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in the post office horizon it scandal, which saw hundreds of sub postmasters falsely accused of theft and fraud. it is the first time a senior representative from the japanese firm will be directly questioned at both the horizon inquiry and by a committee of mps in parliament. business correspondent emma simpson has the details. i was given a nine month custodial sentence. i was suspended in 2009, convicted in 2010. until my conviction . was quashed in 2001, my life was left in tatters, - and my customers and villagers thought i was a fraud. just some of the stories from the breakfast sofa last week. and at the heart of this scandal was the horizon computer system installed and operated by fujitsu. it had problems right from the start. the errors made it look as if money had gone missing in branch accounts. all these years on, the pressure on fujitsu is growing and for the government to act. i want some answers, please, from ministers, including you, about what you are goin ....
this is bbc news. the headlines. climate records tumble like dominoes , as european scientists confirm that 2023 was the warmest year on record. britain s foreign secretary lord cameron says he s worried that israel may have taken action in gaza that breached international law. a legal scandal in which hundreds of british post office managers were wrongly prosecuted for fraud has forced the former head of the post office to hand back an honour she received from the late queen. and the former us president donald trump is in court for a landmark legal case about whether he should be immune from criminal prosecution. this is the scene outside the courthouse in washington. more on those stories coming up in the next half hour. time for a look at the business news now. lovely to have you with us this afternoon. we start with the latest on the boeing 737 max planes because united airlines says it had found multiple loose bolts on door plugs during inspections of its fleet ....
we start with a troubling landmark for the climate as 2023 smashes the record, for the world s hottest year ever recorded. european scientists say, that 2023 left the records tumbling like dominoes . the average global temperature in the past 12 months was 14.98 degrees. that beats the previous hottest year set in 2016 by 0.17 degrees. the announcement was made by the eu s climate change service. and the met office in the uk believes this record could be short lived, as their forecasts suggest 2024 could be even hotter. earlier, i spoke to our climate editor, justin rowlatt, who told me that record was broken by some margin. yeah, it is interesting, isn t it? the margin, as you say, was 0.17 celsius. you might say, well, that doesn t sound very much to me, but remember, this is a global average, an average across the entire globe day and night across the entire year, and normally scientists say they expect it to be broken by a tiny fraction of a degree, 0.01, 0.0 ....
Now on bbc news, its time for a special programme. Global questions the taiwan, china conflict. Hello, welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from Liberty Square in taipei, the capital city of taiwan. The main island of taiwan lies about 160 kilometres across the waters from china. In the past few months, china has stepped up its military exercises, and fired missiles over taiwan, in growing tensions with the government here. The chinese president , xijinping, has reiterated the claim that taiwan belongs to china, and he says he does not rule out the use of force to take it over. Meanwhile, the United States, which supports taiwan, has hardened its position with President Biden saying he would send american troops to defend it. So, if china did invade taiwan, it would be a conflict with huge global dimension ....
the princess of wales says her new campaign on early years development will be her life s work . the eurovision song contest arrives in liverpool as the official handover takes place in liverpool today with united in music as this year s slogan. good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. the uk economy will perform worse than all other major advanced nations this year, including russia. that s according to the international monetary fund, which suggests the economy will shrink by 0.6%. that s a sharp downgrade from an earlier prediction, although they do say the uk is now on the right track . the chancellor, jeremy hunt, said the uk had outperformed many forecasts last year. here s our economics correspondent, andy verity. british workers don t need a washington financial institution to tell them that rocketing prices for energy and food are making them poorer and the economy weaker. that is true the world over. economists at the imf forecast our economy will be worst hit than ....