welcome to hardtalk. i m 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. we ve 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 it s 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.
as the nhs braces itself for the new year period it s 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 uk s 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 don t 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 calle
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 it s 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 it s 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. i m 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 a
supporting the community and our partners to keep things moving. 0k, assistant chief fire officer for norfolk fire and rescue, thank you very much. let s 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, we ve 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 doesn t 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 it
now on bbc news it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m 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, 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. we ve 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, it s 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