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
president biden. plus kim jung-un s north korea launching what is thought to be another intercontinental ballistic missile. and homes become islands as devastating floods put some neighborhoods in the northeast under water. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon. up first this morning, president biden and ukrainian president zelenskyy preparing to have a face-to-face on the sidelines of the nato summit in lithuania, this is in the wake of russian airstrikes on kyiv for a second consecutive night. and zelenskyy s frustration over nato s decision to provide guidance but not provide a specific time line on when the alliance will be ready to grant ukraine membership. melissa bell with the latest. what are some ofof the expectations heading into this meeting? reporter: if yesterday was about the frustrations of president zelenskyy on one side and limits of what nato allies can do on the other, today is more about the deliverables, what t
jim jordan might be the most punk they accuse of f.b.i. targeting conservatives, pro-life groups and catholics and parents attending school board meetings and also questions about the hunter biden investigation, allegations of f.b.i. collusion with big tech to block social media posts related to hunter biden s laptop prior to the 2020 election. the story that continues today. dana: aishah hosni is outside the hearing room. we have analysis from andy mccarthy and chris swecker and first we ll go to david spunt. you are at the justice department. i imagine that christopher wray is not looking forward to this testimony but something that he has to do and he will defend the men and women of the f.b.i. in his opening statement. hi. this comes at an interesting time right now with the f.b.i. in the news. director wray wants to focus on the f.b.i. he sees. that is what he will call it in his opening statement. one of the big topics that will come up is the hunter biden investi
t the lead starts right now. ukraine is pushing, pushing, pushing. cnn is live as the 31 nations meet. and why special counsel is accusing donald trump s right-hand man of trying to delay the prosecution of him. and the once in a thousand year rainfall behind devastating flooding in parts of america ears noamerica s northeast, trapping drivers in cars and on roads and forcing some to swim to safety. we start today with our word lead. the president in lithuania with one goal on his list unity. ukraine will be the main focus of the two-day meeting but for a group that has been, frankly, stunningly united, there are public fractures in the alliance starting to emerge, ones president biden will have to fix over the next few days, mainly overs decision to send cluster bombs to the front line, one that has been banned by most of the allies who will be sitting around president biden at that table in lithuania. they will have to decide when and how they will let ukraine join
the people who are affected most by high interest rates would tend to be younger households. older people, older house holders, are more likely to have paid off their mortgages they are mortgage free so they don t feel the impact of the increase in mortgage rates. you could spread the pain more broadly, so those households that, perhaps, aren t facing higher mortgage rates currently households that don t hold mortgages would potentially contribute towards the squeeze in demand by paying higher taxation. you could argue for a property tax, for example. yet there are also practical problems with using tax and spending policy to control inflation. history suggests it s hard to get the timing right, and when it comes to tax and spending political considerations often interfere unhelpfully. this is why the practice in recent decades has been to leave inflation control to the independent bank of england. however there is certainly more open thinking going on among respectab