Ione Wells

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Live to Washington, DC, and our correspondent Ione Wells.

Ione, hello.

Uh, on the $5,000 payment, first of all, uh, is it legal?

I- I- it's sort of yet to see whether these pitches will have, uh, or be enough to convince voters given that they have been made previously and haven't materialized yet.

Ione, thank you very much indeed.

Our Washington correspondent, Ione Wells.

Well, John McHenry is a p- Republican pollster with North Star Opinion Research, and, uh, John joins me on the line from Northern Virginia.

Lindsay Clancy pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity due to post-birth psychosis.

The BBC's Ione Wells was at the courtroom in Boston.

After six days of deliberations here, the jury announced that with a heavy heart, they were unable to come to a unanimous verdict.

They had been deadlocked for days, and at one stage, the jury's spokesperson raised a concern that one juror was not following the instructions that someone must be found guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

The judge did not agree and ordered the jurors to continue deliberating.

Our North America correspondent Ione Wells has been following the trial.

I asked her what we know about this deadlock among the 12 jurors.

We can't say with any certainty what exactly they are disagreeing about, because the jury are not identified in this case.

I think what is also so complex about it is it is essentially asking jurors to try to decide and distinguish where the line is between somebody being mentally ill a- and, or so mentally ill that they cannot become criminally responsible for something.

And I think that is why morally, medically, this has been such a hard case for them to assess.

Ione Wells.

The US Vice President JD Vance has said that oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz are almost back up to pre-war levels.

For everything in the lives of human beings is open to some possible or imaginary doubt.

Well, let's go to the BBC's Ione Wells, who's been following the story from Washington.

So, Ione, they still appear to not have a decision.

Where does this leave things now?

But what we do know is they have been sent back for what will be another day of deliberating tomorrow.

And it is still unclear whether we will get a definite verdict or, as I say, if this could end in some kind of mistrial.

Ione Wells in Washington, thank you very much for that

update there.

Of course, lifting the country out of hunger, just as he has done before.

Our South America correspondent, Ione Wells, was at President Lula's campaign launch.

President Lula came out onto the stage at this football stadium in the industrial city of São Bernardo do Campo, which is just outside of São Paulo, to black and white images of him here in 1979 and in the '80s, where he as a union leader led strikes demanding better wages and conditions for workers.

There were thousands of supporters here in the crowd cheering him on, and much of his speech not only referenced workers and his support of them, uh, over the years, but also sovereignty, the fact that he will not let anyone interfere in Brazilian affairs.

President Lula himself came out onto the stage with a huge Brazilian flag, something that for many years was a symbol if displayed at some- outside someone's home that they were a supporter of Jair Bolsonaro.

Now he is certainly trying to reclaim that image of patriotism, of sovereignty, as part of his left-wing campaign in this election.

Ione Wells.

In their quest for viral videos and clicks, some social media influencers film themselves swimming close to sharks, sometimes touching them or even trying to ride them.

We'll get into that in a moment.

First, though, our South America correspondent, Ione Wells, has been at President Lula's campaign launch today and sent this report.

President Lula came out onto the stage at this football stadium in the industrial city of São Bernardo do Campo, which is just outside of São Paulo, to black and white images of him here in 1979 and in the '80s, where he, as a union leader, led strikes demanding better wages and conditions for workers.

The slogan of this campaign event, kicking off his presidential election campaign, was "Where It All Began" and there were many references during his speech to the fact that he started his political career here campaigning as a union leader and eventually setting up the Workers Party, which he is still part of today.

President Lula himself came out onto the stage with a huge Brazilian flag, something that for many years was a symbol, if displayed out some- outside someone's home, that they were a supporter of Jair Bolsonaro.

Now, he is certainly trying to reclaim that image of patriotism, of sovereignty, as part of his left-wing campaign in this election.

Ione Wells with the Lula campaign there.

So can Lula persuade the country to stick with him for another term? These voters plan to vote for him.