�* a tewkesbury and this is after a teacher was stabbed in tewkesbury this afternoon.— this afternoon. good afternoon, everyone. _ this afternoon. good afternoon, everyone. i'm — this afternoon. good afternoon, everyone, i'm the _ this afternoon. good afternoon, everyone, i'm the lead - this afternoon. good afternoon, everyone, i'm the lead for - everyone, i'm the lead for operational policing in gloucestershire and i will read a statement about the incident in tewkesbury this morning. due to the fact a number of inquiries are ongoing i hope you appreciate i am not in a position to go into more detail at the end or take any further questions. just after 9am this morning, we received a call from someone telling us about a threat to a teacher at tewkesbury academy and minutes later we received a call from the ambulance service... teacher had been stabbed in a corridor at the school. he was taken to hospital with a single stab wound and remains in a stable condition. it was initially thought that the suspect had fled the scene and hidden himself within the school grounds but our officers, including

specialist trained armed police, attended and carried out a thorough search. this search is both complex and meticulous in nature as we sought to ensure there were no further injured parties as well as seeking the arrest of the suspect. the academy was locked down and two neighbouring schools were asked to close their doors as a precaution. specialist resources including the national police service and plainclothes officers were deployed to the local area. and the suspect was arrested by firearms officers this afternoon. —— the national police air service. a knife was seized as part of the arrest. there were no further casualties and we can confirm no one else was injured in the attack. at this stage, the motivation behind the attack is unclear and at this time there is no evidence to suggest it is terrorism

—related but we are keeping an open mind of further —— while further inquiries are carried out. the suspect, a teenage boy from tewkesbury, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remains in police custody. this is clearly a very distressing incident and our thoughts are with the victim, theirfamily, and everyone impacted by what happened here at the school. we are working with the school and a number of agencies to ensure appropriate support is available and local people will see more police in the area over the coming days as the investigation continues. thank you. that statement there from police _ continues. thank you. that statement there from police in _ continues. thank you. that statement there from police in tewkesbury. - there from police in tewkesbury. let's sum up what we heard. they said that this morning they got a call after a teacher was stabbed and they say that the teacher suffered stab wounds and the suspect fled and they then searched the school saying

it was a complex and meticulous search after the academy was locked down and that no one else was injured in this attack. as we've been reporting through the morning here the bbc, a teenage boy is in police custody over this and the police custody over this and the police news conference there confirming that teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and he remained arrested on suspicion of attempted murderand he remained in arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and he remained in police custody. they also said they are working with the school and other agencies, obviously a very distressing time for people in that area. the other take away from that police news conference from tewkesbury was that the motive is unclear. they say there is no evidence that the attack was terror related but they are keeping an open mind so that is the latest police news conference there that you were just listening to and that comes

after a teenager was arrested this morning in the uk after a teacher was stabbed at a school in tewkesbury in south—west england. let's move on to other news and here in the uk... us presidentjoe biden visits the uk, holding talks at windsor castle with king charles. earlier, mr biden met prime minister rishi sunak in downing street , describing the us—uk relationship as "rock solid". both leaders are travelling to that nato summit tomorrow and we can now go to my colleague in windsor were king charles has been meeting joe biden. ., ~' ,, , . king charles has been meeting joe biden. . ~ , . , , biden. thank you very much, yes, windsor has _ biden. thank you very much, yes, windsor has hosted _ biden. thank you very much, yes, windsor has hosted many - biden. thank you very much, yes, windsor has hosted many head i biden. thank you very much, yes, windsor has hosted many head of| windsor has hosted many head of state and many us presidents and the king's late mother elizabeth ii famously met 13 us presidents and

even the king himself met his first us president at the age of ten when president eisenhower came to visit the king's mother way back in bell moral but this meeting today although not a state visit, state visits differ, of course, because they are longer and only involve state banquets, or military parades. this was a important won both the uk and the united states with president biden of course being here but not until today meeting king charles iii is king. he was crowned of course in may and since then, this is the first time president biden has had a meeting with the king and you can see the handshake between the two men was a warm one. in fact, the whole feeling you got between them was two men who actually get on really rather quite well together. there was, as you can see, a brief

