For the first time after hundreds of women made allegations of Sexual Abuse against former owner mohamed Al Fayed. Michael ward said in a statement the company failed our colleagues and that he wanted to make it clear that he was not aware of criminality and abuse. Our correspondent, helena wilkinson, is in knightsbridge. Helena. This is the first time we have heard from Michael Ward since the Bbc Documentary last week. Let me read you a bit more of the statement we have had in the last hour. He says he wanted to convey his personal horror at the revelations that have emerged over the past week. He says that we have all seen the survivors bravely speak about the terrible abuse they suffered at the hands of former owner mohamed Al Fayed. We failed our colleagues and for that we are deeply sorry. The statement also goes on to say, i feel it is important to make it clear that i was not aware of his criminality and abuse. While it is true rumours of his behaviour circulated in the public d
I think were getting to a real sort of dangerous level of what our expectations are around players. Because instead of focusing on 1 2 tournaments, its about the calendar year. Thats more of an issue, players dont get a break between seasons like they used to. Theres more tournaments, international, at a club level, continental level. So itll get to a point where we wont have the best players out there playing, and probably even worse as them breaking down for various reasons. So its definitely that needs to be addressed. Something that needs to be addressed. And its notjust the british clubs struggling. Ajax Take On Besiktas in another of Tonights Europa League matches, and their midfielder Jordan Henderson has described the current workload on players as crazy. Something that looks neat needs looking something that looks neat needs looking up something that looks neat needs looking up properly. Theyjust dont et looking up properly. Theyjust dont get any looking up properly. Theyjust
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And welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. Im rosemary church, just ahead on Cnn Newsroom israel into a missile near Tel Aviv in the latest exchange between hezbollah militants in lebanon and the israeli military Ukraines President tells the un Security Council, russia can only be forced into peace as he prepares to lay out his Victory Plan to the u. S president and the u. S. Gulf coast braces for tropical Storm Helene with forecasters predicting it will be a major hurricane upon landfall later this week. This is Cnn Newsroom with Rosemarie Church you with us and we begin this hour in Tel Aviv where the israeli military says it has intercepted a single surface to Surface Missile launched by hezbollah marking the first time ever a missile fired by the Militant Group has reached close to the city says it was targeting the headquarters of Israels Intelligence Agency, mossad. There are no reports of damage or casualties the idf released this f
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