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Speaker 1: Now Mike p is UK correspondents with us Allo Mike

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Speaker 1: good evening, how thanks right and good thank you? So

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Speaker 1: do you what's your reading of this Andrew situation? Has

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Speaker 1: he been booted out early, because that's what it looks like. Eh. Well.

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Speaker 1: The big role here that he has still been living

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Speaker 1: in a royal residence. It's called Royal Lodge at Windsor

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Speaker 1: Great Park near Windsor Castle. Now we're told a short

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Speaker 1: time ago that he's now left and has moved into

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Speaker 1: temporary accommodation. The reason for this is a little bit patchy,

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Speaker 1: but that's what we are being told. It's also claimed

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Speaker 1: that Epstein sent a woman to the UK to have

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Speaker 1: a sexual encounter with him. That is the big breaking

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Speaker 1: story here. This, I can tell you is turning into

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Speaker 1: the biggest political scandal for a generation. Of course, Sir

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Speaker 1: Andrew denies any wrong doing. The news dominated by the

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Speaker 1: fact that UK's Lord Mandelson, one of the UK's best

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Speaker 1: known political figures, has resigned from Parliament. It follows the

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Speaker 1: latest release of course authose Epstein files. Responding to the news,

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Speaker 1: you K Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he let the

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Speaker 1: country down. It comes as the government said if he

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Speaker 1: didn't resign, they'd introduce legal powers to sack him. For now,

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Speaker 1: though he will keep his title as a lord because

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Speaker 1: of existing rules here. The government say it will introduce

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Speaker 1: legislation to deal with that. Documents reveal a close relationship

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Speaker 1: with Epstein. It's claimed payments to him of seventy five

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Speaker 1: thousand US dollars. Now, London's Metropolitan Police have launched a

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Speaker 1: criminal investigation overclaims that he passed on top secret government information. He,

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Speaker 1: as you know, was also pictured around the world in

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Speaker 1: his underpants in one of Epstein's howd me felt? I

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Speaker 1: think that was in Paris. But more revelations could come.

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Speaker 1: MPs in the House of Commons will force a debate

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Speaker 1: and a vote that could lead to government documents on

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Speaker 1: Mandalsson being released. That will be in the next few

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Speaker 1: hours now. Mandlsson has held key government positions over the

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Speaker 1: last forty years and was a UK ambassador to the

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Speaker 1: United States. Meanwhile, the King's brother, Prince Edwards, said it

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Speaker 1: was important to remember the victims in all of this.

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Speaker 1: He is the first royal to comment on this whole scandal. Now,

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Speaker 1: does it look to you like this? Ben on Russia

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Speaker 1: taking part at the World Cup may in fact be

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Speaker 1: lifted well now. This follows controversial decision to lift the

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Speaker 1: ban at the next Paralympic Games. Now, the FIFA World

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Speaker 1: Cup president says we have to look at restoring Russian teams.

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Speaker 1: He added, the ban has not achieved anything, it's just

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Speaker 1: created more frustration and hatred. The next World Cup, of course,

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Speaker 1: gets underway in June and is being held in America,

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Speaker 1: Canada and Mexico. The Ukrainian Sports Minister, as you can imagine,

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Speaker 1: has branded the remarks as irresponsible. Some European football associations

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Speaker 1: say they're horrified that decision expected in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Mike's good to talk to you. Thanks mate, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Mike pers, UK correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive,

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