01/08/2017 Outside Source

Hello, this is Outside Source, an hour of the biggest global stories

from the BBC newsroom and we begin in Turkey where nearly 500 people

gone on trial accused of taking part in last yearfailed to. In the US

there are new allegations over Donald Trump's some's meeting with a

Russian lawyer and how the White House explained it. This is a video

showing a prominent Venezuelan opposition figure being taken from

his home. He is now in a military prison outside Caracas. We will hear

from our correspondence as protests over Sunday's controversial election

continue. We will report from Kenya where the country is in shock as the

man in charge of its computerised voting systems found dead as we

reported yesterday and authorities say he was murdered, just days

before the presidential election. And if you have questions about

these stories, send them my way. A number of stories to look at today

on Outside Source. If you watch regulate you will know that we can

access the latest pictures coming into the BBC newsroom and these are

a number of these suspect in this mass trial in Turkey relating to the

failed to. And more violence in an Israeli, focusing on the arrest of

two the opposition figures and we will be talking about Donald Trump

Junior because we have learned more about the explanation he initially

gave for the meeting with Russian lawyer last year. It seems the

explanation at least in part was penned by the president. We will

talk about all of those stories in the next few minutes but we begin in

Turkey because there has been the start of a mass trial of a group of

soldiers who were accused of plotting the failed to last year.

These were some of the men being led into court. You can see in the

background those government supporters and relatives of people

who died during the coup attempt. This is not the only large trial,

there are two going on, both related to the two. Each one focuses on

different event in Ankara on the night of the 15th of July last year.

The first began in May and its focus was what happened in the military

headquarters. We note there are over 200 defendants in that case. The one

I have shown you pictures of starting today, that is about a

military base that was allegedly where the coup was coordinated from

and in the case of this trial, the number of defendants is close to

500. These trials are reflections of the scale of what happened last year

with over 300 people losing their lives and close to 1500 people

wounded. In the immediate aftermath of the coup, over 8000 soldiers were

arrested and many more have been arrested since. Let's bring us

up-to-date. When 40 of the defendants were brought to the court

room from the front gate, the pro-government crowd was waiting for

them, chanting pro-government slogans and at some points throwing

things at the defendants. This is a clear signal that they wanted the

death penalty to be reinstated in the country and they wanted these

people, accused of plotting the coup attempt and being tried with that

sentence in mind. We are talking about nearly 500 people being tried

today. The case will carry on until the end of the month and the

hearings until the end of the month. We are talking about air force

commanders, fighter jets, the focus is especially on this particular

airbase, Akinci, which the government believes was used as a

headquarters of the coup. The fighter jets that took off from here

went on to bomb the parliament and government buildings and police

headquarters and even the general chief of staff was held captive in

this airbase. This is a significant case regarding the coup plot. We

have had several other cases throughout the last year and we are

talking about over 50,000 people who have been arrested since the coup

attempt. Massive numbers, 500 of them almost at the dock today. We

are still waiting to hear what they will be saying in of their defence

and how they will be affiliated to the coup plot. From Turkey to

Washington for your daily update on the US presidency. You might

remember there was for or about a meeting that took place between

Donald Trump junior and a Russian lawyer last year at Trump Tower. It

turns out the first explanation we got from Donald Trump junior about

this meeting was dictated by the president. That is the story the

Washington Post has reported. The White House has responded saying it

not accurate. This is the response. The statement that Don Junior issued

is true, there is no inaccuracy in it. The president weighed in at any

father would based on the limited information he had and this is all

discussion frankly of no consequence. Just to remind you, the

explanation we were given at the time by Donald Trump junior was that

he had met this woman in Trump Tower to discuss a ban on US adoptions in

Russia. That version did not last long and the press were already on

to the real story so Donald Trump junior released this string of

e-mails. It showed as he was offered damaging information about Hillary

Clinton and said it was part of the Russian effort to support the Trump

campaign. President Trump has always maintained that would be a normal

thing to do to try to get dirt on your opponents so how damaging is

this Washington Post report? We can bring in our correspondent. It seems

to me that the White House is saying both things, yet it was about

adoption but also legitimate to be interested in information on Hillary

Clinton? What the White House is saying is that first of all Donald

Trump did have a role in drafting that statement which confirms what

the Washington Post reported, although they said that Donald Trump

did not dictate it. He weighed in with suggestions that a father might

have. She also said the statement was true and as you pointed out, it

says the meeting was not about campaign issues, it was unimportant,

it was about Russian adoption. We know from e-mails that were released

that the meeting was about a campaign issue which is trying to

collect damaging information on Hillary Clinton. It seems to be a

bit more alternative facts from the White House about what is going on.

