after explicit deep—fake images of taylor swift circulate on social media. and australian open joy — belarusian tennis player — aryna sabalenka — successfully defends her title in melbourne. hello and welcome. i'm catherine byaruhanga. donald trump says he'll appeal against a court order to pay $83 million in damages to a woman he defamed. ejean carroll had claimed the former us president had destroyed her reputation by saying she'd lied about him sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. she said the ruling was a "great victory for every woman". nada tawfik reports from new york. ejean carroll has now taken on donald trump twice in court,

both times emerging victorious. last may, he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation and ordered to pay her $5 million in damages. the second defamation trial looks set to cost him far more — $83 million. donald trump was not present when the verdict was read and earlier he stormed out of court when ejean carroll's lawyer was delivering her closing statement, arguing that the former president acted as if the law didn't apply to him. afterward, he slammed the verdict on social media as absolutely ridiculous and a politically—motivated witch hunt, directed by president biden. we will immediately appeal. we will set aside that ridiculousjury. and ijust want to remind you all of one thing — i will continue with president trump to fight for everybody's first amendment right to speak. everybody has a right to defend themselves when they are wrongfully accused and to be able

to say, "i didn't do it." donald trump has repeatedly denied raping the former advice columnist at a department store in the �*90s. ejean carroll's lawyer submitted as evidence videos and posts where trump continued to defame her while the trial i have no idea who she is, where she came from. - this is another scam. it's a political witch hunt. the damages awarded to ejean carroll were far more than the $24 million she asked for. it signals that the jury agreed with her lawyers that only a very large sum that would hurt donald trump financially would convince him to stop. in a statement, ejean carroll described the verdict as a victory for every woman who stands up when she's been knocked down and a huge defeat for every bully who's tried to keep a woman down. donald trump has plenty of other upcoming trials where he faces a total of 91 felony counts and the threat ofjail time.

but so far, it hasn't dented his chances of becoming the republican presidential nominee. quite the opposite. it's energised his base. nada tawfik, bbc news, new york. lets get some analysis on this now. live now to laurie laird, us political and economic commentator: she is a us political and economic commentator. thank you so much for joining us on the programme. i want to start by asking how damaging this court order will be for mr trump, especially with moderate voters. essentially, how heavy the damages? i was saying, probably not at all, as you had an accident report, this will only energise donald trump's base, this is something we have been saying in some of these legal battles as they unfolded. this is particularly true... donald trump may be a native son of new york, he

is unpopular there, and i suspect that his legal team have already announced their intention to keel... one of the things people say is that the difficulty of finding a balanced jury the difficulty of finding a balanced jury in a place like new york city is overwhelmingly democratic. i think that this will be part of the appeal and i think it has the narrative that donald trump has amplified which is that the issue which numbers that he is unpopular in certain places, but the legal system is being turned against him and being weaponised. this will help that narrative, without a doubt. bike does it matter if he continues to have verdicts or decisions going against him? especially if they are punitive monetary damages he has to then pay? the damages are very high. this is so much higher than what the plaintiff was asking for. i think that i should say, the section was

punitive damages, $65 million. i think the question of whether donald trump can get his hands on that kind of money aside from his campaign money... a lot of his money is tied up money... a lot of his money is tied up in assets. will this deter him? probably not. i think that this will energise him. you mention moderate voters, i think that the question is whether those moderate voters, and there are not as many in the us as in the past, i think many people have started to identify as one camp or the other. this is something we talked about with the new hampshire primaries whether for a large talked about with the new hampshire primaries whetherfor a large number of moderate photos. new hampshire is not like most of the country, it tended not to rate for donald trump, but i think that moderate voters are going to be a huge factor going forward. the problem the democrats may have a strange yet moderate fate is to get out at the polls. i think many voters have been turned off by

