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Weekend: Far-right conspiracy theorist in US ordered to pay compensation

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Far-right conspiracy theorist in US ordered to pay compensation

06/08/2022 GMT

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Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a further $45m in damages

Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a further $45m in damages.

A US jury has ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, to pay a further $45m in damages for falsely claiming that the Sandy Hook school shooting ten years ago was a hoax.

Also, the Taiwanese Foreign Minister tells the BBC that China is displaying expansionist behaviour.

Plus, we hear from the scientist trying to revive dead organ cells in pigs.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss these and other issues are Eunice Goes,  Portuguese-born professor of Politics at Richmond University here in the UK; and Bulama Bukarti, Nigerian analyst and senior fellow on Sub-Saharan Africa at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, here in London.

(Image: A video of far-right radio show host Alex Jones is shown during a committee hearing on "the January 6th Investigation," on Capitol Hill. Credit: SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

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