Technique that created dolly the sheep 20 years ago. Sir elton john announces he will stop touring to spend more time with his family. But he will say goodbye to fans with one final tour a series of 300 dates spanning three yea rs. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The president s club has held men only Charity Dinners in london for more than 30 years and raised tens of millions of pounds for good causes. But tonight all future dinners have been cancelled after an undercover reporter employed as a hostess says she and some of the other women working there were groped and sexually harassed. A government adviser who helped organise the event last week at the dorchester has resigned. And some of the charities for which money was raised are handing back the donations. Heres our special correspondent lucy manning. All the president s club men appear to be enjoying themselves at the charity dinner, the women working there much less so, with claims that they were groped at the men only event for those in business and politics. Women working as table hostesses were made to wear revealing outfits, their phones confiscated. Madison marriage is the Financial Times journalist who went undercover to expose the dinner. Multiple women told me that they had been touched inappropriately, and that ranged from, you know, holding their hands, touching their bums, kind of grabbing them, pulling them into their laps. Yeah, there was a complete range of Sexual Harassment. And did that happen to you . Yes. Yeah, i had three men touch me inappropriately. Were you surprised that this was happening in this day and age . I am surprised by the institutionalised scale of this particular event. The Charity Auction offered the men only diners hospitality with the foreign secretary and bank of england governor, although both said they knew nothing about it, or even the chance to, as it was put spice up the wife with plastic surgery. Some of the men are now paying for their attendance. David meller, one of the organisers, resigned as a member of the department for educations board. Education minister Nadhim Zahawi faced questions about his decision to go to the dinner. He tweeted i do unequivocally condemn this behaviour. The report is truly shocking. I would never attend a men only function ever. David walliams, who hosted the event, tweeted, i did not witness any of the kind of behaviour that allegedly occurred and am appalled by the reports. Down the road from the dorchester, where the dinner was held last week, mps couldnt contain their anger today. 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. It is quite extraordinary to me, mr speaker, that in the 215t century, allegations of this kind are stillemerging. Women have the right to feel safe wherever they work. Charities are now returning money donated by the president s club. Great 0rmond street says it will hand back half a million pounds. But bbc news has learned of claims that it was warned previously not to take the money. We have been told at a meeting it was raised with senior fundraisers that the president s club had questionable practices and whether money should be taken from them. Its a Charity Event supposed to help children that left women feeling harassed. I can now speak to Merryn Somerset webb, the editor of the financial publication moneyweek. Thank you forjoining us, you couldnt go to this dinner because it was a men only event. Is it the sort of occasion that you recognise from your experience in dealing with city matters and city culture. Well, from a long time ago, yes. 15, 20 yea rs from a long time ago, yes. 15, 20 years ago this wouldnt have been bizarre, it was a very different atmosphere, but today certainly a lot of this behaviour in the city has disappeared but it is important to point out this is not a city dinner. 0ne your eye down the guest list and you will see this was more ofa list and you will see this was more of a corporate occasion. An awful lot of people there from the property industry, and on the guest list to you might consider to be minor celebrities, so this is not something we say is a city problem, we have to look at it and say this isa we have to look at it and say this is a much wider thing. Do you think this event was a one off, or is it reflective of something wider . My guess all my hope anyway is that these days it is something of a one off. That is a hope a bit of an anomaly, phil mercer this had occurred i thought this no longer occurred. Uses smaller events that men only and many events that women only, and that is an entirely innocent thing to do to have a single gender dinnerfor innocent thing to do to have a single gender dinner for whatever reason you might do it but this is something on a completely different scale. Now i dont forget happens very often any more. This has been going for 30 years, clearly this will be the last year and it reflects the last gasp of the changing culture. What about the women who took up these jobs as hostesses 7 women who took up these jobs as hostesses . We are told by the reporter that some of them were stu d e nts reporter that some of them were students just trying to earn a little bit of extra money, but should alarm bells have run for them found out that they needed to let her tresses and matching underwear . Imean, her tresses and matching underwear . I mean, they could have pulled out, can they . This is the extraordinary thing about the dinner, it was a lwa ys thing about the dinner, it was always reports of, but in todays environment it is also repetition of very dangerous for the men to be there. But also for the women to be there, if you are asked to go somewhere wearing high heels and a dress with matching knickers, you might think maybe i wont do that. And then when you arrive you are asked to sign a nondisclosure document and you have your phone taken away, these are all danger signals, which in no way excuses anything that happened in