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
it is a location that s just steps away from the highlysitivs sensitive situation room, where some of the nation s top secret likemissions, like the raid on e laden, take place. house republicans openinpuing up their own investigation, calling the events shameful. but national adviser jakesulv sullivan says there is no needan to worry n. n beee situation room is not i use and has not been in use fors months because it is currently under construction. the only people comingtr. inthis and going out of the sit room p in this period have been workers who are getting it ready to go. things got super tense inng . the room. the white house asked point blank if the cocaine belonge tod the biden family. that question did not go over well with press secretarion diy karine jean-pierre. i can just say once and for aly karinel or not, the cocaineh belonged to the biden family. dibiden fad not avoiding the qu. that is not true. we ve answered this questionrue litigated this question
make their last minute pitches across the state. this is the second in a series of state by state contests with donald trump and nikki haley fighting for their party s presidential nomination. that prize will pit them against the democratic choice in november, almost certainly presidentjoe biden. but with a cost of living crisis hitting many americans what are these two candidates saying about economic policy? dr thomas gift is director of the centre on us politics at university college london good to see you again. when it comes to policy it is hard to find what these two are saying at the moment? it find what these two are saying at the moment? at the moment? it is terrific to talk to at the moment? it is terrific to talk to you at the moment? it is terrific to talk to you as at the moment? it is terrific to talk to you as always. - at the moment? it is terrific i to talk to you as always. there is not a whole lot of discussion in terms of policy about the us economy