Kay Oliver: UK correspondent on Storm Bert continuing to lash parts of the UK

Deadly Storm Bert is continuing to lash parts of the UK.

Snow's fallen across Scotland and parts of northern and central England -- and heavy rain's hit southern England and Wales.

UK correspondent Kay Oliver told Ryan Bridge three people have been killed.

“We’ve got 70 flood warnings across south Wales.”

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kay Oliver is a UK europe corresponding. K great to
have you on the program. Tell us about the end
of life bill, some quite heavy hitting opposition to it.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Well, absolutely, Ryan, Yes, and it is going to have
a vote in Parliament this Friday. It's called the Terminally
Ill Adults end of Life Bill that's been proposed by
the Labor MP Kim Leadbeater, and basically it would give
those with less than six months to live the right
to die. Now the opposition is mounting and we have

(00:33):
had the Health Secretary West streeting and now the Justice
Secretary shabanamah Mood saying that they are going to vote
against this bill. Ms Mahmood has put out a letter
to her constituents today saying that no government should be
able to offer death on demand, and that she also

(00:54):
worries about placing so great a destructive power in the
hands of the state. She cites sadly recent scandals have
reminded us that the state and those acting on its
behalf are not always benign. So it gives you some
flavor of the opposition that's coming through on this, Ryan.

(01:17):
We wait to see what happens on Friday, but it
would seem that in a poll that's been carried out today,
two thirds of the population here are in favor of
this bill.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, it sounds like it might get through despite that
opposition from the you know, even the health sexture as
you mentioned. So this Bert, the storm Bert that's coming
well already started to come in already some lives lost.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, absolutely, it's raging around as I'm speaking. I live
close to London. But there's a danger to life warning.
We've had three people already been killed. A motorists had
a tree smash onto the car. We've got a dog
walker killed, etc. We've got seven flood warnings across South
Wales where they've declared a major incident in the Rhonda region.

(02:08):
We've got thirty one thousand homes in Northern Ireland without power.
We've got rivers rising, people's sandbagging all over and lots
of people, particularly in Yorkshire, saying that the local authorities
haven't been taking any notice of warnings that basically their
homes are liable to flood. Though you've got a siren

(02:31):
screaming out that was used in World War Two to
warn people that they're in danger. So also in London,
they've canceled. There's a big Winter Wonderland celebration in Ibark
that's been scrapped today, along with nine other major parks
that have been closed as is what's called a triple
weather alert involving snow, rain and gale force winds. Carry

(02:54):
on battering this country.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Goodness mate, all right, well, take care the kk Oliver
a UK. You're correspondent.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
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