The billionaire businessman and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has died in prison in new york. Hes believed to have taken his own life. Epstein once counted among his friends bill clinton, donald trump and Prince Andrew, and was charged last month with trafficking dozens of underage girls for sex. He was due to stand trial next year. Earlier we got reaction from the New York Times journalist, ali watkins, who has been covering the case so far. We were all stunned. This comes on the heels of thousands of documents being unveiled on a related case and it has been working its way through the court system. It ruin to focus what this was. Every few days there isa what this was. Every few days there is a new turn this and nobody expected this. As we heard in that report, only a few weeks ago epstein was found in his cell having a p pa re ntly was found in his cell having apparently tried to take its own life and questions are being asked about how somebody in a secure unit could have
The farm put sandbags in front of the farm put sandbags in front of the front door, and we had water coming under the door. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. Adam peaty talks World Records and the battle against doping in swimming. Plus, the build up to the ashes, as england prepare to host australia. And ben rich has all the weather. Hello there, if you more heavy downpours around today, they should slowly ease over the next few days, good news for many, i am sure, all the weather news plus a look at the state of the uk climate, that is coming upjust state of the uk climate, that is coming up just before state of the uk climate, that is coming upjust before her state of the uk climate, that is coming up just before her past. Also coming up, it misses the point, jousters are up in arms over plans to introduce var Video Technology to bring the medieval sport into the 21st century. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Iam simon i am simon mccoy. An investigation has found t
Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett. It is turning a bit drier for the start of the ashes but we have more rainfall today and one of the main focuses of that is across Northern England and again we may get somewhat localised flooding. Further south we have more showers but not quite as windy as yesterday. In the same area of low pressure that brought that torrential rain yesterday but is now sitting across northern parts of england and hence that focus on the showers or longer spells of rain. Also in scotland we are seeing showers developing and those could turn heavy with the threat of local flooding as well. Northern ireland largely dry and further south across england and wales some showers coming in and still quite a blustery wind. Wendy for the time of year. Particularly gusty clustered some of those heavier showers all bringing the temperatures down to typically 18, 20 degrees. Still some showers around through the evening especially across scotland and the north of
I had very bad anger issues because of obviously what happened to me, i didnt trust anybody at all, which led me to get into trouble, self destruct. Well be speaking to the local mp whos been campaigning on behalf of some of the victims. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Borisjohnson urges Political Parties in Northern Ireland to step up their efforts to restore power sharing, during a visit to belfast. Clearly the people of Northern Ireland have been without a government, without stormont for two years and six months, so my prime focus this morning is to do everything i can to help that get up and running again, as i think that is profoundly in the interest of people here. Ryanair warns of job cuts in the coming weeks, saying the airline has 900 too many pilots and cabin crew. Bridges collapse and hundreds of homes are flooded in North Yorkshire, as almost a months rain falls in four hours. Research shows the effect of Climate Change on the uk the met office says the ten warmes