for us in taipei william thanks very much for bringing us up to date. thank you let's brief you now on other stories making the news venezuela's self declared president one bardot has confirmed he sent delegates to norway as that scandinavian country tries to mediate in the venezuelan crisis but quite a were denied any direct talks are underway with the president the duros government this is the 1st official confirmation of an attempt at dialogue and then a sway of those months long power struggle. a former american intelligence analyst chelsea manning has been jailed for contempt of court for the 2nd time this year after refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the weeks of wiki leaks manning has already spent 2 months in jail and repeatedly rejected prosecutor requests to cooperate with a court. the china born architect who shaped urban landscapes i am pay has died at the age of 102 his works have been held by many but also have met with controversy iran from hong kong's bank of china skyscraper to the class pyramid in the courtyard of the ro

a modest press of or to our studio in taipei where william young is keeping an eye on those trade talks for a way in china and the u.s. concluded those latest talks now yesterday what's the latest development. yes monica so sources have already hinted that an agreement an announcement of the u.s. china trade deal could happen during next week's trade talks in washington additionally media reports have suggested that china and the u.s. have already agreed on how to enforce that agreement however the details of how that would be real while will still be decided during next week straight talk and how do experts in china think about the prospect of both sides agreeing on a final deal in the coming weeks isn't likely. yeah so the chinese experts think that right now the remaining issues in the ongoing trade talk is actually not that hard to resolve for china in the u.s. however the u.s. did still want to keep some of the tariffs and so the question now is which terrorists to remove the u.s. is likely to keep the tariffs on high tech products from china while china well probably keep the tari

the cake shop owners from taipei have been dreaming of their special day since 2017 when taiwan's top court ruled same sex couples should be allowed to marry. had whistled taiwan may often be overlooked internationally the kind of the things we have done are visionaries that create you know we can be proud of that the hottentots are out there. but on top of the usual wedding stress is shane mark and other taiwanese same sex couples have a bigger problem support for the issue is divided. was the 3 different bills were table for friday's vote but only one use the word marriage put forward by the government it allows same sex couples similar rights as married heterosexual couples a bill satisfactory for the l g b t rights campaigners the other versions backed by conservative lawmakers were void of the term marriage. not everyone on this relatively liberal island shares these people's desire for equality in a series of referendums last year more than 2 thirds of voters decided marriage should only be defined as being between a man and a woman numbers that opponents of same sex marriage sa

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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

a lot faster now that we have all right cindy sue from the lobby alliance for human rights in taipei very good to have you with us thank you so much. well that's it for today thank you for joining us on news asia there's more stories on our website d.w. dot com slash asia and be sure to check us out on facebook as well. leave you with images of the new shin can send a bullet train a prototype being tested in japan it's scheduled to go into use in 2013 and would be the fastest train in the war. where i come from we had to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers on official information as a journeys i have worked on the streets of many cameras and they have problems are almost the same chord to the social inequalities a lack of the freedom of the press. go up should work on the floor to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see them while the folds of the hunt decide to put their trust in us. my name is johnny carson and part of the. we'll see p t p p b s the trade ministers of the succes

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

a bill was a voted on this friday in taipei.>hat wasn't the only bilon ofoffetoday inin parliament, was it? bills were tabled in the taiwanese legislature this friday. one that was sponsored by the ruling party, the democratic progressive party, and to others that were tabled by conservative groups. the two other bills did not ever the unions between people of the same-sex work marriages. -- they refer to them as civil unions. the word marriage was used in a different way. they have a majority in the legislature and they managed to receive support of some opposition lawmakers and other groups as well. all in all, when that bill was passed, there was a lot of joy outside on the streets of taipei where thousands of militants and onlookers were waiting for the results under the pouring rain. >> thank you very much. a lolot of joy in taiwan for gay rights advocates sanctify for equality continues. this, on the international day, , may 17ntally, commemorates the world health organization's decision to declassify homosexuality as a me

do all joining me from taipei is ross fine gold he's an asia political risk analyst thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera. the u.s. and china were thought to be quite close to striking a trade deal why is the u.s. threatening more tariffs on the stage. until they actually sign something or is new deal so whether it's negotiating style by the president or the fact that cheney's negotiating team still use a higher level approval obviously that means huge innings of personal approval then there actually is no deal so this could be negotiating partner it could be a misunderstanding about what the parties have agreed to as it goes to it being in draft form but obviously the result is the real potential the present in trouble for additional tariffs are imposed within the coming days at least the analysts from all stripes many since agree that imposing more will damage the economy will damage the economy not just in china but also in the u.s. does president trump how supports for this strategy of threatening more tariffs. it's an excellent question because if we see some divergence

