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
and are earning more than ever before. let s start with oil prices, because they ve risen some 20% over the past three weeks. this time last week, prices surged after the oil cartel, opec +, decided it would reduce its combined output by 1.1 million barrels per day. crude prices climbed after the cartel s announcement, but later in the week they steadied, following the latest us and chinese economic data which suggested weaker post pandemic growth. so where are we headed? russ mould, investment research director at aj bell joins me now. i m very excited about this. you are down by the seaside in brighton but actually here today. on the bank holiday we dragged you in. what are your thoughts about oil right now? opec + is seen as this organisation by the white house is not especially helpful when it comes to our outlook for the global economy, cutting production and causing another spike in the price of oil which is very inflationary? it spike in the price of oil which is very
that s the same type of aircraft and missile that shot down the chinese balloon off the coast of south carolina. one of the questions we asked at the pentagon briefing was if there was so much intelligence to gain by letting the previous balloon fly across the united states and being able to observe it, why was this one shot down so quickly especially when the senators were furious it wasn t shot down earlier. was the pentagon wbowing to political pressure. the decision to shoot it down before it entered into u.s. airspace, the pentagon bowing to pressure from the hill? we re going to judge each of these objects on its own merits. it entered into u.s. airspace on february 9th. we sent up aircraft to assess what it was. the decision was made that it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic. the president gave the order to take it down and we took it down. in the end this was shot down just a few miles over the water. that water frozen so it did essentially fall
$75 million. what you see on the left there is what letitia james says is all things considered the rough actual truth, a value of $75 billion. now, you might notice when you look at this bar chart here that it seems really kind of low, and that s because of what you re about to see. to leave room for the trump claims you have to build a giant chart where the trump organization made claims legally binding that this was worth $739 million. that s not a bit above or double. it is, as you see, about nine times more than, according to the case, what the a.g. says it s worth. so it is false as best as anyone can tell. it certainly never fetched $739 million or anything close to that in a sale. what you re seeing on your screen in simple form, which i m leading the newscast with, because it s important, is a piece of evidence for dismantling the trump organization. if this evidence holds and a judge signs off on it, you can see trump and his family banned from running any corporati
we know that at least 10 have been confirmed dead. officials are warning us that that number will likely be higher. significant damage i saw was on fort myers beach there have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and likely many more than that. ainsley: florida s governor ron desantis there. he is going to have a press conference today at 8:45 a.m. with an update on ian and we will bring you that live. these before and after photos are showing the extent of the damage down in fort myers. a crew is being enforced is being enforced there to prevent all of the looting. brian: that s sad to think people would be thinking about florida. 2 million people still have no power. team coverage this morning trying to cover it all. it s not easy. meteorologist adam klotz is standing by with ian s latest track. robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. robert? good morning. as we are starting to see the beginnings of sunlight on this friday, which normally would