it says drug makers and distributors flooded the country with a staggering seventy six billion opiod painkillers between 2006 and 2012, leaving a trail of addiction. the i looks at the rise of vegan and vegetarian diets and the effect they could have on the very young. parents who've encouraged their children to give up meat and dairy are being urged to get medical advice on whether they need additional vitamin and mineral supplements to stay healthy. and finally the times says young drivers could be banned from the road at night under government plans to cut accident rates. so let's begin. with me is inga beale, board director at london first. let's start with netflix. what has gone wrong for them, if it is fair to say something has gone wrong? well, they had a nice honeymoon

period. they were out there, streaming all of this content and i think its increased competition. i think its increased competition. i think people are wanting to really focus on the content and i think there is so much choice out there now. viewers are scanning the horizon and saying, "that's what i wa nt to horizon and saying, "that's what i want to watch". there is no particular loyalty to one streaming service. they are honing in on what the actual content is and the programme they want to watch. this of course is even before some of the next big players launch their own. disney due to launch in november. it is facing more and more competition. it has to do something really to preserve its place in the market. as anybody knows in business, it is a competitive world out there and you have got to keep ahead of the game. this model of streaming of course has very limited —— barriers. you can go in, its virtual content. it

is being distributed over the internet. they don't have to build up internet. they don't have to build upa internet. they don't have to build up a physical distribution chain so there it is, it is competition like so there it is, it is competition like so many of us are facing in another set is. it is funny though because for all of these once start—ups, they eventually get to the position where they are the dominant, key player as they feel like the dinosaur with others trying to come in and snatch up some of their territory. plenty more we can say and we have had lots of tweets on that. thank you very much for those was not really good to see your thoughts. 0ne we have from steve says, too many streaming sites, money will undoubtedly fail. they need to be music streaming services which all pretty much carry the same musical. interesting idea. let's leave netflix stop we have done a lot and that was not financial times. this is almost like an article from science fiction. elon musk with this new link linking robots directly to our brains. it is kind of scary. it is a bit scary. there is lots of scary things that

are happening that we should go back and perhaps look at the early science fiction movies or films. and perhaps look at the early science fiction movies orfilms. i often think about the star trek that i used to watch when i was young and the concept of travelling around in a driverless pod or speaking to somebody on your watch which you can now do, right? and this is not new technology elon musk is talking about here. this has actually been going on for some time and it has been particularly used, as i understand, in military and they have been piloting and testing this out many years ago for pilots. they have had perhaps rather clunky headgear that pilots war but they we re headgear that pilots war but they were actually able to detect the signals from the brain and make the plane move either to the left, go up, plane move either to the left, go

up, go plane move either to the left, go up, go down, just by reading the signals from the brain. so this isn't new but i think a sort of sign that we should all perhaps go back and look at those creative movie writers or the people that wrote those and came up with those ideas for the science—fiction movies. what is going to be the next thing that we should look out for? i am sure somebody has already thought about it. and of course the indications of this for people who have suffered injuries and cannot move their limbs. the impact for them could be life changing. 0n limbs. the impact for them could be life changing. on an medical thing, the washington post article about. this is the opioid crisis. the extent of it and the scale of it coming to light now. yet more detail has been uncovered. coming to light now. yet more detail has been uncoveredlj coming to light now. yet more detail has been uncovered. i have worked in insurance for most of my career and we are used to things from the past coming back to sort of bite us. this is the thing about anything that is new, anything created new, we don't

actually know what the effect are going to be in the future. this i think he'sjust going to be in the future. this i think he's just showing the scale of addiction. i think this is the sort of warning that this is ok drugs and people have got addicted to that, but there are many areas in our life where people are becoming addicted. we have talked about tobacco, we are now moving into the vaping area. that is going to be as addictive if not more. we have addiction to the iphone, sorry, your mobile device. you have addiction to online gaming. you have addiction to online gaming. you have addiction to online gaming. you have all sorts of addiction. actually we need to think more broadly about addiction and how we can perhaps break that down because this is just the drug addiction that we're talking about here, but there are so many we're talking about here, but there are so many other addictions that down the line could cause us some problems. indeed. and talking about changing habits, this article in the

i. changing habits, this article in the i,a changing habits, this article in the i, alot changing habits, this article in the i, a lot of people for health and environmental reasons, trying to leave meet behind and go for a vegetarian or vegan diet. this warning, or is it a warning? perhaps thatis warning, or is it a warning? perhaps that is putting it too strongly. people giving their children and meet free or dairy feed pirate —— diet —— dairy free diet, need to check with their doctors. people often don't understand what you should be feeding children and particularly at the time they are seven particularly at the time they are seve n years particularly at the time they are seven years old, many of the impacts of diet will already have impacted them for the rest of their life. so it is important. i think that healthy lifestyles are what we need and when we think about, on the other side, we talk a lot about obesity. i don't know whether how much obesity is playing into the

