hello and welcome to bbc news. we begin with breaking news from the us. prince harry says he and his wife were involved in a near catastrophic car chase with paparazzi on tuesday evening. let s show you the pictures that have just come in. let s show you the pictures that havejust come in. a let s show you the pictures that have just come in. a warning there is flash photography from the start. they show prince harry and meghan leaving a gala in new york. a spokesperson for the couple say that they and the duchess s mother were relentlessly pursued for two hours, they said the chase resulted in near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two nypd officers. let s head back to the newsroom and our royal correspondent sarah campbell who is monitoring all of this for us. for anyonejoining us here on bbc news, just bring us right up to speed in terms of the statement and the additional details you have learned. indeed. as you saw from those pictures, thi
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the statement says, of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi. according to the statement, there was a relentless pursuit lasting over two hours, presumably in and around new york. it says, the statement, it resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers in the road, pedestrians and two nypd officers. i should say at the outset it was made very clear to me that they are ok, nobody was hurt, but clearly one can believe from this statement that they have been extremely unsettled and very upset by this incident that happened last night. in terms of details, my understanding is that it involved six blacked out vehicles being driven, the sussexes say, by unidentified people, but they say are members of the paparazzi, driving while photographing, so
driving while photographing, so driving while photographing, so driving while on the phone, illegally blocking moving vehicles, reversing down a one way street, driving on the pavement, so what they describe clearly illegal and dangerous forms of driving, so what we are now trying to get as independent verification from the new york police department, because in the statement it mentions the involvement of two nypd officers, so one would imagine that they would be some sort of record, some sort of report within the nypd, so we are investigating that at the moment, trying to get at the details of that. people have asked why this was a two hour car chase, according to them, and my understanding on that front is that they weren t staying in an official public building like a hotel, they were staying in a private residence, and they didn t want the identity, the location, the address of that private residence to be made public, which is why they