You have had Mr Trump weigh in, as it is want, he is obsessed with this

Russian investigation and he wanted to have a say in how it was handled

and of course it is his son. The problem is that he may have created

more problems for himself than not by putting out this version of

events. That is what I want to ask you about, this is a second, while

ago come unexpectedly, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave a press

briefing and in it he said this. We have been very clear with the

Chinese, we certainly don't blame the Chinese for the situation in

North Korea, only the North Koreans are to blame for this situation but

we do believe China has a special and unique relationship because of

the significant economic activity to influence the North Korean regime in

ways that nobody else can and that is white we continue to call upon

them to use that influence with North Korea to create the conditions

where we can have a productive dialogue. -- that is why. If you

were watching yesterday you might be thinking, rewind, what were those

tweets that Donald Trump sent about China and North Korea?

Bear in mind Rex Tillerson just said the Americans don't blame China. We

are scratching our heads but fortunately you are the corresponded

for the state department so you can clear up the position on China and

North Korea! The position that Secretary Tillerson talked about is

what he has talked about for the past six months and that put into

place which is this effort to work together with China to squeeze North

Korea and you have had varying levels of intensity about how that

is expressed full is you have these tweets from President Trump in which

he holds China to task but Tillerson is talking about a relationship that

he is working at regulator to try to get a mutual goal achieved and there

is of course frustration but at the same time it is not something he

blames for. He said also interestingly that these tweets,

they are part of the environment we have to work with. He said

previously they were a dynamic situation I might have experienced

when I was CEO of Exxon, something happens and you change and regroup

and move on forward and he is very focused and methodical and moving

forward with the strategy on China that he feels he should be in

promoting. Dynamic is certainly one word. This was the president talking

about yesterday in the White House saying it was a great day. We

discussed yesterday Anthony Scaramucci getting kicked out as

head of communications and by all accounts that was because of the new

chief of staff, General John Kelly, who wanted him to go will stop after

we spoke I lost count of how analysts saying that this was

evidence of John Kelly taking control and I feel I have heard this

is only times with reference to the Trump administration. That is true

and it is a big caveat. The facts are that General John Kelly is

qualified to bring order to the White House. He has all of the

characteristics, he is disciplined and respected in the White House. He

has experience and Donald Trump likes him and admires him and he is

not afraid to speak truth to power and have decisive leadership and all

of those things exist and you have had in the initial 24 hours

invitations in the West Wing that people will fall into line and

follow the rules and accept his structure. We will see how it works

out. After all the bad press Donald Trump got in the last week, he might

want to leave an impression that the White House is not in complete chaos

but the million-dollar question is that he is a source of a lot of the

unpredictability and how much will he listen to his new chief of staff

if he asked him to temper his wildest impulses and restrain

himself and he already tweeted that people who tell them not to treat

our Trump enemies and this is the only way he can do it the truth out.

That'll be the real challenge. It will be interesting, thank you. We

will talk tomorrow. We have been to Turkey and the US and in a few

minutes we will turn to Kenya, a country still in shock after the

authorities say the man who was in charge of its computerised voting

system was murdered. This is just days away from the presidential

election. British Gas is going to increase electricity prices by 12.5%

in September, a move which will affect more than 3 million

customers. Its parent company, Centrica, said the price rise was

because of the increasing cost of transmitting energy to homes and

government by mental policies. It is not the price of the electricity

itself in the wholesale market, if anything that has gone down but it

is the transmission costs. When the government says we want to use more

renewables that comes with a cost and you have to connect those

renewable sources to the network. There are other things that the

companies had to do like rolling out smart meters, subsidising

installation for some low income families, these are government

policies which they say it have a knock-on effect. The actual price of

the stuff is not going down by the government is saying, we're not

having that, we do not take the blame for these prices going up but

it is still a big hit for a lot of households.

