these cities, stuttgart and is sold off, they are the most polluted in the country, environmental groups sued them to force them to take action against dangerous levels of nitrogen oxide. angela merkel has opposed a ban and wants to protect thejobs in the industry. she gave this reassurance today. translation: what most definitely happen is that clear air plans have to be put into action with the help of the government. we will discuss further matters but the parties concerned. what is important to mention is that the ruling is specific to individual cities, were more needs to be done, but it does not target the whole country or all drivers in germany. the concern is germany's mass of car manufacturing industry and how it would cope if the ban was ruled out. it will no doubt heard. germany has 15 million ca i’s doubt heard. germany has 15 million cars on german roads and 50 million of them are diesel and of them, only a fraction, 2.7 million made those eu standards. hours after the ruling, hamburg said it would follow suit and impose limited band and the question now, has diesel had its day? let us get more from jenny health. in a country where the car is king, this ruling is controversial. german towns and cities can now choose to legally ban diesel vehicles that were built before september 2015. more than 70 german towns and cities regularly exceed eu air pollution limits and some experts say that those limits are themselves too high. national figures suggest that every year in germany alone, up to 8000 people die from cardiovascular disease which is linked to nitrogen oxide air pollution. it is a huge problem. the ruling is controversial. it means that cities like hamburg can press ahead with plans which have been in the pipeline to stop diesel vehicles using certain city roads at certain times. it could lead to some cities banning them all together and that is causing huge controversy. frankfurt says it is unenforceable and it does not want to put the ban in place but it may be forced to it an environmental group and there are such groups out there comes along and takes it to court and says they are not doing enough to protect people from air pollution. there are concerns from industry and trade who say that local economies could be impacted by a ban on commuters been able to move in and out in their cars and that is before you take into account the car industry which employs 800,000 people every year. there is a lot of concern about any kind of diesel ban, sales have been something ever since the vw emission scandals broke and there are concerns that this will generate more negative publicity. first of all, this applies to older diesel vehicles and not current models. secondly, there are voices within the industry who say that germany was slow off, but it is important that it starts to focus on newer, cleaner technologies and those voices would say that perhaps diesel has had its day. environmentalists say this is a huge victory. i spoke to him about the ruling and what could mean for the ruling and what could mean for the future of diesel in europe. the ruling and what could mean for the future of diesel in europem isa the future of diesel in europem is a great day for clean air in germany and abroad in europe, occurs the highest court in germany is deciding that air quality is much more important than mobility. it means about 70% of the diesel this year or next year, are forbidden to enter into the cities. we will have a dramatic increase in air quality. we try to help the people, the owners of these cars, because the car industry is cheating in the emissions standards. it is not only volkswagen and audi, it is bmw and others, using devices to fulfil the regulation only in the tested area. having six or seven times more emissions in reality. of course those companies are not there to have their say or put their prospective but i wonder how much of a spotlight the emissions candle put on diesel in the first place? cashback with the emissions scandal. —— the emissions scandal. the diesel companies they lost all credibility and it is a fault by our government who predicted for years that diesel technology —— who protected the diesel technology. this is the reason why we have this bad situation in air quality because no one was controlling and now there is a flashback, european standards for air quality have to be fulfilled and it is higher and more important than the question of mobility. what does this mean for the individuals, the individuals who perhaps are rich enough to buy a new car with the cleaner technology? the people who thought that they were doing the right thing by doing —— by buying a diesel car a few years ago, this is surely not fair on them? it is not fairand we are surely not fair on them? it is not fair and we are fighting as a consumer organisation as well for about 9 million buyers of these ca rs. about 9 million buyers of these cars. the industry was promising that these cars were clean and environmentally friendly and co2 effective and that is not true. these cars are polluting the air quality in the cities, even more than old cars. and so, we have only one opportunity, the car industry has to retrofit the diesel cars, they have to take back the cheating ca ta lys e they have to take back the cheating catalyse eight and replace it with a functioning good one, like break thatis functioning good one, like break that is not functioning, but the car industry is responsible to fix the carand we want industry is responsible to fix the car and we want to have the same for this part. he is from the environmental group that brought that action. some breaking news from reuters, president trump's son in law jared kushner has lost his access to the president's daily brief. what that means is that he has lost access to the most valued us intelligence report. what we are learning via reuters, is that the white house is moving to impose greater discipline on access two secrets, that is from two us officials familiar with the matter, thatis officials familiar with the matter, that is what they