The bill aimed at delaying a no deal brexit has officially become law. And in the past half an hour, mps have voted to force the government into publishing all documents concerning no deal planning. Im ben brown the rest of this evenings headlines. Almost all of British Airways flights are grounded as pilots walk out over pay at the start of a two day strike. Bullied online the little mix starjesy nelson reveals how years of nasty comments almost drove her to take her own life. And the extraordinary surgery that means this man blinded in one eye by acid 20 years ago can finally see again. Good evening and welcome to westminster. In a few hours time, parliament will be shut down for five weeks, until a fortnight before the uk is due to leave the eu. First, mps will be asked to vote for a second time on the governments call for a snap general election but that looks set to be rejected again. Lets take a look back at the Key Developments on a busy day at westminster and what we can expect
China t was legal to manufacture fentanyl up until early march. Fortunately our state department and others, you heard from omdc earlier helped to change that so we can get cooperation to reduce the flow t hasnt reduced yet but we have a ways to go. Fentanyl is 50 times more powerful than heroin. One gram is like 50 grams of heroin. It can be shipped in the mail. Shipped in commercial carriers. Fancy way of fedex, dhs, not Postal Service but other ways you ship packages across borders. It is shipped directly to the states or it is shipped to the canada and mexico. The wall street journal, you know theyre all about business, reminds us this is a business. The raw products cost about 1000 for fentanyl can be sold on the streets in the u. S. For about a million dollars. Thats pretty big profit margin and that motivates a lot of behavior. So i think as much as we can focus on the supply we better do something to help people in recovery so there is less of a demand for these products. I wan
Withstood the issues of traduce and going through the a Opioid Crisis the key to remember is in the midst of this crisis and in the midst of the burgeoning number of individuals who are dying as a direct result of using opioid this still represents a comparative drop in the bucket with 50,000 lives lost last year due to opioid is a small number however compare that to the 80,000 lives lost due to the alcohol and 500,000 lives lost due to cigarettes the leading cause of death people with addictive dizzies of recovery is a smokingrelated illness so the major issue is tobacco the second most significant remains alcohol. The Media Attention to the Opioid Crisis is waterfall to abri attention to addictive disease but remember there are 3747 per day crashing and the media is focused on a car crash. We need every chance we get were also paying attention to the 747 full of people and we dont just look at the car crash. Coming back to the 50,000 lives lost due to opioid lets figure out where th
Noelle bellow. 42 yearold david to pop is already facing state charges, including attempted murder for the attack on paul pelosi today. He pled not guilty to the 2 federal charges brought against him. Kron fours rob nesbitt was there for the arraignment. Hes joins us live now from outside the federal courthouse with the very latest details. Rob. Well, david depape entered the courtroom in all orange, his feet shackled. The path. Entered a not guilty plea to the 2 federal charges made against him. Now those charges, the path has been charged with one count of assault on an immediate Family Member of a u. S. Official with intent to retaliate against on account of their performance or official duties. This charge the maximum sentence of 30 years behind bars. The 42 yearold has also been charged with one count of attempted kidnapping of a u. S. Official that charge carrying a maximum of 20 years in prison. A possible 50 years total for allegedly breaking into nancy and paul pelosis home ba