star to embrace it. on newsnight at 10.30, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories, plus a look tomorrow s front pages. good evening. it has emerged the post office spent £100 million of public money fighting wrongly accused sub postmasters in court, even though it knew its case was untrue. the bbc has uncovered a draft report that reveals that by 2017 the post office had seen evidence showing that the losses at post office branches could have been caused by remote access to its horizon computers by fujitsu, who supplied the system. despite that, the post office s lawyers kept arguing until 2019 that theft or mistakes by sub postmasters must have been to blame. zoe conway has the story. in howey, mid wales, there is something missing. for years this house was the village post office, but not any more. this was all part the shop, and then the post office was at the end. joan bailey and her husband had to give up the jobs they
got to have somewhere to deposit it. so the rules that we re announcing also cover the ability of businesses to deposit cash in a location that s convenient to them. but convenience is a difficultjudgment. to maintain the current provision of free access to cash, for now, the new rules will state that people should have to travel no more than a mile in urban areas to withdraw or deposit cash. in rural areas, the distance has been set at three miles. there s going to be situations where people are very reliant on public transport and if there s bad public transport in an area, then three miles might seem like a hike to the himalayas. what s important is that this recognises that the banks have a duty to protect their customers and to make sure that those who still rely on cash, which is so many of us, continue to be able to access it. if they fail in that duty, banks could be fined by the city watchdog. but bank branches are closing at a rate of more than 50 a month. so, the a
mexican and colombian cartels have infiltrated local gangs as they vie for lucrative drugs routes. ecuador was hit hard by covid and they ve taken advantage of a country broken by a pandemic and by corrupt politics. the police are at pains to show me they re fixing the problem, but when they re having to protect themselves with sandbags in the police station, you realise this is a war without end. this used to be one of the main routes for traffickers. people would come up here with stolen phones and jewellery and exchange those goods for drugs up here, but the police have taken back this area. that said, the police have lost so much more control of the city of guayaquil. the bars on all the windows in this neighbourhood tell you all you need to know about the lack of security here. angie fears for her four children. the police are powerless, she says. just two weeks ago her neighbour was shot dead outside his daughter s school. translation: all i want is security, that s the
scandal, and became a symbol for the world to unite around. she is a unifier because she is above a party. it s not the case of doing your duty it s living your duty. oco elizabeth alexandria mary winds are was not born expecting to be queen or even heir to the throne for. when the queen was born she was not expected to become a clean. princess elizabeth the joint third in line with the throne. there was david in the next brother in line was elizabeth s father, albert s progress being third in line to the throne, elizabeth s childhood was less stressful and more easy-going for growing up with her parents and sister princess margaret. the four of them did so much together predict play with the dogs from the plate in the garden but she had a somewhat normal childhood. she was loved, she felt loved. not everybody has the luxury and the blessing, forget the money, forget the status, forget the monarchy. not every citizen has lecture about love. 1936 episodes of st
through the years, as a grandmother, the queen revelled in prince william s successes, enjoyed a good joke with prince harry. as the queen s grandchildren stand in tribute, so does the public. countless mourners stand in the line to see the queen. there is no casual act of reverence on display here. the line stretches for miles across london. wait times skyrocketed 24 hours. and the weather has been cold. king charles iii and prince william recognizing the moment, surprised the public there earlier today. the new king summed up this incredible show of love telling one mourner his mother would have been so touched. as cnn s richard quest joins us from london. richard, in all your years covering all of this, have you ever seen anything like this? reporter: no. and yet it was one and the same time the event that we had prepared for and dreaded at the same time. i was saying to colleagues earlier even now, jim, i can t sort of quite believed it s happened. and i m 60. you ve al