Evening briefing Friday 30th October

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0:36This is Times Radio's Evening Briefing on Friday 30th October. Police Scotland has launched new inquiries into visits to Balmoral Castle involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Geoffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Officers say they've received information about their time at the Royal Estate but stress the investigation is at a very early stage. Andrew, who denies any wrongdoing, was arrested in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Crime and policing commentator Danny Shaw has been explaining to Times Radio what evidence has emerged so far. We know that Epstein and Maxwell were sort of regular visitors to Balmoral in the late 1990s, early 2000s.

1:18There's a picture of Epstein and Maxwell at a log cabin, believed to be possibly in around 1999. So they were regular guests at various royal residences, including Ban Moral. The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange says it's frozen around half of the$6.3 billion stolen in what's believed to be the biggest crypto heist in history. Binance says$3 billion has been secured, but the rest remains in the hands of hackers. A North Korean hacking group is suspected of being behind the attack. Cynthia Kaiser, who used to work in the FBI's cyber division, has been explaining to Times Radio how the hackers managed to pull it off.

2:01The truth about a lot of cybercrime is they get in through what we would consider relatively easy means. In this case, it appears that it may have been through an employee's laptop being able to compromise that person's kind of username, identity, like what they have access to, to then go throughout the network and conduct this type of hack. And that's what North Korea's done for years. The judge in Russell Brand's rape trial has told jurors they should aimed to reach unanimous verdicts, but that there is no time pressure on their deliberations. The prosecution has delivered its closing arguments with the defence due to make its final submissions on Monday.

2:39The comedian denies seven charges involving six women, including three counts of rape. Times Radio's newsroom reporter Olly Cole has been following proceedings. The prosecution is essentially saying, look, you know, these six women, they stressed that they did not know each other before. These allegations were made. They do not know each other now. These are six separate women living separate lives, and they have all come forward individually. Hundreds of residents have been evacuated from the devastated Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Eleshky following a humanitarian ceasefire brokered by Melania Trump.

3:18Both Russia and Ukraine say the operation went smoothly, with evacuees expected to travel through Russia and Belarus before returning to Ukrainian territory. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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