have said to reuters. close trump adviser, the son—in—law of the president has lost his access to that most valued report, the daily brief. we will be speaking about that in about ten minutes time. saudi arabia has sacked its top military commanders and several junior ministers sacked its top military commanders and severaljunior ministers as part ofa and severaljunior ministers as part of a big shake—up seen as elevating younger officials in key security and economic pulse. the biggest casualty was this man, the chief of staff. he is seen here greeting other officers at a naval base. new bosses were also appointed for air defence and land forces, no formal reason has been given, so what is going on? saudi arabia is ruled by this man but it is his son who is behind many recent big changes in the country including an attempt to shift the economy away from dependence on oil. in 2015 he initiated the intervention in the yemen war. you can see how it is going. the war has really turned into a humanitarian disaster. this image shows a little girl being rescued from the site of an air strike that killed eight family members last year. more than 11,000 people have been killed in the fighting so far and there has been an outbreak of cholera. there is no official line about why they did this and it is hard to speculate why they did this. it has something to do with yemen. there has been a lot of criticism about his involvement in the war in yemen, the number of casualties and what has happened and they want to cnn to this. these changes do not necessarily mean that the strategy of saudi arabia will change in yemen. this does not mean that it will end the war in yemen. the individual demotions, the people who have been removed, we do not know exactly what the reasons are. no, that is why it is strange. when things like this happen there, they do not give a reason, they reshuffle people and a lot of it has to do with loyalties and those who are close to the royal family and those who they think and do a good job. they give them the job rather than it being based on their skills, it is about how close they are to the family. we do not know exactly what happened, we are just reading family. we do not know exactly what happened, we arejust reading into this like anyone else. what can we read into the elevation of a woman, the deputy labour minister, is this pa rt the deputy labour minister, is this part of the modernisation effort, to promote a more moderate view of islam in saudi arabia? it is a moderate step and saudi arabia is trying to change its image that it had for so long, that it had been conservative and reserved and kept women on the side and not having that participation of females in power and in higher positions and i think we have seen a lot of changes in the past few months. women were allowed to go into stadiums, small changes, and may be for someone outside saudi arabia, they would think they are minor changes, but for women there who have never been able to drive or participate in politics, or in public life such as that, it is a very big deal. it is pa rt that, it is a very big deal. it is part of the plan... this is his vision. i think he is trying to bring a lot of people who are close to him and a lot of analysts are saying this is paving the way for him for when he becomes king. he wa nts to him for when he becomes king. he wants to change the image of saudi arabia and he wants to have not a conservative islam model in the state. how that will happen, we will see how that goes, but i think he is trying hard and i think all so he will create some enemies on the way because not all people are happy about this. temperatures have continued to plunge across europe as the siberian weather for as —— siberian weather system moves in. there have been accidents on roads and railways. in serbia, a truck travelling between —— travelling from belgrade crashed on a bridge and it was left dangling over a river. it was two hours before the driver to be rescued. in croatia, we re driver to be rescued. in croatia, were a northern town has been paralysed by record snowfall. schools in the area have been closed after that. emergency services had to spend several hours evacuating nearby village. let us go to vienna, where we can get the view from central europe. it is bitterly cold here in vienna and the icy winds are making it feel even colder than it actually is and these kind of conditions we are seeing throughout central and even the south of europe at the moment, there has been snow in rome and naples, widespread travel disruption. a country like austria is used to the snow and here we have not seen the kind of disruptions that we have in some of the neighbouring countries. it is extremely difficult for anyone who does not have shelter and there is an effort throughout this part of the world to make sure that people who are homeless are brought to shelters where they can have a warm place to sleep that night. in poland, we understand that several people have actually died because of exposure to the cold. people are bracing themselves, certainly for a few more days of this and many people will be very relieved when this cold snap is over. here in the uk, heavy snow led to a day of disruption for schools and travellers, many rail services were cancelled in the south—east and network rail has issued an apology for closing line in areas where the snow never fail. victoria for closing line in areas where the snow neverfail. victoria fritz reports. it wants to provide the safest a nd reports. it wants to provide the safest and most reliable network for the trains that do run to run and that means that compacted snow can turn into ice, back in fact the points and stop them working. we could see freezing temperatures, we do not need any snow at all that can make the rails freeze which means that the signals do not change, so that the signals do not change, so that all these problems, despite effo rts that all these problems, despite efforts to try and counteract this, we are talking about europe's busiest railway network so