The president that military aid would be released in exchange for such investigations and it was this portion of testimony that were seized upon by the White House as the reason why President Trump should be considered completely exonerated political uncertainty has deepened in Israel after Ben again spent Netanyahu is main challenger to be prime minister gave up on his efforts to form an administration last night Mr Netanyahu has given the 1st chance to build a coalition but he was also unsuccessful their failure brings Israel closer to another general election which would be the 3rd in the year official figures suggest there has been a 20 percent increase in the number of police detentions under the Mental Health Act in England and Wales over the past 2 years the Police Federation has described the situation a shameful and called on the next government to get to grips with what is happening and the Glasby reports section 136 of the Mental Health Act allows police to detain someone if they think they are a risk to themselves or others because of a mental health condition the latest Home Office figures showed there were more than 28 and a half 1000 detentions by police under the Mental Health Act in the year ending March 29 teen in the areas included in the research 2 years earlier there were just under $24000.00 detentions under section 136 The proportion of arrests rose more in Wales than England and there were many areas where detentions fell the charity Mind says people with serious mental health problems feel like they're being treated as criminals the national police chief's Council says officers are spending more time than they should waiting for people in crisis to be admitted for treatment because of understaffing in the n.h.s. And police should not be the 1st point of call. Google says it is stopping highly targeted political advertising on his platforms and it will remove examples of misinformation in the future advertisers will be able to use and age gender and location and not information such as political persuasions. The poet laureate Simon Armitage has announced the creation of a new award for perms about nature and environment he will donate his salary of 5000 pounds to help fund the Loral prize which he hopes will promote discussion about the impact of global warming our arts correspondent Rebeca Jones reports some an element which says every art form has an obligation to respond to climate change but he wants to reward the role poetry can play in particular he thinks there's an immediacy about poetry which can convey messages about the challenges facing the planet in the kind of language which resonates with everyone and he hopes the prize winning courage more poets to write about the environment Simon Albert each who studied geography at Portsmouth has himself written widely about nature in a curious spanning 3 decades from accounts of trekking the Pentagon way to a recent collection the unaccompanied about an endangered world in meltdown the 1st winner of the new prize will be announced in May next year. Cricket and England event the 1st day of the 1st Test against New Zealand on $241.00 for Fool Rory Byrne's Joe Denly and Ben Stokes all schooled half centuries the time is now 9 minutes past 7 a lawyer for some of Geoffrey Epstein's accuses has told this program that she would be prepared to serve a subpoena on Prince Andrew if it would assist in gathering evidence for the cases filed by helplines Lisa Bloom was speaking off to the prince's statement that he was willing if required to help with a law enforcement agency investigation I represent 5 very brave women who all allege that they were sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein and different time periods different contexts we filed a lawsuit on behalf of 2 of them so far we're just calling them Jane Doe's one and 2 and we will be adding some more soon the 2 that we've already filed about allege that they were young models in New York in 2004 young female recruiter came and asked them to go give her boyfriend quote unquote a massage for a couple $100.00 after she earned their trust they went to his home he sexually assaulted them they fled the never spoke to him again when Prince Andrew said in the statement last night that he is willing to help any law enforcement agency does that make you think that it would be useful for you to try and get a statement if possible from him about what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein Absolutely so we know that Prince Andrew had many contacts with Jeffrey Epstein and with Charlayne Maxwell and we think anybody who has had a lot of interaction with them should be speaking out only to law enforcement but to the lawyers for the victims people like me who are doing investigations I also think that all of the staff who work for Prince Andrew should come and give information and evidence and the documents should be turned over e-mails texts calendars. Phone logs travelogues so that we can get to the bottom of this will you approach him Prince Andriy we may as part of our investigation it may be difficult to serve a deposition subpoena on him but we believe that nobody is above the law and that everybody should have to answer questions so that if they have relevant information and he clearly does have relevant information so that the process would be that you would file in order to have permission to subpoena him is that right it would have to involve law enforcement or is there a way that lawyers such as you can approach individuals who they believe might have evidence of on their own once we file the lawsuit as we have I as a licensed attorney have the right to file depositions subpoenas I don't have to get anyone's permission to do that so I can simply have depositions subpoenas serve they have to be personally serves on individuals and it's difficult of that somebody like member of the world family you know who's never just walking down the street in you can't just service subpoena them if the person objects they can file legal motions and fight it and not have to show up if they're in another country like the u.k. There are other hoops that we have to jump through but it happens every day I served depositions subpoenas frequently and people sometimes fight it but eventually they usually have to appear and answer questions but it is possible to serve a subpoena on someone post me as you say to you know essentially hand over the the papers to them in another country such as the u.k. Yes it is possible and it happens frequently and is it is it possible that you might seek to do that against Prince Andriy it is yes