In the state rooms at Buckingham Palace, a Senior Member of the British Royal family, Prince Andrew, second son of the queen, is preparing to be interrogated about allegations of sleazy behaviour and gross misjudgment. Your royal highness, weve come to Buckingham Palace in highly unusual circumstances. At issue, which of these two people is telling the truth . Andrew or Virginia Roberts, 17 years old when this photograph was taken . Groomed, she says, to provide sexual favours to powerful men. Even the photo is contentious. Andrew says he has no memory of it. Tramp, a nightclub in central london. Virginia roberts says she was there with andrew one night in march 2001. She says they later had sex. Andrew says he was with his family. And he told the bbcs emily maitlis, theres a medical reason why ms roberts allegation cannot be true. She was very specific about that night. She described dancing with you. No. And you profusely sweating, and that she went on to have. Theres a slight problem with the sweating, because i. I have a peculiar medical condition which is that i dont sweat or that i didnt sweat at the time. Is it possible that you met Virginia Roberts, dined with her, danced with her in tramp, had sex with her, on another date . No. Do you remember meeting her at all . No. You can say categorically that you dont recall meeting Virginia Roberts, dining with her, dancing with her at tramp and going on to have sex with her in a bedroom in a house in belgravia . I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. Do you recall any kind of sexual contact with Virginia Roberts, then or at any other time . None whatsoever. The other key figure in all of this isjeffrey epstein, the new york financier who befriended andrew. Epstein employed Virginia Roberts and many other young girls. In 2008 he was convicted of a child sex offence and sent to prison. So. Do you regret the whole friendship with epstein . Now, still not, the reason being that the people that i met and the opportunities that i was given to learn, either by him or because of him, were actually very useful. In 2010 andrew visited epstein after his release from prison and stayed for several nights at his home in new york. A wrong judgement, andrew now says i let the side down. 0verall, did he think his behaviour had damaged the royalfamily . I dont believe its been damaging to the queen at all. It has to me. I wonder what effect this has had on your close family . Youve got daughters of your own. It has been what i would describe as a constant sore in the family. Finally, as he looks back. I wonder if you have any sense now of guilt, regret, or shame about any of your behaviour and your friendship with epstein . As far as mr epstein is concerned, it was the wrong decision to go and see him in 2010. Do i regret the fact that he has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming . Yes. Unbecoming . He was a sex offender. Yeah. Im sorry, im being polite. Andrew will be hoping that his answers will allow him to move on. That remains to be seen. Nicholas witchell, bbc news. As protests widen across iran over fuel price rises and rationing, irans interior minister has issued a warning to those demonstrating. He says Security Forces will act to restore calm if protesters damage public properties. The demonstrations have been going on right across the country, including in the capital tehran. Two people have been killed in clashes with police in other cities. Rich preston reports. Demonstrations continued into a second day after fridays unexpected announcement. Prices rose by at least 50 . In tehran, demonstrators blocked roads, even calling on the police tojoin them. Blocked roads, even calling on the police to join them. Teargas was used to break up the crowds. Violent clashes were reported across the country. Irans interior minister has warned Security Forces will restore calm if a tax on property continue. Fuel is heavily subsidised in iran, but american sanctions over its Nuclear Programme have hit the countrys economy hard. President mahoney says the money saved by lowering fuel subsidies will be redistributed to help the neediest people. President rouhani. But that message has not appears to be many, who have taken to the streets in angerat many, who have taken to the streets in anger at their leaders. More than 100 people have been arrested in paris one year on a since the so called giletjaune, paris one year on a since the so called gilet jaune, or yellow vests, movement. The first demonstration one year ago demanded an end to the fuel tax. The new the movement has widened since then. In paris today, a reminder that the anger that sparked this movement a year ago hasnt gone away. The number of protesters much smaller now, but for the rioters and police, the tactics remain the same. Translation today is one year since the gilets jaunes took to the streets, to demand social, tax and economicjustice. One year later nothing has changed. We are still angry and still here, and still they gas us and they beat us. It was enough for police to ban the main protest at place ditalie. Tear gas and water cannon clearing the square within