They're a friendly lot over on the blowy east coast of Yorkshire, and have put together a decent and diverse 12-month programme. The year starts with the city's buildings being used as vast canvasses on to which images are projected telling the story of Hull, and ends with the Turner Prize exhibition and award. In between, like the sandwiches at Kingston's Deli on Savile Street, they have packed multiple delights. David Hockney's beloved Bridlington is just up the road. Maybe he'll pop in when he's on his way down to Tate Britain for the opening dinner celebrating his retrospective show at the Pimlico gallery in February. If so, he might pass fellow artist Tony Cragg on the M1, as he makes his way to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for his March show. Can't wait. I like Cragg. And love Richard Long, another senior British artist exhibiting in 2017. He's on at Houghton Hall, once Robert Walpole's showy country pad in Norfolk, now home to a smattering of contemporary exhibits and the Cholmondeley family. If only our inaugural Prime Minister had had the financial acumen to match his impeccable taste in art, we could also have seen the masterpieces he collected by Velazquez, Van Dyke, Rubens and Rembrandt, but he didn't and Catherine the Great snaffled the lot in a fire sale in 1779. The Russians will be back in 2017, and in some style. This time at the Royal Academy in London, with an exhibition marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution. That's its spring show; in the autumn it will present a sure-fire hit with a major Jasper Johns retrospective (his work will also be present in the British Museum's The American Dream). Don't expect the retiring 86-year old artist to appear on Graham Norton's couch (or anybody else's), but do expect a classic to match Tate Modern's current monographic of Johns' old mate Robert Rauschenberg. The Bankside behemoth will be pulling in more punters in February with its Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition, an artist who rarely disappoints. If I had to pick out the odds-on blockbuster of 2017, it would be Cezanne Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in October. My advice: book early. If you fancy clocking up a few air miles, the art world has laid on a feast of entertainments. There's the Venice Biennale running from May till September, with the wonderful sculptor Phyllida Barlow setting up shop in the British Pavilion. Documenta, the cognoscenti's favourite once-every-five-years international art event, is back. This time it's a bi-nation affair: part one takes place in Athens from April, part two kicks off in June at its regular home in Kassel, Germany. We're living in an age where museums have joined temples and churches as places to congregate and contemplate. Vast sums of money are being poured into the creation of ever bigger and better art shrines by wealthy folk looking for eternal fame, and city bureaucrats intent on setting a tourist trap. There are far too many to mention opening in 2017, but highlights include Louvre Abu Dhabi (probably December), and Zeitz MOCAA Cape Town (September). And finally, for the truly intrepid, 2017 offers a novelty not to be missed: the first ever Antarctic Bienniale. Wrap up warm, put a line through your diary for twelve days (27 March to 6 April), and submerge yourself in art. Happy New Year. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

2017 سيكون هال سنة. حقًا. مدينة هال القديمة المتواضعة - المدينة التي تم التصويت عليها من بين أسوأ المدن التي يمكن العيش فيها في بريطانيا - خضعت لعملية تجميل بتكلفة ملايين الجنيهات الاسترلينية، ونظفت حالها، وهي تلعب دورًا مفتوحًا أمام العالم باعتبارها مدينة الثقافة في المملكة المتحدة 2017.

الفن في عام 2017: نظرة إلى الأمام

By Claire PressBBC News Several healthcare workers in England have told the BBC of a lack of equipment in their hospitals. Warned against speaking to the media, they were unwilling to talk publicly. However, one intensive care doctor from the Midlands wanted to go on record. The BBC agreed to change her name in order to protect her identity. Dr Roberts describes a hospital on the brink. Intensive care is already full of coronavirus (Covid-19) patients. All operations deemed non-urgent, even the cancer clinics, have been cancelled. There is a lack of staff, a lack of critical care beds, a shortage of basic antibiotics and ventilators. All this, combined with the looming uncertainty of what will be the expected peak, estimated to hit the UK around 14-15 April, means hospital staff are already feeling the strain. However, nothing Dr Roberts describes is quite as alarming as the fact that these medical professionals, who continue to care for critically ill patients for 13 hours every day, are having to resort to fashioning personal protective equipment (PPE) out of clinical waste bags, plastic aprons and borrowed skiing goggles. While the public attempts to keep to a social distance of two metres, many NHS staff are being asked to examine patients suspected of coronavirus at a distance of 20cm - without the proper protection. With potentially fatal implications, Dr Roberts says several departments within her hospital are now so fearful of what's coming next, they have begun to hoard PPE for themselves. "It's about being pragmatic. The nurses on ITU (Intensive Treatment Unit) need it now. They are doing procedures which risk aerosol spread of the virus. But they've been told to wear normal theatre hats, which have holes in them and don't provide any protection. "It's wrong. And that's why we're having to put bin bags and aprons on our heads." The government has acknowledged distribution problems, but says a national supply team, supported by the armed forces, is now "working around the clock" to deliver equipment. NHS England also said more than one million respiratory face masks were delivered on 1 April, but with no mention of much-needed head protection and long-sleeved gowns. Dr Roberts says her hospital has not received anything from the government, and what they do have is causing concern. "The respiratory protection face masks we're using at the moment, they've all been relabelled with new best-before end dates. Yesterday I found one with three stickers on. The first said, expiry 2009. The second sticker, expiry 2013. And the third sticker on the very top said 2021." Public Health England has said all stockpiled pieces of PPE [personal protective equipment] labelled with new expiry dates have "passed stringent tests" and are "safe for use by NHS staff". But Dr Roberts says she is not convinced. The Department of Health and Social Care also said it was "working closely with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army… If staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place". It said its new guidance on PPE was in line with World Health Organization advice to "make sure all clinicians are aware of what they should be wearing". Currently ventilated and under Dr Roberts' care are three of her colleagues, all of whom have tested positive for coronavirus. One is an intensive care doctor working on a Covid ward, who, like Dr Roberts, only had access to inadequate protection. The other two were both working on non-Covid wards and therefore were wearing no PPE. However, given their symptoms, Dr Roberts believes both of them contracted the virus while at work. Although colleagues continue to visit, as with all other patients, no relatives are allowed anywhere within the hospital. "The hardest thing at the moment is having to tell families you are withdrawing care, over the phone. Telling them their relatives are dying or have died but we can't let you come and see them," says Dr Roberts. "Normally you can say to their relative who's at the bedside, 'We're going to do everything we can', but I haven't felt able to say that, because at the moment, I can't. "I can't necessarily give them the best care on a ventilator, I can't guarantee the best nursing care, because the best nurses are being stretched four ways. We're running out of antibiotics, and I can't guarantee all the treatments that I know would help them." NHS England says it has no record of how many medical professionals have been admitted to hospital after contracting coronavirus at work. However, the two hardest-hit countries in Europe are counting. Spain's emergency health minister announced on 27 March that more than 9,400 health-care workers had tested positive, and in Italy, as of 30 March, more than 6,414 medical professionals were reported to have been infected. In the UK, several health workers are known to have died from coronavirus, including Areema Nasreen, a staff nurse in the West Midlands, Thomas Harvey, a health-care assistant in east London, Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha in central London, Dr Alfa Saadu in north London, Dr Habib Zaidi in Southend, Dr Adil El Tayar in west London and Dr Amged El-Hawrani in Leicester. Breaking point Based on projections from Italy and Spain, Dr Roberts says health-care workers are bracing for the peak to hit in less than two weeks. "If cases rise as quickly as they did in Spain and Italy, then quite frankly, we are screwed. All of our overspill areas will soon be full. "The anaesthetic machines we have, which are designed to work for two to three hours at most, have been running for four to five days straight. We're already getting leaks and failures." Extra intensive care beds, set up in several operating theatres and wards, have nearly doubled the hospital's capacity to support critically ill patients, particularly those who can't breathe for themselves and need to be put on a ventilator. However, by expanding intensive care, Dr Roberts says it's the nursing staff who are disproportionately affected. "Intensive care nurses are highly trained and normally deliver care one-to-one to those critically ill. Their patients may be asleep, but they have such a close relationship, they can describe every hair on a patient's head. "But now, with these extra beds, nurses are under pressure to look after up to four patients, while delivering the same level of critical care. They are in tears and really struggling. They are the most important part of the system, but that's where it's going to fall down". Stay at home Outside in the hospital car park, Dr Roberts describes how a new temporary building has appeared in the ambulance bay with just one purpose - to vet all patients for symptoms of coronavirus before they are admitted. It is run by a clinician, who, Dr Roberts points out, could otherwise be looking after patients. She describes the unit as a "lie detector". "It's really common for people to lie about their symptoms just to get seen. People who should have stayed at home, but they come to A&E. "So now every single patient gets vetted in the car park, to make sure those with Covid symptoms go to the right part of the hospital and don't infect everyone else, like those who've come in with a broken arm." But for Dr Roberts, it's not just about those turning up at A&E, it's everyone. "Most hospital staff, we are isolating ourselves when we are not at work, so as not to put other people at risk. "But the most frustrating thing for us is to see the parks full, or Tescos even busier than usual. Please stay at home." Illustrations by Charlie Newland

مع استمرار ارتفاع عدد الوفيات الناجمة عن فيروس كورونا، تعمل المستشفيات في جميع أنحاء المملكة المتحدة بشكل كامل لإنشاء المزيد من أسرة العناية المركزة لأولئك الذين يعانون من أمراض خطيرة. وفي حديثه لبي بي سي، وصف أحد أطباء العناية المركزة الواقع المعوق المتمثل في نقص الدعم والمعدات التي يواجهها بعض العاملين في مجال الرعاية الصحية في إنجلترا.

فيروس كورونا: يرتدي عمال NHS أكياس القمامة كحماية

By Tom EdgingtonBBC Reality Check But how, in practice, could a second vote happen? Parliamentary approval The government has ruled out a new Brexit referendum and the Labour party says it's unlikely - although its Shadow Brexit Secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, says it is sensible to keep "all our options on the table" - in the event of Parliament voting down a Brexit deal or in the case of a "no deal" scenario. Downing Street said, in response to Ms Greening, that a referendum will not happen "in any circumstances". So unless there is a dramatic change in party policy, it's highly unlikely a referendum would be called in the first place. That's because a referendum requires an Act of Parliament, which needs to be voted through by the majority of MPs. And while there are vocal supporters on all sides, currently there are not enough MPs who support the idea of a second referendum. Timing Even if MPs and peers agreed in principle to hold a second referendum, the legislative process can be drawn out. Parliament would need to pass detailed rules for the conduct of the poll and the regulation of campaigners. It took seven months before Parliament signed off the previous referendum legislation in 2015. Further time was also needed to pass secondary legislation on areas such as voting registration. In theory, Parliament could copy over some of the legislation from the 2015 Act in order to try to speed the process up. But according to David Jeffery, a politics lecturer at Liverpool University, this might not save a lot of time because issues would still need to be debated and scrutinised by MPs and Lords. Aside from the time to pass the legislation, there's also the length of the campaign to consider. Last time around there was a four-month period between the then Prime Minister David Cameron announcing the referendum in February 2016, and the vote taking place on 23 June. Furthermore, the Electoral Commission has recommended that in future there should be at least a six-month gap between legislation being passed and a referendum being held. That's to allow enough time to register campaigns, put counting officers in place and give people information on how to vote. So combining the time to pass the legislation and allowing for a campaign, it might not be possible to hold a second referendum before the UK is scheduled to leave the EU in March 2019 (i.e. when the Article 50 process is due to expire). And holding a referendum after the Article 50 process could cause a number of practical problems. For one, what if the country voted to remain in the EU, but had already left by the time the vote was held? This could be avoided if the EU agreed to extend the Article 50 deadline - but this would need to be unanimously agreed by all EU member states. The question There's also the referendum question itself and the options on the ballot paper to consider. These need to be presented "clearly, simply and neutrally", according to the Electoral Commission. Justine Greening argues for three options: accept a negotiated Brexit deal, stay in the EU, or leave with no deal. David Jeffery says having more than a yes/no option could complicate the process: "With three options you could have a situation where just 34% decide the winning option. "And that leads to questions about the type of voting system you want - like choosing the options by preference order," he says. "But then you need to ask 'do the public understand the system and how might it work in such a short period of time?'" In the end it would be up to the Electoral Commission to assess that question. What do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check Follow us on Twitter

دعا وزير سابق في حكومة المحافظين إلى إجراء استفتاء ثانٍ على خروج بريطانيا من الاتحاد الأوروبي. وكتبت جوستين جرينينج، التي كانت وزيرة للتعليم في السابق، في صحيفة التايمز، أن تصويتًا آخر سيكون "الطريقة الوحيدة لإنهاء الجمود".

خروج بريطانيا من الاتحاد الأوروبي: كيف سيتم إجراء استفتاء ثانٍ في الاتحاد الأوروبي؟

Transport Minister, Deputy Kevin Lewis, has proposed a legal move that would require children to wear them while cycling on roads. In 2010, politicians agreed to support a move to "ensure cyclists were required to wear suitable safety helmets whilst cycling". States members will debate the proposals on 29 April.

من الممكن أن تصبح ارتداء خوذات الدراجات إلزامية لأي شخص يقل عمره عن 14 عامًا، إذا وافق السياسيون في جيرسي.

وزير جيرسي يريد خوذات الدراجة الإجبارية للأطفال

Jobo has been downgraded from a cyclone to a depression but is still forecast to bring heavy rain and strong winds. It is due to hit the coast of Tanzania, including the biggest city, Dar es Salaam, on Sunday. Residents of coastal areas have been warned to avoid all travel. People in low-lying areas have been asked to move to higher ground. Zanzibar, a popular tourist destination, is a semi-autonomous archipelago in the Indian Ocean, about 80 km (50 miles) north-east of Dar es Salaam. It is normally reached by ferry. The cyclone hit the Seychelle Islands on Thursday, moving at a speed of 130km/h (80mph). Some buildings were damaged but there were no reports of casualties.

أوقفت سلطات زنجبار جميع الأنشطة البحرية، بما في ذلك الصيد والنقل، حتى إشعار آخر مع اقتراب عاصفة استوائية من الجزر التنزانية.

زنجبار توقف الصيد مع اقتراب العاصفة جوبو من تنزانيا

Officers were called by a member of the public who had spotted a woman's body near Gwithian on Friday afternoon. The dead woman was believed to be a 74-year-old from Wiltshire, officers said. Her next-of-kin have been informed. Devon and Cornwall Police said the arrested woman, from Westbury, Wiltshire, was held on suspicion of aiding or abetting a suicide. She was later released while inquiries continue. Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious and a file was being prepared for the coroner.

ألقي القبض على امرأة تبلغ من العمر 73 عامًا بعد العثور على جثة في قاع المنحدرات في كورنوال.

القبض على امرأة بسبب جثة جويثيان كليف

By Sarah Jane GriffithsEntertainment reporter, BBC News Dressed all in black on a rare sweltering summer's day in London, the singer is feeling reassured about the release of her second album, Halcyon, in October. New single Anything Could Happen got what she calls "a good reaction" after its first play on Radio 1 - the 25-year-old's name trended worldwide on Twitter. "I was nervous, understandably, because it's been such a long time here since anyone's heard anything original," she explains. Goulding has just jetted in from the US where she's been spending "a lot" of time. "Pretty much on and off for a year and a half," she says. "People think I've moved there!" It seems her home from home is pretty keen too, with the title track from her 2010 debut Lights currently at number two in the US Billboard chart. "It's going really well out there. Nobody expected Lights to be anywhere near number one. It's really old, I wrote it way before my first album came out in a hotel in Brighton. It's been on a really crazy journey." Released as the album's sixth single here, it failed to reach the top 40, peaking at number 49 last March. but it has been rising up the US charts for several months. "Maybe there's something to do with the lyrics or the melody that has appealed more to an American audience?" suggests Goulding. "It didn't do anything here. If I had made it and thought 'this is quite a strong song, it might do well in some commercial capacity'... but I didn't. "I mean I love it, obviously, I wrote it. You've got to love your own songs otherwise it defeats the object, but I can't explain it." A support slot on Katy Perry's tour and the 'Royal Wedding effect' - she sang her cover of Elton John's Your Song for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first dance - have no doubt helped boost her US profile. But now she must focus on her new album. Goulding swapped the Bromley bedroom where she recorded her debut for the English countryside and the home studio of producer Jim Elliot, who has previously worked with Kylie and Ladyhawke. She reckons the more experimental and "darker record" is a big risk, but it seems there is no getting away from a certain subject. "I was determined to make it not about love, because the last one was so much about that," she explains. "But when I did start writing it, I went through a break up and it was really difficult, and so the record ended up being about that. "I couldn't help it. Every time I went to the studio I ended up writing quite sad songs. But even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do," says Goulding. After splitting from Radio 1 DJ Greg James, she is now dating US dubstep producer Skrillex - a "good person" who was himself tipped in this year's Sound of 2012. Clearly he has also had an influence on the record's glitching, electronic sounds (the couple also happen to have cute matching haircuts). "Yeah, it's something that I can't explain very well," admits Goulding. "But I guess Anything Could Happen is about that, because I didn't know what was around the corner". Goulding says Anything Could Happen is probably the happiest song she has ever written in her life. "I think being close to someone who is also a musician, and one I really respect and I'm a big fan of, all it does is motivate me and makes me want to work harder and be better," she says. Despite being championed by the BBC and the Brits before even releasing an album, Goulding still feels she has done things "the hard way". "It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist," she reveals. "I think around the time I played Glastonbury was a turning point. Then I started getting quite a lot of respect as a musician as opposed to just someone who'd had lots of hype and won things." Goulding has made no secret of her initial struggles with fame and success, which caused her to suffer panic attacks that felt "like having a heart attack". "It's a really scary, solitary, lonely thing. So I just want other people in that to know they're not alone," she says. But Goulding agrees she is not exactly the "no personal questions" type of artist. "I just don't like going, 'I don't want to answer that'. I think I'm just too nice," she explains. "I find it hard not to be honest. I can't imagine making a record and people not knowing the back story. "Maybe one day I'll make a record that's really mysterious and no one knows where it came from or what I wrote it about. But thus far, I've just wanted to explain everything properly." With the back story to Halcyon explained, Goulding's now preparing for what her manager tells her will be "the busiest couple of years of my life". But unlike last time, she is ready. "I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything," she says. "But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world. So much has changed, I think it's going to make a big difference." However, she is glad to be stationed back in London before touring starts in December. "Rehearsals are the most important thing in my world at the moment. The live show is going to be bigger, crazier, so we've got a lot of work to do. "I'm just thinking about it now and suddenly I'm really stressed out!" It is just as well she has put her old training regime, running and working out for two hours a day, on the back burner. "It's not as crazy. I used to train a lot, really hard," she admits, before an injury forced her to slow down. "I feel like maybe I went too hard too soon and now I need to chill out a bit? "But I was on the treadmill watching the Olympics the other night and it couldn't be a bigger motivation for me. I saw Bolt win and just suddenly upped my speed!" Anything Can Happen is out on 30 September. Halcyon follows on 8 October.

بعد فوزها بجائزة صوت بي بي سي لعام 2010، أصدرت إيلي جولدينج ألبومها رقم واحد في المملكة المتحدة وأصبحت مغنية حفل الزفاف الملكي. لقد عادت الآن مع "ألبوم انفصال تجريبي" وحقق نجاحًا غير متوقع في الرسم البياني الأمريكي.

إيلي جولدينج على الأغاني الحزينة والمضي قدمًا

A neighbour called the fire brigade after hearing the alarm go off at the house in Brook Street, Flimby, in the early hours of Tuesday. Firefighters said they had to force their way into the house using breathing apparatus to wake the two adults and two children. Cumbria Fire Service said the blaze was caused by a grill pan being left on. Cumbria fire station manager Kevin Bethwaite said: "Another five or 10 minutes and the family could have been in real trouble. The alarm saved their lives."

تم إنقاذ عائلة مكونة من أربعة أفراد من منزلهم المليء بالدخان في كمبريا بواسطة إنذار الحريق.

إنذار الحريق "أنقذ" عائلة Flimby Fire

The two firms were accused of fixing the credit card fees charged to merchants each time a credit or debit card was used. It is believed to be the largest settlement of an antitrust class action suit ever. Some retailers objected, claiming the terms weren't satisfactory. Merchants first sued Visa and MasterCard in 2005. An initial settlement of $7.2bn was agreed on, but the amount was lowered after around 8000 retailers, including Amazon and Target, opted out of the agreement. Many of those retailers have subsequently filed their own lawsuits.

وافق قاض أمريكي على تسوية جماعية بقيمة 5.7 مليار دولار (3.5 مليار جنيه استرليني) ضد شركتي بطاقات الائتمان فيزا وماستركارد.

قاض أمريكي يوافق على تسوية بقيمة 5.7 مليار دولار من فيزا وماستركارد

By Dr John Swenson-WrightChatham House In future, the SDF will, in principle, be able to assist the forces of a foreign country in situations where either the survival and security of Japan or that of its citizens is at risk. The new interpretation is highly controversial since it represents a sharp departure from the post-war political consensus, codified in Article 9 of the Japanese constitution, that explicitly limits Japan's use of military force exclusively to the defence of its sovereign territory and its people. Such has been the strength of post-war Japanese pacifist sentiment, and notwithstanding the long-term alliance with the United States, that Japan's defence forces have been unable to extend their military collaboration with their US allies beyond this narrowly circumscribed role. Under the new provisions, there are now a range of scenarios in which this type of joint defence activity might be expanded. Examples include providing defensive support to US forces under attack in the vicinity of Japan, co-operating militarily with US forces to safeguard Japanese citizens at risk overseas, participating in minesweeping activities during a time of war, or deploying Japanese forces to protect access to energy supplies or critically important sea-lanes of communication vital to Japan's survival. Indeed, in theory, the new interpretation will allow Japan to co-operate with any foreign country with which it has "close ties", thereby substantially expanding the scope for military co-operation with different countries and beyond the narrow remit of the defence of Japanese territory. Carte blanche? Opinion in Japan is divided on the merits of this change, with 50%, according to a recent Nikkei poll, opposing the new interpretation and 34% supporting it. The motives for opposition are mixed, in part reflecting the unresolved debate about Japan's post-war political identity, but also prompted by uncertainty regarding the long-term security objectives of the Abe administration. Progressive thinkers argue that the changes overturn the pacifist legal and interpretative conventions, established in the aftermath of World War Two, guaranteeing that Japan will never again become embroiled in foreign conflicts. Given the sensitivity and importance of these political norms, critics argue they should only be changed via constitutional amendment. While the Abe administration dominates both houses of the Japanese parliament, it is uncertain of its ability to revise the constitution rapidly and critics view the new interpretation as one of dubious political legitimacy. There is also some fear, both within Japan and amongst its closest neighbours, most notably China and South Korea, that the new interpretation is intended to allow the government to deploy troops freely in a wide-range of conflict situations. However, the Abe administration has explicitly ruled out such options and has been careful to distinguish between collective self-defence (intended to safeguard Japanese national interests and assets) and collective security - where states co-operate to protect their mutual interests in the face of foreign aggression. Mr Abe himself has made it clear that Japan's forces will not "participate in combat in wars such as the Gulf War and the Iraq War". Strategic risk Mr Abe appears to have a number of motives for introducing the new interpretation. It will provide Japan with much greater latitude to strengthen its military co-operation with the United States - something that Washington is keen to encourage as part of the current revision of the Joint US-Japan Defence Guidelines, unchanged since 1997. It will also open the door potentially to more active defence co-operation with other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, such as Australia and the Philippines - both of which have welcomed these changes, as they look anxiously at China's increasingly assertive maritime posture in the South and East China seas. More generally, the new interpretation is likely to strengthen the perception that Japan has become a more "normal" state, in terms of its ability constructively to contribute to global and regional security. The political and diplomatic dividends from such a change in attitudes are likely to be considerable, potentially strengthening Japan's long-standing bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and adding weight to Mr Abe's recently articulated strategy of making a "proactive contribution to peace". The new approach is not without risk. While Japan's mainstream political parties remain weak and divided, citizen activism in opposition to these changes may be energised, particularly at the level of local politics. Prefectural, city, town and village-based criticism of the government's approach has been vocal and may cost the government support in the spring elections of 2015. Abroad, the new measures look set to further undermine an already frayed relationship with South Korea and to heighten territorial and political tensions with China. Finally, the intentional ambiguity surrounding the details of the new interpretation provides the government with useful flexibility in deploying its forces overseas, but it also magnifies the potential for increased tactical and strategic risk at a time when regional security tensions are intensifying. For a Japanese government that has limited experience of the high-pressure challenge of national security decision-making and crisis management, this may not be an entirely positive development. John Swenson-Wright is head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House.