more disruptions are expected tomorrow. still to come here on outside source... coming up soon, more about that. the film director lewis gilbert, the man behind some of the classic bond films has died at the age of 97. we will look back at his life and career. the primers to's office has dispersed any prospect of a return to a horror border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland as a consequence of brexit —— returned to a hard border. ireland as a consequence of brexit -- returned to a hard border. as far asa -- returned to a hard border. as far as a spokesperson is concerned, he was setting out technologically unfeasibly how this border might work after brexit. they say he was not suggesting there should be any kind of hard border, there was a phrase in that letter that said even if there was a hard border, goods would still not be checked. that has raised the possibility that he was contemplating a hard border against what was stated government policy. downing street have made it very clear at the position of the government that it is unchanged, that it will not contemplate a hard border on the island of ireland. nothing has changed because of boris ‘s letter. nothing has changed in their position. you're watching outside source. our top story. it could be the red light for a diesel ca rs could be the red light for a diesel cars in germany, a court has ruled that cities can ban them to protect people from harmful emissions. others store cheese —— stories from around the bbc right now. the funeral of the bollywood superstar will be held on wednesday after police closed the investigation into her death in dubai. an autopsy ruled that she drowned in a band after losing consciousness. she appeared in around 300 movies. mexican authorities are searching for three police officers in connection with the disappearance of three italian men on the 31st of january. four officers are already in custody accused of handing the italians overdue a criminal gang. here is one animal lots of people have been looking at online, this atlantic grey seal was found nearly dead on a beachin grey seal was found nearly dead on a beach in norfolk last september. she had a plastic ring trapped around her neck. the volunteers who cut it off nursed back to help and they have released back into the sea. —— nursed back to health. comcast, which owns nbc and universal pictures has outfoxed its rival with a bid for sky. sky has agreed a deal with 21st—century fox but that is facing scrutiny but the power of rupert murdoch's media empire. let us rupert murdoch's media empire. let usjoin our rupert murdoch's media empire. let us join our correspondent in rupert murdoch's media empire. let usjoin our correspondent in new york. why is comcast so interested in sky? comcast is essentially a us focused company which is very big here in the united states but it has virtually no presence beyond its shores and the ceo said he was in london in the back of a taxi and someone talked about sky and all of its products and the sky sports packages and then he went to westfield in london and they showed him some of the technology in a sky shop and he was impressed and he thought it was a decent chance to make inroads into the european market because sky is strong in the uk and ireland and germany and italy. you seen a scrap over a very profitable and very sought after assetin profitable and very sought after asset in europe in the media world in europe, between disney is set to buy fox and the part of sky that rupert murdoch owns and one of its rivals, comcast and perhaps we could be seen in a bidding war between these companies for a uk and european asset. while you are with us, iwant european asset. while you are with us, i want to ask you about this tweet saying that am is buying the smart doorbell maker ring, why are they making this move?|j smart doorbell maker ring, why are they making this move? i did not know of such a thing as that! amazon has been interested in companies like this for a while and the reason is simple. what ring does is it allows you to have video doorbells you can control from your smartphone, see who is at the door evenif smartphone, see who is at the door even if you are at work or out and of course, that is perfect if you are amazon looking to deliver parcels and you want a way to make sure that people can get to their deliveries when they are not at home. a start—up like this that provides a solution is a really good addition to the company and you can see why they have gone after it. what is interesting is that the money for this came from amazon originally, it has a programme in which it helps young entrepreneurs get their project off the ground, it helped build this business and it looks like it will buy it back in a big deal. thank you. when the world's most important central bankers speaks, everyone listens. jerome powell made his first major appearance as head of the us federal reserve earlier and here is what he said. we will continue to strike a balance between avoiding an overheated economy and bringing price inflation to 2% on a sustained basis. in view of the committee, further gradual increases the funds rate will obtain their objectives. lower corporate taxes should lead to higher investment and the effect is not easy to estimate but the studies find that it should lead to higher investment and that should lead to higher productivity over time and that should lead to higher wages over time. let us stay in the us and go back to that breaking news that jared kushner has last access to the present‘s daily brief. that news came in via reuters. let us get an explanation from gary o'donoghue in washington. tell us what this means and why it has happened? effectively what it means is that jared kushner will no longer get access to top secret information that comes into the white house, including the president's daily briefing, includes highly classified intelligence material and of course, given his role in the white house and it is a huge role ranging across a whole bunch of subject areas including