but some led a double life. a hidden world where videos of women being drugged, raped, and humiliated were shared. rock and roll! cheering and applause their crimes would never have been revealed, had secret messages between them not been leaked. this is the story of those who tried to bring them to justice.

kang begins to see a pattern of abuse. she finds messages from two months later that directly incriminate two of the k—pop stars in sexual crimes.

the woman had been gang—raped byjung and choi, with other friends and members of the chat group present.

the friends�* ambitions continue unchecked. you just swipe. phone notification sounds seungri does a lucrative deal to become the face of tinder in south korea. tinder. and he plans his boldest business venture yet — to launch the biggest club in gangnam. but as director, he will need investment. # happy birthday to you! in december 2017, he hires an island in the philippines for his birthday party.

all right, guys, let's go back and let's work, yeah? laughter you guys go and work. # burning, burning... electronic music plays the club was located in le meridien hotel in gangnam, now derelict. when it opened, burning sun was the most prestigious nightclub in south korea. former employees spoke to us on the condition we concealed their identities. they were mds, short for merchandises, who would make sure there were girls in the club to cater

to vip guests. electronic music plays

ko eunsang is a reporter who was one of the first to investigate burning sun.

mds use kakaotalk to communicate throughout the club.

a young woman who was a regular guest at burning sun agreed to speak to us about her experiences. we are protecting her identity.

she found herself in a hotel room with a man who had given her drinks at burning sun.

she goes to the police to report rape. the man claims they had consensual sex, using the photo as evidence. he was allowed to leave korea.

injanuary 2019, seungri's empire is dealt a public blow. a customer at burning sun makes allegations he'd been beaten up by club staff and that police had stood by. cctv from outside the club shows him being beaten in the street.

cctv footage emerges of a woman being dragged from the club by staff. then, a shocking case of molka surfaces, filmed inside burning sun and known as the red bathroom video. it goes viral on porn sites.

under pressure from the police and the media, the management of burning sun are forced into a decision. seungri pauses a solo concert to make a statement to his fans.

kang knows the phone data from the informant, which incriminates seungri and his friends, could now become a huge story.

kang then talks to her employers, sbs, a leading korean broadcaster. they agree she'll begin by publishing a story on seungri, citing evidence from an unnamed celebrity's phone

and showing he procured prostitutes for investors in clubs. it immediately becomes major news. within hours, seungri arrives at a police station for voluntary questioning. he is interrogated

for almost nine hours. within 48 hours, kang publishes her two biggest stories, which make headline news. commotion

hello. on wednesday, itjust wouldn't stop raining across parts of northeast scotland. in parts of aberdeenshire, we had over 70mm of rain in places — that's over a month's worth of rain. as well as the wet weather, it was also quite windy and cold. northeast scotland nowjoins parts of southern england and the midlands in places of the uk that already had well over a month's worth of rain so far this month, and we're onlyjust past the first week, of course. it continues to rain across northeast scotland, as well, with our area of low pressure slow—moving out in the north sea, it continues to be wet here. but we do have another weather front bringing some rain across northern ireland, northern england and over the next few hours thatjust sinks a bit further southwards. so, heading into the first part of thursday morning,

you might find a few patches of rain arrive across north wales and the north midlands. it's going to be a mild start to the day, though, on thursday, at least — temperatures 11—14 degrees. quite varied weather conditions from place to place on thursday. the low pressure continues to feed rain into northeast scotland — the rain, though, turning lighter and patchier, but potentially still damp even into the afternoon here. western scotland, brighter, some sunny spells and some sunshine coming through for northern ireland into the afternoon. for northern england, wales and parts of the north midlands, a few patches of rain in the morning, a few heavy showers into the afternoon. the south midlands, throughout southern england and probably south wales, a lot of dry, sunny and warm weather, with temperatures widely into the low 20s, and peaking at 23 — that's going to feel very pleasant in the sunshine. otherwise, temperatures around 15—19 degrees. for friday's forecast, we're watching this area of low pressure as it moves across northern france. it could come close enough to bring a band of persistent rain into southeast england. it's going to be be there or thereabouts, so we'lljust keep an eye on the developments with that. further northwest,

this ridge of high pressure should break the cloud up across parts of west scotland, northern ireland, northwest england, so they're probably going to be the driest and brightest spots. but generally, the winds coming in from a northerly direction, so temperatures will continue to run below average, about 15—20 degrees for your high. now, the weekend sees low pressure get close to the northeast of the uk — so it's across eastern scotland and northeast england so it's across eastern scotland that will probably have some general outbreaks of rain developing. otherwise, quite a lot of dry weather on saturday, just a few brief showers. sunday, mostly fine with temperatures high teens to low—20s. bye for now.

live from washington, this is bbc news. ukraine dominates the conversation at the nato summit in washington. this as ukraine emergency workers continue to find bodies after a series of russian air strikes monday including one that hit a children's hospital. and a democratic senator and a top donor call onjoe biden to withdraw from the us presidential race as questions linger over his mentalfitness.

hello. i'm sumi somaskanda. the war in ukraine took centre stage again on the second day of the nato summit in washington. us presidentjoe biden announced that denmark and the netherlands had begun sending f—16fighterjets to ukraine as part of a new air defence to counter russian aggression. the prime minister of hungary reaffirmed its position as the only country that's opted out of participating in nato�*s mission to assist ukraine. and in his diplomatic debut as british prime minister, sir keir starmer arrived in washington wednesday for talks with ukrainian president zelensky at the summit. it's sir keir�*s first foreign trip after winning the uk elections by a landside with the newly elected our correspondent helena humphrey reports. all eyes in washington have been on the declaration, setting out the pathway for ukraine to join the defensive alliance, and the word that kyiv will concentrate on now is that pathway, according to the declaration,

is irreversible. the language says as long as ukraine meets the conditions