Rock university. I had the pleasure of working with todays speaker Brady Crytzer when he was a student here, he in the library all four years, and he worked with me his senior year on the rock voices oral history. We had great team of students seven working on the project and even so was a standout because he just this natural to talk to anybody he was not shy or even not scared he was a great interviewer and he had a curiosity about history. Even then you could tell. So brady completed his undergraduate degree here in 2008 in secondary ed social studies and his masters correct me if i got anything wrong read his masters in history here in ten. Now he teaches history at robert morris. Grady is a specialist in the imperial history of north america. He a narrator and commentator on the cable series into the wild. I love that name. He hosts the cable series battlefield pennsylvania, as well as a weekly podcast. His work has been featured in the washington post, the wall street journal, th
And live from studio fourteen head aljazeera headquarters in doha welcome to the news theyve been stuck there for years facing an untold number of air strikes artillery fire and starvation now aid workers in syria have begun evacuating critical patients from the eastern goods a suburb of damascus its a region thats been under siege since two thousand and thirteen hundreds of thousands of syrians are still stuck the u. N. Has identified five hundred critical cases get a firsthand account of this story also in the news good picking up the pieces in the philippines people displaced by Tropical Storm and affected by Political Violence and on moving into new temporary shelters we have a video diary from our team on the ground showing us what they found in the areas devastated by floods. Was one of the most traumatic events in pakistans recent history and yet ten years on we still dont know who was behind this escalation a former Prime Minister been in. Bhutto pakistans first and only female
So much, im a man, i cant do no more than that. This is gods hand. Good evening. This country has a gambling problem. And few in the political classes appear to be taking it seriously. More than 2 Million People are at risk of addiction. Today it was revealed that 7,000 people, whod voluntarily put themselves on a nationwide banned list, were allowed by one firm, called 888, to carry on. The firm, which says it is committed to being responsible, allowed one of those on the list to gamble over £1 million away. It encouraged another addict to lose his Childrens Home and their inheritance. In fact, the company continued to invite him to gamble online even when he was in prison, serving time forfraud to feed his habit. Tonight, as the Company Faces a fine of £8 million, we talk to him live about how the system got it so wrong. And we ask why the problem has gone ignored, when both labour and the conservatives are so eager to talk about ethical capitalism and that need for corporate respo
Sportsday, damaging allegations in paralympic sport. Athletes are being threatened with not being selected if they cheat the classification system. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The government is looking at tightening the rules around the most addictive types of gambling in betting shops and online. Its launching a 12 week consultation which will look at whether the maximum stakes for fixed odds betting terminals should be reduced. Currently you can bet up to £100 every 20 seconds. Ministers are looking at whether that should be reduced to £2. The review is also looking at how to protect players against the explosive growth of Online Gambling fuelled by smartphones. Its now believed almost a quarter of gamblers online are at risk of addiction. And new guidelines on gambling advertising will be drawn up, over concerns children are often being targeted. 0ur media editor amol rajan has this report. Its an industry that is centuries old and attracts millions every year
Rebuilt after fire seven years ago, wins this years stirling prize for architecture. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. At least six people have been reportedly killed after a vehicle drove into pedestrians and cyclists in manhatten in new york. A suspect has been arrested. The incident happened in the area of chambers and west streets in the upmarket tribeca neighborhood. Its being treated as a terror attack. Lets speak to our correspondent jane obrien. What more can you tell us . We are getting e reports that six people are confirmed dead. At least six people and there are reports of multiple injuries. This is being treated as an intentional attack, though the police say that clearly at this early stage in the investigation, there is no known motive. But certainly the fbi is treating it as a terrorist attack. We do now know that home depot, a very large diy store here in the us has confirmed that the truck involved in this was a rental truck and one of their rental trucks. Thats a