it is possible when will you decide well I have to talk to my team I have to talk to my clients we have to decide how relevant the information as it's also been reported so I can say that there is a fund that has been set up to compensate the victims of Geoffrey Epstein out of his state and we are working towards resolving things that way many of my clients would prefer to. Get the matter resolved and put it behind them but I have other clients who are braver and who are really in it just to get answers this is very important to women trying to put their lives back together what do you and your clients think about what Prince Andrew has now said which is an expression of remorse for those who were abused by a well you know it's one thing to put together a statement in writing after you've already had a disastrous interview in person and I assume there are probably people who helped him write that but the real issue is the interview where we saw him for nearly an hour show no sympathy for the victims completely lack credibility in his answers having inconsistent answers and really important questions like why he went to visit Geoffrey Epstein after he was criminally convicted or does he have any regret for the long friendship he had with this pedophile and he says no because he introduced him to so many interesting people I mean what a shocking thing to say surely a member of the world family can meet virtually anyone in the world they would like to me you know the only decent answer to that question should have been I absolutely regret ever knowing this man knowing now what I do Lisa Bloom thank you very much 14 minutes past 740 minutes past 2 here in Washington now the number of people who don't will trump truly trusts and speaks to on a daily basis can probably be counted on one hand Cory Lewandowsky is one of them he was Donald Trump's campaign manager in 2016 and has been brought back into the fold to become chief spear carrier a body man to the president he's now leading an officially sanctioned anti impeachment drive from outside the White House and he says it's entirely legitimate to raise questions about the role played by hum to Biden Joe Biden son Bryza in a Ukrainian gas company. If the roles were reversed and Donald Trump Jr were serving on the board of directors or for that matter one of Mike Pence his children or serving on the board of directors of a foreign company that they had no experience in whatsoever would that be an issue for the media to investigate while that person was serving as the vice president what we know was the media never looked into the fact that Hunter Biden was serving on the board of a foreign company while his father was the vice president's case and moreover we know because Joe Biden bragged about this that unless something occurs in the Ukraine we're going to stop the $1000000000.00 of aid Joe Biden bragged about the fact that he went there and said those things very publicly in his own words you said that was no quid pro quo we've had built Haleigh senior diplomat who said to us this country 33 is saying there will school and given testimony now that he's mended which says that actually I told you crate ends that they weren't going to get their money that defense money until such times as they had launched their investigation and so because I could carry on the list of ultimately come to Mick Mulvaney who was getting chief of staff who said we do this all the time with foreign policy look I think what we've seen is individuals have changed their testimony we've also heard from a number of the Rose No I understand we've also heard from a number of individuals who said under oath doctrine committed no crime there was no crime committed and moreover they never even either spoke to Donald Trump directly or have never met Donald Trump and so look it's very interesting when one of the key witnesses in the impeachment hearing so that he received all of this information from the New York Times and testified to that that he never sat with spoke to or met Donald Trump I don't know how you can become an impeachment witness when you've never spoken to the person and you weren't on the call that transpired we've seen at least partial to. Transcript of the call and we've heard from the former ambassador who was recalled from the Ukraine prior to the call transpiring you raise a really important point you said that nothing illegal happened you're quoting to Morrison who gave evidence it was a on the National Security Council. It's not the defense that the president didn't break the law or that the president did nothing wrong in that phone call no what we're looking at here is the hypocrisy of the media are just no no no let's not talk about media let's talk about was there is the defense that there was nothing illegal all that there was nothing wrong because those are 2 very different things I don't think either of those I think both of those are accurate and a there was nothing wrong and b. There was nothing illegal and we're now going and we're asking the government to release transcripts of private conversations between the leader of our country and the leader of other countries and if that is the type of dialogue that we're going to have every world leader should be very concerned that those private discussion going to be out the president was seeking on a potential political rival for 2020 is simple it's very easy to understand it's not easy to understand because it wasn't Joe Biden he was asking about Hunter Biden and it's only their game night and thing and then we've had testimony from all these other people that said the president wasn't really interested in corruption he was interested in the Bible how do they how can other people know what is in the president's mind what he's interested in when most in the testified they've never met the president or spoken to it seems to me clear speaking to Republicans is that what they love is for the president to say you know what the cool was done to have raised the issue of him to Biden and Joe Biden but it doesn't reach the level of being impeachable is that a better place for the president to be I don't know I think I think the president wants to be in a spot to find out if Hunter Biden personally benefit from being on the board of a foreign company all are there are thousands of foreign companies in Ukraine the only one the president has lays alike. Focused on is it's not his fault his father was the vice president of the United States of America at the time and what we heard on equivocally was the vice president's office doesn't have time to deal with this petty problem of