Now on bbc news hardtalk. To drift north eastward. Some dry interludes but the wind will become an increasing feature across the north and also down towards the south and the south west that wind turning strong and gusty welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. As we get into the first part of saturday morning. Perhaps inevitably, britains unresolved brexit agony has led to a general election. An area of low pressure as we reach that they will deepen. Uncertainty about its exact shape the Current Parliament couldnt find a path out of the morass and exact position but it looks so the people must like there will be a swathe of strong wind potentially now elect a new one. On the southern flank of the low where you see those white lines, all of those brexit has exposed deep tensions in britains vaunted system isobars squashing together. Of democracy, raising questions about the relationship between the people, parliament, government and the courts. It is likely we will see strong wind blowi
Of a woman at a lunch without her permission. Did you . No and what the public want to hear is what we are going to do to unite the country. In westminster a meeting of Opposition Party leaders gets under way one of their questions. If there was to be a caretaker Prime Minister who should it be . Thousands of women are dying needlessly from heart attacks because they fail to recognise their symptoms, and receive poorer care than men. Saudi arabias crown prince says he takes some responsibility for the murder of the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, but denies personally ordering it. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport jane. Hi, simon. Scotland have boosted their hopes of progressing to the knockout stages of the Rugby World Cup theyve earned a 3a 0 bonus point victory over samoa and are up to third in the pool a group. And darren, it is wet . It certainly is. Flood warnings and more warnings of heavy rain today and into tomorrow. Later on in the week we could have an ex hurricane on
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Be closed tomorrow. And click goes inside the Fukushima Nuclear power plant where robots are helping to clean up after the disaster. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The british actress Lysette Anthony has come forward to say she is the woman who reported a Sexual Assault by hollywood Film Producer Harvey Weinstein to merseyside police. The actress, who stars in hollyoaks, says she was raped by weinstein at her flat in the late 1980s. He continues to deny any allegations of non consensual sex. Alexandra mackenzie reports. The allegations against Harvey Weinstein have shaken the Film Industry to its core, and notjust in hollywood. The british actress Lysette Anthony met the producer in 1982 when she was given the lead role in the film krull. Now in hollyoaks, she is the fifth woman to claim she was raped by him, in her london home. In a sunday newspaper, she said she tried to push him off but he was too heavy. She said this historical alle
News. The bbc understands the metropolitan police is investigating a further three Sexual Assault allegations made by one woman against Film Producer Harvey Weinstein. A short time ago i spoke to our correspondent Alexandra Mackenzie who brought us up to date with latest from the metropolitan police. This statement from the met police, they have not named the hollywood reducer Harvey Weinstein but the bbc understands thats who they are referring to in this latest statement. Producer. They reminded us on the 11th of october Merseyside Police had referred an allegation of Sexual Assault to the metropolitan Police Service and what theyve said is its alleged ballot man sexually assaulted a woman in the late 80s in west london. We understand that to be the british actress liz said anthony, she has spoken to a sunday newspaper and she said she met the reduced in 1982 when she was given the lead role in a film, she is now in hollyoaks, and she is the fifth woman to claim she was sexually assa