To Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6 3, 6 4. Prince andrew has told the bbc he categorically denies having sexual relations with Virginia Roberts who says she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17 years old. In an interview with bbcs newsnight, hes answered questions for the first time about his links with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The duke of york said a sense of honour led him to continue his association with the disgraced financier. Our royal correspondent Nick Witchell reports. In the state rooms at Buckingham Palace, a Senior Member of the british royalfamily, Prince Andrew, second son of the queen, is preparing to be interrogated about allegations of sleazy behaviour and gross misjudgement. 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
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 robertss 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 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 recal
President trump says he plans to impose even more sanctions on iran, as tensions escalate between the two countries. Just days ago, mr trump called off an airstrike on iran at the last minute in response to the shooting down of an american drone. Last week, the us blamed iran for attacking two oil tankers in the gulf of oman, which tehran has strenuously denied. From washington, Chris Buckler reports. For the moment, donald trump is choosing sanctions as his weapon, not force. But the us military remains primed and ready in the gulf, and while the president abandoned strikes on iranian targets on thursday, the countries still appear to be on a collision course, unless something changes. If the leadership of iran behaves badly, then its going to be a very, very bad day for them. But hopefully, they are smart and hopefully they really care for their people, not themselves. And hopefully, we can get iran back onto an economic track thats fantastic. Washington is putting further sanctions
With. 300 veterans will join some 600000 people and told in southern england to mark the 75th anniversary of the biggest invasion and military history also coming up. Call to the george brown begins an appeal against his conviction for child sexual abuse the form of vatican treasury is the most senior catholic clergy meant to be convicted of these crimes in australia. And we need to make a last minute out of a student in the Czech Republic trying to topple the nations billionaire leader the demonstrations hes helping to mobilize are some of the biggest since the fall of communism in 99. Plus the very fast hong kong refugees to be granted political asylum anywhere in the wild came here to germany to tell the damn thing about the price they paid in the fight for hong kong independence from china. One leaders are gathering on the south coast of england to mark the 75th anniversary of d. Day the day in 944 when allied forces landed in normandy and began to retake europe from nazi germany t
Today (28 November), Petr Fiala has been appointed as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic by President Miloš Zeman. The appointment follows elections where the party in government won the most seats, but where a coalition of opposition parties acted together to form a coalition government . EU Reporter spoke to former diplomat and former Liberal […]