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The prosecutor popped his own balloon on this one. >> francey, very quickly, your reaction to the same sound byte? admitting he's a liar but, you know, he's being called by the prosecutor for practicing and rehearsing his answers. >> well, i agree with jonna, murdaugh out lawyered the prosecutor here, he definitely practiced that answer. he gave it way too many times for it not to be practiced. >> all right, jonna and francen, great seeing you both. alec murdaugh claimed innocence on the stand today. he seems to be working very hard. again, it was practice. was it really a choreographed perfor...

♪ ♪ fast. reliable. perfectly orchestrated. the united states postal service. >> it was a stunning day in court in the double murder trial of alec murdaugh. mr. murdoch took the stand today, admitted he lied repeatedly. court resumes tomorrow morning with more cross examination of him. the judge tonight denied a defense request to interrupt that testimony, to call other witnesses, and after some of what murdaugh admitted to on the santa day, it's not hard to see why the defense might want to hit pause. our randi kaye was in the courtroom. >> i'm alex murdaugh, and you -- murdaugh. good mor...

They heard, they did him so bad, and this is the question today, and the defense is going after the witness special agent jay kroft who is back on the stand today, and the defense is pushing him, because he testified that he heard "i did him so bad" which sounds like a confession, and so they pushed him about that, and they played the tape and the interview again at one-third the speed. he said again, i believe that i heard "i did him so bad." so the defense kept pressing him on it, and he says well, did you think that alex said that he was not a good dad or he killed him or a confusion, and a...

Vatican has taken a stand today. ! vatican has taken a stand today. i want to thankjack for vatican has taken a stand today. u want to thankjack for highlighting that story. all we can do is get women's stories out of patent afghanistan, and that is something we can all support. in terms of what's happened, the pope has ordered the vatican museum to send back some parthenon fragments since the 19 century. they're pretty opaque with their records, so not entirely clear how they came out and came into their possession. as with the other museums, they've held these things for hundreds of years, a...

This is bbc news the headlines at 5pm... as the prime minister fights for her political life — her new chancellor admits mistakes were made in rolling out the government's new economic policy and that some taxes will rise. we are going to take some tough decisions, notjust on spending but also on tax because we have to show the world that we have a plan that adds up financially and that is the way we will get stability back in the situation. but there's more bad news for the government on the economy — the head of the bank of england says interest rates may have to go up even higher than p...