calls a "mindless chemical attack", that killed up to 70 women and children in the syrian town of douma. on to other stories now... wired magazine asks whether social media really is to blame for the recent spate of knife crime in london. uk police have launched 55 murder inquiries since the beginning of 2018. the ft reports on tech giant apple, which has received assurances from saudi arabia that the company will not face prosecution for mixing genders in the workplace. the telegraph says a uk tax break used by thousands of entrepreneurs to attract top talent has been suspended amid a bureaucratic deadlock between london and brussels. and finally, the future is fast approaching as face scanning software sees an explosion of applications, according to the china daily. the paper says artificial intelligence visual recognition tech could be worth billions of dollars. with me is priya lakhani, who's founder and ceo of century

tech. nice to see ian. lovely to see you. let's start with this story on the front page of the arab news, douma chemical attack sparks global condemnation. papers around the world a re condemnation. papers around the world are looking at this for good reason, but some horrific pictures that we have to look at again. yeah, is dominating the headlines, there are pictures of two children with some masks and there are some even more shocking images are there. the guardian express is out here on the table. the papers have chosen these pictures and they are children with oxygen masks because i think they just want to, what they want to really put across here to people is how horrific this is. obviously, it

is breaking news over the weekend. it isa is breaking news over the weekend. it is a year since the siren types and a yearsince it is a year since the siren types and a year since the missile attacks in syria about this is just shocking, horrible news. —— sarin in attacks. have russia and iran being involved in this? there are so many questions, questions about who is behind the chemical attack, why now, and also questions about who is behind this latest missile attack on an airbase in homs as well. a lot of questions, a few answers but itjust goes to show how incredible it complicated this is and of course, all eyes now on the international community. arab news is talking about the global condemnation, what will be the global action, that is the question. it has put a lot of pressure on theresa may recently with the salisbury poisoning, we have had country ‘s rally behind us

in terms of putting pressure on russia and so here, what will happen is that the us and france, for example, where emmanuel macron has come out and said we will not stand for this, what is going to be the global reaction? —— two dozen countries. will talk about this tomorrow morning, i know we will and absolutely for good reason. —— we will. this is a story that has com pletely will. this is a story that has completely dominated in the uk certainly in the last week, many young people, teenagers, have lost their lives just in the last week in london and there are so many questions as to why we have had such a tragic, fatal year, 2018, for the capital. this article looks at social media, saying it is really to blame. this is following the met police commissioner's statement in march, where she said that social media is partly to blame for this rising violence. we have had 55

murder investigations in the capital and we are not even halfway to the yes and the fact that we are, in a sense, beating new york in terms of crime is shocking to londoners. this is why it is headline news, is it really to blame, and this is the question. we have now got to deal with social media, it is about speed, i think. with social media, it is about speed, ithink. what with social media, it is about speed, i think. what they're talking about is the response, if there is somebody out there and they had a right, let's say two gangs have had a fight, it is the fact that on social media they can respond so quickly. you can respond? both. the gangs, you mean? not the police, you are not talking about that response? that is very interesting, where is the police response on social media? what is happening? we have seen that social media is allowing authorities to look at post to see who might be responsible for certain attacks. it has been useful there but it is

really allowing these people involved in crime to respond to each other, there this huge provider on social media. does that fuelled the fire? i guess that is the question. i think there is strong evidence to say that it does fuelled the fire, but whether it is the cause, i don't think so. it is easy to lay blame, a lot of fingers had been pointed out the metropolitan police service, questions about government and lack of policing and funding all that of thing. yeah. that's now move on to this story. we have picked this one at specially for you because you are in today. apple winds approval for mixed gender saudi arabian outlets. you working a lot in the middle east recently, what is apple trying to do here? well, apple had been talking about gender equality, they have been saying that when they are trying to build products gender equality really matters. this is

really as a result of the saudi prince visiting silicon valley, he is meeting all the tech giants at the moment. is in france now, he is ona the moment. is in france now, he is on a world tour. he is on a world tour, yeah. he has done the investment for saudi arabia. he had a meeting with tim cook and what apple has managed to win approval here for is mixed gender stores in saudi arabia, which is really exciting because we know we can increase our gdp if we actually achieved gender parity and so we have to look at countries in the middle east is well and in north africa. i —— what they have managed to achieve here is that women will be able to work alongside men, they will have to segregate them at lunch and there are some exceptions in that. what is your experience there? i have probably done more business in the uae than i have done in the uk in terms of innovation and education, which is obviously our

