chemical weapons inspectors say they've finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria. a team from the organisation for the prohibitionost two weeks in the city of douma, their samples will now be sent for analysis. syria's president bashar al—assad denies using the banned weapons. you may find some of the images in this report by andrew plant distressing. an announcement on state tv by the russian military, close allies of the syrian government, as the international community which are the result of test from the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack. translation: during their work the visitors attended the apartments we re visitors attended the apartments were toxic substances were a p pa re ntly were toxic substances were apparently used and took samples and also visited a laboratory is paul is also visited a laboratory is paul is a warehouse with chemical substances. we are now waiting to their report. these pictures from their report. these pictures from the seventh of april, they were filmed by a syrian opposition group and they claim to show the aftermath the attack. people having chlorine washed from thei

for teachers to be armed. chemical weapons inspectors say they have finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria last month. a team from the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons said their samples from douma will now be sent for analysis. the local elections in england have largely seen voters stick with the status quo with neither of the two main parties able to celebrate significant gains. the liberal democrats saw some successs, taking control of four councils, but it was a near wipeout for ukip. our deputy political editor, john pienaar, has been talking to voters. we know how people voted, those that bothered, the question now is why? good morning, this is bbc five live, it's your call, we are in wandsworth, where labour didn't get over the line. but we want to hear from you, wherever you are. i didn't vote, i don't have any faith in uk politics, and i don't think there's any real leaders to vote for, so there's no point in voting at the moment. not everyone turned down all the choices on offer. which way did you go? conservative. why? i've lived here for the last 30 years and enjoyed one of the lowest council taxes in the country thr

chemical weapons inspectors say they have finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria last month. a team from the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons said their samples from douma will now be sent for analysis. for the first time since the second world war there will be no nobel prize for literature. the swedish academy which uses the winner of the award is caught up in a crisis of allegations of sexual assault, around the husband of one of the academy'sjudges. the around the husband of one of the academy's judges. the academy has now decided that the damage to its credibility was so serious it would have no choice but to cancel the awards. churchill, steinbeck, dylan. for more than a century, the nobel literature prize has been amongst the most prestigious awards for authors from around the world. but the institution that hands out the literature award, the swedish academy, has been in turmoilfor months. it's all because of this french photographer, jean—claude arnault, who ran a cultural project that got funding from the swedish academy. he's accused of sexually assaulting at least 18 women and leaking informa

chemical weapons inspectors say they have finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria last month. a team from the organisation for the prohibitionchemical weapons spent almost two weeks in the city of douma. their samples will now be sent for analysis. now on bbc news, the week in parliament hello and welcome to the programme. coming up: the health secretary says a computerfailure meant half a million women didn't get screened for breast cancer. tragically, there are likely to be some people in this group who would have been alive today if the failure had not happened. more defeats in the lords on brexit. peers say the government is behaving like a dictatorship. to act in such a manner would be to impose ministerial restrictions on parliament by coercion. and what's eating jamie oliver? right now, with statistics, not having it. but first, women in england between the ages of 50 and 70 are supposed to be screened for breast cancer every three years. but the health secretary told mps there'd been a "serious failure" in the cancer screening programme. as a result of this, between 2009 and the start of 2018, an estimated a50 , 000

for teachers to be armed. chemical weapons inspectors say they have finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria last month. a team from the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons said their samples from douma will now be sent for analysis. the local elections in england have largely seen voters stick with the status quo with neither of the two main parties able to celebrate significant gains. the liberal democrats saw some successs, taking control of four councils, but it was a near wipeout for ukip. our deputy political editor, john pienaar, has been talking to voters. we know how people voted, those that bothered, the question now is why? good morning, this is bbc five live, it's your call, we are in wandsworth this morning, where labour didn't get over the line. but we want to hear from you, wherever you are. i didn't vote, i don't have any faith in uk politics, and i don't think there's any real leaders to vote for, so there's no point in voting at the moment. not everyone turned down all the choices on offer. which way did you go? conservative. and why was that? i've lived here for the last 30 years and enjoyed one of the lowest counci

for teachers to be armed. chemical weapons inspectors say they have finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria last month. a team from the organisation for the prohibitione largely seen voters

for teachers to be armed. chemical weapons inspectors say they have finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria last month. a team from the organisation for the prohibition the second world war there will be no nobel prize for literature. the swedish academy which uses the winner of the award is caught up in a crisis of allegations of sexual assault, around the husband of one of the academy'sjudges. the around the husband of one of the academy's judges. the academy has now decided that the damage to its credibility was so serious it would have no choice but to cancel the awards. churchill, steinbeck, dylan. for more than a century, the nobel literature prize has been

really happened and who was responsible in both cases are fought in the 0pcw, the organisation for the prohibition of chemicaln from syria into the 0pcw itself, using them to back its claim that no chemical agent had been used against them. today the director of the 0pcw told me what he thought of that move. i didn't attend, of course, the meeting. i asked myself not to attend it because i thought that it was not appropriate for the impartiality of the work that this organisation has been doing. so you wish it hadn't happened? absolutely. i made this very clear to the russian delegation. in the salisbury poisoning, the 0pcw independently confirmed britain's scientific analysis. russian officials then tried to cast doubt on the conclusions. today, ahmet uzumcu defended his team's work. the samples collected by our experts cannot be tampered. so there is a full chain of custody as we call it. they were attended by experts from the place they were collected or from the patients. and then they were taken here to the laboratory. so this is a well established procedure which cannot be interfered with. there had bee

really happened and who was responsible in both cases are fought in the 0pcw — the organisation for the prohibition of chemical that no chemical agent had been used against them. today, the director of the 0pcw told me what he thought of that move. i didn't attend, of course, the meeting. i asked myself not to attend it because i thought that it was not appropriate for the impartiality of the work that this organisation has been doing. so you wish it hadn't happened? absolutely. i made this very clear to the russian delegation. in the salisbury poisoning, the 0pcw independently confirmed britain's scientific analysis. russian officials then tried to cast doubt on the conclusions. today, ahmet uzumcu defended his team's work. the samples collected by our experts cannot be tampered. so there is a full chain of custody, as we call it. they were attended by our experts from the place they were collected or from the patients. and then they were taken here to the laboratory. so this is a very well established procedure which cannot be interfered with. there had been a taboo on the use of chemical weapons, but the co