Good afternoon. In the last hour, Rachel Reeves has used her fIrst Labour Conference Speech as chancellor to promIse that therell be no return to austerIty. After weeks of warnIngs about the dIre state of the publIc fInances, she trIed to convey a brIghter message, sayIng she Is optImIstIc about the uks economIc future. She was brIefly heckled by one protestor at the start of her speech. Our polItIcal correspondent Helen Catt reports. As you can see behInd me, people are stIll fIlIng out from the Conference Hall where Rachel Reeves gave her speech In the last hour or so. A much traIled speech, very antIcIpated because, as we know, there has been crItIcIsm about the gloomy outlook that the chancellor and the PrIme MInIster have been talkIng about. So durIng her speech today, we had the Chancellor Attempt today, we had the Chancellor Attempt to Inject some optImIsm, talkIng about the brItaIn that she hoped to buIld for the future. There were some focus on what labour had already done In
Good mornIng. More than 50 pubs closed every month In the fIrst half of thIs year. Is It tIme to accept last orders on thIs great brItIsh InstItutIon, or should more be done to support them to thrIve . Arsenal are denIed a famous vIctory agaInst Manchester CIty Asjohn stones scrambles home a late equalIser seconds from tIme as the Match Ends In a draw at the etIhad stadIum. You dont even have to waIt for the next News BulletIn before you fInd out what the news Is. It next News BulletIn before you fInd out what the news Is. Out what the news Is. It was cuttIngedge out what the news Is. It was cuttIngedge technology. I were celebratIng the 50th AnnIversary of ceefax, the Internet And Smartphone servIce of Its tIme. Good mornIng. FurtHer heavy RaIn Today across central and soutHern parts of england that could well lead to some dIsruptIon. For scotland and NortHern Ireland, It Is quIeter and cloudy, but wIth raIn In the far north later. All the detaIls throughout thIs mornIngs programme. G
And coming up on sportsday later in the hourt on Bbc News. A new era beckons for everton as an American Billionaire agrees a deal to become the new Majority Owner of the club. Good evening. In whats become the bloodiest day in lebanon, since hezbollah fired rockets into israel following last years October 7th attacks, the lebanese government says more than 270 people, including 21 children, have been killed in heavy israeli bombardments. The Israel Defense Force says it was targeting hundreds of hezbollah positions, while the iranian backed group, which is a proscribed terror organisation, says it fired dozens of rockets at israel. America says it is sending additional troops to the area. Orla guerin, is the in the lebanese Capital Beirut for us now. A massive bombardment began this morning at about 7am local time. Initially it was targets in Southern Lebanon that were being pounded, but by this Evening Israel was striking targets in the Bekaa Valley in the east. The idf is saying it h
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
Now on bbc news, its witness history 7 a look back at one of the highlights of the series. Razia iqbal has five stories from the history of Space Exploration to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in july 1969. Hello, and welcome to a special edition of witness history with me, razia iqbal. To mark the anniversary of the moon landings, i am here at the Science Museum in london to bring you five first person accounts of extraordinary moments in the exploration of space. Coming up, we hearfrom the commander of the mission that took the most famous photograph ever of our planet, we get a moving account of the challenger Space Shuttle disaster, and we find out more about laika, the soviet dog who became the first living creature in space. But we begin injuly 1969, when the world stopped in its tracks to watch the americans put a man on the moon for the first time. A Television Audience in the hundreds of millions held its breath as Neil Armstrong clambered out of apollo 11 and to