now let's talk more about this with our con our correspondent in taipei william young william nice to have you on the show what's the feeling in china over these coming trade talks and it looks like we're having some technical issues here we'll try and come back to william later on to drivers in australia the united states england and south america say they've gone on strike the demonstrations are actually more of a protest given that drivers are not unionized and that's exactly the point with set to raise billions in cash from public markets friday driver said.

let's cross live to taipei and speak to our reporter cindy sui.four decades. our celebratory is the mood where you are? i am sitting outside the house of registration went 20 couples registered their marriage this morning and these were couples are willing to be photographed by the media and found by the media but throughout the day there will be couples coming in who would want a more low—key registration. in many parts of taiwan other couples will be registering. this is a location where a party of 200 people just happen. people going to lunch right 110w. happen. people going to lunch right now. it was definitely a very celebratory mood. it has been a struggle. it took the constitutional court to say that marriage law was unconstitutional. there was a two year deadline, which is today, to pass a new law to do this. people coming in with their pets, with the child they have been raising for yea rs, child they have been raising for years, some have been married for yea rs years, some have been married for years but with no legal protection but fin

let's go straight to the bbc‘s cindy sui, who is in taipei. for the country? yes, it is. the couples here are ecstatic, so excited, because some have been waiting for yea rs because some have been waiting for years to get married. this is a 30 years to get married. this is a 30 year struggle for iwan to have marriage equality and this hasn't come easy, there were lawsuits and a lot of opposition initially from the public. there was a referendum in which most of the people who voted decided they did not want same—sex marriages to have the same rights as heterosexual marriages. they didn't even heterosexual marriages. they didn't eve n wa nt heterosexual marriages. they didn't even want to call it marriage is. so this is quite a dramatic event that happened in taiwan's, quite a milestone, not only for taiwan but for asia. cindy, is this issue now settled, do you think, or will there continue to be pushed back from conservatives? already conservative groups including religious groups and parents groups are saying they are going to fight this, the

let's go straight to taipei now and correspondent william yang joining us good morning to you william so the parliament's voting session is still actually in progress and there are 3 different draft bills in that chamber today what exactly has been agreed so far. so right now the ruling party actually put forward the government's version to be considered 1st and so far they have voted about half of the provisions and the reason why media has consider it one as the 1st country to already legalize same sex marriage in asia is because the very critical number for provision which and tell us the detail of allowing same sex couples to have the right to register their marriage at a local household registration offices but like you just mentioned there's definitely not without any controversies leading up to this photo. from last year heavily challenge the government's options of legalizing same sex marriage and they have to last night. change the wording take out the original same sex marriage wording they replace it with marriage 1st registration so that the opponents are not going to be a

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emotional day for l g b t rights campaigners as they celebrated their victory outside parliament in taipei. the legislation survived a last minute attempt by conservatives to pass a watered down version. today the very significant day to us because we could finally pass a law is out to protect my family we've been fighting for for this change to ease. off for 5 years for me personally if it were i even my children and now that i do anything for the work. it's a happy thing for me that taiwan compounds such a lot of it although there were divisions it's still a happy occasion and i'm quite emotional 3 different bills were tabled for friday's vote but only one used the word marriage a bill satisfactory for rights campaigners the other versions backed by conservative lawmakers left out. the term marriage altogether opponents say lawmakers are ignoring the will of the people in a series of referendums last year and more than 2 thirds of voters said marriage should only be defined as a union between a man and a woman but that's far from the minds of these rights activists celebrating what is a

beijing dan one analyst at the economist intelligence units access china's service on skype from taipei russ feingold and asia political risk analyst attorney. and republican political consultant and also in beijing i know a tongue in a china political risk analysts who is advise the chinese government on economic and development issues i'd like to begin in beijing with. china and the us have had a fruitful relationship for the last thirty years ever since china shall we say pivoted away from communism and became a global economy the deal seems to have worked however soon as donald trump takes power they seems to be an issue can you just explain to us what's at the heart of all of this. i think it is a combined a result of a shift in power and the interpretation of it because in the past forty years china is probably the largest the largest beneficiary from the current trading system has benefited more than a us with a double digit economic growth almost every year so now and live to the millions out of poverty and it's becoming the second largest economy in the world but always look at

