colder. i will have the details shortly. good morning. it s six o clock on 6 january. our main story: the metropolitan police has confirmed it s investigating potential fraud offences, in relation to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub postmasters by the post office. around 700 people were blamed for accounting mistakes caused by faulty it software, which made it look like money was missing. some were wrongfully imprisoned, in a scandal which was dramatised on itv. our reporter vincent mcaviney has more. mr bates vs the post office has brought to light a story for years those in power wouldn t believe. for the post office branch managers across the country over two decades, it s been a nightmare they couldn t escape. i haven t got that money. and i don t know where it s gone. noel tomas, a former sub postmaster in anglesey, was one of those wrongly sent to prison in 2006. this week has offered some catharsis after years of torment. the rest of the country knows how th
The uns Special Adviser on the prevention of genocide told the bbc that the Rapid Support forces were targeting communities based on their ethnicity. Tens of thousands of people have protested outside taiwans parliament over plans to give the assembly new powers. Opposition legislators want greater oversight of the government but the demonstrators believe the changes have not been properly debated. The American Film Maker Morgan Spurlock has died of complications from cancer, at the age of 53. He was best known for his documentary super size me where he lived on a diet of mcdonalds food for an entire month to test the Health Impact on his body. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war the Uns Highest Court has ruled that israel Must Immediately halt its Military Offensive in rafah. South africa had asked the International Court ofjustice to issue the order as an emergency measure. It argued israels actions in rafah amount to a genocidal operation and threatened the survival of t
Security. We will have more on that later myanmar is a country in the grip of a war largely forgotten, by the outside world. And today we have a Special Report from the frontline. Rebel forces there are fighting an intense battle against the military regime. In the past seven months, a country wide insurgency has made gains conquering large swathes of territory. The fighters, among them a group known as kndf, are now presenting the Myanmar Military with the biggest threat to its rule in years. Press freedom in the country is restricted, hundreds ofjournalists have beenjailed, and getting into myanmar to report first hand is tough. But a bbc team has managed. Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville spent a month with the rebels at theirjungle bases and on the frontline. A revolution is rising across myanmar. Hidden from the world by its remoteness. Few countries are more isolated, few conflicts more unseen. We spent a month with the insurgents on back roads and Jungle Tracks in karenni st
Could Climate Change mean well see more of these events . Well be joined be a scientist who has spent a decade researching just that, and also, the head of the airline pilots union balpa. This is Paula Vennells, who is at the heart of the post office scandal. She finally gives evidence tomorrow. Well be asking lord lord Arbuthnot Who played a pivotal role in the postmasters campaign what he wants to hear from the woman who was in charge. Also tonight. Will tomorrows Inflation Figures give the government a boost, or are Cost Of Living concerns so endemic, will it even register . 0ur Economic Experts will give you the answer. And tomorrow, the mp Craig Mackinlay returns to westminster, after revealing the extent of what he describes as Extreme Surgery after sepsis. There was discussions happening about these arms, and legs. Because by then, they had turned black. They were like a plastic. You could almost knock them. And it was like. It was like a. Like your mobile phone plastic. Tonight