it would be cathartic for the presenter, it would be informative for us and it would probably be the right thing to do. also on today's programme... g7 leaders are about to sign a long—term security arrangement with ukraine, giving the country more defence equipment and training. rising mortgages — nearly a million households will pay at least £500 a month more by the end of 2026, warns the bank of england. the new chair of thames water, which is billions of pounds in debt, tells mps that nationalisation isn't the right way forward. and the queen visits wimbledon meeting some of the ball girls and boys, before today's quarter finals. and coming up on bbc news... before today's quarter finals. it's win or bust for england women in the ashes. captain heather knight says she's hopeful england can pull off the great escape and overturn

australia's six—point lead. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the bbc presenter who's been accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs is facing further allegations in today's papers. the sun says it has spoken to a 23—year—old who claims the male presenter broke covid lockdown rules to travel to meet them after making contact on a dating site. there have been more calls today for the presenter, who's not being named for legal reasons, to come forward. 0ur media correspondent david sillito reports. the bbc on day five of this media storm and the headlines keep coming. today, more allegations that the bbc star broke lockdown to meet another young stranger.

it follows the original story which featured allegations about payments for explicit photos, and another revealed by bbc news about messages that were felt by the recipient to be abusive and threatening. for one fellow bbc presenter, who was today speaking on his show on channel 5, there was concern for his colleague's state of mind but also a feeling that the current situation cannot continue. it's his decision but he needs to come forward now, i think. i know his survival instinct has kicked in and i know he saw what happened to phillip schofield, but, my god, look at the damage to the bbc. look at the damage to his friends, to those falsely accused. the longer he leaves it, the worst it will be for him. 0utside broadcasting house, it was an opinion being echoed by a former editor of sky and now professor ofjournalism. the presenter, in my view, really ought to come forward and

talk about it. it would be cathartic for the presenter, it would be informative for us, and it would probably be the right thing to do. the public aren't daft, they want to know what's going on here, and only when they know what's going on can they decide how they feel about that presenter. however, it's the presenter�*s decision. there are multiple legal barriers to others making the name public. meanwhile, inside the bbc, its investigation into the matter has been put on pause at the request of the police as they consider whether there is any evidence of criminality. but the corporation's director—general admits there are still questions about the speed of the bbc�*s response to the original complaint. i think there is a valid question that i am asking, which is, how are complaints like this red—flagged through the organisation? and i want that immediately looked at, and also with view to the overall process and protocols to make sure we are satisfied by them. and while the sun has stood

by its original story, saying they have a sworn affidavit from the young person's mother, there are questions. lawyers who say they represent the young person say the story was totally wrong and there was no truth in it. it was rubbish, they say. the sun has so far declined the bbc�*s request for an interview. joining me now is our legal correspondent dominic casciani. you have followed this throughout and one feels bound to ask where does it go from here? if we and one feels bound to ask where does it go from here?— and one feels bound to ask where does it go from here? if we look at what jeremy _ does it go from here? if we look at what jeremy vine _ does it go from here? if we look at what jeremy vine said _ does it go from here? if we look at what jeremy vine said this - does it go from here? if we look at| what jeremy vine said this morning whatjeremy vine said this morning and his reasoning, arguing the presenter should identify themselves, it illustrates why this affair has become what a collie called an imbroglio, an italian word, which means an extremely copious, complicated and damaging situation which is embarrassing, there is no exit door. it really feels like that at the moment. 0n

the one hand jeremy vine says he is worried about the presenter�*s state of mind and he has also praised the way the bbc has handled this, with the utmost decency because he understands there is a duty of care that the bbc has and legal issues around privacy and defamation and naming someone and so on were the allegations may be challenged, but of course the clincher in his view is last night was my allegations of indecent messages and a lockdown breach tipped the scales in favour of naming. but none of that amounts to a legal reason why the presenter should identify himself, it does not necessarily change things in terms of where the newspapers are at the moment. we have had five days of headlines from the sun and each day they have chosen not to name. the reason why is where we were right at the beginning of the week because this enormous, potential risk with this, it could be wrong, there could be a defamation case, but it could