his son what we do know based on the e-mail exchanges is that John Kerry who at the time was serving as a secretary of state his stepson was so concerned about Hunter Biden's relationship with the reason he removed himself from doing business with him for there so that should be a red flag to somebody making the case why the president should be taking on a potential political rival for 2020 and you'll say it's entirely justified Well it's justified to find out if there was something that transpired in 2016 or 2015 when Joe Biden as the vice president states the his son and his son broke laws so it was not read show as a foreign agent which I don't know if he was or not how did he end up on that board if the only reason Hunter Biden is on that board and I think 100 by antennas own interview was the reason was on that board because alas it was Biden if that's the case and he profiteered off of that. That should cause serious alarm so the social so they need She's Ok why do you say this Ok for the president to strike before Lida fed to us on a political rival you saying it's Ok I think the American people have the right to understand if a direct relative of one of the senior most government officials in our country is being rich simply because of what their last name this just gives me a flavor of what the president's mood is I mean you speak to make it look I spent I spent time with him on Friday last week a number of hours with him Friday he was in a great mood we talked about everything from local election results to to the impeachment inquiry to you know what he was going to spend his weekend doing so I think the prison was very upbeat and we'd a great conversation but what does he feel about this whole impeachment process I mean to become Look I think it's actually only the u.s. President ever to be impeached in the history of the Republic you know on a strictly partisan vote is what this is coming down to and what Adam Schiff said the history books. I just wonder what he doesn't play because he's got a great stooge sense of pride and you know sense of self I don't think any president want to go through an impeachment process particularly one where there's no underlying crime in the case of Bill Clinton the underlying crime was perjury he lied under oath and the Starr Report spent 2 years meticulously documenting the crimes that ultimately led to the impeachment as it related to Donald Trump there is no underlying crime as relate to Watergate the underlying crime was a break in at a facility that was a crime that people are prosecuted for there is no underlying crime here this is now about a telephone call he said he was in a good mood but overall over the impeachment thing I just want to get you know angry frustrated I mean what would you what would you look at I would say those words look at the I wouldn't say this is something he dwells on he is continuing to do the work of the American people based Twitter account look sangrias that well look it's his Twitter account has sent out thousands if not tens of thousands of tweets on a litany of topics. Everything from who won the Kentucky Derby to you know World Series victories to you name it right so I think it's very difficult to read in to any one tweet I'm sure you could point to one or 2 they say a salacious or braggadocios or egregious but that's the president he is someone who just talks to the American people in the same way that most Americans do but he happens to have the luxury of doing it through a social media platform which has a couple 100000000 followers Corey Lewandowsky And later I'll be speaking to one of the leading Democrats on the Intelligence Committee It's 22 minutes past 7 Prince Andrew is stepping down from his royal duties but what what about pitch palace which has been his main business activity since he stood down as an official trade envoy in 2011 Dom's we're looking into that yes he's not intending to stand down a picture palace a b.b.c. Reporter Katie Prescott has spoken to a source close to the prince who said he would continue to be involved when I spoke to Prince Andrew about it last year and he explained to me what put to the palace was I rather like to say that I'm accidental entrepreneur people approached the palace called me the entrepreneur in residence and brain power of what I've started is an organization that supports starting and growing and scaling companies and basically we convene an audience of me put entrepreneurs and business young businesses in front of that audience and then ask the audience to take one or more follow up action with those businesses that here will King was one of the founding members pitch a pelisse He's also founder of the company king of Shaves will do you think he can continue if he wants to Good Morning Dominic pitch at Palace has been a fantastic almost gold standard level of platform for entrepreneurs to present their businesses to very informed and very connected audience to help those businesses succeed and scale picture palaces self I hope really does continue because it's just been so so success. Well over the past 5 years with them or without an opiate use easy hope it does continue didn't say with him I think the clues in the name pitch palace so had it been pitch Prince for example maybe a bit of an issue with that but picture palace the environment is very important it's been set up he has an extraordinary team working on a very small team as well who've been able to put together what is in fact you know a really really substantial platform for entrepreneurs to present their business because some of the larger corporate supporters of it companies like standard chartering a p.m.g. Have voted with their feet in the end they are discontinuing the association presumably because of the association with with Prince Andrew. I can't comment on what had been to stand a chance to do and I think they had multi-year contracts as I understand it those came to a natural conclusion Astra Zeneca for example as well is reviewing that those companies the audience the people who read new audience that those companies would have been benefiting from were astonishing in terms of the connections that those companies would be making themselves irrespective of the entrepreneurs pitching hope that picture palace is a vehicle continues because it's been so successful and until this time absolutely un criticised its he'd like another world to step in in France and take Prince Andrew's place well I'm not going to speak out of turn or say anything here but certainly I did watch a program the other day about Queen Elizabeth Gerry Kidd commissioned the