an inquest revealed that niccolo woolley drowned after falling into cold water. a bbc investigation finds new cases of " transplant tourism' referred to authorities, after the uk's first organ—trafficking plot was exposed earlier this year. and — can ai help treat cancer? the latest research shows — that the technology could help people, get treated faster. nhs consultants in england have voted in favour of strike action in their fight to get more pay. it follows a five—day strike byjunior doctors — the combination of which is likely to lead to huge disruption to services and cancelled treatments.

this is the lot of pay cuts over the last decade and because inflation has been raising its has exacerbated the losses they have had. it brought home how much loss there's been. it puts a focus on how much could santos do and what the working conditions are like and if it's at this stage where people are leaving in large numbers and we need to something to prevent that. let’s something to prevent that. let's head to the _ something to prevent that. let's head to the newsroom _ something to prevent that. let's head to the newsroom with our correspondent. what are they saying in regard correspondent. what are they saying in regard to correspondent. what are they saying in regard to the correspondent. what are they saying in regard to the outcome correspondent. what are they saying in regard to the outcome of these ballots? , , , ., . ., ballots? they said it sends a clear messa . e ballots? they said it sends a clear message to _ ballots? they said it sends a clear message to consultants _ ballots? they said it sends a clear message to consultants about - ballots? they said it sends a clear| message to consultants about how they feel about the psu. these are they feel about the psu. these are the most senior doctors in the nhs and their 48 hour strike which

begins on the 20th ofjuly follows immediately on from a five day strike byjunior doctors. it means and threatens huge description across the health service we've already seen around 700,000 appointments and treatments cancelled or postponed in england because of the industrial action and the waiting list each month is going up the waiting list each month is going up so there's a real concern about the impact this will have on patients but the va is adamant they have been left with no choice because of the governments unwillingness to get into talks about restoring that lost pay that was been sent out. the? about restoring that lost pay that was been sent out.— about restoring that lost pay that was been sent out. they talk about restoration — was been sent out. they talk about restoration of _ was been sent out. they talk about restoration of pay _ was been sent out. they talk about restoration of pay going _ was been sent out. they talk about restoration of pay going back - was been sent out. they talk about restoration of pay going back into l restoration of pay going back into 2008 and 2009 but the government in their response talking about the four and a half percent pay uplift last year. talking about pay of average or birds of a the changes to the taxation system in the budget,

all have been consultants. what are the va seen in terms of a percentage rise rise that consultants want here? , ., , rise rise that consultants want here? , . , ., ., ~' rise rise that consultants want here? , . , . ~ ., here? they have been looking back at how -a here? they have been looking back at how pay has — here? they have been looking back at how pay has failed _ here? they have been looking back at how pay has failed to _ here? they have been looking back at how pay has failed to keep _ here? they have been looking back at how pay has failed to keep pace - here? they have been looking back at how pay has failed to keep pace with l how pay has failed to keep pace with inflation since 2008 and if you look at that there has been a cuts, they say, of 27%. they say using the rpi measured of inflation. if you use a more favoured cpi measure its less than that. they also point out that the tax and pension changes, now we have seen tax thresholds, income tax thresholds, frozen for well over a decade. we have seen the introduction of an additional rates of tax of 45% and that has meant that consultants, because they are amongst the best pagan society, has seen their take—home pay, the pay that ends up in their pocket every month, followed by even more. going

back to 2008, if you take into account those factors, it is followed by 35%. the british medical association are saying they want us all restored in one go. in fact, all they are asking for is that in the future, he keeps, at least, paste with inflation. last year they were offered 4.5%, that was less than half the rate of inflation during the past year and have yet to receive an offer for this financial year. the government has been busy, obviously negotiating with junior doctors about their dispute, so the consultants are hoping they would have talks soon. they say if the government comes forward with some reasonable offer is late to call off the strike. ,, ._ reasonable offer is late to call off the strike. ,, , , u, , the strike. stay there because another the — the strike. stay there because another the developments - the strike. stay there because another the developments in l the strike. stay there because i another the developments in the health sector through the course of the day came from the royal college of nursing. strike action by nurses at the royal college of nursing

