prince harry s phone—hacking legalfight with the publishers of the daily mirror continues today at the high court in london. lam i am outside the court here in central— i am outside the court here in central london on a day which could be decisive — central london on a day which could be decisive for the duke of sussex's fi-ht be decisive for the duke of sussex's fight with_ be decisive for the duke of sussex's fight with mirror group newspapers. proceedings have been delayed this morning _ proceedings have been delayed this morning by a technical glitch. us presidentjoe biden rejects suggestions he has a poor memory and is unfit for office. my my memory is fine. take a look at what i have done as president. 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. let's speak to our correspondent in islamabad. i'v e i've got any further indication of these results?— i've got any further indication of these results? , . , , ., , these results? this has been a very 24-hour period _ these results? this has been a very 24-hour period the _ these results? this has been a very 24-hour period the south _ these results? this has been a very 24-hour period the south asian - 24—hour period the south asian nation which voted in a general election just yesterday. we are still awaiting the final total from

the election commission of pakistan, but if you scroll through social media here, or check out the mainstream media, you would find that almost every major party is claiming victory. the pti, which is led by former prime minister imran khan, they have been claiming victory since last night, saying that there are independent candidates have won most in the national assembly. candidates have won most in the nationalassembly. led candidates have won most in the national assembly. led by nawaz sharif, they have also been claiming victory. we saw a complete silence in their camps last night when we saw official results coming out, claiming that imran khan's candidates are winning. but since morning, the mln is also now claiming they have won most of the seats. just a few minutes ago their party has also tweeted that their leader, nawaz sharif, would also make a victory speech today, but we

are still waiting for the final total from the election commission of pakistan. for now they are saying that imran khan's independent candidates have won 49 seats, in comparison to the 39 of nawaz sharif�*s party. this is the latest result that we have so far. the total number of the seats is more than 260 so we are still waiting for any party which forms the party they need a simple majority of 162 seats. none of the big parties have claimed that number of seats so far. but we also have confirmation from the election commission of pakistan that all of the prominent leaders, including nawaz sharif, his daughter, brotherand including nawaz sharif, his daughter, brother and former prime minister, have all won national assembly seats.— minister, have all won national assembly seats. minister, have all won national assembl seats. . ~ , .

assembly seats. thank you very much for that update _ assembly seats. thank you very much for that update and _ assembly seats. thank you very much for that update and we _ assembly seats. thank you very much for that update and we will— assembly seats. thank you very much for that update and we will of- for that update and we will of course keep you updated with what is happening there in pakistan throughout the day. the court has ruled that the duke of sussex was hacked. let's take you live to the high court and get the latest from our correspondent, charlie rose. we know that hearing is under way. a few technical issues, we hear? we is under way. a few technical issues, we hear?— is under way. a few technical issues, we hear? ~ , . issues, we hear? we were expecting proceedings — issues, we hear? we were expecting proceedings to _ issues, we hear? we were expecting proceedings to get — issues, we hear? we were expecting proceedings to get under _ issues, we hear? we were expecting proceedings to get under way - issues, we hear? we were expecting proceedings to get under way here i issues, we hear? we were expecting| proceedings to get under way here at around about 1030 uk time. there has been a technical glitch. basically the video feed didn't have any audio and they had to fix that. i understand that has now been resolved and things are under way. that is quite important because a certain prince harry, the duke of sussex, will probably be wanting to follow proceedings from his base

5500 miles away in california. it is pretty important that the video feed, including the audio, is working. we know that at the end of last year prince harry and his legal team won 15 of 33 sample cases against the mirror group newspapers. basically he accuse them of unlawful information gathering, including hacking prince harry's personal phone, basically to get information to write stories about them. prince harry and his legal team reckon that is just the beginning and they are making many more claims against the mirror group newspapers, some 115 claims. we are going to find out today whether those claims will go today whether those claims will go to trial or whether there will be a settlement. a number of the newspaper articles in question refer to prince harry's relationship, many years ago when he was a young man, with chelsy davy, articles about going to restaurants, going on

