hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. the battle‘s on to save or scrap the iran nuclear deal, after israel's claim that iran lied "big time". today the world's nuclear watchdog said that one of the projects that israel was highlighting it knew about already. armenia's protest leader calls on his supporters to block all roads and begin a general strike as its parliament fails to elect him prime minister. mark zuckerberg says it's been an intense year for facebook but that he's dealing with the privacy scandal. an app developer took data that people had shared with them and sold it. so we need to make sure that this never happens again. and we'll look at the second leg the roma—liverpool champions league semifinal. we'll find out how the police in italy are preparing. this time yesterday,

israel's prime minister had made a big play of having what he said was new evidence regarding an iranian nuclear weapons programme. well, today the world's nuclear watchdog said it was already aware of the weapons programme, and said in fact it was the reason the iran deal was struck in the first place. so this was yesterday. benjamin netanyahu went through slides and showed us lots of documents. he said these documents came from a secret archive in tehran. he also said this was proof the iranians had lied about their nuclear plans. in fact, he really spelt that out. he made certain of getting that

message across by standing in front of this slide. but the iaea says iran's nuclear activities didn't go beyond 2009. and that means it hasn't violated the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal. other signatories to the deal agree. britain said it continued to back it. france says the intelligence proved the need to ensure the nuclear deal remained. and here's one of the key architects of that deal, the eu's foreign policy chief, federica mogherini. i have not seen from prime minister netanyahu arguments for the moment on noncompliance, meaning violation from iran under the nuclear deal, and it was put in place exactly because there was no trust among the parties. we wouldn't have required a deal. the iranians have dismissed mr neta nyahu's

presentation as propaganda. but it was never really aimed at convincing them. this was a presentation for an american audience, and in particular its president. the us is a signatory of the iran deal, and by may 12th donald trump must decide whether to ratify this deal again. well, today we heard from the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, on this matter. this well, i think, spell out the scope and scale of the programme that they undertook, and i think it makes it very clear that at the very least the iranians have continued to lie to their own people. an important thing to note here is that mr netanyahu was offering evidence of iran's nuclear programme from several years ago, but the past tense wasn't initially noted by the white house. it released a statement on monday night saying, "these facts are consistent with what the united states has long known: iran has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons programme that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people."

later, the statement reappeared with a change. it read this was evidence that "iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons programme." so an acknowledgement that the claims were about time is now passed. lyse doucet is our chief international correspondent, i spoke to her earlier. yesterday, we got these tweets coming out of israel saying that they had uncovered this trove of documents, in fact benjamin netanyahu documents, in fact benjamin neta nyahu described documents, in fact benjamin netanyahu described it as one of the greatest achievements in intelligence gathering of the israeli state, is which saying a lot. 55,000 printed pages that the mossad took in this daring operation ina mossad took in this daring operation in a warehouse in tehran. now, they seem in a warehouse in tehran. now, they seem to have got a lot more information, but the substance of it, as you are saying, the iaea say, we knew about those claims, we dealt with them. american intelligence confirmed in 2007 that iran had stopped this programme after

invasion of iraq in 2003, and we heard from the iaea again today that they had no credible information that after 2012 anything has been done by the iranians in this direction. so it is in the past tense, and many are now saying today that the presentations, this power point by benjamin netanyahu, actually justifies the point by benjamin netanyahu, actuallyjustifies the need for the iran dealand actuallyjustifies the need for the iran deal and does notjunket. i'm glad you are here, because i want to ask you to assess what impact the americans can have on their own on this deal. i have asked a few different analysts, some say if the americans failed to ratify, the whole thing is injeopardy, others say it is built on more solid foundations. it is meant to be built on solid foundations, it was hailed in 2015 as an historic multilateral deal, one of the most important in decades. but the reality is, and senior iranian officials have said this to me, that america pulling out would be a wrecker. the americans

are the ones that have such overwhelming sway on the financial system, overwhelming sway on the financial syste m , eve n overwhelming sway on the financial system, even without the united states pulling out, businessmen in europe are very wary of running afoul of us sanctions, being accused of criminal activity of they violate sanctions that the us still has in place. so it is having an effect on what iran expected would be the economic benefits of the deal. so america pulls out, for many, in reality, and in terms of the situation on the ground, the deal would be dead. i know you have come up would be dead. i know you have come up to speak to us in the middle of finishing a documentary about syria, and we have to factor siri into all oui’ and we have to factor siri into all our discussions around the iran deal, because increasingly the military tension between iran and israel in syria is becoming more visible. that deal is the curtain. behind it is israel's main worry and saudi arabia's main worry, and what president trump is saying is is main worry in the region, although we

