1000 years of mont st michel. there is the shadow of mont st michel on the sand. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. give them some time. i m beginning this week in northern france on a journey that 2.5 million people take each year. you kind of get an idea of how popular this place must be because it s off season, it s super cold, but this bus is packed. you can see, i ve just got a glimpse of the abbey. it does look pretty special. this is mont st michel, one of france s most visited sites. it s an island off the coast of brittany in normandy, connected to the mainland by a half a mile long bridge that opened back in 2014. and this year, the island celebrates a very special anniversary. it is the 1000th anniversary of the construction of the church. how on earth did they construct something like this 1000 years ago? yeah. this is the best of mediaeval engineering. and it started off as a sanctuary dedicated
we do have so far. the male presenter who is accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs has been suspended. the bbc says it became aware of a complaint in may. mr davie s email adds that the bbc investigations team have been looking into this since it was raised and have been actively following up . according to the bbc statement, new allegations of a different nature were put to the corporation on thursday. the bbc says it is in touch with external authorities which are understood to be the police over the matter, in addition to its own enquiries. and the director general says the bbc is in contact with the family referenced in media reports. helena wilkinson has more. the bbc has this afternoon confirmed one of its presenters, accused of paying a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos, has been suspended. it s understood the bbc has also been in touch with the police. these developments follow further serious allegatio
speaking at a press conference at the end of the trip. the us and china have significant disagreements. those disagreements need to be communicated clearly and directly. but president biden and i do not see the relationship between the us and china through the frame of great power conflict. we believe that the world is big enough for both of our countries to thrive. both nations have an obligation to responsibly manage this relationship, to find a way to live together and sharing global prosperity. i spoke to rupert wingfield hayes. several items were onjanet yellen s agenda, among them diplomatic ties, and easing of economic tension. how much progress does it seem she has made? well, from what she said in her press conference in beijing this morning and what we have heard from chinese officials i think this is about as positive as we could expect. i don t think anybody was expecting any major breakthroughs, but as she said in her press conference, they have had a direct, i t
chief says turkey s president erdogan has now agreed to support sweden s bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. it s clears the last major hurdle for sweden s accession. let s take a listen to what the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has been finalised or finland, finland is already a full member and now president erdogan has indicated they are ready to ratify sweden. our correspondent lewis vaughanjones has been following developments in vilnius. it seems this nato summit here in vilnius will be getting under way after a very significant concrete achievement. ian s stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. ,jens. why is that so significant? within nato, each a