dates, arguments they might have had, and tattooed and so on. prince harry argues that there is no way these stories could have been written unless someone hacked into his phone and hacked into his voice mail. last year thejudge ruled his phone and hacked into his voice mail. last year the judge ruled that unlawful information gathering was widespread at the mirror group newspapers. we are talking about the daly mirror, the sunday mirror and the sunday people. many senior executives knew full well about that, including, thejudge said, one particular prominent former editor, the former editor of the daly mirror, piers morgan. it is important to say that piers morgan has always, and continues, to deny any involvement in all of this. this is a massive case for prince harry and his legal team, a very important case. the ruling last december, his legal team described it as a great day for truth and accountability. earlier on in the trial prince harry

argued that he couldn't trust anyone because people were hacking into his phone and hacking into his voice mail. it made his life very difficult, upsetting for him, and thatis difficult, upsetting for him, and that is why he wanted to bring this case against the mirror group newspapers. case against the mirror group newspapers— case against the mirror group newsa ers. . ., ~ case against the mirror group newsa ers. . . ,, i. newspapers. 0k, charlie, thank you ve much newspapers. 0k, charlie, thank you very much that _ newspapers. 0k, charlie, thank you very much that update. _ newspapers. 0k, charlie, thank you very much that update. we - newspapers. ok, charlie, thank you very much that update. we will- newspapers. 0k, charlie, thank you very much that update. we will be i very much that update. we will be with charlie throughout the morning. we will be with charlie throughout the morning. let's speak to matthew gill, who's a media lawyer at howard kennedy. thanks forjoining us. what do you think is likely to happen this morning? we know there could potentially be cases in the future, but what you think is going to come out of this particular hearing? harry says there are another 115 articles that he believes were the product of unlawful information gathering at the mirror. what will happen this morning is a little unclear. we know the mirror has been making settlement offers to harry,

but, as far as we know, harry hasn't yet accepted any of the terms offered to him. it is possible that we will hear today that they have reached a settlement, in which case harry is likely to be paid far more than the £140,000 that harry is likely to be paid far more than the £1a0,000 that the court has ordered the mirror to pay. alternatively i expect that the court will list a trial for those other articles to be reviewed by the court, and decisions to be made, as to whether they were the product of hacking and other unlawful means of gathering information for articles. we were talking earlier about this being a test case. can you just explain what that means, and what that means going forward? essentially the test case could lead to another case. the essentially the test case could lead to another case.— to another case. the test case, the --urose to another case. the test case, the purpose of — to another case. the test case, the purpose of it. _ to another case. the test case, the purpose of it, was _ to another case. the test case, the purpose of it, was to _ to another case. the test case, the purpose of it, was to assess - to another case. the test case, the purpose of it, was to assess some | to another case. the test case, the i purpose of it, was to assess some of the weaker cases that harry was bringing forward, and some of the stronger ones, as selected by the

parties and by the judge, stronger ones, as selected by the parties and by thejudge, in stronger ones, as selected by the parties and by the judge, in an attempt to deal with the broad issues, like, for example, was the mirror hacking phones or using other unlawful means of collecting information in order to write articles. the purpose of that is so that, once those broader issues are decided, some cases, in particular like harry's, but there are hundreds of others bringing cases like this against the mirror, might be able to be resolved through settlement, because the mirror might be more willing to make settlement offers once there has been a finding that there was hacking going on. that is there was hacking going on. that is the purpose. now it will be for the court to decide, 0k, how do we deal with the rest of these cases, because if a settlement can't be reached, then they will have to go to trial. �* reached, then they will have to go to trial. . , ., reached, then they will have to go to trial. . , , , reached, then they will have to go to trial. �* , , , . to trial. are you surprised that harry isn't _ to trial. are you surprised that harry isn't there _ to trial. are you surprised that harry isn't there today? - to trial. are you surprised that harry isn't there today? i'm i to trial. are you surprised that | harry isn't there today? i'm not surrised harry isn't there today? i'm not surprised that _ harry isn't there today? i'm not surprised that he's _ harry isn't there today? i'm not

