Australia said its "prepared to join" a new China-led infrastructure bank should certain conditions be met.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the country had been talking to China about how the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) would be governed.
He added that a decision will be made "in the next few days".
Britain, France and Germany have also announced plans to join the new Beijing-based lender, which is seen as a rival to the World Bank.
However, that has drawn concern from the US, which sees the AIIB as a tool which China can use to extend its political influence.
Washington has also said the new lender needs to meet international governance and other standards.
"We have been talking to the Chinese to try to ensure that it is in fact a multilateral institution, that it is run in all important respects by a board, that its processes are transparent, that it is genuinely accountable and that it is not controlled by any one entity," Mr Abbott told Australia's parliament.
The AIIB has more than 30 members and countries have until the end of March to decide whether or not they would seek membership.
The institution will have about $50bn (Â£34bn) in initial funds that will be disbursed to help address the region's growing demand for roads, ports and other infrastructure facilities.


Ben Haenow is number one in the midweek charts with his debut single, just three days after winning the X Factor.

His version of One Republic's Something I Need is ahead of Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk by more than 30,000.
So far it's sold 107,453 units while last week's number one - Uptown Funk - has sold 73,594.
Leading the way in The Official UK Charts Company it is almost certain to be this year's Christmas number one.
If he manages to do it, he'll be the eighth X Factor winner to claim the Christmas number one spot.
Ben told Newsbeat: "It's incredible. The fact I got to release a single has already blown my mind.
"It's amazing to sing a One Republic song. Couldn't be happier with the song.
"It's exactly the sort of song I would want to make. It's kind of an anthemic rocky sort of soulful song and that's exactly the sort of vibe I want to go for when I'm releasing stuff anyway so it's a good start for me."
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Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell says a proposal to rewrite the majority of athletics' world records before 2005 would be "for the greater good".

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The move, designed to restore trust following doping scandals, has been criticised by British athletes.
However, Campbell supports the aim of the plan - even though he could lose his 4x100m European record from 1999.
"I will sacrifice whatever it takes to save the sport and give its credibility back," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
Campbell lost his 4x100m relay gold medal from the 2002 European Championships after team-mate Dwain Chambers admitted to taking a banned steroid at the time.
"I've thought about it, put myself in their shoes of losing a record and yes, I've lost medals and you kind of go, 'OK it's for the greater good'. You have to accept it and move on," he said.
"If it's going to save the sport that I love and has given me so many wonderful things, then that's what needs to happen.
"The punishment has to fit the crime. The level of pain these people put us through - we have to do something.
"Records are there to be broken and some of those records can't be broken unless you're taking drugs."
Paula Radcliffe, who faces losing her 2003 marathon world record, said clean athletes were "suffering for the actions of cheats" under the proposals.
She was supported by Colin Jackson - the 60m indoor hurdles record holder - who told BBC Sport that clean athletes "are still in the majority and should not be getting caught up in this".
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Campbell, who won Olympic 200m silver in 2000 and 4x100m gold four years later, feels tough decisions have to be made but said the governing bodies must now flesh out the proposal.
"We need to know how it is going to save the sport. We don't want to end up right back here in 20 years," he said.
"It is radical, it is a recommendation, but tell me how it's going to save the sport? That is the important thing."
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The proposal, put forward by European Athletics, would see existing records reassessed against strict criteria in an attempt to make a clean break with the sport's doping scandals.
European Athletics has asked world governing body the IAAF to back its proposals when its council meets in August.


Labour would nationalise the multi-billion pound water industry if elected, the BBC understands.

Under proposals to be outlined in its manifesto on Tuesday, Labour would create nine new public bodies to run the water and sewage system in England.
By ending the practice of paying dividends to shareholders, party sources say bills would be reduced by around £100 a year per household.
Labour will also promise 30 hours free childcare for two to four-year-olds.
Jeremy Corbyn will unveil a "radical and responsible" plan for government, pledging to change the country and govern "for the many not the few".
He will vow to reverse the austerity of recent years but also to "manage within our means".
A draft version of the document, which was leaked last week, committed a future Labour government to taking the railways and the Royal Mail back into public ownership while also nationalising the electricity distribution and transmission networks.
Labour's plans would also see the water industry, which was sold off by the government of Margaret Thatcher in 1989, return to public hands.
If elected on 8 June, it would create nine new public bodies to run the water and sewage system in England and Wales, that would be publicly accountable, retaining the existing workforce.
Party sources say by ending the practice of paying dividends to shareholders and reducing interest payments on debt, bills would be reduced by around £100 a year per household - the equivalent of a cut in water bills of around 25%.
The industry would be taken into public ownership either by simply buying the shares of the existing companies or by a compulsory measure whereby companies would have to be given government bonds in exchange for the shares.
A Labour source said: "Under Labour, rather than answering to its shareholders out to make a quick buck at the expense of increasing household bills and worsening service quality, utilities will be accountable to the bill payer, helping ease the burden of those struggling with the cost of living crisis."
There are currently 10 major water and sewage companies in England and Wales.
Thames Water, the largest in terms of customers and value, has a market value of about £12bn. Its shareholders include the Canadaian pension fund Omers, the Kuwait Investment Authority and pension funds and institutions from across the world.
Companies listed on the stock market include Severn Trent, United Utilities and Pennon Group, which owns South West Water. They have combined market value of £17bn.
The water industry is already effectively in public ownership in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Scottish Water is a statutory corporation accountable to the Scottish government while Northern Ireland Water became a government-owned company in 2007.
In Wales, Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is operated for "the public benefit".
There will also be a commitment in the manifesto to provide 30 hours of free childcare for all two to four-year-olds, covering 1.3 million children.
Labour is yet to publish its full costings for these policies and will not reveal their full plans for taxation until the manifesto is published.
They have been clear that they will increase income tax for the wealthiest 5% of taxpayers earning more than £80,000 a year and increase corporation tax by 19% to 26%.
Mr Corbyn will contrast his "programme of hope" with what he will claim is Theresa May's "fear" based campaign and her "tight-fisted, mean-spirited" party.
"People want a country run for the many not the few," he will say.
"For the last seven years, our people have lived through the opposite, a Britain run for the rich, the elite and the vested interests. Labour's mission, over the next five years, is to change all that.
"It's a programme that will reverse our national priorities to put the interests of the many first. It will change our country while managing within our means. This is a programme of hope."
The Conservatives said taxpayers would have to foot the bill for Labour's unfunded spending commitments.
"Jeremy Corbyn's economic ideas are nonsensical," said Treasury minister David Gauke. "It is clear that Labour would have to raise taxes dramatically because his sums don't add up."


Tanzania's most notorious elephant poacher, nicknamed "The Devil", has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Boniface Matthew Maliango was responsible for killing thousands of elephants, a conservation organisation said.
He was arrested in Dar es Salaam in September 2015 after a year-long manhunt.
His crimes were the focus of a Netflix documentary film, The Ivory Game, produced by actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Maliango's nickname, Shetani, means devil in Swahili.
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The Elephant Action League, which fights wildlife crime, said he ran an ivory trafficking network across five African countries: Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia, Mozambique and southern Kenya.
He was sentenced alongside his brothers, Lucas Mathayo Maliango and Abdallah Ally Chaoga.
The three were arrested in October 2015 while attempting to smuggle tusks worth more than $850,000 (Â£700,000).
Maliango was accused of supplying ivory to Chinese citizen Yang Fenglan, known as the "Ivory Queen", who is on trial in Tanzania for trafficking more than 700 elephant tusks worth $2.5m (Â£1.7m).
Conservationists have said demand for ivory in China has fuelled poaching.
Although there is an international ban on buying and selling ivory across borders, it is allowed inside certain countries.
In December, China announced a ban on all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017.


A pedestrian has died after being hit by a van in Rhondda Cynon Taff.

The 33-year-old was struck by a white Vauxhall Vivaro on the southbound carriageway of the A4119 at about 02:00 GMT on Saturday.
It happened between the entrance to the Talbot Green Retail Park in Llantrisant and what is known locally as the Matalan roundabout.
The man died at the scene but the 52-year-old van driver was not injured.


A fire which damaged an army barracks was started by two officers duelling with flares to settle a disagreement, it has been claimed.

An army spokesman said one flare shot through an upper window of the building at Bovington Camp in Dorset on Friday, setting fire to a room and corridor.
The spokesman said the flare was fired from the area of an outdoor swimming pool, where the officers were reported to be duelling on kayaks.
The fire took two hours to extinguish.
The fire started after a dinner to mark the completion of training for prospective tank troop commanders.
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was called at around midnight to a fire on the top floor of a seven-storey residential building.
Ten fire engines managed to put out the blaze by 02:00 BST and no one was injured.
Details were first revealed by the Forces TV channel which said the duelling officers fired flare guns at each other from kayaks in the pool outside Allenby Barracks.
The Royal Military Police is investigating.


"I have been working now for more than two decades and I've not seen a measles epidemic of this severity," says Doctor Raza Hasan, as he shows me around the measles isolation ward of the Lahore Children's Hospital.

