1 00:00:06,415 --> 00:00:13,575 Speaker 1: You're listening to I'm onma mea podcast. Good afternoon, I'm 2 00:00:13,614 --> 00:00:16,935 Speaker 1: Tully Blackman. Were the latest from the Quickie newsroom for Friday, 3 00:00:16,975 --> 00:00:22,175 Speaker 1: February twenty Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been released from police 4 00:00:22,175 --> 00:00:27,215 Speaker 1: custody after being arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. 5 00:00:27,615 --> 00:00:32,215 Speaker 1: So what happens next? Seven News Europe correspondent Jacqueline Robson 6 00:00:32,415 --> 00:00:35,974 Speaker 1: is on the ground at Buckingham Palace. Jacqueline, can you 7 00:00:36,015 --> 00:00:39,815 Speaker 1: walk us through how the arrest unfolded and these allegations. 8 00:00:40,135 --> 00:00:43,894 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it started this morning local time where Andrew 9 00:00:44,055 --> 00:00:47,894 Speaker 2: was arrested. He was taken into police custody. He was 10 00:00:47,894 --> 00:00:50,735 Speaker 2: taken to a police station where he was questioned for 11 00:00:50,815 --> 00:00:55,054 Speaker 2: eleven hours. In Charles didn't get any prior knowledge that 12 00:00:55,095 --> 00:00:57,374 Speaker 2: this was happening, so he is woken up like the 13 00:00:57,415 --> 00:01:00,535 Speaker 2: rest of us to this news that questioning has gone on. 14 00:01:00,735 --> 00:01:04,255 Speaker 2: Andrew has been released without charge at this stage, for 15 00:01:04,335 --> 00:01:07,575 Speaker 2: the investigation is still on going and he has been 16 00:01:07,655 --> 00:01:12,015 Speaker 2: arrested on the suspicion of misconduct in public office. This 17 00:01:12,135 --> 00:01:15,775 Speaker 2: is to do with his role as UK Trade Envoy. 18 00:01:15,855 --> 00:01:19,135 Speaker 2: There were emails at surface in the Epstein files that 19 00:01:19,975 --> 00:01:25,415 Speaker 2: suggest that he was sending on confidential government documents to 20 00:01:25,775 --> 00:01:31,055 Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein to financially benefit him and Epstein. So that 21 00:01:31,255 --> 00:01:34,694 Speaker 2: is a very serious charge. The maximum penalty is life 22 00:01:34,735 --> 00:01:37,655 Speaker 2: in prison. We have not seen the charge as yet, 23 00:01:37,695 --> 00:01:39,695 Speaker 2: but this investigation is still going on. 24 00:01:40,095 --> 00:01:43,295 Speaker 1: As you mentioned, Andrew has now been released. But where 25 00:01:43,375 --> 00:01:43,895 Speaker 1: is he now. 26 00:01:44,615 --> 00:01:47,975 Speaker 2: He's back at his home in the Sandringham estate. He 27 00:01:48,095 --> 00:01:51,215 Speaker 2: was kicked out of Windsor if you remember last year 28 00:01:51,255 --> 00:01:53,695 Speaker 2: the King stripped Andrew of his titles. He kicked him 29 00:01:53,695 --> 00:01:56,375 Speaker 2: out of the lodge. So he's back at Sandringham. And 30 00:01:56,415 --> 00:01:59,015 Speaker 2: there is an incredible photo that one of the paparazzi 31 00:01:59,055 --> 00:02:02,415 Speaker 2: got of Andrew reclining in the back of the big 32 00:02:02,455 --> 00:02:06,095 Speaker 2: black suv he gets around in trying to the camera. 33 00:02:06,175 --> 00:02:10,614 Speaker 2: Is a very unflattering photo and it just is incredible. 34 00:02:10,935 --> 00:02:13,695 Speaker 2: The tabloid paper here, The Sun, has put it on 35 00:02:13,735 --> 00:02:17,975 Speaker 2: their front page. He's now sweating, which goes to his 36 00:02:18,335 --> 00:02:21,895 Speaker 2: horror interview he did about Virginia du Frey and the 37 00:02:21,935 --> 00:02:24,375 Speaker 2: fact that he doesn't sweat and she said he was 38 00:02:24,415 --> 00:02:28,735 Speaker 2: sweating and just incredible scenes. So tonight he's at home 39 00:02:29,055 --> 00:02:30,335 Speaker 2: sleeping in his own bed. 40 00:02:30,575 --> 00:02:34,335 Speaker 1: King Charles released a statement early this morning in the UK. 41 00:02:34,815 --> 00:02:37,575 Speaker 1: How significant is this arrest for the royal family? 42 00:02:38,095 --> 00:02:42,294 Speaker 2: This is monumental this development. The last time a senior 43 00:02:42,375 --> 00:02:45,734 Speaker 2: royal has been arrested was close to four hundred years ago. 44 00:02:45,815 --> 00:02:49,095 Speaker 2: He's eighth in line to the throne, so this is huge. 45 00:02:49,535 --> 00:02:52,375 Speaker 2: King Charles was on the front today with that statement. 