the billionaire retailer sir philip green is named in parliament as the businessman behind an injunction to stop claims of sexual harassment being published. in a highly unusual move, sir philip's name was revealed by lord hain, who defended using parliamentary privilege to do so. i feel it's my duty under parliamentary privilege to name philip green as the individual in question, given that the media have been subject to an injunction preventing publication of the full details of a story which is clearly in the public interest. tonight, sir philip green said he categorically and wholly denied allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour". also on the programme tonight... illegally forced to take a dna test — the home secretary apologises to hundreds of people who were told to prove they were entitled to settle in the uk. the fbi says it's stepped up its hunt for whoever is behind a series of crude bombs sent to leading democrats and critics of president trump. i'm not going to die from this, like, i'm not, i'm addicted to heroin.

america's drugs crisis — we have a special report on the worst public health emergency in us history. and waiting to play in the wild west — one of the most hotly anticipated games of the year. we talk to the british company behind it. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news... ruben loftus—cheek is chelsea's hero as they cruised through the europa league. good evening. the retail billionaire sir philip green has categorically denied allegations of sexual harassment and bullying, after he was named in parliament as the businessman behind an injunction to stop the claims being published. in a highly unusual move, the former cabinet minister lord hain revealed that the topshop owner was the man behind the so—called gagging order.

lord hain defended the decision, saying he felt it was his duty to reveal sir philip's name after being contacted by someone "intimately involved" in the case. here's our special correspondent, lucy manning. he was the man who couldn't be named. now everyone knows the businessman who tried to hide his identity is sir philip green. money, famous friends, a retail empire, but but no match for the house of lords, the calm surroundings the scene for a dramatic naming using rules that stop those talking in parliament being sued. i feel it's my duty under parliamentary privilege to name philip green as the individual in question, given that the media have been subject to an injunction preventing publication of the full details of the story, which is clearly in the public interest. until then, a temporary court injunction had stopped the daily telegraph publishing a story which it claims is about sir philip facing

allegations of sexual and racial harassment. tonight, the topshop owner responded. in a statement, sir philip said, "to the extent that it has been suggested that i have been guilty of unlawful sexual or racist behaviour, i categorically and wholly deny these allegations". he said that like all big businesses, his business of 20,000 people sometimes did receive complaints, in which some cases were settled. but he said he took any complaints very seriously. the businessman would have expected his identity to remain hidden after winning the latest round of his court case against the telegraph. in the post—me too era, it's right to report that first of all, a very senior businessman has used power, money and influence to try and silence employees who have claims of wrongdoing against them, and also because we think our readership would expect us, particularly having been

the newspaper who broke the expenses scandal, to hold senior high profile figures to account. while sir philip does relax on his luxury yacht, he also works hard. he built up businesses including bhs, topshop and burton. but he's no stranger to controversy. he sold bhs for £1, and it later collapsed with a massive hole in its pension fund. the businessman did eventually pay more than £300 million into it, but failed to impress mps when they quizzed him about it. do you mind not looking at me like that all the time? it's really disturbing. put your glasses back on. you look better with your glasses on. that is an unnecessary statement and you should withdraw it and it is very rude. the claims about him are of course only allegations, but some mps say if they turn out to be true, sir philip green should become just philip green. well, it's very difficult to see how that honour could remain. it was a surprise to me that he survived the pension scandal. so a controversial naming

of sir philip green. he has faced many battles in the business world, but now must fight for his reputation. lucy manning, bbc news. i'm joined by our legal correspondent, clive coleman. how much of a surprise was it that this was disclosed in this way? it was a surprise. we trustjudges with the role of listening to evidence, hearing legal argument and making court orders which we all have to respect and that's what three very seniorjudges did in this case. 0n the other hand parliamentary privilege, the right of mps to speak fearlessly in parliament without the fearlessly in parliament without the fear of being dragged off to the courts, has been enshrined in our constitution since 1689. certainly many lawyers will regard what peter hain did in piercing this injunction in parliament as undermining the rule of law. 0thers in parliament as undermining the rule of law. others will feel this was the exercise of and parliament

