lots to get into this evening including new information concerning the allegations that the bbc present presenter paid a teenager hundreds of thousands of pounds for inappropriate images. the victim claims nothing has taken place. we will get reaction to all that is evening. we will get reaction to all that. joe biden in the uk today en route to a nato summit in lithuania. the president says relations with the uk are rock solid but there are disagreements over ukraine. floods in north america, and they are running out of water in uruguay. the opposing extremes of our changing climate. the un says it is extremely worried about the record high temperatures. all that to come. we are going to start with those allegations made on friday evening that a bbc presenter paid a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit images. the young person, now aged 20, is being represented by a lawyer who has issued a statement in the last few hours. it says: in response, the sun
phillip schofield resigns from itv after acknowledging he had an affair with a younger male colleague from his daytime show. the home office says a nationwide issue with uk border force e gates is creating longer waiting times at passport control at airports across the country. it s understood the problems started on friday evening. there have been reports of long queues at arrivals in several british airports. this picture, tweeted on saturday morning from london heathrow s terminal 5, gives an idea of some of the delays which have been building up. heathrow has issued a statement, saying we are aware of a nationwide issue impacting the egates, which are operated by border force. our teams are working closely with border force to help resolve the problem as quickly as possible. the issue is being felt at all points of entry to the uk notjust aiports. but airport seem worst hit here s london luton. and these were some of the queues at london gatwick. a spokesperson there
a further 400,000 cases and eight deaths from a mysterious fever are reported. a bbc team has uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian soldiers were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. the local police chief has said that more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. 0ur east europe correspondent, sarah rainsford, has been investigating one case in particular. and a warning her report contains some distressing details. this is a place where dark acts were committed. civilians tortured and killed by russian soldiers fighting a war in which they break all the rules, like they do not know them or even care. we were shown underground to where five men were held captive, then shot in the head. in the gloom, we saw the chilling evidence. the men s bodies were found kneel
no pun intended from the other bridge, the kerch bridge, but i think this is a really unproductive move, and i also think it s an opportunity for recep erdogan to try to broker a change. he was just in vilnius remember, and he committed, backed up his suggestion to swedenjoining nato, and he also wants turkey to be part of the eu, if he is a good citizen here and tries to broker a change in russian behaviour, this might help his case. i want to ask you about this black sea grain initiative, because the former nato supreme allied commander tweeted earlier that this raises a risk of a direct confrontation between nato, because nato might decide it actually needs to escort these ships through the black sea. so how should the us and nato respond to this? well, i don t know what nato
sweden, that turkey would drop their opposition to suite joining to swedenjoining nato. by the opposition to suite joining to sweden joining nato. by the time this rolls around next year, the expectation is that sweden will be there. we should see a representative from sweden, the head of state of sweden, in fact, because there will be a meeting of the north atlantic council with sweden. this is in the itinerary plan here. it is clear that sweden is not yet a member, but it is being joined to being invited tojoin member, but it is being joined to being invited to join this member, but it is being joined to being invited tojoin this meeting here, clearsignal of being invited tojoin this meeting here, clear signal of intent and a clear signal of unity with sweden and potentially very soon the one person who won t be joining this