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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 ....
multiple times even when i asked forjust a written comment to the victims whose lives were turned upside down. that did not exactly surprised me because going silent when faced with bad news is quite a typical strategy forjapanese typical strategy for japanese companies. they typical strategy forjapanese companies. they did send me a statement last week saying. basically the company has remained tightlipped about it. the other issue to remember, while it may be difficult to believe, hardly anyone injapan has heard of the horizon scandal until very recently. when we spoke to fujitsu s japan former president in 2022 his reaction was horizon? what horizon? because it was developed by a british company international computers limited which fujitsu bought decades ago. icl had strong ties to the british government so it did give fujitsu an outsize presence in the uk and japanese companies often let international subsidiaries do their own thing especially the board lacks inter ....
and coming up on bbc news. nottingham forest confirm nuno espirito santo as their new head coach. he takes over from steve cooper, who was sacked yesterday. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the rate at which prices are rising fell again last month. inflation was down to 3.9% in november, that s compared to 4.6% in october. the office for national statistics said the drop had been driven by falls in the cost of fuel and food but that prices remain substantially above what they were before the russian invasion of ukraine. here s our chief economic correspondent dharshini david. things aren t rising as they used to, and it s not just your daily bread. filling up at the pump may be less painful, and be it clothes or furniture you re after, inflation pressures are easing. but some things are still much more expensive. inflation is definitely killing us. at this indian restaurant, taking the heat out of high food costs means creative thinking. short menus, fixed ....
also on the programme. lucy letby goes on trial accused of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of ten others at a hospital in chester. she pleads not guilty. in aberdeen nicola sturegon tells the snp that the economic case for scottish independence will be published in a week s time. and how councils across the uk are supporting warm hubs where people can keep snug at a time of rising energy bills. and coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, there s a premature end to the w series season. the championship for female drivers scraps its last three races because of financial reasons. good evening. parts of ukraine have suffered the biggest bombardment by russian forces since the early weeks of the conflict. more than 80 missiles have struck both industrial and civilian buildings. it s the first time the capital kyiv has been targeted in months. president putin says the strikes on ukraine are retaliation for saturday s attack on a key bridge ....
now the family of mahsa amini say they ve been threatened. russia has carried out the most widespread bombardement of ukrainian cities since the begining of the war in an act of retaliation for saturday s explosion on the bridge connecting russia with occupied crimea. take a look at this. this girl was walking past taras shevchenko national university, in a cultural discrict of kyiv. she thankfully survived a near miss, others were not so fortunate. this footage was captured close to the university as ukrainian emergency services respond to the wounded. so far 11 dead have been reported, and 64 wounded. were damaged in the explosion. it s the first time moscow has targeted downtown kyiv since the start of the war. the bbc has been speaking to residents near the blast site. translation: 0h, translation: oh, it is horrible this is our life and translation: oh, it is horrible this is our life and just translation: oh, it is horrible this is our life and just now, tra ....