The ward is so packed with babies and young children that they are sharing beds. At one stage, up to 70 new patients were arriving at the hospital every day.
They are covered in rashes and burning with high temperatures, some fighting for life.
In one corner, a boy lies motionless on his back, his eyes rolled back as flies crawl across his face.
At least 40 children have died in this hospital since the epidemic spread from southern Pakistan to Lahore and other parts of Punjab province at the beginning of the year.
The burden of dealing with the epidemic weighs heavily on Dr Hasan, who tells me stories of families attacking medical staff at the hospital after discovering their children had died.
While measles itself is rarely fatal, it can lead to life-threatening complications such as meningitis and pneumonia, particularly in developing countries where malnutrition leaves many children with low immunity.
"Some of them are arriving very late at the hospital," says Dr Hasan.
"After developing complications at home, their parents don't take them to doctors, they don't get any treatment and so when they come hereâ€¦. there is not much we can do.
"Some are in the final stage of life or already dead with meningitis or pneumonia," he goes on.
But while this may be true, it is not the whole story.
It does not explain why so many children in Pakistan are contracting measles in the first place.
The epidemic has spread rapidly with thousands of cases nationwide and 239 deaths between January and April 2013, according to Pakistan's national measles co-ordinator.
"One reason is the low vaccination coverage of the population," says Dr Tanvir Ahmed, the director-general of heath services for Punjab province.
"In the districts there are even pockets where there is no vaccination coverage. The average [coverage] for Punjab is 58%."
Through an entrance off a narrow street in Lahore, we climb the stairs to the home of Nasara and Mohammed Ashfaq.
The walls are bare and despite daytime temperatures of more than 40C, there are no fans.
Mohammed is cradling his daughter Yasmeen, who will be two this summer. She is covered in the measles rash and has had an alarmingly high temperature.
Just a few days ago, her brother Ehsan died at the Lahore Children's hospital from complications arising from measles. He was nine months old.
Now the family is scared to take Yasmeen to hospital and hope she will recover at home.
Yasmeen, like her brother, had not been properly vaccinated against measles.
"I didn't get him vaccinated because I was on my own at home with so many children," says Nasara.
"And we had to go out to get the vaccinations, so it was difficult because they were small."
While doctors here say families need to take more responsibility for ensuring their children are vaccinated, they accept the official vaccination programmes have often been badly managed, leading to people missing out.
"We have removed nine district managers on the basis of poor performance of the programmes," says Dr Tanvir Ahmed, head of health services in Punjab.
"And we have improved our monitoring and supervision."
There has also been an emergency measles vaccination campaign in recent weeks covering 2.6 million children in Lahore.
In June another 11 million children are due to be inoculated in other parts of Punjab.
Health experts hope this will bring the epidemic in the province under control by the middle of July.
They say they have the large stocks of vaccine necessary to do this in the province.
But they say this is not the case in the southern province of Sindh, where the outbreak began.
It is believed mass vaccination programmes will not get under way in Sindh until the autumn.
So in this area, which has already had by far the highest number of cases in the country, the epidemic could get worse in the coming months.


Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has called Fifa, the organisation that runs world football, an "embarrassment".

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28 May 2015 Last updated at 07:59 BST
On Wednesday, police in Switzerland arrested seven senior officials from Fifa over allegations of corruption.
They're accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes.
Some of the corruption charges relate to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, as well as the 2011 Fifa presidential election.


Animal keepers at a rescue centre in Penrith, Cumbria, have been enjoying an unexpected arrival - a baby meerkat.

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Staff said they had no idea the female meerkat was pregnant until they found the baby in the pen.
The sanctuary is the middle of moving premises to a new site in County Durham, and the new family will now be the last to move.


It's official: William  and Kate are to sue Closer, the French magazine which published topless photos of them on holiday, under France's strict privacy laws.

After the fury with which St James's Palace condemned the publication, the move was inevitable.
But it is not unprecedented.
On several occasions in the last 30 years, the Palace has taken legal action against newspapers or action to prevent personal information being published. Only once has a case actually come to trial.
On every other occasion the Palace has accepted an out-of-court settlement.
The case that came to court involved Princess Margaret's son, Viscount Linley - coincidentally the owner of the French chateau at which William and Kate were staying when they were photographed this summer.
In 1990, he sued the now-defunct newspaper Today for libel after it accused him of rowdy behaviour in a pub: He won £30,000 damages.
The Queen has twice sued the Sun for breach of copyright.
The first time was in 1988, when relations between the royals and the tabloids were particularly bad.
The paper reached an out-of-court settlement after publishing a stolen photograph showing Sarah, Duchess of York and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, which the royal family had planned to use on their Christmas card that year.
The second time was in 1993 - when royal-tabloid relations were just as bad - when the paper paid £200,000 to charity in an out-of-court settlement after publishing a leaked text of the Queen's Christmas broadcast.
That same year Princess Diana started legal action against the Daily Mirror when it published photographs taken with a hidden camera of her exercising in a gym.
The paper apologised and reportedly paid Diana's legal costs of £1m plus a further £200,000 to charity.
But the gym owner refused to settle, caving in only in February 1995, a week before the case was due to start.
He apologised and gave up the £300,000 he had made from selling the pictures.
On that occasion the Palace claimed a breach of confidence by the owner. The law of confidence - until recently, the closest Britain came to a law of privacy - has been the route most frequently taken when the royals have resorted to the courts.
Information obtained in confidence - for instance, by an employee - should remain confidential; if it does not, there are grounds for legal action.
So in 1995, the Prince of Wales was able to seek and get an injunction barring a former housekeeper from publishing her memoirs in this country (they sold 100,000 copies in the US).
And in 2003, the Queen got an injunction to prevent the Daily Mirror publishing further stories about time spent by its reporter, Ryan Parry, as a below-stairs servant at Buckingham Palace.
What's different on this occasion is that the royals are suing explicitly for invasion of privacy - something you could not do in the British courts until quite recently.
But, while France has a clear privacy law which makes publication of photos taken on private property both a criminal and a civil offence, it also has a clutch of successful celebrity magazines which often simply ignore the law.
Lawyers in France say Closer is evidently in breach.
"It's clearly an invasion of privacy because the royal couple was on vacation and they had a legitimate expectation to take the vacation privately, without the invasion of cameras from outside the chateau where they were staying," according to Christopher Mesnooh, a partner with Field Fisher Waterhouse in Paris.
Thomas Roussineau, a lawyer who specialises in privacy law, said: "The castle is not the street - it is in a private place - and they are intimate pictures."
But both thought the magazine had weighed up the potential cost of damages or a fine against the revenue the pictures would bring from extra magazine sales and syndication of the photographs themselves and concluded it was well worth running the risk of a court case.
That's because fines and damages in privacy cases, once high, have come down in recent years.
According to Roussineau, the magazine can expect a fine of about 30,000 euros.
As for what the Duke and Duchess can expect, according to Mesnooh: "In these situations the damages are low: several thousand euros, perhaps 10 to 15,000 euros in extraordinary cases."


Welsh ministers have admitted a press release saying they backed free movement of people despite the Brexit vote was altered after being sent to journalists.

The release, issued ahead of a news conference hours after the result, was later edited to remove the reference.
The change came after First Minister Carwyn Jones did not mention free movement when he made the statement.
Plaid Cymru called for an independent inquiry into the circumstances.
The Welsh language version of the press release was only changed to remove the reference weeks later.
Mr Jones has since said he believes the continuation of unrestricted free movement of people would be unacceptable to people after the referendum result.
In a debate in the Senedd on Wednesday, Plaid Cymru Shadow Economy Secretary Adam Price joined Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies in questioning Economy Secretary Ken Skates on why the original press release made reference to retaining the free movement of people and was then altered.
Mr Price said: "Doctoring a government website, which set out the government's official position, to reflect a change in the political weather can never be accepted.
"I have no idea whether this case a case of cock-up or conspiracy but we clearly need an independent investigation into the circumstances under which the government policy changed, and why the press web notice was changed retrospectively.
"If this has been done to avoid embarrassment to the first minister then it is clearly a very serious matter indeed."
Mr Davies called the Welsh Government's admission "extraordinary".  He also questioned whether the sole Liberal Democrat member of the Welsh Cabinet, Kirsty Williams, had been consulted on the change.
He said: "This extraordinary admission comes more than a week after I discovered Labour's change of policy, and actually raises more questions than it answers.
"Chief amongst those is why the press release was retrospectively changed, and when the Welsh Government's education secretary became aware this pledge had been dropped.
"Does she and her party now back an end to freedom of movement for people?"
A spokesman for the Welsh Government said a new press release was issued 40 minutes after the original with no mention of free movement.
He also said: "The Welsh language version online was incorrect, and based on an earlier draft. This has now been changed.
"The Welsh Government's view on freedom of movement has been articulated a number of times by the first Minister and other ministers.
"It was clearly a big concern for many voters, and as such we regard it as something still open for debate as we develop our thinking."


US swimmer Lilly King has stirred Olympic waters when she called out Russia's Yulia Efimova over a doping scandal with a single gesture.

