the, the business data we in is line from berlin, thailand legalize the same sex marriage. kyle incentives both overwhelmingly in favor of a marriage, equality bill becoming the 1st country in southeast asia. to do so, also coming up flood america, hales, north korea, 1st of forwarding his war and ukraine, had a meeting with kim joan. it'll be his 1st visit to appear on young in 24 years. the

welcome to the show on the co fairly thailand has become the 1st country in southeast asia to legalize same sex marriage. senators passed a landmark marriage, a quality bill over whelming leave by 130 to 4 to allow same sex couples to tie the knot with 18 extensions. that as the vote has been hailed as a gigantic victory by campaigners and members of the l. g. b t q community, many of whom gathered ad thailand's parliament. to welcome the vote. the law is expected to come into force later this year. no one wouldn't beeping. and we can now talk to mazda of, for an angie's a marriage, a quality advocate from thailand and founder of samsung. and i've called y'all once on foundations, an organization that works to advance the rights of l. g, b, t q plus women and girls much. you're welcome to the w, you've been fighting for equal rights for years. how do you feel after this huge

victory for your movement? a thank you because i really have be that finally we, we, and lope being i have been probably being for almost 10. yeah. we've my own family include that, my wife and my daughters. and if we cannot, etc. if this was all odd as strong support from our ally, especially our community, who has been in front of these married quality movements. what will this mean and practical day to day terms for the l g particular community in thailand? i think we had been struck go for almost to the kid to advancing right to family for i would to be a few people, the law, some of our colleagues along the way back we have be you will be with a lot of young activities these to my really quality achieve made it means so much

for our community, especially out to the i q young people who are out in front of a democracy movement at my sales at the rainbow family advocate. these means so much for our family, but it's not the meet that only tylen. and thailand is the 1st country. here we add that the country by new allow, globally, we still need to fight a lot for many, many pads of the will when thailand policy. but with the ad, the pass off, the will also possible that these, the reason why these, these, our, um, would you be you movement at cheap man? it's not only thailand. and today's decision in thailand has prompted you to make a pretty big announcement yourself as an tell us about your plans to get married yourself soon as we have been fighting sol my read the body

b and when you achieve man, i announced today that on the 23rd south november this. yeah, we are going to marry. it's in not to thailand and all of you i will come to joy our see do based on all my read the quality and yes, i will marry it as well. my time for and and thank you so much and congratulations will try to be there and nova. thank you so much and thank you for all of you as a part and thing for my community. i would to ask you, why are you thailand you're in the parliament today? thank you. the precious president is heading to north korea on his way. fluttering brewton stopped off and rushed as far eastern city of your coats. after visiting technology and defense projects in the region, he is now traveling on to north korea's capital preowned young for talks with ruler, came jump on. the tool are expected to sign an official strategic partnership earlier food and praise north korea for its support of his war and ukraine was to

de visit is the 1st trip to north korea by putin in 24 years. north korean leader, kim jong, and 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 on this trip to north korea. and to 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 booms. she's sending millions of munitions to must go. they say russia in baton has provided most career with military technology. and you can only kate in defiance of un resolutions sold in

washington, have held in emergency cool to discuss the visit. but despite the western criticism, the kremlin said it has every right to develop ties with tongue yet and shouldn't be challenged for doing so. this comes this tensions on the korean peninsula steadily 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 barrels of north korean blooms, filled with the seas and trash that was sent towards the south. earlier i spoke about this with james trader, and i've, i've seen manascale that we use correspondence for east asia and russia,

respectively. i begin by asking cycles in riga what this new strategic partnership between russia and north korea could possibly into well only. busy we don't know the color of the deal yet. it is expected to be signed tomorrow. but we do know that nothing important is expected in continuing this support that he's 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 the 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 wants 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 fluttering foot. and i want to quote, 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 u. s. and south korean officials and the lead on to this is this have been really stressing that concern that's in exchange for what they believe is nor creating weapons transfers to russia to sustain it's ongoing invasion of the, of ukraine that russia in were ton,

is going to be offering assistance for the spice satellite program, affords weapons program. that would be, of course, in contravention of un resolutions. but the broader 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 coincide with it, satellites, whether that's nice. so in year or for, the u. s. is in the pacific allies that in asia and the context of this, the backdrop or guns which this meeting is taking place is of course, rising tensions in the korean peninsula. some reports and concerns today that was an exchange of fire across the team and to try something between the 2 chris that was james charity w as east asia of corresponding from ty pay and earlier say, gosh, you my know ski rush of correspondent from re got let's take a look now and some other stories making headlines around the world today, or reading and nobel peace prize, laurie and argues mohammed audi has been sentenced to

a year in prison for publishing propaganda against the state. the activist has been in jail since november of 2021, for protesting against the obligatory who job for women. she spent much of the last 20 years in and out of jail for campaigning for human rights in iran, or at least 18 people have been killed in lance lives triggered by heavy rains across central america. el salvador, ecuador, and guatemala. have been hit particularly hard with scores of people injured or still missing. thousands more have had to evacuate their homes and are staying in temporary shelters. thailand's former prime minister talks and she now want has been formally indicted for allegedly insulting the monarchy back in 2015. to know why it's only recently returned to thailand. he was jailed shortly after arriving on separate charges and then given a royal part in a series of high profile, political legal cases are ongoing in thailand this week the south korean

government has ordered doctors to go back to work and made a prolonged strike. medical professionals have been participating in a months long strike to protest increasing medical school admissions. under the new law doctor is defying the return to work order can face suspension of their licenses and some sports now in the united states and basketball fans in the city of boston have been celebrating after their team. the celtics wonder 18th m b a championship. the sound takes between the win after beating the dallas mavericks $106.00 points to $88.00 in the game, 5 of the final series celtic shooting, gar, jaylen brown was voted the most valuable player, the win set a new and b record, the celtics. now have the most titles and champions of history. they being

a previous time with the la lakers and over now to be here are 2024 soccer championship here in germany or france as managed to pull off a narrow one mill when over austria. that is thanks to an unlucky own goal by austrian defender maximilian very well. but it wasn't all good news for the french, their captain key and but they came off and the 9 d as minute with a broken nose. after colliding with an austrian player. it's unclear what that will mean for our friends when they face group be leaders. the netherlands on friday and monday also saw the 1st match day for the teams in a group e. and it was the 1st major shock result of the tournament delivered by slovakia who snatched an early goal against belgium and defended furiously to hold on for a one mill victory. and the 2nd group game romania played their 1st european championship game and 24 years. and b to crane 3. now, the premium team apologized to their fans, the after the final whistle for a while,

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