relations with mexico and of course, crucially, the whole business of middle east peace and the negotiations there are, not been able to see top secret, the most secret information that comes in will handicap and hamper his ability to leave. the reason he has had a problem with this clearance is pa rt had a problem with this clearance is part of it is self—inflicted. he made a bit of a mess filling in a forum that everyone has to fill in who is seeking this kind of clea ra nce. who is seeking this kind of clearance. it details your employment history, financial details, that kind of thing and then the fbi has a look at it, does some interviews and eventually gives you the clearance or does not give you the clearance or does not give you the clearance. or recommends the clea ra nce the clearance. or recommends the clearance or not. he has had to revise that form a number of times and there are concerns about his business entanglements with people outside the united states and whether or not that could potentially compromise his ability to look at that sort of intelligence. it is a really difficult position for him to find himself in, embarrassing for the president and asi embarrassing for the president and as i say, it will leave him with the ability to do hisjob, only as i say, it will leave him with the ability to do his job, only with one hand tied behind his back. in 30 seconds, what can we read into the timing of this, if anything? we know that the chief of staff wanted to clamp down on the sheer number of people who were operating under this interim security clearance. jared kushner was not the only one who was subject to this backlog and after the recent scandal around rob porter, senior adviser who was also under interim clearance, who was a potential blackmail target because of his own personal life, then the review was taken place and nowjohn kelly has decided, enough is enough, these clearances have to stop. thank you very much. gary o'donoghue bringing us up to date in washington with the news that jared kushner has lost his access to the most valued us intelligence report. back in a few minutes time. hello. it is off to north america. some positively springlike conditions on the way in the north eastern state of the usa on wednesday. plenty of sunshine binders weather system and some unseasonably white —— mild air has pushed in. winter continues here. on wednesday, some areas will see damage is between ten and 15 degrees below average. chilly days and cold nights. low pressure bumping into that cold air in the pacific northwest will extend snow into california in the next 48 hours, rain to the south of california which might trigger localised flash flooding and perhaps landslide. in the years, a weather system will develop, warm air coming out of the gulf, firing up those showers as that system pushes into the north—east into thursday. it follows the line of weather systems recently which have led to the flooding sensitivity through the mississippi valley and as you can see, this will exacerbate things with 50 millimetres of rain to add to the picture. south africa has picked up some intense rainfall through the early pa rt some intense rainfall through the early part of this week, parts of mozambique and zimbabwe getting 200 millimetres of rain falling in the space of 24 hours and some hefty seasonal showers. cloud showing up here on the satellite picture. in the north, we will have heavy showers through the middle of the week. it will beat the likes of botswa na week. it will beat the likes of botswana and zimbabwe will get the worst of the weather. towards the north—west, some pretty relentless rain on the way. if we dressed up towards morocco you will see a weather front extending in towards morocco you will see a weatherfront extending in here towards morocco you will see a weather front extending in here and it will be followed by a few showers. all part of an area of low pressure and it will come into play for our european weather story on wednesday. you probably already know that europe is in the grip of a big freeze, exceptionally cold weather, snow reported in corsica and there is more wintry weather to come in the next couple of days. the cold extends into italy, greece and the north of spain for wednesday, our area of low pressure that is pushing into africa will bump into portugal and spain bringing heavy snow across the pyrenees and eventually into the south of france and torrential rain for spain and portugal and strong and gusty winds. this low will push further north towards the uk affecting us at the end of this week, but take a closer look at how that works with our uk report in half an hour. hello, this is outside source, these are the main stories. it could be the red light for diesel ca rs it could be the red light for diesel cars in germany, a court rules that cities can ban then to protect people from harmful emissions. will other countries follow? us media reports say president trump's son—in—law had close adviser jarrod kushner has lost access to the most valued us intelligence report, the president's daily brief. it comes as the white house imposes greater discipline on access to secrets. it was a pause in name only, fighting in eastern ghouta means there has been no ceasefire today in syria. everyday, outside source features bbcjournalists working over 30 languages and your questions are always welcome. as we mentioned, despite russia ordering a humanitarian ceasefire, the damascus suburb of eastern ghouta awoke to this. syrian government forces carrying outair syrian government forces carrying out air strikes, according to a monitoring group. the proposed five hour truce scheduled to start at nine o'clock local time collapsed on its first day. in fact, some residents of eastern ghouta say it never started at all. right now, more than five air strikes hit towns, and the missiles hit the city and killed two people. many bombings right no, after the ceasefire. they did not stop bombing the buildings in eastern ghouta. both sides are blaming each other for the u nsuccessful