This is outside source live from the BBC newsroom where the main story

comes from Turkey where they are holding trial up over 500 people

about last year's attempted coup. Some were heckled by comments

borders as they arrived. Some of the main stories from the World Service,

firstly we know that archaeologists at Angkor Wat in Cambodia have

unearthed something astonishing, a large statue believed to date back

to the 12th century. It is a sandstone figure, two metres high,

it is thought it stood as a guardian to an entrance to a local hospital.

Three defendants have been killed in a court in Moscow after they tried

to take the arms from security officers in an attempt to escape.

The suspects were accused of being part of a group known as the GGA

gang, named after the computer game Grand Theft Auto. And this is a man

in Canada using his speedboat to try to douse the flames of a bushfire,

not sure how effective it was but he said he accelerated the speedboat

while his girlfriend gave him directions and later fire crews

arrived and began the work he yet started. Yesterday we told you about

the death of the man in charge of the computerised voting system for

the Kenyan elections next week. The Electoral Commission's chairperson

is now saying there is no doubt he was tortured and murdered. This is

the latest. The country is still in shock after the death of such an

important person in the Electoral Commission. Chris Msando was in

charge of the electronic voting system which would identify voters

and transfer the results from the polling stations. He had to show the

country that this system could not be compromised. He was last seen on

Friday night leaving work and later CCTV footage showed him driving

around Nairobi in the early hours in the company of a woman and two men.

Late on Saturday morning police discovered his body and that they

21-year-old female student and took them to the city mortuary but they

were not identified at that point. It was only on Monday when the

government office responsible open that they work identified. The

president issued a statement calling for people to avoid speculative and

let investigations proceed. The International committee has also

reacted with the US and UK governments offering the services of

the investigating agencies and the main opposition here in tenet has

urged the government to take up the offer. There have been protests in

Nairobi because of this death and our correspondence was there. These

are demonstrators drawn from various parts of society and human rights

organisations hit Will Genia who are out on the street venting their

anger over the killing of Chris Msando.

. This is as free and credible elections. What they are calling

upon the government to do is ensure all officials are secure. The

perception within the public is that the death is political. He was

killed in connection with his work as an official. If that perception

is correct and until it is displaced by an independent investigation,

then they need the greatest understanding and support in

relation to the work they are doing. They are in a difficult place, under

pressure, so they need to be supported by the larger public and I

think the public wants free and fair elections. We're not getting outside

people, we work with the team we have because they are able and

capable of delivering this election. The main cause of action here is for

justice to prevail over the death of Chris Msando. The election day is on

August the 8th and as it is, in most elections, one of the key issues is

health care. This is our correspondence again looking at the

impact that issue could have on the outcome. -- correspondence. All is

not well in the Kenyan government hospitals. Nurses went on strike for

week demanding a deal that would see their salaries increase. This

followed a doctors strike early in the year that lasted 100 days. The

double industrial action has meant public health facilities have been

in a constant state of paralysis, even as a election fever grips the

country. The majority of people who go to public hospitals are local gun

-- low income families in areas like this. Most do not have health

insurance and getting private health care is out of reach and therefore

adding two major strike affecting the public health system in one year

is a big blow. Pregnant from rape, unwell and unable to raise money for

care, this 16-year-old and her mother have been forced to beg for

treatment at a nearby private hospital. They said have ulcers in

my stomach, my blood sugar is high. The treatment is very expensive. Her

father is a casual labourer. A good day I make $2 and that is what I

used to feed our four children. She fears her daughter might not

complete her treatment. A hospital has asked them not to return until

they can pay. This story is repeated in many homes, sometimes with tragic

consequences. Health care is a function shared between the national

government and a new second tier of leadership spread across 47

counties. Although it was a good idea, because of the challenges,

during the intimidation it has led many health care workers who still

continue the trend of resigning out a public service leaving very few to

serve and therefore the quality of service provision remains very poor

will stop on a positive note, some achievements have been realised. The

hospitals across the country now have state-of-the-art medical

equipment am a health insurance coverage has been expanded and

delivery charges for mothers abolished. But it is the ability to

quickly end strike that could have a big impact on voting decisions. This

is not only a failure of the national government but also the

current governors, most of whom are in the opposition. It is no wonder

there is a conspiracy of silence on this issue in the ongoing political

campaigns. Next we will shift from Kenyan politics to Pakistani

politics and I should warn you you might need your notebooks for this

because it is conjugated. The Pakistan parliament has elected a

new Prime Minister and they have to get on with that because now Sharif

resigned after an investigation into his family's wealth. That is

connected to the Panama Papers leak in 2015 when his children were

linked to a set that had not been shown in the family's Wealth

statement which was enough to see him stepping down. B. Is on our

website. The new man is Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. He is only likely to

