That was Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor demanding that Syria destroy its chemical
weapons which is interesting because Germany sold chemicals to Syria which could have been
used to create chemical weapons.
They sold more than 174,000 euros worth between 2002 and 2006 and the German government say
that it was under an international law that they are dual-use chemicals.
That means they could be used for civilian things like making toothpaste, or they could
be used to make things like Sarin.
And Britain too were caught out.
They were also selling sodium fluoride to Syria between 2004 and 2010.
Again it can be used to make Sarin gas.
They were selling it at a time when it was well understood that Syria have an active
chemical weapons program but hey, maybe they were just making toothpaste.
Now after the UN has confirmed sarin gas has been used in the Syrian conflict, Germany
and the UK and the United States are demanding that the weapons that they may have assisted
in creating be destroyed.
It's worth noting that Angela Merkel said that according to all the information available
to her they were used for civilian purposes but it would be nice to see all of that available
information.
It's reminiscent of when America armed a guy called Saddam Hussein to the teeth, only to
invade when he stopped playing ball.
"You know we armed Iraq.
I wondered about that too, during the First Gulf War those intelligence reports would
come out - Iraq incredible weapons, incredible weapons.
How do you know that?
Well... we looked at the receipt."
Or maybe it's a little like that time when the then secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld
allowed the United States to export pathogenic, toxigenic and other biological 'research materials'
to Saddam Hussein during a time when he was known to be gassing the Iranians during the
Iran-Iraq war.
According to the Riegle Report published in 1994 those chemical weapons may well have
been used against America's own military servicemen during the First Gulf War.
I guess what I'm saying is if we don't want people to have nasty weapons maybe we should
stop selling them.
It seems Google isn't content with its current projects such as web browsing, smartphone
tech, driverless cars and balloon-powered internet access.
The search giant has decided it will now take on death itself.
No biggie then.
Sure Apple bought out a new iPhone last week, Google's reply - we're going to work out how
to make people live longer.
Check mate.
They're starting a new venture called Calico and it will focus entirely on health, aging
and extending life.
The plan is to use masses of data to figure out what will really extend human lives.
What they'll do after that is a bit of a mystery.
It will definitely be interesting to see where this latest balls to the wall project takes
them.
Here's Sam.
Online advertising is a pretty dubious world and ads on Facebook can be particularly bizarre.
But whilst most can be laughed off sometimes they really do get it pretty wrong.
This is 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons and she committed suicide in April after photos leaked
of her being raped at a party by a group of men.
Following the incident she was apparently relentless targeted by trolls and sex pests
online.
Two men had since appeared in court charged with child pornography offenses.
A truly tragic story but thanks to some bizarre photo scraping, not the end of the ordeal
for her family.
Because check this out, her face has now become the face of a Canadian dating site, ionechat.com
which is possibly one of the most inappropriate things I personally have ever seen.
The ad was immediately removed from the site after it was reported and Facebook has apologised
to the family who are understandably pretty disgusted by the whole thing.
The website is currently offline, not really surprised.
Now here's Laura.
Over the past few days a clown has been terrorizing residents in the town of Northampton in the
UK by simply appearing on streets and standing there.
The Northampton clown has become so famous that there's now a Facebook group with over
100,000 likes to track his movements and if the photos posted there are anything to go
by he seems to prefer appearing after dark and terrifyingly he bares a striking resemblance
to this clown.
"What's the matter?
One balloon not enough?"
People have been so scared of the clown that he's even prompted another figure to take
to the streets of Northampton - the clown catcher.
Apparently the clown has now got in touch with the Northampton Chronicle and Echo newspaper
and said he could understand why people were scared of him but that he just wanted to amuse
people.
Sure.
And lastly, thanks to some ingenious person we now know what flying looks like to an eagle.
Check this out.