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authorised the armed forces to neutralise 22 gangs that are listed as terrorist organisations after masked gunmen stormed a tv studio during a live broadcast. a two month state of emergency is now in force. will grant sent this from the city of guayaquil. viewers in ecuador watched in disbelief as masked and armed gang members entered a state tv channel and held staff hostage all of it televised live. translation: they shot one of our cameramen in the leg. | broke the arm of another one. they were shooting bullets inside the studio. the police were called and came in minutes. the gang was soon arrested and the hostages released, but the tv station ambush was just part of the descent into chaos. panic as gunmen stormed guayaquil university, explosions around the country, schools and businesses shut down and widespread rioting inside ecuador s prisons. in response, president daniel noboa called a state of emergency and imposed a curfew. by decree, he designated 22 gan ....
the government is preparing a new law to swiftly exonerate and compensate post office branch managers who were convicted over horizon it scandal. over a 15 year period until 2015, more than 700 people were wrongfully convicted of fraud, theft or false accounting, because the it system had produced shortfalls in their accounts. so far, only 93 have had their convictions overturned. mr sunak said it was the biggest miscarriage in british history and government would quickly right the wrongs of the past. here s our political editor chris mason. four nights of drama on the telly after two decades of injustice. and, just one week later. we come to questions for the prime minister. the most high profile moment of the week at westminster. the start of prime minister s question time. and rishi sunak said. mr speaker this is one of the greatest miscarriages ofjustice in our nation s history. today i can announce that we will introduce new primary legislation, to make sure that t ....
evening. i wonder if i can ask you first of all, how would you describe the length of time it has taken to get to this point? frankly terrible. we could have resolved this entire issue when ron warmington and iain henderson went in in the first place, if the post office had not tried to cover everything up and to protect the brand at the expense of the sub postmasters. ron warmington and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. d0 and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. , ., . and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. . . , terrible. do you have any reservations terrible. do you have any reservations about - terrible. do you have any reservations about mps l terrible. do you have any| reservations about mps of terrible. do you have any reservations about mps of returning convictions handed out by the courts? . convictions handed out by the courts? , ,., . convictions handed out by the courts? , ,., . , courts? it s something that is. it makes one ....
You re live with bbc news. taiwan will choose a new president this coming weekend, in an election that china has called a choice between peace and war. china considers taiwan part of its own territory and it s been accused of interfering in the vote. but taiwan is a democracy, and its people are free to choose the government they want. 0ur asia correspondent rupert wingfield hayes reports. there was a time when statues of chang kai shek greeted you wherever you went on this island. today, the generalissimo is a rare sight. hundreds of his statues have been stashed away here at this riverside park, south of taipei. 94 year old fan shinjong isn t happy about what s being done to the legacy of his former leader. as a young soldier, fan fled china with chang in191l9, but he has never stopped feeling chinese. translation: taiwan is a province. - it is still a part of china. ....
On this island. today, the generalissimo is a rare sight. hundreds of his statues have been stashed away here at this riverside park, south of taipei. 94 year old fan shinjong isn t happy about what s being done to the legacy of his former leader. as a young soldier, fan fled china with chang in 1949, but he has never stopped feeling chinese. translation: taiwan is a province. it is still a part of china. slowly, the differences between us will narrow until we are the same. then we can achieve unification. chang kai shek tried to turn taiwan into a mini version of the china he left behind. people here were taught there was no such thing as being taiwanese. this enormous memorial to chang kai shek still dominates the centre of taipei. the centre of taipei, but his project to turn taiwanese people into citizens of china ultimately failed. ....