the metropolitan police has confirmed it s received a report of an alleged sexual assault in 2003, and is in contact with the woman, following media investigations into claims made against the comedian russell brand. four women have accused him of sexual assault and emotional abuse, allegations he denies. one of them, who was 16 at the time, has told the bbc that brand said people close to him discussed how to keep the fact she was so young, out of the public eye. his current uk live tour has now been postponed, and he s been dropped by his publisher. we ll assess the significance of the met s involvement, but first, here s our media correspondent, david sillito. i can pretend to be nice for a little bit. russell brand. on this weekend s dispatches programme he was accused of rape and multiple counts of sexual assault. i ll sleep on the sofa. the comedian now faces further allegations. more women have come forward. the metropolitan police say a complaint has been made to them
when the storm came, fracturing libya was ill prepared. half a year of rainfall fell in 24 hour is. in daylight, as much as a quarter of the port city of derna was revealed to be gone. in gold by flood water after two mountain dams failed. engulfed. families were washed out to sea as they slept. the grim work to sea as they slept. the grim work to retrieve the lost is under way. with terrible force, the floods swept through the city. destroying homes, cars, bridges. there was no warning, no evacuation order. generally, the body of a child is recovered from the rubble. if you hear are being found alive. derna and libya are overwhelmed. it is too much for those left grieving. entire families were swallowed by the deluge. i families were swallowed by the delu~e. . . , families were swallowed by the delue. . . , families were swallowed by the delu~e. . . , , families were swallowed by the deluue. . . , , , deluge. i already lost six people. we managed deluge. i already lost
the russian defence minister, shoigu. this is him a little earlier arriving in his bullet proof train, but he has now met the defence minister, and shoigu showed kimjong un russia s hypersonic missiles as well as three strategic aircraft. we have a map, i think, to show you the route that kimjong un has think, to show you the route that kim jong un has taken on this trip. he of course very rarely leaves north korea. last time he did was back in 2019, to meet vladimir putin on that occasion. but you can see he left pyongyang and the dotted line is the train route he took through north korea, crossing the border, and vladivostok has now confirmed that meeting with russia s defence minister, shoigu. as we get details on more pictures of that, we will bring them to you. we will go to libya and get the latest on the floods. derna is the worst hit area. a bbc team says there s no electricity and local people are continuing the search for bodies in the dark. 0ur correspondent anna f
her father has been briefly detained and warned not to ahead with a planned memorial. mahsa amini s death a year ago sparked an uprising led by women and girls demanding an end to the compulsory dress code, and widerfreedoms. our reporter baran abbasi, from bbc persian, explains more about what happened. amjad amini is the father of my son amin. he was briefly detained today when he was leaving his home. he was taken to an intelligence office in the city of sakis in kurdistan province, where he s from. and he was warned against going ahead with plans to hold a memorial service for massoud. he was warned that nobody from his family is allowed to leave their homes. now, we had reports earlier today that the house of the parents of mahsa amini. amini, he was surrounded by security forces and they were held under some sort of house arrest. and they had asked a few days ago from everyone around the country to come to mahsa s grave to remember her on the anniversary of her killing.