right on a matter of future public interest. seniorjudges and parliamentary authorities will not wa nt parliamentary authorities will not want this sort of thing to happen on a regular basis, if it did there would be no point in having court orders in these kinds of cases. 0ur constitution to work effectively these two powerful arms of it will wa nt these two powerful arms of it will want each to respect the other‘s role. simon jack is outside the headquarters of the arcadia business and nondisclosure agreements were created by business, for business full stop what will the business world make of it all? they'll be looking very carefully at how solid these nondisclosure agreements are and how appropriate it is they are used in certain circumstances. you are right, they were invented by business but usually to protect commercially sensitive information, for example a disgruntled employee at coca—cola walking out with the coca—cola recipe so a lot of legal departments and businesses will look at these and how appropriate they are to be employed in more general

areas like an employer and employee is bad. the specific empire that philip green stallone is, which includes topshop, dorothy perkins, primarily female customer base, how those customers respond to these allegations which of course he strenuously denies. i think that will be from a purely commercial point of view the interesting thing to watch in the days and weeks ahead. simon jack, thank you. the home secretary has apologised to people who were wrongly told they would have to take a dna test to prove they were entitled to settle in the uk. sajid javid said some relatives of gurkhas and afghan nationals employed by the uk government were among around 400 people affected in recent years. 0ur deputy political editor john pienaar reports. british born and raised, even had a uk passport prove it, but 60—year—old andrew's british father became estranged from his vietnamese mother, and then he refused to give the dna sample the home office wrongfully demanded to prove his son's identity. andrew was suddenly stateless.

translation: you don't know where you belong. it's really upsetting me, and so confusing. letters like this by the hundred were sent in the last three years, with no legal authority, demanding dna evidence of identity and parentage. another embarrassment for the government. ten years ago these gurkha veterans' last battle was for their right to stay in britain. and they won, with the help of celebrities and party leaders on their way to government. gurkhas' families too were unlawfully ordered to submit dna evidence they were here legally. and today, the home secretary's apology was unqualified. no one should have faced the demand to supply dna evidence and no one should have been penalised for not providing it. in particular i would like to extend my apology to those gurkhas and afghans that have been affected. mps have been told four times

no requirement for dna was being imposed in immigration cases — it wasn't true. in afghanistan, translators working with british forces were also granted the right to live in the uk, and theirfamily members had received the same treatment, with no official authority. today, condemnation was swift. amongst the very first victims of this abuse were gurkhas and afghans, men and women who put their lives at risk to keep this country safe. under what internal regime in place at the home office was this allowed or encouraged, and at what level? it's another example of the home office being out of control and a result of a migration target that we are still completely obsessed with, and more evidence that the hostile environment lives on. the home office's review of the dna demands found there were at least 4119 cases where letters had been sent. 51 of the letters were sent

to gurkha families. there were 11 refusals, solely because no dna test was done. four of those involved gurkha relatives. the row invokes recent memories of the windrush scandal, in which migrants settled in britain for half a century and more had their status wrongly challenged, their legal right to stay denied. after that scandal the home secretary promised fairer, more compassionate treatment of migrants, sweeping away a culture seen as the desire to cut migrant numbers by all means available. now he's the one with wrongs to right and apologies to make. the so—called hostile environment around migration took root during theresa may's time at the home office. now a new mess is having to be cleared up by the man widely supposed to want herjob. john pienaar, bbc news. police in the united states are stepping up their efforts to find whoever is behind at least ten suspicious packages that have been sent to leading democrats and critics of president trump. two more were intercepted today —

addressed to former vice presidentjoe biden and to the hollywood star robert de niro. 0ur north america correspondent nick bryant reports. these are the scenes that america woke up to — what looked like old footage from the war in iraq, but which were real—time images from a postal facility in delaware. a bomb disposal expert examining a suspect package, addressed to the former vice president, joe biden. yet another prominent democrat sent a crude bomb. in the middle of the night, lower manhattan became the focus and a package sent to the office in tribeca of movie star robert de niro, an outspoken critic of donald trump. once again, a suspect explosive device hauled safely away in a vehicle that's fast becoming a familiar sight — the bomb squad's total containment vessel. we are treating them as live devices. as you see the way our bomb squad detectives went into cnn yesterday, this has to be taken