know a lot of this has to do with his domestic constituencies and undo barack 0bama's his domestic constituencies and undo ba rack 0bama's legacy. his domestic constituencies and undo barack 0bama's legacy. we are seeing tension is rising month by month in syria, a proxy war is unfolding. 0n sunday, there were air strikes against a military base in syria, one of the biggest military airbases, known to be used by iran and his brother to store munitions. israel did not say that it had carried it out, but it has carried out, with increasing frequency, air strikes against syria, and they are all about its legitimate worries that iran is strengthening its military position right on israel's border. when i was at the munich security forum in february, the premier security conference, it was said matter of factly that it is not a matter of whether they will be a clash over syria, it is just when. the name of the document tree? syria — the world's war, that gives you an indication. outside of the uk, you

will have a chance to see that document tree as well. the man who led the velvet revolution in armenia in the last few weeks has called his supporters to block all roads and begin a general strike after he failed in his attempt to become prime minister. this is nikol pashinyan in his trademark style, it involves a military style t—shirt and cap. today, he cut a different figure. here he is in parliament earlier — a suit and tie this time. he had the support of all the opposition, but the ruling party has a majority, and even though he was the only candidate to become prime minister, it decided not to back him. later hejoined his supporters outside. he called on them to go on a "total strike" and to return to the protest tomorrow evening. earlier, he'd said parliament's move was an insult and a declaration of war on the people. now, there are 105 seats in armenia's parliament, the problem is pashinyan‘s own party has only nine of them. even with all the other opposition

mps behind them, it is not enough. reyhan demetrie has covered this all along. she explained why the vote went against him. he says that something has fundamentally changed in armenia over the past two weeks. pashinyan has been leading this peaceful protest in armenia, fighting for change, and he has described this process as a velvet revolution, and he has a very clear vision how this velvet revolution should progress. the first step, he said, was the resignation of the former prime minister, and the second step is the election of a people's candidate as

armenia's next prime minister. so he feels entitled to this post because he has proven, over the past two weeks, that he has got the backing of thousands of armenians. he travelled outside the capital, yerevan, he held rallies in the second and third largest cities, and those cities were full of his supporters and people are backing him, that is why he is so empowered, he believes he is untitled to this job. but the party which has a majority in parliament, what is its plan, now that it has refused him? well, according to armenian law, if parliament fails to collect the prime minister in the first round, then there should be a second vote ina then there should be a second vote in a week's time, so they have already announced that will take place on may the 8th. if parliament fails to elect a prime minister for

a second time, then it is snapped parliamentary elections, and this is what mr pashinyan, the leader of the 0pposition, and people in the streets in armenia do not want to happen, because those elections will ta ke happen, because those elections will take place according to the old electoral code, which they are saying was designed by the governing party. they want to change that, because the ultimate goal of this protest movement, of this velvet revolution, is to guarantee that armenia can hold free and fair parliamentary elections. armenia can hold free and fair parliamentary electionslj armenia can hold free and fair parliamentary elections. i am certain we will be coming back to that story tomorrow on 0utside source sentence case, a big protest planned in armenia. thousands of software developers from all over the world are converging on sanjose for facebook‘s f8 conference. it starts today, and the number—one subject is new limits on access to user data. mark zuckerberg's been talking. you know, what happened with cambridge analytica was a major breach of trust. an app developer took data that people had shared

with them and sold it. so we need to make sure that this never happens again. so we are taking a number of steps here. first, as you all know, we are restricting the data that developers will be able to request from people. the good news here is that back in 2014, we already made a major second, we need to make sure that we find any other bad apps that are out there. so we are currently in the process of investigating every single app that had access to a large amount of people's information before we made these big changes in 2014, and if we find anything suspicious, we will bring in independent auditors to do a full audit, and if any data was misused, then we will ban that developer and tell anyone whose data was affected. mark zuckerberg is there, so was rory cellan—jones. mark zuckerberg is there, so was rory cellan-jones. he had to address two completely different audiences, the people who turn up, 5000 softwa re the people who turn up, 5000 software developers from around the world, in very worried mood, because

asa world, in very worried mood, because as a result of the privacy scandal, they have had a lot of their access to data cut off, and they needed to be reassured because their businesses depend on facebook, and to some extent facebook depends on them. he gave them some reassurance that he was basically going to slightly unfreeze things for them in one particular area. but a lot of his speech was about those measures that he is taking to reassure the wider audience, the 2 billion users around the world, that their data will be set. i don't think he gave as much new on that line, apart from their measure where you will be able to clear your facebook history in the way that you clear cookies from the way that you clear cookies from the browser. but he hammered home again this message egypt's repeating, that facebook has suddenly woken up to the idea that it has a broader set of responsibilities than it realised a few months ago. it is interesting to see a company up close, there was a time when facebook appears to have lost control of this story — does it

