This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 3rd of October,

these are our main stories.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in Thailand after a deadly shooting at a Bangkok shopping mall.

In India, police have raided the homes of several journalists linked to a prominent news website

that's been accused of receiving illegal funds from China.

Also in this podcast, Pope Francis has suggested that same sex couples could be blessed by the

Catholic Church in the future. In Australia, votes have been cast early in a landmark

referendum which could result in a permanent body of indigenous people to advise parliament.

And we look at a novel way in which artificial intelligence is being used in the art world.

What is your favourite painting?

It's as hard for me to choose a favourite painting among my artworks because each painting is

dead to me in its own way. But if I have to choose one, I think my painting called Stora

Nice is one of my favourites.

First to Thailand, where a 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out

a mass shooting, the teenager was detained after a gunman opened fire at a luxury shopping mall

in the capital Bangkok. Asathi Stasia correspondent Jonathan Haid joined me from Bangkok,

shortly before we recorded this podcast.

We're still seeing ambulances leaving this shopping mall more than three hours after this

shocking incident, while we believe that the police are still inside with the 14-year-old boy

that they apprehended and who they say carried out the shooting.

It started in the late afternoon when this mall, as it pretty much always is, would have been

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