children aged three and eight being attacked with a corrosive substance which we now confirmed to be an alkaline. in the vicinity was at 35 year old male called abdul ezedi and he left the scene, but the injuries to the female and children they are in a stable condition but we are just they are in a stable condition but we arejust monitoring, they are in a stable condition but we are just monitoring, but they don t seem to be life threatening, but at this time they could be life changing. that mail was last seen in the north london area, and if you see him, there will be some images circulated later today, if you see him, i plead to not approach and. he is. call at 999. he has significant injuries to the right side of his face. the significant injuries to the right side of his face. significant injuries to the right side of his face. the bbc has also soken to side of his face. the bbc has also spoken to the side of his face. the bbc has also spoken to the local side of h
when the boss of one of the main drug trafficking gangs escaped from a maximum security prison. president daniel noboa has 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 2 month state of emergency is now in force. will grant sent this report from the city of guayaquil. he told me the mood on the ground. mixed emotions in this city, as you can imagine. obviously, relieved that a day of violence came to an end, that the police managed to restore order in that television station you mentioned in the city university, where gunmen stormed the building. but there were also bomb attacks across the city. schools were shut and businesses were closed. fear was spread, notjust through the city but across ecuador. really, this was a moment that was completely unprecedented in terms of gang violence, not just for guayaquil but the entire country itself. viewers in ecuador
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
hello, i m balvinder gill. i was a sub postmaster until i was wrongly suspended by the post office and made bankrupt. what does the promise to clear and compensate victims of the post office scandal mean for me? balvinder gill is here along with four other subpostmasters. they ll give their reaction live tonight to today s news that they will finally be cleared but will everyone be helped? the minister responsible tells us the budget for compensation is £1 billion. is he sorry it s taken so long? it s terrible, i apologise to all those people, i think over 60 people, and this has been going on for over 20 years, probably 2a, 25 years now. who does he think should pay the bill taxpayers or fujitsu, who delivered the faulty horizon software? plus tonight, the man who was employed by the post office to investigate horizon software and who found it faulty as far back as 2013. good evening. it feels like theft but it was more like systematic abuse the words of this po
development on a story which has dominated the headlines for the past week thanks to a tv drama. the prime minister has announced new legislation, to make sure that hundreds of post office branch managers convicted in one of the biggest miscarriages ofjustice the uk has ever seen are swiftly exonerated and compensated. more than 700 sub postmasters were given criminal convictions for fraud and false accounting over a period of around 16 years after it introduced a faulty it system. some went to prison. many were bankru pted. we ll get reaction from one sub postmaster in a moment but first our political correspondent iain watson reports. the post office told us over and over. you re the only one. that was a lie, actually, because. itv made a drama out of a crisis, a scandal that started more than 20 years ago came to public and political prominence. fewer than 100 sub postmasters have had their wrongful convictions overturned and there s pressure to clear more names and pa