of the daily mirror continues today at the high court in london. lam here i am here outside the court in central london, what is likely to be a decisive day in the duke of sussexes ongoing legal battle with mirror group newspapers. us presidentjoe biden rejects suggestions that he has a poor memory and is unfit for office. my memory is fine. take a look at what i have done since i became president. that i have got passed. president putin tells us host tucker carlson russia has no interest in invading poland, latvia or other nato countries. hello. i'm kylie pentelow. in pakistan, the parties ofjailed former leader imran khan and the three—time

prime minister nawaz sharif have both claimed victory in the election as early results trickle in. nawaz sharif had been seen as the powerful pakistan military�*s favoured candidate and is expected to be elected pakistan's prime minister for a fourth time. but early results are still not conclusive. mr sharif told the bbc the vote had been absolutely fair despite the recentjailing of his rival imran khan on corruption charges. our correspondent caroline davies gave me the latest developments from lahore. we are waiting for the final official totals from the electoral commission in pakistan. last night we already saw several of imran khan supported candidates claiming victory in their different constituencies and we saw the party come out and say they thought they had won enough seats to be able to claim and form a government here. but we have also heard from the party of nawaz sharif

who said the same thing. they are both trying to capture the narrative and the fact we haven't got the results yet from the electoral commission means there is space for them to start doing that on social media. we haven't heard from nawaz sharif, there's been talk that he might appear to give some sort of speech but as yet he has not appeared in public today. it has been difficult to keep an eye on the flow of how people are feeling. when we went to bed in the early hours, the party of imran khan claimed victory and they were feeling victorious and thought they really had enough votes to be able to have a significant majority. some of those people have told us this morning they have heard those particular seats seem to have turned around and that is lending to an element of how credible this election is, there's lots of questions about that even before the election process

began because imran khan, the pti leader and founder, is in prison and hasn't been seen in public since last august when he was arrested and the sentences against him even in the week before the election had been mounting. 14 years in prison, the longest one he was given. his party say there has been a sustained campaign against them. they had an election symbol with a cricket bat, connected to imran khan, having an identifiable symbol is crucial in a country where about 40% of the country cannot read and that was a way to be identified on the ballot papers, his party had that taken away and all of the individual candidates running as independents had various symbols such as babies, cats. the party of imran khan say they have been harassed, posters torn down but the authorities have denied and they say any claims are absurd and baseless.

the key thing here is whether all of those things have been mounting up against imran khan and his party, whether or not that has put voters off from coming out to vote or whether it has made them more determined to come out and vote. a really crucial election, as you point out, nawaz sharif widely seen to be the favoured political candidate by the powerful militaryjunta here. he has been prime minister three times before, this would be the fourth but following the election we are still no clearer as to who will form a government here in pakistan. prince harry's legal battle against the publishers of the daily mirror continues today at the high court in london. the court has already ruled that the duke of sussex was hacked — the question now is to what extent. our media and arts correspondent david sillito has this report. when prince harry gave evidence

in his case against the mirror, it was the first time in 130 years that a senior royal had appeared on a witness stand. but at the end of last year, a judge ruled that, yes, his phone had been hacked byjournalists working for mirror group newspapers. he was awarded £ia0,000 in damages for the 15 articles that were judged to have been sourced by hacking. that figure, though, could go up. prince harry's legal team has identified another 115 stories it claims were linked to phone hacking. then there's the question of costs. and this isn'tjust about prince harry. the coronation street actor michael lavelle also won damages. and with teams of lawyers fighting it out in high court hearings, the final bill for reach, the company that publishes the mirror, could run into millions. however, for prince harry, who has this week been visiting the uk to see his father after the king's cancer diagnosis, this is just part of a bigger battle against the papers, with cases still ongoing against the publishers

