of the snp. humza yousaf is expected to succeed nicola sturgeon as scotland s first minister after winning the scottish national party leadership election. we ll have a report from afghanistan, where a new school year has started but the taliban government forces teenage girls to stay at home. if the restrictions on women get more and more intense, i don t think this life is worth living. and gwyneth paltrow s accuser details the moments before he says the actress collided with him on a ski slope seven years ago. ms paltrow denies responsibility for the incident. welcome to the programme. in nashville say six people including three children aged nine have been killed in a school shooting. the attacker who was female, is also dead. it happened at a private christian school. president biden has described the shootings as heart breaking. nada tawfik, has this report. children running for their lives in the midst of yet another mass shooting. this time it happened in nashvill
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the us where one of the most highly anticipated defamation trials began and ended just as quickly. with the jury already selected media giant fox news settled with dominion voting systems, for $787 million. the issue at heart of the case was whether fox news was liable for airing the false claims that dominion s ballot counting machines were used to manipulate the 2020 election in favor ofjoe biden over then president donald trump. one of dominion s lawyers, justin nelson and ceo james poulos spoke after the settlement. the truth matters. lies have consequences. over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories, causing grievous harm to dominion in the country. grievous harm to dominion in the country- the country. admitted to tellinu the country. admitted to telli
kyiv. hello and welcome. we start here in the us where fox news network has reached a last minute settlement, in a defamation case brought against it by a voting machine company. the case is linked to claims that the 2020 us presidential election was rigged against donald trump. fox news agreed to pay dominion $787.5 million. with the settlement, fox will avoid a high profile trial. dominion voting systems sued fox news for $1.6 billion so they actually settled for less than half of what they were asking for. this all came about because dominion claimed that their reputation was damaged after fox knowingly spread lies about its voting machines after the 2020 us election. they were repeating claims by then president donald trump who had falsely claimed that dominion voting machines rigged the election to favour winner joe biden. dominion said fox hosts amplified the baseless allegations but, at the time, fox claimed it was newsworthy. this is how dominion responded to settle
from streaming services. and, later in the business news, the sacked boss of the british lobby group the cbi tells the bbc his reputation has been totally destroyed following his abrupt dismissal. hello and welcome. we start in the us, where the fox news network has reached a last minute settlement, in a defamation case brought against it by a voting machine company. the case is linked to claims that the 2020 us presidential election was rigged against donald trump. fox news agreed to pay dominion voting systems $787.5 million. with the settlement, fox will avoid a high profile trial. dominion originally sued fox news for $1.6 billion so they actually settled for less than half of what they were asking for. this all came about because dominion claimed that their reputation was damaged after fox knowingly spread lies about its voting machines after the 2020 us election. they were repeating claims by then president donald trump who had falsely said that dominion voting machines