with the utmost seriousness. so as far as a hoax device, we're not treating it that way. at a campaign rally last night, donald trump said acts of political violence were an attack on democracy, but some of his strongest remarks were directed atjournalists. as part of a larger national effort to bridge our divides and bring people together, the media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative — and often times — false attacks and stories. have to do it. the president accepted no personal blame for his part in the coarsening of american public life. and this morning on twitter, he renewed his attack on the media... that got this response from the former cia director

john brennan, who was sent an explosive package. because none of the devices have exploded, the fbi has a mound of forensic evidence to help track down who's responsible. but some prominent conservatives have claimed this is all a liberal hoax, timed to coincide with crucial congressional elections. a focus of the investigation right 110w a focus of the investigation right now with south florida, where some of these parcels were put in a post, and the fear is there are more in the system although the postal service has said that none has been discovered in the past eight hours. it's worth stressing just how politicised this moment has become.

we haven't witnessed the country coming together. 0nce we haven't witnessed the country coming together. once again, we're watching america tear itself apart. nick bryant in washington, thank you. the number of attacks on inmates and prison staff in england and wales has risen to another record high. assaults on staff were up by more than a quarter in the year tojune, with figures from the ministry ofjustice also showing a large rise in levels of self—harm among inmates. the government says it is recruiting more prison officers and strengthening jail security. saudi arabia's public prosecutor has admitted that the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi was premeditated. that contradicts previous claims that he died in a fist fight in the saudi consulate in istanbul. initially saudi officials denied any knowledge of mr khashoggi's disappearance. 4,000 jobs are at risk after the department store debenhams became the latest casualty on the high street. the retailer says it's closing 50 shops — a third of its empire — over the next five years after reporting an annual record loss of almost £0.5 billion. this was due to a number

of accounting adjustments, but its underlying profits were also down sharply. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. this is debenhams' glossy vision of the future, pulling people in by making shopping fun, from blow—dries and beauty treatments... to make up tutorials and gin bars, but there's sobering news today — it wants to close 50 stores in a radical restructuring. our plan is very simple. we want to have fewer, but better stores. we want to improve our shopping experience. we want to grow our online business, and we're doing that in a way that makes debenhams a more profitable business. right now, property is debenhams' biggest headache. these shops aren't cheap to run, and its costs are rising faster than its sales, partly because we're shopping more online. that means stores like this one are becoming less profitable. debenhams just doesn't need as much

space as it once did, and it's certainly not alone. 0ver there, that used to be a marks and spencer, until it closed over the summer. debenhams hasn't said which stores it wants to shut, but it's the last thing they need here in slough. like many high streets this year, it's been one closure after another. we lost marks and spencer, we lost british home stores, and if you go along the town, you'll see so many empty shops. if it wasn't there, i don't know what i would do or where i would go to get that stuff. but you do most of your shopping online? i do, i know! guilty, i do, i do. business rates and tax on property isn't helping either. debenhams now pays nearly three times more in rates than it makes in profits. the cost of business rates have

just become too high for many retail businesses in deciding to keep a store open. we need the chancellor to take the opportunity of next week's budget to look at the burden of business rates, bring that cost down and reform the whole system. debenhams needs a helping hand from its landlords as well. they'll have costly leases to get out of, and on top of that, they'll have less money to invest in their stores in the future. and that's one of the key things that they need to do to survive. that's what it's done here at this new shop, but debenhams is now making a big retreat from high streets elsewhere. a business under real pressure to adapt. emma simpson, bbc news. america is in the grip of the worst public health emergency in its history — and drugs are to blame. now the government is trying to get a grip on it by introducing new laws. a drugs overdose is now the main cause of death for americans under the age of 50. more than 70,000 people died after an overdose last year alone.

