welcome to bbc news. broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: claims that countless civilians were killed in mosul during last year's coalition air strikes against i.s militants. no—one destroyed us except the coalition. look, this was one of my daughters who got killed. anger in armenia, as parliament blocks the opposition leader's bid to become prime minister. he's called for strikes across the country. the youtube stars encouraging students to cheat. some are being paid to promote essay—writing websites to students and facebook says it's developing a new privacy control, allowing users to delete their browsing history. nine months since the group known as islamic state was defeated

in its stronghold of mosul, and it's still not clear how many iraqi civilians died in the battle. the range of estimates is huge — from at least 1,000, to more than 10,000. and reports suggest many were killed in coalition airstrikes. so far, only the us and australia have accepted any responsibility for civilian deaths. the official line from britain's ministry of defence is that officials have seen no evidence. 0ur defence correspondent, jonathan beale reports from mosul. this is the graveyard of the group called islamic state. it is also the tomb of an unknown number of civilians. the old city of mosul, where the extremists made their last stand. defeated with the help of unrelenting coalition air strikes.

making their way through the shattered shell of the city, a team of iraqi volunteers, trying to clear up the chaos. this was home to tens of thousands of people, trapped in the fighting. nine months on, it is still a toxic wasteland, littered not just with bombs, but bodies, too. they could be is fighters and their families, or the civilians they corralled to use as human shields. and next door, they have just found more. the have found remnants of 30 bodies. they think this remains is a girl,

signs there were isis fighters here but also civilians. is suicide belts lie strewn in the rubble, but many innocents were killed alongside them. there are a lot of victims from the air strikes and a lot of them are still buried under the rubble. we cannot pull them out with our bare hands. the coalition dropped or fired nearly 30,000 munitions on this one city. mostly american bombs, but british ones, too. the ministry of defence insists it has seen no evidence it caused any civilian casualties. but a source inside the coalition has told us, that is simply not true.

to conduct a bombing campaign without targeting civilians. i am certain that from what i know, british airstrikes have caused civilian casualties on several occasions, to suggest they have not, as has been done, is nonsense. we have used an actor's voice to protect his identity. 0ur source told us of an raf strike on a truck bomb here in east mosul last year. he said two civilians were almost certainly killed in the blast, but the mod insists those killed were highly probably is fighters. uncertainty from the air and on the ground, too. this man says in the aftermath, women and men were screaming. he said some of them were wounded. 0thers told us, is were in the area, but the mod refused our request

to view the cockpit video, nor will it reveal the co—ordinates of other british air strikes. but back in the old city, there is no doubt that many were killed by coalition bombs. no—one destroyed us except the coalition. look, this was one of my daughters who got killed. and this was one of my sons. where, where, where did they take our civilians? there were just families in this house and in that house over there. so, why did it get hit? was isis there? the mod says it took extreme care but cannot eliminate the risk to civilians.

but it has never had anyone like this on the ground to investigate. there are just estimates of the numbers of civilians killed. what looks like a macabre team photo is how these locals are trying to keep track of the dead. the coalition did help rid this city of the scourge of is, but at what cost? let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the most senior roman catholic to be charged with sexual abuse, cardinal george pell, is likely to face two separate trials in australia. the vatican treasurer has pleaded not guilty to the charges. 0ne relates to his time as a priest in the 1970s — and another from when he was archbishop of melbourne 20 years later. at least seven people have been killed by militants north of baghdad. the security forces are scouring the town of tarmiya for suspected members of the islamic state group. the government denied a claim by islamic state that it had taken control of the area. senior brexiteers have delivered what's been described as an ‘ultimatum' to number 10

downing street, demanding that the prime minister drops one of the british government's preferred options for customs arrangements after brexit. it comes ahead of a key meeting of senior ministers on wednesday. during the annual may day protests in paris, police have arrested nearly two—hundred masked demonstrators. reports suggest anarchist groups broke away from a peaceful rally to set fire to vehicles and smash shop windows, in protest at president macron‘s economic reforms. four people, including a police officer, were slightly hurt. the leader of armenia's protest movement, nikol pashinyan, has insisted peaceful protests will continue — the governing party has blocked his efforts to become prime minister. in the coming hours, crowds are expected to take to the streets again in the capital yerevan. mr pashinyanhas called for a general strike. lebo diseko has the story. they had gathered here to watch what they see as democracy done. instead, thousands of supporters of nikol pashinyan were left stunned and disappointed, as parliament voted against the popular opposition

