This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 30th of November,

these are our main stories.

MPs in the UK approve a bill which will allow terminally ill people

the right to end their lives with medical help.

Assisted dying is already legal in several countries.

We hear from two women in

Austria and the Netherlands who help their parents to die. Reports say Islamist rebels have taken

several neighborhoods of Syria's second city Aleppo on the third day of their lightning offensive.

I have been displaced for five years, but thank God I am now fighting to reclaim our land from the grip of the criminal regime.

Also in this podcast, for a second night, police in Georgia have deployed tear gas and water cannon against thousands of anti-government protesters in Tbilisi.

And Botswana will join Antwerp as a certifier of the origin of rough diamonds.

It's been called a once-in-a-generation political and moral decision.

For the first time, lawmakers in the UK have approved the first stage of an historic bill

that gives terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to end their lives with medical help.

The eyes to the right, 330.

The notes to the left, 275.

The MP proposing the bill, Kim Ledbiter, said it would offer adults, choice, autonomy and dignity in death.

We are not talking about a choice between life or death.

We are talking about giving dying people a choice of how to die.

When four former directors of public prosecutions all agree that the law needs to change,

surely, Mr Speaker, we have a duty to do something about it.

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