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Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country against allegations of genocide at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Nobel Peace Prize laureate responded to widespread claims that Myanmar (formerly Burma) committed atrocities against Muslim Rohingya. In her opening remarks, she called the case against Myanmar "incomplete and incorrect". She said troubles in Rakhine, where many Rohingya lived, go back centuries. Thousands of Rohingya were killed and more than 700,000 fled to neighbouring Bangladesh during an army crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar in 2017. Myanmar has always insisted it was tackling an extremist threat in Rakhine state, and Ms Suu Kyi maintained that stance, describing the violence as an "internal armed conflict" triggered by Rohingya militant attacks on government security posts. Conceding that Myanmar's military might have used disproportionate force at times, she said that if soldiers had committed war crimes "they will be prosecuted". Ms Suu Kyi - once celebrated internationally as a champion of democracy - has been de facto leader of Myanmar since April 2016, before the alleged genocide began. She does not have control over the army, but has been accused by the UN investigator of "complicity" in the military clearances. It marks a remarkable fall from grace for Ms Suu Kyi, who has chosen to stand up for the same army that kept her under house arrest for years. She told the court her country was committed to the safe repatriation of people displaced from Rakhine, and urged the court to avoid any action that could aggravate the conflict. What was the reaction? At the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, refugees shouted "Liar, liar, shame!" as they watched Myanmar's leader make her case live on TV. "She is a liar. A great liar," said Abdur Rahim, 52, at a community centre in the camp. Outside the court in The Hague, a small group of pro-Rohingya demonstrators shouted: "Aung San Suu Kyi, shame on you!". But her supporters came too - about 250 pro-Myanmar protesters who held placards bearing her face and the words"We stand with you". Pho phyu Thant - a Burmese national now living in Europe - was one of the organisers. "The world needs to be more patient with Aung San Sui Kyi," she told the BBC. "We support her and still believe in her. She is the only person who can bring about peace and prosperity in our country and resolve this very complicated situation." Defiance in the face of horrific testimony Analysis by Nick Beake, BBC Myanmar correspondent The weight of history looked to rest heavily as a nervous-looking Aung San Suu Kyi began her defence. She recalled previous acts of genocide and agreed it was the most heinous of crimes. But she then embarked on a carefully rehearsed argument that Myanmar had simply not joined the global list of shame. She admitted that, for example, military gunships had targeted civilians - but said Myanmar could be trusted to bring the perpetrators to justice. How could it be genocide, she asked, when a country was actively investigating such wrongdoing? Outside court, all this was applauded as a patriotic defence by supporters waving banners who had travelled from Myanmar. It was cheered back home by crowds who'd gathered in the main cities, including Yangon and Mandalay, to follow the hearing on big screens. There was, at one very brief point, a contrition I had not heard before. Without mentioning the Rohingya by name, she spoke specifically about the "suffering" of those who had fled to Bangladesh. But there was simply no acknowledgment of the three hours of truly horrific testimony of mass murder, rape and arson that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate listened to on Tuesday. Why is Myanmar in court now? The Gambia, a small Muslim-majority west African nation, brought the case to the ICJ on behalf of dozens of other Muslim countries. "All that The Gambia asks is that you tell Myanmar to stop these senseless killings, to stop these acts of barbarity that continue to shock our collective conscience, to stop this genocide of its own people," The Gambia's Attorney General and Justice Minister, Abubacarr M Tambadou, told the court. His country had acted after he visited a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh and heard of killings, rape and torture, he told the BBC in October. What are the accusations? At the start of 2017, there were a million Rohingya in Myanmar, most living in Rakhine state. But Myanmar, a mainly Buddhist country, considers them illegal immigrants and denies them citizenship. Blow by blow: How a 'genocide' was investigated Will Omar get justice for his murdered family? The Rohingya have long complained of persecution, and in 2017 the military - the Tatmadaw - launched a massive military operation in Rakhine. According to The Gambia's submission to the ICJ, the clearances were "intended to destroy the Rohingya as a group, in whole or in part", via mass murder, rape and setting fire to their buildings "often with inhabitants locked inside". A UN fact-finding mission which investigated the allegations found such compelling evidence that it said the Burmese army must be investigated for genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine. In August, a report accused Myanmar soldiers of "routinely and systematically employing rape, gang rape and other violent and forced sexual acts against women, girls, boys, men and transgender people". In May, seven Myanmar soldiers jailed for killing 10 Rohingya men and boys were released early from prison. Myanmar says its military operations targeted Rohingya militants, and the military has previously cleared itself of wrongdoing. What is the likely outcome of this case? For now, The Gambia is just asking the court to impose "provisional measures" to protect the Rohingya in Myanmar and elsewhere from further threats or violence. These will be legally binding. To rule that Myanmar has committed genocide, the court will have to determine that the state acted "with intent to destroy in whole or in part" the Rohingya minority. Even then the ICJ has no way of enforcing the outcome - and neither Aung San Suu Kyi nor the generals would automatically be arrested and put on trial. But a guilty ruling could lead to sanctions, and would cause significant reputational and economic damage to Myanmar. What is the current situation for the Rohingya? Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar since the military operations began. As of 30 September, there were 915,000 Rohingya refugees in camps in Bangladesh. Almost 80% arrived between August and December 2017, and in March this year, Bangladesh said it would accept no more. In August, Bangladesh set up a voluntary return scheme - but not a single Rohingya person chose to go. Bangladesh plans to relocate 100,000 refugees to Bhasan Char, a small island in the Bay of Bengal, but some 39 aid agencies and human rights groups have opposed the idea. In September, the BBC's Jonathan Head reported that police barracks, government buildings and refugee relocation camps had been built on the sites of former Rohingya villages in Myanmar.

