and at 16:30, newsbeat speaks to people who lose their hair at a young age. good afternoon and

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and at 10.30am newsbeat speaks to people who lose their hair at a young age.ood morning and welcome to bbc news. donald trump has warned the syrian government the us is "locked and loaded" and prepared to strike again if there are any further chemical weapons attacks in the country. britain, france and the united states have called on the un to hold an independent investigation into last week's suspected chemical attack in douma. but that would need the support of russia, which has condemned saturday's air strikes as an ‘aggression‘. here, the foreign secretary boris johnson has told the bbc the action was "essential". the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, meanwhile, has called for a commons vote tomorrow. more on the uk political reaction in a moment, but first our correspondent chris buckler reports from washington. the british, french and american forces were deployed to send a message to president asaad, and there was no way they wouldn't a message to president assad, and there was no way they wouldn't have noticed in damascus. one hour of strikes and explosio

and at 16:30, newsbeat speaks to people who lose their hair at a young age.ood afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has said he would only consider involvement in syria if it had the backing of the un. it follows yesterday's missile strikes by the us, france and the uk on suspected chemical weapons sites. meanwhile the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, said no further military action is planned, but that the government would "study the options" if syria used chemical weapons again. here's our political correspondent, iain watson. british forces in action. four tornado aircraft took part in bombing raids on chemical production and storage facilities in syria yesterday. and today, the government was clear — this was about sending a signal that the use of chemical weapons, whether in salisbury or in syria, wouldn't be tolerated. it wasn't about changing the course of the conflict in the middle east. though the foreign secretary didn't absolutely rule out further action. there is no proposal on the table at the moment for further at

and at 10.30am newsbeat speaks to people who lose their hair at a young age.

coming up in this special programme, two reports from radio1 and 1xtra's newsbeat team., what happens when you lose your hair early? it can be caused by genetics, stress or even a poor diet, and it happens to men and women. this is chidera's story. people have always gone bald, and they've tried lots of strange ways to hide it, or stop it falling out. but some techniques work better than others. my name's chidera. i'm 23, and most people don't know this is a wig. there's a massive bald patch right here, and it's pretty much what i've been hiding underneath this the whole time. my hair loss gets to me, and it's something that upsets other women and loads of young men too. i'm going to meet others who are losing their hair, and some who are going to extreme lengths to get it back. so i'm going only as deep as we need to go, which is where the roots sit. i'll find out about my own hair loss and discover whether you can ever feel good about it, because it doesn't matter how rich or famous you are, you can't hide from hair loss. so i wear this and it doesn't disturb my hairli

that's in newsbeat documentaries in half an hour, here on bbc news.afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the health secretary, jeremy hunt, is threatening social media companies with new legislation unless they voluntarily come forward with safeguards to protect children's mental health. he's written to platforms such as facebook and google accusing them of "turning a blind eye" to the problems arising from social media use. our business correspondent, joe lynam reports. it's the new worry of the digital age. how can parents better control what their kids are viewing online? studies for childwise found that children between five and 16 were spending six hours a day in front of screens, more than twice the time spent 20 years ago. now the health secretary wants the social media giants to do a lot more or face sanctions. writing to facebook, google and twitter, jeremy hunt said that they were collectively turning a blind eye to a whole generation of children being exposed to harmful material. he said it was unfair to parents and morally wrong. yes, the gov

coming up in this special programme, two reports from radioi and 1xtra's newsbeat team.stly, what happens when you lose your hair early? it can be caused by genetics, stress or even a poor diet, and it happens to men and women. this is chidera's story. people have always gone bald and they've tried lots of strange ways to hide it or stop it falling out. but some techniques work better than others. my name's chidera. i'm 23 and most people don't know this is a wig. there's a massive bald patch right here and it's pretty much what i've been hiding underneath this the whole time. my hair loss gets to me and it's something that upsets other women and loads of young men too. i'm going to meet others who are losing their hair and some who are going to extreme lengths to get it back. so i'm going only as deep as we need to go, which is where the roots sit. i'll find out about my own hair loss and discover whether you can ever feel good about it, because it doesn't matter how rich or famous you are, you can't hide from hair loss. so i wear this and it doesn't disturb my hairline