there, but nonetheless it is amazing to me that there were any member and that there are any women there. We were looking earlier, just doing an intranet search for hostesses, and some of the websites make it fairly clear the sort of work that is involved. You see the pictures of the young women, the sort of clothes they are wearing. We looked at one where the Vital Statistics of the hostesses we re Vital Statistics of the hostesses were actually on the website. So it is all the two be found out. This is not an industry i know anything about, the hostess in industry, so i cant really comment, but as i say it is not the kind of thing that should be going on at any event. A corporate event like this, with representatives from major part of british industry across the board, it is beyond unacceptable. We will have to leave it there. Thank you for joining have to leave it there. Thank you forjoining us. And well find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrows front pages at 10 40 this evening in the papers our guests joining me tonight are the broadcasterjohn stapleton and kate proctor, Political Correspondent at the london evening standard. He was the doctor for the usa Gymnastics Team for almost two decades. He treated Young American gymnasts at four olympic games. Tonight, 54 year old larry nassar has been sentenced to 175 years injail for molesting young girls. More than 160 of his victims have given testimony in court. This afternoon he apologised to them saying he would carry their words with him for the rest of his days. From the court in michigan, Rajini Vaidynathan reports. The tables are turned, larry. We are here, we have our voices and we are not going anywhere. The amount of physical, mental and Emotional Trauma this man has forced upon me is immeasurable. Over the last seven days, their voices and their stories have become hard to ignore. 156 women say they were sexually abused by this man, larry nassar. During the hearing, thejudge invited other women who had been abused to come forward. The response was unprecedented, what started as ten convictions turned into an outpouring of testimony. Today she did not hold back when delivering her verdict. Im giving you 175 years which is 2,100 months. I just signed your death warrant. Today he had this response for his victims. 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. Described as a monster and as satan in court, the former usa Gymnastics Team doctor treated hundreds of women over decades. From decorated 0lympians and state level gymnasts to the children of family friends. Sent to him for medical treatment instead of taking away the pain, he stole the lessons. He stole their innocence. Speaking on a podcast in 2013 before his abuse was uncovered, he was recorded talking about his views on the welfare of the children under his care. You screw up once with one of those gymnasts and itll spread like wildfire. If you do something, you break the chain of trust with them because they will never trust you again. They will tell the other gymnasts. Jamie dancer was part of the us bronze medal winning olympic team. I do not feel like i had a choice even if i felt something was wrong. She says she and other young women were ignored when they tried to complain about nassar to officials. She beleives the governing body usa gymnastics has a lot to answer for. I know dr nassar is a monster but those people around him who have been protecting him, those are real monsters too and they need to be held accountable. The focus of this sentencing has been on the survivors of Larry Nassars abuse and perhaps the biggest victory for them is not just seeing him behind bars, but knowing that together they found the collective strength to confront him. Well, our north america reporter, nada tawfik, who monitored the case from new york, told me a little earlier that the judges sentencing sent shock waves through the courtroom. Yes, absolutely. She said that wherever he goes, he could bring destruction to those who were vulnerable, and that it shouldnt be able to ever walk out of prison. And when she gave that 175 year sentence, she said ijust signed your death warrant, and really throughout, thejudge your death warrant, and really throughout, the judge has your death warrant, and really throughout, thejudge has been very clear that she thinks larry nassar did really irreparable harm to these young women, and so she used this sentencing hearing over the past week to give any of his accusers the right to come forward and to confront him and to share their stories. Now, at the beginning of this, we were told 88 women had chosen to speak, but by the end, nearly 160 decided to confront him with the horrific and very painful stories of how he first gained their trust, and then under the guise of medical treatment, sexually assault of them, and many of them described how they were embarrassed, but didnt know if it was medical treatment or not, and kind of question did, and later upon the realisation, described how it had really changed their ability to trust doctors, the trust other people, to even trust the officials that were around them as young adults. And i think it is worth pointing out that after the sentencing the Us Olympic Committee says they are going to have a third independent party look into how this kind of abuse went on for so long. |j was just kind of abuse went on for so long. |j wasjust going to kind of abuse went on for so long. |j was just going to say that the 0lympic was just going to say that the Olympic Committee itself is now under scrutiny, isnt it, Olympic Committee itself is now underscrutiny, isnt it, because this went on for so long, and the abuse happened to so many girls . Absolutely, he was considered the most renowned, prestigious doctor, who served as a team doctor in the 0lympics with these young women, abused them often in public spaces, and so one of the olympic gold medallists actually, ali rissman, had said