My wife and many other people I know found Edge of Tomorrow (otherwise known as Live.Die.Repeat) rubbish, but I really enjoyed it. Tom Cruise starts from the same place over and over, trying to understand and eventually solve the time-loop he’s found himself in. While roguelikes don’t count amongst my most-played genres, they appeal to me for similar reasons. There’s a strange kind of attraction to learning through doing (or rather, dying), in revealing the world in snippets and pieced together battles from past runs. Crying Suns is a sci-fi roguelike game with a real-time tactical layer. It’s set in a surprisingly rich universe, and half the joy is learning new things about it as you travel through each run. An empire that lasted hundreds of years and spanned countless systems thanks to the reliance autonomous AI beings known as ‘OMNI’ has suddenly collapsed after the machines were all mysteriously turned off. You are Admiral Idaho, or at least, his clone - you must take a ship and a crew and travel to the Empire’s heartland to find out what happened - to the OMNIs but also, your original self. Every time you die, another clone is reborn, although you and your crew will remember everything that’s happened before. The meat-and-potatoes of this experience is travelling from system-to-system, and sector-to-sector. Much like FTL you start at one end of a connected network of systems, and much travel to the ‘exit’ at the far end in order to proceed to the next Sector. Each Chapter of the story has a number of sectors within it, and at the end of the last sector is a larger gateway that will allow you to travel to another cluster. You have boss fights at the end of each Sector and Cluster. In-between, you’re travelling to different systems and resolving randomly generated encounters. Maybe you’ll find a civilian ship or colony, and you’ll need to make some kind of choice. Maybe you’ll just face a battle on your hands… there’s a pleasing variety of things that can happen to you, including launching expeditions down to planets. Anomalies represent encounters with added risk - you’ll either get a much worse, or a much better outcome than you would normally. Combat is a lot more fun in Crying Suns than it is in something like FTL. Each combat takes place on a hex-grid, with you and your combatants at either end. Most of the action is done by squadrons - you can deploy Drones, Fighters or Frigates that form a chain of counters, and there’s a fourth special type called ‘Cruiser’ which acts as mobile artillery. Aside from that your ship will have main weapons it can deploy, either to whittle away at the opposing capital ship’s health, or by helping your squadrons by targeting enemy units. These combat encounters can be quite tense - you’ve got to balance offensive and defensive operations as you defend your ship from direct attacks, while also trying to attack the enemy ship. Doing it with cannons alone can take a while, but leaving yourself exposed will see you destroyed just as quick. All this exploring, poking around and fighting comes at a cost and you must manage your resources carefully. It costs 1 point of Neo-N (Fuel) to move anywhere - to a new planet, system or Sector. If you run out, you fail. You can get some minor replenishment at the Sun of each system, otherwise you find it or buy it in shops. It means you may not be able to fully explore each system you come across, and choices that involve spending Neo-N can be quite tense. Scrap is the game’s currency used for buying new squadrons, weapons and ship upgrades. You’ll also need it to repair damage and heal officers - something that can happen often if you’re not careful. One way to replenish resources is to launch expeditions to planets you come across. These are essentially a chain of skill-checks that can net you everything from scrap and Neo-N, to new weapons, or squadrons. You must pick one of your key officers to send on the expedition with a minimum of three (optimum, 10) Commandos. Depending on that officer’s skill set you will be given the following information: What chance there is of your officer becoming injured or dieing. What percentage (min-max range) of resources you will be able to extract. How many (min-max range) Commandos might be killed during this mission. If you attempt to do an expedition with less than 10 commandos, the odds get far worse. Once an expedition launched, you’re essentially just watching a line travel across a map. Every so often there’s a skill check, and depending your ship upgrades you get so many chances to retreat early (with penalties), otherwise the expedition ends when the group reaches the extraction zone. For all its compelling design and visual wonder, Crying Suns falls behind in other areas in terms of the best the genre has to offer. Other recent releases in this space have done more to make the expected repetition a bit more palatable, or at least interesting. Pathway, for example, has a lot of low-level mechanics such as loot and money that carry over through runs, so that your team gets better funded, and equipped the longer you play the game. Crying Suns' progression is broken up into a couple of layers. Within a Chapter, nothing really carries over from run-to-run other than the experiences you’ve gained as a player, which can inform your choices in the next run. This isn’t bad in itself, but I for example struggled a bit to actually reach the boss at the end of the first Chapter. Replaying those early sectors over