also be a separate case alongside it for invasion of privacy because there is a real risk that is where there is a real risk that is where the course will go. it is a very difficult situation. i don't know where this is going to end. who does? . ~ where this is going to end. who does? .,~',. where this is going to end. who does? .,«',. w w g7 leaders are due to sign off a long—term security arrangement with ukraine at the nato summit in lithuania. the agreement would provide more defence equipment and training exercises for ukraine's military, but nato has stopped short of providing a timeframe for kyiv to join the security alliance, angering president zelensky. 0ur diplomatic correspondentjames landale reports from lithuania. we welcome in our midst our dear friend volodymyr zelensky, president of ukraine. welcome to you, volodymyr. it's great to have you here. ukraine may not be a member of nato, but today its president was embraced by the alliance almost as one of its own, given a seat at the table for the first time as a member

of a new council where he can raise concerns as an equal partner. yesterday, ukraine's leader said it was absurd nato would not say when and how his country could join. today, he sounded more optimistic. translation: nato needs us just as we need nato. and i believe that this is absolutely fair. i am confident that after the war, ukraine will be in nato, we will be doing everything possible to make it happen. that confidence came after meetings with allies like the prime minister, who was full of warm words. good to see you here where you belong. but he also came bearing gifts, plans to guarantee ukraine's security before itjoins nato. we can have success with security guarantees. yeah. those guarantees will not come from nato, but from individual countries such as these g7 leaders who met

this morning, coming together to try to deter future russian aggression. so that will involve promises of more training like this, more arms and weapons, but also more intelligence and industrial support guaranteed for the long term to make ukraine hard to defeat. we must ensure that when this war ends, there are credible arrangements in place for ukraine's security so that history does not repeat itself. i therefore welcome that many allies will today commit to providing long term security assistance to ukraine. the problem is that western powers have given ukraine security guarantees in the past and they have failed twice to deter russia from invading. so nato's allies are in a rush to agree a package of measures that they hope will work this time. 0nce they've worked out where to sit.

and james joins us now. where are we this lunchtime in terms of the agreement, the tone of all the conversations there?- the conversations there? look, if esterda the conversations there? look, if yesterday was — the conversations there? look, if yesterday was a _ the conversations there? look, if yesterday was a difficult - the conversations there? look, if yesterday was a difficult day - yesterday was a difficult day because president zelensky simply didn't get what he wanted over promises of a time and how and when ukraine is going tojoin nato, today everybody has been falling over each other to try and put on a united front. you had the prime minister, yen stoltenberg, all making warm words about the prime minister saying that ukraine belong to nato. we had a secretary general saying, look, we meet today as friends and i hopein look, we meet today as friends and i hope in the future we will meet as allies. you also had president zelensky being very confident, saying this is going to happen. to bolster that there has also been this announcement of a security guarantee that will fill the gap between the end of the war and the start of ukraine becoming a nato

member. that is designed to be more reassuring, to deter any future aggression. the one small slight note of discordance was perhaps from the defence secretary, ben wallace, who gave a briefing to reporters this morning and he told us that he made the suggestion that ukraine should at times be a little bit more grateful for the support it is getting from the international community. the point he was making was that when ukraine goes out there he has to understand that there are domestic political pressures in lots of countries, particularly in the united states werejoe biden is facing a tough congress that does not want to give ukraine a sort of open blank check for the future. he said, these countries are not like amazon, ukraine can't come along and type it in. that is why the defence secretary said ukraine should possibly show a little bit of gratitude. that might not go down too well with all the allies here, let alone ukraine.— too well with all the allies here, let alone ukraine. james landale at

the summit — let alone ukraine. james landale at the summit in _ let alone ukraine. james landale at the summit in lithuania. _ mortgage payments for nearly a million households will rise by at least £500 a month by the end of 2026, according to the bank of england. the bank has been increasing interest rates in an attempt to reduce inflation. in its latest report it says lenders are strong enough to withstand a rise in customers defaulting on repayments. 0ur economics correspondent andy verity has the details. yesterday i was showing you this striking chart which shows the interest rates you ll pay on your mortgage if you fix the interest rate for two years. look how low the rates were for so long and then look how steeply they ve shot up since the end of 2021, to their highest in 15 years. this morning the bank of england 5 published some analysis which shows what that means for mortgage borrowers in pounds per month. the blue bits are mortgage deals that expire this year and the orange is deals that will expire by the end of 2026. if you look at this bar next to me

it looks reassuring ? more than two million will pay more, but its less than £100 a month. but then look more closely at these three columns at the end where the borrowers will have to find more than £500 extra per month. add them up and its close to a million borrowers, many of them younger families who ve stretched to buy in recent years who are now facing an alarming jump in their mortgage costs, people like craig, whose fixed—rate mortgage is set to increase by hundreds of pounds from september. it's going to be going from the £879 that i'm paying now, which i've been paying since march, to £1,209, i think it is at present. and if i leave it any longer, who is to say it's not going to get higher? i'm not in a position where i can save much money any more, or i can't make another payment on this mortgage because i'm already paying, or i will already be paying so much as it is. but it's notjust homeowners who are being hit by higher interest rates. the interest rates on over two million buy—to—let mortgages are set to jump too. the bank of england warns that