أعلنت إدارة رئيس الوزراء الياباني شينزو آبي عن تفسير جديد رئيسي للأحكام الأمنية لدستور البلاد لعام 1947، مما يسمح لقوات الدفاع عن النفس (SDF) بالمشاركة لأول مرة في الأنشطة الجماعية المتعلقة بالدفاع عن النفس.

ماذا يعني التحول العسكري في اليابان

The body of Jaskaran Kang, from Handsworth, Birmingham, was discovered at a property in Stourbridge Road, Dudley, on 6 January. The accused appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Monday and are set to face trial on 14 January. All six faced an additional charge of conspiracy to commit robbery - four men denied it. Two others who cannot be named - an 18-year-old who was 17 when arrested, and a 17 year old boy - admitted the charge. The accused are:

نفى خمسة رجال وصبي جريمة القتل والقتل غير العمد لشاب يبلغ من العمر 24 عامًا تعرض للطعن حتى الموت.

ودفع ستة منهم ببراءتهم من جريمة قتل جاسكاران كانغ

The lifeboat was launched just after 04:30 GMT to help the 33ft boat. The charter vessel was several miles south-west of Corbiere lighthouse when it ran into problems. Andy Hibbs, St Helier RNLI Coxswain, said it was just one of those things that happened a lot. He said: "He was on his way back to Jersey, he got both propellers tangled up with a load of trawl netting. "There is nothing you can do but get somebody to give you a hand, unfortunately there was nobody around so he had to call us."

اضطر طاقم سفينة النجاة سانت هيلير إلى إنقاذ ثمانية أشخاص من قارب صيد قبالة جيرسي يوم الأحد بعد أن علقت السفينة في شباك الصيد المهملة.

تم استدعاء قارب نجاة سانت هيلير لمساعدة الصياد

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter The races were hard fought and - according to the commentators - full of thrills and spills. The stadium was empty, apart from a box full of journalists protected by a net, but perhaps in a few years' time huge crowds will gather to watch drone racing. We've heard today how ESPN plans to turn drone racing into a major TV sport - but before it's ready for live spectators, a few issues will need to be sorted out. Such as how can you actually see what is going on. As the tiny drones whizzed past me last night it was almost impossible to spot them, let along work out who was winning. But the organisers of the event, the mobile network EE, the chip maker Qualcomm and this new sport's organising body the European Rotor Sports Association believe that together they can create an absorbing live experience. We were shown two other views of the races. First, via the FPV (first person view) headsets the racers themselves wear to guide their drones with amazing skill around the course. Then on tablets showing the view from an EE action camera mounted on the front of each drone, all streamed live over the 4G network. To wear the FPV headset - where the signal often breaks up and the screen blurs - is to realise the immense skill of the pilots and the speed of their reactions. But it was the tablets which gave the best view of the action. Perhaps in the future, crowds will sit in a stadium gazing down at their tablets or smartphones at a chosen racer's progress and then up at the real thing whizzing past. But that will need a huge amount of bandwidth and may have to wait until 5G networks come along. In the meantime, though, plenty of people are coming into the sport. A racing drone isn't that expensive, and many of the racers build their own for a few hundred pounds. Already stars are emerging, including 15-year-old Luke Bannister who was racing at Wembley last night. In March he won the biggest contest so far, the World Drone Prix in Dubai, and a prize of $250,000 (£177,000). Luke didn't win last night, but seems a very confident young man, focused on getting better at a sport he obviously loves. Who knows, maybe he or someone like him will be battling Formula 1 champions and football stars to be the Sports Personality of 2026.

في ويمبلي الليلة الماضية، اختبرت ما يمكن أن تكون رياضة المستقبل. خرجت طائرات صغيرة بدون طيار من نفق اللاعبين وقامت بثلاث لفات حول الملعب، وشقت طريقها عبر مضمار سباق التعرج.

سباق الطائرات بدون طيار – رياضة المستقبل؟

David Worthington, 51, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, was badly injured in the crash near Wortley on 30 April and died on 6 May. South Yorkshire Police said Mr Worthington had been taking part in the amateur cycling event when the collision happened in Finkle Street Lane. The force has appealed for witnesses to come forward. More stories from across Yorkshire Related Internet Links South Yorkshire Police

تم التعرف على هوية راكب دراجة توفي بعد ستة أيام من اصطدامه بحافلة أثناء مشاركته في سباق تور دي يوركشاير الرياضي.

حادث تصادم سباق يوركشاير الرياضي: التعرف على هوية الدراج المقتول

The letter arrived in a stamped envelope on a hot summer morning in early April. The sender had printed "Important Letter" on a piece of paper and addressed it to the police chief of Balangir, a rural district in Orissa state studded with temples and farms. It was an anonymous and rather strangely-written letter containing 130 words printed in English on white foolscap. And it related to the recent wedding gift bomb murder in the district. Soumya Sekhar Sahu, a 26-year-old software engineer, had been killed and his 22-year-old wife Reema seriously injured when he opened a parcel addressed to him, five days after their marriage in February. Sahu's 85-year-old great aunt was also killed in the explosion at the family home in the sleepy town of Patnagarh. Police said the parcel had been sent by someone called SK Sharma from Raipur, some 230km (142 miles) away in neighbouring Chhattisgarh state. Both the name and address were found to be fake, police say. The letter they say was sent to the Balangir police chief began with the disclaimer that a "special messenger" had been sent by the writer to "drop this letter". And then, it came to the point quickly. The parcel with the bomb had been sent in the name of SK Sinha, not RK Sharma, it said. Three men, it said, had "undertaken the project" and they "were far away now where police cannot reach". The reasons for the blast, the sender wrote with an awkward flourish, were the groom's "betrayal" and money. The first reason possibly alluded to a scorned lover, and the second to a property dispute. "Even the killing of the whole family cannot compensate our loss," the sender wrote. In the end, the tone turned forceful. The police, wrote the sender, should "remain silent" and "not harass innocent people, doubting and asking them unnecessary questions". For more than a month, two dozen investigators questioned more than 100 people - friends and relatives of the couple mainly - in four cities in connection with the killing. They had scoured thousands of mobile phone records, and scanned laptops and phones belonging to the couple. Investigators had looked into a threatening call the victim received last year after his engagement, and found out it was from a young man known to his then fiancée who had blamed her for "ditching him and getting engaged to a richer boy". Encouraged by the lead, they had picked up the man and questioned him. They let him go after they found nothing amiss beyond a "silly threat" on the phone. Detectives had also drawn up a list of more than a dozen possible suspects, but had no firm leads on any of them. The case was going cold. As public and media pressure grew, the government handed the case over to the elite crime branch. More than 300km (186 miles) away in the state capital, Bhubaneshwar, crime branch chief Arun Bothra received a scan of the letter on WhatsApp. Mr Bothra, a 50-year-old journalist-turned-policeman, was taking over the investigation. "I read the letter the whole day and night. I must have read it a hundred times. It revealed a lot of things," he told me. "It was clear that the sender knew more about the crime than we did. By writing that it was being sent by a messenger, he wanted to tell us that the crime was not the work of a local man. He wanted to tell us that the plot was executed by three people. He wanted to be taken seriously, so he was kind of blowing his fake cover by pointing out a mistake we had made," Mr Bothra said. Mr Bothra sought records of the case. He found that the police had bungled while deciphering the parcel booking receipt - the untidy and hurried scrawl of the sender's name did not appear to resemble SK Sharma. "If you observe the writing closely, the name is more akin to SK Sinha or SK Singh - look at the loop in the end. And the police, the media, the survivors all kept repeating the sender was SK Sharma. And since we knew he had used a fake name, we did not bother about it." "I kind of instantly sensed the killer had himself sent the letter. How did he know that SK Sinha had sent the parcel? He had made a big mistake. The letter was the turning point in our investigation." Forensic scientists say they found a number of faint, unhelpful fingerprints on the letter. They sent the envelope to extract a genetic profile from the saliva the sender may have used on the glue seam, but none was found. Investigators sent a copy of the letter to the parents of the victim. They were asked whether they suspected anyone. The victim's mother, a teacher in a local college, went over the letter again and again. "It was then the mother said this letter could have been written by a colleague of hers who taught English at the college. She said he had a similar writing style and choice of words. Then she said something interesting. She said the teacher would often use the phrase 'completing the project'," said Mr Bothra. Workplace rivalry Punji Lal Meher, 49, had been called in for questioning a week after the fatal blast. The victim's mother had told police that he harassed her after she replaced him as principal of the college last year. The two had reportedly humiliated each other in public, but in the end Mr Meher appeared to have swallowed his pride. "We had really found nothing to pursue Mr Meher. There was never a lead really. We thought it was a case of usual workplace politics," one investigator told me. In his Facebook posts, Mr Meher is usually dressed in formal suits and blazers, a mark of an upwardly mobile man. He wears a gold-coloured watch, a prominent gold ring, and shiny ties, belts and shoes. In one picture, he sits astride a motorcycle, wearing an orange shirt and sunglasses. In other pictures, he is giving away medals at college functions, addressing an Aids awareness meeting, attending a yoga conference. His personal information details say he joined the college in 1996, became the principal in 2014. He's less prolific on Twitter. "There should be only one religion - the religion of humanity," he tweeted in February 2016. It was time to rethink the case and bring in Mr Meher for questioning, Mr Bothra told investigators. So they did. Mr Meher is alleged to have told police that he was out on his evening walk, when a man stopped him, gave him a letter and threatened to harm him if he didn't travel to Balangir town and deliver the letter. "It was the most incredible story that we've heard from a suspect," says Mr Bothra. According to police, Mr Meher said he began buying and hoarding firecrackers in October, when India celebrated Diwali, the festival of lights. He is alleged to have hoarded gunpowder from the crackers, from which they say he made the bomb. In a couple of months, it was ready, police say. They believe he then put it in a cardboard box and gift-wrapped it. On a balmy morning in February, he was ready to send the bomb to its destination, investigators say. He attended college in the morning, took a class, returned home, picked up the gift-wrapped parcel and went to the nearest railway station on his bike, leaving his Datsun sedan at home, it is alleged. He kept his phone at home in what police believe was an attempt to create an alibi that he never left his house. He then took the two-and-half-hour train journey to Raipur without a ticket to avoid being captured by CCTV cameras at the station ticket counter, police say. The police theory is that in Raipur, he took a cycle rickshaw and then a tuk-tuk to visit two courier services before deciding on one located in a basement. According to reports, at the first shop a woman employee asked the rickshaw puller about the contents of the parcel. Mr Meher is alleged to have panicked, walked into the shop and took back the parcel. (The police are seeking to retrieve CCTV footage from the shop.) After booking in the lethal parcel - with the contents given as "gift articles, sweets" - police say Mr Meher told them he took the evening train back and was in bed at home by midnight. In less than a week the parcel then made a 650km journey on three buses and passed through four pairs of hands before reaching Patnagarh on 20 February. Three days later, the bomb exploded in the Sahu house. Mr Meher attended the marriage - and funeral of the victim. "I was consumed by rage and hatred. I could not swallow the humiliation," Mr Meher is alleged to have told the police last week. Mr Meher is currently in police custody while the investigation continues, and is yet to enter a plea.

بعد عملية بحث واسعة النطاق، ألقت الشرطة في الهند القبض على مدرس جامعي لصلته بـ "قنبلة حفل زفاف" أدت إلى مقتل رجل متزوج حديثًا وإصابة زوجته. تقرير سوتيك بيسواس حول كيف اتخذ التحقيق في جريمة القتل التي صدمت الهند منعطفًا غير متوقع.

قنبلة زفاف ورسالة ومشتبه به غير محتمل

By Beth RoseBBC News "Most people know me as Jamie + Lion. It's really not a big deal," says Jamie Knight, a 27-year-old developer for the BBC who lives in London with Lion, a 4ft-long soft toy - sometimes known as a plushie - which never leaves his side. "I'm autistic, which is a posh way of saying I have a different way of thinking and perceiving the world. For me the typical environment is pretty chaotic. A sudden loud announcement in a supermarket is pretty similar in effect to a flash-bang grenade used to confuse people during wars. "My brain needs more structure than most. The more predictable the world is, the better chance I have of being able to process it." Jamie's coping strategies include eating the same meal every night - filled pasta with sauce - and having Lion at his side, no matter where he goes. "He is a toy, I'm not deluded into thinking he is alive," he says. Carrying an object around brings some structure and consistency to his environment. The toy lion has a familiar texture and smell which helps in those moments when he feels "overloaded". What is autism? Source: The National Autistic Society "Another way he helps is with deep pressure. My sense of shape is sometimes a bit floaty. I can lose the edge of my body and feel as though I am floating apart. Hugging Lion - I pull him into my chest - provides the input my body needs to stop the floating feeling." Prof Bruce Hood from the University of Bristol says the common childhood trait of needing a soft toy for comfort may be carried into adulthood, as Jamie has suggested, by those particularly attracted to routine. "The reason children develop these relationships is still uncertain, but could arise from self-soothing or habitual routine formation with familiar objects. For example they have been shown to be useful to reduce the stress of attending the dentist." Most people "grow out of strong attachment" but "individuals with autism generally prefer structure and routines which may explain it," he says. Lion wasn't always so visible. In the past Jamie tried to conform to some kind of "normal". This wasn't so successful so, instead of attempting to "defeat" his autism, he decided to work with it. Lion mostly remained at home while Jamie was at secondary school but as he got older and demands changed, he needed more consistency. "During my college years he was always with me," he says. "He was pretty popular." Jamie's autism means at times he is non-verbal - unable to talk - although he can communicate using messaging services and apps which is how he spoke to me, with Lion sitting on his lap. He also knows enough sign language to "get by" which his friends have also learned so they can communicate together. It means he will generally work from home, but when he does go out he says reaction to Lion is "minimal to nothing". "I think to everyone else it's a much bigger deal than it is to me. In fact Lion has been really cool for my career rather accidentally. He's really memorable, and that has helped people remember me." Pigs and the Asylum Listen to the latest Ouch podcast with comedian and performer Tilley Milburn and her pig Del and the artist James Leadbitter also known as The Vacuum Cleaner. They talk about their latest works and the different experiences they had of staying in residential care facilities and experiencing face-down restraint. Follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast. Lion also acts as a prop in situations Jamie finds uncomfortable, such as giving someone a hug, Lion can step in and hug them instead. He says the toy has become part of his identity and that he'd lose something valuable if it weren't there. For actress and comedian Tilley Milburn her "lady pig" Del is someone she can rely on. Diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at the age of 20 she was living in a residential care home when she spotted the patchwork pig in a shop. It would become her best friend and collaborator, a character with its own voice who even pipes up in business meetings. "Del is a soft toy, but she's more than that to me. I've had toys that have come and gone. Del is the first soft toy that I've really given a personality and voice to." Growing up she had no more attachment to soft toys than most, but moving to a residential care home as a young adult left her isolated. "I was quite withdrawn at the time, I was living in a care home and I was struggling to adjust in that environment, mainly because I just couldn't go about freely - go for a walk. "Del started off being a source of comfort and a way of communicating at times with the carers and even my mum. "My mum always says that Del's more reasonable than me, so she'll ask to talk to Del." The duo work together visiting community groups, performing comedy shows, singing and collaborating on a comic strip, but Del doesn't always talk. "It's not an addiction. I wouldn't say it's an obsession. Sometimes we can go through a whole meeting where Dell will hardly get a word in edgeways." Tilley says she has always felt slightly different to others and is aware of stares when she's out, but sometimes having Del on her side helps her gain control of the situation. "I'm a bit naughty because I complain about people staring at me and I get fed up with people pointing at me, sniggering. I think sometimes, 'I'm going to give them something to look at,' and get Del out." Using a soft toy as a proxy can be a way to navigate the sometimes alien world, but like their owners the toys' personalities may develop or alter. For Jamie, having Lion by his side is not necessarily a long-term fixture, but it works for now. "Lion is changing over time, as am I. Maybe one day he might be with me less, maybe one day he won't."

لدى معظمنا لعبة طرية مفضلة منذ الطفولة. حليف صامت يصبح مع مرور الوقت مهمشًا ويترك على الرف. لكن بالنسبة لبعض البالغين يظلون وجودًا أساسيًا ولا يتركون جانب مالكهم أبدًا.

جيمي وأسده: البالغون الذين يأخذون ألعابهم الناعمة إلى العمل

The incident involved a freight train at about 02:30 BST on Thursday morning. Arriva Trains Wales said trains are unable to run in either direction and replacement bus services are in place between Barry and Bridgend. Severe delays are also expected on services between Cardiff, Pontypridd and Rhymney, and from Merthyr Tydfil. A Network Rail spokesman said the back two wagons of the train had derailed bringing it to a standstill at Porthkerry and causing damage to the track. Delays are expected to last all day as the line remains blocked.

تعطلت خدمات القطارات في جميع أنحاء جنوب شرق ويلز بعد أن خرج قطار عن القضبان في باري في وادي جلامورجان.

القطار الذي خرج عن مساره في باري يعطل خدمات جنوب ويلز

Kamal AhmedEconomics editor@bbckamalon Twitter You could construct some powerful arguments about how an obesity epidemic is leading to more diseases such as Type II diabetes and coronary heart conditions. You could put large red traffic light signs on unhealthy foods and engage in expensive public information campaigns warning that overeating products high in salt, sugar and fat can reduce life expectancy. Or you could just change where you put the salad boxes on the supermarket shelves. The last option is an example of nudge theory at work, a theory popularised and developed by Richard Thaler, the University of Chicago economist who was today announced as this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics. Prof Thaler's central insight is that we are not the rational beings beloved of more traditional economic theory. Given two options, we are likely to pick the wrong one even if that means making ourselves less well off. Lack of thinking time, habit and poor decision making mean that even when presented with a factual analysis (for example on healthy eating) we are still likely to pick burger and chips. We're hungry, we're in a hurry and burger and chips is what we always buy. Nudge theory takes account of this, based as it is on the simple premise that people will often choose what is easiest over what is wisest. Tests have shown that putting healthier foods on a higher shelf increases sales. The food is more likely to be in someone's eye line and therefore "nudge" that person towards the purchase - whether they had any idea about the obesity argument or not. Such theories, which sit in a big bucket of academic study called "behavioural economics", are what Prof Thaler is famous for. So famous that the government now has its own Behavioural Insights Team, otherwise known as the "nudge unit". It helps formulate policies, for example on pensions, to try and make us behave "more rationally" and push us towards better outcomes. One of its projects revealed that charitable giving via your pay packet - called payroll giving - increased dramatically if people were told who else in their peer group (maybe Facebook friends) were also giving via that method. Attaching a picture of "mates giving money" also improved the level of charitable donations. We tend to like doing what our friends like doing - called the peer group norm. Prof Thaler also gave us the concept of "mental accounting" - that we will tend to divide our expenditure into separate blocks even though they come from the same source. For example, we will spend more on a credit or debit card in a food shop compared with cash even though all the money ultimately comes from our earnings. Then there is his work on the "planner-doer" syndrome - that we lack self-control, will act in our own short-term self-interest and need extra incentives to plan long term than simply being told that, rationally, it is good idea. How many times do we let that gym membership lapse, despite our best intentions? Having just received news of the award, Prof Thaler told me that his job was to "add human beings" to economic theory. And today he has been rewarded, both via the recognition of the Nobel Prize and by the not inconsiderable sum of £845,000 in prize money. Asked how he would spend the money Prof Thaler gave a succinct answer. "Irrationally."

كيف تجعل الناس يأكلون بشكل صحي أكثر؟

ريتشارد ثالر واقتصاديات الطريقة التي نعيش بها

Claire Martin had moved to Italy with her partner Diego. She was living near Naples with his family and her parents Pat and Ray, from Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, said she was happy in her new life. But one morning in 2012, a telephone call shattered the dream. "It had just gone three o'clock in the morning when I got the telephone call from Diego to say 'come quick, come quick, Claire is dead'," Mr Martin said. Events were as confused as they were gruesome. Ms Martin had left her one-year-old with Diego's mother and used an external staircase to climb down to her car. Shortly afterwards screams were heard and Ms Martin staggered back up to an outside balcony, bleeding from several wounds to her neck. The 30-year-old collapsed but apparently gasped "it was a man" to her mother-in-law and gestured to land at the back of the house. Within minutes she had bled to death. Her car keys were on the ground outside, while nearby was a bloodstained kitchen knife - which had not come from the house. Post-mortem examinations showed 10 wounds to her neck - but none elsewhere. Italian police initially investigated the death as a murder but closed the case 15 months later, saying Ms Martin suffered from post-natal depression and much of the evidence pointed to suicide. They pointed to a lack of defensive injuries on her hands or any obvious motive. The 'neat' parallel nature of some of the cuts, a possible delay of about 10 minutes in her seeking help and anxiety over a prospective move to Germany were also cause for doubt. However, experts have now rejected this hypothesis. Criminology lecturer and retired senior police officer, Tony Blockley, has reviewed the case, though not all of the files have been translated. Various elements of the original investigation, such as how the scene was examined and the loss of potential DNA, have been criticised. Unanswered questions Source: Tony Blockley, criminologist "If we're not careful we just accept what's happened without questioning it and where do families like this go?," he said. His scepticism is shared by Dr Stuart Hamilton, a Home Office pathologist who has studied evidence from the post-mortem examination of Ms Martin. "If I was briefing a senior investigating officer at this autopsy, I would be suggesting that you need to go and find the murderer," he said. He said while it was "physically possible" for someone to inflict such injuries on themselves, big doubts remained. "The simple fact is that stabbing oneself in the neck is a very, very rare form of suicide," he added. "There are no obvious defensive injuries on the hands or forearms where someone warded off or grasped at another assailant - but if you are taken by surprise or overcome from behind then you wouldn't necessary expect to see them." His intervention has helped persuade the Foreign Office to push for a meeting between British officials, the family and the Italian authorities. Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan has said the case deserves to be looked at again. "This just looks wrong and there's a smell about it which is not nice," he said. "Just to close the case and say 'Oh it was suicide' is clearly not true and therefore I think we have to do all in our power to challenge that verdict," he added. The Foreign Office has now told Ms Martin's parents that a meeting with the acting chief prosecutor concerned with the case could take place in April. A previous attempt to reopen the case in 2014 was rejected by the Italian authorities, but the family are now hopeful of progress. The BBC contacted the Italian Embassy in the UK but it did not respond to a request to comment on the case. "I feel as though we are going to the next step on a very large staircase," Mrs Martin said. "It has caused us such lasting effects that I don't know whether we'll ever get over everything. "Five years on... it just wants starting from the very beginning and working right through."

عندما تم العثور على امرأة بريطانية ميتة بالقرب من منزلها في إيطاليا وبها 10 جروح بسكين في رقبتها، تم تفسير وفاتها على أنها انتحار. ومع ذلك، يعتقد والداها أنها قُتلت. ويأملون الآن أن يقنع الدعم الحكومي الشرطة بإعادة فتح التحقيق.

