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Chaka Khan performs at the Rosendal garden party in Djurgarden, Stockholm
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The Patrouille de France perform a flyover at the opening of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget. It runs until June 22
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The King and Queen arrive at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle for the Order of the Garter service. Established nearly 700 years ago by Edward III, the order is the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain, honouring those who have served the nation or the sovereign with distinction
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The sun sets behind Salgo Castle, viewed from Salgotarjan in northern Hungary
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Side Glance is offered a treat before the Goffs London sale at Kensington Palace Gardens, a boutique thoroughbred auction held on the eve of Royal Ascot
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Minor Chief Steven Crowchild of the Tsuut'ina nation awaits the arrival of President Macron at Calgary airport in Canada before the G7 summit in Kananaskis
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US servicemen compete in a fitness challenge during the army's 250th birthday festival in Washington
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Miguel Sanchez-Merenciano, a dog trainer, is towed to shore by rescue dogs Brown, a three-year-old labrador, and Nilo, a two-year-old standard poodle, during summer training at Las Lindes beach in Torrox, southern Spain
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Palestine Action activists set off flares after scaling the roof of Permoid Industries in Co Durham, during a protest over the firm's alleged links to the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems
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Jarang, a young orangutan at Blackpool Zoo, appears to copy a visitor cleaning the viewing glass by using his bedding to wipe the window
Monica Bellucci at the Taormina film festival in Sicily
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A design takes shape on day two of the Pasadena chalk art festival in California, where artists transformed the pavement into a public gallery
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Team Spain performs during the acrobatic routine at the artistic swimming world cup super final in Xian, China.
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Jacky Jhaj: How was a paedophile able to hire Disneyland?
When it emerged that last weekend a convicted paedophile had organised a fake wedding to a nine-year-old at Disneyland Paris, many people were would do such a thing? How was it even possible? The BBC understands it was the latest bizarre stunt by Jacky Jhaj – a British man I have been investigating for two first came to my attention after a tip off from a teenage girl came out of the blue in was horrified that she had come face to face with a paedophile who she had been hired to fawn was too terrified of him to go on the record - but I tracked down a number of aspiring actors who had also been directed to scream at Jhaj while he was parading down a red carpet, and reach out to try and touch him. In all, 200 children and young women had been recruited by reputable casting agencies to play Jhaj's fans at a fake film premiere in London's Leicester Square that year. Some were as young as the end of the event someone recognised Jhaj - who had previously been found guilty of sexual activity with two 15-year-olds in 2016 and sent to fake red carpet was one of a litany of stunts he has organised since his release which often involve casting girls as his fans. All have been organised at great expense, while he was on the Sex Offenders Register and subject to restrictions on his the mock-wedding at Disneyland Paris a nine-year-old Ukrainian girl was flown in to play his theme park can be privately rented outside of its opening hours and actors had been booked at great cost to be there – one received £10, BBC understands that Jacky Jhaj, 39, who is from west London, has now been charged by French authorities in connection with organising the the past two years I've set out to try and understand how he has been able to carry out these stunts and why there are not more stringent rules preventing have taken place at high profile British landmarks – including the British Museum, the Royal Exchange in London and the University of also typically involve young people being hired to act as his fans in elaborate productions. Videos of some of them were uploaded to a YouTube channel which was watched more than six million times and had 12 million remained on YouTube for years until last September, when the BBC alerted Google, which owns the platform.A video on a separate channel showed him next to one of the victims he was convicted of sexual activity with – with her face anonymised. It had remained on YouTube for four years with more than a million told the BBC at the time that it takes users' safety seriously but offered no explanation as to how an account featuring a man with almost no profile or success had 12 million subscribers, or why the videos had not been previously on social media sites appear to cast Jhaj as a successful writer and singer and are often styled as music videos. Many are highly concerning - some feature him posing with young children and weapons. It is not clear if the guns are real or revel in his infamy. In one, he is greeted by fans apparently celebrating his release from Wormwood Scrubs prison.I wanted to know how he had organised the stunts – and if he had received help. What else do we know? Over the past two years, I have spoken to videographers, production assistants and technicians who were hired for some of the events before they discovered Jhaj's real man repeatedly appears in videos they shared with have been sent images and footage of him at three of the stunts by people who described him as assisting the choreographer hired for dance auditions, and apparently filming. At a different event last year, he was confronted by duped cast members who recognised Jhaj from our reports and showed him the online cast members filmed him acknowledging that Jhaj is a convicted sex offender but he says he is his "friend" and is now "free".At this event Jhaj was filmed posing naked in front of a mocked-up BBC News lorry in London which had been set on had initially appeared there disguised by prosthetics – before he removed them and was identified as the man from our findings from the French prosecutor also said that make-up artists had allegedly changed the organiser's facial features dramatically at the Disneyland event. How Jhaj funds his stunts - which involve extraordinary costs on venue hire, casts and props - is a production hired a tank, while in another a mock police car was set on booking of Disneyland Paris alone would have cost more than €130,000 (£110,000), according to the French broadcaster BFMTV.I was also told that hiring the red carpet space that is the home of movie premieres in Leicester Square would have required tens of thousands of was listed as a director of a business that was wound up in 2016 – but there is no other obvious source of money.I also wanted to know how he had been able to carry out these events while subject to a sexual harm prevention have seen a copy of it. It lists ten restrictions on his activities – but does not appear to explicitly prohibit the stunts he had order restricts Jhaj from contacting his previous victims, entering public places for the use of children and deliberately contacting any girl under the age of there is no blanket ban on hosting events with children under 16 if they are supervised – as was the case with the Leicester Square stunt, where some adults attended as chaperones. One police officer to 50 offenders I also wanted to know who, if anyone, was responsible for monitoring convicted my first report, a police officer who helped monitor Jhaj rang me, asking for information on his said he was responsible for managing the whereabouts of dozens of offenders - and it was challenging National Police Chiefs' Council advise that the minimum safe staffing levels at which paedophiles should be monitored is one officer to every 50 Metropolitan Police's average offender management ratio was one officer to 40 offenders – well within the benchmark.I asked other forces what their ratios were and some never replied. But 10 out of 26 forces failed to meet this benchmark, according to Freedom of Information requests received last one force, officers were responsible for monitoring 85 offenders each on forces defended their resourcing – arguing that these are advisory levels only and also dependent on risk assessments of successfully managing 50 sex offenders is "impossible" according to Jonathan Taylor, a safeguarding expert and former child abuse investigator."I feel so sorry for the officers", he says. "It's a poisoned chalice - one of the paedophiles will re-offend. This case also highlights concerns about a lack of safeguarding in entertainment and tech companies enabling these types of offenders."The BBC understands that Jhaj is currently detained in French custody. The local prosecutor there says the Ukrainian girl involved in Saturday's stunt had not been a victim of either physical or sexual violence and had not been forced to play the role of a statement also said Disneyland Paris had been "deceived" and that the organiser had used a fake Latvian ID to hire the BBC approached Disneyland Paris for comment - they did not Metropolitan Police said that a 39-year-old man is wanted by them for breaching restrictions placed on his activities, and is also separately being investigated for "any possible" fraud reporting by Alex Dackevych and Richard Irvine-Brown.
