And apologised to the actor Amanda Abbington, who appeared on the programme in 2023. Lets cross straight to our media and arts correspondent, david sillito. David, tell us what the report says. Strictly come dancing, the bbc s biggest Entertainment Show by some distance, has been rocked by headlines for the last few months because of allegations by former contestant Amanda Abbington, who left midway through the last series, saying, revealing in interviews later, that she felt that the behaviour of her professional dancer had been abusive, demeaning, insulting and bullying. And what there has been, there has been an investigation into those specific complaints from Amanda Abbington. Bbc studios, the Production Arm of the bbc, has concluded that her concerns and complaints were in part upheld, they have apologised to Amanda Abbington, but not holy. So the question we understand is probably that its a matter of verbal abuse, verbal Harassment And Bullying that have been upheld but nothing
next several hours. now the island of taiwan says they re on high alert for a possible incoming from china. china telling its troops stand by in battle formation and be ready for all incoming enemies. listen to this warning from china to speaker pelosi. if house speaker pelosi insists on visiting taiwan, we will defend our territorial integrity. as to what measures we ll make, we ll see if she dares making a visit. martha: john kirby joins me now off of a very active news conference that went on for quite a while. john, welcome. good to have you with us today. good to be with you. martha: sounds like you re saying nothing to see here. nothing has changed. everything is fine. the drama is coming from the media. you have to realize that we ve sent the seventh fleet in there and the ronald reagan. things have escalated and it s coming from china. and their war of words more than anything else. we re not believing this on the media or saying there s nothing to see. ther
The going is so tough . Look, weve been in government for 17 years. Over 17 years, you have challenges, of course, as a government. But in the last year. I often get asked that question about challenges. I prefer to look at the opportunity. And in the last year, weve had modelling that shows well lift 100,000 children out of poverty, weve had statistics just last month showing that weve had Record Numbers ofJunior Doctors joining the nhs, weve had statistics that show that school leavers, Record Levels are going to positive destinations. And just in february, at the turn of this year, weve seen that private Sector Employment growth is outstripping any other nation or region of the uk here in scotland. So challenges plenty. 0pportunities plenty as well. And thats why, probably, because of that success, the last two polls that have come out, of course, have shown the snp in lead position come a general election, whenever that may be. What about, if i may, the shadow and the uncertainty t
can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the cnn newsroom. jim, take it away. thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of miles across and even from space, it is a monster. an astronaut on the international space station called the view terrifying. we have crews deployed up and down the east coast. reynolds wolf is in kill dils hill, north carolina and john zarrella is north of there. then candy crowley in long island and mary snow and jacqui jeras. reynolds, they are bracing for a direct hit, aren t they? they certainly are. one of the most troubling things about this err area is the how it s susceptible to the