hours. Tonight across the city, small pockets of demonstrators are still battling with the police. The worry for the government is that this will notjust be a one day protest but a whole new wave of opposition. President macron is facing a string of different protests over the next few weeks, from unions, students and Public Sector workers. Isolated fires are one thing. The danger is they will unite to become an inferno. Lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. The first of around 700 cuban doctors have started flying home from bolivia on saturday. Cuba says it is terminating its medical mission in boliva after it said bolivian officials were fostering violence against the doctors by claiming they were instigating rebellion. The communist run nation was a key ally of former president , evo morales, who resigned on sunday and fled to mexico. There have been clashes in hong kong, between police and pro democracy protesters. An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire at a block of student flats in bolton. Witnesses say the blaze spread quickly to the upper floors, prompting concerns about the cladding on the block. Two people were injured. From bolton, 0livia richwald reports. These videos posted on social media show an intense fire which spread rapidly, sending chunks of burning cladding and sparks to the ground. At first, some of the students ignored the alarms. There was this girl who came running and she banged on the doors of the people on my floor, and she just started screaming, saying there was a fire, get out of here right now. When we were running down the stairs, it was getting higher and higher and catching really quickly. The cladding on this building is not the same as that which has been blamed for exacerbating the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, which killed 72 people, and the students living here in the cube have been reassured it was safe, but the videos posted on social media have raised alarm bells. This isnt a grenfell cladding scenario. This is a different type of material, essentially a compressed wood or paper pulp, which is still combustible and, as we see from the footage, once it takes hold with a fire, it has potential to impinge on the evacuation or the safety of the occupants. This afternoon, Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited a shelter to meet affected students, and then to the scene where he met firefighters. The university of bolton says its finding new accommodation for its students and offering them support. All my belongings, its all gone. I dont know what to say. How are you feeling about it all . Traumatised. Tonight, theres a warning from the fire brigades union, who describe the videos as alarming and say urgent action is needed. 0livia richwald, bbc news, bolton. After six hours of talks, Senior Labour Party figures have reached an agreement on the partys manifesto for next months general election. Jeremy corbyn has hailed the set of policies as transformative. It will be a once in a Generation Opportunity to vote for a more Egalitarian Society that cares for all, and i am very, very proud Egalitarian Society that cares for all, and i am very, very proud of the contents of it and i cant wait to ta ke the contents of it and i cant wait to take those contents and its promise of a better britain to eve ryo ne promise of a better britain to everyone all around this country during our election campaign. 0ur Political Correspondent iain watson has more details on labours manifesto. Taken together, labors policy would certainly signal a much stronger role for the state, the next government programmes of nationalisation, but todays meeting was about trying to sort out disagreements behind closed doors. For example, the partys grassroots of the conference wanted to see a policy notjust of maintaining the Free Movement of workers, but extending it. Some unions were worried that might put off voters who were worried about immigration, so i am told today there will be no explicit commitment to extend Free Movement in the manifesto and there will be new policies to regulate the employment market so that people dont feel they are going to be undercut by migrant labour. Another was over a commitment to deliver net zero Carbon Emissions by 2030, but that will be on the manifesto as a target, not a deadline. Also help for women who have been adversely affected by an increase in the states retirement age, and drilling down further, there is going to be a commitment to free dental checks in england, although we wont see the exact wording of the manifesto, ben, until thursday. Elsewhere, the conservatives and the liberal democrats are both promising to plant millions of trees to tackle Climate Change if they win the election. Liberal democrat leader, jo swinson, says the party would plant 60 million trees, every year, across the uk by 2025, while the tories are pledging to plant 30 million. The sinn fein leader, mary lou mcdonald, has told her Party Conference there should be a referendum on irish unity within the next five years. She said she believed a United Ireland would be achieved in the 2020s. Earlier, sinn