and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we re going to do everything we can, as fast as we can, to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. i want to bring you some news that s just come through in the last hour from the us, where a usjury in connecticut has ruled that the conspiracy theorist alexjones must payjust shy of $1 billion in damages to the families of those killed in the 2012 sandy hook mass shooting. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attacked in 2012. a little earlier, our correspondent gary 0 donoghue told me why alexjones has been held accountable. really, from when it actually happened, alexjones, on his info wars channels, reachi