be a temporary Prime Minister because the ruling party would like

this man to take over, Shahbaz Sharif and he is the brother of

Nawaz Sharif who has just stepped down. They are rubber-stamping a

decision made by the ruling party that they want this guy, Shahid

Khaqan Abbasi, the former natural resources Minister, to be an interim

Prime Minister. What the MPs are doing, they have to formally elect

him in order for him to take the office of Prime Minister and that is

what is happening in Parliament at the moment but he is an interim

leader. Nawaz Sharif, who was disqualified from office for

corruption, he wants his younger brother, Shahbaz Sharif, to replace

him as Prime Minister but the problem is that Shahbaz Sharif is

not a member of Parliament so he will take on Nawaz Sharif's seat and

when he gets into Parliament in about two months we will see a

similar process where the National Assembly members vote on him

becoming Prime Minister and just as today, because the party has a

significant majority, we expect him to be a shoo-in. Could not be

simpler! The tobacco giant British American Tobacco is being

investigated by the Serious Fraud Office after eight 2015 BBC panorama

investigation into allegations that the company paid bribes to officials

in East Africa. Panorama in 2015 spent five months investigating

allegations that came from a worker from VAT in Steph de Wit unless

there were hundreds of e-mails that detailed payments of bribes from the

company to officials, politicians and civil servants who could

influence policy and make the environment more favourable to BAT

and its activities. Rwanda, Burundi and specifically Kenya are

mentioned. This employee works closely with panorama over these

allegations and panorama had access to a number of e-mails from various

accounts, not official BAT accounts but by people who were working for

the company using alternative e-mail accounts. Some of these individuals,

interestingly, said there were payments made between their accounts

and politicians but they were not anything to do with BAT, they were

basically operating off their own bat. BAT itself, to do it credit,

said they do not and will not tolerate corruption no matter where

it takes place. It has set up and employed no less than to external

well-known law firms to look into the allegations and it has

cooperated with the serious fraud office, giving them information, so

we can only assume that the SFO think it has enough to spend time

and money on a full-blown probe. I want surely these pictures which

come into the newsroom from Afghanistan. They show the aftermath

of an explosion in a mosque in western Afghanistan city called

Herat. 30 people were killed. They show the Jawadia mosque where the

attack took place, coinciding with evening prayers at around 8pm local

time. Officials say there were two attackers, a suicide bomber and

another man but no group has claimed responsibility yesterday. Yesterday

we talked about Islamic State attacking the Iraqi embassy in

Kabul. I will have more in a couple of minutes with the main stories

from around the world. We have more talk about typhoons and

floods coming up in the next couple of minutes and some of the biggest

weather stories but we start with those floods that have been

effecting the Indian western state of Gujarat. A colossal amount of

rain fell in a week towards the end of July. The floodwaters continued

to move away, the monsoon is a break at the moment meaning many western

areas are dry but in the north-west of India and Pakistan, very humid

conditions with big thunderstorms on Wednesday. Looking at the satellite

picture and yesterday we talked about the torrential rain in Taiwan.

Sometimes when two tropical systems combine they come closer together

and spiral into each other and this is known as the food you are effect.

-- the Fujiwara effect. This resulted in huge rainfall in

south-east China. What does it look like on the ground? Something like

this. We had flooding problems making roads almost impossible and

the floodwaters damaged homes and buildings. The rains will ease off a

bit over the next few days but we can expect further heavy rain in the

next 24 hours. Out in the East and in the Pacific we have a massive

typhoon, very powerful, and there will be wins gusting up to 150 mph.

Some uncertainty about where it is going but generally it is tracking

towards southern Japan and it might make landfall on Saturday and it

will be a damaging typhoon. In North America a different picture. Higher

up into the jet stream in the atmosphere and you can see these

winds moving around eight ridge of high pressure and air descends

through the atmosphere and beget high-pressure at the service and it

creates a heatwave. Temperatures in the next few days in the low 40s,

perhaps smashing the all-time temperature records across parts of

Washington, Oregon, Northern California and British Columbia. In

Europe we are watching this low pressure which will bring some heavy

rain to Finland and western Russia with some thunderstorms in back into

parts of Poland. In the Mediterranean it is hot and sunny,

very hot in Italy with temperatures in Rome up to 40 degrees but you

can't help but notice this blue around us. You will notice so far

this week that it has been sunshine and showers but that changes

tomorrow, not showers but General rain in many areas and at the

heaviest in southern England. More unsettled weather along the way and

a full UK forecast coming up in half an hour.

