thronged with tourists and well wishers after the news was released by buckingham palace at 6pm last night that king charles has been diagnosed with some form of cancer. it is not a prostate cancer, but it was diagnosed and detected during a routine procedure for an enlarged prostate, a benign prostate. doctors now say the king will be receiving treatment for cancer here in london in the coming weeks and months. we are not sure exactly how long that will take, but buckingham palace have confirmed that the king will step back from most public engagements. however, private engagements including state administration and his weekly meetings with the prime minister, rishi sunak, for example, will carry on. the prime minister spoke to the bbc earlier today and he said he was grateful and glad that the diagnosis, the cancer was in his words, caught early. our royal correspondent daniela relph reports. this was the last time we saw the king in public on sunday, going to church with
scandal to light and the women at the extraordinary drama that brought the extraordinary drama that brought the story to millions. that s news night at 10:30 the story to millions. that s news night at10:30 p:m.. good evening. the scandal of post office employees being wrongfully convicted of false accounting and theft was centre stage in westminster tonight, with the government confirming it s looking at how to speed up appeals against conviction for the victims and compensation. it s been under presure to act since an itv drama catapulted the issue to wider public attention. the scandal has been long running since 1999 over 700 sub postmasters were blamed for a bug in the computer system, which made it appear as though money was going missing. there are major questions for fujitsu the japanese company that developed the flawed system horizon and for the post office, which brought the prosecutions and had four bosses during this period. a petition to revoke the cbe awa
on a singular message that this election will decide whether american democracies survives. will those words move voters? plus, the u.s. scrambling today to find partners for peace in the middle east, even as the israel-hamas war threatens to spin out of control. will secretary of state antony blinken s fourth trip overseas break new ground. and a new front in the war of transgender rights. the stakes are high whether trans americans can run for office using the names they choose. i ll talk to vanessa joy who says she was kis disqualified from her race in ohio because of a law she believes could put other trans candidates at risk. we start with the president s massive political gamble, betting that voters will rally around him as the defender of democracy and reject donald trump s dystopian vision of america. that message is at the heart of a big speech he ll give near valley forge this afternoon and is expected to be the framework for his campaign going forward. they d
be 2024. and the president will be running for reelection in the face of some significant head winds that are turning into quite the hurricane. everything, everywhere all at once. you have wars in ukraine. israel. bombs, still raining down. hostages still desperate for rescue. some of biden s own staff members holing a vigil outside the white house masked to conceal their identities calling for a cease fire in gaza. the president giving a personal message to israel. i want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives. not stop going after hamas, but be more careful. well then there is ukraine. biden is trying to push his own party where they don t seem to want to go. he is open to changing border policy in exchange for the votes to pass the aid that ukraine desperately needs. but democrats have been balking. and the president s approval rating is underwater in poll after poll after poll. now he faces the biggest challenge of all, republican led impeachment inquiry wit