live from london, this is bbc news. fox news settles a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company dominion for more than three—quarters of a billion us dollars. lies have consequences. the truth does not know red or blue. hopes for a humanitarian ceasefire in sudan have been dashed as fighting between rival military factions enters its fifth day. the united nations says chances of recovery to afghanistan's economy are threatened by the taliban's restrictions on women. a song that uses al to clone the voices of drake and the weeknd is removed

from streaming services. and, later in the business news, the sacked boss of the british lobby group the cbi tells the bbc his reputation has been totally destroyed following his abrupt dismissal. hello and welcome. we start in the us, where the 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 voting systems $787.5 million.

with the settlement, fox will avoid a high—profile trial. dominion originally sued fox news for $1.6 billion so they actually settled for less than half of what they were asking for. 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 said 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 fox news reported the settlement. fox has agreed to pay $787

million — fox has agreed to pay $787 million to settle the dominion lawsuit — million to settle the dominion lawsuit and we had that coming from _ lawsuit and we had that coming from wall streetjournal lawsuit and we had that coming from wall street journal and avoids— from wall street journal and avoids trial of allegations and amplified claims around voting technology behind the 2020 election. it is technology behind the 2020 election. it is a technology behind the 2020 election. it is a done technology behind the 2020 election. it is a done deal. technology behind the 2020 election. it is a done deal. it is a — election. it is a done deal. it is a settlement. and for at least fox _ is a settlement. and for at least fox that appears to be over — least fox that appears to be over and _ least fox that appears to be over and there may be other litigation _ over and there may be other litigation to come but from the wall street journal, this particular issue had been settled _ particular issue had been settled the very day they were going — settled the very day they were going to trial. and this is how dominion responded to the settlement. 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.

as you would expect, and a lot of commentary and analysis has happened. erik wemple, a media critic at the washington post, told us how fox news has been covering the story. fox news that one point that it was not going to allow its media correspondent, howard kurtz, to cover it. he went on tv and explain the situation. but in the weeks after that, they thought a little bit and allowed him to do some coverage. it has been terrible coverage, coverage that ignores the atrocity and the depth of the atrocity and the depth of the lies and the deception and quite frankly, the journalistic corruption at hand here. it was terrible coverage. today he would not say the dollar value of the settlement because he said he could not 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

$7875 of reporters saying this is $787.5 million. he is technically an officer of the court. he is on the record. that is ridiculous. other media organisations have covered it. extensively, you know, extensively. i have other major newspapers, new york times, wall streetjournal, and wall street journal, and murdoch entity wall streetjournal, and murdoch entity itself, have given it really, really saturation coverage and it deserve that. the irony was that during the coverage that dominion sued about was that fox news was creating a closed loop with its viewers about election claims. basically it was trying to goose, orjuice up was trying to goose, orjuice up the coverage, so that it would sort of like appease or appeal to the fox news viewer so it basically tried to promote the election live. it never had to come clean. now, here we are again, and a

settlement doesn't require it to do that either. fox news could keep this closed loop with viewers where they don't ever really see outside their own bubble.— own bubble. our business journals — own bubble. our business journals was _ own bubble. our business journals was outside - own bubble. our business journals was outside the l journals was outside the courtroom in delaware and we will hear from courtroom in delaware and we will hearfrom her courtroom in delaware and we will hear from her later on that story. that is in about 30 minutes. there's been more fighting in sudan, 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. 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 un has now described sudan's humanitarian situation as "catastrophic", with mass displacement of people. the red cross has echoed that concern. 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, asking for evacuation. for the past four days, people have been out of water and food, electricity has been rationed in some places, totally disconnected. we go live now to emmanuel igunza, the bbc�*s senior africa reporter in nairobi. as we have already said, the ceasefire has not happened. we are continuing to hear explosions rocking the capital and other cities, why has this failed? �* , and other cities, why has this failed? �*, ., ., , failed? it's dramatically failed? it's dramatically failed and _ failed? it's dramatically failed and it _ failed? it's dramatically failed and it is - failed? it's dramatically failed and it is because | failed? it's dramatically - failed and it is because simply both the national army, led by

the de facto leader of the dan abdel fattah al—burhan and then on the other side, the rfs commander, mohamed hamdan dagalo, simply think they can win through the fighting continuing and the situation is dire. this is the fifth day of heavy fighting, particularly in the capital, carter reum, and it's happening in residential areas. as you heard there from residence, this caught them by surprise and they have run out of water —— khartoum stock they have run out of water and food and aid agencies have been requesting for evacuation but that has not happened. this ceasefire is supposed to be in place for 2h hours to enable humanitarian assistance to get to people and that simply has not happened. the fighting has spread into other parts of the country, particularly in the west, in places like da for and now the worry is now that if it continues, the country can

