j.p. and increase majority. she had one shop deliver brags that and in the end she couldn't british prime minister theresa may says she'll step down as conservative party leader she'll leave her post in a few weeks so what does that mean for britain's efforts to leave the e.u. i'm sumi so misconduct and this is the day. so i am standouts in which i will resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party on friday the 7th of june that it doesn't change the numbers it doesn't change the best spirit and then that paul and i can make a decision it is and will always remain a matter of deep regret something that i have not been able to deliver rex it but

the reality is the new conservative leader isn't going to solve the problem i do so with no ill will but with enormous and ensuring gratitude to catch the opportunity to serve the country i. also coming out making history in taiwan on day one of a new law allowing same sex marriages hundreds of couples lined up to get hitched the island's become the 1st place in asia to legalize same sex union. guys to join or unclear but if i didn't get married on the 1st day i would probably regret it for my entire life but i did sense when we talk about marriage equality equality is crucial. but 1st we start with theresa may she says she's resigning as leader of her conservative party on june 7th may delivered an emotional speech outside 10 downing street she said she tried

her best to honor the bricks and referendum result. she's been under growing pressure to step down over her failure to get m.p.'s to support her breaks a deal which laid out the terms of the u.k.'s departure from the european union so now be a fierce race to take over the conservative party leadership a couple of hats are already in the ring she called the job the honor of a lifetime whatever our backgrounds the color of our skin or who we love we stand together and together we have a great future our politics may be under strain but there is so much that is good about this country so much to be proud of so much to be optimistic about. i will shortly leave the job that is being the owner of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill

will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. very emotional theresa may there after a very turbulent time in office let's bring in our correspondents on the story barbara vessel is in london and teri schultz is in brussels good to see you both barbara let's start with you after 3 years let's talk about the timing here what made theresa may announce that she stepped down now. she simply sumi could not withstand the constant onslaught of her own party anymore and what broke the camel's back really was the last her last attempt to push the it was drawl agreement was the european union through parliament it was disguised legally it within a different law however it was mauled less the same thing in new clothes and she

had made a compromise or tried to make a compromise with the opposition offering a referendum and offering a temporary staging of britain in the customs union and that was finally during this week what drove her party really up the fences and it was the end her group leader upon a parliamentary group leader andrea lets him step down kevin and kevin had threatened to walk out entries in may finally after so many attempts to already oust her she finally had to acknowledge that this was the end of her road and her tory friends or partners had told her this friday was the last day where she could go off on her own will then next week she would have been pushed so far by she had to go at this point is what you're saying and now if we look at had a furious race some might even say a vicious race for the conservative party leadership has started so where did the chips fall here who will be the next pm. if i had

a crystal ball but you're right saying it's going to be vicious but because usually during those. sort of rounds of fine trying to find out new leader for the party and at the same time prime minister there is a lot of bloodletting at the moment the bookies put the money on boris johnson because he has a lot of support at party grassroots people like him they think he's a freak or he muses him and they really overlook and they like to overlook his weaknesses which is his real source for power who's just meant one party friend called he is not the details man which might be said the deadly fall prime minister he doesn't like to read files at all but still it is boris johnson because he is determined here or let's say he turned into one throughout the last months and maybe during the last year and so the tory party hardliners made may very well

support him because he promises he's going to push drag or kick britain out of the european union by any means are terry let's come to you in brussels now you might not say that people there were entirely surprised by the announcement that theresa may will step down but take us through some of the reactions we saw they are today . i don't think anyone was surprised if anything their surprise she's hung on this long undergoing such a battering from her own party from her own parliament and for a large for a large part of her counterparts around europe reacted with empathy she was praised as courageous peoples told her it wasn't her fault the dutch prime minister said you know the problem is that the process is bogged down the problem wasn't to resume herself at the same time they're coming out also very quickly and saying don't let the next person in line think we're going to reopen this withdrawal

