live from washington. this is bbc news. fox news settles the dominion defamation case for more than three quarters of a billion dollars. lies have consequences. the truth does not know red or blue. a man in missouri — accused of shooting ralph yarl who rang his doorbell by mistake — hands himself into police. hopes crumble for a pause in fighting in sudan. hello. i'm sumi somaskanda. we start here in the us

where fox news network has reached a last—minute settlement, in a defamation case brought against it by a voting machine company. the case is linked to claims that the 2020 us presidential election was rigged against donald trump. fox news agreed to pay dominion $787.5 million. with the settlement, fox will avoid a high—profile trial. dominion voting systems sued fox news for $1.6 billion, so they actually settled for lesss than half of what they were asking for. let's remind you of the background to all of this. this all came about because dominion claimed that their reputation was damaged after fox knowingly spread lies about its voting machines after the 2020 us election. they were repeating claims by then—president donald trump who had falsely claimed that dominion voting machines rigged the election to favour winnerjoe biden. dominion said fox hosts amplified the "baseless allegations", but at the time, fox claimed it was newsworthy. this is how dominion

responded to settlememt. the truth matters. lies have consequences. over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories, causing grievous harm to dominion and the country. fox news has released its own statement, saying: they added: live now to erik wemple who's a media critic at the washington post and has been following this case closely.

you tweeted that ths litigation might not have gone to a jury verdict but it exposed fox news to a strong dose of transparency and accountability. did it really? because nobody had to testify from fox news. it wasn't a public trial after all, so viewers might not be exposed to what might have been a very big trial. i what might have been a very big trial. ~ . �* , trial. i think that's problematic - trial. i think that's problematic their | trial. i think that's - problematic their viewers trial. i think that's _ problematic their viewers did not get the straight dope on this, that they can't — that they weren't required to publish apologies or any retractions. that's a really big hole in the settlement. but we do have thousands upon thousands upon thousands of pages of material on how corrupt news network fox is, and that came about because dominion sued fox, demanded answers from fox news, demanded

the fox news justify its actions and that is the nature of accountability. it certainly is not the accountability that people who care about media want. and deserve quite frankly. but it doesn't mean that it frankly. but it doesn't mean thatitis frankly. but it doesn't mean that it is a complete wash—up. what we have seen over the past two months is an explosion of — of evidence about the way fox news does business. it is valuable, it is the most penetrating view we have ever had into the beast of fox news, how it does business. it is one of the most opaque institutions in american society. so you can say you want more accountability, more transparency, i understand that, but it is a dose and a significant dose.— significant dose. 0k. interesting. - significant dose. 0k. interesting. so - significant dose. 0k. interesting. so if - significant dose. 0k. interesting. so if we | significant dose. 0k. - interesting. so if we look at how fox news itself has been covering this, their article online on this case, fox news wrote, quote:

can you talk to us a little bit about how fox news has covered this case and other media as well? , , ., , ., well? yes, sure. fox news at one point— well? yes, sure. fox news at one point said _ well? yes, sure. fox news at one point said that _ well? yes, sure. fox news at one point said that it - well? yes, sure. fox news at one point said that it was - well? yes, sure. fox news at one point said that it was not| one point said that it was not going to allow its media correspondent howard kirch to cover it and he went on tv and sort of explained that situation. but in the weeks after that, they sort of — they thought a little bit, they allowed him to do some coverage. it's been terrible coverage. it's been terrible coverage. coverage that ignores the atrocities and the depth of the atrocities and the depth of the lies and the deception. and quite frankly, the journalist ic coverage at end is terrible. he wouldn't say the dollar value of the settlement because he said he couldn't get it confirmed. when in fact the lawyer for confirmed. when in fact the lawyerfor dominion was confirmed. when in fact the lawyer for dominion was on the record in front of a huge group of reporters saying this is 787.5 million dollars. and he

is technically an officer of the court. he's on the record, puts this — justin nelson, that's ridiculous. other media organisations have covered it extensively. i have, you know, other major newspapers, the new york times, wall streetjournal which is a murdoch entity itself has given it a really, really saturation coverage and they deserve that. it deserves that because... if they deserve that. it deserves that because... iii they deserve that. it deserves that because. . ._ that because... if i can 'ust “um that because... if i can 'ust jump in fl that because... if i can 'ust jump in there. i that because... if i can 'ust jump in there. my �* that because... if i can just jump in there. my question that because... if i can just i jump in there. my question is you and i are covering it, of course, as an important story. are people, are american people actually paying attention to this case?— actually paying attention to this case? , ~ ., this case? yes, i think that - our audiences _ this case? yes, i think that - our audiences are. _ this case? yes, i think that - our audiences are. i - this case? yes, i think that - our audiences are. i think - this case? yes, i think that - | our audiences are. i think that one of the — but i can't be sure that fox news' audience has any particular contact with this case. i think that the irony that stretches across both of these situations is that what happened during the coverage that dominion sued about because that fox news was creating a closed loop with its

