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
Whether they are in their position is unclear at the moment. there will be many questions about what that evidence is and what the story is. it s had a huge impact on many bbc presenters who have found themselves being accused of social media and there is also an investigation, another by the met police looking at it about the question about malicious communication, ie tweets. thinking it is this person or that person. nicky campbell and jeremy vine are two of them, too on their programme today addressing the fact that they had been identified by people entirely incorrectly, entirely wrongly but their reputations torn through the mud. this is enveloping people at the moment and this question here asks many questions of the sun s original
Who has issued a statement in the last few hours. it says: in response, the sun has issued a statement. currently the bbc does not know the identity of this young person nor has it seen the sun s evidence. but bbc managers have spoken today to the metropolitan police who say they are assessing the information and taking a view on whether to open an investigation.
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