and you can watch bbc panorama: addicted to gambling tonight at 8.30pm on bbc one and on the bbc iplayeralia — it would have to be this... these pictures of kangaroos hopping in the snow went viral on the internet — after parts of australia were blanketed over the weekend, as a polar front moved from the south of the country up to parts of new south wales, victoria and even on the gold coast in queensland. now, a hop and a skip to matt taylor. yes, those kangaroos look hoppier than the sheep the me... hoppier? yes, hoppier! anyway, moving on. 0ver yes, hoppier! anyway, moving on. over a month of august rainfall in just four days. i know august is a wet month, but it is going to extremes at the moment. if you're on your holiday break at the moment in the uk, for the week ahead you will need a wet weather plan just in case. there will be further downpours at times, and overall for the time of the year, fairly cool and at times fairly breezy as well. some of the wetter conditions are through the english channel in parts of the south—east, east anglia, rumbles of thunder with torrential down

bbc news. and you can see panorama tonight on bbc1 at 8:30.ory and many of you are telling me on a hashtag that you feel this industry should be regulated more. this is the briefing from bbc news. the latest headlines: in hong kong, clearing up is underway after the tenth weekend of pro—democracy marches. pro—democracy activists have accused the police of using undercover officers disguised as protestors to make arrests. there were violent scenes in several places. detectives in malaysia have set up a hotline for information about a missing teenager with special needs who vanished a week ago. nora quoirin was last seen at a jungle lodge where she was staying with her parents. stringent security measures are in place in indian—administered kashmir, as the mainly—muslim population prepare to celebrate the festival of eid al—adha. the security clampdown follows protests over delhi's decision to revoke the region's special status. now it is time to look at the stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. we begin with the i

bbc news, syria. you can see more on that story on panorama on bbc one at 8.30 tomorrow night. at the bbc sport centre. thanks very much. good evening. england's cricketers face a huge battle to save the opening ashes test. they'll start the final day 13—0 chasing an unlikely target of 398 after australia's talisman steve smith hit yet another big century. joe wilson reports from edgbaston. in sport, a precious few seem to live in a different world, to move at their own speed and dictate the pace, true vips. steve smith is one. he arrived at edgbaston at 9.45 ready to bat all day. england had to try something. something. well, that's different, a surprise at least. 0ptions were limited with anderson injured. jofra archer was only a substitute, he was not allowed to bowl until the next test match. smith was doing his thing, batting like nobody else. great fun, u nless batting like nobody else. great fun, unless of course you are the bowler. plenty more where that came from. how is your patience? wilting? even edgbaston‘s enthusiasts at times today struggled. with this shot, smit

for bbc panorama, stacey dooley travelled to two syrian camps close to the borders of iraq and turkeyfugees. but among its population, there are also around 11,000 foreign women, former is brides, and their children. most want to go back to the countries where they were born and brought up, but western governments see them as a threat to national security, so for now, this place is home. many said they were two scared to talk to me, but two british girls did. you are british. you sound british. conditions in the camp are harsh, and the atmosphere is tense. we have to be chaperoned the entire time. before we arrived, there was an incident where one of the female guards was stabbed to death. and is still wields power over these people's lives. we have been told that even young girls are beaten if they don't wear the neck up. as we left the camp, we saw women raising their index finger in nis salute. —— niqab. a few days later, a video was posted online that supposedly shows the is flag being raised over the camp. alongside the women, some 8000 children are living in camps like these. th

now on bbc news: panorama. the betting business is booming in britain. it is as simple as tap, tap, boom. but is it problem gamblers who are paying the price? they never questioned whether i could actually afford to, you know, spend 50 grand a night. we meet the punters who've lost everything. i was insane, i was insane. but i couldn't stop. the gamblers who don't know when to quit. um, an addiction, a compulsion like i've never seen in my life. this is a man with a problem. and we ask are the betting companies doing enough to protect problem gamblers? it's not about our dead boys. it's about the living ones now, stopping this happening to other people. tony is addicted to gambling. after more than 20 years of betting, he knows he can no longer walk into a bookies without losing control. if i was to walk in, my heart would beat faster, i know it. what do you think when you see shops like that? see a william hill shop like that? yeah. i spent half a million pounds in three months in cash, sometimes doing 50, 60 grand a day. a day tony? a shop like that. t

