nearly half of young syrians have had a close family member or friend killed during ten years of civil war — according to the international red cross. questions still remain after the palace responds to harry and meghan�*s damaging allegations about life in the royal family — almost 50 million people around the world watched their tv interview. the brother of the british socialite, ghislaine maxwell tells the bbc the conditions of her detention in a us federal prison are degrading and amount to torture. it's the start of a 4,000—mile journey for black rhino chanua, who is leaving her home in yorkshire to travel to tanzania as part of a conservation programme. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. a serving police officer has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a woman in south london. 33—year—old sarah everard was last seen leaving a friend's house in clapham last wednesday. the met�*s assistant commisioner has called the development �*shocking and deeply disturbing' — and told reporters they really hope sarah is still alive. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. yesterday evening, police issued two new pictures of sarah everard. in one, she was wearing the coat she had on when she disappeared. she vanished after she left a friend's house in clapham last wednesday. she was walking home alone to brixton. she was captured on a camera at about 9:30, the last confirmed sighting. and during yesterday evening, as the police teams continued their work in london, officers were in kent making arrests. just before midnight came the announcement that a police officer was in custody in connection with sarah's disappearance, and that a woman had been detained with him on suspicion of assisting an offender. scotland yard issued a statement from one it is both shocking and deeply disturbing. i it is both shocking and deeply disturbing-— disturbing. i recognise the significant _ disturbing. i recognise the significant concern - disturbing. i recognise the significant concern this - disturbing. i recognise the | significant concern this will disturbing. i recognise the - significant concern this will cause. over the past week, police have been scouring clapham common, including searching a pond. in a statement announcing the arrest, they said they were doing everything they could to find sarah. june kelly, bbc news. �*there's no clear evidence that it has led to a reduction in coronavirus infection�*. that's the damming assessment of the test and trace system by a group of mps. the commons public accounts committee has urged the government to justify what it calls the staggering investment of taxpayers' money into the system. this morning we want to hear your own experience. nhs test and trace in england has received £37 billion in funding since it was set up last spring. the report says the purpose of the test and trace system was to help prevent further lockdowns — the uk has since had lockdown 2 and lockdown 3. and, there has been an over—reliance on the use of consultants — with some paid over £6,500 a day. the transport secretary grant shapps said the report on test and trace �*defies logic�* becasue it is helping to bring down the number of infections. here�*s our health correspondent anna collinson. identifying the infected, locating their contacts and isolating — a well—functioning test and trace programme is seen as crucial in the fight against the coronavirus. but a damning report is questioning whether england�*s system is effective enough to justify its cost — £37 billion over two years. it�*s an eye—watering sum of money that�*s been spent. and for that, we need to see better results and a better, clearer connection between testing and stemming the spread of the virus. and so far the data on that is not very strong. the budget for test and trace was £22 billion when it was set up last may. a few months later, the person in charge, dido harding, requested a further 15 billion — claiming the main driver would be to avoid a second national lockdown. but two lockdowns followed, and a group of cross—party mps say the service must demonstrate its worth. the public accounts committee has particularly questioned test and trace�*s continued reliance on consultants, with some paid more than £6,600 a day. and it�*s claimed the system was unable to cope when schools returned in september, and there was a surge in demand. but dido harding disagrees. nhs test and trace is an absolutely essential component in the fight against covid. we�*re hitting all of the targets that sage set us and, you know, as we speak today, we�*re providing an extra layer of security and confidence. despite the vaccine roll—out, new variants mean we can expect test and trace to continue to play a key role in our lives. but many will be watching closely to ensure taxpayers�* money isn�*t wasted. anna collinson, bbc news. 0ur chief political correspondent, adam fleming says the uk government are vehemently defending the sucess of the test and trace programme in england. what is interest is that they actually quote a report prepared by the government itself and published last month but i only saw today looking at the effectiveness and test and trace and it says their best guess is reduces the number, the number of people that get coronavirus from each infected person and the government thinks that number is reduced by 18 to 33% which is quite a big range and they say within that, the contact tracing part might only be responsible for two to 5% of that. so it really is not clear just how well the whole programme works but that was not the message from the transport secretary who has been doing interviews today. ask yourself this, had they not contact and to a 9.1 million people and told them that they had been potentially exposed and asked them to quarantine and self—isolate, where would we have been without it? just yesterday alone, for example, there were over 1.5 million test that took place, including all of those schoolchildren that went back, including my children that went back to school. again, if you are not testing people, you wouldn�*t know what was going on. so, yes it has been very expensive. coronavirus has been enormously expensive to society and to our economy, but the idea that we would be somehow better off without it, is crazy. i mean, the numbers are staggering. it�*s £37 billion over two years that have been allocated to the programme. and according to test and trace, they do something like 1000 swabs per minute every day. but it does have plenty of critics. i�*m just looking at twitter and nick mcpherson, who is the former most senior civil servant in the treasury who left a few years ago, says the prize for the most wasteful, inept, public spending programme of all time goes to test and trace. 