vibrant and welcoming countries with free of charge access to expert advice and excellent job opportunities. starts in new jersey now on korea's for germany. dotcom of the this is the, the new is leih from berlin. the british parliament backs the 1st stage of a bill allowing assist the dice. the proposed law would give the terminally ill, the right to decide when to end their lives. today's road opens the way for months of debate. opponents warren, the measure of good for the vulnerable at risk, also coming on. as long as fighters are said to have entered the syrian city of alaska with hundreds for, for the dead and fighting with government forces and thousands protest as georgia suspend. it's been to join the european union,

boise is water cannon and tear gas to disperse demonstrators. the welcome to the sale on the call for this. for this law makers have voted to support draft legislation to make assisted dying legal in the u. k. the bill will now move on to the next stage of the legislative process, and the motive debate was followed by a free vote which means lawmakers could decide, according to their personal believes and were not forced to vote along their parties. official lines. caesar has divided the public for years, but recent polls suggests a majority of britons. now back the proposed law and the politician who introduced the bill kim let, peter explained why she is in favor of assist a dime for those who choose it. let's be clear. we're not talking about what choice between life or death we are talking about giving dine people

a choice of how to don any one of us around the phones to be unfortunate our latino, to receive a terminal diagnosis. and i struggle to see how it is fat or just to not any will feel the says assessment shows that we might want to take control of our assign weeks. i'm the right to choose does not take with the right not to choose even the choice of an assistant desk to those who want it would have cost smoke, stop anyone who is telling you from choosing not to do so. let's bring him back at mouse, who is outside the house of commons in london. very. tell us more about this. a story about yes, the long debate, 5 hours, all most and lots of information. so normally this is a for the house where a lot of point scoring was taking place, but not today was very respectful and, and very personal for many. and please they cited left us from people in that constituency, but also the rowing stories from relative. so other loved ones who had long and 0

now painful deaths. and i think these crews know stories that a lot of m. p. 's true emotion when they were telling them those convinced of the empties. a lot of them hadn't been decided just until today. they convince there's what i'm decided in order to vote for the change of the bill. so if this and if this bill goes true, then tell them the people will have a chance to get help when they choose to die. critics of this bill, the good say that they're concerned about the legislation being abused. what exactly are they worried about? they are worried about collaboration, so this bill has safe got so 2 independent doctors and a high court judge have to approve of the patients a which 2 died. however, there is what competing against changing the role of saying that they might not be

trained enough to see that there is some co corrosion taking place. see that maybe family members are putting pressure on on time and other patients. oh that they put themselves under pressure that they don't want to be a financial burden to the family and those last months before they died. so there is a lot of concern and i've spoken to contain as those of disability rights components, was saying that disabled people anyway, feel that their lives, although by many people are regard to the note was living for. and that if they became telemundo. yeah, that would be the kind thing to, to help them today. so there is lots of conflict here here in the u. k. and that's been a lot of debate and this will continue because it's not low yet. this will go on to commit to stage and another of age here in the house of commons. all right, so what are the next steps before this bill can actually become la as

well in the committee stage, the m p 's will pour over the details will pour over exactly what are the safeguards, how will that be incorporated into the national health service? also, how is the criminal justice system involved in this? how are the systems able to cope with the extra extra work that they will will have to do and, and then the house of lords will have the say. so there will be much more debate before next. year done comes here to the next stage in the house of commons, as the w spigot mos in london. always great speaking to thank you so much to serial . now we're a war monitor reports that islam is fighters have taken over 5 districts of the 2nd biggest city level. this area and observatory for human rights reports that heavy fighting between rebels and government forces. there is military says it's inflicted heavy losses on the rebels who's been advancing on

a level for days. they've also taken control of strategic towns along the way. conservatory says the violence has killed hundreds already. age groups, a thousands of families have been displaced. was girl jesus and authority on the middle east as professor of international relations at the london school of economics. and earlier we asked him when he made of the sudden offensive by the rebels electricity. uh, very shocking. because the offensive by the rebels, both the nationalist, i mean establish, travels, have caught the se in forces. the government forces nothing. even though the so you enforce it, forces had been mobilizing on the live from for quite a few weeks. at my take on it is that the war in syria has never ended. it has been simmering for the past and to say the 2019, i mean, think of the explosive poked out that exam us. and so, yeah,

today you'll have tens of thousands of islam as typos, plus national spots as you have the wrong. and then the fight does helping das enriching you have to push forces in it live, helping you a position. you'll have american forces, housing, the goods you have isis forces, 20000 isis forces, all the in prison or basically attacking the government and the goods. plus, you'll have, of course, syria has the same government. so imagine with this particular explosive copped out, but the reality is, sadly, we're seeing now. the door itself has been re, kendall, and this tells me that's going to be a very, very long, bloody conflict then the next few weeks and next few months to george, i now were more than a 100 serving diplomats have signed an open letter, criticizing the government's suspension of talks on e u membership, calling it a breach of the constitution. violence broke out in the capital tbilisi overnight

