we start tonight with a special bbc report. for more than a year, el salvador has been living under an emergency measure called a state of exception , in which several constitutional rights were suspended in a national crackdown on the country s powerful street gangs. the police have arrested a staggering 66,000 people and el salvador s murder rate has fallen. but human rights organisations say thousands of people with no link to the gangs have been unjustly detained. 0ur correspondent will grant is covering this story for us. what have you learned? if we think about el salvador s nan- problem, the countries gang problem, the countries really synonymous with two main rival gangs. the ms13 and the 18 street gangs. they did rule all swathes of the country to a reign of terror, intimidation, violence and extortion. that is being exhausting for ordinary people as you can imagine, having to deal with that every day in their communities, fearful about the well being of their child
make for an interesting dynamic. ron desantis as i said has made the calculation that republican voters are going to care about hot button social cultural issues. donald trump is much as he is identified with these as well seems to be manoeuvring a different angle from this. and finally the cost of queen elizabeth s funeral and lying state has been revealed. a tally by the british treasury says that the government paid an estimated £162 million for events surrounding that s about us$200 million. the costs relate to the queen s funeral and other events in the run up, including the monarch s lying in state. queen elizabeth i! died on 8 september 2022 aged 96. $200 millon is a steep price tag, surely one fit for a queen. before we go we will bring you some live pick is now from hiroshima injapan, where world leaders in the next few hours