I am Christian Fraser in london, jane obrien is in washington. Its a depressing, taudry tale of sexual abuse, power and exploitation. The sort of script that makes men in hollywood rich. But this was real. And at the centre of it Harvey Weinstein, a movie titan, so feared within the business that countless actresses who had been cornered or abused never dared to come forward. Hollywood would have us believe it didnt know. But they did know. They even joked about it. Harvey weinstein had settled eight times with some of his accusers and the people who worked for him knew what he was like. But, he kept getting away with it. From new york the bbcs nick bryant. The namesjust keep on coming. From a list actresses to women who just wanted to break into the movie and tv industry. One after one, claiming Harvey Weinstein sexually abused or harassed them. He denies many of the accusations. But now his wife of ten years has decided to leave him, horrified by what she has been hearing. The Britis
Get their gp consultation via video calls on their smartphone. Good morning. Its monday, 6th november. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The people who manage the queens finances have defended their investment practices after the revelation that some of her wealth has been placed in two offshore funds. It follows a huge new leak of financial documents, dubbed the Paradise Papers, revealing how the rich and powerful invest their money in tax havens around the world. My colleague ben brown has been looking into the details. It is one of the biggest leaks of off shore data in history. The documents have been obtained by the german paper sud deutsche zeitung, but shared with International Investigative journalists including the bbcs panorama. There are 13. 4 million documents in all. Theyve been called the Paradise Papers because many of the off Shore Financial centres they involve are in the caribbean. Mostly theyre from the leading offshore law firm appleby. It says the le
Monitoring. Doing that throughout the weekend. Also were finding out about the levels out there. The fire chief spoke about that why the refinery is moving to operational standard but could be a few more days. S of 5 30 we identified that the measurable readings were at zeros. Or the releases that had occurred earlier. As a result we have lifted the Evacuation Order for the Benicia Industrial Park at this time. There are no shelter in place directives. And there are no evacuations in place at this time. Reporter also you may be wondering what about anyone showing up at hospitals. Anyone reporting of any type of rest pier torey issues . We did have someone talk about that according to officials here moments ago there have been no significant major impact on local hospital hospitals or people reporting any type of issues. But still as of right now this refinery is slowly getting up to operation. It could be a few more days before back up to full scale. Live in benicia. Thank you rick. Th
The weather. Robs weather a weak area of High Pressure moves over us today keeping things dry but not likely doing much for the cloud cover. We will stay overcast most of the day with just a chance for a late day sunny break. A new low moves way tonight and into and or rain showers. That will end early friday morning. High pressure returns later friday into saturday and we should finally get a bit of sun to return for the first half of the weekend. Another low arrives for later sunday and sticks around into early next week with more cold rain likely. Today overcast. Slight chance of a late pm sunny break. High 42 wind nww 510 mph its thanksgiving. And shoppers are already lined up,. Our Deandra Corinthios is live this morninng at meijer in grafton name for live interview if deandra talks to him their thanksgiving feast today. Many also already planning ahead for black friday shopping. Some Stores Opening as early as this evening. Heres a list of just a few Stores Opening their doors to
We will look at the local angles and how the pride festivals here will change as a result. We will get to that in a moment but first a check on weather and traffic. Good morning, we are look at live doppler hd at the cloud cover that is pushed in around the bay. Here is what you can expect from the exploritorium. You can see the low clouds. That means we will have cooler temperatures today. 7 00 this afternoon, coastal clouds and this afternoon sunny conditions with highs in the mid80s. Quiet morning for traffic so far. Right, if thing. Monday morning. Here we go with the san mateo bridge nice drive at 14 minutes to get over from hayward to pass step city with slowing from tracy. That is typical. A couple of things to be aware of, we have road work happening, landscaping work in the santa cruz mountains, expect slow traffic this. People in San Francisco are showing their solidarity with orlando. Police are reviewing security measures two evening woos from the nations largest pride even