in beijing dan one analyst at the economist intelligence units access china service on skype from taipei russ feingold and asia political risk analyst attorney. and republican political consultant and also in beijing i know it's going in a china political risk analysts who is advise the chinese government on economic and development issues i'd like to begin in beijing with. china and the us have had a fruitful relationship for the last thirty years ever since china shall we say pivoted away from communism and became a global economy the deal seems to have worked however soon as donald trump takes power they seems to be an issue can you just explain to us what's at the heart of all of this. i think it is a combined result of a shift in power and the interpretation of it because in the past forty years china is probably the largest the largest beneficiary from the current trading system has benefited more than a us with a double digit economic growth almost every year or so now and live to the millions out of poverty and it's becoming the second largest economy in the world but always look

i thousands of people celebrated the vote on the streets of the capital taipei the bill recognizes same sex couples and gives them protection such as tax insurance and child custody benefits this follows years of debate in taiwan over nary equality. since there was a presence of actually when i started to learn about myself meaning the time when i came out i never thought that i could get married in taiwan i thought this would not happen in my time i knew that they would come in taiwan but never thought it would be when i am still young but maybe when i would be 50 or 60 years old you know. what is wrong with being the 1st in asia who knows maybe this will be a source of pride when looking back on history in the future and not at all a shameful thing. a u.s. challenge has been hearing a challenge to president tom's declaration of a national emergency to fund his border war with mexico a group of states and advocacy organizations are seeking an injunction in february and congress approved more than a $1000000000.00 in funding his demand of nearly $6000000000.00 then transferred funds fro

connect at data rates of multiple gigabytes a 2nd and has a long battery life that we don't show at taipei's computex tech exhibition. chinese tech giant huawei has unveiled its 1st open 5 g. development center in south korea the lab will allow other companies to test their platforms because of its recent blacklisting by the u.s. government the launch was kept low key and behind closed doors and going trade war between the u.s. and china has left south korea in a difficult position between its crucial security ally and its biggest trading partner. and saying on 5 g. it's their last british telecom mobile phone provider eve has become the 1st in europe to launch a high speed 5 g.'s service a 5 g. now will be available in limited parts of 6 cities including london birmingham and belfast with 10 more lined up to follow vodafone is expected to begin its own 5 g. network rollout next month the 5 g. standard offers almost instantaneous data transfer its condition for internet 4.0 which will handle strategic sectors like energy transport banking and health care. and that's it for me in the business

now just comes up with 15000 tonnes now for more on this let's cross over to our correspondent in taipei to saying han is there welcome to what is the strategy here now that china is threatening to cut the rare earth supplies to the united states. yes chris as you mentioned china is the global leader of rare earth 90 percent of the world's rare earth production is from china and we know these minerals are critical to many factors of consumer electronics military equipment and semiconductors since there are limits to retell it retell it terry tariffs china could access on u.s. imports these minerals are probably one of the only left of u.s. tariff list that's why it's a potent warning and it will also show american president donald trump attack on chinese telecom huawei has a cost now could this strategy backfire though. yes you're right chris it could backfire even such a ban could hurt you hurt u.s. companies in the short term but in the long running conflict china has rare earth advantage mine not last though chinese dominance under result from lol processing cost and a ban it would ra

in beijing dan one analyst at the economist intelligence unit access china's service on skype from taipei russ feingold and asia political risk analyst attorney. and republican political consultant and also in beijing i know a tongue in a china political risk i know this who is advised the chinese government on economic and development issues i'd like to begin in beijing with. china and the us have had a fruitful relationship for the last thirty years ever since china shall we say pivoted away from communism and became a global economy the deal seems to have worked however soon as donald trump takes power they seems to be an issue can you just explain to us what's at the heart of all of this. i think it is a combined a result of a shift in power and the interpretation of it because in the past forty years china is probably the largest the largest beneficiary from the current trading system has benefited more than a us with a double digit economic growth almost every year so now and live to the millions out of poverty and it's becoming the second largest economy in the world but always loo

