Like a sort of officially sanctioned graffiti, the initials of the housing department of Rio de Janeiro were sprayed on homes marked for demolition. Almost 900 families, many of which lived on Rua da Esperanca (Hope Street), were facing eviction because their houses stood in the way of the planned route for the Transolimpica bus rapid transit system (BRT). The extension of the BRT is part of the upgrades planned ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games, which the city is hosting. The new 25km (15 mile) rapid bus route is expected to carry 70,000 passengers a day. It will link Barra da Tijuca, which will host the athletes' village, to Deodoro, the venue for several Olympic events. Rio City Hall intended to relocate the families from Vila Uniao to small social housing apartments or offer compensation packages. But many residents did not want to leave their 30-year-old community. After two years of uncertainty and a small yet vocal campaign of resistance, they have managed to save it from demolition. Instead of running straight over the neighbourhood, the new $555m-bus system (?¡ê370m) will now cut around Vila Uniao. This means only 191 families will need to be relocated, a 78% reduction in the original number of expected evictions. "We're celebrating a lot because it was 900 families and now it's 191," said Robson da Silva Soares, one of those leading the resistance to the demolition of Vila Uniao. But the victory was bittersweet for the residents, who, in 2012, had been promised investment as part of an initiative to improve the city's poor neighbourhoods by 2020. Months later, the Transolimpica project was announced and along with it, the need to relocate hundreds of families. Many of the homes earmarked for demolition were bigger than the government-funded apartments residents were being offered, explained 68-year-old Francisco Gabriel. "I've been here 20 years and if it's a choice between leaving for the [government-funded] Colonia Juliano Moreira apartments or staying here, I'd prefer to stay here," he said. "The homes there are smaller." According to Rio City Hall, plans for the Transolimpica were redrawn to reduce the impact on Vila Uniao. "We managed to get public land belonging to the federal government to alter the project and attend to the needs of the residents," a spokesman said. Rio City Hall said the project, while causing disruption to some, also had huge potential to improve the lives of locals by linking their neighbourhood to other public transport lines. "The future corridor will benefit the population leaving a huge legacy of mobility: a fully integrated transport network with the Transoeste and Transcarioca BRTs already opened, and the rail network in Deodoro," officials said. But while the reduced number of evictions was welcomed by the majority in Vila Uniao, it did not satisfy everyone, leaving the community divided. Cintia Neves, who runs a lunchtime cafe in the neighbourhood, has lived here almost her whole life. The 26-year-old shares the house her late father built when she was six months old with her mother and brother. "The vast majority [in the community] think the change is good but there are some who wanted to leave," she says, explaining that some homes in Vila Uniao were barely more than hovels. "We are staying for now" she said about her family. But even though the relief of those residents whose homes have been saved is palpable the new route is still likely to affect the community. There is the local football pitch, for example. The original plan spared it but the new project runs over it instead. Rio City Hall said it was in talks with the owner of a local football ground to provide a new pitch. There were also concerns that those moving to the new social housing would lose the community feel they enjoyed in Vila Uniao. "I grew up in the community with my parents and four brothers," Mr Soares said. "There's a market, a bank, a school. But the place where the families are moving to doesn't have any of this. They have to start everything again." Mr Soares said he and his fellow campaigners would not give up: "My house was in the path of the BRT and now I don't have to leave. "But even so, I will continue with the same fight because independent of me, we're fighting for residents to have their rights." And he is confident he can drive down the number of those facing eviction even further. "We see the possibility of removing fewer still than 191," the 37-year-old electromechanical technician said.

Question: Nearly all of the chaotically built homes in the small community of Vila Uniao in the @placeholder of Rio have " SMH " painted onto their walls .


He played a long, dogged innings, and though he could not lead his team to victory, he has avoided a defeat. His party has emerged as the largest in the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, a region that has borne the brunt of attacks by Taliban militants. He has also won one, and may win another, of the 12 parliamentary seats from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), a strip of land adjacent to KP where Taliban militants fighting the Nato forces in Afghanistan have sanctuaries. It wasn't until final results were released that it emerged that Mr Khan had only narrowly missed out on securing the legally important position of leader of the opposition in the national parliament. For many, however, his has been a remarkable achievement, and one which will see his party make further inroads into the Punjab heartland from where it bagged a substantial amount of votes, though fewer seats. But that will depend on how quickly he can recover from the back injury he sustained when he fell off a fork-lift during an election rally last week. He suffered three minor fractures in the spine but his nervous system was unharmed. His doctor has told the BBC that Mr Khan will have another two weeks of bed rest before walking again with the help of a brace. He is set to make a full recovery over the coming weeks, his doctors say. In an end-of-the campaign speech from his hospital bed last week - which was broadcast to a rally in the capital Islamabad via a video link - he seemed to open his heart to his audience when he talked about the long struggle which was about to come to fruition, and the sacrifices he had had to make, including the pain of losing his wife. "My wife, poor woman, she had to leave me because they wouldn't let her live in peace," he said in an emotional moment. An international cricketing celebrity, Mr Khan led Pakistan to its cricket World Cup triumph in 1992. But he made a shaky start of his political innings back in the mid-1990s. He was harassed by the conservative and Islamist circles who accused him of being a "Zionist agent". This was because he had married an English heiress, Jemima Goldsmith, whose father, Sir James Goldsmith, came from a Jewish background. The marriage lasted nine years and produced two children, both boys. To the electorate, he came across as a political lightweight who had no ideological moorings and only ambiguous views on crucial issues. His message of Islamic values and the formation of an Islamic welfare state that would not be a slave of the West were interpreted by many as the ramblings of a "playboy-turned-puritan". He suffered an early scandal when a widely respected welfare activist, Abdus Sattar Edhi, took temporary refuge in London, saying he was being threatened by a group that included Mr Khan and Hamid Gul, a former chief of Pakistani intelligence (ISI). In a 2010 interview, Mr Edhi explained: "They wanted to topple [Prime Minister] Benazir Bhutto's government, and wanted to fire their guns from my shoulder. When I refused, they threatened to kidnap me. I'm not the political type, so I caught a flight to London." The charge was denied by Mr Khan's party which said that Mr Khan only wanted Mr Edhi to join him in a pressure group "to push the government into spending more on health, education and welfare". More recently, there were allegations that another former ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, helped boost his political support, a charge the party denies. Despite his celebrity appeal and hero's status, he could only win one seat in the 2002 elections. He boycotted the elections in 2008. But during the last couple of years he seems to have burst into aggressive batting, and has suddenly caught the fancy of the crowds. He has done this by promising a "new" Pakistan, and getting rid of the old guard who he says have been "fixing the matches so that they can take turns at power". As election results show, he holds greater appeal in the north-west - inhabited by ethnic Pashtuns - presumably because he himself comes from the Pashtun Niazi tribe, settled in the Mianwali region of Punjab province. And his opposition of the US-led war against militancy has also touched a chord with the people of this region. His argument that militancy in Pakistan is the direct result of the American invasion of Afghanistan, and that it would end once the Western troops leave that country, has gone down well with the youth in the north-west. His rhetoric to shoot down the American drones also appealed to the Pashtun people in the tribal areas, who have been at the sharp end of the drones for several years. Whether he will interfere with Nato's 2014 exit through Pakistan if he is able to form a government in KP is a question that only time will answer. One thing is clear. He is going to have a solid block of votes on the opposition benches in the national parliament and he will use them to maximum effect to pave the way for a victory in the next elections. He is just 61 years old and generally in good health. If nothing serious has happened to his back, he will soon be back on his feet. The match is over, but the series is on.

Question: It has been like a @placeholder test match for Pakistani cricket hero - turned - politician Imran Khan .


