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 lesss than half of what they were asking for. let s remind you of the background to all of this. 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 winnerjoe biden. dominion said fox hosts amplified the baseless allegations , but at the time, fox claimed it was newsworthy. this is how dominion responded to set
in other news, nicaragua frees more than 200 opposition political prisoners and deports them to the united states. # ijust don t know what # i just don t know what to # ijust don t know what to do with myself. we remember burt bacharach one of pop s greatest songwriters, who has died aged 94. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. hundreds of thousands of people across turkey and syria are spending a fourth night in freezing conditions in makeshift camps, having been made homeless by earthquakes. officials say more than 20,000 are now known to have died and hopes are fading that many more will be found beneath the rubble. the first united nations aid convoy has made it into syria and the world bank has promised around $1.8 billion to help turkey. let s start with this report from our correspondent anna foster in kahraman maras. an urgent call for quiet. these rescuers need complete silence. they ve heard voices. even though this building isn t safe,
for the candidates to reach millions of brazilians before sunday s election run off vote. in about 10 minutes we ll have this week s edition of newswatch, but first on bbc news, click. as ca rs as cars get ever more powerful and generous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians, but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety testing is still largely done on the same crash test dummies that we used in the 1980s, and they were based on the male form. but now a team of engineers in sweden are in the final stages of developing the first average female crash test dummy. so what happens to a woman s body during a crash? shona mccallum has been to linkoping in sweden to find out. when you think of car crashes, you probably think of something like this. but rear impacts, being h
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ajury is sworn in to hear the inquest into the death of five people shot dead byjake davison in plymouth in 2021. 0h, oh, my goodness me. and, a five set thriller down under britain s andy murray beats the 13th seed, italy s matteo berrettini, in the australian open. and coming up in sport on bbc news: jurgen klopp says he will not leave anfield until someone tells him to. it s been a difficult season for liverpool, who have an fa cup third round replay at wolves later. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. police have declared a major incident after a double decker bus carrying 70 people overturned in icy conditions in somerset. the crash happened on the a39 near cannington early this morning. many of the passengers were workers from the nearby hinkley point nuclear power station. no one died but three people are believed to have significant injuries. our correspondent helena wilkinson has the latest. this footage, posted on social media, shows the double de