Morning Briefing Tuesday 10th November

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0:33This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Tuesday the 10th of November. I'm Daryl Jackson. Russell Brand has been accused of further violence towards women after he was jailed for 10 and a half years for rape and sexual assault. Jemima Goldsmith, who reportedly dated Brand for around a year in 2014, shared a post online in which she claimed she had to call the police on the TV personality to get him removed during a violent incident. She wrote that she has her own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse. Dr Anne Olavarius Casey, a lawyer specialising in women's rights, told Times Radio the result of the trial could see more women come forward.

1:15If women think that they can actually talk, that they're hopefully not going to get abused to come forward, well then that will make it possible for more cases to be brought. They have to also believe in the police system and then in the legal system. And so far, I think most women think those systems fail women. They fail them who have been sexually assaulted and raped. They're not listened to. They're not believed. We see this over and over and over again. A congressman from his own party is trying to force a vote to impeach the U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Thomas Massey accuses him of misconduct over military operations in Iran, Yemen and Venezuela.

1:51A vote could take place later this week following heavy Republican losses in the midterm elections. Michael Evans, former defence editor at The Times, told us the Democrats regard Hexep as an easy target. Hexep, I think the trouble is that almost from day one when he took over the Defence Department or War Department, we like to call it, is that he sacked so many top commanders that everyone was thinking, well, there's actually no one really in charge. Some of the services, armed services, didn't have a top commander for a long time. The boss of tech firm NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, has been summoned to appear before the U.S.

2:25Congress. It's over significant national security concerns about claims he had an affair with a Chinese spy. Eli Etherton, also known as the computer guy, told Times Radio there are a lot of questions to answer. The big question is mainly his judgment, but also who he decided to have an affair with. The other question that comes up with this is that this seems to have come out because of, I think it was the New York Times or the media, It wasn't discovered by the board of directors themselves. So you have the CEO of probably the most important company in the world right now having an affair with a Chinese spy and the board didn't know what was going on.

3:04A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked after she trawled through police systems to discover the identity of Sarah Everard's killer following his arrest. A tribunal ruling found former PC Claire Tett had no proper policing purpose to access Wayne Cousins' custody record. It was found the former officer had no involvement in the investigation and was instead motivated by curiosity. And the Conservatives are pledging to cut back disability and sickness benefits as well as reinstating the two-child benefit cap as part of plans to cut£36 billion from the welfare bill. At an event, later party leader Kemi Badenoch will argue that many people facing challenges can contribute, citing double amputees who run marathons.

3:47And you can hear more on all of those stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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