welcome to world business report, i m mark lobel. we start here in the uk where the business lobby group, the cbi, is facing a second allegation of rape by a woman, who claims she was sexually assaulted by two male colleagues. the guardian newspaper reports, the alleged attack took place when the woman was working at one of the cbi s overseas offices. the city of london police is already investigating claims of a rape, at a cbi summer party in 2019. let s go through the latest developments with our correspondent marc ashdown who joins us now. we are getting a growing list of business organisations who are cutting ties with the cbi or pausing, they have around 190,000 businesses who are members and the insurance giants aviva and zurich were the first to do that. the likes of asda, shell, natwest, they have pause relations, and john lewis has terminated its membership as well. these follow fresh allegations today with a second woman claiming she was raped when working for cbi
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version of the tank and will provide poland with a highly advanced tank capability. it will also strengthen our in operability with the polish armed forces, boosting the credibility of our combined efforts and those of other nato allies. we commend poland for consistently meeting nato spending on defence investment targets and together we will continue to modernise our defence capabilities. this procurement by poland will also help to ensure more equitable sharing of responsibilities within the alliance for the common defence. in ourjoint exercises in poland and the baltic states we will continue to demonstrate our intent and defend our easternmost allies. europe is now facing challenges to international peace and stability.