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
cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. we have some breaking news for you. i m jake tapper. moments ago, we learned there is a settlement a settlement in the high stakes trial between dominion voting systems and fox dominion was suing fox for $1.6 billion, saying that the network showed complete and utter disregard for truth and facts and accuracy. when they allowed guests and hosts to push false conspiracy theories that the 2020 election had been stolen from donald trump. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in delaware. oliver. what do we know about the settlement? we know right now. the judge just announced actually moments ago, jake that this case has been settled out of court. we don t know any details about what happened. but there was this unexplained two hour delay in court proceedings. this settlement really comes right before the clock struck struck midnight jake opening statements were set to begin at 1 30. they did not as scheduled, and there was an unexp
$787.5 million. that s how much the fox corporation will pay. it s half of what dominion says they were seeking, but a historic amount on the less the fox corporation. clearly deciding was better to pay the money than have their star anchors try to explain under oath, the election denialism and disinformation. they either spread themselves or help spread by giving others who are lying a platform night after night after night in a statement after the settlement was announced, fox said, and i quote we acknowledge the court s rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false. the settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. i just want to repeat that the first part of it said. we acknowledge the court s rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false. that might sound sort of maybe like an apology, but it s not. they acknowledge the court ruling doesn t really mean anything and their description that certain claims about
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trelegy for copd. birds flyin high, you know how i feel. breeze driftin on by. february 2021 smartmattic alleges fox news knowingly made over 100 false statements and implications about the company amplifying false information from former president donald trump and his allies, smart mattic played a role in his election loss. exposed misconduct and damage caused by fox news information campaign smart mattic will expose the rest, a tease in the tv business the very fact that fox is shelling out more than three quarters of a billion dollars in cold hard cash for its coverage of team trump s conspiracy theories as dominion attorney da vitae brooke put it money can be a form of accountability a listen to that from yesterday. for the past two and a half years we ve been able to expose everything that fox knew when it broadcast these horrific lies about my company, the country now knows that, the world knows that and with the summary judgment frulg this great court we now h