a second chinese city is locked down and the winter olympics venues are sealed off as officials rush to contain outbreaks of covid a month before the games begin. novak djokovic claims medical exemption from receiving a covid jab and prepares to travel to australia to defend his tennis open title. and former tech billionaire elizabeth holmes founder of the health company theranos is found guilty of fraud over her failed blood testing technology. hello and welcome. lawyers for prince andrew are attempting to have a civil claim for sexual assault against him thrown out at a court in new york. virginia giuffre is suing him for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17. prince andrew has consistently denied the claims. our correspondent sean coughlan reports. more than 20 years after this photograph was claimed to have been taken, lawyers for prince andrew and virginia giuffre are now in a legal battle today over whether ms giuffre s civil case against him can proceed
he will chat away or if he is in the car, he lets people know. he wants to entertain, he is good value. so, what does he say? well, it was quite embarrassing, because obviously he travels in a cat basket, which people do not realise and the cat is actually in the dog trolley, so he is on the trying and he will shout out, lock the doors! lock the doors! and people are looking at me, my lips aren t moving, and it is like, lock the doors. he will wait until it is absolutely silent, but somehow he seems to know when to say lock the doors on the train. it seems to be when they are closing. it is quite uncanny. it is unnerving, and people do not realise the parrot is there and you can see everyone looking around, you know, order! order! he really starts then. you haven t taught him to say order, have you? well, i have, yes. some of the house as well. i have to say that some of our household are terrible, they deliberately do it and i think they record my voice. well, you know, he i
afghan interpreter. what do you think you can do about this? we have to be clear about this, the threats are there. they are going to murder innocent civilians. the people the taliban were threatening to murder were the family of tim mccullough s afghan interpreter bilal nasiri, someone he had relied upon when he d been on the ground in afghanistan working on reconstruction projects for the war torn country. and what was bilal s role as your interpreter? he was not somebody who just sits in a nice safe building. he was on patrol with us on a daily basis. but the difference being is he s not allowed to carry a weapon system. but he s still there. he s still in uniform. and often we d hear over the taliban chatter that the target was the interpreter, rather than the soldiers. because of the intelligence, and the skills that they could bring in order to help us understand how the taliban operated. and what the locals wanted. so, by taking an interpreter out, it would put the fea
the story of an interpreter s family who fled afghanistan and are settling in ireland. in august, the world watched in in august, the world watched in horror as desperate afghan citizens tried to flee as the taliban and swept back into control across the country. many feared our return to the brutal regime they knew from two decades ago. i first ifirst spoke to i first spoke to him and good morning, as the taliban seized power. morning, as the taliban seized ower. ., , power. the men who served in the armed power. the men who served in the armed forces power. the men who served in the armed forces in power. the men who served in the armed forces in the - the armed forces in the province in 2012 says it s now a race against time to save the family of his afghan interpreter. what do you think you can do about this? we have to be clear about this the threats are there 7 they are going to murder innocent civilians. the people the taliban were threatning to murder were the f