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Half of Syria’s second largest city said to be in the hands of rebel forces

A review of the week with the latest news.

We start the programme in Syria where Islamist rebel forces are reported to have taken control of more than half of the country's second city, Aleppo, as part of their lightning offensive against forces loyal to the government of President Bashar al-Assad:
It's the first time in eight years that the rebels have reached Aleppo, which was the scene of one of bloodiest sieges of Syria's civil war.
Then to the Caucasus where protestors in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, have for a second night taken to the streets to protest against the government's decision to suspend moves towards joining the European Union.
Here in the UK, news have been dominated by a legislation to allow terminally ill patients the right to end their own lives.

To discuss this as well as the ceasefire in Lebanon and the elections in Ghana, our two guests, Gloria Dickie, global climate and environment correspondent for the Reuters News Agency and Nick Westcott, professor of practice in the department of politics and international studies at SOAS, University of London .
PHOTO CREDIT: Rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in al-Rashideen, Aleppo province, Syria November 29, 2024 / REUTERS

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