About his relationship with the financiers Jeffrey Epstein. The prince has been accused of having links to the billionaire who killed himself in prison while awaiting trial on a sex trafficking charges. With an exclusive interview with bbc, Prince Andrew was asked asked about his relationship with one of the women, Virginia Roberts. She says she was forced to have sex with the duke three times. Prince andrew has denied all the allegations against him. Our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. He is continuing with royal duties. Last sunday he was at the cenotaph, laying a wreath with his nephews, and yet for month after month, he has been the focus of troubling questions. Prince andrew, the queens second son, one moment seen waving from the doorway of the new york home of a convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, and photographed strolling through central park with him. The headlines have been lurid, relentless and deeply damaging. Most serious of all is the allegation that andrew himself had sex with a girl called Virginia Roberts when she was 17 years old. 18 years on, Virginia Roberts giuffre, as she is now, insists shes telling the truth. He knows exactly what hes done and i hope he comes clean about it. Thank you. Buckingham palace has consistently denied any impropriety by Prince Andrew. Now hes decided to speak for himself to bbc newsnights emily maitlis. One of epsteins accusers, Virginia Roberts, has made allegations against you. She says she met you in 2001. She says she dined with you, danced with you at tramp nightclub in london. She went on to have sex with you in a house in belgravia belonging to ghislaine maxwell, your friend. Your response . I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady. None whatsoever. You dont remember meeting her . No. It was in 2001, according to Virginia Roberts, that she had sex with andrew, on three occasions, including one orgy. The palace has denied that. In 2008, epstein was convicted of procuring for prostitution a girl under the age of 18. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison. It was in 2010, after epstein had been released from prison, that andrew visited him in new york, and stayed at his mansion. How does he explain that . The problem was the fact that once he had been convicted. You stayed with him. I stayed with him. And thats the bit that, that, as it were, i kick myself for on a daily basis, because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the royal family, and we try and uphold the highest standards and practises, and i let the side down. Simple as that. But nothing about this story is simple. Jeffrey epstein cant answer questions he took his own life in august. As for andrew, the us authorities will undoubtedly very much like to hear his account of everything he witnessed. That was nicholas witchell. You can find out exactly what the duke of york had to say about his friendsship with the late Jeffrey Epstein by watching Prince Andrew and the epstein scandal, the newsnight interview, its on this saturday and sunday on bbc world news. In the uk, you can catch it at 9pm on saturday on bbc two. The former Us Ambassador to ukraine who was fired by donald trump has told an impeachment hearing in washington that she felt threatened and intimidated by the president. Jon sopel reports from washington. This was devastating and powerful testimony in what turned out to be a day of edge of your seat drama. The Us Ambassador to ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, thrust into the centre of a poisonous brew. She fell foul of a diplomatic back channel set up by Donald Trumps personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, and was fired without warning. The smears against her were all untrue, but in thejuly 25 call between donald trump and his ukrainian counterpart, astonishingly, the us president attacked her. The former ambassador from the united states, the woman, was bad news. Well, shes going to go through some things. So, what did she think when she learned of this a couple of months back . Iwas. Shocked and devastated that i would feature in a phone call between two heads of state in such a manner, where President Trump said i was bad news to another world leader and that i would be going through some things. So i was. It was a terrible moment. Then, while she was giving evidence, and unbeknown to her, the president went on the attack again, tweeting that things went bad wherever she served. She was made aware of this by the chairman of the committee. Well, its very intimidating. Designed to intimidate, is it not . I mean, i cant speak to what the president is trying to do but the effect is to be intimidated. Well, i want to let you know, ambassador, that some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously. Republicans, too, were uneasy, but donald trump denied that hed done anything wrong. Sir, do you believe your tweets or words can be intimidating . I dont think so at all. Go ahead. Impeachment is the mechanism by which a sitting president could be removed from office for high crimes and misdemeanors. The first stage is a vote in the house of representatives, which has to be carried by a simple majority. If thats passed, then the articles of impeachment go to the upper chamber. And here, the president is put on trial, with the 100 senators acting as the jury. For donald trump to be removed from office, two thirds of senators would have to find him guilty a threshold thats never been reached before. This has been an uncomfortable day for donald trump. Tweeting against Marie Yovanovitch while she was giving