Russell brand, comedian, actor, Political Commentator accused of multiple Sexual Assaults and the rape of a woman that the programme dispatches called nadia. Hes grabbing at my, my underwear, pulling it to the side. Im telling him to get off me, he wont get off. I was distraught, trying to get out of the house with him being so much taller than me, like, holding me up against the wall. Further details have now been published about Nadia Reporting the incident to a Rape Crisis Centre and also a series of Text Messages that the investigators say Russell Brand sent to nadia. The exchange begins with him saying, im sorry, i will make this up to you. And then he goes on to ask, will you everforgive me . It was just as these allegations first began to emerge that he arrived for a performance in london. On stage he was met by fans with cheers and a standing ovation. He has these days, millions of followers on social media. This is anti establishment, anti authoritarian. Where he has cast hims
Through the first line of russian defences. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner has been working with the bbc verify team to determine whether ukraine is making any significant process. Ukraines big Counter Offensive in the south is making progress, but how far have their troops really got and can they break through russias defences to turn the tide of this war . Lets just remind ourselves. The Dark Red Area is the area occupied by Russian Forces. The purple area is ground that the ukrainians have recaptured. The russian defences consist of two major lines, each composed of several interlocking obstacles trenches, anti tank devices, minefields, all covered by artillery. The ukrainians have had to spend most of the last three months picking their way through minefields like this one. You can see the hidden mines circled in red here. And theyre doing this on foot, sometimes at night, often underfire, hence the slow progress to date. Theyre also having to find their way through obsta
Take, we made too many mistakes. That is take, we made too many mistakes. That is test take, we made too many mistakes. That is test match rugby. Great britain have reached the davis cup finals next month after a thrilling finish to their tie against france in manchester. It was winner takes all and, at 1 1 after the singles, it went down to the deciding doubles. Dan evans, who had won his Singles Rubber earlier in the day, partnered neal skupski against Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger vasselin. Though the british pair lost the first set 6 1, they dug deep and took the next two on tie breaks, saving four match points along the way. Great britain will now head to malaga next month, for the Knockout Stage against seven other nations. They will face either serbia or italy when the draw is made tomorrow. A set down, a few guys from the bench said, you know, get the crowd involved and it sort of turned into pandemonium for me and then. Laughter. Yeah, some embarrassing stuff most likely out
And those who have already received initial Compensation Payments or have reached a settlement with the post office of less than 600,000 will also be paid the difference in that story is on a website if you wanted more information about that. Time for a look at all the support and for a full round up the bbc sport centre. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. 15 members of the team have been named and a large number of players boycotted the team after the Football Federation kissed the player following the final and rubiales resigned including 21 of the 23 world cup winners said their strike would continue into further changes were made. This is the first announcement by the new coach who replaced them. The players being called up have ended their strike. The champions week is back tomorrow night with Manchester City an action against belgrade and this marked the first triumph in the competition and manager Pep Guardiola said this would take the pressure off his sid
biden wants to ban menthol cigarettes which are favored by black smokers. he wants to legalize weed for white college kids. republicans hope to siphon off some even if a small amount of biden s voters in some of the battleground states like nevada, iowa and pennsylvania. the white house for their part they have not given a clear reason for this delay. it s really interesting and important. thank you for tracking it. and cnn this morning continues right now. i don t have a woman problem. you have a corruption problem and that s what people need to know. nikki is corrupt. it s not worth my time to respond to him. her donors, wall street liberal donors make money in china. they are not going to let her be tough on china and she will cave to the donors. she will not stand up for you. he is mad because the wall street donors used to support him and now they support me. there you is have it. if you watched the debate it was fiery one. good morning. i m poppy harlow