give the impression of being back in control? i think there was a certain confidence in mark zuckerberg's speech today, the odd joke. it was interesting, he was unveiling a new feature whereby you can all watch video together, and he said, imagine you were watching a friend appearing before the congressional hearings in the us, something that won't be happening again soon! so a certain amount of self—confidence, you could say arrogance, but i think this company knows it is still in big trouble, still under the spotlight about how it is going to sort out this privacy is eu, and of course that big audit it is having on all those apps from the past. —— privacy issue. these apps may have done the same kind of thing that came be downloaded it did. so long wait for this story still to run, and a lot of pressure from regulators and politicians around the world. we will be live on the east coast with kim gittleson are moment to talk about apple's first—quarter results,

we are expecting those any merit. 2,500 patients — including children — who've been seen by a neurologist in belfast are being recalled after a review of his work. concerns were raised 18 months ago about the treatment of people who'd been seen by dr michael watt, who's employed by the belfast health trust. it's the biggest ever recall of patients in northern ireland. dr mark mitchelson is responsible for neurosciences at the belfast health trust. he has apologised for any distress caused to patients, saying he recognised it would be an anxious time for some. while we hope this will only affect a very small number of patients, the change of diagnosis could potentially be very significant and we understand that this must be incredibly anxious for them, and we are deeply sorry for any distress that has been caused. equally, it is absolutely vital that we are prudent and cautious in dealing with any patients,

and hence we are recalling peace patients to be seen. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story: the international nuclear watchdog says israel hasn't told them anything new about iran's nuclear ambitions. the us will make its decision within days on whether to ratify the iran nuclear deal. these pictures have come in from sao paolo. this collapse was caused by a fire. the building was already abandoned, but it's thought 150 squatters lived there. one person has been confirmed dead, but the fear is that number will rise. these pictures are the may day protests in madrid. people have been in the streets around the world as part of international workers‘ day.

in spain, rallies mostly called for an end to the gender pay gap and equality in pensions. it's roma—liverpool in the semis of the champions league tomorrow, and violence is the concern. in the first leg, mohamed salah put in a superlative performance. liverpool won 5—2 at home. but this madejust as many headlines. there were violent clashes between fans of the two clubs. and in one incident, liverpool fan sean cox suffered serious head injuries. he's still in a critical condition, and two roma supporters have been charged with attempted murder. roma's team today showed its support for the injured man, turning out for a training session in t—shirts saying "forza sean" — strength to sean.

ahead of tomorrow's game, more than 1,000 police officers have been deployed in rome. this is not new in rome. fans from chelsea, arsenal, manchester united and spurs have also experienced violence, most of which is connected to a group of roma fans who are known as ultras and have far—right connections. 5,000 liverpool fans are travelling to rome for tomorrow's game. one of rome's police chiefs has been speaking to the bbc. can you guarantee the safety of liverpool fans this week? yeah. we can guarantee the safety of liverpool supporters. obviously, if they respect the rules and leave the match, leave the day as long as they

carl. the game in rome is at the stadio olimpico, and the police want the fans apart. they're telling liverpool fans to stick to bars and restaurants in certain areas, and to take a bus, not walk, to the game. the president of roma said the violence in liverpool was "disgusting stupidity" but says "99% of our fans are the best fans in the world." "it's just a couple of morons that take the rest of us down." the history of roma tells us it's more than a couple. james reynolds is in rome. rome is preparing for the arrival of several thousand liverpool fans for one of the most important evidence in this city's recent history. given the difficult events of the first leg, the authorities here want to

make sure that there are no confrontations during the second leg. the police are deploying around 1000 officers to make sure that everything goes well here, and they are expecting the potential arrival of around 30—110 troublemakers from the uk, which has them worried, but they know the majority of liverpool fa ns they know the majority of liverpool fans are coming to watch a pub match, and they have given them clear instructions. they have given them two designated areas, the first is in one of the city's most famous locations, the colosseum. and the second, a few blocks past me, is a square, and the roman authorities have told liverpool fans go either to the colosseum or to the square, and there they can be saved, they can drink, they can prepare for the match, and eventually they will be taken in match, and eventually they will be ta ken in buses match, and eventually they will be taken in buses towards the stadium in the north of the city. for the moment, the atmosphere here is pretty calm, we have spoken to a

