hello, welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. the boss of fujitsu s european operations has admitted that although the company knew for many, many years of bugs and errors in the computer system, details of this were not included in witness statements by fujitsu employees which were used to prosecute subpostmasters. paul patterson told the public inquiry into the scandal that it was shameful and appalling that details of bugs were not included and said he d seen some evidence of editing of witness statements by others although he didn t specify who those others were. hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted for theft and false accounting because of the faulty horizon system. here s our business correspondent, emma simpson. the evidence i shall give. the fujitsu boss answering more questions, but this time under oath. the whole truth. and nothing but the truth. paul patterson admitted there were problems with the h
in the last few minutes, prince harry has withdrawn his libel action against the associated newspapers. hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, before we turn to the headline stories, i want to show you pictures coming from japan. in the next 20 minutes, we are going to see if all goes well, japan is set to make a latest attempt at a soft touch down on the moon. it is the smart lander investigating the moon, it is known as slim, it is hoping to touch down in about 20 minutes time. it is very difficult to land on earth s natural satellite safely, about half of all attempts have succeeded. now slim is set to begin descent manoeuvres from an altitude of about 15 kilometres about now, that process is supposed to be starting now, and if all goes well the craft will touch down on the lunar surface in 20 minutes time. we will take you through all of that here on bbc news in the next 15 minutes, so do stay with us and we will have plenty more on that attempted land
this is bbc news, the headlines. a scathing report concludes the failure of the police chaos and confusion and a lack of urgency in helping victims. the bbc understands have the seal is to close in south wales. up to 3000 jobs are at risk. the back to award nominations are out. we take a look at the juggernauts aiming for the top prizes. before all that northern ireland has seen its biggest day of strike action in 50 years without more than action in 50 years without more than a hundred public sector workers walked out in a dispute over pay. schools closed, health services and transport lacking. the dispute has been complicated by the fact that there s been no functioning government at stormont for two years with the union leaders say workers are used as palms in restoring power shower in northern island. schools closed without the gritting of icy roads finished at midnight. it s been a day of disruption and demonstrations across northern ireland. some people are pointing the