Daily briefing Saturday 4th January

We all want to enjoy food that tastes great and is sourced responsibly, but it's not always easy to know where your favourite foods come from. McDonald's works with more than 23,000 British and Irish farmers to source quality ingredients. Becky Berry is a beef farmer in the Wiltshire countryside who supplies beef to McDonald's for its iconic burgers.

I'm part of a group of farmers and we've been on a journey that McDonald's have sponsored to help us with learning more about regenerative practices and how that can benefit us, our farms, the people and the animals that we're producing.

It's a way of McDonald's giving back to the whole industry. What we're trying to do now is move the cows from where they've eaten and they're moving into a longer, luscious pasture. And part of that reason is to help the biodiversity. As you can see here in the long grass, we've got moths and butterflies that have just hatched out. We can hear in the hedge rows around the outside of the field the birdsong. Change a little, change a lot. Find out more about McDonald's plan for change on the McDonald's website.

this is the time's daily briefing for Saturday the 4th of January. The Foreign Office has confirmed a British man was among 14 people killed in a terror attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day. He's been named by the Metropolitan Police as Edward Petiver, who was 31 and from Chelsea in West London. Meanwhile, people in New Orleans have gathered in the city's French Quarter to pay tribute to the victims. Local residents Michael Willis said the city's resilience is evident.

Being from New Orleans, Native, to actually see this kind of atmosphere and actually to see the outpour of love and everybody to compassion coming together, it reminds me of the year Katrina when everybody came together and kind of showed that we can be community at large and come together and support each other in time of crises.

A judge has ordered the sentencing of Donald Trump in his Hush Money case less than two weeks before his inauguration. New York Justice Juan Merchant signaled he would not sentence Trump to a prison term, but instead give him an unconditional discharge. It relates to a payments of $130,000 to the adult film star Stormy Daniels. Adam Classfeld, a legal journalist based in New York, has the background to the case.

In his cover-up of those hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, Trump committed 34 felonies, in particular the reimbursements to his then-fixer Michael Cohen, which the jury found was in an effort to illegally influence the 2016 election. The sentencing date has been set for the 10th of January.

Luke Littler has become the youngest ever world-darts champion, realising his dream with a dominant victory over the three-time winner Michael Van Goerwin in the final. Now he's got three in hand, way outside, but Pinchit with top number two, and the new world champion, Luke Littler at just 17 years of age, can barely believe what he's just done.

And the 17 year old won by seven sets to three at Alexandra Palace to secure the first prize of half a million pounds. As soon as the wind double went in, I couldn't believe it. I was fine. And then when I just looked up and looked into the crowd and everyone was on the feet. That's when the tears came and I looked over to my family there in tears as well. And I just, I knew it's mine.

And patients suffering from symptoms related to conditions including asthma, cancer and heart failure will be fast-tracked for scans and testing. The NHS plans will allow GPs to refer patients directly without the need to see a consultant. It's part of the government's attempts to ensure that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks for routine treatments. You can follow the Times news briefing on Spotify and you can listen live to Times Radio online.

We all want to enjoy food that tastes great and is sourced responsibly, but it's not always easy to know where your favourite foods come from. McDonald's works with more than 23,000 British and Irish farmers to source quality ingredients. Becky Berry is a beef farmer in the Wiltshire countryside who supplies beef to McDonald's for its iconic burgers.

I'm part of a group of farmers and we've been on a journey that McDonald's have sponsored to help us with learning more about regenerative practices and how that can benefit us, our farms, the people and the animals that we're producing.

It's a way of McDonald's giving back to the whole industry. What we're trying to do now is move the cows from where they've eaten and they're moving into a longer, luscious pasture. And part of that reason is to help the biodiversity. As you can see here in the long grass, we've got moths and butterflies that have just hatched out. We can hear in the hedge rows around the outside of the field the birdsong. Change a little, change a lot. Find out more about McDonald's plan for change on the McDonald's website.