What next for the assisted dying bill?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Victoria stands in for Laura this weekend! Today, we discuss the assisted dying bill, one of the most significant and sensitive topics to have been voted on by MPs in recent decades. We hear YOUR reaction to the bill and why it matters.

Plus, defence editor at the Economist, Shashank Joshi, joins us to talk about the rebel forces advancing in Aleppo, and whether this could topple the Assad regime.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	It's Saturday's newscast, similar in every way, except for the woman in front of me.
0:09.7	Hello.
0:10.4	Victoria Derbyshire.
0:11.5	How are you?
0:12.2	Well, I'm absolutely chuffed to see you.
0:14.4	I like being here on Saturday, because it's so calm.
0:17.3	Compared with your weekly life?
0:18.6	Correct.
0:19.4	I'm still buzzing from your encounter with Jeremy Clarkson, which I saw on Newsnight.
0:24.4	And I think you made absolute cultural weather with your interview with him.
0:30.1	So it's a great pleasure to be in your orbit.
0:32.3	Don't be ridiculous.
0:33.4	We've got two really important things to talk about today.
0:36.5	There is significant news in Syria, which is a part of the world that perhaps we haven't talked about much recently.
0:42.3	And so much correspondence from newscasters on the assisted dying bill.
0:47.0	Let's get underway with Saturday's newscast.
0:49.6	Newscast from the BBC.
0:52.0	I like landscapes.
0:52.9	I don't think I'm being rude.
0:54.3	Japping.
0:55.0	Unemployed people who are overweight.
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