Lauren, 18, previously won silver at the 2015 World Rowing Championships having only taken up rowing earlier that year. She is also a former wheelchair track racer who represented England at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Here, Lauren answers questions set by BBC News School Reporters from Aston Manor Academy in Birmingham. If you weren't an athlete, what would you want to be and why? I would definitely like to be a radio presenter/ DJ. I have a passion for music and listening to new artists, therefore I have always wanted to have my own radio segment to show people new and current music. Also the perks of being an athlete mean that you get to do radio interviews with stations such as the BBC and whenever I  go into the studios and see the presenters doing their job I always get a buzz off it. And I'm a real chatterbox so I could talk all day on the radio and never run out of topics to talk about! What or who made you get into sport? I have participated in sport since a young age. I think my real passion for sport stemmed from my love of competition. In middle school I was in every sports team and I just loved competing against other schools - when my mother saw this passion she devoted her spare time to taking me to athletics training and my swimming lessons after school. It was my involvement in the clubs outside of school that made me want to pursue a career in sport. What keeps you motivated to train? Before competing in Rio my sole motivation was to win a gold medals - there was no other focus other than becoming Paralympic Champion. However, after achieving my dream I find that my motivation to get me through the exhausting winter months is actually my motivation of self-development. At this time of year, it is hard for me to visualise the next competition and winning, so a big part of my motivation is sourced from a vision of a better me. There is always room for improvement and there will always more speed, strength and technique to be gained. What do you think is the biggest myth about being a successful sportsperson? That it's not as easy as it looks! Paralympic sport in particular is only ever in the public eye every four years and, being the great sporting nation that we are, everybody sees the success of the athletes. I would say that because we are such a successful team many people now expect you to keep winning gold medals and that winning is easy for some athletes. The reality is that it just gets harder. To keep competing and achieving at this level you have to keep pushing yourself that extra one per cent every season and you have to make one more sacrifice each time. Describe what a typical day of training is like for you A typical day for me would be to wake up at 5.30am, get dressed and eat breakfast before heading down to the gym for 6am and spend 30 minutes stretching and warming up ready for my aerobic session on the ergometer (the actual name for a rowing machine). I usually spend 60 minutes physically rowing on the ergometer before getting changed into fresh kit and head to my strength and conditioning session which will consist of an hour of lifting weights and then 30 minutes of strengthening my core. I usually finish training before 10am. I will then attend lectures at University all day. In the evening I like to spend some time stretching again to release all the built up tension from training in the morning. My training days depend on the time of year. At the moment I will train between two or three times per day with one day off per week. Ellie Downie (Gymnastics) Sophie Ecclestone (Cricket) Keelan Giles (Rugby Union) Tom Hamer (Para-swimming) Ellie Robinson (Para-swimming) Georgia Stanway (Football) Jess Stretton (Para-archery) Rebekah Tiler (Weightlifting) Amy Tinkler (Gymnastics) Read more about shortlist What was your favourite subject at school and why? My favourite subject at school was always PE. I was always the one pupil who thought sports day was the Olympic Games! Who is your biggest inspiration? My mum! Growing up it was just me and my mum so we have a very close bond and I always remember her working extremely hard and still coming home and take me to whatever sports training I had on that particular night. She's worked incredibly hard all her life and even though she isn't my sporting hero, she's the woman I aspire to be. Do you have a certain ritual or routine you follow before a competition and if so what? Before every competition we will always have a physical routine in place to get us prepared for the race and that routine may be different for every race. However, before every race I will always listen to the same playlist of songs which I've titled 'Time to win gold' and I will always listen to a series of short motivational videos that are on my phone. The combination of the music and videos makes me mentally ready for the race and really focuses my mind on the end goal and the end result. How do you feel before a major event or competition and how do you manage your nerves? Managing your nerves before a major competition I find extremely difficult. Before my Paralympic final I was a bag of nerves from the moment I woke up! I just like to get in the boat and start rowing. As soon as I get on that start line I am focused and relaxed because I know that I have practised every single stroke hundreds of times over. Once I begin to row I don't think about anything, my body just sets into auto drive and the nerves disappear. What is your 'golden moment' so far in your career? My 'golden moment' is quite literally the three minutes and 55 seconds it took to row to win my Paralympic gold medal! There is no higher achievement in my sport than winning a Paralympic Gold and when you achieve that the sensation is indescribable. I still gaze at my medal and just sit and wonder how a picture of that medal was once my phone wallpaper for months and months and now it belongs to me!

Question: Para-rower Lauren won the gold medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in trunk - arms mixed double skulls , with her boat partner 25 - year - old Laurence Whiteley . They recorded a world best time in the @placeholder .


"My friend had gone to bathe in the river when he discovered there was a body in the river so he called me". Jackson (not his real name) looks out across the Ol Donyo Sabuk River about an hour-and-a-half outside the centre of Nairobi. He and his friends quickly called the police. It was not the first time they had come across corpses in the river. This time, however it was a more high-profile case. "Shortly after, we saw a sack floating in the water," he continues. "We went to look at it and I noticed the outline of a head so we opened the sack." Days later they found a third body - the three turned to be a missing lawyer, Willie Kimani, his client, Josephat Mwendwa and their taxi driver, Joseph Muiruri. Post-mortem reports have revealed signs that the men suffered severe torture. The case sparked nationwide demonstrations, with protestors accusing the police of being behind the killings because Mr Mwendwa had brought a case against an officer. Campaigners say this highlights a wider trend of unlawful executions by the police. The force has distanced itself from the case of the dead lawyer, describing it as an isolated incident relating to a rogue policeman. Four officers have been arrested but not charged. In Nairobi's Mathare valley, brown tin roofs are interspersed with electricity and light poles - the lights were set up to help improve security in this notorious slum. Crime is rife here, fuelled by high unemployment but residents say the police are too heavy-handed in their attempts to maintain order. "It's like it's a crime to be a young man here," says Juliet Wanjira. "Stop Police Executions" says the slogan on her T-shirt. "We are losing our young men," she continues. "We're left with so many wives and mothers looking for their men." Ms Wanjira is a campaigner with the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) which has been documenting the cases of young men shot by the police, they say unlawfully. Anthony Mburu, another campaigner with MSCJ says he once witnessed four teenagers being shot by police officers. "They were chased by about six policemen. The youths split and ran in different directions but they were each followed by the police," he says. "One ran to a kiosk and he was shot before he could enter. Another one pleaded for mercy but the police shot him in the stomach. He did not die immediately. As he was struggling for life, the policeman shot him twice." One mother lost her son also in Mathare last August. She sent her son to check on his brother who was in police custody but she never heard from him again. After searching for three days, she found his body in a mortuary. Witnesses told her that the police had shot him. "He was shot in both eyes, in his cheek and the left side of his chest," she told me. "We reported it to the police and to the different agencies but I've not got any help. They tell me they'll get back to me but they don't." While she has sought justice, others think they will never find it. Another mother who has lost her son in similar circumstances says she did not bother to report her case. "Here in Kenya, who am I to take the case forward?" she asked. "Look at me. I live in Mathare slum. If big people are killed and their cases just disappear, then what about me? If I speak I'll be killed like a chicken. I've left it all to God." There have been similar cases reported across the country. The non-governmental watchdog Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) says the police killed 97 people in 2015 alone. More recently the group says eight suspected robbers, aged between 15 and 26, were shot at close range in April, either while kneeling or lying on the ground. Police crackdowns in the fight against Islamist militants have targeted predominantly Muslim communities around the country in the aftermath of major attacks. Last year, a report by the Kenya's official rights body described it as "fighting terror with terror" and reported 25 killings. Between 2012 and 2014, three prominent clerics believed to have had links to al-Shabab were killed in the coastal city of Mombasa. Their supporters say police "death squads" killed them. The spokesman for Kenya's Interior Ministry, Mwenda Njoka, told the BBC that the Kenyan government is against extrajudicial killings. "It is against the law and that's a point we don't need to belabour," he said. "We have a legal mechanism through the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) and other legal forums to address legal measures employed by security agents." The Mathare campaigners say that of the 40 cases reported to IPOA this year, only one has been dealt with. That adds to the dozens more they say have been unresolved. Kenya's police spokesman Charles Owino dismisses the activists' claims, saying they ignore important facts. "The police are there to protect the common man. So we cannot allow a situation where a group of criminals move around with arms. "These are the people you want to move around with arms and shoot innocent citizens? And then we say there's no law and order?" He says there might be rogue elements within the police, who are then charged and punished, but insists that the force generally abides by the rule of law. Police reforms have been ongoing but even President Uhuru Kenyatta has expressed concerns that the process has been slow. The perceived culture of police impunity has many worried ahead of next year's elections, often a time of increased violence.

Question: The recent killing of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others has once again put the Kenyan police in the spotlight . The police have been accused of running death squads , a claim they deny . The BBC 's Tomi Oladipo @placeholder the growing public mistrust of the police , especially among young men .


Kevin Friend pointed to the spot after Norwich's Sebastien Bassong collided with Dele Alli in the box, and Harry Kane converted to put Spurs 2-0 up. "The penalty was an extremely poor decision," Neil said. "Dele Alli gets a shot at goal, if he ends up putting it in the net it's a goal." Neil continued to BBC Radio Norfolk: "Bassong has no bearing on where the ball's going to go - as he hits it, he has a free shot at goal, (goalkeeper) Declan Rudd gathers the ball and then there's a collision of bodies. "It happens all over the pitch on a regular basis and there's very few times you see a free-kick given - for him to make such a key decision in such a big game was really frustrating." Neil was also unhappy with Kane's second goal just before full-time, which came after Christian Eriksen dispossessed Martin Olsson. "The ball's on the wrong side of him, Eriksen's come in from the back and he's bumped Martin as he's tried to play the pass, put him on his backside and then runs through," he said. "Nine times out of 10, the defender would get the benefit of the doubt with that one. "There was one in the first half with Youssouf Mulumbu that happened with their defender and we didn't get a free-kick for it. I feel like nearly all the 50-50 contentious decisions went in their favour." Following the defeat, Norwich - who have lost their last five games in all competitions - could find themselves in the bottom three on Wednesday if Newcastle beat Everton.

Question: Norwich manager Alex Neil described Tottenham 's penalty in Tuesday 's 3 - 0 loss at Carrow Road , as " probably the weakest penalty " he has seen all @placeholder .


