frustrated that the star remained on air. there s growing pressure on the bbc to explain their actions. well, look, these are very, very serious allegations and the bbc needs to act swiftly. it needs to follow its procedures that it says it has in place. but i m a former minister for safeguarding, and i worked for 20 years in the criminaljustice system. and so in all of this and in our conversations about it, we have to remember that there is a person, a young person at the centre of this. the demand on the bbc to act is coming from politicians on all sides. bbc do need to speed up their processes. it looks like these issues were raised in may and we re now injuly and the presenter stayed on air. that s not good enough. there is no doubt the bbc is in a serious crisis. the corporation has many questions to answer, including what investigations went on when the family contacted the bbc in may. was the presenter made aware
today s front pages contain new serious allegations against a top bbc presenter. the star is accused of allegedly paying a teenager thousands of pounds in exchange for explicit photos. in new claims today, the individual s mother told the sun on sunday, the presenter was pictured in his underwear, ready for her child to perform for him. the allegations first emerged in the sun yesterday. the paper isn t naming the presenter for legal reasons. it s claimed the man paid around £35,000 to a 17 year old over a three year period for explicit photos. the young person s mother told the paper her child, now 20, used the money to fund a crack cocaine habit. the family told the newspaper. they complained to the bbc in may, but are said to have become
sexually explicit photos. the bbc says it treats any allegations very seriously. the government describes the allegations as deeply concerning and says the culture secretary will be speaking to the bbc s director general today. joe biden will arrive in the uk later, flying into a disagreement over sending cluster bombs to ukraine. the us treasury secretary is leaving china after a visit which she says put relations between the two countries on a surer footing . and how natural plant extract from daffodils could help limit methane emissions from cows. hello. there are new allegations, concerning an unnamed bbc presenter, accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17. the sun newspaper claims
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response from the bbc this afternoon but, for now, it looks like, anyway, the culture secretary is pretty happy with the assurances she has had the director general although this is clearly far from over. thanks very much for now. just a reminder that that was a tweet from lucy fraser, the culture secretary, saying that she has been assured by the bbc s director general tim davie, there we go. i ve spoken to bbc director general tim davie. so there you go. let s take that conversation between the culture secretary and head of the bbc has taken place and then she carries on. the bbc needs to establish the facts and take appropriate action. i will be kept updated. so that is the latest on that. let s move other news now. the us president, joe biden, will arrive in the uk this