reporter: chinese tennis star peng shuai is silent no longer about previous allegations of sexual coercion against a former-top chinese official. but her latest public comments likely won t satisfy anyone outside china who is concerned about her welfare. translator: i want to emphasize one thing that is very important. that i have never spoken or written about anyone sexually assaulting me. this point is very important to be emphasized clearly. in terms of the weibo post, first of all, it s my personal privacy. there possibly has been a lot of misunderstanding. it looks troublesome. it is something that is just down downright disturbing. and it is almost a complete turnaround from what peng said previously. in a since-deleted social media post in early november on the chinese blog site weibo, she publicly accused former vice premiere zhang gaoli of coercing her into sex at his home three years ago, so now, her words of
if you re feeling anxious about the future, you re not alone. calhope offers free covid-19 emotional support. call 833-317-4673, or live chat at calhope.org today. there is a strange new twist in the case of chinese tennis star peng shuai. she s not only denied she was ever sexually assaulted by a former high ranking politician, but she s also saying she never even made the accusations in the first place. here is what she said over the weekend. translator: i want to emphasize one thing that is very important. that i have never spoken or
. chinese tennis star peng shuai denying she ever accused a top chinese leader of sexual assault amid growing concern about her well-being. she claims there s a misunderstanding. will pipley is live in hong kong with more. what is more of that misunderstanding? look, she s had weeks to be coached by whomever might have been stage managing those videos that were released shortly after her explosive november 2nd post. we have to keep that context in mind. the new video released about the closest that you can get to the chinese media, the singaporean newspaper, the only foreign newspaper that you can buy in the mainland access without a vpn. they have pro-beijing coverage. what peng shuai told this reporter who supposed just casually went up to her as she was at a cross-country ski tournament sunday he asked her about her sexual assault claim and she says she never claimed
and the chinese tennis star peng shuai retracts an accusation of sexual assault against a former top communist party official. but critics still fear she may have been speaking under duress. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. borisjohnson has chaired a cabinet meeting as the government faces growing calls to outline whether any new covid restrictions will be implemented in england over christmas. the government s chief scientific adviser, sir patrick vallance, and england s chief medical officer, professor chris whitty, have briefed ministers about the omicron variant. the bbc has been told, civil servants have prepared three different options, ranging in severity with boris johnson likely to face strong opposition to further restrictions, from
and blamed for his crimes butjeffrey epstein is not ghislaine maxwell, the lawyer said. then she went on to, again, undermine the testimony and credibility of the four accusers, which has been a very big part of the case. the chinese tennis star, pung shwai appears to have retracted an accusation of sexual assaul that she made against a former chinese vice premier. here she is in the video interview filmed by the newspaper lee en her ssow bow. translation: first and foremost, j i must emphasise i have never said or wrote about anyone sexually assaulting me. that s a very important point. the weibo post is my own personal issue. i know there are many misunderstandings, but there is no distorted interpretation. in a statement the women s tennis association said it was good