The 19-year-old, who claimed a gold medal over Ms Efimova in the 100-metre breaststroke on Monday, incited a reaction reminiscent of the Cold War online, with users roasting the Russian in a series of patriotic and finger-wagging memes.
The gesture was in response to a back-and-forth row between the pair, which began when Ms Efimova, who had twice failed drug tests, was cleared of a doping ban and allowed to compete just before the breaststroke event.
The decision was derided by her Olympic competitors and drew ire from crowd members, who booed the Russian during the event.
Ms Efimova, 24, won her semi-final heat on Saturday and held up her index finger to suggest number one.
In response, Ms King wagged her own finger in disapproval while watching on a television monitor, a gesture they would continue to direct at one another throughout the event, culminating with Ms King's gold win.
But the heated exchange recalled old divisions marked by the former Iron Curtain, with Americans hailing Ms King as a hero and painting Ms Efimova as a villain.
Other swimmers shared their frustrations over Ms Efimova's appearance.
Swedish swimmer Jennie Johansson wrote on Instagram: ""Unfortunately I finished up 9th. My heart and my mind will still be swimming in that final tomorrow even if the actual lane is taken by someone that doesn't deserve it."
"Cheaters are cheaters," said Irish swimmer Fiona Doyle, who missed out on the semi-finals by one place.
Ms King also did not back down, saying after she won: "It's incredible, winning the gold medal and knowing I did it clean."
Ms Efimova hit back at her critics, saying athletes should rise above politics.
"I always thought the cold war was long in the past. Why start it again, by using sport?" she said,  according to Russia's Tass agency in Rio.
In Russia media, however, Ms Efimova's silver medal was praised as "more precious than gold" and the athlete described as a hero.
State TV channels and mainstream newspapers suggested that Ms Efimova prevailed after overcoming both the initial ban for doping allegations and her American opponent's taunts.
"What she had to go through in addition to attempts not to let her compete at Rio can be seen in this video: minutes ahead of her appearing on the lane, US [swimmer Lilly] King, standing behind Yulia, all but frowned", State-owned Rossiya 1 said, according to a BBC translation.
NTV, owned by Russia's gas giant Gazprom, also highlighted Ms King's "nonsportslike" behaviour.
Social media users and Russian bloggers on Facebook largely defended Ms Efimova, directing criticisms at US athletes such as Michael Phelps, who lauded his teammate, Ms King, for calling out the doping scandal.
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"Let Efimova alone, she's to compete yet, and you've stirred a storm," Facebook user Zoya Kudryasheva said.
She added: "Heroes may be forgiven for some things".
The Russian Embassy in the Netherlands made reference to the showdown in a Tweet, congratulating Ms Efimova on her "silver medal with the golden tint".
Other Russian users expressed pride over Ms Efimova's silver medal, with one user tweeting: "Winning a medal at these dirty Olympics is a sporting feat!"
Another Twitter user said: "She's a beauty with nerves made of steel, a very strong personality. At a time like this, silver is worth its weight in gold."
Revelations from a damning report earlier this year found that Russia's sports ministry manipulated urine samples provided by its athletes between 2011 and 2015.
The International Olympic Committee allowed 271 of the nation's athletes to compete from the original entry list of 389, despite calls for a total ban on the country by the World Anti-Doping Agency.


Wycombe Wanderers have signed winger Myles Weston on a two-year deal after his release by Southend United.

The 28-year-old Antigua and Barbuda international helped Southend win promotion to League One in 2015, but has started once since November 2015.
Much of his absence has been because of plantar fasciitis, an injury affecting the heel and foot.
Weston has made more than 300 league appearances for clubs including Notts County, Brentford and Gillingham.
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Ruth was 14 when she left her home country of Eritrea in east Africa.

She didn't like the way she was being treated, so she embarked on a dangerous journey to the UK.
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Three-thousand children arrived in the UK alone last year.
Many of them are migrants or refugees escaping war or devastation in their home countries. They've travelled thousands of miles across deserts, mountains and seas.
When they get to the UK they are often tired and afraid.
They are taken by immigration officers or police to a safe place where they are asked lots of questions.
This is so that the people in charge can understand how old the child is, where they have come from and what they will need to keep them healthy and safe.
If the child is under 17, they are given leave to remain, which means they can stay in the UK and will be looked after until they are old enough to look after themselves.
This often means they are placed with a foster family who look after them as though they are part of their family. They can start going to a local school and they can start to make a life for themselves here in the UK.
Many of the children stay around Kent and Dover in the south of England because that is where they first arrive. In the past year Kent has placed nearly 1,000 children in homes in that area.
I have spoken to 12 children. All of them have come from various countries ranging from Eritrea and Sudan to Syria and Afghanistan.
One of them was Ruth. Like many of the child refugees here, she travelled thousands of miles alone and experienced many difficult things along the way.
Ruth told me about her life when she was 14. She lived in the countryside in Eritrea. She told me how she often helped her mum by chopping wood and getting water from the river.
But this was no easy task. The river was a three-hour walk away and carrying a heavy load was very tiring for Ruth.
Ruth's dad left home many years ago. He was taken to join the army of Eritrea - many poor people are forced to join up against their will.
Ruth has not seen her dad since and doesn't know where or how he is.
Talking to Ruth, I could tell she is a brave and strong girl and she didn't like the way she was treated in Eritrea. She loved going to school but was told she either had to marry someone she didn't know or join the military.
She told me she was very afraid of both options so she decided to leave Eritrea and search for a better life in another country.
She left her home in the middle of the night. She couldn't tell her family she was leaving because she was afraid they would be hurt if anyone from the military found out.
Also she knew they would be upset. So she left in secret with nothing more than the clothes she was wearing.  She met up with two friends and they walked towards the border with Sudan.
Ruth told me that she was very scared. She was scared of getting caught or being put in prison and hurt.
One of the scariest parts was when she travelled through the forests of Ethiopia. She could hear hyenas and she had to hide behind trees and just hope that they wouldn't find her.
After that, she met many people in camps hidden in the forest.  With these people she travelled over the desert to Sudan. It was so hot that many of the people she was walking with died beside her.
Ruth was mostly scared of the Sudanese people.  She said they hated her because she was Christian; they would often hurt her and bully her.
In Sudan, Ruth was put into a small house with hundreds of other people. She wasn't allowed to speak or to go outside. She was beaten and hurt by the people in charge of this house.
After a month, Ruth was put in a lorry with about 250 other people and sent to Libya. The lorry was piled with people inside and out. There was no room for her to sleep or sit and she was not allowed out - not even to go to the toilet.
She was in the lorry for three weeks and some people died.
When she got to Libya she was put in a camp.  She lost her friends and she said she was very lonely.  Without any money, she had little hope of getting out of the camp and every night she cried.
In this camp, Ruth got one glass of water and one piece of bread to share with a group of people.
After three months, she finally managed to escape to the coast.  She told me how amazed she was to see the sea - it was so big and black with huge fish that she had never seen before.
Ruth got on board a boat. It was only about four metres long but held 500 people. This, she said, was when she was most scared.
She thought she would die as she was crushed and had no water on a very long and dangerous journey. Many of the people in the boat did die on that journey.
Luckily, she was eventually rescued by an Italian rescue boat.
But when she got to Italy it was not much better. She was ill and had nowhere to go. She slept on the street in the rain and the cold.
She then managed to get on to a train to France. Here she was taken to a camp where every night she tried to board a lorry to get to the UK.
But most nights she was caught and taken back to the camp. Then one night she managed to get inside a box in a lorry that was headed to England.
When she arrived in England she told me she was nervous.  It was raining and a police officer found her and asked her lots of questions.  But soon after that, things started to look better and she was placed with a foster family, which is where she lives now.
Ruth now goes to college and church and has many friends. She told me that she still misses her family but she's glad she isn't in Eritrea.  She now loves studying and wants to be a nurse when she's older.
It was very difficult for Ruth to tell me her story. But she's a strong girl and she wants people to know what thousands of kids like her go through every year to get to safety.


A man who blinded himself while an inmate at a high-security jail has spoken about how his life has changed.

5 October 2016 Last updated at 20:02 BST
Sean Lynch said he misses seeing his family smile and seeing their happiness.
Mr Lynch, who suffers from mental health issues, inflicted "extreme and shocking" harm to himself over a period of three days at Maghaberry prison.
He used his fingers and thumbs to damage his eyes, and claimed to have used a piece of broken glass to injure his groin.
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A major shake-up of education in Gwynedd has been discussed by councillors regarding the management of its schools.

Plans include reducing its 14 high schools to six or seven, without closing any facilities.
A concern is that head teachers do not have enough time to provide leadership because they have to teach lessons.
One teaching union official said changes were necessary due to recruitment problems and cash cuts.
A Gwynedd council report suggests the majority of the county's 95 primary schools are retained with cooperatives set up to share management.
Neil Foden, National Union of Teachers chairman in Wales, said: "It's a very radical proposal. Gwynedd have to do something.
"The current situation isn't viable, but I think there will be areas where they will have some difficulty in getting this through and there will be areas of opposition."
The report to Tuesday's cabinet committee tabled a range of ideas such as creating a new leadership structure in a reformed school system.
Councillors agreed to hold a consultation, including head teachers and governors, before any policies are drawn up by the authority.
Councillor Gareth Thomas, Gwynedd council's portfolio holder for education, said one idea was to have one head teacher responsible for three or four schools, rather than closing schools.
"Good leadership is the thing that improves schools the most," he said, adding that head teachers could not do that if they did not have enough time.


Three teams will not play in the National League play-offs after failing to overturn decisions to block them.

Sixth-tier Darlington FC, Hungerford Town and Poole Town were all bidding to feature in the promotion play-offs in the North and South divisions.
The trio were prevented from doing so as their grounds did not have 500 covered seats across two stands.
The National League's decision was upheld by an independent FA panel at Wembley on Wednesday.
An FA statement said: "The board, after considering the evidence dismissed the appeal and agreed with the decision of the National League which was made in accordance with FA rules and the Grade B criteria document in that the four mentioned clubs have not met the required grading by 31 March of the current season to compete in the National League play-offs.
It added: "This decision is final and binding."
The league declined to make any detailed statement, but recommendations were understood to have been made to change the competition rules next season.
Poole currently occupy the final National League South play-off place in fifth, with a game to play, while Hungerford are two points behind in sixth.
Eighth-placed Wealdstone also confirmed their failure to overturn a decision preventing their participation in the play-offs, which leaves Hampton & Richmond set to take Poole's place.
Darlington, fourth in National League North, declined to make any further comment.
BBC Sport has contacted the FA for a response.


It was 50 years ago today that Beatlemania exploded on to the streets of Cardiff.