couple of liverpool supporters who say they are happy to be here and just want a safe place in which they can watch the match. we know that the mayors of rome and liverpool have this two—day joint the mayors of rome and liverpool have this two—dayjoint statement, calling on everyone to respect one another. thanks very much to james. we'll be back to that story tomorrow, of course. the new york times has obtained a list of 44 questions robert mueller wants to ask the president as part of his investigation into russia and the 2016 election. most of them relate to potential obstructions ofjustice. these seem the most significant. on former fbi directorjames comey, mr mueller wants to ask, "regarding the decision to fire mr comey, when was it made?" "why? who played a role?" that's followed by a question on why he said this to nbc news after sacking mr comey. and in fact, when i decided tojust do it, i said to myself, you know,

this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it is an excuse by the democrats for having lost a n excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. there are more than a dozen questions the special counsel wants to ask on possible collusion. "when did you become aware of the trump tower meeting?" that's thejune 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer who offered dirt on the president's then opponent, hillary clinton. it was organised by donald trumer. the president's son—in—law, jared kushner, and campaign director paul manafort attended. then there's this. "what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by paul manafort, to russia about potential assistance to the campaign?" "during the campaign, what did you know about russian hacking, use of social media or other acts aimed at the campaign?" that may be connected to statements like this that donald trump made. rusher, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000

e—mails that are missing! i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. let's see if that happens. as you'd expect, the president has responded. i spoke to the bbc‘s anthony zurcher a short time ago and put to him that there doesn't seem to be any question about the veracity of this leak. no, and in the new york times article, it says that this league

was the assault of a conversation between robert mueller‘s office and trump lawyers taking notes on the questions, but that the leak did not come from donald trump's legal team. it probably did not come from robert mueller, these don't seem like the sort of documents that the special counsel would produce, but we can't rule out the fact that this came from somewhere within trump's orbit, outside of his legal team, there may bea outside of his legal team, there may be a benefit to getting this out, putting it in front of trump, or to drum up some controversy over it, or maybe just drum up some controversy over it, or maybejust muddle drum up some controversy over it, or maybe just muddle the issue before he either decides to order side not to go into a meeting with the special council. is it normal practice for investigators to brief the team of the people they will be quizzing in advance? there is nothing normal about an investigation that focuses around the president of the united states, so in this particular instance, it is an open question whether the

special counsel's has cancer been at the president to testify or not, whether they can force him to testify or not. —— can subpoena. they may want to encourage him to cooperate so they can hash out how the good work through getting some a nswe rs. the good work through getting some answers. ronald reagan had a special counsel investigating, they provided questions in writing. bill clinton came in to talk with the independent counsel looking into the monica lewinsky affair voluntarily, and that was an informal sort of thing. so different practices of history here, no real precedent about what is right or wrong. ina in a couple of minutes an outside source, back to washington, mike pompeo has only been in the job of secretary of state for a week, but he has already addressed staff in the department, saying he will bring its swagger back. hello. good evening. thanks for

joining me for our world weather round—up. this evening we will be talking a lot about warmth, if not heed, finally the prospect of something warm up for the uk for the bank holiday weekend. we will start across the pond in north america, where things will be hotting up, particularly across the eastern side of the united states in the coming days. high pressure to the east means days. high pressure to the east m ea ns lots days. high pressure to the east means lots of sunshine, quite a strong southerly wind, and with slightly cooler air coming in behind that cold front, quite punchy showers triggered by the contrast in temperatures between that cooled air and the warmer in the east, with the likes of denver and eventually dallas getting some wet weather, towards montreal eventually as well. for new york, with sunshine, temperatures up to 13 —— 30 degrees

celsius. in pakistan, temperatures in excess of 50 across sindh province, and for much of the north—west of india, heatwave conditions, temperatures into the 40s in the coming days. in the north—east, showers are causing a problem, affecting notjust north—eastern india, but also bangladesh, relentless rain, and the knock—on effects of that will be significant flooding. mumbai, with sunshine in the coming days, more showers across sri lanka too. persistent rain and strong winds for japan and the korean peninsula on wednesday, thanks to low pressure here. thunderstorms across southern china, hong kong probably dodging the worst of those, but we will see rain affecting laos, cambodia, descending down across thailand, malaysia, singapore. sky is slightly clearer across indonesia. the prospects for japan will clearer across indonesia. the prospects forjapan will improve considerably by the time we get to the weekend, 25 in tokyo with sunshine. across europe, the heat is

