Morning briefing Friday 13th November

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0:36This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Friday the 13th of November. Russell Brand faces a series of fresh allegations made by six women, including having sex without seeking consent and physically abusive behaviour. Among the claims in a new investigation by the Times and Sunday Times was one alleging Brand dragged a woman into a lavatory in 2015 when he was in a relationship with Laura Gallagher, who is now his wife. Another woman accused Brand of behaving like a vampire. The crime reporter Charlie Maloney says all six women who are not known to each other spoke to reporters before hearing the allegations in Brand's recent trial.

1:14The police have announced that they are conducting further inquiries. If the police feels that they've gathered enough evidence, they can pass allegations to the Crown Prosecution Service and essentially the Crown Prosecution Service could decide whether or not there's enough evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and Russell Brand could be charged with further offences. The Prime Minister is promising President Zelensky his complete support in the latest efforts to end the war in Ukraine and said he would push for European representation in the negotiations. But speaking at a meeting of the European political community in Dublin, Andy Burnham warned against reading too much into US brokered peace talks in Abu Dhabi and said the focus must remain on a ceasefire.

2:02Zelensky last night commenced talks with US Envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcoff at an aerodrome in County Dublin where Whitcoff acknowledged that European nations would join the next round of talks. President Trump is intent on leading the charge to end this war. That's the instructions to me and Jared. That's why we flew here tonight to meet the president directly and we've got another meeting on the schedule and and we're all going to work very, very hard to get to that goal. More than 1 ,200 male asylum seekers are expected to move to an Oxfordshire village that voted for independence from the rest of the country in protest at the plan.

2:40The Housing Secretary, Angela Rayner, has used emergency powers to approve plans to accommodate the men at a former Ministry of Defence site in Piddington. The majority of villagers voted to leave the UK when the local parish council held a symbolic referendum in September. Government officials say it will help create a fairer distribution of asylum seekers. Leading tech business experts say it's possible NVIDIA will survive the resignation of its co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The FBI is investigating the 63-year-old billionaire after revelations of three extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy.

3:19and Harry Kane marked his record-breaking 126th appearance for England with his 92nd international goal. The recent recipient of the Ballon d 'Or scored the winner from the penalty spot at Wembley where England beat Croatia 2-1 to qualify for next year's final stages of the Nations League. It's an incredible and unbelievable moment but I've said before the game it's been a crazy few weeks all for positive stuff, all for amazing once-in-a-lifetime things that I've done so I've been really proud of the way I've kind of stayed focused on what's important And yeah, that's where my main priority was.

3:51There's more on all of these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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