viewers about the election claims. so basically it was trying to goose or trying to juice—up the coverage so that it would sort of, like, appease or appeal to the fox news viewer and so it basically it tried to promote this election. it never had to come clean and now here we are again and the settlement doesn't require it to do that either. fox news can keep this closed loop with its viewers where they don't ever really see outside their own bubble, if you understand what i... 4' bubble, if you understand what i... erik, last question from me as we're _ i... erik, last question from me as we're running - i... erik, last question from me as we're running out. i... erik, last question from me as we're running out of| me as we're running out of time. if we — you know, throw ahead to 2024, does this change how fox news will cover the next election? i how fox news will cover the next election?— next election? i don't think so. i next election? i don't think s0- i think _ next election? i don't think so. i think there's - next election? i don't think so. i think there's a - so. i think there's a possibility they will take some personnel actions on pursuing to everything that's happened, but, you know, what happened in this whole drama is that fox news refused to change when they saw their viewers leaving

and they're going to refuse to change now too because what they have is ratings and if they have is ratings and if they don't have ratings, they have nothing else. they don't bring scoops, no good analysis. the only thing they have ever had since 2002 is ratings. if they lose that, they lose everything that they're proud of and it distinguishes it that way. of and it distinguishes it that wa . ., , of and it distinguishes it that wa . . , , way. really interesting insights _ way. really interesting insights there. - way. really interesting insights there. erik - way. really interesting - insights there. erik wemple, media critic at the washington post, good to have you on bbc news. ., post, good to have you on bbc news. . ., ., we turn to sudan where there's been more fighting despite a ceasefire that was meant to have been agreed upon between two rival military groups. this is the latest footage from the capital of khartoum. heavy gunfire, explosions, warplanes were still being heard around the city. over the last few days, hundreds of people have been killed in the violence. sudan is one of the biggest, and poorest, countries in africa and it has experienced years of instability as it's tried to transition towards a democratically elected government. the latest fighting is because of a power struggle between these two men: general abdel fattah al—burhan, president of sudan's

military government — on the left — and his deputy, mohamed hamdan dagalo, who leads the country's biggest paramilitary group — the rsf — on the right. the united nations has now described sudan's humanitarian situation as "catastrophic" — with mass displacement of people. the red cross has echoed that concern — let's hearfrom them. the truth is that at the moment, it is almost impossible to provide any material services in and around khartoum. there are calls from various organisations and people trapped for evacuation. for the past four days, people have been out of water and food, electricity has been rationed in some places, totally disconnected. earlier i spoke with emmanuel igunza, the bbc�*s senior africa reporter in nairobi. i asked emmanuel why the ceasefire in sudan has failed. take a listen. well, that is the scene that many people will be waking up

to for the fifth day now. since saturday, heavy fighting has been continuing and simply because the two parties do not seem to agree whether they should allow this humanitarian access, to allow people who have been bunkering in their houses for the last five days sore so to get medical attention. this fighting started very — caught many people unawares. it was ramadan and many people were still in their houses, did not have enough food supply. they did not have enough water, and many people who had been injured cannot get medical access because of the heavy fighting that has been continuing. the two leaders, they publicly say that they want to allow this ceasefire to happen, to allow people to get out, but then the fighting has continued simply because they do not seem to be in control of their troops, particularly in the capital, khartoum, but also in other parts, many cities and towns across sudan. 50

parts, many cities and towns across sudan.— parts, many cities and towns across sudan. so who or what is needed to _ across sudan. so who or what is needed to actually _ across sudan. so who or what is needed to actually bring - needed to actually bring both sides to the table for a lasting ceasefire? there is a lot of international - lasting ceasefire? there is a| lot of international pressure. we have seen over the last days that the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has been doing a lot of diplomacy on the phone talking to both generals, general abdel fattah al—burhan who is the de facto leader of sudan, and also the second in command, mohamed hamdan dagalo. they have been talking to them. there is a delegation also from the regional leaders, leaders countries neighbouring sudan, the president of kenya, south sudan and also djibouti is supposed to be getting into the capital, khartoum, to try and talk to them, but it's been very difficult because the airspace in sudan in the capital has been closed. to take quite a lot of effort to try to bring these generals together because they do seem

