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
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