内容摘要："It's a good opportunity to show ourselves and show Swedish football."

"It's a good opportunity to show ourselves and show Swedish football."

In a fast-moving world, suffused by conflict and political uncertainty, it might seem odd for the UK government to surrender sovereign British territory in a distant sea.Indeed, the government's critics go further and say the decision to give up a key strategic foothold in the Indian Ocean is a dangerous weakening of UK security.

So why has the government handed the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a nation some thousand miles away?The answer has a legal origin and a practical conclusion.It all focuses on the joint UK-US military base on the biggest island in the archipelago, Diego Garcia.

The government felt that without ceding sovereignty to Mauritius, the operation of the base would become unworkable and that would pose a greater threat to UK security.Defence Secretary John Healey told MPs that "without this deal, within weeks, we could face losing legal rulings and within just a few years the base would become inoperable".

The putative legal challenge is based on a series of judgements by various United Nations bodies that the Chagos Islands belong to Mauritius.

Essentially, they argued the UK had no legal right to separate the islands from Mauritius before the former British colony became independent in the 1960s."This war is always evolving, always changing," he says, "but you'll see it will continue for years and decades unless there is serious diplomatic action to stop it."

A rapper who grew up in foster care and experienced homelessness and drug crime is hoping her experiences can inspire other would-be artists.Musician AJ, from Sheffield, said the challenges in her childhood meant she had gone down a path where she "began to idolise the wrong role models".

The 25-year-old, who features in a new documentary about upcoming talent, said she hoped sharing her story would help future artists from working-class backgrounds feel they belonged in the music industry.She said: "My purpose is inspiring young people that come from places like I've come from."