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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Thailand's Constitutional Court dismisses Prime Minister Sretta Thavisin for breach of ethics. Also: Thousands of corpses traded in China funeral scandal, Melbourne joins Paris in outlawing e-scooters, and neighbours turn on each other in Portofino air con crackdown.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.8 | I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 14th of August, |
0:08.4 | these are our main stories. |
0:09.9 | A new round of political uncertainty has begun in Thailand after a court removed the |
0:14.7 | Prime Minister from office. |
0:16.1 | So what comes next? |
0:17.6 | Talks to end Sudan's silver war are underway amid more warnings that the health system |
0:22.4 | is breaking down. |
0:24.0 | And an investigation into the state-run funeral industry in China |
0:27.4 | reveals corruption, including the theft and sale of corpses. Also in this podcast, people don't park them properly, they're tipped over, they're scattered around the city like |
0:39.1 | confetti like rubbish and creating tripping hazards, it's a real real problem. |
0:43.0 | The Australian city of Melbourne becomes the latest place to ban e-scooters from its streets |
0:49.0 | and we hear from the Olympic runner who finished a marathon despite breaking her leg. |
0:55.0 | Thailand is no stranger to political upheaval. |
1:00.0 | There have been coups, military governments and violent demonstrations in recent years. |
1:04.5 | Now the country has been thrown into more uncertainty after the constitutional court |
1:09.0 | dismissed the Prime Minister, Satar Tarvesin. He said he'd abide by the court's decision. |
1:17.0 | I respect the verdict of the Constitutional Court. |
1:20.0 | I reiterate that for almost one year I've been in this role. I've tried with good intentions |
1:25.3 | to lead the country with honesty. |
1:28.7 | The judge said Mr Setar had breached the ethical rules by appointing to his cabinet a former lawyer who'd |
1:35.3 | served time in jail. Jonathan Head is our correspondent in Bangkok. What's his |
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