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Kay Oliver: UK correspondent on Storm Bert continuing to lash parts of the UK · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Kay Oliver is a UK europe corresponding. K great to
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  Speaker 1: have you on the program. Tell us about the end
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  Speaker 1: of life bill, some quite heavy hitting opposition to it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, Ryan, Yes, and it is going to have
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  Speaker 2: a vote in Parliament this Friday. It's called the Terminally
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  Speaker 2: Ill Adults end of Life Bill that's been proposed by
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  Speaker 2: the Labor MP Kim Leadbeater, and basically it would give
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  Speaker 2: those with less than six months to live the right
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  Speaker 2: to die. Now the opposition is mounting and we have
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  Speaker 2: had the Health Secretary West streeting and now the Justice
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  Speaker 2: Secretary shabanamah Mood saying that they are going to vote
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  Speaker 2: against this bill. Ms Mahmood has put out a letter
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  Speaker 2: to her constituents today saying that no government should be
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  Speaker 2: able to offer death on demand, and that she also
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  Speaker 2: worries about placing so great a destructive power in the
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  Speaker 2: hands of the state. She cites sadly recent scandals have
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  Speaker 2: reminded us that the state and those acting on its
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  Speaker 2: behalf are not always benign. So it gives you some
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  Speaker 2: flavor of the opposition that's coming through on this, Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: We wait to see what happens on Friday, but it
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  Speaker 2: would seem that in a poll that's been carried out today,
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  Speaker 2: two thirds of the population here are in favor of
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  Speaker 2: this bill.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it might get through despite that
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  Speaker 1: opposition from the you know, even the health sexture as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned. So this Bert, the storm Bert that's coming
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  Speaker 1: well already started to come in already some lives lost.
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  Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, it's raging around as I'm speaking. I live
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  Speaker 2: close to London. But there's a danger to life warning.
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  Speaker 2: We've had three people already been killed. A motorists had
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  Speaker 2: a tree smash onto the car. We've got a dog
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  Speaker 2: walker killed, etc. We've got seven flood warnings across South
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  Speaker 2: Wales where they've declared a major incident in the Rhonda region.
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  Speaker 2: We've got thirty one thousand homes in Northern Ireland without power.
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  Speaker 2: We've got rivers rising, people's sandbagging all over and lots
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  Speaker 2: of people, particularly in Yorkshire, saying that the local authorities
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  Speaker 2: haven't been taking any notice of warnings that basically their
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  Speaker 2: homes are liable to flood. Though you've got a siren
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  Speaker 2: screaming out that was used in World War Two to
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  Speaker 2: warn people that they're in danger. So also in London,
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  Speaker 2: they've canceled. There's a big Winter Wonderland celebration in Ibark
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  Speaker 2: that's been scrapped today, along with nine other major parks
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  Speaker 2: that have been closed as is what's called a triple
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  Speaker 2: weather alert involving snow, rain and gale force winds. Carry
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  Speaker 2: on battering this country.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness mate, all right, well, take care the kk Oliver
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  Speaker 1: a UK. You're correspondent.
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