0k, right, tell ouraudience what the latest is in this row over vaccines between the eu and the uk. so charles michelle who is the president of the european council, who chairs the summits of eu leaders which have virtual at the moment, published a newsletter last night where he said the uk had a ban on exporting vaccines to other countries. now, the uk government says that is absolutely not true and it has said this in a letter from the foreign secretary to charles michelle last night. what is happening this morning is that an eu diplomat in london has been summoned to the foreign office to speak to a top civil service dared to give a diplomatic dressing down, and in terms of what the eu has said, they will be gradually downgrading what charles michelle meant. first festival they started off by saying there was a ban, and then last night they were telling journalists that it was more like something that was tantamount to a de facto ban and now this morning they say it was more of a tactic to rattle the cage of the uk media to get them talking whether astrazeneca than matt knew factor as the oxford vaccine is sending enough doses of the vaccine to the eu. for me, last week i was picking up people suggesting that last week in brussels it�*s time for a bit of a reset of eu and uk relation so that they get more of an even keel and a bit more friendly. that does not seem to be happening at all. dr david nabarro is the special envoy on covid—19 at the world health organisation. uk learn from other countries when it comes to testing and tracing people? in it comes to testing and tracing eo - le? , , it comes to testing and tracing neale? , , , ., ., people? in every single situation where countries _ people? in every single situation where countries have _ people? in every single situation where countries have been - people? in every single situation where countries have been ablel people? in every single situation i where countries have been able to get it, you need a system that works and the system has to be able to detect people with the disease and also be able to manage those who are at—risk so that the spread of this is really reduced as much as possible. all parts of the system have to be able to work so it is testing in order to identify people who have the disease, but to do that, we have to be on the alert. 0nce that, we have to be on the alert. once we have identified people, make sure they are isolating and then treated if they are sick while sat the same time, their contacts are traced and they, too, are isolated. those not ill need to be protected because otherwise they might get sick and die and they need to be vaccinated so that they can have a greater chance of survival if they do get the disease. all these different pieces have got to be able to work together. that is happening in australia, japan, china, thailand, singapore and also it is happening in china. it is happening in parts of europe, they are building up their capacity. germany have good experience of doing so and so, gradually, we are seeing all of the world, different approaches are being adopted and they are enabling communities everywhere to be able to get on with life despite the constant threat of the virus. this country has _ constant threat of the virus. this country has never _ constant threat of the virus. this country has never had _ constant threat of the virus. this country has never had to have a system like this before so it has been set up from scratch, there are huge upfront costs but hopefully they are one—off costs. could we still learn from those countries you cited, australia, china and so on? there is a lot of experience in the uk. what really matters with these kinds of systems is that essential capacity and what is happening locally are really well joined together and i have learned of some extraordinary experiences in parts of britain where local authorities have linked up with central government, district public health officers have taken on a totally new roles and the testing system, together with the response system, particularly isolation, are all being done in a joint way. i don�*t want to say from where i said that britain is in some way not moving in the direction that others are, of course i don�*t know the basis of this report you are talking about but i do want to encourage people in britain to be conscious that actually, britain, like every other country, is building a totally new systems from scratch and they are starting to work and certainly we are seeing evidence of that. we would not have the numbers of cases in the uk coming down in the way that they have over the last few weeks if there wasn�*t something good happening and part of that is the test and trace and isolate and treat capacity that you put in place. julie says, they messaged me everyday to thank me for isolating. they called me three times and they only wanted to chat about themselves. i was telling them i got two from a supermarket, they were not interested. michelle from york says i recently had positive results from track and trace after spending two days in hospital. a woman tested positive in my ward and we were all told to be isolated. 0nce positive in my ward and we were all told to be isolated. once at home, the app on my phone gave me the information and counted the days on until the day end of isolation. i was impressed. the international red cross says that nearly half of young syrians have had a close family member orfriend killed during ten years of civil war. that is one of the findings of one of the most comprehensive surveys on the damage done to a generation of young men and women. the research, which questioned fourteen hundred people aged 18 and 25 in syria, lebanon and germany, suggests that more than 70% suffered anxiety in the past year. educations were cut short or never happened. and almost 40% said they were illiterate, never went to school, or at best only reached primary level. the one positive is that 70% of those surveyed said they were optimistic about the future. wafa moustafa is a syrian journalist and activist — earlier we asked her if she was surprised by the findings. it�*s not surprising at all, but still it is shocking to see it in numbers. i mean, although i know it and i live it, and i know that every single person from syria i know is actually