feins leader at stormont, michelle 0neill, saw off a challenge to her position. More than 60 flood warnings are still in place across england and wales as water levels begin to subside. Large parts of the country have been water logged for days with South Yorkshire among the hardest hit. Hundreds of volunteers have begun a clean up effort in doncaster, a week on from the worst of the flooding. Some people travelled miles to help out, as tom airey reports. Ruined down to the foundations. Two weeks ago, glyn had decorators in his living room putting up new wallpaper. A week later, its volunteers ripping up the floor after floodwater rose up through it. We had a few sandbags that i bought years ago and put them in front of the door, but a stupid person drove by when it were about two foot and knocked my wall down. Everythings gone, my blinds fell down, everything, but like i say, i couldnt do it without these people. Glyn, like many others in bentley, has been uninsured after the cost of flood cover became unaffordable following major floods here 12 years ago. We came together to help him. What we can do for these people that arent insured well do. Weve taken all these floors up, the skirting boards, and then all this rubbish from underneath here, as we need to dry it out and then what we will do once we have all these floors up, well deodorise it all, sanitise it and put dehumidifiers in. Todays clear up was organised by St Peters Church with volunteers using a local Window Company as a hub to store donated supplies. Weve had a massive response. Im guessing over 100 people here already for nine oclock. We have put them all in hi vizers, give them a pair of gloves, wellies, wheel barrows, shovels and away they have gone. We broke off into five teams with a team leader and you will see they are out on all the streets helping everybody and trying to get this place tidy. The doncaster suburb was submerged in knee deep water last friday after the river don burst its banks. The high volume pumps here are now being cleared away and it marks the end of the emergency phase. Now the volunteers here are rolling in to help with the Recovery Process and residents here say this process will take months to complete. The efforts are involving everyone neighbours, local businesses and even those who have cross county borders to lend a hand. Just got together, come up today, just to help clear out a lot of the ruined carpets, furniture, a lot of the fridges and washing machines ruined, so if we can get them out of the houses, it makes life easier. Staff from a nearby supermarket added their support while residents filled bags with ruined clothes destined for the skip. And despite the rain falling once again, it didnt dampen efforts of the volunteers giving up their weekend to help others. This is bbc news. Our main headline in an exclusive bbc interview, Prince Andrew has categorically denied ever having sex with the american virginia giuffre, and said some of her story is false. Lets stay with that story now, and our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell has more on where that interview leaves the prince now. Well, the jury is well and truly out, i would say. It is a big gamble for him. I think he very much wanted to do this interview, supported by his closest officials. I dont think the queens officials at Buckingham Palace have had very much to do with this. He will certainly hope to gain credit for having answered all the questions put to him, nothing was off limits, fairly relentless 45 minutes of interrogation. He will hope to be believed in his denials, given the impression that he is a man with nothing to hide and certainly he seemed quite open and quite relaxed during the interview. Where i think he will struggle more is his refusal to regret the friendship with jeffrey epstein. His statement earlier that he was somehow too honourable to have broken off that friendship, he now accepts that was a wrong judgement, and apart from the credibility, i think its the underlying sense of an element of arrogance, of naivety, of a lack of self awareness that perhaps people will find rather surprising. One other thing he left open, the option of a sworn deposition which of course is what the american authorities are hoping that he will now agree to. Here in the uk, its now less than a month until the general election, and politicians have been clocking up the miles trying to win over voters up and down the country. From pacts between the parties, to handshakes and heckles for party leaders. Heres our roundup of the weeks wobbles and winning moments on the campaign trail. Have you ever used up before . Yes, i feel that was very unfair. We are going to stand pretty much everywhere, said nigelvirage. Last week. This week. The brexit party will not contest the 317 seats the conservatives one of the last election. He says he is making a decision in the National Interest not in his partys interest. We are a national, one nation party, we will be standing in all the seats. They got themselves in a bit of a pickle about this plan may have for a four day week. Pickle about this plan may have for a fourday