agreement we have a deal on the table so basically whoever the brits decide they want in power they can step up and take the deal that we're offering them it's not going to be rediscussed cannot really a sigh of relief because nobody knows exactly what's coming next terry so who does that you definitely not want to see become the prime minister. i don't think anyone is in politics enough to say that at this point i mean they know all of these characters whose names have been thrown out now they've all come through brussels many times in this position or that position i mean the front runner boris johnson was a journalist here decades ago everyone knows him. he's been here in as different cabinet ministers as well so no one saying who they don't want i think everyone basically except that the next prime minister is likely to be a pro bricks a tier and you know to reason they may not have been such a such a hard campaigner on that so they may be uncomfortable with the next person but

again what they're saying now is that the e.u. 27 are unified behind their position that this is the withdrawal agreement and nothing else is going to be reopened so in that case they're thinking you know it really doesn't matter who comes on that side this is what they're going to have to work with from brussels on the question is where are things headed in london terry let's listen to what the labor leader germany corben had to say earlier yes we want to prevent a no deal bricks and we will do everything in parliament to prevent them no do but the reality is a new conservative leader isn't going to solve the problem that has to be another opportunity for the people of this country to decide who they want government how they want to come to be run what the long term structure is that government i think we did a general election we don't need another tory leader installed by tory a. ok barbara break this down for us where are things headed are we headed towards a no deal bragg's it now or could we see new elections. the chances for

a no deal bricks and sumi are certainly rising because we heard barres johnson already say today that he would take britain out of the european union on october 31st that is hello and the brakes a day that the european union sort of gave out during the last extension and saying this is it folks that was another half year nothing has happened so far so boris johnson has already sort of made clear that deal or no deal britain will leave and that of course increases the chances for no deal because nothing has changed here with regard to bracks it he he will have if it's johnson or somebody else the successor after reason maybe year she will have this same problem mentary majority's he will have to face the same problems getting a deal through parliament however legal experts now say it might not be binding

this conclusion by parliament that they don't want to heartbreaks it so far as nuns johnson and others know that very well the breaks that hardliners might very well head for it but the country remains divided and of course the tory party remains deeply divided the moderate forces in within the tories they now see that their stock is falling and so johnson or somebody else might yet to split the tory party there will be tremendous bitterness and all this good talk at the moment devolved we need to reunite the country yes they do need to but who's going to do it there is far by far and wide nobody to be seen who could stop or if nothing has changed on the ground there wouldn't we just see a new conservative party leader and up exactly work to resign may found herself. absolutely that's it i mean it breaks it will be thrown back to sort of ground 0

we'll start at square one and then the new leader will just be at the very same point having knows a certain parliamentary majority brussels as we heard and as everybody who knows about this is quite clear about will not reopen the deal and the country is deeply divided so what do you want what is there to work who has more or less nothing so you need somebody who could really do a political miracle and we don't really see who that could be in the tory party so there will be uncertain times of britain might be dragged and kicked out of the european union at the end of october we also might as well see new elections coming up if the whole thing breaks apart before then everything is totally up in the air and very uncertain times for the government in london and for the whole country certainly sounds like a conversation the 3 of us have had before all right barbara basal in london and teri schultz and brussels thank you both now it has been

a turbulent 3 years for theresa may as we heard her premiership was marked by a series of stumbles and struggles here's a look back. even when she tried to be cool to reason may couldn't help but look a little stiff her leadership style earned her the nickname mae bot and it was with the same robotic determination that she would try and push through bricks that. when made took over the premiership from david cameron britain had just voted to leave europe may has self had campaigned to remain in luton yet despite her own convictions she would make it her personal mission to deliver a breakfast deal for the british people. following the referendum we face a time of great national change and i know because we're great britain that we will rise to the challenge as we leave the european union we will forge a forge a bold new positive role for ourselves in the world but forging that new role would

