with the police now involved, the met has asked the bbc to pause its own investigation, but the corporation does feel damaged by the story. i think the bbc is often in the midst of quite painful and difficult affairs and storms. and i think one thing i would say is these are damaging, these are clearly damaging to the bbc. it is not a good situation. there have now been days of headlines and media attention. but no real sign that the story is reaching an end. here s our legal correspondent dominic casciani. with the metropolitan police have asked the bbc to pause its internal investigation process and that puts flesh on the balance of what we knew about the involvement of the police which yesterday revolved around a very abline statement that they were scoping out what was going on. scotland yard i sang do not do anything else and that indicates that they are taking it seriously
that they approach the bbc after they d gone to the police and also sat in the newspaper that they told the bbc, the police had told them nothing illegal had gone on. there has been continued scrutiny of the reporting in the sun especially since the letter arrived yesterday and i do think that they ve got questions to answer not least that they approach the young person for comment as they prepared to report their story because the young person is always said they did not. and what evidence do they have two capital allocations and why that not name the presenter. we ask them for an interview and we are waiting for answers but we have not got them as yet. but in the end whatever the facts are, at the heart of this there appears to be a family and trauma who say that they desperately trying to protect a young person that they claim is addicted to drugs and apparently using any money they can to feed a drug habit so it is a sobering thought. can to feed a drug habit so it is a sobering
investigations team who, we are told, felt it didn t involve criminality, but was serious. on the same day, they e mailed the family member, who didn t respond. more than two weeks later, they called the mobile given but the call didn t connect. the case was kept open. a month later, the sun contacted the bbc corporate press office with what the bbc said contained new allegations. after that, with the top executives informed, the complainant interviewed, and the presenter spoken to for the first time, action was swift. it was a difficult situation in which we were not getting a response to attempts to get more information. when the information came to me on the 6th ofjuly, i think we acted very speedily. that action included suspending the presenter. the director general told me today he has not personally spoken to the still unnamed presenter throughout this, but tim davie is still under pressure particularly over how much effort was made to investigate that serious complaint made in
payments, there are tips on saving money in the tackling it together section of the bbc website. just head to bbc.co.uk/new or use the bbc app. you can also use the bbc news app. president zelensky has accused nato of weakness and uncertainty, over the reluctance of some members to set a timetable for ukraine to join the nato alliance. nato leaders meeting in lithuania have agreed to invite ukraine tojoin when certain conditions are met. nato s secretary generaljens stoltenberg said the alliance had never sent a stronger political and practical message to ukraine about its path to membership but made clear that ukraine could notjoin while it was at war with russia. our europe editor, katya adler, is at the summit in vilnius. katya. this is hardly the show of absolute unity over ukraine at night i was hoping for at its summit. it knows overin hoping for at its summit. it knows over in moscow vladimir putin is watching things here extremely
concern. clearly the young person does not want any name out there as the lawyer has said. we have got a new line tonight about a second person, does that strengthen the case to name the presenter, some would say perhaps. but there has been no formal complaint to the bbc or to the police that we know of and we do not know the presenter s seidl story. so if the police do not choose to name and the newspaper wants to go further than that comes down to whether they think it will go to an injunction. an down to whether they think it will go to an injunction. down to whether they think it will go to an injunction. go to an in unction. an we have got more go to an injunction. an we have got more information go to an injunction. an we have got more information today? go to an injunction. an we have got more information today? we - go to an injunction. an we have got more information today? we have. more information today? we have toda a more information today? we have today a uk more i