dominic casciani is with me now. _ been involved then?ni is with me now, why _ been involved then? dominic casciani is with me now, why has _ been involved then? dominic casciani is with me now, why has this - is with me now, why has this individual not been named? it is all ofthe individual not been named? it is all of the social _ individual not been named? it is all of the social media _ individual not been named? it is all of the social media discussion - individual not been named? it is all of the social media discussion of. of the social media discussion of why the individual has not been named. there has been a feeding frenzy across the very competitive british media landscape to do so. there is a very good reason behind this. there is a very old case which says journalists have the right, they are protected by law to uncover they are protected by law to uncover the fraudulent and scandalous, but the fraudulent and scandalous, but the fact is in this case there are more questions than answers at the moment. a lot of this is very un

dominic casciani, a leual an individual.sroom. we will bring any development on the story as we get them. you can follow things on the live page on the bbc news website and the bbc news app as well. let's move on. the us president, joe biden, is on his way to the uk, travelling from the dover air force base in delaware en route to london ahead of a meeting with the prime minister, rishi sunak in downing street on monday morning. he'll then meet with king charles. the us and uk have disagreed in public over the decision to send american cluster bombs to ukraine. the issue has dominated the build—up to the visit. live now to dr leslie vinjamuri, director of the us and americas programme at chatham house. thank you very much for being with us. what does president biden want to get out of this visit? i us. what does president biden want to get out of this visit?— to get out of this visit? i think it is very clear _ to get out of this visit? i think it is very clear that _ to get out of this visit? i think it is very clear that f

dominic casciani, bbc news.inger—songwriter sinead o'connor has died at the age of 56. she shot to fame in 1990 with her song nothing compares 2 u. the irish taoiseach — leo varadkar paid tribute to her saying her talent was unmatched and beyond compare. her family said they were "devastated". 0ur arts correspondent, david sillito, has been looking back at her life. # since you've been gone i can do whatever i want # i can see whomever i choose.# sinead o'connor, nothing compares 2 u. # i can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant.# quite why a song becomes such a huge global hit is often a bit of a mystery. but one thing is certain the emotion... # because nothing compares...# ..the heartbreak... # nothing compares to you.# ..was nothing fake here. # but i do know man—din—ka...# herfirst hit mandinka marked her out as a performer with an edge. when a record executive had started talking about her hair she shaved it off. she was wary, angry, she'd had a troubled upbringing and spent part of it in care. butjoining a

dominic casciani, thank you.as called for further changes at natwest, following the resignation of the bank's chief executive dame alison rose. she stepped down overnight after admitting she was the source of an inaccurate story about the closure of his accounts at natwest�*s private banking arm, coutts. she'd claimed the former ukip leader didn't have enough money in them, but it subsequently emerged his political views were also a factor. 0ur economics correspondent dharshini david reports. more women than ever are starting a new companies. more women than ever are starting a new companies-— more women than ever are starting a new companies. dame alison rose, the natwest boss — new companies. dame alison rose, the natwest boss who _ new companies. dame alison rose, the natwest boss who stepped _ new companies. dame alison rose, the natwest boss who stepped down - new companies. dame alison rose, the natwest boss who stepped down over l natwest boss who stepped down over the row about closing nigel for ash's she

our legal correspondent dominic casciani has answered some of the questions about this case.weekend, there have been two burning questions. firstly, has there been a crime that's been committed? and secondly, why hasn't this individual been named? so let's go through these in turn — has any crime being committed? well, look, if these allegations turn out to be true, it's a fairly straightforward issue in terms of the criminaljustice system and what it says about the alleged incident. the presenter is accused of paying for sexually explicit photographs. those photographs are said to have come from somebody who was 17 years old at the time that this began. now, that individual would have been a teenager, would have been over the age of consent — which is 16 — but in terms of actually making these images, it's a crime. sorry, i beg your pardon — a child. anyone under the age of 18 cannot consent to making those images and, therefore, it is a crime to make, take or possess what is known as an indecent image, and that can lead to up to ten years in prison. it's a very, very seriou

here's our legal correspondent dominic casciani. police have asked the bbc to pause its internal investigation process and that puts flesh on the balance of what we knew about the involvement of the police which yesterday revolved around a very abline statement that they were scoping out what was going on. scotland yard i sang do not do anything else and that indicates that they are taking it seriously and do not want any potential evidence gathering to be influenced by things that happened inside this building so i think that is important in understanding the time that the police need to get potential answers and a potential criminal investigation in the future. the question is where this leaves us in terms of that thing out there about why the presenter has not been named. people are still talking about that. we are now four days into theirs and �*the sun�* has not identified the presenter and it could be the case after today because of the steps that the bbc has taken that the case to name the presenter or not becomes harder. the

in a moment, we'll speak to our legal correspondent dominic casciani.o the bbc�*s media editor, katie razzall. you've been reporting on this all weekend. what should people bear in mind as they are following this? i think it is important to say when it comes to the legal letter we received at the bbc this afternoon, we have not had our own contact with the young person and we don't know their identity, despite our efforts. we have not seen any of the sun's evidence for its stories or the dossier the paper says was added to the bbc by the family over the weekend. ijust think it is a really difficult and complicated situation and one that is fairly challenging to report. the claims in the letter and the counterclaims by the family are another twist in a story that has plunged the bbc into crisis. dominic, we've been talking a lot about the privacy issues surrounding this case. how does this letter from the young person's lawyer feed into those issues? i think it is a really, really important development in this story, as is the _ important development in