coming up in this special programme, two reports from radioi and ixtra's newsbeat team.ppens when you lose your hair early? it can be caused by genetics, stress or even a poor diet. and it happens to men and women. this is chidera's story. people have always gone bald and they've tried lots of strange ways to hide it or stop it falling out, but some techniques work better than others. my name's chidera, i'm 23, and most people don't know this is a wig. there's a massive bald patch right here and it's pretty much what i've been hiding underneath this the whole time. my hair loss gets to me and it's something that upsets other women and loads of young men too. i'm going to meet others who are losing their hair and some who are going to extreme lengths to get it back. so i'm going only as deep as we need to go, which is where the roots sit. i'll find out about my own hair loss and discover whether you can ever feel good about it — because it doesn't matter how rich or famous you are, you can't hide from hair loss. so, i wear this and it doesn't disturb my hairline at all. m

earlier i asked steve holden from bbc newsbeat what the singer is, and how jessiej took part in it.couple of songs that came out on streaming services but nothing substantial. at the beginning of this year she posted a picture of her invitation to be on the programme and she says, i got this opportunity, and the first international artists to appear on this show. it's an audience of1 billion people, she claims. suddenly, she is appearing week after week on chinese tv singing her own songs, singing otherfamous songs by people like witney houston and celine dion, competing against other pop stars, and she goes and wins it. she is up against established chinese pop stars? established asian artists. there is another person from the philippines and they have had people from malaysia and kazakhstan as well. she is the first british artist to be on it. one of the people she was up against this season was a chinese singer who was a coach on the chinese version of the voice. there was no cheesy auditions for this, it was no cheesy auditions for this, it was people who had already made a name

i asked james waterhouse from newsbeat to tell us more about the character.e in springfield and has very pronounced indian accent he comes indian accent, he comes from an arranged marriage, he has been known to sell products that may have gone past the sell by date which homer likes to eat from time to time. and he's very passionate and proud to be a us citizen. he's very enthusiastic about his work despite the quality of what he sells. now, the simpsons have tried to address this growing controversy, they created an episode at the beginning of april that was aired, did not go down so well. it did not, no. in simpsons style, they tried to acknowledge the criticisms recently that they been having a number of years with his character where marge is reading lisa at bedtime story and lisa says isn't it funny how something was applauded decades ago, is now deemed offensive? marge says this is something that will be dealt with in due course. in trying to deal with it lightly, that hasn't helped many critics who still take issue with the fact that apu is a racial st

with me is steve holden — music reporterfor radio 0ne's newsbeat.d airbus has moved on. more significantly, in the music video at the end is her sitting in front of a river and there is a little bee that flies off, the worker bee is the symbol of manchester that meant so much to people after the atrocity. that is her main node to what happened. let's listen to a little bit of it. hash right time in a state of mind # i haven't got any tears left to cry #so i haven't got any tears left to cry # so i'm picking it up. you can't help but think, after the experience that she has been through with the people of manchester, her appearance at the concert, i was reporting on that, though this is very much a message, a rallying cry to the people of manchester who have been affected. i'd like to say that a lot of people were expecting a ballad with the to reduce the beginning of the sloan, which is very slow, but then it goes into a mid—tempo pop song which is what a lot of people expect. she was due to come 0ver here and, and a tribute but illness meant that d

newsbeat reporter nick rotherham has been to meet porn stars and producers — as well as people who watchhat there may be some material in this film you don't want children to see. the film lasts just over 13 minutes. my first stop is a flat above an off licence in watford. i've come to meet industry newbie, pax. i wanted to see how the people making porn films felt about having an age block on their work. nathan, nice to meet you, too man. director? er, yeah, director. so, you're the one calling all the shots tonight? i'm gonna try. do your family know that you do this? they do now. i like to think if i avoid things they don't exist or they will go away. it isn't like that when it comes on the internet. i have a 19 year—old brother. how old was your brother when he saw it? he was 18, i think, yeah. do you think the legislation coming in here that might stop people below 18 from accessing it is a good thing? i don't know. ever since i've been growing up you can see porn on the internet. and that seems like a little bit too late, if you ask me. but, i mean, i'm not fully against it. wouldn