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this is bbc news, the headlines... the ayes have it, the ayes have it. british mps vote to legalise assisted dying. the biggest social reform in a generation now moves to the house of lords. israel and iran have carried out further air strikes against each other as the conflict continues. iran's foreign minister is meeting european leaders to discuss diplomatic solutions to the conflict with israel. rescuers in gaza say israeli forces have killed at least 43 palestinians - many while they were waiting for food. now with all the latest sport here's ben. it's been a good day for india
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so far on day one of the first test against england in leeds. after being put into bat, opener yushavsi jaiswal has led the way with 100. india are going along very nicely, ably supported by gill, india 200 and 9-2 at the end of the 49th over, you can follow this one over on the bbc sport website. -- 209-2. liverpool have agreed a deal to sign bournemouth left back milos kerkez. the hungary international looks sets to move to anfield in a deal worth £40 million pounds, or $54 million. kerkez has impressed in two seasons on the south coast and is one of the nominees for the pfa young player of the year.
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to the club world cup where chelsea will aim to make it two wins from two when they take on seve time brazilian champions flamengo in philidelphia. both teams know a victory, coupled with a draw between lafc and tunis, would see them through to the knockouts with a game to spare. they place nice football -- they place nice football, it is nice to watch, they have good players, the manager is a former player, played many years in europe so i know him and the reason why they are unbeaten in brazil for many games and they are doing very well in brazil is because watching them, you realise they are a very good team, very good organisation. like any brazilian team, full of quality players, technical players, and we will need to be at our best to win. staying in the states, where the usa have reached the last eight of the gold cup, with a narrow 1-nil win over saudi arabia. defender chris richards got a flick on sebastian berhalter's free kick in a game of few chances. they sit top of group d
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with two wins from two games. they've topped their group in 16 of 17 previous gold cups. they progress after trinidad and tobago shared a 1-1 draw with haiti in houston. mondy prunier missed a late penalty to win it for haiti which means both sides must win their final group games to stand a chance of progression to the knockouts. we are going the distance in the nba finals after the indiana pacers took it to a winner take all decider with victory over oklahoma city thunder in game 6 in indianapolis on thursday night. tyrese haliburton - playing through a strained calf - scored 14 points for the pacers, who started slowly and then turned things into a blowout. the victory means the nba finals will go to game seven for the first time since 2016, with oklahoma hosting that decisive clash. it's exciting, man. it is so exciting. as a basketball fan, there is nothing like a game seven, there is nothing like a game seven in the nba finals. i
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have dreams of being in this situation my whole life so to be here is really exciting. we have worked our tails off to get here and we just have to trust the work we have put in and i wouldn't want to go to battle with any other guys so i'm really excited about it. and to baseball where tampa bay rays pitcher hunter bigge was taken to hospital after a frightening incident against the baltimore orioles. bigge was accidently struck in the head by a foul ball travelling at over 100 miles an hour whilst in the dugout. he received immediate treatment, before giving a thumbs up to the crowd as he was stretchered off - remaining conscious throughout according to his coach. and play is underway in the second round of the women's pga championship in texas. jeeno thitikul leads on 4-under par. get the latest leaderboard on the bbc sport website and app. more here on bbc news throughout the day. studio: thank you very much. mps have voted in favour of a bill legalising assisted
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dying in england and wales. the legislation was approved by a margin of just 23 votes. it would allow terminally ill adults with six months or less to live to get medical assistance to end their own lives. kim leadbeater is the mp behind the assisted dying bill - speaking first to bbc, she gave her reaction on todays result. i'm absolutely over the moon because i know what this means to so many people and to people who have lost loved ones but i also know that some people are not supportive of the change and it is important to remain respectful of that but i'm absolutely delighted. when you have met so many people who have fallen victim to an essentially failing status quo we had a duty to do something about that and i feel we have done that well today. you have spent probably thousands of hours in the last few months looking at every single aspect of this. sum it up in terms of the scale of this potential social change? yes, of course, it has to go to the house of lords, this isn't a new law
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yet but give me a sense from your perspective of how big a moment this is for society at large? look, we can't deny this is a huge moment in time. but equally, people are dying every day. what we are doing is just adding an extra dimension of choice to those people who are dying. we know that in every hospital, hospice, homes that people are facing their final few moments. what we have done with this huge change is given people a choice and dignity where they might not otherwise have it and the other good thing about choice is you don't have to do it so we have just crated that opportunity for anybody who might want to or even just the reassurance it. they might never do it, about 40% of people don't, but the reassurance and the comfort that this provides, it is a measurable. what would you say to those this afternoon who will be profoundly scared by what the house of commons has just decided, who will worry that this puts vulnerable people in a more vulnerable place? look, i would not have put this bill through if i was not 100% confident in the safeguards and robustness of the process and actually when it comes to vulnerability,