will not continue after the union's ballot of its members in england failed to achieve a mandate. while the majority of members voted to continue to take industrial action, the numbers taking part in the vote were too low for it to count. we reach a deal that the majority of trade unions agree to. i am pleased that the rcm have ended their industrial action. that the rcm have ended their industrialaction. i that the rcm have ended their industrial action. i know we sent a working partnership with the nhs staff and workers but also with the rcm. there are number of aspects of our deal with the agenda for change unions, we will continue to work with them and we stand ready to do so with the rcm.— so with the rcm. that's the government _ so with the rcm. that's the government position - so with the rcm. that's the government position but i so with the rcm. that's the l government position but let's so with the rcm. that's the - government position but let's hear from the rcm, pat cullinan the secretary for that union, and had to say say about the possibility of another ballot. she said it was conceivably during the year. it means that the campaign will continue thejob is not means that the campaign will continue the job is not finished. means that the campaign will continue thejob is not finished. we are on a journey i think the government is clear what that journey is which is about addressing nurses pay. it's about looking at

how we reward nurses as we move in the future. addressing retention and recruitment and looking at how we can actually attract more students into nursing and making sure they have the property bursary to have their training and being educated. that was pat cullen, let's go back to nick in a glimmer of good news for the government regarding the nurses and that development today but in terms of this consultants move and junior doctors, any sort of estimation in terms of the level of disruption we are likely to see with more cancelled appointments? it you more cancelled appointments? if you consider that — more cancelled appointments? if you consider that junior _ more cancelled appointments? if you consider that junior doctors _ more cancelled appointments? if gm. consider that junior doctors were consider thatjunior doctors were present nearly half the medical workforce, and we have seen significant disruptions, four—day strikes and over 100,000 treatments and operations cancelled, this next one byjunior doctors will be five days so would be even more significant. of course, consultants

are the ones leading teams. they are only saying there would want to provide christmas day cover, which is basically providing coverfor emergency services and a very limited amount of routine work. 50. limited amount of routine work. so, the destruction will be significant. thank you very much nick in the newsroom for us. the former health secretary said that resources were taken away from pandemic planning — to focus on the threat of a no—deal brexit. i take full responsibility for the fact that in the face of brexit and the threats that a disorganised brexit

could do and we took, the resources were moved across the department to focus on that threat, including away from pandemic preparedness planning. this was proposed to me by the home secretary and the cmo and i send it off. i regarded the secretary of state job not to run the department in terms of resource allocation but to the set direction. but i signed off that decision. the thing is that you face a lots of risks and threats. mr hancock said that the uk's attitude towards a potential pandemic was completely wrong. i was assured that the uk planning was among the best and in some instances the best in the world. and of course with hindsight, i wish i'd spent that short period of time as health secretary before the pandemic struck.

also changing the entire attitude to how we respond to a pandemic. and perhaps one of the reasons that i feel so strongly about the importance of this inquiry and why i'm so emotionally committed to making sure that it's a success with full transparency and total brutal honesty in answering your questions to get to the bottom of this is because these because of these this huge error in the doctrine that the uk and by the way, the whole western world had in how to tackle a pandemic, and that that flawed doctrine underpinned many of the problems that made it extremely difficult to respond.

and if i may say so, i am profoundly sorry for the impact that had. i'm profoundly sorry for each death that has occurred. my colleague zari kargar looks in to when and why the covid—19 inquiry was launched: the uk's covid inquiry was launched by the then prime minister, borisjohnson in may 2021. it covers decisions making during the pandemic at westminster. at the time, mrjohnson said that all aspects of uk's response to the pandemic will be under the microscope. it's an independent public inquiry. it is split into two models, which explores how prepared the uk was through the pandemic, and how decisions were made during the pandemic, and the impact those decisions had on the public