together because they do seem to be very apart in terms of how they see the security apparatus, the military and the rfs being unified together and then who will control, who will be leading that unified military unit once a civilian government is put in place. and this has been what the rallying call for many of the protestors who have been for months now going to the streets asking for the military to go back to their barracks and hand over to civilian rule. wa nt to want to bring you some pictures of russian cosmonauts getting ready to perform a spacewalk. you can see the images there. these are two cosmonauts getting to ready to venture out of the international space station. yes, they have ventured out, the side of the space station for some orbital maintenance work as it's called. this is the commander and the flight engineer. they

are there to remove a radiator from one side of the iss to the other. the extra vehicular activity you're seeing here live on nasa tv as well as the space agency's website. this is expected to last around six hours and 40 minutes, so quite a very long procedure that they're doing and quite an extensive manoeuvre as we're seeing there. very interesting pictures of those two cosmonauts doing a spacewalk just outside the international space station. some remarkable images showing from nasa to us there. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. everyone loves a spitfire. here at refer taj hangar, they have just returned their 15th spitfire to the air.

recovered from an israeli kibbutz, much of the fuselage was still intact. it is a challenge and we all like a challenge. we are lucky enough to fly in these aeroplanes and i find it is a greater challenge getting them in the air than it is to fly them. the spitfire was built with a purpose in mind. after the war, many were scrapped and melted down so to think that 82 years after the battle of britain that some are still here and flying is extraordinary. during the second world war the pilots who flew these aeroplanes were straight from school so in this hangar in the corner of kent another slice of history has been restored. a piece of magic that has been brought back to life. you're live with bbc news. to missouri now, where a white man accused of shooting and injuring a black teenager who accidentally rang the wrong doorbell has handed himself into police. andrew lester, who's 84, has been released on bail.

two criminal charges, including assault, have been announced against him. ralph yarl — a 16—year—old boy — survived the shooting. he was supposed to pick his twin brothers up from a friend's house, but went to the wrong address. andrew lester told police he shot ralph yarl in the head and arm through the door as soon as he saw him at this house pulling on the door handle. ralph yarl�*s mom, cleo nagbee, spoke to cbs about what happened. he went and rang the doorbell and he was supposed to stay outside and his brothers were supposed to run outside and get in the car and come home. and that was what was supposed to happen. and while he was standing there, his brothers didn't run outside but he got a couple of bullets in his body, instead of a couple of twins coming out to give him a hug. that is all i can say. i can't speak any more. the shooting has led to protests. this is ralph yarl�*s high school in kansas city where hundreds of students walked out of classrooms to join the demonstrations. let's hear what other

protestors have to say. if you are afraid to open the door, don't open the door. don't answer the door. it doesn't mean you turn to violence. it makes me so mad. it makes me so mad that that little kid has to be in a hospital because someone made a wrong decision. we've also heard from us presidentjoe biden. he tweeted on tuesday that: ..and invited the teen and his family to the white house at a later date. there are similarities to what happened in missouri to another shooting in new york. a man has been charged with second—degree murder after kaylin gillis, a 20—year—old woman, was shot when the car she was in drove into the wrong house. kaylin gillis died. police say she and three other people accidentally drove into the driveway of kevin monahan in the town of hebron and, as the driver was leaving, mr monahan allegedly opened fire on the vehicle, hitting kaylin gillis.

after saturday's mass shooting at a teenager's birthday party in dadeville, alabama, police have not yet released details of what happened inside the club, the name — or names — of the suspected assailant or assailants, or any hint as to what happened to them after the shooting. officials say they're still working to establish a motive and possible suspects. here's a friend of one of the victim's response to that. i think they should give at least a little bit of information. the community is devastated and they are worried and they are scared, they are frightened, to know that somebody, so evil could do this to children and still be out here, and we are left with questions that are answered. it is beyond me. —— that are unanswered. so, it's been a week of mass shootings in the us. meanwhile, the the national rifle association, or nra, has held its annual

