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the court found that: there was a letter from dominic hampshire on the phone.ionage investigators feared the duke had been a target of elite capture — that's the chinese communist party's operation to seek influence across british life — and so, the home secretary used her exceptional powers, reserved for the most serious national security cases, to ban the businessman from the uk. mis�*s chief has repeatedly warned of the scale of china's information— and intelligence—gathering in the uk. we see the chinese authorities playing the long game and cultivating contacts to manipulate opinion in china's favour, seeking to co—opt and influence not just prominent parliamentarians from across the political landscape, but people much earlier in their careers in public life, gradually building a debt of obligation. there's no suggestion mr hampshire was aware of h6�*s objective and the chinese embassy has called the allegations a "baseless smear". as for prince andrew, he withdrew from public life after his newsnight interview over his relationship with the now dead sex

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it was a letter from dominic hampshire on the phone.ix outside of the prince's closest internal confidants, you sit at the top of a tree many people would like to be on. hc had a note of how to handle the duke himself. it said important. manage expectations. really important to not set too high expectaons. he is in desperate situation and will grab onto anything. my five concluded h six was working for beijing. there is no suggestion mr. hampshire was aware. the bbc has approached him for comment. counterespionage investigators feared the duke had been target of elite capture, the operation to seek influence across british life. home secretary used her exceptional powers reserved for the most serious national security cases to ban the businessman from the u.k. the chinese embassy has called the allegations a baseless smear but experts are not surprised. >> typically they would go for members of the house of lords or prominent business people or people who have a voice in a community. it is ambitious to target a member of the royal famil

they found a letter from prince andrew's senior adviser, dominic hampshire.f the prince's closest internal confidants, you sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on." and in a note he'd written to himself, the alleged spy said, "manage expectations. "really important to not set too high expectations. he is in a desperate situation and will grab at anything." in what may be a significant escalation in this story, the times is reporting that the suspected chinese spy attended events here at buckingham palace, at st james's palace, and at windsor castle. it raises the question — how much influence did he have at the very highest levels of the british establishment? m15 has become more worried in recent times about china's influence and intelligence gathering in the uk. we see the chinese authorities playing the long game in cultivating contacts to manipulate opinion in china's favour, seeking to co—opt and influence not just prominent parliamentarians from across the political landscape, but people much earlier in their careers and

they found a letter from prince andrew's senior adviser, dominic hampshire.ery top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on." and in a note he'd written to himself, the alleged spy said, "manage expectations. "really important to not set too high expectations. he is in a desperate situation and will grab at anything." in what may be a significant escalation in this story, the times is reporting that the suspected chinese spy attended events here at buckingham palace, at saintjames's palace, and at windsor castle. it raises the question — how much influence did he have at the very highest levels of the british establishment? m15 has become more worried in recent times about china's influence and intelligence gathering in the uk. i will be back at the top of the hour of much more news. we are continuing to monitoring the protests once again on the streets of tbilisi, the georgian capital where a former footballer has been selected and voted in by the georgian parliament as president. do stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. the sunshine made a

if i had faced then, candidate with $20 million in the bank who was able to dominate television in new hampshire or iowa florida , i doubt seriously that i could have won in those states. >> when you look back on your own presidency and i want to go through a bunch of things. quickly as possible just to get your take later. you created this department of energy and you created the health and human services and then education. would you do that today? >> the department of energy was bringing together 30 different agencies into one agency. it was manageable. i think it is important -- i think it is impervious now to any major modifications it was very important then and still is . it covered the gamut from solar power to nuclear, destructive power and made it manageable. my background was in education. i was on the sumter county school board during the integration years, and i was the chairman of a university committee and the georgia senate and i was a key player in different ways about education. and when i got to, even before i got to washington i could see education was submerged under health

and it was really important to see those two dominant victories for trump, both in iowa and then in new hampshirehere i was, where there was a lot of speculation about how independents would vote. would nikki haley do well? and in the end, we saw donald trump, again, far and away the preferred republican candidate. and that really just set the path for the rest of the year. and, of course, the democrats weren't having a competitive primary process there, although dean phillips did try to run himself, but it was a done deal forjoe biden. and then you had that big event, the state of the union address, joe biden�*s third — and as we know now, final — state of the union address, and his past endeavours had been criticised for being quite staid and, you know, boring. but this was a point — there were already conversations happening quite loudly about his age, his abilities, whether he had the energy and get—up—and—go to fight the contest, and so he came out really quite fiery... now, my predecessor, a former republican president, tells putin, quote, "do whatever the hell you want. " bowing down to a

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they found a letter from prince andrew's senior advisor, dominic hampshire.t said: and in a note he had written to himself, the alleged spy said: in what may be a significant escalation in this story, the times is reporting that the suspected chinese spy attended events here at buckingham palace, at st james�*s palace and at windsor castle. it raises the question — how much influence did he have at very highest levels of the british establishment? mi5 has become more worried in recent times about china's influence and intelligence—gathering in the uk. we see that chinese authorities playing the long game in cultivating contact to manipulate opinion in china's favour, seeking to co—opt and influence not just prominent parliamentarians from across the political landscape, but people much earlier in their careers in public life, gradually building a debt of obligation. the chinese embassy has called the allegations of spying "a baseless smear" but there are now growing calls from some politicians of h6 to be named in the interests of national security. it was hi