Opponents have voiced concerns that vulnerable people could be coerced into ending their lives. Our political correspondent, helen catt, reports. The noes to the left, 330. The last time mps voted on assisted dying was nearly ten years aGo they opposed changing the law. But a new set of mps will get a new vote in the coming months, after labours Kim Leadbeater came top in a ballot that gives backbench mps time in the commons to propose laws, and said she would put it forward. I also think there is a real sense within parliament that now is the time for this debate. As i say, its nearly ten years since there was last a debate in the chamber. So i think most people. You know, people are nervous, people know how serious this subject is, and i understand that i feel nervous about it but i also think its important enough that we show parliament at its best, actually, which is debating something that we know matters to a huge amount of people. The Broadcaster Dame Esther rantzen has Lung Can
And apologised to the actor Amanda Abbington, who appeared on the programme in 2023. Lets cross straight to our media and arts correspondent, david sillito. David, tell us what the report says. Strictly come dancing, the bbc s biggest Entertainment Show by some distance, has been rocked by headlines for the last few months because of allegations by former contestant Amanda Abbington, who left midway through the last series, saying, revealing in interviews later, that she felt that the behaviour of her professional dancer had been abusive, demeaning, insulting and bullying. And what there has been, there has been an investigation into those specific complaints from Amanda Abbington. Bbc studios, the Production Arm of the bbc, has concluded that her concerns and complaints were in part upheld, they have apologised to Amanda Abbington, but not holy. So the question we understand is probably that its a matter of verbal abuse, verbal Harassment And Bullying that have been upheld but nothing
Told to stay indoors. This footage, where residents were being rescued. This was the scene from the Pilots Seat flying in the eye of the storm as It Hurtled towards southern georgia. Our North America Correspondent David Willis reports. Hurricane helene touched down on Floridas Gulf Coast bringing with it winds of around 130 miles an hour. Officials had warned of potentially catastrophic and unsurvivable coastal Storms Surges, in places the height of a two storey building. Lashing rain proceeded helene s arrival, Flooding Streets and leaving more than half A Million florida homes without power. It was very scary. You know, it was coming in very, very fast, but steady across the island, and then all of a sudden, you know, it was outside. We had sandbags, we had prepared but we heard a Big Bang and the Garage Door caved in and the water came rushing into the house like a giant stream. So we grabbed the dogs and ran as quickly as we could with just what we had and our dogs and that was it
Very much for being here. Have a wonderful weekend. Thanks to All Of You for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere cnn new central starts right now all right. The breaking News Water rescues underway across several states right now in Life And Death situation, after Hurricane Helene made landfall as the strongest hurricane on record to hit floridas big ben. Im John Berman in tallahassee, florida this morning where its mostly just messy this city did not see the worst of it the Storm Made Landfall near harry about an hour from now as a category four storm with 140 mile per hour winds, it is now a tropical storm as it moves over georgia this is affecting so many states in as everyone wakes up this morning, were only beginning to get a sense of the impact this morning. First, responders they are seeing scenes like this. This was south pasadena, florida, flooded home on fire Dumpsters Gloating through the floodwaters and steen steinhatchee, florida A House just voted away on the Way
We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other