he led the yes campaign during the scottish independence campaign and resigned after voters backed remaining in the uk. the un world food programme says no food aid has entered the north of gaza since the 1st of october. the humanitarian group says it's unclear how long the limited food supplies previously delivered can last. the un peacekeeping mission in south lebanon, unifil, says another of its soldiers has been wounded, but says it doesn't yet know the origin of the fire. four un peacekeepers have been wounded in previous incidents. now on bbc news, al fayed: predator at harrods, episode 3. yeah, i went back to harrods about a year ago.

probably the first time since i left. and i knew if i could walk through and come out the other side, i'd be in a good place to be talking to you. when i walked through the doors to start myjob there, i was excited. at no point in time did i ever anticipate being on the receiving end of an attempted rape. ijoined harrods because i wanted to be a buyer, and i ended up working for an absolute monster. i think he damaged me in some way. he's just left a scar. the billionaire businessman . mohamed al fayed, who went from selling soft drinks - in egypt to owning harrods and the paris ritz hasi died at the age of 94. his son dodi was killed alongside princess diana in paris in 1997. he was the self—made billionaire determined to get into british society,

and became known to a new generation through the most recent series of the crown. diana. muhammad. but you must call me momo. to be honest, it's made me really hot and bothered. i think he comes across as pleasant. we all know he's not. itjust makes him look sort of funny and gregarious and. and he could turn that on. but it's all he wasn't. he was vile. and that makes me angry. people shouldn't remember him like that. it's not how he was. i've been waiting for 25 years for someone to believe me, to talk about the awful things that he did. i have spoken up about my time there on numerous occasions. most of the time it has been shut down.

he tried to rape me more than once. and he pushed me in and onto the bed so that i couldn't move and held both my wrists. i was going to face down on the bed and he pressed himself on me. get him off, get him off, get him off! i was a child when this happened, you know. he was 79, nearly 80, and i was 15. i think mohamed al fayed is a rapist. i think he's a serial rapist. mohamed al fayed should be on trial, but he's not. - he's in the ground being eulogised by the most . popular television - programme out there. the spider's web of corruption and abuse in this country ——the spider's web of

corruption and abuse in this company was unbelievable and very dark without question. harrods failed these ladies. the lawyers organised for a shredding truck to come to my lawyer's office, where we placed everything in. it was shredded in front of us, including tapes i had of him. i do think it's important that we stand up and expose actually, who mohamed al fayed was. and i think it's time. i thought he was going to rape me. definitely thought he was going to rape me. his trousers coming down. get him off! i think it was 2018 when i first found out about this from safia. ——about this from sophia. i'm a tv producer by profession and i couldn't let it go. ijust had to just get to the bottom of it. diana, princess of wales, has died after a car crash in paris. her friend dodi fayed and their

driver were also killed. we're at the pont de l'alma, where the accident that killed princess diana and dodi al fayed happened. the accident that killed princess diana and dodi al fayed happened. a year later, i was the assistant to mohamed al fayed. mohamed al fayed was like an apex predator, often going into his office when he summoned me. there was like an excitement, like a like, and then it moves so fast. he had done this for so long. he enjoyed the chase and he enjoyed, i guess, the fear in my eyes or our eyes. i was always consumed with fear. i was consumed with keeping myjob. ijust thought, i'll do two years here. i'll get my letter of recommendation and i'm just out. bite the bullet

and get through it. right? before i learned what i have done, i had no issue with mohamed al fayed. the big story, ifound reference to it online and some rabbit hole i was down. he did start to peel the lid on what fayed was. this young woman is prepared to talk, but she's too frightened to be identified. she accuses mohamed fayed of repeated sexual harassment when she worked for him at harrods. these allegations were in the open. they were out there. they were public. there's no way on the planet that senior execs at harrods didn't know, but itjust

carried on continuing. look, i know i may appear as though i've got a teenage crush, but there's something intoxicating about standing next to an anarchist, especially an anarchist billionaire. and you can count those on the fingers of a mitten. so when i was hired, the documentary you're fired, i think, just came out a couple of days before hand. it's very special. how does viagra. 0h, two viagra. two viagra. you naughty. he was definitely obsessed with sex. there was no sense of humour about it. it was highly unpleasant. it became clear to me that this job was going to be a short one. he could definitely be charming, but i think that's mostly the image that you would like to give off. i had just turned 14 when mum and i met mohamed al fayed in harrods. everyone was asking for photos of him, so, you know, we asked for a photo with him.

we got chatting and he asked me to work for him in harrods, and i said, iwould love to, but i can't. i'm underage. and he said, it's fine, we can find a way. and obviously for me, i was of course that how amazing. i had started working at harrods when i had just turned 15. i was told not to talk about my age. i started to see him at the i started to see him at the beginning like a father figure, beginning like a father figure, you know, just one of you know, just one of the best intentions for me. the best intentions for me. and then as time went on, i and then as time went on, i just started to see some weird, just started to see some weird, like the longer hugs like the longer hugs and the longer kisses and the longer kisses and then the phone and then the phone calls started happening calls started happening on my on my mobile. on my on my mobile. firstjob in london. you know, i'm you know, i'm a 15—year—old and he's now a 15—year—old and he's now calling my personal mobile. calling my personal mobile. i hope that from today people i hope that from today people see what he was really like. see what he was really like. mohamed al fayed is a rapist. mohamed al fayed is a rapist.

