chief says turkey s president erdogan has now agreed to support sweden s bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. it s clears the last major hurdle for sweden s accession. let s take a listen to what the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has been finalised or finland, finland is already a full member and now president erdogan has indicated they are ready to ratify sweden. our correspondent lewis vaughanjones has been following developments in vilnius. it seems this nato summit here in vilnius will be getting under way after a very significant concrete achievement. ian s stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. ,jens. why is that so significant? within nato, each a
aged 20 , has claimed via a lawyer that nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place, and that the claims that first emerged in the sun newspaper are rubbish , and an invasion of their privacy. the sun says it stands by its story. meanwhile, the metropolitan police say they are making further inquiries but there is currently no investigation under way. the male presenter, who has been suspended, has not been named. here s our media editor katie razzall. for the first time at the bbc we ve had our own person talking to the person involved in this. they told us that the story as reported by the sun is untrue. now the sun says there is something quite another. the pants had to stand by their account and an interview say we did this to help, and that the presenter has got into their loved ones had come as they put it. the claims tonight on behalf of that empress are not true and they accused the bbc of lying about what happened when they made their complaint. so where
it s emerged vladimir putin met the head of the wagner mercenary group days after he led a failed mutiny. the parents who made claims that a bbc presenter paid their teenager for explicit photos stand by their allegations, despite a lawyerfor the now 20 year old saying the claims are rubbish . and a scanning method involving a see through mouse that could revolutionise the testing of cancer drugs. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news. in europe, there ve been some major developments ahead of a nato summit in lithuania. the alliance s
turkey s president backs sweden s membership of the nato alliance after resisting for many months. it s emerged vladimir putin met the head of the wagner mercenary group days after he led a failed mutiny. and a scanning method involving a see through mouse that could revolutionise the testing of cancer drugs. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. more information has emerged concerning allegations that a bbc presenter paid a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit images. the young person, now