and over got quite stale quite quickly. So much of Crying Suns run can be down to RNG that you may just end up getting unlucky, which basically means a wasted run Once you complete a chapter though, you can start a new run at the beginning of the next chapter. The ship you completed that chapter with as well gets slightly better base stats (we think, it’s not 100% clear), and you can unlock new ships to use as you complete chapters. This incentivises going back through past chapters with other ships to level them up, but it can depend on your preference. I personally would like to see more significant persistence between runs. But these are just minor niggles more than actual flaws. Crying Suns is still an excellent tactical rogue-like, elevated by the fact that you have so much more control in battle encounters and are presented a range of meaningful choices in how to spec your ship. The art style is wonderful, and the world a genuine pleasure to explore, provided you don’t get held up in the same section for too long. It’s less mechanically ground-breaking than perhaps it could be, but fans of FTP and rogue-likes at large can certainly add another highlight to their list.

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Ultrawide gaming has been on a steady rise for quite some time, so it's no surprise to see more and more manufacturers getting in on the action. Looking at something as simple as the Steam hardware survey and you'll see the form factor is nearly on par (including 2560x1080 and 3440x1440) with 4K panel usage on there. This is why in our latter game performance reviews we have been including ultrawide resolution performance along with standard 16:9. The latest to enter this segment of the market is Nixeus and with a strong record of releasing top-notch panels, our expectations are pretty high for this one. The EDG34 features a 34" 3440x1440 VA panel that features a native 144Hz through Display Port 1.4 but only 100Hz through HDMI 2.0. Through the DisplayPort 1.4 connector, you'll have access to the 48-144Hz FreeSync range, and while that's not quite the 30-144Hz the VUE24 and the EDG27/24 deliver it's still a nice wide band that gives you access to low framerate compensation. Can this feature-packed 34" panel deliver at the very palpable $600 price point? What You Get The Nixeus EDG34 comes in a rather adorned box that makes unpacking exceptionally easy, while it's using hard cell styrofoam for the protection of the monitor that didn't appear to cause any issues in transit. The included video we go over the packaging and initial look at the monitor assembled. In the box NXEDG34 Panel Fixed stand VESA Adapter (75x75) DisplayPort Cable Power Cable Quick Start Guide The Nixeus EDG34 does come in two flavors, one with a tilt base and another that has a fully adjustable stand. The EDG34S with the stationary stand is what we're looking at today and features a headphone/headset stand at the top and it shows off the light bars behind the panel. 34′′ VA Gaming Grade LED Backlight Display 3440 x 1440 Ultrawide 1500R Curved 144Hz (Native), AMD FreeSyncTM Certified Range for 48Hz – 144Hz (DisplayPort 1.4 input) Color Support: 16.7 Million (sRGB) Brightness: 400 cd/m2, 350 cd/m2 (Typical) Input Port: 2 x DisplayPort 1.4 (up to 144Hz), 2 x HDMI 2.0 (Up to 100Hz) 3 Years Manufacturer Warranty The Stand The stand is fairly basic in all respects and only has a few functions outside of holding the monitor up. The design is attractive with the wide-spanning feet only extending as far out in front of the panel as the panel actually sits, meaning it isn't going to take up an absurd amount of desk space and reducing room for your mouse and keyboard. Cable management is minimal being just an open area to guide the cables going to the display in an orderly fashion. Tilt is the only adjustment this stand allows for but thankfully it's a quite smooth and holds its position, but if I might make a suggestion, spring for the fully adjustable stand as it sits a bit low, so if you're the average height at an average desk prepare to look downward at this display. There's also a headphone hanger on the back on the stand, kind of an odd choice but it's there and it works so if you need somewhere to hang and hide your wireless headset when you're not using it then that's a bonus. The Panel The Nixeus NX-EDG34 is powered by the latest Samsung VA panel with a 1500R curve. The colors are vibrant, the whites pop and the blacks are deep. Overall the image is excellent for gaming, what about accuracy for content creation? Well according to our Datacolor Spyder 5 and DisplayCal dial it in with brightness set to 66% as it came set to we see the EDG34 sitting at 356 cd/m2 which is quite vibrant for that setting. Once calibrated the panel had a 99.3% sRGB Gamut coverage with 125.9% sRGB Gamut volume, Adobe RGB Gamut coverage is at 81.6% while the Gamut volume is at 86.7%. While I would argue this for the professional photo editor who needs that Adobe accuracy it's clear that this has excellent coverage for gaming and media use and is better than most gaming monitors. Viewing angles are excellent no matter where you sit, but the very nature of the curve does mean that the best seat is going to be directly in front of the screen. From angles outside of direct view, there is a bit of a glow that comes from the screen that washes the colors out a little, something to think about if you're often sitting to one side or the other while watching movies