29/12/2016 BBC News

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, says the Syrian army

and opposition have agreed to a nationwide ceasefire which will

There will also be fresh peace talks.

The deal was brokered by Russia and Turkey,

who are on opposing sides in the conflict in Syria.

Mr Putin said they had signed a number of documents outlining

TRANSLATION: The documents have been signed between the Syrian government

There is a document on measures to help control the areas

covered by the ceasefire, and there is an agreement

Our correspondent Steve Rosenberg is in Moscow for us now.

How significant a breakthrough is this?

Well, the Russians are portraying this as a major diplomatic

breakthrough. President Putin said this was the moment Russia had been

waiting for and worked hard to achieve. I suppose the key question

here is which rebel groups in Syria have signed up to this ceasefire?

According to Moscow, seven rebel groups have done so. The Russian

defence minister said this constituted the main part of the

armed opposition in Syria. He was talking about 62,000 armed rebels in

Syria agreeing now to lay down their arms. But I haven't seen a list of

the specific groups who have signed up to the ceasefire. The Russians

are saying that now it is up to all players in the region to join this

process. The Russian Foreign Minister today said that Saudi

Arabia was welcome at talks in Kazakhstan, also Jordan and Qatar

and Iraq, and he said that when Donald Trump becomes the US

President next year, America, he hoped, would also join the process.

No word at all about the Obama administration, almost as if America

has been sidelined from this peace process. Stephen Rosenberg in

Moscow, thank you very much. Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds,

who starred opposite Gene Kelly in the 1952 musical Singin'

In The Rain, has died a day after the death

of her daughter, Carrie Fisher. The actress, who was 84,

had been rushed to hospital Her son, Todd Fisher,

said the stress of his sister's death had been too much

for her and in her last words, she had said she wanted

to be with Carrie. Singin' In The Rain,

Debbie Reynolds was just 19. She'd not really danced before this

but this performance It was supposed to be

an innocent, virginal little I think it was a tough deal

for poor Gene to be stuck with me, having never

danced. It would have been far better

for him to have a great dancer, but I worked

so hard that I think in the end when I look

at that performance of that little girl,

I think I did a good job. # All I do is dream

of you the whole night through. 64 years later, her death comes

just a day after losing She'd been planning

her funeral when she Her son Todd said the stress

was simply too much. Among the tributes,

Bette Midler, who said Dame Joan Collins said she was truly

heartbroken. That mother and daughter

relationship, Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine gave us a taste

of the ups and downs in Postcards Indeed Debbie Reynolds wanted

to play the role but was told she wasn't

right for the part. You want me to do well,

just not better than you. What she was right for was

old school Hollywood The show always went on,

even when she was abandoned by her husband, Eddie Fisher,

for Elizabeth Taylor. My personal life is always

sort of like this. The choo-choo train that says,

"I think I can, I think Luckily for me God was good and I

have to have a wonderful children. In recent years she played the role

of Grace's mother in Will and Grace, Liberace's mother in Behind

The Candelabra, and then this final moment,

a mother grieving for her daughter. But if you want to

remember what made Debbie Reynolds special,

remember her like this. Debbie Reynolds, who has died at the

age of 84. The chairwoman of the Royal College

of GPs has warned that patients could be forced to wait for more

than a month to see their family Helen Stokes-Lampard claims

surgeries are already skating on thin ice because of a shortage

of GPs and years of Here's our health

correspondent Robert Pigott. Come on in. I'm Doctor Helen. What

can I do for you today? Winter is bringing increased demands on an NHS

already under year-round pressure and GPs have warned that their

service is stretched desperately thin. They say any spare capacity

has disappeared, leaving lengthening waiting times that could pose a

serious risk to patients. Firstly there just are not enough GPs out

there. We don't have enough clinicians in the workforce but also

we haven't got enough nurses and other health care professionals,

too, so the problem this winter is as bad as it has ever been, and that

is a real worry. Pressure on GPs had intensified. Over 1.3 million

patients visit surgery every day and the number of consultations has

rocketed to 60 million more per year compared to even five years ago. But

in a recent survey, 85% of patients said they had a good experience and

their doctor's surgery. GPs have told the Department of Health that

the NHS has been phenomenally successful, those in nipping disease

in the bud and keeping alive huge numbers of people with chronic

conditions like heart disease and chronic diabetes. But they one this

preventative care could now be undermined with potentially serious

and even tragic consequences for future years. The people who will

suffer those with long-term conditions because we have got to

prioritise those who are sick today. If however we are ignoring those

with longer term conditions, then we are storing up problems for the

future, increasing their risk in the long-term. NHS England said the

Royal College of GPs... The Royal College of GPs

acknowledged that more money had been promised, but said it hadn't

yet reached the front line. It said similar commitments for extra

funding have not yet been made in Wales or Northern Ireland, although

some investment has been promised in Scotland. Robert Pigott, BBC News.

A review of the youth justice system has concluded that child criminals

should automatically be given lifelong anonymity.

It's understood ministers are now considering introducing

legislation to indefinitely ban the identification of offenders

The review says naming child offenders, such as Jon Venables

and Robert Thompson who murdered two-year-old Jamie Bulger,

undermines attempts to rehabilitate them.

Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds is here.

This is controversial. It is. Young people under the age of 18 who are

prosecuted in the youth courts, which is the normal way, have

anonymity, but only until 18, so it is possible they could be identified

beyond that point. The most serious cases, like for example the killers

of James Bulger in 1993, they go to the Crown Court where there is no

automatic anonymity, and a judge has got to decide that it should be

there. This is saying there should be a blanket ban given is to improve

the rates of rehabilitation of offenders like this, and children

make mistakes because they are children is the argument. I think

there will be concerns from victims of crime who feel they don't have

the right to anonymity and they for example have unwelcome media

coverage of their cases. There will be a healthy debate about this.

Thank you very much. The NHS in England is to put

bar codes on medicines It's hoped that the scheme

will reduce the likelihood of patients being given the wrong

treatment and make it easier An angiogram designed to reveal

the condition of patients' blood As part of the piloting

of the Scan4Safety scheme, bar codes on medication

and equipment record the materials used to treat patients,

the time and place of the procedure and the name of the medical

staff taking part. We can trace that

patient very quickly. We scan all the equipment

so there should be no drug errors. Some drugs look very similar,

so we scan the patient making sure the right drug,

the right blood product etc goes to the right patient and if they're

going to roll it out to orthopaedics and other types of equipment we can

trace those back in the future. Bar-coding will reduce the average

of an hour a day nurses spend collecting medicines and alert staff

to those reaching Everything from screws used in knee

operations to breast implants will be bar-coded so their quality

can be monitored. About once a week tragically

someone dies in the NHS because they are given

the wrong medicine. We also have a number of operations

where the wrong implant is put into someone's body and it has to be

changed at a later date. If we use modern bar code

technology then we can deal One of the biggest advantages

of Scan4Safety could be in tracing patients when faulty

products have been recalled. Nearly 50,000 British women had

breast implants made by the French company PIP when they were revealed

to be at risk of rupturing. The patchy record-keeping had made

it difficult to trace Police in Cornwall are

investigating what they say are the unexplained

deaths of two men. Their bodies were found

yesterday evening at a block One man was in his early 30s,

the other was in his 20s. Keepers at Chester Zoo

are celebrating the arrival