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in madison, as a life stop system with season 3 of our award winning documentary series, her women in asia the this is the daily news live from the in a political shakeup in thailand of the navy, a decade is millet treat backs, bolts, pro democracy, opposition, policies, when by a landslide and parliamentary elections, the leader of the biggest grouping says he is ready to become prime minister spots the reform is still facing. major obstacles will say coming up on the show tuck,
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he looks to be headed for a runoff and it's presidential election. no player with a has a much from sunday's nail by to vote. assessing the stage for a 2 weeks baffled between incumbent president. add one of the opposition candidates . come all kil, extroverted and ukraine's president's meets with the british prime minister below them, as lensky and rashid cole. folks in the english countryside, plus the german shots that will of choice is due to be addressing a policy summit. here in the initial it says picking off the global global solutions summit and just a few moments. and we'll be bringing you that speech fully. lights the minute gives mckinnon. welcome to the program, thailand's pro democracy or position has achieved a stunning victory. and paul,
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them entry elections to are full mixed groups. the move forward and to tie policies, cap to well as a hosp, the popular vote. it's seen as strong review to the military backs government, which 1st came to power in a to in 2014 greeted by twos of prime minister, the pizza named dining room, boston. his election was elated, supporting the victory of the progressive of position, need assistance, shockwave through time and political establishment and could bring nearly 10 years of minute feedback to me to an end. the head of the move forward party is confident in his mandate. the sentiment of the era has changed and it's right. it was the right timing that people have
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been through enough of the last decade in the past decade and today is a new day and hopefully it's full of bright sunshine of hope going forward. new fluids closer to the young, liberal and welcome the promise of change. i also feel that it carries a new meal and will bring about even more changes. and i hope that there will be good things happening, and thailand have been look okay, you need them either to to move forward policy for the matter of a quarter to 2 bill because it has to pause on other policies. i think the very straightforward, clear and for them, and you'll find that being able to execute the money, throw money, not man, because i have the thing i need them on but forming a coalition. government might not be easy me for, it has very ambitious goals to a, the whole, the political system on the economy. they want to challenge the conservative rows
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of the mona key and the military and tie society in general. ross is looking to partner up with 5 of the cardinal position parties, including gone, is up to tie headed by the daughter of the former prime minister extension to what truck they campaigned with more traditional populous messages. even if a coalition is formed, it might not be easy to replace the incumbent government. the prime minister will officially be selected in july and evoked by the lo house of parliament and the 250 seats senate the senators were put in place by the current leadership, and so would likely vote to protect their interests. this could scott me forwards, chose to form a progressive government. i ask as much as the asia pacific bureau
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chief, how long it could take now until a new government is formed. it's really hard to say, but probably it's going to take weeks, a lot of horse trading here in thailand expected i follow to press conferences of the to a front runners and this electoral race. and uh, the good news for their supporters at least is that both have indicated beauty. that is and move forward that they do want to work together. move forward has invited 5 parties to join talks among them to type your di has accepted a that they will talk to the move forward. so these are positive signs, but when it comes to the, the not so bold through the details, it will get a lot more tricky because move forward has quite some radical ideas to overhaul the constitution. for instance, when it comes to the royal defamation laws, for instance, the question as to what extent will they be amended to what extent our coalition
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partners are going to carry the, the ideas that move forward stance for a long now, it's not only the $500.00 members of parliament that are going to be negotiating and choosing a new prime minister is that these are these $250.00 cent. it says appointed by the military. that will also pos of the process. can you explain to us what difference these 250 sent it says make of all they make a huge difference because if you look at the last election in 2019, i probably would turn on the job. did not windows by numbers, but it was pure tyler but made a position party that one those elections, but they couldn't form a coalition and they didn't get the 250 volts of the military pointed non elected senator spots. those votes went directly to prior. john, i'll try and that is why even this time around he could potentially are technically a still stay in the seat of power become prime minister because he only needs for coalition partners. if he gets those 250 volts,
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now move forward. party has reached out to the senators already and said, look, we will one some of your votes, because if you do the numbers and you look at the 5 parties state, the new forward is now doing collision talks with they will get 90309 seats, but what they need, it's 375 seats and that means they will have to convince some of those senators to vote in favor of this new progressive party. and what about the role but the ami plays? i mean, how concerned the people in thailand the all me could try to again interest here in the democratic process. well, the chief of the army has already said they are real estate and stay out of it. so at least for now, there is no military cool on the cards at this point, although people here in the streets have told me, you know, never read it out. but that is not the expectation. now the turn out for this election is the highest on record. the entire history of people have huge
