high paying business clients. and. online gambling addiction betting companies are open around the clock on the net allowing serial gamblers to easily slide into a compulsion exports are calling for more regulations which could harm profits and tax revenue. the first bet you placed on the game was only five euros he was eighteen then and thought he knew a thing or two about soccer but the bets kept increasing and so did his losses within just two months he gambled away twenty thousand euros he's a gambling addict. you're always on the phone or at the computer and you can't sleep at night because the next start. it's just to get the money again you know it's a vicious cycle. and he's not alone in twenty seventeen some one point four million people in germany took part in. the one point

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are more or less free from government restriction is that. the sport but in companies see the situation differently they consider such regulations outdated and argue that stricter rules would scare away their customers or is it that they'd endangered their business model the industry generates millions for both the gambling businesses and for the government which also offer sports betting and profits from the resulting taxes profits in germany have risen sharply in the last five years from eighty four to three hundred seventy six million euros. a lot of that money comes from gambling addicts for serial gamblers it's best to have their access to betting companies blocked and to avoid registering elsewhere. ships says unregulated risk. and now short and

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a first step that we could have achieved it weeks ago without riots and violence we french will not be content with just crumbs we want to hold back at. the protests that have shaken the country looks set to continue. also coming up with the rebel leaders prepare to meet yemen's government for peace negotiations the u.n. brokered talks could be the first chance in here is to end the conflict causing the world's worst humanitarian crisis. and the clamor for control of the climate change agenda both for how rightwing populists are forcing scientists to defend their evidence of global warming. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start in france where president obama won back all his meeting with his cabinet amid the biggest crisis to face his administration yet the government was forced to postpone and. pillar

rise in fuel taxes yesterday after violent protests across the country the un rest saw about one hundred high schools in france blocked or otherwise disrupted by student protests yesterday mobile phone cameras caught some of the mayhem outside schools and over the all paris and. let's go to journalist jakes he got a row in paris with the very latest on the story hi jake we mentioned president const cabinet meeting this morning there is also a meeting of the national assembly this afternoon what are we going to see today from the french government that's right well so there's little more that's probably being discussed at today's cabinet meeting other than the yellow that's movement and the green tax reforms that they're protesting and these taxes are part of that was environmental policy strategy which is very important at the national assembly to saturn and prime minister edwards lee will present the government's plan to solve the crisis and their plan to move forward and then debate the prime minister's declaration followed by a non-binding vote and yesterday's debates give any indication then the majority of

opposition parties will likely be against the government's plan and the prime minister will do the same again tomorrow in the senate but without a vote this protest then jake looks set to continue no they've really shaken france and the government let's take a look now at what is behind this protest movement. the yellow vests there's alasia on their protests over the past weeks forced the french government to back pedal for now there will not be any tax increases. i will postpone the planned tax increases for several months they will not come into force until they have been discussed with everyone involved. many french people are suffering from the rising cost of living and seem across plan to eco tax to increase fuel prices by several cents as a failure of policy that triggered the protests according to

a survey three quarters of the french feel sympathy for the yellow vests here in the countryside the citizens feel particularly detached rundown schools dilapidated hospitals and very little money you know to have the nine people have the impression and probably rightly so that purchasing power is falling you know that in general salaries in france are no one but the cost of living is higher and the gap is widening. around one in ten in france as unemployed and they are afraid of a decline in living standards. and you would have the standard of living and especially the situation of the middle class has fallen since the economic crisis there have been negative effect on the labor market with many more precarious jobs and part time jobs. and the president young dynamic and determined emanuel mccrone stood for a new beginning a break from the establishment but now many consider mccraw a president for the rich and his reforms have been massively criticized out of

touch with the average person. that's trying the silence of course confirms the image of a president who sits in his palace in paris who actually has no contact at all connection with the people and is just not quite sure how to respond. visiting a police station on tuesday mccaughan kept silent but his protesters did not students demonstrated throughout the country. for france's yellow vest movement suspending the tax increase and not raising the gas and energy prices is just too little too late. you said the that's a first step but we could have achieved that weeks ago without riots and violence if we french will not be content with just crumbs we want to hold back at the end if they get to. the power of the streets new protests have been planned for the coming weekend. jake we heard the criticisms there did the french government take

too long to take these protests seriously well that is the question the government is asking itself and a lot of people say that they could have prevented the writing which caused millions of euros and damage in paris over the weekend if they had spoken sooner michael didn't react until after these violent rights that we saw in paris on saturday and what can the government do at this point to stop these protests what would appease the protesters. well obviously the protesters don't want any taxes and the protests started as as a protest against this this chair or this new tariff on diesel and she will but what they really want now is that this movement has become a catchall for the discontented middle and working classes they're demanding a raise and the minimum wage there are even calls for matt brown to resign but i

think what they really want the government will do now is probably try to find a way to integrate these taxes they had already planned for right journalist goneril speaking to us from paris thank you very much thank you sir. could the guns fall silent at least briefly in yemen that's the possibility presented by talks in sweden between a delegation of who the rebels and representatives from yemen's government the un brokered talks are the first since two thousand and sixteen aimed at ending the country's bitter fighting. passports and tickets in hand for a journey many hope will bring peace a delegation of who theory rebels waiting to board their flight to sweden the un special envoy martin griffiths has been instrumental in setting up the talks with the yemeni government such as the distrust between the two sites the rebels wouldn't get on the plane without him.

our basic guarantee is the presence of the un envoy with us on the same flight this is the only guarantee we have for going there. have been no what you have and the evacuation of fifty wounded who see fighters from the war zone has also helps build confidence in the talks with the conflict locked in stalemate. the here's these backed by iran control the northwest of the country including the capital sanaa which they took fifteen the government backed by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. has set up a base an agent in the south. for years of conflict have left thousands dead and created what's been described as the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history with yemen's economy cripples more than fourteen million people many of them children facing starvation.

is a country at war as i've heard me say that this is a country of the break of catastrophe but if this is not a country on the brink of catastrophe this is a country that is in a catastrophe. a catastrophe that son folds is in full view of the whole world but one many say has been ignored the hope is the talks will result in a truce allowing food and aid to reach those who need it most. let's catch up on some other stories making news around the world turkey's chief prosecutor has issued arrest warrants for two saudi officials believed to be involved in the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi both men are former advisors to saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin. the british prime minister theresa may is battling to keep her break that plan on track as parliament continues a marathon five day debate on her deal may has.