and professor steve h hanke from johns hopkins university. he served on president reagan s council of economic advisers. we will bring you up to date in the case of the first american journalist to face espionage charges in russia since the soviet era. evan gershkovich has had an appeal against his pre trial detention rejected. and we will look at why encrypted messaging services like whatsapp are urging the uk government to make changes to the online safety bill. but first, our top story on the programme, the dominion versus fox trial. it s been variously described as explosive a bombshell trial, and today it got under way in the us. a company that makes voting machines dominion suing the conservative fox news network for defamation. and in the last few minutes, we have heard it has settled. you will remember that it was due to start yesterday. there were delays for 2h hours. the case had got under way, but we understand it has now settled. our correspondent michelle f
we have heard it has settled. you will remember that it was due to start yesterday. there were delays for 2h hours. the case had got under way, but we understand it has now settled. our correspondent michelle fluery is outside the court in wilmington in delaware. michelle, this is literallyjust happening. what can you tell us? i think you can really say this was a settlement on the courthouse steps, right at the very last second, while we were waiting for the two parties to get up and give opening statements. now, the trial has been averted. what we understand so far is that the judge came back to the court room and said that this case had settled thanks to the delaware jurors and thanks to. without you, the parties would not have been able to resolve their situation. we don t have any further information at that point. at this stage stop we
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