i think he's a serial rapist. i think he's a serial rapist. ijoined in 2007 and it was my ijoined in 2007 and it was my firstjob in london. i think his behaviour was inappropriate from the start. his behaviour would become more scary while i was on the trips. my first trip was actually to abu dhabi and that's when i realised actually, he's notjoking, he's serious. he was trying to get in my room in quite an aggressive manner. it was absolutely terrifying.

sorry. i was a child when this happened. you know, he was nearly 80 and i was 15. i spoke to my parents and we all thought the best people maybe to talk to with the police, but i was reporting child sex abuse — within a working place. and, um, that's when it all went bad. there was a leak within the police force which led to them going to the press. the owner of harrods, mohamed al fayed has been interviewed by police in connection with an allegation of sexual assault against a girl under 16. i was told not to leave the house. i was put in a safe house. we were told by the police that there was an inside investigation within the police force as to why and how my information had been leaked. i couldn't trust anyone at this point. when the allegations - of the 15—year—old girl came about, the only time i really. knew about it was when i was

summonsed into an office with a police officer- and questioned myself about his behaviour, . and if i thought that there - was any chance that he'd done what he was being accused of. obviously my answer would have been yes, but given _ i was escorted by a harrods lawyer, my answers were, i no, he's fine. you know, he's appropriate. it's...i've never- seen this behaviour. looking back, i wish. i'd been strong enough and brave enough to say yes. i think she was right. mr al fayed vehemently denies this allegation. and is confident that his name will be cleared. i think if i met that- 15—year—old now, iwould be i'd be so sorry that i didn't stick up forj

her and that i didn't do the right thing. i i wish i'd been brave enough at the time, butjust wasn't.j i think that's what's - pushed me to speak up now. it feels like it's a chance - to make right all the wrongs, even though we were wronged ourselves. i i'm glad she's speaking up now, and i appreciate what she's had to say. but it's also like, i wish she'd said something. but, you know, we're all... we live in fear. we were underfear, he was a scary person. so. you know, it got to a point where ijust didn't know. which way to turn. so i bought a small dictaphone that i had in my pocket in case| i needed to record something that was happening. - and these are the transcripts from those recordings. - it's really, i think, the only. kind of evidence that we've got of what he's done to me - and to others, and one of them was in paris in his residence

there, villa windsor. - ijust put the recorder. on like a bedside table, and obviously i fell asleep and woke up with him telling me, i are we having a party tonight? i was so shocked at him l coming in that i made out i had had an allergic reaction to nuts. - he's basically telling me to relax, and it's important for you to | make love and relax. i said, ijust want to go to sleep on my own, i mr fayed, i don't want to. and he kept saying, relax, please relax.| he walked out and he was angry. there was one particular trip to paris that - wasjust the final straw for me. - he tried to get in the bed . with me and i told him, no, i don't want you to. and he proceeded tojust keep trying to get in the bed. - at which point he was kind of on top of me i

and really couldn't move anywhere. l i was kind of face down on the bed and he just| pressed himself on me. at that point, ijust cried and he got up and quite aggressivelyl said to me, go in there and wash yourself, _ and pointed to the bathroom. he'd told me there i was a bottle of dettol in there, and ijust stood in the bath and washed l myself as i was told to. obviously he wanted me to erase lany trace of him being anywhere| near me at that point. my case was definitely the closest to going to the courtroom. definitely. but that was. . . it didn't. i handed my phone to to the police for evidence. the evidence on there would have been the phone log of of the calls that i received

once i received my phone back, it wouldn't turn on it. it didn't work. it was dead. the charges got dropped, uh, from not enough evidence. i managed to get my dates mixed up. i said it happened on the saturday. when it happened on the friday. the incident. and then itjust came down to just that one day with, you know, i was like, how could i get the day wrong? how could i get the day wrong? but it was not my fault. i do not feel that it was a strong enough reason for that case to be dropped. i really don't. i got back to the safety i of my house and i decided i wasn't going back. and then i decided to| engage with a lawyer. when my lawyer. contacted harrods, he sent them transcripts| from the tapes that i had recorded and told them that i was leaving _ on the grounds - of sexual harassment. my lawyer, he advised that obviously it was l really sensitive, .