blaming each other for the unsuccessful ceasefire, russia, which backs the seren government, accused rebels of shelling and evacuation corridor. the rebels have denied this. a un spokesman has said that even if the truce had been successful, there was not enough time to bring in medical aid or get civilians out. there is not enough to them at any age or any evacuation out, the un in damascus... they can tell it will take more than this because the distance is less than 30 minutes. but to bring the convoy in and to take all the items out, it needs much more than five hours. they need much more time to screen patients, to talk to workers and said this area. five hours is nothing, definitely. it is not ideal that the un security council members are talking about this five hours truce while the attacks continue for the rest of the day. let's show you pictures of this crossing between damascus and eastern ghouta. they we re damascus and eastern ghouta. they were filmed by syrian state tv. you can see the buses parked by the side of the road, presumably there to ta ke of the road, presumably there to take evacuees away. there are explosions visible on the distant skyline. it is not caused —— it's not clear what caused them or in whose territory they are located. if the residents do manage to escape fighting around their homes, they may face new dangers in the shelters and camps in other parts of syria. james landale has uncovered reports of local seren officials demanding sexual favours for the aid supplies they have been tasked with distributing. daniel spencer says she was told about this abuse from someone who had fled to an aid camp injordan. someone who had fled to an aid camp in jordan. they were withholding the aid that had been delivered, and using these women for sex. so this was a range of women. women of different ages in the group. some had experienced it themselves, some we re very had experienced it themselves, some were very distraught host of sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls has been ignored, it's been known about and it's been ignored for seven years. let's turn to australia, because a woman has taken on a wildly popular anonymous app, accusing it of facilitating online bullying. it lets people do this, leave constructive criticism, as they collared, on their social media networks. but anonymously. collared, on their social media networks. butanonymously. it collared, on their social media networks. but anonymously. it was ample's most popular on the online store before it launched, but now it's been dropped altogether, because of a campaign launched by this woman, catriona collins, she was appalled by the messages are 13—year—old daughter was getting, some of them foul and offensive. this is some of her petition. you can see the headline. my doctor was told to kill herself. her campaign has had huge support. —— my daughter was told. this has been some of the response online. you've got this reaction, excellent news. the route of almost all cyber—bullying is anonymity. the company denies the accusations and says while it's u nfortu nate, accusations and says while it's unfortunate, the app should not be used by teenager. it tells us it is optimistic about reaching a favourable understanding with google and apple soon. our correspondent has been following the story. it's an anonymous messaging app, it uses —— users will sign up and download it on their mobile phones, than they are givena it on their mobile phones, than they are given a page and other users can read them anonymous —— and leave them anonymous comments. read them anonymous —— and leave them anonymous commentsm read them anonymous —— and leave them anonymous comments. it was designed as an anonymous feedback app that people might find useful, but it has a wish they'd been used bya but it has a wish they'd been used by a lot of teenagers, other young people and some pretty horrible things being said. is seen to be hugely popular amongst teenagers. and it has prompted allegations that it has been used to bully people. as you can imagine, with anonymous apps. you can imagine, with anonymous apps, this one and other ones in the past have been used to send really hurtful, really crude and disgusting comments to users. and there have been allegations that these have led to be but wanting to self harm and ta ke to be but wanting to self harm and take their own lives as mac that's right. in the past, the apps or websites have prompted these kinds of scandals. interestingly, it was a petition by one particular australian mother who pointed out the bullying aspect to sarahah. that actually managed to get the app taken off the ample store. as far as we know. —— the ample store. —— apple—macro. we know. —— the ample store. —— apple-macro. and the bbc have looked into sara hah apple-macro. and the bbc have looked into sarahah and how it works. what did you find out? we did find out it was quite easy to send anonymous feedback, that is the point of the app. by feedback, that is the point of the app. by the time we contacted the ceo, we managed to find that when m essa g es ceo, we managed to find that when messages containing offensive language were sent, we tested that mechanism, they were being blocked. so eight week has happened in the app to block some of those offensive messages. those of us with teenagers who see the sort of messages that they can send our concern, but what do sarahah say in their defence? why do sarahah say in their defence? why do they say they should exist? part of the thing they say is that actually most teenagers should not be using this. young teenagers should not be using this. there is a minimum age of 17. they put the onus on the parents to enforce this, which i'm sure parents at there will realise how difficult it is sometimes. but then, they also say they are upping the enforcement of their rules and doing technical twea ks to their rules and doing technical tweaks to filter out some of those messages, even messages that are explicit, they're trying to use what we, natural language processing