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britain s prince andrew is demanding a trial byjury in a civil case brought by virginia giuffre, who has accused him of sexual assaulting her when she was 17. the prince denies her claims and his lawyers have lodged papers with the us court which set out several reasons why they say the allegations are false. these include a denial that andrew was a close friend of ghislaine maxwell, at whose house some of the alleged abuse took place. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has more details. across 11 pages, andrew s lawyers have set out his defence a denial of the central allegation of sexual abuse made by virginia giuffre and an assertion in respect of others that andrew lacks sufficient information to either admit or deny what s been claimed. he says, for example, in relation to the widely publicised picture of the two of them, that he doesn t have enough information to admit or deny that there exists photographic evidence of his alleged meeting with miss giuf ....
we start in the us where the most powerful person in globalfinance the chair of the federal reserve has signalled the end of ultra cheap money is around the corner. us interest rates which affect the cost of borrowing around the world have been kept near to zero since the pandemic hit in early 2020. and the fed has held off raising them at this week s meeting. butjerome powell says higher rates, quote: will soon be appropriate as the economy recovers and inflation surges. our north america business correspondent michelle fleury has more. the federal reserve is going to be raising interest rates for the first time in three years. the move could come as early as march as inflation cast a shadow over the world s largest economy. when interest rates are near zero that is typically because an economy needs help and business needs help and thatis and business needs help and that is what the fed did to shelter the us economy from the west effect of the pandemic backi ....
for dialogue over ukraine. these are the images live from the centre of london. as many people gather around the country to remember 77 years since the liberation of the auschwitz birkenau camp on holocaust memorial day. one of the most influential figures in british comedy for the last six decades barry cryer has died at the age of 86. 77 years ago today the nazi concentration camp of auschwitz was liberated. more thani million people, most of them jewish, were murdered at the camp in occupied poland. today is holocaust memorial day. and to mark it, different artists have painted the portraits of some of the uk s last remaining holocaust survivors. the project was commissioned by prince charles and the people have been encouraged to light candles in their windows at eight o clock tonightjust as candles in their windows at eight o clock tonight just as we speak. and at gatherings including here in central london if you can see and we have seen shots all around the country ....
warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn s supreme court analyst steve ladek and global affairs analyst susan glass here to talk about what is going on with breyer s official retirement has not happened but that s the word that it s going to happen soon. good evening to both of you. susan, president biden gets a supreme court pick, a chance to turn a new page in his presidency, a way to shore up the base and fulfill a big campaign promise. but still, it probably won t be an easy road, will it? in these divided times that we re living in right now. you know, nothing is easy, don, anymore in our politics. i mean, for president biden it s really full circle. as the chairman of the judiciary committee he was around three decades ago helping to preside over the confirmation hearings of justice breyer. now he ll get to pick his replacement. i m struck by the initial tone from conservatives which has not been fire-breathing, you know ....
just homes. the mass release of migrants underway in texas, adding that some of these men have criminal past and at their camera capture this video of the san antonio airport. meanwhile, the import for some of the charter flights filled with migrant children that landed in the dead of night last summer. a security officer and federal contractor were involved in those flights. i get the secrecy, but this is [bleep], you know what i mean? and why? i know, but why? what s the big secret, everybody knows it s happening. because the government is betraying the american people. josh, when no it s happening, immigrants coming to our southern border and some of the statements we just played are accompanied by others. dhs wants everything to be on the down low, so secretive, no transparency here. what we don t want to do is attract attention. what we don t want is the media, if this gets out the government is betraying the american people. this seems like a cover-up. s ....