or playing games. The only issue I came across with the display regarding inconsistencies or light bleed was found at a very symmetrical spot at the top of the panel, one on each side. There was a spot of light bleed that only showed up and became visible in the darkest of environments. I only noticed it the first time I was gaming early in the morning before the sun broke and I had not turned on my usual floor lamp in my office, but it's there at the top about 1/3 in on each side. The biggest concern I had going into this one was the use of a VA panel, while I understand and like the contrast ration and lack of 'glow' vs IPS I have found that the smearing that happens on darker scenes to be offputting. This does exist in menus for windows if you use the 'dark mode' where the background is pitch black, but out of that it's so very faint it quickly becomes unnoticeable. The OSD The on screen display is somewhere that Nixeus has caught the short end of the stick in the past. In fact, it has been the one part of the entire experience working with their panels that I have found to be the most frustrating. Thankfully this time around that is not the case. You'll need to navigate it to begin with in order enable FreeSync (Adaptive Sync) as that is not enabled by default. But once in the OSD, you'll find navigation to be very simple and have little to no trouble making and modifying the selections you wish. Glad to see they've taken the negative feedback in the past and turned it into a positive experience. The Experience I gamed on this monitor for a couple of weeks now, including the entirety of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a good bit of The Witcher 3, and countless hours of Battlefield V and have come to a simple conclusion: Ultrawide gaming is excellent and the experience with the Nixeus EDG34 has been nothing short of wonderful. I played through these games using my personal Ryzen 9 3900X powered system paired with my GeForce RTX 2080 for about half of the time and swapped out for the Radeon RX 5700XT for the other half and found the panel to function the same for both, albeit faster of course with the RTX 2080. the 48-144Hz Variable Refresh Rate functioned without a hitch allowing for amazingly smooth gameplay so long as I was staying in that window. There was a strange flicker in some games in static loading screens, that happened with both vendors but was relegated to only loading screens so it wasn't a concern when gaming. The one thing about the experience I would like to point out is that 3440x1440 is not for the faint of GPU horsepower. While nowhere near the brute that 4K is I think some people tend to forget the added strain that the extra width will bear down, but with some tweaking, I was able to get the RX 5700XT to stay in the VRR window and any compromise I had to make was completely worth it. But what if a game doesn't support 21:9?! That's really not an issue, thanks to the deep blacks of the Samsung VA panel that Nixeus used you're greeted to insanely black sidebars that drift off into your peripheral view so long as the game is good and engaging. This leaves you with, wait for it, a tradition 16:9 2560x1440 aspect ration and a bit of a sour taste towards the developer for not filling the screen (looking at you Respawn and cutscenes for Fallen Order). The other side of ultrawide is on the productivity side of things. I'm a person who, despite knowing I could get more done, HATES having multiple monitors on my workspace. Ultrawide is able to spread things out enough to where you can have multiple windows open with more than enough room to work. Excel on one side while watching a video on youtube without either being cramped? Yes please. HDR? Okay, HDR and PC Gaming is far from perfect, but what if I told you that the EDG34 supports it but isn't trying to use that as a crutch for marketing? Well, it's there and it kinda works. I say that because it works about like some monitors that have HDR400 plastered all over it and when it's there but not a bullet point on the box I welcome it. Kind of like a small surprise for those who want to enable it. Checking it out in Forza Horizon 4 made a noticeable change, a bit more than just simply upping the brightness. Thanks to Nixeus not trying to add more bullet points they inadvertently made one. While I wouldn't say it's worth buying this panel for the HDR support, the support is a nice to have for those who pick it up and worth trying out in various games to see how you like it. Conclusion So is the Nixeus EDG34S worth the price of admission? Yes, and then some. The only real complaints I have regarding the panel are the bit of smearing with white text on black backgrounds and two spots of bleed at the top, but they're only visible in black screens, not dark scenes but full-on black screens. Ultrawide gaming has been something I've wanted to move to for quite some time but have been holding back because of the cost of 3440x1440 and 144hz combination. I have been on a 2560x1440 panel for a long while and have tried going to lower refresh rates without a wide range of VRR and just couldn't do it, the Nixeus EDG34 brings it all together with a high resolution ultrawide panel, large VRR window, and high refresh rate but at a price point that is accessible to most people. Is it a good value? Yes. Is it cheap? Not really as $600 is a good chunk of change, but for the experience delivered here, I will say undoubtedly that it is worth every penny paid.

