pung shwai once dominated the tennis doubles world — winning wimbledon and the french open. she was also in an extramartial relationship with this man, jung gao—li, he was at the very top of china's ruling communist party. but in this lengthy post on the chinese social media site weibo, pung shwai says he forced her into unconsensual sex at his home. the post was immediately taken down. here's our china media analyst kerry allen. there was a post yesterday that was made on pung shwai's weibo account, weibo being china's version of say facebook or twitter. and it was a long post, and in this post she claimed thatjung gao—li, who was a former vice premier, a very senior figure under president xijinping, had forced her into having relations. she said in this post as well that she has no evidence to back up these claims, but this post and now has seemingly been taken down or has been censored because it no longer exists. but there is evidence on weibo that this post racked up 100,000 views and thousands of comments, and there is evidence today i've seen on weibo that a very

weibo, pung shwai says he forced her into unconsensual sex at his home. the post was immediately taken down. here's our china media analyst kerry allen. there was a post yesterday that was made on her weibo account, it was a long post and in this post she claimed that the former brace for your come every senior figure under president xijinping had your come every senior figure under president xi jinping had forced her into having relations. she said in this post she has no evidence to back up these claims, but this post now has seemingly been taken down or censored because it no longer exists. but there is evidence on weibo that this post wrapped up 100,000 views and thousands of comments. and there's evidence of very tight attempt to stop people from other circulating this news or talking about it. she almost kind of, i don't want to speculate on the post, but she does say that her memory of it is confused and that she does not... a lot of people have perceived that she doesn't have a lot of hope of taking this any further but nevertheless it's opened up

more international tennis stars have expressed concern over chinese tennis player pung shway. —— peng shuai. she has not been seen since she accused a senior chinese state official of sexually assaulting her. the british government has announced its scaleing back its high—speed rail plans in the north of england, but says an alternative scheme will benefit travellers sooner. the opposition labour party has called the move "a betrayal of the north."

more international tennis stars have expressed concern over chinese tennis player pung shway. —— peng shuai. she has not been seen since she accused a senior chinese state official of sexually assaulting her. the british government has announced its scaleing back its high—speed rail plans in the north of england, but says an alternative scheme will benefit travellers sooner. the opposition labour party has called the move "a betrayal of the north." hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are author and journalist yasmin alibhai—brown, and john stevens, who's the deputy political editor at the daily mail. tamara's front pages, let's get stuck in. dashed tomorrow's front pages. the mirror — like most of tomorrow's front pages — has reaction to the government's decision to scrap the eastern leg of the h52 high—speed rail line. the paper says the conservatives had previously pledged to build the service 60 times. well, as part of those revised rail plans, the yorkshire post is reporting that the county will getjust two miles

it has been nearly three weeks since chinese tennis star pung-shwai disappeared from officials she claimed she was assaulted. now she's back, sort of. their president had a video call with her, but that call is raising even more questions. will is in taipei, but will, what do we make of the video call? can we assume pung is okay. >> peng shui is speaking, what we don't know is if she's speaking freely. why did these so-called casual videos show the date and time and have people on the video talking about the date and time? it is clear, pamela, that she is being stage managed right now, and based on what we know about the chinese government and the way that they silence and censor and disappear people, she is being silenced by the government itself, by the communist party, after she made these explosive allegations against the former vice premiere, 75 years old. she said on her social media platform with half a million followers that he coerced her to have sex last year. that video was deleted, the entire post has been erased. none of this has been released inside china on china media. all

shway actually wrote the email. part of the email reads... our correspondent robin brant is in shanghai and told us more about the email. it popped up overnight. it is the first communication apparently from peng shuai. it starts with the words, "hello, everyone." even though it was purportedly sent to steve simon, the man in charge of the woman's tennis association. it goes on to say that the allegations made against the vice premier a couple of weeks ago, it says they are false. it says though she is safe, she is not hiding, everything is fine, she says. apparently, in this e—mail attributed to her, she says she is at home, resting. there are suspicions for numerous reasons about the authenticity of this e—mail. it popped up overnight and an image was put up on social media by cgtm, that is one arm of state media here. like i said, the opening words, "hello, everyone" are odd for an e—mail to a single man. there is a cursor as well on one of the lines you can see on the image so that has led to suspicions th