and real madrid have announced their captain karim benzema is leaving the club. the french striker has enjoyed one of the great los blancos careers afterjoining from lyon back in 2009. his total of 353 club goals is bettered only by cristiano ronaldo, with his haul four la liga and five champions league titles amongst a host of honours won with the spanish giants. the 2023 balon d 0r winner has been linked with a move to saudi arabia. and that s all the sport for now. pride celebrations are taking place in thailand today with parades held under the theme door to equal asia. thailand is open to lgbtq+ communities but has never passed the same sex marriage law. however, the winner of the recent election, the move forward party, says adopting this law is part of its main agenda. 0ur south east asia correspondentjonathan head is at a march in bangkok.
today, katrina has returned to inspire youngsters living in what remains one of coventry s most deprived areas. i remember being here, feeling like nobody. and so, to have come full circle, to be able to inspire a few children and also talk to the teachers a little bit about the impact they have. you re live with bbc news. a young, progressive party in thailand has upended the country s politics, after nine years of conservative, military backed rule. the move forward party, led by former entrepreneur pita limjaroenrat won more seats than any other party. he is now leading a progressive coalition that wants to introduce a raft of far reaching reforms like limiting the power of thailand s army and, most controversially, the monarchy. 0ur south east asia correspondentjonathan head spoke to pita limjaroenrat about his proposed changes.
in 2014, the election is being described as a turning point. the prime minister who led that coup, prayut chan o cha is seeking another term, but he is facing challenges from two anti military parties. the party pheu thai is leading the polls. they re led by paetongtarn shinawatra, the daughter of a former ousted prime minster. live now to south east asia correspondentjonathan head, in bangkok. just talk us through the two main candidates at the moment. in essence you have an incumbent prime minister who is a coup leader, a former army commander and he has been in powerfor nine years commander and he has been in power for nine years through a coup government and then managed to get back into government four years ago, he was pushing for a continued term of office but more of that hip represents an old way of doing things in thailand, or that you have elections, you have a lot of other players in power, the military, senior
compete without conflict. china has said that the united states has said that the united states has to get rid of this mentality that they can control the world, that they have to allow for more open competition. so we havejust seen these tensions, these new ones when it comes to the spy balloon, now this, set back any kind of opening for the two sides to have real talks, to make progress. we willjust have to see though, in the future, if they are able to get those talks going. antony blinken, if he is able to meet with his counterparts in the future. to myanmar, where two years after the military seized power, deposing the government led by aung san suu kyi, the country is trapped in a civil war. the army is increasingly reliant on the air force to attack insurgent held areas. at least 140 people were killed in one such attack last week. 0ur south east asia correspondentjonathan head has been allowed to visit myanmar for the first time since the coup. his movements were restricted and
one such attack last week is believed to have killed at least 140 people. our south east asia correspondentjonathan head has been allowed to visit myanmar for the first time since the coup. his movements were restricted to a limited number of places and he was barred from contacting anyone in the opposition. much of myanmar is off limits to visitors these days. but the military government did allow us to come here much in the lake in xian state. in normal times, one of the country s most popular destinations. it is very quiet now. interviewing people directly is risky. you can be arrested for saying anything deemed negative. but the boatmen we met told us times have never been harder.