confined to the east, particularly the south—east, and in the west temperatures have been rather depressed for this time of year. a bigger low in the centre of the mediterranean has been stirring things up, pulling warm air up into southern italy and the balkans, producing heavy rainfall wednesday, sardinia and corsica dragging cool airdown into sardinia and corsica dragging cool air down into the south of france. we are going to eventually redressed this balance as we look further on with our forecast. in fact, this balance as we look further on with ourforecast. in fact, by this balance as we look further on with our forecast. in fact, by the time we get to the weekend, a lot more sunshine on offer across western europe, and you will notice that temperatures are building, mid 20s in paris. can that make it across the channel? well, it looks like it will have a good try, particularly by bank holiday monday, the prospects through the weeks look much drier and brighter. more on that in the next half hour with the weather for the week ahead for you. there is already full on

hello, i'm ros atkins. this is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom. the international nuclear watchdog says israel hasn't told them anything new about iran's nuclear ambitions. the us will make its decision within days on whether to ratify the iran nuclear deal. armenia's protest leader calls on his supporters to block all roads and begin a general strike after its parliament fails to elect him prime minister. mark zuckerberg says it's been an intense year for facebook but that he's dealing with the privacy scandal. outside source features bbc journalists working in over 30 languages. your questions are always welcome. us secretary of state mike pompeo has been on the job less than a week

but he's already promising to help his department get its swagger back. here he is a little earlier appearing before us diplomats and staff for the first time in his new role. i talked about getting back our swagger and i will fill in what i mean by that. but it is important. the united states diplomatic corps needs to be in every corner, every stretch of the world, executing missions on behalf of this country and it is my humble, noble undertaking to help you achieve that. barbara plett usher is at the state department in washington. isn't one the problems here that the riemann deep diplomatic corps have been having a difficult time is that donald trump does not follow the normal diplomatic rules? that is one of the reasons. and in terms of that reason it is interesting how he

approached that. his predecessor tried to his credit to try to push donald trump and to formal diplomacy but they never really gelled. but he isa trump but they never really gelled. but he is a trump loyalist and has the trust and respect of donald trump and he says he wants to re—empower the state department. cilla books as if mac to mac he is going to try to bring them together and that donald trump is going to make his first visit to the state department to inaugurate pompeo. it is interesting that he organised the symbolic event where the president is going to be sort of officially be in the orbit of the state department or at least giving it more importance or respect then he has in the past year. does that mean they will be hiring because we discussed before that the state department has had a few

vacancies since the trump administration has come and. pompeo made it clear that that is going to be one of his most immediate priorities. he has been looking at resumes and wants to fill those vacancies. that is part of his plan to try to restore the state department to a better working order and also as he spoke to the staff members today, he seemed to get quite a good response. he talked about importantly, appreciating their work and knowing what they did. he says he is humbled by it and wa nted did. he says he is humbled by it and wanted to empower them in a way to do it to the best of their ability. that was the kind of thing they needed to hear because they have been dealing also sidelined and marginalised by rex tillerson's management style. and got pretty good feedback. eight veteran told me management style. and got pretty good feedback. e intveteran told me management style. and got pretty good feedback. e is veterangeegégne; é will be

him in. coming weeks. —— about him in the coming weeks. —— thank you. apple has just released its results é— ~ point it does not break of those iphones. it does not break out which types of iphones. the average selling point was $728 which is less than many analysts had been expecting and obviously the iphone x retails for something like $1000 so the average selling point indicates the average selling point indicates the company is selling more of his lower—priced iphone models which may disappoint many investors but something might cheer them is the

fa ct something might cheer them is the fact that the services revenues jumped 31% to $9.1 billion which suggests it is doing quite a bit. things like apple music and other things that you can buy from the company is empowering a lot of its revenue growth going forward which means it could be diversifying away from its key iphone business which has empowered apple to become one of the most valuable companies. so the fa ct the most valuable companies. so the fact that it is diverse of buying away from that core business could bea away from that core business could be a good thing for investors. investors aren't just looking be a good thing for investors. investors aren'tjust looking at profit but looking at where it comes from in the long term and apple seems to be eyeing media and content production in a way that would be unthinkable ten years ago. and you know, the other thing is going to be quite pleasant for many investors is that it quite pleasant for many investors is thatitis quite pleasant for many investors is that it is planning to return a lot of cash to them. apple had a lot of its profits kept overseas personally asa its profits kept overseas personally as a result that the us had quite a

high corporate tax rate, something like 35% and under donald trump's tax reform, the corporate tax has dropped significantly in apple plans to bring some of the cash it held overseas back into the us somewhat it is planning on doing is returning the cash to shareholders. this has left me with a heavy heart and did not know until a few minutes back in rolling stone is telling us that gibson is going to rebrand. i wanted to say the same! it is really interesting, the company said that sales of its iconic electric guitars increased by 11% last year so it is not that it is core business is suffering. it acquired the business in 2015 and phillips making other component parts that was not doing quite well so it was eating up all of the spare cash. they are hoping and filing for bankruptcy they can

