chief says turkey s president erdogan has now agreed to support sweden s bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. it s clears the last major hurdle for sweden s accession. let s take a listen to what the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has been finalised or finland, finland is already a full member and now president erdogan has indicated they are ready to ratify sweden. our correspondent lewis vaughanjones has been following developments in vilnius. it seems this nato summit here in vilnius will be getting under way after a very significant concrete achievement. ian s stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. ,jens. why is that so significant? within nato, each a
aged 20 , has claimed via a lawyer that nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place, and that the claims that first emerged in the sun newspaper are rubbish , and an invasion of their privacy. the sun says it stands by its story. meanwhile, the metropolitan police say they are making further inquiries but there is currently no investigation under way. the male presenter, who has been suspended, has not been named. here s our media editor katie razzall. for the first time at the bbc we ve had our own person talking to the person involved in this. they told us that the story as reported by the sun is untrue. now the sun says there is something quite another. the pants had to stand by their account and an interview say we did this to help, and that the presenter has got into their loved ones had come as they put it. the claims tonight on behalf of that empress are not true and they accused the bbc of lying about what happened when they made their complaint. so where
News oscar becomes the seventh most expensive footballer in history after a £60 million move from chelsea to Shanghai Sipg is agreed. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Anis amri the suspect in the berlin Christmas Market lorry attack has been shot dead in milan. Italian Officials Say amri opened fire on police who asked him for id during a routine patrol in the city. One Italian Police officer was shot and injured. The italian Authorities Say the fingerprints of the dead man match those found on the Steering Wheel of a lorry which drove at shoppers at a Christmas Market, killing twelve people and injuring dozens more. Our correspondent Angus Crawford reports. The body of anis amri lies on a milan street. His last act, to pull a gun from his backpack and shoot out police. His last words, god is great. The question for the authorities is how did he evade one of the biggest manhunts in german history and make it italy . Look in the doorway. This is thought to be amri jus
report, with the corporation in the eye of a storm. our legal correspondent dominic cashiani has been looking into the letter from the young person s lawyer as well as the sun s latest article. i think it is a really, really important development in the story as is the latest story tonight. the law of privacy is there to effectively protect reputations and careers and futures from undue harm which is because there are things in our private life which are private to us and if you analyse this, what they are saying on behalf of their client, this is not a modest high street phone, they are saying there is a breach of privacy here even though the individual has not been named
there is, they added, no investigation at this time. until it is clearer, until we have a greater knowledge from possibly the police, the bbc itself, the alleged victim or the victim s mother, in this case, it is very hard to know exactly what we are criticising the bbc for. the acting bbc chairman is only in her role after the resignation of the politically appointed former chairman richard sharp. now the corporation is at the centre of another crisis. tomorrow, she and the director general, tim davie, will have to face the media as they launch the annual report, with the corporation in the eye of a storm. our legal correspondent dominic cashiani has been looking into the letter from the young person s lawyer as well as the sun s latest article. i think it is a really, really important development in this story as as the son s latest story as as the son s latest story tonight, sun. the law of privacy is there to effectively protect reputations and careers and futures from