leaders from the g7 group of wealthy nations have announced a new security pact with ukraine. the deal s been signed at a meeting of the military alliance in lithuania. those security commitments are a broad international framework to deliver modern advanced military equipment, such as fighter jets, training, and intelligence sharing. it s been welcomed by president zelensky who has swallowed his disappointment at the lack a of a timetable for ukraine tojoin nato. welcome to you, president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky. our dear friend volodymyr zelensky, president of ukraine, welcome to you, volodymyr, it s good to have you here. applause ukraine may not yet be a member of nato, not by a long way. but today, it was embraced, almost, as one of their own, taking part in a new council where kyiv can raise concerns on an equal footing. translation: we ve discussed in detail the confrontation - with russia and what can be done to keep ukrainians safer. we re grateful to our partn
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
do need to reflect, president erdogan can t make a decision on his own. he now refers it on to parliament, who has to then pass it. but he has agreed to work with parliament to make sure that does happen. it s interesting when you look at some of these issues that erdogan previously raised things like pkk, a group that he and many of you as a terrorist organisation, saying sweden wasn t doing enough many view. there s issues around things like fighterjets to resume herfinished resume purchase from the us. with the issue ofjoining the us. with the issue ofjoining the eu, it took a separate organisation, was thrown into the mix as well. all those issues feeding into the potential delay in accession, but we don t know the details of how exactly, but it seems sweden will go the way of finland. during those, both countries spoke at the same time. life spoke to the finnish foreign minister, and she told me she always viewed this very much as a joint process. it was sweden a