of the sun and the daily mail. david sillito, bbc news. let's go live now to the high court and get the latest from our correspondent charlie rose. we are expecting the hearing to get underway shortly? yes. we are expecting the hearing to get underway shortly?— underway shortly? yes, you can robabl underway shortly? yes, you can probably make _ underway shortly? yes, you can probably make out _ underway shortly? yes, you can probably make out behind - underway shortly? yes, you canj probably make out behind make underway shortly? yes, you can - probably make out behind make the group of camera crews and journalists gathered waiting for an announcement later this morning. we are unlikely to hear from prince harry himself because he is probably tucked up in bed 5500 miles away in california after visiting his father here. his legal team will probably keep them apprised of events in court today in what is likely to be a decisive day for prince harry and his ongoing battle with mirror group newspapers. we know that at the end of last year, he won 15 of his 33 sample cases against mirror group

newspapers, accusing them of unlawful information gathering including hacking his personal phone. we know prince harry reckons this is just the beginning of all of this and he is making many more claims, 100 or more soul claims against mirror group newspapers and weather find out today in court whether those claims will go to trial or further in fact there will be a settlement. a number of these newspaper articles in question in all of this referred to his relationship many years ago with chelsy davy, some of the articles spoke about dates they might have been on, arguments they might have had and even possibly some tatties as well. the church last year spoke about how widespread the unlawful information gathering was at mirror

group newspapers. and said there were some senior executives who knew full well what was going on but he also mentioned among those senior executives the former manner newspaper editor piers morgan but mr morgan continues to strenuously deny any involvement in all of this. you said of course _ any involvement in all of this. you said of course prince _ any involvement in all of this. you said of course prince harry will not be there but this is a hugely significant case for him? this be there but this is a hugely significant case for him? this is a hu:el significant case for him? this is a hugely significant _ significant case for him? this is a hugely significant case, - significant case for him? this is a hugely significant case, you - significant case for him? this is a hugely significant case, you are l hugely significant case, you are absolutely right. this is a battle that he has had for quite some time, some of the claims he is making going back quite some years to when he was a very young man, when he was as i said, in a relationship with chelsy davy. talking about dates they went on, relationships they might have had and so on. at the end of last year, when the judge ruled in favour of prince harry in 15 ad

of the 33 sample cases, prince harry was awarded just over £1a0,000 in damages. and today, we will find out whether the other claims, some 115 claims against mirror group newspapers, whether they will go to trial offer that there will be a settlement, and if there is a settlement, and if there is a settlement, the duke of sussex is likely to be awarded quite significantly more than £140,000. for now, thank you but we will be keeping you up—to—date with that story on bbc news and you can follow that on the bbc news website on the live pages. president putin has insisted that russia has no interest in invading poland, latvia or other nato countries, calling such a scenario "absolutely out of the question". the comments were made during a lengthy interview that was conducted in the kremlin with former fox news host, tucker carlson. the interview was broadcast on the tucker carlson network.

mr putin accused nato member states of trying to intimidate people with what he called an imaginary russian threat. he said, however, the atlantic alliance must accept moscow's territorial gains in ukraine, which he invaded in 2022. he again claimed it was an artificial country. he also said that russian defeat in ukraine was �*impossible' 0n evan gershkovich, the wall streetjournal reporter detained in russia, mr putin said an "agreement" could be reached for his release. here's the moment vladimir putin was asked by carlson whether he'd invade a nato country such as poland. can you imagine a scenario where you sent russian troops to poland ? translation: only in one case, if poland attacks russia. - why? because we have no interest in poland, latvia or anywhere else. why would we do that? we simply don't have any interest.

earlier, we asked our russia editor steve rosenberg what he made of the interview. nothing particularly new i have to say. we have heard most of what vladimir putin had to say before, this was a platform for him to put across his recent narrative about the war in ukraine and his worldview, the world according to vladimir putin, to an american audience, to the us political establishment, to the west in general, knowing that he would not be challenged very much on his answers. and the world according to vladimir putin is one in which russia is the victim and the west is the aggressor, nato, america, ukraine. he never accepts any responsibility for what has happened so that's kind of the picture we got

