despite criticism from world leaders. while they were working for the department store. anger and sadness from bereaved families grenfell tower is to be dismantled. hello, i'm tadhg enright. we start in the united states, where donald trump has denounced the international criminal actions against the us and israel. he said it had abused its power by issuing arrest warrants for the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu,

top us lawmakers on capitol hill. neither israel nor the us is a member of the icc or recognises its jurisdiction. does the sanctioning of the icc make eseew pointin- out that neither is worth pointing out that neither the us or israel recognises the court. in terms e the practical of the practical implications, it is quite to ie those would be it what those would be and it might alter the by might alter the judgment, by trump by might alterthejudgment, by trump by the that as to whether w” faistoiwhe’ther they execute arrest warrants,

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for the department store. sexually assaulted them in the 1990s. documentary which exposed abuse by mohamed al fayed, who died in 2023. you may find some of the details in this report distressing. daniel de simone has more.

during a work trip to ali fayeds house in the usa, she says the abuse escalated. and as i came out, he was in the room just there. he was literally inside my bra, inside my pants, just trying to get on top of me. and i knew what his intention was. francis says the assault was interrupted ali fayed, who is now 82 and lives in the usa, bought harrods in the 19805 with his brothers they sold it in 2010.

they are taking civil legal action against harrods. ordered her on a trip to switzerland with his brother ali, to help with paperwork. for me to do. she says another woman told us mohamed al fayed ordered her to this london building where the brothers owned it was here, she says,

ali fayed sexually assaulted her. a spokesperson for ali fayed says he unequivocally denies who have both died, have been accused of neither faced charges while they were alive. i think for ali fayed, justice should be a criminal investigation. up for myself. and daniel is with me now.

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one of the survivors. grenfell tower, for me is not reallyjust to be taken down, how did you feel about that? for me, i feel like this is an attempt to actually erase

this memory and and lessen this accountability as well. for me, ifeel like the most visible reminder engineers have previously warnedthe government i didn't really see the efforts to actually preserve the tower. it as a reminder for people. do you feel as survivors that the government to be demolished. how do you think you're going to feel, knowing you could be taken down?

around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

welcome back. despite continued criticism from world leaders. the plan still seems far from concrete, with little detail from trump's team our north america correspondent john sudworth reports.

and as the bible says, blessed are the peacemakers, and in that end i hope my greatest legacy will be known as a peacemaker and a unifier. i hope that's going to be true. these war—torn ruins, he said, would be turned into real estate, minus the palestinians, although senior aides later suggested their relocation would be temporary. now, he's doubled down, with a social media post and when palestinians had already been resettled in new homes elsewhere in the region.

has expressed his approval for the idea. a clear war crime if carried out by force. are expressing scepticism, or at least reserving judgement. and suggesting a concept. the only thing i'm certain of is speaking from me i mr netanyahu marked his visit with a gift.

"our greatest friend and ally." for international relations. of a gaza ceasefire. the consequences of donald trump's announcement a few days his own aides, his senior staff, including members of the israeli delegation and prime minister neta nyahu himself. deal, the question remains will it go forward as planned? put greater pressure on hamas to make this

at what point. like all of gaza will be handed off to who knows whom? it appears that they even took the israelis by surprise, the will through other partners and coalition

and then he's throwing out there as a means of and trying to change the status quo. unexploded ordinances, in other words, it is very difficult, if not impossible, a number of allegations of inappropriate and intimidating behaviour on the set of his television programmes. making unacceptable

and distressing comments. bbc news has not spoken to his accusers who is the best, funniest and most entertaining host? he's one of the stars of light entertainment. gino! the celebrity chef known for his risque one liners... # lady in red... # look at the view behind me. you can't get any more

venice than this. sexualised language, which left some staff fearful and uncomfortable. "i am a father, husband and have worked with well which i have been so proud of." was deeply upsetting. itv, which commissions and broadcasts gino d'acampo's inappropriate and unacceptable. most of them were not reported to itv at the time. where issues have been raised with itv, name a famous tv chef. itv news has reported that the latest series of family fortunes, filmed

in 2023, is not currently and that itv has no plans to work with gino d'acampo. you ll see the water getting hotter — the darker colour. that s a weather pattern known as el nino. the hot sea gives an extra blast of heat into the atmosphere, on top of our already warming climate. el nino has a sister weather pattern, expected it to bring temperatures down a notch. but unfortunately it didn't. of climate live usa she told me her thoughts

on the report. came off of the hottest year on record. that was 202a. had the hottest day on record. but, you know, this is, of course, a very complex picture with many moving parts and dynamics. human—induced climate change, because of the overreliance let's look at the science behind this latest phenomenon.

you know, we had expected or scientists expected, la nina to have a cooling effect on the seas, but ultimately it hasn't. they're scratching their heads. gotten that wrong? yeah, it is quite interesting. and so we might see, for example, in a couple of months, that cooling phenomenon really come to modulate the data here, just like we saw with el nino, really driving up the temperatures, there's also some explanations floating around, perhaps the reduction in the number of atmospheric aerosols this particularly unusualjanuary, january 2025, but i think it's really important to these heat records all along.

your new president, president trump, has shown, demonstrated some hostility towards the the climate change you know, we know this is an issue that's incredibly important to young voters who are increasingly making up as an important issue. of a bipartisan or, you know, partisan issue in united states history, looking

that's it from me. hello there. this was highland, thursday afternoon. hardly a cloud

in the sky as well. a change on the way over the next few days. there's quite a cold wind developing, but further north and west, we keep some clearer skies. frost and patchy fog still an issue. so the high pressure is drifting off to that's tapping into some colder air. it's going to really take the edge off the feel a cluster of showers as we go through the day, with wind gusts potentially 30 to a0 miles an hour at times.

best of the sunshine, best the warmth to the northwest. we'll see a rash of showers moving their way steadily west, of wales, we could see a few centimetres, particularly in wales, of snow settling forfirst thing on saturday morning. we keep those clear skies,, , will start off again with some patchy frost and fog around. quite a lot of cloud to begin with on saturday. a little bit of brightness developing into the southeast by the end of the day. a lot of dry weather around, but that still means

there's a risk for one or two of us of some wintry showers from time to time.

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