Hello, im annita mcveigh, welcome to Bbc News now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. Within the past few hours, lawyers representing women who say they were raped or sexually assaulted by the former owner of harrods have described Mohamed Al fayed as a monster. Theyve also urged anyone else with similar claims to come forward. At least 37 women have accused the late billionaire of assaulting them. The case follows a Bbc Investigation in which woman who worked for him came forward accusing the egyptian billionaire, who died last year, of multiple counts of rape and attempted rape, during his 25 Year Reign at harrods. One of the barristers taking part in the News Conference Barriser Maria Mulla explained that when selected for their role, women would be sent for a private medical examination undertaken by three or four doctors whuich included a full cervical smear. Ms mulla gave further detail, revealing that one woman who made a complaint to harrods was told b
Should thin and break with some sunshine developing, but then that threat of heavy showers and thunderstorms, hail could be mixed in and some torrential downpours through parts of the midlands, wales and the south west of england. Again, this area most prone, but there could be one or two elsewhere. Temperatures about 16 to 23 degrees again on saturday, so fine in between any of those showers and some sunshine again in the north, which is going to be the picture on sunday. Again for Northern Ireland and western scotland, sunny, warm conditions here, but cool and cloudy around the North East coast. Further south, though, those showers and thunderstorms by sunday are going to be heavier and more frequent as well. Could be some frequent hail and lightning. Into next week things turn cooler and more unsettled. A distinct autumnal and fairly windy spell of weather on the way. Bye for now. This is bbc news. The headlines lawyers representing some of the women who have accused the late Mohame
On x, where he praised the work on x, where he praised the work of his protection team. Of his protection team. I was Playing Golf with some of my friends, it was on a sunday morning. A very peaceful and beautiful weather, everything was beautiful. A nice place to be. All of a sudden, we heard shots being fired in the air. I guess probably four or five. It sounded like bullets but what do i know about that . The Secret Services knew immediately after bullets. They grabbed me and we got into the cot and moved along pretty good. I was with an agent and the agent did a fantasticjob. Many are wondering why security around the former president wasn t tighter why the entire Golf Course where he was playing, hadn t been cordoned off. As we just heard, security for president ial candidates falls short of the attention paid to sitting President S, by the Secret Service. Here s ros atkins. Was already under greater scrutiny because of a major Security Failure in july. At a rally in pennsylvania,
These short term targets were so weak as to be almost 00 01 02,426 4294966103 13 29,429 impossible to miss. If this trend continues, the uk could achieve targets agreed with the government for Methane Reduction which campaigns for a rapid and fair transition away from Oil And Gas production says, this is all smoke and mirrors. Impossible to miss. Mark wilsonjoins me now from 0euk where he is health, Safety Environment and operations director. Good to have on the programme. What is your response to that, that actually, the targets were easy to meet so that you could have a good, positive narrative about the North Sea . The taruets about the North Sea . The targets that about the North Sea . The targets that were about the North Sea . Lie targets that were said about the North Sea . Tue targets that were said through the North Sea Transition Deal allow the industry to demonstrate that it in infrastructure alone, if used to its full extent in the North Sea, would cause three times the emi
Beyond of that, there will be, of course, a period of deliberation. And given the complexity and the scale of this case, based on how many charges there are, and i should say that while there were 115 originally, it has been reported that that may have expanded to around 130, not because there are additional allegations of wrongdoing, but more because they re effectively multiples of original charges over various seasons. The premier league are simply not clarifying the case, but regardless, it s a sprawling case over 1a seasons, and so it would be surprising if there wasn t a significant period of time dedicated to considering the verdict by that three person panel. So, estimates have ranged from any time in the new year all the way through to spring. And of course, it s not beyond the realms, perhaps, that some kind of compromise, some kind of arrangement or deal may be reached because the legal bill is spiraling tens of millions of pounds. It s estimated to have cost both sides alr