Collapsing in england and wales because of mistakes with sharing evidence. 20 years after dolly the sheep, scientists clone monkeys in china. It raises ethical questions about the experiment. The former labour minister Dame Tessa Jowell talks for the first time about her aggressive brain tumour and the way cancer is treated in this country. I am not afraid. I feel very clear about my sense of purpose. Its 5 oclock. Our main story one of the organisers of a Charity Dinner where women were reported to have been groped, propositioned and sexually harassed has stepped down from the department for education. The businessman, david meller, was a non executive board member at the department. Mr meller has also resigned as a trustee of the mayors fund for london. Undercover journalists from the Financial Times say they were harassed and propositioned at the president s club annual Charity Fundraiser in london last week. The organisers of the men only dinner have said theyre appalled by the allegations and have launched an investigation. Great ormond street hospital and the evelina london Childrens Hospital have both said they will return all previous donations from the organisation. Daniela relph reports. Undercover at the 5 star Dorchester Hotel. Madison marriage, a reporter for the Financial Times, here getting ready for a nights work as a hostess at the president s Club Fundraising dinner. The guests, all men. The hostesses, all young women, paid around £200 for an evenings work. As the dinner began, guests were told they were at the most un pc event of the year. There was a charity auction, including an offer of Plastic Surgery at a harley street clinic. Perhaps, they were told, for their wives. These photos were taken by the Financial Times team outside the hotel. They say they show those attending the dinner minging. And during the evening, the undercover reporter says she and others were repeatedly groped and harassed by male guests. Multiple women told me that they had been touched inappropriately, and that ranged from holding their hands to touching their stomachs, to hands near the bottom of their back, things which maybe you might not find too offensive, but then, you know, touching their bums, kind of grabbing them, pulling them into their laps. Yeah, there was a complete range of Sexual Harassment, basically. The event raised more than £2 million for several organisations including great ormond street hospital. It now says it will return all donations due to the wholly unacceptable nature of the event. Guests included the government minister nadhim zahawi. He said he left early after feeling uncomfortable at what had begun to happen. He has vowed never to attend a men only function again. One of the auction prices was tea with mark carney, the governor of the bank of england. He was not at the dinner, but has expressed his dismay. The bank says it was not aware of the prize being offered. And the event host, the comedian and writer david walliams, has tweeted and in a statement, the president s club said. What happened was that women were bought, as bait, for men rich men, not a mile from where we stand, as if that is an acceptable behaviour. It is totally unacceptable. Businessman david meller is a trustee of the president s club and until today, he was also a nonexecutive board member at the department for education. He has now stepped down from that role. Ill be quite honest, mr speaker, i was born in 1955, and i think, as the honourable lady will know, and i have said at this dispatch box before, i thought things had changed, and it is absolutely clear that it hasnt changed. I think there is an association between rich, wealthy people and this sort of behaviour. We have to send a clear message that this is unacceptable. The future of the president s club dinner is also now in doubt. Will the allegations of lewd behaviour end an event that has been held for 33 years . Daniela relph, bbc news. Let me bring you date with events in the united states. Ajudge in michigan is about to hear from the former usa Gymnastics Team, dr larry nassar before imposing a sentence on him for molesting young female gymnasts. We gather here is about to speak. As have asked for a sentence of up to 125 years for nassar. Lets hear what he has to say. Your words have had a significant emotional effect on myself and have shaken me to my core. I also recognise that what i am feeling pales in comparison to the pain, trauma and emotional destruction that all of you are feeling. There are no words that can describe the depth and breadth of how sorry i am for what has occurred. An acceptable apology to all of you is impossible to write and convey. I will carry your words with me for the rest of my days. Sir, i hope thats true. I hope you are shaken to your core. I agree with your words. Vigilante crime is not tolerated, so i hope that no one will do anything u ntowa rd that no one will do anything untoward against you. Crime plus crime solves absolutely nothing. Please respect theirjob. Its a difficult one. I know, i have been in their shoes. The sixth amendment does guarantee each defendant the right to counsel. It doesnt matter what the defendant has done, they have the right to counsel. I also wa nt have the right to counsel. I also want to say, that being said, we also have the first amendment. So you are all free to have your own opinions. Its always a balancing act between the first amendment, the sixth amendment, all of the due process and other amendments to the constitution. They are all valuable in theirown constitution. They are all valuable in their own way. Thats why we have an organised and just society and thats why we are here today, because this defendant has been brought tojustice. Because this defendant has been brought to justice. Do because this defendant has been brought tojustice. Do not make it worse, please. Before i get to sentencing, i want to talk about a couple of things. First, i have said what i need to say to the victims. I have a bit more to