those are the headlines on bbc world news. and now on bbc news chaos on capitol hill: the verdict, and a warning that this programme contains flashing images. it s going to happen. something s going to happen. chanting: whose streets? our streets! if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. on january sixth 2020, thousands of donald trump supporters stormed the us capitol building, intent on disrupting the certification of the 2020 election results. hundreds of police officers were injured. one, brian sicknick, would later die. ashli babbitt, a protester, would be fatally shot by law enforcement during the attack. by law enforcement during the attack. another rioter would die in the throng of people pushing into the building. the crowd that gathered at the capitol that day ransacked the offices of congressional leaders, and posed for photographs in the senate chamber itself. a year and a half later, legislators who were trapped in the capitol complex that day
hire, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and we ll have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. let me just not go the down the rabbit holes of alex jones but the families had pain and suffering from the massacre being described as a hoax and the nearly billion dollars in damages does nothing, nothing to deal with their grief but it was as signal, it seems harry, that the jury felt that it was represent henceible. even his defense attorney said in close, nicole. this is a despicable human being and, of course, he s the vilest vermin out there on
enters talks about pay. you are watching bbc news. now our north america correspondent anthony zurcher takes a look at the long awaited senate report into the storming of the us capitol back injanuary. there are flashing images in this report. it s going to happen. something s going to happen. chanting: whose streets? our streets! if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. on january sixth 2020, thousands of donald trump supporters on january sixth 2021, thousands of donald trump supporters stormed the us capitol building, intent on disrupting the certification of the 2020 election results. hundreds of police officers were injured. 0ne, brian sicknick, would later die. ashli babbitt, a protester, would be fatally shot by law enforcement during the attack. another rioter would die in the throng of people pushing into the building. the crowd that gathered at the capitol that day ransacked the offices of congressional leaders, and posed for photographs in the sen
public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers
it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitter s ceo, the chief financial officer and the company s top lawyer. musk first agreed to buy the company in april, then he spent months trying to get out of the deal, which was finalized just before today s deadline. musk attempted to reassure advertisers, posting an open letter on twitter why he bought the platform, saying, quote, there is currently great danger that social media will fracture into far right and far left wings that will splinter our society and overnight he tweeted the bird is free. reporter: there is a lot of uncertainty at twitter. employees aren t sure what to expect after musk came in, took control and fired the top executives. unclear who the top team is, maybe employees will learn more at an all-hands mee