the, the, this is the, the we news line from berlin. tylen legalize the same sex marriage tile incentive both over whelming way in favor of a marriage, a quality bill becoming the 1st country in south east asia to do so. also coming flooding or putting the hells north korea for supporting his war and ukraine. head of a visit to north korea is due to hold talks with leader kim jong own on his 1st visit to appear on yeah. in 24 years. after more than 2 years of war, we take

a look at russia as military soc files and the number of tax lock out could still be able to mobilize the article for leach, welcome. thailand has become the 1st country in southeast asia to legalize same sex marriage. senators passed a landlord, marriage equality built over, whelming lee by 1324 to allow same sex couples to tie the knot with 18 abstentions. that is, the vote has been handled as a victory by campaigners and members of the l. g. b t. q community who gathered ad thailand's parliament. to welcome about the law is expected to come into force later this year and are forced bonham share in my rent as someone along is following the story for us from jakarta. sharon, this is a truly historic moment,

not just for tylen, but really for the entire region. what does this law mean in practical terms? yeah, so the and the practical terms, the key element of this law is it makes men and women to equal to marry and it changes the term like husband and wife, men and women to more a general and with our terms such as individuals and spouse. but still the term father and mother is in place in the law. and after this fear that there could be stigmatization that people would ask like was the father who's the mother and that, that was also limit the parent old rights of the eligibility to plus couples. but the bill really gets um, obviously the rights to adoption, to inherit property, and also to make health related decisions for the couples. a huge step for the algebra, 2 q community thailand is the 1st country in south east asia to legalize same sex

marriage. what's different about the case of tyler? yes, i love has always been known as one of the ages. most gay friendly destination is famous for s l g, b t q plus tourism. and also people can be openly gay and thailand and still generally accepted and safe on the active is the only be that you've seen has also been very active with the adult to see and with campaigns and related to the bill. all the major political parties has also in support of passing the bill based on survey to majority of 5 public is also in support for marriage equality. and that's what makes thailand different and making it the 1st in southeast asia and the 3rd in asia to legalize same sex marriage. so definitely hundreds or many, many couples has been waiting for this day. you mentioned that there are only 3 countries in all of asia. recognize same sex marriage at this point. can we expect

other countries to follow suit? yeah, well file on has been an outlier and being the more progress county compared to other countries in southeast asia. we also know like in malaysia and renee and even in asia eligibility choose a plus toll topic. it's still a very extremely to boot to talk about even in some countries, but it's illegal and same sex couples can be criminalized for being so. so because of it strong traditional and religious values in the region, we can say that for some countries legalizing same sex marriages is still in nowhere near that has dw correspondents here and some along. thank you so much. i as russia as president, is heading to north korea on his way vladimir fruit and has stopped off in russia's

far eastern city of yeah. codes after visiting technology and defense projects and the region he is planning to flying to north korea's capital. jung young for talks with ruler conjunction. the 2 are expected to sign an official strategic partnership earlier put in praise north korea for its supports of his war and ukraine. his duty visit is his 1st trip to north korea in 24 years. north korean leader, kim jong, and in russia last you shaking hands with his russian counts of pond, loved him at present demand. he now cause an invincible. come read the notes and strips of north korea and 2 said racing with came the latest demonstration of deepening toys between moscow. and if you don't get that throughout the series of the united states of june, close to since russia lost its full scale invasion of ukraine, finding friendship, i mean growing global life selection. but it's the relationship that spoken

concerns in the west, south korean, and us officials say the north has been feeding the russian blooms. she's sending millions of munitions to moscow. they say russia in baton has provided most career with military technology. and you can only kate, in defiance of un resolutions, soul in washington of housing, emergency cool to discuss the visit. but despite the western criticism, the kremlin said it has every right to develop ties with phone. yeah. and shouldn't be challenged for doing so. this comes this tensions on the korean peninsula. steadly built the us and south career recently conducted joints. error exercises featuring a b one strategic boma to allow for the shooting for you did the us precision guided building drill in 7 years. south korea this month, scrapped and military packed with the north, allowing it to resume combat drills on that shared folder. so for ritz pod said,