moment where they stood and listened to the us anthem, inspecting the troops and both men went inside the royal palace of windsor to continue with some tea and some meeting to talk about climate change and finance so how important was the meeting for king charles and for president biden? let's start off our analysis with the royal correspondent who is here with me. you can see the king and the president standing together earlier on today. why does this kind of meeting matter to king charles? at this point in his reign, the beginning of his reign, joe biden the first us president of his reign, it's important that buckingham palace show the king is a global leader who has the ear of other global leaders around the world, particularly the us president and they had set prior to the visit today they wanted this visit to reinforce the transatlantic alliance and relationship that the uk and the

usa has and they have given us a bit of flavour about what the meeting was like without being told that after they had a lefty pomp and pageantry we have been watching and that we can see here of the quadrangle of windsor castle, they went inside and had some private time together, a meeting of around 20 minutes and the palace say it was an extremely cordial and successful meeting that touched on a wide variety of issues of mutual interest and concern and they also go on to say you will have seen for yourself the personal warmth between his majesty and the president, something you have mentioned and it was obvious, looking at the way they interacted, spoke to each other, laughing, joking, and there was an informality anyway they communicated and we can see them now inside windsor castle here, going to look at some elements from the royal archive and the royal collection that had an american connection, so letters and other items that perhaps

had a usa flavour with the king showing the president that before they went on to the meeting with philanthropic and financial leaders around climate change and how that should be financed. this around climate change and how that should be financed.— should be financed. this is the green drawing _ should be financed. this is the green drawing room, - should be financed. this is the green drawing room, is- should be financed. this is the green drawing room, is it? . should be financed. this is the green drawing room, is it? it| should be financed. this is the l green drawing room, is it? it is. i'm getting _ green drawing room, is it? it is. i'm getting a _ green drawing room, is it? it is. i'm getting a map _ green drawing room, is it? it is. i'm getting a map of— green drawing room, is it? it is. i'm getting a map of windsor- green drawing room, is it? it 3 i'm getting a map of windsor castle in my head now, i'm learning. yes. in my head now, i'm learning. yes, they came — in my head now, i'm learning. yes, they came into _ in my head now, i'm learning. yes, they came into this _ in my head now, i'm learning. yes, they came into this room _ in my head now, i'm learning. yes they came into this room here and this is where they discussed the environment with financial and philanthropic leaders. timer;r environment with financial and philanthropic leaders. they are . uite philanthropic leaders. they are quite similar— philanthropic leaders. they are quite similar in _ philanthropic leaders. they are quite similar in age _ philanthropic leaders. they are quite similar in age and - philanthropic leaders. they are quite similar in age and they i philanthropic leaders. they are i quite similar in age and they have met before at the cop and g7, that similarity and then both being lifelong politicians, which i know is not quite the right word for king charles but they have both been in the public eye for yours, does that help them in the relationship? i think so. when you meet someone tell a similar age who has had perhaps a similar life experience, there is perhaps an ease in the conversation and the way they communicate with one another, they have been, as you say, in public life for decades, of

course the king as prince of wales as he was for so many years alongside his mother, joe biden of course a lifelong politician in terms of his political career. they know the game and what they are doing your, they know the power of diplomacy and a strong transatlantic alliance, they know what they are doing and why the show today of pomp and pageantry, and they transatlantic friendship, is important. transatlantic friendship, is important-— transatlantic friendship, is imortant. . ~ ., ., important. thank you for that. of course that _ important. thank you for that. of course that transatlantic - course that transatlantic relationship, special relationship if you like being very much in focus today. and i think we can cross life now. let's speak to... lord kim darroch — former british ambassador to the united states and former national security adviser and uk permanent representative to the european union. thank you very much forjoining us here on bbc news and let me ask you first of all, for your memories, if you like, of all the meetings of this nature you have attended. does it feel as warm as it has always

felt today? this it feel as warm as it has always felt today?— it feel as warm as it has always felttoda ? a. ., felt today? as ambassador you never aet into the felt today? as ambassador you never get into the meetings, _ felt today? as ambassador you never get into the meetings, the _ felt today? as ambassador you never get into the meetings, the private i get into the meetings, the private meetings between the british monarch and the president, but you go to the banquets and to the receptions, and you see a bit of it, and my time was a little unusual because donald trump is president for most of it, he came over twice the uk, theresa may was the prime minister both times and it is hard to imagine to more incompatible personalities than donald trump and theresa may but of course when they were together, they got through the business and it was all perfectly friendly but they were not... it was not thatcher and reagan or blair and bush and as your correspondent hasjust

