President that voted to impeach him. The fact that this is happening just hours after leaders of that party paid tribute to one of the victims of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. Where his remains lie in honor, they decide what to do with freshman congresswoman margry Taylor Greene. Shes the Qanon Conspiracy Fan who called School Shootings false flag operations and questioned whether the plane hit on 9 11 and what caused the California Wildfires like social media posts calling for the execution of Top Democrats and fraud lies to the hilt. Democrats want republicans to strip her of her Committee Assignments including a seat on the house education and labor committee. Theyre threatening to bring the matter to the house tomorrow if republicans dont and its not just democrats upset about her there are republicans, conservatives like kevin cramer. She is very extreme to say the least. The antisemitism, ive never seen anything quite like it. The antisemitism, School Shootings arent
currently we have got some rain pushing across the south east, clearing through this morning. behind it, a mixture of sunshine and showers, some of the showers heavy and thundery in northern and central scotland. another breezy day. details later. the parents of a young person at the heart of allegations against a bbc presenter are standing by their account, according the sun newspaper, after a lawyer representing the individual said their claims were rubbish. the newspaper first reported that the unnamed presenter had allegedly paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos last week. our correspondent charlotte gallagher has the latest. after days of damaging headlines, allegations and rumours, this story of a bbc presenter allegedly paying thousands for sexually explicit images is still dominating front pages. now a statement on behalf of the young person at the centre of this. they ve called the allegations, by their mother, rubbish. their lawyer says, nothing inappropriat
things did suddenly pick up and kick in from last thursday when the sun reported it, but when you look at the timeline, the question is partly because the bbc said the sun s report contained new allegations what was the initial complaint? in terms of the situation we ve got on our hands, i want to say one thing upfront, which is you are balancing serious allegations, duty of care, privacy issues and legitimate public interests, and how do you navigate that fairly, calmly and do due diligence? i ve given a bit of context to a few people in terms of the numbers of issues we get coming into our corporate investigations unit. over six months, that will be about 250 and you take those and they are the serious complaints that are coming through of all different types. what happens is we have an outstanding corporate investigations team, they re very experienced, they assess the complaint. i m not going to go into the absolute specifics because of privacy concerns. i understand th
allegations. this young person was first contacted anonymously by the bbc presenter via a dating app who claims the presenter sent menacing messages. early i spoke to our correspondence correspondence lucy. this is a different person correspondence lucy. this is a different person to correspondence lucy. this is a different person to the - correspondence lucy. this is a different person to the one . correspondence lucy. this is a| different person to the one the correspondence lucy. this is a - different person to the one the sun has reported about. this individual was in her early 20s and was contacted a not to be micro. have to two had connected on the up the conversation moved to private messaging. the young person has told the bbc news that they were surprised to find out who the presenter was when he revealed his identity and the presenter told the young person not to tell anyone. the young person not to tell anyone. the young person not to tell anyone. the young pe
we began this weekend with the voting rights march in selma, alabama. commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. a short time ago, president biden laid a crowd of hundreds across the edmund pettus bridge. we re still rights leaders were brutally beaten by police on march 7th, 1965. biden was also issuing a call to action as dozens of states pass voting rights protections. salma is a reckoning. a right to vote. a right to vote, to have your vote counted. it s the threshold of democracy and liberty. with that anything is possible. without it, without that right, nothing is possible. and this fundamental right remains under assault. in january, i signed electoral reform acts to protect the will of the people and the people transferring the transfer of power. we know that we must get the vote in congress. to pass the john lewis voting rights advancement act. let s get right to sell not where we find nbc news correspondent antonia hylton. good to see you, this is a