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
Attack for political gain. He blamed the previous government for a law that allowed the perpetrator to leave prison early. The Labour Party Said the conservatives had been responsible for his release. Maltas Prime Minister, joseph muscat, has bowed to intense public pressure and agreed to step down over the huge scandal surrounding the assassination of the investigative journalist, daphne ca ruana galizia. He said he would hand over power next month after his governing labour party chooses a new leader. The un secretary general has told the bbc that governments need to stop subsidising fossil fuel industries if the world is to avoid the worst consequences of global warming. Antonio guterres said taxpayers money is paying for the melting of glaciers. He was speaking ahead of the un climate summit. Now on bbc news witness history comes from the Royal Academy in london, with razia iqbal. As part of the bbcs crossing divides season, we hear two perspectives on the 1979 iranian hostage cris
The 12 year old boy killed in a hit and run incident outside a school in essex has been named as harley watson. He was struck near Debden Park High School on monday afternoon. A 51 year old man has been arrested if we intend to confront violence, on suspicion of murder, if we intend to confront war as well as the attempted murder of five other people injured in todays world, if we intend in the crash. To establish and restore a just our correspondent tolu adeoye world orderfor peace, forjustice, by the betterment of humanity, before all we need reports from loughton. To engage in dialogue. Harley watson has been described by his family as a good, a dialogue that will promote kind, helpful and lovely boy. A profound understanding between the east and the west. In a Statement Released this evening they have said she went on to become a cabinet they are devastated by his death. Member and the iranians government. Yesterday morning harley went now, from the other side to Debden Park High S
This is bbc news, the headlines huge crowds have joined funeral processions in iraq, for irans top military commander, killed by a us drone strike. Crowds chanted death to america as the coffin travelled through iraqi cities on its way back to iran. There are calls for the un to investigate the attack. The premier of New South Wales warns that australia is in what she called, unchartered territory after the worst night of bushfires since they started two months ago. Temperatures have nudged 50 degrees celcius in some parts with winds spreading the fire and making its path even more unpredictable. The death toll from the new year flooding in indonesia hasjumped to 60 with fears growing about the possibility of more torrential rain. Tens of thousands in jakarta are still unable to return to their waterlogged homes after some of the worst flooding in years hit the enormous capital region. Councils in england have urged the courts to impose biggerfines to tackle the growing problem of fly
The contest to become the next leader of their party. After much speculation, Jess Phillips has confirmed she will run. On a visit to grimsby, the mp for Birmingham Yardley said the party needed a leader who could take on borisjohson and who was willing to try something different. And the wigan mp lisa nandy has alsojoined the race, and said thejob should go to someone from what she called the neglected areas of labours heartlands, who could win back the trust of the partys traditional voters. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley has more. The wigan mp was another one of those people who had said over the Christmas Period that she was considering whether or not to stand, and tonight shes confirmed, in a letter to her local paper, the wigan post, that she is indeed throwing her hat in the ring to be the next labour leader. Her argument is that labour needs to focus on winning back its heartlands, areas that had voted labour for decades and stopped doing so back in december. Let me j