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 gangs, te
alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
Chris christie ends his bid for the 2024 republican us presidential nomination afterfailing to garner support for his campaign. identity crisis as the presidential election approaches in taiwan, some are asking about the island s past and future. live from our studio in singapore. ..this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. we start in ecuador, where soldiers are deployed to the city streets as the president declares war on armed gangs running out of control. the unrest began on sunday when the boss of one of the main drug trafficking gangs escaped from a maximum security prison. president daniel noboa has
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Chris christie ends his bid for the 2024 republican us presidential nomination afterfailing to garner support for his campaign. identity crisis as the presidential election approaches in taiwan, some are asking about the island s past and future. live from our studio in singapore. ..this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. we start in ecuador, where soldiers are deployed to the city streets as the president declares war on armed gangs running out of control. the unrest began on sunday when the boss of one of the main drug trafficking gangs escaped from a maximum security prison. president daniel noboa has