Thai heiress becomes country's youngest PM
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Thailand's youngest ever prime minister. Also: Anger grows after Israeli settlers torch West Bank village, and the WHO warns wealthy countries against stockpiling Mpox vaccines.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:06.5 | We are recording this at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 16th of August. |
| 0:11.0 | Thailand gets its youngest ever Prime Minister, the 37-year-old... of by Israeli settlers in the West Bank leaves a Palestinian man dead. |
| 0:24.8 | Even the Israeli Prime Minister has condemned it. |
| 0:28.2 | And we look at what's being done to prevent the spread of the contagious |
| 0:31.2 | impox virus. Also in the podcast... |
| 0:35.0 | These tiny grains prove beyond any doubt |
| 0:38.0 | that the Garvalax are the best and most complete record |
| 0:41.0 | of a critical period in our history. |
| 0:44.0 | The Scottish islands which hold the secrets to the Earth's Ice Age. |
| 0:48.0 | Politics in Thailand is a rough business as well as the possibility of being |
| 0:57.2 | forced out by a coup leaders can also be removed by the constitutional court. |
| 1:02.4 | In fact it's got rid of four prime ministers be removed by the constitutional court. |
| 1:02.7 | In fact, it's got rid of four prime ministers over the past 16 years, the latest just two days ago, |
| 1:09.3 | Setart Tawesen. |
| 1:10.7 | He has now been replaced by a member of Thailand's best-known political dynasty, by |
| 1:15.2 | Tong Tan Shinnawat, daughter of the billionaire tycoon, tax in Shinnawat. |
| 1:20.6 | At the age of 37 she's been chosen as Thailand's youngest ever Prime Minister. |
| 1:25.0 | Now, the Al-Pet-Kentan-Chinnewat received more than half the votes of the members of the House of Representatives. |
| 1:34.6 | Therefore, Parliament has approved the motion to nominate |
| 1:38.3 | Pardon Panchinewat for appointment as Prime Minister in accordance with Section 159 of the Constitution. and leader. Well, she's very much a political novice. |
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