In winning she also set a new Paralympic record and was joined on the podium with compatriots Jo Frith and Vicky Jenkins taking silver and bronze position to make it a clean sweep for Great Britain. This year she's been balancing her sporting achievements alongside successfully taking her GCSE exams, studying for A levels and representing her school Boccia team in regional and national competitions Here, Jess Stretton answers questions set by BBC News School Reporters from Aston Manor Academy in Birmingham. If you weren't an athlete, what would you want to be and why? I would be an English teacher because I love the subject and want to help others enjoy it as well. English Literature is my favourite subject and allows me to need to read a book for study purposes and also gives me another excuse to be able to read when I'm on the shooting line! Describe what a typical day of training is like for you I get to the shooting range around 9am and shoot until 11am, doing 72 or 78 arrows in the morning. I then have an hour study time and lunch before shooting again in the afternoon until I have done my arrow volume for the day, which is usually 120 arrows. Then I go to the gym before going home. What keeps you motivated to train? The feeling I get when I shoot my bow is one of the best feelings in the world - it is only me, my bow and the target! Also knowing the success that can bring. What kind of support network do you think you need in the sports industry? I think you need to have very flexible and understanding family and friends who are able to (particularly on bad days) remind you why you get up in the morning to train. It does not matter if you have connections in the big companies at the start, that will come with time and with the places you go to. Ellie Downie (Gymnastics) Sophie Ecclestone (Cricket) Keelan Giles (Rugby Union) Tom Hamer (Para-swimming) Ellie Robinson (Para-swimming) Lauren Rowles (Para-rowing) Georgia Stanway (Football) Rebekah Tiler (Weightlifting) Amy Tinkler (Gymnastics) Read more about shortlist Who is your biggest inspiration? John Stubbs is my biggest inspiration because he is a multiple Paralympian and someone I aspire to be like. Who do you think is a brilliant role model for aspiring athletes? I think Jessica Ennis-Hill is a great role model because she is a brilliant athlete and a really good person to aspire to be like. With the success she's had it is easy to look at her and think 'I want to be like her one day'. What do you think is the biggest myth about being a successful sportsperson? That you will win everything. This isn't true as anything could happen - you could get an injury, have an equipment failure, or just have a bad day at the time. What advice would you give to other young people wanting to get into competitive sports? Find a club or sports "have-a-go" day and just try it out! Take every opportunity that comes your way until you find something you either really like or are good at and keep at it. Do you have a certain ritual or routine you follow before a competition and if so what? I usually just plug in my headphones and pick up my book to relax and just get away from the reality of what is happening. This means I can focus more when the time comes to shoot in thinking it is just another shoot and that the outcome will only come after each separate arrow. What is your 'golden moment' so far in your career? I would have to say being on top of the podium in Rio at the 2016 Paralympics with the three GB flags in the air, signifying the clean sweep that my team mates and I achieved!

Question: Jess , 16 , won the gold medal in archery ( W1 individual ) at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games where she was the youngest competitor in the archery @placeholder .


Organised by the Fire Brigades Union, the first draw of the Firefighters 100 Lottery will take place later. Funds raised will also be used to promote education in fire safety. Sue Veevers, whose son Stephen Hunt died in Manchester in 2013, said the scheme was "much needed and very welcome". Mr Hunt, 38, from Bury, Greater Manchester, died after a fire at Paul's Hair World in Oldham Street. Earlier this year an inquest jury concluded it was probable two 15-year-old girls deliberately started the fire after smoking cigarettes at the rear of the building. Ms Veevers said: "No-one could imagine the hell our family went through after my son died. "People assume that families such as mine are looked after following such a tragedy, but it's not always the case." Mr Hunt was among 60 firefighters called to the hair salon blaze. Along with a colleague, he entered the building but was later found collapsed and could not be resuscitated. He died later that evening. Police said the case is to be reviewed to determine if any further action should be taken. A Manchester street was named in memory of Mr Hunt in September.

Question: The mother of a firefighter who died tackling a blaze has praised the launch of a charity lottery to support relatives of @placeholder rescue workers .


"That," she said, gesturing towards the sweets, "was to celebrate the birth of the 102nd baby." The baby in question had been born under the Jiyo Parsi scheme, a federal government initiative launched in 2013 to stem the decline of the India's Parsi population. Dr Gandevia is senior member of this initiative. Every baby born is a moment for celebration in the dwindling community that traces its ancestry to Zoroastrian refugees who landed on the coast of the western Indian state of Gujarat around the 8th Century. Fleeing Islamic persecution in Persia, the new arrivals integrated with the local populations, whilst maintaining their distinctive ethnic identity. As a highly-educated and prosperous community, their success and influence has been far in excess of their size. And that size is ever-shrinking. With each census, the number of Parsis has dropped, even as India's population of 1.3 billion people has grown. The latest 2011 census put the number of Indian Parsis at 57,264, a fall from 1,14,000 in 1941, and extinction has increasingly become a reality. Jiyo Parsi is an ambitious plan to halt that. For its first phase - which will conclude in a few months - the scheme received 100 million rupees ($1.5m;?¡ê1.1m)  to defray costs of fertility treatments for Parsi couples earning less than 2m rupees a year. The campaign also sought to encourage Parsis to go forth and multiply through advertising, counselling and outreach efforts, . That flipped the script on family planning, a key part of Indian government policy for decades. When it was first announced in September 2013, the scheme quickly became both a headline and a punchline. It's quirky outreach included ad campaigns that urged couples to "Be responsible, don't use a condom tonight" and told young men to cut the umbilical chord and marry because, "isn't it time you broke up with your mom?" But even though some objected that the campaign reduced women to their uteruses, it appears to have made a dent. "The scheme created an enthusiasm and a buzz," Ms Gandevia told the BBC. "People were pessimistic but this has been a ray of hope." Most of the babies have been born in Mumbai, which has India's largest concentration of Parsis.  The number includes five pairs of twins and a roughly equal number of boys and girls. One woman who declined to be identified claimed she had given up on having a child after repeated efforts which drained both her patience and money, but said that the financial assistance and counselling under the Jiyo scheme helped her conceive. Another woman said: "At the age of 41 when most women start experiencing the symptoms of menopause, I am experiencing the symptoms of a long-awaited pregnancy. At the end of every tunnel there is light." Before she became a coordinator for the scheme, Ms Gandevia, a social scientist and Parsi herself, had studied this tightly-knit group for more than a decade. She says the first cause for alarm was in 2001, when census figures showed a sharp drop. "That was the time the bells should have started ringing. the writing was on the wall," she said. More than 30% of Parsis don't marry, and an equal proportion are more than 60-years-old. The total fertility rate for Parsis- the number of children a woman has - has dropped to 0.8. The average for India is 2.3, and 2.1 is the figure at which a population remains steady. Read more about Zoroastrianism A combination of factors has been responsible for this: marrying outside the community or not at all, divorce, couples having only one child and late marriages. Furthermore, women who marry outside the community are not allowed to raise their children in the faith. Hence, the two-pronged efforts of the team, which believes that talking to people, without lecturing them on reproducing, can be a powerful motivator. "It is all because of the advocacy work that I decided to have a second child," said a Mumbai-based woman who is in her first trimester. "In whatever way, it is my small contribution." The woman said she initially decided not to have another child to focus on her career. "But maybe subconsciously I wanted another kid," she said. "All of us are happy." Emphasising community pride and the joys of kinship has been another thrust area - a new advertising campaign launching later this month will focus on family. Impressed by their efforts, even the Japanese government - a country where the population is rapidly aging and the fertility rate has fallen to 1.4 - has approached Parzor Foundation, an implementing partner, to decode the success of the campaign. "When we started, we were going into unknown territory," Shernaz Cama, the foundation's director told the BBC. "This had never been attempted by an urban, educated community before. Now we are seeing interest from all over." Although the initial euphoria is palpable, it is too early to estimate any demographic impact it has had on the fertility rate. "But 102 babies were born that would have otherwise not been there if Jiyo Parsi hadn't provided support," said Ms Gandevia. "That is a fact." She added that the real effects would be visible a generation from now. Still, there are currently more Parsis dying than are being born every year. In Mumbai, for instance, about 750 Parsis die annually, and 200 children are born, pointed out Jehangir Patel, the editor and publisher of Parsiana, a community-focussed publication in the city. "Even five or 20 more births per year more won't change the demographics," he said. "It's a good endeavour helping couples who might have otherwise not been able to have children but it won't drastically change the picture." Bhavya Dore is a Mumbai-based journalist

Question: A jubilant Katy Gandevia passed around a box of celebratory sweets she had received in her @placeholder at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai .


Alison Willis said she had asked the officer why police were not letting people out and told them: "There's people dying in there". Ms Willis told  the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans how the police response was "utter chaos". She said the crush was "unbearable" and she struggled to breathe. Ms Willis, who bought a ticket for the 1989 FA Cup semi-final from a tout, described how the congestion began to build in the Leppings Lane end of the stadium ahead of kick-off. Asked what the pressure was like, Ms Willis, said: "It was unbearable, absolutely unbearable. I've never felt anything like it in my life." She said it was "terribly" painful and she found it "hard to breathe". Profiles of all those who died The inquests, held in Warrington, Cheshire, heard how she was helped to climb out of the crush in pen four into a "sterile area" in pen five, before escaping on to the perimeter track. Ms Willis said an officer used foul language and ordered her to go back into the terraces. She told the court: "I said 'why wasn't they letting people out - there's people dying in there'. He told me 'get back in you fucking Scouse bastard'." The court heard Ms Willis had not mentioned the exchange during evidence she gave to the Taylor public inquiry into the disaster, or at the original inquests. She said: "I think the first time I went to the Taylor inquests (sic), to be honest I don't even think I had got my head around what had happened to me." Ms Willis said she and four others had been able to get into the Leppings Lane terraces with other Liverpool fans, despite having tickets for the opposite end of the ground. Sam Green, a barrister who represents the Police Federation, said: "Officers on the ground, for whatever reason, wholly failed to appreciate that what was unfolding before them was a fatal disaster and that they thought - they were stuck in a mindset - that what they were dealing with was a crowd behaviour issue." Ms Willis replied: "When I was stood on that running track they could see exactly what I could see. "If they had been to football matches, they would have known that was not crowd trouble." Ms Willis, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, at the time, was later interviewed by West Midlands Police. She said she was questioned inside a cell in a Mansfield police station. "I was told there was no room anywhere else," she said. "It was so intimidating. They was very focused on alcohol and on fans' behaviour." A Court of Appeal judge also gave evidence during Tuesday's hearing and said he felt there was no clear police plan to deal with the mounting crowds. Sir Maurice Kay, who was a Liverpool season ticket holder and a barrister at the time, attended the match with his son. Pete Weatherby QC, a barrister for 22 bereaved families, asked Sir Maurice: "Is it right that in effect the crowd and the congestion was so large that the police had lost control of it?" Sir Maurice replied: "That's how it seemed to me." The judge described the situation around the turnstiles as "uncomfortable" and "potentially dangerous." The jury also heard from a Sheffield Wednesday fan who had tickets for Hillsborough's South Stand on the day of the 15 April match. Mark Dawson described the fans outside the Liverpool end of the ground as "abrupt" and some were "drinking heavily". The jury heard that in a statement he gave in 1989 he said it was "drunken fans who were still on the road that were pushing causing the problems". Asked if he still maintained that, he replied: "Yes." The inquests continue.