in 2016, we reported on the growing problem of opioid addiction in america. darren conway has been back to talk to three people he met — steve, anna and brittney — to see what has become of their struggle. you may find their stories upsetting. i'm addicted to heroin. i want to stop, but i can't. i'm not going to die from this. i'm not going to die from this. opioids are now the biggest drug epidemic in american history. the number of deaths from opioid abuse have skyrocketed in the past 15 years. it's not a poor people thing any more. it's not an inner—city ghetto drug any more. it's everywhere, and it's killing

people every single day. killing tens of thousands of americans every year. that is more deaths from car accidents and from guns. when we first met anna, she was a new resident on baltimore's backstreets of addiction. two years later, we find her on the same street. 0h, god. she hasjust been released from jail after spending two weeks for prostitution. that is two weeks of no heroin. still homeless and relying on hand—outs, anna isjust one of the many faces that are lost in the darkness of america's opioid crisis. i know that heroin can kill me. i know the consequences. and even right now, i'm scared of

shooting up again. but i know i probably will if i stay down here. it didn't take long. anna started prostituting herself for the money to buy drugs for herself and her boyfriend, dave. she is now back in the full grip of her addiction. we don't know what else to do, do you understand? like, when people break their arms and legs, they need rehab to walk. we need rehab to learn how to walk. we need rehab to learn how to live all over again. brittney had overdosed several times throughout herfour overdosed several times throughout her four years of addiction. before she was admitted to a rehab centre in florida. we met her there two yea rs in florida. we met her there two years ago. the data resonate in my brain, much the 19th, 2016. that was when i got clean, and it wasn't easy. but it was the most glorious experience of my life. but even in recovery, addiction is a daily struggle. i was sick for three

months, like, throwing up co nsta ntly. months, like, throwing up constantly. i thought it was a bad flu. i got all these different tests done. 0ne flu. i got all these different tests done. one of them was a pregnancy test. i remember her coming back and telling me, you're positive. i was like, positive or what? and she said i was pregnant and i immediately started bawling. brittney had a beautiful baby girl. about a month after that, sadly, beautiful baby girl. about a month afterthat, sadly, brittney relapsed again. ijust felt nothing but anger and frustration. i was so angry at her. i wasn't thinking about my daughter. i felt like my her. i wasn't thinking about my daughter. ifelt like my daughter didn't deserve me. she deserved better. one of the saddest things i

would ever have to do would be to have to tell my granddaughter about her mother, that her mother was an addict and she tried very hard to get past this addiction, but was unable to, and died from it. steve had hit rock bottom when we first met him, and was living in the same house where his friend had died from an overdose just months before. seeing that seem, it disgusts me, how i looked. couldn't even keep my eyes open. i couldn't form a sentence, slurring. this has got hold of me. it took everything from me, andi hold of me. it took everything from

me, and i gave it everything i had, willingly. after rehab, steve moved to kentucky with his girlfriend, found a job, to kentucky with his girlfriend, found ajob, and to kentucky with his girlfriend, found a job, and is living a clean life. two years ago, i couldn't even dream that i could be here, doing what i'm doing. and as happy as i am. my story doesn't end here. i wa nt am. my story doesn't end here. i want my daughter to be proud of me. i want people to be proud of me. i wa nt to i want people to be proud of me. i want to be proud of myself. i want people to be proud of me. i want to be proud of myselfm i want people to be proud of me. i want to be proud of myself. if i was your mother right now, what would your mother right now, what would you want to say to me?|j your mother right now, what would you want to say to me? i would say, i'm sorry.