On Saturday, 7 November 1964 The Beatles arrived in the Welsh capital to play the Capitol Theatre at the very zenith of their powers.
A total of 5,000 fans saw the Fab Four in two performances held that day, but many thousands more missed out on tickets.
The concert was the second of three visits to Cardiff and came just months after the band had conquered America.
The gig - for which the band were paid £850 - predictably sold out immediately and was the biggest demand for tickets The Capitol Theatre had ever experienced.
In those pre-internet days, fans wanting tickets sent off their money to the venue in the hope they would be lucky.
Thousands were not and had their cash sent back to them.
Entry into the gig cost between 8/6d (approx £5.40 today) and 15 shillings (£9.60), but today a ticket stub from the show sells for £100-plus on Beatles memorabilia websites.
One lucky fan who managed to get a golden ticket was the then 14-year-old Hefin Elis, of Port Talbot, who went with his friend Geraint Griffiths.
Recalling the concert, Mr Elis, 64, a former TV and record producer, said: "It was very exciting. We heard they were going on tour and we managed to get tickets.
"You couldn't hear much because the screaming was so loud.
"It was a fantastic experience.
"We were in the stalls, half way back. We had a good view and everyone was on their feet jumping up and down and screaming.
"I remember them playing Twist and Shout. We were big fans and we were both musicians and tried to emulate them.
"It's a real honour to think I was there. Every time I go past the Capitol even now - 50 years later - I think about that night."
Another fan remembers the "wild excitement" of being in the crowd.
Helen Stradling, 70, a retired teacher from Penarth, said: "I can't remember one song they played, I just remember the wild excitement of it all.
"My mother and father, sister, my boyfriend and me were at the front of the upper dress circle and I just remember them bouncing onto the stage.
"It was just so exciting to see them in the flesh, just something so special. I think we still have the ticket somewhere."
The Beatles were pelted with a shower of jelly babies for the duration of their two sets in Cardiff that night.
It was because George Harrison had made an off-the-cuff remark in an interview that they were his favourite sweets.
Before that November night, Welsh Beatles fans had waited more than a year to see their heroes following the band's brief residency in Llandudno in 1963.
John, Paul, George and Ringo were on a four-week tour of Britain after seeing the release of their critically acclaimed debut film, A Hard Day's Night, in July.
The gig was the 24th of the tour and joining them on the bill that night in Queen Street were The Rustiks, Michael Haslam, Sounds Incorporated, Mary Wells, The Remo Four and Tommy Quickly with compere duties being handled by Bob Bain.
Because of their stellar fame, getting past the hysterical fans and to the stage of the Capitol Theatre was no mean feat.
They first travelled to St Mellons in manager Brian Epstein's chauffeur-driven limousine before getting into a Black Maria police van to get through the crowds to the venue.
The Beatles performed the same 10 songs at both "houses" at 6.30pm and 8.30pm, but they were barely audible above the hysterical fans' screams.
As soon as the gig was over The Beatles were driven back to Liverpool for a homecoming the following day that attracted a crowd of 150,000.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
1 January: Top of the Pops first airs on BBC
20 January: Eleven men go on trial in Aylesbury charged in connection with the Great Train Robbery
15 March: Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor (for the first time) in Montreal
6 July: A Hard Day's Night is released. Victor Spinetti appears and Alun Owen's screenplay is nominated for an Academy Award
22 August: The first Match of the Day airs on BBC Two
17 October: The Welsh Office is established, under the leadership of a Secretary of State for Wales Jim Griffiths
9 November: House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty for murder in Britain
1: (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me - Sandie Shaw
2: Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
3: The Wedding (La Novia) - Julie Rogers
4: Walk Away - Matt Monro
5: Sha La La - Manfred Mann
6: When You Walk In The Room - Searchers
7: Baby Love - Supremes
8: The Twelfth Of Never - Cliff Richard
9: Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes
10: We're Through - Hollies
The year The Beatles thrilled the crowds at Cardiff's Capitol Theatre was a crucial one in their unprecedented mind-blowing career.
After rising to fame in England from 1962 onwards it took until 1964 before the longed-for breakthrough came in America.
But when it did come, it came quick.
They went from being virtual unknowns in the USA to mega-star status in just six weeks.
On Christmas Day, 1963, practically no-one in the US had ever heard of them.
By Sunday, 9 February, 1964 they had caused such a stir Stateside that a world record audience of 73 million viewers tuned in to see the group's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Such was the significance of the achievement it was captured on Pathe News footage.
Our pictures below show some of the highlights of that groundbreaking tour.


The prime minister has ordered a review of the use of guns by police in England and Wales following the Paris attacks, the BBC understands.

The review will examine whether the law gives enough support to officers making a "split-second" decision to shoot.
It follows concerns from senior police that firearms officers do not have the necessary legal or political backing to work with confidence.
Labour has warned of possible damage to community relations with the police.
Gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris when they attacked a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars almost simultaneously on 13 November.
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason says the atrocity has provoked deep soul-searching within government and among the police, raising the question of how the UK would cope if something similar were to happen here.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe is understood to have raised concerns with David Cameron about the legal position of armed officers.
The issue was also discussed at a National Security Council meeting on counter-terrorism last week.
Currently, the Criminal Law Act 1967 allows police to use "reasonable force", while the Criminal Justice Act 2008 recognises the defence that an officer had an "honest and instinctive" belief that opening fire was reasonable.
The internal review - to be carried out by the Home Office, the Attorney General's office and the Ministry of Justice - is expected to examine whether those laws go far enough to protect armed officers and prevent them hesitating in the event of an attack.
Of the 130,000 officers in England and Wales, around 6,000 are trained to use guns, but the government has announced plans to significantly increase that number.
A firearms officer was arrested last week over the fatal shooting of Jermaine Baker, 28, in Wood Green, north London. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is also investigating the incident.
There have been warnings that fears of lengthy investigations, public inquiries and even prosecutions following a shooting could deter police officers from taking up firearms roles.
Former Met Police commissioner Lord Blair told Sky News the "investigative and judicial processes" needed to change, rather than the law.
"When somebody is shot dead, of course the police have to account for what has happened, but some of these cases take five, seven, 10 years to resolve. That's completely absurd."
He added: "These are men and women who go to work to do an incredibly dangerous job for which they volunteer and if they do their duty and shoot somebody because they have to... they should not be treated as criminals."
Officers must consider whether the use of "reasonable force" has a lawful objective and basis. Their options include:
An officer must also determine how immediate and grave a threat is, and whether any action short of using force could be deployed instead.
The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 says that what amounts to reasonable force should be considered in light of the circumstances a police officer is faced with - and what they honestly and instinctively believed they were faced with - at the time.
A government source said: "We must make sure that when police take the ultimate decision to protect the safety of the public they do so with the full support of the law and the state - there can be no room for hesitation when lives are at risk."
But Jeremy Corbyn told the Sunday Times: "There has to be a very robust and strong independent inquiry into what the police do. Like any other public organisation, they must be held to account. I hope this is not a political stunt."
Following Paris, Mr Corbyn told the BBC he was "not happy" with police operating a shoot-to-kill policy, but later backtracked, insisting he supported any "strictly necessary force".
His shadow business secretary, Angela Eagle, told the BBC there must be "safeguards" to prevent wrongful shootings, but added: "We also need to give our armed police the confidence if they are dealing with a marauding terrorist... they can get that person down and get them on the ground and save life."
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said police officers "must feel protected", but the law must be reviewed "in a calm and collected manner and not in a knee-jerk response to terror attacks".
The Met Police are also planning to increase the number of officers able to use Tasers.
The prime minister is thought to be in favour of the move in light of the response to the recent stabbings at Leytonstone Underground station, in which a Taser was used.


A 23-year-old British woman who died in Thailand was unlawfully killed, an inquest has found.

Hannah Witheridge, from Hemsby in Norfolk, died along with David Miller, 24, from Jersey, in an attack on Koh Tao island in 2014.
Burmese migrants Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were convicted of the murders and sentenced to death in December.
Norfolk coroner Jacqueline Lake ruled Ms Witheridge's death was caused by "severe head injuries".
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In October 2014, about 200 people gathered inside St Mary's Church in Hemsby for the speech and language therapy student's funeral.
In a statement read to the inquest, Ms Witheridge's mother Susan told how her daughter was thinking of going on holiday to mainland Europe or Australia but made a late decision to go to Thailand.
"None of the family was happy with her going there, but she had made her mind up," said Mrs Witheridge.
She said the death "changed our lives forever".
She added that on being told the news Ms Witheridge's father, Tony, had burst into the kitchen and "collapsed crying and sobbing".
Amnesty International has called for an independent inquiry over allegations Thai police tortured both defendants during the inquiry.
On their conviction in December, Michael Miller, David Miller's brother, urged those who had doubted the accused's guilt to respect the court's decision.


When I toured with the British and Irish Lions in 1993 and 1997, coach Ian McGeechan would speak of "Test match warriors".