Question: A Liverpool fan was @placeholder at by a police officer and told to " get back in " after escaping the Hillsborough disaster crush , a jury has heard .


The 518 mixed copper coins, found near Leominster, had been placed in cloth bags and hidden in the ground in a leather satchel. Experts believe the coins were deliberately buried because of unrest or fear of robbery. The British Museum said it was very rare to find hoards so well-preserved. The hoard was found in July 2013 by paramedics and metal detector enthusiasts Jeremy Daw and Martin Fulloway. The news of the find has only just been made public by the British Museum. Mr Fulloway said: "We thought it might be a horse shoe or something rubbish. "As we were digging down through the soil with our hands, I spotted Jeremy had a handful of Roman coins. "I said, 'Stop. I think we've got a hoard.'" Mr Fulloway said four of the coins were stuck to a stone, while others were in the loose soil. "It's not quite the Staffordshire hoard but for Herefordshire it's nice. For me to have my first Roman hoard, it's a dream come true." Mr Daw said the coins were possibly buried during a time of unrest in the Roman empire. "It's been in the ground for 1,700 years and we are the first people to touch it," he said. "We looked at each other and punched the air." The earth was x-rayed at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and then examined by the British Museum. The coins range from from AD 260 to circa 290 and include eight coins of the Britannic Empire. The hoard was declared treasure trove in June by the Hereford coroner and will now be valued by the British Museum. The value will then be shared with the two finders, landowner and Hereford and Leominster Museum. Peter Reavill, a finds officer for the British Museum, said: "This is one of the best-preserved coin hoards I have seen." He said he hoped funds would be raised to keep the collection in the county.

Question: A hoard of more than 500 Roman coins was found by two metal detector enthusiasts in a Herefordshire @placeholder , the British Museum has revealed .


According to documents, Mr Lee became angry after the man, Donald Bolding, flashed a graphic tattoo at the people in Mr Lee's car, including his fianc??e. He later returned with an accomplice and beat Mr Bolding with a tyre iron. Mr Lee, 49, co-founded Pinkberry in 2005 but left the company in 2010. He was arrested in January 2013 at Los Angeles International Airport on "outstanding charges." Prosecutors said Mr Bolding was struck twice in the head and suffered a broken arm, before passerby stepped in to stop the attack. Mr Lee faces up to seven years in California state prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for 14 January.

Question: Young Lee , co-founder of @placeholder yogurt chain Pinkberry , was found guilty by a California judge of beating a homeless man in Los Angeles in June of 2011 .


A welfare officer made the discovery at a property in Surrey after being contacted by a distressed homeowner in December. It is a one of a string of calls made to the animal welfare charity where people have mistaken objects for living creatures. The RSPCA is urging the public to double check before raising the alarm. Other call outs include a report in November that an owl had been sitting on a roof for more than four days and appeared unable to move. Inspectors discovered that the creature was in fact made out of plastic. A month later animal collection officer Alan Farr was asked by a homeowner to help find a trapped bird which was making a "peeping noise" in her loft. "After searching around and unable to find the mystery bird, I then went into her front room and found a smoke alarm beeping after the battery had gone flat," he revealed. Others include: The charity's 24-hour cruelty line received 1,153,744 calls in 2016, 3% more than the previous year. It has urged the public to make sure they have a genuine problem before getting in touch. RSPCA spokesman Dermot Murphy said: "We know that people mean well and most of these calls are not made in malice, and although we would like to be able to help everyone, we simply haven't got the staff to personally investigate each and every issue that the public brings to us. "We must prioritise to make sure we get to the animals most in need."

Question: The RSPCA was called out to catch a stray @placeholder in a loft which turned out to be a child 's cuddly toy .


Loganair will continue to operate the route with ?¡ê800,000 of funding supporting the six-month extension. The UK and Scottish governments and Dundee City Council agreed to extend the current public service obligation contract. Loganair operates two daily flights each way each weekday, with a further flight on a Sunday. The UK government funding is through the Regional Air Connectivity Fund, which aims to maintain connectivity between London and smaller regional airports, where routes are at risk of being withdrawn. Scottish government Transport Minister Derek Mackay said: "The extension of the public service obligation on the Dundee-Stansted route is a welcome and important step for the future of the airport. "All parties have worked together to reach an agreement that will see the route safeguarded in the immediate future, with a view to reaching a longer-term solution in due course. Dundee City Council leader Ken Guild said: "I am pleased that the partners in this route have agreed that the backing for it will be extended. "We will continue to work with them to encourage as many people as possible to use the service."

Question: Flights between Dundee and London have been secured until the end of the year @placeholder a new deal .


Froch was recently stripped of his WBA super-middleweight belt and was thought to be close to ending his career. But Hearn said the 37-year-old is tempted by the prospect of one last big-money fight at Wembley Stadium. "We have already opened negotiations with Golovkin's people and they are very keen," Hearn told the Daily Mail. "I only want Carl to take it if he's genuinely motivated because it is a high-risk fight. "Golovkin is the most feared fighter in the world and Carl doesn't need this fight. But he says he is intrigued by how he would deal with him. He's crazy that way." Hearn later told BBC Radio 5 live that any bout would only take place if Froch was happy to get back in the ring, and stressed: "It really comes down to his hunger and desire to fight again." Kazakhstan's Golovkin, 33, is the WBA middleweight champion and is unbeaten in 33 professional fights, including 30 knockouts. Last Saturday he stopped American Willie Monroe Jr in Los Angeles and in his previous fight he beat Britain's Martin Murray, also inside the distance. But he has struggled to secure big-money fights at middleweight and his promoter, Tom Loeffler, says he is willing to move up to 168lb to land a lucrative match with Froch. Froch has not fought since knocking out domestic rival George Groves in front of 80,000 at Wembley last summer. He has already confirmed he is not interested in fighting the winner of Saturday's IBF super-middleweight title fight between Britain's James DeGale and Andre Dirrell in Boston.

Question: Britain 's Carl Froch could fight middleweight king Gennady Golovkin rather than @placeholder , according to Froch 's promoter Eddie Hearn .


Dreamland in Margate, which went into administration last month, is scrapping entry charges and charging per ride or for a rides wristband instead. The plan coincides with the first anniversary of the attraction reopening after an ?¡ê18m restoration. Designer Wayne Hemingway said the park was underfunded from the start. "It cost about ?¡ê18m which is only just over twice what Thorpe Park and Blackpool Pleasure Beach spend in a year in marketing and PR alone," said Mr Hemingway, who was Dreamland's artistic director. "It was maybe too ambitious but it still can work." Dreamland features vintage fairground attractions from funfairs around the UK. But its star attraction, the Scenic Railway, was not ready for the reopening on 19 June 2015 and was not running for another four months. Chief executive Eddie Kemsley said it had been a tough year. She said finding out the railway would not be ready two weeks ahead of the opening was the hardest day she has faced. "It was incredibly tough," she said. "We gave away thousands and thousands of tickets to people who had thought the scenic railway would be open." Ms Kemsley said the new pricing structure was tried out at Christmas. "The success we had showed us it absolutely the right way to go," she said. Thanet District Council has said Dreamland had cash flow problems because it failed to get enough customers through the gates. The Dreamland Trust, which worked with Thanet District Council to resurrect the park after it closed in 2005, said it hoped the new prices would make the park more accessible to local people and visitors to Margate.

Question: A theme park which called in administrators after reopening in a blaze of @placeholder is changing its prices in a bid to attract visitors .


Luke and Hazel Robertson estimate the expedition will take about 80 days and will cover more than 2,000 miles. They plan to kayak, cycle and run the distance and will travel through rainforest, glaciers, mountains, tundra desert and the Arctic Ocean. The expedition will begin in May. Last year, Luke became the first Scot to complete a solo, unassisted and unsupported trek to the South Pole. The couple, originally from Stonehaven, told the BBC Scotland news website: "It will be a real privilege to journey through this unique land. "We're actually excited by the physical endurance challenge that comes with an expedition of this scale. We will be out there for almost three months, which will be tough both mentally and physically, but very rewarding too." The Robertsons will need to contend with the presence of bears while in Alaska, but they will also be wary of another, perhaps surprising, companion. "There are much smaller things to worry about - midges," the Robertsons added. "They are plentiful over there in the summer months to say the least, so we'll be well prepared for those too." The couple, who are both 31, are keen to engage young Scots as part of their journey, which will be called Due North: Alaska. As well as regular filming and social media updates, they will work with the Scottish government body Education Scotland with the aim of engaging young people with wildlife. Luke was inspired to undertake his first expedition, entitled Due South, at the end of 2015. He raised money for Marie Curie after undergoing brain surgery to remove a suspected tumour. During his journey, he received tweets of support from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale and Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, as well as adventurers Mark Beaumont and Levison Wood. Luke spent Christmas and New Year  at the South Pole as part of the 39-day trek but for this expedition, there will be different challenges. He said: "Skiing to the South Pole was an incredible experience and so heading into another big wilderness seems like the next logical step. "It will be much tougher distance wise - we're travelling about three times the 730 miles that I skied to the South Pole and this expedition will take at least double the time." Mr Robertson added: "Because we are effectively cycling the length of the UK, kayaking the distance from the UK to Iceland, and then running 30 marathons - all back to back - fitness levels have to be greater too, and so we've been building up the strength and fitness required. "It'll be nice to have some company - 40 days by yourself is a long time - so I'm hoping not to hallucinate quite so much. "Antarctica is a beautiful and very special place, but it'll be great to see a little more varied scenery and wildlife, as well as having someone to chat to other than my sledge."

