and we can speak to cindy sue from the lobby alliance for human rights she joins us from taipei hi cindy thank you for joining us now 1st of all this result is something that you have actively campaigned for what does today's vote mean to you i want you to be. mean so much to us lobby and also as my role as a mother it's 2 children with a partner. we've been together for 9 years and. have 2 children and their careers and now and today when the law has finally passed we can finally be married and finally get parental rights or our children busy. yes and what rights are now guaranteed to you under this law. under this law we can now if you marry just like they are of sexual person so we're guaranteed with alarm or nurturing rights and oh so a lot of the laws today we can also be able to legally busy adopt our children. now this photo has been a long time coming not only because the court in 2017 ruled that parliament does have to in trying this right into law that being said just last year the taiwanese voters actually rejected same sex marriage in a series of referendums so how accepted i

cindy sue reports from the government office in taipei. >> dressed in their finest, same-sex couplesfor -- arrive for their big day. it is a day that some couples have waited several years four and it's a day that taiwan's lgbt community and has waited decades for,howing off their rriage registration certificates. weddingeady held ceremonies and someen have together for years, but now they are legally married and can enjoy the right that heterosexual couples take for granted, including the right to adopt each other's biological children and make medical decisions for each other. received it, i was very touched. i could never imagine this happening. i am very emotional. i feel that taiwan cared for human rights, which is ve good. >> taiwan has shown that a traditional asia and society can lelize same-sex marriages. basically they went against majority opinion. they couldba face lash, but there is a strong sense of hope iwan could have a positive influence on lgbtq writes in asia. many are grateful. to them, today is a day to celebrate. cindy sue, bbc news, taipei. ♪ ja: school student

cindy sue, bbc news, taipei. ♪ jane: school student held strikes around the world today to demand actionchange. sparked by aere swedish student last year. >> marches through the streets of spain, demonstrations through india. protests in new zealand. these schools, strike movement continues to grow, calling for urgent action on climate change. towe want the government declare alite emergency. >> we are putting pressure on the government fast and now. reporter: leaving the protests in sweden, a 15-year-old. her decision to boycott classes have influenced others around the world to follow suit. >> some adults think us is wrong foo go on strike, that we aould study so we can mak difference in future. but the fact is, it will be to late when we finish our studies is something they ignore. today's strike is their biggest yet. it comes as global temperatures are rising. major changes are that will mean cutting emissions to zero by 2050. futures say it is theirth at is at strike -- that is at stake and they are calling on .lder generations rebecca morel, bbc news. it is hard to imagine a scienc

-- cindy sue. thousands have gathered. it is pouring rain.rom the lgbt —— timeout. one woman i spoke to said she had a friend from high school who has been very afraid of coming out to his friends and family for yea rs out to his friends and family for years and is living in fear. she wa nts years and is living in fear. she wants this bill to give people equal rights and to educate the public that it's ok to be gay, it is not an illness, it is not a crime, that they are not weird. i know parliament has been told by the top court it must pass a. two of these laws may respect the letter of the laws may respect the letter of the law but they are very restrictive. only one of the laws proposed by the government would actually give the 93v government would actually give the gay community, same—sex couples, the same rights as heterosexual couples and that's the one that the lgbt community wants the parliament to pass. the other two laws restrict their rights, they don't allow for adoption, they don't allow for inheritance, they don't even allow the