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lawyer, rudy giuliani, has been ordered to pay $148 million in damages to two election workers he falsely accused of vote tampering. hello, welcome to the programme. i m lewis vaughanjones. we start with the war in gaza and the reaction in israel to the news that the country s military mistakenly killed three of the hostages who were taken by hamas, during its operations there. yotam higim and samer al talaky seen here left to right were shot by israeli troops in asha jiga, in the north of gaza. a spokesperson said they were misidentified as a threat. on friday night, in tel aviv, hundreds of people gathered to call on the israeli government to do more to secure the release of the remaining hostages. they were captured by hamas, which many countries consider to be a terrorist organisation, during the attack in israel on the 7th of october. aljazeera is one of the few networks still broadcasting out of gaza. now, the qatari television networksays one of its camera operato
who were taken by hamas during its operations there. hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. alon shamriz, yotam haim and samer el talalqa were shot by israeli troops in shejaiya, in the north of gaza. a spokesperson said they were misidentified as a threat. on friday night, in tel aviv, hundreds of people gathered to call on the israeli government to do more to secure the release of the remaining hostages. they were captured by hamas, which many countries consider to be a terrorist organisation, during the attack in israel on the 7th of october. with the latest from jerusalem, here s our middle east correspondent lucy williamson. israel s army is in gaza to kill hamas fighters and bring hostages home. clear targets obliterated in the chaos of conflict. three of those shot dead in the northern district of shejaiya. not hamas gunmen, but the captives israel came to save. one of them was yotam haim, 28 years old, a drummer with a heavy metal band, kidnapped from kibbutz kfar aza. his mo
at helping its struggling streaming division, disney+. the service has been losing money in the face of strong competition from rival companies. now on bbc news, click. this week. ..as we re working towards the metaverse, we re at interpol to see how they re planning to keep it safe. we look at new software that s helping doctors perform delicate brain surgery. lara s thrown her weight around again. watch it! i ve got super strength. yes, that s definitely more powerful. and get ready to feel old. i never thought in my 205 i d be romanticising technology from when i was 13. over the last 20 or so years, we ve seen how difficult the internet and the web has been to police. it s bigger than any one country, and you can base your business in any one of them, depending on whose laws you want to adhere to. and it s opened up more ways for us to cause each other harm. disinformation, bullying, fraud. you name it, and you can do it online. so when it comes to the next generation of
lara s thrown her weight around again. watch it! i ve got super strength. yes, that s definitely more powerful. and get ready to feel old. i never thought in my 205 i d be romanticising technology from when i was 13. over the last 20 or so years, we ve seen how difficult the internet and the web has been to police. it s bigger than any one country, and you can base your business in any one of them, depending on whose laws you want to adhere to. and it s opened up more ways for us to cause each other harm. disinformation, bullying, fraud. you name it, and you can do it online. so when it comes to the next generation of the internet, often referred to as the metaverse, we re going to have the same problems. and even though the metaverse doesn t even exist yet, there are those who are already thinking about these problems and trying to pre empt the troubles we may face. and marc cieslak s been finding out how the international police agency interpol has been training to fight re