Question: An Edinburgh couple are aiming to trek from the southernmost tip to northernmost point of the Alaskan @placeholder in what is thought will be a world first .


Shahana Siddiqui knew the owners of the Holey cafe, in Bangladesh's capital, which was attacked last Friday. Through the night, she was in touch with them and got a blow-by-blow account of the horrifying events. So who were the men who carried out the country's worst ever militant attack? They were all Bangladeshi but the one fact that has transfixed this nation is their personal history. They were almost all from affluent backgrounds and had studied in some of the country's top schools and colleges. Some of the hostages who were freed described them as well-dressed and English-speaking. The Facebook account of one of them, Nibras Islam, is filled with pictures of him with friends. There is even one showing him meeting a Bollywood actress. Another of the attackers has been identified as Rohan Imtiaz. He studied at one of the country's best private schools, Scholastica, described to me by one Bangladeshi as "Dhaka's equivalent of Eton", a reference to the top English school. His father, Imtiaz Khan, is a politician with Bangladesh's governing Awami League party. Rohan had apparently disappeared in December and his father filed a missing person's report with the police a month later. "I am stunned to learn this, dumbfounded," he told the BBC. "There was nothing at home, no books or anything to indicate he was leaning that way. Mr Khan is still not sure how his son became a radical. "Perhaps through the internet," he added. On the face of it, the suspects appeared to have led normal lives, typical of people from similar elite backgrounds. One of them played football, another enjoyed listening to music while a third was fond of racing his car through Dhaka's streets at night with his friends. But at some point, all of them changed, became reclusive and then disappeared from public view. The North South University is the country's first private university and is located in a quiet, leafy neighbourhood. This is where Nibral Islam studied. After a lot of attempts, I finally track down one person who knew him. He agreed to speak to me but only on the phone and after I promised not to reveal his identity. "I used to see him on campus. I've run into him a few times in the canteen," he tells me. I ask him if he could tell me what he was like. "Very normal, just like anyone else." He then told me that there are several Islamic radical groups who discreetly approach the students. "It's very harmless at first. They ask them if they pray regularly and things like that." Students who respond are then given literature and asked to attend discussions. "Eventually they are told: 'This is no life. Join the jihad.' Those who get indoctrinated slowly withdraw from public and then simply disappear." Bangladesh is not new to militant violence. But many agree that this attack marks a new and dangerous direction. "This is only the beginning," says Brig Gen Shakhawat Hossain, a retired army officer and security analyst. "There's more to come."

Question: " These are not men who did this in any random manner . These were people who were @placeholder and knew exactly how to instil fear . "


The University of Aberdeen team said the findings were especially true of couples without a shared social circle. They compensate by "adopting" the on-screen social groups - such as in Game of Thrones - as their own. The researchers said the more frequently couples watched box sets or films together, the more highly they rated their relationship commitment. The research measured the extent to which people shared programme viewing with their partners, whether they had a lot of friends in common and how they rated their relationship. The university said the results showed that when people did not share many friends with their partner, sharing media strongly predicted greater relationship quality. Dr Sarah Gomillion, who led the study, said: "Relationships are a very big contributor to our physical and psychological health. "So understanding how relationships can be better and how you can improve relationships can also improve our physical and psychological health. "What these results suggest to us is that when people have a hole in their social network that they share with their partners they might become more motivated to share media as a way to compensate for that deficit. "Watching TV with a partner or watching a movie you both like is a really easy way to improve relationship quality and anyone can do it at any time so if this is something that is good for relationships, it might help us identify an intervention that can improve relationship quality." The study has been published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Question: Couples who watch box sets of a @placeholder together can see it improve their relationship , according to researchers .


The planned move - aimed at kick-starting the fracking industry - will be included in the Queen's Speech as part of an Infrastructure Bill. The companies will still need planning permission to drill for shale gas. But they will be able to install pipes to transport the gas under private land without fear of breaking trespass laws. Prime Minister David Cameron has also indicated that the government could cut subsidies for land-based wind farms when it has "built enough to meet all our targets". Ministers fear landowners and anti-fracking protesters would use existing law to block shale gas extraction in the UK, as it suggests prior permission is needed to run pipelines thousands of feet below private land. BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said the Infrastructure Bill would make clear that putting pipes under private land would not constitute trespass - but it would also give the affected landowners the right to compensation. Ministers are worried that other countries - especially in eastern Europe - have been making fracking there appear more attractive to investors than Britain. They believe a clarification in the law will send a positive signal to companies. The prime minister's official spokesman confirmed the government was looking at ways of making test drilling easier and to ensure there was not "an overburden of red tape and regulation". He added:  "Fracking is something that is very new, certainly in this country, which is why we are looking to see whether there are particular obstacles to the test drilling." A conference on the potential economic benefits of fracking is to be held in Blackpool on Thursday. The Infrastructure Bill would also give new freedoms to the Highways Agency in a bid to get more roads built, and planning changes to fast-track developments, according to The Financial Times. Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne joined forces on Tuesday to promote the UK's construction programme. The pair, who visited road building schemes, claimed more than 200 rail, road, local transport, broadband, airport and waste management projects were due to start construction over the next year, creating more than 150,000 jobs. Downing Street said the jobs figure had been calculated using Office for National Statistics data. The government says ¡ê36bn is being spent on the projects, which include flood damage repairs. That figure is made up of ¡ê5bn in public investment, ¡ê21bn private and ¡ê10bn in joint funding. Mr Cameron said: "This government is backing business with better infrastructure so that more jobs and opportunities are created for hardworking people, meaning more financial security and peace of mind for families." He also indicated that the government could look at cutting subsidies on land-based wind farms in the future. Visiting the UK headquarters of the construction group Skanska, in Hertfordshire, the prime minister said: "We have now got the largest offshore wind farm anywhere in the world built off the coast of the UK and another one coming on stream almost as big very, very shortly. "In terms of onshore wind, obviously there will come a time when we will have built enough to meet all our targets and so I've always said with subsidies, we shouldn't keep subsidies for longer than they are necessary and so that's something we'll be looking at." Labour said the government's "reheated announcements" about infrastructure masked a failure to deliver and the lowest level of peacetime housebuilding since the 1920s. Shadow Treasury minister Chris Leslie said: "We need action not words on infrastructure if we're to get a recovery built to last." According to the Office for National Statistics infrastructure spending fell 11.4% in 2012 but went up by 2% last year. Before the twentieth century it was assumed a land owner's rights extended from the centre of the earth to the top of the sky. But a series of key court cases have challenged that notion. 1931: US court rules that a sewer 150ft deep was not on land belonging to the home owner above. 1946: US Supreme court rules that transcontinental flights do not trespass on land below. 1978: High Court of England and Wales says aerial photography plane was not trespassing. 2010: UK Supreme Court rules that diagonal drilling down to 2,800ft from an adjacent plot of land is still trespassing under the surface.

Question: Ministers want to give energy companies the right to run shale gas pipelines under private land , Whitehall @placeholder have confirmed .


Jason Gates, 36, who was reported missing on 17 March, was seen in Aviemore and then near Drumnadrochit at Loch Ness. The latest searches follow earlier efforts involving police, the RNLI and coastguard. It is believed Mr Gates' dog was found last week near Drumnadrochit. The dog was taken into the care of Police Scotland after it was involved in an incident at a farm near the village in which three sheep died. Local residents and visitors to Drumnadrochit and the surrounding area have been asked to look out for Mr Gates. Ch Insp Jennifer MacDonald said: "Although no public searches are being organised at this time, we would like to thank the public for their support to date and would appeal to local residents in the area to check outbuildings, sheds and holiday homes in case Jason has taken shelter locally. "Also, we know the area is popular with walkers and would ask that anything that may assist the search effort is reported to police, even if it seems insignificant." Mr Gates is described as being about 6ft 3in tall, of slim build, with short, cropped, greying hair and stubble. It is not known what clothes he was wearing, but police said he was known to often wear black jeans, a T-shirt, a black padded jacket or a tweed jacket.

Question: Police , RAF Mountain Rescue Team @placeholder and search dogs have been involved in a fresh effort to trace a Hampshire man missing in the Highlands .


