and hopes of a deal between gary lineker and the bbc in a row over impartiality which disrupted sports programmes over the weekend. hello and welcome to bbc news. the us government says people and businesses who have money deposited at silicon valley bank, which collapsed last week, will be able to access all their cash from today. a statement from the us treasury and the federal reserve said depositors would be fully protected and said american taxpayer would not bear any losses from the move. the same guarantees have been given to account holders with signature bank of new york, which was badly hit by the turmoil and came under regulatory control on sunday. in the uk, the government has announced that hsbc will buy the uk arm of svb, meaning customers will be able to access their deposists and banking services as normal. here s the uk s finance minister. well, there was never a systemic risk to our financial stability in the uk. the bank of england governor made that clear
up its processes. it looks like these issues were raised in may, the presenter stayed on air and 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 of the allegations? and should the investigation had been more thorough? the bbc said. the bbc has not explained itself. well, the question is why hasn t the bbc explained itself? 0ne, because it s worried about the legal issues of any kind of detail which might point
those allegations might be but that seems to be a significant point by the bbc are trying to put in their defence against criticism that has been put against them in the last few days and they are saying that addition to their inquiries, they have been in touch with external authorities. we don t know who those external authorities are but tim davie, as i say, has written to all bbc staff and he started out by saying everyone will be aware of the allegations in the media about a male presenter working for us and i wanted to update you on what we are doing in regard to this. we take all allegations seriously, this is now mirroring the bbc statement we saw earlier. the bbc became aware of the complaint in may, the bbc investigations team has been looking into her since it was raised and have been actively following up. and then the point i was just making, and tim davie s e mail, he said new
have been made about what the sun are describing as a high bbc presenter so if that is true, this is something that the public will be deeply concerned about and also they will deeply be concerned about how the bbc itself deals with this kind of complaint. there is a lot of emphasis on how corporations and how companies deal with their staff and staff behaviours so potentially, this is very serious. staff behaviours so potentially, this is very serious. thank you for that update this is very serious. thank you for that update from this is very serious. thank you for that update from our this is very serious. thank you for that update from our newsroom. | lets speak to our political correspondent peter saull. the director general, tim davie. the director-general, tim davie. we had a the director general, tim davie. - had a statement from department for culture, media and sport expressing
we have had some breaking news on our top story on that unnamed bbc presenter he was accused of paying a teenager the sexually exquisite photographs. what is the latest explicit. what is the latest? photographs. what is the latest explicit. what is the latest?- explicit. what is the latest? there was an e-mail explicit. what is the latest? there was an e-mail from explicit. what is the latest? there was an e-mail from the was an e mail from the director general tim davie and a statement from the bbc. they said the member of staff had been suspended and that the bbc had been in touch with external authorities and we understand that those external authorities are the police. that s part of a statement that came out a few minutes ago saying that bbc had been in touch with external authorities. it is not entirely