Released on 2 December in the UK

In a video posted by Lao Ban Lian Bo on the Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo, it shows a comment posted likely by someone who is involved in the company’s recruiting process that says the alleged predator surnamed Wang, also known as Quyi was one of their candidates who passed the first round of the interview not long before the incident.

“The interviewer and HR knew nothing about what would happen at the time,” it continues, “after looking into the situation, we have immediately updated our talent pool and terminated the screening process for him indefinitely.

“Should there be any breaking of the law or immoral behaviours, we will add him to our blacklists and ban him permanently.”

The video has so far drawn more than 760,000 views.

ByteDance confirmed what was said in the comment to Southern Metropolis Daily.

The China’s biggest online commerce firm is in hot water after one of its female employees accused her line manager of sexual assault during a business trip in Jinan between 27-28 July, to which the accuser claims she declined at first due to the extreme weather brought out by storm Yanhua in Hangzhou. But she agreed in the end out of “pressure” from the manager.

In an 8,000-word letter written by the accuser, she recounted the incident, including surveillance footage she viewed with Jinan police, which shows Quyi had entered her room in a hotel four times when she blanked out after being forced to drink with clients during the dinner. The footage shows the longest time Quyi stayed in her room was 20 minutes.

Quyi denied any unconsented behaviours during a police interview, claiming he was "lured" by the woman.

The alleged victim also accused a client of molesting her during the dinner and several other senior staff at Alibaba of trying to cover it up after she reported Quyi’s behaviours to them.

The woman published the letter via an internal staff platform and started distributing handouts demanding justice at the company’s cafeteria last Saturday after the senior manager and human resources department failed to take action instead of trying to silence her through “lies and threats” since she reported the incident on 2nd August.

On Sunday, Alibaba’s CEO Zhang Yong said he was “shocked, angry and ashamed” and promised to get to the bottom of it. The company announced the dismissal of the manager accused of rape on Monday and the resignation of two other staff members including a human resources manager involved in dealing with the allegations.

However, this move has been too late to save the company from criticism over its handling of the scandal. More than 6,000 Alibaba employees signed a petition calling for building up anti-sexual harassment mechanisms at the workplace and demanding the company's culture where drinking with clients has been a "tradition" for business negotiations to be changed.

Mr Zelensky said the bodies of civilians and soldiers had been found.

The BBC has been unable to verify the allegations. Moscow denies its troops intentionally target civilians.

Meanwhile Ukrainian authorities imposed an overnight curfew and restricted travel in and out of Kherson.

"In the Kherson region, the Russian army left behind the same atrocities as in other regions of our country, where it was able to enter," Mr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

"We will find and bring to justice every murderer. Without a doubt."

Since the start of the war, mass graves have been found in areas including Bucha, Izyum and Mariupol. Ukraine has accused Russian troops of being behind the atrocities.

A UN commission last month said that war crimes had been committed in Ukraine and that Russian forces were responsible for the "vast majority" of human rights violations at the start of the invasion.

• Inside Kherson: Joy, tears - and talk of justice

Kherson was the only regional capital to be captured by Russia since the February invasion of Ukraine.

The region, along with three others, was proclaimed by President Vladimir Putin to be part of Russia, at a ceremony in the Kremlin in September.

But Kherson city was liberated by Ukrainian troops on Friday. Crowds of flag-waving Ukrainians greeted Kyiv's soldiers with hugs and kisses.

Officials have returned to run Kherson's administration after the retreat of some 30,000 Russian occupation troops.

Ukrainians see it as a major national victory and humiliation for the Kremlin, on a par with the Russian withdrawal from the Kyiv suburbs in March.

Wearing my lovely new walking boots, I suddenly realise I have stumbled on a "midden" - a pungent pile of rhinoceros poo. With every gust of wind I get a fresh whiff.

I am at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy - a 90,000-acre wild animal sanctuary on the equator in Kenya. The keepers there let me reach out and touch the skin of a rhino called Baraka. Like me, Baraka is blind

His skin is not as smooth and lizard-like as I expected it to be - it feels rough, like cardboard.

He lost his right eye in a fight with another rhino - and a cataract stops him from seeing out of his left eye. He has to be kept alone because other rhinos would attack him - and his keepers tell me he can be nervous about moving around. Trees in his big enclosure have damaged trunks and broken branches, from where he has walked into them.

I sympathise with him. I was also nervous when I was asked to travel halfway around the world on a trip which, for most people, would be the opportunity of a lifetime

Not only would it be very different from my usual life of advocacy work for the UK's blind and partially sighted community - both in person and on YouTube - but it would also mean leaving behind my beloved guide dog, Molly.