قضية وفاة الأم الإيطالية الغامضة "رائحة كريهة"

The only time you are likely to see a member of the Catturandi is when they arrest a mafioso. They are the men "without a name and without a face" - when they carry out operations they wear balaclavas to ensure they can't be identified. "We prefer to be called 'The Band of Lions' because that's what we are: wild, free, and ready to attack at any given time in this jungle," says IMD. There are fewer than 20 of them, and there is an obvious reason why they keep a low profile. "Back in the day, you would receive death threats from the bad guys, goat heads sent directly to your house - it wasn't pleasant," he says. In the 90s he also received photographs of his car number plate, marked with a red cross. The threats drove some of his colleagues to leave the Catturandi but not IMD - and over the years the risk of assassination has reduced. He and his fellow officers find they often develop strangely intimate relationships with the criminals they track. They can wiretap and tail them for decades before making an arrest. "It's like living with these people. You hear them conceiving their children, you listen to their family issues, you see their kids growing up and their emotions become yours," says IMD. One of the men they bugged was a doctor in Palermo, who is now in jail. "He was really knowledgeable, we all learned Italian literature by constantly listening to him. We would take notes, get books he mentioned in his never-ending lectures to his kids. It was like listening to a radio programme and we were all fascinated by his manners, his way of thinking and his creativity. It was hard to believe he was a mobster." The weeks after an arrest can be unsettling. "You don't see them any more - it's psychologically hard to cope with and, as they were part of your daily life, you start missing them," says IMD. In his two decades with the police, IMD has helped to arrest nearly 300 mafiosi, including Giovanni Brusca, notorious for kidnapping and torturing the 11-year-old son of another mafioso who had betrayed him. Brusca had the boy killed and the body dissolved in acid - as a result, the child's family couldn't bury him. At the moment of arrest, when the Catturandi storm a mobster's house, IMD says he can have mixed feelings. "You want to ask them a lot of questions: Why do you kill? Why do you do that to another human being?" But the opportunities for conversation are limited, and any exchanges tend to be unsatisfying. "When we got Brusca, 'The Pig', he started weeping like a child. Provenzano, the boss of bosses, on the other hand, remained silent and whispered to me, 'You don't know what you're doing.' But we got them, and that's what matters." Brusca was a key player in the crime that inspired IMD to join the police. On 23 May 1992, the Mafia placed half a tonne of explosives under the road to Palermo's international airport, killing the leading anti-Mafia judge, Giovanni Falcone. Brusca was later identified as the man who pressed the button setting off the bombs. "I was at my girlfriend's 18th birthday party," says IMD, who was a biology student at the time. "Her father was the head of the Palermo police response team and when the bomb blasted, the pagers of all the police officers at the party went off at the same time and everybody left in tears. That was this girl's debut into society." IMD immediately wanted to find out what was going on but when he realised the road to the airport was sealed off, he decided to drive his motorcycle to the centre of Palermo instead to see how people were reacting. "Right there," IMD recalls, pointing at a little piazza, "I saw a bunch of guys laughing and cheering while eating their panini. I went up to them and I told them Judge Falcone got killed. They stared back at me and said, 'What the hell do we care?' "I knew what I wanted to do. The following day I joined the police force to catch as many bad guys as I could." At that time, few young Sicilians wanted to join the Catturandi - partly because the job was too dangerous - so IMD's application was accepted readily. "Most people you knew would stop talking to you or they would spit in your face because being a cop was considered an unspeakable betrayal," he says. He dropped his studies and while his old university friends were "chasing girls in nightclubs", as he puts it, IMD was tailing Giovanni Brusca and other Mafia bosses such as Salvatore "Toto" Riina, who ordered the Falcone murder. While following Brusca, IMD and one of his colleagues ended up in Cinisi, a small town near Palermo. "There was this group of girls so we approached them. The idea was to get introduced to people in Cinisi without raising suspicions. Of course it worked out… we got the fugitive but I had to marry her afterwards," he laughs. Their dates were unusual. His girlfriend - unaware of what was going on - provided useful cover. "Instead of taking my girlfriend, now my wife, to nice beaches to kiss under the stars, I would take her to horrible places, dead-end roads paved with garbage, just because I was following the fugitive's lover. We would start embracing and she would ask: 'Why here of all places?' "After dropping her off at her house, I would go back to the office and report." He used to tell his loved ones that he worked at the passport office. But when he and his fellow Catturandi caught Brusca, "everybody was in front of their TV screens, videotaping the arrest", he says. "When my wife [then girlfriend] saw those men wearing the balaclavas she noticed a familiar rear end and she called me. I couldn't hide the truth any more. I told her, 'Please don't say anything to Grandma otherwise the whole world will know.' Luckily, she was able to keep the secret." Italy's most wanted mafioso today is Matteo Messina Denaro, also known as Diabolik - a nickname he took from an uncatchable thief in a comic book. The head of the Sicilian Mafia, he has been in hiding since 1993 - police believe he is living abroad, possibly in South America. He once boasted that he could "fill a cemetery" with his victims, and last year it emerged that he had been communicating with fellow criminals using a code that referred to sheep. Messages between them included "The sheep need shearing" and "The shears need sharpening". Eleven men were arrested in Sicily - IMD was there - but Denaro himself is as elusive as ever. While the Sicilian Mafia is not as powerful as it was 20 years ago, it is still a problem for the island. "They know they can't kill people as they used to, so now the whole system has evolved into an intricate web of interests that entangles politics, finance and the very structure of Sicilian society," says IMD. For some, especially teenagers and tourists, the Mafia still holds a romantic aura. On Palermo's street corners stallholders loudly advertise Godfather T-shirts, gun-shaped cigarette lighters and statuettes of men with moustaches and shotguns with one hand placed over their mouths. Muto sugno, Mum's the word, it reads on the base of the miniatures. One of these stalls stands just a block away from Via D'Amelio, a dead-end residential road where, on 19 July 1992, a Mafia bomb killed another judge, Paolo Borsellino. He was known as the "the good man of Palermo" for his stand against organised crime. "These street stands are a paradox, just like this town," says IMD. "We would like to be as civilised as the rest of the world, but we never let go this perverse fascination with the criminal underworld." Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

لقد كانت المافيا جزءًا من الحياة الصقلية لأجيال، وكذلك المعركة التي تخوضها الشرطة للقبض على قادتها. وحدة النخبة التي تلاحقهم تسمى كاتوراندي - من الكلمة التي تعني "القبض" - أخبر أحد ضباطها ماكس باراديسو عن العالم الغامض الذي يعمل فيه، وكيف أخفى وظيفته عن صديقته حتى تعرفت عليها. مؤخرته على شاشة التلفزيون.

الحياة السرية لصيادي المافيا

By Mark KinverEnvironment reporter, BBC News And when the extent of the devastation was finally tallied, 18 people had lost their lives and the storm was listed as the most expensive weather-related event in the history of the British insurance industry. Also, landscapes familiar for generations had changed forever. An estimated 15 million trees were uprooted, countless more were damaged in the few hours that the Great Storm, with winds recorded at speeds in excess of 160 km/h (100mph; 86 knots) wreaked havoc across woodlands and plantations. At Toys Hill, the highest point in Kent, about 98% of the woodland - including many veteran beech trees that had adorned the hillside for centuries - was lost. Copperas Wood nature reserve in Essex lost almost three-quarters of its ancient woodland, which primarily consisted of coppiced sweet chestnut and hornbeam. Although the immediate aftermath left people in a sense of shock of how the landscape had changed beyond recognition overnight, Keith Kirby - who at the time worked for English Nature (which later became Natural England) - said it could later be seen as a blessing in disguise for woodland ecology. "The immediate reaction was that everyone thought that it was a great disaster but I think, with hindsight - on the whole - it was beneficial in many respects," he told BBC News. "Until then, we had not fully appreciated just how uniform our woods were becoming." Dr Kirby, who co-edited a 1993 report on the storm's ecological impact on woodlands, explained that, at the time, many of the woods' canopies were closing over as the trees entered the young, mature stage of their lifecycle. The previous time wood was in such high demand and vast numbers of trees were felled was during the Second World War, he explained. "The last remnants of active coppicing were also dying out, so the woods were getting into a fairly dark and shady state." The lack of light meant that much of the low-level flora and fauna that favoured woodland conditions were struggling. "With the storm coming along when it did, it helped break up those canopies in some places and create some gaps that otherwise would not have occurred," Dr Kirby, now a visiting researcher at Oxford University's Department of Plant Science, observed. He recalled how one long-term monitoring project, which ran from 1971 to 2001, looked at 100 woodland plots across the UK, shedding some light on one of the possible silver linings to an otherwise devastating weather event. "One of things that we found was that, on the whole, the flora had become thinned out and there was a lower species richness - except in about 10 of the woods. "When we looked at where [the 10 plots] were, they were all in south-east England and they were all within the storm track." The abrupt opening of the woodlands' thick canopies offered a lifeline to plants and butterflies that had once thrived in these habitats. Dr Kirby observed: "It is more the commoner woodland species - such as primrose and bluebells - that can survive under shade, but if the shade continues for long periods then their density does thin out. "It was the regular opening of the canopies through the coppice regimes in the past that meant a lot of our woodlands had these great displays of spring flowers. "Woodland butterflies, fritillaries in particular, are associated with gaps or temporary hotspots within the woods." He added that there was no evidence to confirm that they did benefit from the storm, but "what we do know is that their trend has been in general decline through most of Britain and this has been associated with increased shade". "The storm might have given them a temporary respite but, unfortunately, it was only temporary and the decline is now continuing." Changing composition The other co-editor of the 1993 report, Peter Buckley, said another ecological benefit of the storm was that it changed the composition of woodlands from, in many cases, almost monocultures. "For example, a lot of the beech on the Downs were felled (in the storm) and were succeeded by birch and other pioneer species," he explained. So there has been a break-up of some of the monoculture and clonal vegetation patches underneath the trees." Dr Buckley said that the impact of the storm also offered an insight into how woodlands were vulnerable to extreme weather. "It did show that plantations did not stand up particularly well to these types of storms because you have lots of trees crammed together, with small root systems and they grow tall," he told BBC News. "Whereas in the old traditional approach of coppicing, you could argue that the trees are kept short so they do not offer so much wind resistance. "In fact, the big standard trees in the old coppicing-with-standards system grew up more or less exposed, so developed wind firmness over time. "What the storm showed was that trees which had probably reached their full height but were still young and not securely anchored blew over very easily. "Those that had been in situ for a very long time had had time to spread their roots, or trees on the edge of plantations that did not have so much competition on the outside of the stand, these stood up and did pretty well." Dr Buckley estimated that about half of the trees lost during the 1987 Great Storm were young plantation trees. The National Trust, one of the UK's largest landowners, lost hundreds of thousands of trees on its properties in the storm. While fallen trees caused an acute problem for the Trust in formal landscapes, the loss of so many trees did allow its experts to review how to manage its woodlands. "One of the legacies we have learned from the Great Storm is that woodlands look after themselves pretty well," explained head of forestry Ray Hawes. "Just after the storm, one of my colleagues went over a lot of our parks and gardens and took a lot of aerial shots in order to get an idea of tree and woodland damage. "For the 20th anniversary of the storm, we redid it. Some of the areas that had not been replanted were basically back to woodlands - they regenerated naturally. "Whereas if you try planting trees into these systems at an early stage, then you end up with a huge maintenance job to look after the trees you planted, because they are being swamped by the natural regeneration trees, which tend to be more vigorous. "This is because they come out of the ground straight from seed; they have not had the shock of being taken from a nursery and planted in the ground. "So now, we would leave a lot of woodlands to see what happens naturally," Mr Hawes told BBC News.

بعد إحداث الفوضى طوال ليلة الخميس 15 أكتوبر 1987، كان من الممكن تقييم الأضرار التي سببتها رياح الإعصار في الأجزاء الجنوبية والجنوبية الشرقية من المملكة المتحدة، عند أول ضوء في صباح اليوم التالي.

العاصفة العظيمة: قوة الطبيعة العلاجية

Deputy Barry Brehaut said it "lacked detail and substance" on what had been done to reduce energy consumption and what it would do in the future. Deputy Carla McNulty Bauer, who heads the Energy Policy Group, said the plan aimed to provide strategic direction. Members agreed with her and voted it through by 38-4 votes. It means departments will have to take the plan's objectives "into account" when preparing policies.

وافقت ولايات غيرنسي على خطة موارد الطاقة المنقحة على الرغم من انتقادات عدد من النواب حولها والتي تظهر افتقارها إلى الاتجاه.

ولايات غيرنسي توافق على استراتيجية الطاقة

It happened at Stream Street in the city at around 21:00 GMT on Thursday. Two men were in the property at the time of the attack but were not injured. It took place in the same street where a man was stabbed several times in the face last week. It is not yet known if there is any link between the two incidents.

تحقق الشرطة في هجوم مسلح في نيوري بمقاطعة داون، تم خلاله إطلاق عدد من الطلقات.

نيوري: إطلاق نار في نفس الشارع الذي وقع فيه حادث الطعن الأخير

By Charley AdamsBBC News 'Starting a campaign from my bedroom' During lockdown we have had time to "fight for our rights", said Sioned Freer, who started a student rent strike from her bedroom. The campaign, against students having to pay full rent if they left their accommodation in Plymouth, began as a 20-member Facebook page and has amassed 750 supporters. Despite the campaign being "frustrating at times", the masters student said: "I've had so much time to dedicate to the campaign that I wouldn't have had otherwise - and other people have had more time to interact with it. "Now that people aren't exhausted from working all day we have the time to actually get involved with these causes. "Sometimes it's difficult to gauge how much difference we're making from my bedroom - despite that, I think it's been a mainly positive experience." The students have worked with unions and local organisations, met national rent strikers from other universities to discuss tactics and campaign strategies, and contacted MPs for support. "We have activists, legal students, media students and people who've never been involved in a campaign like this before all working together to make this thing work," added the 26-year-old. As a result of the campaign, university-owned halls have cancelled rent, along with a few of the purpose-built student accommodation blocks. "Sometimes when I have a bad day engaging with the campaign, I think about the 750 people who are behind me on this and it's really empowering." 'This wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for lockdown' "Lockdown has enabled us to take the project even further," said Dan Webb from Everyday Plastic, who has been running Zoom project workshops to highlight the plastic problem. Before the coronavirus pandemic, he had been taking the project into schools and organisations in Kent, but since lockdown his project has reached a worldwide following. Members collect all the plastic they use in a week, categorise and record it and then Dan calculates their plastic footprint, and the lockdown version has seen double the number of people participating. "This wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for lockdown - we would never have thought to do it with 100 people at once," he said. "The coronavirus [pandemic] has helped develop it as a new model as well, I've done a lot of work to adapt it for this situation so it's easy for people to do. "I want to ensure the plastic problem remains on the agenda during the lockdown period and beyond it." Andy Roberts and his family, including six-year-old daughter Ava, said the experience of getting involved in the project had been an "eye-opener". "I think the lockdown presented an opportunity for Dan as a way that we could all be online together - it probably wouldn't have happened if everyone hadn't been at home." Decorating streets 'sparks imagination' Extinction Rebellion supporters have been getting involved in a Paint the Streets campaign during lockdown by adorning pavements, roads, houses and their gardens. Decorating the streets "is an easy, accessible and beautiful way" to spread messages and "spark imagination", said activist Lucia Whittaker. The climate campaigner from Derby decorated her garden with colourful origami boats to mark the anniversary of Extinction Rebellion's protest in April 2019, when rebels parked a pink boat in Oxford Circus. You might also be interested in: Photographing the neighbours during lockdown Private gardens open virtually amid lockdown How have independent shopkeepers been faring? She also chalked a thought-provoking quote by Richard Powers outside her local park which she hoped made "people look at the trees a little differently on their daily walk". Edward Pickering-Symes, from Extinction Rebellion Derby, said: "The protest is a loving and uplifting way of showing another world is possible and for people to call out this message visually to their neighbours." Mair Perkins, who painted bees and vines along her fence, said the campaign was "all about creativity, community spirit and envisaging a better, more nature-filled future all while staying within the social distancing guidelines". She plans to paint more of her fence as the flowers in her garden grow and document the re-wilding process. Similarly, fellow Extinction Rebellion volunteers are making wind turbines and wind spinners and hanging them outside their homes as part of the Winds of Change campaign. Community activist Shelley Castle said she hoped the activity "will bring an uplifting message of hope for positive changes post Covid-19". 'A sense of cohesion even though we are cut off' "Although we are all separated from each other at this time, we really wanted to come together to do something positive in the crisis," said London City Voices director Richard Swan. The community choir got together online to sing You've Got a Friend by Carole King to support survivors of domestic abuse and raise funds for Women's Aid. The 276 members of the London-based choir recorded the performance and raised more than £70,000 for the charity's live chat service, which has seen a 41% increase in demand since lockdown began. Choir member Dinah Tobias said: "It has given the choir a sense of cohesion even though we are so cut off physically, to know that we are doing something to help others whilst being so proud of the sound we make as a virtual choir." Women's Aid also created a video showing the empty streets in lockdown and how dangerous home can be for some people. Beating the plastic polluters Surfers Against Sewage has been exposing plastic polluters with their #ReturnToOffender campaign during lockdown. Activists have been taking pictures of plastic litter during their daily exercise and sharing it on social media to challenge companies on what they are doing to combat their waste. "We can't meet up with all of our volunteers, but we can empower our volunteers in other ways," said the charity's chief executive Hugo Tagholm. "People at home might be disconnected, but this is an optimistic way to bring people together to campaign." He emphasised the importance of digital activism in modern protesting and said sharing the campaign on social media had been "very effective". The marine conservation charity has also been finding ways for children to get involved during lockdown such as the #WavesOfOptimism campaign. Children have been drawing waves and filling them with colours and marine wildlife, explained education manager Emily Van De Geer, and she hopes the launch of their online lessons will help young people "discover the power of their voice". 'A symbol of resilience and hope' On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, on 22 April, green hearts appeared in windows across the country. The Climate Coalition asked supporters to make a green heart to show that they believe in a cleaner, greener future. "The heart is a symbol of resilience and hope that we can build back better," said campaigns executive Leila Bousbaa. The organisation dedicated to action against climate change has also been running a "Vitamin N" campaign to help people get their daily dose of nature during lockdown. Activities have included building a bug hotel on the doorstep, bird-watching and learning nature-themed yoga.

مع بقاء الناس في منازلهم، قد تعتقد أن الفكرة التقليدية للاحتجاج مستحيلة. لكن النشطاء والمؤيدين ما زالوا حريصين على تعزيز قضاياهم والنضال من أجل ما يؤمنون به أثناء الإغلاق.

فيروس كورونا: إطلاق حملة من المنزل أثناء الإغلاق

By Vaishnavi SeetharamanBBC Tamil It has projected a temperature rise of between 1.7C and 2C in India over the next 20 years. The study says India faces increased precipitation and storms and a continuing sea level rise. It also warned of food shortages because of a decline in farm output. "Climate change scenarios for 2030 indicate an overall warming over the Indian sub-continent associated with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations," said the report by the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA). There is expected to be a "significant dip" in the production of rice, maize and sorghum, the report said. Production of apples in the Himalayan region could also be affected. "No country in the world is as vulnerable, on so many dimensions, to climate change as India," said federal environmental minister Jairam Ramesh, while releasing the report.

قالت دراسة جديدة نشرتها الحكومة الهندية إنه من المتوقع أن يؤثر ارتفاع درجات الحرارة الناجم عن تغير المناخ سلبا على إمدادات المياه والإنتاج الزراعي والغابات في الهند بحلول عام 2030.

مخاوف من ارتفاع درجات الحرارة في الهند

The Glenlee was towed from Yorkhill Quay to Pointhouse Quay on Thursday morning. The ship and new museum will open to the public on 21 June. The Glenlee was built in Port Glasgow and first took to the water in 1896. The Riverside Museum, on the banks of the River Clyde, will house the city's valuable transport collection. The Glenlee was purchased in 1992 by The Clyde Maritime Trust, which is engaged in an ongoing programme of restoration. During its sea-going life, the cargo ship circumnavigated the globe four times and tackled Cape Horn on 15 occasions. The operation to tow the ship to its new berth, several hundred yards down the river, took about 30 minutes.

تم نقل واحدة من آخر السفن الشاهقة المتبقية في العالم من طراز كلايد إلى رصيف جديد خارج متحف ريفرسايد في غلاسكو.

