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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Saturday 30th 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 helped 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.
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The MP proposing the bill, Kim Ledbeater, 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.