the political process more than ever. ., the political process more than ever. . , the political process more than ever. ., ., ever. so, donald trump a's position is that all of — ever. so, donald trump a's position is that all of these _ ever. so, donald trump a's position is that all of these cases _ ever. so, donald trump a's position is that all of these cases are - ever. so, donald trump a's position is that all of these cases are a - is that all of these cases are a witch hunt. what is the response from the government and the democratic party? how do they respond to that allegation from the former president?— former president? well, the democratic _ former president? well, the democratic party _ former president? well, the democratic party is - former president? well, the democratic party is in - former president? well, the democratic party is in a - former president? well, the i democratic party is in a difficult situation because any sort of response to that simply adds to the narrative that the democratically controlled system, or at least the democratic administration, is rigged against donald trump, and i think that you are raising a very good question. donald trump has some momentum hey, at least amongst his voters. we talked a lot about his case this, and this is an enthusiastic minority part of the country. out of the democrats handle this? i think we can assume donald trump is the republican nominee. we are looking towards november. how can the democrat campaign? what are

some other themes they can touch upon? last week, joe biden, harris and their spouses were in virginia and their spouses were in virginia and did a big rally where abortion rights where the big theme. i think thatis rights where the big theme. i think that is fertile territory for the democrats. expect to see that, the lot. the democrats are going to have to come up with some other narratives like immigration... the pollsters show people are concerned about immigration. it was an issue in new hampshire despite the fact that new hampshire is 2600 miles from the mexican border. the democrats are vulnerable there. thank you forjoining us on the programme. that is laurie laird, us political and economic commentator. now to the middle east, where pressure is mounting on the israeli government to change its conduct in its war with hamas, after the international court ofjustice ruled that israel must do everything possible to prevent genocide there. israel's bombardment of gaza has continued. this is the aftermath

of a strike on rafah in the south of the territory. the hamas—run health ministry in gaza says 174 palestinians have been killed in israeli strikes in the past 2a hours. that takes the total reported killed since the war started this to at least 26,257. the head of the cia is expected to meet officials from israel, egypt and qatar in the coming days, in an attempt to negotiate the release of hostages held by hamas, which many western governments consider a terrorist organisation. our middle east correspondant mark lowen told us more about the upcoming talks. they are due to begin, we understand, as early as sunday, tomorrow, in france. there are reports. but the cia has not confirmed the location or the start date and they will involve bill burns, the head of the cia, who's meeting with his opposite numbers at mossad,

israel's intelligence agency, and the egyptian spy agency as well, and top officials from qatar to try to revive attempts at finding a ceasefire — making progress towards a ceasefire in this conflict. tomorrow, sunday will be three months since israel launched its ground offensive in gaza, and the warring sides are still far apart on ceasefire proposals. we understand from reports that israel has mooted the idea of a one or two—month pause in fighting or truce, and the phased release of israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners. but hamas is said to be demanding a permanent ceasefire as part of any hostage release deal. now, the fact that they are... these talks are due to take place show that the wheels of diplomacy are turning faster. president biden spoke to the emir of qatar and the president of egypt on friday, yesterday. and it all comes, of course, as the international court ofjustice places... says that israel must do all it can to prevent genocide in gaza, placing

renewed focus and renewed scrutiny on the israeli forces' actions down in gaza. and mark, what is the reaction there in israel to that decision, interim decision, by the international court of justice? well, i think, as expected, the israeli government has largely brushed it off. there's been a lot of sort of diplomatic bluster from the israeli government as far as that is concerned. and i think israel has long—believed and has long—argued, publicly at least, that various different un bodies are stacked against it, and sort of biased against it, and are taking the court of public opinion with them. but, you know, that is something that is completely denied by the un. and, i think that, you know, on the ground, the icj's words are actually legally unenforceable. but, as i say, it kind of adds to the sort of narrative that has grown against israel in many western circles and the pressure and the scrutiny on israel. israel is seizing on another

development as proof of what it says is the un's bias against it, which is that 12 members of staff of the un mission operating in gaza have been dismissed for... as they were found to be, to have been complicit in the hamas attacks on israel on the 7th of october. now, israel says that is proof that the un mission in gaza is not impartial — that it is pro—hamas. what the united nations and pro—un voices are saying is, "look, the entire workforce of that un agency is 30,000 people. so 12 bad apples should not tarnish the entire reputation of the un agency." but israel is saying this is proof that we are fighting, in israel's words, a "just war" and we have the right to defend ourselves. and, you know, it's going to be still tough to get the warring sides to come together in this kind of gulf that separates them at the moment during those ceasefire talks. mark levin in jerusalem mark levin injerusalem there.

