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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 1400 hours GMT on Wednesday the 31st of January,

these are our main stories.

In Thailand, the opposition Pro Democracy Party

move forward could be forced to dissolve following a court ruling.

The way the court has ruled in effect snuffs out any chance of debate about the law.

More than a dozen UN aid organizations urge donor countries to restore funding for the Relief

Agency for Palestinians in Gaza. The former Prime Minister of Pakistan

Imran Khan has been given another jail term. This time he's been sentenced to

14 years in prison.

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If we need to go to Brussels tomorrow and create a European movement, we'll do it.

The farmers protest continues.

In Thailand a constitutional court ruling could have profound implications for the country's politics.

Nine judges have decided that a plan by the country's most popular party

to amend a law imposing severe punishments for speaking out against the royal family

is tantamount to overthrowing the Democratic regime of government.

Last year's election was won by the opposition move forward party on a progressive platform

which included a proposal to change the country's strict

Lays Majesty law. A Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head told me more.

I think there's two important implications. I mean one is obviously for the party move forward

having been found to have violated the Constitution in fact the move forward

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