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Hello, so today's episode of Newscast focuses on that huge dump of documents from the Department of Justice in the US related to Jeffrey Epstein and his communications and relationships with other influential people around the world, particularly Lord

Mandelson, former ambassadors to the US and former business secretary under Gordon Brown.

So we recorded the episode, dug into lots of the documents and what people were saying about

them. And then just as I was heading home, we got an update on the story, which was the statement

from the Metropolitan Police, saying that they'd received several allegations alleging misconduct and public office, and that they were now

reviewing them to see if they met the threshold for a criminal investigation. And what they're

talking about there is these emails that appear to be from Lord Mandelson when he was working with

Gordon Brown in the Labour government, the last Labour government, where he appears to be sharing

information that it's being discussed amongst ministers and maybe even with the Prime Minister

and he shares that information with Jeffrey Epstein. So the backstory that led us up to that is what you'll hear on this latest episode of Newscast.

Newscast from the BBC.

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That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. It's Joe Pike in Westminster. And here in the studio with me is our senior royal correspondent, Danielle Ralf. Hello again. Hi, Adam. Hi, Joe. So, Daniela, a busy weekend for you going through all of these documents because now there is a total of three and a half million documents I was reading in the Department of Justice website. Yeah, that's right. Can I just say from the start, it's not me individually going through three and a half million documents on behalf of the BBC. We've got a team that we're working with who we're trying to trawl through as much of the material as possible. It's taking a while, which is why people might have noticed that since Friday night, it's like a bit of a drip feed because stuff is just coming up. We're searching particular terms in all of the documents. We're checking the photos, the images, the receipts, the emails, everything we can find.

So it's not going to be an easy process.

And I think in the days ahead, things are just going to continue emerging.

And also, Daniela, it's not like a database where you can do a quick control F of things.

It's loads and loads of PDFs and zip files that you have to download from the website.

And they're just called things like e143444467.

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