2025-10-31
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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and we're recording this at 4.30 GMT on Friday the 31st of October.
The British royal family loses a prince.
Andrew is stripped of his title over his links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Relief efforts are stepped up in Jamaica with soldiers travelling on foot to reach areas devastated by Hurricane Melissa.
And a landmark moment in Australia as the state of Victoria approves the first treaty with indigenous peoples.
Also in this podcast, the Russians refusing to be silent in the face of Putin's repression.
They told me that I had discredited our soldiers.
How?
By calling for peace?
And what causes brain fog?
Three days after he was heckled over Prince Andrew's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,
King Charles has taken action against his younger brother.
Andrew is being stripped of his titles.
He'll no longer be able to call himself a prince or his royal highness,
and forced to leave his huge mansion near Windsor Castle.
Ate in line to the British throne, he had already agreed to give up his title of Duke of York,
but he has now in effect been banished from public life.
Here's historian Anthony Seldon.
in some ways you go back to the abdication.