Owner Derek Gamble was traced after the item - which still contained its original contents - was found inside a railway carriage being restored. Train driver Michael Massey told the Eastern Daily Press he discovered the wallet on the North Norfolk Railway. Mr Gamble said the contents "brought back memories of 30 years ago". An old ?¡ê1 note and a handful of coins, as well as documents bearing the name Derek B Gamble and his former address in Rugby, Warwickshire, were inside the wallet. It was discovered by Mr Massey, from Ely, while he was putting together exhibits for a display to be shown at Holt railway station in Norfolk. He turned detective to find the wallet's owner, eventually tracking down Mr Gamble's son in Northampton. "He [Mr Gamble] doesn't remember losing it, but thinks it must have been when the carriages were on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough," Mr Massey said. Mr Gamble, now in his 60s and living in Northampton, said: "I am pleased and not a little surprised to be reunited with my wallet. "Its contents bring back memories of what my family and I were doing over 30 years ago."

Question: A man has been reunited with a wallet he lost more than 30 years ago after it was found stuffed down the back of a train @placeholder .


Dr Christopher Davies, who works for the the Royal Berkshire Hospital, said a matron later purchased the item for ¡ê22.95 from Homebase instead. Dr Davies, a respiratory consultant, said it was then fitted for free by in-house staff. A hospital spokesperson said the quote was reviewed and "firmly rejected". Dr Davies said the blackout blind "must have been gold plated" to warrant such a price, the Mail on Sunday reported. He wrote: "So many posts about inadequate funding but here's an example of how the money is used... maybe it's not just about poor funding." In a statement issued to the BBC, the hospital said: "In line with NHS requirements, the trust sought quotes for a blind which meets fire and infection control regulations. "This particular quotation was reviewed by the management team and firmly rejected." NHS England has been approached for comment and said it was looking into the situation.

Question: A senior doctor has @placeholder out after his hospital was quoted ¡ê 855.80 for a blackout blind by its official NHS contractor .


Three chicks have hatched at the Tweed Valley project this year. Volunteers watching the nest first saw the adult male osprey bringing them fish but then a "cheeky jay" appeared. It was seen picking up items from the back of the nest, thought to have been leftover fish, and eating them. Information officer Diane Bennett said: "A fish supper at the jay residence must be a welcome break from acorns! "The ospreys are not concerned that these morsels have been taken from the nest and clearly don't perceive the jay as a threat, which is strange, as the jay is certainly capable of taking the tiny osprey chicks at this stage of their life. "Maybe, the clean-up operation to remove fish debris discarded by the osprey family is welcomed for now, particularly as the chicks would never intentionally be left alone while they are so small."

Question: A jay has been caught on CCTV cameras pinching its own " fish supper " from an osprey nest being @placeholder in the Scottish Borders .


Mr Warmbier died without recovering on Monday, having been brought back to the US last week. His family blames the North Korean authorities for his death. US President Donald Trump called the North a "brutal regime". A spokesman in Pyongyang was quoted by Reuters as saying Mr Warmbier's death was "a mystery". Mr Warmbier, 22, a student at the University of Virginia, had been travelling with a tour group when he was arrested at Pyongyang airport in January 2016. Accused of stealing a propaganda sign from a hotel, he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour. His family had no news of him until 13 June when Pyongyang announced he had been in a coma since his trial, attributing it to botulism. More than 2,500 family, friends and well-wishers gathered for his funeral in Ohio on Thursday. The North Korean spokesman quoted by Reuters suggested the student had returned to the US "in his normal state of health". "The fact that Warmbier died suddenly in less than a week just after his return to the US in his normal state of health indicators is a mystery to us as well," he said. Accusations that the student died because of torture and beating during his captivity were "groundless", he added. A North Korean spokesman quoted by AFP news agency accused the US of mounting a "smear campaign". "Our relevant agencies treat all criminals... thoroughly in accordance with domestic laws and international standards and Warmbier was not an exception," a spokesman for the National Reconciliation Council said. "Those who have absolutely no idea about how well we treated Warmbier under humanitarian conditions dare to utter 'mistreatment' and 'torture'." They say he suffered a "severe neurological injury", the most likely cause of which was a cardiopulmonary arrest that had cut the blood supply to the brain. They say there was no evidence he suffered from botulism. A post-mortem examination was not carried out at the request of the family. The family maintain he died as a result of "awful torturous mistreatment". Mr Warmbier's death heightened tensions between the two countries, already at loggerheads over the North's nuclear and missile programmes. Pyongyang has called Mr Trump a "psychopath". President Trump has said he is determined to "prevent such tragedies from befalling innocent people at the hands of regimes that do not respect the rule of law or basic human decency". North Korea was already high on President Trump's agenda, the BBC's Steve Evans reports from Seoul. This death and the public condemnation by the Warmbier family on television keeps the regime's behaviour squarely in front of the American public, our correspondent adds. Meanwhile, North Korea is holding three other Americans as well as six South Koreans.

Question: The North Korean government has @placeholder mistreating US student Otto Warmbier , who fell into a coma while being held in prison in the communist state .


Mr Ruto denies murder, deportation and persecution charges during violence that followed the 2007 elections in which about 1,200 people were killed. His lawyers want the case to be terminated due to a lack of evidence. Mr Ruto is one of the most senior politicians to be tried by the ICC. The prosecution case against him has been dogged by repeated setbacks. In February judges at the ICC barred the use of recanted testimony, meaning that prior recorded witness statements could not be used by prosecutors. Several key witnesses in the case have changed their statements, which prosecutors said was due to intimidation and bribery. Mr Ruto's lawyers say he should be acquitted because so many key prosecution witnesses have either dropped or changed their original statements. ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has acknowledged that the loss of witnesses has weakened the case against the deputy president - but she has argued there still remains enough evidence to proceed with the trial. A spokesman for the ICC has told the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague there are a number of possible scenarios. The judges could clear Mr Ruto of all the charges, they may ask the prosecution to consider changing the charges or they could reject the defence team's arguments and allow the trial to continue. In 2014, the prosecutor dropped similar charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, alleging that witnesses had been intimidated to make them change their testimony. The future of the case now appears to depend on whether the prosecution has proved that it has sufficient evidence to offset a no-case-to-answer move from Mr Ruto's lawyers. The use of prior testimony falls under Rule 68 of the Rome Statute, which set up the ICC. But William Ruto's defence team argued this was unfair because changes to the rule were brought in after the case against him and his fellow defendant, the journalist Joshua arap Sang, had started. Presiding Judge Piotr Hofmanski ruled that prior-recorded testimony was delivered without an opportunity for the accused to cross-examine the witnesses. Mr Sang, who is accused of using his radio show to organise attacks in the election aftermath, said at the time that the decision was "one step to our freedom". Mr Ruto and Mr Kenyatta were on opposite sides of the 2007 election, but formed an alliance that won the 2013 election.

Question: Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto is due to find out whether a crimes against humanity case against him will be @placeholder out by judges at the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) .


English is one of the advantages India has which are said to be propelling it to economic superpower status. There are all those Indians who speak excellent English. It's the mother tongue of the elite and effectively the official language of the central government. Then there is the growing number of parents who now aspire to give their children an education through the medium of that language. But is the craze for English an unmixed blessing? Back in the sixties the British regarded Indian English as something of a joke. The comic actor Peter Sellers had mocked it so comprehensively that I found it well nigh impossible to get the BBC to allow anyone with even the faintest Indian accent on the air. In India, we native English speakers laughed at quaint phrases like "please do the necessary and oblige", or more simply "please do the needful", and "it is suggested that the meeting be preponed", which appeared regularly in Indian official correspondence. A senior British diplomat once suggested that his PA should find some less geographically specific way of answering the telephone when he couldn't take the call than saying, "Sahib is not on his seat". Much to the diplomat's dismay a colleague told him that his PA had misunderstood the instruction and been even more specific. He'd told the colleague, "Sahib is in the lavatory." Now with Indian writers carrying off the major literary awards, and Westerners in the IT and BPO industries talking of being "bangalored" when they are replaced by English-speaking Indians, Indian English is anything but a joke. But could the very success of English in India "bangalore" India's own languages? The linguist Professor David Crystal speaking in Delhi said: "A language is dying every two weeks somewhere in the world today. Half the world's languages will no longer be spoken in another century. This is an extremely serious concern, and English has to share the blame." Others put it less politely, describing English as a killer language. But should India worry if English kills off some of its 22 officially recognised and hundreds of its not-so-official languages? Perhaps the answer is no. In his book comparing the future of India, China, and Japan, the former editor of The Economist, Bill Emmott, said India fell short of China in almost every measure except the ability to speak English. So why shouldn't India build on its one advantage? One practical reason is because, looking back over the history of India since it became independent in 1947, it is clear that any threat to Indian languages has the potential to provoke a violent backlash. Mark Tully is a writer and former BBC India correspondent. This is an edited extract from his new book,  Non Stop India, published by Penguin Books, India

Question: Whether the government , the private sector or NGOs should deliver @placeholder is a question which will not have much relevance unless India 's wealth continues to grow to pay for that development .


The photograph of the memo was posted on Twitter by photographer Steve Back. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the government was looking at a "range of options" on reform. Channel 4 commented that its "not-for-profit model enables it to deliver significant public value to viewers and the UK economy." The "official - sensitive: commercial" document is dated 24 September 2015 and headed "Assessment of Channel 4 Corporation Reform Options". It says there has been a "recent meeting" between Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock and two unnamed secretaries of state. The document reads: "You agreed that work should proceed [to] examine the options for extracting greater public value from the Channel 4 Corporation (C4C), focusing on privatisation options in particular, whilst protecting its ability to deliver against its remit. "This submission outlines the options we propose to explore." In response to the photograph, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said: "Channel 4 has an important remit and we are looking at a range of options as to how to continue to deliver this, including options put forward by Channel 4." Channel 4 was launched in 1982 as a publicly-owned, commercially-funded public service broadcaster. It does not receive public funding and has a remit to be "innovative, experimental and distinctive". In August, culture secretary John Whittingdale said a sale of Channel 4 was not currently being discussed. "The ownership of Channel 4 is not currently under debate. Do I say there are no circumstances in which I would ever consider it? No I don't," he told the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Question: The government says it has made no decisions about reforming Channel 4 after an official was @placeholder holding papers that proposed its privatisation .


