This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Saturday, the 19th of July, these are our main stories.

President Trump is suing the media mogul Rupert Murdoch over an article in the Wall Street Journal

about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Renewed clashes have broken out in southern Syria between

Bedouin tribesmen and the minority Druze community. Brazil's former president, Jaïé Bolsonaro,

has been placed under curfew, allegedly to prevent him fleeing the country.

Also, in this podcast, a mere adjustment to television schedules or a sign of self-censorship.

What prompted this announcement on one of America's top television shows?

The network will be ending the late show in May.

And...

We hear about the growing political row from our correspondent in New York.

They are arguably two of the most powerful people in the world.

Donald Trump in charge of America, Rupert Murdoch owning a stable of newspapers and television stations

which make him a titan of traditional media. Both support the political right. But they are

very much at loggerheads. It centres around a scandal which just won't go away, despite Mr Trump's

best efforts, allegations about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The president is suing Mr Murdoch and his paper, the Wall Street Journal, over a suggestion that he sent Mr.

Epstein a very raunchy birthday letter back in 2003. The U.S. president denies such a letter

exists. Our North America correspondent, Aruda Dame Mukher Makagi, told me what's alleged to be in it.

Going by what the Wall Street Journal essentially has reported on, there was a typewritten text

within the image of a sketch of a naked woman.

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