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
The civil war photography. He is the Vice President of the center for civil war photography, hes been a licensed battlefield guide for 25 years, hes appeared on numerous productions shown on the bbc, cspan, Pennsylvania Cable Network and on history. He works full time as the chief historian of the American Battlefield trust. Without any further interruptions or excuse me introduction, i now present to you my friend, garry adelman. Thanks, tammy. Hello, everybody. All right, this isnt easy, doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if i get it done in 49 minu49 minutes or 53, whatever it takes. Good luck for those of you that like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and soon after, slaves are partly a person, for some purposes theyre a person, sometimes theyre not a person. You have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have the southerners look to the north and though they speak the same language, the
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
What we had today, not quite so mild but at least sunnier in the south west. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Tribute page of the first victim to be named in the London Bridge attack cambridge studentjack merritt visioning a prisoner rehabilitation conference which is attacker had been invited. Police have commended the bravery shown by members of the public, including convicted criminals who over powered the knifeman. It is emerge the attacker had been released on licence for his involvement in planning terror attacks. In other news, millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2. 7 more for rail tickets in the new year. And in sport, england will face croatia in their opening game for euro 2020, on now in bbc news, witness history comes in the Royal Academy in london. As part of the bbcs crossing divide season we had two perspectives on the 1917 nine reunion hostage crisis. 1979 iranian hostage crisis. Hello and welcome to witness history, as we present. Coming up, the
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