prove much harder than anticipated may's brags that negotiations appeared to be doomed from the start the e.u. loath to see the u.k. leave the union made it clear that there would be no cherry picking it soon became evident that the bracks of may could deliver was not the breaks that many in britain had voted for. and attempt to get a stronger mandate for her bracks a vision backfired spectacularly tough to make cold snap elections in june 2017 she ended up weaker than before short of a majority in parliament and forced to make a deal with the hardline northern irish the u.p.a. in order to govern but may wouldn't be deterred smiling through gritted teeth she carried on with the task of pushing through bracks it's come what may brett's it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of it bricks it needs frets it i'm very clear bricks it does mean rex's. empty phrases drawing ridicule from the opposition all we care is even more bizarre

soundbites remember when we. ads were actually means great see them we had liberal breaks it and now we have ambitious managed divergence. and she got flak from within her own ranks with several of her key ministers resigning over the breakfast issue for. finally against all the odds and after months of negotiations london and brussels agreed on a draft for exit deal e.u. leaders approved it but may fail to drum up enough support for the deal at home. at the last minute she was forced to call off a parliamentary vote after it became clear that she would not get the deal through . a desperate last ditch attempts to meet european leaders followed to try and get some concessions to make the deal more palatable to her critics but

to no avail just as members of her own party seize the moment to challenge her leadership but may survive the vote of no confidence amongst tory m.p.'s. a fight over her deal in see. 3 times it went before parliament and 3 times it was rejected by m.p.'s. it was postponed and meant britain had to take part in the european parliament elections muster talks between the opposition labor party and made conservative government speaking a compromise of a break that broke down lunging the country back into uncertainty may's final attempt to repackage her grex a deal fails. in the end it was too much for may to survive. now that an announcement from the british prime minister comes as the election is

underway check and irish voters head to the polls friday of the 2nd day of voting turnout could be a concern in the czech republic only 18 percent of voters headed to the polls for the elections 4 years ago a voting started thursday in the netherlands and britain and official results will be revealed until all countries have voted on sunday but i suppose from the netherlands just a surprise victory for the center left there. let's talk about the elections this weekend with christopher young he's a political scientist at berlin's for university joins us here christopher thank you for being with us let's start with those exit polls from the netherlands what do you make of those results that. parties don't appear to have done very well so on the one hand i'm not so surprised because what we've seen is a fragmentation of the party system so we see and parties populist parties do better but this story that they will replace traditional politics i think has been

a bit oversold so seeing them do will but not as well as maybe they were predicted to does not surprise me so much what does surprise me a bit who did well which were the social democrats but i think that may be more of a sort of country specific effect rather than a you wide thing so what did the dutch center left do right. i mean i think maybe it's more that the enemy's did a lot of things wrong. i mean he's a very charismatic leader he did a very good election campaign so i think he sort of singlehandedly won it. if you if you look at the debate surrounding this election what we keep hearing in france and also other countries is that this is a battle between anti e.u. forces and pro e.u. forces between nationalists and progressives is that really what this vote boils down to yes and no again we have a lot of anti e.u. parties that are now doing quite well again some of them are more driven by

national factors but across e.u. we have seen skeptical voices but i think even the parties have realised have been within the e.u. can be quite helpful as long as you can. make that you do your work for you and so they may all agree on being and you but then they are not actually a cohesive political force such rather they have very specific national interests and i would be very surprised if they can manage to. both you know have those national interests represented and yet be a cohesive from that you love all right we've seen some divisions as you said between those populist parties in different european countries we see in the parties also stumping for votes making their last pushes and we've seen young voters also coming out in force do you think we're going to see a big turnout because this is generally european elections we don't see a big turnout. i think big needs to be some want to contextualize unfortunately as i keep telling my students not too many people go to vote for the european election