to try and figure out which might be threatening or harassing. and i think sarahah means the truth in arabic? honesty. the fact that it's been taken off the ample website and google, you can still download it? it will still continue to function if used to have it on your phone. but new users will not be able to download it. well, you can get a lot more on that aren't on all our top stories on our website. there is more about that app story. the investigation and the interview with catriona collins, the woman who launched the petition and ended up taking sarahah of google and apple. britain's international trade secretary liam fox has said any form of customs union with the eu after brexit would be a complete sell—out for the uk. his comments were partly in response to a policy shift by this man, jeremy corbyn, who said on monday he wanted britain to stay in a customs union with the eu and that would allow goods to continue to move freely without tariffs but would restrict the ability to do separate trade deals. the eu is the uk's single largest trading partner, accounting for 42% of exports, but the fox said new opportunities beckoned. our approach should not be premised on something identifying how much of our current relationship we wa nt how much of our current relationship we want to keep, but what we need to prosper in a rapidly changing global environment. we cannot let the practices and the patterns of the past constrain the opportunities of the future. but liam fox's former top officials have criticised the gum and strategy. sir martin donnelly was permanent secretary in the department for international trade until last year and here is what he had to say. if we look at where we are now, with fair and equal access to the very large, rich eu market, which is nearly half of our services and goods exports, plus preferential access to other markets, which gets us up to around three fifths of our trade, if you're going to give that up for the promise of some bilateral deals with markets that are much less on to us, it's like giving up a three course mealfor a packet of it's like giving up a three course meal for a packet of crisps. it's just not equivalent, and we have to recognise that reality before we ta ke recognise that reality before we take this decision. meanwhile, the european union's chief negotiator michel barnier has insisted that any transition period with britain must be limited to a specific duration. britain is seeking a transition of about two years but says it doesn't wa nt to about two years but says it doesn't want to be restricted to the date proposed by the eu at the end of 2020. here is michel barnier. there are significant points of disagreement with the uk as to what we understand by transition, the conditions for such and the dimensions of such a transition. for example, the duration of the transition. logically, we wish to end on the 31st of december 2020 at the same time as the multi—annual financial period. the uk it seems would like to maintain this duration, which is not possible. on friday, theresa may is due to give a speech outlining the government's latest thinking on where it was the relationship with the eu to end up and she is expected to call for the ability to diverged from some eu regulations over time, but she doesn't have a majority in parliament and the eu may not give her what she wants. here is rob watson. it's very difficult to imaginea prime watson. it's very difficult to imagine a prime minister being in a trickier position. her own party divided, the country divided, business is deeply concerned. the pressure is really on. i think the pressure is really on. i think the pressure is really on. i think the pressure is perfect on because what we are seeing this week, last week, we are seeing this week, last week, we will see on friday, brexit is going from being something that was theoretical, to the rubber really hitting the road, real decisions need to be made, deadlines, decisions are approaching. it seems plenty of governments want to gather data on their citizens. china is doing that but facing criticism over how the information is being used. it's being used for policing in a province in the northwest for a gathers information about their communities. the data is also apparently being used to crack down on anyone suspected political disloyalty. here is the china director from disloyalty. here is the china directorfrom rights disloyalty. here is the china director from rights watch with more. this is an affirmative which there are really not enforceable privacy rights. in fact a great deal of this data is being gathered without people even knowing that it is being gathered or what purpose it is being gathered or what purpose it is being gathered or what purpose it is being used for. and arguably, the piece of the story that concerns us the most is that authorities are using this information to decide that people are somehow harbouring views that are suspect and in fact arbitrarily containing them on the basis of that determination. some of this information is gathered by local officials, an integrated with material that the police have already gathered. essentially what the authorities are doing is grading people to determine whether the authorities that they are problematic. we have been documenting for several months the establishment of what are euphemistically known as political education centres across the province in western china, for people are essentially held without any sort of formal process and forced to go through proclamations of their loyalty to the chinese government. there are many reports —— there are not many reports yet actual physical abuse in these centres, but there are suggestions that large numbers of people are being sent to them with no legal basis for this whatsoever. it is a very worrying trend and seeing these two things merged together i think should be prompting a lot of governments and companies to be asking questions about what the chinese authorities are doing. for anyone who is selling the scanner technology to china or