and i m just very, very scared. i like that. is it real? this was an assault. i m a big dog! baby, you don t have to put your top back on. i was 17. he was twice my age. there was this kind of power dynamic. this is predatory behaviour. 0h! ijust really wish i d be able to speak to my teenage self and say, oh, my god. just get out of there. i would describe it as an abuse of power because who are they going to believe, this little girl from the midlands or this big, shiny star from london? he s on national radio, international. now drop the bomb. yeah. do you have sex with a lot of black girls? not as much as i d like to. # check this out.# the 90s, it was a great time. london was a hotbed of activity in particularfor the r&b community. i think i was maybe talent scouted at a nightclub. i was maybe 16 or 17. i was certainly the youngest within the group. i was essentially living my life within the nightlife, as it were, because that s when all of the performances and the
captured on tape that reveal his private beliefs about 1/6 and his conclusion that donald trump bears responsibility for the insurrection as well as mccarthy s admission about the seriousness of the 1/6 attack and the complicit of members of his own caucus, all of which he would later lie about, probably downplay and excuse. here s some of the comments that have made headlines this week. again, they were obtained by new york times reporters jonathan martin and alex burns from his book this will not pass that will provide a preview of the story that the 1/6 committee plans to tell with their evidence. let me be very clear to all of you, and i ve been very clear to the president. he bears responsibilities for his words and actions. no ifs, ands or buts. the only discussion i would have with him is that i think this will pass ask it would be my recommendation he should resign. tension is too high. the country is too crazy. i don t want to look back and think we caused
works in the city of mariupol a ukrainian commander warns people will die if they re not rescued. also on newsday: hundreds of people gather to remember madeleine albright the first female us secretary of state as herfuneral takes place in washington. and a new report warns a fifth of all reptile species face extinction, including turtles, crocodiles and a number of venomous snakes. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. president putin has warned that russia will respond immediately to any country attempting to interfere in the war in ukraine. during the day, the european union accused moscow of economic blackmail, and of escalating the war, by cutting off russian gas supplies to poland and bulgaria. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. the venice of the north, they call it. it was peter the great who built st petersburg, to make russia look and feel european. today, though, the gulf between russia a
the editor of the mail on sunday has turned down a meeting with the speaker of the house of commons to discuss the newspaper s controversial article about labour s deputy leader. the piece quoted an unamed conservative mp claimed angela rayner tried to distract borisjohnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs in parliament, and has been condemned as sexist, classist and misogynystic. the paper s editor, david dillon, says it should be up to journalists to decide what they report. we can cross live to westminster and our chief political correspondent adam fleming: the meeting was going to happen, what has changed? they have written today that they had initially accepted this invitation to speak to the house of commons speaker but they changed their mind for two reasons, the said public comments have been made about the case and the reporting so they say they would not get a fair hearing and secondly, the newspaper claims that three further conservative mps have come forward to