To the bbc news at one. Theyre called the crack cocaine of gambling fixed odds betting terminals on which you can currently gamble up to £100 every 20 seconds. They made almost £2 billion last year for the betting industry and hundreds of millions in tax for the treasury. But now the government is looking at limiting the amount that can be gambled at any one time to as little as £2 as part of a review of problem gambling. Jim connolly reports. A few months ago, nathan would have struggled to walk past a bookmakers. His gambling problem started with fixed odds machines. He stopped betting with help from gamblers anonymous. I found myself suddenly with debts that i could not cover at all. I lost about £5,000 in 48 hours. You lose all sense of time around you. The moneyjust. The money becomes a number on a screen. Youre desensitised to everything that is going on. Gamblers anonymous was my last resort to save relationships. Currently you can bet up to £100 a time on a fixed odds bett
Good evening. On the day the Trump Administration is trying the to get its message trait on Nuclear North Korea weve learned the threat of fire and fury and power the likes of which this world has never seen before were delivered off the cuff. Now theres a new response from pyongyang. A threatening statement from commander kim jong un speaking to President Trump. He said sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy beresidents of reason. He went on to outline yumg coming military, including days from now targeting guam. Whether you small it an aggressive test or a shot across the bow, it is at the least, a new and specific threat a day after the president said a threat would be met with fire and fury. It seems to mock the president. It really did, anderson. It only took a few hours for the North Koreans to respond. They were very floury in their language. The north korean statement saying the u. S. President at the golf links again let out a load of nonsense about fire and fury, fail
Senate confirmation running an agency as politically electric as the epa is. They dont want to get four confirmations for four slots, and before major election season, scrambling to have a cabinet that is functioning, trying to keep the seats warm. Part of the reason he has been able to hang on as long as he has. As the shoe drops, there will be more pruit stories, it will make it tough to last as long as he has. Emelba marcos here. He said this on air force one on thursday. I think scott has been a fantastic job. I think he is a fantastic person. They lost scott pruit. They feel strongly about him and love scott pruit. Coal and energy. Reuters, 25 more Industry Leaders than advocates. Add that to coal representatives. Yes, i think that certainly, the politics of trump trying to revive the dying coal and Energy Industry plays into this. What is more important is what he said about scott pruits effectiveness. The advocate shows how ineffective he has been. A lot of his actions tied up i
Show. Im Laura Ingraham this is the ecram angle. A powerful lineup including the battle against the scienceorship of conservative votes what is role has facebook played. Gee real lord is here to help us answer that. How much involve am did they have with muellers investigation . Have you or anybody at facebook any interviewed by the special councils office. I have not. Others have. Gi want to be careful here that our work with the special council is confidential. The question is to what end . Well examine it. The air over syria, it is quiet tonight. We learn a po terrible strike on loyalists could come after he used chemical weapons to his own people. Where will the missiles come from . And we will get to tonights angle in a moment, which includes a mess okay andad vice for the president. First, the heavy handed fbi raid of President Trumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen reverberated. Tonight coen is speaking out the unpress dented act is upset to him and his family but he will cooperat
So just, you know, facts matter, thats actually not true what he just said. It wasnt the president of ukraine who was saying negative things about the ambassador, it was actually President Trump speaking to the president of ukraine speaking unfavorably of her on that now infamous july phone call, which would indicate he does know her or of her. Today in her testimony, Marie Yovanovitch said the president was very familiar with her and her work in ukraine and said the deputy secretary of state who called her earlier this year said the president lost confidence in me, end quote. And added there had been Concerted Campaign against me and the department had been under pressure to remove me since december 2018. After almost ten hours of testimony, what are you learning about the ambassadors deposition, particularly what she told the committee about Rudy Giuliani . Again, this is behind closed doors so information is hard to get. Reporter thats right, anderson. From what we do know of her de