area in terms of what we work with. i have actually found that they are really looking at driving forwards, they are at innovation, they looking at the new economy, how are they going to make money and they are ploughing a lot of money and investment into these areas. ntu, has gender been an issue or not? investment into these areas. ntu, has gender been an issue or nowm hasn't, no, absolutely. i have been really thrilled to do business with them. let's look at this story that you want to talk about as well, telegraph business section. brussels wa nt to telegraph business section. brussels want to start up tax breaks, what is going on here? this is very frustrating if you are a tech founder. one of our biggest issues is how do we recruit talent? we can attract talent and say that we are going to offer them shares or options in the business, and if those shares increase in value at the company, the employee can then,

they can sell their shares and they save a lot of money in terms of tax, they do not pay capital gains tax on they do not pay capital gains tax on the profit they make from the value of those shares. it is a huge incentive and what we have seen here is that there are 23,000 employees at small firms that had benefited from this that we have missed a deadline, so it seems here that the uk... the uk has? the uk government has failed to act quickly enough to preserve the scheme. this is the enterprise management incentive scheme for those who do not know what emi stands for, so have we missed a trick then? well, we had missed a trick then? well, we had missed a trick then? well, we had missed a deadline. whether it is just because of brexit creating so many issues and problems but this is really dire, i mean keeping up with the deadlinejust does really dire, i mean keeping up with the deadline just does not... really dire, i mean keeping up with the deadlinejust does not... i'm so ci’oss the deadlinejust does not... i'm so cross about this, as a lot of tech firms will be. we will not be able to offer this incentive to our new employees from this taxi at, so literally this week without this being sorted out. these kind of tax

deadlines and just so many things going on in so much to do, i know that i missed deadlines. i pay the price, i mean we pay the price and this is one of those things... these are businesses that are already saying brexit is causing some new problems was already with regard to recruitment, from new developers for example from within europe, or investment. so investors basically tightening their purse strings and this is just another example of something that will stop. all right, we will leave it there. thank you so much for coming in, we really appreciate it and you insight on some of the stories. stay with us here on bbc news as we keep up—to—date with what is going on right now in syria and elsewhere in the world. see you soon. hello. for much of the week ahead, our air is coming from the east but don't worry, it doesn't

look particularly cold, as we'll see. not so much sunshine in the week ahead as we enjoyed in cornwall, though, on sunday. it looked pretty nice too in inverness, broken cloud and sunny spells. scotland and northern ireland will see the best of the sunny spells as we go on through monday. some fog around to start the day, it could be quite dense in places — that gradually clearing. through east anglia and south—east england, a lot of cloud here, patchy rain and drizzle. on through the day, thatjust shunts a bit further west towards the midlands, maybe eastern parts of wales late in the day, with some spots in south—west england. looking to northern ireland and scotland, a few showers developing, not everybody will catch one. if you do, it could be on the heavy side. temperatures for the most part around ten to 1a degrees, it could be quite misty and murky throughout the day. some eastern coastal parts of northern ireland, and some spots on the north sea coast as well. on through monday night, an area of rain expands to cover more of england, into parts of wales, some darker blues, some heavier bursts developing as well as we go into tuesday morning.

now, as monday begins, it'll be fairly chilly. less so on tuesday morning and frost is not a worry as we go through this week. as we look at the big picture for tuesday, low pressures to the south of us. as there will be for the week ahead. it's around that spiralling we see some wet weather systems occasionally, like the one we start off with on tuesday. high pressure in scandinavia. the flow of air around the two means it is an easterly flow coming into the uk but look at the colours here, they're not baltic blue, the air‘s not coming from siberia, actually the eastern mediterranean so it's certainly not cold there. so, as we go through the week, temperatures for many of us will be at or slightly above average, but there's one significant exception with that air coming across the cold north sea, the north sea coast will be chilly, single figure temperatures. some rain at times this week, not all the time. some drier and even sunnier moments to be enjoyed too. this is how tuesday's shaping up. we start off with that weather system, with some heavier bursts of rain slowly moving away from england and wales towards parts of scotland and northern ireland.

the north—west of scotland holding onto the fine weather for longest. south of that, brightening up nicely. some sunny spells, there could be some heavy and maybe thundery showers into parts of england, especially south—west england and south wales later in the day. as we go on through the week, wednesday onwards, north sea coast, low cloud, single figures. elsewhere, temperatures could be as high as 17 degrees in london. west is best for the drier, brighter weather at times as we go through this week, and it looks like a pretty decent work week to come here in north—west scotland. bye— bye. hello. this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and louise minchin. international condemnation

of syria for allegedly using chemical weapons on a rebel—held town. the un security council will meet to discuss its response — syrian state media is reporting this morning that one of its military airports has come under attack. good morning. it's monday 9th april. also this morning: a link between violent crime and a drop in police numbers is set out in a leaked home office report, a day after the home secretary said there are enough officers to tackle the problem. it comes as the government sets out its strategy to tackle