health care system. the people who use the health care system and the people who worked for it. it is led by baroness hilda hallett. she is a former retired judge and also a cross—bench peer in the uk. in the past she led the inquest into the london �*77 bombings. the public hearing at the inquiry has already started on the 30th ofjune. independent experts, microbiologists, specialists and politicians have appeared in the hearing. the first politician that appeared was former uk prime minister david cameron. alongside him was sir chris whitty, the uk government's chief medical adviser during the pandemic and his predecessor, dame sally davies. these people have already given evidence at the inquiry. the aim of the inquiry is to learn lessons for the future. during the pandemic in the united kingdom,

tens of thousands of men, women and children lost their lives to covid—19. artificial intelligence could be used in the treatment of more cancers — after a uk study found it could free up radiologists' time. the technology works by speeding up the process of drawing around healthy organs — that's a vital step in radiotherapy which ensures healthy tissue is protected. the uk government is spending £21 million to help roll out ai more widely — as kate lamble reports. radiotherapy is a life saving treatment for cancer patients. but before machines like this can start to shrink tumours, there's a laborious task for doctors. well, you can actually see here... the radiation target needs to be precisely mapped. medics want to avoid weakening bones or damaging organs. so somehow we've got to kind of avoid dose from each of these areas. if we weaken these bones... carefully plotting each area typically takes between 25 minutes and two hours per patient.

it's time medics could spend getting through a backlog or supporting families. so researchers at microsoft have spent more than a decade thinking about how artificial intelligence could take on that work. what ai can truly help with is really reducing the burden that's placed on clinicians. that was the model that we collaborated on... aditya's team worked with doctors at addenbrooke's hospital in cambridge, who further trained and evaluated their code on real patients — including frank, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer. the people who are looking at this stuff all day long must get quite tired. whereas a computer, it doesn't get tired, itjust keeps doing it. how did it feel to be part of something like that? to be part of a trial? a privilege, i suppose. yeah, a privilege. doctors still check and sign off the ai's work, but in tests they found two thirds of the time, medics didn't feel the need to make any changes. actually, what we found - is that our consultant colleagues

preferred to start with the work of the ai than even the work. of their consultant colleagues, which is quite interesting. - the ai is consistent. it doesn't get tired or have its own way of doing things, and raj and his team are now about to give their programme for prostate and head and neck cancer to a manufacturer, which will ultimately allow any nhs trust to access the technology. this is the first time an ai programme developed within the nhs will be released as a medical imaging device. these hospitals expect to reduce treatment times for their patients. i think it's fantastic that we're able to do this. and what we've agreed _ with the manufacturer is effectively that the nhs will be able to deploy these models at cost. _ those involved believe this could bejust the beginning for al in health care. kate lambert, bbc news. earlier this year the uk's first organ—trafficking plot was exposed. a wealthy nigerian politician, his wife and their middleman were alljailed. they had targeted a vulnerable lagos street trader and brought him

to the uk for kidney removal. now the bbc has learned that, in a separate investigation, an indian man in his 60s has been arrested in the uk on suspicion of conspiring to exploit a person for organ removal. he's since been released on bail. mark lobel reports. this young man's brave steps into a police station near heathrow last year revealed a crime never seen before in the uk — forced organ removal. his journey began thousands of miles away, selling from this wheelbarrow in nigeria's commercial capital, lagos. one day, he got an offer of a job in the uk and left without telling his family and friends. speaking for the first time in secret in nigeria, they told us he just vanished. he left school early to support his family, working seven days a week. my father and siblings have been crying every day because of daniel, crying because someone has kidnapped and carried him away. he was a gentle boy who would never harm anyone.

what happens next to daniel involves another nigerian in their 20s too. sonia ekweremadu. her father is this man, ike ekweremadu, a very senior nigerian politician for many years. his daughter, sonia, has a rare kidney disease. it's called nephrotic syndrome. either i stay on dialysis for the rest of my life or i get a transplant. these are my two options. daniel was brought to the uk to give sonia one of his kidneys. he says it was not something he was expecting as part of his job offer. the doctors stopped the process, suspecting daniel had been financially coerced, which would make the transplant illegal. that's when daniel ran away from his traffickers and told police what had happened. sonia's father was arrested as he flew into heathrow and convicted alongside his wife and a middleman in a ground—breaking case that has alerted uk authorities to more cases of organ trafficking. the bbc�*s file 0n 4 can reveal a separate investigation into organ trafficking has resulted

