the duke of york has been widely criticised in the press following an interview with the bbc in which he denied having a sexual encounter with a 17—year—old in 2001. virginia roberts says she was groomed by prince andrew's billionaire paedophile friend jeffrey epstein to have sex with the prince. he's admitted that staying with epstein after the businessman was convicted was a mistake. here's our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. your royal highness, we've come to buckingham palace... the interview has been

heard, andrew's answers have been noted, with incredulity in some quarters and, one suspects, with something close to despair within the royal household. the reaction to his words in most cases has been negative. the consensus, in pr terms, the interview was extremely ill—advised. andrew's denial of impropriety with the then 17—year—old virginia roberts is based in part on his recollection that, on the night in question in march 2001, he was at this pizza restaurant in woking in surrey. how had he managed to remember a specific night so many years ago? because going to pizza express in woking is an unusual thing for me to do. a very unusual thing for me to do. i've never been... i've only been through woking a couple of times, and i remember it weirdly distinctly. as soon as somebody reminded me of it, iwent, oh, yes, i rememberthat. in the united states, home to most of the young women who say they were

trafficked to perform sexual favours, lawyers are saying andrew should now repeat his testimony under oath. whether a person is a prince ora pauper, ifanyone has evidence or information that might be relevant to an investigation ofa criminal case, that person should provide it to the law enforcement. in this case, it would be the federal bureau of investigation. and from those who have worked for the royal family and who are familiar with prince andrew, there is a feeling of weary resignation. they will be wondering, was the right decision made? who made the decision to put him on? did he make it himself, or did he seek advice within the palace? my guess is that he bulldozed his way in and decided that he was going to do it himself, without any advice. it was supposed to be the interview which drew a line under the story for andrew and allowed him to move on. that moment is certainly some way off.

nicholas witchell, bbc news. immigration is dominating the debate in the general election campaign today. the conservatives have been giving more details on measures they want to see to try and reduce the number of people coming here, whilejeremy corbyn has said there would continue to be plenty of movement of people in and out of britain under a labour government. susana mendonca has the latest. the arrival of people from across the european union has changed the face of high streets like this one in peterborough, and raised concerns among some people about the issue of immigration, which could be a vote winner or a vote loser in next month's election. labour's leader says he is promising a more welcome approach. no labour government led by me will bring in a hostile environment like theresa may did. will free movement end if we leave the eu? there will be a great deal

of movement. how much movement isn't clear, and during talks to pin down labour‘s manifesto yesterday, the party decided against any explicit attempt to extend freedom of movement for workers, which had been favoured by grassroots members. mr corbyn said labour would negotiate a customs union with the eu and would put the deal to a referendum. and he said his negotiating team wouldn't just be made up of remainers. there would be a team of people involved in this, and they would be representative of all parts of the uk, and areas that have different views. the conservatives have also been setting out their immigration plans, which they say would require immigrants of all countries to have a job offer before they arrived, and pay more for nhs care. but no detail on numbers from a party that has been stung in the past for failing to meet immigration targets. we are

not going to fix on an arbitrary target. the problem is, if you don't fix on any kind of targets, we don't have a way ofjudging whether your policy has been a failure or success. policy has been a failure or success. that is wrong, because we will make sure the government and parliament has control of immigration. what might the foreign secretary also promised more control of industries like fishing after brexit, but couldn't say if the price of an eu trade deal might lead to the eu getting more access british waters. the government and armed forces have been accused of covering up illegal killings by british troops in afghanistan and iraq. an investigation by bbc panorama and the sunday times has spoken to a dozen british detectives who say they found credible evidence of war crimes. but the investigators say strong cases were not prosecuted. the ministry of defence has denied the claims. richard bilton has more. across two decades, british soldiers have fought wars in afghanistan and iraq. most did their duty and came home, but some were accused

of committing war crimes. panorama has found evidence the state covered up what they did. like the killing of rahid al moussaoui in basra in 2003. translation: when rahid opened a door, the british soldier was crouching behind a pile of rubbish in the street. as soon as rahid walked out, the british soldier shot him, here. detectives from the iraq historic allegations team investigated the case. they wanted to prosecute one soldier for the killing and his commanding officerfor covering up what happened, but no one was charged. this detective asked to be interviewed anonymously. the ministry of defence had no intention of prosecuting any soldier, of whatever rank he was, unless it was absolutely necessary and they couldn't wriggle their way out of it.