imean, i i mean, i can't tell her... couple more years and i will get better. i can't tell her that. that's what sucks about this. tomorrow's not promised. for her orfor me. the stories of anna, steve and brittney, two years after we first met them. and if you'd like to see a longer version of our drug stories in america, death on the i95 is on the iplayer on bbc three. when it comes to home care for someone who is elderly and disabled, it should cost councils at least 18 pounds an hour to provide it. but most aren't paying even the bare minimum, according to the body which represents care companies. only one in seven councils in the uk is paying enough to cover care workers' salaries and travel time. 0ur social affairs correspondent alison holt has spent time with one care company in the north

east of england. how are you doing? all right? lisa and lynne have arrived to review the care that 80—year—old doreen is receiving from their company. i'm just checking through your plan. the council, which pays one of the lowest hourly rates in the country according to today's report, wants 13—minute calls. shall we make you a nice cup of tea? i'll have a cup of tea. but it's a struggle for the care staff to do her meal, give her medication and hoist her to and from the bathroom in that time. hoisting takes around half an hour to do. we're here usually 45 minutes. we are dealing with medication, then obviously if we are cooking her a meal, we have got to wrap all of that up in the time we have got to do it. it is setting us back to do other people's calls. it is lynne and lisa'sjob to coordinate those home visits. each day, they see the pressure the system is under. we have the staff phoning saying, lynne, lisa, we've been

in this car 50 minutes, we have only been paid 30 minutes. the families are saying why is this done? why is that not done? then the social services get involved. why haven't you carers done this? so it's just a vicious circle, really. the association representing uk home care organisations calculate they need at least £18 an hour to cover the minimum wage, pensions, travel and other costs. but on average, councils pay just over £16 an hour. for those who manage care companies, that means balancing the books and finding staff is a battle. it is a mess, it's a great mess, and all the time you are not thinking about sometimes the customers, you are thinking about, how much is this going to cost? how can we do this? how can we do this on a restricted budget? nine times out of ten, that is what we think about before anything else, the budget. can we do it? it shouldn't be like that, we should be thinking what does this person need? how can we do that? it shouldn't matter how much it costs. council officials insist

they are not trying to get care on the cheap. my colleagues across the country are doing their level best to meet need in their local areas at a price that they can afford. however, in some parts of the country, that is becoming now untenable. the government must recognise it and must put more money into social care for adults. the government says it has put extra money into caring for older and disabled people and will put forward plans for reforming the system in england soon. alison holt, bbc news. in other news... the father of 20—year—old student ed farmer, who died after drinking so much that his heart stopped, has strongly criticised newcastle university for failing to do enough to address alcohol—fuelled "initiation events". a coroner ruled that his death resulted from the toxic effects of excessive drinking. the parent company of british airways has admitted that a further 185,000 customers may have had their data compromised in a cyber attack. in september, ba advised thousands of customers to cancel their credit

cards after admitting that a serious data breach had taken place. us technology giant google says it has fired 48 people in the past two years for sexual harassment. in a letter to employees, the company revealed that this included 13 senior managers and is the result of an increasingly hard line on inappropriate conduct. britain's multi—billion pound games industry is preparing for the release of what could well be another blockbuster. red dead redemption 2 is a wild west adventure from the company behind grand theft auto. and much of the work has been done at the company's studios in edinburgh. bbc click reporter marc cieslak has more. red dead redemption 2 allows players to experience a vast virtual version of the old west. robbing trains, riding horses and even playing poker. it's all the work of rockstar games and this latest

release is so big, it had to be created in nine different studios across four different countries. gentlemen, you all know what to do. about as far from the old west as you can get, edinburgh is home to rockstar north. it's the largest of the studios involved in an international effort to make this game. for us, it's the biggest game we've ever made, notjust going bigger and broader, but striving for more in depth. being able to go into more environment and interact with things, interact with people and animals in a way we haven't been able to do that before. the games industry is big business. last year in the uk, it generated £3.35 billion in sales, almost as much as home music and video sales combined. but there are concerns in the games

industry that those big numbers could be affected as the uk leaves the eu. one of our critical issues is the ability to hire the best talent from wherever they are in the world. if we don't have clarity over what that immigration system looks like, there will be some uncertainty. a gritty and atmospheric slice of roleplaying as an outlaw, from the extremes of caring for a sick horse to dealing with industrialisation spelling the end of the west at its wildest, even before its launch, this game is getting rave reviews. it seems a little piece of the american frontier will forever have its virtual roots in the uk. newsnight‘s about to begin over on bbc two in a few moments. here's evan davis.