germany is set for months of coalition talks after a knife edge election result. poor parts of the country will spend longer on the nhs waiting list. the united states cruise to a record win over europe in golf s ryder cup. good afternoon. the government says it has no plans at the moment for using the army to drive fuel tankers to resolve the petrol crisis, after a weekend of panic buying. there ve been more long queues today outside petrol stations, with thousands closed or running dry because of a shortage of fuel delivery drivers. ministers are urging people only to fill up when they need to. the government is issuing temporary visas in the hope of bringing in 5,000 foreign lorry drivers. it s also suspended competition law, so that oil companies can work together to get more fuel to the pumps. our business correspondent ramzan karmali reports. from early this morning, the queues began to form. drivers seemingly desperate to fill their tanks. but 40 nhs desperate to fill
the man who was head of the royal mail, which owned the post office at a time when sub postmasters were being wrongly prosecuted, has tonight expressed his heartfelt sympathies to those who he says were so wronged by the tragic miscarriages ofjustice. but adam crozier says he had no involvement in the horizon it issue during his time at the royal mail. his comments come after the former head of the post office, paula vennells, decided to hand back her cbe as a result of the fallout from the faulty it scandal which saw hundreds of sub postmasters wrongly prosecuted. more thani million people have signed a petition calling for her honour to be revoked. here s our deputy political editor, vicki young. it was an insult which added to their injury. new year s honours list. a moment depicted in the recent drama about the post office scandal. paula vennells has got the cbe. you re joking.! services to the post office. today, it was all very different for paula vennells as she cave
i m bret baier. we are just a weekend away from the first voting in the 2024 presidential election cycle. we will check in on iowa ahead of monday s caucuses. and we ll speak with iowa senator joni ernst. plus, how iran s so-called ghost armada is helping skirt sanctions as americans endure a tax from iranian taxies. and plenty of complaining from congress after uneventful briefing on ufos. but, first, breaking tonight, president biden says iran backed houthi rebels are terrorists. this goes against current u.s. policy changed by the biden administration. the houthis have already responded to yesterday s airstrikes against facilities in yemen with new attacks today. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight life from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. pentagon officials believe there will be some sort of retaliation for last night s strikes. we know the houthi rebels have already launched at least one ballistic missile toward
thank you for being with us. we begin in ecuador, where police have detained a group of armed men who interrupted a live television programme a day after the president declared a nationwide state of emergency. the men, wearing balaclavas, burst into the studio of a public television station in the port city of guayaquil, taking hostage several journalists and staff members. this footage shows the attackers carrying rifles and grenades, forcing the crew onto the ground. the president has said that ecuador is in a state of internal armed conflict . ione wells reports from sao paulo. a moment of utter horror, broadcast live on television. armed men with balaclavas over theirface broke into the set of this public television channel in ecuador while it was live on air, brandishing guns and what appears to be explosives. it comes a day after the country s new president daniel noboa declared a state of emergency yesterday. ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks after the
of a public television station in the port city of guayaquil, taking hostage several journalists and staff members. this footage shows the attackers, carrying rifles and grenades forcing the crew onto the ground. the president has said that ecuador is in a state of internal armed conflict . ione wells reports from sao paulo. a moment of utter horror broadcast live on television. armed men with balaclavas over their face armed men with balaclavas over theirface broke into the armed men with balaclavas over their face broke into the state of this television channel in ecuador while it was live on air. brandishing guns and what appears to be explosives. it comes a day after the country s new president daniel noboa declared a state of emergency yesterday. ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks after the apparent escape of a powerful gang leader, jose adolfo macias villamar from prison. police and military were ordered to intervene in controlling presence in attempts to c