with tucker carlson will air, and there s even the remote possibility that trump could change his mind in the last minute and participate in the debate after all. he technically has until tomorrow to decide. now, regardless of whether or not he shows up, trump s presence is going to be felt, since the issue of his electability in the face of multiple criminal indictments is one of the defining issues of this year s race. on the other hand, the one place where the former president is almost certain to be spotted this week is at the fulton county jail. trump and his 18 other codefendants in georgia s sweeping election interference case had been given until noon on friday to voluntarily surrender to authorities at the atlanta area jail, and sources have told nbc news that the former president will turn himself in right next week. headed by fulton county district attorney fani willis, the expansive racketeering case has already caused ripple effects across the political spectrum.
it isa it is a fresh start for some of this morning. a day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest across scotland, northern england. wherever you are it will be blustery. details coming up later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 12thjuly. further allegations have been made against the unnamed bbc presenter who s been accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs. another young person has told bbc news they were sent abusive messages by the male star, while the sun newspaper claims the presenter broke covid restrictions to meet another individual he met on a dating site. charlotte gallagher has the latest. another day of damaging headlines for the bbc and a male presenter who is still unnamed. this morning s front page of the sun bbc star broke lockdown to meet another young stranger . this individual has told the newspaper the presenter travelled to another county to meet them in february 2021. this was during the third national lockdown. the sun says
iga swiatek, is knocked out as ukraine s elina svitolina reaches the semifinals. good evening. a second young person has made serious allegations about the bbc presenter accused of sending money for sexually explict photographs. bbc news contacted a young person who revealed that they first came into contact with the male presenter on a dating app. our special correspondent lucy manning has the story. tell us what you know? just to be clear that this is a different person to the one who has been written about in the sun . this individual in their early 20s was first contact enormously on a dating up first contact enormously on a dating up by first contact enormously on a dating up by the presenter and after they first connected on the up the conversation moved to private messaging and at this stage the presenter revealed his identity until the young person not to tell anyone. but individual has told bbc news they were surprised to find out who it was. they felt that they wer
things did suddenly pick up and kick in from last thursday when the sun reported it, but when you look at the timeline, the question is partly because the bbc said the sun s report contained new allegations what was the initial complaint? in terms of the situation we ve got on our hands, i want to say one thing upfront, which is you are balancing serious allegations, duty of care, privacy issues and legitimate public interests, and how do you navigate that fairly, calmly and do due diligence? i ve given a bit of context to a few people in terms of the numbers of issues we get coming into our corporate investigations unit. over six months, that will be about 250 and you take those and they are the serious complaints that are coming through of all different types. what happens is we have an outstanding corporate investigations team, they re very experienced, they assess the complaint. i m not going to go into the absolute specifics because of privacy concerns. i understand th
also knighted, the artist grayson perry. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are geri scott, political reporter at the times, and broadcasterjohn stapleton. we will say hello to both in just a moment. first, though, let s take a look at those front pages. the telegraph focuses on the return of covid tests for travellers to the uk from china, amid worries over the spread of the virus. the mail calls the new controls drastic but says they ve been brought in because of concern beijing is withholding data. the times leads with a warning that middle aged people are dying from heart conditions because they didn t get common medication during the pandemic. the express has obtained figures showing more than 700 prisoners have either escaped or been released in error over the last decade. as the year ends, the ft points out how far many stock markets around the world have fallen this year. the mirror looks at the new year hono