landlords will be forced to raise rents or sell their properties. we have actually seen over the last year around about a 5% increase in rents and that is a product of the pressures that landlords are facing, at least in part, partly from the change in financing conditions and also other pressures that they have. if they don t bump up the rent, the report says many more landlords will run into trouble. last year the proportion of buy—to—let mortgages where the rent was barely enough or too little to cover their interest payments was 3%. within two years, that number would leap to a0%. buy—to—let landlords also cant offset their interest payments against tax any more. all in all, its a lot less profitable than it used to be and we can expect many more landlords to sell up. the prime minister says he's yet to make a final decision about whether to accept recommended pay rises for workers

in the public sector. pay review bodies are recommending increases of between 6 and 6.5% for employees including teachers, junior doctors and police. rishi sunak has said pay awards should be "responsible" to avoid making inflation worse. let's get the latest from our political correspondent ione wells. what is your sense of government thinking on this?— thinking on this? these recommendations - thinking on this? these recommendations have j thinking on this? these - recommendations have been on ministers�* desks for weeks now and the prime minister and chancellor are weighing up essentially whether to enable pay rises of what has been recommended between 6.5 and 6%. the strong suggestion from ministers is they will not, they have been stressing the need for social —— so—called discipline, worrying pay rises above a certain amount could fuel inflation. departments are told pay review bodies that within their existing budgets they could afford to pay rises of 3.5%. the chancellor

has been clear that he does not want to borrow more money, fearing death itself could be inflationary. so it is likely if they do say that public sector workers can have pay rises of more than 3.5% that would have to come out of existing budgets. the challenge for government is if they don�*t accept these independent pay recommendations that is likely to trigger more strikes among public sector workers. trigger more strikes among public sectorworkers. if trigger more strikes among public sector workers. if they do accept them, that would need to come out of existing budgets and that could also trigger more strikes in the departments if they need to find cuts. our top story this afternoon... there have been more calls for the bbc presenter accused of paying a teenager for explicit photos to come forward. still to come — soaring temperatures across europe which could break european temperature records. coming up on bbc news. it�*s a repeat of the 2022 women�*s final

at wimbledon in the last eight, as 0ns jabeur will be after revenge, as she takes on defending champion elena rybakina. the new chair of thames water has said nationalisation is not the right way forward for the company despite the industry regulator warning that the firm has "deep—rooted" problems. sir adrian montague said he understood customer frustration about poor performance, but said the best way to resolve it was keeping the company in private ownership. thames water executives have been facing questions from mps this morning about sewage discharges and leaks, alongside debts of more than £14 billion. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. where did it go so wrong? thames water buses summoned for a quilling

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administration. but the mps wondered if public ownership was now the - administration. but the mps wondered if public ownership was now the best l if public ownership was now the best way forward given all its problems. do you understand that the public would _ do you understand that the public would like — do you understand that the public would like to _ do you understand that the public would like to see _ do you understand that the public would like to see a _ do you understand that the public would like to see a government . do you understand that the public- would like to see a government being responsible _ would like to see a government being responsible for— would like to see a government being responsible for the _ would like to see a government being responsible for the water— would like to see a government being responsible for the water companies. responsible for the water companies so everything — responsible for the water companies so everything is _ responsible for the water companies so everything is transparent? - responsible for the water companies so everything is transparent? [- responsible for the water companies so everything is transparent? i can i so everything is transparent? i can understand — so everything is transparent? i can understand the _ so everything is transparent? understand the frustration of customers who want to see improvements. we would love to be able to deliver those improvements overnight but it will take time. we�*ve got to improve our standing with customers. but i think the way is to continue the private sector model. , , ., , ~ is to continue the private sector model. g , . , ,, ., , is to continue the private sector model. , ,, ., , . ., model. just last week thames water was fined for — model. just last week thames water was fined for polluting _ model. just last week thames water was fined for polluting two _ model. just last week thames water was fined for polluting two reverse l was fined for polluting two reverse near gatwick airport with untreated sewage, killing more than a thousand fish in 2017. thejudge sewage, killing more than a thousand fish in 2017. the judge said there had been a deliberate attempt to mislead the environment agency. but today the company said it is cleaning up its behaviour and culture now. i cleaning up its behaviour and culture now.— cleaning up its behaviour and culture now. ~ , ., , culture now. i think historically we were a company — culture now. i think historically we were a company where _ culture now. i think historically we were a company where bad - culture now. i think historically we were a company where bad news | were a company where bad news travelled — were a company where bad news travelled upwards too slowly and i think— travelled upwards too slowly and i think that — travelled upwards too slowly and i think that people were afraid to say how things really were on the

