of thousands of pounds to a teenager, in return for sexually explicit photographs. the corporation, which was told by the young person s family about the allegations back in may, says new information came to light on thursday, and it s now investigating all the claims. the bbc is now in touch with the family. and in the last few minutes, the sun newspaper has printed claims, the presenter, contacted the family, in recent days. our media editor, katie razzall reports. for the best part of 48 hours. the bbc has been splashed across many of the front pages. today was an attempt to prove it hadn t been slow to act in the face of a serious complaint, an effort to take control of the narrative. this afternoon, the bbc announced it has suspended the still unnamed presenter at the heart of the allegations and also contacted the police. the bbc first became aware of a complaint in may, it said in a statement. new allegations were put to us on thursday of a different nature. and in add
have an answer when asked about the incident today. but white house press secretary karine jean-pierre did at least try to come up with an explanation. take a look. the president and the first lady and their family were not here this weekend as you all reported on this and as you also know they left on friday and returned just yesterday. where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing i should be more specific west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the secret service. this is in their purview and we will allow certainly the investigation to continue. we have confidence the secret service will get to the bottom of this. for their part the mainstream media found the whole situation a little ridiculous. check this out. i can t even fathom anything like this having been found before in the west wing and i go back to the 70s. this is pretty wild. i wo
of building. have a good weekend, my friend. see you next week. all right, we are now the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign season, six months out from 2024, and in a confluence events this week, yesterday in fact, rex exactly two and a half years since the january 6th attack on the capital. it s humbling for our country, for our democracy, that the twice impeached, twice criminally indicted so far donald trump is the undisputed presidential front runner of the republican party. i don t know that on january 7th, 2021, right after all the republicans who mattered had condemned donald trump s role in the attempted insurrection, that we thought we would be here a year and a half later. we are very far away from the republican party returning to normal, perhaps even knowing what normal is. we are very far away from an america where both of the two majority political parties respect the system and stand up for democracy. we know where donald trump stands on demo
the conditions exists for the return of the northern ireland power sharing executive and indicated he expects the assembly to sit on saturday. we ve seen just a number of moves through the last couple of days. we saw legislation late in the house of commons. now the dup leader says he s written to the dup leader says he s written to the speaker of the stormont assembly, saying the conditions now exist for the return power sharing in northern ireland, expected to start on saturday. we ll have a full live coverage of that. i really significant moment with the return of power sharing in northern ireland. more on that breaking development here in the next little while. let s head to the us. the defence secretary lloyd austin has called on iran to stop supplying weapons to the houthi rebels in yemen. speaking at the pentagon, he said the us does not want a wider middle east conflict, but it reserves the right to respond to iranian backed attacks on american personnel in the region
greetings, everyone. i m simone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. tonight, new details on the fbi search nearly one year ago for government documents that donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. just hours ago, the justice department unsealed more of the search warrant application that allowed agents to enter trump s florida home. it includes a previously unseen about oh showing 61 boxes piled up in one storage room, the document notes it was trump s practice to store accumulated documents in boxes. quote, video footage reflects that evidence has been moved recently. it also says someone identified only as witness five was seen on multiple days, carrying boxes in and out of one area. that witness has since been named as trump s aide, and codefendant bolton auto. he said to be arraigned in federal court in miami tomorrow. trump has already pleaded not guilty to more than two dozen counts related to his handling of classified material. now, even as jack smith is preparing to t