fight into a full—blown civil war. —— darfour. fight into a full-blown civil war. -- darfour.— fight into a full-blown civil war. -- darfour. what will it take to get _ war. -- darfour. what will it take to get the _ war. -- darfour. what will it take to get the two - war. -- darfour. what will it take to get the two sides - war. -- darfour. what will it take to get the two sides to | take to get the two sides to talk? it take to get the two sides to talk? , ., , . ., ., talk? it is not very clear on what it would _ talk? it is not very clear on what it would take - talk? it is not very clear on what it would take because talk? it is not very clear on - what it would take because both the two generals who are fighting seem to be very apart in terms of how they see the conflict playing out, or ending, but there is a lot of international pressure. we have seen over the last few days prior coming in from the us secretary of state, who has also met the uk foreign secretary. within the african union and also leaders from the region and neighbouring countries to sudan expected to go into khartoum and that is if the airport is open but it seems as though they are fighting is likely to end. the wor is fighting is likely to end. the worry is the _ fighting is likely to end. the worry is the humanitarian crisis is growing and h agencies are talking about the disaster and that of safety for their own workers, it is a very dire situation, isn't it? oh yes it is. parts of the

casualties have been humanitarian workers from the world food progamme. remember, this is a country— world food progamme. remember, this is a country that _ world food progamme. remember, this is a country that sits _ world food progamme. remember, this is a country that sits in - this is a country that sits in the horn of africa, which is facing its fifth year of severe drought and many people particularly outside the capital have been depending on the aid agencies for food, for medical care and with the suspension of much of the humanitarian assistance, across much of sudan because of the fighting, that means many of the civilians will then suffer much. we have also been hearing that there are plans to evacuate notjust humanitarian evacuate not just humanitarian workers evacuate notjust humanitarian workers but also some of the expatriates who are leaving in —— living in sudan because the extent of the fighting continuing. quite a severe situation right now in the country. situation right now in the country-— let's get some of the day's other news.

at least one person has died and five injured after part of a multi—storey car park collapsed in new york. police said they were all working inside the a—storey car park, in manhattan, when slabs of concrete collapsed. officials say they believe the collapse was caused by a structural fault. 11 indonesian fishermen have been rescued from a remote island off north western australia after being stranded without food or water for six days. the men from two fishing boats had been caught in cyclone ilsa. they are all now being treated in hospital. netflix has announced it will shut down its dvd rental service, which launched the firm 25 years ago. the streaming giant said the scheme, which will end in september, was, what it called "the booster rocket that got streaming to a leading position". netflix is the story we are covering in business. we will have an analyst discussing its earnings. the suspect in the

shooting of a black teenager who approached a home after confusing addresses in the american state of missouri has turned himself in. andrew lester has been freed on bail. nomia iqbal reports from kansas city. ralph yarl is a 16—year—old high school student described by his teachers as a kind boy and a musical prodigy. last week he went to pick up his twin brothers from a friends place but accidentally went to the wrong house and rang the bell. it was shot twice. and bell. it was shot twice. and while he — bell. it was shot twice. and while he was _ bell. it was shot twice. and while he was standing - bell. it was shot twice. fific while he was standing there, his brothers didn't run outside but he got a couple of bullets in his body is that of a couple of twins coming out and giving him a hug. of twins coming out and giving him a hug-— him a hug. the teenager was taken to hospital. _ him a hug. the teenager was taken to hospital. but - him a hug. the teenager was taken to hospital. but is - him a hug. the teenager was taken to hospital. but is nowj taken to hospital. but is now at home recovering. the man accused of shooting him, 84—year—old andrew lester has been charged over the attack. the number 16 has been graffiti on to the house of andrew lester. andrew lester, an old

man said he was acting in self—defence and there are stand your ground laws in the united states allowing citizens to take action if they feel there is a threat. andrew lester said it was late at night and if it was a break—in and he was scared of ralph yarl�*s double height. the family of ralph yarl does not believe it was his height that cause andrew lester to reach for the gun. many believe this is a hate crime because rough is a hate crime because rough is black. hundreds gathered outside the courthouse calling for an investigation. i outside the courthouse calling for an investigation.— for an investigation. i live five minutes _ for an investigation. i live five minutes away - for an investigation. i live five minutes away from . for an investigation. i live i five minutes away from the house where everything happened and i have little siblings and little nieces and nephews who live in these neighbourhoods and to know that one of my neighbours potentially could have shot one of my own just hurts me a lot. have shot one of my own 'ust hurts me a loti have shot one of my own 'ust hurts me a lot. this was a hate crime because _ hurts me a lot. this was a hate crime because the _ hurts me a lot. this was a hate crime because the shooter - hurts me a lot. this was a hate crime because the shooter was motivated by the race of the victim — motivated by the race of the victim. he doesn't have to hate the person— victim. he doesn't have to hate the person to do that. it can target — the person to do that. it can target young ralphjust because of his— target young ralphjust because of his race and that makes it a hate _ of his race and that makes it a hate crime _ of his race and that makes it a hate crime. it is not a hate crime _ hate crime. it is not a hate crime under missouri statute but under the constitution. how is ralh but under the constitution. how

