a substance called tramadol now trying to do i m just going to give you a couple of numbers here less than 10 kilograms of this of this synthetic opioid were seized in 201125 tons of it were seized in 2017 it makes you wonder how much of it actually got through almost 5 percent of nigeria s population said they took it for non-medical purposes last year so this is this is not a crisis that s impending this is a crisis that s actually already going on in africa pretty much an epidemic the way it s. very serious indeed derek thank you very much for filling us in science correspondent derrick williams. recent killing of jordan politician. a suspect of right wing extremists has raised concerns about threats to other public figures here we visited the southwestern telling of hall where a local politician. was a has been facing right wing threats for years. viviana vission moser never knows