Warren Gatland's team for Saturday's first Test against New Zealand at Eden Park fits that ideal that 'Geech' wanted.
As expected, the basis of the Test side is the 'Saturday team' that has gone unbeaten so far on tour, recording wins against Super Rugby-leading Crusaders and the New Zealand Maori.
However, those victories have not been by as wide a margin as they could have been. The majority of their try-scoring chances have been wasted.
George North, a key figure in Gatland's previous successes with Wales and the Lions, has paid the price. The wing's performances have given away his jersey.
Elliot Daly, whose packed skill-set makes him one of the most complete and versatile backs in world rugby, is the beneficiary.
It is just one big call in a Lions' XV that mixes hard-nosed forward power with clever, incisive runners behind the scrum and it might just prove the magic formula to confound the All Blacks.
As a former Lion, it is obvious, even from a distance, why Peter O'Mahony has got the role of captain ahead of Sam Warburton, who is on the bench, and Alun Wyn Jones, alongside him on the pitch.
O'Mahony struggled for a starting slot for Ireland for most of this year, but when Jamie Heaslip was injured in the warm-up before Ireland's final Six Nations game against England, he came in and drove Joe Schmidt's side to victory with a man-of-the-match performance.
O'Mahony is a heart-body-and-soul force of nature on the pitch, a born leader who sets the example that inspires his team-mates to give more than they knew they had for the cause.
He is out of the mould of fellow Lions captains Paul O'Connell, Martin Johnson and Finlay Calder - they don't have to say a great deal, but every word comes with real weight and meaning.
They don't go in for florid pre-match speeches. They are straight, honest, direct and their team-mates appreciate that.
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Ireland team-mate Sean O'Brien is getting back to his barnstorming best on the opposite flank, while Taulupe Faletau, who has been excellent for the entire tour, completes the back row.
However, they are up against a phenomenally experienced All Black unit, though. Sam Cane, Jerome Kaino and Kieran Read have a total of 216 caps between them, compared to the Lions trio's 158.
It is the recovery of Read from a broken thumb that is most pleasing for New Zealand coach Steve Hansen.
He is a totem of a player for the All Blacks, as comfortable taking a one-out crash ball into the big fringe tacklers or collecting a 40-yard cross-field kick from Beauden Barrett.
Like so many of these All Blacks, he invariably picks the right option - and that great rugby intuition can trump the best-laid game plans.
One of the stories to emerge from the Lions camp in the early weeks was of Ireland fly-half Johnny Sexton jokingly referring to Owen Farrell as a midfielder in training in the hope that Englishman would be deployed at inside centre, where he plays his international rugby, rather than 10, where he earns his crust with Saracens.
No such luck.
When he announced his squad, Gatland pointedly said that Farrell was involved as a fly-half.
Having recovered from a thigh strain, the 25-year-old will carry his team's hopes at 10 with Sexton on the bench.
It is Farrell's form that has made him irresistible. He may play at inside centre for England, but he has steered Saracens to back-to-back Champions Cup victories with a string of commanding performances as fly-half.
His confidence is obvious and infectious. You can't say that about Sexton at the moment.
I don't think Farrell is as good a defender as Sexton. While the Leinster man throws himself courageously into the path of heavy-duty runners, Farrell is not the biggest and can get bumped off.
He gets away with it to a degree, because he is alert, well-positioned and radiates a bit of an aura on the field that runners instinctively shy away from.
Whether that will work against All Blacks fly-half Barrett is another matter.
Barrett beat Farrell to the World Player of the Year award in 2016 and is an electrifying runner with the ball in hand as well as a superb all-round footballer.
Thirty of Barrett's 50 Test caps have come as a replacement, but that lop-sided record reflects his apprenticeship under the great Dan Carter.
He will have learned a lot from his predecessor in the All Blacks 10 shirt, but Barrett is a different player to Carter.
Carter was a supreme manipulator of space. He would put people around him into a gap or flummox the defence with the timing of a pass or the accuracy of a kick.
Barrett is more instinctive, sniffing out the slightest sign of weakness - a slight dog leg, a defender whose shoulders have turned the wrong way, a mismatched forward - in an instant as he receives the ball.
He takes that all in, processes it and exploits it with the speed of a supercomputer.
Isolating him in defence is not easy. But the Lions may try to find him and test out any vulnerabilities.
Robbie Henshaw's decisive try in Ireland's win in Chicago in November came via a charge straight up that fly-half channel. That might be the template for the Lions.
I had Leigh Halfpenny nailed on as the Test full-back.
He is the best place-kicker in the world and I would hate to lose a game because it came down to a missed touchline conversion that he might have landed.
Leaving him out is a risk, but it does come with a reward.
Liam Williams, together with wings Daly and Anthony Watson, has been picked to get on the breaks that centres Ben Te'o and Jonathan Davies have been making, and which the team have not been converting into tries.
Halfpenny is not the best attacking full-back, but the Lions starting back three on Saturday will read those chances and react to them faster than we have seen.
Both Watson and Daly can play full-back as well, so, even given the wet forecast for Auckland, I don't think the Lions are any more vulnerable to the All Blacks kicking game.
The tourists might not be able to make much headway either via that route, though.
New Zealand's Ben Smith, along with Australia's Israel Folau, is the best full-back in the world and a specialist in the position.
He only really established himself as the All Blacks first-choice full-back in 2015, by when he was 29.
But he plays at a consistently high level, making very few mistakes, and is one of the first names on the team sheet.
Lions scrum-half Conor Murray will put up a few competitive box-kicks, but there will be little change out of Smith.
A couple of years ago if you had asked which former South Sydney Rabbitoh would be lining up opposite Sonny Bill Williams in the the first Test, most people would have presumed Sam Burgess - long departed from union - would be the man in question.
Instead Ben Te'o, who took the lower profile route into union via Leinster and Worcester before making his England debut earlier this year, will be at 12.
Te'o has had a great tour. He runs strong lines and has got a good pass on him, even if we don't always see it.
He could do with being bigger and stronger in defence, but he will be buoyed playing against Williams and reigniting their NRL battles.
It is so hard to call, but I am backing the Lions to inflict a first defeat on the All Blacks at Eden Park since 1994.
I predict 28-21 to the tourists.
Who would you select in your Test XV for the Lions?
Use the numbers as they correspond to positions. So, one is loose-head prop, two is hooker, three tight-head prop, four and five are second rows, six is blind-side flanker, seven open-side flanker and eight - well that's the number eight, obviously.
For the backs, nine is scrum-half, 10 fly-half, 11 is left wing, 12 inside centre, 13 outside centre, 14 right wing and 15 is full-back.


Five crewmen have been rescued after a fishing boat started to sink off the Isle of Lewis.

The Irish vessel Iuda Naofa got into difficulty at about 11:00 when it started taking on water about 48 miles (77km) off the Butt of Lewis.
Stornoway Coastguard helicopter dropped a salvage pump to the crew, but the boat became swamped and started to sink.
Two crewmen were then airlifted to another boat and three to hospital.
The three have been treated at Western Isles Hospital for hypothermia.
The fishing boat has sunk.
Coastguard duty watch manager Paul Tunstall said: "The weather conditions on scene were very rough seas with southerly force 6 winds, evacuating the five crew swiftly and safely before the vessel went down was a great achievement."
The coastguard agency has posted a video of the rescue.


A couple who won nearly £150,000 on the Euromillions doubled their prize after their dog found a second winning ticket for the same amount.

Shortly after Jane and Alan Slater's numbers came up in the draw on 29 September, their dog Ruby disturbed another forgotten ticket in their car.
It was tucked in a catalogue in the car and flew out when Ruby and a second family dog jumped in after a walk.
The two tickets, for the same draw, were each worth £149,089.30.
Mrs Slater, a hospital catering assistant, said: "We had a lovely walk... chatting about the amazing start to the week with our Euromillions win and how lucky we had been.
"As we got back in the car to head home, Ruby hopped on to the back seat with me and disturbed this piece of paper inside a catalogue which gently floated down to my feet.
"I really can't explain the way this piece of paper floated, it was like you see in slow motion in films, as though someone wanted me to notice it."
The ticket was discovered on the labrador retriever's second birthday.
Mr Slater said: "We both burst into tears when we saw the second ticket was also a winner. It all happened in such a magical way, what with Ruby disturbing the ticket on her birthday and it floating so gently right in front of Jane's eyes."
Mrs Slater said they bought tickets for several draws. Her husband had bought the second ticket not realising she had already done so.
She said the winning numbers - 11, 14, 26, 29, 49 and Lucky Star number three - are the same numbers they have used for 20 years of playing lotteries.
Mr Slater, 65, a customer relations manager for Wightlink Ferries, said the win will mean he can retire a few months earlier than planned.
Ruby and the couple's other dog, border collie Kai, will also be getting some extra treats, Mr and Mrs Slater said.


Tiger Woods shot an inconsistent four-over-par final round of 76 to finish 15th on his return to competitive golf at the Hero World Challenge.

The 14-time major champion hit five birdies, including three in a row to close the front nine, but also made three bogeys and three double bogeys.
Japan's Hideki Matsuyama won the 18-player event in the Bahamas by two strokes, finishing on 18 under.
Woods, 40, was playing his first PGA Tour event after 466 days injured.
The world number 898, who had two back operations during his absence, finished on four under overall.
"Getting to this point has tested me beyond anything I've ever experienced in my life," Woods told NBC.
"The pain, the issues I have, it was just rough - there were some pretty dire times where I just couldn't move."
Woods, who hosts the event each year, started his final round with four pars before bogeying the fifth hole and double-bogeying the sixth.
A 30-foot putt was the highlight of a run of three birdies that put Woods level at the turn, only to then drop four shots in the next three holes.
A par at 13 and birdies at 14 and 15 arrested the slide but the American double-bogeyed the last to close on 76 - the worst round of any player over the four days.
Yet Woods also led the field in birdies, making 24, including seven in a brilliant 65 on Friday.
"It was a great week to be back competing again and playing against the best players in the world," he added.
"I made a lot of birdies but also made a lot of mistakes and some poor decisions."
Victory was Matsuyama's fourth title in two months following wins at the Japan Open, the World Golf Championships HSBC Champions and the Taiheiyo Masters.
The 24-year-old hit his only over-par round of the tournament on Sunday, carding a 73, but it was enough to hold off Sweden's Henrik Stenson, who finished two shots adrift on 16 under.
Americans Matt Kuchar, Rickie Fowler and Dustin Johnson tied for third, three shots further back.


Three more Welsh language TV channels and three more radio stations could be created if broadcasting was devolved, campaigners have claimed.

Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg said an extra £60m could be spent on public service broadcasting through measures such as a levy on big media companies.
More than 50 Cymdeithas members are refusing to pay the BBC licence fee.
Welsh Government said accountability of broadcasters "should be shared by all institutions of the United Kingdom".
In February, an assembly committee called on the BBC to spend another £30m on English-language output for Wales.
Under plans published at the National Eisteddfod on Thursday, Cymdeithas said Wales could get about £190m a year from a proportionate share of the BBC licence fee.
The group added that a levy on companies such as Google, Sky and Facebook could raise up to £30m a year, with other money coming as a result of taking power from other bodies based in London.
Cymdeithas pointed to a YouGov poll which suggested nearly two-thirds of people in Wales were in favour of power over broadcasting going to the Senedd.
Author Angharad Tomos and Cymdeithas chair Heledd Gwyndaf are among members who are refusing to pay for their TV licence as part of their campaign.
TV Licensing previously said the campaigners risked prosecution and a £1,000 fine.
Carl Morris, chairman of the society's digital group, said: "Decisions about broadcasting in Wales should be made in Wales. And it's clear from opinion polls that the vast majority of the Welsh public support that.
"The state of broadcasting in Wales is extremely fragile and there's a severe lack of Welsh and local broadcasting on commercial radio and local TV.
"It's also clear that Wales has a severe democratic deficit, because UK broadcasters confuse people by reporting on all the decisions that only affect England."
Several online platforms and a new bilingual broadcaster could also be created, Cymdeithas added.
The call comes as the UK government launches a review of the future of the existing Welsh-language broadcaster S4C, which it part-funds.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We don't recognise the figures quoted by Cymdeithas yr Iaith.
"Our priority is ensuring Wales is appropriately represented. We believe that accountability of broadcasters should be shared by all institutions of the United Kingdom."
A spokesman from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said: "The UK Government is committed to a broadcasting sector that benefits the whole of the UK, and the Silk commission concluded that there was no case to devolve regulation of broadcasting.
"Public Service Broadcasters are already required by Ofcom to produce regional content as part of their licence conditions."


The World Championship is already into its second week and there has been plenty of excitement so far at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary of hosting the event.

BBC Sport pundits and former champions Stephen Hendry and Peter Ebdon reflect on the action so far and assess the business end of the event.
Pre-tournament favourite Judd Trump was beaten in the first round by 1000-1 title shot Rory McLeod in one of the biggest shocks in World Championship history. In his second-round match against Stephen Maguire, McLeod is 6-2 down after the first session.
Ebdon: "McLeod's victory was not so much of a shock or a surprise to me. I knew he would make it difficult for Trump and let us not underestimate what an incredible achievement it was for him, one that was fully deserved.
"There is only one player in that game that works harder than McLeod and that is Mark Selby, who is world number one. Rory has been my friend for over 30 years so I was absolutely delighted for him."
Hendry: "It has been an interesting tournament. All the main contenders except for Trump came through the first round so it is building up nicely.
"Everyone who should make the quarter-finals will be there so I am looking forward to the second week."
Five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan has produced some of his best snooker to beat Gary Wilson and then Shaun Murphy. He faces China's number one player Ding Junhui in the next round.
Hendry: "Ronnie has looked great on the table. I questioned in my interviews before the tournament whether he could win it or not and the way he was playing then, I did not think he could.
"He has not played well since the Masters but since he has been here he has looked really focussed, his game is very strong and he will be hard to stop. Ronnie is definitely one to beat.
"There is a difference between winning a match and winning the whole tournament. Ding edged through by beating Liang Wenbo but now has a huge match against O'Sullivan. You have to question whether he has it inside him to go all the way. That is debatable but his game is good enough. He has every aspect to do it."
Ebdon: "One of the things often overlooked is the pressure O'Sullivan is under, with the levels of expectation - the crowd, the commentators, millions of adoring fans watching at home.
"To carry that much pressure on your shoulders must be incredibly difficult and I cannot think of many other players in the game that could carry the mantle and the responsibility to the extent he does.
"He does a brilliant job, is a very gifted player and it was an excellent win against Shaun Murphy."
Four-time champion John Higgins came through a tough match against Mark Allen, while 25-year-old Kyren Wilson beat 2015 winner Stuart Bingham.
Ebdon: "Wilson did not hit top gear, he was feeling the pressure but that is what everyone goes through at the Crucible. Once he starts hitting the top gears, we will see something very special from him.
"Whether he has the experience to win this year, I am not certain. But he is good enough. He is a phenomenal talent, a great lad and his all-round game is very impressive.
"He is one of the best players I have played against. But we have not seen on the match table what I see in practice. He could go very close to winning it this year."
Hendry: "John Higgins is going to be very difficult to stop getting to the final. If they both go through, I can see a Higgins against Barry Hawkins semi-final."
The tournament is described as the "marathon of the mind" by former BBC commentator Clive Everton. Those players who have reached the quarter-finals have won 23 frames but still need to claim another 48 to lift the famous trophy.
Ebdon: "When you are concentrating so hard, it takes an awful lot out of you, you do use up a lot of nervous energy. We only have so much nervous energy for certain periods of time.
"This is one the reasons why the World Championship at the Crucible - lasting 17 days - is such a difficult and demanding tournament to win. You are really tested in all departments - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It is the ultimate test."
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Opinion is "divided" over whether planning permission is needed for art in a national park, the Snowdonia Society has said.

The society said it would "welcome clarification" following a debate on the issue in Machynlleth on Wednesday.
It said a floating canvas at Llyn Llydaw created a "good deal of controversy".
The Snowdonia National Park Authority said it was "happy to discuss the issue".
David Archer, chairman of the Snowdonia Society, said: "Opinion is divided over whether such works, temporary or not, should be permitted within protected landscapes.
"We will probably come to the conclusion that the Snowdonia Society should contact the park's planning authority and perhaps press for a better clarification on what does and doesn't require planning permission."
The debate, held at the Museum of Modern Art, was attended by about 30 people, including artists, planners and walkers.
Mr Archer said that although the definition of art was "subjective", there was a difference between commercial and creative installations.
He added that there could also be consideration given to the location and timing of artworks.
The Llyn Llydaw canvas, together with an installation in slate caverns in Blaenau Ffestiniog, was part of a commission entitled "High and Low" and will be in place until the end of October.
A Snowdonia National Park Authority spokeswoman said there was no specific legislation covering the installation of artworks.
She added: "Anything like that we would have to look at on its own merit.
"We are in constant contact with the Snowdonia Society and would be happy to discuss the issue with them."


Championship sides will be allowed to spend 50% of their 'relevant income' on player salaries from 2016 onwards, the Rugby Football League has confirmed.

Second-tier sides have been previously been restricted to a 40% limit.
Relevant income is defined by the RFL operational rules under 19 different categories, including BBC TV fees, gate receipts and other profits.
The decision was brought forward to the October meeting to help clubs plan for the forthcoming season.
"The RFL Board agreed that the Championship salary cap for 2016 will be increased," chief operating officer Ralph Rimmer said.
"We have listened to and worked hard with all Championship clubs to ensure that the changes we have made are proportionate, sustainable and also give them a better chance to compete."
Full details will be released in time for the RFL's December meeting.


Plans to build a new lifeboat station in North Somerset have been given the go-ahead by the council.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) wants to create the new purpose-built centre on the site of a former Masonic lodge in Portishead.
The building will house an inshore lifeboat and provide facilities for Portishead Lifeboat Trust's volunteer crew, which the RNLI plans to "adopt".
It is hoped the new station will become operational in summer 2014.
Colin Williams, from the RNLI, said building work would start in the autumn following a fundraising drive over the summer.
"The trustees of the RNLI have agreed, in principle, to pursue the adoption of the Portishead and Bristol lifeboat from the Portishead Lifeboat Trust."
But Mr Williams said this would only happen when a "suitable operations site has been constructed and the requisite shore facilities built".


All the BBC's websites were unavailable early on Thursday morning because of a large web attack.

The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors to the site saw an error message rather than webpages.
Sources within the BBC said the sites were offline thanks to what is known as a "distributed denial of service" attack.
An earlier statement tweeted by the BBC laid the blame for problems on a "technical issue".
In the message the corporation said it was aware of the ongoing trouble and was working to fix it so sites, services and pages were reachable again.
At midday it released another statement saying that the BBC website was now "operating normally".
"We apologise for any inconvenience you may have experienced," it said.
The BBC has yet to confirm or deny that such an attack was responsible for the problems.
It is now believed that a web attack technique known as a "distributed denial of service" was causing the patchy response. This aims to knock a site offline by swamping it with more traffic than it can handle.
The attack on the BBC hit the main website as well as associated services including the main iPlayer catch-up service and iPlayer Radio app which were also not working properly.
Social media reaction to the trouble was swift. Many urged the BBC to get the site back up quickly and lamented how long it was taking to fix the technical troubles.
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By 1030 GMT the site was largely working again though some pages and indexes took longer than normal to load.
The BBC's crop of websites have suffered other technical problems in the past. In July 2014, the iPlayer and many of its associated sites were offline for almost an entire weekend.
That fault was traced to a database that sits behind the catch-up TV service.


The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to make an official visit to Poland and Germany in July.