you on have spent the last 2 years planning their wedding in fine detail the cake shop owners from taipei have been dreaming of their special day ever since taiwan's top court ruled same sex couples should be allowed to marry a 1st for asia. so. it was sort of high 1 may often be overlooked internationally and all of the things we have done are visionaries that we can be proud of that. but on top of the usual wedding stress is shane mark and other taiwanese same sex couples have a bigger problem and it's divided the islands. i i same sex couples wanting to wear it still don't know what their marriage will look like that's because the courts didn't specify how its rulings should be applied so parliaments will vote on 3 options one put forward by the government is just about satisfactory for these rights campaigners and to others tabled by lawmakers which don't use the word marriage and provide much less protection for couples. we don't know what these lawmakers want maybe they want to force us down a dead end but we won't accept that we'll fight like that but not everyone on this relativel

shore way it's introduced last week it claims it's said to minimize the disruption to the chinese taipei giants customers your way will be able to continue to use u.s. made components to maintain its networks and provide updates to its existing smartphones but it's still barred from buying american pods or any new products she always found wrenching faces the 90 day reprieve makes little difference as the company has been preparing its own components. but let's talk a little bit about that with our financial markets correspondent joins us in frankfurt last 1st of all i mean what's prompted this let's just call it a change of heart. well monica may be president trump has just heard from his own tech companies in silicon valley who are sitting to lose a lot of money if he bands who are away from being a customer of google passed away of course as a major customer with his android system but also the chip makers like silencer intel they are selling a lot of chips to way as well all in all about 70 percent of what goes into who always cell phone actually comes from the united states and of c

so tung han joins us now from taipei and so as far as the chinese go couldn't they just boycott american products. well we do hear hard line nationalists saying that china can't buy anything from the u.s. because china has a weak hand in the traditional tit for tat way when it comes to raising tariffs probably won't be a great option for example with all the farm products u.s. soybeans are the most competitive on the global market plays of course trying to say that it wants to buy it from other countries for example like brazil but brazil doesn't have enough good quality soybeans to make up the shortfall for the u.s. so it's really limited revenue for china so that probably reasonable when in chinese policy is to really think of what kind of retaliation they want to do because it can only goes that far before it backfires and i guess the juicy american steak just sounds so much better than a chinese steak doesn't it. well yeah well a lot of. chinese people they really like u.s. products just as we measure in the soybeans and us steak for sure so where does this dispute between the u.s. a

our correspondents who are so high on joins us for more from taipei a so how do chinese citizens respond to the u.s. . well yes monica we know the media and internet is controlled by the government in china so the chinese people got their information mostly from the government or the state media and the rhetorical and the tone of the report right now is trying to tell the people that huawei is still in charge at the same time beijing is trying to crank nationalism so we her slogan like one heart one china to release people's petrarch emotion and that is why according to the latest statistics more chinese people abandon their i phones and switch to walk away in order to protect the chinese brains which is the source of their national pride so there is domestic support now and your way certainly seems cool about the bad even claiming that the conflict could make it stronger just wishful thinking. and the certainly doesn't look good for for huawei and its plan b. right now you have the plain be right now that they try to use the open source version of android but we know that the open sourc

. ♪ yvonne: time now for the battle of the charts come out of mumbai, taking on our reporter from taipeifunction just featured at the bottom of your screens. rishaad: ok, we're going to head east -- no, we are going to head west. we are not going to taipei, over to mumbai. >> well, this week has been a lot of asian as well as asia-pacific central banks meeting on rates, so what my chart shows, it brings up the leader of the pack, india, which has cut interest rates by 50 basis points this year, but it also shows that monetary policy transmission has been a problem ash both the 10-year reits well as another metric hardly moving, so this is a problem for the reserve bank of india, and what this means for the market is they are betting on more rate cuts by the r.b.i., perhaps more regrettably, and, more liquidity injections from the central banks, to see that monetary policy transmission, and they actually benefit from lower interest rates in the coming months, because growth is slowing. yvonne: yes, we started with those rate cuts here in asia. i guess they are moving on, as well. what hav