ihat looked at hundreds of cases, but in 2017, the investigation was shut down. along with 0peration northmoor, which was looking at killings in afghanistan. there were no prosecutions. panorama has spoken to insiders in both investigations. they say cases were covered up. key decisions were being taken out of our hands. there was more and more pressure coming from the mod to get cases closed as quickly as possible. the mod says military operations are conducted lawfully, and that decisions not to prosecute were made independently and after extensive investigation. richard bilton, bbc news. and you can watch more on that story on panorama tomorrow at 9pm on bbc one. sri lankan voters have elected former defence secretary gota baya raja pa ksa

as the country's new president. mr rajapaksa helped end the country's long—running civil war in 2009 — but has been accused of using military death squads to defeat the rebels. he's now promising to restore stability following the deadly islamic state attack on easter sunday, which killed at least 250 people. there have been renewed clashes in hong kong, with police using tear gas and water cannon to clear protestors after a standoff at a university building. 0ur south asia correspondent robin brant is there. this is the front line tonight in that ongoing confrontation between police and protesters. it has changed this week, with office workers in the street taking over the roads during their lunch times, and protesters have been occupying university campuses. for the last eight hours, they have been inside hong kong polytechnic university, and outside as well, involved in toing and froing cat and mouse

exchanges with police. bricks are strewn across the road, petrol bombs have been abandoned at the side of the road. for the last eight hours, we have seen water cannon, rubber bullets coming this way, tear gas going the other way, petrol bombs from protesters, who are resisting. it has got dangerous. to make bridges have been set on fire, and the police are pressuring protesters from at least four locations. this is significant because it has strategic significance. the roads underneath the bridge are being blocked by protesters, and the entrance to one of the tunnels that ta kes you entrance to one of the tunnels that takes you to the island. the police need to get these roads opened again. they have given everyone here, including us, 50 minutes to get out. they say if we don't go by then, everyone will be arrested. thanks very much. the photographer whose iconic images helped shape the history of the 1960s — terry 0'neill — has died at the age of 81. he was behind the lens for iconic

images of the actress bridget bardot, and pictured the rolling stones, the beatles and david bowie. in october he received a cbe for services to photography, which he said surpassed anything that had happened to him in his life. that's it. the next news on bbc one is at ten to five this afternoon. bye for now. hello. you're watching the bbc news channel. let's get more on the revelations by prince andrew which he made in an exclusive interview with bbc newsnight. the prince has denied having any contact with a woman, who says she was forced to have sex with him when she was seventeen. he told bbc‘s newsnight emily maitlis he could not have been with virginia roberts on the day

in question in 2001 — as he was at home after spending the afternoon at a pizza express in woking with his daughter. earlier i spoke to dicky arbiter, a former press secretary for buckingham palace, who said rather than clearing the air, the interview has made things worse if he was thinking about crisis management, he has created a greater crisis by talking about it because he has not answered any questions, he has selective amnesia. it is amazing how he has no recollection of having met virginia roberts but he remembers very clearly going to pizza hut in woking, which was also a very long time ago. i think he has dug himself a pit. he is going to find it very hard to get out of it. in terms of the difficulty of this case anyway, of course these are allegations that are made by this woman that say he and a number of other people she had sex with, he is categorically saying he didn't. in a sense, the story

can go nowhere. which i suppose raises the question of why he felt it necessary to give the interview in the first place. as he said last night, the idea originally came up about six months ago to talk about his work and the goalposts were moved. the goalposts were moved in very much the same way in 1994 with the prince of wales interview. it was originally supposed to be about the prince's trust and they moved the goalposts and it became an interview of warts and all. this was a warts and all, except the questions weren't answered. why he felt that, i really don't know. maybe he felt by talking about it it would clear the air. it hasn't cleared the air at all. it has raised more questions. what can buckingham palace most usefully do now do you think to try and mitigate the damage if, as you say, there has been damage caused by this? well, he has caused the damage and i am not terribly sure what buckingham palace can do because it is all out there in the public domain. millions of people have watched it. millions of people are reading their newspapers and seeing reports of it. it will run and run and run. all buckingham palace can do is stand back

