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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 ....
who lost loved ones to the illness, or suffered with it themselves. the inquiry began last year, but today is the first public hearing, with evidence expected to be heard for at least three years. covid has been included on the death certificates of more than 225,000 people in the uk. with more details, here s our health correspondent catherine burns. headlines for you at six o clock this morning. nine dead and more than 400 infected with a mystery new virus in china. for many, this feels like a long time ago. the numbers were relatively small at first, but, within just two months, the impact was becoming clear. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. from lockdown to clap for carers, from rising death tolls to the first vaccines, we ve lived through several covid milestones. and, this morning, a new one the start of the next phase of the uk covid i9 public inquiry. in a preliminary hearing last year, the chair was ....
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 copernicus. 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, and asked about how much bigger the margin is in this latest report. 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 sign to say they expect it to be broken by a tiny fraction of a degree, 0.01, 0.02, not 0.17 degrees. that is, they say, a huge margin. when you dig into the figures, it s easy to see why so big. from july through to december, every single month was the hottest month ....