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A boat carrying migrants from Turkey to Greece has sunk with the loss of 25 lives, Turkey's coast guard says. Fifteen people were rescued after the boat capsized near the Turkish resort of Didim. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says at least 321 migrants drowned trying to get to Greece between 1 January and 3 March.Reports suggest Macedonia has set new curbs on Syrian migrants trying to cross the land border from Greece.In another development, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that alliance ships would be deployed to Turkish and Greek territorial waters in the battle to defeat people smugglers.

More than 2,000 migrants, most of whom the IOM says are from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are arriving into Greece from Turkey every day hoping to travel further north through Europe. But some EU countries re-imposed internal border controls and Macedonia sharply reduced the numbers allowed to cross, leading to a build-up on the Greek side of the border. On Sunday, reports from the border said Macedonia had stopped allowing entry to anyone from areas in Iraq and Syria it did not consider to be active conflict zones. As a result, anyone from Damascus or Baghdad is not allowed to pass. Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the UN's refugee agency, called the development "concerning".

On Saturday, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, governor of a northern border region, said the number of migrants on the frontier waiting to cross north into Macedonia had grown to at least 13,000. Mr Tzitzikostas called for a state of emergency to be imposed on the border that could facilitate the delivery of aid. An emergency summit will take place between the EU and Turkey on Monday to try to seek a common approach to handling the flow of arrivals. Last week, European Council President Donald Tusk said he had been told by the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his country was ready to take back all migrants apprehended in Turkish waters.

I believe that if the UK has the power to be able to create a vote bombing Syria we should have a vote to save the lives in Syria for the crossing in the boats. Driven to entertain the suspicion that we should value their lives just as much as we value our families lives. 

Amy documentary was made 2015 July and was made during 2014 and 2015. It was directed by Asif Kapadia. Asif Kapadia also directed Senna and Uneternal City. The genre for this documentary is drama and biography. The themes of the documentary are music, music industry , soul, class relationship, drugs and industry. The documentary covers Amy's music from the beginning of her music life to her death. It contained mostly found footage of Amy"s music career.

The documentary has strong representation of the the traditional male. Amy's father could seems to be used in a negative way to represent the traditional male. Amy's father leaves her when she was very young and when he was together with Amy's mum he was having an affair. It represents the father in primitive male state when the male would constantly move on and on for his own gratifications. It represents Amy as a strong independent woman, making her way through the music industry and getting to the top but simultaneously it represents her as a victim and weak, the traditional female portrayal in the media. It represents the lower class as the scape goats for society's quams. It portrays them as always kicking up a fuss and seeking instant gratification with drugs, sex and petty crimes. Linking back to father of Amy's portrayal. Mitch Winehouse stated to the guardian newspaper "They are trying to portray me in the worst possible light". He thought it painted a terrible picture of who he was (the father). The film makers were not offended by this remark because they simply put found footage in and had an interview with him. Therefore it was father who painted a negative picture of him self.

Winehouse's debut album, Frank, was released on 20 October 2003. Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, many songs were influenced by jazz and, apart from two covers, Winehouse co-wrote every song. The album received positive reviews. The album entered the upper levels of the UK album chart in 2004 when it was nominated for BRIT Awards in the categories of "British Female Solo Artist" and "British Urban Act." It went on to achieve platinum sales. Later in 2004, she and Remi won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song, for their first single together, "Stronger Than Me." The album was also shortlisted for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize. In the same year, she performed at the Glastonbury Festival – Jazz world, the V Festival and the Montreal International Jazz Festival. After the release of the album, Winehouse commented that she was "only 80 percent behind album" because Island Records had overruled her preferences for the songs and mixes to be included

Winehouse died on 23 July 2011. On the week of 26 July 2011, Frank, Back to Black and the Back to Black EP re-entered the Billboard 200 at number 57, number 9 and number 152 respectively, with the album climbing to number 4 the following week. Back to Black also topped the Billboard Digital Albums chart on the same week and was the second best-seller at iTunes. "Rehab" re-entered and topped the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart as well, selling up to 38,000 more digital downloads. As of August 2011, "Back to Black" was the best-selling album in the UK in the twenty-first century.
Her father, Mitch Winehouse, launched the Amy Winehouse Foundation with the goal of raising awareness and support for organisations that help vulnerable, young adults with problems such as addiction.

The introduction of a 5p charge for plastic bags in England has been blamed for a packaging firm going into administration.

Forty workers have been made redundant at Nelson Packaging's factory in Lancashire. Managing director Michael Flynn said it was mainly due to "the English bag legislation and corresponding impact on customer and retailer demand". He also blamed "aggressive overseas competition". The 5p charge for bags was introduced in England in October and followed the introduction of charges in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. One worker told BBC Radio Lancashire they believed the legislation had a "slight but not a massive impact" on the business, which has been operating since 1975 and was taken over by Cheshire-based packaging firm Intelipac three years ago.Union representative Robert Copeland, who had been with the firm since 1986, said staff were told last Wednesday that they were being made redundant and were told to leave the factory immediately.