McLaren has announced a race-spec but road-ready variant for its Sports Series line-up, called the 620R, set to go into limited production early next year. Described as “a road-legal version of a race car”, the 620R shares much of its chassis and aerodynamic hardware with the 570S GT4 racer. McLaren claims it “retains the DNA of a fully homologated track car yet is free from the restrictions that race regulations apply”. by Lawrence Allan 9 December 2019 McLaren has announced a race-spec but road-ready variant for its Sports Series line-up, called the 620R, set to go into limited production early next year. Described as “a road-legal version of a race car”, the 620R shares much of its chassis and aerodynamic hardware with the 570S GT4 racer. McLaren claims it “retains the DNA of a fully homologated track car yet is free from the restrictions that race regulations apply”. The latter point has allowed the Woking brand to make the 620R the fastest Sports Series model yet. Whereas the GT4 car sees power cut from the 562bhp of the 570S to about 420bhp, the 620R makes, as its name suggests, 620PS, or 612bhp. Torque is rated at 457lb ft. Combined with a kerb weight down by about 30kg over the 570S, that allows for a 0-62mph time of 2.9sec, a 0-124mph time of 8.1sec and a top speed of 200mph. Of course, the racing pedigree goes beyond raw straight-line pace. The 620R gets the GT4 car’s two-way manually adjustable coilover system, which features 32 clicks of adjustment for rebound and compression rates. The dampers themselves are 6kg lighter than the standard units. These combine with stiffer springs and anti-roll bars and solid stainless steel top mounts for, McLaren claims, greatly improved control and feedback. The 620R has been engineered to run on slick tyres without any adjustment, meaning owners can rock up to their favourite circuit and swap out the road-legal rubber with minimal effort. It’s delivered from the factory with Pirelli Trofeo R semi-slick tyres, with an optional full slick set specially developed for McLaren. Braking is taken care of by a carbon ceramic set-up. Aero is a significant part of the 620R’s appeal over the standard Sports Series models. It gets the same adjustable carbonfibre wing as the GT4 (with a third brake light to make it road-legal) which can be set to more significant angles of attack allowing for up to 185kg of downforce. The new car also features a redesigned front bumper, splitter and bonnet that all improve airflow, along with dive planes on the front wings. A pared-back cabin sees items such as the carpet, glovebox, air-con, navigation and audio system junked to help keep the weight down, but all can be installed at no extra cost. The touchscreen is retained and features a track telemetry system ( with an optional three-camera set-up), while lightweight carbonfibre racing seats get six-point harnesses as standard. Door pull straps, along with carbonfibre shift paddles, steering wheel spokes and centre console, enhance the race-spec feel. Three exterior colour schemes are offered - orange with white racing stripes, white or black, the latter two with orange stripes. A number of racing decals are optional, along with configurable detail colour and trim options and the full range of MSO personalisation. The car pictured features a decal livery inspired by the Senna GTR. A total of 350 examples will be produced for customers, with each car getting a numbered plaque on the dash. Priced from £250,000 including taxes, European and North American buyers get a day of tuition at a race circuit included. Deliveries commence from February.