say. You are no longer victims, you are survivors. Youre very strong and i would address you individually. Before i say anything further, i dont know if you all notice. And i know that the world is watching i dont know if you all know this. I know this because i am on a bench every day and this isnt the only heinous crime that appears in this court. The National CrimeVictimisation Survey that is done by the Justice Department annually reports that 310 out of every 1000 assaults are reported to police, which means that two out of three go unreported. The voices of the survivors have asked everyone , voices of the survivors have asked everyone, report. Keep yourvoice up. Rachels voice hopefully will raise these numbers of reports and all of your voices. But that statistic does not include children 12 and under. One in ten children will be sexually abused by their 18th birthday. One in seven girls, one in 25 boys by their 18th birthday. That means that in the united states, im not talking about any other country, but in the united states, 400,000 babies born in the us will become victims of child sexual abuse. It stops now. Speak out like these survivors. Become pa rt of out like these survivors. Become part of the army. I do one case at a time, andl part of the army. I do one case at a time, and i really appreciate all of your thank yous. I time, and i really appreciate all of yourthank yous. I of 4c maui a; i c . 1 . G 4t im betsey; 4c maui a; i c . 1 . G 4t my im beagle . 4c maui a; i c . 1 . G 4t my if n beagle . 4c maui a; i c . 1 . G 4t my. Ifngcomel doing myjob. If you comeintomy any wednesday to watch courtroom any wednesday to watch sentencing, i give everybody a voice. I give defendants a voice, the families when they are here. I try to treat everybody like family, because thats the Justice System that i was raised to believe in. I came to this country stateless. Im naturalised. My fathers maltese, my mothers german and i was raised on old country values. And my grandmother always told me and my parents always told me, my grandfather too, that america is the greatest country. I believe that, so i served greatest country. I believe that, so iserved in greatest country. I believe that, so i served in the military. Thats why i have always done community service. Im not really well liked, because i speak out. I dont have many friends, because i speak out. If you ask a question, you had better be ready for the answer. I speak out because i want change, because i dont believe in hiding the truth. Im not saying im always right, but i try. I also dont believe that one size fits all when it comes to sentencing. Another reason why i listen. I know that there are some judges for every crime you give the same punishment. I dont think that is justice. Crime you give the same punishment. I dont think that isjustice. I believe in individualised sentencing. I follow the constitution, and i believe our syste m constitution, and i believe our system works. I also believe in these survivors. Now, there is case law about howl these survivors. Now, there is case law about how i can consider what i consider. First and foremost, my sentence reflects the seven defendants. But the remainder of due, the 161 others, add to the credibility of those seven. So technically, i am considering everything, everyone, because all of your crimes, the depth of them have cut into the core of this community and many communities and all of the families and people we dont even know. Sir, the media have asked me to release your letter. Im not going to do that. The council may object, the media may object, but there is information in here that troubles me in regard to the victims. And i dont want them re victimised by the word that you have in here. But i do wa nt word that you have in here. But i do want to read some more of your letter, and the reason i want to do thatis letter, and the reason i want to do that is because i have considered it in sentencing as an extension of your apology and whether i believe it or not. So i want you to hear your words. Ive already read some and i am not reading every line. Let me begin. The federaljudge went ballistic at sentencing since i pleaded guilty to the state cases, and spent 10 on the federal case and spent 10 on the federal case and 90 on the state cases and civil suits. She gave me 60 years instead of five to 20 years, three consecutive 20 year sentences. I pleaded guilty to possession of porn from september 2004 to december 2004, four months. The prosecutor even admitted that i never belonged to any porn sites, any chat rooms, was not on the dark web and also, they could not prove that i viewed it. It was all deleted, of course. I shared my electronics and i could not prove that. Several four months of porn possession from 2004, i was sentenced to 60 years. Not proper for appropriate. Going down a few lines, what i did in the state cases was medical, not sexual. But because of the porn, i lost all support, thus another reason for the state guilty plea. Let me move down further. So i tried to avoid a trial to save the stress to this community, my family, the victims, yet look what is happening. It is wrong. Yet look what is happening. It is wrong. Let me move down further. I wasa wrong. Let me move down further. I was a good doctor, because my treatments worked and those patients that are now speaking out were the same ones that praised and came back over and over same ones that praised and came back overand overand same ones that praised and came back over and over and referred family and friends to see me. The media convinced them that everything i did was wrong and bad. They feel i broke their trust. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. It isjust a complete nightmare. The stories that are being fabricated to sensationalise this, then the ag would only accept my plea if i said what i did was not medical and was for my own pleasure. They forced me to say that, or they were going to trial. Not accepting the plea, i wa nt trial. Not accepting the plea, i want to play no contest, but the ag refused that. I was so manipulated by the ag and now aquilina and all i wanted was to minimise stress to everyone like i wrote earlier. Going down a bit further. In addition with the federal case, my medical treatments with the Olympic NationalTeam Gymnastics were discussed as part of the plea. The fbi investigated them in 2015 and found nothing substantial because it was medical. Now they are seeking the Media Attention and financial rewa rd the Media Attention and financial reward. Would you like to withdraw your plea . No, your honour. Because your plea . No, your honour. Because you are guilty, arent you . Are you guilty, sir . I accept my plea. The new sign language has become treatment. These quotes, these air quotes, i will never see them again without thinking of you and your despicable acts. I dont care how they are used, i will always think of quotes and the word treatment. It was not treatment, what you did. It was not treatment, what you did. It was not treatment, what you did. It was not medical. There is no medical evidence that was ever brought. When this case first came to me, and i have to do this and i apologise to the olympians and athletes, but i have five children and two dogs. My parents lived with me and i work fourjobs. I dont have much time for television. I dont watch sports. Although last year i was a soccei sports. Although last year i was a soccer coach, much to the laughter of my family. I didnt know anything about you, your name or anything that was going on. And so when i ke pt that was going on. And so when i kept saying, we are going to trial, here is the date, and everyone wanted more time, i said no. And then the cases were merged and we delayed it and i still thought, maybe there is a defensive medical treatment. Why did i think that . Because its myjob to be fair and impartial, but also because my two brothers and my father are very well known and respected doctors, real doctors with real treatments and research, dedicated to healing. In this case, i have heard from your survivors that they trust doctors like i trust the doctors in my family and the doctors i go to. But i still thought, there is a defensive medical treatment and there are changes in the medical Community Every day for the betterment. So up until the time you pleaded, i believed that maybe there was a defence here despite the felony information. I was ready for trial. Your counsel was ready for trial. Your counsel was ready for trial. The Attorney Generals Office was ready for trial. You, sir, decided to plead because there was iio decided to plead because there was no medical treatment. You did this for your pleasure and your control. This letter, which comes two months after your plea, tells me that you have not yet owned what you did, that you still think that somehow, you are right, that you are a doctor, that youre entitled, that you dont have to listen and that you dont have to listen and that you did treatment. I wouldnt send my you did treatment. I wouldnt send s you did treatment. I wouldnt send my dogs to you, sir. There is no treatment here. You finally told the truth. In action is an action. Silence is indifference. Justice requires action and a voice and that is what has happened here in this court. 168 buckets of water replaced in your so called match that got out of control. I also, like the attorney general, want to thank Law Enforcement for their investigation, but i also want to be the voice on behalf of the survivors who ask Law Enforcement to continue theirfine who ask Law Enforcement to continue their fine work and also to include their fine work and also to include the federal government. There has to bea the federal government. There has to be a massive investigation as to why there was inaction, why there was silence. Justice requires more than what i can do on this bench. I want to also applaud all of the counsel in the Attorney Generals Office. I wa nt in the Attorney Generals Office. I want to also counsel defence i wa nt want to also counsel defence i want to also counsel defence i want to applaud defence counsel. You all have done fine work. You make me proud of our legal system. We all Work Together for the betterment of oui Work Together for the betterment of our community, and that is Law Enforcement, prosecutors, defence counsel, investigators. There are countless people. It is the only way our system works. We need this balance. So all of you, when i look at myself as lady justice, my arms are like this. They are balanced. Prosecution and defence are balanced. It only starts to tip after there is a plea and after i take into consideration everything that has happened. Sol wa nt everything that has happened. Sol want everyone to understand. I have also done my homework. I always do. The people versus waclawski, the 2009 case. In it, i want you to clearly understand, it says that plainly, the law does not limit victims impact statements to direct victims. It doesnt say, and i have found nowhere that limits me from having you all under victims. As i said before when counsel came to me and said, we are not going to trial, despite our court having already sent out 200 of the 800 chor requests juror requests, and you told me the plea and i considered it and moved to trial, there was the agreement between us because i always, and they know it, they are familiar with me, let people speak. And i wanted all victims, and we had a discussion about which victims. And of course, there was an objection to one of them. I let it coming anyway. That was part of the plea that you entered into to allow the victim impact statements, because after that discussion, i know your lawyers sat down with you and said, the judge know your lawyers sat down with you and said, thejudge is know your lawyers sat down with you and said, the judge is going to allow this. And when it comes down to it, i know it also because this was signed by the attorney general, by the defendant and by def