we begin in the us in what could become the largest product liability settlement in history. the pharmaceutical s giant, johnson &johnson has proposed paying almost $9 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits that allege the company s talcum powders causes cancer. the new move seeks to resolve all current and future claims and follows a decade long legal battle between plaintiffs lawyers and johnson & johnson. my colleague samira hussain with the details. johnson &johnson johnson & johnson has johnson &johnson has been dogged for use by claims that its talcum powder causes cancer. in 2021 it settle a lawsuit in newjersey brought by 21 women who blame the company for that very cancer and is set aside another 2 billion to try to settle all future claims in what could add up future claims in what could add up to thousands of lawsuits. now the company says it will increase the potential size of all settlement to 8 $.9 billion. the company stopped selling it talcum product
here in the uk, 2022 saw the highest number of excess deaths outside the covid pandemic in half a century. and france tries again to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. it s an unpopular reform that didn t go well last time it tried. we ll be live in paris. we start in ukraine. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine s army is facing an extremely difficult situation as fighting continues in the eastern donbas region. the focus is the salt mining town of soledar. the uk defence ministry says it s likely that russian forces including wagner group mercenaries now control most of the town. we ll be taking a look at why it s become central to this conflict. but first, here s president zelensky. translation: and what did russia want to win there? i everything is completely destroyed. there was almost no life left. thousands of their people are gone, the whole land in soledar is covered with the corpses of the invaders and scarred from the strikes. this is what madness loo
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