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
allegations. this young person was first contacted anonymously by the bbc presenter via a dating app who claims the presenter sent menacing messages. early i spoke to our correspondence correspondence lucy. this is a different person correspondence lucy. this is a different person to correspondence lucy. this is a different person to the - correspondence lucy. this is a different person to the one . correspondence lucy. this is a| different person to the one the correspondence lucy. this is a - different person to the one the sun has reported about. this individual was in her early 20s and was contacted a not to be micro. have to two had connected on the up the conversation moved to private messaging. the young person has told the bbc news that they were surprised to find out who the presenter was when he revealed his identity and the presenter told the young person not to tell anyone. the young person not to tell anyone. the young person not to tell anyone. the young pe
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with incidents in the weeks leading up to her death. and one month since the devastating earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria conditions are still desperate. we begin with the war in ukraine. the country s president, volodymyr zelensky, says military commanders support digging in further, and continuing to defend the eastern city of bakhmut. it follows reports ukrainian troops may have been preparing to withdraw from the city, which russia has been trying to capture for months. fierce fighting is seeing battles happening from street to street. this is where bakhmut is located. the all out assault here by russia has led to the loss of many thousands of men, that s despite the us pentagon saying victory is of little strategic importance. lets dive deeper, here s a detailed picture of the current situation from the think tank, the institute for the study of war. you can see bakhmut in the large circle in the top right of the screen. the red shaded a