surprised that he's not - harry isn't there today? i'm not surprised that he's not there i harry isn't there today? i'm not - surprised that he's not there today. this is largely a procedural hearing. there is unlikely to be any significant decisions, such as we had in december, about the mirror having been habitually involved phone hacking. this hearing today is primarily about who pays the costs and go forward to harry's claim and claims of other celebrities against the mirror. we claims of other celebrities against the mirror. ~ , ,. . ~ the mirror. we will be back with ou, i the mirror. we will be back with you. i am _ the mirror. we will be back with you, i am absolutely _ the mirror. we will be back with you, i am absolutely sure. - the mirror. we will be back with | you, i am absolutely sure. thank the mirror. we will be back with - you, i am absolutely sure. thank you very much now. ijust want i just want to bring ijust want to bring in some breaking news from the british medical association, who have said thatjunior doctors will once again go on strike, later this month, from february the 24th to the 28th. hugh pym, our health correspondent, has been tweeting that the strike has been tweeting that the strike has been called because ministers did not make an improved pay offer and a mandate for strike action expires at

the end of the month and there is a ballot on extending for six months. just to reiterate to you that we have just got that news from the british medical association, announcing that junior doctors british medical association, announcing thatjunior doctors will announcing that junior doctors will go announcing thatjunior doctors will go on strike from the 24th of february to the 28th of february. 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 gershkovic, 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 send 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. 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 cut 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 and 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 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. i will rush editor, steve rosenberg. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. the future of the red bull formula 1 team is in the spotlight as their boss christian horner faces an internal hearing 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. 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. a new oscar for best casting will be introduced from 2026. it will be the first new competitive category at the ceremony since 2002. casting directors have campaigned in recent years to be recognised in the way other film crafts like sound, costume and hair and make—up are. 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. tonight, 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. and i sat down and i said, "america's back," and mitterrand from germany... i mean from france. donald trump, who is just three years younger than his rival, has mocked president biden on the campaign trail. 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 first 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.

how damaging is this to his presidential campaign going forward? this is exactly what republicans have been attacking president biden on, saying that, 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, former president donald trump at 77, has faced similar questions, repeatedly mixing up the names of fellow 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 on january 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. if you don't have immunity, you don't have a presidency. you lose all form of free thought and good thought. 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. that was donald trump there. farmers' protests that began in france and then germany are spreading across the region. they're venting their anger over soaring fuel and fertiliser 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 rome correspondent mark lowen. he was at the scene of a protest on the outskirts of rome. we think about 400 or so tractors are here, with perhaps a corresponding number of farmers, although more are arriving actually by the hour. we've seen a few busloads have arrived in the last hour or so. you can see here that they are camped here, very much a kind of show of force. they're stationary for the time being, but they also camped out close to the ring road around rome, which they had promised to block if they do not get concessions from the government and, indeed, they have even threatened to go into the centre of rome. now, the original plan was that around 1,500 farmers and about 100 or so tractors would go into rome today. we don't think that is now happening because there were worries that provocateurs and other right wing groups might try to make the protest violent. what we now think is that about ten tractors will go in in a sort of symbolic move.

some of them are lined up here to go to the centre of rome, where they are wanting a meeting with the minister of agriculture, who has promised to meet them, but they don't have a firm answer from him yet. as you say, their grievances are very similar to those that have been aired by farmers right across europe about cheap imports from ukraine and elsewhere that are undercutting their prices. they want to abolish some of the environmental policies that are being promoted by the european union in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and they want tax breaks, as well, facing the rising cost of living and a decrease in the price that they are being able to sell their goods. so a growing anger here, but not yet the explosion that some had feared. you are watching 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 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. bye for now.

ploughing ahead — farmers' protests spread across europe despite moves by brussels to address their concerns. last—mile delivery — can a buyer be found to rescue the parcel firm yodel? welcome to world business report. we start with europe's farmers, because protests that began in france and then germany have been spreading across the continent. demonstrations are taking place in poland, hungary and italy today. the farmers are venting their anger over soaring fuel and fertiliser costs, low prices for their produce and increasingly restrictive eu regulations. italy's government has promised tax breaks to ease hardship for farmers after hundreds began gathering

with their tractors this week, on motorways outside rome and turin.