correspondent mark meredith is here with all the details of this big case. good evening, mark. bret, it was a big case. good evening to you. johnny depp was not in the courtroom when today s verdict was announced. tonight both he and his legal team are celebrating after a jury in virginia ruled depp s ex-wife actress amber heard owes him $15 million for defamation. he claimed an op-ed written by heard in 2018 and published in the the washington post significantly set back his career. in the piece, heard wrote she was, quote, a public figure representing domestic abuse. the jury ruled these claims were intentionally meant to hurt depp. the ache door wrote published already traveled around the world twice within a nanosecond had seismic impact on my life and career. six months later the jury gave me my life back. i m truly humbled. we also heard from his legal team. we are also most pleased that the trial has resonated for so many people in the public who value truth and
And coming up on bbc news theres a dream debut for Toby Roland Jones as englands bowlers run riot over south africa in the third test. Good evening. 82 buildings have Beenjudged Unsafe by the governments new Fire Safety Test in which insulation and cladding of the type fitted to Grenfell Tower were considered together for the first time. The test is more thorough than previous checks, which only tested cladding. 47 of the buildings are owned or managed by local authorities or housing associations. At least 80 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire injune and the government today announced an independent review into Building Regulations and fire safety. Heres our Home Affairs Correspondent tom symonds. Inside the burn hole, this is where the tests have been taking place upon which the fate of dozens of tower blocks hang. So by the government has refused to release video of the tests, but it involves setting light to cladding and installation fitted to a nine metre wall. This afternoon t
The full process takes place. And remembering one of the great battles of The Great War 100 years on from passchendaele. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news. Its a dream debut for bowler Toby Roland Jones, as his four wickets helped england take a firm hold of the third test against south africa at the oval. Good evening. Its been announced that charlie gard the baby who was at the centre of a High Court Battle over his care has died. The 11 month old was moved to a hospice where his life support was removed. A statement from his family said 0ur Beautiful Little Boy has gone. We are so proud of you, charlie. 0ur medical correspondent fergus walsh now looks back at the story of the child whose plight became an issue of international concern. Today, charlie is two weeks old. This is charlie gard without breathing or feeding tubes. Born apparently healthy, but soon a devastating genetic condition emerged which causes progressive muscle weakness. By his side throughout have been his par
and it s worse, it s an economic disaster for americans. bret: meantime the president, mara, says he really wasn t aware of this baby formula thing until a month or month and a half ago. take a listen. the shortage of baby formula is due to the closure back in february of one of abbott s infant formula plants. we need to take immediate action to stop-we needed to take immediate action to stop contaminated formula. from hitting store shelves and putting american children at risk. i became aware of this problem some time after april in early april about how intense it was. bret: what about this and how the white house is handling it. yeah. i mean the question is why weren t they on top of this earlier. there are a lot of things that aren t the president s fault that do become his problem. and the lack of infant formula one of them. there are a lot of reasons for it. there is too much concentration in the infant formula business. as long as they there are empty shelves and peopl
president obama wants $447 billion to create jobs. the president cause it a jolt not a system ytimulus. aly is off this week. the american jobs bill, a tax credit for hiring unemployed veterans and modernization of 5,000 public schools and tax credit for hiring long term unemployed and position to help refinance mortgages at low interest rates. steven, the white house is steering us told analysis from well known economist mark zandi who says this plan if enacted could create almost 2 million jobs. let me guess, you re skeptical? i m friends with mark for a long time but he s been wrong. he s the one who said we would create 3.5 million jobs. an amazing statistic. i just looked up the numbers. we have 1 million fewer jobs today than we did in february of 2009 when we created the $800 billion stimulus plan. let me use a football analogy if i may. if you run the ball up the middle three times and you don t get any yards, on fourth down you don t run the ball up the middle and