with a chinese tv station broadcast on thursday, he said his eldest son, and annointed successor, hun manet, could take over as prime minister injust a few weeks time. let s go straight to our southeast asia correspondent jonathan head who is in cambodia s capital, phnom penh. we heard this is almost a foregone conclusion in terms of the results. the opposition party, the candlelight party, has been banned from running in the election. however their supporters expected to vote today? how are their supporters. today? how are their sweden- today? how are their su orters. , . . ., , supporters. they have various 0 tions. supporters. they have various options- they supporters. they have various options. they might supporters. they have various options. they might not - supporters. they have various options. they might not shot| supporters. they have various i options. they might not shot to vote. there are some penalties for that. you can t run for office if you fail
claims the presenter contacted the family in recent days. our media editor katie razzall has more. for the best part of 48 hours, the bbc has been splashed across many of the front pages. today was an attempt to prove it hadn t been slow to act in the face of a serious complaint, an effort to take control of the narrative. this afternoon, the bbc announced it has suspended the still unnamed presenter at the heart of the allegations and also contacted the police. the bbc first became aware of a complaint in may, it said in a statement. new allegations were put to us on thursday of a different nature. and in addition to our own inquiries, we ve also been in touch with external authorities, in line with our protocols. those new allegations. the devastating story in the sun newspaper yesterday that a male presenter had paid an individual £35,000 over three years in return for sexually explicit images beginning when that person was 17. a possible criminal offence. today s newspap
our media editor katie razzall has more. for the best part of 48 hours, the bbc has been splashed across many of the front pages. today was an attempt to prove it hadn t been slow to act in the face of a serious complaint, an effort to take control of the narrative. this afternoon, the bbc announced it has suspended the still unnamed presenter at the heart of the allegations and also contacted the police. the bbc first became aware of a complaint in may, it said in a statement. new allegations were put to us on thursday of a different nature. and in addition to our own inquiries, we ve also been in touch with external authorities, in line with our protocols. those new allegations the devastating story in the sun newspaper yesterday that a male presenter had paid an individual £35,000 over three years in return for sexually explicit images beginning when that person was 17. a possible criminal offence. today s newspaper had new allegations about the bbc star described as kn
take a look at your screen right now. part of the states completely saturated still 200 people remaining without power in ten people dead. carley: tracking the hurricane with us all morning long but we began with doug luzader on the ground in charleston as ian approaches. what are you experiencing this morning? good morning, guys come a little bit of light rain is all we are seeing right now and some winds to pick up and the intensity will wrap up through the course of the day. now we have been watching a couple of things closely with this storm as always, the track. as far as the track is concerned it is shifting to the north. the second landfall might happen close disadvantage to georgia but then we started talking about charleston and now it is looking more and more like north of charleston may be closer to moreland beach. as we tracked the track itself, we are also making intensity and this is a category one hurr hurricane. this is something perhaps expecting. the con
sophisticated weaponry is helping ukraine challenge for key cities, in the south and the east. us presidentjoe biden and china s president xijinping held a phone call today, and there were warnings and assurances about the us position on taiwan. taiwan is an island off china s south east coast. it behaves like an independent state but beijing considers it part of china, and says it will re take it, by force if necessary. there have been tensions between the us and china over that possibility. and today, xijinping told joe biden that the us should abide by the 0ne china principle with regard to taiwan according to chinese state media. with regard to taiwan and president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded that on taiwan. the us policy has not changed. let s remind ourselves what this is all about. back in may, this happened. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan, if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s t