there needed to be an independent enquiry into what happened, because she did not believe that others did not have some kind of inkling of what was happening, or any other reports from any other girl of what he was doing. So this has really shaken this sport to its core, andrew lewer damaged its repetition. You have had advertisers pulling out, you have heard obviously young women questioning their dedication to those they were trying to serve. And soa those they were trying to serve. And so a really important step that we hear the us and the committee is going to hold an investigation into what happened. Bbc news has learned that victims of the serial sex attacker, john worboys, were given written assurances about how long hed spend in jail after he was convicted. In the letters, the metropolitan police said he was unlikely to be charged with further offences partly because he was expected to get a lengthy sentence. Many of his victims are angry hes been approved for release from prison by the parole board after serving less than ten years. Lets ta ke lets take a look at the headlines now. A prestigious charity, the president s club, which holds men only events, said it wont post further fundraising events following allegations of Sexual Harassment at allegations of Sexual Harassment at a recent dinner. They form a doctor to the us Gymnastics Team, larry nassar, is sentenced to 175 years in jailfor nassar, is sentenced to 175 years in jail for sexually abusing around 160 young gymnasts. It has urged victims of the black cab rapistjohn warboys we re of the black cab rapistjohn warboys were given written assurances he would be injailfor a very long time after the was convicted. Sport now. And for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres 0llie foster good evening to you. City waiting at wembley for the winners of the Nights League cup semifinal between arsenal and chelsea. Remember, Nights League cup semifinal between arsenaland chelsea. Remember, it was goalless at the first leg at sta mford was goalless at the first leg at stamford bridge. Pledges has happened in the last half an hour, both managers put out the wrong teams at the emirates, a goalkeeping change. Pedro thought he had scored, didnt have to wait long for the goal, chelsea, lovely through ball from pedro for eden hazard. That away goal which would count after extra time means there cant be penalties. How about this for arsenals equaliser . A freakish triple header. Nacho monreal claimed it but it came off two chelsea heads as well. Just over half an hour played at the emirates. 1 1. But it will not go to penalties. Four games in the scottish premiership, they have been going for about half an hour, much excitement as you can see in scotland i not a single goal so far. New england womens head coach phil neville will not be charged by the fa over historical sexist comments made on social media. He was only appointed yesterday but a series of posts came to light and he apologised earlier today, and responding in a letter to the Equality Group kick it out, fa chief martin glenn said that although some of the posts were not picked up during a background check, they did not meet the threshold for a charge. Neville will be warned about his future conduct. His appointment was already controversial given his lack of managerial experience and the fact he hadnt worked in the womens game. Speaking today, the england mens manager gave his reaction to the fas recruitment. I guess, how do you get that experience without an opportunity, soi experience without an opportunity, so i wish him well, first and foremost. I know there has been a very thorough process around the applications and interviews for that role. And he is taking over 18 that area role. And he is taking over 18 that are a good team, they have improved enormously over the last few years, so hopefully now for them as a team, everybody can start focusing on the football, and how they progress. In 12 hours time kyle edmund will become just the sixth british man to play in a grand slam semi final since tennis went professional in 1968. He beat Gregor Dimitrov in his quarter final on sunday to set up a showdown with sixth seed marin cilic. The other semi final sees defending champions Roger Federer take on 21 years old hyeon chung of south korea. Federer says edmund can relax ahead of his match, as he has nothing to lose somebody who is in the semis, to me it seems like it is two steps away, you know, a lot of stuff can happen, you know, a lot of stuff can happen, you know . You play one good one, and the other one plays one bad one. Usually there are no bad matches any more in semifinal place, but, you know, it is a good situation to be m, know, it is a good situation to be in, and he can hit freely now, and no expectations whatsoever. So he will be in this position ever again to have so little expectation, in some way s. England world cup winner Anya Shrubsole has become the first female cricketer to appear on the front cover of the wisden cricketers almanack, the games bible. Shrubsole took five wickets in 19 balls to turn the final englands way against india last summer and was also nominated for the bbc Sports Personality of the year award. She called being on the wisden cover an amazing honour and privilege and a clear representation of the strength of the womens game. It is still 1 1 at the emirates in the League Cup Semifinal between arsenal and chelsea. I will have an update on that, tell what happens. It wont go to penalties. That is in sportsday at half past ten. Now, some sad news to bring you, news just in that mark e smith, the fall singer, has died. It comes from the cherry red website, from the group manager, it is with deep regret we announce the passing of mark e smith. A more detailed statement will follow in the next few days. He passed this morning at home and in the meantime his family request privacy at this sad time. The former Prime Minister