ground — how things really were on the round. ., , , ground. turning round the biggest water company — ground. turning round the biggest water company in _ ground. turning round the biggest water company in britain - ground. turning round the biggest water company in britain is - ground. turning round the biggest water company in britain is still i ground. turning round the biggest water company in britain is still a | water company in britain is still a work in progress, the committee heard that this is a business with deep—rooted problems but the regulator said that customers will not have to foot the bill to cover the increasing cost of servicing all of its debts. emma simpson, bbc news. teachers in england represented by the nasuwt union have voted in favour of industrial action, in a dispute about pay. nearly nine out of ten teacher members of the union who voted backed strike action. with me is our education editor, branwenjeffreys. branwen, what more can you tell us? this is a further step towards strikes closing schools in england next autumn term. the nasuwt is the first of four unions who are holding balance currently around industrial action this autumn over pay. the government says the pay offer of

4.3% for most teachers, 30,000 starting salaries is fair and reasonable. but the conversation is far from over reasonable. but the conversation is farfrom over and reasonable. but the conversation is far from over and this reasonable. but the conversation is farfrom over and this is one indication of how tough it could get. if all four unions vote in favour of strikes, that means the complete closure on strike days of english schools. the nasuwt today said it would begin a continuous programme of action short of a strike from september and will coordinate strike dates with other unions. bronwen, thank you. most of us have received a phone call, text message or email which is a scam attempt, but figures show hundreds of thousands of people across the uk are now falling victim to fraud every year — with losses totalling more than three and a half billion pounds. alongside the financial impact, the crime can have other, often devastating, consequences, as our social affairs reporter caroline bilton explains. the phone rang and the guy

on the other side said, "we�*re from the fraud department. someone�*s been using your card." but that�*s impossible. absolutely impossible. "we need to change everything before they get into your account." my bank card�*s in my purse, you know, i haven�*t used it. the way he replied was like somebody from the bank. targeted by criminals in her own home. when they asked me to do this log in, then i got a bit more suspicious. what sort of numbers do you want? how do i know who you are? and as soon as i put the phone down, i got a text through from the genuine bank asking me to ring them straight away because somebody was trying to get into my account. what was so upsetting was the fact that they�*d actually rang the bank and tried to impersonate me. he didn�*t come into the home, but he might as well have done. thankfully, the criminals were stopped from stealing money from linda�*s account, but they stole her identity. they�*ve got everything.

they�*ve got everything on me out there now, you know? and i don�*t know what they could do in the future with it. if a criminal knocked on your door, you wouldn�*t welcome them in... come in. ..and give them your personal data. well, you�*d be surprised just how many of us are doing something similar to that. we are being targeted in our own homes by organised criminal gangs, through our laptops and our phones. in the past year there have been over 300,000 reports of fraud made in the uk, resulting in the loss of £3.7 billion. fraud is one of those crime types where we have completely normalised it. if you get a text message, do you say to your friends, "i've been targeted by criminals, they've sent a message to me." 0r dojustjust go, "oh, that's fraudulent." i can't think of any other crime type that we laugh about. 0ur growing use of computers for online shopping and banking has opened a gateway to this faceless crime. we input our personal information readily online.

but don�*t be fooled into thinking it�*s just the gullible who are targeted. you�*re more likely to be a victim of fraud than any other type of offence. 70% of fraud originates outside of the uk, and police admit that their resources don�*t stretch to track down fraudsters overseas. if they�*re outside of the uk, it�*s a lot harder for us to do anything with the criminal in terms of prosecuting them. if they�*re inside of the uk, obviously we will target all the resources we have to try and find that individual and take them to justice. be alert, think fraud whenever you are asked to click on a link or for your bank details. emphasis is on prevention, and we�*re all being urged to be more vigilant. we can'tjust sit back. we have to fight back. for linda, it�*s two years since she was targeted, but she says she still lives in fear. i�*m still, like, paranoid.

