Now, if i dont get elected, its going to be a Bloodbath Reaction to Donald Trumps warning for the country if he loses another election will give you the context. Its important. Vladimir putin speaking publicly for the first time about the death of Alexey Navalny is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defying the white house buying hill, move forward with his Military Operation in rafah all right. 05 00 a. M. Here in washington alive. Look at capitol hill on this monday morning. Happy monday. Good morning to you. Im kasie hunt wonderful to have you with us this morning. Republicans and the Trump Campaign are once again trying to explain some pretty dark rhetoric from the former president over the weekend at a rally in ohio saturday, trump said that some migrants are quote, not people and quote he called undocumented immigrants who commit crimes, quote, animals, and he warned of a quote, bloodbath if he loses in november, the Trump Campaign says he was talking about an economic bloodbath f
it isa it is a fresh start for some of this morning. a day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest across scotland, northern england. wherever you are it will be blustery. details coming up later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 12thjuly. further allegations have been made against the unnamed bbc presenter who s been accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs. another young person has told bbc news they were sent abusive messages by the male star, while the sun newspaper claims the presenter broke covid restrictions to meet another individual he met on a dating site. charlotte gallagher has the latest. another day of damaging headlines for the bbc and a male presenter who is still unnamed. this morning s front page of the sun bbc star broke lockdown to meet another young stranger . this individual has told the newspaper the presenter travelled to another county to meet them in february 2021. this was during the third national lockdown. the sun says
But the sun hasn t published any of this evidence. meanwhile, the young person, via a lawyer, has said the allegations are rubbish and that they sent a denial to the sun on friday, but the sun didn t report it. the bbc has asked the sun for more details of the evidence it says it has. that s not been provided. we asked the sun for an interview. it declined. next, did the original complaint to the bbc allege a crime? well, the sun ran allegations that the presenter has given this young person thousands of pounds since they were 17 in return for sordid images. soliciting explicit images from a 17 year old is illegal. but the sun hasn t said what was in the initial complaint and the bbc says the initial complaint, while very serious, didn t include an allegation of criminality. there s no evidence in the public domain that shows a crime was alleged in the initial complaint. next, how are the police involved?
The bbc has asked?the sun for more detail of the?evidence?it?says it has. that s? not been provided. we asked?the sun for an interview. it declined. next, did the original complaint to the bbc allege a crime? the sun?ran allegations that the? presenter? has given this young person thousands of pounds?since they were 17 in return for sordid images. soliciting explicit images from a 17 year old?is illegal. but the sun hasn t?said what was in the initial? complaint. and the bbc says the initial?complaint, while very serious,?didn t?include an allegation of criminality. there s? no evidence?in the public domain that?shows a?crime was alleged in the initial?complaint. next: ? how are the police involved? the?met police says?it s?asked?the bbc to pause its investigation while it assesses if a crime s been committed. and a?different? police force? has told the bbc: ?they were contacted in april. and that, ? no criminality was identified. this matches what the family
But i do think they need to get their house in order and they need to proceed promptly, otherwise you will have plenty of collateral victims. for presenters falsely accused on social media, it has been tough. it was a distressing weekend, i can t deny it, for me and others falsely named. today, i m having further conversations with the police in terms of malicious communication and with lawyers in terms of defamation. this is a crisis for the bbc, with its reputation and the trust people have in it at stake. charlotte gallagher, bbc news. our media editor, katie razzall, is here. katie, several days after these claims were published, the presenter involved is still not being named? it is absolutely right. the bbc hasn t named the presenter and the sun hasn t named the presenter question for legal reasons. there is a risk of defamation, the law protecting someone s reputation from