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Hello and welcome to Newsare. 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 Fasher in the west of Sudan.

That report from Barbara Plet, Usher, our 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. Andrew was once second in line to the throne

behind his brother. He was often talked about as the previous monarch Queen Elizabeth's favourite,

the child she doted on. He burnished a dashing reputation

as a helicopter pilot in the Falklands War of 1982. But over the years, he gained another

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