reagan or blair and bush and as your correspondent has just said, joe biden king charles meeting is important for both of them because do not underestimate given the enduring american public fascination with the british royalfamily enduring american public fascination with the british royal family how well the photographs of this meeting will play back in america, so it is not completely one—sided, the president will get something out of it as well but in terms of the views on issues, especially on climate change, they will be a lot closer than prince charles who then was found in his meetings with donald trump. found in his meetings with donald trum. ., ., found in his meetings with donald trum, ., ., ., found in his meetings with donald trum. ., ., ., ,. ., trump. you do not expect to get an hinu trump. you do not expect to get anything out — trump. you do not expect to get anything out of _ trump. you do not expect to get anything out of these _ trump. you do not expect to get anything out of these meetings, | trump. you do not expect to get i anything out of these meetings, do you? not a communique or someone to come out and say that we came out and spoke about this or that, but you get a feeling of significance of these meetings particularly if you

think about the location and timing, and the timing of this one ahead of the nato meeting, that tells us something important, doesn't it, about how the us views the uk on a global stage?— about how the us views the uk on a global stage? yes, look, there have been a lot of... _ global stage? yes, look, there have been a lot of... lots _ global stage? yes, look, there have been a lot of. .. lots of— global stage? yes, look, there have been a lot of... lots of speculation l been a lot of... lots of speculation at the moment about the state of the uk- us at the moment about the state of the uk— us relationship and my own judgment is it is in 0k shape. it is not as strong as it was in the thatcher— reagan days, for example, as i said, or beer that mike tony blair and bill clinton, as i said, or beer that mike tony blairand bill clinton, —— ortony blairand bill clinton, —— ortony blair and bill clinton, but the windsor framework has transformed the relationship now and i thinkjoe biden will get along fine and we have re—established what has been done with the ukraine situation and

the supplies of weaponry and support, so a bilateral relationship, not at a peak or a trough, but in reasonably good shape and of course the defence, security and of course the defence, security and intelligence relationship is as strong as ever. you can be reasonably sanguine about the way things are. reasonably sanguine about the way thins are. , ., ., ~' reasonably sanguine about the way thins are. , , , ., things are. lets look briefly at this nato summit _ things are. lets look briefly at this nato summit starting - things are. lets look briefly at - this nato summit starting tomorrow is that what do you think the assurances are to ukraine that could potentially be made at that nato meeting give any divergences between what some nato countries want compared to what others are asking for? i compared to what others are asking for? ~ ~ ., , compared to what others are asking for? ~ ~ . , ., for? i think ukraine will first of all net for? i think ukraine will first of all get out _ for? i think ukraine will first of all get out of _ for? i think ukraine will first of all get out of this _ for? i think ukraine will first of all get out of this summit - for? i think ukraine will first of| all get out of this summit more for? i think ukraine will first of- all get out of this summit more help from nato, a new package of help from nato, a new package of help from nato and most of the military systems are bilateral but there will be a nato package of some kind. 0n ukrainian membership, they are not going to get an instant and

unconditional offer of nato membership, that was never on the cards but what i think they will get is something that amounts to an accelerated or simplified, or both, party membership, they will still have to meet the criteria and there will be further steps on modernisation and modernisation of armed forces but it will be a less complex process than other applicants may have gone through and i think the important thing is the way monreal zelinsky plays this is a step forward rather than a setback. —— the way president zelensky plays this. this will be a good outcome for them. . ,

this. this will be a good outcome for them. . ._ , ., ., ., this. this will be a good outcome for them. . , ., ., ~ ., for them. 0k, always good to talk to ou and for them. 0k, always good to talk to you and get — for them. 0k, always good to talk to you and get your _ for them. 0k, always good to talk to you and get your point _ for them. 0k, always good to talk to you and get your point of _ for them. 0k, always good to talk to you and get your point of view, - you and get your point of view, former uk ambassador to the united states, thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. as was mentioned there, this was notjust a meeting between joe there, this was notjust a meeting betweenjoe biden and king charles, it is preceded by a meeting between joe biden and uk prime minister rishi sunak. the two men, as you heard a bit earlier, spoke at length about ukraine ahead of the key nato summit that starts tomorrow. let's speak to our political correspondent rob watson. in the newsroom for us. you were at downing street earlier and you got a feel for these two men and their meeting, one would say could one say the meeting between rishi sunak and joe biden felt a little bit more easy—going than previous presidents and previous uk prime ministers? absolutely which leads me first off to say i think lord derek was a fascinating interview and he deserves the bbc prize for