in this interview yesterday. we should point out you have asked for interviews with vladimir putin over the last 18 months. yes, tucker carlson some days ago claimed not a single western journalist had been bothered to request an interview with vladimir putin since the invasion of ukraine. that is not true at all. the bbc and many other broadcasters, western broadcasters, have requested repeatedly an interview with the kremlin leader but it's been a no. what do you think the assessment of vladimir putin is of how the interview went will be, do you think you will be do you think he will be happy with the interview? i think he'll be pretty happy, he'll feel like he had a chance

to put across his views pretty much unchallenged. in a long interview. looking at the number of views that the interview got on social media, tens of millions, i think, the kremlin will be pretty pleased about that but whether that will change dramatically any views in the united states, i simply do not know. but it's clear that tucker carlson was chosen as the interviewer because he had made many pro—russia comments in recent times. he did not challenge vladimir putin on many of the things he said. 0n the alternative reality that was painted by the kremlin leader about what has happened with the war in ukraine and i would imagine the kremlin will be pretty pleased. there's been a media circus in russia over this interview. it's almost been like a pop star has arrived to interview vladimir putin such has been the level of interest in tucker carlson. let's look at some other stories making news.

around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. the future of the red bull formula one team is in the spotlight as their boss christian horner faces an internal hearing later today into a complaint of inappropriate behaviour. it's understood the claim has been made by another member of staff. horner — who is married to the former spice girl, geri halliwell — has said he completely denies the claims. the premier league has ruled out being part of ifab�*s sin—bin and blue card trial. football's lawmakers ifab will announce a new trial today which would see a player spend ten minutes in the technical area after being given a blue card by a referee. sin—bins have been used at grassroots level for dissent. barclays is to buy the retail banking arm of tesco bank in a deal worth £600 million. under the deal, about 2,800 of tesco's banking staff will transfer to barclays.

tesco said customers did not need to take any action and it would contact them over the coming months. shares in tesco rose more than 1% in early trading, and barclays shares edged up slightly. us presidentjoe biden has angrily rejected suggestions that he has a poor memory and is unfit for office. he was responding to a long—awaited report, that concluded he shouldn't face any criminal charges for mishandling classified documents during his time as vice president — but questioned his ability to remember several important events. 0ur north america correspondent, will vernon reports. no criminal charges for president biden. no charges but the special prosecutor... the initial headlines seemed to be good news for the president. the special counsel recommended no charges be brought into his handling of official documents. a legal win for mr biden. but, politically, it was a devastating blow.

the report made several claims over mr biden�*s mental competency. it described him as a well—meaning elderly man with a poor memory. in any future trial, it said, it would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him of a crime that requires a mental state of willfulness. last night, president biden hit back at those allegations. my memory is fine. my memory... take a look at what i've done since i've become president. none of you thought i could pass any of the things i got passed. how did that happen? you know, i guess ijust forgot what was going on. butjoe biden has made a series of embarrassing slip—ups that have raised questions about his fitness for office. at a recent event, he said the current president of france was mitterrand, who died in 1996. you know, right after i was elected, i went to what they call a g7 meeting.

and i sat down and i said, "america's back," and mitterrand from germany...| mean from france. donald trump, who is just three years younger than his rival, has mocked president biden on the campaign trail. he has also been accused of being too old for office. i'll tell you what — i feel sharper now than i did 20 years ago. i really do. i don't know, it's probably not true. it's probably not true. and i think anybody running for president should take an aptitude or a cognitive test. mr biden will now be hoping allegations of wrongdoing over official documents will come to an end. but questions about his age and fitness for office are more difficult to avoid. will vernon, bbc news, washington. in the same news conference in which president biden addressed concerns about his memory, he made another slip—up. answering a question about the rafah gate in gaza, he referred to abdel fattah el—sisi — the president of egypt. but said he was the president of mexico. as you know, initially the president of mexico, el—sisi, did not want to open up the gate

to allow humanitarian material to get in. i talked to him, i convinced him to open the gate. cbs correspondent michael george told me what people are saying about the president's latest mistake. that could not have come at a worse time for the president, in the middle of a news conference defending his mental competency, his republican opponents are seizing on it and they will be playing that club quite a bit. the supporters of the president called at a slipup. what is your assessment of the response from the president of the special council report? at response from the president of the special council report?— special council report? at first . lance special council report? at first glance you _ special council report? at first glance you would _ special council report? at first glance you would think- special council report? at first glance you would think the - special council report? at first i glance you would think the white house would be happy, it found no criminal charges are warranted for mishandling classified documents but the damaging part is how the report portrays president biden, an elderly