46 00:02:52,375 --> 00:02:55,095 Speaker 2: It was released quite quickly where he did promise to 47 00:02:55,135 --> 00:02:57,855 Speaker 2: help with the police investigation, and then he went out 48 00:02:57,855 --> 00:03:02,215 Speaker 2: in public and exposed himself to people heckling him about it. 49 00:03:02,255 --> 00:03:05,055 Speaker 2: He was asked, how do you feel about Andrew being arrested? 50 00:03:05,615 --> 00:03:09,495 Speaker 2: But that statement was quite significant. He said, let the 51 00:03:09,615 --> 00:03:13,015 Speaker 2: law take its course. For the royal family, they'll try 52 00:03:13,095 --> 00:03:15,775 Speaker 2: and just keep carrying on with their royal duties and 53 00:03:15,935 --> 00:03:19,174 Speaker 2: try not to let this distract from them. But this 54 00:03:19,335 --> 00:03:22,615 Speaker 2: is a massive family crisis as well as a massive 55 00:03:22,655 --> 00:03:23,655 Speaker 2: crisis for the monarchy. 56 00:03:24,015 --> 00:03:27,014 Speaker 1: What's the reaction been like in the UK and around 57 00:03:27,015 --> 00:03:27,495 Speaker 1: the world. 58 00:03:28,175 --> 00:03:31,655 Speaker 2: The reaction across the world has been massive. I think 59 00:03:31,655 --> 00:03:34,615 Speaker 2: because there has been so much focus on the Epstein files. 60 00:03:34,615 --> 00:03:36,935 Speaker 2: I was speaking to people who are walking around Buckingham 61 00:03:36,935 --> 00:03:41,815 Speaker 2: Palace today and the consensus was like this was overdue. 62 00:03:41,935 --> 00:03:43,095 Speaker 2: It's about time. 63 00:03:43,775 --> 00:03:48,455 Speaker 1: The Epstein files are shaking British politics right now, especially 64 00:03:48,495 --> 00:03:51,855 Speaker 1: with growing calls for Kir Starmer to resign. Is this 65 00:03:51,935 --> 00:03:54,855 Speaker 1: impacting high profile figures in the UK? Also? 66 00:03:55,335 --> 00:03:58,495 Speaker 2: So Keres Starmer's facing a lot of heat because he 67 00:03:58,615 --> 00:04:04,015 Speaker 2: appointed diplomat Peter Mandelson, who has been photographed with his 68 00:04:04,215 --> 00:04:07,535 Speaker 2: parents off in the Epstein files next to a young woman. 69 00:04:07,695 --> 00:04:12,415 Speaker 2: He's mentioned many times in those files, and so that's 70 00:04:12,415 --> 00:04:16,015 Speaker 2: how it's falling back on Sekir Starmer, who's already been 71 00:04:16,135 --> 00:04:19,735 Speaker 2: under pressure now his party. People within his party were 72 00:04:19,735 --> 00:04:21,815 Speaker 2: saying that he made a dud call there and he 73 00:04:21,855 --> 00:04:25,094 Speaker 2: should resign. No one stepped up to the plate to 74 00:04:25,175 --> 00:04:28,855 Speaker 2: take his job, so he continues as the Prime Minister. 75 00:04:29,095 --> 00:04:31,575 Speaker 2: But he has come out today as well and said 76 00:04:31,575 --> 00:04:33,735 Speaker 2: no one is above the law, not even family. 77 00:04:34,135 --> 00:04:38,255 Speaker 1: How might the investigation proceed from here? What's next for Andrew? 78 00:04:38,695 --> 00:04:41,695 Speaker 2: I would say Andrew will just keep a low profile 79 00:04:41,775 --> 00:04:44,495 Speaker 2: and police will continue to try and build their case 80 00:04:45,095 --> 00:04:48,095 Speaker 2: against him. So they've done raids on his two properties 81 00:04:48,095 --> 00:04:53,255 Speaker 2: that he resided in. They will be collecting things like documents, devices, 82 00:04:53,295 --> 00:04:56,935 Speaker 2: trying to sift through those households to find any kind 83 00:04:56,935 --> 00:05:00,654 Speaker 2: of evidence that will help lay a charge. It could 84 00:05:00,735 --> 00:05:04,535 Speaker 2: take days months before we get a charge. It may 85 00:05:04,575 --> 00:05:07,055 Speaker 2: not come at all, but the police will be sitting 86 00:05:07,095 --> 00:05:10,095 Speaker 2: through everything they've been able to gather from bost homes, 87 00:05:10,295 --> 00:05:13,455 Speaker 2: trying to have a strong enough taste to take it 88 00:05:13,495 --> 00:05:14,375 Speaker 2: to court. 89 00:05:14,735 --> 00:05:21,095 Speaker 1: Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has consistently denied any wrongdoing. Actor Eric Dane, 90 00:05:21,215 --> 00:05:24,655 Speaker 1: best known as doctor Mark Sloan on Grey's Anatomy, has 91 00:05:24,775 --> 00:05:28,535 Speaker 1: died at age fifty three, nearly a year after revealing 92 00:05:28,615 --> 00:05:33,375 Speaker 1: his ALS diagnosis. His family confirmed he passed away today 93 00:05:33,535 --> 00:05:37,455 Speaker 1: surrounded by loved ones, including his daughters Billy and Georgia. 