in the hope that the story will eventually fade away. but it is not going to fade away because there is a potential litigation in the states, the fbi are investigating. they are quite within their rights to say, well, you have talked to the media. now we want to talk to you. and how is he going to combat that? that was dicky arbiter, who worked for buckingham palace, i also spoke to angela levin, a former royal biographer whose spent years following the royals, writing most recently about prince harry. she said the family don't always agree when it comes to media appearances. i was totally gripped by it but on the other hand i wanted to put something over my face because i couldn't bear it. it was so excruciatingly appalling and ill judged. he was asking the interview, had this affected queen? he said no, it hasn't affected the queen. it has affected me. presumably, there is some collateral damage when the second son of the monarchy is all over the papers and has faced these really, really

terrible allegations. has faced these really, really terrible allegationslj has faced these really, really terrible allegations. i can't believe that it hasn't affected the queen. her motto is, don't explain, don't complain. so she wouldn't have wa nted don't complain. so she wouldn't have wanted him to do it and i know... don't complain. so she wouldn't have wanted him to do itand i know... i think that in her heart she would have been extremely embarrassed. she a lwa ys have been extremely embarrassed. she always forgives andrew. he is her favourite and she takes a lot more than she... than with other of their children. she is 93 now and is not going to get involved. in the past prince philip would have been very involved and he was also very strong about what is right and wrong. but he is 98 so he is not going to be either. you will not get the same reaction as you used to. did you have a concern that in a sense something is slipping at the palace. we have had the megan and harry

interview, clearly one he gave despite advice. prince andrew rejected advice he was offered and went ahead with the interview. the palace has to pick up the pieces. i wonder if there is a sense that the kind of grip that was exercised centrally in what we used to call the firm, jokingly, has diminished? print trials and the duchess of cornwall are terrific and princes william and kate middleton are terrific. they are not all falling apart. each of the families have separate advisors. they try to put them all together but they didn't get on so they have all got separate advisors and in a way they'd mirrored the person they are looking after. they work very hard, they don't get paid very well. but i know for a fact that prince andrew doesn't listen to his advisers. they think they know it all, they think

they are more involved in the world, but actually they don't and they have a very senior press officer who join prince andrew's team a few months ago. he left a few weeks ago suddenly. he was working there for two months. one doesn't know, but the implication is that he wouldn't have approved of what prince andrew was doing. but i know he just goes his own way. he is so arrogant, he didn't listen to other people who might know other aspects of the world and might know other aspects of the might advise him. the headlines on bbc news... prince andrew categorically denies having sex with an american women who says she was forced to sleep with him when she wasjust 17. in the election — the conservatives promise all migrants will be treated equally after brexit — regardless of where they come from, but the foreign secretary rules out setting a target for the number of people entering the uk. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn refuses to confirm whether or not

free movement of people from the eu will be included in the party's general election manifesto. former british athlete sir chris hoy and his wife lady sarra welcomed their son callum into the world back in 2014. however, he was born 11 weeks early and as a premature baby, they faced many challenges. today, on world prematurity day, the couple are spearheading a campaign to help other premature babies and their families by donating hundreds of thousands of nappies to uk hospitals. this here's chris and his wife sarra on how big a shock it was when they realised that sarra was going into labour that early. it was a huge shock. it is something that that you don't prepare for. it is not covered by any antenatal classes and 11 weeks before the birth i hadn't even done an antenatal class. i had no idea what was happening.

