first up was professor sir chris whitty, the chief medical officerfor england.nted out that if this bill becomes law, there'd be a two year implementation period before the government would have to then offer an assisted dying service. and he said, really, it was better that they offered this in a fair, secure and safe way. and he'd rather there wasn't a strict time deadline for it. now, regarding safeguards, he said it was important that these were kept simple and easy for everyone to understand and follow. what we don't want is a system that is very difficult for them to navigate, so they spend their entire last six months of life if this bill is passed and they choose to take account of it, which is going to be a minority essentially stuck in a bureaucratic thicket, we do need to keep this simple. and my view is the best safeguards are simple safeguards. so over complicating actually usually makes the safeguard less certain to be honest. now, the bill at present allows doctors to raise the topic of assisted dying with patients. now there will be some amendmen

earlier, professor sir chris whitty warned that patients mustn't face a bureaucratic thicket when makingce. mps voted in favour of the bill in november, but it still faces months of scrutiny and further votes. and donald trump says the rise of chinese ai company deepseek is a wake up call for the us tech industry. the firm claims its models. its model rivals. us giants like open ai, but at a fraction of the cost. the news wiped billions off wall street, with nvidia suffering the biggest one day loss in history. but the us president said china's ai growth might actually be a positive for america. >> the release of deepseek ai from a chinese company should be a wake up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing to win. >> that's the news on gb news. i'll be back with you in around half an hour. now though, it's over to westminster and martin. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> thank you sam. now astonishing figures out today because the uk's population is set to r

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