even though it is a very important one i think now people have realized that it is more important though and we've seen a lot of mobilization particularly in germany but across europe and not just by political parties but even by sort of. private actors and i do hope that that will bring more people into the electoral cycle because otherwise the only people that do go to vote tend to be the very euro skeptical ones you said this is an important vote why is that so you know what issues are really being solved at a european level that voters should be casting their ballots for well as we have seen the europe in itself has become of course an important issue that has shown us this but beyond that there seem to be a lot of problems that really only are solvable at the european level and i think the type of issues that have to comport and particularly immigration on the one hand but also environmental issues on the other really require a european court a nation and because those 2 issues are so salient for so many voters now and they

have begun to realize that really it needs to have a european perspective here i think that has also driven a lot of people to become more active the european election how much of an indicator are these elections for you know national governments and national parties we keep hearing this in germany this is going to be a bellwether for the social democrats for the conservatives is that really true is it going to change the way we see politics being made on a nash. level. somewhat like we've mentioned the european elections tend to be elections where people maybe try out some new parties they may try to experiment a little bit with who they vote for and that can actually help shift allegiance. maybe you vote for a new party at the european level and you're quite happy with what you see so the next national election comes around and you're more willing to cost your vote for you know a party you have not voted for before. beyond that though i think it is

a bellwether because it highlights the issues that are important to voters and i think the traditional parties have maybe not done such a good job of necessarily always capturing the excitement of voters for those issues writer christopher political scientist at berlin's free university thanks for sharing your insights with us today thank you for having me. right if you watched the show last night you might have seen our coverage about kenya's high court about deciding on a law that bans gay sex now today that court held the ban that means same sex relations in kenya are still punishable with up to 14 years in prison activists were fighting to reverse the law which states back to the british colonial area. now it's a different story in taiwan the island has become the 1st place in asia to legalize same sex marriage the new law went into effect on friday and dozens of couples celebrated by tying the knot the weddings came

a week after lawmakers made the decision to legalize gay marriage despite conservative opposition more than 500 same sex couples registered on friday while many are celebrating their own life changing moments activists say it's not yet the end of the road to equality. alex and joe have turned a new page in their relationship taiwan's top court 1st made gay marriage a constitutional right in 2017 but they had to wait until this month before legislation was passed allowing them to tie the knot. engine balance is a gift from my sister when the constitutional court handed down its ruling 2 years ago i feel very emotional that it is finally coming true passing through the back and outs now which is you're going to use the stamps for the 1st time on the wedding document with the intensity of the night here the couple didn't wear tuxedoes but a simple outfit with a bow tie in the iconic rainbow colors for them marriage is about more than romance

. when we talk about marriage equality equality is crucial. this is the most important day in my life and for taiwan's human rights history. you guys aren't here if i didn't get married on the 1st day i would probably regret it for my entire life. this is also a kind of legal assurance for us. alex and joe were among hundreds of couples who tied the knot on friday but the new law only recognizes trans national partners from $26.00 countries around the world where same sex marriage is already legalized in other words all asian transnational couples in taiwan are excluded. leaders of the campaign for marriage equality said there are other problems with the law which

may trigger further litigation if they're not rectified it. says to. include the county. and it is truly dimension 8. 100 which. is terrific and might. transform. in a controversial referendum last year over 70 percent of voters agreed to restrict the definition of marriage to heterosexual couples. despite the fact that the government legalized same sex marriage by enacting with special law the opposition groups to criticize it as turning a blind eye to public opium and they're not ruling out any possibility other referendum against it much of time when a society clearly views gay marriage skeptically so the individual families joe regrets that his own mother didn't attend his wedding day where his basic

understanding and discrimination won't disappear now that the door of marriage has opened we still need to make a lot of effort to communicate change is a slow process. both alex and joe say that the key to true equality is not the law but education. despite the rocky road ahead many of taiwan's newly wedded gay couples are optimistic and determined to carry on. all right if that was the day as ever of a conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at g.w. news or my handle at some ugly ass and i don't forget to use our hash tag the day we'll see you next time.

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