تنتقل السفينة الطويلة Glenlee إلى رصيف متحف ريفرسايد الجديد

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CRIMINAL NO. v. (18 U.S.C. 2,371,1349,1028A) INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC A/K/A MEDIASINTEZ LLC A/K/A GALVSET LLC A/K/A MIXINFO LLC A/K/A AZIMUT LLC A/K/A NOVINFO LLC, CONCORD MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTING LLC, CONCORD CATERING, YEVGENIY VIKTORVICH PRIGOZHIN, MIKHAIL IVANOVICH BYSTROV, MIKHAIL LEONIDOVICH BURCHIK A/K/A MIKHAIL ABRAMOV, ALEKSANDRA YURYEVNA KRYLOVA, ANNA VLADISLAVOVNA BOGACHEVA, SERGEY PAVLOVICH POLOZOV MARIA ANTANOL YEVNA BOVDA A/K/A MARIA ANTOLYVENA BELYAEVA, ROBERT SERGEYEVICH BOVDA, DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OLGY ASLANOVA/K/A JAYHOON ASLANOV A/K/A JAY ASLANOV, VADIM VLADIMIROVICH PODKOPAEV, GLEB IGORNEVICH VASILCHENKO, IRINA VIKTOROVNA KAVERZINA, and VLADIMIR VENKOV. Defendants. INDICTMENT The Grand Jury for the District of Columbia charges: INTRODUCTION 1.The United States of America, through its departments and agencies, regulates the activities of foreign individuals and entities in and affecting the United States in order to prevent, disclose, and counteract improper foreign influence on U.S. elections and on the U.S. political system. U.S. law bans foreign nationals from making certain expenditures or financial disbursements for the purpose of influencing federal elections. U.S. law also bars agents of any foreign entity from engaging in political activities within the United States without first registering with the Attorney General. And U.S. law requires certain foreign nationals seeking entry to the United States to obtain a visa by providing truthful and accurate information to the government. Various federal agencies, including the Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S> Department of State, are charged with enforcing these laws. 2.Defendant INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC ("ORGANIZATION") is a Russian organization engaged in operations to interfere with elections and political processes. Defendants MIKHAIL IVANOVICH BYSTROV, MIKHAIL LEONIDOVICH BURCHIK, ALEKSANDRA YURYEVNA KRYLOVA, ANNA VLADISLAVOVNA BOGACHEVA, SERGEY PAVLOVICH POLOZOV, MARIA ANTOLYEVNA BODVA, ROBERT SERGEYEVICH BOVDA, DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OGLY ASLANOV, VADIM VLADIMIROVICH PODKOPAEV, GLEB IGOREVICH VASILCHENKO,IRINA VIKTOROVNA KAVERZINA, and VLADIMIR VENKOV worked in various capacities to carry out Defendant ORGANIZATION's interference operations targeting the United States. From in or around 2014 to the present, Defendants knowingly and intentionally conspired with each other (and with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury) to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016. 3.Beginning as early as 2014, Defendant ORGANIZATION began operations to interfere with the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Defendant ORGANIZATION received funding for its operations from Defendant YEVGENIY VIKTOROVICH PRIGOZHIN and companies he controlled, including Defendants CONCORD MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTING LLC and CONCORD CATERING (collectively "CONCORD"). Defendants CONCORD and PRIGOZHIN spent significant funds to further the ORGANIZATION's operations and to pay the remaining Defendants, along with other uncharged ORGANIZATION employees, salaries and bonuses for their work at the ORGANIZATION. 4.Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and creating false U.S. personas, operated social media pages and groups designed to attract U.S. audiences. These groups and pages, which addressed divisive U.S. political and social issues, falsely claimed to be controlled by U.S. activists when, in fact, they were controlled by Defendants. Defendants also used the stolen identities of real U.S> persons to post on ORGANIZATION-controlled social media accounts. Over time, these social media accounts became Defendants' means to reach significant numbers of Americans for purposes of interfering with the U.S. political system, including the presidential election of 2016. 5.Certain Defendants travelled to the United States under false pretenses for the purpose of collecting intelligence to inform Defendants' operations. Defendants also procured and used computer infrastructure, based partly in the United States, to hide the Russian origin of their activities and to avoid detection by U.S. regulators and law enforcement. 6.Defendant ORGANIZATION had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Defendants posted derogatory information about a number of candidates, and by early to mid-2016, Defendants'' operations included supporting the presidential campaign of the -candidate Donald J. Trump ("Trump Campaign") and disparaging Hillary Clinton. Defendants made various expenditures to carry out those activities, including buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates. Some Defendants, posing as U.S> persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities. 7.In order to carry out their activities to interfere in U.S. political and electoral processes without detection of their Russian affiliation, Defendants conspired to obstruct the lawful functions of the United States government through fraud and deceit, including by making expenditures in connection with the 2016 U.S. presidential election without proper regulatory disclosure; failing to register as foreign agents carrying out political activities within the United States; and obtaining visas through false and fraudulent statements. COUNT ONE (Conspiracy to Defraud the United States) 8.Paragraphs 1 through 7 of this Indictment are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein. 9.From in or around 2014 to the present, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Defendants, together with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of States in administering federal requirements for disclosure of foreign involvement in certain domestic activities. Defendants 10.Defendant INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC (Russian spelling) is a Russian organization engaged in political and electoral interference operations. In or around July 2013, the ORGANIZATION registered with the Russian government as a Russian corporate entity. Beginning in or around June 2014, the ORGANIZATION obscured its conduct by operating through a number of Russian entities, including the Internet Research LLC, MediaSintez LLC, GlavSet LLC, MixInfo LLC, Azimut LLC, and NovInfo LLC. Startign in or around 2014, the ORGANIZATION occupied an office at 55 Savushkina Street in St. Petersburg, Russia. That location became one of the ORGANIZATION's operational hubs from which Defendants and other co-conspirators carried out their activities to interfere in the U.S> political system, including in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. a.The ORGANIZATION employed hundreds of individuals for its online operations, ranging from creators of fictitious personas to technical and administrative support. The ORGANIZATION's annual budget totalled the equivalent of millions of U.S. dollars. b.The ORGANIZATION was headed by a management group and organized into departments, including: a graphics department; a data analysis department; a search-engine optimization ("SEO") department; an information-technology ("IT") department to maintain the digital infrastructure used in the ORGANIZATION's operations; and a finance department to budget and allocate funding. c.The ORGANIZATION sought, in part, to conduct what it called "information warfare against the United States of America" through fictitious U.S. personas on social media platforms and other Internet-based media. d.By in or around April 2014, the ORGANIZATION formed a department that went by various names but was at times referred to as the "translator project." This project focused on the U.S. population and conducted operations on social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. By approximately July 2016, more than eighty ORGANIZATION employees were assigned to the translator project. e.By in or around May 2014, the ORGANIZATION's strategy included interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, with the stated goal of "spread[ing] distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general." 11.Defendants CONCORD MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTING LLC (Russian spelling) and CONCORD CATERING are related Russian entities with various Russian government contracts. CONCORD was the ORGANIZATION's primary source of funding for its interference operations. CONCORD controlled funding, recommended personnel, and oversaw ORGANIZATION activities through reporting and interaction with ORGANIZATION management. a.CONCORD funded the ORGANIZATION as a part of a larger CONCORD-funded interference operation that it referred to as "Project Lakhta." Project Lakhta had multiple components, some involving domestic audiences within the Russian Federation and others targeting foreign audiences in various countries, including the United States. b.By in or around September 2016, the ORGANIZATION's monthly budget for Project Lakhta submitted to CONCORD exceeded 73 million Russian rubles (over 1.250,000 U.S. dollars), including approximately one million rubles in bonus payments. c.To conceal its involvement, CONCORD labelled the monies paid to the ORGANIZATION for Project Lakhta as payments related to software support and development. To further conceal the source of funds, CONCORD distributed monies to the ORGANIZATION through approximately fourteen bank accounts held in the names of CONCORD affiliates, including Glavnaya Liniya LLC, Merkuriy LLC, Obshchepit LLC, Potensial LLC, RSP LLC, ASP LLC, MTTs LLC, Kompleksservis LLC, SPb Kulnariya LLC, Almaria LLC, Pishchevik LLC, Galant LLC, Rayteks LLC, and Standart LLC. 12.Defendant YEVGENIY VIKTOROVICH PRIGOZHIN (Russian Spelling) is a Russian national who controlled CONCORD. a.PRIGOZHIN approved and supported the ORGANIZATION's operations, and Defendants and their co-conspirators were aware of PRIGOZHIN's role. b.For example, on or about May 29, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through an ORGANIZATION-controlled social media account, arranged for a real U.S. person to stand in front of the White House in the District of Columbia under false pretenses and hold a sign that read "Happy 55th Birthday Dear Boss." Defendants and their co-conspirators informed the real U.S. person that the sign was for someone who "is a leader here and our boss…our funder." PRIGOZHIN's Russian passport identifies his date of birth as June 1, 1961. 13.Defendant MIKHAIL IVANOVICH BYSTROV (Russian Spelling) joined the ORGANIZATION by at least in or around February 2014. a.By approximately April 2014, BYSTROV was the general director, the ORGANIZATION's highest-ranking position. BYSTROV subsequently served as the head of various other entities used by the ORGANIZATION to mask his activities, including, for example, Glavset LLC, where he was listed as that entity's general director. b.In or around 2015 and 2016, BYSTROV frequently communicated with PRIGOZHIN about Project Lakhta's overall operations, including through regularly scheduled in-person meetings. 14.Defendant MIKHAIL LEONIDOVICH BURCHIK (Russian spelling) A/K/A MIKHAIL ABRAMOV joined the ORGANIZATION by at least in or around Octoer 2013. By approximately March 2014, BURCHIK was the executive director, the ORGANIZATION's second-highest ranking position. Throughout the ORGANIZATION's operations to interfere in the U.S> political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election, BURCHIK was a manager involved in operational planning, infrastructure, and personnel. In or around 2016, BURCHIK also had in-person meetings with PRIGOZHIN. 15.Defendant ALEKSANDRA YURYEVNA KRYLOVA (Russian Spelling) worked for the ORGANIZATION from at least in or around September 2013 to at least in or around November 2014. By approximately April 2014, KRYLOVA served as director and was the ORGANIZAITON's third-highest ranking employee. In 2014, KRYLOVA travelled to the United States under false pretenses for the purpose of collecting intelligence to inform the ORGANIZATION's operations. 16.Defendant SERGEY PAVLOVICH POLOZOV (Russian spelling) worked for the ORGANIZAIOTN from at least in or around April 2014 to at least in or around October 2016. POLOZOV served as the manager for the IT department and oversaw the procurement of U.S. server and other computer infrastructure that masked the ORGANIZATION's Russian location when conducting operations within the United States. 17.Defendant ANNA VLADISLAVOVNA BOGACHEVA (Russian spelling) worked for the ORGANIZATION from at least in or around April 2014 to at least July 2014. BOGACHEVA served on the translator project and oversaw the project's data analysis group. BOGCHEVA also travelled to the United States under false pretenses and for the purpose of collecting intelligence to inform the ORGANIZATION's operations. 18.Defendant MARIA ANATOLYEVNA BOVDA (Russian spelling) A/K/A/ MARIA ANATOLYEVNA BELYAEVA ("M. BOVDA") worked for the ORGANIZATION from at least in or around November 2013 to at least in or around October 2014. M.BOVDA served as the head of the translator project, among other positions. 19.Defendant ROBERT SERGYEVICH BOVDA (Russian spelling) ("R. BOVDA") worked for the ORGANIZAITON from at least in or around November 2013 to at least in or around October 2014. R. BOVDA served as the deputy head of the translator project, among other positions. R. BOVA attempted to travel to the United States under false pretenses for the purpose of collecting intelligence to inform the ORGANIZATION's operations but could not obtain the necessary visa. 20.Defendant DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OGLY ASLANOV (Russian spelling) A/K/A JAYHOON ASLANOV A/K/A JAY ASLANOV joined the ORGANIZATION by at least in or around September 2014. ASLANOV served as head of the translator project and oversaw many of the operations targeting the 2016 U.S. presidential election. ASLANOV was also listed as the general director of Azimut LLC, an entity used to move funds from CONCORD to the ORGANIZATION. 21.Defendant VADIM VLADIMIROVICH PODKOPAEV (Russian spelling) joined the ORGANIZATION by at least in or around June 2014. PODKOPAEV served as an analyst on the translator project and was responsible for conducting U.S.-focused research and drafting social media content for the ORGANIZATION. 22.Defendant GLEB IGOREVICH VASILCHENKO (Russian spelling) worked for the ORGANIZATION from at least in or around August 2014 to at least in or around September 2016. VASILCHENKO was responsible for posting, monitoring, and updating the social media content of many ORGANIZATION-controlled accounts while posing as U.S. persons or U.S. grassroots organizations. VASILCHENKO later served as the head of two sub-groups focused on operations to interfere in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. 23.Defendant IRINA VIKTOROVNA KAVERZINA (Russian spelling) joined the ORGANIZATION by at least in or around October 2014. KAVERZINA served on the translator project and operated multiple U.S> personas that she used to post, monitor, and update social media content for the ORGANIZATION. 24.Defendant VLADIMIR VENKOV (Russian spelling) joined the ORGANIZATION by at least in or around March 2015. VENKOV served on the translator project and operated multiple U.S. personas, which he used to post, monitor, and update social media content for the ORGANIZATION. Federal Regulatory Agencies 25.The Federal Election Commission is a federal agency that administers the Federal Election Campaign Act ("FECA"). Among other things, FECA prohibits foreign nationals from making any contributions, expenditures, independent expenditures, or disbursements for electioneering communications. FECA also requires that individuals or entities who make certain independent expenditures in federal elections report those expenditures to the Federal Election Commission. The reporting requirements permit the Federal Election Commission to fulfill its statutory duties of providing the American public with accurate data about the financial activities of individuals and entities supporting federal candidates, and enforcing FECA's limits and prohibitions, including the ban on foreign expenditures. 26.The US. Department of Justice administers the Foreign Agent Registration Act ("FARA"). FARA establishes a registration, reporting, and disclosure regime for agents of foreign principals (which includes foreign non-government individuals and entities) so that the U.S. government and the people of the United States are informed of the source of information and the identity of persons attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and law. FARA requires, among other things, that persons subject to its requirements submit periodic registration statements containing truthful information about their activities and the income from them. Disclosure of the required information allows the federal government and the American people to evaluate the statements and activities of such persons in light of their function as foreign agents. 27.The U.S. Department of States is the federal agency responsible for the issuance of non-immigrant visas to foreign individuals who need a visa to enter the United States. Foreign individuals who are required to obtain a visa must, among other things, provide truthful information in response to questions on the visa application form, including information about their employment and the purpose of their visit to the United States. Object of the Conspiracy 28.The conspiracy had as its object impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful governmental functions of the United States by dishonest means in order to enable the Defendants to interfere with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Manner and Means of the Conspiracy Intelligence-Gathering to Inform U.S. Operations. 29.Starting at least in or around 2014, Defendants and their co-conspirators began to track and study groups on U.S. social media sites dedicated to U.S. politics and social issues. In order to gauge the performance of various groups on social media sites, the ORGANIZATION tracked certain metrics like the group's size, the frequency of content placed by the group, and the level of audience engagement with that content, such as the average number of comments or responses to a post. 30.Defendants and their co-conspirators also travelled, and attempted to travel, to the United States under false pretenses in order to collect intelligence for their interference operations. a.KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA, together with other Defendants and co-conspirators, planned travel itineraries, purchased equipment (such as cameras, SIM cards, and drop phones), and discussed security measures (including "evacuation scenarios") for Defendants who travelled to the United States. b.To enter the United States, KRLYOVA, BOGACHEVA, R. BOVDA, and other co-conspirator applied to the U.S. Department of State for visas to travel. During their application process, KRYLOVA, BOGACHEVA, R. BOVDA, and their co-conspirator falsely claimed they were traveling for personal reasons and did not fully disclose their place of employment to hide the fact that they worked for the ORGANIZATION. c.Only KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA received visas, and from approximately June 4, 2014 through June 26, 2014, KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA travelled in and around the United States, including stops in Nevada, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Texas, and New York to gather intelligence. After the trip, KRYLOVA and BURCHIK exchanged an intelligence report regarding the trip. d.Another co-conspirator who worked for the ORGANIZATION travelled to Atlanta, Georgia from approximately November 26, 2014 through November 30, 2014. Following the trip, the co-conspirator provided POLOZOV a summary of his trip's itinerary and expenses. 31.In order to collect additional intelligence, Defendants and their co-conspirators posed as U.S. persons and contacted U.S. political and social activists. For example, starting in or around June 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators posing online as U.S. persons, communicated with a real U.S. person affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization. During the exchange, Defendants and their co-conspirators learned from the real U.S. person that they should focus their activities on "purple states like Colorado, Virginia & Florida." After that exchange, Defendants and their co-conspirators commonly referred to targeting "purple states" in directing their efforts. Use of U.S. Social Media Platforms 32.Defendants and their co-conspirators, through fraud and deceit, created hundreds of social media accounts and used them to develop certain fictitious U.S. personas into "leader[s] of public opinion" in the United States. 33.ORGANIZATION employees, referred to as "specialists," were tasked to create social media accounts that appeared to be operated by U.S. persons. The specialists were divided into the day-shift and night-shift hours and instructed to make posts in accordance with the appropriate U.S. time zone. The ORGANIZATION also circulated lists of U.S. holidays so that specialists could develop and post appropriate account activity. Specialists were instructed to write about topics germane to the United States such as U.S. foreign policy and U.S. economic issues. Specialists were directed to create "political intensity through supporting radical group, users dissatisfied with [the] social and economic situation and oppositional social movements." 34.Defendants and their co-conspirators also created thematic group pages on social media sites, particularly on the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. ORGANIZATION-controlled pages addressed a range of issues, including: immigration (with group names including "Secured Borders"); the Black Lives Matter movement (with group names including "Blacktivist"); religion (with group names including "United Muslims of America" and "Army of Jesus")' and certain geographic regions within the United States (with group names including "South United" and "Heart of Texas"). By 2016, the size of many ORGANIZATION-controlled groups had grown to hundreds of thousands of online followers. 35.Starting at least in or around 2015, Defendants and their co-conspirators began to purchase advertisements on online social media sites to promote ORGANIZATION-controlled social media groups, spending thousands of U.S. dollars every month. These expenditures were included in the budgets the ORGANIZATION submitted to CONCORD. 36.Defendants and their co-conspirators also created and controlled numerous Twitter accounts designed to appear as if U.S. personas or groups controlled them. For example, the ORGANIZATION created and controlled the Twitter account "Tennessee GOP," which used the handle @TEN_GOP. The @TEN_GOP account falsely claimed to be controlled by a U.S. state political party. Over time, the @TEN_GOP account attracted more than 100,000 online followers. 37.To measure the impact of their online social media operations, Defendants and their co-conspirators tracked the performance of content they posted over social media. They tracked the size of the online U.S. audiences reached through posts, different types of engagement with the posts (such as likes, comments, and reports), changes in audience size, and other metrics. Defendants and their co-conspirators received and maintained metrics reports on certain group pages and individualized posts. 38.Defendants and their co-conspirators also regularly evaluated the content posted by specialists (sometimes referred to as "content analysis") to ensure they appeared authentic—as if operated by U.S. persons. Specialists received feedback and directions to improve the quality of their posts. Defendants and their co-conspirators issued or received guidance on: ratios of text, graphics, and video to use in posts; the number of accounts to operate; and the role of each account (for example, differentiating a main account from which to post information and auxiliary accounts to promote a main account through links and reposts). Use of U.S. Computer Infrastructure 39.To hide their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation, Defendants and their co-conspirators—particularly POLOZOV and the ORGANIZATION's IT department—purchased space on computer servers located inside the United States in order to set up virtual private networks ("VPNs"). Defendants and their co-conspirators connected from Russia to the U.S.- based infrastructure by way of these VPNs and conducted activity inside the United States—including accessing online social media accounts, opening new accounts, and communicating with real U.S. persons—while masking the Russian origin and control of the activity. 40.Defendants and their co-conspirators also registered and controlled hundreds of web-based email accounts hosted by U.S. email providers under false names so as to appear to be U.S persons and groups. From these accounts, Defendants and their co-conspirators registered or linked to online social media accounts in order to monitor them; posed as U.S. persons when requesting assistance from real U.S. persons; contacted media outlets in order to promote activities inside the United States; and conducted other operations, such as those set forth below. Use of Stolen U.S. Identities 41. In or around 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators also used, possessed, and transferred, without lawful authority, the social security numbers and dates of birth of real U.S. persons without those persons' knowledge or consent. Using these means of identification, Defendants and their co-conspirators opened accounts at PayPal, a digital payment service provider; created false means of identification, including fake drivers' licenses; and posted on ORGANIZATION-controlled social media accounts using the identities of these U.S. victims. Defendants and their co-conspirators also obtained, and attempted to obtain, false identification documents to use as proof of identity in connection with maintaining accounts and purchasing advertisements on social media sites. Actions Targeting the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election 42. By approximately May 2014, Defendants and their co-conspirators discussed efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Defendants and their co-conspirators began to monitor U.S. social media accounts and other sources of information about the 2016 U.S. presidential election. 43. By 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used their fictitious online personas to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. They engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump. a. On or about February 10, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators internally circulated an outline of themes for future content to be posted to ORGANIZATION-controlled social media accounts. Specialists were instructed to post content that focused on "politics in the USA" and to "use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them)." b. On or about September 14, 2016, in an internal review of ORGANIZATION-created and controlled Facebook group called "Secured Borders," the account specialist was criticized for having a "low number of posts dedicated to criticizing Hillary Clinton" and was told "it is imperative to intensify criticizing Hillary Clinton" in future posts. 44. Certain ORGANIZATION-produced materials about the 2016 U.S. presidential election used election-related hashtags, including: "#Trump2016," "#TrumpTrain," "#MAGA," "#IWontProtectHillary," and "#Hillary4Prison." Defendants and their co-conspirators also established additional online social media accounts dedicated to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including the Twitter account "March for Trump" and Facebook accounts "Clinton FRAUDation" and "Trumpsters United." 45. Defendants and their co-conspirators also used false U.S. personas to communicate with unwitting members, volunteers, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump. These individuals and entities at times distributed the ORGANIZATION's materials through their own accounts via retweets, reposts, and similar means. Defendants and their co-conspirators then monitored the propagation of content through such participants. 46. In or around the latter half of 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through their ORGANIZATION-controlled personas, began to encourage U.S. minority groups not to vote in the 2016 U.S. presidential election or to vote for a third-party U.S. presidential candidate. a. On or about October 16, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the ORGANIZATION-controlled Instagram account "Woke Blacks" to post the following message: [A] particular hpe and hatred for Trump is misleading the people and forcing Blacks to vote Killary. We cannot resort to the lesser of two devils. Then we'd surely be better off without voting AT ALL." b. On or about November 3, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased an advertisement to promote a post on the ORGANIZATION-controlled Instagram account "Blacktivist" that read in part: "choose peace and vote for Jill Stein. Trust me, it's not a wasted vote." c. By in or around early November 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the ORGANIZATION-controlled "United Muslims of America" social media accounts to post anti-vote messages such as: "American Muslims [are] boycotting elections today, most of the American Muslim voters refuse to vote for Hillary because she wants to continue the war on Muslims in the middle east and voted yes for invading Iraq." 47. Starting in or around the summer of 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators also began to promote allegations of voter fraud by the Democratic Party through their fictitious U.S. personas and groups on social media. Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased advertisements on Facebook to further promote the allegations. a.On or about August 4, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators began purchasing advertisements that promoted a post on the ORGANIZATION-controlled Facebook account "Stop A.I." The post alleged that "Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus." b.On or about August 11, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators posted that allegations of voter fraud were being investigated in North Carolina on the ORGANIZATION-controlled Twitter account @TEN_GOP. c.On or about November 2, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the same account to post allegations of "#VoterFraud by counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida." Political Advertisements 48. From at least last April 2016 through November 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, while concealing their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION alffiliation thorugh false personas, began to produce, purchase, and post advertisementsa on U.S. social media and other online sites expressly advocating for the election of then-candidate Trump or expressly opposing Clinton. Defendants and their co-conspirators did not report their expenditures to the Federal Election Commission, or register as foreign agents with the U.S. Department of Justice. 49. To pay for the political advertisements, Defendants and their co-conspirators established various Russian bank accounts and credit cards, often registered in the names of fictitious U.S. personas created and used by the ORGANIZATION on social media. Defendants and their co-conspirators also paid for other political advertisements using PayPal accounts. 50. The political advertisements included the following: Approximate DateExcerpt of Advertisement April 6, 2016"You know, a great number of black people support us saying that #HillaryClintonIsNotMyPresident" April 7, 2016"I will say no to Hillary Clinton / I say no to manipulation" April 19, 2016"JOIN our #HillaryClintonForPrison2016" May 10, 2016"Donald wants to defeat terrorism … Hillary wants to sponsor it" May 19, 2016"Vote Republican, vote Trump, and support the Second Amendment!" May 24, 2016"Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve the Black Vote" June 7, 2016Trump is our only hope for a better future!" June 30, 2016"#NeverHillary #HillaryForPrison #Hillary4Prison #HillaryForPrison2016 #Trump2016 #Trump #Trump4President" July 20, 2016"Ohio Wants Hillary 4 Prison" August 4, 2016"Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus." August 10, 2016"We cannot trust Hillary to take care of our veterans!" October 14, 2016"Among all the candidates Donald Trump is the one and only who can defend the police from terrorists." October 19, 2016"Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is." Staging U.S. Political Rallies in the United States 51. Starting in approximately June 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators organization and coordinated political rallies in the United States. To conceal the fact that they were based in Russia, Defendants and their co-conspirator promoted these rallies while pretending to be U.S. grassroots activists who were located in the United States but unable to meet or participate in person. Defendants and their co-conspirators did not register as foreign agents with the U.S. Department of Justice. 52. In order to build attendance for the rallies, Defendants and their co-conspirators promoted the events through public posts on their false U.S. persona social media accounts. In addition, Defendants and their co-conspirators contacted administrators of large social media groups focused on U.S. politics and requested that they advertise the rallies. 53. In or around late June 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the Facebook group "United Muslims of America" to promote a rally called "Support Hillary. Save American Muslims" held on July 9, 2016 in the District of Columbia. Defendants and their co-conspirators recruited a real U.S. person to hold a sign depicting Clinton and a quote to her stating "I think Sharia Law will be a powerful new direction of freedom." Within three weeks, on or about July 26, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators posted on the same Facebook page that Muslim voters were "between Hillary Clinton and a hard place." 54. In or around June and July 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the Facebook group "Being Patriotic," the Twitter account @March_for_Trump, and other ORGANIZATION accounts to organize two political rallies in New York. The first rally was called "March for Trump" and held on June 25, 2016. The second rally was called "Down with Hillary" and held on July 23, 2016. a. In or around June through July 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased advertisements on Facebook to promote the "March for Trump" and "Down with Hillary" rallies. b. Defendants and their co-conspirators used false U.S. personas to send individualized messages to real U.S. persons to request that they participate in and help organize the rally. To assist their efforts, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through false U.S> personas, offered money to certain U.S. personas to cover rally expenses. c. On or about June 5, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, while posing as a U.S. grassroots activist, used the account @March_for_Trump to contact a volunteer for the Trump Campaign in New York. The volunteer agreed to provide signs for the "March for Trump" rally. 55. In or around late July 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the Facebook group "Being Patriotic," the Twitter account @March_for_Trump, and other false U.S. personas to organize a series of coordinated rallies in Florida. The rallies were collectively referred to as "Florida Goes Trump" and held on August 20, 2016. a. In or around August 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used false U.S. personas to communicate with Trump Campaign staff involved in local community outreach about the "Florida Goes Trump" rallies. b. Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased advertisements on Facebook and Instagram to promote the "Florida Goes Trump" rallies. c. Defendants and their co-conspirators also used false U.S. personas to contact multiple grassroots groups supporting then-candidate Trump in an unofficial capacity. Many of these groups agreed to participate in the "Florida Goes Trump" rallies and serve as local coordinators. d. Defendants and their co-conspirators also used false U.S. personas to ask real U.S. persons to participate in the "Florida Goes Trump" rallies. Defendants and their co-conspirators asked certain of these individuals to perform tasks at the rallies. For example, Defendants and their co-conspirators asked one U.S. person to build a cage on a flatbed truck and another U.S. person to wear a costume portraying Clinton in a prison uniform. Defendants and their co-conspirators paid these individuals to complete the requests. 56. After the rallies in Florida, Defendants and their co-conspirators used false U.S. personas to organize and coordinate U.S. political rallies supporting then-candidate Trump in New York and Pennsylvania. Defendants and their co-conspirators used the same techniques to build and promote these rallies as they had in Florida, including: buying Facebook advertisements; paying U.S. persons to participate in, or perform certain tasks at, the rallies; and communicating with real U.S. persons and grassroots organizations supporting then-candidate Trump. 57. After the election of Donald Trump in or around November 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used false U.S. personas to organize and coordinate U.S. political rallies in support of then president-elect Trump, while simultaneously using other false U.S. personas to organize and coordinate U.S. political rallies protesting the results of the 2016 presidential election. For example, in or around November 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators organized a rally in New York through one ORGANIZATION-controlled group designed to "show your support for President-Elect Donald Trump" held on or about November 12, 2016. At the same time, Defendants and their co-conspirators, though another ORGANIZATION-controlled group, organized a rally in New York called "Trump is NOT my President" held on or about November 12, 2016. Similarly, Defendants and their co-conspirators organized a rally entitled "Charlotte Against Trump" in Charlotte, North Carolina, held on or about November 19, 2016. Destruction of Evidence 58. In order to avoid detection and impede investigation by U.S. authorities of Defendants' operations, Defendants and their co-conspirators deleted and destroyed data, including emails, social media accounts, and other evidence of their activities. a. Beginning in or around June 2014, and continuing into June 2015, public reporting began to identify operations conducted by the ORGANIZATION in the United States. In response, Defendants and their co-conspirators deleted email accounts used to conduct their operations. b. Beginning in or around September 2017, U.S. social media companies, starting with Facebook, publicly reported that they had identified Russian expenditures on their platforms to fund political and social advertisements. Facebook's initial disclosure of the Russian purchases occurred on or about September 6, 2017, and included a statement that Facebook had "shared [its] findings with US authorities investigating these issues." c. Media reporting on or about the same day as Facebook's disclosure referred to Facebook working with investigators for the Special Counsel's Office o the U.S. Department of Justice, which had been charged with investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. d. Defendants and their co-conspirators thereafter destroyed evidence for the purpose of impeding the investigation. On or about September 13, 2017, KAVERZINA wrote in an email to a family member: "We had a slight crisis here at work: the FBI busted our activity (not a joke). So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues." KAVERZINA further wrote, "I created all these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people." Overt Acts 59. I furtherance of the Conspiracy and to effect its illegal object, Defendants and their co-conspirators committed the following overt acts in connection with the staging of U.S. political rallies, as well as those as set forth in paragraphs 1 through 7, 9, though 27, and 29 through 58, which are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as though fully set forth herein. 60. On or about June 1, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators created and purchased Facebook advertisements for their "March for Trump" rally. 61. On or about June 4, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used allforusa@yahoo.com, the email address of a false U.S. persona, to send out press releases for the "March for Trump" rally to New York media outlets. 62. On or about June 23, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the Facebook account registered under a false U.S. persona "Matt Skiber" to contact a real U.S. person to serve as a recruiter for the "March for Trump" rally, offering to "give you money to print posters and get a megaphone." 63. On or about June 24, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased advertisements on Facebook to promote the "Support Hillary. Save American Muslims" rally. 64. On or about July 5, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators ordered posters for the "Support Hillary. Save American Muslims." Rally, including the poster with the quote attributed to Clinton that read "I think Sharia Law will be a powerful new direction of freedom." 65. On or about July 8, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators communicated with a real U.S. person about the posters they had ordered for the "Support Hillary. Save American Muslims" rally. 66. On or about July 12, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators created and purchased Facebook advertisements for the "Down With Hillary" rally in New York. 67. On or about July 23, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the email address of a false U.S. persona, joshmilton024@gmail.com, to send out press releases to over thirty media outlets promoting the "Down With Hillary" rally at Trump Tower in New York City. 68. On or about July 28, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators posted a series of tweets through the false U.S. persona account @March_for_Trump stating that "[w]e're currently planning a series of rallies across the state of Florida" and seeking volunteers to assist. 69. On or about August 2, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the false U.S. persona "Matt Skiber" Facebook account to send a private message to a real Facebook account, "Florida for Trump," set up to assist then-candidate Trump in the state of Florida. In the first message, Defendants and their co-conspirators wrote: Hi there! I'm a member of Being Patriotic online community. Listen, we've got an idea. Florida is still a purple state and we need to paint it red. If we lose Florida, we lose America. We can't let it happen, right? What about organizing a YUGE pro-Trump flash mob in every Florida town? We are currently reaching out to local activists and we've got the folks who are okay to be in charge of organizing their events almost everywhere in FL. However, we still need your support. What do you think about that? Are you in? 70. On or about August 2, 2016, and August 3, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through the use of a stolen identity of a real U.S. person, T.W., sent emails to certain grassroots groups located in Florida that stated in part: My name is [T.W.] and I represent a conservative patriotic community named as "Being Patriotic." . . . So we're gonna organize a flash mob across Florida to support Mr. Trump. We clearly understand that the elections winner will be predestined by purple states. And we must win Florida. . . . We got a lot of volunteers in ~25 locations and it's just the beginning. We're currently choosing venues for location and recruiting more activists. This is why we ask you to spread this info and participate in the flash mob. 71. On or about August 4, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators created and purchased Facebook advertisements for the "Florida Goes Trump" rally. The advertisements reached over 59,000 Facebook users in Florida, and over 8,300 Facebook users responded to the advertisements by clicking on it, which routed users to the ORGANIZATION's "Being Patriotic" page. 72. Beginning on or about August 5, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the false U.S. persona @March_for_Trump Twitter account to recruit and later pay a real U.S. person to wear a costume portraying Clinton in a prison uniform at a rally in West Palm Beach. 73. Beginning on or about August 11, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the false U.S. persona "Matt Skiber" Facebook account to recruit a real U.S. person to acquire signs and a costume depicting Clinton in a prison uniform. 74. On or about August 15, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators received an email at one of their false U.S. persona accoutns from a real U.S. person, a Florida-based political activist identified as the "Chair for the Trump Campaign" in a particular Florida county. The activist identified two additional sites in Florida for possible rallies. Defendants and their co-conspirators subsequently used their false U.S. persona accounts to communicate with the activist about logistics and an additional rally in Florida. 75. On or about August 15, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used a false U.S. persona Instagram account connected to the ORGANIZATION-created group "Tea Party News" to purchase advertisements for the "Florida Goes Trump" rally. 76. On or about August 18, 2016, the real "Florida for Trump" Facebook account responded to the false U.S. persona "Matt Skiber" account with instructions to contact a member of the Trump Campaign ("Campaign Official 1") involved in the campaign's Florida operations and provided Campaign Official 1's email address at the campaign domain donaldtrump.com. On approximately the same day, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the email address of a false U.S. persona, joshmilton024@gmail.com, to send an email to Campaign Official 1 at that donaldtrump.com email account, which read in part: Hello [Campaign Official 1], [w]e are organizing a state-wide event in Florida on August, 20 to support Mr. Trump. Let us introduce ourselves first. "Being Patriotic" is a grassroots conservative online movement trying to unite people offline. . . . [W]e gained a huge lot of followers and decided to somehow help Mr. Trump get elected. You know, simple yelling on the Internet is not enough. There should be real action. We organized rallies in New York before. Now we're focusing on purple states such as Florida. The email also identified thirteen "confirmed locations" in Florida for the rallies and requested the campaign provide "assistance in each location." 77. On or about August 18, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators sent money via interstate wire to another real U.S. person recruited by the ORGANIZATION, using one of their false U.S. personas, to build a cage large enough to hold an actress depicting Clinton in a prison uniform. 78. On or about August 19, 2016, a supporter of the Trump Campaign sent a message to the ORGANIZATION-controlled "March for Trump" Twitter account about a member of the Trump Campaign ("Campaign Official 2") who was involved in the campaign's Florida operations and provided Campaign Official 2's email address at the domain donaldtrump.com. On or about the same day, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the false U.S. persona joshmilton024@gmail.com account to send an email to Campaign Official 2 at that donaldtrump.com email account. 79. On or about August 19, 2016, the real "Florida for Trump" Facebook account sent another message to the false U.S. persona "Matt Skiber" account to contact a member of the Trump Campaign ("Campaign Official 3") involved in the campaign's Florida operations. On or about August 20, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the "Matt Skiber" Facebook account to contact Campaign official 3. 80. On or about August 19, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the false U.S. persona "Matt Skiber" accounts to write to the real U.S person affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization who previously had advised the false persona to focus on "purple states like Colorado, Virginia & Florida." Defendants and their co-conspirators told that U.S. person, "We were thinking about your recommendation to focus on purple states and this is what we're organizing in FL." Defendants and their co-conspirators then sent a link to the Facebook event page for the Florida rallies and asked that person to send the information to Tea Party members in Florida. The real U.S person stated that he/she would share among his/her own social media contacts, who would pass on the information. 81. On or about August 24, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators updated an internal ORGANIZATION list of over 100 real U.S. persons contracted through ORGANIZATION- controlled false U.S persona accounts and tracked to monitor recruitment efforts and requests. The list included contact information for the U.S persons, a summary of their political views, and activities they had been ask to perform by Defendants and their co-conspirators. 82. On or about August 31, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, using a U.S persona, spoke by telephone with a real U.S person affiliated with a grassroots group in Florida. That individual requested assistance in organizing a rally in Miami, Florida. On or about September 9, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators sent the group an interstate wire to pay for materials needed for the Florida rally on or about September 11, 2016. 83. On or about August 31, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators created and purchased Facebook advertisements for a rally they organized and scheduled in New York for September 11, 2016. 84. On or about September 9, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through a false U.S. persona, contacted the real U.S. person who has impersonated Clinton at the West Palm Beach rally. Defendants and their co-conspirators sent that U.S. person money via interstate wire as an inducement to travel from New York and to dress in costume at another rally they organized. 85. On or about September 22, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators created and purchased Facebook advertisements for a series of rallies they organized in Pennsylvania called "Miners for Trump" and schedule for October 2, 2016. All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 271. COUNT TWO (Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Bank Fraud) 86. Paragraphs 1 through 7, 9 through 27, and 29 through 85 of this Indictment are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein. 87. From in or around 2016 through present, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Defendants INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC, DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OGLY ASLANOV, and GLEB IGBOREVICH VASILCHENKO, together with others known and unknown for the Grand Jury, knowingly and intentionally conspired to commit certain offenses against the United Sates, to wit: a. to knowingly, having devised and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud, and to obtain money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promised, transmit and cause to be transmitted, by means of wire communications and interstate and foreign commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme and artifice, in violation of Title 18, United Sates Code Section 1343; and b/ to knowingly execute and attempt to execute a scheme and artifice to defraud a federally insured financial institution, and to obtain monies, funds, credits, assets, securities and other property from said financial institution by mans of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344. Object of the Conspiracy 88. The conspiracy had its object the opening of accounts under false names at U.S. financial institutions and a digital payments company in order to receive and send money into and out of the United States to support the ORGANIZATION's operations in the United State and for self-enrichment. Manner and Means of the Conspiracy 89. Beginning in at least 2016, Defendants of their co-conspirators used, without lawful authority, the social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of real U.S. persons without their knowledge or consent. Using these means of stolen identification, Defendants and their co-conspirators opened the accounts at a federally insured U.S. financial institution ("Bank 1"), including the following accounts: Approximate Date Account Name Means of Identification June 16, 2016T.B.Social Security Number Date of Birth July 21, 2016A.R.Social Security Number Date of Birth July 27, 2016T.C.Social Security Number Date of Birth August 2, 2016T.W.Social Security Number Date of Birth 90. Defendants and their co-conspirators also used, without lawful authority, the social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of real U.S. persons to open accounts at PayPal, a digital payments company, including the following accounts: Approximate Date Initials of Identity Theft Victim Means of Identification June 16, 2016T.B.Social Security Number and Date of Birth July 21, 2016A.R.Social Security Number and Date of Birth August 2, 2016T.W.Social Security Number and Date of Birth November 11, 2016J.W.Social Security Number and Date of Birth January 18, 2017V.S.Social Security Number and Date of Birth Defendants and their co-conspirators also established other accounts at PayPal in the names of false and fictitious U.S. personas. Some personas used to register PayPal accounts were the same as the false U.S. personas used in connection with the ORGANIZATION's social media accounts. 91. Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased credit card and bank account numbers from online sellers for the unlawful purposed of evading security measures at PayPal, which used account numbers to verify a user's identity. Many of the bake account numbers purchased by Defendants and their co-conspirators were created using the stolen identities of real U.S. persons. After purchasing accounts, Defendants and their co-conspirators submitted these bake account numbers to PayPal. 92. On or about the dates identified below, Defendants and their co-conspirators obtained and used the following fraudulent bake account numbers for the purpose of evading PayPal's security measures: Approximate Date Card/Bank Account NumberFinancial Institution Email Used to Acquire Account Number June 13, 2016xxxxxxxxx8902Bank 2wemakeweather@gmail.com June 16, 2016Xxxxxx8731Bank 1allforusa@yahoo.com July 21, 2016Xxxxxx2215Bank 3Antwan_8@yahoo.com August 2, 2016Xxxxxx5707Bank 1xtimwaltersx@gmail.com October 18, 2016Xxxxxxxx5792Bank 4unitedvetsofamerica@gmail.com October 18, 2016Xxxxxxxx4743Bank 4patriotus@gmail.com November 11, 2016Xxxxxxxxx2427Bank 4beautifullelly@gmail.com November 11, 2016 Xxxxxxxxx7587Bank 5 staceyredneck@gmail.com November 11, 2016Xxxxxxxx7590Bank 5ihatecrimel@gmail.com November 11, 2016Xxxxxxxxx1780Bank 6staceyredneck@gmail.com November 11, 2016Xxxxxxxxx1762Bank 6ihatecrimel@gmail.com December 13, 2016Xxxxxxxxxx8168Bank 6thetaylorbrooks@aol.com March 30, 2017Xxxxxxxx6316Bank 3wokeaztec@outlook.com March 30, 2017Xxxxxxx9512Bank 3wokeaztec@outlook.com 93. Additionally, and in order to maintain their accounts at PayPal and elsewhere, including online cryptocurrency exchanges, Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased and obtains false identification documents, including fake U.S. driver's licenses. Some false identification documents obtained by Defendants and their co-conspirators used the stolen identities of real U.S. persons, including persons T.W. and J.W. 94. After opening the accounts at Bank 1 and Paypal, Defendants and their co-conspirators used them to receive and send money for a variety of purposes, including to pay for certain ORGANIZATION expenses. Some PayPal accounts were used to purchase advertisements on Facebook promoting ORGANIZATION-controlled social media accounts. The accounts were also used to pay other ORGANIZATION- related expenses such as buttons, flags, and banners for rallies. 95. Defendants and their co-conspirators also used the accounts to receive money from real U.S. persons in exchange for posting promotions and advertisements on the ORGANIZATION- controlled social media pages. Defendants and their co-conspirators typically charged certain U.S. merchants and U.S. social media sites between 25 and 50 U.S. dollars per post for promotional content on their popular false U.S. persona accounts, including Being Patriotic, Defend the 2nd, and Blacktivist. All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349. COUNTS THREE THROUGH EIGHT (Aggravated Identity Theft) 96. Paragraphs 1 through 7, 9 through 27, and 29 through 85, and 89 through 95 of this Indictment are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein. 97. On or about the dates specified below, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Defendants INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC, DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OGLY ASLOV, GLEB IGOREVICH VASILCHENKO, IRINA VIKTOVNA KAVERZINA, and VLADIMIR did knowingly transfer, possess, and use, without lawful authority, a means of identification or another person during and in relation to a felony violation enumerated in 18 U.S.C. & 1028A(c), to wit, wire fraud, and bank fraud, knowing that the means of identification belonged to another real person: CountApproximate Date Initials of Identity Theft Victim Means of Identification 3June 16, 2016T.B.Social Security Number and Date of Birth 4July 21, 2016A.R.Social Security Number and Date of Birth 5July 27, 2016T.C.Social Security Number and Date of Birth 6August 2, 2016 T.W.Social Security Number and Date of Birth 7January 18, 2017V.S.Social Security Number and Date of Birth 8May 19, 2017J.W.Social Security Number and Date of Birth All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A (a) (1) and 2 FORFEITURE ALLEGATION 98. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2, notice is hereby given to Defendants that the United States will seek forfeiture as part of any sentence in accordance with Title 18, United Sates Code, Section 981(a)(1)(C) and 982(a)(2), and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c), in the event of Defendants' under Count Two of this Indictment. Upon conviction of the offense charged in Count Two, Defendants INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC, DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OGLY ASLANOV, and GLEB OGOREVICH VASILCHENKO shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constituted or is derived from proceeds traceable to the offense of conviction. Upon conviction of these offenses charged in Counts three through eight, Defendants INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC, DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OGLY ASLANOV, GLEB IGOREVICH VASILCHENKO, IRINA VIKTOROVNA KAVERNIZA, and VLADIMIR VENKOV shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the offense(s) of conviction. Notice is further given that upon conviction, the United States intends to seek a judgment against each Defendant for a sum of money representing the property described in this paragraph, as applicable to each Defendant (to be offset by the forfeiture of any property). Substitute Assets 99. In any of the property described above as being subject to forfeiture, as a result of any act or omission of any defendant - a. cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence b. has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third party; c. has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the court; d. has been substantially diminished in value; or e. has been commingled with other property that cannot be subdivided without difficulty; it is the intent of the United States of America, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(b) and Title 28, United Sates Code, Section 2461(c), incorporating Title 21, United Sates Code, Section 853, to seek forfeiture of any other property of said Defendant. (18 U.S.C. && 981 (a)(1)(C) and 982; 28 U.S.C. & 2461(1)) (Robert Mueller Signature) Robert Mueller, III Special Council U.S. Department of Justice