in the arrest of an indian man in his 60s who's currently on bail. plus, we've learnt about a number of new investigations over the past year into organ trafficking, notjust on uk soil but a handful of paid for transplants abroad that are being treated here. daniel's historic case beat the odds, even thwarting attempts by these nigerian senators who visited the uk to get that case moved to nigeria. but such is the influence of sonia's family in nigeria, daniel and his family fear revenge attacks from their supporters, which is why he remains under police protection in the uk, possibly never to see his family again. mark lobel, bbc news

what for doctors hospital and medical staff is there more that needs to be done to make people aware of the possibility that there could be a corporation involved somewhere along the line where things are presented to them? i think, unfortunately because there's a shortage in the number of organs required for transportation, as long as you have that gap when it comes to supply versus demand, unfortunately there will always be individuals and criminal gangs and organisations that look to try and exploited so the best thing we can do is try to make this self—sufficient. to ensure that

people are not which and for life—saving or life enhancing organs when it comes to transportation. we do need to wheeze awareness about organ trafficking, about human trafficking and what the implications are for people who are trafficked for the organs. what implications are for people who are trafficked for the organs.— trafficked for the organs. what is the best way _ trafficked for the organs. what is the best way to _ trafficked for the organs. what is the best way to regulate - trafficked for the organs. what is the best way to regulate this? is| the best way to regulate this? is there more that can be done, do you think? is there more that can be done, do you think? , , ., ., think? is trying to achieve that careful balance. _ think? is trying to achieve that careful balance. if _ think? is trying to achieve that careful balance. if you - think? is trying to achieve that careful balance. if you meet i think? is trying to achieve that. careful balance. if you meet the legislation too strict then there is a dramatic cases of people who do travel from abroad to the uk who we make made it difficult for her. with remember, the vast majority of people who do travel for the purposes of organisation, it's perfectly legal legal for someone in the uk, especially in the case of the uk, especially in the case of the kidney transportation, if they have someone who lives abroad, they are able to come to the uk and donate a kidney and neglected her

home country. that is what we see in a transplant centre which happens without part of patient centres across the uk. what isn't allowed is what happens in this particular case where a complete stranger comes from abroad with near no genetic it or emotional relationship to donate a kidney to someone. that isn't legal and that is in parts of legislation. the difficulty is, i think, how do we make the legislation strict but not too strict? that is somewhere where we need to think about how we look at the legislation again and how we try to support donation and protect vulnerable libidos from being exploited. captagon is a highly addictive drug that has ravaged the middle east in recent years. now a joint investigation by bbc news arabic with investigative journalism network, 0ccrp, has revealed new direct links between this multi—billion dollar drug trade and leading members of the syrian armed forces. emir nader reports.

0njordan's border with syria, its army is fighting traffickers of a drug called captagon. translation: they are smugglers. 0ur ground forces were informed and were ready for them. they fired directly at them, forcing them to retreat. they were crawling for their lives. captagon is little known outside the middle east, where this highly addictive, highly accessible amphetamine—like pill is wreaking havoc. the syrian regime has been accused of making vast profits from the manufacture and export of this drug. now bbc news arabic has uncovered fresh evidence about exactly how this trade is being managed by members of the syrian elite. in sweida, close to syria's border withjordan, raji falhout led a militia aligned with the government of bashar al—assad.

injuly 2022, falhout�*s bases were overrun by a rival militia. they found this machine, that could be used for pressing captagon, bags of pills, his military id and an unlocked phone. gaining exclusive access to the phone, we found a series of messages describing the purchase of the machine. what do you think, brother? are you sure that the hummer can accommodate the machine? yes. but this drug trade is much larger than one man. in 2021, a trial began in lebanon against a well—known businessman called hassan daqqou. he was found guilty of captagon trafficking after a shipment was seized in malaysia worth over $1 billion. the case was heard behind closed doors, but we met with the judge to find out what was uncovered. translation: he said he was collaborating i with the fourth division.