This easy sausage bake is made with gnocchi rather than pasta. Roasted gnocchi is magical – while the inside stays light and fluffy, the outside goes crisp and golden, like mini roast potatoes. Each serving provides 600 kcal, 24g protein, 47g carbohydrates (of which 10g sugars), 33.5g fat (of which 12g saturates), 8g fibre and 1.8g salt. Ingredients 1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into chunks 1 yellow pepper, deseeded and cut into chunks 1 orange pepper, deseeded and cut into chunks 250g/9oz gnocchi 1 tbsp olive oil 4 pork sausages salt and freshly ground black pepper Method Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6. Toss together the peppers, gnocchi, olive oil and a generous amount of salt and pepper on a large baking tray. Place the sausages on the tray. Roast for 25 minutes, or until the sausages and gnocchi are golden-brown and the peppers are soft and have started to brown around the edges. Serve.

Finland's Sanna Marin is to become the world's youngest prime minister at the age of 34. The transport minister was picked by her Social Democratic party after its leader, Antti Rinne, quit as PM. She will be sworn in this week. She will lead a centre-left coalition with four other parties, all headed by women. Mr Rinne stepped down after losing the confidence of a coalition member over his handling of a postal strike. When she takes office, Ms Marin will be the world's youngest sitting prime minister. New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is 39, while Ukrainian premier Oleksiy Honcharuk is 35. What is Ms Marin's background? Media reports say Sanna Marin was raised in a "rainbow family", living in a rented apartment with her mother and her mother's female partner. She told the Menaiset website (in Finnish) in 2015 that as a child she felt "invisible" because she was unable to talk openly about her family. But she said her mother had always been supportive and made her believe she could do anything she wanted. She was the first person in her family to go to university. Ms Marin rose quickly through the ranks of the Social Democrats, heading the city administration in Tampere at the age of 27 and becoming an MP in 2015. She has been transport and communications minister since June and has a 22-month-old daughter. What direction is she likely to take? There are unlikely to be any major policy changes, as the coalition agreed a programme when it took office. However, Ms Marin, who won the vote for prime minister by a narrow margin, made it clear it would not be business as usual. "We have a lot of work to do to rebuild trust," she told reporters. She brushed away questions about her age, saying: "I have never thought about my age or gender. I think of the reasons I got into politics and those things for which we have won the trust of the electorate." Ms Marin will be the third female prime minister in the Nordic country. The Social Democrats emerged as the largest party in elections held in April, and so can appoint the prime minister who leads the coalition government. Mr Rinne stepped down after a plan to cut wages for hundreds of postal workers led to widespread strikes. Coalition member, the Centre Party, said it had lost confidence in him. However, he will stay on as leader of the Social Democrats. Meanwhile, the Centre Party said Katri Kulmuni would be named as finance minister. The 32-year-old took over as its leader in September. Three of the four female party leaders in the coalition are under 35. Finland currently holds the European Union's rotating presidency, and MPs are likely to approve the new government ahead of the EU summit in Brussels on 12 December.

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What is it? The new BMW X5 plug-in hybrid (PHEV) has gained two extra cylinders yet somehow become more economical (officially) and more BIK tax-efficient at the same time. This feat has been achieved primarily thanks to a significant increase in battery capacity: it’s now 24kWh, up from just 9.2kWh in the previous-generation X5 xDrive40e. That’s a key upgrade mostly for the difference it makes to electric-only range and associated tax qualification. As of April 2020, PHEV company cars will be classified not only on their WLTP-rated CO2 emissions but also how far they can be driven on electrictity alone. So, while most rivals have significantly smaller batteries that enable them to do no more than 20 miles or so under electric power, the X5 will be rated to go as far as 54 miles without necessarily exciting its reciprocating pistons. The difference that could make to monthly running costs, even between running one of these instead of what you might take for a pretty competitive rival, could be significant. While owners of PHEVs rated for 40 miles of electric range or more will be due to pay just 8% of the car’s value per year as benefit-in-kind (BIK) tax, those who own alternatives good for less than 30 miles will have to pay 14%, and plenty will have to pay more still. That means the X5 could save a 40% taxpayer more than £200 per month over its rivals, and compared with a diesel, possibly twice as much. This new X5 is one of several revised PHEV models introduced by BMW throughout 2019, all of which have what it calls its fourth-generation hybrid battery technology. Like the 530e, 330e and forthcoming X3 30e, it uses a longways-mounted engine and an electric motor mounted between that and the eight-speed automatic gearbox, where you might expect to find a torque converter. Unlike the fleet-friendly petrol-electric 3 Series and 5 Series models, though, the X5 adopts the 282bhp turbocharged six-cylinder 3.0-litre motor that also powers the 745e. Given that this is good for 111bhp, total powertrain outputs are 389bhp and 442lb ft, leaving the X5 close to the Volvo XC90 T8 Twin Engine for potency, albeit not so close to the Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid. What's it like? In most respects, the 45e is like any other fourth-generation X5. Even though it has grown so much on capacity, its battery is carried under the floor and within the wheelbase so that it doesn’t adversely affect packaging. The fuel tank has been displaced a little, though, so you get marginally less boot space here than in other derivatives. It’s also not possible to get a seven-seat layout. Up front is an excellent and comfortable driving position, while a digital instrument display presents information in adaptable and mainly easily legible style. Perceived quality is high, and while the driving position is a little more recumbent than that of some big SUVs (and the X5 feels slightly less spacious than some), there can be no mistaking the ambience of a very technologically advanced, expensively finished, modern-yet-luxurious family car. When we drove this car abroad, the strides made for it in terms of smoothness, driveability and refinement were as plain as the ones made on outright performance, and the same progress comes through loud and clear on UK roads. The four-cylinder 40e was a much less fluent and assured operator than this, offering considerably less initial throttle response as supplied by the motor before switching pretty abruptly to combustive power. The 45e, by contrast, gives you all the electric urge you’re likely to want in Hybrid driving mode when you’re around town and up to typical B-road speeds without ever threatening to rouse its engine. When you do delve deep enough into the accelerator to require a bit of extra pace, there's just enough hesitation and extra hum for you to notice the car waking its straight-six, but acceleration continues to be supplied in very predictable, linear and responsive fashion. The switchover from Electric to Hybrid mode is no more noticeable than a change of intermediate gear ratio. And on wider pedal openings, the X5 picks up speed with a really torquey briskness, needing fewer downshifts than you expect and making supremely light work of moving a kerbweight that’s very close to 2.5 tonnes. Smoothness and muscularity from low revs are its abiding qualities. Unlike other X5s, the 45e offers driving modes specific to its powertrain type, so instead of the usual choice of Comfort, Individual and Eco Pro, you choose between Sport, Electric, Hybrid and Adaptive, with a Sport Individual mode hidden away in a sub-menu for those who want to mix and match steering, powertrain and suspension presets. Another button on the transmission tunnel allows you to select a separate Battery Hold mode, in which you can restore the state of charge in the battery to anything up to 100% during normal driving. Adaptive mode is expected to be the one most drivers will default to. Assuming a route is set in the sat-nav system, it allows the car to manage the switching of its own powertrain from electric mode to combustion mode and back again in order to maximise fuel efficiency and, where possible, always deliver you to your destination just as the battery runs dry. Run in Electric and from a fully charged state and our testing suggests you’re more likely to get between 30 and 40 miles out of that battery than the 54 the new lab tests promise. Still, that's a reasonable chunk more than you would get from most rivals. Sport mode allows the car to take on a pretty convincing performance flavour, since it configures both engine and motor to run continually and to work together instantly. If you opt to manage the eight-speed gearbox yourself via the wheel-mounted gearshift paddles, throttle response is really good and initial acceleration strong when picking up from low engine speeds. Above 4000rpm, however, it becomes pretty clear that the motor can do little more to assist the engine. And given that both power sources are driving onto a common gearbox input shaft and must therefore always operate at the same rotational speeds (and that motors still aren’t great at producing torque at high revs), it’s easy enough to work out why that might be. The X5 xDrive 45e M Sport comes with adaptive air suspension, 20in alloy wheels and runflat tyres as standard, with BMW’s Integral Active four-wheel steering system as an option. Optional wheel size runs all the way to 22in if you have the M Sport Plus package – and, yes, as it happens, you can have the big rims without disqualifying the car from that low tax classification explained earlier. Our test car had the optional 22in wheels and handled accurately and well on better surfaces, thanks to its medium-firm suspension. Both steering (which was slightly overly light) and body control over uneven roads left a little to be desired, however. The car’s ride was particularly busy, with lateral head toss at times, and under-damped at other times, particularly over bigger intrusions, when it tended to bound from one input to the next. Which just goes to proves that, while it can be very effectively masked for while, a two-and-a-half tonne kerbweight can’t be hidden forever in any modern passenger car. Should I buy one? Much as they may blunt the edge of this car’s driver appeal, those dynamic flaws will be minor enough to overlook for the vast majority of interested buyers – and quite rightly so. Having been attracted to this car for what it promises to do for their P11D, most who test drive a 45e ought to be really convinced by the well-rounded slickness, drivability, accessible potency and refinement of its powertrain. Assuming they can charge it easily, they should also get impressive fuel economy from it. Having been one of the least recommendable luxury hybrid SUVs of its kind in its previous four-cylinder form, the X5 has now undoubtedly become one of the best. And if you’re a company car driver yet to cotton onto the fact that, although the monthly business lease on one might cost you £100 more than for a 30d diesel, the monthly BIK tax on one will likely save you five times that sum? It’s probably high time you did. BMW X5 xDrive45e M Sport specification Where Buckinghamshire, UK Price £66,675 On sale now Engine 6 cyls in line, 2998cc, turbocharged, petrol; plus electric motor Power 389bhp (total output) Torque 442lb ft (total output) Gearbox 8-spd automatic Kerb weight 2435kg Top speed 146mph 0-62mph 5.6sec Fuel economy 201.8mpg (WLTP combined) CO2 31g/km Electric range 51 miles (WLTP Combined) Rivals Volvo XC90 T8 Twin Engine, Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid

Mushrooms and leeks on toast are a great way to eat more veg for breakfast, brunch or a light lunch. Each serving provides 459 kcal, 17g protein, 23g carbohydrates (of which 5g sugars), 32g fat (of which 15g saturates), 6g fibre and 1.7g salt. Ingredients 25g/1oz unsalted butter 3 large chestnut mushrooms, peeled and sliced 1 large leek, trimmed, halved and cut into 2.5cm/1in slices pinch dried chilli flakes (optional) 1 tsp vegetable oil 1 large free-range egg 1 slice bread, toasted sea salt and freshly ground black pepper Method Heat the butter in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the mushrooms and leeks and season with a generous amount of salt and pepper. Cook for 6–8 minutes, stirring occasionally until the mushrooms have softened and started to caramelise and the leeks are completely soft. Add a pinch of dried chilli flakes if you would like to add a little heat. Meanwhile, heat the oil in another non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. Crack in the egg and fry until the white has just set. Spoon the mushroom and leek mixture over the toast. Top with the fried egg and another grind of black pepper and serve immediately.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been visiting Auschwitz concentration camp, her first trip to the site. She was due to take part in a ceremony alongside a camp survivor and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Her visit comes amid a rise in German anti-Semitism and ahead of the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation. The Nazi regime murdered an estimated 1.1 million people, the vast majority of whom were Jewish, at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The chancellor went through the notorious "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) gates of the Auschwitz camp. She was due to hold a minute's silence at the so-called Black Wall, where thousands of prisoners were executed in the original camp, before moving to the Birkenau extermination camp where she was set to give a speech. The gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau were built near the main concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Mrs Merkel was also accompanied by the president of Germany's Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, and the head of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose. Tens of thousands of non-Jewish Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners-of-war, homosexuals and political prisoners were murdered at the Auschwitz camp complex. More than six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, the Nazi campaign to destroy Europe's Jewish po[CENSORED]tion. Why is Merkel visiting now? Major events are planned for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops on 27 January. But Mrs Merkel has chosen to go to the site now. She was invited to attend the 10th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, a group that tries to preserve the camp as a memorial and a warning for future generations. As part of her visit, Germany's federal states announced a €60m (£51m; $66m) gift to the foundation. Though she has been to other concentration camps, including Dachau and Buchenwald in Germany, this is the chancellor's first visit to the notorious Nazi site, west of the Polish city of Krakow. German chancellors have made the trip to Auschwitz before - Helmut Schmidt visited in 1977 and Helmut Kohl in 1989 and 1995. But none has visited since and this first visit by a chancellor for 24 years is being viewed as highly symbolic. Neither chancellor had to confront a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. Less than two months ago, a 40-year-old woman and 20-year-old man were shot dead outside a synagogue in eastern Germany. A 27-year-old man confessed and admitted having a far-right, anti-Semitic motive for the shooting. Official figures showed 1,646 hate crimes against Jews were committed in Germany last year - an increase of 10% on the previous year. Physical attacks against Jews in Germany also rose in the same period, with 62 violent incidents recorded in 2018, up from 37 in 2017.German reports suggest Mrs Merkel has chosen to visit now in case she is forced out of office earlier than planned. She has previously said she will not stand for re-election in 2021. Added to this are fears Mrs Merkel's governing coalition could fall apart. Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost his bid for leadership of the centre-left SPD in November. The party is now expected to vote on whether to stay in the coalition with Mrs Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU. What was Auschwitz? Originally an old army barracks converted by invading Nazi troops to hold Polish political prisoners in 1939, it became a vast complex of about 40 camps, and the epicentre of the Holocaust. Birkenau was set up in 1941 a short distance from the concentration camp and one million Jewish Europeans were murdered in its gas chambers or died of starvation and disease between early 1942 and late 1944. Soviet forces liberated the camp on 27 January 1945, a date now commemorated worldwide as Holocaust Memorial Day.

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