this registration office in the capital taipei was packed it's the culmination of a 3 decade fight for equality the weddings came a week after lawmakers voted to legalize gay marriage despite storage conservative opposition the new law still contains restrictions not placed on heterosexual couples including that same sex couples can currently only adopt their partner's biological children but gay rights groups say they are willing to accept this partial equality in the hope of winning those remaining legal battles later for now they're celebrating a hard fought victory. is a reminder of our top story this hour the explosion in the center of the french city of leo has left of the 7 people injured president emanuel macro's described the incident as an attack reports say our police are searching for a man who left the scene of bicycle the prosecutor's office has opened a terrorism investigation. on that story and the rest of the day's world news of the top of the hour the business africa with ben facilities is next after a day. belonging to one official estimates more than 1200000 venezue

this registration office in the capital taipei was packed it's the culmination of a 3 decade fight for equality the weddings came a week after lawmakers voted to legalize gay marriage despite staunch conservative opposition the new law still contains restrictions not placed on heterosexual couples including that same sex couples can currently only adopt their partner's biological children but gay rights groups say they are willing to accept this partial equality in the hope of winning those remaining legal battles later for now they're celebrating a hard fought victory. the climate crisis is one of the biggest issues driving young voters and on friday hundreds of thousands of students took to the streets around the world to demand action against global warming they skipped school to press political leaders to do more it is the 2nd globally corden aided school strike for the clients. ha. thousands of people pulled onto the streets in new zealand's capital wellington and in melbourne australia there demanding more action on climate change now. we basically waited to answer wanting a more

sam reynolds, a technology analyst based in taipei saudi arabia has been warning that another attack—— that is according to state media. king solomon oversaw a cabinet meeting after houthi rebels from yemen used drones to attack a vital pipeline. this comes days after two saudi oil tankers were targeted off the coast of the united arab emirates. earlier, i asked an oil analyst how significant these attacks were. at the moment, the attacks, although they had to suspend the operations at the two pump stations after the drone attack, it has not yet been disrupted. but this comes immediately after the attacks on the tankers. are they right to say then that these attacks will affect global oil supplies in the global economy? i think that at this point it is my now, in the sense that it will only be only impacting the market if it affects the flows of crude through the states or affects saudi crude and products and exports —— minor. saudi crude and products and exports -- minor. at this point they are blowing it out of proportion?” think they are being cautious. we see that any oil prices.

and a may day rallies also underway in taiwan's capital taipei where it's designated a public holiday police patrol the event which has so far been rather peaceful. so if you come here at al-jazeera iranian leaders say they're ready to fight for their right to sell or. why israel may soon demolish more palestinian homes. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across much of southeastern and eastern europe we're still talking about a lot of messy weather in terms of clouds as well as rain that's going to continue as we go towards wednesday as well here's the air of low pressure making its way up here towards ukraine now you can see the circulation right there over kiev so the heavy rain will continue there on wednesday it could be even gusty winds we're going to talk about that but as we go towards thursday going to be seeing that air of low pressure make its way towards western russia and things start to clear up a little bit we do have a isolated areas of pockets of rain right across the region nothing too bad but we are going to be seeing still

thousands of people celebrated the vote on the streets in the capital taipei.es same-sex couples and gives them protections like tax insurance and child custody. this follows a debate of over a year on marriage equality. >> actually when i started to learn about myself, the time i came out, i never thought i could get married in taiwan. i thought this would not happen in my time. i knew that they would come in taiwan but never thought it would be when i am still young but maybe when i am 50 or 60 years old. >> what is wrong with being the first in asia? maybe this will be a source of pride. i am not ashamed. miriam: a u.s. judge has been hearing a challenge to president a national emergency to fund the border wall with mexico. organizations are seeking injunction and ask congress to approve more than $1 billion in funding, short of the demand of $6 billion. but get more on this from our reporter in san diego. what is the latest on the court case? the judge in this case has concluded that hearing for the day. the arguments have been heard in judge hayward gillia

