Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

The billion dollar defamation suit against Fox News gets underway, I discuss the impact with

Jalani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, and veteran British

News Executive Andrew Neal, who ran parts of Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Then, dueling presidents, dueling visits Selensky and Putin in eastern Ukraine,

the latest on what those leaks say about the battlefield with NATO Secretary General

Jens Stoltenberg. Also ahead, I worry that there will be a chilling of even our inner

thoughts in ways that could be I think devastating to humanity.

The battle for our brains, author and Duke University Professor Nita Farahani

tells Walter Isixson that we need to protect our right to think as neuroscience advances. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. Today

Fox News Corporation and Dominion voting systems go head to head in what is set to be

one of the most important media trials in more than half a century.

Truth telling and disinformation are now in the dock, as jury selection is completed and opening arguments get underway in Delaware.

Dominion is suing Fox for defamation and $1.6 billion in damages, accusing Rupert Murdoch's right-wing Fox News channel of knowingly spreading

lies about the 2020 election and about Dominion voting machines.

The judge has already ruled that Fox aired lies about the company and the election,

but Dominion must prove that Fox did so intentionally and with actual malice.

Fox has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and argues the lawsuit is a threat to the

First Amendment. So what's at stake and how could it impact law, politics and of course the press?

Few know the inside of Murdoch's politics and of course the press.

Few know the inside of Murdoch's media empire better

than veteran British journalist Andrew Neal.

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