is ralph doing? _ but under the constitution. how is ralph doing? amazingly - but under the constitution. how is ralph doing? amazingly well| is ralph doing? amazingly well considering. _ is ralph doing? amazingly well considering. i'm _ is ralph doing? amazingly well considering. i'm so _ is ralph doing? amazingly well considering. i'm so blown - is ralph doing? amazingly well considering. i'm so blown away by his— considering. i'm so blown away by his physical recovery that we can— by his physical recovery that we can get lost in the fact that— we can get lost in the fact that he _ we can get lost in the fact that he has still got a long way— that he has still got a long way to— that he has still got a long way to go in recovery. misery is a very _ way to go in recovery. misery is a very pro-gun _ way to go in recovery. misery is a very pro-gun state - way to go in recovery. misery is a very pro-gun state with l way to go in recovery. misery. is a very pro-gun state with no is a very pro—gun state with no licenses or background checks required of the weapon but their shock at another innocent victim of us gun violence, this time a teenagerjust ringing a doorbell —— missouri. . the un is warning that the economy of afghanistan will shrink and inflation will rise if there's a drop in international aid. it's been working to bring humanitarian assistance to 23 million people, in one of the poorest countries in the world. now donors could turn way from afghanistan because the taliban administration has ordered women to stop working for relief organisations. fom kabul, the bbc�*s south asia correspondent, yogita limaye, reports. no time for a childhood.

11—year—old saeed ali akbar must work every day this is so that his family can eat — one of more than a million children out of school in afghanistan. he was in sixth grade till last year. "i really liked school. "i miss it. "this is very hard work, but i've got used to it now," he says. next door, his older brother does the same work. nine hours of hammering and welding earns them 150 afghanis a day — less than $2. their father lost his job when afghanistan's economy collapsed and has now gone to iran to find work. their mother begs on the streets. translator: | feel awful that |

my young children are working. this is their time to study and be something. but life is hard for us. i am struggling to find work and they have to provide for the family. when the taliban took over, foreign money that was being given to this country's government was frozen, triggering an economic collapse. aid organisations have so far played a crucial role, saving people from going hungry. in recent months, though, the taliban has increased restrictions on women working for them, which threatens to put their operations and their funding at risk. i met a senior official in the taliban's finance ministry... my name is yogita from the bbc. ..who says they're working to improve the economic situation. basically in the previous government, there were a lot of corruptions and misuses of the power of the government. we have transparency in all our departments, and there is a very good 37%

of increase in our revenues. two thirds of your population currently does not know where their next meal is coming from. that is not a self—reliant economy. so, how crucial is the operation of aid organisations at this moment? aid, these are temporary things. thank you for the international community helping our people in all over afghanistan. but this is not the solution we need. we need not only aid, we need trade. we need the aid effectiveness. we need developmental aid. we need the international communities to come and work with us. but it is the policies of your government, including the restrictions on women and girls, which are making it tougherfor aid organisations to operate in this country. is your government willing to take responsibility for your share of what you should be doing to further expand the aid that is coming to your country? so, the girls' education and girls stopping them from the work, so this is,

i think, the internal policy of islamic emirates. but i think all the things, all the humanitarian aid and the donations and the grants, those should not be related to this issue — this issue only. the gap between afghanistan's rulers and the world is widening at an unexpectedly rapid pace. its people are at risk of being left to fight a crisis on their own. yogita limaye, bbc news, kabul. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. everyone loves a spitfire. here at heritage hangar, in biggin hill, 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 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. spotify and apple have pulled an ai—generated song from their platforms after criticism 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 weekend. 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. vocal in style of drake. that gives you of the song that pretty much went viral. i'm joined now by chris willman, chief music critic for variety, who has been covering this story. if we talk about the song itself, your thoughts on how credible it sounded people