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dying people are vulnerable, too. we have to look after their rights and needs but any other groups and individuals, i will work with them on whatever issues they care about and campaigns they want to do, i'm here and that is why we are all in parliament, to make a difference to people who need change but i'm fully confident in the bill. believe me, i have lived it for months, the safeguards are extremely thorough and robust and i'm confident this will help the people it needs to help but it will not cause damage to other people. kim leadbeater mp whose private members bill was behind that historic vote speaking to chris mason earlier. let's speak to suzanne ost, professor of law at lancaster university. suzanne has also given written evidence to the parliamentary committee about the assisted dying bill. thanks for being with us. the seismic nature of this vote really can't be underestimated although it does now have to go to the lords before it becomes law. yes, that's right. we
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can't guarantee it will become law but it is increasingly likely now that it will become law. it is momentous, we have had discussions in parliament before but this is the first time we have ever made this kind of progress in relation to an assisted dying bill. so we will see what happens when it gets to the lords and their scrutiny. what is the possibility there? so, it goes through the same process as it has done in the house of commons in the house of lords so there will be debate, there will be readings and there will be scrutiny of the provisions. it is likely that some of the issues that were discussed in the debates in the house of commons will rear their head again in the house of lords when they scrutinise the bill, too. then it comes back to the house of commons, both houses have to approve it before it becomes law. and that is likely, it is thought, by the end of the year? yes, i think the government will have to give the bill more time for it to make its necessary stages through but i think we'll be looking at september- october
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after the recess because of the lords will need more than a couple of weeks in july to really scrutinise this. suzanne, obviously it is going to take a few years it is thought after that for anyone to be able to access this if they choose to. just in terms of how the assisted dying process would work in the evidence that was given and the information you have, what are the options that? so it is a longer process, there is a four year implementation period, a lot of issues have to be decided in that period by the secretary of state particularly through regulations but the process of assisted dying will take, it is anticipated, at least two months' time. it is only available to those who have had a six months prognosis in when they are expected to die, terminal illness. it will go through careful assessment by two setting doctors and in order for the person to have
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the assisted death, it would have to be approved by the multidisciplinary panel. what medication would be used? that is a matter that will have to be decided by what we call delegated legislation by the secretary of state, so we don't have that information yet. the bill didn't contain that information. there are a number of different models we can look to, certainly you could look to oregon high from the drugs used in oregon is a mix of drugs and it seems from the data in oregon it takes longer for a patient to die than in switzerland, in comparison, where it is a single barbiturate used in a much quicker death. and in terms of who would actually be delivering that service, is it thought that there will be choice about medics and hospices, for example, in terms of whether they want to provide this? kim leadbeater made it clear that it would be for hospices to opt out of this if they wanted to. there is a conscientious objection close within the bill that means no doctor who has a moral reason,
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religious reason whatever reason to object, they don't have to participate, they are not obliged to. where the model will be... where assisted dying will taking place, it is yet to be decided. whether that will sit within the nhs and existing end-of-life care whether it will be outside the health care system but funded by the nhs is still to be decided. and are there enough doctors who could provide this service? we don't know what the demand will be. the british medical association carried out a survey a few years back and it seemed to be around 30 something percent of doctors who said they would be willing to be involved but that is an in principle statements. in practice, it is likely to be a lot less than that. certainly we have seen in jurisdictions such as australia and states there that the ongoing
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sustainability of the assisted dying model and provision is a real issue and that there are not enough doctors to carry out the service and to meet demand. suzanne, professor of law at lancaster university, thank you very much. health officials in gaza say israeli forces have killed at least 43 people in the latest deadly incident near an aid distribution centre. they say israeli tanks and drones fired on thousands of palestinians gathered near the site, in what has become a daily occurence in gaza. it comes as the world health organization warns gaza's health system is at breaking point, overwhelmed time and again by scores of people killed or injured near aid sites. and unicef today has said gaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse. with me is merlyn thomas from bbc verify. what more do we know? as you say, it seems to be an almost daily occurrence according to these reports and we know that at least 130 palestinians have been killed this week according to hamas run health ministry,
