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His hello, i'm christian fraser. you're watching the context on bbc news. it is the biggest mass murder in british legal history, but almost 3a years to the day since the downing of pan am flight 103, the alleged bombmaker appears in a us court. prosecutors says libyan abu agila masud built the bomb, and primed it. he is accused of the murder of all 259 people on board and 11 people who died on the ground in lockerbie. rail workers have voted to reject a pay deal and will press ahead with their 48 hour strike beginning tomorrow. the nurses strike will strike on thursday. and a snowballing corr...

United states. and the reported divide within the administration over the deal. we'll speak to bill richardson who has assisted in griner's release millions of americans out west are waking up to a thick blanket of snow after a massive winter storm. that system is now headed east. and later this hour, we will look at the efforts to help afghans who worked alongside u.s. forces through the 20-year war and a group of u.s. veterans who took a 7,600 mile road trip to raise awareness. we begin with a step towards justice. more than three decades in the making. a former libyan intelligence off...

190 americans killed, including 35 syracuse university students. tonight, what we heard again all these years later. how the bomb was made, how it was hidden, how it made it onto that plane. and tonight, families reacting to justice, all these years later. here's our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas now. >> reporter: it was the horror that played just before christmas nearly 34 years ago -- the second deadliest terror attack on americans ever. pan am flight 103 -- the massiv cargo hold sent the plane plunging from 31,000 feet into the scottish countryside, killing 270 people, 190 of t...

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud is accused of making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

Is laying out this case. they're having to make some adjustments here because they fell flat on 3 out of 5 attempts to try to convict on seditious conspiracy so, those alterations certainly on full display today. the doj, again, making this case that the plan was to use brute force to try to overturn the election. here's just one quote from some of these opening statements by the department of justice. in the defendant's words, they were at war. these defendants agreed to and joined together to stop the transfer of power, and they were ready to do it by force and on january 6, 2021, they did. ...