evidence wasnt a smart move, raising questions about whether he was trying to intimidate a witness. But theres no sign that republicans are peeling away from him. And the less they do, the impeachment process goes nowhere and he certainly wont be removed from office. Jon sopel, bbc news, washington. And you can get more on that and all of our stories on our website and you can also read the analysis by oui you can also read the analysis by our north american reporter after President Trump attacked the former Us Ambassador to ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, on twitter, in the middle of her testimony. Log onto bbc2, news or you could download a news app. Bbc. Com news. Jeremy corbyn says bts open Reach Broadband business would be put into Public Ownership and the ongoing cost would be public partly funded by Technology Companies like facebook and google. Borisjohnson has dismissed the proposal is a crazed communist scheme. Here is our political addo carr laura kuenssberg. Political editor. Labour has a big giveaway it hopes to connect with you. Fast fibre broadband for everyone everywhere, if they win, within ten years time. Another big intervention in the market, another expensivejob for the state. Labours money man is adding the internet to rail, water, energy and the mail hed like to take into public hands. The way well do it is if were putting that scale of public money and taxpayers money in, we want to ensure we own it as well and that means bringing parts of bt into Public Ownership. Another big nationalisation with a big price tag. Yes it is. Yes, and what well do in the normal way is firstly, well issue bonds for shares and what were doing is introducing a new tax, for the ones that gain their incomes from the internet, the apples and googles and amazons of this world and in that way we will pay for the day to day costs. Whether you look at free broadband, Free University fees, renationalisations, why should wealthy people in this country be entitled to free things . Because we believe we need a more equal society and the best way of getting that benefit to everyone is to make sure you dont have hurdles like means testing. This is hard nosed economics. If we do not get on and do this, we will fall. We already are falling behind our global competitors and we will fall behind even further. Future generations will not forgive us. Your critics might say youre just addicted to spending other peoples money. Im not at all. Other countries are having these visions and were not. Were being held back. If we dont do this, we will be held back even further. Both of the main Party Leaders were on the stump in lancashire today, both stage managing the campaign, both battle buses now on the road. But the approach borisjohnson is pursuing on the economy is very different. Can you all hear me . £5 billion to subsidise expanding broadband. A huge programme of investment in our roads, in telecoms, gigabit broadband unlike the crazed, crazed communist scheme that was outlined earlier on today, we will give people gigabit broadband by 2025. With the quality of broadband achingly different in different corners of the country, it matters in this campaign. Scotland is ahead of the uk in terms of our current performance in many respects, the improvements we have seen in Broadband Availability recently but also in the scale of our ambitions. Ive been to about 30 constituencies so far. 30 down, many more to go. Perhaps more dramatic plans too. Yes, the third one, come on. But this time round, with these leaders and these parties, in this election you cant say theyre all the same. Bye, everybody, see you again. Laura kuenssberg, bbc news. Well, there has been a hostile reaction to labours plans by broadband providers and the Wider Business Community with questions being raised about how much it would actually cost. Simonjack reports on how it could work and how it could be paid for. The uk has some of the slowest average broadband speeds in europe. It even trails madagascar, making life difficult for the people and businesses closer to home in rocklands norfolk. We have trouble running the business, sometimes the card machine, which is linked to the internet is a problem. I was in spain for 20 years and i lived in the most rural part of spain you can imagine. My Internet Speed was 100. I came here to rocklands and my Internet Speed was one. If you have families, everyone comes home from school, all the homeworks done online now, it makes it really tricky. Children are not able to do their homework, people are not able to work from home. The average household broadband bill is £30 a month. Labour would make it totally free, but not to the taxpayer, who labour estimate would pay £20 billion. But the independent National Infrastructure commission estimate it would cost £34 billion. So why is it so expensive . At the moment, most of us get our broadband through a fibre optic cable that links to these old green cabinets where the existing slower Copper Network takes over to do that last mile into our homes and businesses. Replacing all of that with individualfibre into every property is something that only 8 of the country enjoys at the moment. Doing the other 92 is one heck of a job. 0penreach, bts broadband division, has 32,000 employees and sells its services to other operators like virgin media and talktalk. If bt broadband will be free, other Companies Wont be able to compete while taxing us companies to help pay for it risks putting them off britain. Clearly, everybody would like to have things for free, even if you classify broadband as a utility, you pay for all your other