man with a poor memory especially when it comes to dates saying he could not recall the years he had been vice president or even when his son beau biden died. president biden showed some anger in his response, saying and i quote i know what the hell i am doing, i put the country back on its feet.— hell i am doing, i put the country back on its feet. how damaging is this to his presidential— back on its feet. how damaging is this to his presidential campaign i this to his presidential campaign going forward? this this to his presidential campaign going forward?— this to his presidential campaign uuoinforward? . , , ., going forward? this is exactly what republicans _ going forward? this is exactly what republicans have _ going forward? this is exactly what republicans have been _ going forward? this is exactly what republicans have been attacking i republicans have been attacking president biden on saying at 81 years of age has cognitive abilities are not up to the job so his opponents will be focusing on that throughout the campaign. some are saying he should have to take a cognitive test but it is worth noting his opponent, former president donald trump a 77, has faced similar questions, repeatedly mixing up the names of fellow politicians and world leaders. that was our cbs _ politicians and world leaders. that was our cbs correspondent speaking to me earlier. let's stay in the us,

because the supreme court has heard arguments in a case — that could decide whether donald trump is eligible to run for president. it's considering a ruling by colorado's top court, that said mr trump could not run in that state's primary, because it considered his actions during the assault on the capitol onjanuary the 6th, 2021, as — insurrection. speaking to the media after the hearing, mr trump argued that striking him from the ballot would create chaos across the us. you cannot allow a president to be out there without immunity. they don't have immunity, you don't have a presidency. so how would you... you lose all... excuse me. you lose all... you lose all form of free thought and good thought. and you probably weaken the presidency to a point that it was never supposed to be weakened. it would be a very bad thing for our country. and mr trump has won the nevada caucus, adding more delegates in his seemingly unstoppable march to the republican party's presidential nomination. he was the only major candidate on the ballot when party members

met in public buildings across the southwestern us state to cast their in—person votes. this is how he responded to the win. this has been an incredible period of time, i think, for our country, for the world. the world has not been like this for many, many years. when you look at the attack on israel or the attack on ukraine with russia, that this would have never happened. the israeli attack would have never happened. inflation would have never happened. the world would be a much different place right now. and we're going to make sure that we bring it back and we're going to bring it back fast. and we're going to bring it back very, very strong. cheering. very, very strong. farmers' protests that began in france — and then germany — are spreading across the region. they're venting their anger over soaring fuel and fertilizer costs — low prices for their produce — and increasingly restrictive eu regulations.

demonstrations by farmers are planned in poland, hungary and italy today. italy's government has promised tax breaks to ease hardship for farmers — after hundreds began rallying with their tractors this week, on motorways outside rome and turin. this was the scene on thursday. farmers from agricultural regions such as tuscany headed south towards the capital, flying the italian flag and carrying hand—written signs with slogans including "no farmer, no food". they have congregated on the outskirts of rome. earlier we heard from our room correspondent at the scene of the protest and he sent us this update. we think about 400 or so tractors are here with a corresponding number of farmers, with more arriving by the hour. you can see they are camped here in a show of force, stationery for the time being but they camped out close to the ring road around rome which they have

promised a block if they did not get concessions from the government and indeed they have threatened to go into the centre of rome. the original plan was 1500 farmers and about 100 or so tractors would go into wrong today, we don't think thatis into wrong today, we don't think that is happening because there were worries that provocateurs and other right—wing groups might try to make the protests violent so what we now think is about ten tractors will go in unsought of a symbolic move and some of them are lined up here to go to the centre of rome. they are wanting a meeting with the minister of agriculture who has promised to make them but they do not have a firm answer from make them but they do not have a firm answerfrom him make them but they do not have a firm answer from him yet. make them but they do not have a firm answerfrom him yet. their grievances are very similar to those aired by farmers across europe by cheaper imports from ukraine and elsewhere, undercutting the prices. they want to embellish —— abolish some of the environmental policies promoted by the eu to lessen greenhouse gas emissions and they want help with the rising cost of