94 00:05:38,295 --> 00:05:42,175 Speaker 1: Dane became a household name as McSteamy and also appeared 95 00:05:42,215 --> 00:05:46,255 Speaker 1: on Charmed, Saved by the Bell and other TV shows. 96 00:05:46,575 --> 00:05:50,775 Speaker 1: His family praised his advocacy for ALS awareness and asked 97 00:05:50,855 --> 00:05:55,015 Speaker 1: for privacy at this difficult time. Hundreds of thousands of 98 00:05:55,175 --> 00:05:59,335 Speaker 1: LSD tablets worth an estimated fifteen million dollars have been 99 00:05:59,375 --> 00:06:03,855 Speaker 1: seized in one of Australia's largest drug busts. Two people 100 00:06:03,895 --> 00:06:07,495 Speaker 1: in Victoria have been charged following a two year investigation 101 00:06:07,735 --> 00:06:11,695 Speaker 1: involving the Australian Border Force and US Home Security into 102 00:06:11,695 --> 00:06:16,735 Speaker 1: the alleged importation of LSD. Police executed search warrants on 103 00:06:16,815 --> 00:06:20,615 Speaker 1: Wednesday at homes in Mount Martha and Wallach, seizing seven 104 00:06:20,735 --> 00:06:25,055 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand LSD tabs, sixty grams of LSD 105 00:06:25,175 --> 00:06:28,895 Speaker 1: crystals and about forty five thousand dollars in cash and 106 00:06:29,015 --> 00:06:33,255 Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars in cryptocurrency. A thirty five year old 107 00:06:33,295 --> 00:06:35,935 Speaker 1: man and a forty four year old woman from Mount 108 00:06:35,975 --> 00:06:40,135 Speaker 1: Martha face multiple drug trafficking chargers. They are due and 109 00:06:40,255 --> 00:06:44,615 Speaker 1: Melbourne Magistrates Court later this week as the investigation continues. 110 00:06:45,575 --> 00:06:49,415 Speaker 1: Labour is on track for a historic South Australian election win, 111 00:06:49,615 --> 00:06:53,255 Speaker 1: with the latest poll showing the Liberals increasingly seen as 112 00:06:53,295 --> 00:06:57,335 Speaker 1: a fringe party. A Yugov Advertiser survey found Labour would 113 00:06:57,375 --> 00:07:00,215 Speaker 1: take thirty seven percent of the primary vote if an 114 00:07:00,255 --> 00:07:03,775 Speaker 1: election were held today, ahead of One Nation on twenty 115 00:07:03,815 --> 00:07:08,895 Speaker 1: two percent and the Liberals twenty percent. Premier Peter Malinowskis 116 00:07:09,055 --> 00:07:13,095 Speaker 1: leads as preferred premier sixty four percent to Liberal leader 117 00:07:13,135 --> 00:07:17,375 Speaker 1: Ashton Hearns twenty percent. With Labour's two party preferred vote 118 00:07:17,455 --> 00:07:21,535 Speaker 1: at fifty nine to sixty percent, The Liberals could lose 119 00:07:21,615 --> 00:07:24,895 Speaker 1: at least half of their thirteen seats, their worst results 120 00:07:24,935 --> 00:07:28,895 Speaker 1: since self government in eighteen fifty seven, while Independence and 121 00:07:29,055 --> 00:07:33,095 Speaker 1: One Nation may split the opposition vote. The election is 122 00:07:33,135 --> 00:07:36,615 Speaker 1: set for March twenty one, with the first leader's debate today. 123 00:07:37,375 --> 00:07:40,895 Speaker 1: The Oscars are bringing back last year's acting winners for 124 00:07:40,935 --> 00:07:46,375 Speaker 1: the March fifteen ceremony. Adrian Brody, Mikey Madison, Kieran Colkin, 125 00:07:46,535 --> 00:07:50,135 Speaker 1: and Zoe Saldana will present trophies at the ninety eighth 126 00:07:50,215 --> 00:07:55,095 Speaker 1: Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien. Sinners is the film 127 00:07:55,215 --> 00:07:59,655 Speaker 1: leading this year with the record sixteen nominations. Best Actor 128 00:07:59,695 --> 00:08:04,775 Speaker 1: nominees include Timothy Chalamey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan, and 129 00:08:04,975 --> 00:08:09,895 Speaker 1: Ethan Hohole. Supporting categories feature a mix of established actors 130 00:08:10,095 --> 00:08:14,615 Speaker 1: and rising stars. It promises a night of rushed speeches 131 00:08:14,815 --> 00:08:19,535 Speaker 1: and the occasional awkward celebrity reaction to the winners. That's 132 00:08:19,575 --> 00:08:23,215 Speaker 1: your evening news headlines. 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