Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. The head of the security service, mi5, has given a rare public Speech Warning that russia is on a mission to bring mayhem to The Streets of the uk. Ken mccallum says there has been a marked rise in the threat from Russia And Iran. And he spoke of a staggering rise in children being investigated for terrorism with very young people are being drawn into what he called poisonous online extremism. Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner reports. State back to sabotage and other plots in britain late today at the door of Iran And Russia according to mis. Door of Iran And Russia according to mi5. From the russian embassy In London the last remaining military Intelligence Officer has been expeued Intelligence Officer has been expelled This year. But russian State Subversion according to mi5 continues. The gru, the same russian organisation are blamed for the 2018 salisbury Nerve Agent Attack is on a mission to generate mayhem on british and Eu
Hello. Welcome to the programme. Lets begin with some breaking news. In the past hour, the Israeli Army says its struck Hezbollah Fighters inside a mosque in the south of the country. Hezbollah fighters are also said to be engaged in fierce clashes with israeli troops in lebanons Southern Border area. There have also been more explosions in the Hezbollah Dominated Suburbs of the lebanese capital, beirut. It comes just hours after the Israeli Army issued an Evacuation Order for dozens of areas in the city. An Apartment Building was hit in the Northern Port Of Tripoli where a hamas commander, saeed atallah, was reportedly killed, along with three members of his family. This is the scene live in beirut. As you can see in the distance, smoke continues to hang in the air as we have seen fresh strikes targeting the lebanese capital through the night. Our reporter Will Vernon has more. At lebanons capital, pummelled by explosions yet again. This was the scene overnight, one Week on since the
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contacted anonymously by the bbc presenter via a dating app and claims the presenter then sent menacing messages. our special correspondent lucy manning has the story and she s with me now. to be clear, this is a different young person to the one the sun has reported about. this individual was first contacted by the mail presenter on a dating app and after the two had connected on the app, the two had connected on the app, the conversation moved to private messaging and the young person has told bbc news they were surprised to find out who the presenter was when he revealed his identity and a presenter told the young person not to tell anyone. but the young person has told us that they felt they were put under repeated requests and pressure to meet up. they did in fact never meet up. later, the young person alluded online to the fact that they were having contact with the bbc presenter and they implied that online, they might name him at some point. the presenter reacted by
to a teenager for explicit photos. the bbc has released new details of its investigation into the claims. it says just two attempts were made over several weeks to contact the family concerned. the bbc s director general tim davie confirmed that the unnamed presenter was not spoken to about the issue until seven weeks after the initial complaint when new information had emerged. he also conceded, that the allegations had been clearly damaging . the bbc has been asked to pause its investigation by police while they make further inquiries. on may 18th, the complainant went to a bbc building to make the initial allegation. the following day, the complaint was assessed by the bbc s corporate investigations team. that team decided that the complaint did not include an allegation of criminality, but nonetheless merited further investigation. also on may 19th, the bbc says it emailed the complainant but received no response. untiljune 6th when the bbc says it made a phone call to t