week. Its not happening, there is not a four day week coming in the nhs. That seems clear enough, didnt it . But take a look at john ashworths facial expression. Didnt it . But take a look at john ashworths facial expression. In that way, the nhs and others will be able to reduce the hours as well. Both men agree it would happen alongside Economic Growth over ten yea rs. Alongside Economic Growth over ten years. The lib dems have not set out their health plans in detail but they have said they were put a penny per pound on income tax to help fund it. It is clear at this election that people deserve a party in a government that will probably invest in the nhs. Properly. The conservative governments response has been woeful. This is clearly a national emergency. Is there anything in particular you would like us to do. No thank you. A little bit too late. Replacing the chancellor of the exchequer with the carbon chancellor. Every sector of the economy needs to decarbonise. Nicola sturgeon has been talking about her desire for another scottish referendum, after Jeremy Corbyn who has been in scotland says he did not want one in the first five years of a labour government. Then tweak that to say he did not wa nt then tweak that to say he did not want one in the early years. He needs the support of other parties. If he wont accept the right of the scottish people to choose their own future he wont get that support from the snp. Should it go up . Down . Also the same. Interview with the bbcJeremy Corbyn also the same. Interview with the bbc Jeremy Corbyn wouldnt also the same. Interview with the bbcJeremy Corbyn wouldnt say. I think putting arbitrary figures as successive governments have done simply doesnt work. The tories said they would control immigration using a points based system. They would control immigration using a points based systemlj they would control immigration using a points based system. I think we can have a fair policy where we can have people with the right skills that we need for our economy and our labour markets. Broadband, free for everybody. Instead of you forking out your monthly bill, we will tax the giant corporations fairly. Huge programme of investment in our roads, in telecoms, gigabit broadband, unlike the crazed communist scheme that was outlined earlier on. There are still a lot of questions to come over how labour plans to pay for some of its big pledges. He says this is affordable, and we will see details of exactly how labour lambs to pay for it all in the manifesto. Weeks left to go. Dominic thiem will play Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final of the atp tennis event in london. Thiem beat Alexander Zverev while tsitsipas beat roger federer. The greek won in straight sets 6 3, 6 4. Austin halewood reports. If battling against rafa nadal yesterday was not tough enough, for Stefanos Tsitsipas it was only the warm up. Next up, roger federer, a man who has done it all before, perhaps the greatest of all time. But even the greats still feel the pressure. After a near three hour battle with nadal, anyone would be forgiven for feeling the strain, but tsitsipas was on top of his game. The greek at his powerful, clinical best. Eventually after the seventh time of asking, he took the first set. When federer won his first grand slam title, tsitsipas had not started school. With 17 years between them, the greek looked to use age to his advantage, forcing federer around the court and forcing the mistake. The frustration clear to see. He was ahead by a double break at one point but still federer fought back, holding his serve when it mattered most. But by then the damage was already done. Match point taken at the first time of asking. That is a brilliant performance. Federer heading home even tsitsipas could not quite believe it. I grew up watching roger as a kid, i wished i could step out on the Court One Day and face him, and today i am here, living the dream. And to me, it wasjust. I could never picture myself standing here, but it did happen, dreams do come true. Last year tsitsipas won the next generation to a finals, he was one for the future. Now he is right at the top of the sport. The prince of wales and the duchess of cornwall have arrived in new zealand for an official tour which will take them to auckland, christchurch and waitangi. Charles and camilla touched down at the new Zealand Royal Air force base. It is a couples third visit to the country a couples third visit to the cou ntry after a couples third visit to the country after travelling in 2012 to mark the Queens Diamond Jubilee and again in 2015. The first engagement will take place on monday in auckland and the prince and duchess will then travel on to the solomon islands. A nine year old boy from belgium is about to become the worlds youngest ever university graduate. Laurent simons who is originally from 0stend is studying for an Electrical Engineering degree in the netherlands. If all goes to plan hell graduate next month. The bbcs tim allman has the story. Laurent simons likes Nothing Better than a little soldering and tinkering with electronics. A young man with a photographic memory, and an iq of 145, he is living life at quite a speed. Translation i did the first year of my Primary School and then it went faster and faster. Idid the and then it went faster and faster. I did the remaining five years in one year, i did my secondary school in1. 