it was responding to a barrels of north korean blues, filled with the season trash that was sent toward the south. james tater file that report and joins us now from taipei. we're also joined by the w russian corresponding j g o. c manascale, who joins us from reagan. that is where our last gal office has been base since the w was banned from operating in russia. good to see you both. let's start with usually i gosh, we now know that fruit and kim are going to sign a strategic partnership. and that could mean a lot. what could that entail? well, nicole, we don't know the content of the deal yet. it is expected to be signed tomorrow, but we do know that the demand puts in is expected in continuing this support that has been receiving from north korea for his war effort against ukraine. we know russia has used north korea may have missed the ballistic missiles in and against ukraine and the west and south korea. a warning that this flow of munition from

north korea to russia is increasing. now as to the official relations north korea used to have a very close alliance with the soviet union. their friendship, treaty of the time, even included a close on automatic military assistance in case one of the sides was to be invaded . these relations have cooled off significantly after the collapse of the soviet union. but we are now doing the war in ukraine. we are seeing the renewal and we will be observing tomorrow just how far the 2 sides will agree to go. officially, let's pass the ball over to james james. what is north korea's ruler conjunction? hoping to get out of his deepening ties with flooding, recruiting? it's like what i think in the 1st instance, one of the really critical things is going to be legitimacy. remember, it's a fairly rare occurrence to see the head of states of another country visiting

appeal young and can join, being able to receive an international leader of this magnitude is housing points around this cations symbolic key. of course, when it comes to the material, things that can join is going to be looking for the us and south korean officials. and the lead on to this was, this have been really stressing that concerned that in exchange for what they believe is north korean weapons transfers to russia to sustain its own going invasion of dw crane that russia in were ton, is going to be offering assistance for the spice satellite program, it forwards weapons program. that would be, of course, in contravention of un resolutions, but the broad, a context here devoted to political contexts is that these, the 2 countries that view themselves as natural bedfellows. now really that they view that the us will be in different environments is looking to rein in these 2 countries in concert with it satellites. whether that's nice. so in your, for the u. s. as in the pacific allies that in asia and the context of this, the backdrop we can switch this meeting is taking place is of course,

rising tensions in the korean peninsula. some reports and concerns today that there was an exchange of fire across the team and to try something between the 2 chris. josh. james hinted at their food and said russia and north korea would be working together to overcome sanctions from the west. how and when they do that as well. first of all, russia is a permanent member of the united states nations security council. and it has a veto right over many of the over just over to sanctions regime imposed on north korea for its nuclear ends. and the so programs in the area of this year, russia actually has to be towards the pro longing and my date of you an expert square at charged with monitoring the existing sanctions regime on north korea. so this is one way and secondly, russia in north korea, sure, a border and it's a very short board. they're just 17 kilometers long. but it's just long enough for this one crucial train connection that is running there,

which is allowing both countries to trade directly. and it was very telling earlier this year when blowing you're putting presents came jungling with a high end russian made them was in, even though trading luxury products is sanctioned tradesmen. luxury products with north korea, of course, is sanctions by the united nation. so this was the files move and we are expecting most more of such corporation the in the future after today's and tomorrow's meeting. yeah. a present from the president himself. no less. james, only 9 months have passed since the last meeting between fulton and kim. now that alliance is growing stronger. where does that leave? another key player and one that has been very crucial in, in supporting north korea as well. china you have so many people i think before, that's been this police, this understanding that although the 3 countries that you just mentioned,

that russia, china, and north korea have shed grievances about the rules based in some national order. the us, what they view is the us global, would there been simply too many points of difference for them to form any type of united? so the alliance, and i think the concern in the west now really is that that is a great the degree of conversions between these 3 countries that increase a will to actual, not that degree of conversions as it relates to china. of course, china has taken steps to rein in some of the more bullets hall behavior also in your career. remember, it's noting beijing's interest to see a civic escalation in the korean peninsula being a direct neighbor all of north korean we seen today actually security to always take place between china and south korea. but i think the broad, the implication of this me thing is that you have 3 countries have this access with always hiring countries, that a wholesale to what they believe is a us dominated global order. and the place that we're seeing this play out most evidently is russia's invasion of ukraine,

china and north korea and not only not condemning that invasion, but now it would have pay actively looking to support it. thank you both so much for the same size that was due to where you can respond and say go see what else k n james tater will after more than 2 years of war in ukraine, speculation is right on how much military hardware rush still has. and its disposal, open source investigators or ex say more than 2 and a half 1000 russian tanks have been lost since the beginning of the conflict. let's take a closer look now to see what depleted tank stocks might mean for us as we're our social media compilation of ukrainian attacks on russian tanks using drones. mines an anti tank missiles open source, investigators say more than 2600 russian tanks have been lost since the beginning of the war. and that's just going by photographic evidence available to the public