"It's daunting as I have no interview skills. I'm 49 years old and I've got to now go into a new working environment and start again. It is scary.

"I was 19 when I started and… you were seeing the children of people you have been working with for 30 years starting to come through so you had parents and children

Honestly the 5p bag charge doesn't effect me in a very large way so I don't mind it. I think it's a way create money for companies. People who complain about it are usually the people who don't have enough money to afford bags. Which I have nothing against but it depends on who you are because lower class wage payed people.

More than two-thirds of trusts and health boards in the UK are actively trying to recruit from abroad as they struggle to cope with a shortage of qualified staff, figures reveal.
Tens of thousands of NHS nursing and doctor posts are vacant.
The statistics, obtained by the BBC, show the scale of the NHS recruitment crisis.
Health unions blame poor workforce planning, but officials say the NHS has more staff than ever before.

Data from a BBC Freedom of Information request shows that on 1 December 2015, the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland had more than 23,443 nursing vacancies - equivalent to 9% of the workforce.

Agency workers
In comparison, the average vacancy rate across the UK economy from November to January 2016 was 2.7%, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The figures - which include 106 out of 166 trusts and health boards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - also revealed:
Between 2013 and 2015, there has been a 50% increase in nursing vacancies, from 12,513 to 18,714.
For doctors, the number of vacancies went from 2,907 to 4,669 - an increase of roughly 60%.
In England and Wales, there were 1,265 vacancies for registered nurses in emergency departments - about 11% of the total.
For consultants in emergency medicine there were 243 vacancies - again 11% of the total.
Paediatric consultants - specialists in the care of babies, children and young people - were also hard to recruit, with 221 vacancies - about 7% of the total.

Jessie Ellen Cornish is a british song writer and singer. Better known for her stage name as Jessie J. 

net worth $8 million 

2006- 2010

Born and raised in London, she began her career on stage, aged 11, with a role in the West End musical Whistle Down the Wind. She studied at the BRIT School before signing with Gut Records and striking a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing where she wrote for artists including Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus.  

Jessie J was signed to Gut Records, recording an album for the label, but the company went bankrupt before any material was released. She then found success as a songwriter, gaining a Sony ATV publishing contract. She was also the support act for Cyndi Lauper during Lauper's UK dates of her 2008 Bring Ya to the Brink tour. Jessie has also written lyrics for artists such as Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus, including "Party in the U.S.A.". 

Jessie J was also part of a girl band, called Soul Deep, for two years, however, believing "it wasn't going anywhere," she left the group. Despite people thinking that her first notoriety was through YouTube, Jessie was signed for four years before her first video was posted. Jessie first came to the attention of Lava Records when her publisher at Sony/ATV, Rich Christina, sent Lava president Jason Flom a link to her MySpace page, which the record executive loved. 

2011- 2012

Jessie J began recording her debut studio album in 2005 and it was completed on 19 January 2011. Jessie J says the album's title track, "Who You Are", is one of her proudest creations, she said the song is a positive role model for young people and I always say that I'm half-artist, half-therapist. In late 2010 Jessie J released her first single, "Do It Like a Dude" which was co-written with George Astasio, Tj Normandin, Jason Pebworth, Jon Shave, Kyle Abrahams and Peter Ighile. Originally, she wrote the song with Rihanna in mind because "Rude Boy" was released at the time, partly inspiring the song. She then sent the song to her label, Island Records, before sending it to Rihanna's management. Island insisted the song become Jessie J's first single. She wishes to perform the song with Rihanna at one point. The single gained positive reception from critics. The single charted at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Her follow-up single "Price Tag" was released in late January 2011. It was written by Jessie J, Dr. Luke, Claude Kelly, and B.o.B and peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart. "Price Tag" was released in the US on 1 February 2011 and peaked at 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. 

On 25 February 2011 her debut album, Who You Are, was released. The album first entered the UK Albums Chart on 6 March 2011 where it charted at number two. The album charted into the top ten in a number of countries and number 11 in the US. After the release she went on to release a third single from the album, "Nobody's Perfect". MTV reported that the single is, so far, only confirmed for release in the United Kingdom. The album's fourth single was "Who's Laughing Now". 

On 12 June 2011, at the Summertime Ball held at Wembley Stadium, London, Jessie ruptured several tendons in her foot during rehearsals, and performed her set the following day while sitting on a gilded throne. For her appearance at Glastonbury Festival 2011 on 25 June 2011, she performed on the throne again, stating that he doctor had told her not to perform with her broken foot which would take six weeks to heal. 

2013- Onwards 

On 31 January 2012, Jessie J announced that she had begun recording her second studio album. She also stated that she hopes to collaborate with many artists this year, possibly including some of her fellow coaches on The Voice. It was revealed that she has worked in the studio with CeeLo Green after he contacted her on Twitter. Jessie has also revealed on Twitter that she worked with Diane Warren and co-author of her song "Price Tag", Claude Kelly.