trying to buy it from china, about how their gear is being used. the companies identified in these documents are chinese, but we have bumped up on other surveillance related issues against western —based companies and we have real questions about whether they are doing this with the appropriate due diligence. we've been falling of elements any nigeria school abduction story. it's more than a week since 110 schoolgirls were taken. this is just under 300 kilometres away from the school in chibok where 200 and sent to six girls were abducted four yea rs to six girls were abducted four years ago. “— to six girls were abducted four years ago. —— 270 girls. there has been a tweet from a nigerian presidential office saying the government has set up a committee to unravel the circumstances surrounding the abduction of these 110 students. on yesterday's programme we heard from a father whose daughter is still missing. here is one of the girls who managed to get away. we went through a lot before we were able to escape. i saw them with my own eyes. we initially tried leafing through the school gate but they blocked cars there so we we re gate but they blocked cars there so we were back in school and climbed over the parent —— over the fence. but there were three cars outside and they asked us to get in, saying they would help us. some of us went in and some of us reviews. a gunman stood by the school gate and kept firing into the air. but they did notaim at firing into the air. but they did not aim at anyone, just firing into the air. we went back into school andjumped the air. we went back into school and jumped over the fence and ran towards the nearest town. we were lucky. no matter what security has been put in place, i honestly don't think i can go back to the school. the latest on the nigerian schoolgirl abduction. the former co—chair of the main syrian kurdish movement is on tu rkey‘s syrian kurdish movement is on turkey's most wanted list, accused of terror charges including a bombing of 2016 in ankara. he was detained in prague at the weekend but the court there released him. turkey is not happy with the decision. it is a spokesman for the turkish debited prime minister. this billing is against international law and against the european can the edge and on extradition. this ruling clearly shows support for terrorist organisations. and it will have a negative affect on relations between turkey and the czech republic. here isa turkey and the czech republic. here is a correspondent on how it is being seen there. from here is the former leader and the founder of a kurdish syrian party governing in northern syria which turkey sees as an extension of the outlawed militant group in turkey, which has reached a decade—long insurgency. so any kurdish entity existing across its borders is a direct threat to its borders is a direct threat to its security. that is why turkey was expecting the czech authorities to rule for the extradition but this decision to release him can —— came asa decision to release him can —— came as a surprise for the turkish authorities. so what will happen now? after his release, he told reporters he doesn't know yet where he would be, but pledged to the czech authorities he would remain in the european union. turkey has warned the czech authorities that this decision would have a negative impact in bilateral relations, but what kind of impact this would have what kind of impact this would have what kind of steps turkey would take is yet another question that needs an answer. afoodbank in an answer. a foodbank in germany has temporarily stopped accepting new mac and customers, favouring only german citizens instead. it is what angela merkel said about that move. one should not run services on the basis of such categorisations but it also shows the amount of pressure there is and how many people are needy. an estimated 1.2 million asylu m needy. an estimated 1.2 million asylum seekers enter germany during the mike in crisis of 2015 to 2016. the charity says it helps around 16,000 people in the city of sn. they say the share of the foreigners using the foodbank has soared to 75% in recent years. here is the head of the foodbank justifying the decision. firstly, the decision is temporary. secondly, we are temporarily not accepting migrants because of the proportion of foreigners among our clients has risen to 75%. in recent years we have always had a percentage of foreigners, about 35 to 40%. the proportion of migrants in this city is 23%. so we have always had significantly more migrants or foreigners as clients than the average of the population. film director lewis gilbert has died at the age of 97. he is behind james bond films like the spy who loved me normal and moon—mac. he directed more than 40 films including alfie and educating rita. david sillito looks back at his life. when lewis gilbert took onjames bond, he was already a director with more than 20 forms to his name. he had directed orson welles, kenneth moore and dark warbird, but 007 with its seemingly and limited budget was new territory. —— dirk bogarde. its seemingly and limited budget was new territory. -- dirk bogarde. have never been on a film where the staff has ever come up. if i said today i wa nt has ever come up. if i said today i want 5000 people flown in from tokyo, i'm sure they would be flown in. in the 1950s, lewis gilbert made his name with a string of tales of stiff upper lip wartime british valour. and then in the 1960s, a film that helped define a very different era, alfie. my understanding of women only goes as faras understanding of women only goes as far as the pleasure. when it comes to the pain, and like every other bloke. i don't want to know. onset, he was easy—going, charming, unflappable. the child of musical performance, he spent his life in show business. and 17 years after alfie, he was reunited with michael cain in educating rita. thought it was something serious! after that, shirley valentine. now i'm shirley valentine about —— again. shirley valentine. now i'm shirley valentine about -- again. his