living and a decrease in the price they are being able to sell their goods at so a growing anger but not yet the explosion some had feared. that was our correspondent speaking to me from room earlier and we will of course keep you updated with what happens in that protest. iceland's latest volcanic eruption dissipated on friday but it has still caused significant damage. roads have been destroyed, and pipelines broken cutting off hot water to parts of the reykjanes peninsula during freezing temperatures. schools, kindergartens, museums and other public institutions in the region were closed on friday. it is hoped hot water will be restored within hours. it's the third eruption since december and a state of emergency has been declared. we are of course keeping an eye on the fence at the high court in london. we can take you there now, bringing the latest pictures from

outside. lawyers for prince harry are back in court, for a hearing on his phone hacking case against mirror group newspapers. the court there is expected to hear further prince harry and the mirror group have settled the remaining case of phone hacking and unlawful intuition accusations into the privacy of the prince and we expect the hearing to take place in the next five minutes or so. that is when it is supposed to begin and we have just heard that prince harry �*s has arrived in court. you can keep updated on the bbc news website, on the live pages there but for now, please stay with us on bbc news. hello. some of us have had snow over the last 24 hours, but mainly over the hills. at low levels, it's been more a story of rain and plenty of rain at that.

some outbreaks of rain and hill snow continuing to drift northwards during today. as you can see on the satellite picture, we've got a big area of cloud affecting much of western europe, a series of weather systems, actually, but it's this curl of cloud here that is bringing rain and hill snow northwards. the snow levels in northern england really rising through the afternoon, snow only really over the very highest ground. we will see snow, say above two or 300 metres across scotland. quite a lot of snow in places. northern ireland turning a little bit drier, but staying quite cloudy through the afternoon, windy up towards the north of scotland, also quite windy in the south of england and south wales. here, a mix of sunny spells and hefty showers to take us through the afternoon. mild in the south, 12 or 13 degrees even further north, not quite as cold as it was yesterday. then through this evening and tonight, we'll see some clearer skies spreading northwards across england and wales, that could give rise to some mist and fog patches. a bit of rain for northern england and for northern ireland. and across scotland it'll be mostly rain close to the coast and at low levels, but over high ground, say above 300 metres, we could see up to 20 centimetres of settling snow, which could cause some disruption. 0vernight temperatures — three degrees for stornoway for aberdeen, eight degrees

for norwich and for london. low pressure firmly in charge for the weekend. this frontal system here continuing to bring some rain and hill snow across scotland. that tending to move its way northwards as we go on through the day. but northern scotland, over the hills here, we will see some further falls of snow. northern ireland seeing a bit of sunshine, england and wales seeing some sunny spells as well. but some showers will break out, particularly across wales and the south west of england. temperatures 12 degrees there in london, eight degrees in glasgow. so actually pretty mild for the first half of the weekend. low pressure still with us through saturday night into sunday. this little frontal system here grazing the east coast of england and running up into northeast scotland. that will bring some outbreaks of rain as we go on into sunday. elsewhere, pretty mixed bag, some spells of sunshine, but some quite large areas of cloud, some showers which could be wintry, but only really over the very highest ground. and temperatures north to south, 7 to 10 degrees.

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this is bbc news, the headlines: early results in the pakistan election show a tight race — with at least two parties claiming

victory. prince harry s phone—hacking legal fight with the publishers of the daily mirror continues today at the high court in london. us presidentjoe biden rejects suggestions he has a poor memory and is unfit for office. my memory is fine. take a look at what i have done since i became president. that i have got passed. president putin tells us host tucker carlson russia has no interest in invading poland, latvia or other nato countries. welcome to the programme. let's get more on prince harry s legal fight with the publishers of the daily mirror. the high court in london has already ruled that the duke of sussex was hacked, it's now ruling to what extent. lets go live now to the high court and get the latest from our