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asia to make it legal. 0ur correspondent cindy sui is at one of the marriage registration offices in taipei are still couples who are getting registered, as you can see behind me. several couples have already registered their marriages and they were proudly holding up their certificates. some of them even are planning for a honeymoon. so they have been waiting for this moment for a long time and this has been a long—time coming for taiwan. it's been a 30—year struggle for taiwan so for many people here today is really quite a historic moment. how divisive is this issue in taiwan? it has been very divisive. the constitutional court ruled two years ago that the current marriage law was unconstitutional because it only allowed a man and woman to get married so they ordered parliament to change the law, adopt a new law to allow same—sex couples to get married and enjoy the same rights as heterosexual couples. but a backlash happened after that. there had been a referendum in november last year in which a majority of the voters actually decided that they wanted to reserve the marriage law for ju

and the may day rally is also underway in taiwan's capital taipei where it is designated a public holiday protest says that demanding workers' rights and protections and rob mcbride has this update from south korea's capital seoul. with such a highly developed trade union culture made a voice brings out the massive crowds here in seoul as in towns and cities throughout south korea this year they have very much a common cause to get behind the bar that is. great so workers are right here in the country it all stems from a free trade agreement signed between south korea and the european union nearly nine years ago that was part of this agreement south korea is meant to jot down a set of workers' rights conventions as outlined by the united nations and now these are things that for example the free association or the abolition of forced labor the kinds of things that most students just realize developed countries have signed up to despite some pressure from the e.u. and their patience is wearing thin they're effectively giving south korea now a deadline to adopt these conventions full of the

and in taiwan's capital taipei a rally is underway may day is a designated public holiday in taiwan protesters there are also demanding workers' rights and protections. this is the scene live in paris which as you can see is starting to look a little bit tense scuffles have taken place between police and the protesters as they gathered for rallies tight security was already in place as you can see there scuffles and skirmishes seem to be continuing tear gas is been used to try to control the crowd and this is a gathering understand close to the moment parnassus train station the authorities have warned that there's a possibility that so-called radical activists may be joining these demonstrations which they thought would be dominated by the yellow vests protesters they've been protesting for months now but the fear as i say is the more radical elements may join them number but that's a scene live in paris as workers are celebrate all commemorate may day. a quick look at the top stories now forces loyal to libyan war literally for have to detain two turkish men or monday the turkish president h

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at the registry office in taiwan's capital of taipei, dozens of gay cupples game to ie the knot and register their union. >> today i can candidly tell everyone in front of so many people that we got married. we're gay, and i feel that we're so lucky. >> cameras from around the world snsnapped history being made. taiwan is the first country in asia to recognize same sex marriage after parliament votet in favor of it last week.. it's been a long g road with rg activists campaigning for decades to get here and much conservative opppposition in th country. >> the legalization of gay marriage is only the first step. i hope that in the future through this legalization that gay people can be accepted by taiwanese society as ordinary people. taiwan is a very advanced country.y. i love taiwan. >> taiwanese officials say more than 160 same-sex weddings took ace. >>>> i'm joinened in the studio yuka. you have been following how global markets have been reacting to theresa m may's resignation. >> it was wildly expected so it didn't actualllly have much of impact on the trading floor. the announcement sh

yuan have spent the last 2 years planning their wedding in fine detail the cake shop owners from taipei have been dreaming of their special day ever since taiwan's top court ruled same sex couples should be allowed to marry a 1st for asia. so. it was sort of high 1 may often be overlooked internationally the kind of the things we have done are visionaries that we can be proud of that. but on top of the usual wedding stress is shane mark and other taiwanese same sex couples have a bigger problem and it's divided the islands. i i same sex couples wanting to wear it still don't know what their marriage will look like that's because the courts didn't specify how its ruling should be applied so parliaments will vote on 3 options one put forward by the government is just about satisfactory for these rights campaigners and to others tabled by lawmakers which don't use the word marriage and provide much less protection for couples. we don't know what these lawmakers want maybe they want to force us down a dead end but we won't accept that we'll fight like that but not everyone on this relativel

this registration office in the capital, taipei, was packed.t is the culmination of a three-decade fight for a quality. the weddings came a week after lawmakers voted to legalize gay marriage. the new law still contains restrictions not placed on heterosexual couples, including that same-sex couples can only currently adopted their partner's biological children, but gay rights groups say they are willing to accept this partial equality in hopes of winning more rights later. >> there is still no sign the boeing 737 max passenger jet will return to the skies. it was pulled from service following two deadly crashes. regulators from around the world met on thursday to discuss the future of the grounded aircraft. more and more airlines are seeking compensation, and for boeing, the costs are piling up. >> stranded on the wet tarmac. nobody knows exactly when the boeing 737 max will be allowed to carry passengers again. thursday's gathering of regulators in texas reached no official conclusions. there may at least be some signs things are moving in th