understatement, diplomatic understatement. —— lord darroch where he said that donald trump and theresa may were incompatible because when one thinks back to watching those kind of meetings and thinks back to the sort of difficult relationship thatjoe biden had with borisjohnson and briefly with liz truss, this is completely different and i think as lord darroch said, the current relationship between the uk and us is not what it was and ronald reagan and margaret thatcher as well, or tony blair with george w bush and bill clinton but clearly things are a lot easier than they were this time 12 months ago. white met the president describing relations between the us and uk is rock—solid, do you think that is fair to say or is that something is just in public? particularly on the british side there are so much agonising over exactly what is the

right phrase to use about the relationship between washington and london, is it special, how does it compare to other european countries? i thinkjoe biden must have chosen his words very carefully, he knows how much it means to british politicians to have the relationship described as rock—solid and it is of course the case that whoever is in the white house or in 10 downing street, the really is an extraordinary bond between united states and united kingdom whether security or the depth of the trade ties, is at the case that president biden and others in the us foreign policy establishment and many other of written's allies think brexit is astonishing self—inflicted wound? absolutely but the united kingdom still remains an incredibly important ally of the united states whatever it thinks about brexit. qm. whatever it thinks about brexit. 0k, thank ou whatever it thinks about brexit. 0k, thank you very _ whatever it thinks about brexit. 0k, thank you very much indeed. it has

been a really quite interesting day in windsor and in the past and present, and i'm sure the future, monarchs have always played quite an important role and will play an important role and will play an important role and will play an important role in terms of soft power and maintaining what many people still call a special relationship between the united states and united kingdom, it has been a lovely day here at windsor and i know now all attention will be focused very much on that nato summit which starts tomorrow but for me here in windsor, back to you in a studio. thank you very much. we have some breaking newsjust coming in from the united nations who say last week was the hottest worldwide on record. so the united nations there are just saying last week was the hottest week worldwide on record and we will have more on that later in the programme. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

a second eight—year—old girl has died from her injuries after a car crashed into a school in south—west london. the incident happened on thursday. the metropolitan police named the second fatality as nuria sajjad. her family described her as the "light of our lives". a review into failings in maternity care in hospitals in nottingham is set to become the largest in the uk. donna 0ckenden, chair of the inquiry, is expected to announce that 1,700 families will have their cases examined. dozens of babies are known to have died or suffered life—long injuries as a result of poor maternity care in the city, dating back more than a decade. easyjet has cancelled 17 hundred flights to and from gatwick airport during july, august and september. the company blamed constrained airspace over europe and ongoing air traffic control difficulties. it said 95% of affected passengers had been rebooked on other flights.

that's your news. you're live with bbc news. the metropolitan police say they're making further inquiries into whether a bbc presenter, alleged to have paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos, committed a criminal offence. they said they were assessing information discussed with bbc managers today but they said "there is no investigation at this time". our culture correspondent — lizo mzimba — gave us the latest on the allegations. yes, we have just yes, we havejust been yes, we have just been told that the texas from the metropolitan police's specialist crime command met with representatives from the bbc on the morning of monday the 10th ofjuly, thatis morning of monday the 10th ofjuly, that is of course today, and the meeting took place virtually and they are assessing the information discussed at the meeting and further inquiries are taking place to establish whether there is evidence of a criminal offence being

committed. there is no investigation at this stage and of course that follows on from what we heard from the bbc yesterday when they said they had been liaising with external bodies and that external body of course being the metropolitan police in this case and that there would be some kind of communication between the bbc and the metropolitan police and now we've learned that that did take place earlier today with a meeting between the metropolitan police's specialist crime command and the bbc earlier today this morning and let mejust and the bbc earlier today this morning and let me just repeat the information they've given us, saying they are assessing the information discussed at the meeting and further inquiries are taking place to establish whether there is evidence of a criminal offence being committed with no investigation at this time. so that news just coming into us in the last few minutes your that the bbc -- into us in the last few minutes your that the bbc —— at the into us in the last few minutes your that the bbc -- at the bbc into us in the last few minutes your that the bbc —— at the bbc about a development in this ever unfolding

story. there has been a different related development, one of the things that the director—general of the bbc spoke about in his e—mail to bbc staff yesterday, tim davie, was deploring some areas of what has happened in social media, speculation on the identity of the still unnamed bbc presenter with some bbc names being named as being this particular presenter and they had gone on to social media to actually deny vociferously these accusations that they were the bbc presenter in question and one of those people was nicky campbell, of course, who works for the bbc and we have just been told... well, this course, who works for the bbc and we havejust been told... well, this is what nicky campbell said earlier on his show today, saying today i'm having further communication with the police in terms of malicious communication and this afternoon, we have received from the metropolitan

