About his relationship with the financiers Jeffrey Epstein. The prince has been accused of having links to the billionaire who killed himself in prison while awaiting trial on a sex trafficking charges. With an exclusive interview with bbc, Prince Andrew was asked asked about his relationship with one of the women, Virginia Roberts. She says she was forced to have sex with the duke three times. Prince andrew has denied all the allegations against him. Our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. He is continuing with royal duties. Last sunday he was at the cenotaph, laying a wreath with his nephews, and yet for month after month, he has been the focus of troubling questions. Prince andrew, the queens second son, one moment seen waving from the doorway of the new york home of a convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, and photographed strolling through central park with him. The headlines have been lurid, relentless and deeply damaging. Most serious of all is the allegation that and
Also tonight around 100 people are rescued from floods in the midlands with more flood warnings and rain on the way. The mother of a ten Year Old Girl who died after contracting an infection in a cancer ward in glasgow claims there was a cover up over her death. Sleeping on the streets, in parks, on peoples sofas a Charity Warns that more than 20,000 young people are at risk of homelessness this christmas. And eastenders stars take on strictly for tonights children in need. And coming up on bbc news. More medals for Great Britain on the final day of the world para athletics championship in dubai as they finished third in the medal table. Good evening. Labour has unveiled plans to give every home across the uk free broadband in the next decade by partly nationalising bt. The shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said his partys proposals were visionary and the £20 billion cost of doing it would be paid for by introducing a tax on tech giants. The Prime Minister called it a crackpot scheme
Around 100 people are rescued by the service from floods in the midlands with warnings of more rain on the way. The mother of a 10 Year Old Girl who died after contracting an infection in a cancer ward in glasgow claims there was a cover up over her death. Sleeping on the streets, in parks, on peoples sofas a Charity Warns that more than 20 thousand young people are at risk of homelessness this christmas. And eastenders stars take on strictly for tonights children in need. Coming up on tonights news watch, the strange tale of how three year old footage of Boris Johnson laying a wreath at the cenotaph came to be broadcast on monday morning. Join us tonight here on bbc news. Labour has unveiled plans to give every home across the uk free broadband in the next decade by partly nationalising bt. The shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell said his partys proposals were visionary and the £20 billion cost of doing it would be paid for partly by introducing a tax on tech giants. The Prime Minister c
In lexington, kentucky. You served as an its a advisor to mitch mcconnell. Give us a sense how that background informs or doesnt your approach at approaching policy. Absolutely. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to be here today. Yes, i did spend a good chunk of my youth in lexington, kentucky, and had the opportunity to serve the senior senator and party leader from kentucky in United States senate, senator mcconnell. In terms of how that informs my work at the commission, you know, i cant quantify how much i learned from senator mcconnell just about his work ethic and his discipline and his leadership style, his approach to governance. His approach to bipartisanship. Ofmy working for him, most if not all the legislative initiatives are worked on, they didnt pass the senate with 60 votes. They passed with 85 plus votes. Often times, and were talking substantial legislation on the energy front, multiple form bills, multiple highway bills. These are consequential pieces of legisla
Than it was a decade ago, says the tuc. More than a Million People are evacuated from their homes as a powerful typhoon hits china. Liverpool make an ideal start to the season as they thrash newly promoted norwich 4 1 at anfield. And in dateline london well discuss the lockdown in kashmir as well as the speculation here in the uk about a possible general election. The Energy Regulator is demanding answers from the National Grid after a major blackout which struck large areas of england and wales yesterday evening. Around a Million People were affected by the power cut which led to major disruption for rail passengers, caused traffic lights to fail and left thousands of homes without electricity. The National Grid said the major power cut was a rare and unusual event caused by the almost simultaneous loss of power at a gas station and an offshore wind farm atjust before five oclock yesterday. Disruption lasted for around an half and a hour before power was restored at 6. 30 last night.