convention in indianapolis. the nra, as we know, lobbies against all forms of gun control and argues that more guns make the country safer. prominent republican politicians attended, including donald trump, the current favourite for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. here's anthony zurcher. we begin tonight with another mass shooting. that another mass shooting. that another mass shooting. _ mass shooting. that another mass shooting. there - mass shooting. that another mass shooting. there has i mass shooting. that another i mass shooting. there has been mass shooting. that another - mass shooting. there has been a strin: of mass shooting. there has been a string of mass — mass shooting. there has been a string of mass shootings - mass shooting. there has been a string of mass shootings in - mass shooting. there has been a string of mass shootings in the i string of mass shootings in the us and the response from many republicans is that you gun laws are not the answer. we don't need _ laws are not the answer. we don't need gun _ laws are not the answer. - don't need gun control. when a crime control. that don't need gun control. when a crime control.— crime control. at the annual gathering — crime control. at the annual gathering of _ crime control. at the annual gathering of the _ crime control. at the annual gathering of the national. crime control. at the annual l gathering of the national rifle association a handful of prominent republicans stressed their support for gun rights. i their support for gun rights. 1 was proud to be the most, their support for gun rights. i was proud to be the most, your loyal friend and fearless champion once again. the string of mass shootings _ champion once again. the string of mass shootings in _ champion once again. the string of mass shootings in 2023 - champion once again. the string of mass shootings in 2023 was l champion once again. the string of mass shootings in 2023 was a difficult topic.— difficult topic. there is not a erson difficult topic. there is not a person in — difficult topic. there is not a person in this _ difficult topic. there is not a person in this room - difficult topic. there is not a person in this room that - difficult topic. there is not a l person in this room that does not want to see another school

shooting in this country. for most of the _ shooting in this country. for most of the republicans, the root causes other same. this is not a. root causes other same. this is not a- are _ root causes other same. this is not a. are nations _ root causes other same. this is not a. are nations mental - not a. are nations mental health issues. _ not a. are nations mental health issues. we - not a. are nations mental health issues. we have i not a. are nations mental health issues. we have a| not a. are nations mental - health issues. we have a mental health issues. we have a mental health epidemic. _ health issues. we have a mental health epidemic. and _ health issues. we have a mental health epidemic. and some - health issues. we have a mental| health epidemic. and some other solution. health epidemic. and some other solution- we _ health epidemic. and some other solution. we need _ health epidemic. and some other solution. we need to _ health epidemic. and some other solution. we need to have - health epidemic. and some other solution. we need to have armedj solution. we need to have armed ersonnel solution. we need to have armed personnel to _ solution. we need to have armed personnel to protect _ solution. we need to have armed personnel to protect your - personnel to protect your children. to institute a federal death penalty statuette. credit i'll also put in a tax credit to any teacher for a concealed weapon. they made it clear _ for a concealed weapon. they made it clear that _ for a concealed weapon. they made it clear that they - for a concealed weapon. they made it clear that they believe the way to stop the violence is more guns in america, not fewer. let's look at some technology news now. spotify and apple have pulled an ai—generated song from their platforms after crticism from universal music group, which said the song violated copyright law. heart on my sleeve uses artificial intelligence to clone the voices of rap artists drake and the weeknd. it was first posted on tiktok and had over 9 million views before it was taken down.

it later made its way onto streaming platforms. take a listen. song this is not the only story this week on the creative arts and ai. what you're looking at here is the winner of the 2023 sony world photography award. but it's not a real photo — it's ai generated. german artist boris eldagsen refused his prize after revealing how it was created. he said he used the picture to create a discussion about the future of photography. let's hearfrom him. i think we have to react quickly and to come up with new terms to describe what is happening. it is not

photography. do not use the term ai photography. it is something else. the great idea that came out of the community this weekend is prompt though graphic, writing with prompts and it shows that it can also create an image that does not look like photography but drawing or painting. i think of we use a new term for it, a different, and the second level we can talk about the things i have in common. joining me live from philadelphia is rob abelow, the founder of where music's going, a newsletter that tracks insights and tactics into music's future. what concerns do you have on its usage in music? do you think it is a game—changer to what we're listening to? game-changer to what we're listening to?— listening to? absolutely. i think it is _ listening to? absolutely. i think it is the _ listening to? absolutely. i think it is the tip - listening to? absolutely. i think it is the tip of - listening to? absolutely. i think it is the tip of the i think it is the tip of the iceberg right now. what concerns _ iceberg right now. what concerns do _

iceberg right now. what concerns do you - iceberg right now. what concerns do you have i iceberg right now. what i concerns do you have on how iceberg right now. what - concerns do you have on how it may be used because of the brings up many questions about music and creativity? absolutely. i mean, art in itself is always imitating and inspired by other arts so it brings up a lot of different questions and a lot of generative music that is possible. in this case, this is using the vocal style of famous artists and replicating that. that is why it is so aggressively been taken down. i think there will be a question of how much generative ai is ok and has artistic license and how much of that is just copycatting anything someone else? in this case, if it is a similar case to this, we were using the artist name and their likeness as a selling point for the song, i think that is likely to take down but other uses a bit squishy. how do you think this surge in ai—generated music will impact the industry?