اتهمت الولايات المتحدة 13 مواطنا روسيا وثلاث شركات روسية بالتدخل في الانتخابات الأمريكية عام 2016. وفيما يلي النص الكامل للائحة الاتهام التي أعلنها فريق المحقق الخاص روبرت مولر.

تحقيق روسيا-ترامب: النص الكامل للائحة اتهام مولر

Police Scotland said a patrol car was damaged and two officers received minor injuries at Asda in Glenrothes. Richard Flynn, 40, faces four charges of assault to injury, one of assault and breach of the peace, and two of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner. At Falkirk Sheriff Court, he made no plea and was remanded in custody.

مثل رجل أمام المحكمة بعد حادث زُعم أنه شمل بفأس في سوبر ماركت فايف.

رجل في المحكمة بعد حادثة "الفأس" في سوبر ماركت جلينروث

It lost 120.9m euros (£97.4m; $157.4m) in the first half of its financial year compared with a net loss of 99.5m euros in the same period a year earlier. Visitors to Disneyland Paris also fell, but those who went spent more on average, helping revenues rise 1%. The firm said the "challenging economic environment" had affected attendance. There was a particular drop in the number of people from the UK and Italy who stayed overnight at its hotels. But Euro Disney pointed out that its 20th year celebrations, which began on 1 April, presented an important growth opportunity. The second half of the year is also usually more important for revenue as it includes the high season.

زادت الخسائر بنسبة 22٪ في شركة Euro Disney بسبب ارتفاع الأجور وتكلفة التجديدات التي تمت قبل الذكرى العشرين لتأسيسها هذا العام.

يورو ديزني تسجل خسائر أعلى

Tha Carter IV, the follow up to his 2008 breakthrough album Tha Carter III, will be available on 15 December. The New Orleans rapper, real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr, also plans to release his much talked about rap-rock album Rebirth before the end of 2009. Birdman, CEO of Wayne's label Cash Money Records told MTV: "Both will be out before 2010. We're looking to take over the game completely, flood the market. The Grammys are ours next year." Tha Carter III sold more than one million copies in the first week it was released in the US last year. He debuted tracks from Rebirth at a series of gigs in London in early October.

أكد ليل واين تفاصيل إصدار ألبومه الجديد.

يؤكد ليل واين تفاصيل LP الجديدة

By Christopher SleightBBC Scotland news Using a system outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO), what can we tell about the state of Scotland's Covid-19 epidemic? When it comes to judging the level of Covid-19 transmission within a community, the WHO uses a seven tier scale ranging from "no active cases", all the way up to a "very high incidence of locally-acquired cases" that are also "widely dispersed". The Scottish government has previously indicated it wants to get a "moderate" level of community transmission before significantly relaxing any restrictions. So how far away is Scotland from this goal? Cases per 100,000 still indicate 'high' levels of transmission The WHO advises governments to look at their weekly confirmed cases per 100,000 people and then average the figure out over a 14-day period. By this measure, Scotland had a rate of 105 cases per 100,000 on 24 February. This puts the country firmly in the middle of the WHO's CT3 level - a high incidence of community transmission - and well above the "moderate" threshold. There's been a sustained fall in this figure since the middle of January, but the decline does now appear to be slowing. The last time Scotland was below 50 cases per 100,000 was at the beginning of October. It's difficult to compare this rate with the first outbreak in the spring as there was no mass testing earlier in the pandemic. The percentage of positive tests has almost reached 'moderate' levels The Scottish government measures the positivity rate by dividing the number of positive tests per day by the total number of tests carried out. The 14-day average on 24 February was 5.2% - still in the "high incidence" category, but only just above the 5% threshold for "moderate" incidence. It's worth pointing out that WHO's preferred way of measuring positivity is through "sentinel surveillance", or random community testing, which is not how the Scottish government measures it. However, the organisation lists overall test positivity as an additional measure if a comprehensive testing system is in place. Death rate shows sharp decline The WHO says governments should look at the number of weekly deaths "attributed" to Covid-19 per 100,000 people and average them out over 14 days. According to this measure, Scotland experienced "very high" levels of community transmission from 15 January. The rate reached a peak on 3 February and has now gone below the threshold that indicates a "high" incidence of transmission. A death rate of two per 100,000 people or less needs to be achieved to indicate "moderate" levels. This chart counts deaths in Scotland within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19. If the wider definition of all death certificates mentioning the virus were used, the rate would be slightly higher. The full lockdown in the spring ended on 28 May, although the easing of restrictions was phased over several weeks during the summer. Hospital admissions are also dropping steeply Figures on Covid-19 hospital admissions are currently available up to 18 February, when the 14-day average of weekly admissions was 11.4. This figure has more than halved over the last month. The rate is still in the WHO's "high" level, but it's close to the threshold of 10 cases per 100,00, indicating a "moderate" level of transmission. What's the risk level in Scotland? The WHO use a risk uses something called a "risk matrix" which factors in both the state of an epidemic in a country and the local capacity to respond to the outbreak. So for instance, if Covid transmission is at a moderate level, but there is very limited testing or hospital capacity, then the risk may still be high. At the highest level, the WHO considers the epidemic "uncontrolled", with an overwhelmed healthcare system and deaths spiralling. If Scotland's response can currently be judged as "adequate" that would put the country in roughly the middle of the risk scale. This is where the organisation recommends that schools and businesses can open up, with limits remaining on social and mass gatherings and home working still encouraged. But given the recent high case and death rates, it's likely Scotland was closer to the top end of the risk scale in January and early February. With signs that the decline in cases is now slowing, this may have helped persuade the first minister to choose a slow and cautious route out of lockdown. What about vaccinations? So far, 1,515,980 people in Scotland have received their first dose of either the Pfizer or Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which is about a third of the population aged 16 and over. And the good news is there are early signs that even just receiving the first dose has a significant impact on preventing serious illness. Ms Sturgeon says the aim is to have everyone in this group offered a first dose of the vaccine by the end of July. But crucially good progress is also being made vaccinating the highest risk groups in Scotland - those who are most likely to become seriously ill or die with Covid-19. The priority groups were set out by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The virus was suppressed to low levels in the summer entirely through public health and social restrictions because there was no vaccine. This time the vaccine could be a useful tool if the Scottish government does want to take more risks and begin to open the country up faster. But for now there's every sign the government will stay on its "deliberately cautious" path, allowing the level of risk to drop to the lower end of the WHO's scale.

وحددت الوزيرة الأولى نيكولا ستورجيون الطريق "الحذر" لاسكتلندا للخروج من الإغلاق، وسيسترشد نهجها خلال الأشهر القليلة المقبلة بستة اختبارات، بما في ذلك الأدلة على أن الوباء في اسكتلندا تحت السيطرة.