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palestinians have gone to try to collect aid. even just today, we have seen reports that israeli forces killed 23 palestinians near an aid distribution site, that is according to the hamas run health ministry as well as witnesses. the israeli army has responded to those reports and said they fired warning shots and they also said that israeli aircraft struck several spa -- suspects. it all comes back to the point the way that aid being distributed in the gaza strip has fundamentally changed in the past month. the gaza humanitarian foundation took over, that is a us and israeli backed group, and it almost entirely bypasses the un as the main supply of eight. they have four this revision sites within the gaza strip and there are also smaller collection points run by charity kitchens as well as the un. we have been
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verifying footage including videos of people carrying bags of aid in northern gaza, those are videos of people walking with those bags of aid. elsewhere in the southern city of khan younis, we have also verified footage of people running in panic and you can see that kind of footage around that is circulating on social media and we verified this piece of footage and midway through this video, you suddenly hear a loud bang and suddenly you see people reacting to that as well. we asked the idf about this particular video and they said they had identified a gathering next to an aid distributional truck that got stuck in the area of khan younis near idf troops in the area. they also said they're aware of reports regarding a number of injured individuals from idf fire following the crowd's approach and they said that the idf regrets any harm to involved individuals. regardless of the case, we have been seeing
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in new york, the united nations security council is meeting at the request of iran to discuss the conflict with israel. in the last hour, the director general for the international agency for atomic energy, rafael grossi, spoke at the un - take a listen. the iaea has consistently underlined as stated in its general solutions that armed attacks on nuclear facilities should never take place and could result in radioactive releases with great consequences within and beyond
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boundaries of the state which has been attacked. i therefore again call on maximum restraint. military escalation threatens lives and delays indispensable work, a diplomatic solution of long-term assurance that iran doesn't acquire a nuclear weapon. the head of the nuclear watchdog agency. let me show you the live pictures is that un security council continues, you can see the russian representative is speaking at the moment and we can ring you more lines that come out of that meeting in new york. in iran, people have been fleeing - with many reporting difficult living conditions, including food shortages and limited internet access. our reporter rayhan demytrie has sent this report from meghri - on the armenia-iran border. we are seeing a slow but steady trickle of people coming from iran. i am standing at the
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agarak border crossing. it is quite a busy border crossing for cargo, for trucks. up to 600 trucks pass between armenia and iran daily through this border. but with flights cancelled, normally armenia would have up to 20 flights per week, but now with all the flights cancelled, people are making it through to this border. we arrived here last night, we have spoken to families, and it appears that mainly people who are coming through this border are those who have either residency or citizenship in other countries, in european countries, and they are looking to get a flight from the armenian capital, yerevan. people look tired, people look exhausted, they are with their children, with their luggage, and all they want to do is just to haggle with this massive group of taxi drivers here to get a good price and drive further, eight hours
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to the armenian capital, yerevan. some people are willing to talk. earlier we spoke to a man who was travelling from eastern iran, near mashhad, and that is close to the border with turkmenistan. he said the border with turkmenistan is closed, so he had to travel for many hours to reach the border with armenia. when i asked him what was the feeling inside the country, what are people saying, whether it looks like there might be a regime change? he said that people are concerned about their safety, first and foremost at this stage, but he said, referring to israel, he said that what people feel is that whatever israel is doing, it is in its own interests, not in the interests of the iranian people. therefore, he thought - his name was javid - that it is unlikely to lead
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to regime change. we have spoken to other families, as well, who are just not commenting. my feeling is, from talking to them, that they are just exhausted and they want to get to safety rather than thinking about big geopolitical change in their country. and one more thing, those who have been travelling from tehran, i have been asking them whether it really feels like a war, whether they have seen bombing and destruction, and several people told me that they could hear the bombing, they didn't really see it, but that was enough for them to pack their bags and leave. at the un security council, both russia and china are calling for an immediate ceasefire, calling for israel to stop the attacks and raids on iran. we will keep you across all those developments.