i think the industry needs to get ahead of it. being very strong armed and taking down this drake song works in the short term when there's not a lot of it out there. it has to get ahead of it and had not have another napster moment and responding in the right moment. they need to know that age, it is inevitable and, b, it is an opportunity really. the opportunity to create a system that incentivises good behaviour in how generative ai is used. so creating models in platforms and datasets were people who want to credit using it has access to licensed music as attributable to the artist that compensate those artists. in doing so, we can actually create a system that is really a lead fathauer listeners come into music. they can take the original song as this and they can blur line of who it is creating it and who is the

listener and there will be a lot of user generated content that comes out and i think it's really important and i think they can grow the revenue pie for the music industry. that they can grow the revenue pie for the music industry.- for the music industry. that is interesting — for the music industry. that is interesting because _ for the music industry. that is interesting because that i for the music industry. that is interesting because that is i interesting because that is essentially what the photographer said we heard about who said it was a new genre of art. what about song writers is that they want to correct the music and i don't want anyone messing with the? is a difficult situation for individual artists. they really depend on the industry and platforms and regulation to defend them, i think that is a long time coming. there are things artist can do. there are platforms or registries coming online we can register your music to say that you don't want to be used in any ai models and ideally the ai model sets will respect that. i think artist can take a different approach in engaging with it depending on the appetite. they can potentially license through music to ai platforms they believe are doing it in a right an ethical way and get compensated for it. or, often

when we see these technological changes, the artist to embrace in the biggest ways benefit and break through the noise of getting discovered. perhaps making their music permission less and letting others take and do whatever they want with it may be a smart move for some. �* , , some. all right, this will be interesting _ some. all right, this will be interesting to _ some. all right, this will be interesting to see - some. all right, this will be interesting to see where i interesting to see where goes next! thank you forjoining us on bbc news. next! thank you for “oining us on bbc news._ on bbc news. thank you for having me- _ when taking a back to pictures the two astronauts, their cosmonauts, sergey prokopyev and dmitri petelin, and what they are doing is they are on theirfeet they are doing is they are on their feet international space station to move a radiator from one side of the iss to the other. a tricky endeavour and thatis other. a tricky endeavour and that is why it will last around six hours and 40 minutes if you can imagine that! to cosmonauts

doing very difficult work under not so easy circumstances! you can see them at work there —— two we got these images from nasa. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. big contrast in the weather across the uk on tuesday. we've got up to 21 degrees in the scottish highlands. plenty of sunshine generally across the highlands. this image from the afternoon in durness. further east edinburgh lots of low cloud mist and murk being dragged in on the easterly wind. this was newington, just nine degrees. but similar temperatures really along much of the north sea coast on tuesday afternoon. won't be much different either, i fear this wednesday. perhaps brighter though across eastern england as the area of cloud and showery rain that we saw hanging around on tuesday

moves away westwards. but it is those north sea temperatures that are real killers to the temperatures adjacent to the north sea, even on land at this time of year with an easterly wind. basically, we pick up cold air that's been sitting across the north sea and feed it straight into eastern coasts. further west with some sunshine, things do get a chance to warm up. and we're looking at highs towards the west today in the best of any sunshine of 15 or 16 degrees, a bit more cloud for wales. in the southwest, though, one or two showers around here could be a shade cooler. pollen levels down from the very high levels across england and wales that we saw earlier this week, but still very high in a few spots and high quite widely across the uk for any allergy sufferers. now looking to thursday, those isobars on that chart opened up a little bit there. for the keen eyed amongst you, that should mean lighter winds. going through the night with clear skies, lighter winds, some cold air hanging around there. you've got all the ingredients to make for a frosty start to thursday. gardeners can easily be caught out. i know i have been, by putting out tender plants at this time of year and then those temperatures falling away. and even through thursday

daytime, we just pull the wind round to a bit more of a north—easterly direction. that's just going to bring in some slightly cooler air than we started the week with perhaps some showers into eastern england later in the day. what we're looking at is our temperatures tending away from the mid—teens into perhaps the lower end of double figures for thursday and still perhaps just ten degrees along the north sea coast. now, end of the week, things start to get more lively. the high pressure in the north gives way to allow low pressure to come swirling up from the south. that means we will see, i think, some showers spreading across england and wales on friday, more widely across the whole of the uk for saturday and sunday. and then quite a shock to the system, i think as we potentially pick up a northerly wind and some much colder weather for early next week.

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