wouldn t sue anyone connected to epstein. lawyers for prince andrew say the agreement, which has been made public in the last couple of hours, releases the prince from liability in the civil case brought by virginia giuffre, who accuses him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. prince andrew has consistently denied the claims. our legal correspondent, dominic casciani, reports. a woman seeking her day in court. the unprecedented defendant a prince of the realm. but have his lawyers now found a way to stop virginia giuffre s case from ever being heard? she says she was trafficked into sexual abuse and exploited by the man on the right, jeffrey epstein. ms giuffre, then known as roberts, says epstein and his girlfriend coerced the teenager into abuse by prince andrew in london, new york and the caribbean. today, the release of
three, two, one. our seoul correspondent takes the g force test to fly fighterjets as she reports on south korea s defence spending spree. we re still officially- at war with north korea. over the country, . there have also been increasing air incursions. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. a $500,000 legal settlement signed by virginia roberts giuffre and sex offender jeffrey epstein in 2009 included an agreement that ms giuffre
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welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. a legal document signed between virginia giuffre and jeffrey epstein 12 years ago has been made public. it s potentially key to her civil case against prince andrew. with beijing s winter olympics just weeks away, we find out how china is preparing for a global event in a global pandemic. where are the people? well, the reason there are no people here is that the local they ll be able to take a high speed train there because some of the trains are operating completely within the bubble. us regulators approve covid boosters for children aged 12 15 as the country battles a surge in omicron infections.
A U.S. district judge rejected on Wednesday an argument by Andrew s lawyers that Virginia Giuffre s lawsuit should be thrown out because of an old legal settlement she had reached with Jeffrey Epstein, the financier she claims set up sexual encounters with the prince.