it was just the hospital, the doctors guiding me through, saying, we have got to the point where he has got to be delivered for the sake of your life and for his life. and that then, chris, to see a baby that small, that fragile, born so soon, how did you process that? because you were so reliant on the medical stuff and they can achieve so much now with premature babies, but even so, it must be really scary. joyful, but quite frightening as well. yes, the overriding emotion wasjust terror and seeing how small callum was and seeing how frail he was. of course, the doctors and nurses, they can't give you any concrete answers. theyjust say, one step at a time, that premature babies are fighters and they will be fighting as hard as they can the whole way through. but you just have to be patient. you have to sit and watch and enjoy

or try to enjoy every moment. but it is hard to enjoy it when you see your child in this plastic box in an incubator in a darkened ward. all you can do is sit and watch. the two things you get to do during that process, change the nappy. you put your hand through these two little holes in the incubator and you change the nappy through all the wires and the cables. and then you get to hold him a couple of times a day, the skin on skin contact. which is very special. yes, of course. like handling a china doll, i should think. yes, absolutely. you are terrified of disrupting your child any more than it already has been. you are acutely aware that it should still be in your womb. the fact that you are able to touch and interact with your baby, it is a really hard thing to reconcile with whether you are doing the right thing and the idea that you might be causing your child any further pain is very distressing. i was just going to ask you, what would you have liked to have known then that you know now? because i am just trying to think for those who may experience it.

i guess from my perspective it was just to know that you are not alone. it is not that uncommon. 60,000 babies are born prematurely every year. one in 13 babies are premature. and to know that... you have seen the nappy. look at the size of this little thing! you know, these have been designed especially for these premature babies. we didn't have these when callum was born. but to know that you are not alone, you are not the first family to go through this whole process. of course, there are no guarantees. but to know that you have the support, that would make a huge difference. it certainly made a difference to us. yeah. i think to know that you can and should lean on people. charities like... i am an ambassadorfor bliss, which is the uk's largest neonatal charity. and they provide hands on care, metaphorically and literally, holding the hands of families going through this. and they are partnering with pampers to assist with this incredible nappy. you feel so isolated, it feels so... it goes against the grain

of everything that your parenting instinct is trying to tell you, but to know that companies like... you could look down and find your tiny baby, which seems like an impossibility of life, wearing a pampers nappy is something that kind of makes you feel, well, this must happen to a lot of other people. this can't be that abnormal. this does happen. that is quite an important thing forfamilies. there just how small a baby is like that. yet, it can go on to live a normal, healthy, happy life. i have to ask you, how is callum now? he is doing great! he hasjust started school. he is fine now. he is actually the tallest in his class, which isjust remarkable when you look at the pictures of him when he was born. but he is riding a bike. of course! yes, he is doing wonderfully well. he has got no awareness

of his start in life but weak ——we parents look at him, i mean, all parents are proud of their children, but we look at him knowing and remembering the battle is that he has fought and it is something quite special to be able to look at him now and think, he actually at the moment has got no idea! sport now. a full round-up. raheem sterling is expected to return to the england team later today as they face kosovo in pristina in theirfinal euro 2020 qualifying game. he was dropped from the team which beat montenegro last week after his confrontation with team—mate joe gomez at the training camp. gomez won't play because he's injured. but england will be hoping for another big win over kosovo. we have got a lot of good attacking players. that is the beauty of this team, that we can... it is difficult for defences to focus on one person to try and stop them because three,

four other players can step forward, score goals, create goals. the movements are good and the individual ability is good, so i think we are quite difficult at the moment for the opposition to plan for. well, southgate's side won 5—3 when the two sides met last month in southampton, and kosovo's manager is expecting his defence to be in for another busy night this evening. nobody has called so much. the incredible offensive of this team. 7-0, 6-0, 5-0, 5-0, 5—0 — incredible! nobody, no team, and that means for us it is a challenge, incredible challenge. i could listen to him all day. it's going to be a long couple of days for wales, who know a win on tuesday at home to hungary will seal their automatic qualification for euro 2020.

they beat azerbaijan in their penultimate match, while group rivals slovakia lost. obviously delighted with the result. the performance was good as well. there are always things that you can do better but overall it is not a easy place to come to and for us to show the composure that we did, i was really pleased. northern ireland, though, will have to try to qualify via the play—offs. they 0—0 with the netherlands after captain steven davis missed a penalty in belfast. scotland already knew they were consigned to the play—offs, so their win over cyprus was just a morale—boosting consolation, 2—1 the final score. next up kazakhstan on tuesday. it's being billed as women's football weekend, with six matches today in the super league this afternoon. manchester city look to be heading back to the top of the table. they're beating west ham 4—0 at half time. georgia stanway has scored twice. ellen white and lauren hemp have also scored. saracens begin their european champions cup title defence today when they take on racing 92 in paris.