5 years and one year, i did my secondary school in 1. 5 years and at university i do a course every week. Laurent simons is studying at the Eindhoven University of technology. And although he doesnt spend all that much time with his students, his family believe he is in the right place. Translation ithink family believe he is in the right place. Translation i think he would have missed a lot of his youth if he was still in school. Now it isjust like a playground here. So he can do whatever he wants. Like many boys of his age he likes robots, but were not talking about toys. Laurent is a lot more ambitious than that. Translation my goal is actually extending life, replacing part of human beings by technology. So for example artificial organs and robot arms, robot legs, things like that. Next up he is aiming for a graduate degree. Just imagine what he will do when he is ten. Imagine when he gets to 20 the weather now with chris fawkes. In the news last week you might remember that venice was hit with severe flooding, and we have got similar weather conditions on the way to today. Later on, around midday we will see the high water coming in around 1. 6 metres above normal, that makes it one of the highest of the last 90 odd years, thats not quite as high as it was on tuesday but it will still be widespread, big flooding the city. Those flooding conditions are caused by an area of low pressure in the mediterranean, drawing up these strong winds, pushing a bullet of water from the adriatic, there will be some thunderstorms as well fairly widely in italy. That low pressure will get close to us as we will see injust a moment. For the time being over the next few hours, we have clear spells, we are seeing things turn pretty frosty, particularly in scotland, the odd patch across parts of southern england as well. So for some, a chilly start of the day on sunday. For others, a cloudy start, with fairly persistent but mainly light outbreaks of rain affecting north east england, becoming quite patchy in nature as it works across Northern England into the midlands and wales. Probably no huge rainfall totals building up, just some dull and damp weather. Brighter on the south, we should see some sunny weather moving into scotland and Northern Ireland during the day, where there will be some showers across northern scotland driven in by a north west wind, it will feel quite chilly here. Through sunday night the skies will clear further across the northern half of the uk really, as that happens we will see temperatures plummet, there will be a widespread frost, temperatures down to around 4 in edinburgh, colder in the countryside, some mist and fog patches to take us into monday. Then that area of low pressure bringing flooding to venice later today, here is the low coming around europe and coming quite close to the uk on monday. This area of High Pressure though, it looks like it will stop its progress, but it is something we are monitoring carefully given the saturated ground conditions and the flooding problems we have in places, any rain would not be helpful. At the moment it looks like it will be mostly kept at bay, so for monday it will be a cold start today, widespread frost and frost and mist and fog patches, a lot of dry weather with sunshine, highs of around three degrees in edinburgh, you could just about see some of that rain getting into parts of eastern england. After that as we get into tuesday and wednesday, low pressures from the atlantic are going to take over. As that happens the wind will back around more to a south easterly direction, which means we will see rain spreading into eastern wales across the midlands, which of course is not great news. This is bbc news, the headlines Prince Andrew has told the bbc he categorically denies having sexual relations with Virginia Roberts, the woman who says she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17 years old. Hes spoken in detail for the first time about his links with the convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein. Protests have erupted across iran after the government unexpectedly announced it was sharply increasing the price of petrol and rationing supplies. Irans interior minister says Security Forces will act to restore calm if protesters damage public property. French police have fired tear gas and made over 100 arrests in paris, as yellow vest protesters mark the First Anniversary of the movements weekly demonstrations. Thousands of protesters turned out to mark a year since the first major demonstration demanding an end to a rise in fuel tax. Votes are being counted in sri lankas president ial election which is reported to have had a high turnout. Final results are expected on sunday. Security and the economy dominated the campaign, just seven months after 250 people died in a series of bomb attacks. We all know sir rod stewart for his husky voice and big hits,