protests against a recent surge in violence against women are taking place in major cities across kenya today. the demonstrations, led by feminist campaigners, follow the murders of ten women this year. amnesty international says more than 500 femicide cases were recorded in kenya between 2016 and 2023, with many victims killed by their partners or people known to them. our africa correspondent merchuma is in nairobi and has been tracking the protests in the capital. i'm just right outside parliament buildings now, and just a few metres behind me is the president's office. and this is the next stop that the protesters have been. they're just moving up towards the main area, into the cbd, going further into nairobi city. and they have been at this for the last about one and a half hours. there are hundreds, if not thousands of women. there are men that are supporting the women and the whole... is just that they want people, men,

to stop killing women. we have had an increase in number of intimate partner violence. we've had a very big — a sharp increase. you know, we're talking about 10 women being killed since the beginning of the year by their partners — by their husbands. but, in the lastjust about two weeks, catherine, we've had five women being killed here in nairobi and in other parts of kenya. and, you know, we're talking about being killed in the most gruesome ways. people... the women are being dismembered. and, unfortunately, even some of their body parts cannot be found. another key issue that the protesters want to address going forward is the issue of victim blaming, because, you know, women are being killed and you go on social media and what people are talking about is or asking is, "what was this woman wearing? "who was this woman with? "why did she agree to go out on a date with a man who she doesn't know?" and so there's a lot of victim blaming and that is what the protesters today want addressed. very briefly, mercy, before we let you go, has there been any response from the government about what they might do to combat this challenge for kenya? no.

unfortunately, no. and we are expecting to see some leaders now really coming up strongly to address this. some women leaders — and a few of their male counterparts — have mentioned it in passing in the last couple of weeks. but we have not really seen a strong, you know... strong statements really talking about this. and that's why probably the people are outside parliament and outside the president's office — to garner some traction for their cause. that was live —— that was a report from nairobi. let's get some of the day's other news now. the us military says it has destroyed another houthi anti—ship missile in yemen. us central command said the missile was being prepared for launch into the red sea and presented an imminent threat. on friday, the oil tanker, marlin luanda, caught fire in the gulf of aden when it was hit by a missile fired by the houthis. the us government has approved the sale of forty new f—16 fighter jets to turkey, a day after ankara fully

ratified sweden's long— delayed membership of nato. turkey will also get upgrades to the warplanes in its existing fleet as part of the $23 billion deal. the sale had become contingent on turkey dropping its objections to sweden joining the alliance. now it's time for a look at today's sport with mike bushell. hello, welcome to the bbc sport centre. we start at the australian open where experience told, as the reigning champion, aryna sabalenka, retained her women's singles title. it was a rather one—sided match against the rising chinese star, zheng qinwen, appearing in herfirst majorfinal. she only had brief chances to break the champion�*s serve and didn't take any of them, as sabelenka triumphed 6—3, 6—2, to win her second grand slam title. defending champion alfie hewett, lost the men's wheelchair singles

final, at the australian open to japanese player, tokito oda. hewett won the singles trophy, for the first time last year, but lost in straight sets. however, the british player will still leave melbourne, with silverware, as he and partner gordon reid were crowned men's doubles champions, for a fifth successive time on friday. england's ollie pope has staged a one man rescue act, to keep england's hopes alive in the opening test against india, in hyderabad. with england wickets falling all around him, and the tourists in real trouble, pope has hit a century to spare his team's blushes. and he's still going, nearing 150, to take england's second innings score to 300 for six. and it means they are now 114 ahead with four wickets remaining. meanwhile, australia are on course to win their test against west indies in brisbane. they need another 168 runs for victory, with eight second innings wickets remaining.

