that s the statement from huw edwards s wife, coming very shortly after the metropolitan police issued the statement. so that is the statement they are from the metropolitan police. i m joined now by laura trant from the bbc news room. we also heard from the south wales police, didn t we? we have, we ve had a statement from south wales police who say they first received information about this in april this year regarding the welfare of an adult, saying that no criminality was identified. they said that following recent events, further inquiries had been carried out and officers have spoken to a number of parties to establish whether any criminal allegations are being made. south wales police said that at this time, there is no evidence that any criminal offences have been committed. they have said there are no ongoing inquiries being carried out, but that should any evidence of criminality or safeguarding issues be identified at any point in the future, they will be investiga
today s vast social media empires are managed by a handful of big names meta, snap, tiktok, discord and x. their bosses faced angry lawmakers in washington for a tense grilling about why children continue to be exposed to harm on their platforms. as a mother, this is personal and i share the sense of urgency. words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow i feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm. it may have been heartfelt, but the senators weren t buying it. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. mark zuckerberg from meta, which owns facebook and instagram, came under the heaviest fire. these results may contain images of child sexual abuse, and then you gave users two choices get resources, or see results anyway. mr zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking? all right, senator, the basic science behind that is that when people are s
also on the programme: police who ve been searching for a missing two month old baby say a body found yesterday suggests the child may have been dead for some time. we speak to the journalist who leaked matt hancock s whatsapp messages more than 100,000 of them. isabel 0akeshott says the public interest was overwhelming. and as children are encouraged to read on world book day, the bbc is encouraging them to write. the 500 words story competition is back. 0n bbc london: coming up on the bbc news channel, chip shot fish rinse the town historic run to the quarterfinals is the story of the fa cup so far this season. the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has found that it might have been prevented if mi5 had acted on key intelligence received in the months before the attack. the final part of the inquiry, which has been held in private, has looked at what the intelligence services knew about the bomber, salman abedi. previous reports found failings in the security at th
hello and welcome to bbc world news. talks between the bbc and its highest paid presenter, gary lineker, are said to be moving in the right direction after a second day of scheduling disruption, following his removal from the match of the day programme. bbc news understands there are hopes of a resolution soon but not all issues are fully resolved at this stage. our media correspondent, david sillito, has more. have you spoken to tim davie yet, mr lineker? i i m going to walk my dog and i m going to do my shopping, so would you mind letting me do it on my own? the agenda this morning for gary lineker was walking the dog, shopping and saying nothing about the row about his tweets that have led to him being pulled off air and match of the day turning into this. no presenters, no commentary just the sound of fans. the disruption to bbc output has continued today as colleagues and friends rallied to his support. the bbc said tweets in which he described government policy