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
welcome to hannity . busy monday ni t. exas the border showdown in texas that is heating up. it is now a constitutionals heal crisis and a national security crisis. and governor greg abbott, . he s not backing down. he will join us with the very latestl join. plus, the possible senate border deal would be a disaste r for the country. we re going to tell you why w every republican senator should. be strongly opposed to it. but first, american soldiers abroadbut fi are under attack. three brave members of the u.s. army were killed and we had, what, over w 40 more injured ina drone attack on a base in jordan yesterday. one official is now saying that the drone evaded u.s. defenses because it was mistaken for an american drone. well, that begs the question, what s going on with our military? we know our defense secretar h ouyow our defense secretar spent days in the icu, that the commander in chief had no knowledge of it at all. now, there are three soldiers dead because of d
visible in hand. we can t show you what happened next. this video shows him running away. from syria. 31 years old. this is the park where it happened. 10am this morning. lots of young children there. the man with the knife has a child of his own, around the same age as those he attacked. let s hearfrom people who were there. translation: all of a sudden, a lady says, run, run, - there is a guy who stabbing everyone all along the lake . he stabbed some children . run, run . i tell the cops to shoot him, kill him, he is stabbing everybody . i was approaching that end of the lake, i saw and heard multiple police sirens and a helicopter about to land. i knew immediately there was some very dire emergency situation happening. so i stopped where i was, at the corner of the park near the lake, and started photographing. i observed a channel 26 french tv person with her cameraman. it was somewhat chaotic. the police were trying to keep bicyclists and people from approaching the
hello, and welcome to the programme. a major meeting of ukraine s allies has ended without agreement on whether to send more tanks to kyiv. representatives of around 50 countries gathered at the us airbase in ramstein, in germany, to discuss co ordinating military support. germany s new defence minister denied blocking the export of its leopard tanks, which kyiv has been pushing for, saying such a decision had to be carefully considered. ukraine says the tanks are needed to break the deadlock in the war. germany is under pressure to allow its leopard ii tanks, to be exported to ukraine, which isn t a member of nato. germany s new defence minister has said no decision has been made, adding that berlin would not stand in the way of exports if its allies acted together. the uk has commited to sending 1a challenger ii tanks to the front line. russia has warned that providing tanks would mark an extremely dangerous escalation. here s our europe correspondentjessica parker. this
allow china to defensive trip. we will not allow china to isolate - defensive trip. we will not. allow china to isolate taiwan. they have kept taiwan from participating in the world health organization and other ways where on to make a value contribution. contribution. british farmers fear their contribution. british farmers fear their harvest contribution. british farmers fear their harvest will - contribution. british farmers fear their harvest will fail. contribution. british farmers fear their harvest will fail as | fear their harvest will fail as a heat wave in drought conditions have a devastating impact on the agriculture industry. and the author and illustrator best known for the children s book, the snowman has died at the age of 88. hello and welcome to the programme. donald trump is declined to answer questions under oath as part of an investigation into his family s business practices, they described inquiry by the new york attorney general as a witch hunt.