Melissa chan welcome to asia thank you for joining us thailand is facing another weekend of antigovernment protests and demonstrators have been Holding Daily rallies to with tens of thousands of people turning out the activists have 3 demands theyre calling for the Prime Minister to step down for a reform of the constitution and a reform of the monarchy theyve been keeping momentum up with some inventive events such as this a terrible fashion show held earlier in the week meant as a criticism of the elites and especially of the royal familys fast well. Joining us now to what kind of fellow who has been out on the streets over the past few months and a critic of the government since his University Days you know what i remember the protests earlier this summer and then to see people still out now why do you think this movement has gained momentum i think that. You would not have been given moment because of their fellow Economic Situation is thailand to column and kind in manage the econ
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A near total ban on abortion will prevent update from the polish capital. Im guy raz shirts and welcome to the show a strong earthquake has struck in the agency between the greek island of sound most and the Turkish Coast where it has killed over a dozen people and injured at least 400 others much of the damage is in the turkish resort city of izmir where several buildings were brought to the ground rescue efforts there are expected to continue through the night. Until this woman was almost buried alive and on the apollo rescue workers are racing to find hope from the rubble of a collapsed building one of many that came crashing down. In this turkish resort city on friday. I thought the ground had shattered you can think in that moment all you can do is try to get out everything was collapsing around us luckily our building stayed intact but we were really panicked and managed to get out at the last minute. The earth shook for at least 25 seconds according to some witnesses after the q