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expectations for a coalition to form and also want us to point out that the party of the car and prime minister, you turn auto has said he will leave. the correlation talks to the front runners in this race and uh, they will wait and see what the they come up with. so everybody at the moment is looking at those colors and talks that are you have to come get mathis in bangkok. thanks so much for the update. now the german town slow olaf shorts is about to give a key note address here in berlin. he'll be speaking at the global solutions summit, which is taking place here in the gym and capital. and we're going to be bringing that speech to you live, we can see. but he is the out the summit, i think just gathering but for some sosa opportunities right now and off the will be bringing that address to you live off the he's spoken. he'll be taking part in a panel discussion that will be moderated by the w's chief international editor,
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richard wilka. and the trunk fly up at the level solutions summit in berlin. and while we're waiting for the chance slot to, to start speaking and i'm joined here in, in the studio by d w's, political correspondent, benjamin alvarez, group and benjamin. today's summit, symbolic and is looking for solutions to global problems, isn't it? what's the chancellor likely to focus on today? he has been focusing really on having a multi polar world, but not just europe. we're not just the g 7 and they do 20 is taking decisions and will also shape the global self. he wants to have them on the ice i levels so to have a discussion with those countries. he has been stressing that recently a lot that there are other powerful countries in the americas, in asia,
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in africa. and during his recent trips, he also stressed that that he wants them to have a voice and he wants them also as part of the solutions and not just talking about problems, but talking about solutions. now, you know, here in germany, inside, everywhere across europe, rushes attack on ukraine is really over shadowing. everything isn't set. and ukrainian president, the modem is a landscape savanski has, is in europe. he's currently on a to across year of his, in the u. k. at the moment and he met with trump slope. so it's in berlin on sunday . can you remind me of what the discussions caused? what did they talk about? so it's a pretty big toy. he's now in london. you wasn't berlin. he wasn't wrong. he was also in paris. he met the german toss of the 1st visit by the ukranian presidency as fresh as invasion and ukraine. he prays for them and he has been doing, and they have been strained relations between ukraine in between and germany. when it comes to weapons saying that germany is not doing enough some even when further thing, the germany has been dragging its feet. he met the child. so he also met the president,
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the de facto many for these new package of military, a 2700000000 years, the biggest military age package so far. and of course is meeting them. now i had of the g 7 lead assignment that will take place in japan, and he draws your mind only a few days time and he wants to meet them. he also wants the support that he has from them. and it was of course, important also for government officials to have to sign to have these visit drive. now that would details that will meet to the press. it wasn't sure if this would happen. of course, a very, very big security and security measures that happened taken of coastal benjamin and said, i'm going to interrupt to that because the counselor has started leaving more often . we are looking at them from a very domestic perspective in all right. interconnected interdependent word. this is simply not enough. that's why a summit like yours focusing on both the solutions and the global nature is so
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useful. no matter where you come from or which few to work in climate action, global governance, or migration fighting poverty or bonds in human rights. all of these pressing challenges have one thing in common. we would only be able to address them successfully if we find new ways of global corporation. the international order, as we know it faces tremendous challenges. rushes bluetooth war against ukraine might be the most brazen and outrages attack on that. but it's by far not the only one and the national law and rulings by international courts of being a lot. universe of human rights being dismissed as regional interventions. nuclear, proliferation posts as a growing, swept in east asia and the middle east. i could go on, but this list. so the 1000000 your requests from before us is how can we maintain
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them into natural order based on the un cotter and on international law in the 21st century are now we're here to talk about solutions. and for me, the 1st part of the solution is this. any effective international order needs to reflect the words multi pulled arity univ uni portal are or by told i word of the past might have been easier to organize, at least for those who has the power. but it's not the word we are living in any more countries in asia, africa and the americans have growing populations and it cannot be economies. hundreds of millions of people globally have lifted themselves out of poverty and joining the middle class, they have every right to aspire to the same level of prosperity, participation and global influence that citizens of europe in north america enjoy.
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that's what the global order and the 21st century needs to reflect. the good news is that an over housing, majority of countries of the world agree on the principles to disruption order must be built on. with some notable exceptions, russia being one of them. we all agree on the pro, he bishop of the use of force and international relations. we want to see the silver entity, territorial integrity, and political independence of other states. respected this view is also shaft, but those countries which will not sitting at the table in san francisco in 1945, when the u. n. shop was adopted on the 10 years later in bundle indonesia. many of those countries from africa and asia rates, their voices for self determination, territorial integrity,
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serenity underwood without colonialism and imperative. what else are we trying to achieve when we support ukraine against russia's attack? spend? why then? some of you might ask to some of these countries, hesitate to criticize russia more openly. why did influential countries such as india, south africa, i'll give them sit up stain from the relevant un released solutions, calling on russia's russia to end. it's indeed the invasion these questions, these of nonsense when i talk to leaders from those countries, many assure me that they are not questioning the underlying principles of our international order. what they are struggling with is the, the quote application of those principles. what they expect is representational for terms and then.

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