utilities because you have to have a return so i think the cost of that provision will be huge and trying to levy that on taxes on other companies will not be popular, will not encourage investment in this country, it will just create investment uncertainty. Labour say they hope to come to an arrangement with bts competitors and if they cant, they might nationalise them too. Melvyn, its me, do you know anything about this bt share offer . Ay . Millions of people own shares in bt since the 1980s or through their pension funds. Labour Say Parliament will decide how much they get for them meaning they may get less than market value. All parties agree that faster broadband is essential. Thats where the agreement ends. Simon jack, bbc news. Let us take a look at some of the other election news and the liberal democrats say they will invest heavily in tackling Climate Change when they if they are elected to power. They want to spend in areas like clean energy, transport and home insulation and they reiterated their decision not to go into any kind of coalition in the event of a hung parliament. The green party has pledged to introduce a universal basic income by 2025 to replace the current universal credit system. It was the every adult receiving a minimum of £89 per week and they said will be funded through taxation. It is just coming said will be funded through taxation. It isjust coming up said will be funded through taxation. It is just coming up to 1 15, here are the headlands. Word Prince Andrew said he let the royal family word Prince Andrew said he let the royalfamily down word Prince Andrew said he let the royal family down by continuing to associate himself with a convicted sex offenderJeffrey Epstein. The former Us Ambassador to ukraine has told the impeachment enquiry she felt threatened and intimidated by President Trump. More than 100 people that had to be rescued midlands because of flooding. There are more than 100 flooding. There are more than 100 flood warnings in place and parts of england and. Our midlands correspondence shaun ley and reports from evesham in was tissue, where the river has burst its banks. Yeah, so the river has burst its banks. Yeah, so would you like us to bring you out of the property because of the water . You would like to be evacuated . Rescue boats have been launched throughout the day in evesham, as water levels on the avon continue to rise. Its been quite a protracted incident for us. Theres been a number of incidents across the county, and this is just one of many that our crews are dealing with currently. The river has reached its highest level since 2007, with only one road through evesham left open. This is one of the main routes through evesham, but half a mile is currently submerged beneath the floodwater. Its meant that many people havent been able to get through to their appointments at the Community Hospital today, and its had to restrict its services. The hereford and worcester fire and rescue service have helped more than 100 people in the past 2a hours, including trevor, who had become trapped inside his own home. I couldnt get out on my own, you know, i tried that earlier on and it was too deep for me to wade through, even with waders on. No such problem for this evesham resident. But with water levels still rising in some places, a number of communities are on stand by. All this water is working its way through, its taking a long time on the big rivers. Its likely its not going to peak at tewkesbury and upton until saturday, possibly sunday. This evening the work continued, as fire officers pumped water from the cellar of a restaurant to keep the business open on what would be one of its busiest nights. Water levels are dropping in this town, but Emergency Services are preparing for a busy couple of days in communities where rivers are continuing to rise. Sian lloyd, bbc news, evesham. The families of some of the 157 People Killed in a boeing 737 max crash in ethiopian last month have accused Ethiopian Airlines of denying them the chance to attend a service for their loved ones at the sight of the disaster. The crash site has become a Burial Ground and isa site has become a Burial Ground and is a focal point of family concerns as Simon Browning now reports. There should have been choirs singing. Dad deserved to have his children there and his wife and his brothers. Zipporahs dad Joseph Waithaka was killed when an Ethopian Airlines plane crashed in march. Yesterday, the final unidentifiable remains of those who died were buried at the site. Its been really heartbreaking, thinking that, you know, theres a part of dad sitting somewhere in a crater, just exposed. Last month, during a visit to the site, relatives saw human remains. It put Ethopian Airlines under pressure to bury those who died. Two days before the burial, they sent the families an e mail, saying were going to be burying your loved ones in the next, you know, sort of 48 hours. They were just buried like people who didnt belong to anyone or werent loved by anyone. This was the second boeing 737 max to crash within five months, after a Flight Control system failed. Nine britons were onboard. Ethopian airlines has not responded as to why the relatives werent given more notice. To not be there was, i dont think words could ever describe that, and there were mothers in the whatsapp group, you know, talking about how broken they were that they couldnt see their children to the end of the journey. My dad had a funeral yesterday and i missed it. Now, just days after a new interim government came to power in bolivia, the country appears to be rapidly realigning diplomati