we won t play her games, we won t play roles in a tense game, when there is real work to be done, real work on the cost of living crisis, real work to invest in public services. the white house calls the deaths of 46 people found in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of the texan city of san antonio, absolutely horrific and heartbreaking . ghislaine maxwell is due to be sentenced in the next few hours for recruiting and grooming minors for herformer partner, paedophilejeffrey epstein. borisjohnson faces a row over increased defence spending, as he heads to a nato summit likely to be dominated by the need to boost military resources to counter russia in ukraine. the odds of it being a war in europe have shortened almost as much as the timeline, so we must act. we cannot protect the british people or our allies with transformation strategies and glossy equipment. and coming up in sport, we ll be live at wimbledon as 23 time grand slam champion serena williams prepares to go o
stories of four women who were abused by epstein and maxwell between the years 1994 2004. we will now be hearing victim impact statements from two of them. also, over the last 17 years, scores of women have come forward to say they were abused by the pair as well, and they described maxwell as being really central to the abuse something which her defence has always denied, continues to deny, they say she was not part of what epstein was up to, that she had no involvement in any of it. but we will hear those victim impact statements at some point during the hearing. now the prosecution has asked for up to 55 years the most serious charge she was convicted of a sex trafficking of a minor, which carries up to 40 years. her defence has asked that she serves no more than 5.25 year years, saying she s