teapot technician judy. she can feel the pressure in a&e as she does her round. i ve not long been on shift, but walking in and you see people on beds, you know people have been in a long time and you know it s going to be a full on day. still busy, as always, up here. even with the strike on, the hospital hairdresser lynn has her hands full. right, good morning, everybody. welcome to the last day of the doctors strike. i we joined the gold command group of senior managers. they were juggling patient numbers. during this meeting, they raised the alert level to reflect the significant pressure they were under. icu were pretty much full again with no step down. paeds is fine, maternity s in escalation. we are short ofjuniors, so we ve got at least two or three ward areas with no junior doctor on it at the moment. nearly 100 patients are being treated in overflow areas. consultants like vicky and shindu are working extra hours in the emergency department during the strike. they
with temperatures beating the previous high recorded in 2016. it comes as the met office issues a fresh warning for the uk saying forecasts for this year could see temperatures breach critical levels in the battle against global warming. our climate editorjustin rowlatt is here with all the details. the world experienced some really extraordinary temperatures last year. the average temperature for the year was 1.48 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. it beat the previous hottest year, 2016, by a margin of 0.17 celsius, that s a huge amount for a global average, say climate scientists. just look at this. the grey lines show temperatures each year since 1940. the red line shows 2023. you can see it started off pretty unexceptional in terms of global temperatures. but from july onwards, the world began a remarkable and almost unbroken streak of daily air temperature records. 210 days set a new daily global temperature record, according to bbc analysis of the data from t
throughout the programme. it s tuesday, the 9th of january. our main story. two formerjustice secretaries one conservative, the other labour are leading calls for the government to introduce legislation to quash the convictions of those caught up in the post office it scandal. the postal affairs minister, kevin hollinrake, said various options were being looked at to speed up appeals and compensate the victims. he said more talks would be held today and he hoped to announced a solution very shortly. here s our political correspondent, peter saull. i m the sub postmaster, so i m locked in and everyone else is locked out. so if you want to see my account. this is a scandal going back decades, and now a tv drama watched by millions has pushed it to the top of the political agenda. i know it s probably me because i m really rubbish with technology, but.| ve declared my cash, i ve declared my stock, i ve done it all three times and i still can t get it to balance. mr bates vs