range of figures involved in former president trump's effort to overturn the results of the 2020 elections. and house prices are rocketing both sides of the atlantic. just what is going on? tonight with the context, our north america correspondent, anthony zurcher. britain's strict libel laws are increasingly being used to close down journalistic investigations. that's according to evidence given to lawmakers in the house of lords today. in the past few months, there have been a string of legal actions brought by russian oligarchs in the uk. many of them have been directed against one book, putin's people by catherine belton. the term that campaigners have invented for these sort of law suits — which try to block publication of information in the public interest — is slapps — strategic lawsuits against public participation. and, although the acronym came from the us, britain leads the world in them, according to a recent study. let's bring in susan coughtrie of the british think tank the foreign policy centre. she's the founder of the uk anti—slapp coalition — and she was one of the people