but the issue did deeply divide that island nation and the electorate there the bill comes after a long debate and a referendum in which same sex marriage was rejected by voters put forward by the government it's survived the terms why are conservatives to pass a watered down version that removes any reference to marriage from a law rival bills offering something closer to a limited same sex unions did not get enough votes. let's go straight to taipei now and correspondent william yang joining us good morning to you william so the parliament's voting session is still actually in progress and there are 3 different draft bills in that chamber today what exactly has been agreed so far. so right now the ruling party actually put forward the government's version to be considered 1st and so far they have voted about half of the provisions and the reason why media has