police a statement saying on saturday the 8th ofjuly, police received a report of malicious communication in relation to a post on social media and an investigation under way and inquiries are ongoing with no arrests. so we assume this is related specifically to nicky campbell was my complaint about what is happening on social media over the weekend. this is happening on social media over the weekend-— is happening on social media over the weekend. �* , , ., the weekend. as is mentioned there, olice the weekend. as is mentioned there, police investigating _ the weekend. as is mentioned there, police investigating at _ the weekend. as is mentioned there, police investigating at least - the weekend. as is mentioned there, police investigating at least one - police investigating at least one complained about unfounded allegations circulating on social media. mark stephens, a media lawyer from the law firm howard kennedy gave us his legal opinion on the allegations. well, the law really falls into two parts. firstly we have a thing called twitter or liable, twibel, which is any defamatory comments on social media can be sued on. and they don't have to say it is that

individual, you can say i think it might be this individual and if you say it might be and you're wrong, as most of them are, then in those circumstances, what you're doing is inferring that that is the sort of individual that would do this kind of thing so it is obviously defamatory and then the more serious cases you do get malicious communications so one of the issues, there have been a number of the well—known individuals and indeed some of the lesser—known individuals who are in this at the beginning, denied it and people on social media continued to control them, make the allegation and repeat the allegation in the teeth of that denial and that starts to get to a criminal offence and that is obviously what the police are looking at, of malicious communications because you are not accepting the denial and in those circumstances, i think there will be complaints from all of the

individuals who are at the epicentre of this now to the police because i have seen examples on social media of people not accepting them and continuing to trawl them so nicky campbell appears to have made a complaint but i think it will not be long before all of the other individuals who are named and abused on the basis that there was speculation unfounded speculation that it was them, there will be police investigation into that, too, so essentially we cannot confuse the two things, you have a group of innocent people who are entitled to take twitter or liable, twibel cases, defamation cases and also to report the most egregious ones to the police for criminal investigation for malicious munication is an on the other side, you have got a complaint that was made in may by this individual�*s family and of course you've got the privacy concerns which both of them are entitled to, both the gentleman

involved and also the person about whom the complaint is made, they are entitled to privacy and they have a reasonable expectation that this would not be conducted in the public domain and for very good reason of course and the good reason is that you do not want people trampling through the evidence of this. you want that to be pristine or as pristine as it can be so that when the investigation takes place, it will be fair to all parties. more on the bbc news website and the app, do stay with us here on bbc news. hello. good afternoon. it's looking distinctly unsettled, the weather, through the coming week. showers are longer spells of rain, very few places escaping the showers but there will be sunshine as well as we've already seen today and this will continue in some areas

but it really has been quite wet, for wales for example this morning, the rain advancing northwards and eastwards. south and east of that, largely dry, unsettled but wetter weather working to the midlands, northern england is already heavy, across parts of northern ireland, thunderstorms around here and into scotland. sunny spells in northern scotland and it might brighten up in wales and the next few hours and to the south and east of the band and rain —— band of rain it should stay dry. just the outside chance of a shower at wimbledon. this evening, the cloud tends to move in, the heavy rain coming in across southern england, the midlands into east anglia. further north, it's a scattering of showers and heavy showers with rumbles of thunder and wet weather making its way into the northeast of scotland. it's going to be a muggy night further south with all that moisture around as well as heavy rain that will linger into tuesday. quite a wet start across east anglia, parts of england and that will take a while to clear.

once it does, afresh a day, whence from the north and west, gusty winds during today and this evening and overnight will tend to ease a little bit across southern areas into tomorrow and that changing wind direction, notable in the north, still heavy showers, heavy frequent showers with rumbles of thunder but slightly fresher air coming across our area of low pressure as it drifts out into the north sea, we shift the wind direction down to a northwesterly. on wednesday, a fresher day further south with sunshine but look at the heavy showers, slow—moving showers close to that area of low pressure and there will be some real downpours around with hail and thunder. there could be some local flooding with spray and standing water. 30 may be less showery with a brief ridge of high pressure coming in but by friday we got these next areas of low pressure with weatherfronts moving in. the unsettled picture continues notjust into friday but into next weekend as well.