fa ct much obesity is playing into the fact that actually people are living shorter now so life expectancy has actually reduced in this country which is quite staggering because we a lwa ys which is quite staggering because we always think that we're actually making such advances, we are moving forward , making such advances, we are moving forward, people will live much longer, and yet last year's news about life expectancy shortening in this country was quite startling. what we want to really do and i think what they are about is taking short people get a nice, balanced dietand short people get a nice, balanced diet and look after themselves and the importance of diet when they are very young because it leads to all sorts of issues when you are older. the sound advice seems to be things in moderation. that is what we have a lwa ys in moderation. that is what we have always said! classic wisdom. allan all these old statements were used to hear and say, they are still true today. -- all of these old statements. in the times, young drivers intentionally being banned from driving at night to cut accidents. for some people they think what a great idea but if people have jobs in think what a great idea but if people havejobs in the gig economy, maybe they use their car to do deliveries. it could hit them badly and hit their income. 0thers

deliveries. it could hit them badly and hit their income. others may have perfectly legitimate reasons for needing to use the car at night. there are two sides of the coin on this one. there always are two sides and sometimes more. from an insurance perspective again, putting mike ‘s — make putting my insurance hat on again, we have done lots of analysis about accidents when people are driving. —— putting on my insurance hat. less experienced drivers having more accidents so this is about graduating the time they spend on the road. it feels a bit of a nanny state and they will be people saying, well, i am being limited by what i can do but the data speaks for itself to say it is more dangerous. i'm thinking much more dangerous. i'm thinking much more long—term because we're talking about autonomous vehicles. this is going to be the future. we also know

that the younger generation, less and less of them are learning to drive and less of them want to own cars. they are using other means of transport, calling up transport, using their mobile, to call up the transport. i don't see this is that big a deal when we talk about the longer term because the future is going to be very difficult. we will be faced with a very deep went way of transporting people around the country. like closing the door after the horse has bolted or the car has accelerated, whichever metaphor you like. thank you for your thoughts. thank you for your tweets, especially on the netflix story. we will be having more coming up. stay with us here on the briefing. hello there.

parts of eastern england had temperatures very close to 27 degrees during wednesday. i don't think we'll see temperatures as high as that again, not for a little while anyway, because things have been changing from the west. this stripe of cloud brought some outbreaks of rain eastwards during wednesday. behind me here, a lump of cloud that will bring rain on friday. in between, a somewhat clearer zone of weather, so through the day ahead we will see sunshine and showers as well. and it will be quite breezy. still some rain to clear away from the south—east corner for the first part of the morning. that rain is mostly light and patchy. behind that we see some spells of sunshine but also some showers. these most plentiful across the northern half of the uk. could be one or two showers across parts of suffolk and essex down into kent as we go through the afternoon, but for the majority of england and wales, it's dry with spells of sunshine. cooler than it has been an breezy as well. perhaps a couple of showers clipping into north—west england and north wales. but for northern ireland and scotland we will see a scattering of showers, some of them some thundery, blowing through quickly on that

brisk west or south—westerly breeze. that could make for a somewhat tricky opening day at the open. some showers moving through, some of which could be heavy, possibly thundery, and it will be quite breezy. now, as we go through thursday night into the early hours of friday, the showers continue for a time in the north. further south, with clear skies, it's going to be a cooler, fresher night than we have been used to across parts of eastern england. behind me, though, across the south—west of the uk, cloud gathering by the first part of friday morning with some outbreak of rain ahead of our next weather maker. but even here we're going to get a dollop of rain during friday. this wet weather pushing north—eastwa rd and heading into southern and central portions of scotland. northern scotland perhaps staying driest and brightest of all. with this wet weather, there could be the odd flash of lightning, the odd rumble of thunder, it could also

be quite breezy. and temperatures at best between 18 and 2! degrees. rain on friday clears away as we enter saturday and then we're back to a day of sunshine and showers, some pretty hefty downpours at times with an odd flash of lightning and rumble of thunder. signs of things turning a little warmer again down towards the south. a drier day for most of us on sunday and the next week, split fortunes. northern areas seeing some wind and rain at times. further south, some dry weather, some warm weather and perhaps even some heat, with temperatures climbing once again.

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