and "bbc panorama: addicted to gambling" can be watched tonight at 8.30pm on bbc one and on the bbc iplayerpoliticians tojoin her in forming an "emergency cabinet" in a bid to stop a no—deal brexit. the green party mp said the all—women cabinet could "bring a different perspective". she said the aim would be to force a no—confidence vote in prime minister borisjohnson and form a "national unity government". i'm talking about my own experience and i appreciate it's a generalisation, but in my experience i've found that women have generally been more able to put aside tribal concerns to build trust more quickly and there are times in history where we've seen that happen. for example, there's been two women there who were instrumental in bringing around the peace process. if you look at the climate change talks, two women, segolene royal and christiana figueres who were instrumental in breaking the logjam at the paris climate talks. now, i'm not saying that all women are automatically more able to do this any more that i'm saying that all men are not but i am saying that at a time of crisis, i

now at 3:30am on bbc news: panorama. this programme contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. i've come to syria to meet women who left the west to join the so—called islamic state. you sound british. me? yeah. now is has been defeated, their home countries don't want them back — they see them as a threat. do you feel guilty forjoining an organisation like isis? we didn'tjoin. most now claim they didn't know anything about the brutality of is. we haven't committed any beheadings or nothing like that. they say they stayed at home and cooked. no—one saw anything in isis. no—one saw anything apart from an oven! and some claim they were groomed. if he'd showed signs of being completely bloodthirsty and radical, iwould have run. that's not how they do this. i need to speak to some women who are willing to tell me what life was like under isis. 0h, maybe other — other women. it's hard to know if anyone is telling the truth, when saying the wrong thing could cost them their freedom or even their lives. 0k. i u

and bbc panorama: addicted to gambling can be watched tonight at 8.30pm on bbc one and on the bbc iplayerst for four years. new industry figures reveal the scale of the problem — with the vacancy rate injuly at its highest level since january 2015. let's talk to our business correspondent dominic o'connell. hejoins me now. so one in ten of high street shops is now vacant, the highest forfour yea rs. is now vacant, the highest forfour years. this is part of a continuation of what we all know is going on with shopping. retail sales asa going on with shopping. retail sales as a whole are growing, but all that goes is online and high streets and shopping centres are seeing their foot for fall sharply. in the month ofjuly, it fell by nearly 2%. shopping centres had held up ok, but 110w shopping centres had held up ok, but now they are starting to fall as well and that migration online is just continuing. a lot of the high street shops are finding themselves in this vicious downward spiral of not making enough money to reinvest in the shops to make it an attractive place to go, so less people c

now on bbc news: panorama. the betting business is booming in britain.r questioned whether i could actually afford to, you know, spend 50 grand a night. we meet the punters who've lost everything. i was insane, i was insane. but i couldn't stop. the gamblers who don't know when to quit. um, an addiction, a compulsion like i've never seen in my life. this is a man with a problem.

now at 3:30am on bbc news: panorama. who left the west to join the so—called islamic state. you sound british. me? yeah. now is has been defeated, their home countries don't want them back — they see them as a threat. do you feel guilty forjoining an organisation like isis? we didn'tjoin. most now claim they didn't know anything about the brutality of is. we haven't committed any beheadings or nothing like that. they say they stayed at home and cooked. no—one saw anything in isis. no—one saw anything apart from an oven!

bbc panorama, addicted to gambling, can be watched tonight.england, wales and northern ireland. more on our top story now, the rise of drugs crime in small towns and villages across england and wales. data unearthed by the bbc highlights the growth of so—called county lines gangs, networks of dealers moving illegal drugs from cities to rural areas, often using children as mules. let's speak to nikki holland, the national crime agency's director of investigations. good morning, and thanks very much for talking to us. let's talk about what you have seen change, have you seen this kind of change echoed, that actually villages and small town seem to be the place is now being targeted? yes, we have. they have been some huge successes in the major cities in terms of how they tackle drugs, and of course the cou nty tackle drugs, and of course the county lines model will move to somewhere where there is greater demand and less competition. so the rural areas are primed for the people to move out, the goings, as the cities do well at tackling the probl