ipswich town take a break from championship action to square off against maidstone united — the lowest—ranked team remaining — in the fa cup fourth round on saturday afternoon. there is her manager. originally from cameroon, and it seems that all of cameron will be supporting maidstone on saturday afternoon. elsewhere fulham are bidding to bounce back from league cup semifinal heartache, as they host newcastle on saturday night in an all—premier league tie. and two premier league teams yet to suffer defeat in 2024 will put their unbeaten records on the line at bramall lane, as sheffield united and brighton face off. what does the future hold now for liverpool and indeed jurgen klopp, who says he will have a break for a year, after leaving at the end of the season? the former reds favourite, xabi alonso, is the bookmakers favourite to replace him, as he's doing so well at german league leaders, bayer leverkusen, while klopp, who's now 56, has been explaining

the thinking behind his decision to call it a day. two important things they had to do was to tell, two important things i had to do was to tell, of course the owners and tell them but our supporters and the players and to play was top. and really good and i don't say things like that and walk away but i am here and i am fully here and besides that, it's just the right thing to do and i am convinced in the right moment because the club meets time to plan the future while we are sorting the present. lando norris has signed a contract extension with mclaren which will keep him at the team "until at least the end of 2026". the british driver made it onto the podium 6 times last season and finished 6th in the standings.

norris had also been linked with a move to champions red bull. feels great. i mean, i'm at home here. it's where i grew up, it's the team i supported when i was a kid. i'm at home, so to continue that journey, to continue our story together, with different teams. we always have little chats every now and then. every driver does. as soon as we, it was brought up, we spoke about, what is our plan together as mclaren between us both? it was quite a straightforward chat. say when the team that he has been supporting since he was a lad. and that's all the sport for now. us politicians have called for new laws to criminalise the creation of deepfake images, after explicit ai—generated images of taylor swift were viewed millions of times on x, formerly known as twitter. taylor swift's fans, or swifties, rallied to flood the platform with posts and drown out the deepfakes. here's what the white house press

secretary had to say. we are alarmed by the reports of the circulation of images that you just laid out — false images to be more exact, and it is alarming. so while social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules — to prevent the spread of misinformation and non—consensual, intimate imagery of real people. io dodds, senior reporter at the independent newspaper, told us the simplicity with which these images can be created is only going to make the problem worse. tech companies, and big ones — microsoft and google and so forth — are falling over themselves to try to make it easier to generate stuff with al. it's kind of all in the wake of when chatgpt came out — the end of 2022. it absolutely blew the socks off everyone in silicon valley. all the big incumbents,

the tech giants of the world that already are on the top of the pile, went... if we don't get on top of this, we are going to get left behind. and so, everyone from them to little fly—by—night companies that are creating tools, they may not be very responsibly—minded about how those tools are used. right up to those big giants. all trying to get in on the action. actually, there is evidence that this specific piece of al was generated in a telegram group, for people whose hobby essentially is generating stuff like this. in that group, they encourage people to use a tool. we don't know what tool this was made with but in that group they encourage people to use microsoft design, which is basically an ai—image generation tool with a bunch of things you can do. microsoft design is bundled into the microsoft edge browser and the microsoft edge browser is sort of pushed on users. if you make a new windows install, it's going to say, "hey, "do you want to make edge your default browser?

do you want to?" that is symptomatic of how companies across the board are kind of pushing ai towards their users in any possible way they can. unfortunately, this kind of gold—rush mentality is only going to make this problem worse. germany's chancellor, olaf scholz, has voiced concern over the rise of right wing extremists, as the world marks holocaust remembrance day. holocaust memorial day. mr scholz said right wing populists were gaining ground, fuelling fear and sowing hatred. holocaust memorial day remembers the six millionjewish people murdered by the nazis during the second world war — as well as genocides in darfurand rwanda. our religion editor, aleem maqbool, has the story. the holocaust robbed joan salter of many members of her extended family. today, in particular, she remembers them. the bravery ofjoan�*s mother meant she survived. my mother climbed over the mountains into spain,

and then she gave me up in the hope that i would survive. and that is where prejudice gets you. littlejoan was shipped to the us until the war was over and she was reunited with her parents in the uk. she says she feels the lessons of the holocaust have not yet been learned. it's just to get over what hatred does and how quickly people turn on each other. that, to me, is the message of holocaust memorial day, and the hope is that people will understand that. holocaust memorial day has been established to commemorate the 6 millionjews that were murdered by the nazis, but also the victims of other genocides since. at this year's main remembrance event, there was special focus on rwanda — 2024 marking 30 years since the horrific massacres of hundreds of thousands of tutsis there.

