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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Friday the 21st of November.

Coming up, peers look at another sliver of the thousand and more proposed changes to the assisted dying bill.

But the future Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't think any of them will really help. However many amendments there are to this

bill, I do not feel the bill will ever be safe. Also in the programme, what next in the battle against

HIV? We've got to tackle some of the barriers that particularly people from black and Asian minority

ethnic communities are facing when it comes to accessing things like sexual health services.

And evidence that Westminster has long been a perilous place.

Sitting there perhaps next to a fire, striking the flint to make a tool, like a scraper tool

for fishing, hunting, things like that.

But first, once again, only minimal progress has been made by peers

in debating what's now risen to more than a thousand proposed changes to the assisted dying bill.

Its backers fear that opponents are trying to hold up or even block it from

becoming law. What's properly titled, the Termly Ill Adults End of Life Bill, would allow

adults in England and Wales estimated to have less than six months to live to ask for help to die.

It currently contains safeguards against coercion. But the bill's critics, like the non-party peer Lady Finley, who's an expert in palliative care,

fear it could still allow more subtle pressure to be applied to vulnerable people.

She explained what she meant.

It is the complaints about the heating bills.

Family carers being fed up at having to prepare drinks and food,

groaning when asked for something. So many ways to give the message that you're a nuisance and would

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