. the real number may be higher. that would leave russia with just a few 100 tanks from its pre war stock of about 3000. but russia has thousands more tanks in storage, some dating back 50 or 60 years. the satellite photos show vast storage sites and siberia, hundreds of tanks that were there 2 years ago are now gone. prussia referbed us as dozens of them for the battlefield every month. and it is up to its production of new tanks as well in several factories. part of a shift and it's manufacturing base towards a war economy. all these numbers are estimates, but the tank math long term is not in russia's favor. let's take a look at how those law says might lead to a critical point where russia doesn't have enough tags to make further advances. the russian army had about 3000 tanks at the beginning of the war in 2022. if it is

lost $2600.00 in battle, it would have $400.00 left. add 1500 new and repaired tanks. a figure supply by russia itself would bring the number of available tanks as of may 2024, to a total of 1900. down from the beginning of the war, but still a significant number. some analysts, however, i think that russia is actually producing far fewer tanks then it says, no matter what russia just isn't making as many times as it's losing. so overall it's still lose is 60 per month. so if russia has $2400.00 tanks now and overall lose is 60 tags per month over the next 2 years, it's docs will go down to a critical point, say $1000.00 tanks, where it will not be able to risk further losses and trying to gain territory if fighting escalades and it loses tanks faster, it could run out even sooner. tank seem old fashioned,

but they are critical for breaking through an enemy's front lines. if russia leaves us too many, it will have to stick to and defend the existing front line without much hope of taking more territory. that might mean a stalemate on the ground. after years of grinding conflict that have cost countless lives. i've got some analysis with military experts, marina moran, marina. good to see. what do you make of the findings of this open source investigation? does it give a realistic picture of russia's tank reserves? the hello nicole? well, we have to understand is not just the number of tanks that russia has lost and, and replenished was one and a half 1000. according to the russian ministry of defense for 2023. we have to understand the russian capability of manufacturing, new tanks, emit sanctions,

the, the ability to refer a bish, the a tanks and the speed with which it is done. that is one factor and the other factor, which is of course important is the other patient on the battlefield. that being said, it doesn't mean that if russia was, let's see, using 60 paying some months, is going to continue losing tanks at the very same rate. and we know why russia has been losing tanks, and mostly it's because of the 1st person view drains, which have become very least so, and imposed great costs on the russian and forces in terms of the loss of military equipment. and now we're seeing adaptation, the famous total tearing, for instance, in order to defend against, right. and so can we project that russia will be losing the same amount of tanks or will it produce? and they think that will be, is a critical point. that being said, a still many experts believes that russia will have enough tags for the upcoming 2

years to continue the war of attrition. our report also known event without change, russia could only defend territory and already occupies. is that an assessment that you would agree with or could they rely on other means to break through the front lines? so i think nice armies have been quite inventive in this conflict and for a, for an example here. let's look at what the bringing on forces didn't we bought in the end? russian forces that in several parts. it's not the most ideal way, but they, there were soldiers on foot in small groups approaching were bought in there. and so i think that that, of course tanks are very important, but you can gather around that it will of course, slower the offensive and it will not give you the same amount of fire power. if you, let's say, use infantry. i'm fighting, be close. instead of the tanks, however,

i don't think that it is completely off the table, so you will have to look how to offset your vulnerabilities. and i think before russia run solid of tags, i'm sure that the kremlin will look for potential sources to source. perhaps a phobia to erupt tanks which can then be refurbished. so i don't think that it will come to that point that they will have no tanks left and then we'll have to find a different way to take territory. and that's where we know we all know a lot of everyone is meeting with kim john own today. does north korea have tags to give to rush briefly if you can yes, nurse korea has things, whether it's enough to give to russia. it has the old soviet prototypes, a. m p 5055, and then it has some trainees tanks and the new where am plenty, plenty old or gas or according to public or publicly available data. other,