Her third studio album Sweet Talker was released on 13 October 2014 in the UK, where it peaked at number 5. "Bang Bang" recorded with Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj serves as the first single from the album. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her third number one and seventh top five single in the UK. "Bang Bang" debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 6, making it the second highest new entry of 2014 on the chart. The song became Jessie J's second top 10 single in the US, after her previous single "Domino", and eventually peaked at number 3. In 2015, she became the judge and mentor of The Voice Australia. In the nominations for the 2016 Brit Awards, Jessie J's 2015 single "Flashlight" (from the soundtrack to the film Pitch Perfect 2) was among the nominees for Best British Video. 

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is a british singer and song writer. 

net worth- $75 million 

She was born in tottenham 1988 in May. She went to brit school and when she left in 2006 she had received a recording contract by XL recordings after her friend posted her demo on myspace. In 2007 she was given a brit award from critics choice and won the bbc sound of 2008. Nick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management, and in June 2006, Dickins became her official representative. 

By 2008, Adele had become the headliner and performed an acoustic set, in which she was supported by Damien Rice. She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. The album 19, named for her age at the time she wrote and composed many of its songs, entered the British charts at number one. 

She released her second single, "Chasing Pavements", on 14 January 2008, two weeks ahead of her debut album. The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks. In March 2008, Adele signed a deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States. She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month, and 19 was released in the US in June. 

By the middle of October 2008, Adele's attempt to break in America appeared to have failed. But then she was booked as the musical guest on 18 October 2008 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live.The episode, which included an expected appearance by then US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the program its best ratings in 14 years with 17 million viewers. Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" and "Cold Shoulder," and the following day, 19 topped the iTunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon.com while "Chasing Pavements" rose into the top 23 The album reached number 11 on the Billboard 200 as a result, a jump of 35 places over the previous week. By July 2009, the album had sold 2.2 million copies worldwide. 

At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in February 2009, Adele received the award for Best New Artist, in addition to the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Chasing Pavements", which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In 2010, Adele received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Hometown Glory." 

Adele released her second studio album, 21, on 24 January 2011 in the UK and 22 February in the US. She said that the album was inspired by the break-up with her former partner. The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary country and roots music. 21 hit number 1 in more than 26 countries, including the UK and the US.

"Someone like You" at the 2011 Brit Awards on 15 February propelled the song to number one in the UK. Her first album, 19, re-entered the UK album chart alongside 21, while first and second singles "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone like You" were in the top 5 of the UK singles chart, making Adele the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top-five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.

By December 2011, 21 sold over 3.4 million copies in the UK, and became the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, overtaking Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, with Adele becoming the first artist ever to sell three million albums in the UK in one year. 

In October 2012, Adele confirmed that she had been writing, composing and recording the theme song for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film.On 14 October, "Skyfall" rose to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart with sales of 92,000 copies bringing its overall sales to 176,000, and "Skyfall" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 8, selling 261,000 copies in the US in its first three days."Skyfall" has sold more than two million copies worldwide and earned Adele the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

On 18 October, a 30-second clip of new material from Adele was shown on UK television during a commercial break on The X Factor. The commercial teases a snippet from a new song from her third album, with viewers hearing a voice singing accompanied by lyrics on a black screen.In a statement released three days later she confirmed that the album is titled 25. 

More than 10 million people in India's capital are without water despite the army regaining control of its key water source after protests, officials say.

Keshav Chandra, head of Delhi's water board, told the BBC it would take "three to four days" before normal supplies resumed to affected areas. Jat community protesters demanding more government jobs seized the Munak canal, the city's main water source on Friday. Sixteen people have been killed and hundreds hurt in three days of riots.

Mr Chandra said that prior warnings meant that people had managed to save water, and tankers had been dispatched to affected areas of the city, but that this would not be enough to make up for the shortfall. Schools in the city were also closed after supplies from the canal were sabotaged during the protests. The army took control of parts of the canal on Monday morning, but repairs are expected to take time. The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder who is near Delhi's border with neighboring Haryana state, said protesters who have set up road blocks are refusing to budge. "We don't trust them. Let's get something in writing. Let them spell it out," one demonstrator who refused to be named told the BBC.

Why are the Jats angry?

The land-owning Jat community is relatively affluent and has traditionally been seen as upper caste. They are mainly based in Haryana and seven other states in northern India. Comprising 27% of the voters in Haryana and dominating a third of the 90 state assembly seats, they are a politically influential community. Seven of the 10 chief ministers in Haryana have been Jats. The Jats are currently listed as upper caste but the demonstrators have been demanding inclusion in caste quotas for jobs and education opportunities that have been available to lower castes since 1991. In March 2014 the Congress-led national government said it would re-categorise Jats as Other Backward Castes (OBC), opening the way to government job quotas. But India's Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that the Jats were not a backward community. As jobs have dried up in the private sector and farming incomes have declined, the community has demanded the reinstatement of their backward caste status to enable them to secure government jobs.