This programme cOntinues On bbc One. Thanks very much. A hot One today across england and wales, increasing humidity. We saw temperatures reach 30 celsius in a number of locatiOns in central Huw Edwards is cOnvicted of possessing images of the most serious Sexual Abuse of children. TOnight, newsnight can reveal that the Bbc News knew nine mOnths ago the nature of that investigatiOn. And hamass Political Leader is assassinated in tehran. Benjamin netanyahu says israel has delivered a crushing blow to irans proxies. Could it lead to all out war . Good evening. Welcome to newsnight, the home of insights and interviews. Its hard to comprehend that a former colleague, who for years had been the most prominent figure in Bbc News, was today in court admitting three charges of possessing 41 indecent images of children. Seven of them involved the most serious abuse, two of them picturing children as young as seven. Hell be sentenced in september. But tOnight it is the bbc in the dock. Newsnight
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