but still the pre—match headlines are all about their pending domestic points deduction and huge fine for breaching the premiership's salary—cap regulations. saracens are not challenging a story in a newspaper today which claims they won't be contesting the sanctions. the deadline is midnight tomorrow. so that saracen's game kicks off at 3:15 in paris. in today's other fixtures, northampton are playing lyon. currently 6—0 to northampton. joss butler hit a century in england's final warm—up game — ahead of their two—test series in new zealand. but the game ended in a draw in whangarei. butler's 110 runs helped england make 405 in reply to the new zealand a side's 302—6 declared. and despite 3 wickets each forjofra archer and sam curran, england couldn't bowl them out in time so it was drawn. the first test is on wednesday in tauranga.

stefanos tsitsipas will face dominic thiem in the final of tennis's world tour finals in london this afternoon. it's the first time tsitsipas has qualified for the tournament and he caused a big upset in the semifinals, beating roger federer. the greek player, who's 17 years younger than federer, took an early lead and eventually the first set. federer was flawless in beating novak djokovic earlier in the competition but was well below par as tsitsipas eventually took the match in straight sets. i grew igrew up i grew up watching roger as a kid, watching him at the finals, wimbledon, plenty of finals. i wish i could step out on the court one day and face him. today i am here and living the dream. i can never picture myself standing here but dreams do come true! that's all the sport for now. there's more on the bbc sport website.

the singer eltonjohn has just tweeted that photograph with this tribute... there you see the photograph of eltonjohn waiting his a baseball bat around in the air. it is a great photograph. there were lots of those photos in terry 0'neill‘s photos in

his career. sometime after her marriage, nonetheless credited terry o'neill marriage, nonetheless credited terry 0'neill with helping her grow up, find her potential. although they we re find her potential. although they were long divorced, she remained an admirer of his, along with many people who admired his incredible photography. a fragile ceasefire seems to be holding in gaza after an outbreak of the worst fighting in months. it was triggered when israel killed a leader from the palestinian militant group islamicjihad, saying he posed an imminent threat. the fighting also sparked internal tensions, and led to a deadly airstrike on civilians, which israel said it's investigating. barbara plett usher reports from gaza. in a split second life changed forever. they lost parents, home, brothers,

sisters, struck by israeli missiles while they slept. this is a family member. "i can't describe enough my feelings and the consequences of what happened," he says. the israelis were after a islamicjihad militant. now they admit they may have made a costly mistake here. the violence started when israel killed one of the group's top commanders, accusing him of masterminding islamicjihad avenged his death with barrages of rockets but the more powerful islamist movement which runs gather, even though it often takes the lead in fighting israel and some countries deem it an international terrorist group. for most of the week israel did not hold hamas responsible for the violence

like it usually does. both of them seemed to be trying to avoid a wider conflict. this time it was the smaller, more radical islamicjihad group that was centre stage. they lost parents, home, brothers, sisters, struck by israeli hamas leaders were criticised here for staying on the sidelines. they say they are acting in the palestinian interest. the palestinian interest of this time is to avoid as much as possible any further escalations, a new war because the situation on the ground is so difficult, so worth, and the regional and international atmosphere is not so helpful at this time. things look different when you are not in government. here, they want more rockets, more assistance, as they call it. hamas, did notjoin in. there is a ceasefire, but it is fragile. missiles while they slept. life is getting back to normal in gaza, but in regard that life is never normal. people are caught between a crippling israeli blockade and the militant palestinian groups. i can't tell whether it is over or not because at any moment something might come up and we are not ready to face it. i'm 24 years old but i don't feel like i am living my life the way i am supposed to. ijust want to live. this latest round of fighting seems to be mostly opened this is a family member. but the seemingly endless war is not. "i can't describe enough my feelings and the consequences

of what happened," he says.