in a moment we'll talk to our legal correspondent, dominic casciani. media editor katie razzall. katie, more claims tonight in the sun? including an allegation that the presenter broke the covid lockdown rules to travel to see a young individual they had met on a dating site in the newspaper says they have seen messages which suggest as well as a visiting the home of a 23—year—old he sent money and a picture. seminaked photograph. he met them at their flat in february 2021 during the third national lockdown. we do not know the truth of this ourselves but there is other pressure now on the presenter from a bbc colleague because tonightjeremy vine has said he thinks the man involved in the scandal should now come forward publicly. jeremy vine felt the need to come out at the weekend along with others including gary lineker and nicky campbell to say they are not the unnamed presenter. jeremy vine says the new allegations will result in more vitriol being thrown out innocent colleagues and the bbc he says, which i'm sure the unnamed presenter loves, jeremy

our legal correspondent dominic casciani has been looking into the letter from the young person's lawyerk it is a really, really important development in this story as is the sun's latest story tonight. i'm going to take each of these in turn because the law of privacy is there to effectively protect reputations and careers and futures from undue harm and because there are many things in our private life which are simply nobody else's business, they are private to us, and if you analyse this letter, what this law firm was saying and if you analyse this letter, what this law firm is saying on behalf of their client — and this is not a modest high street firm, they are a decent sized firm in central london — is they're saying there is a repeated breach of privacy here in this reporting, even though the individual has not been named and nor has the presenter. the young person denies involvement in unlawful or inappropriate activity and they are effectively saying, if you carry on doing this and if you were to name the client — doing this and if you were to name our client — this is effectiv

our home and legal correspondent, dominic casciani, is outside the court of appeal.t today. tell us what happened in court toda . ~ �* , tell us what happened in court toda . ~ 3 , tell us what happened in court toda . ~ �*, , ., today. well, it's been quite an extraordinary _ today. well, it's been quite an extraordinary morning in - today. well, it's been quite an extraordinary morning in courtj today. well, it's been quite an - extraordinary morning in court where andy malkinson�*s legal team has described this as the most troubling case which has wide implications for justice. a historic case and an historic injustice, they say. the reason this is taking so long is that although the cps have now accepted for some months that there is dna from the time on the clothing of the victim which points towards another man not to andy malkinson. his team are in court today to hammer home a point which they want to show that every single part of this case against him was flawed and they are squarely blaming greater manchester police. edward henry casey said grey failures in

our legal correspondent dominic casciani has answered some of the questions about this case.ely, if you go on social media this weekend, there have been two burning questions. firstly, has there been a crime that's been committed? and secondly, why hasn't this individual been named? so let's go through these in turn — has any crime been committed? well, look, if these allegations turn out to be true, it's a fairly straightforward issue in terms of the criminaljustice system and what it says about the alleged incident. the presenter is accused of paying for sexually explicit photographs. those photographs are said to have come from somebody who was 17 years old at the time that this began. now, that individual would have been a teenager, would have been over the age of consent — which is 16 — but in terms of actually making these images, it's a crime. sorry, i beg your pardon — a child, anyone under the age of 18 cannot consent to making those images and, therefore, it is a crime to make, take or possess what is known as an indecent image, and that can lead to up to ten years

joining me now is our legal correspondent dominic casciani.is 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 unde

katie razzall, our media editor, is here along with our legal correspondent dominic casciani.his, questions, no question about that. i through all of this, questions, no question about that.— through all of this, questions, no question about that. i think there are questions _ question about that. i think there are questions for _ question about that. i think there are questions for the _ question about that. i think there are questions for the sun - question about that. i think there are questions for the sun to - question about that. i think there i are questions for the sun to answer, they put out a statement defending theirjournalism, pointing out the allegations were always very serious but that the paper itself never alleged criminality, although that story about criminality, potential criminality, was picked up by others. but the paper did report from the start that the explicit images had begun when the person was 17 and we know that that would have i7 and we know that that would have been potentially criminal if true so it did in a sense set the ball rolling on that e

culture correspondent lizo mzimba, who was on the virtual call in the past hour with tim davie and dominic cascianime and legal correspondent. the key point is that the bbc has been asked to pause that alec gage investigation. yes been asked to pause that alec gage investigation-— investigation. yes we had this notification _ investigation. yes we had this notification earlier _ investigation. yes we had this notification earlier in - investigation. yes we had this notification earlier in this - investigation. yes we had this i notification earlier in this whole saga that the bbc have been in touch with external bodies, and that's with external bodies, and that's with the metropolitan police. the metropolitan police had a meeting with the bbc yesterday that said it's not at the stage yet of an investigation, but they are looking at what's been handed to them. the bbc have been asked in the meantime to pause their investigation into what has happened with less, so, it's a case of waiting to see how that police investigation, well police inquiry, may not turn into an inquiry, how it may resolve and d