Kensington Palace says Prince William and Kate will tour the two European countries at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The couple have already announced a two-day trip to Paris later this month.
The duke travelled to Germany last summer, visiting Dusseldorf for events honouring the role of British armed forces based in the country.
The duchess has yet to make an official trip to Germany and the couple have not toured Poland before on behalf of the government.
Full details of the visit will be released at a later date.
During last year's visit to Germany, William gave a speech at a gala event alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying the "depth" of Britain's friendship with Germany would not change after Brexit.
By Peter Hunt, royal correspondent
It is striking that the Foreign Office has asked Prince William and his wife to make an official visit to Poland and Germany.
It will take place four months into the negotiations that will lead to the UK leaving the EU.
The British government clearly thinks it will be beneficial to have such senior royals in Poland, and especially in Germany, at such a time.
It helps that Germany has a sustained and enduring interest in all things royal.
Number 10 can portray the trip as a sign of Prime Minister Theresa May's words in action that we may be leaving the European Union, but we want to remain firm friends with Europe.
Read more from Peter
The British monarchy has close ties with Germany as a succession of sovereigns including George I - born in what is now modern German - were rulers of Hanover in Germany.
The 300th anniversary of what is known as the "personal union" was marked in 2014, and Beatrice and Eugenie visited the country previous year.
During a state visit to Germany in 2015, the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the 70th anniversary of its liberation by British forces.
The Cambridge's official two-day visit to Paris on 17 and 18 March will include a reception for young French leaders and the Wales v France Six Nations match at the Stade de France.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "Royal visits play a very important role in the United Kingdom's bilateral diplomacy...
"Whilst every royal visit is unique, each visit is designed to support foreign policy objectives and promote closer ties across a range of areas, for example cultural, economic or political, between the UK and the host country."


Thousands of migrants and refugees have been travelling to Europe in the last few months.

22 October 2015 Last updated at 07:46 BST
Many have come from countries affected by war such as Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea.
Leah is in Germany this week and has been to meet some of the families living in shelters in Munich.
She has met one 11-year-old called Romina from Afghanistan, who's been living in Germany for the past year.
Romina's family first travelled to Iran, but then they walked to Turkey.
From there they made the dangerous journey to the Greek island of Lesbos on a small boat with more than 40 other people.
They were taken to Athens by ferry and from there, they travelled to Macedonia and stayed in the woods for 13 days.
They then made their way to Austria, via Serbia and Hungary, before arriving in Germany by car.
Her family are now waiting to find out if they have permission to stay in Germany and Romina hopes she'll be able to settle in Munich.


Canadians who have been harassed online are also much more likely to take a live-and-let-live attitude towards abusive behaviour on social media.

A new poll indicates significant splits in gender and age when it comes to where Canadians draw the line at offensive behaviour.
Heavy social media users tend to be less shocked by online abuse. So do younger users and younger men.
Tech companies are under growing pressure to tackle online bullying.
In May, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey told the BBC that addressing abuse on the platform was a priority.
A new survey by the Angus Reid Institute looks into Canadian attitudes towards social media misbehaviour.
It found that one in four Canadians reported being subjected to behaviour ranging from the mean to the extreme - from unwelcome comments to violent threats and sexual harassment.
Among younger, heavy social media users, 50% reported being harassed. Almost 60% of LGBT users said they had experienced some form of online abuse.
That left many respondents calling on the companies to do more to curb abusive or bullying behaviour, including 49% who said they wanted to see the platforms proactively seek out and remove offensive material.
"Canadians do seem to have an expectations of social media companies they're not feeling is being met," said Shachi Kurl, executive director of the Angus Reid Institute, a Canadian not-for-profit research and polling organisation.
But she also noted there was a "diversity of views" on just how far social media companies should go to police content - and just what was considered acceptable.
The Institute showed respondents five examples of online interactions, ranging from an angry tweet directed towards a journalist to a racist tweet sent to Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones.
Respondents who had been personally harassed online had a higher bar for what they found unacceptable compared to other users.
"People who do say, 'Yes, it's happened to me' are more likely to also say 'this is okay,'" said Ms Kurl.
"There is almost a sense [that] exposure can numb shock or outrage, a sense of inappropriateness."
Despite men reporting being targeted just as often as women, young Canadian men were most likely to take a laissez-faire approach to online harrassment.
"There are some stark differences, no doubt about it," said Ms Kurl.
"You see a pretty big difference on age, full stop. And then when you look at what younger men think is OK versus what younger women think is OK, again there's some big differences. Both age and gender are drivers."
Elizabeth Dubois, an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa who researches online harassment, said abuse and misbehaviour has always been part of social media culture.
But it has become more of a concern as the use of social networks becomes more mainstream.
"You get to the point where the largest growth in social media - Facebook, Twitter, even Instagram - has been older people, boomers," said Ms Dubois.
"The alarm has been sounded by them."
Online harassment has also become more prevalent throughout the web, she said.
It makes the people she researches - journalists and public figures - more cautious about what they post online.
"They're rethinking what they post, rewording their comments, selectively using or not using hashtags," she said.
Ms Kurl said it is also having a chilling effect on average users.
"Basically three in five social media users say they often or at least sometimes self-censor," she said.
"If people are worried about saying what they really think or really feel for fear of trolls or harassment, it does lead to questions of how reflective of public opinion or social trends are these platforms."
The Angus Reid Institute conducted the online survey from 29 August to 2 September among a representative randomized sample of 1,530 Canadian adults who are members of the Angus Reid Forum.


The World Health Organization says there should be a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors and that sales to children should stop.

In a report the health body says there must be no more claims that the devices can help smokers quit - until there is firm evidence to support this.
WHO experts warn the products might pose a threat to adolescents and the foetuses of pregnant women.
But campaigners say regulations must be proportionate.
According to the WHO legal steps need to be taken to end the use of e-cigarettes indoors - both in public spaces and in work places.
And the report focuses on the potential for products to spark wider cigarette use in children.
The health experts call for a ban on advertisements that could encourage children and non-smokers to use the devices.
And they say fruit, candy or alcoholic-drink style flavours should be prohibited too, while the sales of electronic cigarettes from vending machines should be heavily restricted.
1. On some e-cigarettes, inhalation activates the battery-powered atomiser. Other types are manually switched on
2. A heating coil inside the atomiser heats liquid nicotine contained in a cartridge
3. The mixture becomes vapour and is inhaled. Many e-cigarettes have an LED light as a cosmetic feature to simulate traditional cigarette glow.
Different brands of e-cigarettes contain different chemical concentrations.
The WHO warns exhaled e-cigarette vapour could increase the background air levels of some toxicants and nicotine.
According to the team while e-cigarettes are likely to be less harmful than traditional cigarettes, they may pose threats to adolescents and the foetuses of pregnant women who use these devices.
But some researchers suggest tough regulations may prevent smokers having access to products that are potentially less harmful than conventional cigarettes.
A spokesman for the British American Tobacco company said: "We have always said that given nicotine is addictive, minimum age laws of 18 for the sale of e-cigarettes should be introduced.
"However, if overly restrictive regulations are introduced hampering innovation or adult usage, then this could simply stifle the growth of new products and prevent smokers from being aware of and having access to them - this can only be bad thing for public health."
Hazel Cheeseman, at the charity Action on Smoking and Health, said there was no evidence of any harm to bystanders and warned regulation needed to be proportionate.
She added: "Smoking kills 100,000 people in the UK alone.
"Smokers who switch to using electronic cigarettes in whole or in part are likely to substantially reduce their health risks.
"Although we cannot be sure that electronic cigarettes are completely safe, as the WHO acknowledges, they are considerably less harmful than smoking tobacco and research suggests that they are already helping smokers to quit."
A UK Department of Health spokeswoman said: "More and more people are using e-cigarettes and we want to make sure they are properly regulated so we can be sure of their safety.
"We have already set out our intention to change the law to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to children under 18.
"The UK has an existing licensing system for higher strength products and those that claim to help people quit.
"We are also bringing in new European rules to cover lower strength products which will ban most advertising, limit nicotine levels and set standards for ingredients, labelling and packaging."
The WHO's recommendations were published ahead of a meeting involving all countries that have signed up to an international convention on tobacco control.
New global guidelines could be agreed during the October meeting.


Anna Signeul says a positive result against England in Scotland's opening match of Euro 2017 would represent a career highlight.

Scotland's head coach and her captain Gemma Fay both say the game will be their proudest moment in football.
Confidence is high within an England squad that believes they can win the tournament outright.
"We definitely go out as underdogs," said Signeul. "But that doesn't mean we don't have expectations ourselves."
Fay will win her 201st cap on Wednesday and is savouring the enormity of the fixture - Scotland's first game in a major tournament.
"It's the biggest game of my career, it's possibly the biggest game for some other players, but it's probably the most exciting as well," the Scotland captain told a large media pack assembled at Utrecht's Stadion Galgenwaard.
Asked if the same was true for her and whether a positive outcome would be her greatest achievement, Swede Signeul added: "Yeah, that would definitely be the case.
"I feel half-Scottish and it would be a proud moment."
Scotland have beaten England just twice in 24 previous meetings, most recently in 2011, and their rivals go into the finals unbeaten in their last nine competitive matches.
But Signeul and her players are not approaching the game with an inferiority complex.
"We have expectations of putting on a good performance. That's what we're focusing on and [we will] see how far that can take us," Signeul said.
Fay stressed that the significance of this fixture lies principally in its status as the opening game of Scotland's first major tournament, with the England-Scotland rivalry of much less importance.
"As a one-off game, it's a fantastic occasion to be part of and it's something that any player who ever wants to play for Scotland or England wants to be part of," she said.
"But first and foremost it's an opening match at a major championship and that's how we view it.
"The rivalry is not going to overshadow what we're here to do and that's to go out and look to win this first game at the European Championship."
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Victims of two criminals are "living in fear" after their names were published on a police notice posted through people's doors.

