add that to concerns over the virus caseload and you ve got this. the dow industrials, down 700 yesterday, down maybe another 200 this morning. the s&p down 80 yesterday, down another 20 today. the nasdaq yesterday, down 200 points. today, down about 13 points. a sea of red ink over there. a big loss especially for the dow. 1.48 million new jobless claims this past week. now, that s not a good number and it pushed stock prices just a little lower when that news was released at 8:30 eastern. now, today, president trump heads to wisconsin. good timing. the democrat governor there has just called out the national guard. a protester wielding a baseball bat and bullhorn harangued a restaurant crowd. he was arrested. molotov cocktails were thrown, the police needed help. governor evers sees the light and calls in the national guard. same thing in washington, d.c. hundreds of national guard troops now marshaling. they will protect the capital s monuments. thursday, june 25, 2020.
about the number of young people who ve died after taking diet pills containing a highly toxic substance. dinitrophenol known as dnp is sold online as a fat burning slimming aid but in the uk it s illegal to sell for human consumption. adina campbell reports. it s a poisonous substance mainly used as a pesticide, but dnp is growing in popularity as a quick fix weight loss aid with dangerous health effects. in 2018, there were six deaths linked to dnp in the uk. 21 year old bethany shipsey had complex body image issues after being raped and emotionally abused by an ex boyfriend, which led to a number of suicide attempts. in 2017 she took her own life. overdosing on pills containing dnp that she bought online. since his daughter s death, doug shipsey has been trying to trace the source of the dnp. bethany ordered the pills from ukraine. police raided this flat and found a stash of chemical substances. a man was arrested and later released without charge. dnp is not ille
when almost 15,000 people, mainly elderly, died during a heatwave. now it s time for a look at the weather with darren. it has been warm in the sunshine, chili and a cloud. then we have some rain arriving from the west. initially across scotland and northern ireland then western parts of england and wales, heavy rain at times. nowhere near as chilly as it was last night with more cloud around. in east anglia we will have clearer skies for a bit longer. tomorrow, a cloudy day with outbreaks of rain, rain pushing into eastern parts of england, in northern areas the rain easing off into the afternoon. the wettest weather continues to be across wales and the south west of england. some heavy rain, possibly thundery. and it will be chili underneath that cloud at around 15 celsius in many areas. for tuesday, things looking brighter. some cloud that might produce showers, but on the whole, much drier with some sunshine. it will feel quite a lot warmer but there is some wet and windy
the speaker of the house of commonsjohn bercow has confirmed that he will stand down by the end of october and won t stand as an mp at the next election. his time in the chair has, at certain moments, been highly controversial. john pienaar reports. the referee who became a player, loving every minute as much as many conservatives hated him for siding with the commons against a no deal brexit. march on our way. speaker! today, he told them he d planned his own exit in his own time, on brexit day. not much warmth on the tory side but it was his moment, as he thanked colleagues, friends. and above all, my wife sally, and our three children, oliver, freddie, and jemima. cheers john bercow‘s supporters saw him as defender of the commons, champion of mps, though he sometimes put them in their place. i don t require any comment or signalling from the honourable gentleman. i m giving a ruling. the honourable gentleman will listen to it and he can like it or lump it. be quiet. if
have the energy ombudsman. the final port of call for complaints. in this instance, extra energy does not exist anymore as a company and the administrators of extra energy are pwc. if you want to complain about your bill, go to pwc and complain but afterwards you cannot go to the ombudsman, ofgem, because pwc is not an energy company. i ve had it described as a regulatory black hole in this. has anyone from nc described as a regulatory black hole in this. has anyone from m the company commented? they said they are looking at bills of 130,000 companies, they say they have done a sig can majority and anyone with a problem with their bill, pwc is encouraging them to get in touch. and how would you change things? is it about changing regulations? at the moment, it has been described as a regulatory black hole, something needs to change to protect those customers once the supply has gone into administration. thanks very much. you can listen to the full report on radio four at midd