given who he was. they said, look, we just needj to do this quickly and quietly. the agreement for me - leaving was i had to shred all of the evidence, - and in return, iwould be given a sum of money. and would be left alone. the lawyers organised - for a shredding truck to come to my lawyer's office, - where we placed everything in. it was shredded in front of us, including tapes . i had of him, my phone that had messages and voicemails, - really quite nasty. voicemails on them. someone from hr was present for the shredding of all- of the evidence i had. i thought i'd lost. the transcripts, but actually what i did have . was the transcriptions sent to my lawyer in my sent items of my email account. - at the time, i wasl advised it would be in my best interest not to talk, that l | was to keep it quiet. there is often the case in any

settlement that non—disclosure agreements form part to keep the settlement confidential, and there's no specific issue with that. my position on this, however, is that some of these people were being subjected to criminal offences, and therefore, in those circumstances, i certainly would question the role of a non—disclosure agreement. we say there has been, um, clearly attempts by the senior people at harrods to sweep this under the carpet. and here is someone who has all the resources in the world and a number of people who in whose interest it is to actually say, of course, nothing to see here. mohamed al fayed was always the one that got away. i've tried to correct the record and expose this, this horrific sex offender. the aim of starsuckers was to pull back the curtain of the media machine and sort of expose a lot of the deceit and wrongdoing

that was at the time, quite prevalent in the british and international media. it was a bit of a kind of wild west culture, really. and in the middle of that culture was max clifford, sort of, you know, pulling the strings in all directions and sort of being this sort of all powerful figure who could either put false stories into the media to promote a client or stop negative stories coming out about people he represented. we couldn'tjust go to him and say, hey, max, why don't you just tell us how you censored the press? and the way we came up with was through undercover filming? i don't know, it's - like it's like muhammad. now, mohamed, you know, harris is 76 going on 18 when it comes i to young ladies. and he's around the outside. so stop this, stop that, stop that. l

so there was no question that what we had was dynamite. um, the problem started to come was when we were getting the film legally checked. we had an excellent law firm, but they said to us, if you put this material in your film as it stands, you will be sued. what we had to do was to beep out fayed's name. ..who's going on 18- when it comes to young ..who's going on 18— when it comes to young when it comes to young ladies. fayed was the one that we missed. he was the one that we let go. it makes you feel absolutely sick that he was doing this, and he was able to get away

with it for so long, and we weren't able to stop him. everybody's known of this behaviour, and i think no one's really been able to do anything fully about it. i have spoken up about my time there on numerous occasions. every time the press tried to do something, it was shut down. i was approached, i think it was a dispatches programme. then we'd done the filming and that was shut down. and ijust remember being a little angry, but also thinking, here we go again. the store, famed for its sales, was sold today. i the handshake wasl more of a handover. after a quarter of a century - in charge of harrods, mohamed al fayed was cashing in. it was after the me too movement. public opinion towards this sort of behaviour and towards these sort of people was changing, and it was changing fast, and i really felt that it was the moment to,

to to speak up. and i waved my anonymity for the programme, which i did not do lightly. he said, if you don't sleep with me, i can't help you with your acting career. it was a very key moment. however, for me it felt like it slightly sank without a trace. it was 2018 when i started to feel strong enough to do something. i couldn't ever get my career back. that was stolen from me and he took that from me. we went to the police station. i was filmed making my video statement, and then this all went forward with the police to try and take this to court or whatever. but mohamed was too old to be prosecuted, and they said he wasn't in the right state of mind or, you know,

so so they decided it wasn't worth pursuing and it was dropped. we engaged a lawyer and they approached harrod's lawyers. it just took so long. it was onlyjust before he died that they suddenly sent a letter saying they were willing to sort of, you know, compensate me. and we're hoping this would happen before mohamed died so that he would realise he hasn't got away with this. mohamed al fayed has died at the age of 94. i his deep obsession with british aristocratic society was later fictionalised in the netflix. series the crown.

i was angry that he hadn't been publicly shamed for what he had done for the amount of women he had, you know, destroyed. just then i thought, oh, he's got away with it. there we go. i knew it was going to happen anyway. he was a tremendous life force. he was obviously controversial, but i feel that he did more good in this world than all his critics combined. the people who worked for him, and the people who were his customers and the fans of his football club. they know the real mohamed and they cherished his friendship and they cherish what he did. it's not fair that he got he got to die with the legacy he did. i know there are many other victims of mohamed al fayed. it's just horrific to think that he got away with that. i think the fact that he

got away with as much as he did was because a lot of people engineered these situations on his behalf. many of those people have been named by these survivors in their accounts and statements, and it will only be a matter of time before they all need to be approached. expect that knock on the door at some point. i want to deter any other mohamed al fayeds in the making to stop them doing anything like this ever again. it's important, this film because, it's a loud voice screaming at everyone to say this is not acceptable any longer. i've spent so many years being quiet and silent and not speaking up. i hope talking about it now helps. we can all start feeling better and healing from it.

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yet know who is responsible. as the presidential campaign continues across key swing states — kamala harris releases her medical records, and calls on donald trump to do the same. hello, i'm carl nasman. alex salmond — the former leader of the scottish national party, who led scotland to the brink of independence in the 2014 referendum — has died at the age of 69. he reportedly collapsed after speaking at an event in north macedonia earlier on saturday — this is one of the last pictures taken of him at that event. mr salmond was a formidable campaigner for independence in scotland — and led the snp to power there in 2007 — becoming the country's first minister for seven years. among the dozens of tributes — the king said in a statement: my wife and i are greatly saddened to hear of the sudden death of alex salmond. his devotion to scotland drove his decades of public service. we extend our deep condolences

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