could think this was great or the weeknd? it’s could think this was great or the weeknd?— the weeknd? it's extremely credible if _ the weeknd? it's extremely credible if you _ the weeknd? it's extremely credible if you didn't - the weeknd? it's extremely credible if you didn't know l the weeknd? it's extremely| credible if you didn't know it was that, it is a song about selena gomez who drake u'u dated back on the 2010s, and the lyrics are not ready the lyrics by the weeknd, you look at comments on youtube about the video they were all like i wish i could be fly on the wall when drake is this, it would be a number one song if it was for real. before it was taken down it had a chance of making the chance, it was picking up hundreds of thousands of streams on the apps account for the charts. universal got it pulled quickly when it started to go viral, everyone isjust shocked because we knew what ai shocked because we knew what al was capable of, but we didn't know it was capable of such a close approximation until now. there is another artist who did

a fake m&m song, they won't commercially release this, but we have an anonymous user who did release this fake drake song and it was quite good. obviously drake is furious about this is you would assume he would be and for musicians this is quite a scary prospect, what do we know about the people who made this? we know nothinu. people who made this? we know nothing- was _ people who made this? we know nothing. was released _ people who made this? we know nothing. was released under - people who made this? we know nothing. was released under the | nothing. was released under the pseudonym of someone named ghostwriter who has not come out publicly. i'm sure whoever that person is have mixed feelings about coming out publicly because he or she would love the acclaim of fancy thought this was a perfectly delightful song but not want to get the attention of a very litigious universal music group, we will see if this person comes forward or not. the fact is the technology is so good now you don't need to be a genius to be coming up with the songs, that is what is

scary, universal can take this down all they want and get songs taken down within hours but this will become whac—a—mole when they can't keep up with them. whac-a-mole when they can't keep up with them.— whac-a-mole when they can't keep up with them. throws up so many questions, _ keep up with them. throws up so many questions, the _ keep up with them. throws up so many questions, the legal - many questions, the legal issues, but for the music industry itself throws up questions about the future holds, this is disruption we are looking at here in quite a significant way? it are looking at here in quite a significant way?— significant way? it is the whole question - significant way? it is the whole question of- significant way? it is the whole question of can i significant way? it is the l whole question of can you copyright a voice, the song was original, we don't know for sure whether the lyrics were written by a computer or a person, the voice, the voices were scraped as they say from real recordings and approximated. there is precedent in california law and us law for controlling your own likeness, extends to vocal misappropriation. going back way before this was a gleam in the eyes of anyone in 80s and 90s there were lawsuits around soundalike advertisements we

bet midler sued a corporation and tom waits sued for doing satellite commercials that were intended to be interpreted as their voices, intended to be interpreted as theirvoices, even intended to be interpreted as their voices, even though they were unknown backup singers. the courts would rule the same way when it comes down to it, the question is, will it come down to it, will these things even get into court, is itjust like a lark amateurs will put up like a lark amateurs will put up and take time, and they won't have time to deal with them. we will see it in court at some point, that's for sure. as far as the platforms were concerned interesting to see the reaction, some very swift to pull the song others took quite some time? i to pull the song others took quite some time?— quite some time? i kept checking _ quite some time? i kept checking back _ quite some time? i kept checking back during - quite some time? i kept| checking back during the quite some time? i kept - checking back during the day, i would refresh my browser, does youtube still have it up? youtube still have it up? youtube was the last to takedown hours later than ta kedown hours later than everyone takedown hours later than everyone did, they were the ones that confirmed universal had asked for the take down

everyone else had been sly about. 5 everyone else had been sly about. �* ,, , ., .«r about. '5 been good for taking, -- it's been _ about. '5 been good for taking, -- it's been good _ about. '5 been good for taking, -- it's been good to _ about. '5 been good for taking, -- it's been good to get - about. '5 been good for taking, -- it's been good to get your. —— it's been good to get your take on. over a century's worth of hollywood memorabilia will be going under the hammer at an auction in california later this week. the centre—piece of the auction isjohn travolta's white suit from saturday night fever, which has an estimate of up to $200,000. other star lots include a bathing suit worn by marilyn monroe, harry potter's wand and marty mcfly�*s hoverboard from back to the future. it's a hollywood classic and contemporary, items going back to theatre bar and cleopatra in 1917, right up to movies we know from the harry potter franchise is well represented, john travolta, saturday night fever, ironman, have discovery, so many incredible items in this wardrobe.— so many incredible items in this wardrobe. they are quite incredible _ this wardrobe. they are quite incredible and _ this wardrobe. they are quite incredible and you _ this wardrobe. they are quite incredible and you have - this wardrobe. they are quite incredible and you have got l incredible and you have got some spare cash, that is a

possibility, if you want to know where the money is going, all the top businesses are here next including a exclusive interview with tony danko, the former boss of the cbi. 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 we potentially pick up a northerly wind and some much colder weather for early next week.

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