welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines president biden announces new measures to tackle the omicron variant, promising free testing and 10,000 new vaccination sites. let me say again and again and again and again, please get vaccinated. it s the only responsible thing to do. borisjohnson says there will be no new restrictions in england before christmas as the uk government also announces more than $1 billion for the hospitality industry. the high court in london orders the ruler of dubai to pay more than $700 million in a divorce settlement to his ex wife, princess haya ofjordan. and we take you back to a time
in a long running dispute with herformer husband, the ruler of dubai. the princess fled to britain with her children in 2019, saying she was in fear of her life. our security correspondent, frank gardner told us more about the settlement. this is pretty much the culmination of a long running court battle between where the worlds richest men who was up for the huge racing world and for dubai and the prime minister of the united emirates and the youngest of the six wives, not ex wife who is the daughter of the king of hussein ofjordan. she fled to britain with her two children sing she was terrified. she was getting some very sinister things. a gun was placed in her room with a bullet on it. a helicopter landed on the wall of her palace with someone saying he had orders to take her to a prison out in the desert. all
unusual case, hasn t it? it is, because the eye watering sums involved. £554 million of the final judgment awarded to princess haya. it s notjust judgment awarded to princess haya. it s not just for judgment awarded to princess haya. it s notjust for her. the bulk of it is for her security and that of her children, but include things like pets, ponies, holidays, reinforced vehicles, and so on. just to give you the background, princess haya fled to the country in 2019 saying she was in fear of her life and she says that this was because after she discovered her husband, sheikh mohammed, a huge figure in the horse racing world, she had discovered she had abducted two of their daughters and rendered them back to dubai, something stood up by the high court but denied by him but her detractors say it is because she was having an affair with her bodyguard and he discovered this and was furious and wrote a very angry poem about it and she feared for her life. this is more or less the end
more than $700 million in a divorce settlement to his ex wife princess haya ofjordan. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk, with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk from manchester. i m stephen sackur. of all the football mad cities in the world, few can compete with this one, home to two of the world s biggest clubs, united and city. for all of football s global appeal it s wrestling with big problems, from financial greed to residual racism. my guest today is former manchester united and france star patrice evra. now he s done something most footballers never do. he s opened up about the emotional scars he s carried through his career. so why has he done it?
what s thought to be the largest divorce settlement in british legal history has been agreed. a high courtjudge has awarded around $725 million to princess haya ofjordan in a long running dispute with herformer husband, the ruler of dubai. the princess, who is a7, is the sixth and youngest wife of sheikh mohammed. she fled to the uk from dubai with her children in 2019, claiming she was in fear of her life. last year, the high court in london ruled that the sheikh had illegally hacked his estranged wife s mobile phone as well as those of her bodyguards and legal team. he has denied ever having an intention of harming the princess. 0ur security correspondent frank gardner told us more about the settlement. this is pretty much the culmination of every long running court battle