all the events so far. on friday, 19th may, according to the sun newspaper, the young person s family complained to the bbc about one of its presenters. on thursday, 6thjuly, allegations of a different nature were put to the bbc, according to director general tim davie. the next day, the sun publishes claims that a bbc presenter paid a teenager £35,000 for sexually explicit photos. on saturday, 8thjuly, the sun on sunday publishes more details of the presenter s alleged actions. and today, the bbc confirms a presenter has been suspended and the corporation is in touch with police, with the met confirming an initial contact has been received. our legal correspondent dominic casciani has answered some of the questions about this case. effectively, if you go on social media this weekend, there have been two burning questions. firstly, has there been a crime that s been committed? and secondly, why hasn t this individual been named? so let s go through these in turn has an
we can t have these conversations without you, so i know you are juggling a lot of things. but thank you very much for making some time to talk to us. we re grateful. e time to talk to us we re grateful . ,. . it to the to th according to russian state media, the criminal case against yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner group, a private mercenary army in russia critical to russia s ability to wage war in ukraine, will be dropped. that s what they re saying at least. and he will be an exile in belarus. so far, it is not clear if you will actually give up leadership or commands of the wagner group. but he sent a voice note signaling that his forces would stand down. that order comes after a day of putin back negotiations with prigozhin to avoid russian losses inside russian territory. with promises of safety guarantees for the wagner fighters. until just a few hours ago, wagner forces were marching toward moscow. appearing to be ready to wage an armed result against
extinction of humans. many top experts have signed a statement warning of the risks of artificial intelligence, and this is what that wording says. the g7 groups, eu, us can have all been holding meetings trying to work out how to tackle the challenges. i had been speaking to stephanie, a technology ethics researcher about the current risks posed by ai. we are the current risks posed by ai. , are talking but what they re doing to stop these risks from manifesting. so they are still building this technology. they are not saying they are going to stop building it, they are building it. they are still seeking investment, and this investment is in the tune of multiple billions of dollars. so that s not really a mitigation strategy, is at? without wishing to disrespect people on the list who are serious people and i ve listened to, there are a lot of people who are not on that list were also very serious thinkers into our warning a very different risks, not the sort of science fic
our diplomatic correspondent, james landale is in kyiv. today s strikes were unusual for two reasons one, because they came in the daylight, and secondly, because they appeared to be targeted here at the centre of the city. until now, most of the air strikes came at night and they were targeted at the outskirts, at national infrastructure and some of the air defences itself. so the authorities said they managed to shoot down 11 ballistic and cruise missiles. of course, that meant that there was a lot of debris that came from the skies, landing on the ground, damaging some buildings. but miraculously, there were reports ofjust a few injuries. so what we re seeing is an uptick in tempo of this conflict. russia is putting more pressure on the capital here in kyiv, but it s also striking military targets elsewhere. ukraine admitted rarely that one of their military facilities in the west of the country had been targeted, an oil depot set on fire, some aircraft damage. at th
we begin a warning from president biden that sanctions may be imposed on uganda after new anti homosexuality legislation was signed into law by president yoweri musveeni. in a statement, joe biden said. in the uk, the government also condemned the new law, saying. homosexual acts were already illegal in uganda, but now anyone convicted of having gay sex faces life imprisonment. our north america correspondent david willis told me more about what president biden had to say on the new law. the reaction from the white house has been very stern indeed, a five paragraph statement release condemning the passage of this law in uganda and warning of possible sanctions, warning as well of a possible barring of ugandan officials involved in implementing these sort of laws from accessing the united states of america. there is a particular concern here, and that is also been expressed by the us state department in a separate statement, about the impact of this law could have on advances