Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
Coming up later in the programme,
we'll have a report on a place of horror which has been cut off from the world.
The BBC has managed to gather evidence of the crimes committed in El Fasha in the west of Sudan.
That report from Barbara Plett, Ashura Africa, correspondent in 30 minutes.
We're beginning, though, with a short message,
just five sentences long, entitled A Statement from Buckingham Palace.
It ends with these words.
Their majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been and will remain with the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.
In a way, those sentiments seem utterly unremarkable.
Of course, one's sympathies should be with the survivors of abuse.
But in the context of one of their own, Andrew, previously Prince Andrew,
the brother of the King,
having been accused precisely of abusing a trafficked teenager, it is also completely remarkable.
And it came on Thursday evening, London time,
at the end of that short statement saying that King Charles was stripping Andrew of all of his titles.
No longer Prince,
he'll be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and forced to leave his grand home next to Windsor Castle.