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
Aircraft at airport in california. Good morning. It is wednesday, february 22. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The government has won its legal battle to Stop Thousands of british citizens from bringing their foreign husbands or wives to live in the uk without a Minimum Income. For the last five years, the uk based spouse has had to prove they earn at least £18,600, for them to support their migrant spouse. That figure is £22,000 for couples with a child. But the Supreme Court also ruled that the rules, as they currently stand, are defective and need to be changed, because they do not take enough account of the welfare of children affected by them, and do not take all sources of earnings into consideration when calculating income. 0ur Correspondent Dominic Casciani is at the Supreme Court. It is not an entirely clear decision . No, it is very complicated. There is a belief that the couples have been degraded by this fear income rolling. The Supreme Court has in practice ruled in favour
each with its own distinct culture and vocal dialect. while the sperm whales sound very simple, their patterns of clicks is a bit like morse code. the two clans we discovered this on, one sounds click click click click and the other sounds click click click. . . click. the study also showed the whales use their distinct dialects to communicate and make democratic consensual decisions about where to go. one example saw them take an hour and a half to decide whether or not to make a 90 degree turn, and what the researchers called a slow and messy process. jon donnison, bbc news. an austrian heiress is setting up a group of citizens to decide how to give away much of herfortune. marlene engelhorn has sent out invitations to 10,000 members of the public. 50 will be chosen to
setting up a group to decide how much of herfortune setting up a group to decide how much of her fortune to give away. marlene has sent out invitations to 10,000 members of the public, 50 will be chosen to help work out how to redistribute more than $21 million. let s go live to our correspondent she is in vienna for us. what a great story. tell us a little more about what this is it what she is saying and how it s gonna work. what she is saying and how it s gonna work- what she is saying and how it s conna work. ., , ,. gonna work. marlena is the descent didn t of frederick gonna work. marlena is the descent didn t of frederick engel gonna work. marlena is the descent didn t of frederick engel horn - gonna work. marlena is the descent didn t of frederick engel horn who l didn t of frederick engel horn who was the founder of the big german pharmaceutical company bas air. a year or so ago she inherited a large sum of money from her grandmother. but she believes that it is unfair tha
to stand down after 13 years in control of his daughter s finances, and twice during the summer, britney spears issued these impassioned pleas to the court to release her from the tables of the conservatorship which she branded abusive, she said it had prevented herfrom getting married and having children, and she called for herfatherjamie to be children, and she called for her fatherjamie to be accused and tried for what she called conservatorship abuse. now, after 13 years under his control, jamie spears has filed these documents in court, seeking not only to have himself relinquish control over her fortune, himself relinquish control over herfortune, but himself relinquish control over her fortune, but for the conservatorship itself to be terminated. this is an extraordinary move. it comes just a couple of weeks before the court was due to convene again to consider the next stage in this saga, and it will be up to a judge now to approve jamie spears a request.-