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🗓️ 1 July 2024
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Marine Le Pen’s far-right party made great gains in the first round of France’s parliamentary election. The left did too. We ask what this means for France and President Emmanuel Macron. Thailand will soon legalise same-sex marriage, but in other areas, democratic freedoms are being threatened (10:20). And penalty shoot-outs are agony for players, coaches and spectators. Can technology help (16:20)?
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| 1:00.0 | It's a mixed bag for freedoms in Thailand at the moment. It's the first country in the region that will legalize same-sex marriage and neighbors will take note. |
| 1:06.0 | At the same time, a reformist party that won an election last year is being systematically quashed. |
| 1:14.0 | And we've reached that agonizing point where penalty shootouts could decide who goes through to the next round of the euros. |
| 1:20.0 | How can players prepare for that moment when millions of people are watching and they have a |
| 1:24.6 | split second to make a choice? First up though, though, a new era has begun in France. |
| 1:36.0 | Last night, A new era has begun in France. |
| 1:44.0 | Last night, Maureen Le Penh's Hard Right Party took a massive lead in first round voting for the lower house of parliament. |
| 1:51.0 | Her National Rally Party has never done so well before. |
| 1:55.0 | Le Pen's Protégé, the 28-year-old Party leader Jordan Bardella, |
| 1:59.0 | made it clear that he intended to become President Emmanuel Macron's Prime Minister. |
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