Now, a week into her new job, she is getting used to choosing the hours she works and even how much leave she takes. "My friends can't get their heads around how we work," she says. "But, as I don't have someone watching over me all the time, I just get on with it. It means I want to work harder." She works at Paycircle, a payroll software provider to small businesses, which is one of a rising number of firms with a liberal attitude to working practices. In fact, they are so flexible, you could call them yoga employers. Questions persist about such an approach: How successful can it be? Is it open to abuse by staff? Are bosses actually using it as a smokescreen to ensure staff are never off duty? Paycircle and its umbrella company Optimal Compliance have 15 staff, four of whom are women, with an average age of 27, excluding the founders. There is no company handbook, the job interview process usually involves the whole team and holiday entitlement is entirely self-controlled. Flexibility extends to hours and attendance at the office in Ascot or the "company apartment" in London. "It is based on trust and maturity. Colleagues are trusted to get the work done and there is respect, so you do not let down the other 14 people," says co-founder Catherine Pinkney, an evangelist for non-traditional working. "We are not totally hippyish. This is not a playground. We work to tight deadlines." Staff are expected to attend a Monday morning meeting, but then work when and where they please. One software engineer divides his time between the UK and Italy. Others spend more time near the office where they can find the company payment card for use in team coffee rounds or trips to the pub. Ms Pinkney says only one employee in eight years has been told to go after a "loss of respect". He "could not grasp the culture", she says. The current crop of young staff appear to support the system. James Edwards, 30, says he "no longer thinks about working hours". Yazmin Cooper, 22, says the work-life freedom can only be matched by self-employment. "My worst nightmare is to go back to a traditional corporate, with a uniform and no mobile phones," she says. That phone, and a laptop, allows such a flexible approach to function. Staff are connected via a chat app and many check emails and other messages during the evenings and weekends. Therein lies an apparent danger in this way of working - an inability to switch off. Staff may be allowed to take a week's holiday at a day's notice, but they are also expected to ensure things operate smoothly without them. There is no requirement to logon from the beach, but at times it may be a necessity. After all, pay rewards are based, in part, on the amount of responsibility individual members of staff take on for themselves. They also receive a slice of the company's profits every three months. Every employee in the UK has the statutory right to request flexible working after 26 weeks of employment. "A poor balance between an employee's work commitments and their other responsibilities can lead to stress, high absence and low productivity," says conciliation service Acas. "Employees who have a better work-life balance often have a greater sense of responsibility, ownership and control of their working life. If an employer helps an employee to balance their work and home life this can be rewarded by increased loyalty and commitment. "They may also feel more able to focus on their work and to develop their career." Source: Acas Could flexible working for all backfire? Flexible working urged for teachers The millennial generation shaking up the workplace rules The danger of virtual presenteeism is highlighted in the Quality of Working Life Report, published by the Chartered Management Institute in January. The report recommends that employees should have "the freedom, trust and autonomy to make their own decisions about how they work". "Hold people accountable for the outcomes of their work, but do not be prescriptive about how they work," it suggests. Yet, its research also suggests managers themselves work an hour's overtime every day - by accessing work via a smartphone. That equates to 29 working days, cancelling out the typical amount of annual leave. Dr Maire Kerrin, director of the Work Psychology Group, says anyone embarking on flexible working requires self-discipline. It is easy for someone moving to a four-day week to see their work seep into evenings and weekends. For their part, employers must properly assess how effective a flexible approach will be, rather than simply be drawn by the appeal such a policy has for staff recruitment and retention. "The practical application [of flexible working] requires discussion. The common mistake is assuming that it has the same benefit for everybody," she says. Dr Kerrin argues that such a policy of unlimited flexibility is easier in a big organisation than in a small business. The hours of those who take more holiday may be balanced out by the work of those who are early in their career and want to "plough on". Ultimately, she argues that the need for employers to compete for the best talent, and a culture of employees increasingly asking for more flexibility will drive more flexible working. The idea of an unlimited holiday allowance for staff, without the need for approval, is being implemented by a host of employers. One of the most high-profile - Richard Branson's Virgin Group - adopted the policy for headquarters staff in 2014. "It is left to the employee alone to decide if and when he or she feels like taking a few hours, a day, a week or a month off," wrote the billionaire on his blog at the time. "The assumption being that they are only going to do it when they feel 100% comfortable that they and their team are up to date on every project and that their absence will not in any way damage the business - or, for that matter, their careers!" The BBC News website called and left messages with Virgin, to ask whether the policy has proved to be a success or not. With more than a hint of irony, nobody has been available to return the calls. Flexibility, perhaps, can extend too far.

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A total of 22 households had to be evacuated from Crossway Point in King's Road after a burst water main left many flats "uninhabitable". Now 18 of the families have been able to return, according to the housing association that manages the building. Catalyst Housing said it was "very sorry for all the distress that this flood has caused" to residents. Spokesman Neil Cross added four households currently remain in temporary accommodation. He said: "Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by the flood at Crossway Point - at what should have been a happy time of year. "Some of the homes are still very wet, but we are continuing to do all we can to make these homes as comfortable as possible. "As well as doing all we can to support our residents, we are also investigating exactly what caused this flood."

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The new concise paper, which will cost 20p, will share the same editorial staff as The Independent. The Independent's owner, Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev, also owns London's Evening Standard newspaper. Independent executive Andrew Mullins said the new paper was selling out in some shops. But he said they were hoping the paper would not be a threat to the Independent itself. He said: "The problem is that some of the (Independent's) audience don't want to read the full 'Sunday roast' variant during the week. They have a very busy lifestyle and they need something more concise and distilled. "We think that if you provide something which is an essentially daily briefing it will bring people back to the quality newspaper market and then they may well trade up to the main Independent when they have more money and time. We are hoping to grow both (papers)." Last year the Standard became a freesheet and has seen its readership increase sharply as a result. There had been much speculation that the Independent and the Independent on Sunday, which Mr Lebedev bought in March from Irish company Independent News & Media (INM) for ¡ê1, would also become free papers. "Time-poor newspaper readers, and especially commuters, have been telling us for years that they are inundated with information and just don't have the time to read a quality newspaper on a regular basis," said Mr Mullins. Send us your comments Evgeny Lebedev, the son of Alexander Lebedev and the chairman of Independent Print Ltd which publishes the British titles, said he was confident that launching i would be a success. "We have shown by our investment in the London Evening Standard that, even in these highly competitive times, it is possible to revive a brand," he said. The UK's 11 major national daily newspapers have seen their circulation shrink an average 5.75% in the last year to 10.3 million copies a day, according to industry figures. The more expensive quality papers have suffered more than the cheaper tabloids. The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Guardian have each suffered a drop in circulation of more than 10% over the last year. Sales of The Independent, which costs ¡ê1, have fallen to just over 186,000 a day from about 250,000 three years ago

Question: The Independent newspaper has launched a new daily title , @placeholder i , aimed at attracting " readers and lapsed readers of quality newspapers " .


The 25-year-old man was on his parents' property in Sydney when he plunged into dense bushland late on Sunday night, sparking a complex rescue operation. He was winched to safety almost five hours later and treated for shoulder and chest injuries, paramedics said. The man remains in a stable condition. New South Police Sergeant Peter McMaugh said it was remarkable the man was alive. "Police and paramedics were able to abseil to the man and administer first aid," Sgt McMaugh told Sydney's Daily Telegraph. "Firefighters have had to trek through bushland. The terrain is very rough, making it complicated for rescuers and difficult to traverse. "The male is very lucky at this stage that his injuries are not life-threatening." Police said the backyard of the Bonnet Bay property, in Sydney's south, backed on to the rock face.

Question: A man has survived falling 20 m ( 66 ft ) down a @placeholder in Australia , police say .


A scrutiny committee has called on the council cabinet to give up on the controversial project, first mooted in 2015. Under the proposals, owners would allow their dogs to have cheek swabs taken and their details put on a database. The council has also been looking at creating designated areas for dogs. The scheme has already proved successful in parts of the United States and has been introduced in a London borough. Barking and Dagenham council saw a reduction in dog waste in its pilot area and is now expanding the scheme. In Flintshire, an existing requirement, known as a Dog Control Order, requires owners to remove their dog's waste from public areas. However, the authority has been looking at the creation of a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which provides an "opportunity for enforcement against other designated offences", such as the complete exclusion of dogs from a defined area like children's play areas. But a meeting of the authority's environment overview and scrutiny committee on Wednesday agreed to recommend the idea was shelved. However, members of the council's cabinet could still approve it when they next meet.

Question: A bid to use dog DNA to find and fine people who do not clean up after their pets in Flintshire has been recommended to be @placeholder out .