كوفيد في اسكتلندا: ما هي حالة الوباء؟

By Johnny O'SheaBBC News There are "shoplifters and drug addicts everywhere", according to a retail worker in the high street, and extra police have been drafted in. The local MP has claimed St Austell has had a "disproportionate" number of people with drug and alcohol addictions housed in the town. Cornwall Council has disputed this but, working with the police and the Safer St Austell Partnership, is a fortnight into a six-week programme targeting the problems. And there are signs there have already been improvements. When the BBC visited, the town centre was relatively busy with shoppers visiting national chain stores, phone shops, charity shops and bargain stores - and walking past several empty ones. Beside Holy Trinity Church at one end of Fore Street, a group was sitting on the granite stones and grass beside the war memorial. When they got up to leave, the ground was left littered with needles. Jodie Richards, 27, set up the petition after seeing images of people using needles "500 yards from my front door" and feeling compelled to take action. "The town is in a terrible place and everyone is exasperated," she said. "It's so sad and there has been a significant increase in the last six months. "Nobody is taking ownership of the issue and I just want the right people with the skills and experience to take action, before the wrong people do." The petition has been signed by more than 6,000 people in a week. "It's not even daily, it's hourly," a shop worker who did not want to be named said, describing the shoplifting and anti-social behaviour she has seen. She recalled her horror when her four-year-old son told her he had seen a man injecting himself in the churchyard, and the frequent examples of people shouting abuse at passers by. "Everyone is petrified. One hundred million percent it is getting worse," she said. "Nobody is standing up to them." It had been hoped the creation of the £75m White River Place shopping centre in 2009 would regenerate the town but it has failed to attract high-end retail names. The nearby Eden Project would normally attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the area but, in line so many other tourist attractions, it was closed for more than two months because of the coronavirus pandemic and, even though it has since reopened, announced more than 200 job losses earlier in July. Debbie and David Delara run Daisy Dukes, a Community Interest Company, a shop that is now also running a community larder near the church. Debbie said that, during the coronavirus outbreak, many of the people who came for help "have been left to their own devices and are now at their lowest point". Their business had never been involved with food before but they said they found "during the pandemic we had people knocking on our doors saying they were hungry". St Austell MP Steve Double has blamed the council for housing a "disproportionate" number of people in the town with drug and alcohol dependencies. He has held meetings in the past week to address "the current unacceptable situation and demanded urgent action be taken, as well as the need to address the underlying issue regarding the number of people with complex needs that Cornwall Council place in the town". During the lockdown many rough sleepers with addictions in Cornwall were housed in holiday parks but since resorts have reopened they have begun to be placed in towns where they have connections. The council said four people had been taken to St Austell from the decommissioned holiday parks, and all were put into supported accommodation. It has also found 12 additional beds in the town for rough sleepers since the pandemic started and has specialist outreach workers who have been targeting those who were not in treatment. However, the council said those services have been "particularly stretched throughout the emergency Covid pandemic response". Eighteen months ago, under pressure to make savings, the council's drug and alcohol action base in St Austell was closed down. Kim Hager, joint commissioning manager with the Safer Cornwall Partnership and Cornwall Council, said: "There has been a perfect storm and St Austell is not the only area impacted. "There has been very aggressive targeting by organised crime groups, and a marketing of crack cocaine and other new dangerous drugs that can really destabilise those receiving treatment. "Many of those targeted by the gangs are vulnerable people who did not do well in isolation during lockdown. Public injecting is a new problem, and people being threatened and exploited by organised crime groups. "Our efforts are not being helped by people having their pictures published. It exposes them to greater risk and makes it harder to engage in help. "Drug supply did not stop during lockdown, it just became more creative. "The geography of St Austell means often people come into the town from outside, which can make them more difficult to engage with than in towns like Penzance and Truro." Jay, 58, is one person who has found himself back on the streets, having been in a shelter in St Austell during lockdown. "Tonight is my last night at the shelter, but Dave and Debbie (from Daisy Dukes) have given me a tent and sleeping bag so I have got something," he said. "I've got an idea where I will go but it's not a good thing just moving around because someone is kicking you away." Harbour Housing operates eight properties in and around St Austell, with space for 80 residents who would otherwise be homeless and are often living with addictions. As well as the facilities that offer round the clock support, there are also a number of independent halfway houses. These include pubs in the centre of the town in which people can be housed when they have nowhere else to go but do not need the same level of tailored care. Two of the pubs are on either side of a churchyard where many of the problems with open drug use and anti-social behaviour have been reported. Percy, 58, has been placed in a room above the Queens Head pub for several months and said his life was in "limbo". His partner has been one of the people taken off the streets and given a bed in shared accommodation during the pandemic. "I'm not allowed to visit her, and she's not allowed to visit me," Percy said. "I'm trying to sort my life out but I'm in limbo. I really really don't know what to do." Cornwall Council said there were more than 2,500 opiate and crack cocaine users in Cornwall, with more than 60% in treatment. This compared favourably with a national figure of 46% engagement, according to Public Health England. The Safer St Austell partnership is carrying out an "intensive six week response" to problems in the town centre, and providing two additional needle bins. It also wants to open a building in the town where people can get "confidential advice, information, support and treatment for drug and alcohol problems". Extra Devon and Cornwall Police officers have been visiting the town since receiving "reports of groups congregating and fighting, assaults, public drug use, shoplifting and people defecating in public places", Supt Sharon Donald said. A number of arrests have been made in the past week, and from the start of August an officer will be dedicated to the town centre. "I've been here 20 minutes and three members of the public have come to me and said they hope we can sort it all out," PC Jim Stein said as he patrolled with a St Austell based PCSO with local knowledge of the streets and individuals. "People were restricted in their movements under Covid lockdown and lots of homeless were put up in holiday parks. "Now it's been lifted they are spreading their wings again and congregating in town." The extra police patrols appear to have helped bring about improvements in the town already - but some locals would say improvement is definitely needed. Ivor Stone, 51, is being housed in a room in the White Hart, having himself been homeless. "I've been here 50 years and I've never seen it this bad," he said. He said one day he returned to his room to find somebody had left their excrement all over the outside steps with needles alongside. "The other day there was a bloke off his head throwing parsnips at people on Fore Street. It's never ending," he added. "It's always been known as St Awful but it's beyond that now."

أدى تعاطي المخدرات بشكل علني وزيادة السلوك المعادي للمجتمع إلى "الغضب" لدى سكان سانت أوستل. أدت الصور الرسومية على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي إلى إعداد عريضة "لمعالجة مشكلة الهيروين رسميًا". ذهبنا إلى أكبر مدينة في كورنوال للتحدث مع الناس حول الوضع.

سكان سانت أوستيل "غاضبون" من تعاطي الهيروين بشكل مفتوح

By Claire BatesBBC News Magazine When Stewart Cooney died at a nursing home in Leeds, only a handful of carers and a social worker took notice. But Dougie Eastwood, a trainer for the care service running Stewart's nursing home, was upset to think he would not be mourned. "We're in the world for such a short time, no-one deserves to go to the grave without being recognised," he says. "I asked one of the nurses about Stewart and she told me he had been in World War Two. He was in the Royal Artillery and served in Egypt and Sicily. It didn't feel right someone who served his country should pass by unnoticed." Cooney, described by carers as "lovely" and "cheeky", was 95 when he died. His wife Betty passed away in 2008 and the couple's adopted son died in 2014. "He would talk about his wife a lot, he called her Barnsley Betty, as that was where she was from," says Janine, a carer who worked with Cooney from 2012 to 2014. "He had dementia so he would sometimes get a little confused and think he had been out doing things with them. "He was always pleasant and loved to sing. He would sing whole Frank Sinatra songs and get us to join in." He was moved to a nursing home in March this year, and died three months later. Who was Stewart Cooney? According to the National Association of Funeral Directors, only a tiny proportion of funerals - no more than 1% - are attended by no family or friends. "However, there are occasions when someone dies without family or friends to mourn them", says the NAFD's Deborah Smith. "The funeral director will often attend in these instances, together with someone such as a social worker or carer." Funeral celebrant Lynda Gomersall thinks the number of such services is rising on account of Britain's rapidly ageing population. "Funeral directors I work with say they are becoming more common because people are living longer and are outliving their families," she says. "It also becomes harder to track down friends and relatives if the person suffers from dementia later in life." Dr Rebecca Nowland, from Bolton University, who has studied the impact of loneliness in Britain, notes that older people "can get forgotten". "I think this is partly due to our modern lifestyle. We are so busy now and don't have the cross-generational connections we used to have," she says. She thinks the reason people feel deeply uncomfortable about the idea of a "lonely funeral" is because - rightly or wrongly - we often judge our own worth by our value to others. "As a social species recognition by others is important to us: it is something we seek out and crave. We value other people's opinions of us greatly as it helps us to feel connected to others. In addition, the absence of this or the rejection by other people is a very uncomfortable state to be in." This helps explain the coda to Stewart Cooney's story. Dougie Eastwood got in touch with the 269 Royal Artillery battery, who researched his military background and put a call-out for people to attend his service. Eastwood also spoke to the local newspaper and appealed for people to attend via social media. He was amazed by the response, with 40 phone calls offering support from flowers to military escorts. "I'm humbled by how the army family and local community have come together," he says. One of Stewart's former carers Janine, decided to go after finding out about the funeral on Facebook. "I think he would have really liked it, especially with the military people coming," she says. "He would have liked to have chatted with them - he was so proud of his time in the army." Lynda Gomersall offered her services after seeing the appeal on Facebook. She spoke to Cooney's carers and looked through old records to write the eulogy. "I don't think anybody should go without recognition, especially soldiers," she says. Originally around three people were expected at Stewart Cooney's funeral. Instead, more than 200 turned up and those who didn't fit in the crematorium watched on screens outside. The coffin was piped into the crematorium by a Scottish piper, in homage to Cooney's Scottish roots. Soldiers from a number of regiments were present and the Last Post was played. "There were at least nine standards and three buglers who were in their thick red ceremonial uniforms with pointed helmets. Four Territorial Army soldiers flanked the coffin," Gomersall says. "Some long lost relatives even turned up including his sister." The coffin left the crematorium to Frank Sinatra's My Way and was placed in the hearse alongside a floral wreath depicting his army number. The cortege to Pudsey Cemetery in West Yorkshire included 66 motorbikes from the Royal British Legion Riders. "It was a wonderful day. I hope we did Stewart proud." Find out more Follow Claire Bates on Twitter @batesybates Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook

توفي ستيوارت كوني، وهو من قدامى المحاربين يبلغ من العمر 95 عامًا، بعد وفاة زوجته وابنه، وكان من المقرر أن يحضر "جنازة وحيدة" لم يحضرها سوى مقدم الرعاية والأخصائي الاجتماعي. في صحيفة محلية

الرجل الذي ليس له من يحزن عليه

Low Value Consignment Relief, which allowed low value items to be sent to the UK tax free, ended on 1 April. Its ending has led to some mail order companies announcing redundancies. Malcolm Nutley said the department had already been contacted by some of those losing their job and he expected more to come forward in the coming months. He said measures were being put in place to deal with the expected rise. Unemployment figures for Guernsey at the end of March, which would not include any of those made redundant due to the end of LVCR, were down by 16 on the February figures. There were 416 people out of work at the end of last month, representing 1.3% of the working population, a rise of 115 compared with the same month in 2011. In Alderney there were 21 people registered as unemployed.

قال كبير مسؤولي الضمان الاجتماعي إن التأثير الكامل لنهاية LVCR على مستويات البطالة في غيرنسي لا يمكن تقديره بدقة بعد.

فقدان الوظائف في غيرنسي بسبب LVCR "غير واضح"

A revised timetable will operate between Norden park-and-ride, Corfe Castle, Harman's Cross and Swanage from Friday evening. The Swanage Jazz Festival and the Purbeck Youth Festival are expected to attract a surge in visitors. On Friday lunchtime, the Olympic torch passes through Corfe Castle and Swanage. Diesel and steam services will alternate every 40 minutes, with the enhanced service starting from Friday afternoon. The last service on Friday, Saturday and Sunday leaves Swanage at 23:15 BST and Corfe Castle at 23:40.

سيتم تشغيل قطارات بخارية إضافية على خط السكة الحديد التاريخي سواناج في نهاية هذا الأسبوع خلال ثلاثة أيام مزدحمة بالأحداث.

تواجه القطارات البخارية لسكة حديد سواناج عطلة نهاية أسبوع مزدحمة

By Dany MitzmanTurin There is a myth in Turin that the gaze of Leonardo da Vinci in this self-portrait is so intense that those who observe it are imbued with great strength. Some say it was this magical power, not the cultural and economic value of the drawing, that led to it being secretly moved from Turin and taken to Rome during World War Two - heaven forbid it should ever fall into Hitler's hands and give him more power. Whatever the reason, this was the only work from the entire collection of precious drawings and manuscripts to be removed from the Royal Library in Turin at the time. The library's current director, Giovanni Saccani, says nobody even knows exactly where it was hidden. "To prevent the Nazis from taking it, an intelligence operation saw it transported in absolute anonymity to Rome." Under such difficult circumstances, preservation was not properly considered, "nor did they have the same knowledge and techniques back then," says Saccani. "Naturally, this did not do its condition any good." Inside the Royal Library a pristine red carpet lines the stairs - we follow the steps down to a secure underground vault with reinforced doors. This purpose built caveau has been the home of Leonard's Self-Portrait, and thousands of other priceless drawings and manuscripts, since 1998. The picture's treatment today could not contrast more strikingly with the neglect it suffered during the first half of the 20th Century. The lighting is exclusively fibre optic - no natural light can enter this room - and the temperature is kept at a constant 20 degrees Celsius, the humidity at 55 per cent. The display cases are made of a type of glass which Saccani describes as "anti-everything", and the whole area is fitted with alarms and security cameras. Using a special preservation torch, Saccani shines some light onto the drawing's surface to demonstrate the extent of the damage known as foxing, when small reddish-brown spots or marks appear on ancient paper. "This case is particularly bad," he sighs - 200 years ago the foxing was less obvious. "On the bottom left of the drawing there was a red chalk inscription in Latin which said Leonardus Vincius, which has now completely disappeared." Since the damage is so extensive and the paper so fragile, restoration would be extremely complex. Exhaustive analysis and discussion by world experts in restoration has led to "the decision to maintain the status quo," says Saccani. And since coming to the caveau in 1998, the condition of the drawing has not deteriorated any further. "This comforts us because we know we are getting it right now. You have to remember it's a good 500 years old. The pictures we drew at school probably don't exist anymore and this was a drawing done on ordinary paper, so I think it's pretty extraordinary that we can still display such a masterpiece today." Equally extraordinary is the story of how this self-portrait ended up in Turin. It was part of a vast collection purchased in 1839 by King Carlo Alberto of Savoy. A passionate collector, he bought it from Giovanni Volpato, an art dealer and curator who had travelled extensively throughout Europe. How he came upon Leonardo's drawings is a mystery but it is known that he asked the king for the sum of 70,000 Piedmontese lire for the collection. "A doctor earned 1,000 lire a year at the time so it was an astronomical figure," smiles Saccani. "The king managed to get him down to 50,000 but it still took him eight years to pay for it in instalments." But Saccani says Volpato was not the ruthless businessman he might sound. "Volpato's aim wasn't simply financial because, in exchange for agreeing to give the king a discount, he asked to be allowed to become the unpaid curator of drawings in the Royal Library." And since then Turin has remained the home of the red chalk Self-Portrait. Is it really a self-portrait? Generally dated around 1515, some experts believe the picture corresponds more with Leonardo's style in the 1490s, yet the subject of the drawing is an old man. "He wasn't terribly keen on the idea of self-portraiture full stop," says James Hall, author of The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History - he doesn't believe the portrait was drawn by Leonardo. "He didn't much like the idea that the art work should be a portrayal of the artist. He wanted the art work to represent an ideal." Hall thinks this drawing has become famous at least partly because of the sheer lack of self-portraits by Leonardo. "People have latched onto this like the philosopher's stone and clung to it." But others are less sceptical. "I'm quite happy to believe it is a self-portrait but I think it's for each person to decide when they see the real object," says Liz Rideal, the author of two books on self-portraits and a lecturer at the National Portrait Gallery in London and Slade School of Fine Art. She says most people want to believe it is a genuine Leonardo "because he has this superman status… I think we are in awe of genius and therefore, if this is the self-portrait of a genius, then we want to see what he looked like." As director of the Royal Library, Giovanni Saccani is in no doubt: "It is a self-portrait… anyone who finds themselves standing in front of this drawing is struck dumb. The first thing they say when they recover is 'this is giving me the shivers'. The expressive power of this face is absolutely connected to an emotion and an ability that only Leonardo could possess." Leonardo's Self-Portrait is considered so valuable that it is subject to a state decree of immovability. It can only be moved with ministerial permission. In 2011 it was taken to the Reggia di Venaria Reale just outside Turin for an exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. "Transportation involved a special 'clima box' able to maintain the same air conditioning systems present here in the caveau," says Saccani. "This 'clima box' was then put inside a case, which was in turn placed in an outer casing, all of which was able to avoid vibration." The package was then driven with an armed escort and constantly monitored using remote technology. An extraordinarily complex, delicate and expensive undertaking, unlikely to be repeated very often in the future. Over the coming weeks, 50 people will be allowed into the Royal Library's caveau every hour from 09:00 to 18:00 to see the self-portrait - the temperature of the vault has been lowered slightly to compensate for the body heat that people will give off. Although there are more than 80 masterpieces on display in the King's Treasures exhibition - including further works by Leonardo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Perugino and Van Dyck - for most visitors, the highlight will be the rare chance to behold the face of the great Renaissance polymath. And they might also bear one final myth in mind - it is said that just before taking an exam, students would do their last-minute revision in the Royal Library above the vault. Legend has it that studying near Leonardo's genius can somehow rub off. Photographs courtesy of the Regional Management for the cultural and landscape heritage of Piedmont Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

يتم عرض واحدة من أشهر الصور الشخصية في العالم للجمهور بشكل نادر في مدينة تورينو شمال إيطاليا. لا يُعرف سوى القليل جدًا عن رسم الطباشير الأحمر الهش الذي يبلغ عمره 500 عام لليوناردو دافنشي، لكن البعض يعتقد أن له قوى غامضة.

وقد أخفى ليوناردو عن هتلر في حال منحه قوى سحرية

With the end-of-year deadline fast approaching, the Nigerian army was keen to show that progress was being made on the ground. We left the city of Maiduguri - the birthplace of the militants - in a convoy, heading towards some of the most dangerous territory on earth. Army jeeps mounted with heavy machine guns were at both the back and front of the convoy. Until a few months ago, travelling along the 25km (15-mile) road from Maiduguri to the town of Konduga would almost certainly invite attack. Now, it seemed relatively secure. But as one soldier told me: "It may look safe but that doesn't actually mean it is safe." We weaved along the paved road avoiding potholes that were in fact craters created by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). I saw ghost village after ghost village where mud-brick houses had been set on fire, their tin roofs pulled off. Many of the buildings were ridden with bullets. This is classic Boko Haram scorched-earth tactics. The insurgents raid villages - mostly at night or just before dawn - and then kill, rape, kidnap and loot before withdrawing. After half an hour of driving, we pulled into the small military base in Konduga. As we arrived, a handful of soldiers were posing for a quick group photograph. One of them was kneeling on the ground with his rifle pointing into the distance. Ali Mohammed, a fisherman near Konduga military base "You can't guarantee safety here, but you get used to it. There's nothing else we can do" I met Brigadier General Mohammed Aliyu, a jovial man. In the 1980s, he was training as a doctor. But, inspired by Gen Buhari - who briefly was a military ruler in Nigeria during the period - he quit medical school and signed up to the military. Thirty years later, his enthusiasm and respect for the now democratically elected leader were still palpable. Like many officers, Gen Aliyu believes President Buhari is intent on rebuilding the army, which was previously brought low by corruption and by what many saw as poor leadership. 'Casualties downplayed' In a report this year, the campaign group Amnesty International accused the military of carrying out atrocities. It said that 7,000 men and boys had died in military custody during the conflict. The army rejected the allegations as "spurious". Since the start of 2015, a large-scale military operation has pushed Boko Haram from a string of towns and villages. Hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa reportedly played a crucial role in the fighting. Gen Aliyu admitted there had been problems in the past. "I think earlier we were not giving them [Boko Haram] the significance we are giving them now," he said. "We thought there were small miscreants trying to do something and then they ended up surprising us. "But now we know who Boko Haram are and we're taking them by their horns." While the top brass are keen to put a positive spin on the progress, some of those in the lower ranks question the momentum. One soldier told me privately that the army was still seriously under-equipped and that officers were downplaying the army's casualties in the field. Boko Haram at a glance: Using football to tackle Boko Haram Why Boko Haram remains a threat Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists? Following a short classified military briefing, the army took us to what should have been a bustling market, just a few hundred metres from the base. Apart from a handful of people, it was deserted. Dozens of shops had been burnt and looted. A mosque had been shot up, and on the main road lay the mangled metal carcass of a van that had been laden with explosives in a Boko Haram suicide attack. The attack was foiled by soldiers who managed to shoot dead the bomber before he rammed their checkpoint. There were a few signs of reconstruction: piles of cinder blocks were sitting beside the road. Some of the government buildings were getting new roofs. But the town was a long way from being inhabitable once again. The military then took us on a further 20-minute drive along the road to the village of Kawuri. We saw more devastation and wreckage. And it, too, was deserted. Until this year, the village had been under Boko Haram control. It had been the scene of a massacre in 2014 in which dozens were killed. "God is Great" was scrawled in graffiti on some of the buildings. This is a common Islamic saying but in this part of the world it has been co-opted by Boko Haram as a tagline. Forest stronghold The soldiers then picked up a metal traffic sign lying on the side of the road. It read: "Sambisa Forest." This is one of the areas where the militant group retreated after being pushed out of towns it once controlled. We were just a few kilometres from their stronghold. The forest is where the army are currently carrying out most of their operations to try and clear out the insurgents. But access is difficult and ambushes are frequent. For Boko Haram, it is a fall-back position. Despite being on the defensive, the militants can still launch attacks. Increasingly, the group is using suicide bombers to blow up checkpoints and markets in nearby cities. Until Boko Haram is cleared out of the forest - and from other remote areas - it is very difficult to see how this insurgency will end. Back on the base, Gen Aliyu acknowledged the challenges of the campaign. He has studied the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq. I asked him how he would define victory. "When Boko Haram are significantly degraded and normal commercial and administrative activities are taking place," he said. How far away are you from that, I asked. "Not too far. Where you are standing now used to be the battlefront," he replied. 'Living in constant fear' But that did not mean where I was standing was necessarily safe. Not far from the base, the army took us to meet a group of fishermen bringing in their latest catch down by the river. One of the fishermen, Ali Mohammed, told me he lived in constant fear of being attacked. "You can't guarantee safety here, but you get used to it. There's nothing else we can do," he said. It is clear that the Nigerian army has made gains but that does not mean the insurgency is over. The nature of this conflict is changing, particularly with the use of suicide bombers. Wars do not subscribe to deadlines and in this part of Nigeria, Boko Haram remains a deadly threat.

فاز الرئيس النيجيري محمد بخاري بالانتخابات التي جرت في مارس/آذار الماضي، لأسباب منها وعده بسحق جماعة بوكو حرام الإسلامية المتشددة، وأمهل قادة الجيش حتى نهاية العام للتغلب على المتمردين. وقبل الموعد النهائي، انضم مراسل بي بي سي مارتن بيشنس إلى الجيش في دورية في منطقة القتال.

معركة بوكو حرام: في دورية قتالية مع الجيش النيجيري

The launch of the Last Days of Anne Boleyn saw her journey from Greenwich to the Tower of London, where she was imprisoned, brought back to life. The play at the Tower follows the final 17 days of her life from her imprisonment and interrogation, through to her trial and execution in 1536. The wife of Henry VIII had been accused of adultery and witchcraft.

تم إعادة تمثيل اللحظات الأخيرة لآن بولين التي كانت أول ملكة إنجليزية يتم إعدامها.

إعادة تمثيل أيام آن بولين الأخيرة في لندن

The company said the pursuit was continuing to be popular even in times of economic troubles. Over the last five years, prices for taking red deer on estates deemed easy to reach had risen by 5%. On one estate the price for a stag was now £400. On more remote estates, Savills said there had been a 21% rise in prices. The firm, which manages 500,000 acres (202,343ha) in Scotland, said demand for deer stalking from overseas clients, and also women, was high.