leader as prime minister. he gotjust 45 of the 53 votes he needed. for many, it is an attempt by the ruling republican party to block the people's choice. nikol pashinyan is now calling for a campaign of civil disobedience. the general strike from wednesday morning, with roads and airports blocked. it is a far cry from last week's celebrations on the streets of the capital, yerevan. scenes ofjoy after the unpopular

prime minister was forced to resign. it was called the "velvet revolution", change won without a bullet fired and it followed weeks of protest, demanding the prime minister step down. nikol pashinyan was the man many wanted in thatjob, earlier he warned mps of major unrest if they failed to vote him in. translation: armenian people are reviving. we are in an awakening period, this is national and is unstoppable. mr pashinyan is now urging supporters to stay on the streets to stop the ruling party from stealing the people's victory. he says a revolution of love and tolerance continues. lebo diseko, bbc news. a day after a bbc investigation into the illegal sale of codeine cough syrup, nigeria's government has banned its import and production. thousands of young people are sourcing it without prescription — often from employees of pharmaceutical companies — and becoming addicted. mark zuckerberg has told facebook‘s annual conference for developers that the company is working on a new privacy control that will allow users to delete their browsing history. responding to the uproar over the misuse of millions of people's personal data by the political

consultancy cambridge analytica, the facebook ceo called it a major breach of trust. he insisted the platform was taking a number of steps to make sure it never happens again. first, as you all know, we are restricting the data that developers will be able to request from people. second, we need to find any other bad apps that are out there. so we're currently in the process of investigating every single app that access to a large amount of information before we made changes in 2014 and if we find anything suspicious will bring in independent auditor to do a full audit and if any data was disused we will be in that developer and tell anyone whose data was effected. earlier, i spoke to michael nunez — deputy tech editor at mashable. a lot of people expected mark zuckerberg to address the cambridge analytica data scandal upfront and to his credit he actually did.

he started the conference off with several thoughts about the scandal and then with each segment, with each announcement, i think he cushioned those announcements of with how they were going to address privacy concerns into the future. do you think the announcement will address those concerns? i think some of it will. for example, facebook announced that they are going to be launching a dating service in the nearfuture. that is very clearly a strategy that they are employing to gather more information about people's romantic lives and so in that sense, they are still data mining, which was much of the concern for most people. in that sense, they are not really addressing what people are most concerned about. the reality is that facebook is going to continue to operate by this data mining principle, theyjust need to give users a better understanding of how

that information is being used, where it is shared and give them an opportunity to opt out. to be plain, data mining is their business. that's right. facebook makes its money by profiling its users have been —— facebook makes its money by profiling its users and then selling those profiles, whether they are anonymous or not, they sell that information to advertisers. the more information they have about you, your political leanings, any of your tendencies or your personal beliefs, they are able to use that as a tool for basically emotional manipulation to get you to buy products. that is ultimately what brings facebook value. how seriously did you take his assertions that he'd find the bad apps, bring in independent arbiters and ban those. i think some of those steps were warranted and commended. but i think anyone who has been following

the cambridge analytica scandal closely understands that was just one actor among tens of thousands and there is no getting that information back. that information has already been disseminated across the world and data firms are going to use that going forward because they have already being given access to that stuff. in a lot of senses, it is too little too late, but you have to at least commend facebook for trying to address some of the case concerns and there was a lot around giving users the control about information they are sharing and that has been very awesome, in my book. very commendable. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: scotland moves to cut binge drinking. it's the first country in the world to bring in minimum pricing for alcohol. nothing, it seems, was too big

to withstand the force of the tornado. the extent of the devastation will lead to renewed calls for government help to build better housing. internationally, there have already been protests. sweden says it received no warning of the accident. indeed, the russians at first denied anything had gone wrong. only when radioactive levels started to increase outside russia were they forced to admit the accident. for the mujahideen, the mood here is of great celebration. this is the end of a 12—year war for them. they've taken the capital, which they have fighting for for so long. it was 7:00am in the morning, the day when power began to pass from the minority to the majority, when africa, after 300 years, reclaimed its last white colony. this is bbc news.

the latest headlines: there are fresh claims that countless civilians were killed in mosul during last year's coalition airstrikes against the so—called is militants. armenia's opposition leader has called for his supporters to join a campaign of civil disobedience after parliament refused to choose him as prime minister. a bbc investigation has discovered that some stars on the video—sharing platform youtube are being paid to promote essay writing websites to school children and students on a big scale. a company based in ukraine is paying the online personalities to encourage people to pay for essays. britain's universities minister told the bbc that the revelations undermined education and said youtube which is owned by google had a moral responsibility to act. 0ur education editor bra nwen jeffreys has this exclusive report. back in the action, boy! youtube channels reach millions each day.