Welcome back. The main stories and around the world. In Turkey nearly

500 people have gone on trial, accused of taking part in last

year's failed coup. This shows a prominent Venezuelan opposition

figure being taken from his home by intelligence officers. He is now in

a Venezuelan military prison. That is after days of protests connected

to anti-government sentiment. As we have been hearing, this is the

man who has been picked as the new Pakistani Prime Minister but he only

may hold the job for a couple of weeks. The grander plan is for

Sharif's brother to take over. This woman travelled 6000 miles and

spent $20,000 to freeze her eggs in the US. It is because she is not

able to do so in China. We will have the full report.

We'll hear from Usain Bolt, who is looking ahead to his final races as

a professional athlete. Lots of ways you could have

described Monday in the White House. Trump took to Twitter to tell us it

was a great day. One way of putting it. Another is it was the day where

the new director of communications left ten days after being hired,

several days before he actually had taken up the job formally. The New

York Post put it this way, drawing comparisons with the Survivor

television programme. Making the general point that this perhaps is a

chaotic situation. We can speak to a conservative political commentator

from Dallas, host on the digital TV network The Blaze. Great to have you

on the programme. Thank you for having me. When you look at what

happened yesterday in the White House and over the last week, is

that what you voted for? Difficult to say. Part of me wants to trust

what Trump says over Twitter. When he said it was a great day in the

White House. Part of me also once to commend him for getting Anthony

Scurry -- part of me also would like to

commend him for getting rid of the press secretary. Maybe they are

putting things into shape. If they truly are draining the swamp then

maybe this is a good thing. However, as somebody who voted for Trump it

is difficult to see the rules shifting so much. It seems like

there is so much insecurity in the White House. You wonder how much he

will be able to fill his promises and that is what I am concerned

with. What did you vote for? What did you want from this president.

What I think a lot of millennials voted for Trump for, well, we are

entrepreneurial. He has promised to cut taxes for small businesses. The

corporate tax. He plans to do that. The concern for me and millennials

is to advance our freedom and keep us safe. Those things he has proven

to. Promising to cut taxes for small business. And taking the threat of

Isis and Islamic terrorism seriously. He's done those things

very well. Despite the drama, despite the Russian inclusion

series, despite the fact the media has been out to get him, he has done

those things well. Looking at the job statistics for the US, almost

600,000 new jobs since he came into office. But in the last four months

of the Obama administration there were nearly 700,000. Are you

convinced the president is really making a huge difference? I am

hopeful. The stock market is at an all-time high. Unemployment is also

at a low. We must look at that. Consumer confidence is high. Oil

prices are looking to stay low. Overall the Morales something which

should be accounted for. -- overall the morale of Americans is

something. In the first few months of Trump's presidency he's

accomplished a lot. Not just numbers wise by adding hundreds of thousands

of jobs, but also boosting our confidence and morale. Making it

easier for us to start businesses and be entrepreneurs. That needs to

be accounted for. Help me with one thing. I have watched plenty of The

Blaze clips. It seems to be separate from the Republican party. Clearly

Trump has a strained relationship with some part of the Republican

party, as well. Are you and your viewers on The Blaze supporters of

Trump, the Republicans, is there a distinction? There is a distinction.

There are several different facets of Republicans. Thereafter several

different facets of our viewers. Just like there are different facets

of Democrats. Not all Trump supporters would call themselves

conservatives. Not all conservatives would say they support Trump. We

have a wide range of viewers and commentators. We feel free to either

support Trump and pledge our allegiance that way. We also feel

free to criticise Trump. For the most part we really just believe in

defending the constitution and defending liberty. If Trump goes in

that direction we commend him for it. If he doesn't we criticise him.

Perhaps we could check in in a couple of months' time. Thank you.

You can see her on The Blaze and other conservative online

broadcasters. Now, sport, and the Olympics. We

know which cities will host the next three summer Olympics. 2020 is

Tokyo. 2024, Paris. 2028 it will be Los Angeles Clippers Paris and Los

Angeles both wanted to post 2024. -- it will be Los Angeles.

