Giuliani ordered to pay $148m over false election claims

A jury in the United States has ordered Donald Trump's former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to pay $148 million in damages to two election workers he falsely accused of vote tampering. Mr Giuliani called the figure absurd, and said he would appeal the defamation verdict.

Also in the programme: the Israeli military has admitted it killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza City after they were “mistakenly identified as a threat”; and we speak to the Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa who will take over as the 15th time lord in the iconic TV sci-fi series Doctor Who.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss this and more are Leslie Vinjamuri, director of the US and the Americas programme at the Chatham House think tank, and Steven Pemberton, an author, internet pioneer and researcher at the CWI, the Dutch National Research Centre for Mathematics and Informatics in Amsterdam.

(Picture: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani speaking to the press after he was ordered to pay $148 million in his defamation case. Credit: Bonnie Cash/Reuters)