i'm back with another prank. we're checking out a compilation of really stupid people! the creators have huge influence, influence that business wants to buy. want to give a shout—out to all of you... i'm going to ask for 5k likes if you want a part two this time. our investigation has uncovered the youtube stars selling cheating, paid by a company in ukraine, promoting a service to students that could land them in serious trouble, targeting teenagers using the people they trust. and don't waste your time doing your essays. let these people do it for you. if you guys are struggling in school or college, check out edubirdie.com to hire a super—smart guy to do your essays for you. super—smart geek. plagiarism—free! we're helping you cheat. you won't get in any troubles, guaranteed. it's going to get you an a+. this is clearly wrong, it's clearly wrong because it is enabling

cheating, potentially on an industrial scale. it's normalising cheating. we're not talking about the video ads you usually see. these are youtubers themselves, talking about pranks, gaming, dating. then they tell you about a company called edubirdie. ok, so i'm going to interrupt this video and give a shout—out to the sponsor, edubirdie.com. if you guys are playing too much fortnite and have no time to write your essays... go to edubirdie.com, 100% plagiarism free. this is for every school kid watching my videos, i know that there's loads of you out there. we found more than 250 channels with videos sponsored by edubirdie, videos viewed hundreds of millions of times, and that's just the ones in english. some youtubers say they'd never accept this kind of sponsorship. how do you balance studies with social life? ibz and courtney are students at cambridge university. they promote hard work and study on youtube channels. having seen the edubirdie ads,

were they in any doubt this was the selling of cheating? no, not at all. in plain sight, i think as soon as you hear it, whether the influencer mentions cheating or not, you know, ok, i'm not doing this work, i'm about to hand in work that i didn't write, it's not copy and pasted, it won't be plagiarised, but it's not my work, it's cheating. how powerful is that message when it comes from a youtuber you trust? you will see big youtubers saying it, and that can influence small youtubers to promote it as well, and then it will have a massive impact on young children and teenagers. and now imagine you have all these essays to do, and now you have a solution that is being promoted by your favourite person. so how easy is it for students to buy essays? we asked edubirdie.com to write two from scratch, one english gcse, the other degree level. we got them marked. a "c" for the english essay and 60% for the university assignment.

not quite the a+ promised on youtube. edubirdie told us youtubers had creative choice and total freedom in what they said and it was clear that anything obtained through the website should only be used as a sample or a reference. but it's notjust adults being offered cash. this 15—year—old is one of several children who have accepted edubirdie money. they basically write your essays for you and it's100% plagiarism—free. his mum told us she was shocked. she didn't know her son was taking sponsorship. it's so insidious. they‘ re making it look like it's cool, actually, like it is a lifestyle choice. we showed some of the videos to the universities minister. these are the people to do it for you, written by doctors...

cheating is wrong, it undermines quality, it undermines standards. never mind what edubirdie says, it is wrong. this is something that is corrosive to education, and i think youtube has got to step up to the plate and exercise some responsibility here. i wanted to speak to someone at youtube's london headquarters where some of their most successful channels are on display. instead, in a statement, the company said this. and the company added they "would be working with youtubers so they better understand that in—video promotions must not promote dishonest activity." if you can't be bothered to write your essays. the perfect option for you! none of the youtubers would do an interview. alpay b told us "whether a student

wants to cheat or not, it's totally their choice, everyone has got their own hustle." branwen jeffreys, bbc news. we will let you know how that turns out. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. a new report from the world health organization reveals that 90% of the world's population breathes polluted air. the who also warns that the world's poorest people are the most vulnerable, with air pollution responsible for seven million deaths every year. a fire in a skyscraper in sao paulo in brazil has left at least one person dead. the 26—storey building was engulfed in flames and then collapsed. this was an abandoned office block but it had been occupied by about 150 squatters. firefighters fear more people may have been trapped inside — and others killed in the collapse. a state of emergency has been declared in coconino county in northern arizona in the united states in response to a large tinder fire spreading through the national forest. its scorched over 11,000 acres

of forest since friday. hundreds of people have been evacuated and several homes have burnt down. gates have been installed in venice to help control the flow of tourists at key attractions. the city is a unesco world heritage site and attracts about 30 million visitors a year. that means large queues and clogged streets. the city's mayor says he's just trying to ensure the safety of visitors and residents. the scottish government has become the first country in the world to introduce a minimum price for alcohol. it's trying to stop excessive drinking. the cost of some of the cheapest drinks has now tripled. some think all this will have a disproportionate impact on people on low incomes. here are some of the key facts. all of the evidence says that while it is not going to solve

the problem on its own, without action that targets the affordability of alcohol, then we won't make the progress we need to see. it started off about four cans of beer per day. then it started to be crates of beer. then it was a bottle of wine every night. and some beer and you could get three bottles for a tenner. when alcohol prices rise, deaths from alcohol fall.