as protesters and police clashed after the pro russian prime minister announced the decision, dozens were arrested, looked into the stand off into bbc between dr. police and the pro, your being protested dozens of demonstrated what are tested and many others in to as they assembled outside jo, jose, parliament building. and the governing bodies headquarters was in good and good. 1 and you're good to go to and say one to read that back to you. it says to now i have the van spring to an announcement by george. he has prime minister to suspend the bid to join you until 2028. he accused the dressers of disrespecting georgian values, lavinia it is categorically unacceptable for us to view you integration as an

active charity that the european union must ground to us separate course. they are asking from georgia not reforms. so this is not the steps that would mean rejection of our dignity. what is most business? georgia has seen several and the government purchase this year, but it grew following the contested election in october of the opposition cleans the family into said into campaign in favor of the governing judge and clean body. they say the routing party has been moving georgia and authoritarian and pro must go direction 4 months. and it came to a head on thursday. is that it goes to the, to the georgia dream committed a constitutional cool. today they have to fill the task given by the item you put down. well, if i'm able to give them even more freeze for that bar today, georgia dream has blocked the development and your logic perspective for georgia. i'd love to go to you. hopefully in the invalids indicates the vast majority of

georgians student wants to join you and georgia. dream sees it intends to do that one day. but for the moment, the divide between the government and georgians 1st and the 3 sions. look, set to grew by to take a look now and some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. loading is underway in ireland general election to center right. parties that have donated irish politics for years, face a challenge from the nationalist opposition since they housing immigration and the cost of living have top the list of voter concerns. during the campaign. thousands of people in italy joined a general strike and protest marches. they're angry about the budget proposed by the far right government of prime minister george maloney. that would cause funding for education, health care, and other public services strength disrupted air traffic, public transport, schools and hospitals. thousands of lebanese people are still returning to their

homes on the south of the country as a shaky truce between israel and hezbollah enters its 3rd day. israel's military says, any violation of the cease fire will be met with force of russia's invasion of ukraine has raised questions over civil defense here in germany as well. the government is working to increase the number of bunkers available to protect the population. if the country comes under attack, existing network is far from adequate in the event of war, this is where the german public can seek shelter. the countries, few operational bunkers of a room for up to 480000 people. less than one percent of the population in just a moment. the subject of the display at the moment we are actually in a poor position fee is there is a lack of both a structural infrastructure and awareness among the population of what can actually happen in an emergency position bounce for like is twin con. the reason for the cure and debate, the latest threat from russia following the firing of

a new medium range missile that the ukranian city of the new po president, letting me approaching certain support as of ukraine, was possible missile attacks. ever since the start of the war and ukraine, german authorities have been working on a national bank. a plan is tennis. copeland vices like a roughly outline the points are included in the most systematic possible recording of buildings and private properties that can be used as public safe haven in the us . of these could be underground car parks and subway stations and basements. we've covered design the new cloth volume of all of this data will be transferred to an app that enables citizens to determine their nearest place of refuge and digital approach to everyone agrees with this call lucas, i need ways of continuing to communicate with people and look for him, because we know how quickly the internet can fail if the power goes out. for example. since the end of the cold war,

a general sense of security has growing in germany, happened to 2007. there were still 2000 public shelters. the german government at the time even decided to dismantle, instead of some of them, bunker's, became museums, and she could taps an increasing number of private individuals. and now thinking about building their own bunkers, there's a certain venetian vocab. it's nice to have a bunker in my garden at home when the air raid happens on sundays. but what do i do when i'm at work at 10 am on the monday. so you know, when i 1st commute to for an hour and a half for a smile on a test on intended without the t, a timeframe, the national shelter concept remains of project waiting to be addressed at some point, probably under a new federal government. and finally, not to them. cathedral in paris has shown itself to the world again following a devastating fire 5 years ago. rebuilt to exact detail like

a federal will officially reopen next week. a televised tor 5 french president and money and i call offered a view in size. the restoration costs. nearly 700000000 euros was funded by donations from around the world. the fire destroyed to see the spire and launch of the ceiling and interior. the cause. it's still being investigated today. i know we have all that. and the reminder of our top story set this, our british law makers have backed draft legislation to legalize assistant dying. the bill will now move on to the next stage. the issue has divided the public for years, but the majority now back, the proposed law police and georgia have used water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters angry as the government's decision to suspend talks. on joining the e. u. dozens of interest in a group of george diplomats of sign and open letter, criticizing that decision, saying it did not reflect the will of the people and that's all for now. coming up

next. and our documentary, we meet a budding thing, are fighting for justice after an attempt on her life. nicole really from all of us here in berlin, thank you so much for your company. and joining us again at the top of the we are all set and we are watching to see all the to bring you the story behind the new wheel on about com, biased information for free might say due to me in the

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