president zelensky is accused nature of weakness and uncertainty over the reluctance of some members to set a timetable for ukraine to join the military alliance. nato leaders meeting in lithuania have agreed they can try but only when certain conditions are met. nato secretary general the sun has said the alliance has never sent a stronger political and practical message about partnership but made clear they could notjoin while it was still at war with russia. our europe editor katya adler sent this report from the summit in vilnius. disappointed, volodymyr zelensky put on a brave face today for supporters in the lithuanian capital. translation: i came here today believing in partners, in a nato that does not waste time. ukraine will make nato stronger. nato will make ukraine safer. a very different tone from his tweet earlier in the day, when he blasted the military alliance as absurd and weak for not agreeing a timetable for kyiv to join the club. as confirmed by nato s
programmes and corporation programmes and corporation programmes and that there should be a liaison office somewhere close to these asia pacific partners to facilitate that. france, emmanuel macron of course has stated some ambivalence towards this, given it thinks it might send the wrong message to china, but perhaps also the wrong message to the rest of the region. there are some concerns around an asian nato which is not what this is, but china s message of locked confrontation of military blocks, is one that in certain countries and it is part of the world do bring some levels of concern. ., , concern. veerle nouwens speaking concern. veerle nouwens speaking to concern. veerle nouwens speaking to me concern. veerle nouwens speaking to me a - concern. veerle nouwens speaking to me a little i speaking to me a little earlier. a second set of serious allegations involving a person in their 20s has emerged, relating to the behaviour of the bbc presenter who s accused of sending mo
a major presenter is giving vast amounts of money and turning my child into a drug addict, whether or not it is true, because you can t know at that stage, you have to ring alarm bells like mad. the bbc has now spoken publicly. the sun has not. though it has pushed back on the claims by the lawyer for the young person at the heart of this that its story is rubbish and that nothing inappropriate or unlawful went on between the client and the presenter. today, the sun had the family standing by their story, asking how their loved one could even afford a lawyer. the paper told us it felt the family is being attacked for not understanding the bbc complaints system. with the police now involved, the met has asked the bbc to pause its own investigation, but the corporation does feel damaged by this story. i think the bbc is often in the midst of quite painful and difficult affairs and storms. i think one thing i would say is these are damaging, these are clearly
publicly. vine rememberfelt publicly. vine remember felt the publicly. vine rememberfelt the need to come out at the weekend along with others including nicky campbell to say they aren t, they were not the unnamed presenter. vine says these new allegations today will result in more vitriol being thrown at innocent colleagues, the bbc, he says, which i m sure he, the unnamed centre loves, is on his knees with the. on his knees is in the phrase that tim davie today although he did accept it was difficult. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. bringing you different stories from across the uk stopping hundreds of teenagers in the west midlands faced this dilemma every year, whether or not to carry a knife. in this virtual reality experience developed in birmingham, the oppressor, social media and petty arguments get out of hand stopping these 11 14 year olds from greenwood academy have to decide what to do if knife crime came to their community. after ten minutes they
original allegations from the sun. these new claims of menacing, bullying type behaviour by the high profile presenter suggest fresh questions about his conduct, which is why we feel it is right to report them. bbc news has contacted the presenter and his lawyer but have not had formal response. well, the director general of the bbc, tim davie, defended the corporation s handling of the initial complaint against the presenter. the bbc was first contacted almost eight weeks ago by the family, claiming their child had received money for sexually explicit photos, but the presenter was not spoken to by the corporation until last thursday. our media editor katie razzall reports. the bbc at the centre of a storm. not a good situation, the director general said today. claim and counterclaim goes on about a bbc presenter, still unnamed, explicit photographs, and quite what the bbc did