the, the, this is the, the we news live from berlin, thailand legalize the same sex marriage piling. senate votes over willingly in favor of a marriage, equality bill becoming the 1st country in southeast asia to do so. also coming vladimir pro hales north korea for supporting his war in ukraine. ahead of a meeting with kim jones. it will be his 1st visits to be on young in 24 years. the

uncle for at least welcome to the shell. thailand has become the 1st country and southeast asia to legalize same sex marriage. senators passed a landmark marriage equality built over whelming lead by 130 to 4, to allow same sex couples to tie the knot with 18 extension status. the votes has been hailed as a victory by campaigners and members of the eligibility q community who gathered ad thailand, parliament to welcome about the law is expected to come into force later this year . now i'd say historic moment, not just for thailand, but for the entire region, our south east asia, corresponding sharon, my grand sumo line has more on what this law means in practical terms. so 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 as active as 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 gives 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 law 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 open the day in thailand and still generally accepted and safe on the active is the eligibility to see it 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 couple as 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 to yeah, while silent 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 is still

a very extreme me 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 as the w corresponding chair and some along. thank you so much. i, as russia as president, is heading to north korea on his wave lot improvement stopped off in rushes. far eastern city of yeah. codes after visiting technology in defense projects in the region. he is now traveling on to north korea's capital appealing young for talks with roller came john own the 2 are expected to sign an official strategic partnership earlier put in praise. north korea for its support of his war in ukraine, was to day visits is his 1st trip to north korea in 24 years. north

korean leader kim, join in russia last you shaking hands with his russian counts upon the lot to my present demand. he now caused an invincible come read the notes for us as a trip to north korea. and 2 said racing with came the latest demonstration of deepening toys between moscow and fuel. yeah, that throughout the series of the united states of june, closest since russia lost its full scale invasion of ukraine's 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 blue machine, sending millions of munitions to must go. they say russia in return has provided north korea with military technology. and the can only kate, in defiance of un resolutions sold in washington, have held an emergency cool to discuss the visit. but despite the western criticism,

the kremlin said it has every right to develop ties withdrawn yet, 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, teaching a b, one strategic boma to allow for the shooting for you did the 1st 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 the shared folder. so for ritz pod said it was responding to a barrel as of north korean balloons. filled with the seas and trash that was sent towards the south. earlier i spoke about all of this with james trader in taipei and i go see my know scanning w as correspondence um, both of them. one for east asia and the other one for russia. i began by asking zan goes in ringo what his new strategic partnership between a russia and north korea could possibly enter. well, nicole,

we don't know the color of the deal yet. it is expected to be signed tomorrow. but we do know that the thing it 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 at the time even included a close on automatic military assistance in case one of the sides of wants to be invaded at 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? as ruler, came down on hoping to get out of his deepening ties with flooding. and putting, 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 and 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, 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, a devoted to a political context is that these are 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. those were a james cheater, dw east asia corresponding from taipei and so as you my know, sky, our rush of correspondence from rico. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. at least 18 people have been killed in lamps. lions triggered by heavy rains across central america. a salvador ecuador, and guatemala. have been hit particularly hard scores of people injured or missing

. thousands more have had to evacuate their homes and are staying in temporary shelters. the highlands, former prime minister attack. soon shana watts has formerly as been formerly indicted for allegedly insulting the monarchy back in 2015. so no one's 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 tiling this week. the south korean government has ordered doctors to go back to work a man, a prolonged strength. medical professionals have been participating in a months long strike to protest increasing medical school admissions. under the law doctor is defying the return to work order can face suspension of their licenses in the us over 75000000 people are under extreme heat alerts, temperatures about 32 degrees celsius or hitting the midwest. and ne,

where is usually 10 degrees cooler at this time of the year, is high heat will continue to spread affecting most of the us population this week . and staying in the united states, basketball fans in the city of boston have been celebrating after their team. the celtics won the 18th and b, a championship of the celtic clue. the when i'm reading the dallas mavericks, 106 points to 88 in a game 5 of the final series, celtics shooting guard. jaylen brown is loaded the most valuable player, the win set a new and the a record. the celtics now have the most titles in championship history. they've been a previous time with the la lakers to and over to the year of 2024 soccer championship here in germany or france as managed to pull off

a narrow one mill when over austria. thanks to an unlucky own goal by austrian defend maximilian very well, but it wasn't all good news for the french. there kept him coolly and bob paid came off in the 90 a minute with a broken nose after colliding with an austrian player. it's unclear what that would mean for friends when they face group the leaders, the netherlands on friday, and monday also. so all the 1st of match day for the teams and group a it and it with the 1st major shock result of the tournament. delivered by slovak, jo snatched an early goal against belgium and defended furiously to hold on for a one now victory. and the 2nd group came romania play their 1st year of pain championship game in 24 years. and the few grain. 3 mill, the premium team, apologize to their fans after the final whistle say they didn't show their best. while a hero 2024 is in full swing here in germany,

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a local charity and funded by donations 8 teams competing. they play for aside games with 27 minute tubs. so many football has given them a fresh start. i think that's, that's what the soonest see. we have as a full point community in germany. now the country said football is a place where people come together with so many different lives, which probably was fortunate. like like always maybe one does lucky as, as we all, maybe i'm to have football. it's such a unifier to, to come together to celebrate the game we love and said to, oh, just just be hopefully be be playing football. i think that's the purpose of this event. since from the launch, a euro tournament have turned out to show the support. the week long the vein gives a chance for the so called beautiful game to bridge divides and for players from old backgrounds to she a and a love of the spirit. and with that we've reached the end of our show would stay

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