Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. 80 years ago, hundreds ofjewish children were smuggled out of nazi occupied europe by train in a covert humanitarian mission which became known as the kindertransport. My guest today, Dame Stephanie shirley, was one of those children. She went on to live an extraordinary life of achievement and philanthropy, blazing a trail for women in business. So, what lessons can we learn from a woman determined to make the most of a life so nearly extinguished in childhood . Theme music plays. Dame stephanie shirley, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for inviting me. Weve invited you almost 80 years exactly 80 years from that moment when you were forced to leave your home. Your father put you on a train its called the kindertransport and you ended up in an alien country, in london, in england. What do you remember of that journey . Well, of course, i was only five years old, so all the things that i remember, the childish things. I remember the little boy that
As the nhs braces itself for the new year period its often its busiest time a pioneering scheme in wales is aiming to take the pressure off hospitals and doctors surgeries. Five members of the Welsh Ambulance service have graduated to become the uks first prescribing paramedics and the team can be deployed across the nhs. Our Health Editor hugh pym has been on the road with some of them. It enhances the role greatly and it makes our role a lot more flexible. Patients dont always phone 999 because they think they have a life threatening emergency. So we probably see on average 19 or 20 patients a day and deal with them and the gp will have time for those more complex patients. We can speak to them and say rather than put them in the back of the ambulance and take them, how about we get one of our cars to attend . Mike is one of a new breed of prescribing paramedics, one of the first five. Theirjob, where possible, is to keep people out of hospital. Here, he is called to a Diabetic Patie
England governor, mark carney, warns about the world facing irreversible heating unless firms shift their priorities soon. Raging bush fires are burning out of control across australia, with authorities in the state of victoria saying its now too late for people to evacuate. Temperatures are exceeding a0 degrees in every state. Police investigating the deaths of three british tourists who drowned in a pool in spain on Christmas Eve say it was an accident and that the case can now be closed. Now its time for hardtalk, as Stephen Sackur speaks to Dame Stephanie shirley, one of hundreds ofjewish children smuggled out of nazi occupied europe. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur. 80 years ago, hundreds of jewish children were smuggled out of nazi occupied europe by train in a covert humanitarian mission which became known as the kindertransport. My guest today, Dame Stephanie shirley, was one of those children. She went on to live an extraordinary life of achievement and philanthropy, bl
Widely in double figures. Coolest in lincolnshire and east anglia. The dryer theme continues on sunday with sunny spells. Still some rain in the hebrides. Some of the modest conditions with temperatures peaking at 14. Conditions with temperatures peaking at 1a. More coming up later. Hello, this is bbc news with christian fraser. A powerful typhoon tears through parts of the philippines, killing at least 16 people and leaving thousands homeless. Firefighters continue to tackle out of control bushfires in australia, with a warning that more record breaking temperatures could be on the way. The owners of a Spanish Hotel where a british man and his two children drowned say their deaths were a tragic accident. Israels prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, faces a political fight as his likud Party Decides who will lead them into the countrys third general election in a year. Now on bbc news, its witness history, and a look back at one of the highlights of the series. Razia iqbal has five stor
Supporting the community and our partners to keep things moving. 0k, assistant chief fire officer for norfolk fire and rescue, thank you very much. Lets stay with the weather and get an update. Hello there, just about all of us have seen some rain over the last 2a hours, but in places, particularly Eastern England, there has been an awful lot. You can see on the radar picture the way in which this rain continues throughout a good part of the afternoon. For east anglia, weve had reports of flooding, some very poor travelling conditions. That rain easing off over the coming hours and then we have a brief, dry interlude during tonight. But it doesnt last long. Through the small hours of monday, rain returns from the west. Winds will strengthen. A fairly cool night in eastern areas, but turning milder across the west as cloud and rain arrives. Also very brisk winds. We could see wind gusts of 60 70 mph for a time across the Western Isles of scotland. This wet weather pushes its way eastwar