the isle of man becomes the first part of the british isles to decide on assisted dying law makers vote tomorrow. the great thing is he is a very good pilot indeed. and the king hands over a senior military role, to prince william. on newsnight will go deeper behind the headlines. and a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. we re reporting for you on the shifting frontline in the war in ukraine, where russia claims to have made it s first breakthrough, seizing territory, in many months. their advance is towards the country s second city of kharkiv. this is the map of the battlefield we ve become used to seeing in recent months, with red marking the areas in the south and the east under russian military control. but now a new front has opened up to the north east, near kharkiv. over the weekend it s thought russia captured at least nine settlements, in what would be its most significant ground offensive, since the start of the full scale invasion in 2022. ukrai
been on holiday with his mother, who wasn t his legal guardian, and his grandfather. melanie and david batty has been accused of abducting alex, possibly to take them to live on a commune in morocco. back in 2018, his grandmother, who was his legal guardian, spoke to the bbc. been an absolute nightmare, guardian, spoke to the bbc. been an absolute nightmare, wanting - guardian, spoke to the bbc. been an absolute nightmare, wanting to - guardian, spoke to the bbc. been an absolute nightmare, wanting to see. absolute nightmare, wanting to see the grandson that you love so much, might not see him ever again. but she could soon be reunited with his grandson. officials in southern france cy alex, now 17, has been found in the town of revel east of toulouse. in a statement, greater manchester police say offices in oldham are in contact with french authorities to establish the authenticity of the report. they added, this is a complex and long running investigation and we need to m
tonight at ten, european leaders are to open talks with ukraine about eu membership, to the delight of president zelensky. but on the ground, the fight against russia s occupying force is struggling we report from the front line on ukraine s need for more military aid. president putin says russia s war aims have not changed in a four hour press conference. steve rosenberg was there and gives us his assessment. also, the british boy, missing for six years, found in a small town in the south of france. big developments here in the southern french city of toulouse, where mystics alex, who has been gone for six years, is being brought back home by british police from the city in the coming hours. the pioneering premier league referee rebecca welch will be the first woman to do the job. and will you see the shower of shooting stars, set to peak this evening? and on newsnight at 10:30pm, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories.
about winter pressures. delays at hospital are a worry. we re worried about the system becoming overrun. so we ve got a category one call, a male who was unconscious. siren wails their first call of the day, and ryan and debbie from the north west ambulance service are on their way to see a critically ill patient. hello, are you 0k? please can we get some pads on him just in case? and then let s get some access. he was really septic and with his heart rate being so low, his blood pressure and saturations and recordable, i believe he was at the stage just before going into cardiac arrest, he was that poorly. right, we are good to go when you are. we re going to go on blue lights. our eta to wigan is six minutes, ever. can you open them eyes for me? hold my hand. ifeel really privileged to do ourjob. it s only a short distance to resus. within minutes of getting the patient into intensive care. do you think you could step out with us and we will get you straight into a chair? i
once again dredging up lies about the 2020 election, just six weeks before the iowa caucuses. this afternoon, trump accused president biden of, quote, waging an all-out war on american democracy, and his chain hand campaign handed out these signs, you can see it on the screen, joe biden attacks democracy. the former president told supporters at another rally today that he hopes judges will let him prosecute the 2020 election, and encouraged them to go into ballot tabulating facile at this times in 2024 to, quote, guard the votes. kristen holmes has been following the trump campaign today. she s in cedar rapids, iowa, for us. kristen, what s the latest? reporter: yeah, jim, essentially, this is the most forcible rebuttal we ve seen from former president trump to the argument that president biden has routinely made, that a second trump term would be a threat to democracy. he even vaguely referenced a speech that biden gave in september when he talked about maga republicans