earlier this week, referring to the case against israel at the international court ofjustice, the uk's chief rabbi ephraim mirvis, said the accusation of genocide was an affront to the victims and survivors of the holocaust around this memorial day. singing. and the conflict in gaza and associated rise in anti—semitism has meant the holocaust memorial day trust advised on fewer public events this year. particularly the jewish community but also muslims are much more anxious about being out in public and visibly being jewish or muslim. and so we have worked very closely with the police to issue guidance. and actually ourjob on holocaust memorial day is to remind people of what can happen when hatred gets out of hand.

well, the holocaust memorial day trust is encouraging people to light a candle and place it in a window to, in its words, remember those who were killed for who they were and to stand against prejudice and hatred today. aleem maqbool, bbc news in north london. stay with us here on bbc news. hello again. it's going to be mostly dry weekend for many of us, but we do have a bit of rain affecting the far north, north west of scotland over the next couple of days. but this morning we've had a lovely sunrise here in nottinghamshire and for many eastern and central areas there's been some sunshine this morning already, but there are some clouds streaming

in from the south west, certainly so towards the north west of scotland where we've got some outbreaks of rain at the moment. it's quite heavy rain, some thunderstorms here as well throughout the morning. strong winds, but those winds will gradually ease off into the afternoon. one or two showers perhaps for northern ireland, northern parts of england. but for most it's dry. there'll be some bright, some sunny spells, especially towards the south and east. and temperatures this afternoon getting up to about 8—10 or 11 degrees celsius. now through tonight, there'll still be some rain at times across scotland. more cloud the further west you are, but some clear spells towards the southeast and not quite as cold as last night. temperatures staying mostly above freezing, about three or four degrees, but milder air towards the north west, nine or 10 degrees here, high pressure centred towards europe, and that's acting as a buffer, somewhat of some weather fronts coming in from the west. but those will make gradual progress eastwards and colder air behind it, but ahead of it, for most of us,

into sunday, we've got these mild south or south westerly winds. so rain will eventually move its way into the north west of scotland, into north ireland by the evening. that be really quite heavy at times elsewhere there'll be, varying amounts of cloud, but some bright, some sunny spells. and in the sunshine not feeling too bad at all. a mild day, temperatures 10—13, perhaps even 14 degrees celsius into next week. celsius. into next week, that weather front will make very gradual progress south eastward. it will then stall across parts of wales, northern england and southern scotland. and with some colder air behind that weather front, we could well see some snow over the southern uplands, but that rain sticks around for much of the day in these parts. some sunnier skies for scotland, northern ireland, where it will feel a bit chillier throughout monday. but in the southeast, where you've got that sunshine, temperatures, 14—15 degrees, that's way above the average for the end of january. that's going to feel really quite pleasant as we go through the rest of the week. that's going to feel really quite pleasant. as we go through the rest of the week. through the rest of the week,

there'll be some rain at times towards northern areas further south, drier and brighter and temperatures about 10 to 14 degrees. bye— bye.

this is bbc news — the headlines: ajury in new york has ordered donald trump to pay $83 million in damages to the writer ejean carroll. mr trump had already been found to have defamed her with comments he made in 2019 while he was president. mr trump has said he'll appeal.

israel insists that it abides by international law after the united nations' highest court ordered it to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in gaza. the international court ofjustice in the hague ruled israel should do everything in its power to avoid killing or seriously harming civilians. politicians in the united states are calling for new laws around so—called deepfake images after faked explicit photos of the pop star taylor swift went viral on social media. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello, and welcome to unspun world.

is the war in gaza beginning to slip away from israel?