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here, pro-palestinian activists have broken into raf brize norton and sprayed two military planes with red paint. it's a major security breach for the oxfordshire airbase. the ministry of defence says it's investigating the incident with police. the prime minister has called the act "disgraceful." phil mackie reports. in the middle of the night, two people have broken into raf brize norton in oxfordshire. riding e-scooters, they approach the airbus voyager aircraft. we're not showing what happened next, but they then sprayed red paint into the engine before escaping. it's raised serious questions about security at the base, from where missions to the middle east have been flown. this is hugely embarrassing and as you can see, there are places that are very secure, but this is going to prompt a review because it's a very long perimeter and inevitably, there are weak spots. in daylight, the damage is much clearer. this is a grotesque breach of security. it's not palestine action's first offence, they have
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been doing this on sites for a number of years now. ministers need to look at banning this organisation and stopping them being able to terrorise workers and attack our country from within. this is library footage showing the airbus voyager aircraft. palestine action, who were behind the incident, said they had done it because the uk's involvement in missions in the middle east. according to the raf, the planes had been used to take aid to gaza. in a statement, the prime minister said... we will be very tough, not just in terms of putting in place proper security to address that situation, but also, frankly, cracking down on people who think that they can treat national security with that level of disregard.
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thames valley police are leading the investigation and working alongside the raf police. they've said their priority is to find and arrest those responsible for an act of criminal damage. these two aircraft have been used in refuelling operations in the various operations against isis in syria, as well as houthi rebels in yemen, but they cannot be used and haven't been used with israeli fighter jets because they are not compatible with their aircraft. and a little bit more on the site here, that huge perimeter fence. we have travelled roughly halfway around it and although there are large areas where there are quite steep, high fences with barbed wire, there are also cameras around and regular patrols, there are certain parts where you can see that there are slight weaknesses.
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there is a current mod review of all of its properties at the moment for security. obviously, this is going to make that much more urgent priority as a result of what happened last night and there are serious questions being asked about how those two people, at least two people that we saw, managed to breach the security here and get to that aircraft. phil mackie there. just remind you of top story here in the uk, there has been a seismic vote in the house of commons with mps voting to pass a law on assisted dying and it hasn't become full law yet, it goes to the house of lords. but it is expected and likely that this massive social change will come into effect by the end of the year. the labour mp kim leadbeater proposed the bill, she told the bbc she is over the moon but there is now going to be more scrutiny on the legislation. we know sir keir starmer voted against, the
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live from london, this is bbc news. the ayes have it, the ayes have it. unlike! mps vote to legalise assisted dying in england and wales. it is now set to become law. it's been described as one of the biggest social changes in a generation. the bill will now pass to the house of lords for further scrutiny. iran's foreign minister has been meeting european leaders to discuss diplomatic solutions to the conflict with israel. i am mark lowe and live in tel aviv, where, despite the diplomacy, both sides are still firing missiles. the latest uranium farage hit the northern israeli city of
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