did he give any evidence of his connection to the fourth division? an id card issued by the fourth division. the fourth division is an elite unit of the syrian army. it's led by president bashar al—assad's brother maher. the judge concluded that there was no evidence of links between syrian officials to daqqou's trafficking, but in a 600 page confidential court document we found a series of whatsapp messages daqqou sent to someone he called �*the boss', whose phone number mostly consists of the same digit repeated many times. it's known as a golden number. translation: this number - was obtained from the company in the very first days and belongs to an important person in the authority. we've traced the number. high level syrian sources have told us it belongs to major general ghassan bilal. bilal is maher al—assad's number two in the fourth division and is understood to run its powerful security bureau. could you kindly renew the id cards

for the guys i sent you? if the boss really is ghassan bilal, the conversation suggests that one of syria's most senior officers is linked to the illegal captagon trade, worth billions of dollars. the syrian government, ghassan bila and raji falhout didn't respond to our questions. hassan daqqou maintained that he's innocent and was working with authorities to prevent drug trafficking. 0nly last month, the arab league welcomed bashar al—assad back to the fold. as arab governments struggle to contain an epidemic of drug abuse, elites within syria continue to profit. to watch more you can go to the bbc iplayer and search for syria: addicted to captagon. a still life fresco, depicting a possible ancient ancestor of the pizza, has been found on the wall of a house in pompeii — the roman city wiped out by an eruption of volcano mount vesuvius 2,000 years ago.

the fresco was found in the atrium of a house with a bakery attached to it. it can't be pizza as we know it though, as 2000 years ago tomatoes and mozzarella— the basic ingredients of the pizza — were unknown. that's it for me, hopefully you enjoyed it, we will see you at the same time tomorrow. goodbye. hello again. according to provisional data from the met office, thisjune is going to be the hottest june we've ever seen here in the uk, beating the previous record holding year, which was back in 1940. now, one thing you might notice over the next few days is that we could have some quite red sunrises and sunsets, and that's partly down to what's going on right across the other side of the atlantic, where in eastern canada we continue to see these wildfires rage out of control. and the smoke from these is building

up through the atmosphere and is heading the jet stream getting carried across the atlantic, and moving across our skies. it's really high in the atmosphere, so no concerns about air quality. but this smoke high up in the earth's atmosphere could make those sunrises and sunsets a little bit redder. something to watch out for. that is, of course, if you can see them at all, because we are going to see quite a bit of cloud over the next 24 hours behind this warm front. the warm front, well, humid air will be following that with some brisk south—westerly winds working in. and we're seeing that change to more humid conditions right now. a lot of low cloud for england and wales, northern ireland, too, some patches of drizzle, particularly for wales, western, england and southern areas of england. the drizzle probably quite extensive by the end of the night. and it'll be quite a muggy night for many of us, with temperatures 15—17 degrees quite widely, a bit fresher in northern scotland. for wednesday's forecast, then, we start off with that drizzle. western and southern england, wales too. a band of heavier rain crosses northern ireland and moves into scotland through the day. behind that, we should see something a bit brighter, with some sunshine and some fresher

air edging in. but it will feel humid across eastern england. if we do get a bit of sunshine in the east, temperatures could hit 25 degrees. i think it will stay dry, i think, for most in the east, but a different story for thursday. that weather front moves in. it's going to be a slow moving feature with rain maybe lasting for most of the day, and it could be very heavy as well. the rain probably welcomed for some, though, because in parts of essex we've only seen seven millimetres of rain all month. for most of us, though, thursday is going to be a brighter day, more in the way of sunshine, more comfortable weather, really, with temperatures, high teens to low 20s with those lower levels of humidity working in. certainly, though, for a day because the humidity picks up again through friday and the weekend stays unsettled with low pressure to the north west of the uk. so rain could be affecting scotland and northern ireland quite a bit with showers in the forecast elsewhere.

at six — nicola bulley�*s death was an accident — a coroner says she drowned after falling into a cold river in lancashire. the 45—year—old vanished at the end of january after dropping her children at school — her body wasn't found for weeks. i hope that his majesty's coroner's clear and definitive findings will put an end to ill informed speculation and conspiracy theories. also on the programme...