Thailand passes same-sex marriage bill
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Thai parliament approves the marriage equality bill by a big majority. It still needs approval from the senate and royal endorsement to become law. Also: Investigators in the US recover the data recorder from the ship that destroyed a bridge in Baltimore, and a European firm which built a flying car has sold the technology to China.
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| 0:00.0 | The Global Jigsaw Saw is the podcast Lifting the Language Barrier to show you the world through its media. |
| 0:06.0 | Radio Tejana, we've got the government. |
| 0:11.0 | The Western countries are not the international community. |
| 0:14.0 | That era has finished. |
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| 0:24.7 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:31.0 | We're recording this at 14 hours, GMT on Wednesday the 27th of March. |
| 0:35.5 | Thailand becomes the first Southeast Asian country to pass a marriage equality bill. |
| 0:41.0 | Investigators in the US recover the data recorder from the ship that destroyed a bridge in |
| 0:45.5 | Baltimore and a top EU official says Europe will continue to support Ukraine but needs to step up |
| 0:52.0 | its own defense production. |
| 0:54.0 | Also in the podcast, the authorities in the Australian town of Alice Springs |
| 1:00.0 | order young people off the streets at night and later. |
| 1:04.0 | Their hips are displayed because they're on horseback and they're clearly practicing and shooting |
| 1:08.9 | bows and arrows because they have deformities to their fingers and to the muscle remains. |
| 1:13.4 | Did the Amazonian women fighters of Greek mythology really exist? |
| 1:21.9 | Apart from Nepal and Taiwan, same-sex weddings are barred across Asia. |
| 1:27.0 | Now Thailand is bucking the trend, becoming the first nation in Southeast Asia to allow LGBTQ-plus couples to have their marriages legally recognized. |
| 1:37.0 | The lower house of the Thai parliament approved the move by a big majority. Some politicians waved rainbow flags in the chamber. |
| 1:54.4 | Chania Ratanatada is an equality campaigner in Thailand. |
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