To host the Olympic Games is considered a privilege but it is an

expensive one. Paris, the city of lights... Paris campaigned hard for

the 2024 games. But this success has been helped by the number of cities

that dropped out. One by one, Rome, Budapest, and Hamburg withdrew.

Fearful of gusts and a lack of public support. -- fearful of costs

and a lack of public support. Pitching to host the Olympics for a

third time, LA wanted to bring the summer games back to the US the

first time since 1996. With most of its infrastructure already built it

boasted it could host the games tomorrow. But now they have

confirmed they are to wait. In 2028 we are bringing the games back to

LA. One of the great capitals of this Olympic movement. A city that

has always been a games changer. And will be again in 2028. In exchange

for its patients, LA will get a financial sweetener from the

International Olympic Committee. Extra funding for an extended

planning period. The only championship in terms of

athletics which competes with it, the world athletics Championships,

which are about to take place in London. Usain Bolt will be the start

of the show as always. It is his last professional outing. He has

been described as the greatest sprinter of all time by the

International Olympic Committee. He has eight Olympic golds. He gave a

press conference earlier. Because I never thought I could beat a world

record. That was my dream. That was my main dream growing up. Throughout

everything that was going on I always wanted to become a 200 metres

Olympic champion. I remember after the first Olympics, they were saying

I'm a legend, nobody has done that, and I said it is my first Olympics.

This does not mean much. The second one was, like, you are a legend. I

was, like, OK, cool. But now I have got my goal, I can say I am because

I have proven myself. If I am here at the championships you know I am

fully confident and ready to go. As long as I show up for the

championships my coach is happy, I am happy, I am happy with my

abilities. I know when I go out there I am ready to go. Fully

confident. 100%. I won't be betting against him. More information on the

BBC sport app. Serena Williams isn't playing tennis

at the moment. She is pregnant. She tweeted that it is black women's

equal payday on the 31st of July. She wrote a much longer article on

the same issue. She detailed how black women have to work on average

eight months longer to earn the same as male counterparts for one year.

We can speak to our correspondent who has been covering this story.

She is right, isn't she, black women earn less? Absolutely. The 31st of

July was black women's equal payday. That was on Monday in the US. It

took black women nearly an extra eight months to earn as much as

white males in 2016. Unbelievable. Given her position in the world in

not just sport, but across society, what she has achieved, she feels she

has influence. She admits it could be anyone of the 24 million black

women in America who fall into this category. She has renewed vigour in

terms of setting goals to achieve. Thanks very much. You can find that

article by Serena Williams very easily online.

In a few minutes we must turn back to Venezuela. Two Venezuelan

opposition figures have been rearrested. They were already under

house arrest. They have been taken to a military jail. This is in the

aftermath of Sunday's controversial election. All the latest on a

situation changing by the hour. 60 people have died in the UK in the

past eight months after taking the painkiller fentanyl. It is 50 times

more potent than heroin. It is linked to the death of the singer

Prince. Two thirds of the known deaths have been in Yorkshire,

Humberside, and Cleveland. The rock legend Prince died suddenly

last year at the age of 57. Fans gathered near his home in

Minnesota where his body was found. A year on, medical examiners

concluded his death was due to an accidental overdose

of the drug Fentanyl. It was unclear where he had

got it from and no one Fentanyl is a drug used

to treat cancer patients. But now police in the UK are

becoming concerned at its growing It is said to be 50 times more

powerful than heroin. Sean, who does not want his face

shown, lost a sister to a suspected She had gone and bought some

and she knew what it was. She went back to the hostel,

and was found two days later. And most of those who have lost

their lives have been heroin users. They are that far gone

on heroin and other drugs, the lifestyle that they lead,

nothing matters to them. Just getting away from the world

for an hour or two. Fentanyl is so lethal that this

is how police were kitted up There is an even more powerful

substance, a tiny grain So why are more people

using these drugs? We believe this is partly down

to the ongoing need for dealers to be trying to compete with each

other and sometimes introducing drugs in the marketplace

they believe might give them Fentanyl is known

as a synthetic opioid Police say people are playing

Russian roulette with their lives We are live on the BBC newsroom. Our

lead story coming from Turkey. It has begun its largest trial related

to last year's attempted coup. Almost 500 people are accused. Some

of them have been marched into court while being heckled by government

supporters. I have a feeling we will be talking

about Venezuelan everyday for the foreseeable. The political crisis

goes on. Today's focus is two videos showing two arrests. This is the

first. It shows a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader in his

pyjamas being taken from his home by intelligence officers. Leonardo

Lopez was also picked up. He is also a significant opposition figure.