a 3000 tanks of north korea has, i think russia is more after tillery and munitions on tanks when it comes to north korea as military expert for reno. moran. great speaking to you, as always. thank you so much. thank you for having me to. so don, now where the, when's the civil war has displaced more than 9000000 people? a lot number is quickly rising, the u. s. has pledged a $350000000.00 in an effort to head off a famine. most of the violence has taken place in the long suffering dar for region with the ordinary people, paying the price will rages and so done. as the power military rapids support forces fight the government for control of the country. a conflict that has been going on for over a year. now. the contest in western region of the floor has been a major flash point. still scott, by a genocide that took place 20 years ago,

also committed by militias. the medical charity doctors without borders says the city of al sasha's last functioning hospital was forced to close up to receive militants open fire on medical stuff, and patients. the international criminal court says it's investigating possible war crimes. the evidence my office has collected to date seems to show credible, repeated, expanding continuous allegations of attacks against the civilian population. in particular, attacks direct to the gains comes for internally displaced persons. it seems to show the wide spread prevalent use of rate and other forms of sexual violence. multiple attempts by the us to stop the fighting have failed, as both sides seem to still think they can win. meanwhile, the union has full in fashion with its goal in an appeal for humanitarian funds,

while semen looms for more than 2 thirds of the population. from where i can now talk to d mala, mala she is the chief humanitarian officer at base humanitarian agency care. so good to, to have you on the show. your organization is insight on delivering humanitarian aid to civilians affected and displaced by the conflict. can you describe what everyday life looks like their everyday life in saddam. so a country of 45000000 people, more than half of which allegedly need to monitor it and assistance more than 18000000 people are acutely hungry. this also includes $3600000.00 children quarter to be managed and every passing day with this ongoing conflict with all the struct id and with the unfunded humanitarian response, the situation already gets worse, and a lot of them are getting closer to death. basic services even like,

has are pretty much non existent, the system is on its knees. and let me say one thing. this conflict has created a 100 women from gender. this one instance extra widens displacement, ending lease, not having as services. it is a lot on women. now the daily life, it was before this crisis before this one year, people had hopes, dreams, aspirations. but now what we hear is about stories of this disparate frustration of feeling of abandonment. we are hearing very extreme measures by people having to resort to eating solely and even these and then just means no words this you might have given crises is not because of a shortage on is limited to do with disaster or some bad harvest. all these factors have contributed certainty, but the only reason is ongoing conflict between the parties and of destruction of

humanity and need to feed my life. you call it a war on women, there are reports. we heard it there of the wise for it to use of sexual violence against internally displaced persons your organization. care focuses on gender and balances in conflict situations. what can be done in your opinion, to better protect the most vulnerable from these kinds of crimes? is absolutely dom and goes have faced, have been facing and continued to phase the brand of this conflict, which includes section violence as a webinar for. the 1st thing said it is need to be protected, and secular wireless as a weapon of war must be stopped. the commitments made under the international humanitarian role. and the recently voted un security council. resolution must be respected by all bodies to the conflict. each of us, each single one of our candidly, who here, of course, the parties to the conflict have it in the fall or to seize the hostility. and

that's in the international community does play a role in 1st by not looking away. money, invest your money didn't response, supporting women led organizations back towards get it does. because let's not think about women as victims. they are the 1st responders in a crisis. it is not about the needs never was, never should be. it is about their rights. the 1st responders data on the ground, they know the problem, the understand the context and they have the solution. so they just come together to strengthen them and prevent this humanitarian crisis to becoming a famine situation, which probably be the world has not seen. and dickens as blood projections, i would not be surprised if things do not change. it could even be worse than the 2011 farm in which we saw it. and somebody else has a wake up call from the mala mala to a few minutes here. an officer of care. thank you so much for your time. thanks for

having. and before we go, a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. at least 18 people have been killed in lance lives triggered by heavy rains across central america. el salvador, ecuador, and guatemala, haven't had particularly hard with scores of people injured or missing. thousands more have had to evacuate their homes that are staying in temporary shelters. the highlands, former prime minister attacks. i'm sure no one has been formerly indicted for allegedly insulting the monitoring key back in 2015. so, you know, want to only recently returned to thailand who was jailed shortly after arriving on separate charges. and then given a royal, pardon, a series of high profile political legal cases are ongoing and thailand this week. and south korean government has ordered doctors to go back to work. i made a prolonged strike. medical professionals have been participating in a months long strike to protest increasing medical school admissions. under the law

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