ارتفع الطلب وأسعار مطاردة الغزلان في العقارات الرياضية الاسكتلندية التي تديرها شركة سافيلز، وفقا لشركة العقارات.

يقول سافيلز إن الطلب على الغزلان يطاردها والأسعار مرتفعة

Ghana's Osei Kofi was once described as being the equal of the legendary George Best by Gordon Banks, a World Cup winner in 1966. Given the Northern Irishman's status as one of football's greatest ever players, that was some claim. But the odds are you've never heard of Kofi, who put four goals past Banks when they met in two club friendlies. This would largely be because a player nicknamed "One Man Symphony Orchestra" or, less poetically, "Wizard Dribbler" never got to unfurl his wing play at a World Cup. He was denied the chance when Africa dramatically boycotted the 1966 finals. At the time, Ghana's "Black Stars" were back-to-back African champions, having won in 1963 and 1965. "We had the 'Black Stars' proper in those days," Kofi, now a church minister, told the BBC in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. "We had the men, those who were strong and those who were intelligent. "That's why we could have got to the World Cup at any given time." But at the peak of their powers, the "Black Stars" were pushed down a black hole. In January 1964, Fifa decided that the line-up for the 16-team finals would include 10 teams from Europe, including hosts England, four from Latin America and one from the Central American and Caribbean region. That left just one place to be fought for by three continents: Africa, Asia and Oceania. Within a month, Ghana's Director of Sport Ohene Djan, who was also a member of Fifa's Executive Committee, was crying foul. "Registering strong objection to unfair World Cup arrangement for Afro-Asian countries STOP," he complained in a telegram to Fifa. "Afro-Asian countries struggling through painful expensive qualifying series for ultimate one finalist representation is pathetic and unsound STOP At the worst, Africa should have one finalist STOP Urgent - reconsider" Djan's bullish tone stemmed from Kwame Nkrumah, the president of Ghana which had become, in 1957, the first sub-Saharan nation to achieve independence. Nkrumah wanted to use football to unite Africa and had told his appointee Djan to do whatever was necessary to put African football on the world map. The late Djan was also a member of the Confederation of African Football (Caf) where he emerged as one of two main figureheads in the World Cup fight - the other being an Ethiopian called Tessema Yidnekatchew. The pair assembled a convincing argument why the Fifa decision, which Tessema labelled "a mockery of economics, politics and geography", was so unfair. Firstly, they argued that Africa's standard of play had significantly improved in the preceding years. Then they pointed out that the costs of arranging a play-off between Africa's top teams and their counterparts from Asia and Oceania were "onerously" expensive. Then there was the politics - for the situation was complicated by Caf's bitter row with Fifa over apartheid South Africa. Politics and the pitch Following its founding in 1957, Caf was the only pan-African organisation in existence - preceding the creation of what is today the African Union by six years - meaning that, on the South Africa issue at least, it assumed a geo-political role. Based in Cairo, Caf became the world's first sporting organisation to expel South Africa as a result of the government's apartheid policy, in 1960. "As soon as an African country became independent, it joined the United Nations and then Caf - there was no other organisation," recalls Fikrou Kidane, a long-term colleague of Tessema, who died in 1987. Football historian Alan Tomlinson says: "Right from the very beginning, this was a story about cultural politics in the post-colonial period." Having initially suspended South Africa a year after Caf, Fifa then readmitted the country in 1963, in part because of its pledge to send an all-white team to the 1966 World Cup and an all-black one to the 1970 finals. "The first time I encountered that solution, I just laughed," said Tomlinson, who is currently working on a biography of then Fifa President Stanley Rous. "But in terms of a form of gradualism, which fitted a model of development, Rous actually believed that could happen. He truly believed that football could bring people of different kinds together." For the 1966 World Cup, Fifa placed South Africa - a pariah state on its continent - in an Asian qualifying group in order to avoid playing an African rival but the designated African/Asian/Oceania play-off group meant a meeting could happen. "That was not acceptable and complicated things for sure," said Kidane, who attended Fifa congresses in the 1960s as an Ethiopian delegate. In July 1964, Caf decided to boycott the 1966 World Cup unless Africa was given a place of its own. With only Egypt having ever played at a World Cup before, back in 1934, this was no small gesture. Fifa, though, was not playing ball. "As the decisions of the Organising Committee are final, I do not think that for the prestige of Fifa it would be a good solution to alter the decisions even if some of Tessema's arguments appear reasonable," Fifa Secretary General Helmut Kaser wrote to Rous in 1964. The Englishman saw no reason to disagree. So in October 1964, on a weekend when Caf successfully lobbied for another Fifa suspension for South Africa, Africa carried out its threat - with its 15 then-eligible teams all pulling out. "It was not a difficult decision," said Kidane, who now advises the current Caf president. "It was a matter of prestige. Most of the continent was fighting for its own independence - and Caf had to defend the interest and dignity of Africa." 'We would have won it' Despite being denied his shot at the limelight, Osei Kofi professes to have no bitterness. "We should have regretted not playing in the World Cup but it was a cheat," he said. "It was not fair. And it hurt Fifa for Africa to do this." Many feel differently. "I don't know any of us who will say he didn't regret it," Kofi Pare, another Ghana international in the 1960s, told the BBC. "After we had been watching the World Cup, we knew we could have done better. I think we were one of the greatest teams." "If we had played at the World Cup, we would have gone to the final - or won it - honestly." Over 100 teams in Africa, Asia and Oceania contested the last World Cup qualifiers but for 1966, there were just two (with some Asian nations having withdrawn for economic reasons). A meticulously-prepared North Korea side thumped Australia 9-2 to secure a major propagandist boost for their government and reach their first finals, which they then lit up. They stunned Italy before taking a 3-0 lead against Portugal in the quarter-finals - only for Eusebio to answer with four goals in an unforgettable 5-3 win. His performances were laden with irony. For like captain Mario Coluna and two other mainstays of the Portugal team that finished a best-ever third, Eusebio was effectively African. All four were born in Mozambique, which was then a Portuguese colony. With minnows punching above their weight and an "African" finishing as the tournament's top scorer, the winds of change were blowing through the World Cup. Fifa finally reacted. Two years after the finals, it unanimously voted to give Africa a World Cup place all of its own. Asia got one too. The boycott had worked. "I think it was absolutely pivotal," says football historian Tomlinson. "If Fifa had proved obstructionist about that, world football might have gone in a different direction." Today, Africa has five places at the 32-team World Cup and briefly, when South Africa became the first African country to host in 2010, once had six. It still wants more. But one goal has been more than achieved. Since boycotting the 1966 edition, Africa has been present at every World Cup. So the legacy of Djan and Tessema lives on as Roger Milla, Asamoah Gyan et al continue the theme of Africa's greatest World Cup strikers - this time on the pitch. Listen to the full World Service documentary here

كأس العالم 1966 هي كأس العالم الوحيدة التي قاطعتها قارة بأكملها. لكنها اشتهرت بفوز إنجلترا، والهدف المثير للجدل في المباراة النهائية، والعروض الرائعة لكل من أوزيبيو وكوريا الشمالية. يتناول بي بي سي التركيز على أفريقيا بيرس إدواردز قصة مقاطعة غير معروفة غيرت أعظم منافسة في كرة القدم إلى الأبد.

كيف قاطعت أفريقيا كأس العالم 1966؟

By Nicola K SmithTechnology of Business reporter Imagine holding your mobile phone up in front of Pablo Picasso's Woman with Green Hat and seeing the portrait transform into a photo of the muse who inspired the painting. Or admiring one of Claude Monet's many famous depictions of water lilies, only to see the image morph into video footage of the artist's real flower garden in Giverny, the inspiration for this series of paintings. It is how visitors to Vienna's Albertina Museum can experience its current Monet to Picasso - The Batliner Collection exhibition. AR is changing the art world, allowing artists to fuse physical art with digital content. New work is being created and existing work re-imagined. "Trying to learn about art and its history can be intimidating because of its complexity," says Codin Popescu, chief executive and founder of Artivive, the firm behind Albertina Museum's AR experience. "For our projects with museums, we decided to offer visitors additional information - sometimes in a playful way through an animation or by showing historical footage of the time." In February, Manchester Central Library hosted AR fine artists Scarlett Raven and Marc Marot who used AR to weave poetry, animation and music into an exhibition about World War One. "Many of the oil paintings were quite vibrant, which gave them an uplifting feel at first glance, but as soon as the AR came to life I realised that the scenes before me were where past horrors had taken place," says Fiona White, a visitor to the exhibition. "The AR wasn't just visual, there were voiceovers, music and storytelling that gave a whole history to the artwork that would otherwise go unknown." The tech has great educational potential, especially for the smartphone generation, believes Manon Slome, co-founder of No Longer Empty, a New York-based exhibitions curator. "You are using a language and medium with which many more people are comfortable, and you don't need an art history degree to apprehend the work," she says. In a current installation, which runs until 5 September in New York's Times Square, the city's Queens Museum collaborated with No Longer Empty and Times Square Arts to create Wake and Unmoored, a two-part AR installation aiming to educate the public about climate change. Designed by artist Mel Chin, the installation makes visitors feel like they are under the ocean. "Unmoored looks to a future where climate change has gone unchecked and [the city] is underwater due to rising sea levels," says Ms Slome. "What better way to imaginatively capture this projected reality than through a technology of the future? Seeing ships floating over one's head really puts such a future into visual but engaging terms." And last year, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), in partnership with frog design, launched a Magritte Interpretative Gallery as part of its exhibition on surrealist artist René Magritte. The gallery houses six AR interactions, enabling visitors to investigate Magritte's themes through a series of altered and augmented windows. One of the installations involves a video likeness of the viewer being transmitted from one glass window to another. "Friends and strangers will joyfully run over and show the unsuspecting subjects where their images have popped up," says Chad Coerver, SFMOMA's chief content officer. "It's a gentle, fun reminder that nothing is what it seems in a Magritte exhibition." But the unwieldiness of AR tech has been an obstacle for both artists and consumers, and some believe this will always limit its potential. "For a start, having to install a new app to be granted the full experience of an art gallery is a barrier many may not cross," says Tom Ffiske, editor of immersive technology website Virtual Perceptions. "Why fiddle with new tech when most people can just enter an art gallery and use their own eyes?" Despite this, AR is stealthily creeping into our everyday lives. "Since Snapchat and Messenger introduced their AR facial recognition, millions of people around the world have been experimenting with AR pop art before even knowing the term 'augmented reality'," says Sutu, artist and co-founder of EyeJack, an app and platform for the curation and distribution of augmented art. Long-awaited AR glasses, being developed by the likes of Intel, Magic Leap, Lumus and Osterhaut Design Group, could make for a more seamless experience. For artists, the need for technical nous has presented challenges. "Much of the work that artists will look to produce will require a knowledge of 3D design programs such as Unity, so that's a barrier to entry," says Alex Poulson, chief executive of London-based AR firm Inde. "AR on mobile devices is beginning to see some adoption, but the technology itself is still in its infancy." But things are changing fast. The recent release of AR developer platforms by Google and Apple is enabling the creation of new apps for Android and Apple devices, potentially making it easier for artists to create their own AR art. And tools like Artivive help overcome the knowledge barrier. "For artists to create art in augmented reality they previously had to build their own isolated solutions, which required technical skills and resources. But with Artivive, those artists can focus on their creative work," says Sutu. AR is also opening up new revenue streams for artists. One artist sold an AR artwork with the agreement to supply the buyer with a new digital layer every six months for four years, says Artivive's Mr Popescu. More Technology of Business "The artist basically sold the buyer a digital art subscription model along with the physical artwork." AR opens up commercial opportunities for museums and galleries too, allowing them to hold concurrent exhibitions in one physical space, using digital reinterpretations of the same artworks. While Mr Ffiske "cannot see [AR] becoming anything more than a niche art form that pushes boundaries", Ms Slome is more forthright. "Once you've glimpsed the future, there's no turning back. Get used to it."

الواقع المعزز (AR) - إضافة تراكب رقمي لصورة العالم الحقيقي - يمنح الفنانين والمعارض فرصًا لإنشاء المزيد من الأعمال الفنية والمعارض التفاعلية، وتوفير تجارب أكثر إثارة والوصول إلى جماهير جديدة. ولكن إلى أن تصبح سماعات الواقع المعزز منتشرة على نطاق واسع – وعصرية – فهل ستظل هذه تقنية متخصصة؟

"هناك قوارب تطفو فوق رأسي في تايمز سكوير"

By Greg CochraneNewsbeat music reporter Two months ago they were just another east London garage-rock band honing their craft in a rehearsal studio. Now, due to the hype-machine's habit of fast-tracking, they've already bagged an appearance on Later…with Jools Holland and been awarded the prized 'opening slot' on the annual NME Awards tour. Pretty impressive considering the fuzz-rock four-piece haven't even released their debut single yet. 'Happy accident' "We've been going since June I guess full-time," says lead singer Justin Young, speaking from their tour van halfway through their first ever UK tour. "We all met because we were all doing music before playing in different outfits. "A friend actually started The Vaccines and then he quit, so it's a happy accident the four of us are in a band together." Some might say, a very "happy accident" considering the high-hopes the band seem to be creating. The quartet (Anri Hjorvar - bass, Freddie Cowan - guitar, Pete Robertson - drums) have only played 15 gigs but have already been heralded as the band to breath life back into British guitar music. Indeed, their arrival, apparently from nowhere, seemed all the more attractive since no-one could find any information about them at all online. No MySpace, no facebook, no Last FM - at that point. "Basically, we put a song up and it might have looked like a PR stunt but we genuinely didn't expect anyone to care so we didn't have anything in place to deal with the fact some people liked it," says Young. "I think some people thought we were trying to be secretive with the blog." Either way, it's all out there now. Along with their online presence the band are already "three-quarters" of the way through completing their as yet untitled debut album set for release in March 2011. "They're just fun pop songs played with passion," explains Young, when talking about debut split single Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra) and Blow It Up. Notably, Wreckin' Bar checks in at a breezy brief one and a half minutes long. "Sometimes it takes five minutes for what you want to say what you want to say and sometimes a minute and a half. We're not going to make it longer for the sake of it." As for the immediate future they're just up for the "challenge" of rising to the task of matching all the 'talk'. "It's a clichéd answer but we want to make an album we're proud or none of it will be worth it," says Young signing off. "We want to be playing to rooms of people who really like it and feel excited by it."

تحاول اللقاحات الحفاظ على مستوى رؤوسهم.

تقديم...اللقاحات

Sheffield Local Television Ltd was awarded a 12-year licence to provide the digital terrestrial TV (DTT) service by industry regulator Ofcom. The channel will be called SLTV and is due to launch in October 2013. The two bidders to lose out were Metro8 Sheffield and YourTV Sheffield. In May, Ofcom invited applications to run local TV services in 21 areas as part of a government project part-funded by the BBC. SLTV's bid set out plans to broadcast at least four hours of original local content every day, including one hour of local news. Ofcom said it would set out the reasons behind its choice at a later date.

تم اختيار اتحاد يضم جامعتين في شيفيلد وصانعي الأفلام ومنظمي المهرجانات لإدارة محطة تلفزيون محلية في المدينة.

Ofcom تختار كونسورتيوم لتشغيل محطة تلفزيون شيفيلد

Police said the cable was cut down and removed from a remote section of the line between Ballagawne Road and Baldrine Road, Baldrine. Officers believe a vehicle was used to remove the cable between midday on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. They described it as a "crime against the national heritage of the Isle of Man" and appealed for witnesses.

سرق اللصوص طولًا كبيرًا من الكابلات النحاسية من خطوط الكهرباء العلوية على سكة حديد مانكس الكهربائية.

سرقة كابل السكك الحديدية في مانكس "جريمة ضد التراث"

It is open to people under the age of 23 and categories include best comedy, best animation and best documentary. All short-listed entries will be screened at the newly established Isle of Man Film Festival on 15 September. Category winners are awarded £100 and the overall winner receives a trophy and £200. More information and application forms can be found online.

يُمنح مخرجو الأفلام الناشئون في جزيرة مان فرصة للتألق مع إطلاق مسابقة Young Film Maker of Man التاسعة.

منح صانعي الأفلام في جزيرة مان الفرصة للتألق

These would include cash, clothing, medicines and food materials, he said. The materials thus collected from throughout TN would be distributed through the ICRC and UN agencies with the approval of the central government, a government press release said. Karunanidhi has himself donated one million Indian rupees. The press release also said that so far relief worth 2.5 million Indian rupees has been collected. However, it is not clear whether the relief materials collected by the TN government is in addition to the assured aid offer of 800 tonnes by the Indian government or is part of it.

قال رئيس وزراء ولاية تاميل نادو إن حكومة تينيسي ستقوم أيضًا بجمع مواد الإغاثة من أجل رفاهية التاميل السريلانكيين.

TN تجمع المساعدات لسريلانكا

Princess Anne opened the centre at Ballavartyn stables in Santon during her first visit to the Isle of Man since 2008. Owner Saskia Blaymire said she was "thrilled and honoured" by the visit. The princess also visited the Manx prison and the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture. She has visited the Isle of Man on a number of occasions since the 1970s.

قال أحد مالكي الإسطبل إن افتتاح مركز جديد للفروسية من قبل الأميرة الملكية كان "طريقة رائعة لبدء العام الجديد".

الأميرة آن تفتتح مركز بالافارتين للفروسية

There had been a lot of criticism when it was announced he was going to appear on Charlie Sloth's show on Thursday night. Logan Paul caused controversy earlier this year by filming the body of an apparent suicide victim for one of his vlogs, and has since apologised. Radio 1 tweeted: "After listening back to the interview we don't feel it's right." Some people responded to the tweet saying they thought it was a good call not to run the interview. Charlie Sloth spoke about the issue on his show last night. "We've listened back to the interview we did with Logan and even though it was only part of a wider piece, we don't feel it's right. "So we've decided we are not going to run it." When Radio 1 shared a teaser clip from the interview there was a lot of backlash on social media. Charlie Sloth previously criticised the American YouTuber for posting the video, from Aokigahara forest in Japan, which is known to be a frequent site of suicides. In January the DJ chose him as 'Wally of the Week' on his Radio 1/ 1Xtra show The 8th. "Millions and millions of people around the world look up to Logan Paul, including loads of youngsters. "My children are some of those youngsters - they look up to Logan Paul like a superstar," he said. "Fam, let's face it, you are an absolute wally." The YouTuber apologised again later in January by posting a video about suicide awareness, and pledging to donate $1m (£700,000) to prevention groups. Some social media users say he should be forgiven. Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.

قام راديو 1 بسحب مقابلة مع مستخدم YouTube Logan Paul.

لوغان بول: راديو 1 لن يقوم بتشغيل مقابلة مع مستخدمي YouTube

Residents of Canvey Island and Jaywick died as a result of the North Sea flooding on 31 January 1953. The Reverend Canon Simon Pothen said it was important to mark the event before it "fades into obscurity". "It probably represents the final time that people will be in living memory of it," he said. Mr Pothen said the service on 31 January would be invitation only but said he hoped it would be relayed for "people outside who wish to join in".

ستحضر الأميرة الملكية قداسًا في كاتدرائية تشيلمسفورد للاحتفال بالذكرى الستين للفيضانات التي أودت بحياة 95 شخصًا في إسيكس.

الأميرة رويال تحضر خدمة الفيضانات عام 1953 في تشيلمسفورد

At its height about 80 firefighters were tackling the blaze which broke out at about 06:30 BST on 15 September. Part of the building collapsed and demolition experts were brought in to allow firefighters better access. A boy and two girls, all aged 12, and a 13-year-old girl, all from Margate, were arrested on suspicion of arson. They were released while investigations continue, Kent Police said. The fire service says the fire has now been fully extinguished and the the firefighting part of the operation has come to a close. "Duty of care will then be handed to the land owner, and Thanet District Council will be the facilitators to the recovery process," a spokesman said.

قالت شركة كينت للإطفاء والإنقاذ إنه تم أخيرًا إخماد حريق في مستودع في ويستوود بالقرب من مارجيت، بعد 25 يومًا من اندلاعه.

إخماد حريق مستودع مارجيت بعد 25 يومًا

Infinity is a family-owned Texas-based industrial construction and maintenance contractor serving the petrochemical, refining and gas processing sectors. Wood Group said the acquisition would provide an "excellent platform" for growth. The deal is still subject to a number of conditions. Infinity was established in 1952 and is headquartered in Clute. The existing management team will continue to lead the business, which has about 2,500 personnel. Wood Group chief executive officer Dave Stewart said: "Their 60-year history is a testament to the relationships they have built that we look forward to continuing and growing."

وافقت شركة Wood Group العملاقة للخدمات النفطية ومقرها أبردين، على شراء شركة Infinity Group الأمريكية مقابل 150 مليون دولار (100 مليون جنيه إسترليني).

وافقت Wood Group على شراء Infinity Group مقابل 150 مليون دولار

Ezekiel Foster, 42, of Twybridge Way, Brent, north London, has denied murder but admitted manslaughter, which the prosecution does not accept. Sashana Roberts, 24, was found dead at her terraced home in Cricklewood, north London, on 12 September. The plea was entered at the start of his trial at the Old Bailey for murder.

أقر رجل متهم بقتل أم شابة عثر عليها مطعونة ومختنقة في حمامها بأنه مذنب بارتكاب جريمة القتل غير العمد.

يعترف حزقيال فوستر بقتل ساشانا روبرتس في الحمام

East Lindsey District Council is building four new huts near Queen's Garden Square in Mablethorpe. It is also removing 15 chalets on the South Promenade which are in poor condition and selling off the plots to the public with a 20-year lease. All other council-owned beach huts in the town will be repainted. The scheme was approved by the district council's planning committee. Councillor Craig Leyland, portfolio holder for the economy, said: "Beach huts remain an important part of the seaside experience on our coast and the investment we're making in the new huts will mean they remain so for many years to come."

تمت الموافقة على مشروع بقيمة 95 ألف جنيه إسترليني لبناء أكواخ شاطئية جديدة وترميم أخرى على الواجهة البحرية لمنتجع في لينكولنشاير.

تمت الموافقة على خطة كوخ الشاطئ في Mablethorpe بقيمة 95000 جنيه إسترليني من قبل المجلس

The man was held when Nottinghamshire Police attended a crash on Southdale Road in Carlton, Nottingham at 21:00 GMT on Friday. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said he "became unwell" when he was being transferred to custody. He was taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham but died, the IPCC said. A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said the force was "co-operating fully" with the watchdog.

تحقق هيئة مراقبة الشرطة في وفاة رجل أصيب بالمرض أثناء احتجازه.

الهيئة الحكومية الدولية المعنية بتغير المناخ تحقق في وفاة رجل محتجز في نوتنغهام

The 63-year-old man was found with serious injuries in Evans Street, Whitmore Reans, just after 22:00 BST on Saturday and died at the scene. Police said a silver Mercedes was found nearby and a man, 48, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. Officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with dashcam footage to come forward.

توفي أحد المشاة في حادث تصادم مشتبه به في ولفرهامبتون.

