[02:41.35]The authorities in France say more than a ton of cocaine has been seized on board an Air France plane flying from Venezuela.

[02:49.03]French officials say the drugs were meant to sell in France and would have been worth about 200million euros.

[02:54.76]Six people have been arrested.

[02:56.92]World News from the BBC

[02:59.99]Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has issued a statement warning president Hassan Rouhani to be careful about recent overtures by the United States.

[03:08.84]The statement comes just a day ahead of president Rouhani’s visit to New York for the annual meeting of the UN’s General Assembly.

[03:16.22]Catharine Nagy reports

[03:17.30]In its statement the Revolutionary Guard dominated by hardliners says it will support any move by the government that is in line with the wishes of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

[03:30.89]The statement is an indication of the kind of pressures: they are relatively moderate president Rouhani’s under from hardliners at home who will be watching his visit to the US very carefully.

[03:43.11]The international chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW said it’s now received what it calls the expected disclosure by the Syrian government of its chemical arsenal.

[03:52.85]In a deal hammered out between the US and Russia, the Assad government had faced a deadline later today to make a full disclosure of its chemical weapons.