ping up goodbye to one area another one will ping up out of nowhere to move back across the uk. it is that repeating pattern we will see over the next few days and it s exactly why the weather is this damage was all so preventable. this programme continues on bbc one. for sexually explicit pictures. tonight, lawyers for the individual say the claims in the newspaper are rubbish . the bbc has been on the back foot for days, the sun is standing by its story, the high profile star remains unamed officially, and we don t know how the young person at the heart of this story is. where does all this leave the corporation and its bosses a question we have asked before in recent months and years, surely they have learned from previous scandals? tonight we ll talk to alison hastings, former chair of the bbc s editorial standards committee who s dealt with a number of bbc scandals, and top agentjonathan shallit. also tonight, as temperature records are broken around the world, we ll
why a spoonful for babies may help prevent allergic reactions. welcome to world news america, in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. we start with the news that the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for russia s president vladimir putin, in connection with alleged war crimes in ukraine. along with the head of russia s children s commission , mr putin is accused of forcibly deporting children to russia. the court said there were reasonable grounds to believe the russian president bore individual criminal responsibility for such deportations, which, it says, started soon after moscow launched its full scale invasion of ukraine nearly 13 months ago. let s have a listen. here is the president of the icc making the announcement. this is an important moment in the process ofjustice before the icc the judges have reviewed the information and evidence submitted by the prosecutor and determined that there are credible allegations against these persons for th
legally carry firearms in public. counting is underway in two key uk by elections for the conservative party, in the first test of voters opinions since the partygate scandal. we will have live updates ahead on the programme but for now, a quick check of more news making headlines. ukraine moves a step closer tojoining the european union as it s given official candidate status. and how a heroic coach made a dramatic rescue after a swimmer fainted to the bottom of the pool at the world aquatics championships in budapest. asi as i swam as fast as i could to grab her and pull as i swam as fast as i could to grab herand pull up as i swam as fast as i could to grab her and pull up to the surface, and once i pull her up, so i wasjust, my goal was only to make her breathe. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. taliban officials in afghanistan say the main search for survivors from wednesday s devastating earthquake in the south
we will have showers around but it will not be a wash out with some usable weather around but the same picture for sunday and monday, with most of the showers in western areas. if you are heading to glastonbury, pressure and breezy. back to you. thanks, helen. and that s bbc news at six on thursday 23rd june. the news continues here on bbc one as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodnight. hello, thanks forjoining us on sportsday this evening. the wickets all count for england, however you take them. we ll be live at headingley on day one of the third and final test between england and new zealand. jack draper comes out on top in the battle of the brits at eastbourne, but did any of the others have much to celebrate in the last eight? and we ll look ahead to northern ireland s only warm up match ahead of next month s women s euros. and that s not all. we ll bring you the story ofjeremy so on, hoping to strike it b
vote to go on strike. in afghanistan, the taliban say the search for survivors has been called off, just a day after a devastating earthquake which is thought to have killed more than a thousand people. the earthquake struck early on wednesday about 44 kilometres from the city of khost. heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication network have hampered relief efforts in paktika province the worst hit area. our kabul correspondent secunder kirmani is there, and sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in the earthquake as they slept, as well as his two wives. when the roof fell down, what did you do? translation: i ran toward my family, but everything was under the rubble, even my shovel, so i couldn t do anything. i shouted to my cousins, but when we took my family out, they were already dead. it s a three hour drive to the nearest big city from the wor