living part of that suffering, for years now, but it is still terrifying to read it and to know that by today, the whole world knows about it, but we are still doing nothing to change that. 0n the 2nd ofjuly 2013, my father was forcibly disappeared by the assad regime in syria, and the only information we got from him since then is through the neighbours who actually witnessed a group of armed men attacking our place and then kidnapping my father. and the only information we got is that a friend of his who was with him that day was actually forcibly disappeared with him, and his family was told years ago that he got killed in a security branch in damascus. while we�*ve never heard from my father, we�*ve never heard why he was taken from us, what is he being charged of. for years now... i mean, today he completes 2808 days. for almost eight years we have been trying to get one single information — is he alive or not? but no one is telling us, and this is unfortunately the case of millions of syrians in syria. european council president, charles michelle, accused britain of imposing bans on the movement of jabs to hit back at criticism of the european union the�*s vaccine roll—out. the foreign secretary has sought to set the record straight. last night he wrote that any references to any restrictions on vaccines are completely false and today, representative from the european union�*s delegation in london has been summoned to whitehall. a spokesman for the eu delegation said this morning deputy ambassador of the eu to the uk attended a meeting the request of the foreign and development of us. we have no further comment at this stage. in exclusive interviews with the bbc, police officers from myanmar have said they escaped across the border into india — after refusing to carry out the orders of the military, which seized power in a coup overfive weeks ago. speaking for the first time to the bbc, the officers — now considered defectors told us they left, fearing they�*d be forced to kill or harm civilians. 0ur south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports. i am standing in the north—east indian state of mizoram butjust on the other side of the banks here is the country of myanmar. this river that runs for some 400 kilometres separates the two countries. it is across here that dozens of people fleeing the military crackdown in myanmar have fled. we met a group of them, policemen and women, all in their 20s, who say they fled the country after refusing to use violence against protesters. the military officer in charge ordered us to shoot at groups of more than five people. they said they�*d take responsibility for it. i had to desert the police department as i couldn�*t open fire on innocent people, one officer said. authorities in myanmar have written to some local officials here in mizoram asking that police officers are sent back to the country. now, the ones we have spoken to are living in fear at the moment but they believe that they are far safer here in india even though many are separated from their families as the violence continues. now, we are also hearing that security is being stepped up along this border, but from what we have seen, it looks fairly easy for people to make thatjourney. some locals say that they are expecting more and more people to cross over into india as the military crackdown in myanmar continues to worsen. what sort of violence do your members face?— what sort of violence do your members face? ., ~ , ., ., ., members face? thank you for having members face? thank you for having me on the programme. _ members face? thank you for having me on the programme. festival, - members face? thank you for having me on the programme. festival, i i me on the programme. festival, i belike to say how sad i hear of many losses of life that has occurred during the demonstrations my heart was head to the families. our medical workers, was head to the families. our medicalworkers, it was head to the families. our medical workers, it is a dangerous time. i am sure like me, you have seen shopping photos and videos, three medics who were pulled from an ambulance and beaten but i have heard stories of a doctor trying to splinter a limb during a demonstration while the police were still shooting at him and the public were trying to protect him with their bodies. also another story of one of the gps i have worked with whose clinic was surrounded by the military and she was unable to go to work. ~ ., ., ,, military and she was unable to go to work. ~ ., ., , ., ~' military and she was unable to go to work. ~ ., ., ,, ~ ., w work. what do you think of the fact that they are _ work. what do you think of the fact that they are being _ work. what do you think of the fact that they are being stopped - work. what do you think of the fact that they are being stopped from i that they are being stopped from doing theirjob? i that they are being stopped from doing theirjob?— doing their “ob? i would like to stronal doing theirjob? i would like to strongly condemn _ doing theirjob? i would like to strongly condemn the - doing theirjob? i would like to strongly condemn the brutal i doing theirjob? i would like to - strongly condemn the brutal attack on health care workers and i would like to call on them and the police to stop all further attacks on health care workers. i am sure you are talking about the government doctors as well, the doctors and nurses have decided not to work in government hospitals and they are participating in the civil disobedience movement in protests at the recent military coup. find disobedience movement in protests at the recent military coup.— the recent military coup. and you tell me why _ the recent military coup. and you tell me why you _ the recent military coup. and you tell me why you think— the recent military coup. and you tell me why you think the - the recent military coup. and you | tell me why you think the military would target medics? i tell me why you think the military would target medics?— would target medics? i think civil disobedience _ would target medics? i think civil disobedience movement - would target medics? i think civil disobedience movement which i would target medics? i think civil. disobedience movement which has would target medics? i think civil - disobedience movement which has been started by the doctors, the doctors and nurses are like teachers in myanmar, they are very much respected. even though the doctors are not working in government hospitals, they are working in alternative sectors and so it is ongoing. hospital do