when alcohol prices fall, deaths from alcohol rise. every time. people think they're not influenced by price, but they are. we have a lot of customers on a low income, a tight income, they don't have a lot to spend. on a friday or saturday they want a bottle of cheap cider because that is all they can afford. i think it is unfair on them. some of the contrasting views there on minimum pricing

for alcohol in scotland. plenty more about it on our website. that's at bbc.com/news. india's supreme court has expressed concern about what it considers a change in colour of the taj mahal. the courts as the iconic building first became yellow and is now turning brown and green. according to environmentalists it is being damaged by construction and pollution. the taj mahal was built using white marble in the 17th century. the court has asked the government to seek help from experts in india and abroad to restore the building. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. i'm @bbcmikeembley. good morning.

unusually there is something drier and warmer on the way as we head towards the bank weakened. we start onafairly towards the bank weakened. we start on a fairly wet note in many parts the wicket. it is an improving kind of day. sunshine will come out, later for many of you. it will have clear from western scotland, northern ireland for the morning commute. a little brighter. but chilly. i am large, compared to what we saw in their tuesday morning, a bright start. 0utbrea ks we saw in their tuesday morning, a bright start. outbreaks of rain across many parts of england and wales, particularly western england and wales. that'll work eastwards. you might get some wet weather for airtime across east anglia and the south—east until the late morning onwards. and it will be a miserable afternoon for airtime. sunshine and showers develop in its wake. many of you will have a fine afternoon. lovely blue skies in between the showers and clouds. ms ri good in

the north and west. any let —— rain that lingering, east anglia, far south—east of england, it will click through. those guys into the night and into thursday morning. 1—0 two showers in the north. colder air in place. but the jet stream pushing towards us and edging further north will bring a change later in the day. let us start with thursday morning. they chilly start could see the return of a lilibet of frost, east of scotland and eastern england in particular. a bright sunny start for the most part. cloud will quickly increase in the west with sunny spells in the morning giving way to great conditions, patchy rain and drizzle. have you burst of rain in the hebridies towards shetland. england and wales clouding over. sunny spells here and there. when the sun is out the temperatures are up the sun is out the temperatures are upa the sun is out the temperatures are up a little bit on wednesday's are south—westerly winds. for friday, we will see the winds light across england and wales, misty to begin with. the odd spot of rain or drizzle here and there in the west. still some across parts of scotland. largely dry day. temperatures continue to go up. we will see it

widely across england and wales and parts of scotland in the mid—to—high teens. with the jet stream then pushing to the north of the uk into the start of the bank holiday weekend, that helps warm air to push its way in and for high pressure to build. for most of you, a dry weekend in store. temperatures will go weekend in store. temperatures will 9° up weekend in store. temperatures will goupa weekend in store. temperatures will go up a little bit. there will be some cloudy moments and sunshine as well. this is bbc news. the headlines: a source inside the coalition fighting the islamic state group has told the bbc he believes civilians have been killed as a result of british air strikes. it comes as teams of iraqi volunteers are discovering human remains at sites across mosul. the uk's ministry of defence says "everything possible" is done to minimise the risk to civilians. the armenian opposition leader, nikol pashinyan, has called for a general strike after the governing republican party voted against his election as prime minister. addressing tens of thousands of supporters massed in the capital yerevan, he urged them

to block roads, railway stations and airports. the chief executive of facebook, mark zuckerberg, says the company is working on a new privacy control that will allow users to delete their browsing history. he also revealed plans to launch a dating service on the social network. now on bbc news, it's time for panorama. tonight... the casualties of our justice system speak out. there are always going to be peoplejudging me. there is always going to be someone that possibly thinks that i did do it. trials are being stopped too late in the day. there have been too many cases recently where, at the last moment, or even beyond the last moment, the truth comes to light. the system must do better. thousands of prosecutions are under review. morning, have a seat. thank you. the woman in charge talks to panorama. there have been cases where we have

certainly not done what we should have done as early as we should.