The leaflet listed people Benjamin Wilson and Jamie Wood had been ordered not to contact, including some they had targeted in Druids Heath, Birmingham.
But victims whose names appeared on the leaflet said they were not consulted by West Midlands Police beforehand.
The force said the notice had been distributed "proportionately".
Wilson and Wood each admitted four charges at Birmingham Crown Court on 12 March, including damaging property, having a bladed instrument, and putting a person in fear of violence by harassment.
Both were given a 13-month sentence suspended for 18 months, told to complete 100 hours unpaid work and also subjected to a criminal behaviour order.
Under the terms, they have to stay out of certain areas and are forbidden from contacting several people.
The poster advising people of the order was posted through doors in Druids Heath, but some of those named said they were not consulted about being included.
One, who claimed the two men have previously terrorised and threatened people, said they had only found out they appeared on the notice after a friend sent them a text.
"I am very disturbed. I thought we were protected. These leaflets have been put through doors," they said.
"No wonder people don't come forward when they see crimes.
"I have been named and shamed and I have done nothing wrong."
A friend of one person named on the notice said: "These two...are dangerous individuals and they target a family in the area."
Supt Peter Henrick, from Birmingham South Police, said 30 leaflets were distributed "to help enforce the conditions of the order".
Since it was imposed, he said, Wilson and Wood have complied with all the terms.
"We have spoken to almost all of the individuals who the pair must not contact to inform them of the order and what to do should the pair try and contact them."


The Basque militant group Eta says it will hand over all its weapons on Saturday - but warns that its enemies might still block the process.

The pledge came in a letter obtained by the BBC, confirming earlier reports about Eta disarmament plans.
Eta killed more than 800 people and wounded thousands in over 40 years of violence aimed at Basque independence.
Eta declared a ceasefire in 2011 but did not disarm. Spain refuses to negotiate with the armed group.
The letter, dated 7 April, says that "after giving up all its weaponry (arms and explosives) to Basque civil society representatives [Eta] now is a disarmed organisation".
But further on it warns that "the process is not completed" and "'disarmament day' is tomorrow".
"We want to warn that still the process can be attacked by the enemies of peace. The only real guarantee to succeed are the thousands of people gathering tomorrow in Bayonne [south-western France] supporting the disarmament."
Read the text of the Eta letter in English here and in Spanish here.
In recent years police in France and Spain have put Eta under severe pressure, arresting hundreds of militants, including leadership figures, and seizing many of the group's weapons.
'A bold move' - the BBC's Guy Hedgecoe in Madrid writes:
When Eta announced the end of its campaign of violence, in October 2011, disarmament was the next logical development. The fact it has taken the organisation so long to take that step probably reflects the reluctance of many within its ranks to do so when the Spanish and French governments have offered nothing in exchange.
Eta's assertion that the "process is not completed" highlights a desire to see concessions in the future, particularly the transfer of many of almost 400 jailed members to prisons nearer their families.
But in the apparent absence of any such promises from Madrid or Paris, decommissioning is a bold move. It paves the way to Eta's eventual disbanding and, possibly, to some form of reconciliation in Basque society.
A key figure in Eta's move away from violence is believed to be the leader of the pro-independence Basque left, Arnaldo Otegi, who has served several jail terms for his links to the organisation. However, some Eta prisoners criticised him last year for compromising too much on their behalf.
Bayonne, in France's Basque region, is expected to be the focus of the disarmament process on Saturday.
Spanish media have speculated that Eta may not have many weapons left, after so many successful police operations.
Last month France's Le Monde daily reported that a pro-Basque independence and environmental group called Bizi had been given responsibility for the disarmament. It was quoting a Bizi activist.
Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said Eta would not get anything in exchange for disarming.
"What Eta must do is dissolve itself and disappear," he said, commenting on the report in Le Monde.
Eta was set up more than 50 years ago in the era of Spanish dictator General Franco. Its first known killing was in 1968, when a secret police chief, Meliton Manzanas, was shot dead in the Basque city of San Sebastian.
In 2014 the International Verification Commission of international inspectors said Eta had put some of its weapons out of action, but the Spanish government dismissed the move as "theatrical".
Spain's El Pais newspaper says the key moment, if Eta disarmament goes ahead, will be when the International Verification Commission notifies France about the locations of Eta arms caches. The commission is led by Ram Manikkalingam.
The Basque regional government - which has a large degree of autonomy under Spanish law - says those locations will remain secret.
Basque government sources quoted by El Pais said they would like Eta to formally dissolve itself, rather than wait for the group to fall apart gradually.
By formally disbanding, they argued, it would be easier to persuade the Spanish authorities to transfer jailed Eta militants to prisons closer to their Basque families. Dissolution of Eta might also ease their prison conditions, they said.
Sources say ETA has tried for years to start secret talks with the Spanish and French governments. On at least three occasions, an opening with French officials was blocked by Spain.
It's understood that in the last month, once ETA's plans to disarm unilaterally were leaked, French assurances were received that a ceremony to hand over coordinates for its weapons caches could take place in France.
There've also been expressions of support from Spanish parties across the political spectrum but not the People's Party of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
Large numbers of people from the Basque regions of Spain and France are expected to attend a day of events on April 8th.  Critics dismiss the disarmament as theatre.
For some, its mainly symbolic since much of ETA's arsenal is believed to be obsolete. But for many, it will be an historic moment which marks the end of the last insurgency in Europe.


More than 100 Welsh artists, musicians and performers have backed the campaign to remain in the European Union.

Actors Michael Sheen and Richard Harrington, harpist Catrin Finch and the writer Owen Sheers are among the signatories of a letter.
It called on voters to choose to stay in the EU, saying: "Better to fix than to break, to create than to destroy."
But Vote Leave said the arts and creative industries had "nothing to fear" from Brexit.
Others signing the letter backing the remain campaign include National Poet of Wales Ifor ap Glyn and his predecessor Gillian Clarke, opera singers Rebecca Evans and Dennis O'Neill, David Anderson, director general of National Museum Wales, West End singer Connie Fisher and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Amy Wadge.
Artistic directors Kully Thiarai of National Theatre Wales and Arwel Gruffydd of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru have also added their names.
The EU's Creative Europe Fund has invested in productions including Hinterland/Y Gwyll, while Cardiff is considering a bid to be the EU-funded European Capital of Culture in 2023.
The letter said EU investment had helped the film and TV industry, arts centres and "enabled our literature to reach new markets".
Author Philip Pullman, who grew up in Llanbedr, Gwynedd, said: "Of course the EU is imperfect - nothing much bigger than a haiku can avoid some sort of imperfection.
"So let's work hard to improve it, in whatever part of this great continent we live, in whichever language we speak, with all the historical understanding we can muster, and with all the literary, artistic, scientific, musical, sporting, technological heritage we can bring to the task."
A spokesman for Vote Leave Cymru, Vincent Bailey, said: "The bottom line is that creative industries and arts would have nothing to fear from leaving the EU and this debate should not be allowed to descend into counterfactual claims.
"The UK is a great cultural power and would remain so outside the EU. British theatre, music, film, television and museums are world leaders, and far from supporting this industry, the EU restricts our ability to support this wonderful inheritance of ours.
"With the new possibilities that would come from reducing the burden of harmful regulation, leaving is not a scary prospect at all, but a wholly enticing one.
"Britain has a successful arts and cultural scene and freed from the shackles of EU law and efforts to subsume it into a European brand, it can only thrive."


A police community support officer was mistaken for a stripogram when he accidentally stumbled in on a 50th birthday party in Wiltshire.

PCSO Mike Ober was on foot patrol in Bradford-on-Avon on Saturday when he spotted an open door at a social club.
Going in to investigate, he was greeted by a group of women who "went wild with excitement" thinking he was the male stripper they had ordered.
He said: "The party was about to get started and they thought I was early."
He added: "I had to beat a hasty retreat."
Mr Ober, who is in his mid-20s and engaged, said the social club was not normally used at the weekend, so he had decided to "poke his head round the door" and investigate.
"There were no cars in the car park and the door was propped open," he said.
"But as I went in there were loud cheers and someone shouted: "Oh, are you the stripogram?"
After being told he was too early and to come back later, Mr Ober walked away, passing the real stripper on his way in.
"It's a matter of personal taste, but the uniforms aren't very flattering, so I guess [the mix-up] is flattering," he said.


A car police wanted to trace in connection with a murder in Aberdeenshire was not related to the investigation.

Brian McKandie was found beaten to death with a "heavy weapon" in his home in Rothienorman on 12 March.
Police Scotland released CCTV of a Subaru Impreza.
Det Ch Insp Iain Smith said: "The owner of the vehicle has been spoken to and we can confirm it is unrelated to the investigation."
He explained: "We are still appealing to the public for help in identifying two vehicles which were seen at Mr McKandie's address on 11 March.
"The vehicles are an old-style silver Ford Fiesta motor car and a burgundy/maroon coloured estate car, possibly a Volvo.
"In addition we would like to hear from anyone who knew customers of Mr McKandie or who was a customer."
Police believe he may have known his killer.
Crimestoppers has offered the reward of up to Â£10,000 for information that leads to conviction in the case. The charity stressed the reward would only be paid if information was passed to Crimestoppers directly.


The 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta has been celebrated in Lincoln with a delivery of a facsimile of the parchment to Lincoln Castle.

It was taken to the castle in a procession led by a giant King John figure.
The city holds one of four remaining original copies of the charter, which was signed by King John at Runnymede in 1215.
Schoolchildren who helped make the facsimile also joined the procession.
A trail of 25 decorative sculptures have also been installed in Lincoln - each representing one of the barons who were present at Magna Carta's sealing.
Organiser David Hill said: "We've got a 20m-long parchment - which is a facsimile of the original - and on top of it are words and designs from schoolchildren in the city."
Emma Tatlow, from Visit Lincoln, said the anniversary was helping attract tourists to the city, with more than 70,000 visiting the charter at the Lincoln Castle since April.
Magna Carta outlined basic rights with the principle that no one was above the law, including the king.
It charted the right to a fair trial, and limits on taxation without representation.
It inspired a number of other documents, including the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Only three clauses are still valid: the one guaranteeing the liberties of the English Church; the clause confirming the privileges of the City of London and other towns; and the clause that states that no free man shall be imprisoned without the lawful judgement of his equals.
The British Library has two copies of the 1215 Magna Carta.
Source: The British Library