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your trade partners isn't playing fair? you can slap a lot of tariffs on their goods the way us says it will to china. anyway you look at it it is the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world. it is out—of—control. country in the history of our world. it is out-of-control. or like how china has there in the us. we oppose this unilateral direction from the us. china will not sit idly by. we must take all necessary measures to firmly defend our rights and interests. but the tit-for-tat is not going tojust interests. but the tit-for-tat is not going to just heard us or china economies, it is also going to hurt the rest of us. take a look at this chart for instance. china exports around $400 billion worth of goods to the united states every single year. if you look at the 2016 figures, about half of it is made up of machines. 10% of those machines are computers. made in china. but

here is the problem, according to some analysts, about half the products made in china are actually made out of china and countries like malaysia, vietnam and south korea. many of the products made in china have parts that are actually made in the surrounding countries. so those countries could end up taking a direct hit from a trade war, a loss that one estimate puts up to 1% of gdp. that is why when donald trump threatens to put taxes on chinese goods, he is effectively putting a tax on countries that helped to contribute to goods that china puts together. which is why the trade talks between the us and china this week matter so much to the rest of us. and of course we will be covering those as they play out. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web site. bbc .com/ news including plenty of analysis on all pressures coming to bear on donald trump's decision on

whether to ratify the iran nuclear deal. on yesterday's programme i played you a striking report about nigerians who are addicted to cough syrup which contains codeine. it was the first report from our new bbc africa investigations unit. it has had an astonishing impact. today the nigerian president's office tweeted that "the federal ministry of health has directed that should be a ban with immediate effect on further issuance of permits for the importation of codeine as active pharmaceutical ingredient for cough preparations." in other words, this stuff is not going to be made any more in nigeria. it has been an astonishing impact. this is some of the undercover filming in the report. the sales rep worked for emzor pharmaceuticals the company has tweeted "the distribution of emzolyn with codeine has been suspended pending the results of a full and thorough internal investigation." it is not just

it is notjust the government responding but the companies as well. they also announced that they dismiss the employee we saw in the undercoverfilming. the person speaking with him was adejuwon soyinka. he's the editor of the bbc pigeon service and led this investigation. i've been speaking to him about the reaction to his report. we got a statement from the first lady of nigeria who, in fact also played the documentary on her social account and reacted, saying that she feels particularly saddened by the development. the development and towns of —— in terms of codeine syrup abuse and young people in the population of nigeria. shortly after that we got the statement from the senate president of nigeria and of course, the senate of nigeria is the legislative arm of government at the federal level. the senate president

issued a statement commending the bbc for this and investigative stories. and also stating the national assembly towards stamping out coding abuse in nigeria. after that there was a statement from the federal ministry of health saying that the federal government of nigeria has now decided to ban for the production of codeine cough syrup in nigeria. you were undercover. the codeine cough syrup, in nigeria was financed and erected bya in nigeria was financed and erected by a very well organised criminal gangs. mostly led by groups and they are dangerous and organised. you

described how the authorities are moving to make the cough syrup unavailable to nigerians. do you think they will also change how they treat people who are addicted? everyone wants to believe with this kind of reputation that nigerian state and society is giving to the challenge of cough syrup addiction, we have centres that will give more attention from government.“ we have centres that will give more attention from government. if you have not watched the full report i urge you to do so. it is on our website. yesterday we told you about four deadly attacks in afghanistan. today we're going to look in more detail at why attacks are increasing. this us watchdog which oversees how american money is being spent in afghanistan, says more of the population is falling under the control of militant groups including the taliban. yesterday's attacks were in kabul, in kandahar to the south and khost in the east.

this report produced by the watchdog highlights how widespread the insurgent action is. areas in red mean active insurgents, yellow means it's a contested area. but even kabul, where the government has control, attacks are frequent. the report also states that the afghan security forces have shrunk by 10% in the last year, to below 300,000. for example, the afghan police has lost 22,000 personnel because of government cutbacks. and the afghan army, has lost over 12,000 personnel. the report doesn't say why, but we know around 10,000 afghan security personnel are either killed or injured each year. the afghan defence ministry has rejected the report, telling the bbc: "we have enough soldiers to fight the militants and other mafia groups," adding "the morale of our soldiers is very high".

