these involving stories. reporter: good afternoon, mike. two former male aides to the above are telling the post that he used to use expletives to berate them on top of two new female aides who are speaking out about what it was like when they worked for the governor. now, one of these women s name is karen hipton, and she says two hinton, and she says two times the governor called her back to his dimly-lit hotel room trying to hold on to her longer. the governor s office telling fox that this did not happen. quote: hinton is a known antagonist of the governor s who is attempting to take advantage of this moment to score cheap points with made-up allegations from 21 years ago. another former aide, anna liz, telling the wall street journal that cuomo would ask if she had a boyfriend, called her sweetheart and once touched her lower back and kissed her on the hand. she says at first she saw this as harmless flirtation, but later she started to see the actions as a patroni
harvey goldsmith in london, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. back in november you said this, you said almost 50% of events agencies such as your own, i guess, do not expect to survive beyond the end of this year. and if it goes to february and beyond, that is where we are now, 75% won t survive if events have not resumed by then. so here we are at that doomsday month you were talking about. i mean, you re still around, you re still trying to keep your business afloat. do you think you were exaggerating a tiny little bit? not really, not at the time. and i m not exaggerating now. i mean, we are all of us, we are at our wits end because we can t see a pathway to go forward. it s very hard to get through to government how our industry actually works. i m very fearful that we will have lost most of the summer with all outdoor activities which would affect a huge amount of our people. and quite a few of them will actually go out of business. there s only so long you can keep this g
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the cost of covid can be counted in so many different ways. first in the ledger is the mounting death toll. next comes the economic cost, jobs lost, businesses ruined. and then there is the disastrous impact on culture. in much of the world we cannot gather to enjoy the arts live. the creative world we used to know may be hard to revive. my guess is one of the uk s top live music promoters, harvey goldsmith. has the cultural cost of covid been ignored? harvey goldsmith in london, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. back in november, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. back in november, you welcome to hardtalk. thank you. back in november, you said - back in november, you said this. you said, almost 50% of events agencies , such as your own, i guess do not expect to survive beyond the end of this year, and if it goes to february beyond, that is where we are now, seventy 5% will not survive if events have not r
hello to you. we start in the united states. the us attorney general william barr, who was appointed by mr trump, has said no evidence has emerged of widespread fraud that would change the outcome of the presidential election. this despite the repeated claims by president trump that the election was stolen. our north america correspondent, peter bowes has this report. a political friendship that could be wearing thin. we do not allowjudgements to be reached. william barr has been a staunch ally of donald trump, which is why his views as the country s top law enforcement officer carry special weight. now he says, working with fbi agents, they have uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election, and he added: as news emerged of the attorney general‘s comments, it appeared president trump was engrossed in his twitter account, live tweeting a hearing in michigan in which his personal lawyer rudy giuliani was submitting further unsubstantiated claims about t
also tens of thousands march in may day protests in france against plans by president macron to raise the retirement age. and the most detailed 3d model of the female anatomy, to help make better medical diagnoses, for women. hello, thanks forjoining us. the south eastern port city of mariupol is a shell of what is was before the russian invasion began. but throughout the bombardment, many civilians have been stuck there, despite repeated efforts to get them to safety. now the red cross and the united nations are helping in an operation to move them to evacuate them. a convoy of vehicles made it to mariupol on saturday to take out some of the hundreds of people trapped in the city s vast azovstal steel plant. these images show evacuees arriving earlier on sunday at their first stop in donetsk on the russian border. they re accompanied by red cross and un staff. but around a thousand more civilians are still sheltering inside the complex, along with around 2,000 ukrainian figh