three, two, one. our seoul correspondent takes the g force test to fly fighterjets as she reports on south korea s defence spending spree. we re still officially- at war with north korea. over the country, . there have also been increasing air incursions. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. a $500,000 legal settlement signed by virginia roberts giuffre and sex offender jeffrey epstein in 2009 included an agreement that ms giuffre wouldn t sue anyone connected to epstein. lawyers for prince andrew say the agreement, which has been made public in the last couple of hours, releases the prince from liability in the civil case brought by virginia giuffre, who accuses him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. prince andrew has consistently denied the claims. our legal correspondent, dominic casciani, reports. a woman seeking her day in court. the unprecedented defendant
Wouldn t sue anyone connected to epstein. lawyers for prince andrew say the agreement, which has been made public in the last couple of hours, releases the prince from liability in the civil case brought by virginia giuffre, who accuses him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. prince andrew has consistently denied the claims. our legal correspondent, dominic casciani, reports. a woman seeking her day in court. the unprecedented defendant a prince of the realm. but have his lawyers now found a way to stop virginia giuffre s case from ever being heard? she says she was trafficked into sexual abuse and exploited by the man on the right, jeffrey epstein. ms giuffre, then known as roberts, says epstein and his girlfriend coerced the teenager into abuse by prince andrew in london, new york and the caribbean. today, the release of
Welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. a legal document signed between virginia giuffre and jeffrey epstein 12 years ago has been made public. it s potentially key to her civil case against prince andrew. with beijing s winter olympics just weeks away, we find out how china is preparing for a global event in a global pandemic. where are the people? well, the reason there are no people here is that the local they ll be able to take a high speed train there because some of the trains are operating completely within the bubble. us regulators approve covid boosters for children aged 12 15 as the country battles a surge in omicron infections.
Answer her allegations. i ve been speaking to moira penza, a former assistant us attorney for the eastern district of new york and an experienced prosecutor in civil trials and sex trafficking cases. she outlined what each side is arguing. in this case, we re dealing with the first procedural stats in most civil trials, which is prince andrew has neither motion to dismiss the case, and he is saying that based on legal issues, this case cannot go forward. and you have here ms giuffre s attorney saying theissues ms giuffre s attorney saying the issues that prince andrew has raise our insufficient. we have seen the issues related to the 2009 settlement agreement, and prince andrew s attorney have argued that this broad
Language, that is purported to exempt from liability anyone with the potential defendant against ms giuffre, but that should protect them from liability in this case. what we see her attorneys arguing is that this provision is so broad that this provision is so broad that it that this provision is so broad thatitis that this provision is so broad that it is invalid, and furthermore, that because of the fact that prince andrew could not have been sued in florida at the time in which the 2009 lawsuit was being brought, that this provision could not apply to him. in your experience. could not apply to him. in your experience, can could not apply to him. in your experience, can the could not apply to him. in your experience, can the judge - could not apply to him. in your. experience, can thejudge make a determination based on the language that we ve seen? it’s language that we ve seen? it s very difficult. language that we ve seen? it s very difficult, looking at the four corner