we reject this report on a numbers. anbarasan ethirajan is south asia editor in the newsroom. a little earlier he came up to talk to me. the afghan government is trained to put up a very brave face, following the recent setbacks both in the regions and also a series of attacks in the capital kabul. now the afghan government says we have enough soldiers to take on the taliban and other insurgent groups. the report spacifically talks about nearly 10%, now they have only around 300,000 soldiers, this includes afghan national lease in the afghan national army and the local police. —— afghan national police. what the government is trying to do, it is trained to send a message to the people that they are still in charge but the taliban and other insurgent groups are sending out a different message to the government, that we can take on the troops in the regions.

at the same time we can also carry out high—profile targets. that is why the morale of the forces are very, very low, that's according to many afghan journalists there. but what the report highlights is that there is definitely a shortage of troops to take on the insurgent groups. but surely this is not just a numbers game. americans and many other countries have been trying to support the government in afghanistan since 2001 to defeat the taliban and there have been many, many resorts is committed. —— resources committed. it cannotjust be that there are 10% more policemen or 10% more people in the army, suddenly the government would be in a stronger position. that was the promise made by the western governments that we will build this afghan army, deploy hundreds of thousands of troops and then gradually, the western forces will pull out, international forces will pull out of the country. but then, in between when the attention was turned away from afghanistan and then the taliban started attacking and most of the fighting troops were put out and we have about 14,000 troops.

most of them are in training missions. you have the afghan soldiers, they need air cover, first of all. number two there are structural problems, they are accused of corruption, mismanagement and also the troops who are in far away regions, they accuse central of not sending reinforcements‘s when the taliban militants are attacking them. if you want to read the full report by the americans it is online, and if you want to understand the situation more broadly, it is also online on bbc news. chastening news for those of us over 18. a new report says our ability to learn a language fluently drops off markedly after we turn 18. the study was conducted using a grammar quiz on facebook. one of the main findings is that if you want to speak a language as a native speaker, really you want to start before you're 10. here's michelle roberts. but the researchers wanted to do is get a really large data set to book out so they put this quiz on facebook and asked people to take

part and they got over 600,000 people who took the test. it was a grammar test so looking at english language, and how well people could look at a sentence and see if it was grammatically correct. so they have only looked at one language and it is only written. and what is the science behind the claims that essentially after ten, we generally go downhill and after 18 in language terms we go quite sharply downhill? we have always suspected that it is easier for children to pick up a language. they suck it up like a sponge and just seem to float along and do it and we struggle and strive to get something. we don't really know why but experts think possibly it is because the brain is quite, it has plasticity so it is quite changeable when you are younger. it can make new connections, it can upgrade itself a bit. whereas, when you become an adult, that happens far, far less. and that might explain

what is going on. they did sort of look at who was learning what and where, so where you live, what age you were when you started learning, how you have been learning it. where you immersed in it, were you learning it in an english—speaking country or were you doing night classes, all of those things. and it shows probably there's no cheats way to do it unfortunately. you have to put in the hours and it is better to immerse yourself in it. as i am listening to you, i'm thinking many schooling systems see quite around the world really start teaching languages heavily in secondary school and not in primary school. is the this kind of research can inform how we teach languages? i think more work is needed, definitely. this is notjust the final say. what the research has defined is if you want to be grammatically perfect indistinguishable from somebody who uses english as their native tongue,

it is important to save some people aren't grammatically perfect even if it is their first language. but if you want to be like that, probably before the age of ten is the ideal. however there will always be used for exceptions to the rule, there are some people are brilliant at picking up languages at any age. it doesn't tell off very quickly so up to the age of 17 or 18 still seems to be a good opportunity and in adulthood itjust gets a little bit harder. we will finish the programme with a new element of the times up movement. a branch of the time's up movement known as "women of color of time's up" hasjoined a campaign against rnb singer r kelly, over a long history of sexual abuse allegations. there is an open letter that the group has put out. in it they demand that big companies should stop supporting him.