am i out there somewhere? i�*d give anything, anything, if i could have all my privacy back. caroline bilton with that report. much of southern europe is in the grip of a blistering heatwave — forecasters are predicting temperatures as high as 45 degrees in italy and greece. this week preliminary figures from the world meteorological 0rganisation showed the world had its hottest week on record at the beginning of this month. matt graveling reports. people all around europe are feeling the heat. this austrian newsreader has just announced the country experienced the hottest temperature of the year. 36 c. and as brits prepare to head on holiday next week, destinations such as greece and italy could see the mercury rising to 45 degrees. that's 113 f. while the uk is expected to escape this heatwave, the world meteorological

0rganisation say earlyjuly saw the hottest week ever recorded on earth. they say this was fuelled by the occurrence of el nino, a natural climate phenomenon, coupled with human driven climate change. so here are just some of the peak temperatures expected around europe this week. in france, 21 regions are under an orange heatwave warning. in greece, the government have unveiled emergency measures to shield the public. in italy, where temperatures this week are expected to reach 42 degrees, is where europe recorded its hottest temperature two years ago in sicily, 48.8 degrees. but this extreme weather is not confined to europe. with rising temperatures and el nino leading to flash flooding in the united states. over a few days, a storm in vermont dumped up to two months of rain. the state�*s governor described the flooding as historic, but scientists say climate change means more events like this

will become part of our future. matt graveling, bbc news. cricket, and it�*s a must—win game for england�*s women as they look to regain the ashes, but they�*re up against one of world sport�*s great teams in australia. england currently trail 6 points to 4 in the multi format series, heading into these one day games. the matches are all now sold out. 0ur sports reporter ben croucher is bristol. three games between england and one of the great sporting comebacks, england lost the first two games of the women�*s ashes but then they won back—to—back t20 internationals to set up a fascinating one—day series. but australia are formidable in this format, they are world champions and have won 15 in a row dating back to 2021. so that is the task ahead of england but cricket is a game of numbers, if a stranger when any of

the remaining three matches they will retain the women�*s ashes. if you want more numbers the score on the seventh over, australia 32—1 and a dangerous captain alyssa healy already out. thank you very much. now, there are some exciting matches ahead this afternoon at wimbledon as the singles quarter finals continue. queen camilla will be among those watching the world men�*s number one carlos alcaraz take on denmark�*s holga rune. nesta mcgregor is at sw19 for us. the road to being a champion starts with countless hours of practice and a dream. i would like to play wimbledon. i would like to play tennis and be the best player in the world. so it would appear the future of tennis is in safe hands, both outside and inside centre court.

atjust 20 years old, spain�*s carlos alcaraz is a us open winner and current world number one. for many, he�*s seen as the biggest threat to the reign of novak djokovic on grass. but first, he must get past denmark�*s holger rune, who�*s the same age. and to add some spice to the mix, they played doubles together at 13. we know really well each other, and i�*m really sad about it. and i think he�*s the same. back then he was carlos. he's the same. just, you know, improved very, very, a lot. and very quickly. 0n the subject of knowing each other well, the pick of today�*s ladies quarterfinals is between elena rybakina and 0nsjabeur, a repeat of last year�*s final. the tunisian will be hoping for a different result. sometimes playing someone sometimes playing someone like elena, who serves really well. it could be frustrating. like elena, who serves really well. you know, me, i would get angry, you know, me, i would get angry, but i�*ll try to accept the fact that she serves so good and try but i�*ll try to accept the fact to return good and then and see

what i can do there. what i can do there. meanwhile, on court number one, this year�*s break—out star, the usa�*s chris eubanks, at six foot seven, he�*s pretty hard to miss — the new kid on the block. — the new kid on the block. even fellow americans are trying to dig up information about him. i did google him the other night. i did google him the other night. played in college in the us, which is awesome and he's a growing star. usually our guys don�*t do too well usually our guys don�*t do too well in wimbledon, but we got a guy in wimbledon, but we got a guy in the quarterfinals, so hopefully in the quarterfinals, so hopefully chris takes it up for us today. chris takes it up for us today. hello. today may well be about the future, today may well be about the future, but the day�*s special guest, her majesty the queen, but the day�*s special guest, has been reminiscing about her tennis past. about her tennis past. over 100 years ago. 0ver100 years ago. queen�*s is quite different. so if extra help is needed, so if extra help is needed, look no further than the royal box. look no further than the royal box. could you imagine! a number ten is could you imagine! is jam—packed, the women�*s water finals. madison keys is taking on aryna sabalenka and madison keys is

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