Apologies, I cannot bring you the images. This clip shows him being

arrested, too. This has been posted on social media by his wife. You can

see him being taken away by security agents. Both men were originally

under house arrest for inciting violence during anti-government

protests few years ago. Something they deny. They have been taken to a

military not far... I think this screen is playing me up. I wanted to

show you Caracas, the capital of Venezuelan. We are told by the

Supreme Court they have been arrested because they were planning

to escape. No evidence has been offered to back up that claim. But

what may well be relevant is this video. Posted online by Antonio

Ledezma. He called Sunday's election a fraud. He accused the government

of abusing public powers. That has not gone down well. He also urged

people to take to the streets. I'm showing you these pictures time and

time again over the last few months. Violent protests, violent clashes

with the police. Just on election day on the day after at least ten

people died in Venezuela. The vote on Sunday was for a constituent

assembly. Not a regular election. This assembly can add to or older

the country's Constitution. That's why it is controversial. -- alter

the country's Constitution. They disagree on just about everything to

do with it. In the last few hours the US has called for the release of

these two opposition leaders. Will Grant is in Caracas. This is the

latest. It looks like it came from the top.

You mentioned the various elements that were explained by the

government as their reasoning as to why Antonio Ledezma and Leonardo

Lopez were arrested. They were already under house arrest.

Specifically for an alleged plan to flee. They both released videos

around that disputed poll and boycotted election by the

opposition. The government says just by issuing those videos that breaks

the rules of their house arrest. Their lawyer has told the BBC and

their families have told the BBC that isn't the case.

Is the opposition a coherent entity in Venezuela?

In recent years it has been more coherent and unified than it was

during Chavez's time in power. There was a loose amalgam of different

parties. Now they've come under a single umbrella. The Round Table of

Democratic unity. There are so many conflicting interests and ways of

dealing with the current political and economic situation. Some think

it should be more radical. Some think it should be done

democratically. Some think they should be on the street. Some think

they should be in the National Assembly. It's a difficult situation

with different interests and clashes going on.

This is clearly a hugely political act and provocative act. What has

the reaction been? What have the consequences been?

The consequences in terms of what people on the streets are is that,

depending on who you speak to, in this particular neighbourhood this

is where Lopez was Mayor. Antonio Ledezma Was Mayor of the entire

city. If you speak to people here, they feel the consequences are very

serious. That they are not far from somehow knocking the government out

of power. Of course, if you speak to people on the government supported

areas, the shantytowns in particular, they are very sure that

this is somehow an attempt by the opposition to, sort of, strangle

their Democratic movement. This is still such a conflicted nation. It

just depends on who you speak to. Lots of people concerned about the

idea of opposition figures being picked up in the middle of the night

and being taken off to prison. I want to play with report about a

woman who has travelled from China to the US to have her eggs frozen.

This process is illegal in China for unmarried women. So many people seek

the treatment overseas. BBC Chinese has followed the journey of a

31-year-old photography studio owner. She travelled from Beijing to

Los Angeles as you will see in this report from BBC Chinese.

A lovely report. That was made by BBC Chinese.

I would like to turn back to a story from 30 minutes ago. We are getting

more information about an attack in Afghanistan. In a city in the west

of the country. Around 30 people have been killed by a suicide

attacker. We understand there have been many injuries, as well. This is

where the attack took place, inside a mosque. This explosion coincided

with evening prayers at around 8pm. Officials are saying there are at

least two attackers, the suicide bomber, and another attacker who

shot at worshippers with a firearm. No groups have taken responsibility.

It is in a Shia Muslim area. Nobody has claimed responsibility. I would

like to bring in the -- -- bring in Sameera. I understand the iPad is

back. It is back. It has done really well. Sales have been blockbuster.

Apple has said you can expect something similar for the next three

months when it revealed its new iPhone from the tenth anniversary.

Short and sweet. We are out of time. Thanks very much. If you would like

more on Apple's results, including the uptake in sales of the iPad

after three years going down, you can get more details on the BBC

website. See you tomorrow. Goodbye.