they include, his label rca records, ticketmaster, and spotify and apple music. the group joins the existing social media movement "mute r kelly". r kelly's representatives have hit back in a statement saying "since america was born, black men and women have been lynched for having sex or for being accused of it. we will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man who has made extraordinary contributions to our culture." the campaign follows a bbc three documentary from earlier this year, in which new grooming allegations were made about the musician. when i was introduced to one of the girls that he told me he trained, and since she was 14, those were his words. i saw that she was dressed like me, she was saying the things i would say and her mannerisms were like mine. that is when it clicked in my head that he had been grooming me to become one of his pets. r kelly has always denied those claims. newsbeat‘s cherry wilson has more background on the story. he isa

he is a global superstar and has been for more than 20 years but over the last two decades he has faced allegations of sexual miss conduct. they need to be investigated. in a r they called out on the people who support them, his record label, streaming services, saying need to mute r kelly. the # mute r kelly they have taken up. he is still making money despite all the allegations and now is a time for the record label, streaming services to support them, play his music to stop and take these allegations seriously and actually investigate what has been happening. this new campaign has some big—name supporters such as john this new campaign has some big—name supporters such asjohn legend who

is saying i stand with the women of times up. using the # mute r kelly. director ava du vernay who tweeted, "we join the call to #muterkelly and insist on the safety and dignity of all women. and here is more details on the background to this movement. the times up movement was set up in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal. in the letter they specifically speak to women of colour who may have been victims of sexual abuse and say they are listening to you and it is time your voices are heard. it is that the bill cosby trial, who has recently been found guilty of sexual assault is one step forward to addressing the issue. one step forward of getting women of colour heard. r kelly has been curiously denied all allegations and has been very public in his response to this. —— has been

vigorously denying. he says he has been unfairly targeted by the time's up been unfairly targeted by the time's up movement. we will yack at the same time tomorrow. bye—bye. —— we will be back at the same time tomorrow. hello after the shockingly cold start to the week, the temperature is recovered a little bit on tuesday and that sets the trend for the rest of the week. they are set to climb but for a time there will be some rain around the midweek. here is the rid the mac weather front bringing the rain. it has already been wet across western parts of the uk and 5°99y across western parts of the uk and soggy weather around some areas a bit further east and south. here is what it looks like around 6am. ucd rain crossing parts of the west country, into the far northeast of england and as we go through the morning, it trundles in an easterly direction and in 70 ce. behind it

the sun comes out in the weather is looking fairly decent. not com pletely looking fairly decent. not completely dry because the asirt chile south—westerly winds that may be carrying occasional showers. in the evening for most of us on wednesday i think it's looking fairly decent. that is it, that is the middle part of the week. let's look at their stay now and there are some changes on the way. this jet strea m some changes on the way. this jet stream is to the north of us at this stage and you can see slightly milderaircoming ourway stage and you can see slightly milder air coming our way and that can mean one thing, temperatures will start to rise from about thursday onward. these are south—westerly winds and a lot of cloud around. by no means are we forecasting glorious weather, at least the temperatures are rising. there will be some sunny spells. still a fair bit of cloud around and probably the best chance of catching

a sunshine. to the east, east anglia, the southeast, look at the 19 degrees but that really depends on how much sunshine we get. it stays cloudy and temperatures could bea stays cloudy and temperatures could be a little lower. let's look at the all—important bank be a little lower. let's look at the all—importa nt bank holiday be a little lower. let's look at the all—important bank holiday weekend. jet stream way to the north of us and what is happening to the south here? the key thing as this air of high pressure builds across much of the continent here in settling the weather down and still one or two weather down and still one or two weather fronts making their way just about into northwestern parts of the country. basically the closer you are to this high pressure here, the warmer and brighter the weather will be. a bit misty in the sun should be out. this is what temperatures will look like saturday, 21 in london and merseyside. sunday we see those fresh winds out of the west pushing further. this is a weak cold front

and you can hardly see it here, but it isa and you can hardly see it here, but it is a cold front moving across the uk so that means slightly cooler weather. 15 for belfast, not bad but 22, how about that expected on sunday in london. for sure the bank holiday weekend weather is looking very promising and it will be warming up very promising and it will be warming up across very promising and it will be warming up across southern and central areas. mostly dry weather and it will have some sunshine as well. it looks like the jet stream is way to the north of us and to the south, high pressure builds and exactly what shape the high—pressure will take on is too early to say. suffice to say at this stage it is a long wait off with high pressure is set to build and i can only mean one thing. settled weather and at this time of the year, fairly warm. tonight at ten. thousands of nhs patients recalled following concerns about the treatment some have received. it involves more than 2,500 people whose neurology cases

are being re—examined, prompting alarm among those affected. what has this all been about? why did nobody spot this earlier? why did nobody stop this earlier? the health trust at the centre of the controversy in belfast acknowledges the seriousness of the concerns. these are patients with a wide range of neurological conditions, some of which are debilitating, complex and significantly serious. we'll be asking about the possible implications for the nhs across the uk. also tonight — we report on the youtube stars encouraging students to cheat.