and blamed for his crimes butjeffrey epstein is not ghislaine maxwell, the lawyer said. then she went on to, again, undermine the testimony and credibility of the four accusers, which has been a very big part of the case. the chinese tennis star, pung shwai appears to have retracted an accusation of sexual assaul that she made against a former chinese vice premier. here she is in the video interview filmed by the newspaper lee en her ssow bow. translation: first and foremost, j i must emphasise i have never said or wrote about anyone sexually assaulting me. that s a very important point. the weibo post is my own personal issue. i know there are many misunderstandings, but there is no distorted interpretation. in a statement the women s tennis association said it was good
translation: we appeal for at least some small help to come to us. - now is the time we need a government, a government that is ready to help us in our current situation. we are waiting for whoever has a kind heart. i hope they will help us. the breadth of the destruction and the lack of communication lines, is causing logistical delays in humanitarian support. food, water, fuel and electricity are in limited supply on numerous islands. today, the british government committed nearly $1 million to an appeal by the international federation of the red cross to help the relief effort. the ifrc are hoping to raise a total of more than $20 million. howard johnson, bbc news, manila. the chinese tennis star, pung shwai appears to have retracted an accusation, of sexual assault, that she made against a former chinese vice premier. in a video interview, she said, the comments she d made on social media had been misunderstood. after making the claim last month,
global financial institutions controlling trillions of dollars of assets have signed up to help meet climate goals, with the uk aiming to become the world s first net zero financial centre. a top ranked chinese tennis player has accused a retired communist party official of sexual assault the first time an allegation of this kind has been leveled against the very top of china s leadership structure. pung shwai once dominated the tennis doubles world winning wimbledon and the french open. she was also in an extramartial relationship with this man, jung gao li, he was at the very top of china s ruling communist party. but in this lengthy post on the chinese social media site weibo, pung shwai says he forced her into unconsensual sex at his home. the post was immediately taken down. here s our china media
a lot of people have perceived this as that she does not have a lot of hope in taking this any further, but nevertheless it has opened up a discussion in china where the metoo movement and where allegations of sexual assault are often either suppressed or they don t have much kind of legal success. so it has been a big talking point, and today you can see on weibo that if you try to search for pung shwai, heraccount, you can t access. well, you can access it but it results come up saying that this user can t be found. also you can only see, you can t see ordinary social media comments about her, you currently see those by verified government media. one of england s top cricket clubs, yorkshire, is at the centre of a bitter race controversy. a former player azeem rafiq, received an apology after an independent report found he had been the victim of racist harassment and bullying.
analyst kerry allen. there was a post yesterday that was made on pung shwai s weibo account, weibo being china s version of say facebook or twitter. and it was a long post, and in this post she claimed thatjung gao li, who was a former vice premier, a very senior figure under president xijinping, had forced her into having relations. she said in this post as well that she has no evidence to back up these claims, but this post and now has seemingly been taken down or has been censored because it no longer exists. but there is evidence on weibo that this post racked up 100,000 views and thousands of comments, and there is evidence today i ve seen on weibo that a very tight attempt to stop people from other circulating this news or talking about it. she almost kind of, i don t want to speculate on the post, but she does say that her memory of it is confused and. she doesn t.