Hillary Clinton has told the BBC how Chardonnay and alternate nostril breathing helped her move on from her US presidential election defeat.

Speaking to The One Show presenters Alex Jones and Amol Rajan she also spoke about the misogyny she faced.

Watch the whole of Hillary Clinton’s appearance on The One Show here.

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California’s fire protection chief has warned that devastating wildfires could worsen again over the weekend due to dry air and strengthening winds.

Ken Pimlott said several thousand extra firefighters deployed on Friday were fighting 17 separate blazes.

Northern California is suffering the most lethal outbreak of wildfires in the state’s history, with 35 people dead and more than 90,000 evacuated.

The blazes have raged since Sunday, destroying an estimated 5,700 homes.

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Firefighters had made some headway on Friday, clearing dry vegetation and other combustible fuels around populated areas on the fires’ southern flank.

But high temperatures and strong winds were forecast to return on Saturday, with gusts of up to 55 mph (90 kph) and 10% humidity.

“If new fires start they could spread extremely rapidly,” warned Brooke Bingaman, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Sacramento, California.

“Those fuels are super dry right now. This also could cause problems for the current wildfires and the firefighters who are trying to suppress them.”

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A total of 17 major wildfires have scorched nearly 222,000 acres of dry brush, grasslands and trees across eight counties in California’s wine country.

The 35 confirmed deaths so far make the so-called North Bay fires the deadliest in California history – surpassing the 29 deaths in LA’s Griffith Park fire of 1933.

And that figure is likely to rise, authorities said. As of Friday there were 235 people still missing in Sonoma County alone.

The huge fires have sent smoke and ash over San Francisco, about 50 miles away, and over some towns and cities even further south.

And the blaze has devastated businesses in the region, famous for its wine production. At least 13 Napa Valley wineries have been destroyed, a trade group said.

The owner of Paradise Ridge winery in Santa Rosa, Rene Byck, told the BBC that the blazes had destroyed millions of dollars worth of wine.

“We lost about 7,500 cases, 8,000 cases of wine… The wine in this building was probably worth around $4,000,000.”

California governor Jerry Brown said he planned to visit the area with two US senators on Saturday.

“We’ll keep working day and night with our local and federal partners to fight these fires and help residents get back on their feet in these trying times,” he said.

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A Canadian held hostage by the Taliban has spoken of the group’s “stupidity and evil”, revealing they murdered his daughter and raped his wife.

Joshua Boyle spoke to reporters after landing in Canada with his wife Caitlan Coleman and children following almost five years in captivity.

They were captured while reportedly backpacking in Afghanistan in 2012.

Ms Coleman’s father has said the decision to visit the dangerous country was “unconscionable”.

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Both sets of parents have previously questioned why the couple were in Afghanistan in the first place.

“What I can say is taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place is to me and the kind of person I am, is unconscionable,” Jim Coleman told ABC News following their rescue on Wednesday.

“I can’t imagine doing that myself. But, I think that’s all I want to say about that.”

However, Mr Boyle told reporters at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport the couple had been trying to deliver aid to villagers in a part of the Taliban-controlled region “where no NGO, no aid worker, and no government” had been able to reach when they were kidnapped.

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Ms Coleman was heavily pregnant at the time with their first child. This week, they returned with three children, all born in captivity, the youngest of whom is understood to be in poor health.

In his statement, Mr Boyle appeared to suggest they had had a fourth child, a baby girl who had been killed by their captors, the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network, as he also revealed they had raped his wife.

It was, he said, “retaliation for my repeated refusal” to accept an offer made to him by the network.

“The stupidity and the evil of the Haqqani network in the kidnapping of a pilgrim… was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorising the murder of my infant daughter,” he said.

“And the stupidity and evil of the subsequent rape of my wife, not as a lone action, but by one guard, but assisted by the captain of the guard and supervised by the commandant.”

The family were finally rescued by the Pakistani army after a US tip-off during an operation near the Afghan border.

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Initial reports suggested Mr Boyle had refused to board a US military flight out of Pakistan.

Mr Boyle was once married to a woman who espoused radical Islamist views and is the sister of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, Omar Khadr. CNN suggested he might fear prosecution by the US authorities.

But Mr Boyle rubbished the reports after arriving in Canada.

He said the family were looking to put their terrible ordeal behind them and the couple were now hoping “to build a secure sanctuary for our three surviving children to call a home”.

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