حادث ولفرهامبتون: وفاة أحد المشاة في حادث صدم وهرب مشتبه به

By Jonathan HeadSouth East Asia correspondent As it happens, few experts believe the cub carcasses have much value. The bones, skin, teeth, claws and meat of adult tigers are where the money is made. Officials of Thailand's Department of National Parks, who closed the temple zoo and removed its 147 tigers, did find some evidence of trafficking: amulets containing tiger claws, and a truck attempting to leave the temple with two skins and other small parts. At least three adult tigers had gone missing two years earlier. This, said DNP Deputy Director Adisorn Noochdumrong, suggested continuous involvement in small-scale illegal trafficking by the temple's managers. But his bigger concern is the criminal networks he believes have been encouraging the trade, from this and other so-called "tiger farms". There are at least 30 such farms in Thailand, where intensive breeding takes place. They are not illegal but the lack of records in the temple zoo illustrates the weak regulation of these places and allows the possibility of tiger trafficking. "I am quite certain there is a network behind what he have discovered at the temple," said Adisorn. "The temple would not run this alone but tiger trading is hard to verify. The networks are sophisticated and hard to monitor. Influential people are involved." Adisorn and his team have tried to trace the origins of the impounded tigers through their DNA. He believes there are seven original parent animals, two Siberian tigers, one Malayan tiger and four that died some years ago, for which he has no information. All tigers must be registered with the DNP under Thai law and agreements upheld by Cites, an international treaty to protect endangered species from irresponsible trading. All deaths, births and transfers must also be recorded. But this was not happening. Any argument that breeding these particular tigers was to help in their conservation makes no sense, as they are a mix of different subspecies. International pressure Thailand is a hub for the illegal wildlife trade, funnelling endangered animals from Africa and other parts of Asia through neighbouring Laos, where law enforcement is especially weak, and on to Vietnam and China, where the demand is. International pressure has pushed the Thai authorities to become more active in intercepting contraband wildlife shipments but little is being done to break up the syndicates running the trade. Very few arrests have been made. Campaigners monitoring the trade say "farmed" tigers are brought into trafficking all too easily because of the lack of regulation and enforcement. It is difficult to tell whether a carcass belongs to a wild or captive tiger but Thai officials believe at least 30% of those being trafficked come from a captive origin. Often they will be drowned in special submersion cages to avoid damaging the valuable skin. Traffickers then "float" the wrapped carcasses in the Mekong river from the Thai side and have them picked up by smugglers on the Laotian side. Thai Tiger Temple's long history of controversy Edwin Wiek, who runs an NGO trying to protect threatened wildlife in Thailand, explains why trading captive tigers matters so much to conservationists: "To stop the trade, these tiger farms need to be closed down - not only the tiger temple but all the other ones as well. "So that we can say that when tigers are being traded, that we are absolutely sure they are from the wild, and we can do something about it. Breeding a tiger, caring for a tiger until it is an adult costs a lot of money." He estimates the cost of a farm tiger at $7,000 to $8,000 (£5,600-£6,500). "When a poacher goes into the jungle he can kill a tiger with one or two bullets, which will be a lot cheaper," he says. "So there is a big chance the wild populations are being touched for the same market as captive animals." The population of captive tigers in Thailand is now estimated to be around 1,500. When the growing numbers being kept in Laos, Vietnam and China are added, the total captive population in this region exceeds the entire world population of wild tigers, which is around 3,800. Big profits from big animals The economics of tiger farming are baffling and inevitably raise suspicions that some captive animals must be siphoned off for slaughter, in violation of Cites rules. An adult tiger consumes between four and eight kilos of meat a day (9 to 17 lb). An internal Laotian government report, seen by the BBC, openly acknowledges that a tiger farm near the Laotian border town of Thakhek was, until recently, killing 100 tigers a year for commercial use. At Thailand's biggest tiger zoo, Sri Racha, south of Bangkok, the tiger population reached 447 at one point, falling to 323 today. The management there argues that the ideal population is 350. Only a fraction of those can be seen by visitors, via performing tiger shows and - the most popular activity - feeding tiger cubs, which helps explain the huge populations. Tiger produce found on sale in Myanmar Tanya Erzinclioglu is a British volunteer who worked at the tiger temple for six years, becoming a self-taught expert on the animals and, she says, trying to ensure their welfare was protected. She believes they were well-treated there, and that any involvement in trafficking was small-scale. But the breeding, she says, was out of control. "I hated it," she recalls. "When I first arrived there were 70. By the time we left I'd known 150-plus tigers. That's a double increase in six years, it's ridiculous. We could change a lot of things there, but this was one of the hardest because they thought they made so much money from the cub-feeding, and tourists want the cute babies. And they would come, and the babies were already 10 months old, and then they don't think it's cute, and they write bad reviews. So the management would ask 'why aren't there any cubs?'" Adisorn Noochdumrong and his colleagues at the Department of National Parks are now compiling a database of all captive tigers in Thailand, recording their DNA profiles and distinctive stripe patterns, so that they can be properly traced if they go missing. But there are growing calls now from international groups like the WWF to end tiger farming altogether. The Laotian government has already promised to do this, although whether that actually happens is still in question, given the record there of official tolerance for trafficking. If other countries like Thailand follow suit - and there are officials here now openly arguing for the farms to shut, and just zoos, with mixed animal populations to remain open - that would close one loophole through which the trade in endangered species is able to continue.

عندما تحركت السلطات التايلاندية لإغلاق حديقة حيوانات النمور في أحد المعابد في نهاية شهر مايو/أيار، كشفت ما هو أكثر بكثير من مجرد المخالفات المختلفة في تلك المنشأة وحدها. إن المنظر المروع لأجنة النمور المحفوظة في زجاجات، والبقايا الذابلة والمتجمدة لأشبال أخرى، ألقى فجأة الضوء على الجذب السياحي الشهير. هل كان هذا دليلاً على التجارة غير المشروعة بأجزاء النمور؟

مزارع النمور في تايلاند: مطاردة المتاجرين بالبشر

Officers were called to Heathfield Road, Old Basford, in Nottingham, following a report that a 28-year-old woman had been stabbed. The force said she remains in hospital with injuries which are not currently believed to be life-threatening. A 48-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and poisoning. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk. Related Internet Links Nottinghamshire Police

وقد طعنت امرأة في ظهرها وذراعها، ويُعتقد أنها تم تخديرها أثناء الهجوم.

هجوم أولد باسفورد: اعتقال بعد طعن امرأة وتخديرها

What are US militia groups? The term has a complex history. The Militia Act of 1903 created the National Guard as a reserve for the Army, managed by each state with federal funding, and defined the "unorganised militia" as men between 17 and 45 years of age who were not part of the military or guard. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) defines current US militia groups as the armed subset of the anti-government movement. These groups engage in military exercises and gun training, and generally believe in conspiracies regarding the federal government. They focus on protecting second amendment rights - or the right to bear arms granted by the US constitution. Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, describes the militia movement as "American, born and bred". Many of these militia groups hold a "romanticised" view of the US revolutionary era, she told the BBC, with notions that they, like the colonists who fought British rule, are "the ultimate protectors of the nation". The III% Security Force militia group describes themselves in such a way - a coalition "intended for the defence of the populace from enemies foreign and domestic". "At such a point as the government intends to use the physical power granted it by those who implemented it against them, it then becomes the responsibility of the people themselves to defend their country from its government," the militia's website states. While there are militia-type formations in other countries, Ms Beirich says the revolutionary past of the groups in the US has made them more unique when it comes to movements with "conspiratorial ideas of an evil federal government". What exactly do they believe? "Their number one issue, no matter what, is about protecting the second amendment," says Ms Beirich. "These are organisations that believe there are conspiracies afoot to take away their weapons." Militia are not the same as the white supremacy movement or the alt-right movement, she emphasises. They are not advocating white rule, for example, though they do share some beliefs with these movements. Two of the biggest militia incidents in recent years were the Bunkerville standoff - when militia ran federal officials off a rancher's land, believing the government was there to seize cattle - and a similar standoff in Oregon, where militia took over a wildlife refuge in protest of government "interference" in ranchers' lives. But what's novel about the militia movement recently, Ms Beirich says, is a shift towards more explicitly anti-immigration and anti-Muslim views. "They view immigrants as invaders, destroying the country, undermining the Trump administration." She notes that those ideas predated Donald Trump's presidency, but his election win emboldened the movement. "Although these groups have always hated the federal government, they're pretty big fans of Donald Trump, so they're in an awkward position where they support Trump but believe there's a deep state conspiracy against him." In addition, militias have begun to work openly with white supremacists, which was rare in the past, Ms Beirich says. Members of the III% militia, for example, turned up at the far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2016. "That's a toxic brew we have to be concerned about." How many militia groups are there? Whenever there is talk of gun control on Capitol Hill, membership rises in militias nationwide. In 2018, the SPLC found 216 militia groups with at least 15 confirmed members were active in the US, though given how secretive these organisations can be, that figure is likely an undercount. "The number of these groups skyrocketed in the Obama era," Ms Beirich says. "Obama never moved on gun control, barely spoke on it, but they viewed him as an existential threat." A similar situation happened under Democratic President Bill Clinton, she notes. The militia movement views Republicans as a party that is protective of gun rights, unlike Democrats. In 2008, the last year of Republican President George W Bush's term, the SPLC reported 149 anti-government groups. The next year, under Democratic President Obama, that number jumped to 512, reaching a peak of 1,360 in 2012. Is this legal? Yes, depending on the state in which a militia is located. All states have laws barring private military activity, but it varies when it comes to paramilitary or militia organising. "There are very few rules in the US about what people with guns," Ms Beirich says. "Many of them frame holding military training exercises as their right with the second amendment, exercising their right to bear arms." According to a 2018 report by Georgetown University, 25 states criminalise kinds of paramilitary activity, making it illegal to teach firearm or explosive use or assemble to train with such devices with the intent to use such knowledge "in furtherance of a civil disorder". Twenty-eight states have statutes prohibiting private militias without the prior authorisation of the state government. "Not all militias are involved in the same kinds of activities," Ms Beirich notes. "If people are engaged in exercising their constitutional rights under the second amendment in states that don't ban the kinds of activities they undertake, they have every right to engage." What about the groups at the border? Militias have been present at the southern border before. In the 2000s, a group called the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, was rounding up migrants for years before eventually dissolving. But the way groups like the United Constitutional Patriots, whose leader was arrested by the FBI on Monday, have been publicising their efforts is new, Ms Beirich says. The "explicitly anti-immigrant framing" she says is novel, compared to the Minutemen, who would have argued they were merely protecting the border. "The United Constitutional Patriots leader - he's been on record saying pretty terrible things about immigrants. That seems like a bit of a shift."

مع تصاعد التوترات على الحدود بين الولايات المتحدة والمكسيك، تصدرت الميليشيات الأمريكية - مجموعات من المدنيين المسلحين - عناوين الأخبار بسبب جهودها في تسيير دوريات على الحدود واعتقال طالبي اللجوء. لكن من هم رجال الميليشيات هؤلاء، وبماذا يعتقدون، وهل ما يفعلونه قانوني؟

من هي الميليشيات الأمريكية على حدود المكسيك؟

Devon and Cornwall Police tweeted pictures of people climbing on outcrops on the county's northern coast over the weekend at the start of August. One picture showed a man taking pictures with his phone at the edge of a waterfall at least 40ft (12m) high. Officers said no photograph was "worth the risk". The tweet continued: "Your actions put not only your life in danger, but those who have to attempt to rescue you, or in some cases recover your body."

وقالت الشرطة إن "تصرفات الناس المتهورة على منحدرات شمال ديفون" تعرض حياة الناس للخطر.

تتعرض الأرواح للخطر بسبب "التصرفات المتهورة" على منحدرات ديفون

Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, Scotland We often call this GPS - global positioning system. But increasingly, we should call it Galileo. That's because GPS is controlled from the Pentagon in Washington. It's an American military-based satellite system. The European Union has been putting together Galileo as its own network of satellites. It's full of British expertise, but Brexit Britain looks like losing its privileged access to Galileo's secret inner workings. I've been finding more about it, from those who have co-ordinated the commissioning from Brussels and from Professor Malcolm MacDonald, an expert in satellite technology and space policy at the University of Strathclyde. How does this technology work? The systems are all similar in concept, requiring a minimum of 24 satellites in quite a high orbit to get the maximum reach over the earth's surface. These send out very, very accurate time signals. Wherever you are, your phone or satnav picks up signals from at least three different satellites, which orbit the earth on different axes - something like those illustrations of an atom where electrons spin around a nucleus. Put the three together, compare the different lengths of time it has taken for the signals to reach your mobile phone, and it can compute where you are. A recently bought phone, or one with updated software, will be Galileo-compliant, so it will draw on GPS signals plus Galileo and possibly also from a Russian satellite network. They interact, and the more signals, the more accuracy you should get. How accurate is Galileo? GPS is accurate to within about 20 metres. Galileo is designed to improve that, to around one metre. The restricted system, for use by governments, should be able to reduce that to around 25cm. Does that give it more uses than GPS? The satellites don't monitor which devices are using the signal, but there is part of system that can pick up search and rescue signals. So that's of use for maritime search, or remote mountains, or if a car crashes off the road. Every new car model launched in Europe is required to have a Galileo-linked beacon, which should be activated as soon as an air bag is inflated. Emergency services will instantly know where an accident has taken place. The estimated time of getting to a maritime Mayday call can be sharply reduced. The uses for autonomous vehicles have yet to be developed, but it's clear that satellite technology will be an important part of future road transport - both to guide cars and to manage traffic systems. It also has potential for road pricing. Malcolm MacDonald says the crucial difference is that we can trust Galileo better than GPS, even to land a plane where there's no ground radar. That element of its capability is being used by 350 airports in Europe, and also deployed in less developed areas of the world, where communications are poor. Already, GPS and Galileo have become a vital part of finance. In trading, it matters a lot that there is an electronic record of when transactions have taken place. The electronic date-stamp from the satellite navigation system is recognised by all parties to contracts as the reliable industry standard. Then there's agriculture. Another European Union network, called Copernicus, provides earth surveillance. It can tell a farmer about different growing conditions across a field. It can, for instance, highlight an area that needs a higher level of fertiliser or pesticide than others. Satellite navigation can then be used to direct farm equipment - in some cases, autonomously - to the point of need, saving on cost and environmental impact. How close is Galileo to completion? The first satellites were put into orbit from 2013. There are now 22 in orbit, and 18 of them have become operational. That gives it around 80% global coverage. Another four satellites are being prepared for a rocket launch from French Guiana next month. Once they have been fully deployed, from 2020 the system should be complete, and there will be two spare satellites in case others run into technical difficulties. From around 2023, a replacement programme will start. Due to stresses of heat and cold, the satellites have an estimated 10-year lifespan. Haven't the British done some good business out of this project? Almost all the payload - the brains of the satellite - are built in Britain, which is a world leader in small satellites. Glasgow's got a good chunk of that market but not for Galileo. The other big spend is on the components - the solar panels, the casing, the rocket systems, where the Germans, French and Dutch have done well. But if we go back to 2002 into 2004, when Galileo was first being discussed, the British - backed up by Germany and the Netherlands - were strenuously arguing against it. They argued it was a classic, daft, Euro-waste of money and, literally, of space. With encouragement from Washington, the British were asking why Europe couldn't simply rely on the American GPS system. They didn't realise then how quickly people and the economy would become dependent on satellite navigation, on how widespread its applications could be, or on how positive the satellite sector could become for the British economy. Nor did they foresee that Donald Trump would become US President and could switch off GPS on a whim. When the programme was first discussed, there was talk of it being privately financed. That didn't happen, as providing a free service doesn't produce an income stream. There were discussions with Russia and China about working on this network with the European Union. But in Moscow and Beijing, they decided to go and make their own, military-led systems. Given the change of tone from the Kremlin, and concerns about China's acquisition of technology, it's hard to imagine those partnerships working smoothly now. So the European Union is happy with the system it has bought? The European Commission certainly sounds that way. It has spent around 10 billion euros so far, on satellites, launches, and building ground stations (the British and French have some helpful far-flung outposts and former colonies that can be used for that). And they're so happy with it that they announced this month that they intend to spend a further 16 billion euros from 2021 to 2027. That's as much as they have spent from 2005 to 2020. The absence of the UK from paying into the budget isn't going to slow them up. That money sustains the Galileo systems, paying for some replacement satellites as they wear out. It also supports the Copernicus network of satellites, which provides earth surveillance - of farming, land planning and pollution monitoring, and it has uses in handling natural disasters. The commission reckons that 80% of new phones on the market are Galileo-enabled. Just two years ago, there was one manufacturer linking with it, a small one in Spain. That did not take regulation. It's in the manufacturers' interests to deploy the technology. It did, however, require legislation to force car manufacturers to adopt the locator beacon technology as standard. And once on board all cars, it's an important step towards a satellite-based system for smart traffic management and autonomous cars. Britain's being denied access to at least part of this satellite system. Why? The UK is being denied on two grounds. One is the restricted part of the system, of particular interest for military uses. Britain has a lot of them. Think missile targeting. That element of Galileo is only for EU members, and when Britain is not an EU member, it will have to negotiate a special deal to use the system. Norway and America are already in talks to do that, and the talks have been under way for more than two years. I was in Brussels earlier this month, asking around about this, and I was told this makes the British - Brexiteers and remainers alike - more incensed than almost anything else in the negotiations. (So far.) Britain helped pay for it. It's been important to building it: "So be reasonable, chaps." In Brussels, they're saying: we're governed by rules, and look at the words - non-EU members, or "third countries" don't get automatic access to the high security functions. The other dispute is the ban on Britain being able to bid for work on the secure aspects of future EU satellites. So SSTL, the Surrey-based subsidiary of Airbus that makes most Galileo satellite payloads, is reported to be planning a move of its production to the continent. The UK government has tabled a proposal to share the system post-Brexit, but the other 27 members this week chose to continue while cutting the UK out of procurement. That brought a warning that the British could seek to frustrate the process and increase its costs. Could the UK have its own satellite network? That was being urged on ministers in the House of Commons this week. It would be an expensive option. It could be cheaper to do this on a one-country basis, and some lessons have been learned from the Galileo process. But it's not expected to leave much change from £10 billion. The British clearly have the know-how. At a price, it can hitch a ride on another country's rocket. Japan and India have their own regional systems, with satellites positioned above those countries, so that might be an option. But it looks like we might have spending pressures closer to home.

احتدمت معركة خروج بريطانيا من الاتحاد الأوروبي في وستمنستر هذا الأسبوع. لكن أحد المواضيع التي تثير غضب أنصار خروج بريطانيا من الاتحاد الأوروبي هو أنه يفوق رؤوسنا. وإذا كان لديك هاتف ذكي، أو نظام ملاحة عبر الأقمار الصناعية في سيارتك، فقد تكون معتمدًا عليه بالفعل.

غاليليو أوروبا: انطلاقة بريطانيا

I had been in The Gambian capital, Banjul, less than an hour and here I was, car pulled over, explaining my business to a group of men in uniform. A thrillingly sinister start to a week-long holiday? Not quite. I had fallen into the clutches of the tourist police, identity badges to the fore, courteous to a fault. "Are you lost?" they asked. They had guessed right. A 12-hour journey from neighbouring Senegal had taken its toll and I had lost patience with my taxi driver's wearing "welcome to Africa" banter and general cluelessness. Sheepishly, I agreed to a police escort. The commander jumped in next to the somewhat nonplussed man at the wheel and me, the slightly fake out-of-season tourist. We tracked down the pre-booked hotel. I checked in, but not before a semi-stern warning from my new friend: "Only ride in the green taxis designated for tourists; watch yourself, there are lots of cheats and chancers about." Yes, the con artists, hard-luck stories and fake friends are out there. Open your heart and your wallet if you must, but show some discrimination. And be mindful that ordinary Gambians have considerably more to fear than you do, never more so than now. The man they are on the run from, sometimes literally, is President Yahya Jammeh. He was less than 30 when he took power in 1994, ousting his predecessor, the much older Dawda Jawara. The president is now 51, but middle age has not mellowed him. Gambian friends told me not to make the common outsider's mistake of treating their leader as a maverick or eccentric - "tyrant" was nearer the mark, they said. "Every day we think about the president's health... and hope it is getting worse," a Gambian back from long stints abroad remarked. Diplomats, both western and African, see The Gambia in freefall. The torture testimonies and accounts of citizens gone missing are too widespread and well-documented to be ignored. Huge numbers of Gambians are discreetly leaving, which has become known as "taking the back way". The last time I had been in Banjul, Gambian journalists had talked openly to me about rough rebukes from the president. They had tried to work out when the threats were serious, and when they were just scare tactics. This time, I proceeded more cautiously. A young reporter at an independent paper agreed to an office rendezvous. He steered me into a side room and talked shyly but candidly about the state of the nation and the fear which truth-tellers had to put up with. For sure, he said, his phone was tapped. His friends often urged each other to soften messages on social media as the security forces are reading, and they do not take kindly to jokes about the leader. From Our Own Correspondent has insight and analysis from BBC journalists, correspondents and writers from around the world Opposition activists, once loyal to Mr Jammeh, were more bullish. They told me of the president's petty jealousy, his willingness to turn friends into foes. They said the people would get rid of him, maybe at the elections in December. But I could not share their confidence. But how did all this play out in the enclaves patrolled by my friends from the tourist police? The smallest country on mainland Africa has prided itself on the welcome it extends to visitors. Revenues from tourism account for close to 20% of GDP. The same package has worked for a long time: Sun-baked beaches, mangrove forests for the more intrepid, the drumming and exotic birdlife. It is a cut-price paradise; a newly declared Islamic Republic where beer is cheap and sex is openly available to both male and female tourists. Same-sex relationships, though, are not part of the scene. President Jammeh has volunteered to slit the throats of homosexuals. On earlier visits, I snobbishly wrote off the tourist belt as toytown Africa, dispiritingly subservient and banal, geared towards clients who are uncurious about the country they were staying in. This time I tried harder. Resisting the freelance blandishments of chancers promising a glimpse of the real Africa, I signed up for a day tour with the official tourism authorities. My guides knew their country. Patient, good humoured and informative, they stayed off politics but were no starry-eyed propagandists. The tour took us from ancient artefacts and historic photographs, to friendly crocodiles and hard-up wood carvers, to an impoverished primary school and an upmarket beach bar. The sky had more grey than blue and it all felt a little like hard work, as if The Gambia was clinging on to an image everyone knows to be an illusion, while a darker, meaner reality now intrudes. Chris Simpson died unexpectedly on Wednesday at the age of 53. He had been a correspondent for the BBC in Angola, Rwanda, Senegal and the Central African Republic.

تُعرف غامبيا لدى السياح باسم "الساحل المبتسم لغرب أفريقيا"، لكن هذا يخفي شيئًا أكثر إثارة للقلق. في رحلته الأخيرة قبل وفاته المفاجئة هذا الأسبوع، أبحر الصحفي كريس سيمبسون عبر العوالم المختلفة الموجودة في الدولة الصغيرة.

الصدع في ابتسامة غامبيا

Kamal AhmedEconomics editor@bbckamalon Twitter The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided - significantly by a 8-1 majority rather than unanimously - that a little bit of patience is necessary to see how the economy performs over the next few weeks. The markets' judgement that Mark Carney had clearly signalled a July rate cut two weeks ago when he said "some monetary policy easing will likely be required over the summer" has proved erroneous. Some might mutter about the governor showing flashes of the "unreliable boyfriend" he has been accused of before when he has guided the market. However, the governor's words do not contradict today's decision. "Over the summer" is not one month. And monetary easing can mean more than just a cut in interest rates. The MPC is dealing with two competing forces. First, a slowdown in economic growth following the referendum vote which many economists believe could tip the economy into recession. Second, a possible increase in inflation sparked by the fall in the value of sterling. At the moment the data on the former is limited. The MPC did point to some "preliminary signs" that household and business confidence has been affected by the referendum result. It said there have been some "sharp falls" in sentiment measures. "Taken together, these indicators suggest economic activity is likely to weaken in the near term," the minutes say. But, against that, the financial markets have continued to function which has "dampened rather than amplified" the effects of the 23 June vote. And economic activity is described as "solid" in the run-up to the referendum. The Bank also made it clear that "most" members of the MPC "expect monetary policy to be loosened in August" when the Inflation Report is published. That does not necessarily mean an interest rate cut at that point. It could mean more stimulus via the purchasing of government bonds, or quantitative easing. Or more action to boost lending via direct support to banks. On inflation, any upward pressure is still slight. Inflation is at 0.3%, well below the 2% target. The "sharp" fall in sterling is likely to be inflationary as import prices rise. But, so far, there is little evidence of that. Short-term market expectations of an increase in inflation have risen slightly. But over the longer term, expectations are still muted. The deflationary pressures of low commodity prices and a slow devaluation of the renminbi - making Chinese exports cheaper - are acting across the globe to depress prices. To be clear, interest rates may not fall further this year. Whether they do will depend on the MPC's judgement on the best way to balance the two competing forces in the economy. And how the economy performs over the next few weeks and months - rather more a function of government policy on tax, spending and negotiations with the European Union, than it is of monetary policy. As Mr Carney has always made clear - the levers the Bank has at its disposal can only do so much. He has also been wary of cutting rates too deeply - and has signalled that he is not a big fan of negative rates - because of the damage that can do to retail bank profitability and the ability to lend. Sentiment is certainly moving towards more stimulus - the form that stimulus will take, and when, is still unclear.

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