Competition in the eight hundred meters. Welcome to michael oku elaborate ceremonies are underway in bangkok to crown thailands new king but he. Also known as rom of the ten the king was officially crowned as a divine mana the first the country has seen in seven decades the sixty six year old ascended to the throne after the death of his widely revered father in two thousand and sixteen saturdays pageantry is the start of a three day ceremony that formally invests him with regal power symbolizing his consecration as the upholder of buddhism in thailand. Do. Pill is following the festivities for us in bangkok this is day one of a three day ceremony to consecrate the king as a living god house a country doing with this ceremony today. Hi michael yes this is the first time the vast majority of people here in thailand are witnessing at the coronation of the monic it is of course almost sixty nine years ago to the day that the last king had a coronation ceremony in thailand and in a country
Naval station in florida. Im rebecca riches welcome to the program a palestinian toddler and her mother have been killed in israeli airstrikes on gaza and i eighty year old woman and israeli woman has been seriously injured in a palestinian rocket strike they just some of the casualties as violence flares up between israel and the palestinians each side says its retaliating for the attacks of the alpha these explosions are in gaza city is israeli shells hit palestinian targets israel says its responding to a flurry of rockets being fired from the palestinian on place across the border into its territory. Well for more on this were joined by correspondent tanya kramer tanya why is this surge of violence happening now. It has been a relative period a period of relative calm you have to say if i can remind you that just before the israeli elections april nine there have been some understandings being broke at between israel and the militant group of hamas to calm down the situation there
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