The shadow justice secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show the cabinet changes had been "an amazing distraction" from the country's issues. Three shadow ministers quit on Wednesday in protest at the reshuffle. And MP Alison McGovern has resigned from a party policy review group saying she could not work with the leadership. Lord Falconer insisted the Labour Party remains a "broad church" but to be effective that broad church must not be "at war with itself". "The country needs an effective opposition," he told the BBC. "The floods, the junior doctors about to go on strike for the first time in 40 years, what's going on with Britain's support for the justice system in Saudi Arabia, these are issues that we should be focusing on. They are just examples. "We as a party, in the wake of the reshuffle, which is an amazing distraction from all of these issues, need to be coming together and doing the work to provide an alternative to this government, which is a very bad government." When Lord Falconer was asked if he would have made the same decision as Mr Corbyn in the sacking of Pat McFadden from the shadow cabinet, he said: "The decision as to who is in and who is out of the shadow front bench team is entirely a matter for the leader." But when pushed on the issue again, Lord Falconer said: "I certainly wouldn't have fired him." Mr McFadden was given his marching orders from his role as shadow Europe spokesman for apparent disloyalty. Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central, told the BBC Two's Daily Politics: "We need to draw a line under last week's events and move on." Labour should "realign our fire not on each other... but on this government," Ms Powell said. She said the resignation of Ms McGovern - MP for Wirral South and chairman of Blairite pressure group Progress - from a child poverty policy review was "a shame because I think she has a huge amount to offer". Ms McGovern's decision comes after junior shadow ministers Jonathan Reynolds, Stephen Doughty, and Kevan Jones quit.

Question: The Labour Party needs a " @placeholder of calm " in the wake of resignations during Jeremy Corbyn 's cabinet reshuffle , Lord Falconer has said .


London, Reading and Aldershot had the highest wages, according to the report. It suggested the north-south divide is "wide as ever" and that salaries across the UK have fallen by ¡ê1,300 a year. The lack of affordable housing is putting pressure on workers in the South-East of England, it warned. In its annual report, Centre for Cities, highlights the link between low wages and the need to top up people's incomes with welfare benefits. It looked at the UK's 63 largest cities and found that there was a difference of ¡ê253 in average weekly incomes from the highest to the lowest paid. But the amount claimed in benefits was roughly the same across the cities covered by the report. Hull had the lowest weekly wage at ¡ê376, Blackburn was second at ¡ê404 and Blackpool was a little higher at ¡ê414. The leader of Hull City Council Stephen Brady said: "We understand the need to address and boost skills within knowledge intensive, digital and professional industries." He said the city was seeing high levels of investment from the offshore wind industry and that being named UK City of Culture 2017 would help create new jobs in the region. The cities with the highest salaries were London at ¡ê629, Reading at ¡ê591, and Aldershot at ¡ê571. They also saw the fastest jobs growth. But in the areas where salaries were near the top of the scale, the high cost of housing meant many were still having to claim benefits. The report says the lack of affordable homes means the government's plans to reduce the welfare bill would be difficult to deliver. Only one in four places was delivering a "high wage, low welfare" economy, the report said. Alexandra Jones, chief executive of Centre for Cities said: "One of the most pressing issues is the need to tackle skills gaps and improve school attainment. As well as investment in infrastructure the top priority should be on addressing housing shortages." On a more positive note the report shows that 14 UK cities have hit the target for "high-wage, low-welfare" economies.  It calls on the government to give local councils more power to invest in employment programmes, which if successful, would reduce their need for benefits.

Question: Hull , Blackburn and Blackpool have the lowest average weekly wage , according to a report from the think tank Centre for Cities , which @placeholder the health of the UK's top 63 city - economies .


Omar Famuyide was spotted on the website's "people you may know" feature by the victim of a knifepoint car robbery in Birmingham. Detectives then linked him to a string of other robberies and firearms offences. The 21-year-old, of Highgate, Birmingham, was jailed for 17 years at the city's crown court. More on this and other Birmingham stories He was found guilty of robbery, attempted robbery, possession of a firearm and possession of a knife after a trial. Among his crimes, Famuyide was one of two men who forced entry into the Ambassador's Relaxation Suite in Florence Street last July. Once inside, the men threatened women with a metal bar and a handgun, before escaping empty handed. A month later, Famuyide stole a car at gunpoint from a man in Highgate. The vehicle was found two days later with the handgun that was fired in the relaxation suite a month earlier, and keys to another vehicle stolen at knifepoint. The victim of the second robbery recognised Famuyide by coincidence on Facebook, and he was later arrested. Det Con Rhiannon Daff said the Facebook information was "a crucial part of the investigation" and "the final piece of the jigsaw."

Question: A robber who was @placeholder after one of his victims recognised him on Facebook has been jailed .


The loophole came to light during the prosecution of a driver allegedly found to be more than twice over the limit. On Monday, the High Court ruled police must give test results in both English and Irish for prosecutions to be valid. The minister has since amended the law to state either language can be used. The legal uncertainty first emerged earlier this year in the case of 29-year-old Mihai Avadenei, from Swords, County Dublin. His defence team argued that he should have been given a written statement of the results of his alcohol breath test in both English and Irish, and because this had not happened, the test results were inadmissible as evidence. His case was then referred to the High Court, where a judge ruled that the bilingual requirement was stipulated in legislation. Irish broadcaster RT?¡ë reported that Mr Justice Seamus Noonan had said a breath alcohol test "is not a valid piece of evidence if it is in English only". Road safety campaigners expressed concern at the ruling, and its possible impact on those injured or bereaved by drink-drivers. Within 24 hours of the High Court ruling, Minister for Transport Paschal Donohoe amended the relevant legislation, namely the Prescribed Form and Manner of Statements Regulations 2011. In a statement on Tuesday, Mr Donohoe said: 'The advice of the attorney general's office was sought in respect of the need for amending legislation on foot of the judgement in relation to the language of the forms produced by evidential breath testing machines in Garda [police] stations. "In the interests of road safety, I have moved immediately to provide the new legislation deemed necessary regarding the form of the statements to be provided under section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 2010." A spokesperson for the Department of Transport confirmed the change had taken effect immediately. "The minister has now signed into law a replacement statutory instrument which provides that the statements may be produced in either the English or the Irish language which was always the objective of the legislation," they said.

Question: A legal loophole that may have allowed drink - driving suspects to avoid prosecution because their breath test results were not given in Irish has been @placeholder by the transport minister .


Or maybe you've headed into Manchester on the 04:22 from Glasgow Central. On average, 410 people are trying to fit into 191 seats at about 08:20 most mornings. I can't tell you exactly how many people have to stand up or indeed sit on the floor on the UK's trains every day. But there are some government stats that give a big clue. One looks at peak-time crowding in the biggest English and Welsh cities. The other lists the 10 most overcrowded peak time trains. To save you ploughing through them, here's what they tell us, although if you commute regularly, you'll have worked this out for yourself: Today's trains are carrying record numbers of people and no-one saw it coming. In the 1960s, just about everyone thought that the car was the star, so the government closed thousands of miles of rail line (you've probably heard of Dr Beeching). They actually closed 3,000 miles of line in the 1950s too. Even when the network was privatised in the 1990s, most people assumed it was about managing decline. "Of course some trains are overcrowded, but that's because we've doubled passenger numbers since privatisation and they travel on thousands more services," says Nigel Harris, editor of Rail Magazine. "It's part of the price we pay for a walk-up railway. The alternative is reservation only or you don't travel - which is often the case on the European railways, which critics often say are so much better than ours. They aren't!" There were nearly 1.7 billion British train journeys last year. That's more than twice the number in 1994-95. A Victorian network, starved of funds for decades, was never going to be able to cope with that kind of rise. The government says it's now investing a record ?¡ê40bn which will deliver 3,700 extra carriages by 2019. That's why the fares keep going up, by the way. To pay for billions of pounds of upgrades. Up until recently, the Labour Party shied away from wanting to renationalise the network, but Jeremy Corbyn has made the issue binary again. He wants the whole system put back into public hands. It's hardly a surprise that the country's most famous entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, waded in on Tuesday to defend his private company's reputation for running the East Coast line.

Question: If you 've ever @placeholder the 06:57 Brighton to Bedford train , you 'll know all about overcrowding . At 08:20 on any given morning , there are about 960 people playing musical chairs for 420 seats .


He is accused by Ukrainian officials of embezzling millions of dollars in public funds. Mr Yanukovych was ousted after clashes between police and protesters in Kiev left dozens dead, mainly demonstrators. Afterwards, Russia moved to annexe Crimea from Ukraine and conflict broke out in parts of eastern Ukraine. Russia has denied fomenting the violence in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where a frequently violated ceasefire is in place. Ukrainian military officials said on Monday that there had been an increase in rebel attacks on their positions. Germany's foreign minister is due to meet colleagues from Russia, Ukraine and France in an attempt to reach an agreement on a potential summit of leaders in Kazakhstan this week. Germany has stressed that a summit will only take place if it leads to "concrete progress". A red notice for ex-President Yanukovych appeared on Interpol's website on Monday. Under a red notice, Interpol's role is described as assisting a national police force in "identifying and locating these persons with a view to their arrest and extradition or similar lawful action". Mr Yanukovych, 64, was last seen in a photograph with US film director Oliver Stone, which was said to have been taken in Moscow in December, BBC Kiev correspondent David Stern reports. An unconfirmed report by Interfax news agency said Russia was likely to decline a request for his extradition. The decision to issue the notice was taken by a special Interpol commission, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, after months of reasoning from the authorities in Kiev. Similar red notices were also issued for ex-Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and Iurii Kolobov, a former finance minister, as well as Georgii Dzekon, ex-chairman of Ukrtelecom. Mr Avakov said a warrant had been issued for Mr Yanukovych's son Olexander, although that could not be confirmed on the Interpol website. Ukraine's new government accuses the former president of ordering snipers to fire on protesters, although he rejects the accusations against him.

Question: Interpol has placed deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on its wanted list , almost one year after he fled to @placeholder Russia .