in 2019, imogen thomas and sienna miller launched claims against news group — owners of the news of therevious claimants, news group paid undisclosed sums to settle the claims before a trial. it was not my choice to be standing here today. i wanted to go to trial. i wanted to share news group's secrets, just as they have shared mine. unfortunately, that legal recourse is not available to me or to anyone who does not have countless millions of pounds to spend on the pursuit ofjustice. under english law, if a claimant refuses a settlement and is then awarded a lower amount by a judge at trial, they risk having to pay the legal fees from the trial for both sides. this could amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds. between 2016 and 2022, news group and mirror group paid money to settle hundreds of claims against their newspapers before they got to trial. morning. um... i'm just going to read a brief—ish statement. today, mgn ltd, part of the trinity mirror group, settled my case by apologising for hacking my phone, and is paying me a sum in damages which they have insisted i keep confiden

miller helping us. i'm wolf blitzer in this room. thanks very much for watching the news continues next on sienna tonight are 36012 jurors, six alternates. >> now, just three days away from making history as the first american to ever to decide the guilt or innocence of a former president of the united states. also, we're following breaking news, but explosions reportedly five at a base used by pro iranian fighters in iraq. is his new video just in all just a night after israel's response to iran's missile and drone attack. and later how house speaker mike johnson's active by partisanship with democrats to pass aid to israel, ukraine, and more as. being treated as betrayal by some radical republicans. good evening, thanks for joining us at the end of historic but also harrowing day in and around new york city courtroom or opening statements in the first trump criminal trial are now set for monday historic for what are by now familiar, but still astonishing reasons. a former president facing felony charges for the first time ever harrowing in that a deeply troubled man used the occasion as set himself on fire outside the courthouse tonig