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westminster waits for the report that could determine the prime minister s future, as borisjohnson rejects calls for him to resign. and we ll have the latest on the humanitarian effort in tonga, as aid deliveries to the island gather pace. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and 6pm in the evening in new york, where prince andrew is demanding a trial byjury. he formally denied all the allegations against him, as he gave a court his official response to allegations of sexual assault. virginia giuffre accuses the duke of york of forcing her to have sex more than two decades ago at the london home of the convicted sex trafficker ghislaine maxwell. the 11 page document sets out the duke s detailed response, strongly denying that he abused ms giuffre when she was 17. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has more details. across 11 pages, andrew s lawyers have set out his defence a denial of the centra ....
in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and 11pm in the evening in london, where the metropolitan police is now investigating multiple events since 2020 at downing street and across government to see whether there were breaches of covid restrictions. the commissioner of britain s biggest police force confirmed that her officers are now looking into potential rule breaking as a result of information provided by civil servants who are also compiling a report on what happened. the bbc understands the met police has no objection to that report, by sue gray, being published while their investigation is ongoing. here s our political editor, laura kuenssberg. the law applies in every town, every city, every road and every house, and in the sm postcode of number 10. and the police have concluded they ve seen enough about what happened behind closed doors when the law was lockdown that it merits a full and proper look. i can confi ....
the world record for rowing across the atlantic. borisjohnson has ordered a cabinet office inquiry into claims made by a muslim mp who says her faith was given as a reason for her sacking as a minister in 2020. nusrat ghani welcomed the inquiry, saying all she wanted was for the matter to be taken seriously. the government s chief whip, mark spencer, said ms ghani s allegation referred to him, but he said the claims were completely false. the new cabinet office inquiry comes at the beginning of what is likely to be a difficult week for the prime minister, with the expected publication of a report into parties on government premises that took place when coronavirus restrictions were in place. from westminster, here s ione wells. as one inquiry into parties here is about to draw to a close, another one is about to open. this time into claims made by the tory mp nusrat ghani, who s said this weekend that she had been told by a party whip that her muslimness was a reason sh ....
of fraudulent covid business loans. people arriving in england will no longer need to take people arriving in england a covid lateral flow test, if they have been double vaccinated. we promise we wouldn t keep these measures in place a date longer than was necessary. it s obvious to me now that vaccinated travellers has outlived its usefulness. the prime minister warns russia that invading ukraine would be a disastrous step as the uk withdraws staff from its embassy there. the founder of wikileaks julian assange wins the first stage of his legal bid to appeal against the decision to extradite him to the united states. and how well do you know the new rules of the road? the highway code s been rewritten to make it safer for cyclists. also coming up this hour overcoming scorching heat, sleep deprivation, and being trailed by sharks a british all women crew including a woman with incurable cancer break the world record for rowing across the atlantic. borisj ....
have to be honest that you can be a foggy meandering president and play like reagan near the end if you re winning. but if you re meandering on key questions and you re also not winning, than you ve got a real problem. the first part was the most jarring. president of the united states who s not donald trump even suggest ahead of time that an election isn t legitimate. and even over at msnbc where they applaud joe every time he makes a boom boom within 10 fee of the bathroom,. it was a terrible moment in the press conference where he talked about a minder incursion. they re is no minor incursion. they are not debating that righ now, they see joe biden as week. yesterday s press conference di not help. if you re vladimir putin, you pay attention to the cleanup. and minor incursion, that s my straight edge hard-core band. of course there are still holdouts, like this japanese pilots from world war ii a common island cut off from reality. he had championing joe f ....