career reads like a greatest hits of the british film industry and it is certainly some of mr bond's greatest moments. lewis gilbert, who has died at the age of 97. everyone is talking about black panther accepting the imaginary country —— it is set in the imaginary country of brca1, although the language is an official one in south africa and zimbabwe. —— the country of wa kanda. south africa and zimbabwe. —— the country of wakanda. here are some of the useful phrases. i may not be from wa kanda, but the useful phrases. i may not be from wakanda, but i do speak the language. what you hear in the film is my language. it is spoken byjust over 8 million people in south africa and was nelson mandela's hauman. just in case you find yourself in wa kanda hauman. just in case you find yourself in wakanda and you want to strike up a conversation with black panther, i will teach you a few phrases. it is one of the few land which is in the world with clicks in it. if you want to say hi, how are you? let's it. if you want to say hi, how are you ? let's take it. if you want to say hi, how are you? let's take it up a notch. maybe you? let's take it up a notch. maybe you want to know what side of the road to drive on. you would say... let's try that again. what side of the body do you drive on here? —— of the body do you drive on here? —— of the road. say you arrive in wakanda just in time for the king's swearing in ceremony and you're dying to a ten —— to attend, you could ask... what time is the king's swearing in ceremony? firstly, no trip to a foreign land would be complete without sampling the local dishes. if you want to ask what is good to eat in wakanda, you could say... let's try that again. so hopefully if you're ever in wakanda on holiday, you will knowjust enough to stay out of trouble or at least get yourself out of it! so now you know how to get by in wa kanda and so now you know how to get by in wakanda and in south africa. thanks for watching outside source. hello. first came the bitterly cold air, then the snow and more of us had snow on tuesday, and there is more to come this week, and for some errors that haven't seen much so far. doesn't this look lovely? for those who say it's never a story u nless those who say it's never a story unless it snows in london, here is the view of snow in london on tuesday. we have spoken about this enough, the aircoming tuesday. we have spoken about this enough, the air coming from russia, serbia, bitterly cold across a large swathe of europe and into the uk. the flow changing slightly, becoming more of a south—easterly flow, these areas seeing the heaviest snow showers. this is where the met office has an amber warning in fourth, part of north east england, easter in scotland, much of the central belt. five to ten centimetres, there will be more in places, especially on hills, drifting in the wind as well. some particularly nasty travelling conditions as the showers continue to feed in through wednesday, into thursday. elsewhere, showers are more scattered. sunny spells on wednesday, but still a few centimetres here and there. it is even colder, some places not getting above freezing, factor in the win and for some it will feel like it is minus double figures. so even colder, the wind actually is about to pick up further as we go through thursday to friday. this area of low pressure, iberia, a storm is going to feed off moisture going into thursday, into the cold here in places across the uk so that means more snow. an error of more persistent snow in parts of southern england, particularly south west england, particularly south west england into wales. the wind is picking up as well so the risk of seeing some blizzards. we still have snow showers in eastern scotland, a few for northern ireland, but it is still bitterly cold from us. this next area of snow is why the met office has another amber warning. you can see the area it covers on thursday where we could see some blizzards. and some significantly disruptive snow. going into friday, this area of snow expands and starts to push further north, to northern ireland, stretching down to south east england. we will keep you up—to—date on how heavy the snow will be. still some snow showers in eastern scotland. a little less cold south of this area of snow. but that's another story as we go into that we go into the weekend. the big is the area of low pressure is packed into the south west but is dominated by low pressure. you know it's going to be unsettled. but look at this, this is rain showers beading into southern parts, less cold air around this area of low pressure. the flow is not from russia or serbia, coming up from the south west. but still it is an easterly feed coming into northern parts of the uk, particularly into scotland. a little less cold but still cold enough to produce some snow, even going into the start of next week. so into next week, it is less cold for money, but particularly across southern parts of the uk. low pressure, so it's u nsettled. of the uk. low pressure, so it's unsettled. it will be wetter times because it's unsettled. it will be wetter times because its low pressure. but still some cold here particularly across northern parts of the uk, we're not yet out of the woods when it comes to snow. but at least it's not going to snow. but at least it's not going to be as bitterly cold as it is at the moment. tonight at ten, heavy snow causes serious disruption across large parts of the uk as bitterly cold weather takes hold. in southern england up to 10 centimetres fell in some places and hundreds of schools were closed across the uk. on the roads, driving conditions were treacherous with dozens of accidents reported. we will have the latest on the snow and icy conditions with tonight already looking much worse than last night. also tonight... brexit and the irish border — downing street categorically rules out any return to a "hard border" after a leaked memo from boris johnson. a ceasefire in the syrian suburb of eastern ghouta collapses,

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