Veteran US broadcaster Charlie Rose axed over sexual misconduct claim

The American broadcasting giant CBS News has fired veteran journalist Charlie Rose after several women accused him of sexual misconduct.

Rose has been one of three hosts of CBS This Morning since 2012 and is also a contributor to 60 Minutes.

PBS and Bloomberg also suspended airings of Rose's nightly interview show after the Washington Post published an article Monday about women who said he groped and walked around naked in front of them.

CBS had already suspended him.

Rose's co-hosts on the morning show, Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell, were sharply critical of their colleague on Tuesday.

King said the allegations did not fit the Rose she knew, but that "I'm clearly on the side of the women who have been very hurt and damaged by this."